Have you ever found yourself weary in the good fight of faith? Maybe you were doing everything you knew to do in a given situation and all that was left to do was stand, but you were tired. Your legs got heavy. You weren’t quitting but it was getting hard to bravely carry on.
At church that following Sunday, a friend comes over and asks how you’re doing. You explain the situation briefly and they immediately take your arms and hold you up. They pray a life-filled prayer, and you feel the weariness lifting.
Another friend joins you and connects quickly with what’s happening. They speak strong words of encouragement. You realize your fight of faith is about to be completed and you’re going to make it. Your friends are carrying it with you and the victory is near.
Not long after, you reach the end of the fight and rejoice for the lightness you feel and the answered prayer you are experiencing. You find words of praise flooding your heart and mind and your mouth bursts out in songs of praise to God, the faithful One. You briefly glance back and see the rough battle you’ve come out of, but everything now surrounding you shouts VICTORY.
You ponder the breakthrough. You know it happened when your faith-filled friends took your arms and helped carry you through. They knew the victory and brought you to it.
We need the Body of Christ. We need each other’s strength. We need each other’s words of encouragement. We need the life of Christ in other Believers. To think that we can go through all faith-battles alone with any success is shortsighted and it weakens our faith. We are missing a very important part of our victorious journey if we don’t include the faith of our friends.
Hebrews 10:24,25
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, …
At church that following Sunday, a friend comes over and asks how you’re doing. You explain the situation briefly and they immediately take your arms and hold you up. They pray a life-filled prayer, and you feel the weariness lifting.
Another friend joins you and connects quickly with what’s happening. They speak strong words of encouragement. You realize your fight of faith is about to be completed and you’re going to make it. Your friends are carrying it with you and the victory is near.
Not long after, you reach the end of the fight and rejoice for the lightness you feel and the answered prayer you are experiencing. You find words of praise flooding your heart and mind and your mouth bursts out in songs of praise to God, the faithful One. You briefly glance back and see the rough battle you’ve come out of, but everything now surrounding you shouts VICTORY.
You ponder the breakthrough. You know it happened when your faith-filled friends took your arms and helped carry you through. They knew the victory and brought you to it.
We need the Body of Christ. We need each other’s strength. We need each other’s words of encouragement. We need the life of Christ in other Believers. To think that we can go through all faith-battles alone with any success is shortsighted and it weakens our faith. We are missing a very important part of our victorious journey if we don’t include the faith of our friends.
Hebrews 10:24,25
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, …
