10 things to Remember During the Storms of Life:

1.God is in full control of the timing and intensity of your trial and will not allow it to go beyond His boundaries.

2. God has a specific purpose for your suffering which you may not understand until it is over.

 
3. This trial will prove to be profitable if you submit to God and trust Him through it.

4. Trying situations are opportunities for faith to prove genuine and grow stronger.

5. When you endure extreme pressure with unexplainable peace and joy, the Lord will demonstrate His sustaining power to a watching world.

6. Your difficulties are used by the Father to produce Christ-like character.

7. God will walk with you through all trials. He will never leaves you alone.

8. The Holy Spirit will enable you not only to survive but also to come out a winner, wizard and overcomer.

9. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.

10. Don't focus on how big your problems are, but focus on God that is much much bigger than your problems.

Love as Jesus Loved

According to Psychological Egoism, every human action is motivated entirely by self-interest. Psychological Egoists say that behind every action that appears to be altruistic there is really a selfish motive. Even when we give to others it is almost always "giving to get." This "getting" may be money or a reciprocal present, but it is often with smug self-praise and a "what a good boy am I," sense of satisfaction. Usually we are unhappy when our gifts are totally unacknowledged or rejected. This also applies to gifts of service and helping others in charitable ways. The ego also promotes "giving to get" by making us feel guilty when we do not give to those around us, or to the needy whom scarcity or sickness has afflicted.

According to psychological egoism We only do what makes us FEEL GOOD. For instance, someone who helps needy children only does so because helping children makes them FEEL GOOD. You can imagine someone saying, "Helping others gives me such a deep sense of satisfaction." The egoist’s claim is that it is this satisfaction that makes people do altruistic things — NOT the fact that it makes OTHERS better off. Similarly, the only reason an egoist might refrain from lying, stealing, or killing is because doing so would make them FEEL BAD (e.g., because they will probably go to jail). If you promote the happiness of others ONLY because of the happiness it will bring you (or because of the suffering it will help you avoid), then you are not really motivated by love. You are motivated by selfishness. Today I am convinced that 99,99% of the good deeds that I've done in the past are motivated by selfishness. 

The Lack of Intimacy

The  lack of intimacy is one of the most painful elements of life. Intimacy is a universal human need; without it we will feel lonely.  According to the Mental Health Foundation, modern life is making people feel increasingly lonely. Lonely people are more prone to developing high blood pressure. Feeling lonely can increase the risk of Alzheimer's in later life. I believe that's why God called me to help people to have intimacy with Him. Intimacy with God kills loneliness. 

There are some men and women who have been very lonely because lack of gentle love from the time they were little child. This inner emptiness was the result of having parents who had difficulty in being physically affectionate or in communicating their love. In adult life, a person with such a wound may mistakenly think that their loneliness is solely the result of not having an affectionate woman or man at their side. Marriage is not the cure for your emotional wounds and loneliness. It’s impossible to heal your own emotional brokenness through the body of another person as mortal and broken as you are. Only God's love can heal and make you whole. 

One of the most famous actresses, Marilyn Monroe, committed suicide, and psychoanalysts have been brooding on the reason why. She was one of the most beautiful women ever, one of the most successful. She had everything to live for; you cannot conceive of more fame, more success, more charisma, more beauty, more health. Everything was there, nothing could be improved upon, and still something was lacking. The inside, the within, was empty. Then, suicide is the only way. 

Addicted To God's Presence

I believe we are all addicted to something. We're all addicted to something that takes the pain away. If you are not addicted to God's love, you must be addicted to something else. The one reason that most people fail to overcome an addiction is because they focus on their addictions, not on God's love. 

What we don't realize is that the life most of us are living is an addiction in and of itself. We are addicted to society's expectations and paradigms. Unless you are broken, and broken hard, there is no way that you can break free of the addictions that you have to the dysfunctional behaviors of society. The truth is when the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change, then you will change. 

Wait on The Lord

"Timing is the essential ingredient in success: Being the right man, at the right time, in the right place.” — Edwin Louis Cole 
 
We live in a society that has developed a microwave mentality. We want things and we want them now! This "I want what I want when I want it" syndrome has affected a lot of folks relationship with God. Why cook it when you can nuke it? Why go into a restaurant and sit down when you can pick up fast food at a drive thru window and eat while you hurry to get someplace else? We have cell phones, we have pagers, we have email, we have cell phones that receive and send pages and email, and now they are running commercials for cell phones that send and receive pages, phone calls, email and full color television pictures of our faces as we talk so that we don't even have to take the time of being in another person’s physical presence for them to see what we look like.

God’s Word is full of great and precious promises of what God wants for us and what He is willing to do for us. God expects us to recognize Him as our source of all things good, but He also expects us to recognize that He is, besides being a provider, the determiner of the time frame in which provision will be made. 

God’s timing is never wrong but sometimes we feel that we need to "help God out." Rather than trusting God and waiting for the appointed time, we forge ahead with our own timing and our own resources hoping that God will put a seal of approval on what we do. If you want to be a person that has a huge impact and transform your community, you must mature and grow strong in the Spirit, — wait for the time of manifestation in the desert — and learn totally depend on God to deliver you and to see you through every trials and tribulations in your life. You must wait for the appointed time.

While you learn to wait on the Lord, and let Him work in you, He will work marvelous changes in you. You will have a strange new consciousness of serenity and peace, a feeling that something has been done, that some new power to overcome has come to you. And you will be able to see as He sees. When you are able to see as He sees, all the hard things become easy; the troublesome things no longer have power to worry and the difficult people and things of the world lose all power to annoy you. Every inspiration or command from God comes complete with the timing, the mood, the energy and everything you need to carry it out. 

Every season of struggle is an opportunity to see God bring about new spiritual life. When that new life springs forth, you will realize it was worth the wait and the pain. God will not allow you to suffer without allowing something new to be born in you. You don't need to rush. If something bound to happen, it will happen in the right time, with the right person and for the best reason. God is never late. God can do all things and His plan will never fail.