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God Can Minister His Grace To You In Life’s Hard Places!

Mitch Horton

Apr 9, 2021
2 min

God Can Minister His Grace To You In Life’s Hard Places!

From the end of the earth I will cry to You, when my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For You have been a shelter for me, a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. For You, O God, have heard my vows; You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name (Psalm 61:2-5). Life in a fallen world sometimes brings challenges, hurt, and pain. At times we face situations that

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Mitch Horton

Mar 26, 2021
3 min

Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

ut as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive (Genesis 50:20). When facing a severe trial of long duration, it’s important to keep perspective. Joseph spent many years bearing the repercussions of his brother’s misdeeds. Though he spent years of suffering shame and mockery in prison, the end result for Joseph was blessing, honor, and favor. Joseph turned his stumbling block meant to

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Determine To Get The Most Out Of The Hard Places Life Brings

Mitch Horton

Mar 25, 2021
2 min

Determine To Get The Most Out Of The Hard Places Life Brings

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way (James 1:2-4 –The Message). Tests and difficulties are part of life on this planet. None of us are immune from hardship. Walking by faith doesn’t promise freed

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Choose To See Tough Places As Friends That Help You Grow

Mitch Horton

Dec 17, 2020
4 min

Choose To See Tough Places As Friends That Help You Grow

When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my brothers, don’t resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realize that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men [and women] of mature character with the right sort of independence (James 1:2-4-J.B. Phillips). If we have the right attitude, then every challenge

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Let Your Faith Meet Every Challenge Life brings You!

Mitch Horton

Dec 15, 2020
2 min

Let Your Faith Meet Every Challenge Life brings You!

For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them (Mark 11:24). As we get closer to the end of the age, it’s more important than ever to walk by faith. Our

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What Is Your Attitude Like in Life’s Tough Places?

Mitch Horton

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

What Is Your Attitude Like in Life’s Tough Places?

The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper (Genesis 39:23). Joseph is an example of the attitude we should have when things go awry in our lives. As a teenager, God gave him a vision of himself as a leader. This vision changed how Joseph saw himself, and affected everything he did. Because he saw himself as an overcomer, he rose above every problem he encou

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Reaping The Benefits From The Current Challenges

Mitch Horton

Mar 21, 2020
2 min

Reaping The Benefits From The Current Challenges

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way (James 1:2-4 –The Message). Tests and difficulties are part of life on this planet. None of us are immune from hardship. Walking by faith doesn’t promise freed

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We Can Endure Every Challenge With Confidence!

Mitch Horton

Mar 18, 2020
3 min

We Can Endure Every Challenge With Confidence!

No, I have learned in whatever condition I am, to be independent of circumstances. I am schooled to bear the depths of poverty, and I am schooled to bear abundance. In life as a whole, and all its circumstances, I have mastered the secret of living – how to be the same amidst repletion and starvation, amidst abundance and privation. I am equal to every lot through the help of Him who gives me inward strength (Philippians 4:11 – A.S. Way Translation). As we grow and mature spi

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Navigate Life’s Hard Places With God’s Word!

Mitch Horton

Jan 3, 2020
5 min

Navigate Life’s Hard Places With God’s Word!

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and i

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Life’s Tough Places Can Be Like A Friend That Helps You Grow

Mitch Horton

Dec 18, 2019
4 min

Life’s Tough Places Can Be Like A Friend That Helps You Grow

When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my brothers, don’t resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realize that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men [and women] of mature character with the right sort of independence (James 1:2-4-J.B. Phillips). If we have the right attitude, then every challenge

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Make Sure You Keep Your Faith In God Strong!

Mitch Horton

Sep 13, 2018
3 min

Make Sure You Keep Your Faith In God Strong!

And He said to them, be careful what you are hearing. The measure of thought and study you give to the truth you hear will be the measure of virtue and knowledge that comes back to you — and more besides will be given to you who hear (Mark 4:24 –Amplified). According to 1 John 5:4, it’s our faith that will help us navigate through life’s tough places: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Since that is

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Mitch Horton

Jul 12, 2018
3 min

Don’t Despise Life’s Hard Places!

On every side I am ever hard pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair, always being persecuted, but never deserted, always getting a knockdown, but never a knockout! (2 Corinthians 4:8 – Williams) Tough times are a result of us living in a fallen world. None of us are immune. Jesus told to be of good cheer when we face pressure. James tells us to count it pure joy when we fall into all kinds of tests and trials. J.B. Phillips Translat

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God Is Able To Finish What He Started In You!

Mitch Horton

Jul 11, 2018
3 min

God Is Able To Finish What He Started In You!

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns (Phil 1:6 – NLT). This verse has been a great encouragement to me over the years. Discouragement and disappoint affect us all at times. At one point in my life, it seemed as though all that the Lord had done in my life was for nothing. The enemy attacked me with discouragement as I looked back at where I had been and then look

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Learn To Encourage Yourself When You’re In A Tough Place!

Mitch Horton

Jun 19, 2018
3 min

Learn To Encourage Yourself When You’re In A Tough Place!

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God (1 Samuel 30:6). David and his men came home from a battle to find their wives and children missing, and their city burned. His men blamed him for what happened and wanted to stone him. Even his friends and best buddies turned against him. But David found a way to k

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Mitch Horton

May 3, 2018
2 min

Life’s Tough Places Make You Stronger!

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:17-18). When you’re going through a rough place in life, these verses contain some wisdom for the fight. Realize that the tough place is only temporary, and if yo

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Mitch Horton

Feb 3, 2018
3 min

Time Tests Faith!

Until the time that His word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him (Psalm 105:19). The above scripture refers to Joseph having a dream of leading his family and it taking 13 years for the dream to happen. The time between God speaking and God’s word to Joseph through the dream being fulfilled was a great time of testing. His brothers sold Joseph into slavery. Joseph was unjustly imprisoned, yet he refused to see himself as a victim of circumstance. He chose to keep hi

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Mitch Horton

Dec 13, 2017
3 min

Are You Willing To Be Challenged Because Of What You Believe?

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world (1 John 4:1-3). The s

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Mitch Horton

Nov 25, 2017
3 min

Life’s Hard Places Help Us Grow

You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself (Exodus 19:4). As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the Lord alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him (Deut 32:11-12). An eagle must lead his young to maturity or they will die. The baby eaglet is helpless at birth and must be fed and cared for by its mother. High in a nest

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Mitch Horton

Nov 7, 2017
2 min

Learn To Live Independently Of Your Circumstances!

It is not that I speak as regards a need, for, so far as I am concerned, I have come to learn, in the circumstances in which I am placed, to be independent of these and self-sufficient. I know in fact how to discipline myself in lowly circumstances. I know in fact how to conduct myself when I have more than enough. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret, both to be satiated and to be hungry, and to have more than enough and to lack. I am strong for all thin

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Mitch Horton

Jul 3, 2017
2 min

Respond To Challenges Today With “It Is Written!”

Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one (Ephesians 6:16). It’s the shield of faith that quenches all the fiery darts that the enemy throws at you. We need to remind ourselves regularly that we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the dark hosts of Satan. He has a legal right to rule over the unsaved and will also assert his influence over believers who don’t know and act on the Word. Jesus

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