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Luke 22:54-63

Keeping your distance away from the Living Word of God will keep you away from standing and cause you to fall and deny Him. Peter saw and heard it all in his walk with the Lord Jesus Christ yet, he entered into a big stumble. Despite the fact that Jesus warned Peter ahead of time that he was going to deny Him, Peter could not avoid denying Jesus. Peter denied Jesus not once but three times. It is challenging for us that are claiming Jesus as our Lord and Savior to think of a man that had spent time with Jesus, a man that had seen miracles and not just read of miracles and a man that had touched Jesus to fall into the kind of falling that Peter fell. This race is only of grace. Only the grace of God can see us through in the race of life. If a man like Peter could at a crucial time deny Jesus, what will happen to believers of today when challenges show up? PeterÕs denial had a gradual process and it was not sudden. Luke 22:54, ÒHaving arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him into the high priestÕs house. But Peter followed at a distance.Ó PeterÕs denial started at the point when he started to follow Jesus and the trouble maker that arrested Him at a distance. At every time or in every situation you chose to follow the Living Word of God at a distance, during challenges you are bound to fall a big fall. Today, do not let your situation or your challenges dictate how or when you will spend time in the Living Word of God. If you will turn to the pages of the Scripture, then you will eliminate distance and be able to maintain standing in the Living Word of God. The Word of God is True and Amen.