Conquering Love

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Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” --Mark 10:27 Are you facing an impossible situation in your life right now? Maybe your relationship with your spouse or child seems like it’s damaged beyond repair. Or perhaps you feel like your financial situation will never recover. Or maybe you’re questioning whether your health will ever be the same as it once was. Whatever you may be going through today, let me assure you of this: God delights in using impossible situations like yours to display His power and glory.  Today… if you’re in a dead-end, nowhere-to-run, hopeless, impossible, helpless situation… you’re a prime candidate for the power of God to move in your life. Don’t say, “My life, my home, my family, my future is impossible,” because as Jesus says in today’s verse, “All things are possible with God.” Remember the man who Jesus healed at the pool in Bethesda? He had been paralyzed for 38 years! Nothing anyone had done in all that time had helped this poor, crippled man. Can you imagine the feelings of despair and hopelessness that this man must have struggled with all that time?  Yet in Jesus’ divine and perfect plan, He chose to do something powerful and wonderful in this man’s life. And He can do the same in yours!  In the midst of hopeless situations, there’s nothing that would please the evil one more than for you to throw up your hands in despair… for you to say, “That’s it, I quit!” But remember what Galatians 6:9 says: “Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” No matter what you may be going through today, please don’t grow weary. Please don’t give up. Wait on the Lord… and remember that all things… even the most hopeless things… are possible with God! DO NOT DESPAIR, YOU’RE A PRIME CANDIDATE TO EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF GOD

Conquering Love

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Romans 8:37–39

I read about a missionary to Zimbabwe who was trying to pass out copies of the New Testament in the local language. One man was very resistant to receiving it, finally telling the missionary that if he did take it, he would use the pages of Scripture to wrap his tobacco to smoke. The missionary said, “At least read each page before you burn it.” Fifteen years passed, and that same man came up to the missionary at a conference. He had not only been saved, but was now a full time evangelist. He explained, “I smoked through Matthew. I smoked through Mark. I smoked through Luke. But when I got to John 3:16, I couldn’t smoke any more!”

The love of God never falters. Human relationships, even the closest relationships, may be broken. David wrote, “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up” (Psalm 27:10). It is hard for us to comprehend unfailing love, because it is not natural. We cannot look around us and see examples of it in people, or even in ourselves. All of us are limited, but God is not. He is eternal, and because of His nature never surrenders His love. “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end” (John 13:1). It is in that unfailing love that we can confidently face every challenge.

Today's Growth Principle: 

God’s love to us, expressed through the gift of His Son, never fails.