God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Corinthians 16
OPPOSITION IS A GATEWAY TO GOD’S POWER IN YOUR LIFE
But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. (1 Corinthians 16:8-9)
Opportunities and opposition often go hand in hand. When a door is opened to do great things for the Kingdom, the enemy takes notice and sends a counterattack.
Yet, it is in precisely those times that the power of God has the most opportunity to shine!
Anyone can move forward if there is no challenge. Anyone can do things that require only natural effort.
However, only the children of God can truly have victory against great opposition. Only God’s people can walk in supernatural strength against impossible odds.
Are you discovering there are adversaries arrayed against you as you work to build the Kingdom? Rejoice! God is opening a door for you to receive greater power to overcome.
Are you encountering difficulties as you seek to follow Christ? Rejoice! He is making a way for you that will stretch you past your natural capacity and open you up to His supernatural strength.
When you find yourself weary in the midst of the battle, press on and take heart in the hope of this truth: opposition is a gateway to God’s power in your life.
-Pastor Phillip
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