Walking Through the Valleys of Life

In this life, we face trials & tribulations. We are constantly exposed to a range of strains and stresses. However, we can learn from several strategies to lesson the load:

1. Learn from trials and suffering. They can help us learn new skills. Learning is done best through difficult circumstances and experiences.
2. Count your blessings. When we focus on pain, we often forget how good life has been to us. Paul said we should always be thankful (Phil 4:6). The results of giving thanks is always a “peace which surpasses all understanding” (Verse 7).
3. Don’t be a prisoner of your suffering. Severe trials can cause emotional paralysis. We need to remain active because inactivity further devastates morale. Look for activities that will keep you engaged, either mentally or physically.
4. Find someone with whom you can share your load. Many people undergoing severe trials make the mistake of trying to handle them alone. We need human contact. “Two are better than one….But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)
5. Break the trial into bite=sized bits. When your difficulty or workload is daunting, divide it into manageable chores.
6. Take life one day at a time. People battling depression, emotional struggles and difficulties in general often share a self=defeating mind-set. Their emotions tell them their trial will never end. We need to adopt an attitude that realizes that this trial, too, shall pass – as most difficulties do. Adopt the psalmist’s perspective: “This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Pslam 118:24).
7. Don’t be frustrated by trifling issues. Learn to put minor problems behind you and make decisions of lesser importance with a minimum of stress and worry.
8. Eat a balanced, nourishing diet. Our bodied and minds are much less able to deal with stress and difficulties if we do not provide them with the necessary nutrients.
9. Exercise regularly. Proper exercise relieves stress, provides a feeling of well-being and helps us sleep better – all of which are important for our contentment and mental stability.
10. Provide yourself with regular rest and relaxation. God commanded that we rest every week on the Sabbath day. We also need relaxing time on a daily basis.
11. Develop a sense of humor. “A cheerful heart is good medicine (Proverbs 17:22). Humor helps us rise above stresses. Laughter truly is effective medicine.
12. Realize that ultimately all things are in God’s able hands. David urges us to “commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him..” (Psalm 37:5).

7 UPS IN YOUR LIFE

1. Prayer-Up – start each day with prayer and end each day with prayer. Satan is coming as a roaring lion to devour us. Pray in the spirit on all occasions. Put on the full armour of God.

2. Show-Up – Places that you are going or things that you do. It is a difference between a good idea and a “God Idea”. Show up where you belong.

3. Hush-Up – Incline your ears to my saying. If you listen to God’s words, it becomes life and spirit

4. Speak-Up – Speak to the mountain of your life. It is time to change the way we say. Stop speaking death to your neighbours. Speak life and it brings it into discipline and submission to authority. Speak the Word of God. As you speak God’s Word, things will begin to change.

5. Cheer-Up – Our attitude determines our altitude. Some of the issues are financial and depression. Satan is using the situations to destroy, torment and torture God’s people. Begin to choose this day whom you will serve. Call upon Him to change the situations around.

6. Look-Up – look up to the hills where cometh your help. Sometimes you get too low. Be careful whom you are looking up too.

7. Hook-Up – Phil 4:13-19, Join partnership with God. Be careful whom you tie with – your body, mind and emotions. If you get hook-up with God, you are joint partakers with God. You have all rich things to enjoy.

Acts 1:8

Acts 1:8 - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

How to have the power in your life?

1. If you want power, you get to know the one who has the power. Do not leave the source of power. Get hook up to the power source and your life will be changed. Many times we go to the wrong place to get the power.

2. Get to know what He says and what He is saying. So that when Satan attacks you, you can raise up a standard based on His Word. You must have His words in the garden of your heart. Prayer and knowing His Word so that you can operate your life effectively. Do you ever face situations that you do not know what to do. Well seek God, read His Word and He will reveal to you what you should do.

3. Expects a new miracle everyday. Do not just expect miracles, but lets expect a new miracle everyday. Profess this and live in a constant state of expectancy. What is it that you believe in God for. It’s time to believe God. It’s time to stand up and proclaim that I am expecting a miracle everyday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. The scripture says that you have not because you ask not. The Lord says the earth is mine and the fullness thereof. No demon can stand in the power of God. Stand on the Word of God. It is time to stand up for something. It’s time to expect a miracle. We shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.