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30/06/2014 - THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST IS WORTH GOLD

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Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 1 John 2.24

The beginning of our walk with Christ didn’t happen by accident. God had a plan for each of us to understand His Word and, willingly, decide to belong to Jesus. So, our salvation is valuable since we weren’t bought unworthily. The Lord made us enter by the narrow gate and the difficult way; however many didn’t prove our new birth (Mt 7.13,14).

In the verse of this message, the Most High speaks of what we heard when we began to draw near Him, saying what we have to do to abide in us in those days. It means that what we heard in the beginning wasn’t simple, but it was the summing up of what He wants to do in us. Therefore, we were attracted to His presence. The one who loses the faith which gave conditions to love Jesus will have eternal losses.

The faith I received at six years old, when I heard the message of the Gospel for the first time, is the same that I have today. The faith increased and so I can win the battles that come up in the present. If I had lost what I learnt in the first days and afterwards I wouldn’t be steady today. Therefore, don’t despise anything you have learnt in your first days with Jesus.

We can be sure of the great importance to keep up with what God has spoken to us, since everything we hear is ministered for our spiritual growth (Ro 15.4).Think about what would happen with a child who lost all the immunological response received from the mother’s womb? In a short period of time she would be dead. It was these words that gave us faith and made us born again in Jesus, our Lord.

With all these revelations we were grafted in Christ, became part of His Body and, when the process of the new birth, we became citizens of Heaven and ambassadors of Jesus (2 Co 5.20). Today, our position is very important in the divine presence and, because of that, not only can we resist the devil who will flee from us (Jas 4.7), but also help others who look for us. This way we will abide in Jesus and in the Father.

Those who don’t remember the elementary principles of Christ´s doctrine – repentance from dead works and of faith towards God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment -, will not be able to go on to perfection (He 6.1-3). Your beginning in faith in Jesus is worth gold. Keep on faithful to He Who called and loved you.

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares

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Merciful Father! It was graceful what happened in the beginning of our Christian walk, since we were in honeymoon with You. We woke up singing, we prayed at any time and when we faced a trial we didn’t get desperate.

We would like this to keep on. It seems that faith imitates ordinary life, in which a person becomes more serious as the days go by. As a matter of fact, adults should be serious, but they should never stop being Your beloved little sons.

Now, we would like You to help us to keep alive the memory of what we felt at the beginning of our walk of faith. In those days, You gave us everything we needed. Father, don’t let us feel we don’t need You, because You are everything to us.

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