Walking by Faith

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“By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.” —Hebrews 11:5 Do you know how to walk by faith day by day?  Do you know how to live that life consistently and faithfully?  Do you know what the secret is to living that kind of life? There must be a time every day in which we make an appointment with God; at which time we make an agreement to God as we hear Him and obey Him.  A time in our day when we get alone with God, when we are filled with His presence, when we read His Word, when we listen to God, when we speak to God, when we respond to the impulses and the impressions that His Spirit gives us. I don’t give you much hope for walking with God in your family and on your job if you don’t make a daily appointment, an agreement with God that you are going to walk with Him. You will not walk with God everywhere and live in His presence everywhere until you walk with Him and get in His presence somewhere day by day. And the way to practice the presence of Christ and to live in that presence and to walk in His steps day by day is to ask Him to fill you with His Spirit.  Ask Him day by day to saturate your life and your day with His presence, and to live each day with the step by step, conscience awareness that He is Lord and that He is leading. That’s how you’ll stay in the race!   THE WAY TO KEEP ON WALKING IS TO STAY AND TO LIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS.

The Power of Faith

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

Ephesians 6:13–16

Ever since the Garden of Eden, the devil has been working to undermine man’s faith in the Word of God. Before getting Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, Satan questioned what God had told them, and convinced them they would not experience the consequences God had warned them about. Time and again Christians yield to temptation and give in to sin because they do not exercise faith—they do not believe what God has said and act on it being true.

The darts Satan sends against us take many forms, but the most damaging are the ones that seek to make us question God’s Word. Faith, which is built on the promises of God recorded in Scripture, quenches the fires of temptation. But we must exercise and build that faith if we are to win the victory. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”(1 John 5:4).

In the desert when He was tempted, Jesus responded to each attempt to get Him to do wrong with an appropriate quote from the Bible. Because He was setting an example for us, He did not use Divine power to defeat Satan, but rather the Word of God. This is a pattern that will work every time we use it. But we will not respond in this fashion unless we have been strengthening and encouraging our faith day by day.

Today's Growth Principle: 

If we do not live as if we believe God’s Word is true, we will suffer defeat after defeat to Satan.