No one told you life was simple, that life was going to be easy. BUT it's a good thing the Lord gave us an instruction manual! Every time I read His Word and His promises, He begins to reveal the answers to life. He hasn't left us on this Earth with no idea what to do, He loves us too much.
1. PRAYER
If you've ever heard or been told that "prayer is the most powerful thing," whoever told you that was absolutely right.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." -Matthew 7:7-8
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." -Matthew 21:22
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." -Mark 11:24
2. FORGIVENESS
Without forgiveness where would we be? He loves us enough to forgive us for the sins and mistakes we constantly make. What's not fair is having the most perfect God to die a horrible death for all of our faults and sins. What would be fair is death, for all of us as sinners. But thankfully Jesus came and saved us from the wrath we really deserve.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." -1 John 1:9
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace." -Ephesians 1:7
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" -2 Corinthians 5:17
3. FAITH
Faith is the reason for everything. The reason to believe. The reason our Father, Savior, Lord, and Messiah wants to have a relationship with us, wants to be with us, guide us, help us, and love us. He's the reason for all of it. The reason we find light in the darkness, peace in the restless, hope in the hopeless.
"He replied, 'Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.'" -Matthew 17:20
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." -2 Corinthians 4:16-18
"Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.'” -Mark 10:27
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