📖 STAND FIRM

👉🏼 (Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17)

📜 ""With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters. stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter.""
2 Thessalonians 2:15 (NLT)

📋 In his love. God has saved us and called us to share in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus (1 Peter 5:10). But Satan doesn't want us to enjoy what God has planned for us. So, he has declared war against us "who keep God's commandments and maintain (our) testimony for Jesus" (Revelation 12:17).

He opposes us and fights against us, using his wicked and crafty schemes. He stirs his wicked and evil agents to persecute us; he harasses us with one adversity or another; he brings conflicts in our marriages; he afflicts us with sicknesses, etc.

He is ready to do anything that will discourage us and make us think of turning away from God. But we must never allow him to destroy our faith in our loving God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

To this end, the Apostle Paul urges us to stand firm in the faith: he writes: "With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter".

To remain steadfast in the faith. we need to hold fast to what God's word teaches and nurture an intimate personal fellowship with Christ.
Do all you can to make it to heaven.

🔑 Key Lesson: Unless we stand firm in the faith, we cannot make it to heaven.

🛐 Meditation and Prayer: Lord, empower me to stand firm in the faith.

📚 Further Reading: 1 Corinthians 16:13.

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