![]() Suddenly, the tour group heard a shout from two corridors away, “It’s a lie! It’s a lie! The King has another move!” As the group moved on to another room, a young man who was a chess Champion from Russia stayed behind to study the painting. Ready to say, Checkmate!Ī tour guide was taking a group through the gallery explaining the painting and its meaning. From across the chessboard, the devil leers at him in anticipation of his expected victory. The look on Faust’s face is one of abject despair. Faust has only the king, the queen, and a weak pawn left. Faust, who had sold his soul to the devil. The painting depicts a chess match between the devil and Goethe’s Dr. It’s never too late with God.There’s a painting called “Checkmate” painted by Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch, that used to hang in the Louvre Art Museum in Paris. He loves you, and He cares for you, and He is on your side. He has not yet done everything that He can do. And He knows what you are going through. He knows where you are. He knows who you are. He’s held back more than He has released in your life. And just when the enemy thinks it’s checkmate, heaven whispers ” I don’t think so” because God has been hiding His power. There’s a verse in the Bible that says “ And there was the hiding of His power”. What this means is that God has hidden more than he’s revealed. Sometimes the doctor says ‘ I’ve done all that I can do.’ Sometimes the banker says ‘ I’ve done all that I can do.’ Sometimes the counsellor says ‘ I’ve done all that I can do’ . But God has never done all that He can do! Hiding His power You know, you and I can do something that God can’t do. You’ve been told all your life that God can do anything - but that is not true! One of the things that you and I can do - that God cannot do - and God has never done - is that you and I can do all that we can do. “ the king has one more move”. It’s never over with God! ” I don’t think so”. You may be in a season of weeping - and it seems like everything going wrong, but God is not through with you. ![]() They said you’re going to lose everything and you’re never going to get it back but. but “ the king has one more move”. You don’t know what you’re going to do, and you don’t know how you’re going to see things turn around. then “ I don’t think so“! The doctor doesn’t give any hope. It’s never over with Godīut if God is for me, if God is on my side . But notice that before he can kill and destroy he has to steal. He has to steal your faith, he has to steal your joy, he has to steal your hope, he has to steal your dream. The Bible says, “ The thief comes to kill steal and destroy”. You can’t move this way, you can’t move that way, you’ve run out of chances, you’ve run out of help, you’ve run out of resources, so what’s the use – there is nothing left. “ Checkmate!” When you feel trapped when you feel overwhelmed when you don’t know what to do or where to turn, Satan loves to whisper “ Checkmate!” When there seems no way you’re going to get out of this. The King (God) has one more move - even when it may not appear so. That painting has now become even more famous because of its hidden message – about trusting God when it appears that all is lost! Just as in this painting, so it is in real life.
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