We do know that the devil owns the world, but we are the children of God, the son of the light, we don’t follow the world steam, we follow Jesus.

Caught in the middle of the world, which are coming repeatedly, we got to fight the stream just like the fish, in order to survive. The influence of the world have became the master and brought us into total destruction.

We could see the live of Noah in Genesis. Noah has giving us the proof of live, in the middle of corrupt and sinful citizen, he still loyal to God, and as the return God give him and his family a new live and saved him from the big flood.

Noah live inside the Word of God, and The Word of God giving him power when everything seem impossible. Even when the world lough at him, and assumed him nuts, but Noah always in God track.

Genesis 6:9-22
9 This is the account of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

For the poor, eat is some problem need to be solve while for the richer, status and money would make a different. So all human being definetely have their own problems, its all depend to us to live with it.

A challenge is not something we should avoid, challenge is something we should face and solve. The bible ever said about how little man facing a giant soldier. Yes it was David.

The victory of David against Goliath, its not depend on the physical strength, who could imagine winning against war veteran with massive big body? I believe even David also not imagine winning against him, Goliath was way to big to be face man to man.

But likely the others, David with the guidance of God stay focus on God’s plan. He’s facing Goliath and the result he won the challenge. This story telling us when you feel lonely and want to runaway from your own challenge, pray to God and ask for his guidance, although we do know that God always guide as all the way, but sometimes it help you more communicate with God. It will ease your pain.

The true power actually on your minds, happiness will help you ease your pain and face the challenges. Paul ever say in Philippians 4:4-9
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

The key is imagine it, get some help from God, and face your challenge.

God has given His lives for us, why don’t we do the same, why we couldn’t fall in love in God? Why were we just stand on our own, while we have greatest power as His sons and daughters.

Psalm 98:1-2
1 Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done marvelous things;
his right hand and his holy arm
have worked salvation for him.
2 The LORD has made his salvation known
and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

David gave us a good example how to express love is. He put it on songs that he sang everyday for what God has made him to be. God has give us salvation, and revealed it to everyone.

These is the importance of knowledge, when you have it, you’ll no longer being decease by false teaching and prophecy. Then what was faith and what was the correlation with destiny?

Hebrew 11:1
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

If we take a look at Hebrew 11:1, Faith is something we could not see and touch, faith is something we felt, coming from hope. Hope was build on trust, in these case we trust in Christ.

Do you remember that Christ ever say that with Faith we could move a mountain, and Faith could save you from temptation. I’ll remind you with the story in the book of Daniel, when Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego refused to worship the golden image created by King Nebuchadnezzar.
With Faith the beat the fierce of fire, from hair to toes nothing was burnt. That’s amazing what faith could do to your life isn’t it.

We weaken faith when we are reluctant, we gain strength when we put our hope in Christ. As Paul said in 1 Cor 12:9-10
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

How about destiny. As the followers of Christ, destiny is not something scary. Destiny is belong to you, it was consequences of what you do in the past, that effect or impacting onto your future. Don’t be afraid of how your future is. Remember that bible said even birds flying on the sky fed, we are much more valuable than birds, so its time to wake up.

Luckily for us the followers of Christ, Christ is the center of knowledge, He is the prophets, the teachers, and the apostles. We could see the passage in Ephesians 4:11-16.

Ephesians 4:11-16
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

It was noted that we were infants, prisoners of our own before we met Christ, but now that we were save we should be able to speak the truth, and the truth itself coming from love. Love and knowledge are two things need to be updated. It means that need continuing efforts to make it grow.

As if we’re going to gym to strengthen our muscle, we also need to build our spiritual muscles. Then after you got those love and knowledge, share it with your surrounding. Let the people around you know the love of Christ.