THE KINGDOM IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED, FICKLE, FAITHLESS OR FEARFUL — but don’t ya love a GOD who labor’s intensely to redeem the fainthearted, fickle, faithless or fearful into the “courage, integrity and BOLDNESS” he knows is within us when we cling fiercely to Christ our Rock.
All these ancients are cheering you and I on. Don’t know about you but I need to know this. So here I am posting and encouraging myself, even as David encouraged himself, and using this modern medium to encourage others at the same time..
Have a ponder. Grimace. Then read it again & let FAITH be the word you see.
“AND WHAT MORE shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, WHO BY FAITH [that is, with an ENDURING TRUST in God and His promises] ⚔️subdued kingdoms, ⚔️administered justice, ⚔️obtained promised blessings, ⚔️closed the mouths of lions, ⚔️extinguished the power of [raging] fire, ⚔️escaped the edge of the sword, ⚔️out of weakness were made strong, ⚔️became mighty and unbeatable in battle, ⚔️putting enemy forces to flight. ⚔️Women received back their dead by resurrection; ⚔️and others were tortured [to death], ⚔️refusing to accept release [offered on the condition of denying their faith], so that they would be resurrected to a better life; ⚔️and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], ⚔️and even chains and imprisonment. ⚔️They were stoned [to death], ⚔️they were sawn in two, ⚔️they were lured with tempting offers [to renounce their faith], ⚔️they were put to death by the sword; ⚔️they went about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated (people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and [living in] caves and holes in the ground. And ALL OF THESE, though they gained [divine] approval through their faith, did not receive [the fulfillment of] what was promised, because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they [these men and women of authentic faith] would not be made perfect [that is, completed in Him] APART FROM US.”
Heb 11:32-40 AMP
— B&B 🕊🤍🦅