Gò0dNews from the Pastor’s Desk
Trials Into Blessings
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by James Whaley
ou can turn your trials into blessings—if you
believe also in me. In my father's house are many
have the right ingredients.
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I
Are you familiar with the phrase, “When
go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare
life gives you lemons, turn it into lemonade”? Sounds
a place for you, I will come again and receive you
simple, doesn’t it? However, you have to know the
unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
right ingredients to add to the lemons to turn them into lemonade.
As a Christian, our goal is to enter into Heaven when this journey called life ends, but only through believing who Jesus is and accepting Him as our Savior is that possible. In Romans 10:9-10, Paul tells us, “That if thou shalt confess with the mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Many years ago at an oldfashioned altar, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. It felt as if a tremendous weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I had never experienced anything like that before, and I could not
The same thing is true with our everyday lives. We must know what ingredients are necessary to
wait to tell everyone what Jesus did for me. I pray you will begin to search the Scriptures
avoid being overtaken with fear, anxiety, depression,
and find out what ingredients are missing in your
oppression, or sin.
life so you can overcome your everyday challenges
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 tells us four things:
and experience the joy and peace that can only
1. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
come through knowing Jesus Christ as your
2. We are perplexed, but not in despair.
personal Savior.
3. We are persecuted, but not forsaken. John 14:1-4 are some of my favorite Scriptures: “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God,
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About The Author
4. We are cast down, but not destroyed. Pastor James Whaley and his wife Wanda live in Dalton and have been ministering and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ for over 40 years.
