Let's be honest-- there are some days when life seems impossible and we don't know how we will make it through another day. All I want to say to you is to keep moving forward. Don't think that God isn't aware of your struggles because He knows them well and He is still Lord over everything that is going on.
God isn't making you struggle, but He uses those struggles in life to draw us closer to Him. Remember that Jesus lived out 33 years on earth. He knows what it's like here. He was tempted and struggled with all the same things we do. He has first hand experience of life in a world under the dominion of the enemy.
Don't think that Jesus has forgotten you or where you are at. He sees you and He also sees the way out. Don't let go of His hand, but allow Him to lead you through the storm and when you are feeling discouraged know that He has overcome the world, and so shall we. Only through Him is there hope for the hopeless.
John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (NIV)
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (ESV)
Romans 5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance (ESV)
Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
God isn't making you struggle, but He uses those struggles in life to draw us closer to Him. Remember that Jesus lived out 33 years on earth. He knows what it's like here. He was tempted and struggled with all the same things we do. He has first hand experience of life in a world under the dominion of the enemy.
Don't think that Jesus has forgotten you or where you are at. He sees you and He also sees the way out. Don't let go of His hand, but allow Him to lead you through the storm and when you are feeling discouraged know that He has overcome the world, and so shall we. Only through Him is there hope for the hopeless.
John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (NIV)
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (ESV)
Romans 5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance (ESV)
Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. (ESV)
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (ESV)
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