The Rise or Demise of a Nation - Part 3
This week, Keith Holloway explains how victory doesn't come from sheer effort or grand battles against the enemy. It comes when we abide in Christ.
This week, Keith Holloway explains how victory doesn't come from sheer effort or grand battles against the enemy. It comes when we abide in Christ.
One of the Bible’s most powerful and yet also misused promises is “I can do all things through him [Christ] who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13, ESV).
This is not meant for the football player to put on their eye black and say, “I can smash the other team.” It is not meant for the MMA fighter to put on his robe that he wears up to the cage, saying, “I can do all things with Christ. I can beat up this other guy.”
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
In C.S. Lewis’s brilliant book The Screwtape Letters, senior devil Screwtape writes to his nephew, advising him on how to handle his patient who has just become a Christian (all references to The Enemy are to God since these are, after all, a pair of devils writing to one another).
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Any believer who wishes to please God with his prayer life must first settle this question: “Does God really hear my prayers and will he answer?” While this appears to be a simple question — one that shouldn’t even need to be asked — most Christians would immediately answer, “Yes, of course I believe God answers my prayers.” But the simple fact is, many are not fully convinced.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.