December 1, 2024 – Trusting God’s Higher Ways in Dark Days
Isaiah 55:8-9
Sermon: 2321 Give Thanks in Tough Times
Pray Over This
“‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”
Isaiah 55:8-9
Ponder This
How many of you would like the Spirit of glory and God to rest on you? How many of you want a fiery trial? Many of us cringe at the thought of trials. We do not want troubles or hardship, but what if those trials could be the Spirit at work in and through us? Stephen was stoned for the testimony of Jesus Christ, but while he was being stoned, the Bible says that his face shone like the face of an angel. The Spirit of glory and of God was on him. When those three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were in the fiery furnace and the old king looked in there and said, “We only threw three dudes in there. I see four, and ‘the fourth is like the Son of God’” (see Daniel 3:25). The Spirit of glory was there with them.
Now, if your trouble, your heartache, your pain, causes you to know this glory, then for God’s glory, can you not thank God for it?
When we face hardship, there are some things we’ll never know. There are some things that some preachers may never be able to explain to you. Why? Because God says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.” He can work in ways that don’t make sense to us. He can use things that we could never imagine or never want to happen to bring us back to relying on Him.
- What does it look like to trust God in the trials you face?
- How have you seen God at work in trials you have faced or witnessed?
Practice This
Ask a friend to share a testimony about how he or she has seen God at work in a trial.
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