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Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus. I apologize yet again for not posting for a while. I missed October entirely! But I’ve been a bit busy. The enemy is fighting diligently those that have the truth of God’s word. I have noticed this especially among those around me and with myself. But we must not give in or give up hope. Through the power of the Holy Ghost that dwells within us, we are more powerful than the enemy.

I remember reading that old book The Pilgrim’s Progress. While one can tell in a few places that it’s author didn’t have all of the truth, I have always held the opinion that it’s narrative was divinely inspired. At one point in the story the protagonist Christian and his companion Hopeful are captured by the giant Despair. The giant takes them and locks them in his dungeon and they spend a good deal of time there. Hopeful, true to his name tries to comfort Christian in spite of their situation. And then one day Christian stands up in sudden realization and tells Hopeful that he has the key to the door of giant Despair’s dungeon. It is the key of promise. He pulls it out and unlocks the door so that they escape. You see, no matter how bad it seems in our walk down here, no matter how assaulted and attacked we seem to be, we don’t have to languish in the dungeon of despair… because we have promise.

We have promise for our healing, we have promise for victory, we have promise that our labors are not in vain and that the Lord will take care of our needs. And we have promise that even though one day this mortal coil will lay lifeless in the ground, that same spirit that resurrected Jesus from the grave will resurrect us unto eternal life also.

2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. God bless.