Are you too busy complaining about what the Lord has not done, instead of thanking him for what he has already done?
We put so much focus on our situation, that, we fail to recognize when the solution comes. What we should be doing instead, is telling our friends and all who will hear, just what the Lord has already done for us, and that we will continue to praise him until he delivers us from whatever we are going through. If we learn to continually count our blessings and praise God in the midst of our struggles, we will find that God takes our yoke upon him and refreshes us. Praise the Lord!
What does your faith say about you?
If you have not been receiving the release that comes from God through faith believing, Scripture encourages by the lessons of the faithful, and it tell us, that, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, that we should lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with perseverance, the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, who is the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith.
Could you hide from God!
When God is ready to birth something new in your life, there is no way you could hide from his presence. Remember, that, his eye covers the whole earth and nothing is hidden from him. Let us make ourselves available to God and let him work his purpose out. Amen!
When we labor, do we labor alone, and who enables us?
Paul in his letter to the Corinthians reminds us, that, “Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them–yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” Oh, praise the Lord!
Who is the friend that you could count on, who will continue on with you through your trials?
“There’s a friend for little children, above the bright blue sky; a friend who never changes, whose love, will never die, our earthly friends may fail us, and change with changing years, this friend is always worthy of that dear Name He bears” – JESUS is with us through every trial we go through, and if we persevere, He will bring us through victoriously.
Do you desire to enter the kingdom of God?
Be patient in your tribulations. Go through your struggles giving God thanks and praise. Put your troubles aside and help someone else. Continually trust God, even when you fail to see his footprints in the sand. God is always our very present help in times of trouble. Believe! Persevere! Endure! You will secure your place in God’s kingdom.
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that you were all alone and wanted to give up?
When our troubles overwhelm us, we retreat into our own worlds which are like desert places. We are tempted to doubt God, to give up. But, we should use these desert places when we are alone to reconnect with God. You could find joy in your desert places. I have found joy in my desert places. When you go through the desert joyfully, God turns your deserts into pools of water. When you are isolated, use the time to find out what God requires of you, I can proudly say, “Thank you God, for my desert places, which increased my faith in You and in Your abilities.”
Praise be to God; we are no longer enslaved to all sorts of evil and are able to enjoy His blessings!
“For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But, when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”
Have you noticed that since God chose you out of the world, that your friends have changed towards you?
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You, and these have known that You sent Me, and I declared to them Your name, and will declare it that the love with which You loved Me, may be in them and I in them. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name, those whom You gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But, now, I come to You and these things I speak in the world, that, they may have joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. But, I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but, that You should keep them from the evil one, and sanctify them by Your truth that the world may believe that you sent me. Your word is truth!
How many of us believe that our trials lasts too long?
When we go through fiery trials, it always seems like it goes on forever. But, we were meant to go through these trials, so that the Lord could strengthen us. What seems like a million years in our sight is like a day to the Lord when it is passed. My brothers and sisters in Christ, “The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.” God is faithful. Trust him!