Message:-
There is a phrase commonly used throughout the whole Bible which should serve as comfort to all Christian pilgrims, particularly when they are passing through situations that are not so pleasant. That phrase is the title of today’s devotional – “It came to pass”. To someone using this devotional today, all your challenges shall pass in Jesus’ Name. The Lord Jesus Christ did not promise us that the Christian walk would be a wall in the park. He actually promised us persecutions and trials as part of the Christian experience (John 16:33, Mark 10:30). He even said in Matthew 10:22 that a time will come when will be hated all men. Be aware that this time is fast approaching. What is expected of us is endurance and longsuffering. As God would have it, longsuffering is part of the fruit of the Spirit, which is made manifest in our lives as we daily walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:22).

Know for sure that from the inception of the Christian faith, believers in Christ have always faced trials of cruel mocking, scourging, imprisonment and even death. Nevertheless, be encouraged by the words of Apostle Peter to some brethren who were also going through trials and persecutions:

“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trials of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”
1st Peter 1:6-7

Just as the trying periods of the heroes of faith who have gone ahead of you “came to pass”, yours also will come to pass. Let your gaze be set on the reward that is ahead of you, which the Holy Spirit spoke of in James 1:12, saying;

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

PRAYER POINTS

1. I pull down the stronghold of confusion in my life in the name of Jesus.

2. Every seat of confusion in my life, be broken down in the name of Jesus.

3. Let the storm of confusion within my mind be still in the name of Jesus.

4. Every cloud of confusion that has enveloped my mind, fade away now in the name of Jesus.

5. I reject every storm of confusion, and claim a sound mind in the name of Jesus.

6. Every power that wants to destroy my life, I command you to be destroyed in Jesus' name.

7. Every faulty foundation in my life, receive the fire of God in the name of Jesus.

8. I fire back every arrow of mind destruction fired into my life back to the sender in the name of Jesus.

9. My mind, receive divine touch of God and be relieved in the name of Jesus.

10. Lord strengthen me in my inner mind with Your fire and Your power in the name of Jesus.