I Have No Money, No Home, No Car, No Friends and ALL My Families Are Gone…

In this down-turn economy we find people scrambling to make ends meet literally every single day.  The fact is more and more people are loosing jobs and just yesterday congress announced that they will be eliminating thousands of government jobs in the next 6 months.  So what are we to do as citizens of this great and rich country; why is it that every where you turn there is  a series of layoffs that continuously destroys the fabric of our existence and our being?  We were once told to go to school get an education then go to college and get a great job but what our moms and dads didn’t prepare us for was a crisis like the one we are now facing to last for years and years.  it is one thing to have a dead-end job yet now even if you have a masters or doctrine degree you are subject to job loss due to the economy!  No job, no home, no car, no money, no friends, (cause they’re the first to go) and no family to depend on; what can you do when all hope is  gone and there’s nowhere to turn?  James 1:2-5 (NIV)  says 2. Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds.  3. because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4. Perseverance must finish its works so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything. 5.  If any of you lack wisdom he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to him.  My beloved what God is speaking through James is quite simple, though it may seem that all hell is breaking loose all around you in your home, on your job, in your finances and in your family; God is telling you to “COUNT IT ALL JOY”!  The word joy means of the highest joy yet you might say what so joyful about an eviction or a foreclosure?   Well the good new is that with every trial comes a test and when you are going through your trials God is behind the scenes testing and purifying your Christ like  character.  In order to be a true christian you sometimes have to be tested ad re-tested for every trial that a child of God goes through is a masterpiece of strategy of the Captain of his salvation which is for his good.  The trying and testing in whence your experience flows, it is merely the perfecting of your patience as well as your endurance that God is fine tuning in you.  Have you ever heard the phrase what “won’t kill ya makes you stronger” well that’s how God works He builds you up from the inside out so that whatever trial may come your way you are prepared to endure all that may encounter  from sickness to homeless.  The Good News translation puts it this way, James1:2 (GNT)”My good friends consider yourselves fortunate will all kinds of trials comes your way”.  It may be raining and the storms are blowing everything loose right now in your life but rest assure that soon and very soon the storm will be over.  Jesus paid the ultimate price for us all on Calvary and He paid all our debts, you already have the victory my friends and you have the power and the authority to speak to that storm in your life and declare in the name of Jesus that you are out debt, out foreclosure, you have a job, your family is back together and for the devil to get out of your house!  The house I speak of is your mind and soul, faith is how we prevail and fight all the trials and test that may come our way.  Yes it looks bad, yes it looks like there’s no way out but I know God who is loving, I know a God who is sovereign and by faith this too shall pass.  My beloved my hope for all who read this is to know that God loves you and God hears your cry.  If you believe by faith that He can make a way out of no way then my hope for you is to get on your knees and repent of all your sins and simply tell God what you feel, ask God for His wisdom and to make you over to cleanse your soul and seek salvation.  Jesus told us that “if anyone comes after Him he must forget about himself and pick up his cross and follow Him” (Mathew 16:24)  so we know that there will be trials and tribulations yet even so we lift our hands up to the sky and say Thank you Lord. and we count it all joy…