{"id":36253,"date":"2021-10-17T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36253"},"modified":"2021-10-17T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:35:29","slug":"facing-the-storms-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36253","title":{"rendered":"Facing the storms of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Buti Sam Kputu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LIFE ON THIS SIDE OF ETERNITY is full of challenges, and no one is exempt. &#8220;Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble&#8230;&#8221; (Job 14:1).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the essence of these challenges, and what should be our attitude to and in them? Brother Paul, in the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 1, gives us some tips:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">_\u00b6 Our challenges are an opportunity to experience God&#8217;s comfort (vs. 4a)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b6 Our challenges equip us to dispense God&#8217;s comfort (vs. 4b)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b6 Challenges diminish faith in ourselves and grow our faith in God (vs. 9,10)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b6 They provide an opportunity for others to invest their prayers and grace in our lives and share in our&nbsp; victory and joy (vs.11)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genuine faith does not deny the reality of life&#8217;s challenges, it only looks beyond them to God&#8217;s grace, victory and sovereign purpose in them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buti Sam Kputu LIFE ON THIS SIDE OF ETERNITY is full of challenges, and no one is exempt. &#8220;Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble&#8230;&#8221; (Job 14:1). What is the essence of these challenges, and what should be our attitude to and in them? Brother Paul, in the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}