How To Deal With Adversity as a believer of the Christian faith.
In the Scripture, it is written ;
“If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.” (NKJV)
“If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.” (NIV) Proverbs 24:10
Adversity simply put is a difficult or unpleasant situation.
📌Adversity is part of life.
📌Adversity is part of the package of being a Christian.
📌 It’s part of your training manual as a “Soldier” in the Kingdom of God.
Everything is not about demons, devils village people, or enemies of life and destiny.
A child that would walk and run Must fall.
It’s part of the process of learning how to walk.
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You need a mind shift in the way you face the challenges of life.
Quit thinking that the devil is out to get you every time things don’t work the way you feel or think they should.
Life is all about ups and downs.
So, build strength so that when adversity comes, you don’t fall, faint, or fail but attack it face-to-face and come out victorious.
You need to be resilient to life adversity.
A resilient Christian learn from the adverse situations they experience and can see the positive side of things.
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1) The power in the Word of God.
The No. 1 recipe for building strength and resilience to overcome adversities in our life and Christian faith Journey is;
“Reading, and having in-depth knowledge of the Word” of God.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, …” Revelation 12:11
The Word of your testimony is the Word of God. Equipping yourself daily by reading and meditating on the Word of God, equips you with the shield you need to cushion the effect of adversities when it comes. Because as long as you are on Earth, life challenges, pains, and adversities, will surely come.
The Word encourages, strengthens you, and helps to build your faith that no matter how things may be or seem now, there is hope for you, it’s a phase that will pass, after the darkness, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Knowing the power of God’s Word sustains you in your times of difficulties to your place of glory.
“Everything written in God’s word is written for our admonition and growth.
It’s through God’s word we know God intimately.” Psalm 119:28
When we are weak and down, we find strength in the Word of God.
The Word of God comforts your soul in the time of trial and sustains you.
Learn to draw strength from the Scriptures, not run from one place and another.
Dear Christian,
Build strength so that you don’t fail, fall or faint on the day of Adversity.
Adversities and challenges are part of God’s discipline and tool to train an individual to become the person whom He has proposed he or she be. Example: Joseph
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2) We Must Be Aware in Our Hearts of the Love of God, and depend on his promises.
“See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!..” 1st John 3:1
Casting all our cares and anxieties on Him.
“You are not the first man or man to fail or pass through the difficulties of life.”
Job, Joseph, the woman with the issue of blood.”
Why act as if God is not trustworthy?
Can God boast about you the way he boasted about Job?
Job never questioned God nor cursed Him.
Roman 8:28 All things work together for good to them that love God.
“A Christian is not just one who goes to Church, but one who jealousy loves God.”
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3) Engage In Strategic Prayer.
When life trials and challenges happen, it’s not a time to murmur and lay blame, it’s a time to engage God wholly in prayers
“Prayer is not all about getting things from God, but a tool to draw strength from God.”
4) Maintain a Lifestyle and Atmosphere of Joy.
“With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.” Isaiah 12:3 Nehemiah 8:10
“Nothing weakens satan than when he sees you joyful amid great sorrow and pain.”
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5) Engage the Prophetic
“Early the next morning the army of Judah went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. On the way, Jehoshaphat stopped and said, “Listen to me, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be able to stand firm. Believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.” 2 Chronicles 20:20
God’s genuine ordained servant has the anointing and grace from God to speak over your life to bring about ease over life challenges and adversities.
Honour God and also honour the vessel He uses.
I pray that as you put these principles to use, you will experience ease and miracles as touching every area of your life.
God Bless You.
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