Jesus taught in the parable of the sower (Mk 4:3-20) of four kinds of ground on which the seed fell, they are; the way side, rocky ground, thorny ground, good ground, and in explaining the second type ground He said in verse 16,17, And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground, who when they heard the word immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time, afterward when affliction and persecution arises for the words sake immediately they are offended. Notice here that it says affliction and persecution arises for the words sake, that’s a very important phrase to consider, most Christians don’t have a healthy perspective of their trials, they think the enemy has it in for them and you hear them say things like, ‘Why is this happening to me or why is my own like this’, they refuse to understand that its not essentially about them, its just a fact of life that anytime you receive a seed from God, the adversary comes to attack that seed, even in the natural realm, every good farmer knows that planting the seed isn’t the end of the story you have to look after it and make sure the intruders don’t destroy the seed, and its all basically about you trusting Gods word to the point where you make it your own personal reality, and not just some ordinary words either written or spoken, this I personally believe is what fighting the good fight of faith is all about and I’ll spend the rest of this article trying to explain this.
Most people talk about them waiting on the Lord and what they really mean is that they have done their bit and met their part of the bargain and now the ball is in Gods court, He can decide whether or not He wants to fulfill His own part, if that’s the way you think things work, believe me you wont have a very good impression of God, because as far as you are concerned God isn’t consistent, He just picks prayers to answer like men pick tickets in a lottery, but in reality that’s not what the bible teaches, God has already blessed us with all earthly and heavenly blessings in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, all he wants from us is to believe in His word and act in obedience to it, we aren’t doing things to make Him move, we are doing things in response to Him moving 2000 years ago when Christ died and delivered us from the grip of the enemy, all the realities of what Christ purchased for us are in the spirit realm, it takes faith in the word to bring them into physical manifestation, and its in this in between phase, where what you know is your reality hasn’t manifested in the physical that the fight of faith takes place and that’s where most Christians miss is, they get all excited about the truths of Gods word and they want it all to happen very fast, sometimes because of wrong doctrinal teachings and other times because of impatience, but either way when this things aren’t manifested as early as they expect, it says in Mark 4 that they get offended, in simple English that just means, they lose their belief, they throw their hands up and give up, they say ‘I have tried my best but this faith thing just doesn’t work’, simply put they have just lost the fight of faith, the enemy has succeeded in taking their eyes off the big picture, the word always works its us humans that fail to work it.
Heb 10:23 says, Let us hold fast the profession of out faith without wavering; for He is faithful that promised. You see that, its not about whether or not God or your pastor lied, God never spoke a lie to any human being and you wont be the first, but there’s someone who the bible calls the father of all lies and that’s the enemy, he’s the one who wants to deceive us with lies that Gods word isn’t effective, even when he knows he himself came to being through he word, how naïve can we get and still be breathing? God’s word is the source of everything, and if only we hang in there with our faith long enough we will get our blessings. Verse 35-39 of the same text says, Cast not away therefore your confidence which has great recompense of reward; For you have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise; For yet a little while, He that shall come will come, and will not tarry; Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him; But we are not of them that draw back into perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Personally I believe its better not to trust in this God at all than to trust in Him half heartedly, that’s the greatest in justice anybody can do to Himself, why call Him your God when you cant have faith enough to believe Him all the way, we need to come to the point where, like Job said, even if He slays me in Him will I trust, that’s the kind of decision that unlocks the supernatural power of God.
The truth is most people that claim they put their trust in God actually have other options as back up plans, in case this faith thing fails, God is just one of the things they try out to see if it will work, they don’t really go deep into God like they should, so when there’s a little set back, they easily chicken out of battle, I believe anybody serious with God has to make a pledge to Himself that its either Gods way or no other way before they go into the battle, its what I call fixing your heart in my article titled set your heart, you must decide what to do before the rain storm comes beating on you, nobody builds his house during the storm, you had better be standing on solid ground or else you’ll be a casualty in this fight of faith, I pray and believe that Gods Spirit will reveal more to you than can be explained in this article, God bless you.