Twenty-Three Power Scriptures to Overcome Adversities: Speaking God’s Word to Today’s Adversities

By Ron Cobbs

Do you feel the weight of everything on your shoulders? Do you wonder if God is really there to help you? Do you feel like you’re fighting your battles alone? Did you know there’s a direct way to approach any adversity you encounter? God’s word, the written scripture, contains the solutions that will either knock down the barriers or give you the strength to climb over the barriers.

In Twenty-Three Power Scriptures to Overcome Adversities, author Ron Cobbs presents a compilation of key scriptures to help you face your fears, anxieties, and worries. It’s intended to encourage you to meditate on God’s word and speak his word in all circumstances in your life. When you speak God’s word instead of your words, and you believe in his word, a change occurs. God cares about you and won’t leave you alone to face your problems.

God sees you; understands your fears, obstacles, adversities, and pain; and knows exactly how to help you overcome. Cobbs gives you the inspirational words you’ll need to strengthen your inner spirit and change your circumstances by speaking God’s words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798385000715

Ron Cobbs

Ron Cobbs is the son of an ordained Baptist minister. He has worked for NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, for thirty-nine years and is currently supporting the space program as a chief engineer, helping science payloads accomplish their mission by landing on the moon. Cobbs’ ambition is to share God’s word.

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Contents

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Introduction

Have you ever wondered, Lord, I can’t take no more! Why am I in this mess? What am I going to do? How do I get through this impossible scenario? This COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t look like it is going to end! Gasoline prices are skyrocketing, and my salary isn’t matching the cost-of-living increases!

I know how you feel. I know how you feel! When all these circumstances are just piling up, it seems like God isn’t listening. And you feel all alone. A couple of years ago, these thoughts were flowing through my mind. I started a new position at my job and was feeling as though I didn’t know anything, nor did I know what to do.

Well, let me share something with you. You are exactly where God wants you to be. I know you’re thinking, Ron, that doesn’t make sense! You mean to tell me that God is allowing all these things to happen to me? Guess what. If God is allowing it, then there is a reason. It could be something that you have done in the past of which you are reaping the harvest of the bad seed that was planted. But that doesn’t mean that it is over. It could be the enemy attacking you trying to prevent you from doing God’s will. Again, there is a reason why. Here is the key:

God will allow things to happen to you

so that you must depend on Him!

It is common human nature for us to want to do things independently on our own, thinking that it was all of us and we don’t need God. Remember that when Moses led the children of Israel through the wilderness, they were complaining about food. And God gave them manna (bread from heaven). For forty years, God provided manna every morning, and the people went out to pick it up. But here is the key: