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Darkness Cannot Overcome

With so much going on in the World today with the war in the Middle East and our own wars we have in our own lives with this flesh we can begin to set our minds on those thoughts, feelings, cares, and busyness of life. Fear begins to take root. Anxiety and so forth. It feels at times like a darkness that can be felt.

Just because we are living in this world doesn’t mean that we are to live according to what the World says to do or to think. – Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world,  but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

We are to live according to the promises of God. Let’s remind ourselves of the promise that Darkness Cannot Overcome

EXODUS 10:21-23

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt. 22” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

(the ninth plague that God demonstrated before the Pharaoh was the plague of darkness, a darkness to be felt. (This darkness was no ordinary darkness. It had a supernatural element in which it could be felt.)

23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.”

For 3 days they (Egyptians) did not see another…But the Israelites had light in their dwelling.

  • Let’s remind the Devil that while the tomb might have been dark for a few days, on the 3rd day the stone was rolled away and there was light!

Let’s realize:

How the enemy tells us that it can’t get any better.

When you think it can’t get any darker,

When you think it cannot get any worse.

How he tells us that we are in his camp,

Revelation 1:18 “ I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death.”

John 1:5 Darkness can not overcome the light

Any kind of darkness cannot overcome the Light of the World! And therefore cannot overcome the believer!

There is a light that will never go out on your darkest day.

Psalm 139:12 “Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

let Him roll the stone away of depression, anxiety, fear or addiction in your life today.

Just a Thought

When things get dark or jumbled up too much to understand, that’s when I remember the brightest of all lights, the strongest of all lights, the strongest of all, and the one who defeats even the hardest of places to overcome. My Redeemer. My Savior. My Refuge. He lives in me and through me, His Spirit guides me so that I no longer fall in the dark. I am led with His Light and taken by His hands. My mind doesn’t run anymore. My peace comes from Him.

Rejoice Always

Philippians 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.”

A time of discomfort and unsettling can so easily become our everyday norm. We get a sense of our feelings at being lost,
not knowing how to get out of what we are in. It’s like a window we get to take a glimpse out of.


We settle in the dirt, settle in the ugly and meanness of what society has become. It’s almost ok for someone to yell at you, belittle you, it’s almost ok for them to put you in the ground with no feeling of wanting to get back up. I witness day in and day out that as a society it’s acceptable to curse and shame one another.


I ask when did we loose our compassion? When did we loose humility? Our humbleness? Integrity? Love? The love that God provides every single moment of our day.
It’s like we have forgotten who gave us this day you are already regretting. This is the Day the Lord has made, rejoice in it. our Almighty God, our Awesome God has provided, written, walked, and faught through the day you are doubting.

HE has given you life, gave His only Son our Savior Jesus Christ because he loves you that much. HE gave his only son so that you can live with him in his kingdom. You can have a crown of jewels placed upon your head, you can walk streets of gold, He has prepared a place for you already in His kingldom. You just have to accept Jesus, welcome him into your heart, and begin your walk with Him. I promise the tangled up mess that you feel every day will disappear and light will become your new normal.

The Triumphal Entry

Matthew 21

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1 “Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.

4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

5 “ Tell the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”

6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.

7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:

“Hosanna to the Son of David!
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Hosanna in the highest!”

Palm Sunday, is the day marking the beginning of Holy Week. I have realized that the donkey symbolizes many things in the Bible, here are a few.

Why did Jesus choose to ride a donkey instead of a horse?

1. Jesus rode a donkey to symbolize peace

In those days leaders rode horses if they rode to war. Jesus was not riding into war but riding in as their Messiah.

The only time that He will be on a horse is when the Second Coming happens- Revelation 19 and that horse will be white, signifying the purity and power He has over all evil and he’s returning with a name on his robe and on his thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS

2. The donkey was a foreshadowing of a father sacrificing his only son.

It was a donkey that Abraham saddled in Genesis 22 when God tested Abraham and took Isaac to a mountain to sacrifice his only son.

3. God used a donkey to speak His judgement!

In Numbers 22 the story of a donkey speaking to Balaam.

We also that Jesus pronounced judgment as He overturned the moneychangers table in Matthew 21 ““My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” 

4. Jesus demonstrated that he was the burden bearer who came to save us.

In Luke 2 a donkey carried a poor, pregnant mother named Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem. This gentle beast of burden carried the Savior of the World. Jesus used the image of Mary’s donkey to connect with the common people. He came for us.

Remind yourself of this Promise

Matthew 11:28-30

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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A Perseverance of Faith

Mark 5:25-34

25 ”And there was a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

We’ve all been there, a question of when is my healing coming? When is my breakthrough going to get here? Why is it taking so long?

For me, I’ve been there myself. At the young age of 21 just being called into the ministry I had a question that wouldn’t have been answered for more than 15 years, but I had to persevere and not let the question hinder me.

This woman most likely questioned God all the time about why am I still sick? Why couldn’t the doctors treat me?

“But she had heard the reports of Jesus.”

But all that had changed when she heard about a man named Jesus. You see, I’m sure there was talk about the miracles that she had heard from the townspeople. Remember that faith comes by hearing. (Roman’s 10:17)

27 “…and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”

She didn’t let her sickness, or the crowd stop her from getting to Him. 

Women with issues like hers, had no business being touching distance from anyone. Jewish law made that clear (Leviticus 15:25–27). Her issue marked her and everything she touched. She couldn’t worship at the temple. And whoever touched her would be contaminated by her impurity.

Q: What is stopping you from getting to Him?

At times we have to push adversity out of the way, When the crowd around says it’s not worth it, it’ll never happen. Keep pressing in.

I believe she was saying in her heart

I’ve got to get to Him! Despite the crowd that’s in the way, despite the opinions of others because with men this would be impossible but with God all things are possible.”

29 “and immediately the flow of blood stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.”

30 “And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”

It’s not that Jesus didn’t know who touched Him, he asked the question so that she would know why she was healed. 

— It was her faith that touched Him.

Hebrews 11:6 “Without faith, it is impossible to please God.”

Whatever it may be that you’re waiting on. A healing, direction, deliverance. Don’t stop persevering, don’t stop pushing through the crowd.

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

I wasn’t sure how to start this post, I was going to go in-depth into the scriptures but I didn’t feel led to do that, the only verse that stuck out to me after praying about this post was in John 13:21 “After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified,” Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”

To hear those words coming out of Jesus’ mouth is to understand He was 100% God and 100% man. He felt what we felt, He had emotions, He knew the road ahead of Him and knew that the stage was finally being set for His death. He then later tells the disciples that He will soon be departing (John 13:33) again the disciples do not fully understand what He meant by that. And finally, He told Peter that he would deny Him 3 times! (John 13:38)

But the response that He tells His disciples is the best part. He tells them all in John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God believe also in Me.” In this life friend, we hear bad news practically every day. Do we let the anxiety of it all build up? It is so depressing if one were to focus on the troubles of life. Jesus then tells the disciples of a promise. “…In my father’s house are many rooms. if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” What a relief and what a promise! That the troubles of life will not always be forever but those whom God calls his own when Jesus returns on the clouds to rapture those who are in Christ will meet Him in the air. What a day that will be.

Speaking the Word of God: Over Your Temptations

The greatest example of speaking the Word of God over our temptations is found in Matthew 4. When Jesus was taken into the Wilderness after fasting forty days and nights he was hungry and then it says the tempter came. The enemy was questioning Jesus and who He was. I want to stop there and elaborate on one of the enemy’s tactics. The enemy will always question our authority in Christ. He knows us, our weaknesses and in those moments of temptation we must ask ourself what are we going to do and who are we going to?

We Must Realize the Problem:

The enemy’s goal is nothing more than to steal, kill, and destroy you. That’s it, however, he can find a way. It all starts with a temptation.

We Must Know the Solution:

We read in Matthew 4 that with every temptation that was presented to Christ, He always came back with the Word of God, spoken to the enemy. The solution to every temptation is to speak the Word of God and declare it!

  • Our words have power

Proverbs 18:21

21  “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”

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(Christians who constantly talk doubt, in effect, talk “death.” Those who speak the Word of God speak “Life“) – Jimmy Swaggart Crossfire Bible ©

What we speak determines the outcome, are you speaking life into that situation? Submitting to God when a temptation arises?

James 4:7

Submit to God, resist the enemy and he will flee from you.

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We Must Remember the Promise

God says His Word will accomplish, succeed in the thing, in the temptation, in the season that you are in and will not return empty! When you speak God’s word in that temptation that same power goes with it! That’s the Promise that the child of God has!

Isaiah 55:10-11

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”

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