Remember Us

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. Where do you go to have your faith built up? I want to surround myself with a great cloud of witnesses. I want to be around people who will challenge me. I want to hear a sermon that will call me to take uncomfortable steps. I want to be in a setting where the gifts of the Spirit are active and building up those who hear. I want to be in a place with a group of people who are expecting the Holy Spirit to do something special every time we step into the building. I want to be with folks who will say I am going to commit myself to this body of believers and will do everything I can to make sure that we enter into the promises of God together. I want to come together to worship unashamed in Spirit and in truth. I want to be with people who the Son has set free and who are free indeed!

A place where freedom reigns, where power manifests, where holiness lives, where faith receives…

I want to remember those who have gone before and thank them for their service to the Lord and thank them for beginning the work that we can continue.

So as we remember we are enabled to bear one another up in faith, to live a life that is holy, and to be steadfast in faith.

Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And I don’t have to do it alone.

Hebrews 12:1-4 (NKJV)

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…

We are the great cloud of witnesses.