At the end of a trial one has come forth as gold: like Job.

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III)        What stops anyone from developing his faith base just like a merchant looks for more money to enlarge the coast of his business? All you have to do is conquer one problem. Does the workability of your thinking come from your flesh or the faith based on the written word of God? At the end of a trial one has come forth as gold, ready to conquer and after conquering to stand. There is not a smidgeon of proof that faith-conquests is by physical strength. It is “by My Spirit,” says the LORD. There is this power, readily packed into the faith of the believer to work the miraculous. Satan knows that this power will always be ignited when faith is exercised. You are not the one who releases the miraculous power, God does. There is therefore no limit to what you can achieve all the time you exercise faith in the name of Jesus. The trials are actually building you for future encounters.

David did not know that the strength that saw to his ability to overcome the bear and the lion really prepared him for an ultimate face to face encounter with a more professionally brutish Goliath. He did not know that the few sheep entrusted to him would pave way for the royal palace as the king of Israel, God’s own people. Those things the man called Job had imbibed while growing up as a man of God he ransacked when the enemy was allowed to strike him. The word of God remained steadfast in Job. The certainty that restrained Job from cursing the LORD his God was, “But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:10). The trials of our lives are blessings in disguise; we just do not see that this life’s destiny is to enable the removal of the ugly dross covering over the glistening star that we truly are.

Samson found a reason to show faith in the LORD his God. Judges 16:22, “Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.” But the twelfth Judge of Israel – after Joshua – displayed an inability to show enough faith in overcoming his enemies “And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes” (Judges 16:28). Who told Samson, the son of Manoah, that Jehovah God cannot restore his sight? What made the Judge of Israel think that he could not be restored as the leader of Israel for more years? Dearth of faith engulfed the Judge of Israel, Samson. Run not away from trials when they are hurled. Deal with them with equanimity. They help get us polished to the glory of the LORD, our God.

God truly cares

The Bible has the documentation of the Lord from heaven Who promised to bring salvation to man in Genesis 3:15. These are vaticinatory verses concerning our nonpareil example, Jesus the Christ. Psalms 22:7-8 “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8) He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.” Isaiah 53:3-5 “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Zechariah 11:12-13 “And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13) And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.” Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.” Psalm 22:18 “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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