We find it easier to maintain our faith when things are going well, but what about when they aren't?
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[00:00:00] We find it easier to maintain our faith when things are going well. But what about when they aren't? Tune in for more. Hello and welcome to MoMo634, the Daily Podcast Chalk Full of Faithful, Inspiration and Motivation. MoMo634, Motivational Moments, just for today. We enjoy creature comforts.
[00:00:46] I think many in the West cannot even begin to comprehend true poverty as experienced in other parts of the world where there are daily struggles just for survival and having basic needs for food, water and shelter met.
[00:01:03] Yet these are some of the happiest, most faithful, and people willing to share their meager rations with others. I've heard from people who've gone around the world, preaching the gospel that people will walk hours to get to the assembly.
[00:01:20] They'll stay for hours, share what little food they have, then trek back home. We can find similar trials and hardships outlined in the Bible, which Romans 15-4 says was written for our learning. Paul certainly knew about hardships. He tells us in 2 Corinthians 11-25,
[00:01:43] 3 times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. 3 times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea. Yet, in Philippians 4, 12 and 13, he says, I know how to live humbly and I know how to abound.
[00:02:06] I am accustomed to any and every situation, to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Paul calls these light momentary afflictions in 2 Corinthians 4-17.
[00:02:28] For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison. If this isn't enough, consider Hebrews 11, the Hall of Faith, and the trials endured there by God's faithful, or consider almost all of the apostles,
[00:02:51] endured harsh and cruel circumstances up until their deaths, most by cruel means. So how do we endure? A major key can be found in the account of Jesus walking on the water. Peter asked to come out with him.
[00:03:09] When Peter took his eyes off of Jesus and focused on the waves, that's when he began to sink. He said, The author of Hebrews puts it this way in chapter 12, verses 1 and 2. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,
[00:04:03] let us throw off every in conference and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross,
[00:04:24] squirning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Simply put, we keep going and we continue to look to God in expectant faith and trust. The persistent widow in Luke 18 continued to ask, we must do so as well.
[00:04:47] A number of verses tell us to ask, seek and knock or have faith without doubting, believe and you will receive and that we will have life abundantly. These verses talk about this life. However, we must be like me, shack, shadrack and a bedna go, facing the fiery furnace.
[00:05:10] They fully expected God to deliver them, yet said, even if accepting his will in it all. Our meme for today simply says, Trust, obey, and pray. Thanks for listening to Momo 634, motivational moments, just for today.
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