{"id":6638,"date":"2025-03-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2015-02-24T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:58:21","slug":"god-knows-about-your-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/god-knows-about-your-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"God not only knows about all of your problems and circumstances, He also has a solution for them"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear friends, to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d! I hope you get edified and encouraged through this daily devotion time.\r\n\r\nYesterday we talked about how rejection of God\u2019s authority and His Word leads to serious consequences and tragedy. We also talked about the devil as one of the sources of tragedy and problems on earth. Satan\u2019s purpose is to make people blame and curse God because of their sufferings. Many people do exactly that: when going through problems and sufferings they blame God. The devil wants to destroy people\u2019s faith in God so that he (the devil) could totally subdue people and take full authority over them.\r\n\r\nThe devil had this same goal in mind when he attacked Job; he did not succeed because Job refused to sin with his mouth.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abSo Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes. Then his wife said to him, \u201cDo you still hold fast to you integrity? Curse God and die!\u201d But he said to her, \u201cYou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?\u201d In all this Job did not sin with his lips\u00bb\u00a0(Job, 2: 7-10).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDid you notice who the one that struck Job was? It was not God, but Satan. Satan is the enemy of the souls of men; he strikes people to cause them curse God and die ending up in his company in hell. And today I would like to summarize all those things that we discussed during this past time and to point out four main sources of problems.\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Problems as consequences of personal choice and decisions of a person.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe Proverbs tell us about different sinful decision that can become a source of problems in our life. For example, the lack of patience, the lack of honesty, selfishness, anger, even talkativeness \u2013 all these things can cause problems in our life and the lives of others. We read in the Holy Scripture that we need to gain wisdom in order to avoid trouble. Every time we ignore God\u2019s principles we cause open the door for negative things in our lives. We reap what we have sowed.\r\n\r\nGod has given us freedom of choice, but we must know that there is no freedom in the area of consequences of our actions. King David prayed:\u00a0<em>\u00abI am surrounded by many problems because my sins have caught up with me\u00bb<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>.<\/em>\r\n<h6>\u00abFor innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 40:12).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00abO God, You know my foolishness; and my sins are not hidden from You\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 69:5).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Problems that bring pain and suffering because of the sins of others or persecution.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Problems as consequences of Satan\u2019s temptations that are meant to lead people away from God and destroy their character.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Problems as trials from God that are meant to draw us near to Him and shape our character.<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nSometimes we are confused about the source of our problems, and often we blame God even though our problems are a result of our wrong choices; and sometimes we blame the devil for the things that have been planned by God. God never tempts us with evil causing us to sin, but He continually tries our character and faith.\r\n\r\nWhen problems come into our lives, we need to define the source of these problems. But we must know that despite the source there are no problems that God would be unaware of. God not only knows about all of your problems and circumstances; He also has a solution for them and He has power and resources in order to change your circumstances. God is able to change the course of our lives for our good. God\u2019s Word says that\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h6>\u00aball things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose\u00bb\u00a0(Romans, 8:28).<\/h6>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMay God abundantly bless you on this wonderful day!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When problems come into our lives, we need to define the source of these problems. But we must know that despite the source there are no problems that God would be unaware of. God not only knows about all of your problems and circumstances; He also has a solution for them and He has power and resources in order to change your circumstances. God is able to change the course of our lives for our good. God\u2019s Word says that \u00aball things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose\u00bb (Romans, 8:28).","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/magic-cube-cube-puzzle-play-54101-1-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39115,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/39115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}