Title: Why Am I Going Through This?
Text:
James 1:2-8 (HCSB)
2 Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
8 An indecisive man is unstable in all his ways.
Observation:
People of faith can expect and should welcome the testing of their faith. It is through the testing of our faith that we discover that God is real. There is a great reward for those who pass the faith test.
James 1:2-3 (AMP)
2 Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
3 Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.
It takes godly wisdom to be able to handle the trials of life. God will supply what we need; we need wisdom to enable us to get through the trial, and reap the reward of the spiritual blessings of endurance, steadfastness and patience. O, the blessing of having faith in God, and being faithful to God.
Prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I pray that I will have faith to enable me to face the trials of life and have them work for me and not against me. Father, I ask You to increase my faith; grant each of us the grace to trust You with our whole heart. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
"I thank God for the mountains,
And I thank Him for the valleys,
I thank Him for the storms He brought me through.
For if I'd never had a problem,
I wouldn't know God could solve them,
I'd never know what faith in God could do." - - Andrae Crouch
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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