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From Trouble to Double
We all face difficulties and things that are not fair—someone walks out of a relationship, you have a financial setback, a dishonest coworker makes you look bad and gets the promotion you deserve. But God sees everything you go through. He doesn’t keep you from all the trouble, but when trouble comes, instead of being upset, today’s Scripture says that just qualified you for double what you had before—twice the joy, twice the resources, twice the influence. God never brings you out the same. He makes the enemy pay for bringing the difficulty.

When you understand this principle of hope, you won’t live bitter when people do you wrong; you won’t give up on your dreams because something unfair happens. You know that it’s setting you up for something greater. The coworker who thought he was hurting you didn’t realize he just qualified you for double. Without that financial setback, you wouldn’t see the blessing and favor that you’re going to see. Yes, it’s painful when a friend betrays you, but instead of living discouraged, you know it will open the door to other great relationships.

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Winter Always Gives Way to Spring
You may be in a winter season, not seeing the favor, the growth, or the fruit you’ve seen in the past. None of us like to go through difficulties, but when you understand that without the winter you can’t see greater growth, greater fruit, then you don’t complain. Instead, you say, “Lord, thank You that I can do this season of taking care of my elderly parents, or when I’m not being treated right at work, or when I’m dealing with this illness.” Like a tree in winter, you’re gathering up sap, getting stronger. Your character is being developed; you’re learning to trust God in a greater way. You wouldn’t be in winter if God didn’t have something bigger coming. The fact that your branches are bare is a sure sign that increase is coming.

You have to know that winter always gives way to spring. God is about to do a new thing. This spring season is going to bring great joy, great favor, great health, great relationships. It’s going to be favor, opportunity, and influence greater than you could imagine.

What Really Matters
The enemy would love to get us so distracted that we start fighting battles that don’t matter. You don’t have time to waste responding to people who throw insults at you, who are never going to be for you, who are determined to misunderstand you. They don’t like the favor on your life. They don’t like the fact that you’re happy, you’re blessed, you’re successful. Don’t spend your valuable time trying to retaliate. The enemy wouldn’t be having them trying to tear down your dignity if he didn’t know you were a world changer, a history maker, a giant killer. Ignore the insults. Don’t read the negative comments. Don’t dwell on what they say. Leave it alone. If you try to straighten everyone out and convince every critic to change their mind, to make them like you, you won’t have the energy, the strength, the creativity, and the anointing to do what God has called you to do. Let God deal with them. Life is too short, your time too valuable, and your assignment too important to spend it on things that don’t matter.

The Joy of the Lord
We all go through disappointments and unfair things. When you’re dealing with an illness, raising a difficult child, or going through a stressful season at work, it’s easy to get discouraged and let the pressures of life weigh you down to where you live with a heaviness that sours your attitude. We think, “Once I get through this, I’ll be happy again and have a good attitude.” But the Scripture says that the joy of the Lord is your strength. Joy is the inner strength that comes from God breathing on your life, sustaining you, empowering you, and causing you to overcome.

That’s why the enemy is out to steal your joy. He knows that if you’ve lost your passion and joy, and everything’s heavy, you won’t be able to stand strong and outlast the opposition or life’s pressures and frustrations. If he can keep you discouraged, upset over who did you wrong, burdened down by a medical report, he’ll be able to keep you defeated. You’re waiting for God to change things, but God is saying, “If you get your joy back, strength will come.”

Through the Dark Valley
Some days feel very dark and can be frightening. News reports of accidents, violent crimes, wars, viruses, and inflation shake us to the core and strike fear and uncertainty. There are enemy forces that would love for us to shrink back and change—from peaceful to panic, from trusting to troubled, from knowing that God is on the throne to fearing what lies ahead.

As David said, we all will face some dark valleys, some shadowy days when someone does us wrong and walks away, or a medical report is not good, or a child goes off course. But when fear knocks, you have to answer with faith as he did. David dared to declare, “When darkness comes, I will not give in to a spirit of fear and let it change who I am. I’m walking through this valley and not stopping here.” He refused to get stuck in anxiety and stress, letting negative images play in his mind, rehearsing disappointments, hurts, and heartaches. Those images may come, but you can’t let them keep playing. You have to switch over into faith.

In the Middle of a Miracle
When we think of miracles, we think of when God suddenly turns things around. Jesus touched the blind man, and his eyes were opened. Moses held up his staff, and the Red Sea parted. But not all miracles are instantaneous. Sometimes we’re praying and believing, but our health isn’t improving or our dream isn’t coming to pass. You may think, “God, why aren’t You doing something?” You don’t realize that God is sustaining you, pushing back forces of darkness, keeping you from getting discouraged and giving up. You’re in the middle of a miracle, but you can’t always see it. It’s the miracle of endurance. One day you’ll look back and think, “How did I make it through that season when I didn’t think I had the strength to go on?” God didn’t deliver you from it, but He gave you the grace to go through it. Without His hand of protection, favor, and blessing, you wouldn’t be where you are. We love instantaneous miracles, but it’s no less of a miracle when God takes you through what should have taken you out.

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5 Carters Road
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Are You Asking and Asking?
What are you believing for? It might be to accomplish a dream, to meet the right person, or for your health to turn around. You’ve prayed, believed, stood in faith, but it hasn’t happened yet. Sometimes we want it so badly and are so determined that we keep asking and asking, “God, You have to turn this around. Please heal my child. Please give me this good break.” But here’s the key: Once you pray, you don’t have to ask again. From then on, you need to thank God that it’s on the way. Take Him at His word.

Jesus says that when you pray, believe that you have received it at that moment. Believe that God is so faithful that He set the miracle into motion, that in the unseen realm angels are dispatched with your healing, your breakthrough, your freedom. Believe that it happened right then. If you receive when you believe, if you already have it by faith, you don’t have to keep asking for it. You have to switch over from asking to thanking God, expecting that it’s on the way.