"When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest is plenitful, but the workers are few.'" Matthew 9:36-37

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Greater Is He That Is In Us

There are two things that have become abundantly clear since the Chattanooga HopeLine has started. The first is that satan absolutely hates this ministry and is constantly doing things to try to disrupt it. Often, we will hear of things happening that discourage new HopeCoaches from coming. One simple example of this was recently when a HopeCoach who was going to take calls from home for the first time attempted to open the internet on his computer and was unsucessful. He tried several things to fix the problem but nothing seemed to work. Finally he stopped and started to pray. He said, "Lord, I know that You want me to do this ministry and I know that You want to speak Your love through me tonight so I pray in the name of Jesus that..." and as soon as He said "in the name of Jesus" the internet started working. The second thing that has been clear is that as bad as satan hates this ministry God loves it more, and as many times as satan tries to stop what is going on God triumphs over His attempts and shows His power to HopeCoaches through it. We have seen 1 John 4:4 proved over and over again - "Greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world."

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