{"id":10442,"date":"2023-02-11T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:10:24","slug":"introduce-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10442","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCE YOURSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong>\u00a0Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>2 Timothy 2:1-13<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or by act?\u00a0<br \/>A Christian soldier need not be introduced as a soldier because warlike disposition will always point such out as one operating as a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0<br \/>What kind of a soldier are you?\u00a0<br \/>Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier?\u00a0<br \/>A soldier should contend or serves in any cause as a soldier of the Lord. Soldiers are to persist steadfastly in their cause and to persevere until an assignment, as expected.<br \/>An eligible and qualified soldier for Christ should be a sold-out soul for the cause of the cross that Jesus carried to Calvary.<br \/>Paul, the apostle, admonishes Timothy by using an illustration of a soldier.\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><em><strong>You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.\u201d (2 Timothy 2:3-4)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Paul\u2019s illustration for faithfulness is that a soldier (follower of Christ) must endure hardship.\u00a0<br \/>Unfortunately, Christian soldiers today do not want to endure hardship but will like to enjoy worldly pleasures or live lives of convenience and not commitment.\u00a0<br \/>Are you an acclaimed Christian with no iota of desire to live life to experience the endureth life of Christ?<br \/>Endurance can be painful and can generate unwanted suffering.<br \/>Enduring hardship brings a good soldier out of a Christian soldier of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<br \/>Christian soldiers cannot escape hardship in this world of wickedness.\u00a0<br \/>The Christian soldiers without endure challenges in this world are soldiers that often entangle themselves in the affairs of this life.\u00a0<br \/>It is evident in the word of Paul that no soldier engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life and answers to the cause of Christian soldiers.<br \/><em><strong>Peter 2:11<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0warns against fleshly lusts: \u201c<em><strong>Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Fleshly lust is the affairs of this world that will derail a soldier for Christ.<br \/>With lust, it is not possible to answer as a sold-out soul for the assignment of Christ.\u00a0<br \/>Undoubtedly, fleshly lust is a principal target which Christian soldiers should not take for granted because it launches its attack regularly.\u00a0<br \/>Are you working not to walk living lust?<br \/>Living lust will present great or small temptation that does not spare grave for fleshly lust ones.\u00a0<br \/>It is so deadly that it only goes after its target, the soul of every Christian soldier.<br \/>As a soldier of Christ, you become captured by the enemy of all, the evil one, then your role as a soldier will mark you as a victim soldier in the hand of the chief of all wicked, the evil one himself.<br \/>Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or one with a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask God to enable you to live life for Him.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier?\u00a0 2 Timothy 2:1-13 Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or by act?\u00a0A Christian soldier need not be introduced as a soldier because warlike disposition will always point such out as one operating as a sold-out soul for the cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=10442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INTRODUCE YOURSELF<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10443,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}