The Fight of Faith
October 26, 2015
Devotions:
“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 KJV
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:9-10 KJV
We are to fight a fight of faith. There are many Christians who believe in healing or God's provision but either die or remain poor waiting on God to heal them or supply their need. When we are young Christians God's mercy is there as in the natural we have mercy on babies and do many things for them that later in life they are expected to do for themselves. As we grow older as Christians God expects us to take hold of His word and stand on it until we see the results. This means acting like the word is true even when our circumstances says differently. We are to act like the word is true as much as we can.
To do this we first need to see from heaven what is in heaven. As we actively meditate on the word concerning the need that we have and then try to act on what we have been meditating on.
Dr. A. B. Simpson was a Presbyterian minister who at 46 years old was diagnose with heart disease and given 6 months to live. He had seen people in his congregation go to a healing evangelist and get healed so he decided to take his bible and get away for a couple of weeks to search his bible to see if healing was really for today. He studied the word for two weeks and finally concluded that healing was for today. He wrote in his bible that he saw this and that he took Jesus as his healer. He then went to a meeting he was to speak at and as he sought the Lord as to what to speak on all he got was the words, "Himself", from Isaiah 53, Himself took our sicknesses and carried our disease. He gave his testimony and concluded. The people at the lecture were from Europe and afterwards invited him to go mountain climbing that afternoon. He initially hesitated because of his past heart condition but then though if I am healed there should be no problem. So he went. When he focused on the healing scriptures there were no symptoms, but when he would get to talking with the people, all the symptoms of heart disease would return, so he would have to get quiet and focus on the scriptures again. He did this over and over again until he reached the top of the climb when all the symptoms left and never returned. At 78 he worked 18 hours a day and felt better at the end of the day than when he started. He had fought the good fight of faith and came out victorious.
This will work in any area of life that the devil attacks. Find out what heaven says about it then fight the fight of faith. Do not just wait for God to move, He already has, the victory is already yours.