When Troubles Abound
Here is an example in scripture of Paul and what he went
through as a Christ's minister. You may go through many troubles also but
never give up. Trust in God and His word to guide you through
it. He provides the way when there seems to be no way to get through
tribulations.
2 Corinthians 11:23-28 - Are they ministers
of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Of the Jews five
times received I forty stripes save one.
Thrice was I beaten
with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I
have been in the deep;
In journeyings
often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own
countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
In weariness and
painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in
cold and nakedness.
Beside those things
that are without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the
churches.
Philippians
4:11-13
Not that I speak in
respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be
content.
I know both how to
be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am
instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things
through Christ which strengthens me.
Sometimes, we will go through things that we just cannot see how
God can get us out of or fix. Pray and pray intensely for God to
strengthen you so that you will be able to do and handle all things, not by
your own might but by His might.
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