do you praise God for the hard times?

Question

a lot of people can't thank God until they get their way, but the bible says that He will use life's hardships to make us stronger. when your car breaks down, when you can't pay the rent, when you lose your job, you are about to be blessed. knowing this, do you praise God for the hard times?

Answer 1

Wow. Good question. I dont believe in God so this question doesnt apply to me. I just wanted to say way to go. Great question that needed to be asked.

Answer 2

As a person who enjoys a challenge. I cannot enjoy the winter without the summer and vise versa. A knife is not useful unless it has a stone to sharpen its edge. I cannot help a person if I have no understaning of thier plight. So for me I don't like the difficult times but come to realize that God has something good on the otherside. When my sister passed I could never gone through any thing more painfull but, my relationships with my remaining siblings is full of more love than I could have ever imagined. So praising God is what I do because I know that I too will never be "alone" though I am alone.

Answer 3

I forget to do this often. Typicallly, during life's hardships, I'm either preoccupied with the hardship or if I'm praying, it's to ask for help and/or guidance. I did read something about a year ago in which it indicated that Christians should pray and thank God during a hardship. It seems like the opposite way in which we would behave, but the reason is because God is about to bring you a blessing or solution, so you thank Him ahead of time and claim it before it happens. For example, if someone you know is ill, instead of asking God to heal the person, you pray and thank Him for healing the person before the healing has occurred. So, now I do try to keep that in mind and incorporate it in my life.

Answer 4

Yes I do because without Him I could not get through anything.......

I thank God for all the good times I have seen in my life, and I certainly thank God for being there for me through all the hardships I have faced knowing that it is not all on His will life in general be so harsh.

I believe life that God has given people was not intended to be so sorrowful, but He has done as much as He can to try and stabilize the hardships of man.

*It is like taking two different kinds of drugs at one time. They will pretty much have no effect because they are both working against each other to do their job.*

----Like the work of the wicked one, God says that where ever God will be, you will find the wicked one.----

With that man will see that all the work God puts in as good, the wicked one will work even harder to put Gods name to shame. Leaving out the dealings of people between the two battling each others.

God Bless You!
God Be With You Always!

Answer 5

Yes,Yes,Yes !!! You know the things I am going throught right now,even though they are hard..I know that I am Blessed and I thank the Lord for allowing to be going through them,It is not only a hardship but a testimony!! I will Praise Him in the storm,in the mist of my trials I will call out and tell Him thank you !!!!!!
THANK YOU JESUS...
No matter how bad it gets,It could never get as bad as it was when He took on the whole worlds sins for me and you...God Bless...

Answer 6

Yes when you paris God at all times Even when time are hard he wil make a way
see the attached verses " Judah meas Praise "
Jacob's blessing of Judah, in Genesis 49:8-12, includes a passage that is traditionally understood by Christians to mean that Judah's descendants would rule over the land of Israel, culminating with Jesus. In Revelation 7:7, Judah is at the top of the list of the tribes receiving the Seal of God for 12,000 of its members. The name Judah means "to praise."

Look at the Scriptures what happen whe God say send Judah first.

Answer 7

Yes, of course. I praise God always. There are trials in everyones lives. That is part of living and learning. There can be NO testimony without tests !!!!!

God is our father and just like ALL fathers, he loves us and wants what is best for us. But , we are babies in our spiritual journey.

We are taking baby steps. AND just like all babies we have to learn by living through our problems. We learn from these same problems. I mean>> when you are learning to ride a bike, you find out real fast how to put the brakes on, How? By running into that bush. Experience is the key.

However, in order to learn we must live. And by living we will make mistakes and have troubles. There would be no Good times if, there was no BAD times.

Answer 8

Patience and endurance is the key...Hebrews 11.How long did they wait. I am still in the learning stage but I am beginning to get the message. Sometimes it is more than that,you left somethings out but I am sure you understand what I mean. Thanking God! Is when our prayers or answered,yet we think we have gotten our way. It is in the hard times we go blind and it is hard to keep focus...and that is the human side of Man. Tears and disappointments will come..persecution and hardship will come...but it is God that hold us together by his son Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

All times. Our hard time is a good time for many of people. I mean, there are people more in bad condition than we have. Just look at them and praise the Lord for the blessings.

Answer 10

Yes I praise God for the hard times because he has a plan for everything and my father left my family when i was younger and if he hadn't I wouldn't be where I am now, wouldn't know the people i know now and I wouldn't know God as my personal Saviour cause I wouldn't have met the preacher that showed me Truth.

Answer 11

I don't praise God, I pray to God. I have a lot of hardships, but it could be worse. I have many fears, but they may be said to be irrational most of them. I hope to become stronger, or at least less weak, but that needs a lot of exercises, a lot of temperance, a lot of real strong purpose, a lot of real good luck.

I don't pray God to get His holy help. He has the whole Universe and much more to care about, and He, from my own objective point of view, should not prefer me to many others or to other things, because that would be unfair towards others and towards other things, because that which He gives to me He lets it be taken from others, that is unfair when that happens and I have got advantages and I am lucky.

I must try to survive on my own, not thinking about help from God as I will never know in which way His designs include me in my present and further consciousness. I must hope to be strong, to be fiercy, to be lucky on my own for my own sake and for the sake of those who are friendly to me, for those who need my nearness, for those who need my work.

I don't want to be like a certain category of people, who solemnly declare that God made them His own favorite people, and so think that other God's people were less favorite God's people, subordinate to God's favorite people.

I pray God as a trick to mitigate my own worries for instance when I lay down and cannot sleep or when I have a problem where I can see no good solution. I pray God, but I could as well sing a song, or say or shout or whisper or think bla, bla, bla, or even swear a long cursing litany of good saints' names.

I pray in whatever way I can find out to pray in order to try bring my thoughts away from that which is actually troubling me, to get my mind rid of some troublesome content.