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Trust in God When Going Through Tests and Trials

Why do we lack faith and Trust in God? For those that do believe that there is a God, why do we say that we have faith in God as well as believe in Him, but turn around and the next crisis that comes along we begin to get stressed out, worry or fear the outcome of it? This is like taking your car to a repair shop that you don’t trust.

God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are there to help us get through our daily lives, grow spiritually, teach us how to overcome our hardships and go through tests and trials so that we can grow and learn from them to build up our faith and strength. It’s hard for the way we think not to imagine all kinds of bad things that can happen, but by doing this are we actually creating the hardship to grow stronger and seem worse than it already is?

Saying that we Trust in God is not enough, we have to prove that we do by showing Him that we have faith in Him. Think about it, if someone said to you that they trust you or that they have faith in you but never gave you the opportunity to prove it, how would you feel? What would you think?

It takes a lot of patience to wait for something, especially the outcome of a hardship, test or trial. This is why we need to practice our faith and trust in God by handing everything over to Him and taking on everything that is handed to us. God will never give us more than we can handle or not give us a way out. This is why we must put our trust in God.

God is not something that you put on a shelf and use whenever you feel like it or only when trouble comes your way. He requires us to do what we can for Him and our fellowman and in return He gives us everlasting eternal life, peace, joy, happiness and freedom from the slavery of the world.

Show God that you love Him by proving your faith and trust in Him. Let go and let God guide you in your life for a more rewarding and fulfilled life for now and ever more. May God Bless You and be with you forever and ever.

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Enduring Hardships is Easier When You Have Faith

Do you truly Trust God? How strong is your faith? Is your faith strong enough to endure whatever hardships that may come your way?

Life is full of surprises and unfortunately some of those surprises can totally overwhelm us. So we have a choice to make when the surprises come and they are in the form of hardships. We can go the negative route and wallow in self-pity, become depressed, get angry, get stressed out, worry about or fear the outcome.

Sometimes we develop what the outcome is already going to be and the outcome(s) that we fabricate in our minds are usually on the negative side and enduring hardships can seem impossible.

Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we always look at something and predict the dark side? Why can’t we look further and see a positive outcome? Maybe it’s because we’ve grown accustomed to always seeing the negative side of things because we haven’t either put our trust in God or we just don’t ask God to help us see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Our minds can deceive us and why is that? For one, Satan is the ruler of the air and he can influence us into thinking in a negative way. For another, our carnal self is corrupt and this is why we need Jesus to help us overcome ourselves and take control of the way we think, act, live and experience emotions.

Our carnal self dominates our soul and our intellect. If we choose to follow Jesus, He will show us the way and teach us that enduring hardships will help us to overcome. He will also help us to strip the things away that can cause self-destruction (lack of spirituality or eternal damnation), this is where faith and trust come in.

As we shed the things off that keep us disconnected from God, we start to build up our strength and faith spiritually. The carnal self starts to lose control and the soul and intellect start to dominate the flesh. Our thought process changes, our life becomes more manageable and we grow spiritually. For a much happier life, one that is stress free and manageable, seek Jesus Christ and ask Him to show you the way. May God Bless You and be with you always.

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Trusting God Can Be Difficult At Times

If we are going to trust in God, we are going to need faith. First, we have to believe that there is a God. Some have been taught about God when they were young. As they grow up they know in their hearts that there is a God, creator of all.

Others were drawn to God either by miracles or something that happened in their life, whether it be some type of trauma or an amazing event. There is a feeling inside us that knows there is more to life than living and dying.

When we do realize that there is a God, we begin to learn all we can about Him. One source that has a lot of information about God is the Bible. You can find things in the Bible like an account of when God created the earth and all that is on it. The Bible also talks about what God wants us to do to obey Him so that He can bless us with the things we need. He gave us many promises including eternal life.

All we have to do is follow His teachings, believe in God through faith and not rebel against Him. Sounds pretty easy doesn’t it? By all means it can be a tough life following God. God never promised us that life was going to be walk in the park. The ones that have turned their backs on the world and gave up their bondage to it, will be the ones that go through many tests and trials.

Tests and trials are made up of many different scenarios. Each one that you go through will require strength, faith, hope, love and other virtues to make it through them. These are like tools that we acquire as grow spiritually. These tests and trials are learning periods that we go through to overcome our flesh, evil and the world. They build up our faith and we get to know God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit as we walk away from our old life and strive for that new creation so that we will be in union with God once again.

For many, they go through these periods and they don’t even recognize what is happening or should I say the main reason behind them. Let me explain, when we are faced with a hardship, what do we usually see? We see the negative side to this hardship and we are suddenly experiencing the stress or anxiety of this hardship. Why do we bring this extra burden upon ourselves? It’s because we lack Faith.

When we first enter into a test or trial, we need to look for a positive outcome and also try to learn what we can from it as we travel through it. All too often we don’t do this, we begin to worry or bring fear upon us. This is not what makes us stronger, this stops us in our tracks from growing spiritually. This is a lack of faith and it tells God that we do not trust Him or that we doubt that He will guide us through it.

Nothing kills faith faster than worries, fears and doubts. This is the sole reason that people never get to experience or truly understand the truth behind many of the scriptures that are written in the Bible. They never progress because they won’t let go of their fear. They always picture a different outcome than the one that God has waiting for them.

How are you going to understand faith if you have no works? How are you going to explain the existence of God if you have no proof? You can’t prove what is written in the Bible unless you experience it and it takes faith to make it come true.

There is no time period set for these tests and trials, some may last 5 minutes, while others can last more than a year. That’s why it is important to be on constant guard. Always pay attention to what’s going on and don’t be to hasty to jump right into a situation.

Some of this may be obscure to you, but it won’t be once you understand about faith. Show that you love Him by putting your trust in God. Show Him that you can handle these tests and trials in a humble way. Don’t let your pride get the best of you. Pride is the downfall and destruction of man.

Look forward to tests and trials and welcome them. They can be so dynamic that there are no words to describe them when you walk through them without worries, fears and doubts. You become so accustomed to them and your faith is so strong that these three words no longer exist in your life.

Jesus said, ‘Pick up your cross and follow me.’ Surely, you cannot follow Him if you don’t trust Him. You will only be either going off to the left or to the right. You will constantly be getting lost within yourself. Man can’t lead you back to God, but Jesus can, if you let Him and believe in Him. Always remember to trust God.

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Please Give Me Hope O’ God

The Bible is full of times when people or a community of people had hope when they were met with despair, hope for a better day, a day when things were not so bad. They had the same hope when they were waiting for the coming of a Messiah. The Messiah finally came and His name was Jesus Christ. Those that realized He was the true Messiah, turned their hope into joy. A Savior has arrived who is going to save them from their iniquities and bring them a New Covenant with God that promises everlasting eternal life.

Some use hope in the wrong way. They use it to dream about things that will please themselves. This is a false hope, one that is geared towards selfishness. Hope leads to faith and faith leads to works that prove God’s promises. God did give us promises with stipulations attached to them. We need to practice faith in order to get to know God, Jesus Christ and receive The Holy Spirit.

Many people for years have been hoping for the day that Jesus Christ returns. They know that when He does return, a new world will follow that is filled with peace, love and all the good fruits that the Spirit brings (Galatians 5: 22). Heaven and earth will be filled with so much joy, a joy that can’t even be comprehended. No more evil, hate and corruption, only love for one another.

We all go through bad times, it could be from an illness, a bad traffic accident, a job loss, losing your house to a disaster, or whatever it is that brings us hardships. Some people get lost in the darkness of self-pity, while others have hope for a better outcome. These ones are strong and know that God will see them through their difficult times. Why? Because they have Faith. They pray, “O’ God, give me hope”. If hope is targeted in the right way, it will build the foundation for faith and faith will bring results. Faith builds strength for those who who work it the right way.

It’s so much easier to complain and wallow in self-pity because there is no work involved in going this route. It’s like time after time you buy a lottery ticket and sit there for days hoping to win the lottery. Like winning the lottery will solve all your problems. There is no gain in this type of hope, it builds nothing. If you did eventually win, you would have nothing that is everlasting, only temporary.

One of the ways that hope will work for a good cause is when people visualize their fellow man turning towards God and accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. This is a positive attitude that flows out all over the world, filled with love that touches our fellowman and God.

Through hope, we can make a major change in the world, provided that we back it with faith and love. This is how we are filled with God’s love, by thinking of God and the welfare of our fellowman and forgetting about ourselves. Pray to God, “Give me hope now”, and believe that He will. Trust in God, He loves you.

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Knowing How to Trust God

If we are going to believe that God will help us, then we need to trust God. We can’t sit around worrying about our situation. We can’t let our problem cause us to fear the unknown. We can’t doubt that God will not help us get through our problem. In order for God to help us, He wants to see that we trust Him and have faith that He will be there for us.

Worries, Fears & Doubts Will Kill Faith

Nothing worse then worrying about something that hasn’t even happened. There may be a dark cloud hanging over our heads, but it is not going to go away until the conclusion. We need to take our problem and look for something positive that could come out of it. God will be the Light at the end of the tunnel.

Worrying is also bad for your health. It can cause stress and other illnesses. Not just physical, but psychological problems too. It will also damage us spiritually. Worrying will bring us misery, it will disrupt our lives to the point where we can’t think straight or function properly.

How to Trust God Without Fear

Fear is a very damaging emotion, probably the worst one out of the three. They say that most people that are in institutions are there because of of fear. Fear brought them to the point of mental instability. Seriously, what is there to fear? Most of the time when fear first sets in, you know what is going to happen before it actually happens. Most of the time it doesn’t even happen.

A lot of fear we bring upon ourselves. We always look at negative side of fear. Sometimes fear is a good emotion, it brings out our common sense. In some people, it helps them to react to danger properly and in others it causes them to panic in which the outcome could be deadly for them or others.

How to Trust God Without Doubts

Why do we doubt that everything will work out? It seems that we tend to lean more to the negative side then the positive. We always seem to want to draw the worse conclusions in our mind. Is this the way that we want the outcome to be?

Worries, Fears and Doubts are not something that we need in our life if we are going to live a happy life. That is why we must turn all our problems over to God. We need to trust God with our heart, soul and mind. After all. isn’t God our Father? Don’t you think that He wants nothing but the best for us?

If we are going to make God a part of our life, then we need to trust God. Think about how you would react to someone if they felt that you were incompetent to perform a task that you knew you could handle. Life is not a bowl of cherries, we are going to go through tests and trials. These tests and trials build our strength and faith in God. God knows that we are going to fail from time to time, it’s how we learn from our mistakes.

When we include God in our life, we need to include Him in everything and not just our problems. When we pray to Him and ask for His help with a problem or situation that we have, then we need to place it in His hands and seek His guidance. We need to believe that He will handle it and no matter what the outcome is, look for the positive. So, drop the worrying, the fears and the doubts and trust God. Look and you will see. Believe, Believe and Believe!

Who is God? God is of the purest love and He shares that love with us only if we are willing to receive it. To love God in return is the most incredable thing a human being could do for God and themself. Our will, our life and our love are about the only things we have that we can give God, but God has so much to offer us it’s unimaginable. Find out what He can do for you. Seek God through His blessed Son Jesus Christ.