FINISHING STRONG
STUDY IX
God has promised to never leave us nor forsake us. And if you leave God’s paths and go astray, you will hear a voice behind you say, “No, this is the way; walk here. Isaiah 30:21
God always warns His children when they deviate from His path but unfortunately many ignore God's warnings due to pride. God warns us primarily through dreams and through our conscience or through His servants.
God warned Abimelech about Abrahams wife through a dream. Gen 20:3-6
God warned pharaoh of a seven year famine through a dream. Gen 41:22-
God warned king Asa through a prophet. 2Chron 16:7-9
God warned David by a prophet. 2Sam 12:1-7, 24:11-12
God warned Joseph to move away through a dream. Mathew 2:19.
Paul said that people made shipwreck of their faith because of ignoring their conscience. 1Tim 1:19.
God cares so much that He will always warm us, either through a dream, or by a prick in our conscience or through a prophet; but we have a free will and we can choose to ignore God's warnings. We can silence our consciences, we can ignore dreams, we can ignore warnings through His servants, and the fall will be because of our pride.
Pride comes before a fall.
If you desire to finish well, we must decide that we'll never ignore any warning that God sends to us. We must act on them. Those who finish poorly and backslide are those who ignore God's warnings.
Learn to keep your conscience clear. Never ignore your dreams, For God speaks to us many times through dreams, never ignore warnings from God's servants. Learn to always humble yourself and learn to love correction whichever way God chooses to send it.
Learn to always judge yourself every single day of your life. Aim to become a better person at the end of every year that you were at the beginning of the year.
Seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit every day.
The best thing you can do for those you love deeply is to love Jesus with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
The best gift you can give to those you love is a better version of you. You becoming better and better every time.
Learn from and follow those who finish well.
Learn from the mistakes of those who didn't finish well and take a warning for yourself.
Remember that God is more interested in your finishing well that you are. He is more than willing to give everything we need to finish our Christian life well.
He will give us all the encouragement we need, all the wisdom, all the warnings, all the knowledge, all the counsel, all the health and wealth.
Remember, I can do everything through Christ who gives us strength. Everything includes power to finish well. Everything that God wants us to do, provision for it is available. We only need to seek God for it.
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