JESUS can Handle It
Happy New Month
Whatever it is you are facing or experiencing in this life, I just want you to know that Jesus can handle that shameful and painful situation. Jesus can take the pain the way. Jesus can heal that disease. Jesus can make a way out. He can turn your mourning into dancing and your sorrows into joy.
So, why do you choose to bear the burden and carry the load all by yourself? Why are you seeking for help elsewhere when the one who can help is there? Remember, your strength alone is not enough,there are heights in life your strength will never take you to and this is where we need Jesus.
Let's consider Apostle Peter in the Bible in the book of Acts 12:3-17
When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.
Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”
When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying.
Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.
When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”
“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.
Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.
God can do anything as long as we call Him to it. In such a position Peter was, his strength failed him but God's strength was what saved him. Whenever we are at a crossroad, whenever we are in any problem, instead of worrying our heads out, we should rather pray to God and seek His face just like the church did in the case of Peter.
For God to handle any situation for you, you have to first recognize Him then engage Him. Jesus was in the boat with His disciples when the storm came but He only calmed the storm when He was called.
There's no time you call the attention of Jesus to any problem that He won't perfectly handle it. Just call on Him today, stop worrying, stop crying. Make your requests known to God through prayers.
Encouraging.