Sunday, October 14th, 2007 - Hold fast, press on

Have you ever played a game of tug-of-war? You have two teams, trying to get the other one to come over and cross a line which is fixed, usually on the floor (smile). The team that gets the other team to cross the line, or perhaps fall down, wins. Now, sometimes during the game, it may not be strange to feel your hands slipping from the rope - but you have to keep holding on, and not giving up.

So it is with our Christian walk. We have a hope, we have a Father who loves us, a Saviour interceding for us, who also happens to be our Great High Priest (amongst many things), a Comforter who is right here with us showing us the way to go, and a great cloud of witnesses cheering us on. Let's face it, there are many, oh so many that are rooting for you to win this race, and you cannot afford to go back, not now, because He who is coming will come and will not tarry - and real soon too. You may have stumbled and let go of the rope, but still, the Bible tells us that: "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief." Proverbs 24v16

So rise up, and hold fast and press on - with His help, you can do it!!!

Have a blessed day.

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"But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." Hebrews 3v6

"For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;" Hebrews 3v14

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Our dearest heavenly Father,
We thank You so much for today, we thank You for Your goodness, we thank You for Your faithfulness, we praise You for Your love. We adore You for who You are and all that You have been and are and are still going to be to us. We thank You for the hope and the confidence that we have in You. We thank You and praise You because You are the Living God and great is Thy faithfulness. Your stedfast love reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the sky. Oh that we may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the depth, and lenght and breadth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. How great You are. Thank You Father, thank You Son, thank You Holy Spirit of God. Merciful Father, we pray for the grace, the strenght and the endurance to run with joy, the race that has been set in front of us. Eternal Rock of Ages, Everlasting Father, we pray for the grace, the strength and the endurance to hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end, that we may be Christ's house. Finally Lord we pray, for the grace, the strength and the endurance, to hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end, that we may be made partakers of Christ. We thank You for Your strength which is made perfect in weakness, for Your joy which is our strength, for Your love which is a fruit of the Holy Spirit indwelling in us and is with us, which endures all things, and for Your grace which is sufficient for us. Abba Father we praise You, Lord Jesus we adore You, Holy Spirit we extol You, praying O Lord of the harvest that You please send forth labourers into Your harvest, for the harvest indeed is plenteous, but the labourers are few. We thank You Lord even for all these things and for answered prayers, even as we have prayed according to Your will, in Jesus name, amen.