After Iwas born again, there were a few years I struggled in my everyday life. I was miserable because I still had wounds in my soul from my past that made me insecure, angry, and a lack of trust with everyone I came into contact with. I went to church every week but still struggled to believe that God would forgive all the sins I had committed.
I loved God, read my Bible daily, and prayed for Him to forgive me. But I had no idea that there was power available to me to overcome the hurts from the past and the struggles I had endured. In the past, everything that came along was hard to handle and defeated me.
I was grateful for that June day when He showed me that He had powerfully forgiven me. So I would not have any more doubt. Not only does He want to fill us with power, but He promises in His Word that we can have abundant life in Jesus because He has overcome the world. We see this in John 10:10 and 16:33.
The truth is as His children, we don’t have to live weak, wimpy, pitiful pathetic, barely getting by lives. God gives us His power to enable us to do whatever we need to do in life.
But there is no such thing as a problem-free life. Some people have the misconception that when they give their lives to Jesus, they will no longer have any problems. God told us in this world we would have trials and tribulations. He also told us that He has overcome the world.
John 16:33 tells us,
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
No one can promise you a problem-free life, but God promised that if you put your trust in Him, He will give you faith that will enable you to rise about the problems you face. And when you get through then, you will be stronger on the other side than you were before you had them.
Knowing you can have power from God to live in this world is one thing but learning to believe this truth and walk in it is the key to having victory over the trials and differing you face.
Philippians 3:10 tells us, that we can experience the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. In this verse Paul says his determined purpose was to know Him, become more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understand the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually confirmed to Hid death.
This is a very encouraging promise from God because we all face problems and have weaknesses we can’t overcome in our own strength or effort. But if we are determined to trust God in every situation, we can fight the good fight of faith by His grace.
We can become more than conquered through Jesus. Romans 8:37-39 says,
“In all things, we are more than conquered through Him who loved us, For I am persuaded that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, not things present, not things to come, not powers, not height, not depth, not any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.”
To qualify for the power of God, we must come to the place where we recognize that in and of ourselves, we are weak, and we have limitations without God. If we didn’t have any weakness, we wouldn’t realize we need Him. One of the best prayers we can ever pray is “God, I need You, and I am nothing without You.
It is important for us to understand this because if we wait until we have a problem that’s too big for us to handle before we rely on God’s strength, then we set ourselves up for failure. It took me 4 years of admitting I was weak before God came and showed me He was strong.
The best thing we can do to live this life in victory is to continually seek God with our whole hearts, realizing we are desperate for Him all the time. Spending time with Him in prayer and reading His Word every day. Then, when the storms of life happen, you will be confident that with Jesus, you already have everything you need to overcome them.
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