Rising to the Challenge

Yesterday, I enjoyed a powerful message on resisting sickness and disease. It encouraged me in my continuing to stand strong in faith for my father's healing.

That same afternoon, my father had some challenges at home. In the midst of taking care of him, I grew frustrated and was about to have a moment. However, I remembered the words of the message. What was preached flashed through my mind, and I felt the Holy Spirit's nudge.

Here was the perfect opportunity to put what I had just learned into practice. Was I going to give in to the enemy, or was I going to resist him? As much as I enjoyed the sermon during the service, could I translate those encouraging words into my actual life?

It would have been so easy to get angry and give in to my frustrations. Slipping into a state of depression and sadness would not have been hard either. But I chose to rise to the challenge and stand on the word of God. Despite how the circumstances seemed to dictate opposite, I stood on the promise of God that my father is healed.

And the peace of God flooded my soul.

Don't let the enemy steal the word of God. Whatever the Lord has spoken to you, put it to use. Grab hold of it when troubles come. Put your faith to action in the midst of the storm. It's the only way that you will know without a shadow of doubt that the Word works.

Verse of the Day: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? ...Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. James 2:14, 17