Dear friends,
Many years ago the Holy Spirit led me to the faith Resolutions of a serious soldier of the Lord who lived in America in the 1700’s. The brother? Jonathan Edwards, the prolific author and preacher during the Great Awakening.
I would return to them from time to time and refresh myself in this man’s great attempt to describe in the 1720’s his holy aspirations in Christ. Even in the verbose and archaic early colonial English, their message moved me and others who take the time to digest them.
Finally, the Spirit spoke distinctly to draft my own Resolutions to proclaim to my disciples, and to insure that I pray, review, and live them routinely as I head toward the end of my earthly life.
I have borrowed the heart of many of these from brother Jonathan. I thank God for him and his example of humble perseverance.
In the spirit of humility and the utmost confidence in Him, I offer these for perusal and use in His kingdom and for His family! To God be the glory, and also in the glory He graciously gives us now, His children…
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Resolution: the act of committing firmly to a clear course of action
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The Faith Resolutions of Marc White, Servant of Father God and Brother of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory – Revised May 2016
Resolution 1 – Asking God for His help
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, fully knowing that I am unable to do anything without Your help, I do humbly entreat You by Your grace in the Holy spirit’s unlimited power, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to Your will, for Your Son Christ’s sake.
Resolution 2 – Read Resolutions monthly
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to remember to read over these Resolutions at least once a month, and to set my alarm to remind me.
Resolution 3 – Add and subtract as needed
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to add or subtract to these Resolutions as You lead me.
Resolution 4 – Greatest glory with no thought of cost
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God by way of my own fruitful service to both the saints and the lost, for Your pleasure, for the whole duration of my earthly life, without any thought of the suffering, cost, or time.
Resolution 5 – Always seeking a better way
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to be continually seeking with the help of Your Holy Spirit to find out some new contrivance, and invention, to promote the aforementioned things.
Resolution 6 – Repent and return if needed
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, if ever I shall sin and grow dull, so as to be drifting away or even neglecting to keep any part of these Resolutions, by the Holy Spirit’s help to repent of all I can remember, when I come to myself again.
Resolution 7 – Loving God wholeheartedly always
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to live with all my might, while I do live, to truly love You with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength as You command me so I may strive to enter into the narrow gate and endure to the end.
Resolution 8 – Redeeming the time profitably
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, never to lose one moment of time, but redeem it the most profitable way I possibly can.
Resolution 9 – Living like the last hour
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, never to do anything, which I should be ashamed of or afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life on Your earth here.
Resolution 10 – Looking for opportunities to love
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to always be looking out for suitable opportunities for acts of love to You and others here in Your kingdom.
Resolution 11 – Walking with only holy saints
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, that I will endeavor to find and walk with saints that live holy Christian attributes day by day and to imitate their behavior in Christ.
Resolution 12 – Assemble daily whenever possible
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to earnest seek others in your kingdom to assemble and meet on a daily basis in person to exhort, admonish, and build up each other in Christ.
Resolution 13 – Maintain strict control over my body
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to maintain the strictest temperance in all bodily appetites such as sex, food, drink, recreation, and other pleasure in order to both maintain and grow in body, soul, and spirit.
Resolution 14 – Beg and beseech God being one with Him
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to seek You in prayer and begging and beseeching so I may find myself one with You and Your gracious heart, Your Person.
Resolution 15 – Diligent to present myself approved
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to study the Holy Scriptures and Your ways so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge and will of You and Your gracious heart, Your Person, and to diligently present myself to be approved by You.
Resolution 16 – Anxious for nothing
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to forevermore be anxious for nothing but by prayer and strong petition to cast all my cares upon You and make my petitions known every day.
Resolution 17 – Always law abiding to the civil authorities
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, never to do anything that I so much as question its lawfulness to civil authorities, unless against Your ways, so I may be holy in all my behavior before You.
Resolution 18 – Live to never regret a life of tribulation
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, that I will live in such a way every day that I would be glad to never regret saying like so many in old age that they would live their lives differently if given the opportunity to live again, even with all the betrayals and heart aches of this life of tribulation.
Resolution 19 – Acting as a mature Christian in every respect
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to act as a complete and perfectly mature Christian in every respect even if I was the only person who was alive in my time.
Resolution 20 – Preserve unity and peace as a minister of reconciliation
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, with Your Spirit’s great assistance without fail to walk worthy and preserve the unity of the faith Your provide in the bond of peace as a minister of reconciliation until we all attain to the complete unity of the faith in the fullness of Christ on that great day of Your Son’s return.
Resolution 21 – Honor all people, the government leaders, and fear God
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, I will always honor all people, love the brethren, fear You, and honor every supreme government leader.
Resolution 22 – Return to joy after great suffering
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to always return to the resurrection of loving joy after any severe trial of betrayal and suffering sent by Your hand just as Christ, My Lord, Savior, and Brother, did after His garden suffering and brutal murder on the Cross.
Resolution 23 – Give thanks in all things
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to give thanks to You and Your Son in all things, not necessarily for all things.
Resolution 24 – Protect and provide for both natural and kingdom family
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to love my natural old blood line family, most especially my dear wife as Christ did His church, as well as my new blood line of Christ’s kingdom family, and Your entire kingdom, by protecting and providing for them in all ways possible.
Resolution 25 – Serve the disenfranchised as foremost
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to serve as foremost all the disenfranchised persons of this earth such as the poor, blind, lame, crippled, widows, orphans, and prisoners.
Resolution 26 – More abundant honor to the less gifted
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, that those whom the world sees as less seemly, less gifted, and of less worth especially in Your kingdom body, that I will bestow more abundant honor on these souls as You do as well so there be no division in Your body, therefore regarding one another as more important.
Resolution 27 – Disciple all
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to courageously, consistently, and persistently disciple in Your holy deeds all those You graciously bring to me during my life here on Your earth.
Resolution 28 – Building upon the Rock always
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, never to shirk my sober responsibility to perform all the deeds commanded in Your love in Matthew 5-7 such as being poor in spirit, keeping a pure heart, loving my enemy, being content and worry free with daily bread, not judging wrongly, staying clear of falsely religious pigs and dogs, so as to build my house upon the Rock of Christ that will always stand in every fierce and terrible storm.
Resolution 29 – Buffet my body to not become a castaway reprobate
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, to live in such a holy way in a spirit of deliverance to prevent departing from the faith by not paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, and to buffet my body daily as our brother the apostle Paul did so that after I too preach to others I would not be a castaway, a reprobate, and someone erased from the Book of Life like many in the church of Sardis in the book of Revelation.
Resolution 30 – Preparing for the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord
Resolved, my dearest Lord God, since You have answered my prayer to stamp eternity on my eyes so all my deeds are for Your final reward and I will not shrink away at Your Son’s appearing, I will always point all peoples to that Great and Terrible Day of the Lord Jesus, the day for which all other days are made, when Your Son will return with us in the sky to vanquish and destroy Your enemies, exult and reward Your faithful saints, and enthrone our Lord Jesus forever as every knee bows and confesses that He indeed is the Lord of all to Your eternal glory!
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Along a similar vein are the final resolutions of an African martyr here.
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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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