No Way Out
Scrolling through my PrayerMate app I was amazed at how many of the requests related to scenarios where people feel as if there is no way out of the situation surrounding them. Addictions, homosexuality, employment environments or unemployment, abusive marriages or caregivers, dementia, infidelity, extreme debt, cancer diagnosis, war ravishing their homeland, loss of a spouse or child, infertility and parents of children who committed suicide.
Others are caught in debt, cult activity, and long kept lies that hold them captive.
Sometimes we feel it is easier to stay stuck than take the steps necessary to get to the other side.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13
One of my very favorite verses showing the compassionate caring and power of who God is is found in Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Read of whose image we were created in and reread the verses from yesterday remembering who we are in Christ and how God created us with hope and purpose. Chances are you will encounter someone this weekend who needs to hear there is a way out with Jesus.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
2 Corinthians 5:17–Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Ezekiel 36:26–And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
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.
Philippians 1:6–And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
The Songs
Great Are You Lord / Lord I Need You | Caleb + Kelsey Mashup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AbeKQs1A8A
“Rescue” by Lauren Daigle
