Desperate for Deliverance

Houston's First Baptist Church

God's deliverance comes in three key areas: captivity to sin, captivity to evil, and trials and suffering. The story of Gladys Aylward leading orphans through dangerous Chinese wilderness demonstrates desperate faith in action. Like the Israelites at the Red Sea, we must learn to surrender our battles to God rather than fighting in our own strength. Sometimes God delivers us from our circumstances, and sometimes He delivers us through them, but His grace is always sufficient. The purpose of God'