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“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of JOY.” —Job 8:21 (NIV)
9a Two are better than one…10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. —Ecclesiastes 4:9a-10 (NIV)
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. —Matthew 5:15 (KJV)
12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.” 13 Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.” 14 And the Lord looked at him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” 15 But he said to Him, “O Lord, how am I to save Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” 16 Yet the Lord said to him, “I will certainly be with you, and you will defeat Midian as one man.” —Judges 6:12-16 (NASB)
1. Realize that sometimes God uses tough times to get our attention.
2. Believe that God’s doing something, even when you can’t see it.
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. —Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV)
3. Take steps to be in God’s presence.
4. Break free from your past.