Watch Focus Friday July 18th 2025 ‘Contend for the Faith’
 
For this week’s Watch Focus we gather around Jude 3, “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

Jude was writing to the original seven churches whose regions have now been overrun by the spirit of Antichrist which John warned about in his Epistle. This is a warning for the American and Western Church. May we not be overrun by the spirit of Antichrist however it manifests!

There is a rise of the ‘busybody spirit’ especially in the American church taking illegitimate spiritual authority and influence to gossip, scandalize and be talebearers especially using podcasts and social media regarding various failures and weakness’s in the Church and various ministries. There are set biblical foundations for correction and restoration. This is a manifestation of the spirit of Antichrist. It has the ability to capture the minds of younger generations coming through warping their view on the faith Jude instructs us to contend for.

We pray for a fresh wave of the Holy Spirit to revive our Nation and especially touch younger generations coming through that they will contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints!

May the Church be strengthened for the pilgrimage, focused on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, knowing the will of God in our times and being strengthened for the journey with joy!

1 John 4:3-4, “and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

Psalm 84:5-7, “ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, They make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion.”

Hebrews 12:1-2, “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Colossians 1:9-11, “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;”