ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tusite ‘Epeleli 19, 2022 

GUARD YOUR FAITH

LE’OHI HO’O TUI

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

1 KOLINITO 16:13

Mou ‘ā ‘o le‘o; mou tu‘u ‘aki ‘a e tui; mou fai ‘o ngali tangata; mou fakama‘u hifo. ‘Ilonga ha‘amou me‘a ‘e fai, fai pē ‘i he ‘ofa.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Take care of your faith, my friends; for it's very often so weak that it demands all your attention. I do not know whether you feel that your faith is too strong, but I never feel mine strong enough. It seems to be exactly strong enough to bear the day's troubles, but it would not stand cutting in the least degree with the plane. I could not afford to take the least atom off; it is just enough, and no more.

As for some of us, our faith is so weak that the least trouble threatens to devour it. The goat passes and nips its tender shoot, the winter chills and freezes it; it is almost ready to die. And my faith very often hangs upon the feeblest thread; it appears ready to expire.

Take care of your faith, Christian, take care of your faith. Whatever you leave out of doors of a night, do not leave that little child of faith; whatsoever plant is exposed to the frost, be sure to put faith within. Take care of faith, for it is so weak generally, it needs well to have a good preservation.

CHARLES SPURGEON

Tokanga ki ho’o tui, si’oku kaungame’a; he ‘oku lahi e taimi ‘oku vaivai fu’u, pea ‘oku fu’u fiema’u ke tokangaekina. ‘Oku ‘ikai te u ‘ilo, pe ‘oku ke pehee pe, ‘oku malohi ho’o tui, ka ko au, ‘oku ou ongo’i pe ‘oku ‘ikai malohi fe’unga. ‘Oku malohi fe’unga pe mo e faingata’a ‘o e ‘aho ni, pea ka ‘ova atu ‘oku ‘ikai te u ‘ilo pe ‘e fe fe?

Ko e tokolahi, ‘oku vaivai fu’u, pea ka hoko mai ha ‘ahi’ahi, ‘e ‘ikai ke lava hano matu’uaki. ‘Oku afe mai pe ‘a e kosi, ‘o kaikai atu hono mukaa, pea uesia ngofua ‘i he to mai ‘a e momokoo; ‘oku toe pe ke mate. Pea ko ‘eku tui, ‘oku tei mate pe.

Kalisitiane, tokanga ki ho’o tui. Fakatokanga’i ho’o me’a ‘oku fa’a tuku ‘i tu’a he po’uli, ‘oua mu’a te ke tuku ai ‘a ho’o tui valevale; ko e ‘akau ‘oku fa’a li’ekina ‘i tu’a he momoko, fakahu ki fale ho’o tui. Tokanga ki ho’o tui, he ‘oku kei vaivai. ‘Oku fiema’u ke fakaili mo tokanga’i lelei ka fakahaofi.