{"id":2105,"date":"2022-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2022-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:00:00","slug":"dont-neglect-your-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/dont-neglect-your-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t neglect your faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t sit back and do nothing, believing God will do everything for you. You have a part to play. Apostle Paul says God gives each of us a measure of faith. Jude says you develop spiritually \u2018<i>by building yourselves up in your most holy faith<\/i>.\u2019 (Jude\u00a01:20\u00a0NIV) Faith under attack is just faith under construction. It\u2019s in the battles of life that you discover whether you have <i>nurtured<\/i> faith or <i>neglected<\/i> faith. <\/p>\n<p>In Biblical times, many Roman soldiers used a <i>scutum<\/i>, a shield that protected them from head to toe. It was made of wood and upholstered with thick layers of canvas and leather. Its curved shape meant the enemy\u2019s flaming arrows would glance off and fizzle out before they could harm the soldier. Now you understand what Paul meant: \u2018<i>Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one<\/i>.\u2019 (Ephesians\u00a06:16\u00a0NIV) Satan\u2019s arrows can\u2019t penetrate your heart when it\u2019s pure, saturated in Scripture, and fortified by faith.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Jesus told Peter, \u2018<i>Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail<\/i>.\u2019 (Luke\u00a022:31\u201332\u00a0NKJV) It\u2019s your <i>faith<\/i> that\u2019s under attack! It\u2019s your <i>faith<\/i> that needs to be fed! It\u2019s your <i>faith<\/i> that sustains you in life\u2019s battles! Jesus told us to have faith <i>in God<\/i>. (Mark\u00a011:22\u00a0KJV)  It\u2019s the time you spend with God in prayer and the Scriptures that strengthens your faith to win life\u2019s battles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t sit back and do nothing, believing God will do everything for you. You have a part to play. Apostle Paul says God gives each of us a measure of faith. Jude says you develop spiritually \u2018by building yourselves up in your most holy faith.\u2019 (Jude\u00a01:20\u00a0NIV) Faith under attack is just faith under construction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}