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dear julia....
God will always answer our prayers at the right time....he will never give you trials more than your capacity to handle it....so dont worry..(Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.Philippians 4:6)...when u feel vey let down just kneel down and cry out all your worries to God...also listen to songs which give u hope...Just think about the situation Job was....he lost everything close to his heart...but he never gave up God...imagine his troubles during the time when ppl ridiculed him....at last God blessed him more than before....when ppl close to u betray u do feel like many knives have penetrated ur heart...u would yhink like how could he do this to me...i was true to him...then y did this happen to me...in times like this just think about joseph....he was sold by his own blood...his brothers...how broken he would have felt...and in potiphars place for no reason he was blamed and jailed...wat if u or i were in his place....how we eud have reacted...would we have the heart to forgive our brothers when they came to egypt....But we need to learn a lot from joseph ...not for a moment he accused his brothers...but forgave them from his loving heart...even i too dont forgive others very easily...from experience i can say that ithe longer i took to forgaive someone the more guilty i felt....the more troubled i was...it was like some poison is in my mind....so forgive him who hurt you and hope only on God....he loves u likeno one could ever love you....he sufferedon the cross for no mistake of his.....just pray and never quitttt....take up trials as challenges and ask God for strength to believe in him
God will always answer our prayers at the right time....he will never give you trials more than your capacity to handle it....so dont worry..(Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.Philippians 4:6)...when u feel vey let down just kneel down and cry out all your worries to God...also listen to songs which give u hope...Just think about the situation Job was....he lost everything close to his heart...but he never gave up God...imagine his troubles during the time when ppl ridiculed him....at last God blessed him more than before....when ppl close to u betray u do feel like many knives have penetrated ur heart...u would yhink like how could he do this to me...i was true to him...then y did this happen to me...in times like this just think about joseph....he was sold by his own blood...his brothers...how broken he would have felt...and in potiphars place for no reason he was blamed and jailed...wat if u or i were in his place....how we eud have reacted...would we have the heart to forgive our brothers when they came to egypt....But we need to learn a lot from joseph ...not for a moment he accused his brothers...but forgave them from his loving heart...even i too dont forgive others very easily...from experience i can say that ithe longer i took to forgaive someone the more guilty i felt....the more troubled i was...it was like some poison is in my mind....so forgive him who hurt you and hope only on God....he loves u likeno one could ever love you....he sufferedon the cross for no mistake of his.....just pray and never quitttt....take up trials as challenges and ask God for strength to believe in him
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By having faith we already have witnessed the presense of God and know of it at the end of our longsuffering life. So that it might glorify God, we can rejoice in struggles and hardships. We can believe there is light at the end of the tunnel because 1.) Jesus has the keys to death and 2.) he also said he was the light 
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For those times we feel he doesn't hear us, but infact he does.... It just maynot be the time for that prayer to be answered yet, before he reveals something else to you. Whatever you ask he will give but on his own time, when he knows your ready for it ^_^. This teaches us patience, kindness, love, and persevearance with endurance, and also develops our prayers to ask him for strength, and for faith, and for help where we might need it. Keep your faith in him sis and things WILL change for you. For God see's, hears, and knows all things and has predestined all things for his glory, Rejoice in his glory and his kingship, for he is our heavenly Father ^_^!
. For those times we feel he doesn't hear us, but infact he does.... It just maynot be the time for that prayer to be answered yet, before he reveals something else to you. Whatever you ask he will give but on his own time, when he knows your ready for it ^_^. This teaches us patience, kindness, love, and persevearance with endurance, and also develops our prayers to ask him for strength, and for faith, and for help where we might need it. Keep your faith in him sis and things WILL change for you. For God see's, hears, and knows all things and has predestined all things for his glory, Rejoice in his glory and his kingship, for he is our heavenly Father ^_^!
It's normal for Christians to go through trials and tribulations in this life. God uses them to test our faith levels, to strengthen us as Christians and bring us closer to Him. It's easy to have faith when everything goes right in your life, but not so much when everything falls apart.
Romans 8:29: "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren" - God's purpose is for us all to grow more into the image of His Son. The trials and tribulations allow us to reach that goal.
Romans 5:3-5: "we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us"
Philippians 4:13: " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" - persevering shows our faith.
James 1:2-4: "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing"
James 1:12: "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him"
So we need to rejoice and praise God, pray to Him and walk in the Spirit regardless of our issues. Have you read about the Apostles who were rejoicing in prison and singing to God? There was an earthquake and they were freed. I think it's in Acts or Philippians somewhere.
I know it's difficult and it seems like there's no light at the end of the tunnel initially but he works in his own time, and has our best interests. He “works all things together for good” for us (Romans 8:28).
I will pray for you
Romans 8:29: "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren" - God's purpose is for us all to grow more into the image of His Son. The trials and tribulations allow us to reach that goal.
Romans 5:3-5: "we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us"
Philippians 4:13: " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" - persevering shows our faith.
James 1:2-4: "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing"
James 1:12: "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him"
So we need to rejoice and praise God, pray to Him and walk in the Spirit regardless of our issues. Have you read about the Apostles who were rejoicing in prison and singing to God? There was an earthquake and they were freed. I think it's in Acts or Philippians somewhere.
I know it's difficult and it seems like there's no light at the end of the tunnel initially but he works in his own time, and has our best interests. He “works all things together for good” for us (Romans 8:28).
I will pray for you
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Months ago, I was asking a similar line of questions, then someone very wise said something that hit me:
You're relying too much on your sense of subjectivity. There is no happily ever after on this side of eternity. As we go through life we will see things that disgust us. We will, no matter how content we are with what we have, find disappointment in what people say and do.
What do we do? We appeal to the eternity God has instilled within us when the Holy Spirit came in. We look with hope on the passages of the Bible promising not a tear in our eyes. That is the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is a light more certain to appear than tomorrow's dawn.
Is it tough to do? Will we be distracted? Of course, but the wonderful thing about prayer is not the materials that fall to us after it, but the fact that as we pray, we fuse our minds to God's will.
It may also help to read Job, lol.
You're relying too much on your sense of subjectivity. There is no happily ever after on this side of eternity. As we go through life we will see things that disgust us. We will, no matter how content we are with what we have, find disappointment in what people say and do.
What do we do? We appeal to the eternity God has instilled within us when the Holy Spirit came in. We look with hope on the passages of the Bible promising not a tear in our eyes. That is the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is a light more certain to appear than tomorrow's dawn.
Is it tough to do? Will we be distracted? Of course, but the wonderful thing about prayer is not the materials that fall to us after it, but the fact that as we pray, we fuse our minds to God's will.
It may also help to read Job, lol.
Perhaps someone has already mentioned it but, consider Job. The man lost everything including his children, yet somehow he still kept his faith in God. in the end he even cursed the day he was born, but never God, despite the fact that his friends were doing their utmost to convince him to do so. And all that was because Lucifer made a bet with God that Job would curse God if Job lost everything. Lucifer lost the bet.