You Shall Never Fall: Eight steps to a balanced and successful Christian Life

By B. Wyatt

Maybe you are searching to fill the emptiness you feel in your soul. There is a tugging in your heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. You are walking aimlessly trying to find anything to fill your life with joy not just moments of happiness. This book will give you the direction you need to make your life productive and satisfying. Your life will change under the influence of the scriptures from the Word of God found in the pages of this book. If you are already a Christian who is struggling to balance your faith with your personal life, then these guidelines will help you to achieve that balance and be successful in your Christian walk. This is a journey that will cause you to search within yourself to establish the foundation of faith that is within you. Each step that you add to your faith opens your understanding on how to overcome situations that would cause you to stumble by leading you to a joyful and victorious lifestyle. The knowledge you receive will unlock the potential that is within you to be successful no matter what your calling is in this life. It will teach you how to accomplish balance in your personal life by having a godly life. By having a godly life, you ultimately ensure your entrance into the kingdom of God. As you work diligently through each step, you will develop a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and a love for all humanity by seeing them through the eyes of God. The instructional nuggets found in this book will help develop you into being a balanced and successful Christian. As Paul simply wrote, "...for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641400183

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You Shall Never Fall

Eight steps to a balanced and successful Christian Life

B. L. Wyatt

Copyright © 2018 B. L. Wyatt

All rights reserved

First Edition

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc

New York, NY

First originally published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc 2018

ISBN 978-1-64140-017-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64140-018-3 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

Other Scripture quotations are from the following sources:

AMP=Scripture is taken from Amplified® Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

GW=Scripture is taken from GOD’S WORD®. Copyright © 1995 by God’s Word to the Nations. Used by permission.

NLT=Scripture is taken from Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

NKJV=Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

TLB=Scripture taken from The Living Bible Copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL. 60189. All rights reserved.

Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Text and Database copyright 2010 WORDsearch Corp. All rights reserved.

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my mother, the late Margaret Eileen Sloan Wyatt for the godly example that inspired my life to always reach to be a balanced and successful Christian.

Acknowledgement

I want to thank the members of Lighthouse Ministries for their endearing love during the time that I was their pastor. They were my first sounding board to endure the teachings for several Sundays that inspired this book. I thank Angela Lunsford, my best friend, who supported me in my efforts to get this book written. Finally, I give much gratitude to Joyce Clanton, my older sister who not only helped in the editing process of the manuscript before I submitted it to the publisher but for her wonderful encouragement until the book was completed.

Introduction

The intent of this book is to help people come to an understanding of how to live a lifestyle as a balanced and successful Christian. I want those who have never ventured into seeking a Christian life to be able to see the joy of living this kind of life. As well as those who have chosen this lifestyle but are not sure the direction they need to go to make their life balanced and successful in the Kingdom of God. Peter wrote very simply that "if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:" I will be revealing to you the eight steps that are necessary to diligently follow to make your calling and election sure. Don’t be misguided; these steps are daily processes over time, not a one-day fix-it-all. It will take effort on your part, but the rewards are worth it all. Do not be discouraged if you fail from time to time; just remember you will not ultimately fall if you diligently work at following these eight steps. You are made in the image and likeness of the Lord with so much untapped potential. The guidelines in this book will help you to achieve the lifestyle of a balanced and successful Christian that you desire in your heart to be.

³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

⁶ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 1:3–11)

Chapter One

Divine Power

³ According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: ⁴ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

—2 Peter 1:3–4

What is this divine power? We learn this by knowing him—God. We learn to know Him through His Word. To describe His divine power means to go back to "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). When the spoken word was enough to form our world, and His breath to bring to life a man from the dust of the ground, and then to do major surgery by removing a rib to create a woman. That is divine power. The Bible is full of stories where God’s divine power came into play. Genesis 6–9 gives us the story of Noah. God gave instructions to build a boat big enough to house Noah’s family and all the animals and it stays together when God opens the sky to cause rain to flood the whole earth—that is divine power. Genesis 16, Sarah gave birth to a son at the age of ninety-nine—that is divine power.

Exodus is full of examples of God’s divine power: the ten plagues, the journey from Egypt to the Canaan land, crossing the Red Sea because God caused the water to split and breathed upon the ground so that it was accessible to walk upon dry ground until all the Israelites crossed over and then released the hold until the waters destroyed all of Pharaoh’s army that was in pursuit, the time in the wilderness they had food and water to sustain them on their forty year journey as well as their clothes and shoes did not decay or become old (Deuteronomy 29:5). Then there was a little shepherd boy by the name of David who trusted in the divine power of God by placing a stone in his sling and slew the giant Goliath. Let us not forget the three Hebrew boys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who, because of their love for God, wouldn’t bow to an idol of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar