Faint Not
Dearly beloved of God, fear not; God our Father is with you and for you. He will never leave you, or ever, ever forsake you. He dwells in you by the spirit He gave you in the new birth; you are His habitation, His dwelling place.
God our Father gave us access to the throne of grace; we have access to Him by the gift of holy spirit He gave us in the new birth, and He exhorts us to confidently utilize our access to Him. Look to Him for the answers to your prayers.
We should learn from those who came before us.
Noah carried out the will of God at a time when “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” “It repented the LORD that He had made man, and it grieved Him at His heart.” “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”
God warned Noah of things not as yet seen, and he responded to the revelation with reverence and obedience, and prepared an ark saving his house, by which He condemned the world, and he became an heir of righteousness which is by believing.
Would you trade the difficulty you face for what Noah faced? As God delivered him, He will deliver you from the circumstances you face if you will look to Him for deliverance.
God our Father made us more than conquerors through Christ Jesus our Lord.
We have the victory over sin and death. What shall we fear? God our Father will deliver us from the things that make us afraid today, tomorrow, and always. The situations may change from one day to the next, but He does not change. He always causes us to triumph through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Read Hebrews 11, and look at what God did to deliver His people that came before us. They all faced situations and circumstances were greater than their own ability to deliver them, but God delivered them by His almighty power as they listened to Him and believed what He said.
Our circumstances and mental pressures are no worse than the ones they faced. From Abel to John the Baptist, while believing, these all died, not having received the promises, but they saw and welcomed them at a distance, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
Jesus Christ endured the cross, disregarding the shame; he is the only one to receive the promises thus far, but we will receive them when he returns to save us. God our Father has made us heirs together with Christ, and we will acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ!
We are subject to the adversary’s attacks the same as they were, but God has given us the victory over the world through the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Be patient and endure, dearly beloved; Christ is coming to save and redeem us. As surely as God raised His Son out from among the dead, He will send His Son to save us, also.
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead was a cataclysmic event; it was first time a man was made alive from death, never to die again; death no longer has dominion over him. He is alive forevermore!
When he comes to redeem the Church it will also be a cataclysmic event; the dead in Christ will rise, and the living will be changed, and together he will gather us up to meet him in the air, and so will we ever be with the Lord.
God has given His Son vast power in order to carry out His Will so that we will be saved, and delivered from death, this evil age, and the wrath to come.
There will come a time known only to God when He will remove that which restrains the son of perdition from being revealed – the Church – and the Lord Jesus Christ will gather together the members of his body up to meet him in the air.
This will be the departure, or disappearance of the Church of the Grace of God; then the man of sin will be revealed, and the Day of the Lord will begin to unfold.
The odds against us do not matter. It does not matter whether we face a worldwide flood, or we were hemmed in by the Red Sea while the greatest fighting force on earth pursues us, or we face a Goliath, or the lions in a lion’s den, or a burning fiery furnace; whatever we may face, God our Father is for us, and He is with us to deliver us. He is faithful that promised.
Fear not, dearly beloved of God. Look to the Father for your help. Believe His Word. Walk in the complete reality of the new birth.
Live as though the Lord Jesus Christ is coming today because it could be today. God our Father has given us good hope through grace, dearly beloved, and when all He has said is done, we will reign with Christ forever.
It will take God our Father the coming ages to show us the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Rejoice, and cast your cares upon Him, because He cares for you. Faint not, dearly beloved of God.