The Presence Of God In A Time Of Trouble

When you are suffering and you are not tended to by a Good Samaritan… When you are suffering and you see no helpers coming to your aid… When you are suffering and you believe God is not ready or does not want to help you… Please read on. In suffering, we cannot see God, but in our suffering, God is like an internal Samaritan helping people of the world. God is deep within you. In our suffering, God is our ultimate helper. When no one else knows or cares, God knows or cares. Your suffering is internal. Your suffering is inside of you. However, in the same place, you find your suffering you also find God. God is internal. God is right there in the middle of your suffering. When you hurt the worst, when you doubt the most, when you have no one to turn to for help, God is at the very center of the burden you carry. Suffering not only cuts us off from God, but suffering also cuts us off from other people. Because suffering cuts us off from God and others, we must all reach out to each other in good times and bad. We must reach out to those people who are suffering. We must reach out because for many people we represent God, we represent Christ, and we are the Samaritans.

Thinking The Worst

You always have a choice about thinking the worst or thinking the best. As an example of thinking the worst, a woman once lived a life where bad times seemed to come to her as if she was a magnet for the worst in life. She continually thought about bad things happening. She continually thought about the worst that could happen and in many instances, the worst did happen. Her mind was working, but her mind was working in the wrong direction. Her mind continually contemplated awful things that could happen in the future. Her kind of thinking about the future in "awful" terms has been termed "awfulizing." This "awfulizing" kind of thinking can and does affect us in body, mind, and spirit. Every day of our life, we contribute to our success and well-being by how we think. In the same way, we can take away from our success or well-being by how we think. When we pray and meditate, as we become more aware of what we think and how we think, we can choose our mental responses. We can choose whether we think the worst or think the best. As we pray and meditate, we can become aware of what is going on within us. Then we can make a response to what is going on within us. In prayer and meditation, we must also become aware of what gives us hope because anything giving us hope gives us life.

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God is From A to Z

A--God is Awesome

B--God is Bigger than your problem

C--God is the one who Cares about you

D--God is the one who Delivers you

E--God is the one who Excites you spiritually

F--God is the one who Frees you

G--God is the one who Gives to you peace

H--God is your Healer

I---God is In Love with you

J--God Is Joy unspeakable

K--God is your Keeper and King

L--God Is Lord of Lords

M--God is the Master of your life

N--God is the one who Never leaves you

O--God is Open to your calling Him.

P--God is always Present

Q--God Is Quick to listen to your prayer

R--God is Righteousness

S--God is Steadfast

T--God is Trustworthy

U--God is Ultimately Wonderful

V--God is the one who provides Victory over sin

W--God is Willing for all to come to repentance

X---God is the one who X’s out sin

Y---God is Yearning to hear from you

Z---God is Zealous for you

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Sending Out God's Healing Force

Matthew 22:37---Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself."

"But what about me? What about my need for healing? Never mind what others want, I need my healing now!"

Although we would never say we want healing before anyone else gets their healing, some persons have that kind of attitude. If you stood before God, totally immersed in His immense love, and He gave you the choice of receiving healing for yourself or sending out healing to others, what would you choose?

Your spiritual life is determined by what you are willing to give rather than what you want to get. Always choose to heal others before you get your own healing. Be willing to step aside and let others go before you. All of us will receive our healing. All of us will receive the greatest healing we could ever imagine when we see Christ. Whenever we need healing, let all of us remember Christ's call to put others before ourselves by sending out God's healing force of love.

What The Bible Says About Hell

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Cancerous Thinking

In our world, at the behest of Satan, a great deal of cancerous thinking is prevalent. This thinking does not tell you to ignore others. This cancerous thinking just does not tell you to put others first. This cancerous thinking does not tell you to ignore God's requirements of sacrifice and perseverance (that God demands of His servants), the cancerous thinking just does not tell you how you have to sweat and sacrifice as a servant. This cancerous thinking does not tell you to ignore others; this cancerous thinking just does not tell you to put the life and the struggles of others before your own. This cancerous thinking does not tell you to meditate and pray about the investment and sacrifice of Christ, it just does not remind you to put these things first in your heart. This cancerous thinking does not tell you to ignore others around you. Instead, you are encouraged to focus only on yourself. Slowly, over time, ignoring the hard work and hard walk of the faith leads to the death of the soul.

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The Invincible You

1 John 5: 3-5---For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

We are not invincible. All of us will die. All of us are capable of getting sick. All of us, unless our life is shortened, will get old and feeble. From all human and outward appearances, we are extremely vulnerable. However, in the world and to the world, outward appearances can be deceiving. If we could see your inner world, your soul, or your spirit, we would see you have the capability and the potential to be spiritually invincible. Christ came to give you hope. Your hope cannot be defeated without your consent. If you fully accept Christ as your Savior, your hope in Christ rests in the knowledge you will not only never die, but you will live forever. When your spirit is resting in Christ, you are always capable of good spiritual health. In your spirit, you will never get old. In your spirit, you will be forever young. Although your outward bodily appearance may seem as if you are getting wrinkled and gray, inside your heart, mind, and soul, you need not age. In your spirit, you are invincible if you want to be. In your spirit, you can remain healthy and vibrant. In your spirit, you can maintain an inspired upstanding spiritual posture. In your spirit, you can vigorously run toward Christ's goal of eternal life. No matter what happens on the outside of your life, on the inside of your life, you can be invincible as a true child of God.

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No Reasons and No Excuses

1 Peter 5:8---Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

We all have reasons and excuses why we are not what God wants us to be. However, we must never let any reason or any excuse keep us from being honest…especially honest with ourselves. We all have circumstances that make us think about ourselves. However, no reason or excuse should ever keep us from being caring toward each other. We all have conditions in our life causing others to misunderstand us. However, we have no reason and no excuse for not exerting our hearts and minds to understand who they are and where they are. We all have situations in our life that make us want to give up and give in. However, none of us have any reason or any excuse to give up being the kind of steadfast person God wants us to be. We have no reason and no excuse not to pray for others more than we ever pray for ourselves. We all have experiences in life where people have hurt us and disappointed us. However, we must all be fully committed to being a person who forgives. We must need no reason to forgive, except we are willing to be forgiving in Christ’s name and love. We all have daily challenges pushing us to lose control of our heart, mind, soul, and behavior. However, as children of God, we have no reason and no excuse why we should ever surrender our self-control. We all have memories about times when we have not been loved like we needed or always wanted. However, we must still be persons of love with no excuses for being otherwise.

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Hope Sustained By Giving Thanks And Counting Blessings

Under normal circumstances, we walk through life and take most things for granted. Darkness falls and hope is often lost when the things we take for granted are taken away. Persons of hope not only have the ability to see past the present darkness and look forward with expectation, but persons of hope are also able to look past their present darkness as they count their blessings. Persons of hope deal with adversity by piecing together the shattered nature of their life as they count their blessings. Persons of hope have or call upon the Light of Christ, and the Light shines within them. The Light illuminates the parts of their life and consequently, persons of hope have profound gratitude. Instead of letting the darkness prevail when darkness falls, persons of hope find a flower growing amidst the manure. Persons of hope may not see a shiny silver dollar in a mud hole but they still find it, wash it off, and count it as one of their blessings. Persons of hope focus on what they can do when darkness falls instead of what they cannot do. The focus of our heart determines how alive hope remains in us. When we experience real gratitude within us for the blessings of our life, even if those blessings are small, then hope has a chance to flourish. When we direct our heart, mind, and spirit outward instead of inward, we are more likely to be thankful persons. Losing hope is easy when we lose sight because our spiritual vision does not work in the darkness. However, when we call upon the Light of Christ to shine within us we are able to see small things mean a lot.