"But Take Heart! I Have Overcome The World,"

 The Lord Jesus was to face the most challenging event in the history of the universe. He Who had rested in the bosom of the Father and communed with Him throughout eternity, was to experience the most excruciating separation from His God and Father, an agonizing disconnection which is beyond the comprehension of frail mortal man.
 He has overcome the world's system, the power of the flesh, and the wiles of the devil. He paid the price of sins committed and also broke the power of cancelled sin so that old sin nature imputed from Adam to every member of the human race. He broke the power of death and hell and in so doing He poured out the most astonishing cascade of the riches of God's amazing grace on all who would believe in His name.
 "But Take Heart! I Have Overcome The World," are simple words from our gracious Savior, but the grace and glory that flows from His words of deep, deep comfort, will resound throughout the eternal ages to come.
 However dark your own life situation may be and whatever challenges you may be facing, take these words from Christ Jesus to heart: 
John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Our United Prayer:
Thank You, Father, for Your wonderful words of comfort and peace. We pray that in all the trials and tribulations of life, which seem to be mounting with each passing day, that our hearts and minds will rest in Jesus so that His perfect peace will carry us through all life's difficulties. Thank You that we have nothing to fear, knowing that He has overcome the world, and that His victory is our victory, simply because we trusted Him as our Savior. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.