Re: POWER of PRAYER- No Matter Which Faith You Follow=GOD is With You
Let Him Be Your Victory
God is good. He is watching out for you and protecting you. There is not one thing in your life, not one habit, one sin or one emotional difficulty you face that Jesus does not have power over.
When Nehemiah came to Jerusalem and saw the terrible, broken-down condition of the city, he led the Jewish people living there into a spiritual breakthrough and a time of rebuilding (see the book of Nehemiah).
I can say to you today, just as Nehemiah said to his people, that if you trust Jesus and turn your whole heart, energy and life over to him, Satan and your enemies will be crushed and completely defeated. No enemy that is deeply lodged against you will be protected. Those enemies are going to be removed and made to flee.
Old habits, fears, and addictions approach and afflict us, and sometimes we turn back to them. God is saying to us, "Fix your eyes on me! If you will let me be your victory, you will see the last of that." Listen to what God is saying!
If we let him be our victory, we will see the last of our enemy. Oh, the enemy will still buffet us, just as he did Jesus when he approached him with temptations in the wilderness. If you keep Jesus on the wall of your heart, the wall of your life, though, he will root out all those emotional difficulties.
You may be living in fear of habitual patterns of sin, the things you might return to. You know that you are cleansed from them, but because they are so close, you feel that you may be drawn back at any moment to their bondage, and you are afraid.
I am here today to call you to a place of security and safety in Christ Jesus. Trust him with all your heart. "But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:57, ESV).
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I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4
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