Day of adversity
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For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
The promises of God are given for our benefit and provide to us healing, protection, promotion, and prosperity
God says Yes, We say Amen, our Amen gives him Glory
THESE PRECIOUS PROMISES OF GOD ARE THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH,
EMPOWERING OUR FAITH TO PREVAIL
PREVAIL- to prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious. To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage.
Your faith in God is a powerful force that ensures victory and superiority
God has declared that your faith can move mountains. (Mark 11:22-24)
God has declared that your faith in him makes all things possible
Your faith will….prove more powerful than opposing forces
Your faith is victorious, it will gain the victory
Your faith will overcome
Your faith is superior
Your faith will gain the advantage
God has declared that your faith is the victory that overcomes the world (1 John 5:4)
· Your Faith is from God
But what do we do in the day of adversity?
You are going to prevail but to prevail means you are going to be attacked
You are victorious but to have victory you have to be in a contest
You are going to overcome but to overcome there must be a hinderance or obstacles
The day of trouble the day where it looks like all hope is lost
The terrible storm raged for many days, blotting out the sun and the stars, until at last all hope was gone.
The Day of adversity will come but God has given us instructions for that day
The day of adversity is created by the enemy to drain your strength, and make you question your faith and abandon your joyful confidence in God
If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
There is a word from heaven
Paul had a word from Heaven
You have a word from heaven
Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.
Paul was well acquainted with the day of adversity
The trouble he faced was overwhelming and was everywhere that he turned
But he had a word from heaven
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—
This sounds like Faith This sounds like Hope
Hope- Joyful expectation, grounds for an optimistic outlook based upon belief that is resulting from knowledge
NOT based on feeling or emotion
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.
Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
We felt like we’d been sent to death row, that it was all over for us. As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened. Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally—not a bad idea since he’s the God who raises the dead!
And he did it, rescued us from certain doom. And he’ll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing.
He will do it again! He will rescue you as many times as you need rescuing!
Rise and shine thy light has come!
God will pick you up
He will lift up your head
David was well acquainted with the day of adversity
Everywhere he turned there was trouble
Psalm 3:3–4 (NKJV) 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head. 4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. Selah
· David declared who God is to him
· He was not silent – he spoke what He believed God was going to do
This is the pattern that David established in his life
It is the same pattern that we must establish in our lives
Hear the word of the Lord, Declare who God is and speak what he is going to do
Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
You are not going to be silent
Your hope is in an unfailing God
You are are not going to silent you are not alone - He is with you
God is restoring your praise, God is giving you a triumphant shout in your spirit
You are not going to give up
You are not going to bow to the pressure of the enemy
Your strength is not small because your faith is not small
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Your strength comes from the Lord
I can do all things through Christ
Isaiah 40:27–31 (NKJV) 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the Lord, And my just claim is passed over by my God”?
Why would you ever complain, O Jacob,
or, whine, Israel, saying,
“God has lost track of me.
He doesn’t care what happens to me”?[1]
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
wait for, look for, i.e., look forward with confidence to that which is good and beneficial
when the object of hope is the Lord, there is an eager expectation of salvation or deliverance[2]
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