33 Devotionals - Walking in God's Love & Power

In life, we will face challenges and oppositions.  In fact we will face many fierce battles and obstacles. Our Christian walk is not meant to be mediocre and mundane. Neither is it passive nor weak. What kind of battles are you facing today? Is it a financial battle? Is it a battle against your health? Is it a battle to keep your marriage together? Is it a battlefield of the mind? Or is it a spiritual battle to conquer new grounds for Christ? No matter what kind of battles we are fighting, God has equipped us to face and fight any challenge and win all the battles. For its BY GOD that we can run against a troop and leap over a wall. He is our Rock, our strength and power. He anoints our hands and our feet that we will overcome the attacks of the enemies and exalt us to high places of victories. (2 Sam 22:29-37) Our protection is in God. It is in His shield of salvation. Eph 6:10-18 details about how we can be equipped to fight battles by putting on the whol...

We tend to look at our life events and classify them as good, bad or ugly. We look at them and evaluate if our decisions were wise. When the outcome is good, we rejoice and celebrate. When the outcome is bad, we regret and mourn over it. Although we try as much to plan for our future, we are limited by our human capacity and may look at things in a more micro view. But God is able to view our life in both the macro and the micro perspective. God sees things differently from us. He is able to assess our entire life from the helicopter view. Isa 55:9 says His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts. God does not classify our life events in the way we do. To God, every detail and everything that happens in our life is a piece of jigsaw puzzle on its own. There is nothing good or bad about it. Each detail and event is but a necessary piece to fit into the big picture that completes the puzzle. Every piece in a jigsaw puzzle is cut and shaped for a specific fit....