Don't Faint!

 Happy Sunday!

"We wish you could SEE how all this is working out for your benefit, and how the more grace God gives, the more thanksgiving will redound to his glory. THIS is the REASON why we NEVER collapse. The outward man does indeed suffer wear and tear, but every day the inward man receives fresh strength. These little troubles (which are really so transitory) are winning for us a permanent, glorious and solid reward out of all proportion to our pain. For we are looking all the time not at the visible things but at the invisible. The visible things are transitory: it is the invisible things that are really permanent."(2 Corinthians 4:15-18 Phillips).

I searched in the Bible App for the word, "faint".  This scripture was one of the results.  It can be easy to let the day to day issues of life get you down!  So many things are happening in our world, and even in our families.  The Psalmist said, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."(KJV).  Don't miss this!  He had good reason to faint, collapse, or give up BUT he had HOPE!  He Expected to SEE God's Goodness NOW in this Life!  

Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."(John 14:1 KJV).  It's possible to live worry free!  Jesus gave us the steps: Believe in God, and Believe in Me!  If we believe GOD we will believe His Word.  Jesus is called the Word.  To live in a troubled world and not be troubled we must have the Word.  No, not just a Bible on the coffee table in the living room, we must have the Word hidden in our hearts.(Psalm 119:11).

1 Peter 5:7, "Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you."(Living Bible).

Love and prayers, Cynthia