Comfort and Joy with God's Words -(Part 2)
When God Is Silent
TRUSTING GOD EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO ANSWER
Show your marvelous loving-kindness by Your right
hand, O You who save those who trust in You. - Psalm
Why is God sometimes silent in the midst of our
suffering? Why is it that even when we pray with the right motives and seek
that which seems good, there is no answer?
We can take comfort in knowing that no less than
Elijah and the apostle Paul - among the other great saints of the past - didn't
have all their prayers answered. Receiving a response from God has nothing to
do with your spiritual stature. God doesn't play favorite. Rather, He answers
prayers according to His master plan for our lives.
It is in the times God does not answer that we have
an opportunity to say, "Father, I don't understand, but I trust you."
It is this kind of dependence and faith that God desires to build in us.
When it seems as though God is not hearing us, our
perspective should not be, "What can I do to get my prayer answered?"
but rather, "What might God be doing through this to draw me closer to Him
and make me more useful to Him?"
My Own Personal Reflection:
You are the
strength that keeps me walking
You are the hope that keeps me trusting
You are the light to my soul
You are my purpose
You're everything
My friends,
don't get tired of waiting God's answer to our prayers. God has perfect time in
granting all our prayers. Be patient. He sees what's ahead of us and our
future. He knows what's good or what's bad on us.
So we just let Him control everything for our lives. We must give our 100% trust
on Him. He is our God anyway and our Master. He knows better than us
So keep waiting, don't stop waiting. Coz everything
has it's own time.
With our faith, we cannot be dismayed. He will
grant everything ,all our prayers in His glory!
Rose
CLINGING TO THE LORD ALONE
Everywhere
and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to
abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
me. - Philippians 4:12-13
"If
only my circumstances were different, I would be so much happier, " we
say.
We
wish for a better job, house, or car. We complain about our looks, our
limitations, our lot in life. Perhaps our marraige has encountered
difficulties, our children make parenting a challenge, or our health is
declining. Or perhaps our lives have been shattered in some truly unimaginable
way and, in bewilderment, we cry out, "God, why did You allow this to
happen to me?"
And
what if we can't change our circumstance? that often leaves us feeling helpless.
And hopeless. That's exactly where God wants us - at the point of total
dependence upon Him. Only He can give us what it takes to persevere when life
is terribly messed up.
Even
when Paul was hungry and suffering, he could still say, "I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me." Why? Because he had learned the
power of letting go of all circumstances and clinging to God alone.
My Own Personal Reflection:
This is
absolutely true my friends!
No difficult problems that Father God through His
Son Jesus Christ can not solve it. No sickness that He cannot heal. No bad
siituations that He cannot reverse it to good. All we need is our 100% trust on Jesus
alone. In times of sufferings, pains and miseries, don't be cold and be
dismayed. Cling on Jesus. Be blessed because in suffering Jesus is there for
you. Whispering to Him for help, He will be there to help and rescue you. All
you need is to be humble and be honest to yourself, that you cannot do it alone
of solving all your problems by yourself. We are only humans, no power to fight
these odd circumstances in our lives. Call on to Jesus Christ now! He alone can
help you and no other else will.
He is waiting for you now!
He is so excited listening to your stories. Update
Him in your daily activities everyday through your prayers.
God bless us all!
Rose
THE POWER OF HOPE
Happy is he whose hope is in the LORD his God. –
Psalm 146:5
If there is any one thing that can help sustain us
through life’s trials, it is hope. Biblical hope is not a mere optimism or
cheerfulness in spite of our circumstances. Rather, it is a deep-seated
confidence that God will orchestrate all things
in our lives so they work out for our ultimate good.
It is hope that helps take our eyes off the pain of
the moment and focus them instead on who God’s is and what He can do. It is hope
that enables us to look beyond our inability and trust His ability. It is hope
that reminds us our mortal bodies will one day become immortal.
Hope tells us there is coming a day when we will
know perfect and unending peace, joy, and happiness. When we allow hope to
reside in our hearts, it makes the cares of this world grow dimmer and the
treasures awaiting us in heaven grow brighter.
Hope is not just wishful thinking. God can do and
will do what He promises. The greater your confidence in that truth, the
greater the hope you will know.
My Own Personal Reflection:
My friends,
this is very true. In everything that we do and any circumstances that we are
dealing with, always have hope in your heart. We have to remember always that
we are not alone in this world. Sometimes we are alone but we are not lonely because God is always
with us to comfort us in times of sorrows,hardships and sufferings. Please
don't be cold in fighting life. Our life is a cycle. Sufferings and problems
are normal in our lifetime. Everyone is experiencing it, not even one is
exempted to it. What we only do is to be strong and always hope for the Lord
that whatever happens everything will be alright because God is always for the
rescue. Sometimes it will take time that God will answer our prayers, but be
patient to wait for His time. He knows what to do. And He has plan for
everything to happen in your life in His own time.
WE ALL HAVE HOPE TO GOD NOW! HE WILL FULFILL HIS
PROMISE IN HIS OWN TIME. AND THAT'S FOR SURE!
Rose
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DON'T GIVE UP!
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the
morning. - Psalm 30:5
Has your suffering reached the point where you have
thought about giving up on God? Or asking Him to leave you alone?
Consider your options. If you give up on God, where
are you going to go? Who can you turn to for help? Ultimately, there are only
two paths available. You can depend on either human resources or divine ones.
And any help you might receive from people will never come close to that which
God can do for you.
So giving up on God doesn't seem such an attractive
option, does it?
No matter how many things are going wrong in your
life, as a Christian, you will always have these things going right for you:
God loves you. Nothing can separate you from Him. He will never leave you. And
He has an inheritance waiting in heaven for you.
Don't wander from God. If you stay close to Him all
through the darkness, then you'll find yourself close to Him whem daybreak
finally comes.
My Own Personal Reflection:
Be patient to
wait in God's time of answering your prayer in asking for help. Don't stop
waiting. Don't give up on God, with all these hardships and sufferings your are
experiencing now, keep holding on Him. Please don't be cold, keep your faith burning everyday. You
are almost there! To the final stage of testing of your faith.
Every new believer must all passed this process.
Keep on loving God. Keep on hoping. And keep on believing on God's power and
love working on you. Rewards are great to those who persevere and endure of
God's testing.
God bless us all!
Rose
REPLACING FEAR WITH TRUST
Be
strong and of good courage, do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD
your God is with you wherever you go. - Joshua 1:9
Fear
- whether imagined or real - can cause you to fall into the sin of doubting
God. And when you doubt Him, you become worried and anxious. This, in turn,
will rob you of your joy and peace.
When
you are afraid of your circumstances, you can safely say you have not placed
your confidence in God. Fear and trust cannot coexist at the same time in your
heart. When confronted with fear, you need to make a deliberate choice and say
you will "be strong and of good courage", and "not be
afraid." Why? Because "God is with you wherever you go." With Him
at your side, victory is assured.
Don't
give fear a foothold in your heart. When you recognize it for what it is,
surrender it immediately. And turn your thoughts to what God is capable of
doing.
When
you replace your fear with trust, you'll know the wonderful inner peace that
comes from resting in God's care and strength.
My Own Personal Reflection:
Not having a full trust to the Lord. You cannot receive the full graces that intended for you in your entire stay here on earth.
Rose
GOD'S PROMISE TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM
We know that all things work together for good to
those who love God. - Romans 8:28
Romans 8:28 is perhaps one of the most frequently
quoted verses in the Bible...and one of the more misunderstood passages.
What it's not saying: It's not saying all things
are good. It's not saying that bad things will somehow become good. And it's
not saying our lives will be free of trouble, always filled with good.
What it is saying: God has the power to somehow, in
ways we don't understand, take the challenges, the difficulties, the pains of
life, and forge beautiful results from them. These results can include greater
patience, stronger faith, deeper trust, purer motives, truer humility, nobler
desires, and a more God-centered life.
Bad will still happen. But somewhere, somehow, good
will be drawn out of it. That's God's promise to those who love Him.
My Own Personal Reflection:
To those who love God more dearly, your life here on earth will always be light. If anything happened? At anytime? Jesus will always rescue and help. Try Jesus now friends! You will see for yourself what I am always talking here all about, about Jesus.
THE BENEFITS OF TRIALS
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial,
because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God
has promised to those who love Him. -James 1:12NIV
As children of God, we have two basic choices about
how we respond to our trials. We can complain about the difficulties they bring upon us, or we can thank our heavenly Father
for the ways in which they refine us.
How can our problems turn out to our lasting good?
One way is that they loosen our attachment to this world and turn our focus
upon the things in heaven. Another is that they cause us to examine our hearts
and make sure we haven't neglected some secret sin within. And then there's the
fact affliction helps strengthen our faith. The soldier who has gained
experience through increasingly intense battles is the one who becomes the most
proficient warrior. Likewise for the Christian - the more our faith has been
tried, the more mightily God can use us.
How much better it is to endure trials than to evade
them! Pray that God will sanctify your sorrows ...and use them for His divine
purposes.
My Own Personal Reflection:
I hope this
can help you all my friends.And this is the truth. Trials help to strengthen us
and make us become more closer to Jesus Christ. To experience trials, we can
take part in Jesus sufferings too and become more humble and willing to come to Him in asking for
help. Because with Him alone we can find our refuge and receive overflowing
graces in us if we follow His will everyday.
Rose
by: STEVE MILLER