25 February 2018
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God Comforts Us in All of Our Difficult Times (TMF:835)

Friday, March 02, 2018
Peace to Live By: God Comforts Us in All of Our Difficult Times (TMF:835) - Daniel Litton
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       God works out good things. To move away from God is to quit and give up, and we must never do that. Quitting will cause us to forfeit and lose our future blessings, and what we could have learned from our trial. If we don’t learn, we cannot progress. As you wait on God for your deliverance, take comfort in him. Again, Paul called God the “God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4, ESV). It’s sad but true, but we do learn more during difficult times in our lives versus the easier times. It’s usually the case that if trouble doesn’t come, if the heat doesn’t get turned up, we don’t grow, and we don’t become more like Jesus. But we can count on God to bring goodness out in us through our situation. God rewards those who earnestly seek him out. His desire is to make things better for us.

Trials Bring us Into Deeper Relationship with God (TMF:834)

Thursday, March 01, 2018
Peace to Live By: Trials Bring us Into Deeper Relationship with God (TMF:834) - Daniel Litton
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       But the trials that come to us, the bad and difficult things that happen, these things actually bring us into a deeper relationship with God. They draw us closer to Him as we depend on Him to cheer us up, to encourage us, and bring us through whatever has happened. We do grow closer to God, spending more time in prayer and thinking about him more throughout the day. We read his Word more, and bring it closer to our hearts, allowing it to penetrate deep within ourselves. We must draw close to God so that he will draw close to us. It is important to sometimes withdraw and get alone with God. Jesus would often withdraw to lonely places, the Bible says, and we should take his model and do the same. And during this time, in our relationship with Him, God works out good things. To move away from God is to quit and give up, and we must never do that. Quitting will cause us to forfeit and lose our future blessings, and what we could have learned from our trial. If we don’t learn, we cannot progress.

You Are Not the Only Christian Suffering Today (TMF:833)

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Peace to Live By: You Are Not the Only Christian Suffering Today (TMF:833) - Daniel Litton
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       And we may even come to the false realization that no one is a bad off as we are. And this is a great deception from Satan. The reality is, is that there is always someone in the world that is in a worser condition than the one we are in. Now, that’s unfortunate, but it can help us realize that things for us are not as bad as they seem. We need to cast down these thoughts from Satan that come to our minds, so that we can move forward in life. We are not the only Christian in the world waiting for things to come to pass. Yes, we may have been waiting for a long for God to act, but we have the power and ability to wait until the time is right. We can trust God. Just because things may seem bad now, or like they are impossible to overcome, this certainly does not mean that you can’t have faith for a good future. But the trials that come to us, the bad and difficult things that happen, these things actually bring us into a deeper relationship with God.

Tragedies Test Our Beliefs About God & Ourselves (TMF:832)

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Peace to Live By: Tragedies Test Our Beliefs About God & Ourselves (TMF:832) - Daniel Litton
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       By staying negative, we will prevent God from helping us. One of the reasons tragedies happen in our lives is to test our beliefs—to test what we believe about God, his goodness, and about ourselves as individuals. Of course, we question why God allows, or permits certain things to happen, certain events to come to pass. And Satan, God’s adversary and our own adversary, works to get us to think about the wrong things. He gets us to focus on the negative, and tries to create and cultivate an overall hopeless attitude in our minds. He even tries to get us to believe that what has transpired is somehow our own ‘personal’ fault, when in fact many times it is not our fault. And this false belief will cause pain to develop deep within peoples’ souls. It can cause weariness and depression in people’s lives, and they may lose their motivation to keep going, to keep living for God’s goodness, to keep pressing forward in life.

God Will Always Bring Out Good in a Situation (TMF:831)

Monday, February 26, 2018
Peace to Live By: God Will Always Bring Out Good in a Situation (TMF:831) - Daniel Litton
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       Remember, being negative, or regretful, or wishing things had turned out another way isn’t going to do us any good. We have to be able to adjust ourselves in our new situation. If we don’t make adjustment and accept what has happened, we are not going to have any chance at feeling better. Yes, we can choose to focus on the negative, uncomfortable thing that has happened, but that won’t help us. We can even let what has happened define us individually, or define our life. May I suggest, though, that rather then do that you should choose to be hopeful, to know that God is going to work good out of the situation, no matter how grim or depressed you may feel. God will always bring out good in a situation when we allow him to do so. Remember what Solomon said in Ecclesiastes, “I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him” (8:12, ESV). By staying negative, we will prevent God from helping us.