BIBLICAL VIEW | PROBLEMS (5)

1. Introduction

a) Kept awake at night?

b) Can't sleep?

c) Problems are roadblocks that create emotional conflicts that force us to find a resolution.

d) They can be seemingly overwhelming situations almost beyond our ability to deal with, requiring great effort to bear or overcome. They can be simple or complicated, self inflicted or caused entirely by the actions or attitudes of others.

2. Facing an overwhelming situation, we do this...

a) When evaluating a task or challenge, we so often are influenced by what we see.

Numbers 13:27-28 New Living Translation (NLT)

²⁷ This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. ²⁸ But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!

b) Instead of trusting GOD, we so often see and recognize the difficulties and this gets in the way of success

3. What's the "bottom line?"

a) Learn and grow. Be a fast learner that GOD's way is always the best way to go, and get things done.

Romans 5:3-4 New Living Translation (NLT)

³ We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. ⁴ And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁸ We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. ⁹ In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. ¹⁰ And he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and he will continue to rescue us.