Difficulties in your life have tremendous power to change you – for better or for worse. You get stronger or weaker – more positive or more negative - You become more hopeful or more cynical – depending on your response to your Difficulties.
What are you supposed to do while going through the change process? The Bible gives you help."Wait for the Lord. Be strong. Let your heart be strong. Yes, wait for the Lord." Psalm 27:14. The biggest problem when you have problems is waiting! You don’t want to wait! You want to wrestle. You’re like Jacob in the Old Testament. You want to wrestle with God and you want to wrestle with your problems.
But that’s not what God wants! God wants you to approach your problems with faith in Him. He wants you to exercise confidence in His timing. God doesn’t always take away your problems because His goal isn’t for you to live a problem-free life. His design is for you to become more like His Son Jesus.
How do you get to the place of “waiting on the Lord?” How are you supposed to act while you’re waiting? What can you do to facilitate the changes in you that God is using your suffering to accomplish?
Your to yield your will to do things God’s way. "Abraham was willing to wait and God gave to him what He had promised." Hebrews 6:15 God promised Abraham that he would bless him and the future generations that followed him.
(Don’t stop yielding to God just because you’ve made some mistakes along the way! Allow your confidence in God to grow through your ups and downs.) Abraham learned that it was expressing confidence in God, not in his own ability that brought about God’s blessings.
Your faith may waver sometimes. You may have some faith hiccups. But yield to His will? Say, “God, here’s my pain, here’s my problems. I’m WILLING to do what you want me to do in this difficulty. I’m not going to mess up again by trying to solve things my way.”
Rest while you’re waiting."Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not because of those who prospers in their ways, because man brings wicked devices to pass." Psalm 37:7
What are you supposed to do while going through the change process? The Bible gives you help."Wait for the Lord. Be strong. Let your heart be strong. Yes, wait for the Lord." Psalm 27:14. The biggest problem when you have problems is waiting! You don’t want to wait! You want to wrestle. You’re like Jacob in the Old Testament. You want to wrestle with God and you want to wrestle with your problems.
But that’s not what God wants! God wants you to approach your problems with faith in Him. He wants you to exercise confidence in His timing. God doesn’t always take away your problems because His goal isn’t for you to live a problem-free life. His design is for you to become more like His Son Jesus.
How do you get to the place of “waiting on the Lord?” How are you supposed to act while you’re waiting? What can you do to facilitate the changes in you that God is using your suffering to accomplish?
Your to yield your will to do things God’s way. "Abraham was willing to wait and God gave to him what He had promised." Hebrews 6:15 God promised Abraham that he would bless him and the future generations that followed him.
(Don’t stop yielding to God just because you’ve made some mistakes along the way! Allow your confidence in God to grow through your ups and downs.) Abraham learned that it was expressing confidence in God, not in his own ability that brought about God’s blessings.
Your faith may waver sometimes. You may have some faith hiccups. But yield to His will? Say, “God, here’s my pain, here’s my problems. I’m WILLING to do what you want me to do in this difficulty. I’m not going to mess up again by trying to solve things my way.”
Rest while you’re waiting."Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not because of those who prospers in their ways, because man brings wicked devices to pass." Psalm 37:7
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