The Landlord

   Have you ever had the week, the year, the life from........... Let us  hear from the greatest sufferer of all time, Job. He confidently knows who his deliverer is and in Who's strength his future is held.

Chapter9
V1 Then Job answered
V2 In truth I know that this is so; But how can a man be in the right before God?
V3 If one wished to dispute with Him, He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.
V4 Wise in heart and mighty in strength, who has defied Him without harm?
V5 It is God who removes mountains, they know not how, when He overturns them in anger;
V6 Who shakes the earth out of it's place, and it's pillars to tremble.
V7 Who commands the sun not to shine, and sets a seal upon the stars.
V8 Who alone stretches out the heavens and tramples down the waves of the sea,
V9 Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleides, and the chambers of the south,
V10 Who does great things, unfathomable, and wondrous works without number.

   Anyone who has had problems battling in there mind for freedom and deliverance will tell you it's very difficult, until you believe Jesus really will deal with the enemy for you. I read this story and thought it worth passing on. Larry Christenson writes.
   Think of yourself as living in an apartment house. You live there under a landlord who has made you miserable. He charges you exorbitant rent. When you can't pay, he loans you money at a fearful rate of interest, to get you even further into his debt. He barges into your apartment at all hours of the day and night, wrecks and dirties the place up, then charges you extra for not maintaining the premises. Your life is miserable.
   Then comes Someone who says, "I've taken over this apartment house. I've purchased it, you can live here as long as you like, free. The rent is paid up and I am going to be living here with you, in the manager's apartment."
   What a joy! You are saved! You are delivered out of the clutches of the old landlord!
   But what happens? You hardly have time to rejoice in your new found freedom, when a knock comes at the door. And there he is the old landlord! Mean, glowering, and demanding as ever. He has come for rent, he says.
   What do you do? Do you pay him? Of course, you don't! Do you go out and pop him in the nose? No- he's bigger than you are!
   You confidently tell him. "You'll have to take that up with the new Landlord." He may bellow, threaten, and cajole. You just quietly tell him, "Take it up with the new Landlord."  If he comes back a dozen times, with all sorts of threats and arguments, waving legal-looking documents in your face, you simply tell him yet once again. "Take it up with the new Landlord." In the end he has to. He knows it, too. He just hopes that he can bluff and threaten and deceive you into doubting that the new Landlord will really take care of things.
   Now this is the situation of a Christian. Once Christ has delivered you from the power of sin and the devil, you can depend on it: that old landlord will soon come back knocking at your door. And what is your defense? How do you keep him from getting the whip hand over you again? You send him to the new Landlord. You send him to Jesus.

 Recently I hit a place in my own life that shattered my confidence, I thought surely I was finally down for the count. I spent several nights, in the wee hours, in my back yard and cried out to God . When I looked into the night sky and the expanse of His awesomeness, I could see how small my issue was in the scene of heaven. He, the master of this universe, could certainly touch my situation. He did touch me, though not my circumstance, He empowered me to walk through it.
                                                   Never give up, Never give in