PERSONAL PROBLEMS

WE ARE NOT IMMUNE TO DIFFICULTIES. EVEN TRUSTING THE LORD DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ARE COMPLETELY ISOLATED FROM PROBLEMS. THE PSALMIST SAID THAT THERE ARE MANY AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE LORD DELIVERS HIM OUT OF THEM ALL (PSALM 34: 10).

GOING THROUGH THESE DIFFICULTIES RESULTS IN A REFINING PROCESS BECAUSE GOD CAN WORK REDEMPTIVELY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES (1 PETER 1: 6, 7). REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT DEVELOP OR THE REASONS FOR THEM, GOD CAN WORK IN OUR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS FOR GOOD IF WE TRULY LOVE AND TRUST HIM (ROMANS 8: 28).

GOD WILL HELP US WITH THE BURDENS OF TODAY. WE ARE NOT TO THINK ABOUT TOMORROW’S PROBLEMS AND BORROW THOSE DIFFICULTIES (MATTHEW 6: 34). DO NOT CONCENTRATE ON THE PROBLEM. LOOK UP AND AWAY FROM IT. GOD IS BIGGER THAN OUR PROBLEMS. HE CAN EASILY HELP US TO SOLVE THEM AS HE STILLED THE STORM FOR THE DISCIPLES. A SOLUTION WILL BECOME CLEAR AS WE PRAY AND BELIEVE GOD AND EXERCISE FAITH.

SOMETIMES THE CONDITIONS CANNOT CHANGE, BUT OUR ATTITUDES CAN CHANGE. THIS IN TURN MAY CHANGE THE CIRCUMSTANCES. GOD KNOWS OF OUR DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS AND HE DOES HAVE ANSWERS. WE NEED TO TRUST HIM AND HE WILL DIRECT OUR PATHS (PROVERBS 3: 5, 6).

SCRIPTURES ON PERSONAL PROBLEMS

“THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR? THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID?” PSALM 27: 1

“MANY ARE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS BUT THE LORD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THEM ALL.” PSALM 34: 19

“CAST THY BURDEN UPON THE LORD, AND HE SHALL SUSTAIN THEE.”
PSALM 55:22

“THE LORD IS ON MY SIDE; I WILL NOT FEAR: WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” PSALM 118: 6

“THE WAY OF THE LORD IS STRENGTH TO THE UPRIGHT.” PROVERBS 10: 29

“HE GIVETH POWER TO THE FAINT; AND TO THEM THAT HAVE NO MIGHT HE INCREASES STRENGTH.” ISAIAH 40: 29

“I THE LORD THY GOD WILL HOLD THY RIGHT HAND, SAYING UNTO THEE, FEAR NOT; I WILL HELP THEE.” ISAIAH 41: 13

“CALL UNTO ME, AND I WILL ANSWER THEE, AND SHOW THEE GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS, WHICH THOU KNOWETH NOT.” JEREMIAH 33; 3

“THE PEOPLE WHO DO KNOW THEIR GOD SHALL BE STRONG, AND DO EXPLOITS.” DANIEL 11: 32

“LET THE WEAK SAY I AM STRONG.” JOEL 3: 10

“THE LORD GOD IS MY STRENGTH. AND HE WILL MAKE MY FEET LIKE HIND’S FEET, AND HE WILL MAKE ME TO WALK UPON MINE HIGH PLACES.” HABAKKUK 3: 19

“WHAT THINGS SOEVER YE DESIRE, WHEN YOU PRAY, BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE THEM, AND YE SHALL HAVE THEM.” MARK 11: 24

“BEHOLD I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER…OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.” LUKE 10: 19

“IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?” ROMANS 8: 31

“WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION; OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR PERIL, OR SWORD? AS IT IS WRITTEN… NAY, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERS THROUGH HIM THAT LOVED US.” ROMANS 8: 35, 37

“THERE HATH NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU BUT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN: BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT YE ARE ABLE, BUT WILL WITH THE TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.” 1 CORINTHIANS 10: 13

“I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENED ME.” PHILIPPIANS 4: 13

“I WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE. SO THAT WE MAY BOLDLY SAY, THE LORD IS MY HELPER, AND I WILL NOT FEAR WHAT MAN SHALL DO UNTO ME.” HEBREWS 13: 5, 6