WHERE DO YOU FIND ENCOURAGEMENT?

Where can you find Christians wholly devoted to the Lord who have an
easy,
trouble-free life? Show me a Spirit-led, God-filled, anointed servant of
the
Lord, and I'll show you one who is chased, chastened, often baffled, and
familiar to deep waters and fiery furnaces.

Those who seek to avoid difficulties seldom get the revelation of God's
fullness. They attempt to use faith to exempt themselves from crisis,
not
realizing they are robbing themselves of the greatest opportunity to
find out
what is really in them. Then one day when trouble can no longer be
avoided,
they cave in, having no proven source of inner strength.

Paul wrote, "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his
glory, to
be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man" (Ephesians
3:16).

These days the Lord needs Christians who are not tossed about by every
wind and
wave of doctrine; who are not being made merchandise of; who have
discernment
and are not being deceived; who need no special teacher with some new
revelation; who do not need a human shepherd to guide their every step;
who do
not have to depend on someone else for their happiness or spiritual
strength—but who have been tested and tried and have proven that the
very
life of God is in them, providing grace and mercy to help in every need.
Christ
has been revealed not only to them, but in them. They are drawing on the
strength of their inner man, according to the riches of His glory.

We can learn valuable lessons from King David's experience at Ziklag.
"David
encouraged himself in the Lord" (1 Samuel 30:6). It is imperative that
we learn
to encourage ourselves in the Lord because of the troubled times just
ahead.

Brothers, sisters in Christ, I beseech you in the name of the Lord, to
open
your eyes to the mighty power of God at work in you, and to appropriate
the
fullness and completeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter what fiery
furnace we may be cast into, our supreme Lord will walk us through it.
"HALLELUJAH"AMEN,AMEN"!!! POWERFUL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT!!! GOD WILL "NEVER" LEAVE US,AND HE IS ALWAYS AWARE OF ALL WE'RE GOING THROUGH,AND OUR SAFE ESCAPE IS IN JESUS,WHO LEADS AND GUIDES US THROUGH EVERY SINGLE THING WE FACE!!! ALSO THIS BRINGS TO MIND ISAIAH 43:1 & 2 GOD IS WITH US TO HELP US THROUGH IT "ALL"!!!!
LOVE YOU MUCH


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