POWER OVER TRIBULATIONS

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have PEACE. In the world ye shall have TRIBULATION: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world – John 16:33

In this Month of Perfect Peace, the Lord is speaking Peace into our lives. God’s Peace will prevail over the world’s troubles and tribulations. In our meditation text, some women anxiously approached the tomb of Jesus. They were worried about who would roll away the stone so that they could anoint His body with the special spices they had prepared. On arriving there, to their surprise the stone had been rolled away. Perhaps God sent His angel to roll back the stone, not for Jesus’ sake, but for the women’s. Through angelic intervention, the hindrance to their goal and source of their worry was removed.

God’s Power is more than sufficient to overcome diverse life’s challenges, problems, troubles, and tribulations. If He could roll away the stone for the women, He can roll away the reproaches of Egypt from off you and can uproot the mountains of problems confronting you in life. The angel not only rolled away the stone, but defiantly sat on it like a seal of authority – making it a permanent, established and irreversible deed. The Power of God produces miracles and wonders that the devil cannot reverse. When He opens a door of favour to you, nobody can shut it; when He shuts a door of disaster, no demon can open it (Rev. 3:7). When He deletes diseases, problems and troubles from your life, they will never re-surface.

The Word says: “In the house of the righteous is much TREASURE: but in the revenues of the wicked is TROUBLE” (Pro.15:6). When God’s treasures are your portion, troubles can never be part of your revenues! Trouble is not your lot in Christ, and whatever tribulation that may come your way has lost its power to harm or defeat you. Instead of the world’s troubles and tribulations, Jesus offers you His Peace “which passes all understanding” (Phil. 4:7). He tells you not to fear because He has overcome the world: “be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Psalm 27:5 says, “For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.” Call upon Him in the day of trouble; He will deliver you, and you will glorify Him (Psa.50:15)!