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Perseverance and Courage to Stand Against Every Evil

Many people want to deny evil exists in the world. For many people, denying evil exists in the world is easier than trying to stand against evil. Christians must make commitments if they want to lead victorious lives against evil and darkness. Christians need perseverance and courage to be victorious over the evils wanting to destroy us. Lasting perseverance and courage against evil are possible only through Christ.

Having Christ alive within you is necessary to muster up perseverance and courage. One of evil's ways of destroying you is to erode your perseverance and lessen your courage. Evil wants to make you give up and be fearful. With Christ, you can find the courage to stand against evil in all its forms because you know He is with you. In Christ's presence, you can find a reason for living. Your reason for living then gives you the power to fight against the dark ways of evil. Christ gives you power and courage when you experience fear, doubt, or anxiety. With Christ living in your heart, you can live in perseverance and courage as you glorify God while you do battle against the evil one.

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Worry and False Ideas

If we do not have enough to worry about in the world, we can make up things to worry about. We can cook up false scenarios, we can devise false reasons, and we can imagine all manner of false ideas to add to our present worries. We can invent false ideas over which we have no control and then we can worry about the false ideas we invent. This kind of thinking sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? However, we can and will exhibit ridiculous behaviors to make ourselves unhappy. To combat worry, we must live in and tell the truth. We must live in and tell the truth even when the truth hurts. False ideas or wrong ideas can feed our minds with darkness…the darkness we only imagine to be real. Don't you have enough to worry about without piling false ideas and untrue thoughts upon your heart and soul? To come to grips with what is really in your life, lift needless burdens from your heart and soul by stopping your worry habit over imagined darkness. If you look back, what you worried about in the past either did not come to pass or what you worried about did come to pass but you survived. Even if you do not survive if you have accepted Christ, your ultimate future in Heaven is worry-free.

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Praying When You Are In Pain

Revelation 21:4--- And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

We have a wonderful God. We have a loving God who loves each of us in a personal and special way. When we pray we must try to remember how Christ is within us and does not want us to feel pain or sorrow. Our God has a wonderful world waiting for us. His words give us a vision of a new world where our current burdens will be no more. When we pray, we can pour out our pain to Christ who knows all about our pain and suffering. Christ Jesus, our blessed Savior, comes to us in our darkest hour and shows us a new order of life in our future. Pain has a way of making everything seem meaningless. However, when we pray to Jesus and ask Him for hope, then He comes to us and gives us the assurance our pain is only temporary. He instills in us knowledge and wisdom showing us the night will soon fade away because the dawn is almost here.

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Investing Your Hurting Heart In Jesus

God is not the source of your pain, hurt, or heartbreak. Jesus will not hurt you. Jesus did not come into the world to hurt, but to heal. In Jesus, you can trust, you can hope, and you can believe. In Jesus, you are safe and saved if you accept Him into your heart. As you make the first gestures of reaching out and wrapping your heart around Him, He begins to work to heal your hurt. Your work of investing your hurting heart in Him is the most critical and challenging work of your life. Investing your hurting heart in Him is what He wants you to do. He wants you to push your hurt on to Him by investing your total self and total life in Him…especially when you hurt. If you invest your total self in Him, if you push all you are over to Him, He will lighten your burden. When you go to Christ with a hurting heart, miracles do happen. Remember Christ is already within you. He is living and alive in you this minute no matter how much you hurt. The hurt and darkness you can feel push your attention away from Christ’s love, even though His love is alive within you all the time. Your hurt is real, but whatever emptiness and aloneness you feel is a deception because you are never isolated. No matter how much you hurt, you are never, ever, ever alone because Jesus is always with you.

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Our Encouraging God

Philippians 1:13-14--- So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

What a mighty God we serve!

What a creative Creator we serve!

What a useful and helpful God we serve!

Paul is bound in chains but the very chains supposed to keep him quiet and stop a religious revolution are encouraging others.

Your chains, your difficulties, your problems, your traumas can be used by God if you let Him work in you and through you.

The burdens you bear can be dedicated to God.

When you truly turn the chains and burdens put upon you by Satan into a renewed dedication to serve Christ then the incredible will happen in your life.

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Inner Peace

Inner peace is not just the absence of inner war and conflict.

Inner peace is the presence of God's love, care, kindness, and compassion within your heart.

So many people do not have inner peace.

They, unfortunately, they try to find inner peace in drugs, alcohol, relationships, careers, hobbies, and numerous endeavors only to come up empty and lost. Inner peace is not found in some kind of selfish endeavor.

You find inner peace by surrendering up and giving up to God all you have and all you are.

God loves you and cares for you.

God gave up the life of His the only son so you could have eternal life.

What seems important in the world causing you so much conflict, war, chaos, and turmoil is not really important.

The most important quality of life is having inner peace with God.

When we have inner peace with God, whatever uncertainties we have or whatever doubts and questions we have are all put to rest.

When we have inner peace with God, we may have questions but the questions are of little real importance.

When we have inner peace with God, we have answers instead of questions.

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Hope Within

Just as God is within you, so is hope.

Hope is within you because God is within you.

Whenever you think there is no way at all you can fix problems, get answers, or climb over the obstacles of your life, look within you.

You should not look within you as some kind of meaningless exercise.

You should look within you because of all the promise, all the hope, and all the great expectations you could ever possess come from within your heart.

Hope does not just pop into your head from a TV commercial or in any form of advertising.

Hope appears in your life because there is within you this instant a great reservoir of living hope called Jesus.

All the good things, all the good thoughts, all the good deeds, all the good imaginations come from hope and hope is from God.

Hope is within you because God is within you.

When you begin to think there is no way out, contact God within you and realize there always has been and there always will be a way out with God.

When circumstances appear to be hopeless in your life, you may be facing the greatest opportunity for hope to come alive ever to exist in your life.

In the natural world, the most hopeless circumstance is when someone dies.

In the supernatural world, the greatest moment of hope is the moment just before someone dies because in the next moment, there is eternal life come to life.

Hopelessness turned into hopefulness is not confined just to death turned into eternal life.

Hopelessness is turned into hopefulness every time you reach within your heart to God.