I get so many emails each day from people all over the world who are in the midst of major battles in their life. They are desperate, looking for something magical to happen to make their circumstances different overnight. I pray that by now you know how much I love you and care about you. I try each day to stand with you, pray with you, and help you through the trials of day to day life.

This is one of those days that I need to use some tough love on you. So many of you have absolutely unrealistic expectations about resolving your problems that you need someone to tell you the truth. I hear over and over every day people say, “God has abandoned me. He doesn’t love me or how could He make me go through this.” The fact is God has never left you, God loves you unconditionally, and you go through most of the battles in your life because you do not have a plan to get victory!

In today’s scripture, we read about the plan God gave Joshua to take the city of Jericho. Granted, it was an unusual plan, but it was a plan given by God that when faithfully executed, worked. When the allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on DDay, do you think they just woke up one morning and decided to give it a try? Absolutely not. The generals spent months planning, looking at all the different scenarios, strategizing, coming up with the best plan they could to win that important battle. When you face the battles in your life each day, why do you think you can just wake up and wish those battles would go away? That is unrealistic.

It is also unrealistic to think that God is some genie in the bottle that you call on when you are in trouble and He will snap His fingers and make everything perfect. The fact is, most of your battles didn?t just happen overnight, they developed over a period of time. Victory will probably not happen overnight either, it will take place over a period of time. Let me interject that God can do anything, and if He, in His sovereign will, chooses to eliminate your problems overnight He CAN do that. However, that is normally not the way God works. He will bring victory over a period of time because in that process several things occur. You learn how to be obedient, faithfully execute God’s plan for your life, and depend upon Him.

The question becomes where do I get this plan? God gives us His plan for victory in many ways. This is again why it becomes critical to have that intimate daily relationship with Him. It is in that close daily contact through prayer, the Word, that He speaks to us. In our circumstances He speaks to us. Through the counsel of others He speaks to us. It is a combination of all the above that helps us formulate a game plan, His plan, to be victorious.

One important element I just mentioned was the counsel of others. God has placed mature, Godly people in our life strategically to help us overcome our battles. Drop your pride and reach out to the wise counsel of others. Let them know about your struggles, ask them to help you formulate a viable plan to see victory. Once armed with the plan God gives you, it requires you to be like Joshua. Faithfully and obediently follow the plan. Trust God, put your faith in Him, He won’t let you down.

I love you and care about you so much. I will be praying today that these words find a fertile resting place in your hearts and minds today. Focus today on spending time with the Lord to formulate a game plan to gain victory over whatever battles you might be fighting today. God will give you the plan, then it is up to you to follow the plan. There really is victory in Jesus. He has won the victory over whatever battle you are facing 2000 years ago on Calvary. It is time to start living your life in that victory.

It is tough for God to use defeated soldiers to fight the battles each day. That is why it is critical to get victory in your life, so that you can lead others to victory. May your number one priority today be getting a plan from God to win the battles you are facing in your life, execute that plan faithfully, and be able to claim my personal signature scripture from 1 Corinthians 15:57 that says, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

In His love and service, Your friend and brother in Christ,

Bill Keller

If I can help you in any way you can contact me through my personal email at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

“I will give you pastors according to my own heart who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”(Jer.3:15).

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“And why do you observe the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?”(Mt.7:3) .

“Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and the needy” (Job 31:9).

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part…And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (1Cor.13:9,13).

“If you, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things that are above, where He sits on GOD’S right hand side. Set your affection on that which is above, not on things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in GOD” (Col.3:1-3).

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love” (Eph. 1:4)

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou has given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou has given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24)

“Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began” (2 Timothy 1:9).

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (Jn.14:27).

“Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on thee, because he trusts in thee. Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD GOD is everlasting strength” (Isa.26:3-4).

*** “For God has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Thess.5:9).

“For The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1Thess.4:16-17)

“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory” (Col.3:4).

Sing a song of praise for God and the gospel. Be rich in Him!

THE CROWN OF GLORY 1Pet.5:3-4; Heb.6:10; Mk.9:41; Jer.31:16 AN INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN 1Cor.9:25 A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 2Tim.4:8 A CROWN OF REJOICING 1Thess.2:19 A CROWN OF LIFE Rev.2:10; Jas.1:12

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” (Eph.6:10).

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