Do not resist or run from the  difficulties in your life. These problems are not random mistakes; they are  hand-tailored blessings designed for your benefit and growth. Embrace all the  circumstances that I allow in your life, trusting Me to bring good out of them.  View problems as opportunities to rely more fully on Me.

When you start to feel stressed,  let those feelings alert you to your need for Me. Thus, your needs become  doorways to deep dependence on Me and increasing intimacy between us. Although  self-sufficiency is acclaimed in the world, reliance on Me produces abundant  living in My kingdom. Thank Me for the difficulties in your life, since they  provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance.

“I am the vine; you are the  branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart  from me you can do nothing.” —John  15:5

We do not want you to be  uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia.  We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we  despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But  this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the  dead. —2 Corinthians  1:8–9

Always giving thanks to God the  Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus  Christ.