Fight the Good Fight of Faith, English Edition

 • Fight the Good Fight of Faith: Playing Your Part in God’s Unfolding Drama

Eternal God, my Father, you say in your Word that you are the source of all knowledge and wisdom. I acknowledge this as the truth, dear Father, and I ask that you impart into me divine wisdom, that I may be able to rightly divide the Word of truth (2 Timothy 2.15). Please instruct and teach me in the way I should go (Psalm 32.8), and direct my steps. Incline my ear to hear your voice, and correct me now in the way I think and speak, and lead me when I have gone astray. Father, grant me the gift of discernment, and enable me as I study to know the difference between godly and ungodly teachings, spirits, and gifts. Show me by the Holy Spirit what your will is, and give me insight into how I can carry out your intentions with my whole heart. Dear Lord, please help me to be quick to hear and listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger (James 1.19). Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Allow me to speak your truth with wisdom in order that all with whom I speak may understand and benefit by your truth. Teach me now in this study as I receive your Word and instruction. I ask for these things in the strong name of Jesus, my Lord and Savior, Amen. people of a particular race, the “Whites.” Everything his gang did, everything they said, and everything they wanted related to blaming White people for what they had done to others down through history. The gang was dedicated to paying them back for the hurt and violence they had done to others, to put them down and hurt them whenever and however they could. On repenting and believing in Christ, this young Christian rejected this group and its hatred against Whites, but he was concerned about how he could keep himself from slipping back into the old habits of speech and conduct he lived for so long. After struggling with thoughts on this for some time, he said, “I don’t want to be like I was, and I’ve come to better understand that the Lord wants me to be like him. But, honestly, where do I get the strength to do that, I mean, to be like him?” What would your advice be to this young, struggling Christian on this issue? 2. “I’ve never been saintly, and, I don’t think I’ll ever be one of those kind of people. Me, a saint?” In a Bible study with a young Christian (who actually was a middle-aged man), we happened upon the teaching that God expected us to live as saints (holy ones) in Christ. The 1. “Where do I get the strength to do that, I mean, to be like him?” As a part of his past life, a young Christian was a part of a gang that hated

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