Pursuit Of His Presence

Romans 8:35-39 
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

 

Devotional

Be a Good Soldier

by Kenneth Copeland

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” 2 Timothy 2:3
Make no mistake about it. There are hardships involved in being a soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ. But there is no hardship, no problem, no suffering and no onslaught of persecution that can conquer you. Nothing hell can devise is powerful enough to overcome the mighty Name of Jesus and the power of the full armor of God.
You are thoroughly equipped for victory. Yet to win that victory, you will have to go to the battleground. You will have to face the fact that you are a soldier.
Some Christians whine, “I don’t feel like fighting the fight of faith today. It’s too hard!”
That doesn’t make any difference. You don’t ask a soldier if he’d like to get up and go to combat this morning. You don’t say, “Sir, could I bother you for a few moments? I hate to interrupt your checker game, but we’re having a war about 10 miles up the road and I just wondered if you’d like to go?”
No! You don’t ask a soldier to go to the battlefield. He is under authority. He does what he is ordered. A good soldier is willing to serve.
God is looking for soldiers like that. He is looking for people who are as eager to get in on the action as the boys on my fifth-grade football team. I’ll never forget that team. There were about 14 of us and every one of us was constantly hanging on the coach’s arm, begging him to let us in the game.
“Put me in there, Coach. I can whip that guy. Just let me have that ball. Nobody can catch me!”
One thing about that bunch of boys, we were eager. We weren’t any good, but we were ready.
If you’ll be ready spiritually, if you’ll be a good soldier, if you’ll endure the hardness, God will put you where the action is. He’ll give you more excitement than you ever dreamed you’d have. He’ll help you turn tragedies into triumphs and temptations into testimonies...if you’ll give Him an opportunity.
Speak the Word
“I endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” —2 Timothy 2:3
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