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We tend to respond to the unexpected things in life with fear towards our circumstances rather than faith in the one who rules over every circumstance. Jesus calls me to trust Him in the midst of difficult circumstances that he is still in charge and can hold me in perfect peace. When he brings me through great things, I must testify to his goodness in my life wherever I go.

Sin hardens our hearts, ultimately causing us to reject the message of the Kingdom, resist the transformation God wants to bring, and live fruitless lives. Jesus has revealed his kingdom to us, and we have the choice to receive it or reject it. When we receive it in true faith, he supernaturally causes the small, seemingly insignificant seed of the kingdom to grow in us, transform us, and make us bear fruit.

If we don’t recognize Jesus as Lord, we will end up fighting against him. If he is not Lord of all, he is not Lord at all. We can’t follow him half-heartedly. Jesus’ defeat of death proved he is Lord of all. We must come to believe it. Sometimes God lets our needs draw us to need him enough to believe him. When we join him and choose to fall under his authority, we get his authority to build his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

We have hard hearts that make us distort God’s purpose and place in our lives, so we miss who he is, what he offers, and how we should live for his glory as Lord. Jesus is the Lord of all, from the most macro of macros to the most micro of micros. He is the rightful, Lord, Master, and King, proven by his death, burial, and resurrection (macro of macros) and his lordship even of the meaning of rules of Sabbath (micro of micros). But we must trust his lordship, soften our hearts to his ownership of us, and live under his rule as Master.

Jesus came to heal those who needed healing. Our problem is that we think we can decide who needs healing and who doesn’t. We need to believe that we need Jesus’ healing. We must also believe that Jesus came to heal all, not just those who deserved it. Our biggest sign that we need healing is when we think we don’t need it, yet say that others don’t deserve it. The gospel of Jesus teaches us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

We tend to underestimate the Authority of Jesus in every area of our lives and overestimate our own authority. This is why we fight a losing battle for control over our circumstances rather than surrender to the one who is greater than our circumstances. Jesus has authority over everything – Every realm, every space, every part of our lives: Spiritual, Emotional and physical. To believe the gospel is to surrender all that we are to the authority of Jesus, and when we do, He redeems every part of who we are.

The world has indoctrinated us to seek its pleasures and purposes as our ultimate good, something that can never satisfy us. It compels us to live for the now instead of the eternity promised to all who believe. Christ came to live and die for an eternal kingdom that can actually satisfy us. And he calls us to forsake our stake on this world and apprentice under him so he can lead us to a better one.

Humanity is plagued with feelings of guilt, failure, shame and brokenness, but far too often we look everywhere else except to the One who can help us, the Son of God. Jesus is the true Son of God, the hope of this world. His death and resurrection are the only hope for people’s despair, and we need to be crazy enough and bold enough to tell the world, no matter the cost, so they can find their hope in him!

