TaT...But God was created in 2010 to reveal that we all encounter some form of TaT. Even Jesus faced it! In my earlier days, I mistakenly believed that my relationship with God would shield me from hardship. Yet, as I grew in faith through the Word, Sunday School, and other moments of divine insight, God guided me to the scripture below.

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James 1:2-6

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 

Having a relationship with God doesn’t mean I won’t face challenges. It means that when I do, I can find peace and joy in the storm. This peace brings a calmness that rises above my emotions. God has granted me the wisdom to see challenges not as defeats, but as opportunities for victory in Him. Everything happens in God’s perfect timing....read Ecclesiastes 3:3.

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3 There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2     a time to be born and a time to die,
   a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
   a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
   a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
   a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8     a time to love and a time to hate,
   a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

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