Be ready for the battle...it is coming!

"So, guys, on this pilgrimage crossing the wilderness desert it will
require alertness, work, diligence, and hardcore truthfulness. It will
require direct obedience, loyal sacrifices and strict discipline. This is
all part of the process. God is growing us up; He is maturing us to serve
in His kingdom. Do not resist it, but do be ready for the battle, because
it is coming if you have not already experienced the battle. If you are
living fairly easy right now I must warn you…trouble is coming!"

Three things from God’s Word we need to understand
about the Christian life:

1. God’s ordinary path is to place His people into a state of suffering.
His people are usually always in some kind of awful trial.
Reference Philippians 1:29 and 1 Peter 4:12

2. When God brings to us His most wonderful mercies, first He takes
us to our lowest breaking point.

3. In God’s strange way, He works through trials, struggles,
suffering, and humiliation in our lives to turn these greatest afflictions
in our lives into the greatest of good in order to glorify Him.

"Gentlemen, let us play the man and understand God is going to use
us in the wilderness in some way."