BENEFITS HIDDEN IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES. PART TWO

Apr 21, 2020 | Devotional | 0 comments

Grace and peace to you. Here is the word for today.

📖James 1:2-3 “My brothers and sisters, when you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience. (New Century Version)📖

✅God uses problems to TEST us. People are like teabags if you want to know what’s inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God ever tested your faith with a problem? What do problems reveal about you?

✅In both the Old and New Testaments, the words translated “test” mean “to prove by trial.” Therefore, when God tests His children, His purpose is to prove that our faith is real. Not that God needs to prove it to Himself since He knows all things, but He is proving to us that our faith is real, that we are truly His children, and that no trial will overcome our faith. “God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.”Deut. 8:2 (NIV)
✅The testing or trials we undergo come in various ways. Becoming a Christian will often require us to move out of our comfort zones and into the unknown. Perseverance in testing results in spiritual maturity and completeness. Some examples of the positive results of being tested. The psalmist likens our testing to being refined like silver (Psalm 66:10). Peter speaks of our faith as “of greater worth than gold,” and that’s why we “suffer grief in all kinds of trials” (1 Peter 1:6–7). In testing our faith, God causes us to grow into strong disciples who truly live by faith and not by what we see (2 Corinthians 5:7).

✍May we stand firm when our faith is being tested, because testing is a blessing, when the testing is over and we have “stood the test,” we will “receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him. AMEN🙏🙏🙏

By Apostle Gift Sira.

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