BATTLE AGAINST HOPELESSNESS!

 Battle Against Hopelessness!

Colossians 4:2 - Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.

    The enemy tries to crumble our situations and puts us into deepest gloom when we might fall into utter hopelessness, and reach a stage of inability to pray. This is part of satanic warfare against us. He tries to stop us from using our great weapon of prayerfulness in all our situations (Ephesians 6:18-20). So we must fight this out with more prayer, and resist and rebuke the devil. We must be vigilant in prayer and be careful not to allow the enemy to drag us to prayerlessness. We must be earnest and vigilant in prayer with thanksgiving for answers to prayer at God's time. Thus we must get victory over our situations.

    The enemy attacked many God's servants and tried to make them stop praying. Elijah was in hopelessness when the enemy threatened him through Jezebel. So he ran away and even wanted to die because he was in utter hopelessness. He forgot that he could handle 450 prophets of Baal a few days back on Mount Carmel. There he proved that the gods of Jezebel are powerless and nonexistent. Still Elijah was sunk deep in hopelessness. He was fearful of this evil woman Jezebel and her threat. But God strengthened him by sending an angel to revive him with words of comfort and strengthened him with food and water. He was then recommissioned to continue with his ministry. During the following years, his ministry became doubly powerful through Elisha.

    Joseph was shut out for thirteen years, but God was working behind the scene to make him the Prime Minister of Egypt. Jacob, his father, was in utter frustration, hopelessness and depression for more than 15 years as he found out that his beloved son Joseph was no more. But God worked behind the scene during these dark years. Finally when he saw the chariots of Pharaoh came rolling in to take Jacob to see his son Joseph, Jacob's spirit revived.

    Yes, the God of Elijah, Joseph and Jacob lives for us! He is our God who will deliver us from the clutches of hopelessness, despair, despondency and depression. We must fight these tactics of the enemy on our knees and pray until victory comes to us.

    Praise God for the promise of victory! We are more than conquerors through our commander-in-chief who has won victory for us! Romans 8:37