I\u2019d been having trouble with my 13-year-old car. A sympathetic person loaned me his car while mine was being repaired. While driving it, I stopped at a store to pick up a few things. On my way back to the car, I reached into my pocket for the key. It wasn\u2019t there. I searched all my pockets. I looked in my shopping bags. No key. I stood there, looking at this big, beautiful, borrowed car. Here was a $40,000 vehicle, with plenty of gas in the tank, lots of horsepower under the hood, just waiting to take me anywhere I wanted to go. But it was useless. No power without the key.<\/p>\n
I had to have that key. And I knew that Jesus knew where it was. So I prayed, and asked Jesus for the key. I felt impressed to go back to the store. The lady in customer service handed me the key. With that key, I unlocked the car and unleashed all its power.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also power available to us in our everyday life. The Bible says, \u201cAs we know Jesus better, His divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life\u201d (2 Peter 1:3. NLT).<\/p>\n
Unlock the Power<\/strong><\/p>\n But in order to unlock this power, we need the key. Where\u2019s the key? Jesus has it. Jesus has the master keys. Jesus says, \u201cSee these keys in My hand? They open and lock Death\u2019s door, they open and lock Hell\u2019s gates\u201d (Revelation 1:18, The Message). So we need to go to the Man who carries the keys\u2014the master keys to every problem in life.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t overlook and forget to use the one simple key Jesus has given you and everyone else. I\u2019m talking about prayer. Jesus says, \u201cIf you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer\u201d (Matthew 21:22, NLT). Prayer is the key in your hand of faith that will unlock the storehouse of heaven. In that storehouse, you\u2019ll find Jesus, and the keys to everything you need. Just use your key. It isn\u2019t lost. It\u2019s right there in your hand. By Bob DuBose.\u00a0Copyright \u00a9 2006 by\u00a0GraceNotes<\/a>. All rights reserved. Use of this material is subject tousage guidelines<\/a>. Scripture taken from the NEW LIVING TRANSLATION \u00a9 and THE MESSAGE \u00ae.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019d been having trouble with my 13-year-old car. A sympathetic person loaned me his car while mine was being repaired. While driving it, I stopped at a store to pick …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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