Are you pepared to face the Storms of Life?
Yes every human being will face various storms in life.
1. Sudden unemployment!
2. Sudden illness!
3. Sudden loss of life!
4. Sudden shame!
How will you face these without Jesus?
1. With your intellect?
2. With help from friends/family?
3. With your own strength?
What if all worldly help is exhausted?
What if no one can help?
Money? How long will it last? In terms of loss of life, will money be of help?
If you lose a loved one, a family member who has not accepted Christ, what assurance do you have that you will see him/her in heaven?
Think!
Cancer, heart attack, sudden accidents and illnesses, sudden job loss, sudden death, these do not tell anyone, "I am coming!" They come suddenly when you are unaware.
To face a storm and conquer it, you must be prepared and all those in the boat with you must be equipped with the right tools and be of the same mind and desire and must be facing the same direction. You may be unaware, but you must be always prepared and equipped.
In the same way when you face stormy situations in your life you will only be victorious if you are firmly rooted in Christ Jesus.
In a marriage both the partners must have the mind of Christ to win the battle.
If both are unbelievers, they will solve the situation in a worldly manner which will not be the way of Christ Jesus.
If one partner is a believer and the other is not, then tension will arise and the Christian partner when he or she is not rooted in Christ, will eventually end up compromising with his/her unbelieving spouse.
If you are not married please do not be attracted to an unbeliever or a Christian who does not have a relationship with Christ.
If your future spouse is an unbeliever, what will his/her values be shaped by? By God's Word or popular, conformistic, worldly views? Now LBGT is widely accepted but God's Word prohibits it. God created Male and Female and not 'Inbetweens'! If your future spouse shows acceptance to the LGBT views, how are you going to respond if your child says he/she wants to be a transgender? If your spouse agrees to it, are you going to compromise with it against God's Word? Or if your spouse says all religions lead to God and he/she allows your children to choose their faith, how are you going to respond?
How are you, as a believer going to raise up children who are rooted firmly in Christ Jesus, if your spouse is an unbeliever? When the child is conceived, will your unbelieving spouse start laying hands and praying for the child in the womb from day 1? Will the unbelieving spouse run the race to raise up children who are God chasers instead of world chasers?
A person 's mind will be shaped by only one of the 2 things:-
1) shaped by worldly views if he/she is an unbeliever or a believer who does not walk with Christ Jesus.
2) shaped by God's Word if he/she is a believer who is firmly rooted in Christ?
God's Word warns us not to be yolked with unbelievers in 2Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?
The world is changing fast. Ungodly, antichristian views are seeping into the world as fast as lightning speed. If you don't hold on firmly to Christ Jesus, you will sink miserably without any help!
When a stormy situation arises how will you handle it without the only God Who came to take your sin and sicknesses upon the cross for you? Jesus said, "No one comes to the Father, except through Me!" A believing spouse will either end up compromising with his/her unbelieving spouse for the sake of peace ( which is against God's Word) or will end up in a religious struggle and be miserable.
Therefore, when you select a spouse, ensure that he/she is a believer, who loves Jesus more than he/she loves you. Remember, not everyone who professes to be a Christian is firmly rooted in Christ. Many are backslidden or lax Christians.
First pray and ask God to mould and shape you to be a person pleasing to God in all ways. You must be firmly rooted in Christ first.
Then pray for a partner who will be a God chaser and a God pleaser and who will run the Christian race with you till the end. Our Father will bless you with your heart's desire if you are sincere in following Christ and are faithful to Him.
For you who are already married to unbelivers, pray and model a life which bears the fruit of the Spirit. Pray for your spouse's conversion. If your spouse or children are unbelievers or lax Christians, talk to them about the wonders of Christ in your life. How can you be selfish in not telling your loved ones (if you sincerely love them), about Jesus? Are you not responsible for them, going to hell?
What are you afraid of?
Losing your loved ones on earth or not seeing them forever in Heaven?
Jesus said in Matt 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Are you rooted deeply in Christ Jesus to be able to surrender to Him, everyone and everything?
Whatever you surrender to Him will never be lost. He will make all things new and give them back to you a hundredfold if you surrender all to Him now.
Don't worry if the conversion of your loved ones is not immediate. You be faithful in praying for them and living your life in a manner which pleases God and which bears the fruit of the Spirit. Their conversion will happen in God's time. The Holy Spirit is the Convictor and the Convertor of souls. God will commend you for your faithfulness to Him.
Then you together with your loved ones will receive Eternal Life in Jesus. You will live in His Kingdom with your loved ones forever and ever happily.
Also the TRUTH can only be found in God's WORD and no where else. Even after reading my article, you must check if what I have written is biblically correct. Therefore I humbly urge you to read this article carefully and check it against God's Word, the Bible.
Never ever give up Christ Jesus Who died such a cruel death on the cross to redeem you from Satan 's grip, for the power, beauty, wealth and pleasures of this world!
Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, is the Only One Who can shield you from all storms and give you Eternal Life!
Therefore be firmly rooted in Christ Jesus and face every storm in your life victoriously with Him!
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Mary Augustine.
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