stop crying
“How long will you grieve for Saul, whom I have rejected as king of Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way.” —1 Samuel 16:1
Many Spirit-filled Christians are grieving because of the condition of the Church. They’re very disappointed in their pastors. They see the demonic strongholds in the Church. They lament the cooling of the Christian faith through secular humanism.
God’s word to us is: “Stop crying and start leading people to the Holy Spirit.” Like Samuel, we are to fill our horns with oil and get going. The One in us is greater than the one in the world (1 Jn 4:4). We are baptized into the Body of Christ and members of His Church. We should attack the gates of hell, which cannot prevail against us (Mt 16:18). As we remain “in Christ” (2 Cor 5:17), Satan will be shedding more tears than we are.
Remember, we don’t just have a chance to win; we have already won in Jesus’ death and Resurrection. Victory is assured because our victory in Jesus is final. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rm 8:31) “We are more than conquerors because of Him Who has loved us” (Rm 8:37). Even when we let the devil win temporarily, we can repent and let the Lord make “all things work together for the good of those who love” God (Rm 8:28). All the problems in the world and in the Church ain’t nothin’ the Holy Spirit can’t handle.
Prayer: Father, put a smile on my face, a spring in my step, and joy in my heart. Thank You for Jesus’ victory.
Promise: “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is Lord even of the sabbath.” —Mk 2:27-28
Praise: Pope St. Fabian was lauded by St. Cyprian as “an incomparable man, the glory of whose death corresponded with the holiness of his life.”
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