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Why Was Job Tested? P1

Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

Job’s Open Door For Attack From Satan

Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
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2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “… A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come…”

Job was said to be “per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:1Job 1:1
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The Book of Job 1 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) “Per­fect” doesn’t mean he never sinned, but it means one who holds noth­ing back from God.

He was totally sin­cere and ded­i­cated to God. “Upright” refers to his char­ac­ter. He lived in such an hon­est way that every­one who knew him respected him.

Satan’s Legal Right Inflict Job

As you can see from the scrip­ture above (Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
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2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) — that means a curse can­not come on you unless you have an open door — sin and Job’s sin was a spirit of fear.  What was Job’s open door for the enemy to have legal right?

A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come

Heb “cause­less curse” (KJV sim­i­lar) describes an unde­served curse (cf. NIV, NRSV). The Hebrew word trans­lated “cause­less” means (khanan); it means “with­out cause; gra­tu­itous.”  Read Deut. 28 Bless­ings and Curses.

His chil­dren (all 10) did not serve the Lord.  Did he have a spirit of fear of man and did not dis­ci­pline them? He had fear for his chil­dren.  Fear is the oppo­site of faith and his fear was a form of worry which is not from God.

Job Feared Came Upon Him

Let us note the words of Job: “For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me” (3:25). What this verse reveals to us is of tremen­dous sig­nif­i­cance. Before these ter­ri­ble things hap­pened to him, Job already had had fear for his  chil­dren.  They were not right­eous like him but were sin­ners.  Instead of Trust­ing the Lord for his Chil­dren, he sac­ri­ficed for their sins.

Job 1:5Job 1:5
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5 And it was so, when the days of their feast­ing were gone about, that Job sent and sanc­ti­fied them, and rose up early in the morn­ing, and offered burnt offer­ings accord­ing to the num­ber of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job con­tin­u­ally. con­tin­u­ally: Heb. all the days  

WP-Bible plu­gin says that Job was always offer­ing sac­ri­fices on behalf of his sons in case they had sinned.  His chil­dren were liv­ing a hyp­o­crit­i­cal, sex­u­ally sin­ful, drunken, God hat­ing lives.

Did his chil­dren honor Job?  Prov. 4:1, Col. 3:20Col. 3:20
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20 Chil­dren, obey your par­ents in all things: for this is well pleas­ing unto the Lord.  

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3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sab­baths: I am the LORD your God.  

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3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sab­baths: I am the LORD your God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin2 The child’s duty to their par­ents is first to honor, care for and rev­er­ence them. Job’s chil­dren refused this admo­ni­tion from God and died young and sent to hell-fire forever.
Job 1:1–2 The Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he (Job) has is in your power only upon him­self (body) put not forth your hand. This pro­hi­bi­tion by God was later lifted and Satan allowed to attack Job phys­i­cally for sev­eral months.

Job Fear­ful Over Children’s Sin

Why, because Job was fear­ful lest his chil­dren would die; he was afraid that he might lose all his prop­erty. Satan’s first job is to plant this fear in man in a form of worry. If the fear is accepted, things will soon hap­pen; if it is rejected, noth­ing will come of it. Lis­ten to what Job says here “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has hap­pened to me.” Job 3:25Job 3:25
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25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. the thing…: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me  

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Satan has to get one’s con­sent before he can curse. If this con­sent is with­held, he can­not work, for man has free will. With­out man’s con­sent, Satan can nei­ther tempt him to sin nor attack him at will. So, in the case of Job, Satan first implanted a lit­tle thought of fear in Job. Hav­ing once accepted the thought, it made Job tremble.

To think that God would allow Satan to attack us with­out a cause is absurbed.  What kind of God would do this?  We don’t see any­where else in scrip­ture of God’s attack except when there is sin of some type — unfaith­ful­ness, doubt, unbe­lief, etc.

Objec­tive — Why Job Was Tested:

God did not afflict Job, Satan did.  God gave Satan per­mis­sion. Answer: Isn’t it com­fort­ing to know Satan can do noth­ing with­out God’s knowl­edge and per­mis­sion!   If Satan is attack­ing us, God allowed it because of open door.Job’s open door which is fear.

The suf­fer­ings of Christ point to the same prob­lem: Why? We can dimly per­ceive how he was “made per­fect through suf­fer­ing,” and how his per­fect sub­mis­sion to that suf­fer­ing laid the eter­nal foun­da­tion for the world’s redemp­tion from all suffering. 

All Man Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion Process — Dying to Self

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is a process of tri­als to get what is not of God out of us or to purify us.  Is there any man on earth or ever on earth who was per­fect and with­out sin?  No not at all.  Suf­fer­ing is a part of test­ing but really it is a sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion process. Job’s test­ing to see if he would turn against God.  He even had three (3) best friends who accused him. 

Paul writes, “…There is no one right­eous, not even one; there is no one who under­stands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worth­less; there is not one who does good, not even one” (Romans 3:10–12Romans 3:10–12
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10 As it is writ­ten, There is none right­eous, no, not one: 11 There is none that under­standeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprof­itable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). The Bible says Job was the best man in all the East. That doesn’t mean that he was right­eous and good in God’s sight. He was sim­ply the best man from a human per­spec­tive, but even the best man is a sin­ner in God’s sight, and that includes Job. A sin­ner has no right-standing or rights with God.

Go to Part 2 — Why Job Was Tested — Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions / Sanctification

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Trials and Tribulations — 3

Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

Con­tin­u­a­tion of Tri­als and Tribulations

It can­not be about peo­ple but only the Lord regard­less what fiery darts com­ing out of oth­ers as accu­sa­tion, attack­ing your rep­u­ta­tion, betrayal, destruc­tion, etc.  You gotta stand, even in weak­ness, that God is for you and not against you and that he is all your all.  Even though it feels like you are walk­ing in the shadow of death what I call the dark night of the soul but to not fear no evil accord­ing to Psalm 23:4Psalm 23:4
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4 Yea, though I walk through the val­ley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they com­fort me.  

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“Even though I walk through the val­ley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they com­fort me.”  You can­not allow peo­ple to rule you but God to rule you.

Many times it does feel like afflic­tion of the soul or your emo­tions.  Your emo­tions do go to hel­ter skel­ter but you gotta hang on that the Lord is doing a new thing and will deliver you accord­ing to  Psalm 34:19Psalm 34:19
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19 Many are the afflic­tions of the right­eous: but the LORD deliv­ereth him out of them all.  

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“Many are the afflic­tions of the right­eous, but the Lord deliv­ers him out of them all.”

and that God will sup­ply all your needs emo­tion­ally and phys­i­cally accord­ing to Philip­pi­ans 4:19Philip­pi­ans 4:19
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19 But my God shall sup­ply all your need accord­ing to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  

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“And my God will sup­ply every need of yours accord­ing to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” and that  2 Corinthi­ans 4:162 Corinthi­ans 4:16
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16 For which cause we faint not; but though our out­ward man per­ish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  

WP-Bible plu­gin  “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wast­ing away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

You have choices to make in the dark night of the soul.  That means, deter­min­ing not to go bit­ter but count it all joy like I said ear­lier and praise the Lord like Paul did in Jail and the Lord deliv­ered him.

Oth­er­wise, if you don’t for­give, two things can hap­pen, 1. have feel­ings of insan­ity and tor­ment or develop sick­ness and dis­ease.  Because a bro­ken heart dryth the bones, that is where your immune sys­tem is.

Accu­sa­tions will come that are not true.

I’m shar­ing this part so who­ever reads this going through the fiery darts will real­ize these are tri­als and tests of char­ac­ter.  I had to see I could not defend myself but trust God regard­less where it took me.  Where I got messed up at first is I thought if I do the right thing every­thing would cor­rect itself but that is not the case.  Many times it can fall apart regard­less how you try to be hon­or­able not talk­ing, not giv­ing any accu­sa­tion, or anything.

The accu­sa­tions from those you care about, do break your heart.

Yes, when going through betray­als, accu­sa­tions and rejec­tion,  you didn’t always do the right thing.  I made many mis­takes in this friend­ship.  Through my bro­ken­ness, I had to see and look at my heart and real­ized I made a lot of mis­takes and that I can­not blame the other per­son but I had to take respon­si­bil­ity and go to the Lord for for­give­ness and healing.

Many times friend­ships are sev­ered for­ever which do break your heart deeply.  But God has a greater pur­pose in all of it.  You have to trust God and believe and move on and not get hung up in the past of what if. I had to stand in faith and rejoice regard­less of the out­come accord­ing to Romans 5:2–5Romans 5:2–5
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2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribu­la­tions also: know­ing that tribu­la­tion wor­keth patience; 4 And patience, expe­ri­ence; and expe­ri­ence, hope: 5 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.  

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“Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our suf­fer­ings, know­ing that suf­fer­ing pro­duces endurance, and endurance pro­duces char­ac­ter, and char­ac­ter pro­duces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

I had to see it was a trial and do what the Word says to do and that was to rejoice in our suf­fer­ings… A very dif­fer­ent con­cept when your heart is bleed­ing but did it because it pro­duces endurance, char­ac­ter, hope with­out shame.  I was doing it out of obe­di­ence of being bro­ken and realigned cor­rectly to the Lord.  We serve a jeal­ous God.

In my past, I used to com­plain about every­thing.  No more.  I made a deci­sion from what I’ve learned in the last two years was to rejoice in all things regard­less how it appeared but to put on my spir­i­tual eyes and stand on Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:1
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11 1 Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen. sub­stance: or, ground, or, con­fi­dence  

WP-Bible plu­gin “Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen.”

Since then, I have found myself again.  I had lost myself and didn’t even know who I was but now I’ve found myself and mov­ing for­ward with new peo­ple and enjoy­ing life to the fullest.

When you go through these tri­als and tribu­la­tions you come out gain­ing new wis­dom accord­ing to Romans 11:33Romans 11:33
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33 O the depth of the riches both of the wis­dom and knowl­edge of God! how unsearch­able are his judg­ments, and his ways past find­ing out!  

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“Oh, the depth of the riches and wis­dom and knowl­edge of God! How unsearch­able are his judg­ments and how inscrutable his ways!”

When you do go through tri­als and tribu­la­tions it is self dying like Christ.  You are only par­tak­ing a very small por­tion of his suf­fer­ing but it opens your eyes to what he really and truly went through in killing your flesh to be more like him.

Gala­tians 2:20Gala­tians 2:20
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20 I am cru­ci­fied with Christ: nev­er­the­less I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave him­self for me.  

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I have been cru­ci­fied with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave him­self for me.

Dying to self is a good thing.  Tri­als and tribu­la­tions brings up the nasty stuff so that you can cru­cify it with Christ.  In fact it is the best way to deal with the flesh when you go through tri­als and tribulations.

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Trials and Tribulations — 2

Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

Trials and tribu­la­tions walkthrough

Yes, the pain is deep, loos­ing rep­u­ta­tion, betrayal espe­cially when the other per­son believes you’ve betrayed them because God tells you to fol­low him and not them.  Even if they believe you made a promise but the other per­son did not hear the other part I said many years ago that when I got to busy for God, I was going to lay it down and man God made me live up to that.

Unfor­tu­nately, me leav­ing was a betrayal to the other per­son.  I have to obey His ways and many times he takes peo­ple apart and sets them on other paths.  Many times you have no under­stand­ing why but did Abra­ham under­stand when the Lord told him to leave and go to a strange land?

Through tri­als and tribu­la­tions of all this, the pain, the hurt and the loss, I had to see what Jesus went through when He hung on the cross to give us life spir­i­tu­ally as well as phys­i­cally.  He came to over­come and I can over­come accord­ing to John 16:33John 16:33
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33 These things I have spo­ken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribu­la­tion: but be of good cheer; I have over­come the world.  

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“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribu­la­tion. But take heart; I have over­come the world.”

Not only that but the Lord is pro­duc­ing per­se­ver­ance in me in accor­dance to Romans 5:3Romans 5:3
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3 And not only so, but we glory in tribu­la­tions also: know­ing that tribu­la­tion wor­keth patience;  

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“More than that, we rejoice in our suf­fer­ings, know­ing that suf­fer­ing pro­duces endurance,…”

When you are in a place of prepa­ra­tion and heal­ing and restora­tion and the wait­ing, you can­not be anx­ious but the Lord will guard your heart and mind from the attacks of the enemy or temp­ta­tions accord­ing to Philip­pi­ans 4:6–7Philip­pi­ans 4:6–7
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6 Be care­ful for noth­ing; but in every thing by prayer and sup­pli­ca­tion with thanks­giv­ing let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which pas­seth all under­stand­ing, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  

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“Do not be anx­ious about any­thing, but in every­thing by prayer and sup­pli­ca­tion with thanks­giv­ing let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which sur­passes all under­stand­ing, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

We serve such an awe­some God of the Lord most high and we can count those tri­als and tribu­la­tions as joy accord­ing to James 1:2James 1:2
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2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temp­ta­tions; temp­ta­tion: or, tri­als  

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“Count it all joy, my broth­ers, when you meet tri­als of var­i­ous kinds,”

It is not easy to give up some­thing you love, birthed, and given your heart to and then have to lay it all down.  Not only that but give all the money, equip­ment and BIH.  I gave it all up accord­ing to the Lord Most High.   Some of the min­istries have opin­ions of me that are not true.  They don’t know what took place but that is part of God has to be your all so that you are not con­cerned about what oth­ers think.

In the past, I would try to fix things to only make it worse.  It is bet­ter to leave it alone and trust God.  God knows the truth and that should count.  We get in trou­ble when we try to fix our rep­u­ta­tion with man.  Could it be an idol — loved by all man?

Man always ruins oth­ers rep­u­ta­tions and mine cer­tainly was through sev­eral avenues of peo­ple — fiery darts. Praise the Lord!

I had to see these were fiery darts of test­ing accord­ing to 1 Peter 4:121 Peter 4:12
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12 Beloved, think it not strange con­cern­ing the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing hap­pened unto you:  

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“Beloved, do not be sur­prised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though some­thing strange were hap­pen­ing to you.”

Fiery darts come from peo­ple who are the clos­est to you — friends, fam­ily, min­istries, etc.  Again I had to remem­ber Jesus on the cross say­ing Father for­give them for they do not know what they are doing.  I look that God is test­ing my heart and my reac­tions.  I’m for­ever grate­ful of BIH for my heal­ing, for the min­istry in Lewisville for lov­ing me and accept­ing me and point­ing me in the right direc­tion.  I can truly say I care for all these peo­ple regard­less if they think of me on earth.  Their opin­ions do not matter.

As long as I know I’ve done right and areas it was not han­dled I went to the Lord for for­give­ness and know I’m for­given and move forward.

The enemy wants to stop you and keep you in the past,  but I’m mov­ing for­ward to the things of the Lord even though I would rather be a bump on the log.  I would have to say these tri­als has given me a deeper love for peo­ple in God’s way of love.

Isa­iah 43:19Isa­iah 43:19
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19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilder­ness, and rivers in the desert.  

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19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilder­ness, and rivers in the desert. ”

I love peo­ple, not what they can do for me or ful­fill any­thing in me but because my Lord Jesus Christ loves them as well.

Even though I felt weak and bro­ken I knew I could do all things accord­ing to 2 Corinthi­ans 12:92 Corinthi­ans 12:9
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9 And he said unto me, My grace is suf­fi­cient for thee: for my strength is made per­fect in weak­ness. Most gladly there­fore will I rather glory in my infir­mi­ties, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  

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But he said to me,

“My grace is suf­fi­cient for you, for my power is made per­fect in weak­ness.” There­fore I will boast all the more gladly of my weak­nesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. “  That is a promise when we feel weak, bro­ken, bleed­ing inside, etc. we are made per­fect in weak­ness because then it is more of God and me more out of the way.  That is how we are sup­pose to look at weakness.”

I would have to say my faith was being tested and many times just wanted to give up and part of me just wanted to dis­ap­pear or be absorbed by the air and not exist.  But, I knew that is what the Lord did not want but for me to get back up and go for­ward even in my weak­ness and to count it all joy accord­ing to James 1:2James 1:2
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2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temp­ta­tions; temp­ta­tion: or, tri­als  

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“Count it all joy, my broth­ers, when you meet tri­als of var­i­ous kinds, for you know that the test­ing of your faith pro­duces stead­fast­ness. And let stead­fast­ness have its full effect, that you may be per­fect and com­plete, lack­ing in noth­ing. If any of you lacks wis­dom, let him ask God, who gives gen­er­ously to all with­out reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubt­ing, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is dri­ven and tossed by the wind. … ”

My faith has been strength­ened.  I’m not the same per­son.  It now takes a lot to take me down.  I see God in all sit­u­a­tions and that he is work­ing it out regard­less if I can see it or not like Heb. 11:1Heb. 11:1
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11 1 Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen. sub­stance: or, ground, or, con­fi­dence  

WP-Bible plu­gin — I can­not go by what I see but what I can­not see and trust God’s word and praise him for the good result even though it is not happening.

That means stand­ing strong and not being fright­ened.  You can­not be afraid of your ene­mies.  When you have a min­istry, you have ene­mies.  Just like Joshua, I was going into new ter­ri­tory and can­not be afraid accord­ing to Joshua 1:9Joshua 1:9
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9 Have not I com­manded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, nei­ther be thou dis­mayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whith­er­so­ever thou goest.  

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“Have I not com­manded you? Be strong and coura­geous. Do not be fright­ened, and do not be dis­mayed, for the Lord your God is with you wher­ever you go.”

I really hope this helps some­one who is in the min­istry and being attacked with fiery darts to not give up.  Because all these things are tests of faith accord­ing to 1 Peter 1:71 Peter 1:7
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7 That the trial of your faith, being much more pre­cious than of gold that per­isheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and hon­our and glory at the appear­ing of Jesus Christ:  

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“So that the tested gen­uine­ness of your faith—more pre­cious than gold that per­ishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the rev­e­la­tion of Jesus Christ. ”

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Brokenness Through Trials and Tribulations 1

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God’s Word on Suf­fer­ing, Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions, Bro­ken Heart

Bro­ken­ness Through Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions Why We Go Through Them, How to Sur­vive Them and See God In the Midst of Our Tri­als and Gain Wis­dom and Under­stand­ing.  Many times bro­ken hearts from hurts, trau­matic events, aban­don­ment, betray­als, etc.

Isa­iah 43: 2–5Isa­iah 43: 2–5
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 When thou pass­est through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not over­flow thee: when thou walk­est through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; nei­ther shall the flame kin­dle upon thee. 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Sav­iour: I gave Egypt for thy ran­som, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou wast pre­cious in my sight, thou hast been hon­ourable, and I have loved thee: there­fore will I give men for thee, and peo­ple for thy life. life: or, per­son 5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;  

WP-Bible plu­gin 2When thou pass­est through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not over­flow thee: when thou walk­est through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; nei­ther shall the flame kin­dle upon thee. 3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Sav­iour: I gave Egypt for thy ran­som, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4Since thou wast pre­cious in my sight, thou hast been hon­ourable, and I have loved thee: will I give men for thee, and peo­ple for thy life.

Two Choices To Choose Dur­ing Tri­als and Tribulations

I was recently read­ing a book by Smith Wig­glesworth and he said to truly be used by God, you have to be bro­ken.  Bro­ken­ness comes in many forms and ways.  When you go through betrayal, loss of rep­u­ta­tion, being used by Chris­tians, hurt or great loss, you have two choices, either for­give and praise the Lord through it or become bit­ter.  I decided to praise the Lord and thank the Lord regard­less what it looked like at the moment.

“19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilder­ness, and rivers in the desert.”

I would say from the list, I went through it all.  Going through it, my heart is more ten­der instead of bit­ter.  I still won­der why peo­ple act the way they do.  But the answer is they are human and are react­ing to what they believe.  What they see is not always true but it is true to them. I tried to pro­tect a lot of peo­ple and I was in the mid­dle of it all.  I had to obey God and do what he wanted me to do.  Unfor­tu­nately, because I refused to expose, or reveal and pro­tect every­one, it blows up in your face.

We say “God why when I was fol­low­ing you.”  Then you learn you go through, regard­less if it is true, bro­ken­ness does occur.  Bro­ken­ness is good as long as it does not turn to bit­ter­ness.  Bro­ken­ness pulls up what is truly in you — flesh or spirit.  How do you react when oth­ers accuse you when not true?

Many times you lose friends at all lev­els and some­times many because of asso­ci­a­tions, etc.  God is an awe­some God full of love and ten­der­ness.  He pro­vides new friends, fam­ily, etc. that are much health­ier because God has to be the cen­ter of your exis­tence. Out of my bro­ken­ness, I had to look at the sin in me that I would have never seen except through bro­ke­ness.   I used to build friend­ships out of order.  God has to be your all and not peo­ple.  We serve a jeolous God.

I also had a fear of man.  It set me up to be con­trolled. I don’t blame the other per­son what has hap­pened at all.  I had to look in the mir­ror and see what was in me for a rela­tion­ship to be built wrongly. We do go through tri­als and tribu­la­tions of life since God is doing a work in you.  Tri­als and tribu­la­tions only last for a short while but the Lord him­self restore, con­firms, strength­ens and estab­lishes you back to Him accord­ing to 1 Peter 5:101 Peter 5:10
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eter­nal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suf­fered a while, make you per­fect, sta­b­lish, strengthen, set­tle you.  

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“And after you have suf­fered a lit­tle while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eter­nal glory in Christ, will him­self restore, con­firm, strengthen, and set up you.”

Going through the trial and tribu­la­tion you have to stand fast in prayer and pray always to keep your heart right espe­cially when oth­ers try to destroy you because they are hurt and don’t under­stand the intent.  Many times your heart becomes bro­ken but you are given the choice to for­give those who break your heart.Romans 12:12Romans 12:12
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
12 Rejoic­ing in hope; patient in tribu­la­tion; con­tin­u­ing instant in prayer;  

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Our Atti­tude Dur­ing Tri­als and Tributations

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tri­als and tribu­la­tion, be con­stant in prayer.The Lord is so good.  He reminded me con­stantly that the temp­ta­tion will not over­take you.  When you are going through tribu­la­tions the enemy tempts you with temp­ta­tions to get back at the other per­son through accu­sa­tion, ugli­ness, etc.  Instead I kept in con­tin­ual prayer because I knew my answer would not be accepted.  I refused to use any accu­sa­tion against the per­son who hated me or believed what they believed was true.  Then the Lord gives me 1 Corinthi­ans 10:131 Corinthi­ans 10:13
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
13 There hath no temp­ta­tion taken you but such as is com­mon to man: but God is faith­ful, who will not suf­fer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temp­ta­tion also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. com­mon…: or, mod­er­ate  

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“No temp­ta­tion has over­taken you that is not com­mon to man. God is faith­ful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your abil­ity, but with the temp­ta­tion he will also give the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

All I’m try­ing to do is fol­low the Lord.  When I left the min­istry because the Lord told me to lay it all down, I didn’t care if I ever prayed for another per­son, or min­is­tered or any­thing.  I was totally fine with being a bump on the log and being no one in the king­dom.  I wanted it to be that way but the Lord would not let it go.  He kept send­ing me peo­ple con­stantly.  Even peo­ple from the other min­istry but I had to turn them down because it would not be fair and uneth­i­cal. I was going to be as hon­or­able as I could be.

Any­way, God just kept pour­ing in me dur­ing those times with Him and so got moti­vated to build a web­site.  Then wham get hit again with accu­sa­tion.  It made me shake but I decided to praise the Lord, con­tinue to for­give and fol­low God regard­less what oth­ers thought or believed.  My rep­u­ta­tion is in the Lord.

As of December 15, 2011r 15, 2011
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
 

WP-Bible plu­gin, I’m in a place of restora­tion and prepa­ra­tion.  God is show­ing me won­der­ful things that are so awe­some.  I’ve learned that your rep­u­ta­tion go up in smoke and ruined by man not under­stand­ing but that is ok.  God is my vin­di­ca­tor.  My rep­u­ta­tion is not only ruined by one,  but from sev­eral other min­istries.  You try to do the right thing and man, wham bam you get hit and your name is mud.  Who do I serve?  Who is my God.  Is it man or God.  Why should I care what oth­ers believe.

All these are tests and stretch­ing to take you to a place of ten­der­ness and into the won­ders of God’s good­ness.  I see Him in such a dif­fer­ent way that I’ve never seen before.  I walk on earth and see life dif­fer­ently and peo­ple dif­fer­ently.  I love peo­ple but it is in the right order.

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