by Karen Brooks, from Tennessee

In our Nation and across the world today people are facing troubled times. Many things are changing in people's lives. For some it may be their health, for others it may be a job loss or career change. Granted these are troubled times and hard times but let me remind you Christian brothers and sisters, these are not impossible times, for with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!

These are not hopeless times because we have promises in God's living word that cannot and will not fail us. We also have a comforter and guide in the Holy Spirit so therefore, we are not helpless!

In these changing and troubled times, Satan will try to use his favorite tool from his tool box on you and that is the tool of discouragement. However, this is where it is most important to cling to the power and hope in God's word to sustain you through his attacks and lies.

Your situation can be looked at as an end or as a New Beginning for you. When God closes one door child of God, he will open another one for you.  He has promised to never leave you nor forsake you but to go with you until the end of the world, even through death! What do you have to fear?

Who sends fear? Does God word not say that God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of Power and of love and of a sound mind? God doesnt give fear. Satan does.

                              Here is your cure for fear : FAITH! 

No, Satan doesn't want you to have faith. He doesnt want you to think you have the power to overcome anything through Christ, even though that's a promise in God's word, that we can do all things through Christ which strengthens us and that he that is in us is greater than he that is in the world.

Satan doesn't want you to be reminded of that today. He would rather you feed your fear than your faith. Why? Because when you feed fear instead of faith you get weak, you get discouraged, thus you have become powerless but when you feed your faith my friend, you gain power, strength and wisdom. Nothing's going to keep you down.  Don't give Satan an inch my friend or he will take a mile!

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, you can face today that God can't handle and get you through, a lot of time, change is for our good. Remember the Children of Israel had to be brought out of the land of Egypt before they could be brought into the land of milk and honey. 

That trip could have been a lot quicker and a lot easier had they been feeding their faith more than their fears.
 
When they fed their fears they wanted to turn back into a life as a slave to just spare their life, when God's plan for them and for all of us today is to not only give us life but to give it more abundantly! 

God brought us out of a church that we tried so hard to help and to serve, where we had so many roots and memories and brought us into a church that is loving and working and we are so happy there.

We just tried to hold on to the old church and be of help and God just about had to push us out, we had to go just as far as we could go and when  we could go no farther, we finally realized we had to go.

That was hard but, had we not left we would not be in the place God was wanting us to be. We have been so happy, spiritually fed and nourished and loved on, that is is just still overwhelming to think about in our church today. 

I shared that to give you the example, sometimes change is good. Sometimes it isn't the end at all but a beautiful new beginning.  It's just a new chapter in the Novel of your life. God may be wanting to bring  prosperity and happiness to you in a way that you could never even dream of! Sometimes he has to 'bring us out', to bring us in as he did the children of Israel. 

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