Saturday, April 26, 2008

“JUST A THOUGHT”




JESUS SAID: “IT IS FINISHED”

PRAISE GOD, THANK YOU JESUS!

IT WAS FINALLY DONE. THAT WHICH HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN, WOW. MANY LOOKED FORWARD TO THAT DAY, BUT NEVER SAW IT, OR EXPERIENCED THE RESULTS THE FULNESS OF WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED THAT DAY.

BUT WE HAVE & YET WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. WE TRAMPLE OVER IT. WE HAVE NO REVERENCE FOR IT. WE LOOK TO SELF, TO OTHERS, TO THE WORLD, ...

WOW, JESUS SAID “IT IS FINISHED”. YOU CAN NOW GO DIRECTLY TO THE THRONE OF GOD. YOU ARE RECONCILED TO GOD, THROUGH WHAT JESUS DID AT THE CROSS. YOU ARE RECONCILED FULLY. OH PRAISE GOD.

THIS IS NOT A LIGHT THING. WE PASS RIGHT OVER IT. WE WEAR IT AROUND OUR NECKS & HAVE NO FEAR OF THE LORD OR NO TREMBLING OF THE TRUTH THAT IS BEHIND THE CROSS.

WE GO ABOUT OUR DAY AS IF... WELL YOU FILL IN THE BLANKS.

OH AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS, WHERE MY SAVIOUR DIED...

... TO SAVE A SINNER LIKE ME...

... I WAS LOST, BUT...

IT WAS FULLY ACCOMPLISHED AT CALVARY. MY REDEMPTION. I HAVE ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH HIM. I HAVE BEEN RECONCILED TO MY GOD.

IN ONE MOMENT, VICTORY!!!!

NOW ME AND MY FATHER ARE ONE. I AM RECONCILED WITH HIM. I HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. I WILL WALK WITH HIM AND TALK WITH HIM, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD AND FOR ALL ETERNITY. PRAISE GOD!!!!!

JOHN 3:16 FOR GOD SOOOOOOOOOO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS SON TO DIE FOR ME!!!

I WAS LOST AND BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE.

WOW, PRAISE GOD!!!!

“IT IS FINISHED”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE”





I SAM 12:22 THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE FOR HIS GREAT NAME’S SAKE, FOR IT PLEASED HIM TO MAKE YOU A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF

DEUT 4:31 FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD; HE WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU, HE WILL NOT FAIL YOU OR DESTROY YOU OR FORGET THE COVENANT OF YOUR FATHERS, WHICH HE SWORE TO THEM.

JOSH 1:5 ...I WILL NOT FAIL YOU OR FORSAKE YOU. VS 9... FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHERE YOU GO... (HE IS WITH YOU ALWAYS)

IS 41:17 ... I, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WILL NOT FORSAKE THEM.

2 CORN 4:9 WE ARE PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN.

HEB 13:5 ... I WILL NOT IN ANYWAY FAIL YOU [ I WILL] NOT, [I WILL] NOT, [I WILL] NOT IN ANY DEGREE LEAVE YOU HELPLESS NOR FORSAKE NOR LET [YOU] DOWN (OR RELAX MY HOLD OF YOU)! ASSUREDLY NOT!!

THE LORD IS ALWAYS THERE FOR US. OVER AND OVER AGAIN HE SAYS THAT HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US. IT PLEASED HIM TO MAKE US HIS PEOPLE. BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN HE MADE PROVISION FOR US TO ALWAYS BE WITH HIM. WE ARE RECONCILED TO HIM THROUGH THE CROSS.

WE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH HIM THROUGH OUT ALL OF ETERNITY. THIS BRIEF STOP HERE ON EARTH IS JUST A SHORT SPAN OF TIME. WE MUST SEE THINGS IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY. WE MUST NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN THE DAILY ROUTINE OF LIFE. THIS WILL SURELY DRAIN US AND MAKE US FEEL LIKE HE HAS FORSAKEN US. WE FEEL THAT WAY WHEN WE FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON AROUND US.

THERE IS A BIGGER PLAN, ONE THAT WE DON’T REALLY COMPREHEND. WHEN WE CAN REALIZE THAT HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US, WE WILL WALK OUT ON FAITH AND DO HIS WILL AND HIS WORK. THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS. SO OVER AND OVER IN THE WORD OF GOD HE MADE SURE THAT IT WAS REPEATED, SO WE WOULD SOMEDAY REALLY GET IT. SO MANY TIMES WE FEEL ALONE AND HAVE NO HOPE. THIS IS A LIE THE DEVIL HAS BEEN TELLING PEOPLE FOR A LONG, LONG, LONG, TIME. HE IS THE ONE WHO IS FORSAKEN. WE DO NOT WANT TO BE LIKE HIM OR LISTEN TO HIM. WE WANT ETERNAL LIFE. WE WANT TO BE WITH OUR GOD.

SO WHEN EVER YOU FEEL ALONE, THINK AGAIN.

GOD SAYS, “I WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, (THAT MEANS NEVER), FORSAKE YOU OR LEAVE YOU”... BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

“WHAT IS IN A NAME”




JEHOVAH ELOHIM - REFLECTING DIVINE MAJESTY & POWER, “THE LORD IS GOD”

JEHOVAH ELYON - SUPREME GOD OR MOST LOVED GOD, THE MOST HIGH GOD

EL-SHADDAI - GOD ALMIGHTY “SUFFICIENT”, “SELF-SUFFICIENT” ALMIGHTY, (ADEQUATE)

JEHOVAH JIREH - THE LORD WILL PROVIDE

JEHOVAH REPHEKA - THE LORD IS THE HEALER

JEHOVAH TSIDGENU - THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

JEHOVAH TSEBAOTH - THE LORD OF HOSTS

JEHOVAH NISSI - THE LORD IS CONQUEROR, THE LORD MY BANNER, THE LORD IS MY SIGH OF CONQUEST

JEHOVAH SHALOM - THE LORD IS PEACE

JEHOVAH SHAMAH - THE LORD IS THERE

JESUS - “GOD THE SAVIOR OR GOD IS SALVATION”

IMMANUEL - GOD IS WITH US

MASTER - TEACHER

REDEEMER - “ONE WHO REDEEMS SOMEONE FROM JAIL”

GEN 15:1 “I AM THY SHIELD & THY EXCEEDING GREAT REWARD”

MOST HIGH - GEN 14:19-20, 22-23

ALMIGHTY GOD - GEN 17:1-3

GOD WILL PROVIDE - GEN 22:6-8,9, 13-14

HEALER - EX. 15:25-26

LORD OF HOSTS - IS 37:16, 14:27, 31:5, 28:29; I SAM 1”11; MALACHI 3:5; JER 50:37; 11:20; JOSHUA 5:13-15

LORD IS PEACE - JUDGES 6:24

THE LORD IS THERE - EZEKIEL 48:35

LONG STORY SHORT, HE IS ALL IN ALL, HE IS OUR LORD, OUR SAVIOUR, HE IS OUR PROVIDER OF ALL WE NEED, HE HEALS US, SAVES US, AND REDEEMS US. HE IS ALWAYS THERE, HE TEACHES US, HE LEADS US AND GUIDES US.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST: HE IS “THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, & FOREVER” HEB 13:8

HE WAS, HE IS, AND HE EVER SHALL BE, “I AM”.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

“DESPISE NOT THE MANNA”

NUMBERS 11:20 THEY DESPISED THE MANNA & WANTED MEAT TO EAT...

WHEN ISRAEL MURMURED FOR BREAD. EX 16:2-3

NUMB 21:5-6 THEY SPOKE AGAINST GOD - THEY WANTED BREAD. BUT WHEN GOD GAVE THEM BREAD, THEY COMPLAINED & THEN THEY WANTED MEAT. THEY DESPISED THE MANNA. PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE PROVISION THAT GOD HAS PROVIDED.

MANNA MEANS “WHAT IS IT” HOW? WHY? WHEN? WHAT? WHATEVER, HOW LONG, WHAT SO EVER, WHEREBY, WHEREFORE

EX 16:15 AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAW IT, THEY SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, IT IS MANNA: FOR THEY WIST NOT WHAT IS WAS. AND MOSES SAID UNTO THEM, THIS IS THE BREAD WHICH THE LORD HAS GIVEN YOU TO EAT.

JIMMY SWAGGART EXPOSITOR'S STUDY BIBLE SAYS “THE MANNA WAS SO PRECIOUS THAT IT COULD NOT BEAR CONTACT WITH THE EARTH. IT FELL UPON THE DEW & HAD TO BE GATHERED BEFORE THE SUN CAME UP. THIS TEACHES US THAT YESTERDAY’S BLESSING WILL NOT DO FOR TODAY, NOR TODAY’S FOR TOMORROW. THUS MUST THE CHRISTIAN FEED UPON CHRIST DAILY AS HE REVEALS HIMSELF IN THE SCRIPTURES."

DEUT 8:16-18 WHO FED YOU IN THE WILDERNESS WITH MANNA, WHICH YOUR FATHERS KNEW NOT, THAT HE MIGHT HUMBLE YOU, AND THAT HE MIGHT PROVE YOU, TO DO YOU GOOD AT YOUR LATTER END; AND YOU SAY IN YOUR HEART, MY POWER AND THE MIGHT OF MY HAND HAVE GOTTEN ME THIS WEALTH. BUT YOU SHALL REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD: FOR IT IS HE WHO GIVES YOU POWER TO GET WEALTH, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH HIS COVENANT WHICH HE SWORE UNTO YOUR FATHERS, AS IT IS THIS DAY. (WILLIAMS SAYS, “THEY WERE TO BE WATCHFUL LEST PROSPERITY CAUSED THEM TO FORGET THE REDEEMER WHO DELIVERED THEM FROM THE BONDAGE OF EGYPT; & THEY WERE TO GUARD AGAINST THINKING THEIR POSTERITY WAS DUE TO THEIR OWN INTELLIGENCE & POWER.”)

NEH 9:20 YOU GAVE ALSO YOUR GOOD SPIRIT TO INSTRUCT THEM, & WITH HELD NOT YOUR MANNA FROM THEIR MOUTH, & GAVE THEM WATER FOR THEIR THIRST.

FOOD MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDED BY GOD

REV. 2”17: TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH, I WILL GIVE TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA

JOHN 6:31 (THE MANNA REPRESENTS JESUS)

THEY WANTED THE FLESH(MEAT) MORE THAN THE MANNA. THEY REJECTED JESUS. WHO SO EVER REJECTS JESUS WILL DIE AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DIED WHEN THEY ATE THE QUAIL THAT REPLACED THE MANNA.

ANYTIME YOU SAY THE MANNA (JESUS) IS NOT ENOUGH YOU GRIEVE GOD. IF YOU LOOK TO ANYTHING OR ANYONE ELSE BUT JESUS YOU CUT OFF THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOUR LIFE.

THEY QUESTIONED JESUS TOO:
WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? (MATT 8:27
HOW CAN A MAN SPEAK LIKE THIS? (JN 7:46 THEY QUESTIONED HOW COULD HE SPEAK LIKE THIS UNLEARNED)
BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOES HE SO THIS? (MATT 21:23)

JOHN 6:41 THE JEWS MURMURED AT HIM. THEY DID THIS A LOT. JUST AS THEY DID IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHO OR WHAT HE WAS.

THEY REJECTED HIM JUST AS THEY DID THE MANNA IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. STILL TODAY PEOPLE REJECT HIM.

THE FINAL BLOW WAS WHEN THEY CRIED OUT “GIVE US BARABBAS” MATT 27

GOD DID NOT WITH HOLD HIS BLESSINGS. HE DID NOT HOLD BACK HIS PLAN FOR REDEMPTION EVEN THOUGH THEY REBELLED. (ROM 5:8 BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARDS US IN THAT, WE WERE SINNERS CHRIST DIED FOR US.)
HE HAS SUPPLIED YOU THIS DAY THE BREAD OF LIFE. YOU HAVE A CHOICE, YOU CAN EAT THE MEAT AND DIE OR RECEIVE THE BREAD OF LIFE AND LIVE. YOU CHOOSE!

Friday, April 11, 2008

“THE TONGUE, AN UNRULY MEMBER?”

EPH 4:29 LET NO FOUL OR POLLUTING LANGUAGE, NOR EVIL WORD NOR UNWHOLESOME OR WORTHLESS TALK (EVER) COME OUR OF YOUR MOUTH, BUT ONLY SUCH (SPEECH) AS IS GOOD & BENEFICIAL TO THE SPIRITUAL PROGRESS OF OTHERS, AS IS FITTING TO THE NEED & THE OCCASION, THAT IT MAY BE A BLESSING & GIVE GRACE (GOD'S FAVOR) TO THOSE WHO HEAR IT.

FIRST OF ALL EPH 4 IS TALKING ABOUT WALKING IN YOUR NEW NATURE. SO YOU HAVE NO POWER & YOUR OLD NATURE COULD NOT & WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO OBEY THIS SCRIPTURE.

VS 17 SAYS WE ARE NOT TO WALK NO LONGER AS THE HEATHEN DO, IN THE EMPTINESS OF THEIR SOULS & IN THE VANITY OF THEIR MINDS. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD. THEIR UNDERSTANDING IS DARKENED. THEY ARE ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD. READ EPH 4:18-19 OUT OF THE AMP. BIBLE

VS 20 BUT YOU DID NOT SO LEARN CHRIST!

VS 21 ASSUMING THAT YOU HAVE REALLY HEARD HIM & BEEN TAUGHT BY HIM...

YOU HAVE BEEN MADE A NEW CREATURE & SHOULD NOT WALK IN THE OLD NATURE.

ROMANS 6:9-13

KNOWING THAT OUR OLD MAN, OUR UNRENEWED SELF WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS IN ORDER THAT OUR BODY (TONGUE) WHICH IS THE INSTRUMENT OF SIN MIGHT BE MADE INEFFECTIVE & INACTIVE FOR EVIL, THAT WE MIGHT NO LONGER BE THE SLAVES OF SIN. (THAT WE BE NO LONGER SLAVES TO OUR TONGUE) RECKONING OURSELVES DEAD TO SIN & ALIVE UNTO CHRIST. DO NOT YIELD YOUR MEMBERS (YOUR TONGUE) AS AN INSTRUMENT OT SIN, BUT YIELD IT UNTO GOD.

WE NO LONGER WALK AS WE USED TO. WE USED TO SAY WHAT EVER WE WANTED WHEN WE WANTED, WHETHER IT HURT OTHERS OR NOT. BUT NOW WE YIELD OUR TONGUE TO GOD & LET HIM USE IT FOR HIS GLORY. HE WANTS US TO LIFT UP & EDIFY OTHERS.

PS 34:13 KEEP YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL & YOUR LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.

PS 64:9 STOP THE VENOMOUS WORDS

PS 64 - DON’T USE YOUR TONGUE LIKE A SWORD.

COL 4:6 LET YOUR SPEECH AT ALL TIMES BE GRACIOUS (PLEASANT & WINSOME) SEASONED WITH SALT...

WHAT WE SAY CAN EITHER BUILD UP OR TEAR DOWN. THE OLD SAYING “STICKS & STONES MAY BRAKE MY BONES, BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME” IS A LIE. PEOPLE ARE HURT BY WORDS. WORDS THEY HEAR PLAY OVER AND OVER IN THEIR MINDS. SATAN WILL USE THOSE WORDS TO CONDEMN THEM, TO KEEP THEM IN BONDAGE, AND TO TURN THEM FROM GOD.

IF OUR TONGUE IS NOT CONTROLLED BY GOD, THEY CAN & WILL HURT OTHERS.

THE EVIL ONE HAS COME TO STEAL, KILL, & DESTROY & THAT IS WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE WHEN YOU ALLOW YOUR OLD NATURE TO TAKE OVER YOUR TONGUE.

PROV 18:21 DEATH & LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE & THEY WHO INDULGE IN IT SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF IT (LIFE & DEATH).

DOES WHAT YOU SAY BUILD UP OR TEAR DOWN?

WHEN YOU START TALKING GRUDGE & EVIL YOU INSULT & GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.

JAMES 1:26 IF ANYONE THINKS HIMSELF TO BE RELIGIOUS (PIOUSLY OBSERVED OF THE EXTERNAL DUTIES OF HIS FAITH) & DOES NOT BRIDLE HIS TONGUE, BUT DELUDES HIS OWN HEART, THIS PERSON’S RELIGIOUS SERVICE IS WORTHLESS(FUTILE, BARREN)

IF WE THINK WE HAVE FAITH AND DO NOT CONTROL OUR TONGUE, OUR FAITH IS NOTHING AND MEANS NOTHING.

JAMES 3:5-10 EVEN SO THE TONGUE IS A LITTLE MEMBER, AND IT CAN BOAST OF GREAT THINGS. SEE HOW MUCH WOOD OR HOW A FOREST A TINY SPARK CAN SET ABLAZE! AND THE TONGUE IS A FIRE. (THE TONGUE IS A ) WORLD OF WICKEDNESS SET AMONG OUR MEMBERS, CONTAMINATION AND DEPRAVING THE WHOLE BODY AND SETTING ON FIRE THE WHEEL OF BIRTH (THE CYCLE OF MAN’S NATURE), BEING ITSELF IGNITED BY HELL. ... BUT THE HUMAN TONGUE CAN BE TAMED BY NO MAN. IT IS A RESTLESS (UNDISCIPLINED, IRRECONCILABLE) EVIL, FULL OF DEADLY POISON. WITH IT WE BLESS THE LORD AND FATHER, AND WITH IT WE CURSE MEN WHO WERE MADE IN GOD’S LIKENESS. OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH COME FORTH BLESSING AND CURSING. THESE THINGS BRETHREN, OUGHT NOT TO BE SO.

JAMES 4:7-17

1) SUBMIT TO GOD
2) DRAW NIGH TO GOD
3) CLEANSE YOUR HANDS
4) HUMBLE YOURSELVES
5) YIELD YOUR TONGUE TO HIM
6) PLACE YOUR FAITH IN WHAT JESUS DID AT THE CROSS AND AS YOU DO SO, THIS WILL GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT THE LATITUDE TO WORK IN YOUR LIFE & WILL HELP YOU TO CONTROL YOUR TONGUE. WE WILL USE OUR TONGUE FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.

LONG STORY SHORT, YOU WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO BRIDLE YOUR TONGUE WITH THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT CAN BE DONE AND IT WILL BE DONE IF AND WHEN YOU YIELD TO HIM. WE MUST DO THIS TO GLORIFY GOD. WE MUST DO THIS IF WE ARE TRULY HIS!!!

Saturday, April 5, 2008

"And Be Filled"

Eph 5:18 - But be filled with the Spirit (being controlled by the Spirit constantly, moment by moment)

Matt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger & thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, & he will flee from you.

Eph 4:27 Neither give place to the devil (faith properly placed in the "CROSS" gives satan no place)

Read Phil 4:8 (AMP) This can only be done, provided the cross is the object of our faith, which then gives the Holy Spirit latitude to help us.

It is not enough to turn from evil, or to put away evil, or not to do or think something, you MUST look to Jesus, the author & finisher of our faith. In the same way it is not enough to turn to God, you MUST turn from your way & your sin.

Fill your life with God things, not just good things.

But, be careful not to look to what you are doing & that you do not place your faith in yourself, as "IF" you can provide you anything. We get so full of ourselves & we think we can make things happen because we say so, NO GOD IS GOD, & we are not. We must place our faith in Him, trust Him , have full reliance on Him, full assurance in Him & he will give us the grace & the help of the Holy Spirit to fullfill any purpose & plan He has for us. Yes we must read our bible, yes we must cast down imaginations that try to lift itself against the knowledge of God, yes we must be doers of the word, BUT be carefull lest you fall! You must remember that it was Jesus that paid the price for your victory. Only looking to Him, putting your faith in Him will fill you wil what God has for you!!! DO NOT BE FILLED WITH YOURSELF!!!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

"DELIVERANCE"



BECAUSE OF THE CROSS WE ARE DELIVERED!!!




DELIVERANCE FROM THIS PRESENT EVIL AGE: GAL 1:3-4, MATT 13:22, ROM 12:1-2

DELIVERANCE FROM THE LAW: GAL 3:10-12, 5:18, HAB 2:4; ROM 6:14; 7:6; 8:14

DELIVERANCE FROM SELF: GAL 2:20, MATT 16:24, PHIL 2:5-8, PHIL 2:3-4, COL 1:27

DELIVERANCE FROM THE FLESH: GAL 5:24, 19-21, I COR 3:3-4, ROM 7:18, 8:6-8,11, I PETER 4:1-2

DELIVERANCE FROM THE WORLD: GAL 6:14, II PETER 3:5, I JN 2:17, JAMES 4:4, JN 7:7, I JN 5:19, PHIL 3:18-19

“Think it not Strange”


I Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you...

Amp: Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you.

As we go through life we have hardship come to us. It may be because we have sinned, it may be because someone else sinned, or it may not have to do with sin at all.

If it is because we have sinned, then we can understand the results of that sin, and the trouble we may get into. But, many times things happen that we do not understand. We cry out to God and say “WHY”. Why has this happened to me, why am I suffering like this and we act like we have no clue and we think as in the verses above, we are amazed and think it strange.

We must be ready and not be caught unaware of the things that we will experience. If we are not ready and a trial comes we will give up. We will be so shocked that we may fall away from God. Blaming Him for what we are going through. Hardships come and I would never say that anyone is bad because they ask “WHY”, but we need to understand we are not alone. We do not walk through this life alone. We need to cry out to God. But if we are not prepared we might fall away.

You are not alone in life, others have suffered like you and even more than you, but be encouraged and you can even be happy.

I Peter 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye...

I Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

I Peter 2:20 For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

James 1:2(amp) Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.

Heb 11:25 (Moses) choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season.

II Cor 11:23-28 Read this and ask yourself have I suffered like this?

Have you suffered like Jesus? Just read about what He went through.

We do not even know what suffering is. We think if someone says something against us that is suffering.

I John 3:13(marvel not) Do not be surprised & wonder, brethren, that the world detests & pursues you with hatred

Sometimes God does bring adversary.

I King 11:14 & 23 The Lord stirred up an adversary... vs23 and the Lord stirred him up another adversary.

Isaiah 30:20-21 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction...

Sometimes it is because of others.

I Peter 4:19 Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God’s will must do right and commit their souls (in charge as a deposit) to the One Who created (them) and will never fail (them)

Just remember that hard times will come but even when we suffer and it was not by anything that we did he is faithful and he will not fail us. He is always there for us and He will always bring us through. He wants us to cast our cares on Him, He wants us to cry out to Him, to look to Him alone. Do not try and make it through your hard times alone. He will never leave you!!! Or forsake you!!!