( John 14:1-3 ; John 3:15 ; John 5:24 ; John 11:25 ; Rom. 10:9-10 ) Whenever troubled, disturbed, agitated, perplexed, worried, tossed about, confused, disheartened, continue to believe while in the midst of troubles. This will carry you through to believing that God and His Son will deliver your troubled heart. Thus, through belief and hope for God's house and its mansions, through Jesus' work, through Jesus' return and through an eternal habitation with Jesus - these things will deliver you from a troubled heart.

( 1 Pet. 1:3-4 ; Titus 2:12-13 ) Earth is only a temporary place, we have a permanent one in a real world in another dimension of being. Jesus knew His Father's house, the truth and the reality of it. Thus, the one thing essential to inherit these mansions is belief in Christ.

In relation to God, the more a soul hopes and believes, the more it will attain. The more hope it has, the greater will be its union with God. Thus, we are to empty ourselves of all that is not of God. In this way we can purely hope for God Himself. Every possession that is not of God is against hope. In the measure the memory becomes dispossessed of worldly influences: its delights, its honors, its pressures, its oppressions, its fears, its materialism - any semblance of earthly properties... to this extent, one will exercise divine wisdom to reach beyond the earthly to the divine, and from the divine to the earthly ( Col. 1:27 ; Heb. 12:1-3 ).

Therefore, perfect dispossession of all that is not of God opens up the human faculties to be filled with and under the absolute presence and direction of the Holy Spirit resulting in perfect possession with God in union ( Matt. 5:48 ; Matt. 6:10 ; Luke 14:26,33 ).

( Eph. 1:7 ; 1 Pet. 1:18-19 ; 2 Cor. 13:4 ; Rom. 5:2 ) It is through Jesus' work that our deliverance comes about. Jesus went to the cross to prepare redemption for us by His death, His resurrection and His exaltation. Being raised from the dead, He prepared the conquest of death and a new life and power for us. He ascended into heaven to prepare our access into the presence of God and an eternal home for us.

( John 5:25 ; John 17:24 ; 1 Thess. 4:16-17 ; 2 Cor. 5:8 ; Titus 2:12-13 ; 2 Tim. 4:18 ; Phil. 3:20-21 ) Believers are to be glorified with the Father and Jesus. In an instant, we will pass from this world into the next world, into heaven itself. In comparison, our present afflictions are but slight. Meditate on this and grasp the truth of this statement which will carry your troubled soul through any trial even martyrdom. The Lord will deliver you from any evil work... physical or spiritual.

( John 14:4-7 ; John 8:19 ; Acts 28:27 ; John 3:3-5 ; 1 Cor. 2:14 ; Rom. 8:15-17 ; Gal. 4:4-7 ) As with the disciples, our eyes are to be taken off of earthly things, of worldly position and power, of wealth and possessions, of pomp and ceremony. We are to think on Jesus' words that all roads lead to God Himself. We dwell on the words of Jesus, and we look through the things of the world and see the way to God is Jesus Himself and the destination of life is God Himself. Accordingly, do not think like the natural man and be caught up into the earthly atmosphere. Our perpetual residence is one of a heavenly atmosphere, having an eternal quality, beyond the senses, realizing that we will be in the Presence of God the Father forever.

( John 14:8-14 ; John 12:45 ; John 16:15 ; Col. 2:9 ; Heb. 1:3 ; John 10:37-38 ; John 14:20 ; John 17:21-22 ; Acts 1:8 ) As with the disciples, the same today, Jesus wants us to walk by faith. We will see the Father in Jesus in the Gospels. Jesus revealed Himself as the full embodiment of God - the very nature, character, substance and perfection of God. As we believe the word as Jesus did, then, we too will walk by the light of the word manifesting the Presence of God in our being and deeds - in the midst of troubles, pressures, and persecutions as with Jesus. We are to believe Jesus as a Person, as the Son of God Himself, believe His claim, that His testimony and witness to Himself is absolutely true. As we believe and live in Him, we can go through any trial and come out victoriously.