Hopeless And Helpless? Series

You may feel like you’re powerless, and that some sin has an absolute choke-hold on you. Let me tell you about Jesus, who has the power to deliver you!

We’re dealing with kids who don’t listen, spouses who are unsupportive, or we’re going through a divorce, our jobs stink, friends don’t understand us, our bodies are becoming weaker, we’re without hope, we’re helpless, we’re powerless.

Do we want to be made well? Sure, but I can’t. You would like to be delivered, to be freed, to be able to breathe again. But, too many times . . . we’ve accepted our lot in life, it’s never going to be better. People don’t like me, my boss doesn’t appreciate me, my friends abandon me . . . life stinks. I’m better off dead. You see, we accept defeat all too easily. In a strange way, we’ve become comfortable in our sickness and sin.

But, I want to challenge you today to rise up out of that comfort zone, and not accept whatever situation you’re in any longer. Walk away from having that victim’s mentality. You see, we don’t have to wallow in self pity. When we have Jesus, we are the VICTORS!! In the end, we win. But we don’t have to wait for death to proclaim victory. We should be proclaiming it right now.

Too often our smiles are predicated on other people. Folks, that’s garbage. I don’t care what other people say about you and I. I care what Jesus thinks. This world is going to put us down, because we are at WAR!!!!!!!!! Satan seeks to destroy us, and we buy into his way of living and it destroys us, so STOP living his life and START living God’s way of living.

Firstly, we have to accept Jesus!! We’ve got to know Jesus. Yes, we need to believe Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah, the One who died on the cross for you and I and redeems us from our sinfulness. That’s what communion is about. A remembrance of what Jesus did on the cross for us.

Now, I’m not just talking about a little bit of Jesus, I’m talking intimately knowing Jesus as our Lord (He’s the One who is over you) and He’s your Savior (only through Him will you find eternal life now and in the end).

It’s believing in the power which is available through Jesus. Too often we settle for less than better. When we do that we don’t receive what we could have.

Paul reminds us ~ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13

In Romans 8:31 ~ If God is for us, who can be against us?

In Ephesians 3:20 ~ God can do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.

Romans 8 tells us ~ 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord

Believers in Christ aren’t powerless, hopeless and helpless victims . . .

we are VICTORS!