THURSDAY April 1, 2021

Victory Over Fear

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39

Consider the incredible truth found in this passage of Scripture! Nothing should separate us from the love of Christ. Not any tribulation, distress, persecution or pestilences or even death––nothing should separate us!

Are you fully persuaded? What tribulation or fear is trying to take you away from the love of Christ? Are you among believers who are no longer attending church because of fear? In these trying times, has fear kept you from fellowship with other believers?

Most people are afraid of death. Understand the victory you can have over the fear of death that may be tormenting you:

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He [Jesus] Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage (Hebrews 2:14-15).

“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).

Christ conquered death! It has no power! What can overcome all your fears in this evil world? It is your faith!

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
~1 John 5:4~

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