YOUR SITUATION IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY 1 Peter 1:6-7, “In this YOU greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, YOU have been grieved by various trials, THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH, BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD THAT PERISHES, THOUGH IT IS TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE FOUND TO PRAISE, HONOUR, AND GLORY AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.” FAITH tells me JESUS CAME. HOPE tells me JESUS IS COMING BACK but LOVE tells me JESUS IS HERE. If Jesus is HERE, with YOU in YOUR situation, HE WILL STRENGTHEN YOU TO ENDURE IT. Grace in the soul IS A NEW LIFE IN THE SOUL. Have YOUR situation ever pressed YOU DOWN TO DOUBT GOD’S LOVE? Is any weakness holding YOU DOWN? Your weakness could be POVERTY, SICKNESS, DEPRESSION, BARRENNESS, ISOLATION, HATRED, VICES, BAD HABITS AND SO ON. What WE see as A DISADVANTAGE can be turned INTO AN ADVANTAGE FOR GOD’S GLORY. This was true of Apostle Paul. A thorn in the Apostle’s FLESH BECAME AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD’S STRENGTH TO BE SEEN IN HIS WEAKNESS BECAUSE HE WAS WALKING WITH THE LORD. There is no state of being THAT IS AS REWARDING AS LIVING IN TUNE WITH GOD. The key is not to suppress the flesh BUT TO SURRENDER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. One is rewarded WHEN ONE PRAYS IN FAITH; one is rewarded WHEN ONE PRAYS IN THE SPIRIT. Anything that YOU do that is not in spirit IS SUPERFICIAL. When YOU pray in the spirit, THE SUPERFICIAL WASTE PASSES AWAY AND YOU WILL NOT SWEAT BEFORE RECEIVING GOD’S ANSWER. To see YOUR situation as an opportunity, TAKE IT BACK FROM THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL. Stop magnifying YOUR adversity ABOVE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER by seeing YOUR circumstances AS A BLESSING AND A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HONOUR GOD BEFORE MEN. It honours God to believe Him even when every sense CONTRADICTS HIM; God honours those WHO HONOUR HIM.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:10:12 +0000
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