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Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

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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