------------------------------The Daily Word of Hope Devotional Bible Fact: Michael is the only archangel named in the Bible. Jude 9 .............................................† The Pressure Cooker † ✞We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.✞ 2 Corinthians 1:8–10 NIV When we have something tough that we are trying to cook, we toss it in a pressure cooker that we have and soon it will be so tender that it just falls apart. The pressure cooker is an amazing device for speeding up long cooking tasks. Something that would take three hours to cook thoroughly, the pressure cooker can do in about thirty minutes. When the Lord decided to put me in the ministry, He brought the pressure of closing our business. When I tried to keep it open, He turned up the pressure until I literally had no choice but to do what He wanted. He could have just asked me, but instead He went the silent route of drying up our business, bringing great financial pressure on us, and then at the last minute as we prepared to move out of our home, He opened a door in ministry. We spent quality time in God’s pressure cooker. It got us where He wanted us to be, and it also changed us in the process. Who you are when under pressure, is who you really are. God already knows. He wants you to know, and He allows pressure to steer us in the right direction. He knows just how much we need, for how long, and something that could take years, may only take weeks. Don’t panic and give up when you are under pressure. You will come out of it better when you are done.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:10:25 +0000
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