'Difficult Circumstances
Leads to Greater Blessings '
Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your hea venly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?27Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?28 So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?31 Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Leads to Greater Blessings '
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Stepping Stones
With God in our Heart in the Salvation of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as our daily guide in all we think, say, and do, must look at difficult circumstances as not only a stepping stone, but even failure as a stepping stone to GREATER blessings and success!
Our failures are only failures if we do not seek God to help us up and lift our spiritis to move on! When we do not ask for God's help, we are pushing Him away and that allows our failures to build a wall between us and God. Therefore, in our greater failure to ask for God's help in our difficult circumstances, we often just quit trying, and this leads us to be in a sinful state with God.
We have to understand this great lesson many people do not realize. We are born into sin through our God given, inborn 'will to survive'. In our will to survive, especially as adults, we often become selfish and that selfishness becomes the center of many of our problems. In our selfishness we have nothing of importance to live for and we show contempt for God. In our selfishness we sin.
Allow God to give you the vision of your stepping stones to success from your failures. Then too, remember where your Vision comes from, especially in your lowest of times.
Having Something to Die For
gives You something to Truly Live For
When we come to have something much greater then ourselves to truly live and die for, that becomes the beginning of a greater life and much of our selfishness withers. In Vietnam I came to realize I could die not only for my country but also for my comrade next to me. I am not free of selfishness but life is much better not living in constant selfishness and self-focus. My Living experience is this- living life with something in our hearts to die for just makes living life so much more precious and worth living. I depend on God's guidance through the Holy Spirit to guide me in His will.
gives You something to Truly Live For
When we come to have something much greater then ourselves to truly live and die for, that becomes the beginning of a greater life and much of our selfishness withers. In Vietnam I came to realize I could die not only for my country but also for my comrade next to me. I am not free of selfishness but life is much better not living in constant selfishness and self-focus. My Living experience is this- living life with something in our hearts to die for just makes living life so much more precious and worth living. I depend on God's guidance through the Holy Spirit to guide me in His will.
When I taught middle school, I had lived
over 50 years. I told my students I
would take a terrorist bullet in a heart beat for my students in my classroom,
just as I would for a comrade in Vietnam. I had lived a long time, had
many great experiences and me dying that my students could live would be a
small sacrifice for I know the life I have ahead of me when I die.
Similarly, I would clearly die before I would deny my Christ. It is when we can honestly say we would give up our life for someone else and especially for Christ, that is when see can say we have truly begun to live in Great Abundance of the Blessings of God.
Similarly, I would clearly die before I would deny my Christ. It is when we can honestly say we would give up our life for someone else and especially for Christ, that is when see can say we have truly begun to live in Great Abundance of the Blessings of God.
I felt a chill when I first saw the words 'Difficult circumstances lead to greater blessings'. Difficult circumstances are not something to necessarily avoid but to feverently embrace when they are unavoidable! It is just a great thought so full of the Truth, and quite often, people do not understand. Just think about some of your friends that maybe you hardly see them now because they are sitting on their seat thinking they are a failure. I am old enough to see many of my friends from high school who are in the pits of life because they failed at something and quit trying. I know of a man, the top guy in his high school class, had a full scholarship to a major university, and graduated in Architecture Design. He entered the real world and did good, but was no longer the best of everyone around him. He found drugs, fried his brain, and killed himself. He did not know Jesus and had nothing to live for.
Love Jesus and Live for God's will in your life seeking daily the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In this you will have something much greater than yourself to live for..... and die for.
Turning Our Lowest Times are our Greatest Times
Embrace Difficult Circumstances giving up to God your worry, especially in your lowest of times, and see the greatest Glory of God in your life in seeing the blessings He puts on your life.
Often when we are at the lowest of our low times, we seem to have heightened awareness in our listening skills. In reaching out to God in those hard times, clearing, emptying, and purging our hearts of our wants and desires, we often hear and feel most accurately the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives seeking to lead us to God's will.
Trust God always, especially in the good times experiencing His Glory in your life and then, trusting in your hard times will bring your greatest blessings of God's Glory in your life, the greatest blessing of all. This, my friend, is is the greatest of my life's experience. The Glory, our greatest blessing of Glory, often begins with the ending of a prayer- "Not my will, but thine be done". Just like Jesus did in His lowest of times.
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The Greatest Blessing and the Glory of God in my life.
Matthew 26:39 NKJV
He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying,
"O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me;
nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."Matthew 26:42 NKJV
Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying,
"O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it,
Your will be done."
Thanks Be to God
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THE GREATEST BLESSING WE CAN HAVE IS TO GIVE UP to God what we cannot control in our most difficult lowly times. It is then we can see our life Glorified by God by what He will do for us. Click the link for some thoughts on failure, dying, and surviving our difficult circumstances.
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