Footsteps to Zion

Based on the message of Pastor Dick Carumba Throughout world history, man has fought countless battles to conquer peoples and lands. But while those battles may be intense, the greatest battle man faces is the one that is spiritual. It is that constant battle against temptations, wrong thoughts, and negative emotions that truly torments man. It is this invisible war in the mind of every person that seems the hardest to fight and win. But for every believer in Christ, God has promised victory according to His Word. “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:37 However, we often forget this truth. ‭We must hold on to the several Scriptures which testify to us that whether in the past, present or future, we are victorious through Christ:‬‬ We became victorious in the past through what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross according to Colossians 2:14-15 (NLT): “ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by...

No one ever wants to be in a storm. People generally believe that nothing good could ever come out of storms. This goes for physical storms and even more so for the unseen storms in our lives. But is this belief really true? The answer to this question lies in an account in the Bible of the time when the disciples of Jesus went through a very dark storm themselves (Matthew 14:22-33). From this story, we will seek to understand why God allows storms in our lives and how we can have the victory that God meant for us over our storms. STORMS IN OUR LIVES The story begins with the disciples getting into a boat at night, as Jesus commanded them to. Unbeknownst to them, they were about to get caught in the middle of a mighty storm. But more than just stormy weather, their situation speaks of the kind of storms we can go through in life. Storms are when we feel away from God. “And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when eveni...