From Doubt to Determination: Overcoming Life’s Trials

• By candidasullivan
• March 14, 2025
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During the trial, the enemy tries to convince us that he has won. He manipulates us with seeds of doubt, fear, and defeat. Satan magnifies all of the bad things and blows things out of proportion. He wants us to take the bait and give up.

Satan can’t win, he can’t defeat us, but he can make us feel defeated. When we feel defeated, most of the time, we quit. We stop praying, trying, and believing that it’s possible.

He tricks us into thinking we’ve lost the battle so that we will surrender to him. But if we follow the Lord, we can’t lose. God has never lost a battle. And He never will. If we believe God is capable of being defeated, we’ve listened to the enemy for too long.

God is all-powerful and in control, even when it feels as if everything is falling apart. Sometimes, we ask God for things and then get upset when He starts moving in our lives to make them happen. I’m speaking to myself. My life feels as if it’s turned upside down and spinning around. I’m so uncomfortable. Hardship after hardship is hitting me.

While a part of me wants it all to end, another part wants to stand still, endure the hardships, learn from them, and gain the blessing God wants to give me. I want to overcome this trial completely. I’m tired of sitting in the valley of indecision.

So, I humble my heart and pray. I ask for guidance and strength to endure the things that are too hard for me to endure on my own. I ask God for the courage to keep going and the wisdom to know what to do.

God knows what we need. He knows the struggles deep in our hearts that we don’t even verbalize. He sees and understands every tear. God loves us too much to leave us in our pain. So, the trial is the journey through the hardship.

God doesn’t just want us to endure our hardships; He wants us to overcome them. The beautiful part is that when we overcome something painful with the Lord, it will no longer have any power over us.

Instead of thinking, “I can’t do this,” I like to ask God, “How can I do this?”

When I open myself to different thoughts and ways and lean into God, He can work with me.

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