Contending for The Faith

Contending for The Faith
We should stop pretending we are committed to our faith and contend for it. We should be committed to what we believe, we should prove our faith with our actions. We need to follow the command of the Lord and step out of our comfort zones. We need to be committed to doing something everyday of our lives us forward, that accomplishes something positive for the Kingdom of God. We can see an excellent example of contending for the faith in the story of David and Goliath. David a small boy at the time, and all traditional logic said he could not do it. For that matter nobody could, not only had nobody ever defeated Goliath, but there was not anyone even willing to try. Not even Davids own brothers, but David knew who he was in God and trusted in the Lord and the skills he had given him. After all David had killed bears and Lions with his slingshot. Why should this be any different? The simple answer is that it wasn't, he was simply doing what he always did, he listened to the Lord and defended his flock. David was blessed of God to win this battle and become King, but if he would have never stepped out in faith he would have never know his destiny. Contending for the faith is like a prize fighter investing in body shots on his opponent. If you know anything about boxing or martial arts you know that you are always trained to focus on the body. George Foreman, a former World heavyweight champion said "Invest in shots to the body, they will pay dividends in the later rounds." I was at a series of prayer meetings a few years back, the people from my church had assembled to pray for a dear friend who was fighting a losing battle with cancer. In those meetings the Lord spoke something to several of us. The Lord said "Contending for the faith is like body shots to the enemy with a sledgehammer." We need to start contending for the Kingdom. If we want to contend we must makes sure we follow the four C's. We need to be committed to the will of God and the vision of our local church. We must stay connected to other believers a local church and a ministry. We have to be consistent, we need to constantly do the ground work for our growth in the Lord. We are the only ones who can do it for ourselves. We are not any kind of threat to the kingdom of darkness if we only read the Word or pray every once and a while. And lastly we need to stay complete, which is the sum of all of the last three. We are only complete when we are in the Lord, if we follow through with the previous three we will be complete people and children of God.