(Maintain Your Focus And Don’t Give Up)
TO THE BIBLE: 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
“Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love.”
LET’S TALK
God wants you to be unwavering in your walk of faith, because, at the right time, you’ll reap a harvest if you don’t give up. As a child of God, there are unique abilities He has placed within you.
You might be at a stage in your life where you’re not sure whether you should continue doing the things the Lord has committed to you because of the challenges, persecutions, tests, and trials you’re facing. But I encourage you today to maintain your focus and not give up.
The Bible says that if you give up in the day of adversity, then your strength is small (Proverbs 24:10). But your strength isn’t small, because the Lord Himself is your strength.
To give up in the day of trouble means you trusted in yourself rather than in the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:5 lets us know that it’s “not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God” (AMPC).
Trust Him to see you through; He’s your ability. No wonder the Spirit of God, through the Apostle Paul, prays that you be strengthened with miracle-working ability by the Spirit in your inner man. You do that by studying the Word and praying in the Holy Ghost.
When you spend time studying and meditating on the Word, in addition to speaking in tongues regularly, your spirit is energised with miracle-working ability.
Suddenly, the whole world becomes small to you, and you see that, really, nothing is impossible to you.
When you’re strengthened with divine enablement in your inner man, you become too persuaded to be dissuaded. Instead, you become like Abraham, strong in faith and giving glory to God.
Go Deeper
1 Corinthians 15:58; Hebrews 10:23
Pray
Dear Father, thank you for the inspiration and assurance that comes from your Word. Your grace is sufficient for me in all things, and I’m fully persuaded that my sufficiency is of you. Thank you for setting me on the course of eternal success; I triumph gloriously today and always, by your Spirit, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Daily Bible Reading
ONE YEAR
Hebrews 9:1-10, Lamentations 1-2
TWO YEAR
2 Peter 1:1-12, Ezekiel 40
Act:
Study Hebrews 11 and be inspired by the men and women in Faith’s Hall of Fame whose faith didn’t waver in times of opposition and adversity.