A Prayer to Deepen and Strengthen Your Religion
By Lynette Kittle
Bible Studying:
“Now religion is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we don’t see”–Hebrews 11:1
Hear or Learn Under:
What does it take to deepen and strengthen our religion? 2 Timothy 4:7 likens our religion to working a race: “I’ve fought the great combat, I’ve completed the race, I’ve saved the religion.”
It’s true that life can seem to be a rat race, the place we simply preserve doing the identical issues over and over, like a hamster working in a wheel. As a result of life and even how we stay out our religion day-to-day can appear redundant to us at instances, carrying us down and including failures, disappointments, and heartaches to our weariness, we need to preserve faithfully occurring with the aim of ending our lives in religion.
4 Keys to Deepening and Strengthening Our Religion within the Race of Religion
In 1 Corinthians 9, God encourages us to maintain transferring ahead, giving us keys to maintain working the race of religion for so long as we stay and breathe on earth. In the event you’ve ever run a bodily race, you realize it takes preparation to take part. The next are 4 keys God provides us to assist deepen and strengthen us and keep on the course forward of us.
1. Set our hearts and minds on profitable the prize. What’s that prize? It’s Jesus and everlasting life with Him.
1 Corinthians 9:24 asks us, “Do you not know that in a race all of the runners run, however just one will get the prize? Run in such a means as to get the prize.”
2. Practice to win. 1 Corinthians 9:25 explains how “Everybody who competes within the video games goes into strict coaching. They do it to get a crown that won’t final, however we do it to get a crown that may final perpetually.”
1 Timothy 4:8 describes the significance of religious coaching. “For bodily coaching is of some worth, however holiness has worth for all issues, holding promise for each the current life and the life to come back.”
3. Understand we’re being cheered on. Though we might not know precisely what this implies or what it seems to be like, Hebrews 12:1 reveals that, like a grandstand full of individuals watching a race, we’re being watched and cheered on by an amazing crowd, too.
“Subsequently, since we’re surrounded by such an amazing cloud of witnesses, allow us to throw off every little thing that hinders and the sin that so simply entangles. And allow us to run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
Regardless that we might not see them or know when, the place, and the way they’re seeing us, 1 Timothy 6:12 tells us, “Struggle the great combat of the religion. Snatch the everlasting life to which you have been known as if you made your good confession within the presence of many witnesses.”
4. Repair our eyes on the end line. The place does our race finish? With Jesus, the One we’re working to in religion and holding the course depends on us “Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of religion. For the enjoyment set earlier than Him He endured the cross, scorning its disgrace, and sat down on the proper hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
As James 1:12 explains, “Blessed is the one who perseveres below trial as a result of, having stood the take a look at, that particular person will obtain the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those that love Him.”
Let’s Pray:
Expensive Father,
Please deepen and strengthen our religion as we speak as we repair our eyes on Jesus, who has gone earlier than us and perfected religion on our behalf. Assist us to set our hearts on profitable the prize of everlasting life with You by coaching to win, recognizing we now have heavenly help by way of the numerous witnesses cheering us on, and fixing our eyes on Your good Son, Jesus. Free us as we speak from all earthly hindrances, bondages, and evil religious forces that search to journey us up, lead us astray, sluggish us down, and rob us of our crown of life. Assist us, O Father, to remain regular in our race, stuffed with hope, realizing, as Jesus reminds us in Revelation 3:11, “I’m coming quickly. Maintain on to what you’ve got, in order that nobody will take your crown.”
In Jesus’ identify, amen.
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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Deal with the Household, Resolution, At the moment’s Christian Girl, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Test TV.
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