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Steadfast (Greek - hedraios) - being firm, steadfast, concluding (a matter) with conviction
* Swanson, J. (1997).
In Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) (electronic ed.).
Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Stedfast, unmovable.
The former (steadfast) refers to their firm establishment in the faith; the latter (immovable) to that establishment as related to assault from temptation or persecution.
Fixedness is a condition of abounding in work.
All activity has its centre in rest.*
*Vincent, M. R. (1887).
Word studies in the New Testament (Vol.
3, p. 287).
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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We are steadfast when our faith is firmly planted in the Gospel.
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2. Faith in the Gospel is the Focal Point of Spiritual Power.
3. To experience Spiritual Power, We Must Root the Truth in our Heart.
HEART Center of the physical, mental, and spiritual life of humans.
The word “heart” refers to the physical organ and is considered to be the center of the physical life.
Eating and drinking are spoken of as strengthening the heart (Gen.
18:5; Judg.
19:5; Acts 14:17).
As the center of physical life, the heart came to stand for the person as a whole.
It became the focus for all the vital functions of the body, including both intellectual and spiritual life.
The heart and the intellect are closely connected, the heart being the seat of intelligence: “For this people’s heart has grown callous … otherwise they might … understand with their hearts and turn back” (Matt.
13:15 HCSB).
The heart is connected with thinking: As a person “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov.
23:7 KJV).
To ponder something in one’s heart means to consider it carefully (Luke 1:66; 2:19).
“To set one’s heart on” is the literal Hebrew that means to give attention to something, to worry about it (1 Sam.
9:20).
To call to heart (mind) something means to remember something (Isa.
46:8).
All of these are functions of the mind but are connected with the heart in biblical language.
Have you ever felt defeated in life or in your circumstances?
Have you ever felt your future is defeated as well?
The definition of the word “defeat” is the act of being overcome, a setback, overthrown, brought to nothing; frustration, and the act or event of losing.
The good news is, what you’re feeling is only a feeling, not the truth, not when you’re walking every day with Jesus.
If we allow our feelings to take the front seat of our thinking and steer us where they want to go in our circumstances, we’ll end up parked on a dead end street.
However, when we recognize and believe the truth about what God says about us, we can choose to put our feelings in the back seat and place what God says in the front seat.
This choice is what steers and keeps us on the path that leads to victory and blessing.
Our emotions and God’s truth create the battlefield we must fight daily.
Satan wants to make us feel defeated based on how things appear to our natural eyes.
This is when we must believe more in what we don’t see than what we do see in the natural.
This is called exercising our faith- believing what God says.
When Satan tells us we are defeated, God says, “No weapon turned against you will succeed.
You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you.”
Isaiah 54:17
We have a free will to choose what we want to believe- then act on our belief.
What we speak reveals a lot about what we believe.
Are we speaking what God says about us or are we speaking what Satan wants us to believe?
Let me encourage you not to lose hope when you feel defeated because God says-
“In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
Romans 8:37
THAT’S WHAT IT FEELS LIKE! BUT NO!!!
“For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.” 1 John 5:4
4) We Overcome Negative Feelings through Faith in What Christ Has Already Accomplished.
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