1 Corinthians 10:13   No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Have you ever tried getting out of an escape room?  It takes time, patience and effort to find your way out.  But temptation is different.  There is only one way to be certain that you won't give in to the temptation to sin.

Will power will not work.  Trusting Jesus to make an escape route, and following Him, will always keep you safe.  In any temptation, ask Jesus to show you the way out.  Then just follow Him!

1 John 3:16   By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Next time someone asks for help, and you are tempted to say no, just because it is inconvenient, think about what Jesus did for you.  He laid down His life for you.  What are you willing to do in gratitude to Him?

Ephesians 2:1, 4-7   And you were dead in the trespasses and sins…     But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Being dead has no chance at life.
But God...
When God breaks into a situation, the impossible becomes miraculously transformed.  What is YOUR "But God" moment?

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel
         before the Lord, our Maker!   For he is our God,
                 and we are the people of his pasture,
          and the sheep of his hand.          -  Psalm 95:6-7a

How you worship is less important than why you worship.  But what is most important is Who you worship.  What does worship mean to you?

Philippians 4:19   And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

God's riches can not be measured.  Do you think He is big enough to take care of you?  Trust Him with your life, and you will find that He is.

John 20:15-16   Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 

In her grief, through swollen, tear-filled eyes, Mary stooped down to look into the tomb.  And she saw 2 angels.  “They asked her why she was crying. She told them it was because someone had taken the body of Jesus.  Did she even realize at that moment that she was talking to angels?  In her deep grief, I don’t think her mind even processed it.

But then she turned around and saw a man.  A man she didn’t recognize.  A man who might be anybody, maybe even someone who worked there, who might know the answer to her question.  A man who asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She thought He was the gardener.

And then the unexpected happened.  Jesus spoke her name.  Tenderly, Jesus let her know that He was alive.  Mary didn’t recognize Jesus.  But then he called her by name.

And Mary responded to Jesus.  The term she used can be translated "my dear lord".  

Jesus is calling your name today.  He is calling you to new life in Him.  Will you say "Yes" to Jesus today?

Psalm 22:3   Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

The meaning here is not only that our praises become God’s throne, but they become His dwelling place, the place He makes His home.  God indwells the praises of His people.

When Jesus was riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the religious leaders told Him to stop the people from praising Him as their King and as God.

Luke 19:40  He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Peter called us living stones, fitted together as a spiritual building with Jesus as the cornerstone.  If we are living stones, let these stones cry out today in praise to Jesus for all that He has done for us.

2Corinthians 13:11   Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Living in harmony with each other as we rejoice in what God is doing in our lives makes for peace.  This is true Shalom, not just the absence of fighting, but the presence of God.

Do you need peace beyond your ability to even comprehend?  Turn to Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

Psalm 139:13-14   For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

God is our creator, not some evolutionary process.  Think about the intricacies of your body and how it works.  Can you even imagine all of the details of how everything functions happening by chance?  Just your eye, or even your thumb is so complex that the odds of them forming by themselves is astronomical.

Praise God for His workmanship!  He is the creator!

Luke 10:20   Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

It is a pretty amazing thing that powerful beings in the spirit world would listen to you and obey.  But that is nothing compared to eternity.  When God adopted you, He wrote your name in the Book of Life.  And that can never be erased.  That is a reason to rejoice!