When adversity comes, it can make you or break you.  When this happens you must dig deep for your faith, strength, courage and wisdom.  Feelings of dark depression and defeat are the way the enemy can set up you up to give up.

Sometimes life will flip the script and you can find yourself in situations you never thought you would be in.  Life can change without your permission.  Your health, business, family, relationships, money or job can take a turn. When adversity comes, it can make you or break you. When this happens you must dig deep for your faith, strength, courage and wisdom.  Some things you may be able to cope with and some things will change you forever. There are some things you'll never understand and they will remain a mystery.  Some days you may feel tired, vulnerable, afraid and have doubts. Some days you may feel unstoppable, confident, blessed and wanna shout! It's a choice to rejoice in spite of what you are going through. It's a choice to see the positive in spite of all the negativity around you.

It's a choice to remain loving, responsible, hopeful, faithful and productive. It's a choice to get up, open the curtains, stretch your body, breathe in peace, say a prayer, listen to some uplifting music and walk and talk it out and over with God. 

Whatever you're going through you can choose to be bitter or get better.  No matter what you're going through...remember God is using you.  For the battle is not yours...it's the Lord's.  You can choose to whine, wish, weep, worry and wait. Or you can take a stand that you will not be defeated...discouraged maybe, but not defeated. Delayed maybe, but not defeated.

You can say "Hallelujah any how!"

You can make up your mind to stay out of the despair of darkness and choose to stay in the light. Stay in the light to see your blessings. Stay in the light to see the truth. Instead of stumbling in the dark, stay in the light so you can see the next step you should take. Stay in the light to feel the warmth of God's love and tender mercies. Life does not promise us days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain. But God promises you strength for the day, comfort for your tears, joy in the morning and light for your way.

"Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain,to the place where you dwell." - Psalm 43:3

Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." ~ John 8:12

"The LORD is my light and my salvation, so why should I be afraid?

The LORD protects me from danger, so why should I tremble?" ~ Psalm 27:1

"Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path." ~ Psalm 119:105

When you walk in darkness you have no idea what you are stumbling over. ~ Proverbs 4:19-27

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