18 September 2025 DailyDevotion:
"When All Hope Seems Lost"
Luke 8:49
New Living Translation
49 While he was still speaking to her, a messenger arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. He told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.”
How many times have you believed that something was dead, hopeless, beyond repair, or not worth the fight? Has the enemy tried to suggest that you shouldn't trouble God with that thing anymore? Whatever it is that you fear is dead-don't believe it. To live joyfully, you must remember the power of your God. You have a God who breathes on dead things and causes them to live again (Ezekiel 37:13). You have a God who calls dead men from their graves with a mere word (John 11:43). You serve a Savior who walked about of the tomb Himself (Luke 24:2-3).
Nothing is so dead that God's breath can't resurrect it. No hope or dream is so buried that it can't be called forth with just a word. What Satan calls dead, God calls merely asleep.
When the enemy says, “Don't trouble God because they fear disappointment. Longings often come from a tender place within, and we fear the damage one more disappointment would cause. Joy comes when we no longer fear disappointment and bravely ask our God for abundance (Ephesians 3:20).
