HIS VOICE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
SATURDAY, 4TH NOVEMBER 2023
TOPIC: FAITH IV
TEXT: HEBREWS 12:2
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. KJV
After a man is saved by grace through faith, he continues by the same grace in faith. This is what it means by Jesus being the author and finisher of our faith. It is in him we believed and it will take a continual trust in him which is in God to make progress. Hence, Christianity is commonly referred to as the walk of/in faith. This is so true but very few believers understand what this means in everyday life.
It simply means that in the same manner you believed in Jesus, the day you confess him as your Lord and saviour and believed that God is the one who raised him from the day, will be the same way you are expected to trust him for everything that will take place in your life. Thus, the instruction to study the word of God and pray everyday. This enables and strengthen your faith in him whom you have come to believe and also help you to keep waxing in his strength without depreciating.
However, a believer can depreciate in his faith, when he fails to maintain a glow in the spirit. This refers to the time when the believer become careless, reduces his prayer and study and begin to allow for compromise in his faith and become relaxed with every appearances of evil which is sin. When this happens, the word of God established that God is able to fan to flame the faith of such child of God.
Isaiah 40: 29-31says; He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. KJV
God in his mercies acknowledges the possibility for his children to faint and be weary. He made sufficient provision for it in his word. He says that any who would wait on him and ask for help, will have his strength renewed and weariness disappeared. Your faith in Christ Jesus, the savior is vital to your walk with God. Don't trivialize it. Look unto Jesus, today, tomorrow and the next, for he saved you.
PRAYER
Thank you Father. I acknowledge that all that I am, and that I have, is that which you have made of me in Christ Jesus. I am nothing without you and my trust in you is the greatest wealth I have got. Please, help me to keep my heart stayed on you that I might be kept in perfect peace all the days of my life in Jesus' name. Amen
Written by: Mopelola Oyeniran
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