July 27, 2025 … Fire Tested Faith …

July 27, 2025 … Fire Tested Faith   …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Eugene Nyathi singing… Testing of Your Faith,  … calling on Christians to endure the fires which test our faith.

Highlight Passage: … 1Corinthians 4:10  … [NLT] … 

10 Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed.     

…  Paul shows Christians in Corinth (and us) that their (our) faith in Christ may make us look like fools to the world but when our faith lasts, the world see that the faith is real.         

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Corinthians 4:9-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul shows that having faith in Christ may cause them (us) to appear as fools to the world; …  but, like Christ on the cross, they (we) will survive the test and live.            

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 66:10  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God’s psalmist sings of God testing our faith as silver is tested and purified in fire. 

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 17:3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon shows that God will test the faith of believers in the fires of life just as silver and goal are purified in the fire.     

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God, thru Isaiah, promises to strengthen the faith of believers when they (we) feel weak or afraid.      

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 4:6-7 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians (us, too!) to bring our worries, concerns and fears to the Lord in prayer - with thankful hearts - to receive God’s peace.  

Reference Passage: …  James 1:2-4 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… James, Jesus’ brother, teaches fellow Christians (us, too!) to let the troubles of life test our faith and help it to grow in the process to receive a Crown of blessing from God in heaven.  

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 1:7 NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter teaches fellow Christians that the trials life test and grow our faith until Jesus comes in glory to judge us.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Matt Lucas … AT THIS LINK       … relates a historical incident which occurred in 304AD when the Roman emperor Maximisn marched into the ancient city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor and demanded that all worship him as Emperor.  But the Christians in the city gathered in their church and refused to renounce their faith in Christ and the Emperor burned them in the church.      

The historical story shows that our world will often test our faith as Christians.  And our faith is tested and refined, like silver/gold are refined in the fires of life.   And I would imagine that some of my fellow Christian readers have been - or are being - tested by the fires of reality in life … RIGHT NOW.  The question, from the linked song and the Scriptures shared in this blog, is whether our faith in Christ will survive the fires and even grow stronger.  I’m stopping right here to pray that it will!     

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for giving me Your strength and walking with me in the fires of life. 

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again Lord. …for being with us, Lord, in the fires of life; and for giving us Your strength to stay strong in the fires.  … Amen

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