God’s love, which is stronger than death, is causing me to continue walking the path of the mission the Lord has given me (John 6:1–15). “At that very time some Pharisees came and said to Him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill You.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox, “I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:31–35). ...
God who turns His will “When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it” (Jonah 3:10). We often feel guilty when our sins are exposed through the Word of God. And often we are disappointed and discouraged by ourselves. And this disappointment and discouragement can lead us to spiritual depression. But here is a very scary strategy of Satan. It is that Satan makes us to keep on looking at ourselves (our sins, our guilt and so on) and not allowing us to look at Jesus Christ who died of the cross to forgive our sins. Satan never lets us look at Jesus and what He has done on the cross but making us concentrate on what we didn’t do that we supposed to do and what we did that we not ...