HOW TO STAND!

 HOW TO STAND!

I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY I STOOD MY GROUND! OR, I WILL STAND MY GROUND! WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? I THINK WHEN THEY KNOW PEOPLE ARE DISAGREEING WITH THEM, THEY HAVE TO BE RIGHT SO BAD THAT THEY HAVE TO THINK THAT STANDING THEIR GROUND, BY BEING DUG IN, UNMOVABLE, AND UNSHAKABLE. THAT MAKES THEM FEEL LIKE A SOLDIER IN THE LORD'S WORK. I HAVE TO SAY THAT IS NOT SCRIPTURAL.

GALATIANS 5:1 

STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE.

EPHESIANS 6:14 

STAND THEREFORE, HAVING YOUR LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH, AND HAVING ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS;

PHILIPPIANS 4:1 

THEREFORE, MY BRETHREN DEARLY BELOVED AND LONGED FOR, MY JOY AND CROWN, SO STAND FAST IN THE LORD, MY DEARLY BELOVED.

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14 

WATCH YE, STAND FAST IN THE FAITH, QUIT YOU LIKE MEN, BE STRONG. LET ALL YOUR THINGS BE DONE WITH CHARITY.

PHILIPPIANS 1:27 

ONLY LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE AS IT BECOMETH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: THAT WHETHER I COME AND SEE YOU, OR ELSE BE ABSENT, I MAY HEAR OF YOUR AFFAIRS, THAT YE STAND FAST IN ONE SPIRIT, WITH ONE MIND STRIVING TOGETHER FOR THE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL;

EPHESIANS 1:17-23 

THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM: THE EYES OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING BEING ENLIGHTENED; THAT YE MAY KNOW WHAT IS THE HOPE OF HIS CALLING, AND WHAT THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF HIS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS, AND WHAT IS THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TO US-WARD WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER, WHICH HE WROUGHT IN CHRIST, WHEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, AND SET HIM AT HIS OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES, FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, AND DOMINION, AND EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, NOT ONLY IN THIS WORLD, BUT ALSO IN THAT WHICH IS TO COME: AND HATH PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS TO THE CHURCH,  WHICH IS HIS BODY, THE FULNESS OF HIM THAT FILLETH ALL IN ALL.

EPHESIANS 6:10-13 

FINALLY, MY BRETHREN, BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT. PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL. FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. WHEREFORE TAKE UNTO YOU THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND IN THE EVIL DAY, AND HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND.

WE ARE TO STAND IN LIBERTY, LOINS GIRT WITH TRUTH, STAND FAST IN THE LORD, STAND FAST IN THE SPIRIT, ENDURE HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER. 

WE ARE TO STAND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT, NOT OURS! WHEN WE SAY I STOOD MY GROUND, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PRIDEFUL STATEMENT AND THAT YOU STOOD IN YOUR OWN POWER. NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE WILL YOU FIND THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER. NOT EVERYONE THAT DISAGREES WITH US IS AGAINST US SPIRITUALLY. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

2 TIMOTHY 2:3 

THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS, AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST.

MATTHEW 11:29 

TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.

MATTHEW 10:16 

BEHOLD, I SEND YOU FORTH AS SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES: BE YE THEREFORE WISE AS SERPENTS, AND HARMLESS AS DOVES.

Donna K Purifoy

7/29/2022