Power to Conquer Life’s Struggles

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ

from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,”

Ephesians 1:18-20

 

How would you finish the statement:

Because He lives  ____________________________.

Well, if you’re familiar with the song from a few years ago you likely completed it by saying:

“I can face tomorrow”

Or

“All fear is gone”

The answers can really be as varied as there are people reading these words.

But each of those statements should find their answer in none other than Jesus Christ.

We looked last week at three proofs of Easter.

Namely, that Jesus is who He said He was; He can be trusted and He has the power He claims.

But so often we agree with those statements in a cerebral way and nothing more.

They are in our head but fail to reach our hearts or our spirit.

It’s kind of like the difference between a first-hand experience of sky-diving versus someone telling you what it is like.

There is no comparison between the two.    

But more than that – being an overcomer in life will never happen if you do not have the power of God actively working in your life!

You see, Jesus didn’t just live 2000 year ago.

He has existed in eternity.

He lives today and His power is available to you today.

God has done many wonderful acts in my life and I am grateful to Him for those things.

But I need Him today.

You need Him today.

Yesterday’s works are to be remembered and God should be praised for them.

But He is not through working in the earth and among men.

Maybe when the songwriter penned the words:

“Because He lives I can face tomorrow” it was because He knew that power of God in his life in the here-and now struggles he was facing.

In the past, God’s power was recorded in the scriptures.

Today let your life be the “record” of Gods’ power!