Overcoming Challenges

How Christ’s apostles died. What a witness!

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My Pondering

These powerful witnesses never recanted what they saw and knew deep into their souls. What amazing rewards and bliss they now have in heaven.

What amazing examples and how mature they grew by Christ’s example.

Their testimony; their deaths; their witness is proof in itself of Christ’s lordship. As CS Lewis articulated; Jesus with either a Lunatic, Liar or Lord. The disciples where first hand witnesses. One person, yet alone 12 don’t go to their martyr graves for a Lunatic or a Liar. Ponder that!

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My Pondering

That’s deep stuff from sir Charles…I for one sure want learn and adapt quickly as possible, especially from OPM (Other People’s Mistakes) as we see in life and the Bible because I have suffered plenty for being a bonehead.

With an attitude of gratitude and applying wisdom we pick up, hopefully we can avoid some of these painful experiences. However, when it’s all said and done, then we will really know that some, maybe all, of these painfully experiences where blessings turned inside out.

God does indeed whisper to us in our comfort, speak to us during our daily routines but He most certainly SHOUTS and to us in our pain.

Let’s not forget these comforting words from the mind of Paul, as guided by the Spirit:

“16 Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though our outer self is wasting away,
yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

17 For our light and momentary affliction
is producing for us an eternal glory
that is far beyond comparison.

18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal”

1 Corinthians 4:16-18,

Don’t worry about anything… Philippians 4:6

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“Do not be anxious about anything,
but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬

My Pondering

Don’t worry, be joyful.

Recycle your worries into prayers. Turn that frown upside down. When you serve, love and trust God like no other He is ready, willing and able to turn your trash into treasure.

Wise believers convert their worries into prayers, their doubts into faith, their anxiety into hope, and their carelessness into carefulness. Yes, hope floats and no doubt God wants His people to be faithful, trusting, and excuse not confidence per se but Godfidence. Confidence is is conning yourself and others that YOU got this. Godfidence is re assuring yourself and others that GOD has got this and that we are going to cooperate and admire Him in action.

He will do that if you do your part. He will! Maybe not exactly when you want or expect but He will in His time, His way…even if it’s on the flip side of eternity. He is that powerful and awesome.

Romans 8:28 is legit. If you don’t have it internalized, start scribing into you mind now!