Let’s be FIGHTERS

You have to have conviction or you can’t live. When you’re serving the Lord, you have got to be convinced that you are right, and try to convince everybody else of the same. And be willing to fight for what you believe in. Faith is not passive.

The devil will do everything he can to tempt you to forsake God’s way. If he cannot get you to stop trusting God, he will try to get you to compromise and be so weak, you won’t STAND for anything.

He usually tempts you with half-truths that make you doubt your conviction and not live up to them. Most people don’t realize that one little disobedience leads to another, one little refusal and denial leads to another, and one bit of selfishness leads to more.

You may think “oh just this one little tiny sin, it’s no big deal and no one will know”. But that little crack in your armor is where the devil begins to seep in, and then his gas of deceit begins to poison your mind because you disobeyed and pretty soon you’re totally off the track.

And if you don’t really repent and stop, you could eventually go all the way back on the Lord. Don’t let it happen to you. Be faithful to the Lord, be faithful to His work and your ministry. Be loyal. “Resist the enemy and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). “Give no place to the evil one” Eph 4:27.

God likes wholehearted, stout-hearted men and women. You’ve got to know what you’re going to believe in and serve him no matter what anybody else says. “He that rebuketh to man, afterwards I’ll find more favor and he don’t flatter it” (Pro 26:5)

Take a stand like Martin Luther took on salvation by grace before the Diet of Worms. He said “Here I stand, I can do no other; I’m willing to die for this truth, I’m so SURE of it.

You cannot stop a man of Faith. You cannot dissuade him. You cannot divert to him. He’ll go on with or without you. Why? He is determined to go blindly on faith alone, because he has found the truth. He is of one mind, one heart, one Spirit, one purpose and will not quit until he’s made it.

God help us to be fighters and willing to do anything for the Lord, in just plain thanks for salvation. We must do what we know is right and be willing to live and to die for what we know is the truth.