YOU WILL MAKE IT!

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

ARE YOU SEEKING?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

Head up! IT BEARS REPEATING TODAY!

You will make it!

GOD promises that…

Hebrews 13:6

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

⁶ So we can feel sure and say,

“The Lord is my helper;
I will not be afraid.
People can do nothing to me.”

No people. No circumstance. No temptation. No trial.

You are covered. You are protected. You are shielded.

Psalm 3:3

New International Version (NIV)

³ But you, LORD, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.

You can face these trials and challenges with confidence and strength. We have said it earlier this week, GOD is using those challenges to improve us, to refine us, to build us, to gird us and to cultivate needed and crucial PATIENCE in us!

James 1:2-3

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

Faith and Wisdom

² My brothers and sisters, you will have many kinds of trouble. But this gives you a reason to be very happy. ³ You know that when your faith is tested, you learn to be patient in suffering.

NEVER forget, GOD knows what we need for these trials.

Patience.

E.B. PUSEY says it this way…

We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below,
and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and
those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against
sudden inroads of trouble, and under our daily burdens; disappointments as
to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body,
or the wearing of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or others' failure
toward us; in every-day wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay
of age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in
heaviness of the heart; or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these
things, from childhood's little troubles to the martyr's sufferings,
patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.

1 Peter 1:5-7

^3-5What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we've been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you'll have it all—life healed and whole.

^6-7I know how great this makes you feel, even though you have to put up with every kind of aggravation in the meantime. Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it's your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory.

Like I said, and more importantly LIKE GOD SAID, you will make it!

I love you all.

Freedom Church

Pastor GDelaney