God knows everything. God is all mighty. There's nothing out of His knowledge or out of His operation.
He is free over everything. And with His knowledge and almighty power He made and governs and helps man. He neither slumbers nor sleeps but watches over us in His love. (Psalms 121:1-3)
Even we couldn't have been able to know, He made through His word us know; He made through Jesus Christ us see; He made through the work of the Holy Spirit us experience and possess His presence. Accordingly we shall make it our instinctive react to know, believe in and obey God who loves us in those ways.
Because of the impossibility and his fragility man was not able to avoid perish both in body and soul under the sins and curse. And God knew more than man himself this reality.
He gave us the solution for these human problems, the prayer. Really prayer is the most effective way for us to use the source of God who promised to help us with His knowledge and power; prayer is the most honorable inheritance of God to us.
Anytime, anywhere we meet the obstacles of impossibility that fill the world.
But we can ask for God to give us the solution because we believe in Him and His voluntary promise to use His power just for us. We thank Him for His grace.
Only God shall settle all the problems and sufferings impossible to cope with, so under the pains the fragile man is demanded to seek after His help. In spite of this obvious requirement for the hand of God, however, man fails to ask for it because he doesn't know Him. Man fails to ask for His help, even while he says he knows Him, because he is lack of faith but full of arrogance before God. He denies God's promise to help him.
Whoever keeps praying for God's help is awarded with His work. But whoever tries to live by himself out of God's concern and help is ignoring His grace.
Just purposed to ruin man in body and spirit, the problem of sin, curse and disease come day and night to choke man to death without mercy.
These failures, in body and spirit, never fails to come to man who doesn't belong to God's grace.
But God's will to help man from the troubles of impossibility was realized by Jesus Christ, the Only and One Son of God, who defeated the evil work of the devil destroying man. (Isaiah53: 5-6, 1John3: 8, Matthew10: 5-8)
In Him those who truly desire to be freed from that evil hand of the enemy intending to destroy the happy life have no other means but the faithful prayer which enables God to involve Himself into your life coping with fierce pains.
Let's see the case of Jacob who was in the extreme desperation with no chance of further life guaranteed by any way, the most urgent situation in his life.
He knew whom he was, where he was. And he knew what he was to do to prevent the worst failure, the coming death. He cast himself into the heartbreaking wrestling with God all the night until he won the game. And God answered his prayer to have mercy on him. Really blessed are those who use their faith to solve his impossibility. Really pitiable are those who may use every earthly thing but can find no way to solve his impossibility.
Therefore the ultimately blessed are those whom have God behind them.
They are the most wealthy and the happiest. Whatever trouble and whatever pain shall be mantled down in God; He himself swore by His holy name to help you in body and spirit.
What is your trouble? What do you suffer from? Don't give up. What dares to make you troubled by poverty? What dares to take away your peace but leave grief to you? But you don't have to be deprived of your right to live a healthy life, to be free from troubles. You really don't have to be looted by the one that tries to destroy you.
God Himself willed to solve your problems. Therefore don't be reluctant to see what troubles you, to put it before Him and to pray for it. This is just the way for you to defeat the enemy.
Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. The devil tries to deceive us away from the faith and into the eternal perish.
The disease tries to destroy body into death. The sin tries to ruin man in body and spirit and to throw him into the eternal hell. The fact is that with everything on earth you can find no way to escape from it: We have no power to resist. But God willed to help us.
Brothers and sisters, let's in God defeat the devil. Let's pray faithfully to get victory.
Let's use the prayer, the most proficient resource and inheritance. The faithful prayer is answered. The One who gave His own Son away on the cross promised to spare nothing for men. Now put down troubles of body and soul before God. Ask for His help. But make your grief stopped. The Lord awaits your faithful prayer just ready to answer it.
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