Everybody faces storms at certain times in their life. Storms in the form of situations, circumstances, obstacles, problems and difficulties. The storms come to take you off the course God would have you run. They come to deter you and to literally keep you from being all God wants you to be, from having all God wants you to have and from doing all He wants you to do.Paul was declaring that in a circumstance, we have the power to overcome.
He also said: “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:12-13).
In other words, he was saying, “Circumstances don’t dictate my life. What dominates me is what God has done in me and what He’s yet doing for me.” To get through the storms of life, you need to know who you are in Christ, through what Jesus has done for you at Calvary, in the resurrection and in the sending of the Holy Spirit, and to know what He’s doing right now at the right hand of the Father. Hebrews 7:25 says that He’s making daily intercession for you.
You may ask for prayer from other people, which is important. But there’s one person you can count on who’s praying for you and that is Jesus. He ever lives to make intercession for you. He’s praying for you, not against you! He’s praying for you to win! Believe you are going to get through the storm you are facing. Expect God to help you. He cares about your life.
Watch what you speak: Declare out loud, “I am more than a conqueror through Him that loved me.” With faith say, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
At some time in life, every person faces storms in the form of situations, circumstances, obstacles, problems and difficulties. The storms come to take you off the course God would have you run. They come to deter you and to literally keep you from being all God wants you to be, from having all God wants you to have, and from doing all He wants you to do.
Most important to you is to know that you’re going to make it and to know how to make it as an over comer. How? Through faith. Here are several primary ways to release your faith.
1. Believe the Word. You release your faith by what you believe in your heart. Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” When you hear the Word of the Lord, you believe it. Faith rises up. Faith is the substance of things you have hoped for. It’s the evidence of things you cannot see. It’s the title deed that you hold concerning those things which are unseen. You know you have them, because God’s Word promises them to you.
2. Speak the Word. You release your faith by the words you speak. Second Corinthians 4:13 describes the “spirit of faith.” “But since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak.” The spirit of faith is believing and speaking according to that which God has spoken.
3. To get through the storms, you need to train your tongue to speak the right things when there’s no storm. It is difficult to lasso your tongue and wrestle it under control after the storm hits. When the storm hits, many people run their mouth 90 miles an hour with doubt, unbelief, disaster, calamity and tragedy.
