What is Keeping Me Trapped in My Circumstances?

When you are going through the toughest times in your life is when the heat and the pressure is applied.    It is during these times of your life that you have the greatest opportunity and potential for change.  Real change.  

Instead of being angry whenever someone turns up the heat in your life, be thankful to God.  Here is your greatest opportunity to allow God to mold you and change you.  It is hard, almost impossible to change when you are not going through some kind of stress or pressure.   The more you change into the image of Christ and allow God to mold and shape you the more you are going to experience his glory. 

 It isn’t what you go through in life that determines who you are, it is HOW you go through it.  If  you are wise enough to seek God and allow him to change you when you go through fiery trials than each time someone hurts you, you end up better for it.

  If you blame others and focus on them and what they did, it will fill your mind with hatred, and your heart with pain.    And in doing so, you will lose another bit of your heart, another bit of your peace, another bit of your life until finally you have nothing left but bitterness and pain and anger. 

Proverbs 4:23  Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

King Saul and the little shepherd boy David both faced the same giant.  So why was David able to overcome the giant by King Saul was not able to overcome him? 

 King Saul had issues inside of him, so he couldn’t handle the giant he was facing in life.  David didn’t have issues in his heart, FAITH and confidence resided there,  so the giant on the outside couldn’t handle the strength of his heart on the inside.
What is keeping you trapped in your circumstances?  It isn’t the size of your problems.  The thing that is keeping you trapped right there is the ISSUES in your HEART!  

The bible says to guard you heart.  If you guard a door that means you don't let any thing through the door.   Don't let things into your heart that is going to give you issues there.  Things like lust, envy, bitterness, doubt, pains, and angers.  Keep your heart if faith, love and hope with all diligence and there won't be a circumstance, issue or trouble that will be able to handle you,  You will overcome them all.