MY FRIENDS, ARE WE IL PREPARED TO FINISH THIS JOURNEY CHRIST HAS PLACED US ON.

Jan 5, 2015

MY FRIENDS, ARE WE IL PREPARED TO FINISH THIS JOURNEY CHRIST HAS PLACED US ON.

Unless we are daily advancing in an active process of Christian virtues and allowing self to die daily as our faith is tested, we shall never be able to recognize the “manifestations of God’s Spirit” when it becomes available.

Many all around us may be receiving this power, but when our faith was tested, we continually failed because we allowed the things of this world to continually occupy our time and money, which tells God, not your will, but my will must be done.

The power, God’s chosen should be looking for, can only come from within when we have decided through God‘s Word and Spirit, to “lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Heb. 12:1 (KJV)

My friends, our Faith must be stretched to the limit. But if we fail at the start of this race we will never be given greater light that will guide us at every step it will take to finish. In attempting my first triathlon a few years ago, the swimming being the first event before bicycling and running, at the time, I was ill prepared for open water swimming.

I had never studied the technique of open water swimming and had only practiced in swimming pools. So when the day of the event came and the race got started, about 50 feet into the swim, the territory was unfamiliar and I had no idea what was happening, the water had no bottom to it and I had never experience such terror before.

In addition, I heard a voice say, you will never make it, which made me very fearful of the unknown, or what it would take to finish. So I called for the little boat to come get me. As soon as I arrived at the dock the officials, snatched the monitor off of my ankle, because I was not permitted to go any further in the race, since I had not completed the swim.

My friends that is the same way with our Christian experience and faith on our journey to the promise land. If we have not studied God’s word, and allowed His Spirit to Guide us through the many test of faith required to finish this race, we are then IL prepared to finish the journey because the terrain is unfamiliar and fearful, which will make the journey seem like there was no end in sight.

In addition, what the Spirit was not allow to do earlier,we have now lost the opportunity “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” John 6:44-45 (NKJV)

But my friends, we cannot respond to what we don’t know and never allowed the Spirit to teach us. The next year I did finish The race, because I studied, and read everything I could on open water swimming and watched video’s and practiced many hours in open water.

I even joined a triathlon Club that prepared my confidence in open water and the Journey to the finish line. My friends God wants to give us His power. For Paul tells us in, 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV) “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

He knocks at our hearts Door Daily, are we listening or is the TV up to loud for us to hear Him. Have our focus been constantly on the things of this world instead of the presence of the Good Shepherd. Today ask yourself, what keeps me from given it all to the Master.

“For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” But it starts with Faith. My friends, The power of God is placed within us, thus allowing each of us to be heir and joint heir with Jesus Christ, as we finish up God’s mandate to “take the gospel to all the world and then the end will come.”

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