(reworked from earlier SOAP)
SCRIPTURE: Acts (NIV) 4:27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
OBSERVATION: What an amazing truth. In all of their evil, jealous, and murderous spirit, they ended up doing only what God had determined before should be done!
APPLICATION: When people arise against us and do their worst, we need not fear. The God we serve is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient! He is always present; He is all powerful, the Almighty, And He is all knowing.
Our enemy is so limited! He only has the freedom to do what God allows him to do. He cannot go beyond what God allows!
God may just be doing the same thing in our lives as in the verses above. He has the power to turn the circumstances! He has the wisdom to do it at just the right time! He has the love to do it! In the end we will be able to say: “Ours the victory, His the glory!”
PRAYER: Father, help me remember that there are times when you allow people to come against me so that your great love, and mercy, and compassion can be seen shining through me. I can count on you to use those difficulties so that people can see you through me. Amen.
Pastor Leon
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