Author	Thread: Are you obtaining a good testimony through faith?
Admin	Are you obtaining a good testimony through faith? Posted : 30 Dec, 2010 07:07 AM In today's devotion from the Our Daily Bread devotional online, my heart and spirit was reminded and encouraged to read anew with the Holy Spirit verses from Hebrews about how other men and women of God had experienced times of sin and failure in their lives concerning their faith and obedience to God and had recovered from these times through sincere repentence and return to faithful following of God's commands and plans for their lives, thus concluding their lives "having obtained a good testimony through faith." May we all continue in our personal "walks of faith" following our Lord's and these men and women's example!!! Love, Steve Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle December 30, 2010 � by Dennis Fisher Read: Hebrews 11:32-40 All these . . . obtained a good testimony through faith. �Hebrews 11:39 In a letter to his son Eduard, Albert Einstein gave this advice: �Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.� The great physicist�s advice is wise and practical. This wise counsel can apply to the Christian life. Many believers by faith keep moving ahead through painful and trying circumstances. But when they experience a personal moral failure, they lose their balance and fall. Their regret and feeling of unworthiness of God�s forgiveness may then keep them down and they no longer move ahead in their spiritual life. The Bible gives us many examples of those who have experienced serious personal failure. Abraham lied to Pharaoh about his wife, Sarah (Gen. 12:11-17). Jacob deceived his father to acquire Esau�s blessing (Gen. 27:18-29). Moses disobeyed God by striking the rock instead of speaking to it (Num. 20:7-12). Despite their failures, we are told: �all these . . . obtained a good testimony through faith� (Heb. 11:39). These biblical characters are lifted up as examples because after they fell, they turned back to God and began to follow Him again. Have you lost your spiritual balance through a sinful choice, which is keeping you down? Repent and follow the God of second chances once again. I�ve strayed, O Lord, and turned aside, I�ve disobeyed Your voice; But now contrite of heart I turn And make Your will my choice. �D. De Haan Our God is a God of second chances. Post Reply
View Profile History	Are you obtaining a good testimony through faith? Posted : 13 Sep, 2011 02:35 PM on earth as it is in heaven? from what i hear :excited:however!!! :ROFL: i do not hear what is said behind my back :ROFL: isn't the helmet of salvation great? earplugs and all :applause: Post Reply