Fifth, stand firm.<\/i> Notice what God told Jehoshaphat: \u2018Stand firm.\u2019<\/i> What does it mean to \u2018stand firm\u2019<\/i> when you\u2019re in a crisis? It\u2019s a mental attitude of quiet confidence that says, \u2018I\u2019m going to trust God. \u2019<\/p>\n
Rick Warren writes: \u2018This is something I\u2019m slowly learning; it\u2019s never God\u2019s will for me to run from a difficult situation. If I do, the situation will only follow and catch up with me a little further down the line. It may not look the same, but it will be<\/i> the same. Why? Because God wants to teach me that He is sufficient for any problem. If we don\u2019t learn this today, we may learn it next week. If we don\u2019t learn it next week, we may learn it next year. But eventually we\u2019ll learn it\u2014and the sooner the better. We can save ourselves problems by standing firm and waiting on God in quiet confidence.\u2019 <\/p>\n
So what do we stand firm on<\/i>? \u2018Have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld; have faith in His prophets and you will be successful.\u2019<\/i> (2 Chronicles 20:20 NIV) <\/p>\n
First,<\/i> we need to stand firm on the character of God. God is faithful, and we can depend on Him. Second,<\/i> we need to stand firm on the writings that He has given us through His prophets\u2014in other words, the truth of the Bible. The Bible is God\u2019s Word, and we need only rely in quiet confidence on His written promises. So the word for you today is: stand firm on the unchanging character of God and the unchanging promises of His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fifth, stand firm. Notice what God told Jehoshaphat: \u2018Stand firm.\u2019 What does it mean to \u2018stand firm\u2019 when you\u2019re in a crisis? It\u2019s a mental attitude of quiet confidence that says, \u2018I\u2019m going to trust God. \u2019 Rick Warren writes: \u2018This is something I\u2019m slowly learning; it\u2019s never God\u2019s will for me to run from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}