Friday | 06 March 2026
We have been exhorted by Jude to build ourselves up on our most holy faith. This is the faith that Christ made substantial for us on His offering journey from Gethsemane to the cross when He finished the works of our sonship. This faith is given to us as a gift when we receive the word of present truth that is proclaimed to us, by the Holy Spirit, through the messengers of Christ. Rom 10:17. The apostle Paul declared that the word of faith is preached to us. Rom 10:8. We come to Christ and receive spiritual strength by receiving and eating the word as the bread of God that is sent to us from heaven. 1Pe 2:4-5,8. Joh 6:35. This word is Spirit and life to us. Joh 6:63.
Through the Holy Spirit, we have access to the fellowship and dialogue that belongs to Yahweh. Moreover, our spirit is able to pray by faith, rather than by the anxious thoughts springing from the law of our mind. Describing this prayer, Paul said, ‘Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses [equally ‘infirmities’]. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.’ Rom 8:26.
There is a rest that has been made available to us, enabling our mind to cease from striving, which is the anxious drive for self-preservation because of the fear of death. The Holy Spirit opens our ear to hear from Christ concerning the works of offering for the day as the alternative to the cry of our lusts. Isa 50:4-7. These works of offering are motivated by the energy that belongs to the love of God, which is poured into our heart by the Holy Spirit. Rom 5:3-5. These are our works of offering as a man, husband, father, or as a woman, wife, mother.
Further Study:
Romans 8
References:
Rom 10:17
So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom 10:8
But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’; that is, the word of faith which we preach.
1Pe 2:4-5
Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:8
And ‘a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence’. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
Joh 6:35
And Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.’
Joh 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.
Rom 8:26
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Isa 50:4-7
The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away. I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help Me; therefore, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.
Rom 5:3-5
And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.