A Right Mental Attitude - The Doorway to a Successful Life. PART4
THE TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH.
Faith is a spiritual force, residing in your heart, that will produce a right mental attitude. A right mental attitude is one of the things the apostle Paul said makes the gospel attractive.
A right mental attitude is profitable when a problem comes against you.
Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Wherein you greatly rejoice, through now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations; that trial of your faith, being much more precious then of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:3-7/13)
Peter is talking about the rial of our faith.
Trials of our Faith literally mean “Problems, Adverse Circumstances, and Pressures.” When it appears, in the natural, that nothing is going well, then there is pressure, there is a tendency to compromise and a tendency to lean towards the natural rather than to put your total trust in what the Word of God says.
GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF TRIALS AND TESTS.
Satan (NOT GOD) is the author of problems, trials, and tests. He comes immediately to steal the Word of God out of one’s heart. (Mark 4:14-20). It does not bring glory to God when you are being tested if you fold up, compromise, and let the devil defeat you. The thing that brings glory to God is when you Endure. TO ENDURE, MEANS TO OVERCOME.
We will be looking further into this must know subject, in discussing Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego …
I PRAY THAT YOU BE STRENGTHENED IN FAITH AND OVERCOME, WHATEVER IF FACING YOU TODAY, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE ALMIGHTY GOD, LIVING IN YOU!
Be Blesed!
Pastor Caly