MY FRIENDS, THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY, MAYWEATHER VS PACQUIAO OR YOU AND GOD?

MY FRIENDS, THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY, MAYWEATHER VS PACQUIAO OR YOU AND GOD?

Each day our problems moves up in a designated weight class and as we get older the main event always gets more and more dramatic, the trials more precise. Every situations and circumstances are anew as the injustices of life takes its toll; a disobedient child, an abusive husband, finances, unemployment, the list never ends.

But today it ‘s personal, the fight of the century is about to take place and it is not between Floyd Mayweather, or Manny Pacquiao. But we are in the ring and our opponent is God. So how can we a created being like Jacob, take on the Creator of the universe and win. Well first of all Jacob was prepared, remember he is going up against the great I Am, so there must be daily preparations.

My friends we cannot come to the fight, lacking in faith and prayer, intemperate in our eating habits, or maybe just “having a form of godliness but denying its power” Like Goliath who went into the ring with the Lord’s Anointed with only a sword, a spear and a javelin, we must be prepared to endure as our faith takes its toll, but we hold on, until God’s Spirit gives us the victory.

In addition, we must never focus our attention on the timing of why we haven’t succeeded against God because a lack of patience is only a lack of faith remember Jacob fought all night, 2 Peter 3:9 tells us “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

Consistent with this, we must always remember God is preparing us for greater fights, but only against the enemy, fights we are unprepared to handle right now. For there will come a time in each of our lives, such has not been since the beginning of the world until this time….” Matt 24:21-22

So what I’m trying to get you to focus on today is, it may come a time when the presence of God is veiled from our face, and it will only be our faith, endurance and the promises of God that we have constantly studied in His word that will give us the strength to continue. “So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.

The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,…”Gen 32:30-31 (KJV) My friends, what hope for each of us, “and the sun rose upon him.” Like God’s Son who rose on the cross for our sins. “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” John 12:32 (NKJV)

But only if we believe and endure, and one day soon, we will be able to say we saw God face to face and it was our daily being in the presence of God that will allow us to look up and see the Son of God above us as “the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess 4:16-17 (NKJV)

“All who desire the blessing of God, as did Jacob, and will lay hold of the promises, as he did, and be as earnest and persevering as he was, will succeed as he succeeded. There is so little exercise of true faith and so little of the weight of truth resting upon many professed believers because they are sluggish in spiritual things.

They are unwilling to make exertions, to deny self, to agonize before God, to pray long and earnestly for the blessing, and therefore they do not obtain it. That faith which will live through the time of trouble must be daily in exercise now.

Those who do not make strong efforts now to exercise persevering faith, will be wholly unprepared to exercise that faith which will enable them to stand in the day of trouble.” (E.G. White Story of redemption)

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY