Five Easy Steps To Keep Your Faith

Five Easy Steps to Keep Your Faith

Do you remember a time that you were closer to God? 
Maybe you read the Bible more, or maybe you actually witnessed to people. Maybe you never complained about what song the worship team was playing. You were just glad to be at the church praising and worshiping God. Many of us can answer yes to this question.

It's very easy for us to fall away from God, easier than you would think; we have help and don't even know it. The enemy wants to destroy our lives and therefore is on constant watch to find how to distract us from God. In Hebrews 2:2 we read that "We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away."

Maybe you haven't drifted just yet. Maybe you don't even know you're close to doing so. Maybe you don't know, because you haven't seen the real thing, EVER!

Hey... If you're not sure what to do, Just Fake It, that's what many Christians are doing today. Most have never seen the real thing and wouldn't know what it looks like anyways. Most of them that have seen a real move of God and have had real Faith haven't seen the real thing in so long; they've forgotten what it looks like. So it makes it real easy to drift away and lose your faith.

Think I'm being too hard, well God said the same thing in Isaiah
Isaiah 29:13 The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me… oh maybe you need more... OK! How about "I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead." Rev 3:1. 
I don't want to have a reputation of being alive, I want to Be Alive!

I'm just saying, maybe we should take a good look at our faith and let God do the adjusting that is needed.

We need to return to our first Love. Jesus! …You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first... Rev 2:4-5. Wow, who better to take advice from than Jesus? So let's get back to the basics.

Five Steps to Keep Your Faith!

1) Spend more time with God

Get back to spending time searching the scripture's, reading, meditating upon the Lord. Seek Him, thirst for Him.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you… Ps 63:1

2) Trust that the Lord is in Control

Put all your trust in Him, don't doubt, no stop it right now. Even when Christians do things that you know are not from God, you still have faith and trust in Him. Don't follow your emotions!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding… Prov. 3:5

3) Get around some good influences

Stop hanging out with only negative people, I know you want to help, but you need help too. It's OK to have friends that need help, but remember, for you to be a good influence on them, they need to see you making wise decisions and doing the right things.

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character...” 1 Cor. 15:33

4) Resist Temptation

You can do it and you know you can. Matter of fact, if you start calling and hanging out with some of those good influences you will have some help. When things get tough, call for reinforcements. Have people pray with you. Also take notice to the areas of your life where you struggle and stay out of there. I know guys that had problems with alcoholism and you won’t ever see them in a bar again. They know to stay away from places of temptation.

but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. James 1:14-15

5) Never put this world before God

Don't get caught up in the things of the world. You don't need the best car or the biggest house. Be happy you have a car and a place to call home. Stop going into debt just to show off to your friends. So what, they have all the new techno stuff. You Love God much more than any material thing and that is way more important.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. 1 John 2:15

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith; it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in lack rather than abundance. Take time to follow these steps and re-discover your faith!