by Debbie on November 16, 2015
Have you got any difficulties in your life?
If so, you are definitely not alone!
Everyone on this earth has difficulties and the sad news is that as long as we are living on this earth we will always be challenged with difficulties!
Guess you are wondering why I bring up such a negative aspect of life?
Well because although difficulties are…well should I say, “difficult”, we have ONE who gives us overwhelming victory in all these difficulties!
His name is Jesus Christ!
Isn’t that some good news?
Why does Christ give us this overwhelming victory?
Because we deserve it? No!
Because we earned it? No!
The right answer: Because HE loves us!
It may be hard for us to grasp that kind of love but in case you have forgotten, no one else has loved you enough to die for your sins!!
No one?
No one, that is, but Jesus!
What can we say about all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? God did not spare his own Son but handed him over to death, for all of us. So he will also give us everything along with him. Romans 8:31-32
It is in our best interest to believe that if God handed over Jesus to die for all of us, most certainly he will help us in everything!
Most especially our difficulties!
The One who loves us (Christ), gives us overwhelming victory in all these difficulties (trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death) …nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us.
-Romans 8:36-38
Christ Jesus will certainly show us God’s love if we ask him to help us in our difficulties!
…Christ has the highest position in Heaven. Christ also intercedes for us.
-Romans 8:34
What are you doing about your difficulties?
Are you trying to work them out yourself?
Are you calling all your friends and telling them about your difficulties?
Are you trying to hide your difficulties from others?
Or are you whining and complaining to anyone who will listen about your difficulties?
Wouldn’t we all be better off if we called on Jesus who has the highest position in heaven and who prays for us?
The Apostle Paul said he was convinced that nothing could ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us.
I hope we all get to a place in our difficult times when we too will agree with Paul and know and believe and be convinced that death or life , angels or rulers, anything in the present or anything in the future, forces or powers in the world above or in the world below, or anything else in all creation will NOT be able to separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us!
Got difficulties?
There’s no time like the present to take them to the One who is seated at the right hand of God!
Ask Jesus to pray for you today! Then ask him again tomorrow and then the next day and on and on!
“Keep on asking, and you will be given what your ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is open to everyone who knocks. You parents-if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a snake? Of course not! If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.”
-Matthew 7:7-11
So Jesus himself is saying keep on asking, seeking, and knocking-on heavens door!!
Jesus,
Thank you so much for facing some very difficult times for my sake. No one has ever died for me, except you and I am so very thankful for that unique and sacrificial gift. I do admit that I have some difficulties in my life right now. I do need your help! I need your prayers! Please pray for me. It is so wonderful to know you and to know that you sit in the highest position there is….at the right hand of God the Father praying for me. I look forward to the overwhelming victory that is coming for each difficulty I am facing right now. In your name Jesus, I pray, Amen.
