Next month will be the 5-year anniversary of breaking my leg. What makes this significant is how it changed the way I pray. As I was laying in the ER at Conway Baptist, Pastor Randy Jumper came to check on me & pray for me. After we chatted, he said, “I’ve got to get back to the church, so let me pray for you.” (Nothing unusual yet). He prayed what I would consider a regular Pastor’s prayer for healing & comfort, but then he ended with, “and let others see Jesus through Robert’s experience.” BAM! This changed everything…except, I still had a broken leg, and it hurt! What happened over the next few months is beyond incredible. People wanted to talk about Jesus, even the atheist therapist who daily was by my side teaching me how to walk again. One day there was a line outside my room of people waiting to see me. They may have initially come to check on me, but we talked about Jesus. Early on I recognized that the Lord had honored Pastor Randy’s prayer. I know, had I not broken my leg, I never would have had the incredible one-on-one conversations with so many people. That prayer transformed me and how I look at storms & pain.

Ponder this. Why do you think the phrase “I am with you” is recorded 15 times in the Bible? (Genesis 26:24, Genesis 28:15, Joshua 3:7, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 43:5, Jerimiah 1:8, Jerimiah 2:19, Jerimiah 15:20, Jerimiah 42:11, Jerimiah 46:28, Jerimiah 46:28, Haggai 2:4, Matthew 28:20, John 7:33, Acts 18:10) Then when we connect Revelation 21:7, “All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children”, we understand. Jesus is our Victory. Followers of Christ are not victors because of what we have done…but because of what Jesus has done. This was the difference maker for Paul, Stephen, and the Disciples. Jesus made them difference makers in impossible situations. He would love to make you a difference maker.

Paul sums it up in Philippians 3:7-11, “I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with Him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with Himself depends on faith. I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead. I want to suffer with Him, sharing in His death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!”

“All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I (Jesus) will be their God, and they will be my children.” Revelation 21:7 King Jesus is our Victory!