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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.

Why Do Storms Come?
Sometimes the storms are from the devil. Sometimes they are related to other people - problems they are going through that affect you by your association with them. Sometimes you create our own storms by your own mistakes.

Most important to you is to know that you're going to make it and to know how to make it as an overcomer.

The storms of life do not make you or break you. It is the Word of God working in your life that makes you victorious, and it is the lack of God's Word that makes people fail. The storm merely reveals whether you are a doer of the Word or just a hearer.

Power to Overcome
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
(Rom. 8:35-37)
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.

What God did for the apostle Paul, He will do for you. 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."

Source: Overcoming the Storms of Life by Billy Joe Daughtery
All rights reserved. Used by permission

Author Biography

Billy Joe Daugherty
Web site: Victory Christian Center
 
Billy Joe Daugherty was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was also the founder of Victory Christian School, Victory Bible Institute and Victory World Missions Training Center.
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