Count it All Joy
April 1, 2016
Devotions:
Everyone who is alive faces problems and how we face them determines the out come. Whether they are relationship problems or financial or health or job. Many of these are stirred up by the enemy bus sometimes we stir them up bu our own actions. However they come, God is not the author and He is not here to judge but to show us how to be set free.
The first thing we need to be totally convinced of is God's love for us. In that love God wants to bless us. We must be convinced that God intimately cares for us.
“Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully. [Ps. 55:22.]”
1 Peter 5:7 AMP
God wants to be intimately involved in our lives so we are to be assured that He will hear and answer our prayers. This means that we are to have an on going fellowship with Him.
So when troubles come do we become hopeless, discouraged, depressed because we know our own natural strength and resources cannot need this crisis? If we know that God hears and answers our prayers. If we know that God tenderly and intimately cares for us then in the face of trouble we rejoice, not that trouble has come but that we have another opportunity to see God's word become a reality in our lives. We have another chance to see God glorified as He delivers us as we look to Him. We get to experience another aspect of our Father's love for us in saving, healing, delivering. We must train ourselves that at the first sight of trouble we start rejoicing because we are assured that our Father has already given us the victory in Christ Jesus. Then more you believe this them bigger a party you will through in the face of trouble. If you are the cause of the problems, God has already forgiven you and will deliver you as you look to Him. “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans 5:3-6 KJV “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 1:2-4 NASB
What do you do when trials and tribulations come?