FAITH CAPSULE: Thank God with a heart full of joy regardless of any challenging situation.

HABAKKUK 3

Know to set your heart on God with joy regardless of the challenging situation of the wicked world.
Let meaningful praise before God become your character.
It is not enough to praise God without rejoicing. 
Is it your challenge that is denying praising God and not rejoicing? 
Do not praise Him without rejoicing or rejoice before Him with no praise directed to God.
Regardless of your challenge, do not suspend praising and rejoicing before God. 
Imagine the word of Habakkuk 3:17, “Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” 
Praising and rejoicing in times of challenges can be a painful sacrifice.
The Habakkuk 3:17 situation is like a valley where there seems to be no way out. 
The challenging situation with no end in sight can be a source of discouragement for praising and rejoicing before God.
Are you wondering when to come out of the depth of a challenging situation?
Also, no one wants to plant a tree without blossom or not harvest fruit where the vines should be bringing forth fruit as the crown of labor. 
Any hard laborer that seems to be producing a result that matches a lazy laborer will have a reason not to be praising and rejoicing before God.
Always praise and rejoice before God regardless of a challenging situation.
Habakkuk does have a word to encourage all in times of challenging situations like that of the experience of the hard laborer, “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” (Habakkuk 3:18) 
Know that joy and rejoicing are the only ways to keep in the ways of God because it positions one in the presence of God. 
Jesus was with the family of Lazarus during mourning over Lazarus.
As they were lifting their voices in wailing, crying, and gnashing of teeth,  “… Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father I thank You that you have heard Me.” (John 11:41)  
In any challenging situation, praising God by giving thanks with a heart full of joy will prompt the goodness of God.
Knowing to praise God in a challenging situation is evidence of trust and hope in God.
Trust and hope in God for all things.
Jeremiah 17:7 encourages, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
Know God with understanding, and live life to gain an edge, not a vessel of pity in a challenging situation.

Prayer for today: Ask that meaningful praising God shall be your character.