Trials, Your Key To A Great Future
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Trials, Your Key To A Great Future
Trials, Your Key To A Great Future
Goliath is a declaration of impending promotion
Why Trial
Why Trial
1. Trials Are On Purpose / Testing Is Apart of God’s Perfect Plan
1. Trials Are On Purpose / Testing Is Apart of God’s Perfect Plan
God Thoroughly Tests What He Will Use Greatly
God Thoroughly Tests What He Will Use Greatly
1. God tested Abraham
1. God tested Abraham
Get up and go to the land I will show you
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
Sacrifice your son, your only son
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”
Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Some time later Abraham was told, “Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.” Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.
2. God tested the children of Israel in the desert
2. God tested the children of Israel in the desert
For you O God tested us
For you, O God, tested us;
you refined us like silver.
3. God Tested Jesus
3. God Tested Jesus
Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to be tested
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:
“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
2. God Tests 3 Things In Your Life
2. God Tests 3 Things In Your Life
1. Your Faith
1. Your Faith
These have come so that your faith / Proved Genuine
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
2. Your Work
2. Your Work
Every man’s work will be tested
If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
3. Your Promise
3. Your Promise
Sacrifice your son, your only son
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”
Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
3. It’s All About What You Believe
3. It’s All About What You Believe
These have come so that your faith
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Trails??? … Count it pure joy
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Believing moves mountains
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Everything is possible to him who believes
“ ‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.”
4. A Goliath in your life is a declaration of your impending promotion
4. A Goliath in your life is a declaration of your impending promotion
If someone raises you up , you can be set down
If you are raised up because of defeating a giant, nobody can set you down
Expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles
What you expect, you attract
With God we will gain the victory
With God we shall gain the victory,
and he will trample down our enemies.
The result is praise honor and glory
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
In all these things we are more than Conquerors
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
I can do all things through Christ
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
5. God Will Do It
5. God Will Do It
God does not release his favor based upon our goodness
There is none righteous
There is none righteous
As it is written:
“There is no-one righteous, not even one;
there is no-one who understands,
no-one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no-one who does good,
not even one.”
For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
God uses imperfect people
Now Is The Time Of God’s Favor
For he says,
“In the time of my favour I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation.
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Now is the time to proclaim the year of God’s favor
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”
Today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts
So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,
So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
New Begininings 8th day
New Begininings 8th day
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