GIVE ME COURAGE TO STAND FOR YOU, LORD!!!

Luke 9:23-24 New King James Version
23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [a]daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

GOOD EVENING IN YESHUA MY DEAR FRIENDS!!!

Are you a Polycarp or a Peter? Are you someone who is willing to stand up for the Lord, or do you falter? I have to admit that I'm sometimes silent about my faith, I often either bury my head in the sand, or look the other direction when I see things going on in our world today that I know scripture clearly says there is a sin. This is something that God has truly burdened my heart over throughout the years, and now I'm not going to ever be ashamed of, or afraid to speak my mind. I will ask God for wisdom in doing so, and that's why I really needed these questions from this morning’s devotional. I encourage you guys to read these questions very carefully, and I pray that God will challenge you through them.

When do you need extra doses of courage to stand for Jesus?

What do you find helpful in your witness for Him?

What I'd like to do right now, my friends, is share some things that God showed me from his word today, through this vlog I'd like to share with all of you tonight, and I pray that what I say will light a fire in your heart, give you courage that you so badly need to stand up for God, and if you have faltered, that this will encourage you to be willing to prayerfully dust yourself off, and turn to Jesus. Come join me in this vlog tonight my friends and learn what it means to have real courage to stand for Jesus! 😊

So, my friends, as I close this post with all of you tonight, I want to ask the same question that Arthur Jackson asked in this morning's devotional, and that is “Are you a Polycarp or a Peter?” If you happen to be a Peter, it's OK. Sometimes all of us have a “courage outage”, where we fail to speak up, and act honorably for our Lord, but that doesn't mean that He’ll ever give up on you. Remember, that Peter became a very mighty man of God, and one of the biggest leaders in the church, who did give his life for the Lord, so if God can use a big mouth, courage outage fisherman who denied Jesus, He can use you too. Just be willing to dust yourself off prayerfully, turn to Jesus, ask for His help to be faithful to Him, and for the courage and wisdom to do so. God will definitely help you with the courage as well as the wisdom to be faithful to Him every day, even in the most difficult places and situations. Just be willing to take up your cross and let Him give you that courage!

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HAVE A VERY BLESSED EVENING IN CHRIST JESUS!!!