Call Unto Me

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Challenges are promotional spiritual exercise, meant to boost our faith in God. At the end of each challenge, lies a mouthwatering next-level breakthrough! 

God did not promise us a challenge-free life,  rather He promised us victory in all our challenges. Every challenge has an expiry date, we only need to remind God (Isaiah 43:26) and this is where prayers come in and what prayers do best. Every challenge has a specific requirement. To know what to do, we need to call unto God.

Jeremiah  33:3 says: "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

From the above scripture, we could clearly see what is required of us to do - to call on God. Those that acknowledge that the presence of God is with them everywhere they go and all the time (Joshua 1:9), are not meant to fear storms but call on Jesus, Luke 8:24. Whom to call in the face of challenges is more important than the challenges themselves. This is where many people miss out. While stuck in dilemma and violent situations of life, do you call on friends, family, the diabolical, or relent on your human abilities? You should call on God!

Psalms 121:1-2 says: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth."

Challenges can force one to look down in shame. When you look down to your challenges and the surrounding consequences you shall see shame. Until you lift up your eyes unto God and focus on Him, sorrows continue. 'Hills' in the above verse represent men in high positions and  authority who are powerful. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man... (Jeremiah 17:5). Look upon the cross at calvary, from where your salvation was bought. 

Hebrews  12:2 says: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Challenges are promotional spiritual exercise, meant to boost our faith in God. At the end of each challenge, lies a mouthwatering next-level breakthrough! This is why we are to call on God for His sufficient grace to persevere till the end. Challenges that come our way are not bigger than us, for greater is He in us than the challenges of our life and he that orchestrated them. Despite their turbulence, with absolute faith in God, they will end with a great calm (2 Thess. 3:16), and will birth awesome testimonies. 

1 Corinthians  10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

God is ever near amidst our toughest challenges. He is faithful to see us through them all, but that is when we trust Him absolutely. Remember, in the wilderness the Israelites were dying from snake bites, but as many as they were that looked unto the raised serpent by Moses, lived those that concentrated on the biting serpent, died. God was teaching them to depend on Him. May God give you understanding and, through the Holy Spirit teach you to trust Him in every situation. 
Jesus is Lord!