My Guide to Dealing with Hard Times

When things get tough, we tend to not think, do, pray, or view God in the way we are suppose to. I mean in the way that God tells us to in His word. Our Lord has it all laid out for us, He tells us everything we need to know to make it through the trials in life. No matter how big or small they may be. The more I grow in my relationship with God the more I want to make sure that I am doing things the way He wants me to do them. So I have been searching for answers about how to be in times of trouble. I have found that no matter what denomination, any Christian preacher will preach the same thing about the first chapter in the book of James. This chapter tells us all we need to know when it comes to facing trouble.

Jam 1:2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
Jam 1:3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
Jam 1:4 And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

So first of all, how are we supposed to THINK in times of trouble? James tells us to count it all joy. So what does this mean? Well it means that no matter how bad something is and no matter how sad or mad or whatever that it may makes us; we are to count it as joy. So how are we supposed to do that, say when someone dies or when someone we love is suffering from an illness? Well he goes on to tell us that we should know that we are going through these trials to make us stronger in our faith and in our patience. James goes on to explain that the trials that we are going through, they are supposed to make us stronger in our faith, they are going to make us perfect in the fact that we will want nothing! In other words, we will want nothing of this world, only God and His kingdom.

Jam 1:5 But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;
Jam 1:8 a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.