Howto Combat Spiritual Fatality Syndrome (Pt. 2)

In my last blog I spoke of one of many causes of Spiritual Fatality Syndrome (SFS), Anxiety. This is not the only cause, but is one of the most common in the evangelical church today. As I meet with college students I began to see that they have anxiety over tests, grades, life after school and relationships. All these can, if left unchecked the beginning of the road to SFS. In adults we see it often with finances, marriage issues, children and a lot of times the rampant sin in our culture. In the next few blogs I am going to give you a couple of ways to build up your immune system against SFS.

Today we can take a look at "Reflecting on the Promises of God". A great way to inoculate yourself against SFS is to go through scripture and remind yourself of the promises of God and look at how He fulfilled them.

Ps. 89:3-4 “You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah” This promise we can glory in with the Psalmist, because God did advance Davids line forever and that throne is the one Christ will sit on forever. God promised David that an eternal kingdom would come through his bloodlines and He fulfilled that with Jesus. So what can we glory in? We glory in the fact that God makes promises that are to be fulfilled generations in the future and then arranges lives and events so that Jesus would be born with the right bloodlines. Jesus is also the one that resides on an eternal thrown and because of this promise we have an eternal King that has resided with us and has experienced exactly what we have experienced.

2 Peter 1:3-4 “by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.” Here is the promise that we have in Christ. This is the promise that through Christ's sacrifice we have been forgiven of our sins and share in His divinity. This is the promise that we have a future inheritance in Christ. We, through Christ's sacrifice on the cross, have a future in which we will reign with Him in heaven. What joy we have in that. If you are a believer, can you not joy in this?

Rom. 15:8 “For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,” Christ fulfilled Gods promise that He would send a perfect sacrifice for His people. Christ became our servant so that He could show that God did not lie when He promised that He would send us a Savior. The part that amazes me is that Christ humbled Himself to come down here to be a servant to us so that I could spend eternity with Him.


2 Cor. 1:20 “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.” What an awesome reminder that all of His promises find their "yes" in Him. Hopefully if you are a believer you, like Paul, utter a hearty amen when remembering that our God fulfills all His promises.

Titus 1:1-2 “in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began” Lastly, one of my favorite verses on God. We have eternal life because His promises have been fulfilled. Why? Because He never lies! Awesome. This is a great reminder to comfort in Him and not men. Men lie, God does not! Glory in that.


Hopefully with inoculation shot one you can find glory in God and through that fight SFS.