Train your eyes to see what is Good!

         

 Trusting God in all Crisis come!

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it will come to him. (Proverbs 11:27) Train your eyes to see evidence of God's presence, not evidence of His absence. If you are looking for God's absence. You will conclude that this world is a God-forsaken place! On the other hand, if you are looking for evidence of His presence, you will soon see that He is with us even in the darkest of moments.

Cultivate a spirit of gratefulness, regardless of your circumstance. Not just when things are going your way, but in everything! Grateful attitudes never develop automatically. We must cultivate them and train them according to God's directions, must cultivate them and train them according to God's directions, much like programming a computer. If we set ourselves up with the right programming, we will get the right results. Wrong programming, wrong results. No programming, no result, the good news is we can program our attitudes with gratitude so that we can reap wonderful result.

You see, gratefulness is a spirit, an attitude, not a response to gifts and favors given to you. Learn the secret of being thankful for what God has already done for you. Regardless of how things may appear to you right now. Cultivate this spirit before you receive any favors, before you win the sweepstakes, before someone is kind to you.

When you encounter obstacles, you will discover things about yourself that you never knew. You will also find out what you really believe. Every problem introduces a person to him. Challenges makes you stretch, they make you go beyond the norm. Turning an obstacle to your advantages is the first toward victory.

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. 

                                                                                                                   Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn to Enjoy the Ride.

One of the ways the Lord has trained my heart to cultivate gratefulness is by teaching me to enjoy this ride called life. There are going to be challenges and hills to climb on this journey. That's a given. Once you know that hills and trials will always be there, you will be able to expect them and no longer be surprised by them, which will free you up and enable you to enjoy the ride. Its hard but you need to overcome all the challenge that you experience because failure is part of learning. 

Jithro Alesna
International Teams Philippines
Impact Digital World