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). ...
When I am greatly afraid and distressed “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed … "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children”(Genesis 32:7a, 11). Are you afraid of death? Are not you afraid of your own death as well as the death of your family members? If you are afraid in a turning point of life and death and don’t know what to do in that crisis, what would you do? In Genesis 32:7a, 11, Jacob prayed to God when he was greatly afraid and distressed. The reason why Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed was because the messengers whom he sent before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom (v. 3), told the news that Esau was coming to meet him with 400 men (v. 6). So Jacob prayed to God when he was greatly afraid and distressed a...