SHUT UP AND PRAY - DURING TRIALS STAY IN PRAYER
ROMANS 12:12 Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
Yes, trials, and tribulations will come in our lives,but with prayer as the believer, we are to conquer the trials and tribulations. We may express our trials verbally or emotionally. All is needed from us is Prayer. As the saying goes, shut up and pray.
While on earth, we will face problems, difficulties, troubles, tests, traumas, ordeals, sufferings, and pain. Nevertheless, the believer has an overcoming resource. He can conquer the trials of life by doing three critical things.
1. You are to rejoice in hope. Your hope is God - God's presence, concern, and care. As a believer, you know God will do one of two things: either remove the trial or deliver you through the trial. You know you don't have to go through or face trials alone, that no situation is hopeless. You, are the eternal optimist: your hope is in the eternal God. Therefore, you not only hopes in the delivering power of God,but you joy and rejoices in the hope God has given you through prayer.
Read 1 Th. 5:17 (pray without ceasing), James 5:16 (pray one for another), Luke 11:1 (teach us to pray).
2. The believer (you) is to endure trials. The word "patient" means to endure, remain, persevere, abide, bear up bravely. You actually experience a surge of fortitude from Christ when trials confront you.
Read Ph. 4:13 ( I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me) (Eph. 3:16 (That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strenghtened with might by his spirit in the inner man.
3. You are to continue in Prayer. The phrase "continuing instant" means to give constant attention to; to be devoted and attentive to; to give unceasing care to; to wait stedfastly upon, to persevere. Very simply, you as the believer,overcomes trials by giving constant attention to God, and waiting upon His delivering power.
ROMANS 12:12 Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
Yes, trials, and tribulations will come in our lives,but with prayer as the believer, we are to conquer the trials and tribulations. We may express our trials verbally or emotionally. All is needed from us is Prayer. As the saying goes, shut up and pray.
While on earth, we will face problems, difficulties, troubles, tests, traumas, ordeals, sufferings, and pain. Nevertheless, the believer has an overcoming resource. He can conquer the trials of life by doing three critical things.
1. You are to rejoice in hope. Your hope is God - God's presence, concern, and care. As a believer, you know God will do one of two things: either remove the trial or deliver you through the trial. You know you don't have to go through or face trials alone, that no situation is hopeless. You, are the eternal optimist: your hope is in the eternal God. Therefore, you not only hopes in the delivering power of God,but you joy and rejoices in the hope God has given you through prayer.
Read 1 Th. 5:17 (pray without ceasing), James 5:16 (pray one for another), Luke 11:1 (teach us to pray).
2. The believer (you) is to endure trials. The word "patient" means to endure, remain, persevere, abide, bear up bravely. You actually experience a surge of fortitude from Christ when trials confront you.
Read Ph. 4:13 ( I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me) (Eph. 3:16 (That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strenghtened with might by his spirit in the inner man.
3. You are to continue in Prayer. The phrase "continuing instant" means to give constant attention to; to be devoted and attentive to; to give unceasing care to; to wait stedfastly upon, to persevere. Very simply, you as the believer,overcomes trials by giving constant attention to God, and waiting upon His delivering power.
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