「必要親自成全你們，堅固你們，加強你們，給你們立定根基。」－彼得前書5:10
在我們接受基督之後，我們便開始進入了一段與基督聯結的關係。我們需要有智慧和啟示的靈，使我們清楚知道我們已經穩固的聯於祂，不再分離了。任何細小的疑惑，都會使我們失去信心。
當我們清楚認識後，我們便需要決志，與基督訂下密約，如同樹木深深的扎根於土壤，或像新娘在祭壇前許配終身。這必須是一個一定永定，毫不保留，並義無反顧的抉擇。
接著需要經過一段建造、適應，與試驗的時期；在這段期間內，我們必須堅定持守，直到這段關係穩固下來，直到這段關係成為我們一生的習慣。
就像醫生在骨折的手上敷上石膏，令它不會脫落搖動；神也照樣在祂的兒女身上敷上石膏，直到他們通過信心的第一個階段。
這對我們並不容易，「但那全般恩典的神，就是那曾在基督耶穌裡召你們進入祂永遠榮耀的，等你們暫受苦難之後，必要親自成全你們，堅固你們，加強你們，給你們立定根基。」（彼得前書5:10）－宣信
在與神同行的日子裡，我們需要遵守一個屬靈的原則：決心、相信、堅守和篤信不疑；這是聖靈醫治並聖別我們的必要條件。－屬天的日子
"Establish, strengthen, settle you" (1 Peter 5:10).In taking Christ in any new relationship, we must first have sufficient intellectual light to satisfy our mind that we are entitled to stand in this relationship. The shadow of a question here will wreck our confidence. Then, having seen this, we must make the venture, the committal, the choice, and take the place just as definitely as the tree is planted in the soil, or the bride gives herself away at the marriage altar. It must be once for all, without reserve, without recall.
Then there is a season of establishing, settling and testing, during which we must "stay put" until the new relationship gets so fixed as to become a permanent habit. It is just the same as when the surgeon sets the broken arm. He puts it in splints to keep it from vibration. So God has His spiritual splints that He wants to put upon His children and keep them quiet and unmoved until they pass the first stage of faith. It is not always easy work for us, "but the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ, after that ye have suffered awhile, stablish, strengthen, settle you." --A. B. Simpson
There is a natural law in sin and sickness; and if we just let ourselves go and sink into the trend of circumstances, we shall go down and sink under the power of the tempter. But there is another law of spiritual life and of physical life in Christ Jesus to which we can rise, and through which we can counterpoise and overcome the other law that bears us down.
But to do this requires real spiritual energy and fixed purpose and a settled posture and habit of faith. It is just the same as when we use the power in our factory. We must turn on the belt and keep it on. The power is there, but we must keep the connection; and while we do so, the higher power will work and all the machinery will be in operation.
There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Ghost either in our sanctification or healing. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
