Hello Dear Christians,
Like he tempted Adam and Eve in the garden, satan comes to us with his destroying thought, “hath God surely said?”
As long as I (Mark) didn’t believe and trust what God said in Romans 8:28, I couldn’t believe that God was really in control of my life working all things together for my good. As a result, I was miserable living with fear, anger and the torment of the enemy’s overwhelming, oppressive, defeating thoughts.
“If anyone could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you think and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing.”
William Law, English clergyman, Eighteenth Century
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.”
Helen Keller
“Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy. Men may deal with him as they will…he is without care; he knows that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.”
Martin Luther
“Cry for grace from God to be able to see God’s hand in every trial, and then for grace…to submit at once to it. Not only to submit, but to acquiesce, and to rejoice in it…I think there is generally an end to troubles when we get to that.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
Yes, God has surely said He’s working all things together for our good. You can rely on it. Trust that God is working all things together for your good and be set free from the enemy’s oppression.
God bless you all,
Mark