WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN LIFE’S

BUGGING YOU?

QUESTION 1: WHAT’S BUGGING

YOU TODAY?

After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops, the swarming locusts took

what was left!

After them came the hopping locusts, and then the stripping locusts, too!

(Joel 1:4 – New Living Translation)

Locusts = Problems

The Lord says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the

hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the

cutting locusts . . .

Surely the Lord has done great things! Don’t be afraid,

my people.

Be glad now and rejoice, for the Lord has done great

things. (Joel 1:4, 2:20-21, 25 – New Living

Translation)

LIFE TRUTH 1:

You are always going to have problems, pressures and people that want to hurt

you and destroy you!

LIFE TRUTH 2:

God’s strength & power will always get us through and

give us back what the enemy tries to destroy in our

lives!

The enemy comes with the sole intention of stealing and

killing and destroying . . . (John 10:10 – Phillips New

Testament)

QUESTION 2: WHAT’S BLESSING

YOU TODAY?

I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever

dreamed of. (John 10:10 – The Message)

Always be glad because of the Lord! I will say it again:

Rejoice and be glad. Always be gentle with

others.

The Lord will soon be here. Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything.

With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to

God.

Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand.

And this peace will control the way you think and feel . .

. keep your minds on

whatever is true, pure, right, holy,

friendly, and proper.

Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly

worthwhile and worthy of praise. You know

the teachings I gave you,

and you know what you heard me say and saw me

do. So follow my example.

And God, who gives peace, will be with you . . .

I have learned to be satisfied with whatever I have. I know

what it is to be poor or to have plenty, and I have lived

under all kinds of conditions.

I know what it means to be full or to be hungry, to have

too much or too little.

Christ gives me the strength to face anything.

(Philippians 4:4-9, 11-13 – Contemporary English Version)

Trusting God brings me a positive perspective

Trusting God replaces worry with worship

Trusting God provides peace in the middle

of problems

Trusting God changes the way I think & feel

about life

Trusting God makes me content with what I

have

Trusting God helps me make it through

anything

Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him! . . . Don't fret or worry. Instead of

worrying, pray.

Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers,

letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a

sense of God's wholeness,

everything coming together for good, will come and settle you

down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things

true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling,

gracious--

the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things

to praise, not things to curse . . .

Do that, and God,

who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies . . . . I've learned by now to be quite

content whatever my circumstances.

I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with

little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry,

hands full or hands empty.

Whatever I have, wherever I am,

I can make it through anything in the One who makes

me who I am. (Philippians 4:4, 6-9, 11-13 – The Message)

QUESTION 3: WHO ARE YOU

BELIEVING TODAY?

The devil has always been a murderer and a liar. There is nothing truthful about him. He speaks on his own, and everything he says is a lie.

Not only is he a liar himself, but he is also the father

of all lies. (John 8:44 – Contemporary English Version)

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later . . .

What can we ever say to such wonderful things as

these? If God is on our side, who can ever be against us?

Since he did not spare even his own Son for us but gave him up for us all, won’t he

also surely give us everything else?

(Romans 8:18, 31-32 – Living Bible)

So it all comes down to this – what are you gonna

believe and who are you gonna listen to?

Instead letting the “bugs” of life devour you, with God’s promises assure us that –

with His help, we can devour them!

Let’s Pray