Patient Endurance

GodTracker 904

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“They learned to count it all joy when they fell into various trials, knowing that the testing of their faith produced patience.”

Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise

In his book, God’s Hostage, Andrew Brunson tells of his ordeal of being arrested in Turkey and imprisoned in high-security prisons for 735 days on false trumped-up charges of terrorism and espionage. During his time in prison, Andrew, a Christian missionary to Turkey, suffered not only the effects of incarceration but also the persistent question, “Why has God allowed this to happen to me?”

Andrew suffered a crisis of faith, slumping into severe depression with suicidal ambitions. Where was God? Why was he not being proven innocent, as he was? Towards the end of his book, after relaying his fears and anxieties, Andrew Brunson describes how he came to a place of surrender, learning to trust God with patient endurance.

God’s word exhorts us to lay aside every weight and sin which so easily ensnares us and run with endurance the race that is set before us. Andrew’s race was not a smooth well controlled track sprint, his race was an enduring cross-country marathon, thwart by pain-inflicting obstacles and barriers. In his book he is blatantly honest about his weakness and fear, yet, by the grace of God (and remember, grace is God’s doing), he endured and immerged with stronger faith than when he began his race.

Whatever race you face today, whatever barriers or challenges to your faith you may be enduring, be encouraged to stand strong, attired in the whole armour of God. Apostle Paul writes how he was imprisoned for his faith yet he asks the church to pray for him that he may continue to boldly proclaim the mystery of the gospel for which he was in chains. He, like Andrew Brunson, learned to count it all joy when he fell into various trials, knowing that the testing of his faith produced patience.

God-tracking is patiently enduring hard times.

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Hebrews 12:1
Ephesians 6:10-20
James 1:2-4

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“I give you my dash, O Lord. Help me make it count.”

“Dear God, I often ask the question why… why do you allow me to endure such difficulties, why do bad things happen to good people? But I realise now that your hand is on me and you will never leave my side. Thank you, Lord, for your faithful love – your love endures my hardship. Help me to be patient in trials. Help me to stand strong in the Armour of God and come out victorious, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

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GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith.

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GOD-TRACKING IS NEVER LOSING HOPE IN GOD’S GOOD PLANS

GodTracker 698The e-devotional helping to keep you on-track with God’s plans for your life
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“Dear God-tracker, God has an ambition to bless you and fill your life with good things. His plans for you are wonderful!”

Romans 8:28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose

This e-devotional is founded on the fact that God knows the plans he has for us. In Jeremiah chapter 29 we read that famous verse that says God’s plans are for welfare and not for evil; to give us a future and a hope. In Romans 8 we’re told that, for those who are called according to God’s plans, all things work together for the good. And in Hebrews 11 it says, “Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” We seek God by faith and faith solidifies that hope spoken of by Jeremiah. I believe it is safe to say that, as a loving Father, God desires what is good for his children.

When Jeremiah prophesied about God’s plans for welfare and hope, he was speaking to his people who had been taken captive by the Babylonians. At the time, I could well imagine, Jeremiah’s flock thinking, “A future and a hope? We’ve been dragged away from our homeland, and he prophesies prosperity?” But God’s plan was to test his people and bring them to a place of complete surrender and dependence on him. God’s plan was always to bless his people, but their hearts had grown cold and complacent. One generation later, after Babylonian exile, God fulfilled his promise and brought his beloved back to the Promised Land.

Dear God-tracker, God has an ambition to bless you and fill your life with good things. His plans for you are wonderful! He wants to meet your needs, grant you the desires of your heart and prosper you. Yes, prosper you! However, as you read this thought, you may say, “I don’t feel very prosperous today. My hope has waned, and my future seems bleak.” But your Lord says, “I know the plans I have for you. Plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Weeping endures for a night, but joy comes in the morning. After the difficulty will come the deliverance. (I have discovered that those God calls, he tests.) He is your source and your resource. He will restore the years the locusts have devoured. What you have sowed in tears you will reap with joy. So, continue to acknowledge the Lord in all your ways and keep your eyes on Jesus. God knows the plans he has for you!

God-tracking is never losing hope in God’s good plans

READ ALL ABOUT ITJeremiah 29:11Hebrews 11:1,6Psalm 37:4Psalm 1:1-31 Peter 5:10-11Psalm 30:4-6Joel 2:23-26Psalm 126

DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

By faith, I put my confidence for things hoped for, squarely in your sovereign benevolence

“Dear Father, thank you for your promise to give me a future filled with hope and abundance. I admit to any sin and wrongdoing in my life – apathy, indifference, immorality, bad habits, idolatry – and seek your forgiveness, O Lord. I realise that these trials have been sent to test and prove me for the great plans you have for my future. I totally surrender myself to you in spirit, soul and flesh, and seek first your kingdom and your righteousness. By faith, I put my confidence for things hoped for, squarely in your sovereign benevolence. Thank you for the good things that you have planned for my life. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS TRUSTING GOD’S PLANS THROUGH THICK AND THIN

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GodTracker 602
The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track
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06 October 2016

Dear God-tracker

GOD-TRACKING IS TRUSTING GOD’S PLANS THROUGH THICK AND THIN

Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.

Joseph sat in a pool of gloom on the grimy floor of the king’s dungeon. It had been months since he’d interpreted the dreams of the king’s baker and cup-bearer, who had been imprisoned some time after he had. His dreams had come true. The baker had been executed while the cup-bearer was set free and reinstated to his position. This man had promised to put in a good word in for Joseph, but he had obviously forgotten.

Joseph’s mind wondered back to his own dreams, which he’d had many years previously. He believed the dreams had implied that God would promote him and cause him to become a man of influence. However, his brothers were jealous of him and had sold him into slavery. Finally ending up in an important servant in the household of an important man in Egypt, Joseph thought he might be on the road to success, but now this. “Adonai, why am I still here?” he moaned. “The cup-bearer promised he would get me out of here but here I am, still in prison.” Just then he heard the guard approach and keys clanging against the metal of dungeon gate. “Get up,” said the man. “The king has had a disturbing dream and was told you have the power to interpret dreams. He wants to see you. You’re free.”

We all know the story of how Joseph went on to interpret Pharaoh’s dreams, warning against a the coming of a 7-year drought. Pharaoh promotes him and he becomes the second most important person of all of Egypt.

God had a reason for Joseph to be sold into slavery. God had a reason for Joseph to be wrongly accused of rape and thrown into prison. God had a reason for every seeming setback that Joseph endured. If Joseph was not sold into slavery and thrown into prison he would not have interpreted the king’s dreams. If Joseph had not interpreted these dreams he would not have prevented people from dying from the drought, including his own family. If Joseph did not save his family, his brother Judah would have died. If Judah had died his descendant, Jesus would never have been crucified for the sins of the world. If Jesus was never crucified for sin, you and I would be lost today!

God had a plan for Joseph, even through his trials and God has a plan for you, through yours. Joseph was refined in tribulation, like silver in the crucible, to become the one who preserved the lineage of Jesus Christ. God knows the plans he has to refine you through your difficulties that you may be the one to fulfil his great purposes for those around you.

God-tracking is trusting God’s plans through thick and thin

Blessings

Dudley

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Help me have patience to wait for your plans to come to fruition, while I am refined through this tribulation

Pray
“Oh Lord, sometimes I feel like Joseph in the pit of the king’s dungeon. I know you have spoken to me and given me promises for the future but it seems as though I’m never going to realise these promises. I feel like I’m in a furnace being refined by fire. But I know that even pure silver and gold are contaminated with impurities that only float to the surface when they are placed under intense heat. I ask you, therefore, to refine me through this crucible of difficulty so that you may scoop off the dross in me that comes to the surface. Thank you for the great plans you have for me. Help me have patience to wait for your plans to come to fruition, while I am refined through this tribulation. Amen.”

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail devotional based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His word calls us to seek his will by acknowledging him in all our ways and tracking this plans in faith.

GodTracker owes its origins to an international Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, On Track. Although On Track went off-air in 2005, GodTracker has continued to help people to track God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.

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