Sometimes I feel I am prey to my enemies and the enemy seems to exert his power of me at times where I cannot seem to stand as if I am a prey to them that I am helpless.. but nonetheless Jesus has been there to deliver me set me free from the powers so am thankful for him but.. the enemy seems to have the upper hand in my life.. and I am sometimes tempted to despair and discouraged At times and it is like the psalmist in psalm 13 how long o Lord?
I am just discouraged with being plagued and overtaken by my enemies and don’t know how I can put up with this... having faith in the Lord...
Some advice I shared with a family member and a friend facing similar circumstances:
Take heart my friends as Jesus has overcome the world. This means we should have peace in our challenges and sufferings with Jesus as our Sovereign King. Who else could use “tribulation” and “be of good cheer” in one statement? Only Christ Jesus our Victorious King!
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
(John 16:33 KJV)
“For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”
(Romans 11:36 KJV)
Glorify Jesus Christ in your tribulations and sufferings. It is Jesus Christ Who took upon our sins and transgressions suffering a horrible death on a Cross and obtaining eternal life through His Resurrection from the grave so that we may be children of God through Him and in Him. We have the Promise of being co-heirs with Him for all who trust in Him.
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 KJV)
Therefore be of good cheer Christian! Jesus has you and won’t let go. Abide in Him and Glorify Jesus in the most challenging of times. He is faithful and true and will not disappoint.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. (John 10: 27-30)
Finally, this Hope we have in Jesus Christ is a sure and steady anchor. Not a wishful “hope” of the world, but based on the known Promise which Christ Jesus demonstrated in the cross and empty tomb.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
(Hebrews 6: 17-19)
Praise be to God.
Soli Deo gloria (Glory to God Alone)