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    When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith
    When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith
    When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith
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    When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith

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    What do you do when it seems as if everything around you is falling apart? Have you found yourself in trying circumstances and can't seem to break free from them? Do you feel as if you're being swallowed up by the trials of life?

    In When All Hell Breaks Loose, Richard Roberts addresses these questions and others, showing you how to survive...and even thrive...in the midst of trouble.

    Using examples from the Bible of men and women who have gone through hard times, Richard shares tips for overcoming the challenges you face. He tackles issues such as what to do when trouble comes suddenly; how to turn threats into miraculous breakthroughs; what to do when you make a mistake; emotional survival in challenging times...and much more.

    You'll be inspired to keep standing in faith and moving forward in the Lord until your fiery trial turns into a God-powered victory.
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    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780982701850
    When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith
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    Richard Roberts

    Richard Roberts is a Reader at the University of Sussex. He specialises in financial markets and centres, and is the author of numerous books and articles about international finance.

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      When All Hell Breaks Loose... Facing Your Fiery Trials with Faith - Richard Roberts

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Copyright © 2014

      by Richard Roberts

      Tulsa, OK

      Published in eBook format by Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association

      P.O. Box 2187

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      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter 1:

      OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE

      Chapter 2:

      JESUS: OUR EXAMPLE

      OF VICTORY IN HARD TIMES

      Chapter 3:

      STEP INTO THE RIVER

      Chapter 4:

      YOUR OBEDIENCE PRODUCES MIRACLES

      Chapter 5:

      WHATEVER YOU DO—DON’T COMPROMISE

      Chapter 6:

      WHEN YOU FALL, GET UP AGAIN

      Chapter 7:

      LISTEN TO THE GOOD REPORT

      Chapter 8:

      YOUR FAITH CAN MAKE A GIANT FALL

      Chapter 9:

      WHAT TO DO WHEN TROUBLE

      COMES SUDDENLY

      Chapter 10:

      GOD IS GREATER THAN

      THE ODDS AGAINST YOU

      Chapter 11:

      TURNING THREATS INTO MIRACLES

      Chapter 12:

      WHEN THINGS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE

      Chapter 13:

      EMOTIONAL SURVIVAL

      IN A CRAZY, MIXED-UP WORLD

      Chapter 14:

      HOW TO CLIMB OUT OF THE PIT

      Chapter 15:

      YOU’RE COMING TO THE END

      OF AN UPHILL CLIMB

      Chapter 16:

      AVOIDING PITFALLS THE

      SECOND TIME AROUND

      About the Author

      Contact Us

      INTRODUCTION

      What do you do when it seems like you’re heading straight into the middle of a hellish situation? How can you keep from being swallowed up by the trials of life?

      Trouble can come at a moment’s notice in anyone’s life. You’re not immune to trouble, and neither am I. And when a difficult situation arises in your life, there are many things that can cause you to become tangled in the devil’s snare. Intimidation may grip you, or Satan may try to attack you with guilt and condemnation.

      The devil may hold your past up before you like a mirror and laughingly mock you with it. But you don’t have to live with Satan’s condemnation. The Bible says, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).

      Something else that can hold you back is the old catchall, fear. Fear is one of the two master emotions of life—fear and faith. And the devil is the master of fear. But 2 Timothy 1:7 declares, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Through God, you can face the challenges of life with godly strength, love for yourself and others, healthy thinking, and a good attitude. The bad news doesn’t have to get you down, and it certainly doesn’t have to keep you down!

      You may be in trying circumstances, but you can break free from the devil’s snare. You can burst those bonds of intimidation. You can cast aside that fear and condemnation.

      Isaiah 43:2 (NIV) proclaims, When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. I tell you, floods of problems may come… Winds of bad news may howl… The fires of danger may rage… But God has promised us that we will not be overcome if we’ll stick with Him and use our faith until our victory comes.

      Yes, you may have to walk through the roaring flames of the fire, but you don’t have to stop in the middle of that mess! You can make a holy, determined decision that even if it seems like your world is falling apart, you will not be destroyed. I declare to you in the Name of Jesus, if you’re down in the pit of despair right now, don’t stay there. Look to God for rescue, and don’t give in until you climb up out of that pit and find yourself standing on the mountaintops of blessing with the Lord!

      Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. However, it is altogether possible. And that’s exactly what this book is all about—what to do when all hell breaks loose.

      Chapter 1:

      OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE

      Have you heard the story of the boiling frog? It is said that if you place a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will try to escape. But if you put it in comfortable, cool water and turn the heat on very low, the frog will stay there, because it’s comfortable. As the water slowly heats to a boil, the frog doesn’t notice the temperature gradually increasing until it’s too late. Soon, the frog will boil to death.

      Maybe there’s a situation in your life that isn’t ideal. You’re in a pot on the stove, so to speak, instead of in a nice pond. But you may have become so comfortable in your circumstances, even if they’re unpleasant, that you’ve given up on trying to get out of them. Or maybe you want to get out of the bad circumstances you’re in, but you’ve tried everything you know to do. You’ve done everything that worked in the past, but this time it doesn’t seem to be helping. Maybe these circumstances have been something you’ve suffered so long in your life, you wouldn’t know what it’s like to live any other way.

      I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to stay in bad circumstances. It doesn’t matter how comfortable your problem situation has become—if it’s a problem, then you serve a God who has a solution for you. All things are possible with God, even that situation in your life that has seemed so impossible up to now. But to get free and move forward in a new way, you’ve got to be willing to do something about the situation you’re in. You’ve got to break free from your comfort zone and launch out toward your miracle with a mighty leap of faith.

      In Matthew 12:9–13, there’s a dramatic scene where the Lord Jesus Christ called a man out of his comfort zone. The Bible says that Jesus was ministering in the synagogue one day when all of a sudden He looked up and saw a man who had a withered hand. I want you to read the story:

      Now when He [Jesus] had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they [the religious leaders] asked Him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? [And they asked this so] that they might accuse Him.

      Then He said to them, What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then He said to the man, Stretch out your [withered] hand. And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.

      Luke’s Gospel is even more specific. It says that the man’s right hand was withered (Luke 6:6).

      Your right hand represents your strength. Most people in the world are right-handed, so when the Bible talks about your right hand, it’s talking about your ability to handle the needs of life. When Jesus saw that this man had a withered right hand, He understood more about the man’s emotional and spiritual condition as well.

      I want you to know that the Lord Jesus Christ sees you this very moment in the situation you’re in. He knows who you are. He knows where you live. He knows what you’re going through. He sees your struggles, your turmoil, your heartache. And He can help you get out of the pit of trouble you’ve been living in.

      In the same way that Jesus sees you, He also saw the man with the withered hand. He saw the man’s need. The religious leaders were there too, but they weren’t paying attention to the man or his needs. They were focused on their own needs instead. The religious leaders decided to ask Jesus a question, but their question was really a trick. They were trying to trap the Lord, to accuse Him of a crime, so they posed a cunning question to Him that shows they cared more about making a religious point than about seeing a man healed. They asked Jesus, Is it right to heal on the Sabbath day?

      You see, the Law of Moses said that the Jewish people were not to do any work on the Sabbath as a way to rest and to honor God, who also rested from His labor after creation (Genesis 2:2; Exodus 20:10). So, if Jesus had said, Yes, it’s okay to heal on the Sabbath, the religious leaders would have accused Him of blasphemy and violating God’s Word.

      But Jesus knew they were planning evil against Him, so He cut right through their smoke screen and replied, Which one of you has a sheep? And should it fall into a pit on the sabbath, would you not go and rescue it from the pit?

      Oh, it’s so easy for someone to fall into a pit! If that’s where you are today, you can know that you’re not alone. You’re not the only person to end up in a troubling situation, and you’re not the only one who has turned to God for rescue.

      David was a man who found himself in a pit, hiding in a cave to escape the javelin of King Saul (1 Samuel 24:3). But eventually he was delivered from Saul’s persecution and was made king over Israel. And notice he never had to strike at Saul to be delivered.

      Joseph also was cast into a pit, thrown there by his very own brothers (Genesis 37:24). He was sold into slavery, but eventually he was promoted to become the Pharaoh’s right hand man. It didn’t happen overnight. But it happened.

      The prophet Jeremiah was locked up in a dungeon by evil men because he refused to stop prophesying the word of the Lord (Jeremiah 38:6). But he was eventually delivered out of the dungeon. And through it all, he never stopped prophesying.

      Daniel was cast into a pit—a

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