Face The Future With Faith In Your God The days of this 2012 are in many ways darkening ones. Crime is soaring; shocking immorality and corruption are being exposed in places high and low; violence is becoming more deadly and is involving younger perpetrators and victims.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God An anti-God spirit is becoming more hateful and vocal and widespread.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God What Is A Christian To Do? "Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matthew 24:12). The fact that now iniquity does abound and that the love of many shall wax cold--does not mean that we must be among that "many" whose love has grown cold toward our God.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God This is a warning to us to stir up ourselves to take hold of God and press toward the mark as never before and to continue to have faith in God regardless of how dark things look.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God The perilous times spoken of in God’s Word (2 Timothy 3:1-17) are a call not to retreat or to retrench, but rather to advance. Days of terror and peril and danger such as we face today are days of opportunity for us to spread the good news of the gospel.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God The Lord calls us to be witnesses unto Him right out among the people (Acts 1:8). We are not to seek a hole to hide in, but seek someone to whom we may witness.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 5:16).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Face Every Situation With Faith In God In this darkening hour, face all problems in full reliance upon God’s faithfulness. No situation, no condition, involved, unknown, untried, dark and dangerous circumstance or combination of circumstances--is too hard for God. He knows all things.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God And He cares for us (1 Peter 5:7; 1 John 3:20). Nothing is too hard for God (Jeremiah 32:17). With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). It is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God

Never face difficult and involved tasks and circumstances in a fearful attitude of mind or heart, as though God had gone off and left us, as though He had lost His power and His wisdom and His Almightiness, as though He were not our Faithful Creator, who in His love, has already shown and manifested His compassion for us by giving His only begotten Son to die a cruel death for us (1 Peter 4:12-19; Romans 8:26-39).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God" (Phil. 4:6).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Live Right "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the Name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment" (1 John 3:21-23).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Look not at the walled cities and the giants in the land, but rather look above it all and see God smiling down upon us and reassuring us that He has given us the land, and we are to go in and possess it by His help! (Numbers, chapter 13; Deuteronomy 1:8-30).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Fear Not God told us "Fear not" (Luke 8:50). Let us then watchfully and wholeheartedly obey this command of our Master. Let us hate and abhor fear and unbelief even more than we abhor filth. "Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good" (Romans 14:23). "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Therefore feed on the Word of God. Meditate on His Word (Psalm 1).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Realize that our soul needs nourishment as well as our body. Take time, make time, use time for reading and also for meditating on God’s Word, that you may know His will, and that you may be strong to do His will!

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Feed on God’s Word far more than you do on natural food for the body. Meditate on God’s Word and on what God says about things far, exceedingly far, more than on what the newspapers say, or what the radio says, or what anybody or any creature says.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God Trust God In The Dark Abraham waited for years in faith for Isaac to be born. So we may need to learn to keep on believing though answers to prayer may be delayed. We may need to learn to trust God in the dark. "Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and stay upon his God" (Isaiah 50:10). Does not a child have to learn to trust his parents in the dark? How much more then shall we who are saved, who are born-again, who have repented of our sins and are washed in Jesus’ blood, who have believed on the Son of God for full and free salvation--how much more shall we trust in our Almighty Heavenly Father even though He calls us to walk sometimes in the dark.

Face The Future With Faith In Your God “seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33).

Face The Future With Faith In Your God