God’s grace comes to us on His terms. We cannot bargain with Him and our flesh will at many times be at odds with God’s purpose in our lives. To receive God’s continuing grace we can only surrender completely to our Lord Jesus Christ. We can ask God for mercy, but He will not always take away our infirmities. Like the Apostle Paul, we must learn to glory in our weakness so that the power of God can be magnified in our lives (2 Corinthians 12:8-9, “For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me“).

Having hope is a wondrous thing that is a necessity on your way to happiness. Without hope most things cannot be accomplished. Hope gives you energy and motivation to reach your goal. If you had no hope that you will be paid on your job, would you even go to work?

The Holy Ghost gives us the power to heal. When the Holy Ghost is in us we have God in us. His power can be used in spiritual warfare to heal people. People that are in need of physical healing are oppressed by the devil or other spiritual power. Through our sinful and imperfect nature the devil can oppress us with every know disease and infirmity. The Holy Spirit gives us power through spiritual warfare to have the devil release people from disease and infirmities (Acts 10:38, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him"). 

When a person is centered only on themselves they do not realize that God is in control and that they need to be centered on God. God created this world, not us. We have forgotten God when we glory in our own wisdom, might, and riches. We deceive ourselves when we think we can rely on ourselves. God desires for us to be wise, to be mighty, and to be rich, but He demands that we glorieth in Him (Jeremiah 9:23). We are in His world that He created. We were created to glorify God in every situations and never put ourselves above God.

JEREMIAH 9 BIBLE SCRIPTURE Jeremiah 9:23, "Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:"

The spirit of the resurrection is a powerful force. No other force can bring something that is dead to life. Only God can restore life from something that is dead. This makes the spirit of the resurrection the most powerful force in the world. God wants us to know that He is all powerful and this powerful resurrection spirit comes from Him. He wants us to know that we can have this spirit in us and live (Eze 37:9,  "Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. ").

If we are without God, the power of sin and death will rule over our lives. Only Jesus can deliver us from the power of darkness that is in this world. Jesus demonstrated through His resurrection that He has absolute power over sin and death. Through our faith and relationship with Jesus Christ, we are transformed from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light (Colossians 1:13, "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son").

The power of darkness in no way compares to the power of God. The power of God is absolute and lasts forever. The Devil's power is limited and only lasts for a season or even an hour as with Jesus in the garden of  Gethsemane ( Luke 22:33, "When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness").

BIBLE SCRIPTURE: Luke 22:33, "When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness."<

Hebrews 2:14. There is a power of darkness. It is made manifest by the power of sin and death. The scriptures tell us that the devil has the power of death ( Hebrews 2:14, "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"). It is only through Jesus Christ that the devil is defeated at the cross. By Jesus Christ dying and then resurrecting forever, He defeated death.