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Where does the power and victory come from? We all should be able to answer that question:
Everyone fails in life. If you don’t fail, how are you going to succeed? No one ever succeeds in life without failure. It is failure that determines your metal and grit, not success. You have to avoid self-pity and bitterness. Life is not fair, we shouldn’t think otherwise because we know that we live in the devil’s world.
Millions of unbelievers and believers never get over the trials and tribulations they face in life. Their lives are colored by bitterness, resentment, and revenge.
So what are you going to do when you face testing from a rotten system or something worse?
1. Cast your problems on the Lord
2. Trust in the Lord to take care of your troubles, in His way and in His time.
3. Our job is to “Pray”, “Wait”, and “Trust”
4. Keep your focus on the Lord, not on your troubles!
5. Consistently, keep on learning Bible Doctrine.
6. God will show you His faithfulness and His power when you continue to pray, wait, and trust in Him.
7. If you become a victim of evil and wicked people, it should be the making of you, never the breaking of you.
1 John 2:17 And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
Expended verse:
1 John 2:17 In fact, the world/'cosmic system' and its lusts will all pass away, but anyone who executes the will of God (self-motivation/positive volition toward God and His Word) keeps residing forever (in a superior resurrected body - rewards in eternity future).

(Note: Pastor-Teacher R.B. Thieme says) this is NOT an 'eternal security' verse. Instead, this verse indicates there will be at least two different categories of resurrected bodies. A 'lesser' resurrection body for believers who lived in the cosmic system and never advanced in spiritual maturity.
Read: 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
The cosmic system promotes “human good” which is wood, hay and stubble and burned away so they go into eternity 'naked'. Next a superior resurrection body for those who 'execute the will of God' and live and function primarily in the Divine Dynasphere. “Divine Good” production of gold, silver and precious stones remain with you in eternity. This is probably also connected with the wreaths/crowns of righteousness, life, and glory.

The following is by: The Pulpit Commentary, H. D. M. Spence-Jones
Seeing, then, that the love of the world and the love of the Father are absolutely incompatible, which must we choose? Not the former, for its object is already passing away; while not only does the Father abide forever, but he who loves him and does his will abides forever also. The world is passing away, it has its sentence of death in itself; its decay has begun. And even if it did not pass away, our capacity for enjoying it would certainly come to an end.
Read: Isaiah 24:3-6, 2 Peter 3:10-20
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD's wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Isaiah 66:22 For just as the new heavens and the new earth, Which I make will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "So your offspring and your name will endure.
Isaiah 65:16-20 Because he who is blessed in the earth Shall be blessed by the God of truth; And he who swears in the earth Shall swear by the God of truth; Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My sight! 17) "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18) "But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing, And her people for gladness. 19) "I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound of crying. 20) "No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Shall be thought accursed.