In reading today's "From Faith To Faith" by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, I realized that this is a perfect message for the day after celebrating Resurrection Sunday!
But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass.... For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through...Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Romans 5:15 AMP
If you’re ever on a losing streak and need someone to tell you how to turn things around, go to God. He’s an expert on the subject. He’s suffered more losses than anyone who’s ever lived.
Just think about it. He lost Lucifer, His top-ranked, most anointed angel. And when Lucifer fell, He lost at least a third of His other angels as well. Then He lost the man and woman He had created. And because He’d given them dominion over the earth, when He lost them, He lost it too. Any way you figure it, that’s a lot of real estate down the drain!
Yet, in spite of all that, God is no loser. He’s the greatest winner of all time. Do you know why? Because He knows how to turn the losses around. He knows how to use the law of giving and receiving to transform losses into gains.
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over…” (Luke 6:38).
That’s the powerful principle that breaks losing streaks. Isn’t that staggering? He had every option that exists to choose from to redeem the things He’d lost. He had all wisdom and all power available to Him. Out of all that, the law of giving is what He chose to use.
He gave the most irreplaceable thing He had: His only Son. Then He backed that gift with His own faith. And when the law of giving and receiving had done its work, the Almighty Father God received not only His first-begotten Son, but millions of other sons as well.
Don’t despair over your losses. Redeem them the same way God redeemed His. Give and put the most powerful principle in the universe to work for you.
AMEN! I always counsel those who are going through a struggle or trial to realize that we are not facing anything that someone, somewhere isn't also facing (1 Peter 5:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13)! I also remind them that He has also given us THIS promise in Ephesians 6:8:8 Knowing that for whatever good anyone does, he will receive his reward from the Lord, whether he is slave or free.
So, when YOU are going through something, realize that some other believer is going through the same thing! Begin to pray for someone you don't even know, and God will see to it that others, whom you don't know, will be praying for YOU! That makes it so much easier to cast the care of it over on the Lord and fully expect the deliverance you need to come! Be patient, because God's timing is PERFECT, but begin to expect some "suddenlies" as you put others before yourself, that is giving, and that IS God! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Young and Free with "When The Fight Calls":
You’ve overcome this world with love
And made my fight Your own
I lift my eyes and throw fear aside
And sing out into the night
Cause even when the world caves
Even when the fight calls
Even when the war’s waged
I’ll take heart
I know You are greater
Forever You are Savior
I will sing Your praise
With all that I have
With all am Lord
I’ll stare down the waves
Cause You own the tide
I still myself and know
You wait for me
On waters wild
Where faith walks above the storm
I won’t let the storm weather my heart
Won’t let the darkness beat me down
Sing in the night my hope alive in You
I'll walk through the fire and not get burned
Pray in the fight and watch it turn
Jesus tonight I give it all to You
Shalom in Him!
