Full-Time Faith

"You can't serve a full-time God with a part-time faith" is something that has been going around lately, and I've been thinking about how true this is. Also, how true the flip side is: "You can't fight against a full-time enemy with a part-time faith."

I want you to think about this with me: a full-time job requires a minimum of about 40 hours a week. God works 24/7, and so does satan; that's 168 hours a week, a full-timer works only about 24% of their time. Not even a quarter of their week is spent at work. Now, imagine us, as followers of Christ, how much time do we give to facebook/twitter/snapchat/Instagram/other platforms? How much of it can be given to God?

 Why do we expect things to go so well with our lives if we don't even spend a quarter of our time with Him? He fights for us all day, every day. Satan is fighting against us all day, every day. If we were to just give Jesus a little more time, imagine how much more faith would be instilled in us. Why do we expect to be able to fight satan, if we don't use the full-time faith that we are given? Christ died on the cross for us, so that it would be possible to even spend a quarter of our week with Him, to let Him teach us new things, to let the Holy Spirit grow our faith just a little bit more.

You might think that's a lot of work, well, yeah, newsflash, having a relationship with the King of Kings isn't all butterflies and flowers. It's a two-way street, and we have a responsibility to allow ourselves to be moved by Him. We, as a body, need to spend more time with Him, to hear the Word more, to have more faith, so that we can fight this ongoing battle against satan. We can't just do the best we can on our own. We need our faith to be strengthened daily so that we truly can serve a full-time God and fight against a full-time satan.

Could you just give Him a little more time, a little more faith to Him this week? Trust that He is there with you, every step of the way.

Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."

 2 Corinthians 5:7 "For we live by faith, not by sight."

Comments

Post a Comment

Have something to say? Leave a comment here.

Popular posts from this blog

Poland: Responding to God's Call

Since getting involved with  L.I.F.E. Ministry , I've been given the opportunity to go to Kraków, Poland, with them. While I'm very excited for this trip and have been looking forward to going and seeing what God will do during our time there, I also know and am very aware of the spiritual preparation that needs to take place, even now, just about a month before I fly out. When I was first given this opportunity, I had prayed and asked God if He wanted me to go and if so, to prepare the way.  and the Lord answered. Not only did He make a way financially and with my schedule, He also prepared my heart. When I heard a “yes” from Him, I asked Him to break my heart for what breaks His, especially since we'll be ministering to war-weary refugees, as well as those who live in Poland. Knowing that there will be numerous children as well already broke my heart. They  need  to know Yeshua! They  need  hope — and it needs to be the hope that the Messiah offers. When I responded to Go
Read more

Poland: The Presence of God

Whew, it’s been a whirlwind of a week already and yesterday we visited Auschwitz, which will have its own post at some point, but I wanted to share some of the things that have been happening, both within the L.I.F.E. Ministry  and in my own life.  A couple days ago, when we were prepping with L.I.F.E. Poland  and Oasis , I was talking to a leader from the Poland team, and through that conversation, the Lord reminded me that I am to not discredit the presence of God in my life. I asked Natasha what her favorite part of ministry is, and she said it’s the people—and she’s right: the people are who we are trying to reach. Natasha was explaining that when people visit the office, they feel a good “aura,” which we both knew is the presence of God. Out that simple phrase, the Lord reminded me that  I have the presence of God within me,  wherever I go. From that renewed sense of purpose and knowing and feeling the love and presence of my King, this came to me and the Lord reminded me: Be ca
Read more

Poland: Auschwitz

Just a note of warning as you've probably gathered from the title of this post: This post is about Auschwitz and Birkenau, the horrors of the Holocaust, and has detail of what I saw and heard while there. Read at your own discretion.  Three weeks ago today, when I was in Poland, our teams had time to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was such a sobering and somber day, but overall, I'm thankful for the opportunity.  To walk the gravel roads the Jewish people walked and suffered on was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and seeing the camps and hearing and learning more about the Holocaust in general was important because it's getting lost in history. But, we are to remember. We are to stand for and love the Jewish nation, God's chosen ones. Seeing how they lived and hearing the horror and brutality of Auschwitz was a stark reminder of the value of life and how inhumane the entire thing was. Yet, God is faithful to His people!  What Satan tried to destroy through the hands o
Read more