This Month in Faith Is Action

ONE MORE TIME!
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many wit nesses. I give you charge… that you keep this commandment… until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Tim. 6:12-14). 

 

One of the last things Jesus said to the Church was, “Hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown” (Rev. 3:11). This is a warning that someone will try to take your crown of life. If you let him, the devil will walk all over you. Once you start retreating, you will descend like a snowball in an ava lanche. You have to fight to main tain the faith. You’re not going to make it to Heaven unless you fight.

 

Does this mean you have to fight to get saved? No, but you will have to fight to stay saved. Getting saved is the easiest part. Having an evangelistic ministry and getting people saved is the easy part. God sends the conviction when His ser vants preach a convicting message, and many get saved. But keeping them saved and making them pro ductive Christians is the hard part. Continue to read the March edition of FIA.

 

Sharon's Blog

Samson & the Double "Y"

We have all heard the saying: “Three strikes and you’re out!” But Samson actually had four strikes before he was out — out from under the anointing of God. His downward spiral began when he broke the commandment of God in marrying a Philistine woman (Judges 14). Such unions never work out, because instead of the believer winning over the unbeliever, the believer, having compromised, loses out. The moment he disobeys the commandment of God, he opens the door for Satan to pull him away from God.

 

Later he met another Philistine woman, Delilah, whom he didn’t even bother to marry, although “he loved her” (Judges 16:4). If he felt safe with her, he had deceived himself. Soon the Philistine lords came to her promising 1100 pieces of silver to betray Samson. They said: “Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him” (vs.5). And so Delilah went to work on Samson.

 

At first he may have felt like it was some kind of “game” she was playing with him, which is precisely how the devil sets things up for a snare. The first time she asked Samson to tell her where his great strength lay, he told her that if she were to bind him with seven green whips which had never been dried, “then I shall be weak, and as another man” (vs.7). Delilah wasted no time doing so while men were lying in wait outside the door, ready for her signal: “Samson, the Philistines be upon thee!” But Samson arose and threw them off like a piece of straw. Strike One!  Continue on to Sharon's blog...

 

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