December 14, 2022
Your Need for Greater Faith
(Continued from yesterday ‘Come Away My Beloved’ by Frances Roberts)
When troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. (James 1:2-4 NLT)
My beloved child do not expect the trials to be lighter than in the past. Why should you think the tests would be less severe? I test all things, and there are areas of your life that as, yet I have not touched. Do not look for a break or a breather. The days ahead call for greater endurance and more robust faith than you ever needed before. Welcome this, for you must know how precious the lessons are learned through experiences. Even if you are unable to fully anticipate them with joy, you can certainly gain an appropriate appreciation of them in retrospect. Apply your heart to wisdom. Any other good that comes out of a pressure period is an added lesson in excess.
Seek Me above all else. Seek first the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and I will give you everything you need. (Matthew 6:33) Stay in faith, listen to your favorite praise and worship music, and listen to the Bible on Bible.is while you get ready in the mornings, study the Word, take communion and examine your heart asking the Holy Spirit to reveal anything that may be in your heart that you need to repent of, be intentional about counting it all joy, and journal – write down what you are hearing the Holy Spirit say. It’s challenging to count it all joy when you are suffering through painful affliction, but you can do it! Think about the great blessing on the other side of this trial!
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. (Romans 5:3-5 NLT)
Come away with Me by yourself to a quiet place and rest. (Mark 6:31 NIV)
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
(Mark 6:31 NLT)
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison. So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:17-18)
Paul said I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18)
