Dont Let Your Faith Slip

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Don't Let Your Faith Slip
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
– Hebrews 2:1

Something very serious has been happening to the Body of Christ. We've often let the things which we have heard—the message of faith and righteousness—slip.

I'm not just talking about those believers who've been so surrounded by religion that they've never heard about the power that's theirs in Christ Jesus. I'm talking about those of us who have heard the Word and have known the thrill of living by faith.

In my own life, for example, there were times when I'd pray for healing. I'd say all the right words, "Thank God, I believe I receive..." and all that. But inside I'd be thinking, I wonder why God isn't healing me?

You see, even though I'd said that I believed I was healed, I hadn't really. I'd staggered at the promise of God, believing what my body told me instead of the Word of God.

I don't care how long you've been a believer or how long you've been practicing the principles of faith. You can easily slip into unbelief about the promises of God. And, when you do, it will cost you dearly.

"But if slipping into unbelief is so easy," you may say, "how can we avoid it?"

Hebrews 4:11 tells us: "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."

We must labor! Not by working with our hands and feet or struggling to get God to do something, but by spending time in God's Word—hanging on to the promises of God by faith day after day. We must labor by hearkening to the Word and refusing to let it slip.

Don't get casual about the Word. Don't make the mistake of thinking, Oh I know all that faith stuff. I know how to receive my healing. If you do, you'll slack off and one of these days the devil will catch you unprepared and steal you blind.

Instead, dig more deeply in the Word than ever. Labor! Be diligent to keep your faith from slipping—and you won't have to fall!

Scripture Reading: Hebrews 10:23-39
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Your body is not all there is, if you listened to what your body told you all the time, you will miss out on the spirit.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace, to be carnally minded is death. Flesh is flesh, spirit is spirit. Flesh will decay, the spirit we are given is eternal and perfect. So where will your healing take place...it is your soul which is your mind will and emotions, the part of you that you cannot see.
Each and every believer knows that Jesus was raised from the dead and his body was glorified. The thing is, his body had to die first. Your outward flesh body is dying everyday. But its dying so that new life can come forth. Each and every cell of your body will be renewed.
When healing manifests thats is the glory of God, we are changed from glory to glory. That is the transfiguration. Not many people talk about when Jesus was transfigured, and only Peter and James and John saw this on the mount but its was a glimpse of what happens when Jesus reflected the glory of God. The thing is they had to climb the mount to see this. Figuratively speaking we must go up to the mount. They would not have seen His full glory from the valley.

The sun comes up every morning and it is glorious. But how often do we miss this. There are clouds, or we sleep in, or we stay in the valley...its only when we make the effort to go to higher ground that we can really see.