KNOW WHAT YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST MEANS

FAITH AND KNOWING TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed…through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.…Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus… that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (Romans 3:21–22, 24, 26). DAILY FIRE! I know Whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day. Faith means to place confidence in something. That does not mean that anything at all will do; whatever we trust must be trustworthy. Christian faith is faith in Christ: this is not irrational. All over the world, people are putting faith in an endless variety of religions, systems, gods, theories, cults, and self-proclaimed messiahs. Only a fool would trust an unknown deity: but fools do when techniques and strong emotional pressures are applied. They have, in recent times, committed mass suicide in their deluded hopes.  The vast majority of “faiths” (or religions)—old as well as new—promise nothing this side of eternity, but “pie in the sky when you die.”  The late Ayatollah Khomeini sent young teenagers into mined battlefields with the promise that, if they died killing infidels, they would go straight to paradise. How can killing people make anybody fit for heaven? Who would believe it?  But it is an example of the deceitfulness of satanic influence. The Spanish emperor at the time of the Inquisition was stricken with anxiety about his own salvation because he thought he had not burned enough Jews and others who were not Catholics!  Few “faiths” are like the common experience of Christian believers: in fact, no real experience of God at all. There is no miracle, no forgiveness, no victory over sin, no strength in adversity, no peace with God, no joy.  Some of them promote resignation to fate as a great virtue. But Christian believers overcome fate. They do not bow to the inevitable.  Know what your faith in Christ means to you! Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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