If You Can Make It Through The Night Analysis

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IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT, BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING. Ps. 30:5

How many times, you have said, “If I can just make it through the night?” As I studied the book of Job, I believed Job asked the same question. Job 14:14 “ Man that born of a woman is of a few days, and full of trouble” (Scoffed) Job was a man of faith, patience and endurance. Job loved God, and everything was going great in his life. He had money, land, possessions and a large family. One day his world fell apart. He lost everything except his life, a bitter wife and his friends.
For Job, the greatest trial was not the pain or loss; it was his inability to understand why God allowed him to suffer. Many of us have asked the same question. Lord why me?” Job had loss all though no fault of his own. As he struggled to understand why all this was happen to him, what Job didn’t know that the, “Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth. A perfect and upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth
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Trial teach us how to completely trust in God. “For I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”. Heb 13:5b. ver. 6 “So that we may come boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear”. We don’t have to fear for the things that is coming upon this world. We will make it. There is no night, nor day that he want help us make it through. We sing a song late in the midnight hour God going to turn it around. He going to work in our favor. He going to turn it around. Yes, weeping may endure for a night, but joy will come in the morning. For he is faithful and he will deliver in time. He will never leave us, nor forsake us. When our trial seems like we are in the fire. We have to remember that the same God who was in the furnace with Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego will stand with us in our

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