It is in times when life isn't so easy that it is easier to lean on God, to rest in His goodness. I am thankful that my God is a living God, one who loves me like His own daughter. I am part of His family, His inheritance. My God wants good things for me, and provides for my every need.
I have come to learn that God likes to let us wait, it builds our faith. When we trust in Him He will always show up, though often not until the last minute. It would be easy to allow stress to consume me worrying about foolish things like how will my needs get met. It is faith building to trust and wait on the Lord to provide those needs. I find myself getting excited about how God is going to move. It is never the way I think it is, I find God to be endlessly creative in how He chooses to accomplish things.
Please don't think I mean sit back and do nothing... so rarely is that what we are called to do. Studying God's Holy word you will see repeatedly that we are to not be lazy, but do what we can.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 99 helpful votesFor even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 80 helpful votesBut if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 70 helpful votesA slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 6:9-11 ESV / 51 helpful votesHow long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 19:24 ESV / 49 helpful votesThe sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 6:6 ESV / 33 helpful votesGo to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Psalm 50:17 ESV / 33 helpful votesFor you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 30 helpful votesThe soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 27 helpful votesDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 26 helpful votesThe hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 23 helpful votes“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
Proverbs 20:4 ESV / 22 helpful votesThe sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 18 helpful votesA wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
James 4:14 ESV / 15 helpful votesYet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 15 helpful votesWhoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votesAll Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Luke 19:12-27 ESV / 11 helpful votesHe said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ ...
Acts 17:11 ESV / 9 helpful votesNow these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 8 helpful votesIn all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Matthew 24:21 ESV / 7 helpful votesFor then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 ESV / 6 helpful votesPreach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votesNow the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votesThe proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
So go out and do what you are able, and trust in God because miracles happen everyday for those who believe.
In times of adversity Praise God! You are blessed because it is here in the valley that you grow closer to God and have the opportunity to watch the Almighty at work!
Amen
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