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YOU MAY FEEL DEPRESSED, REJECTED, DOWN, LOW SPIRITED, GLOOMY, DISCOURAGED, SAD, BLUE, OVERWHELMED OR UNHAPPY AND EVERY PROBLEM MAY SEEM MUCH BIGGER THAN IT REALLY IS.

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When you’re feeling down, everything may seem very bleak, and it may seem hard for you to keep your eyes on God. You may feel Depressed, Down, Sad, Gloomy, Unhappy, Blue, Distressed, Rejected, Low Spirited, Discouraged and Overwhelmed, and every problem may seem much bigger than it really is. #1 Remember God hears you – Cry out to God Psalm 34:17-20, When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. Psalm 18:6, In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. Philippians 4:6-7, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasse

BELIEVE YOUR DEBT IS MORE THAN PAID

   Hebrews 10:22 "let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water"  . I would like you to imagine this scenario: You borrow a huge sum of money from a friend and promise to pay him back in six months’ time. When the time comes, you feel really bad because you cannot repay him as you don’t have the money. A year rolls by without you repaying a cent. Now, you feel extremely guilty. You try to avoid your friend because you are too embarrassed and ashamed to see him. Let’s say that your best friend hears about your plight. Out of the goodness of his heart, he goes to your creditor and says, “Look, I understand that my best friend owes you money.” “Yes, he owes me KSH50,000.” “Here is KSH100,000. I am paying you on his behalf.” Your creditor says, “No, no, no! He owes me only KSH50,000.” Your best friend says, “I know. But take the KSH100,000 so that you can n

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD EXPOSES YOUR PERFECTION

John 8:12 "Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”  When I was a teenager, I heard preachers saying this: “Jesus is the light of the world. So don’t think for one moment that you can do things behind His back. His light will expose all the bad things that you have done!” So I was afraid to come near God, fearing that His glorious light would show up my faults, weaknesses and shame. But is this what “the light of the world” does? The truth is found in the context of the verse. Jesus declared that He was the light of the world right after He had told the woman caught in the act of adultery, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” When she said, “No one, Lord”, He said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” Then, the Bible tells us that “Jesus spoke to them again,

GOD IS BEHIND YOUR INCREASE

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1 Corinthians 3:7 "So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase." Sometimes, we think that the increase or success which we enjoy is the result of our own efforts or hard work. Now, I am not advocating laziness, but the truth is that God is the one behind our increase. We see this truth when we read the story of Ruth, a young widow from Moab, who worked as a gleaner in a barley field from morning till evening. Now, we could attribute the entire ephah—a substantial 10-day supply—of barley she collected at the end of the day to her hard work. After all, she did work all day in the field. But when we read about how Boaz, the owner of the field, had secretly told his reapers to “let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean” (Ruth 2:16), we know that it was because of Boaz’s intervention t