ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki ‘Epeleli 23, 2022

FAITH THAT MOVES ONWARD

KO E TUI ‘OKU LAKA KIMU’A

PSALM 84:5 & 7

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.

SAAME 84:5 & 7

Monū‘ia ā ka ko e kau tangata. ‘Oku ‘i he ‘Afiona ‘enau falala, ‘Oku nau loto‘aki ‘a e ngaahi hala. ‘Oku nau ‘alu ‘i he mālohi ki ha mālohi, ‘Oku nau hū ‘i Saione ‘i he ‘ao ‘o ‘Elohimi.

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe    

Consider the heart's desire of the apostles: "Increase our faith." They did not say, “Lord, keep our faith alive: Lord, sustain it as it is at present," but “Increase our faith.” For they knew very well that it is only by increase that the Christian keeps alive at all.

Napoleon once said, “I must fight battles, and I must win them: conquest has made me what I am, and conquest must maintain me." And it is so with the Christian. It is not yesterday's battle that will save me today; I must be going onward. A wheel will remain erect as long as it moves, but when it begins to stand still it falls. Christian men are saved by progress: constantly going onward keeps the Christian alive.

If it were possible for me to stop, I know not where my life would be. The Christian must be going onward; for the arrow will mount while still it is in progress, but it stalls the moment power stops that keeps it aloft. So the apostles said unto the Lord, "Increase our faith."

CHARLES SPURGEON