He Never Promised It Would Be Easy

Published on 1 January 2024 at 12:17

Jesus never promised that if we chose to follow Him that the path would be easy. Infact, He tells us that the path is narrow and hard. That few will go down it. There will be trials in our life. Jesus didn't walk an easy path when He was on this earth. He suffered and was tempted. Matt 4: 1-11 tells us of how he was tempted but didn't give in and there are multiple accounts of his crucifixion in the Bible including Mark 15:24, Luke 23:33, John 19:18, Matthew 27:35. He was beaten and spat on, even ridiculed. Then let's talk about Job. We can read about him in Job 1: 6-22 where the devil asked if he could try Job. Job was eat up with boils from head to toe, he suffered the death of loved ones, judgement from friends even his own wife wanted him to give up, but Job remained faithful. We could also look at Ann who never stopped fasting or praying, no matter her age. Luke 2:36–38. She had to be over a 100 years old when the birth of Jesus was announced, but she never stopped. She fasted and prayed every day. She had everything stripped from her yet she remained faithful as a prayer warrior! We're not promised an easy path after following Jesus, it's just the opposite. After picking up our cross and following Him the devil is going to come after you full force. However, we're reminded in John 14: 16-18 that we're not alone. When Jesus died and was resurrected, He sent the Holy Spirit. He also prays for us! Yes that's right our heavenly Father makes intercession for us! We are precious to Him. He would no more abandon us than you would abandon your child. My husband was called to be a preacher and I was called to be a speaker we have both stepped out, been attacked and then stepped back. We have to quit stepping back! We have to be BOLD! We have to step out in faith knowing that no matter what comes our Lord and Savior is there with us!

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Salvation Safety Service

14 Mar 2024 12:43

John 17:1-26[1]These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:[2]As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[3]And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.[4]I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.[5]And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.[6]I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.[7]Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.[8]For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.[9]I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[10]And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.[11]And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.[12]While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.[13]And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.[14]I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[15]I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.[16]They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[17]Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.[18]As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.[19]And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.[20]Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;[21]That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.[22]And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:[23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.[24]Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.[25]O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.[26]And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.