Fantasy or Faith?

When things are going wrong in our life, and everything seems bleak, God alone can help us.

When bad health is something we have to face on a daily basis, God is the one who can give us the strength to face the day.

When we've no money in the bank and you don't know where your next meal is going to come from, only God can help.

God is enough to help us in all situations we find ourselves.

We can become frustrated when bad things happen to us, but when we start to fantasize we're move further away from reality and fact. i.e. If we fantasise that good health alone will bring us happiness, or when we have a big house, a holiday or we win the lottery that will be the key to eternal happiness. But all these things are fantasy.

The answer to fantasy is faith. Faith will chase our frustrations away and give us the strength to live well, even if that means with little earthly value to our name. Faith reminds us that we have a heavenly bank account and that is one which cannot contain our earthly possessions but simply our spiritual wealth.

God will make help you through your situation, whatever it is, so be joyful in God's love and He will get you over the mountains of frustrations that face you.

This is not the best recording but I hope you can make out the message - There's Never Been a Mountain by Derby Central Songsters:

Frustrations

This week at work, has felt like 2 weeks, however the days themselves have flown by as I’ve been very busy. That however hasn’t dimmed my frustrations in the last few days. The project I’m currently working is on is nearing it’s implementation, however in these last few weeks we just seem to be hitting one problem after another.

Yes, I am frustrated by it all particularly as many of the issues could and should have been avoided and saved us many hours of chasing to try to resolve things or find someone who can!

At the end of the day, this is only about work and when I leave work at night, I leave these frustrations behind me. They are still there the next day, but at least I can forget them while I’m not at work.

So how do you deal with frustrations?

Certainly as far as work is concerned I try to leave my frustration at work when I leave each day. It’s not so easy to put to one side other frustrations we face in life as often they have arisen from something that is a core part of our life and with us all the time. E.g. Health concerns, martial problems, concerns about our children etc.

Whatever your frustrations, take them to God, he’s there to help you through thick and thin.

God will always hear your prayer.

Hear My Prayer by J-ricz (http://www.jricz.com/

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Frustrations

Grrrrrrhhh! I've had a day of frustrations!

My day got off to a bad start when I'd to go to our health centre for a couple of things and got stuck there much longer than I should have done. When I finally got to work, I spent 5 minutes going round in circles looking for somewhere to park.

Having got into the office the day didn't get any less frustrating, with several things happening that just makes you wonder "why?". But like the rest of us affected by the frustrating things that happened in our today, I had a wee moan, and got on with my work...but still disappointed and frustrated by today's events.

Been thinking for the last hour or so what to write about today so started thinking about what kind of day I've had and the various frustrations I've felt. I wonder, does God ever get frustrated.

I think the answer to that must definitely by a resounding YES! I'm sure we each frustrate Him more times that we even realise, by doing our own thing rather than listening to what God wants us to do.

There I go again taking about listening to God! Just realising I've talked about this just a few days ago, on Saturday 25th April.


Do you think God's wanting us to listen to Him more?!

P.S. For those of you wanting an update on Andy that I spoke about in my blog yesterday, you can get on his friend Rob's blog.