{"id":2811,"date":"2025-01-23T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:22:14","slug":"fight-the-good-fight-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/fight-the-good-fight-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight the Good Fight of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Timothy 6:12 (NKJV) 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV) 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV) 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#8217;t quit\u00a0 &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start in your home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James 4:7 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul had a fight for God.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can God use us.\u00a0 God u<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sed Gideon and Saul<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romans 8:37 (NKJV) 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Peter 1:10 (NKJV) 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get ready now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew 26:41 (NKJV) 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand the battle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ephesians 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 John 4:4 (NKJV) 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jude 1:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to present you faultless <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Timothy 6:12 (NKJV) 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodpassage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}