THE NARROW PATH TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD - DAY 105

  by Rev. Robert John Cericola, Carroll, OH - EUA  

Meditation 105

Contend for the Faith

Jude 3–4 (ESV) Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude appeals to his readers, who were living in times of increased apostasy, to contend or fight for the faith that was originally delivered to them and he warns them of the false teachers and ungodly people that had come into their circle and are perverting the grace of God into a license to sin.

Jude 17–21 (ESV) But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”  It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,  keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Today we are living in the last times and many are walking away from true Christianity to follow doctrines of devils and their own ungodly passions. However, Jude encouraged the readers to pray in the Holy Spirit and thereby build themselves up in the faith and keep themselves in the love of God while they wait for the mercy of Jesus Christ that will bring them eternal life.

I once asked an elderly prophet, who spent hours in prayer daily, to teach me to pray. He responded to me with a smile and said, “I don’t pray. I ask Holy Spirit to pray through me.” There is tremendous power to keep us in the love of God when we allow the Holy Spirit to pray through us. So, take Jude’s advice and build yourself up in your faith by praying in the Holy Spirit (by praying in tongues).

Ending Thoughts

If you have never prayed in the Holy Spirit just ask Him to pray through you and start praying. It won’t be long and He will began praying through you.