Fifteen Rounds ( Going the Distance )

Good afternoon and Happy Friday. As I was growing up I was a big fan of boxing. Some of my favorites were Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson. These and other boxers were great at the art of boxing and made boxing exciting. Now most people loved the boxer that could knock people out quickly. But the true signs of a boxer was being able to go the distance. When I was growing up the length of a boxing match was fifteen rounds. We as a people of faith have to be prepared to go Fifteen Rounds in our walk of faith.

See this walk of faith is not that easy there are going to be pitfalls as well as triumphs. There is going to be sadness as well as joy. There are going to be bad times as well as good times. But we must be

prepared for these things because the enemy is busy and would want us to throw in the towel and give up. That cannot happen. We must go the distance. We must go the Fifteen Rounds.

As we get into the Word of God for this teaching Fifteen Rounds we begin Deuteronomy 8:17-20. In these verses it shows that the people of God have made it to the promise land but just because they

got there to not forget who helped them get there. We as a people of God sometimes get to a place in our lives to where we have "made it and then start doing things not of God. That is not going the distance. We must go Fifteen Rounds.

In continuing in the Word of God for this teaching of Fifteen Rounds we now go to 2nd Kings 7:3-10. In this passage there four men that had leprosy meaning there place was on the outskirts of town.

But in order for them to live they had to chance going further than they ever had and found riches and even shared them with others. We as a people of God need to go further than before . We need to go Fifteen Rounds.

As we come the end of the Biblical portion of this teaching I go to Acts 11:12--18. In these verses Peter is talking to the leaders of the church about how God had spoken to him about how others,

Gentiles, could be saved and be filled with the Holy Spirit. If Peter had not listened to the voice he would not have gone the distance to change things. We must listen to the voice of God and let the Holy Spirit guide us if we want to change the world. Fifteen Rounds.

In closing there are many of us who attend church services on Sunday and that prepares us for some of the things that the world offers but not all of the things that will be thrown our way. In order to go Fifteen Rounds we must attend Sunday School and Bible Study so we gain the endurance, the strength and the will power to go the distance when it looks like we cannot. When we attend these things it allows us to know the voice of God and be able to go Fifteen Rounds. May God bless any and all who may read this.

Frederick Wesley is the Technology Teacher for Rhema Word 2.0 and a contributor to the Rhema Word 2.0 blog and Facebook page Please continue to lift him up in prayer as he goes Fifteen Rounds.