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."

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Fresh new mercies each morning!

"God is so good to His children that way. We are trampled upon,
tested to the limits beyond our human ability, even drawn out into a
wilderness, but no matter the destruction, bending, wounds, and such
we go through, God still sees us as precious to Him. However, we must
go through all this even in His mercifulness in order to be used by Him.
God’s mercies are never ending, they are provided to us fresh each
morning. He peers deep into our heart to see the struggling saint come
to his end with painful groans emerging from the breath of them
flowing to the ears of our almighty God. He then reaches down in our
most desperate situation, the driest time of our life and shows us
mercy. He knows the wilderness is tough. God knows the wilderness
is hard on us, He built every single fiber in us, He understands the
depths of our trials. Remember, Jesus went through forty days of
intense trial in the wilderness as a man, but He was and is God too. In
the middle of my plight, my argument with Him, my distain for this
pilgrimage through the wilderness that was thrust upon me, God
pardoned all my pride at the same time He was purging it from my soul."

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Bending in the direction of His will!

"Something I experienced and it took some time to learn is the fact
God draws us into the desert. Once we are there He can be silent for
an intensity of time. This creates a desperate, lonely experience deep
within our heart. God’s silence can be what draws us to listen closer,
listen intently to God’s commands. Thirst in the midst of God’s silence
can create in us an overwhelming desire to be found in the favor of the
Most High God. My observation, looking back on our experience, is
the intricate design my creator put into this. God did not go off to help
someone else and forgot about me. He was their carefully tenderizing
my heart, sifting my mind, and creating in my soul an ultimate thirsting
desire for Him. He was carefully purging me of sinful tendencies,
bending me in the direction of His will."

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Step into His wonderful light!

"We will experience times filled with darkness, temptations to fear
and give up, attacks by our enemies, heavy burdensome tasks and
more. The seasons of refinement are not easy to endure, but each
Believer must experience a time like this in their life. Not all seasons
of life are the same, but the lessons to be learned are for God’s greater
honor and glory. Do what you can see is clearly before you and stop
worrying about what you can only see vaguely out in the future. We
do not need to be anxious about what tomorrow has for us, what lies
in the dusky darkness, but let God take care of the tomorrows while
we take one small step at a time as God lights each step of the way
for us. An old saying goes like this, “Step into the light.” As Believers
in Jesus Christ, we are to step into His wonderful light."

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God is merciful!

"God has been merciful to me in my battles with depression. I want
so much to succeed for Him and succeed for my family. However, the
pain can be unbearable at times by human standards. As days go slow
with no relief in sight, this seems to be when the battle gets very intense
and the depression starts to settle in my bones like hard concrete
deposits forming at my joints causing pain, heartache, and anxiety.
These are the moments I am reminded of by the Holy Spirit the “Lord
is my portion”…He is my sustainer and healer always. My God is my
Adonai Rofi, my healer. As I move along many times not
understanding the pilgrimage I find myself on, my comfort is in reading
God’s holy Word. His Word will remind us of the vastness of Himself,
the salvation that awaits all those who persevere to the end, the healing
that is bound up in Him and the love He has for His chosen people.
Throughout the day to the end of each day my place is to be completely
satisfied in my Lord no matter the circumstances surrounding me. God
is most glorified in my satisfaction in Him."

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The Word of God...an Antidote for healing!

"Healing comes to us in different ways as I have said before. But
in our battles against the vicious bites of Satan, God does provide an
antidote called The Word we can retreat to and feast on in order to
survive for another day and another battle. This is available to us as
Believer’s in Jesus Christ. The ultimate results are the same; God uses
His Word in us to heal us in accordance with His will and purposes
resulting in the furthering of His kingdom and His greatest glory."

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