Monday, June 7, 2010

{unshakable faith}

here again is an excerpt from today's devotion...something that pulls at my heart...i have hope...and faith...but it remains a tad shaky.


Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.


God is in control of all circumstances that surround the believer. The devil can do nothing in the life of the believer without the express permission of God. But why would God give that permission? Because Satan's attacks will show what you are made of.

A faith that cannot be shaken is a faith that has been shaken. And if your faith is real, it will even endure through the worst of circumstances, because character is not made in crisis; it is revealed. Trials, temptations, and crises separate the wheat from the chaff, the true from the false, and the real from the unreal.

Suffering takes our faith from the realm of theory to reality, and suffering brings glory to God. Anyone can be happy when the sky is blue and the sun is shining. But when a storm is hitting, it is a different matter.
~ Greg Laurie

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