Daily Devotional

Mark 16:15 says, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Go into all the world. The world is a huge place and one barely knows where to start. Moreover, and the focus today, is the fact that Satan has done a good job in making our lives difficult to spread the Word.

In our personal lives we have to fight sickness, disease, poverty, and many other attacks of the enemy. Then Satan throws the lusts of the world at us too; and we have to withstand the temptations shown on television, the filth on the radio, and the carnal desires of this materialistic world.

And then we look at the world — the many civil wars, the war on terrorism, the war for oil, the famine in many countries, the earthquakes, tornadoes, effects of atomic bombs — lets face it; Satan has caused enough havoc to question , "Now where is your God?"

Jesus summed up all of this in John 16:33, "Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." The truth is that you can take any, yes, any problem that this world is faced with and JESUS has the answer for it. When the blood of Jesus flowed from His body, every problem, every curse, every sin, every little attack was destroyed.

It is your responsibility to enforce that victory. God made you a child of God, "who was born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God." God sent you here for one reason ... to enforce the victory that Christ obtained through His death and resurrection.

Do not accept problems in your life that JESUS conquered for you already. Be of good cheer. Rejoice always. This is the day that the LORD has made, rejoice and be glad in it. You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for JESUS is your overcomer.