Pushing Through a Plague

When you are plagued by a persistent problem—one that goes on and on—view it as a rich opportunity. An ongoing problem is like a tutor who is always by your side. The learning possibilities are limited only by your willingness to be teachable. In faith, thank Me for your problem. Ask Me to open your eyes and your heart to all that I am accomplishing through this difficulty. Once you have become grateful for a problem, it loses its power to drag you down. On the contrary, your thankful attitude will lift you up into heavenly places with Me. From this perspective, your difficulty can be seen as a slight, temporary distress that is producing for you a transcendent Glory never to cease!

Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” —Isaiah 30:20–21

For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!]. —2 Corinthians 4:17
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It is hard to be thankful for our problems, sicknesses, injuries and trials; however God uses these "plagues" to helps us grow and teach us lessons. Once we become grateful for these things the Devil will see he has been defeated and God has prevailed within us.

Having this gratefulness will also lift our attitudes and the image of God that we display as followers of Christ. When we let the Devil defeat us, we are not showing nonfollowers that our God is almighty and powerful. So if you have a plague in your life today, be thankful that you know our God will help you overcome and defeat it, because He is the strong and powerful and He will give us all of His glory.