When life sucks

Sometimes we go through a season that is difficult, full of trials. Sometimes there is demonic pressure, sometimes we are being attacked. Sometimes we have created the problem through our own sin. In the midst of this battle, whether the trial is external or internal, there is a tendency to fret, to wring ones hands in frustration. Or we are angry, yelling in tounges and waging "warfare ". It looks good, especially on Sundays in front of everybody else. But in reality its just a show to make us feel better.
I believe that real power is found in a peaceful clear mind and heart. In a place of surrender to the Lord we find peace. That doesn't mean we don't have battles to fight, but we fight them assured of victory, not fearing defeat. In that place we can have joy, because we know like we know the sky is blue that Jesus has already conquered the world. We can laugh when life knocks us down because our victory is assured, we know how all of this ends. With Satan, death, and all those who set themselves against Christ bound and thrown into the lake of fire. We can never fully conquer evil in this life, that's not our job.
It like gardening. You build the garden, plant and water it, then you have to tend it. Every day. Take your eyes of that garden for a minute and you'll have bugs eating it, the sub shrivelling it, animals eating it, all kinds of mayhem. But if you tend it with love, removing what takes life and pouring in what gives life you will be rewarded. If you find a weed or an insect that is eating your garden, remove it and move on. Find another? Do it again. The day you give up is the day you lose your garden.