What comes to your mind when you hear the word tribulation? Do you automatically think of something

that would happen outside of your life, or do you realize that it could happen inside your

very own family? Tribulation doesn't have boundaries. Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.

She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from God's Word.

Now back to today's valuable study.

Today's episode is based on this passage that I'm about to read from Romans chapter 5 verses 3 through 5, which says this, and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

knowing that tribulation worketh patience,

and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love

of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. In context,

this verse is part of a chapter about the life of faith.

Being born again does not equal being free of problems. It means that we're in good standing with

God, as it says in Romans 5.1. Listen to that verse. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Peace with God is a precious treasure. Tribulations can't cancel our peace with God.

Now, I'm a fan of looking up definitions because there are times when there's more depth to a word

than what we're storing in our minds.

The word tribulation is one that has layers to it, including these meanings,

affliction, trouble, anguish, and persecution.

But here's a short definition of the word, tribulation is pressure.

It's the kind of pressure that causes us distress and feels oppressive and even

sometimes cruel. This sounds like something we would all love to avoid, but tribulation is one of the

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