Old Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 3:1 – 8 (KJV)
Psa 3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psa 3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Psa 3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Psa 3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psa 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psa 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psa 3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Psa 3:8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
New Testament Scripture Reading: 2Corinthians 4:13 – 18 (KJV)
2Co 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
2Co 4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
2Co 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
2Co 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) When we understand that God Himself has chosen to reveal His power and love to us through special revelation by the Holy Spirit, things that happen in the world against us, through trials, difficulties, set-backs, personal disappointments, criticism, misunderstandings, internal fears, unfulfilled aspirations, and every other form of attack from the unbelievers, and even the very hosts of hell; cannot stop our hopes, because it is God Who is at work in us!
2) Just as King David knew; that if God is on your side, and is “for you”; there is no one else who can successfully be against you because it is not you alone who they must defeat, but they are coming against the Most High God, Who has set His love upon us to deliver us!
3) The Apostle Paul instructs us that whatever it is that comes against us whether from without or from within, all that we are going through must give way to the eternal power of the Almighty, Who has already given us His word on every situation and condition we have to face; and there is no person, place nor thing at all; not even death and the grave that can separate us from the Love of God!