{"id":229,"date":"2013-11-09T22:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T22:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=229"},"modified":"2013-11-09T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T22:28:14","slug":"steadfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/november\/steadfast\/","title":{"rendered":"steadfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many things weekend’s our hearts ability to be steadfast on things. To be steadfast is to be fixed on something without wavering<\/a>. We have the ability to stay focused on tasks to which we will accomplish if we do not get deter. Some things are easier to do with not much effort, but some things need a steadfast attitude to do. For example, raising a family requires a more steadfast approach. We do not just bring kids into this world and leave hoping that they will be fine; like many dead beat fathers and mothers do. We do not adopt a faith or a way of living on one day and expect it to flow nicely. Until we condition our hearts to be steadfast on things that matter, the things that are important to us will come and go.<\/p>\n

1 Cor. 7:37<\/p>\n

37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.<\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul tells the fathers and everyone that that unless we have power over our own will (1Cor. 7:37) those around us will be heavily affected; easier said then done. There so many things that come our ways to interrupt our concentration of things that matter today that little by little we are losing the practice of being steadfast. For example, in the story of Ruth Naomi made a decision to leave and return to her inheritance and, so she began to dismiss her servant Ruth. Ruth had the decision to leave or follow after the promise (Ruth 1:18), but she was steadfast fixed on the promise and achieved it. Paul wrote to the church that we need to be steadfast fixed in the liberty of Christ (Gal. 5:1). There is a feeling of accomplishment when we do not move from being steadfast one of Job’s friend understood this concept (Job 11:5). \u00a0He told job that if he would stay away from sin he would regain steadfastness and fear would flee. Stephen had a experience with steadfastness. While the religious people pressed on him to stop speaking of Christ and began to pick up rocks to stone him his eyes were focused and steadfast on heaven he saw the glory of God; Jesus siting in the right hand of the Father (Acts 7:55). It is through our steadfastness in Christ that we see all the goodness God has for us. If we waver and allow us to be tossed to and fro like new born babes (Eph 4:14) all we have worked for and believed will dissipate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many things weekend’s our hearts ability to be steadfast on things. To be steadfast is to be fixed on something without wavering. We have the ability to stay focused on tasks to which we will accomplish if we do not get deter. Some things are easier to do with not much effort, but some things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}