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Do you ever feel trapped by something? Maybe you have to do something in life you don’t want to do. Or you feel trapped by an emotion you can’t get rid of, or a challenge in your body that puts a limit on you. Are you stuck in a job that doesn’t fulfill you or in a friendship or business partnership that isn’t meeting your needs or a family issue? Or do you feel trapped by your need for more finances?
There are many ways that we can feel trapped and as if nothing else can be done. But we aren’t caught or captured by conditions or circumstances, because God has an option for us to take. SO YOU CAN HAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF. Don’t feel trapped. God will give you an option in that time.
It doesn’t matter what our enemy, the devil, sends our way, he cannot trap us out of God’s best option for us. The truth of that is something so important by which we must live. In spite of the conditions, in spite of the challenges and the hardships and disappointment, the devil cannot trap you out of God’s best option for you.
He thinks he may have won when he views what’s happening to you, and there isn’t any way out for you, no more choices that you have. But he’s wrong.
Think how wrong he was about Jesus. He figured he was so smart and strong and powerful when he saw Christ on the cross being crucified. Then for sure he had won when they took His body and sealed it in a tomb. They even put guards around it.
Pilot who was the Roman governor of Judea had made the order that they were to secure that tomb so there wasn’t any way His disciples could take His body out of it. (Ref. Matthew 27.) There were no options now. No way Jesus could come out of there and His followers say He wasn’t dead. It was over. He was trapped. Entombed.
They had placed a stone across it, put a watch there, and sealed it. But nothing even as great as a tomb that was sealed and guarded could stop God's plan for Jesus. God had a greater option.
It’s described so perfectly in the hymn, “Christ the Lord is risen today.” It says…
“Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, alleluia!
Christ has burst the gates of hell, alleluia!
Death in vain forbids His rise, alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, alleluia!”
It was vain for them to put the stone there, to set the watch and seal it. Christ burst out of that full of life, not death. It tried to forbid Him from rising. But it could not. By God’s power, Christ arose. That stone was pushed out of His way, the guards were rendered of no use, the seal was broken. Do you think a rock and a few humans were going to stop God Almighty from performing His will?
And, my friend, do you think anything can stop God from performing His will in your life? Do you think that as bad as your conditions are and how much you feel trapped by them that anything can stop God Almighty from performing His will for you?
He is speaking by His Spirit to your heart at this moment. He’s speaking strong to you. He wants you to hear by your spiritual ears in these moments. You are not trapped! As His Son burst open the gates of hell, you will burst open the gates of the hellish conditions. They cannot stop you. They cannot trap you.
He will make sure that you come out of that tomb of problems or disappointment or hardship. Don’t feel trapped! He has the best option for your life and you can take it. Take the option He will show you. You’ll come out of the challenge, and you will be victorious.
Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’M TAKING GOD’S OPTION FOR ME!”
Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:
Lord, I know nothing can stop Your will in my life as I have faith. I am not trapped by circumstances. You’re opening a wonderful, tremendous option before me, and I’m taking it! I will take it right on into victory, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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