I once had a sheep who asked me. "How do I strengthen the foundation of my faith? Is it by reading the Bible and praying more during devotion?" The typical answer that I would have replied is "Yes" But in reflecting the question, the real question that should be asked is "What really is the foundation of our faith? What is it that compels us to read the Bible and what is it that enables and drives us to pray?" To build the foundation of our faith, it is undoubtedly to read the Bible and to pray often and also to join in the fellowship of the brothers and sisters in Christ. We have come to think of this as the building of the strong foundation, but Bible reading and praying and fellow shipping comes to nothing when we do not understand the very thing that compels us to build these foundations, it becomes routine that happens because our leaders, our parents, our elder siblings and our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ ask us to do. The true foundations of our faith is the death and resurrection of Christ. That is really the foundation of our faith, because when we fully understands Christ and what He has done upon the cross, when the reality of the spiritual exchange that was made on the cross dawned upon us, when the significance of how the death cleansed and saved us and the resurrection gives us a victorious choice of life and salvation just strikes the chords of our hearts, when all these happens within our hearts, minds and souls, it just compels us to have a passion and a desire to want to know more of God and to want to go deeper in that relationship with Him and that passion and desire will be the thing that compels us to read the Bible and to pray and to join in the fellowship of the brothers and sisters in Christ. The true foundation of our faith is understanding and really knowing what Christ has done for us upon that cross and living each day based upon that. The strength of the foundation of our faith is not what we do to strengthen the foundation, it is living in what Christ has done for us.
"Forever" by Kari Jobe
The moon and stars they wept
The morning sun was dead
The Saviour of the world was fallen
His body on the cross
His blood poured out for us
The weight of every curse upon him
One final breath he gave
As heaven looked away
The son of God was laid in darkness
A battle in the grave
The war on death was waged
The power of hell forever broken
The ground began to shake
The stone was rolled away
His perfect love could not be overcome
Now death where is your sting?
Our resurrected King
Has rendered you defeated
Forever he is glorified
Forever he is lifted high
Forever he is risen
He is alive, He is alive!
The ground began to shake
The stone was rolled away
His perfect love could not be overcome
Now death where is your sting?
Our resurrected King
Has rendered you defeated
Forever he is glorified
Forever he is lifted high
Forever he is risen
He is alive, He is alive!
We sing hallelujah
We sing hallelujah
We sing hallelujah
The Lamb has overcome
Forever he is glorified
Forever he is lifted high
Forever he is risen
He is alive, He is alive!
You have overcome
You have overcome
You have overcome
You have overcome
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