HOLDING FORTH UNTO FAITH 

HOLDING FORTH UNTO FAITH: FOR YOU ARE – “GOD’S BATTLE AXE AND WEAPONS OF WAR”! 

There are LIFE BATTLES, knowingly or unknowingly. And these BATTLES are real for everyone. But the greatest life battle is the BATTLE for your FAITH in Christ. And there’s an ENEMY and CHORTS fighting daily, going to and fro, roaring aggressively, looking for any avenue to devour your FAITH in Christ. 

You need to know the ENEMY and COHORTS know that if they get hold of your FAITH, EVERYTHING about you will be DEVOURED. 

Your FAITH in Christ Jesus is the VICTORY and TRIUMPH that overcomes the WORLD’S SYSTEM – that’s controlled by the ENEMY and COHORTS against your wellbeing.  When they attack, their PRIMARY aim isn’t your MONEY, FAMILY, CAREER, RELATIONSHIP, BUSINESS or MINISTRY. It’s to make you DENY, GIVE UP, and QUIT on your FAITH. Why? because your FAITH is the divinely instilled DEFAULT MECHANISM that ENACTS your REDEMPTION, letting you live life in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. 

We are enjoined to HOLD ON FAITH to FIGHT a GOOD FIGHT of FAITH in life BATTLES. So, BUILD UP your most Holy FAITH in Christ Jesus by constantly affirming and enacting your GRACE stands in REDEMPTION. It’s a way to PREPARE for daily CHALLENGES and BATTLES. By effectually exercising your rights and privileges in Christ Jesus, you will rule and reign in DOMINION IN REDEMPTION in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 

SELAH-PAUSE AND THINK. 

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT: 

“Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour. 9 But resist him, be firm in your faith [against his attack—rooted, established, immovable], knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being experienced by your brothers and sisters throughout the world. [You do not suffer alone.] 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favor], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be]” 1 Peter 5:8-10 (Amplified). 

“The HORSE is PREPARED for the DAY of BATTLE, But deliverance and victory belong to the Lord” Proverbs 21:31. 

“This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest WAR a GOOD WARFARE; 19 HOLDING FAITH, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning FAITH have made shipwreck: 20 of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme” 1 Timothy 1:18-20. 

“FIGHT the GOOD FIGHT of FAITH, lay HOLD on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses” 1 Timothy 6:12. 

“For everyone born of God is VICTORIOUS and OVERCOMES the world; and this is the VICTORY that has CONQUERED and OVERCOME the world—our [continuing, persistent] FAITH [in Jesus the Son of God]. 5 Who is the one who is VICTORIOUS and OVERCOMES the world? It is the one who believes and recognizes the fact that Jesus is the Son of God” 1 John 5:4-5 (Amplified). 

Further Scriptural Reading: Jeremiah 51:20-23; Jeremiah 12:5; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:57-58; Romans 8:35-39. 

SUMMARY: 

The message is a call to believers to hold on to their faith in Christ Jesus, emphasising its importance in overcoming life’s battles and achieving victory. It highlights the enemy’s primary aim to devour faith, which is the divinely instilled mechanism that enacts redemption and enables believers to live in God’s blessedness. 

Key points include: 

• Life battles are real, but the greatest battle is for faith in Christ. 

• The enemy targets faith, knowing that if it’s devoured, everything else will be lost. 

• Faith in Christ is the victory that overcomes the world’s system. 

• The enemy’s attacks on money, family, career, etc., are secondary; the primary aim is to make believers deny, give up, or quit their faith. 

• Believers are enjoined to hold on to faith, build it up, and exercise their rights and privileges in Christ to reign in dominion. 

• Scriptural references (1 Peter 5:8-10, Proverbs 21:31, 1 Timothy 1:18-20, etc.) support the importance of faith, vigilance, and perseverance in spiritual battles. 

The message encourages readers to prioritise faith, prepare for battles, and trust in God’s deliverance and victory. 

REV. CHUKIE MORSI