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This month's message:
IT’S A TOUGH WORLD
Read: 1 John chapter 5
BEING SURE:
Search your heart before God. Confess your sins and receive forgiveness:
Admit the things that have discouraged you and receive new hope. Recognise your weakness and pray for God’s strength.
As you read 1 John chapter 5, you can’t help but realise that living as a Christian in an un-Christian world is no easy task. We all feel the pressure to give up sometimes. Perhaps clever secular arguments challenge our belief, or the creeping power of materialism starts to undermine the lordship of Christ in our lives; perhaps the pressure of our friends or the temptation to choose a self-centred way of life makes us consider giving up. The good news is that these things do not have the power to defeat us because in Christ we can overcome the world (vs. 4, 5). He gives us the strength to keep going when we feel like giving in. Our faith is based on the outward evidence of the miraculous life of Jesus and the inner evidence of the testimony of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, constantly reassuring us that we have eternal life (vs. 6-8, ‘the water’ refers to his baptism and ‘the blood’ refers to his death on the cross).
God wants us to be ‘confident’ Christians (v.14), knowing we can ALWAYS approach him to pray for his will to be done (v. 15) or to pray for other Christians (v. 16). The ‘sin that leads to death’ (v. 16) probably means a total and determined refusal to believe in Jesus. Unless we are absolutely sure that a person has reached that state, we will always have good reason to go on praying for them.
PRAYER: Think of any Christians you may know whose faith is under attack or who are obviously continuing in sin. Lift them to God in prayer asking him to give them the strength to overcome.
Remember: “My grace is sufficient for you’’ (2 Corinthians 12:9)
