"7" Minutes Alone with God

Clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph! For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth  (Psalm 47:1) It is difficult, in our humanness, to feel victorious in the middle of defeating circumstances.  Yet God’s Word instructs us to do so.  Not because it is within our power to right every wrong or turn every negative into a positive, but because of what He has done for us through His Son, Jesus Christ. By giving Himself to die on the cross for our sins, returning to life after death, and ascending into the very presence of God the Father where He serves as our Advocate, the power of evil over the lives of believers has been defeated forever.  Nothing and no one can separate us from His loving care: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress,  or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... In all these things we are more than ...

For I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able  to keep what I have committed to Him until that day (2 Timothy 1:12) Confidence and assurance are difficult emotions to sustain in our unstable society.  People and things in which we trust may prove unworthy of our confidence, perhaps through no fault of their own.  However, there is one thing of which we can be certain.  No matter what happens, God loves us and is capable of carrying out every promise recorded in His Word.  Because He is all-knowing, nothing ever slips up on Him.  Because He is all-powerful, nothing is ever beyond His control.  Because He is unchanging, we can place 100% confidence in Him today, tomorrow, and for eternity.  Remembering and relying on these truths is important to our peace of mind, and vital to our ability to face the crises that occur in life. In May 1993, my family faced such a time. After a brief stay in the hospital, with a h...