By Ken Fletcher
“We’re to encourage each other in faith. This life is so filled with negativity that it will try and sap out the positive faith in God within us! We must build each other up! We must encourage each other in our faith.
Sometimes, just an encouraging word is all we may need to put us over the top in victory! Not that victory is uncertain. But, that living in faith is a battle down here. The battle field is in our mind. It’s in our feelings which result from our thoughts.
We are touched by the negativity every day. The news is so shocking. It’s a different world now. More evil is surfacing AND because of the internet, we hear about more of it quicker. Negativity! Evil! But, it does not have to get into us! We can live in faith in the middle of it. We can focus on what is true.
We can be submitted to Jesus and live from the inside out! These days may be challenging to our faith. But, we can overcome no matter what the circumstance because we have Jesus inside. Our faith in Him will put us over no matter what we may face in this life.
If we can get a real revelation on the in dwelling presence of Jesus inside, we can see things so differently. Trusting in the leading of His Spirit within our spirits! Sometimes we forget Him because we are so distracted. We should keep our eyes on Jesus no matter what is happening around us.
The negativity tries to get in to our heart, my friend. We must be astute and stay keenly aware of the state of our heart! We must be on guard and cast out the negative thoughts that come against our faith.
We must encourage each other no matter where we are in growth. We all are growing in the knowledge of who we are in Christ. There are no bad stages of growth. It’s all positive!
We need to encourage each other to fine tune our focus and purpose here on earth. Our focus must be on Jesus inside. Where He leads, we should always follow! But, many are not paying attention to Him so He can lead them!
He generally does not knock folks in the head to get their attention. Sometimes, a negative situation may occur and Jesus may use that to bring reality to us, but He does not teach us by causing a negative thing to hit us.
All good things come from God. If it’s negative, it did not originate from Him. Do we realize this? Do we realize like we should that He only leads us into His best for us and others in our lives? Well, we should grow in that knowledge also.
Many negative things are blamed on God. Yet, He does all things well regardless of what anyone’s opinion is of Him. Of course, Satan likes it when his works are passed off as God doing them. Satan is THE master false flag deceiver.
We must encourage each other because this world is tuned to a negative chord. We who are in Christ have been brought in to God’s own family and into His Kingdom. We are Kingdom citizens now! We have much to be thankful for.
Even if it is rough sailing down here on earth, we know that Jesus is on board inside! He gives us the ability to push through anything by faith in Him and His Word! If we really have Jesus inside, we can do so much more than we have thought we can do. We grow in understanding with these things.
Let’s encourage each other to grow up! Everyone is on a different level with the Lord. But, we all should be growing–not making the same mistakes over and over. Do you think? I want to be encouraged in my faith and I want to be an encourager to other people’s faith.
What does it boil down to? Doing what the Lord wants us to do in His plan for our lives. Accomplishing in this life His will though us! That is the best for any believer anywhere!” KF KenFletcher.org
