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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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What’s Your Attitude In The Tough Situation?

Mitch Horton

Oct 20, 2020
3 min

What’s Your Attitude In The Tough Situation?

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 south 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 enco

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What We Focus On Determines Our Outcome!

Mitch Horton

Mar 30, 2020
2 min

What We Focus On Determines Our Outcome!

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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A Lesson From David On How To Encourage Yourself

Mitch Horton

Mar 24, 2020
4 min

A Lesson From David On How To Encourage Yourself

1 Samuel 30:1-6 (NLT) – Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground. (2) They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone. (3) When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, (4) they wept until they could weep no more. (5) David’s two wiv

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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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Mitch Horton

Oct 15, 2019
3 min

How Is Your Attitude When Life Is Hard?

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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Mitch Horton

Jul 16, 2019
3 min

Don’t Ever Quit!

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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Mitch Horton

May 3, 2019
3 min

A Way To Deal With Life’s Hard Places

No, I have learned in whatever condition I am, to be independent of circumstances. I am schooled to bear the depths of poverty; 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). The less we are ruled by circum

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Mitch Horton

Sep 12, 2018
2 min

God Will 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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You Have Faith For What You Hear Most Often!

Mitch Horton

May 29, 2018
2 min

You Have Faith For What You Hear Most Often!

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). So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). Faith comes by hearing! Faith in God comes by hearing the Word. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 1

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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

May 9, 2017
2 min

Tests and Difficulties Will Work To Your To Your Advantage If You Will Maintain A Right Attitude

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 freedo

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Mitch Horton

Nov 17, 2016
2 min

When Our Attitude Is Right, Life’s Tough Places Can Make Us Stronger!

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials (James 1:2). If we have the right attitude, then every challenge and hardship that comes our way can be an opportunity to become a stronger believer. Satan often brings tests and challenges into our lives to defeat us. He has yet to learn that the very thing he uses to defeat us is the very thing that enables our spiritual muscles to become strong! When we resist the pressure of a difficult circumstance with the

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