CHALLENGES 

Are your challenges more than what Job experienced? 
Challenges will come and go.
There is no one with an excuse not to experience challenges.
Challenges can be persistently painful. 
No challenge is beyond the deliverance of God.
Trusting the name of God should not be limited to when there is no challenge. 
The name of God is worthy to be trusted at all times as a strong tower that the righteous run to and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)
Job, during his days of unimaginable challenges, declares, “Though He slays me, yet will I trust Him.” (Job 13:15) 
If Job can trust God during his challenges, what prevents others from trusting Him? 
Are your challenges more than what Job experienced?
Challenges will come and go.
Give thanks to God for all He has done and will do.
Regardless of the challenge, know to have a heart purposed for God.
HAVE A PURPOSE FOR GOD WITH PRIORITY
To answer as a believer, not living by the word of God is not with a purposed heart for God. 
Daniel had a challenge.
Daniel was a young captive taken away from his people and land. 
Daniel 1:8 records, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself…”
Daniel purposed, resolved, and persisted not to defile himself by engaging in that which is not of God. 
Purpose with priority to live life for God by walking with God.
Consciously, consistently, let your purpose be your custom way of life before God.
Daniel did not live a life of waste. He purposed with priority and walked with God.
The challenge Daniel could not deny him from walking with God was not to become a victim of
a wicked world.
KNOW ABOUT CHALLENGING STORY
All challenging stories are changeable for good.
Jephthah the Gileadite had a but in his life that reduced him before his world, not before God.
Jephthah was a mighty man of valor but a son of a harlot. 
Jephthah was chased out of his father because he was born by another woman. 
Jephthah was in a situation that was not called for by him. 
The challenge of Jephthah was outside of his control.
He was to pay for what he did not bargain for. 
Are you paying for what you did not call for?
Are you experiencing any similar situation to Jephthah? 
Life has ups and downs.
Life demands wisdom and knowledge of God, not to live a life of waste.
Life is a journey.
The journey of life demands unfailing faith and patience.
Faith with patience is like the key to the ignition vehicle of the life journey.
Wait, watch, and see what the Lord will do to your case. 
Regarding Jephthah, after being chased out by his people, the children of Israel came back to him for help. 
When God intervenes, the situation will change for the glory of God.
During the confrontation with the enemies, the children of Israel needed a commander. 
The elders of Gilead had to go and seek Jephthah for help.
Can you imagine how your story will change for the glory of God? 
The book of Judges 11:6 records, “Then they said to Jephthah, ‘Come and be our commander, that we may fight against the people of Ammon.’” 
Whenever your world condemns you, God has His way of redeeming you.
Jephthah became a hot commodity. 
Jephthah was a son of a harlot.
He was driven out by his brothers, now being sought to be a leader. Jephthah responds in Judges 11:7, “So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and expel me from my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” 
The same God set up a situation for Jephthah to become redeemed by getting a call from his people.
With his calling, he rose above and beyond where he was before being expelled.
God is in a position to always turn the story around for His name.
The name of God should become glorified over the life of anyone He brings up.
God can never be too late or too soon.
God will show up in your situation at His divine timing. 
Jephthah the Gileadite accepted the assignment to deliver victory for his people over the enemies.
The children of Israel were victorious by the leadership of the rejected one.
Jephthah did not just lead as a commander but became the head because of victory over the enemy by his hand. 
Jephthah the Gileadite had a but in his life that reduced him before his world, not before God. 
Your story will change for good to the glory of God. 
Ask that your story will change for good to the glory of God.