Sunday, February 9, 2020

Inviting God Into Your Difficulties

We get focused on God bringing us out instead of how God will change us in the midst of the difficulties.

You don't have to fight everything and live upset.

Help me to go AND grow through it. God works in the circumstances.

God may be setting you up to show out in your life.

When you pass through the waters, I will  be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.
Isaiah 43:2 NKJV

Are you fighting the process?

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 23:4 NKJV

You can have hope when you should be distraught.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is  the  case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up." Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
Daniel 3:16‭-‬19 NKJV

God knows how to make you fireproof.

Recognize that God allows difficulties to show His glory.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king." "Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
Daniel 3:24‭-‬25 NKJV

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
Psalms 46:1 NKJV

And He said, "My Presence will go with  you, and I will give you rest."
Exodus 33:14 NKJV

And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.
Daniel 3:27 NKJV

When you come out everything that was holding you back will be destroyed.

Joseph 

The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Genesis 39:2 NKJV

And his master saw that the Lord  was with him and that the Lord  made all he did to prosper in his hand.
Genesis 39:3 NKJV

Can people see that the Lord is with you?

Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison. But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Genesis 39:20‭-‬21 NKJV

When life tries to way you down the Lord will lift you up. 

Don't panic, God is in your boat.

On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side."  Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, "Why are you so fearful? How  is it that you have no faith?"  And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"
Mark 4:35‭-‬41 NKJV

Even though Jesus was with them they were nervous.



Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live.
⚡🌸πŸ’ͺ

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