The Joy of Overcoming a Challenge - a podcast by David K Payne

James 1:2–4 (NLT) Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

 

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” 
― Rumi

 

 Today focus on the power of the joy of Christ to help you through the difficult places in your life. As you allow the strength that comes from Christ to fill your life, you can face even the most difficult of times with Joy knowing that the trouble will pass,  new opportunities will present themselves and that you will learn and grow from the current situation.  In this season of advent, embrace, confess and believe for the Joy of the Lord to fill your life.

Just BE

David

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