July 31, 2023

Dear Friend,

When I was a new Christian, I didn’t know anything about the Word. I gradually learned the importance of the words that were coming out of my mouth and I was finally able to get off prescription drugs and not be a zombie anymore.  It’s a long story, but you can imagine that the devil didn’t want me to teach the Word of God, so he tried to stop me before I got started. Even after that first years as a new Christian, there was one trial after another. The devil took my husband, took my home, and my joy. More recently, he took my grandson.

At that time, David told me, "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get yourself together."

I thought, I don't even know what my bootstraps are, but that’s exactly what I had to do. Sometimes, we just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and keep on going. Satan has been after you your whole life. He's been plotting and scheming to destroy you before you ever entered into this world.

You need your faith to be the strongest when those temptations are screaming at you to do something outside of God’s will. The devil is like a snake. When you cut a snake's head off, it takes a while for the snake to realize that he's dead. The devil is like a snake that’s been defeated but doesn't know it.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

My friend, I don’t know what trial you are facing right now, but you are stronger than you think you are. You have overcome every trial because you are a child of God and Satan is defeated.

God is greater!

Pastor Jo