Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Backsliding church

I can even begin to express my hearts desire for this topic about backsliding, As most of you know I come from christian family with who I am so blessed.I love growing up with a family that loves the Lord, but as you also know I have spiritually revived the past few weeks and the lord is showing me how much I missed out on when I was living the simple christian life and not really seeking the lord. And so now Backsliding is such a tremendous issue to me because I don't wanna ever go back to my good church life I don't ever wanna go back to the simple ministry life I've known. I have found my hearts desire,
and the danger of backsliding is so important to address today, the church today is in danger of backsliding and is currently backsliding. Yes the spirit is moving but there is a great spiritual battle going on. It's getting real and down to the last line.
What are signs of backsliding?
signs like the love of many growing cold(Mat 24:12) and the process of being deceived is a huge factor in it.
But I wanna look at the importance of hanging unto what we know to be truth. Because really that's all that matters, we know that Jesus is god and he died for our sins and rose again, we know that the holy spirit is real. What more do we need? why have we twisted the word of God? because we are falling away.
the way to fight this battle is by prayer, the spiritual battle is real and the enemy is real. If we even dare to deny this we are guilty of backsliding. perhaps that is harsh but really if we dare to deny the truth of the matter that the church is dying we are no better then church goers who live in the world and have a form of godliness. What will it take? It will take churches waking up to the truth and going to the lord in prayer like never before. it will take a revival by the holy spirit. It will take sacrifices that I believe are worth it, it may mean we will have to deny the comfort of the current ministry or area of occupation we are involved in in order to fulfill the word of God and not to backslide. It may mean we will have to turn our backs on everything we were raised in and set a whole new focus on our walk with the Lord. This is only the first part, once walking with the Lord we do have the danger of backsliding and going back to the ways of the world even if they are innocent because it's highly possible to backslide in the christian faith and go back from the growing point in your life. when we are growing we will be tempted to stay content with our growth but remember that the Lord has great plans for us.

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