Romans 16:25 points our eyes to a God who doesn’t merely inform us—He fortifies us. The same Lord who authored the gospel also uses it to steady trembling hearts, clarify confused minds, and anchor wandering lives. What was once concealed is now unveiled in Christ, and that revelation is meant to make you firm, not flimsy.

Strengthened Where It Actually Counts

We often ask God to change our circumstances, but He’s far more interested in strengthening our souls. Romans 16:25 reminds us that God is able—not just willing, not just sympathetic, but able—to establish you. That means your faith doesn’t have to be held together by adrenaline, personality, or a good week; it can be held together by God’s power.

And His power is not theoretical. “Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or imagine, according to the power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20). When you feel wobbly, you’re not disqualified—you’re being invited to lean harder on the One who strengthens. “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless in His glorious presence, without fault and with great joy—” (Jude 1:24).

The Gospel That Steadies Your Feet

God strengthens you “by my gospel and by the preaching of Jesus Christ” (Romans 16:25). Not by vague inspiration, but by the message of a crucified and risen Savior. The gospel isn’t the doorway to Christianity; it’s the oxygen of Christianity. If you feel spiritually out of breath, don’t start by sprinting—start by breathing in Christ again.

Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16). Notice: power, not just information. And Jesus makes it personal: “I am the vine; you are the branches… For apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Today, let the “preaching of Jesus Christ” be more than something you hear—let it be what you rely on.

The Mystery Revealed: Christ at the Center

Romans 16:25 speaks of “the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past”. God was not improvising; He was unfolding a plan. The mystery wasn’t a puzzle meant to frustrate you—it was a treasure meant to humble you. The center of that revealed mystery is not a method, a movement, or a moral upgrade. It’s a Person.

Paul describes it like this: “the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints… which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:26–27). That means your strength is not merely external support; it’s an indwelling Savior. And it also means your story is bigger than today’s pressure: “He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began” (2 Timothy 1:9). Live today like the mystery has been revealed—because it has.

Father, thank You for Your power to strengthen me through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Help me to rely on Christ today, obey Your Word, and speak the good news with courage. Amen.

It is hardly a matter of wonder that the country that gave the world instant tea and instant coffee should be the one to give it instant Christianity. If these two beverages were not actually invented in the United States it was certainly here that they received the advertising impetus that has made them known to most of the civilized world. And it cannot be denied that it was American Fundamentalism that brought instant Christianity to the gospel churches. Ignoring for the moment Romanism, and Liberalism in its various disguises, and focusing our attention upon the great body of evangelical believers, we see at once how deeply the religion of Christ has suffered in the house of its friends. The American genius for getting things done quickly and easily with little concern for quality or permanence has bred a virus that has infected the whole evangelical church in the United States and, through our literature, our evangelists and our missionaries, has spread all over the world. Instant Christianity came in with the machine age. Men invented machines for two purposes. They wanted to get important work done more quickly and easily than they could do it by hand, and they wanted to get the work over with so they could give their time to pursuits more to their liking, such as loafing or enjoying the pleasures of the world. Instant Christianity now serves the same purposes in religion. It disposes of the past, guarantees the future and sets the Christian free to follow the more refined lusts of the flesh in all good conscience and with a minimum of restraint.

Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He careth for you. - 1 Peter 5:7

"By prayer": that does not mean, as a superficial experience of religion is apt to suppose it to mean, actual petition that follows. For a great many of us the only notion that we have of prayer is asking God to give us something that we want. But there is a far higher region of communion than that, in which the soul seeks and finds, and sits and gazes, and aspiring possesses, and possessing aspires. Where there is no spoken petition for anything affecting outward life, there may be the prayer of contemplation such as the burning seraphs before the Throne do ever glow with. The prayer of silent submission, in which the will bows itself before God; the prayer of quiet trust, in which we do not so much seek as cleave; the prayer of still fruition, - these, in Paul’s conception of the true order, precede ’’supplication." And if we have such union with God, by realizing His presence, by aspiration after Himself, by trusting Him and submission to Him, then we have the victorious antagonist of all our anxieties, and the "cares that infest the day shall fold their tents" and "silently steal away." For if a man has that union with God which is effected by such prayer as I have been describing, it gives him a fixed point on which to rest amidst all perturbations. It is like bringing a light into a chamber when thunder is growling outside, which prevents the flashing of the lightning from being seen.

Years ago an ingenious inventor tried to build a vessel in such a fashion as that the saloon for passengers should remain upon one level, howsoever the hull might be tossed by waves. It was a failure, if I remember rightly. But if we are thus joined to God, He will do for our inmost hearts what the inventor tried to do with the chamber within his ship. The hull may be buffeted, but the inmost chamber where the true self sits will be kept leveled and unmoved. Brother! prayer in the highest sense, by which I mean the exercise of aspiration, trust, submission - prayer will fight against and overcome all anxieties.

" By prayer and supplication." Actual petition for the supply of present wants is meant by "supplication." To ask for that supply will very often be to get it. To tell God what I think I need goes a long way always to bringing me the gift that I do need. If I have an anxiety of which I am ashamed to speak to Him, that silence is a sign that I ought not to have it; and if I have a desire that I do not feel I can put into a prayer, that feeling is a warning to me not to cherish such a desire.