Accepting Adversity

By Kenza Gumbs

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose". Romans 8:28 (NKJV).

Accepting Adversity

• Language: English
• Publisher: Authors Press
• Release date: Jan 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781643144955

Kenza Gumbs

Kenza Gumbs is truly one of God's divine designs. She is a walking testimony of God's love and righteousness through Christ Jesus because of her obedience to adhere to the Word of God.. She compares writing to that of preparing sermons for Sunday mornings. She enjoys reading, bowling and spending time with family and friends. Kenza makes it a passion to follow the Holy Spirit's leading and looks forward to becoming a catalyst that will bring forth insightful and transformative literary work in the future. Kenza takes her rightful place as a leader in the Lords Church and as a Nursing Administrator by profession. Kenza was born on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, grew up in Anguilla, British West Indies, and now resides in Atlanta, GA.

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Copyright © 2021 by Kenza Gumbs

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ISBN: 978-1-64314-494-8 (Paperback)

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Acknowledgements

• To my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for always making a way for me, be all the glory, honor, dominion and power yesterday, now and always.

• To my Grandma and Grandpa, would not be here without you two. Love always!

• To the best Big Bro. anyone can ask for, who always speaks the truth to me in love, Pastor Kwesi! You are just awesome. Thank you for being you!

• To my best friend for life, Dr. Kendra Roach, you kept pushing me and encouraging me with your words, until this book was finished. I thank God for you always. Could not see myself without you Twin. Love you loads!

• To my awesome Auntie-Gertrude Saunders. Only God Himself knows how thankful I am for you in this author journey discovery of mine. The critiques and suggestions are the wind beneath my wings. Love always.

• To my family and friends who prayed for me and encouraged me in this second book journey, God bless you and thank you dearly.

• To my FAHOW—Atlanta & Montgomery family, an enormous thank you for the much-needed love, support, prayers and revelations in this new season of existence for me. God’s blessings upon you all in abundance.

• To You my dear readers, thank you so much for being my inspiration, again. I had each of you on my mind as I scribed the words to this manuscript. God loves each of you and I do too. Be inspired and challenged in Jesus’ mighty name!

Contents

Foreword vii

Chapter 1 Making The Right Choice 1

Chapter 2 Complete Trust Is Necessary 7

Chapter 3 Having Done All You Can, Just Stand! 13

Chapter 4 Hard Pressed On Every Side, Yet Not Crushed! 21

Chapter 5 Perplexed But Not In Despair 29

Chapter 6 Struck Down But Not Destroyed 35

Chapter 7 The Pruning Process 41

Chapter 8 He Makes All Things New 47

Chapter 9 Understanding Seasons And Times 53

Chapter 10 In The End When All Is Said And Done! 57

Foreword

As the world continues

to turn, life offers us countless moments where these moments fill our hearts with memories that make us smile. However, these life moments are not without its challenges. In fact, once we take our first breath on this earth, we are promised to experience adversity. How we handle these moments of adversity, determines how soon we can begin enjoying all the other moments life has for us to celebrate. Jesus Christ Himself, showed us how to handle extremely difficult times known as times of adversity. We must understand God’s plan for our lives, where the adversity or adversities we experienced are not to be in vain.

While living through the adverse season, our attitude is integral to being able to survive these tough times. Paul told the Philippians at the Church of Phillipi, that we are to think on good things. The adversity some of us experience, is enough to make anyone ask where is God? However, when we command ourselves to think about the good things and the goodness of God amid these tough moments, we realize the countless gifts God gives us each day that we at times can take for granted. Thinking on the good things God has done, is doing and will do for us can and will lift our spirit.

Those feelings of pity or woe is me, turn into praise. Then suddenly, we are praising and thanking God for what is being done in our lives. We then see our adversity as a moment and as a season and joyfully remember that all things work together for the good because we love God and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28

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), and then become bold enough to say, "this too

shall pass! As you read this awesome revelatory truth, you will focus on the good thing that comes from God as He takes you through the adversity. From the words of the psalmist King David who shares, weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming in the morning!

Forest C. Godwin

Co-Director of Youth Ministry

Spiritual Growth Ministries

Baltimore, MD

Life is a journey

and rest assured; this journey will get us to a destination of our choosing. Many, too many of us actually, fail to see this truth, yet the sooner we come to this incredible awareness, the sooner, God will release us to move into a realm of reality that can ease the pain in our mind, heart and soul when the season of adversity comes upon us. The words penned in this book are truths that reveal a simple yet powerful strategy, coming to us through the life of our Beloved Brother in the faith, Job, whose story we will find in the word of the Living God, located in the Old Testament, after the book of Esther and before the book of Psalms. If you have not read Job’s story before, then get ready, get ready, get ready; but if you have read his story, I am sure there is an awareness of the monstrous size, difficult and gut-wrenching adversity that came into his life, mostly all on the same day.

So, with an x-ray vision in the spiritual realm, with our spiritual eyes, we will investigate and learn some of the intricate and life transforming principles that Job applied