How do you encourage yourself in times of trials, problems, and persecution? Would rely on your physical, emotional, or mental strength to get through? Would you ask people around you? What is your first step of finding solution? Watch this video and gain insight from a Biblical perspective on how to get through in times of trials and testings.
Bible References: 1 Samuel 30: 1- 6:
“And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
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“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” – Colossians 3:2
Eric Ludy raised a huge challenge on this video “Asking The Tough Questions.” These questions are very relevant to every believer of Jesus Christ as we continue to serve Him in the ministry. Watch full video below. The transcript is also available below.
What are you attracted to? What is it that moves you in this life? There’s something that gets you up off the couch. What is it? Gold or God? You choose. “For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” Which what is the greater appeal to your soul which one’s driving you?
Which one gets you up in the morning? Which one lifts you off the couch? Which one will cause you to risk life and limb? Gold? or God?
Do you really trust him? Do you believe that His word is in fact the Word of God and holy backed by the integrity almighty? He promises to those who believe and he cannot lie so.
Are you willing to lay it on the line in this generation to prove your God faithful? Or are you one of the humbugs? I pray thee, have me excused. You’re busy.! And so though we have a dying world out there and some of them right down the street, I pray thee, have me excused. I’m not one that can really accomplish that. CT stud was 52 years old on death’s doorstep! “God, don’t pass me over.” He said there’s a discrepancy between us and CG stud. We need what he had! Do we have a CT stud in our midst? that’s willing to say, “I don’t care what it comes with they’re lost. There are those needful of Jesus Christ. God send me.” would you rather that someone else go instead. Oh God thanks for bringing that up yeah I think in this situation it probably would be good that someone else went instead of me. I mean I think could you give me a few other options? because that option really just doesn’t resonate with me. You definitely like a longer list and I can just sort of pick which job description I would like. You can let someone else get the job description the god designs specifically for you?
Do you have limit to your obedience? It’s like, I will follow God to this point. But anything beyond this point is extreme. Who came up with that? Doesn’t God own you? Don’t you realize that he purchased your body? You belong to Jesus Christ. You submitted your life to him he can do with you what he wishes. So who are you to give your life to Jesus Christ and then define the terms of how he will use your life?
Do you have a limit to your obedience? Because if you have a limit to your obedience, something’s wrong with your Christianity. Am I willing to serve forgotten and without applause? We really like to be known, and we really like the applause. Let’s just admit it, and then let’s answer the question.
Are we willing to forego that? Am I willing to forego the comforts of life? If any of you are Americans in here you know the value we put on the comforts of life. God wouldn’t actually asked me to forego those, would he? That’s not right! Are you willing is the question? doesn’t mean he will ask you to just be miserable questions are you willing to go where there aren’t comforts you know there’s other places in this world you haven’t traveled much you’ll find it out that aren’t like America.
You know East Timore, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, you know some rough places out. there the period is amid have electricity paved roads maybe of Jesus Christ. Are you willing to give up the comforts of life for your king? By the way life on Earth is very short.
Are you willing to give up a short season of your existence to serve your king well no matter what the cost? Am I willing to go anywhere no matter the danger or darkness? anywhere! anywhere is the question. Not just to the easy spots. Anywhere! For King and Kingdom because if you say no who do you expect in this generation to say yes?
Am I willing to let go my reputation? You know when you serve Jesus Christ, you become the misunderstood. It doesn’t happen always immediately but on and sometimes it does. where people start looking at you like what in the world’s wrong with you? Tt’s our passing little rumors about you too I’ll start the little tales can begin to float through the air or over the Internet. You stand for something and you’re immediately misunderstood despised. Sometimes hated would be a good word to describe it Jesus was described as a worm and no man in Psalm 22
Are you willing to be a worm and no man in this generation? Am I willing to die young for the sake of Christ Am I willing to live lonely among the heathen? Am I willing to suffer in my body? Am I willing to be a etcetera and insignificant and nobody for the glory of Jesus Christ? Do you require notoriety? Are you willing to serve unnoticed? Well I go to interior Africans. they don’t really have News cameras that can capture all my good deeds down there! I need to be noticed Doesn’t God want us to be famous? So that he can make a name for himself? If I increase, maybe he can increase that way. Well actually the pattern for him increases as you decrease see that’s the great secret for increase the Kingdom of Heaven. We get out of the way.
Are you willing to be one of Christ’s etceteras? Or must you be one of Christ’s somebodies? Is this for your reputation or for His? I want you to realize what we’re defining here isn’t extreme Christianity. It’s Christianity It’s the way it’s always been. Gold or God? are gone which one lifts you off the couch? Which one will cause you to risk life and limb? gold or God? Which one would you gamble to get more off? Because men and women all throughout history of Gamble’s get gold but which of us is willing to gamble our lives and put it all on the line to get more God? More God.. God or God? You choose…
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The trouble in his home sent this man to Christ. Perhaps he never would have gone at all had it not been for his son’s sickness. Many of those who went to Christ in the olden days were driven by their distress of heart. They tried everything else first, and then at the last moment they hurried to Jesus. The same is true in these days. Many persons who have never prayed before have gotten down upon their knees by the bedside of their sick and dying children and cried to God on their behalf. Many persons have first been sent to God by their own troubles. It was not until the prodigal was in sore want, and every other resource had been exhausted, that he said he would arise and go to his father. Many sinners never think of Christ until they are in despair under the sense of guilt. Not until they see the storm of wrath gathering do they seek the shelter of the cross. But what a comfort it is that even going so late to the Savior he docs not reject or cast away those who come!
We ought to remember always that when any trouble comes to us, whatever other purpose it may have it is certainly intended to send us anew to Christ. Perhaps we have drifted away from him, or grown careless, or lost our first love. The trouble that touches us is the merciful hand of God laid on us to lead us back to our place of safety and blessedness at his side. A man was traveling and was hungry, but did not know where to go to find food. There came up a sudden and violent storm, compelling him to seek shelter. Fleeing under a tree for refuge, he found not shelter only, but food, for the storm brought down fruits from the tree’s branches for his hunger. Those whom trouble drives to Christ also find both shelter from the storm and food to meet their cravings.
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We see the present clearly But He sees the first and the last And like a tapestry He’s weaving you and me, To someday be just like Him
All things work for our good Though sometimes we don’t see How they could Struggles that break our hearts in two Sometimes blind us to the truth
Our Father knows what’s best for us His ways are not our own So when your pathway grows dim And you just don’t see Him, Remember you’re never alone
God is too wise to be mistaken God is too good to be unkind So when you don’t understand When don’t see His plan When you can’t trace His hand Trust His Heart Trust His Heart
He sees the master plan And he holds our future in His hand, So don’t live as those who have no hope, All our hope is found in Him
We see the present clearly But He sees the first and the last And like a tapestry He’s weaving you and me, To someday be just like Him
God is too wise to be mistaken God is too good to be unkind So when you don’t understand
When don’t see His plan When you can’t trace His hand Trust His Heart
He alone is faithful and true
He alone knows what is best for you
God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don’t understand
When don’t see His plan
When you can’t trace His hand
Trust His Heart
When you don’t understand When you don’t see His plan When you can’t trace His hand Trust His Heart Trust His Heart
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” – Luke 23:34
“This was the first word spoken by our Lord on his cross. It was uttered just when the soldiers were in the act of crucifying him — driving the terrible nails through his hands and feet. It was a moment of excruciating, inconceivable anguish. Yet he uttered no cry of pain, no word of execration upon those who were causing him such suffering, but calmly prayed for his brutal, pitiless murderers — “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
The moment the sacred blood began to flow the intercession for sinners began. The pleading was first for the ignorant heathen soldiers who were acting as executioners; but it was not for these alone. It certainly widened out, and took in all who had been concerned in the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus. It was for the Jewish rulers and people who had rejected their Messiah. May we not believe that many of those who on the day of Pentecost and afterward were brought to repentance were forgiven and saved because on his cross Jesus made intercession for them? Then the prayer went out beyond the people who had a direct part in the crucifixion. From his cross Jesus saw the lost world down to the end, and prayed for all men. We know, too, that that word of prayer was but the beginning of an intercession that is going on yet inside heaven, where Jesus pleads the merits of his own sacrifice for the salvation of sinners.
This word of Jesus teaches us a great lesson on Christian forgiveness. He prayed for his murderers. We should pray for those who injure us. There are some fragrant trees which bathe in perfume the axe that gashes them. So should it be with Christ’s people. Instead of resentment and injury for injury, we should show only sweet, tender love to those who harm us.”
