The Day of Trouble

Your shortest walk in life is your walk into trouble. You try to avoid it, steer around it, evade it, but it always finds its way into your path. I admit that trouble times can be stressful, but it is also the gateway to discovering the Power of God.

We can never truly understand God's power to deliver if we have never experienced trouble. How can we know the healing power of Almighty God is we have never been sick? When need or lack comes into our lives, that is when we have the opportunity to exercise faith for the provision we desperately need.

We know through the Word of God that Jesus is a friend that will stick closer than a brother. But that truth comes to life when we have wept long nights because our fellowship with others has been broken. We come to know that God is a mender of broken hearts, and a restorer of lost hope.

Countless are the souls God has delivered from the chains of alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual perversion and demonic afflictions. They know His stripes heal, and He brings beauty out of ashes. They found this truth out in the day of their trouble.

Trouble is an asset that puts you in position to discover God's power in a personal way. God cannot answer prayers that aren't prayed. He said in Psalms 50:15, "Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you and you shall glorify me." Did you get that? God says "HE WILL" deliver in the day of trouble when you call on Him. He didn't say call Preacher So and So or Sister So and So. He said call Him. That doesn't mean God can't use other people, He can and sometimes does. But I believe that God will move for us if we exercise faith in His Word, and the Word says "Call Him."

Jonah called God from the belly of the whale. It was a day of trouble for him. Elijah called God from a deep dark pit of depression. Most depressed people are so inwardly hostile until they cannot focus on God. But Elijah did, and he called on his God in the day of his trouble. God heard Elijah's prayer and sent angels to minister to him.

God even helped Paul and Silas when they were thrown in prison. He shook the very foundation of the jail and loosed everybody's shackles that attended the meeting that night. If you call God in the day of your trouble, He will heal your broken heart, restore your broken marriage, send your son or daughter back home, and bring a sweet spirit of peace into your home.

God said when we call Him, that He would answer. There is enough power in God's answer to part Red Sea's (Moses), keep the sun from setting (Joshua), take the power from the flames (Hebrew Boys), and shut the mouths of hungry lions (Daniel). Salvation that changes a man's heart is a demonstration of this power. The trouble in the lives of many individuals would improve if their marriage partner or family member received salvation. If that situation is yours, and that is a day of trouble for you, then call God and receive salvation for that loved one.

You cannot escape trouble, but you can have victory in the day of trouble. Jesus was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53), yet He endured it all to deliver us. He uses trouble to develop our trust in His power to help us. He wants us to be strong in Him and in the power of His might. He is there, and He will help us if we call on Him.