THE RACE OF FAITH:: A CALL FOR MORAL CONCENTRATION

THE RACE OF FAITH:: A CALL FOR MORAL CONCENTRATION

   11:20:00 am       Wisdom de Prince

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THE RACE OF FAITH

2Timothy @2vs5
“the secret of a successful race is concentration”

A good Christian should be aware of a race he/she is into, it is not a just race or a training/practice race but a race of glory,,,,,,,,,,, Running the race of faith in the rightful paths is as the result of the fruits a Christian bear…..

Any one that truly accepted Jesus Christ as his or her personal savior genuinely is saved and there will be no condemnation. My dear if you have accepted Jesus Christ genuinely then you are saved and crown as a princess of Heaven..
Many young Christians suffers struggles in respect to their spiritual growth but I came to understand that such worries are not helpful nor can it provides a solution to spiritual growth, remember that it is not Gods will for a believer to struggles spiritually.
Struggles in spirit are of three types and they are caused by some certain factors.

1 Struggling with sins…… this spiritual struggles is the most common struggles among youths believers, about 90% of the youth believers are in serious struggles with sins. Devil uses this method to corrupt the mind of youthful believers, so that they might easily lose concentration in fellowship with God. As the believers especially the youth think they are not been born again, that is the reason why some believers keep on giving their life to Christ continuously. They fail to know that they are already born again, all the need is concentration in fellowship with God. Since they are not sure of been born again, due to struggles with sins they lack concentration in fellowship with God, and their relationship with God looks bitter.

Two factors are responsible with this struggles with sins they are;
a. when you fail to know the truth about your born again {death to sin and alive in Christ}
b. when you forget the fact that you are death to sins but alive in Christ

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Not bearing the rightful fruits/not productive…..

this spiritual struggles is only common in those who really wants to please God through Jesus Christ. It is not common in those believers who are not ready to be in total submission to Christ…believers that are in total submission to God experiences such struggle in spirit because God is a jealousy God since they wish to be in total submission to the jealousy God, they possess the spirit and mind set of that Jealousy, as they try all they could do to resist the existence of the Man of flesh known as the old man. Committing sins is like going to hell fire to anyone that is facing this struggle.

The only factor responsible for this struggle is; when a believer fails to realize that productivity and bearing of God fruits can only be archived due to your position in God presence, there are different positions in God presence depending on the time we spent with God in prayers and studying of His word.. My dear do you know your position in God presence? Satan fuel this struggles so that you may think it is not easy to bear a Christ-like fruits and to lost concentration. You are given all you need to be productivity, the spirit of God is a fuel responsible for any productivity of faith in Christ Jesus.

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evil thought….. this spiritual struggles is common to all believers and the factor responsible for this struggle is the presence of the old Man in our life… my dear remember that even though u are born again, death to sins yet the old man will still work in your life because Satan his master is still alive but this man of the flesh only lost his function in your life, when you fail to acknowledge that this man of flesh had no function/role to play in your life then Satan draw him back to his old function and his works will resume in your life. This will make you think you do not have the spirit of God in your life, Satan fuel this so that you may lost concentration….. pls beware and never let spiritual struggles overcame your concentration in fellowship with God…

HOW TO OVERCOME SPIRITUAL GROWTH

A problem that exist, must also has it solution and for a solution of a problem to be useful, the problem must be overcome by the solution. In spiritual realm, the man of the flesh {the old man} opposes the development of our spiritual maturity. Note that the secret of a successful race winner is concentration and devil fuel all our spiritual struggles to steal our spiritual concentration in fellowship with God…please do not allow devil to steal your concentration in spirit.

The man of flesh symbolize yeast in Holy bible,,,,, have you ever think why bread we eat is not refer as alcoholic food ? even though there exist a present of yeast? The answer is very simple, during the manufacturing of bread the yeast is baked and not allowed to fermented, while if putting the same amount of yeast present in 50naira bread into a 300litres of kunu, and left it for about 4 hours will turn to alcohol if taking just a cup of it from the 300litres became harmful to man because the yeast was fermented. If you baked your old man [Man of the flesh] when doing things in front of Man and God, you will displays the glory of Christ in all your doing. But if you allow your old man to ferment, it will hurt you and you will acts abnormal to God commands and manifested the destructive acts of Satan.

STEPS IN SPIRITUAL GROWTH

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   This is the final stage its also the stage of perfection as there will no opposition to the spirit
   


2. Knowing the truth {bearing the fruits of Christ ----
   This is also known as alter stage,,, an alter is a personal relationship with God. Without this alter you cannot bear Christ-like fruits
3. fellowship and the your position in the presence of God(time spent in the present of God) --------------
   Devil will bring in spiritual struggles to make you lost concentration in fellowship with God….all you need here is prayer time
4. feeding on the words of God (quiet time)---
   Came to know the deep misery of Christ love (knowing God clearly)
5. Baptism ------------ First step with a lot of happiness and joy as you experience the salvation of God through Jesus Christ……the Holy Ghost presence in your life manifested with love for Christ and readiness for the gospel of love