Post by Pastor BrodieEmail on Nov 19, 2004 9:56:05 GMT -5
LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH THIS MORNING, PRAISE YE THE LORD!!!
Training for reigning....the SUFFERING way. Here are few pointers when you find yourselves in the fire of afflictions. SUFFERING is the bearing of pain, distress, misery, affliction, to undergo pain, to be wounded.
Saints of God MUST drink the cup of SUFFERING-Psalms 73:10, 80:5, 102:9
There is a refining influence of SUFFERING-Job 23:10, Psalms 66:10, Isa 48:10
The chastisement of SUFFERING is the mark of God's love for us
Afflictions and SUFFERING are often blessings in disguise.
Check out 1st Peter 5:10-BUT THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO HATH CALLED US UNTO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS, AFTER THAT YOU HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE, MAKE YOU PERFECT, STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE YOU.
God often uses SUFFERING to educate us and mold our christian character. He is training us for reigning with Him. After all, to SUFFER with Him is to reign with Him:
1. PERFECT-Trials make the believers fit, they supply needed elements in his character to make him/her spiritually mature
2. ESTABLISH-SUFFERING makes a Christian more stable, able to maintain a good confession and bear up under pressure
3. STRENGTHEN-Persecution is intended by satan to weaken and wear out the believer, but when you are SUFFERING for Christ's sake, it has the opposite effect. It strengthens them to endure.
4. SETTLE- This verb is related to the word foundation in the original. God wants every believer to be firmly planted in a secure place in HIS SON and HIS WORD.
It is inevitable that we will escape SUFFERING, this is something that we all will have to endure in some shape or form. Let's not look at SUFFERING as an enemy, but a tool in which God uses to refine our faith, adjust our character, to establish and strengthen us, and to settle us. BE ENCOURGAGED TODAY.....WHATEVER YOU ARE GOING THROUGH TODAY, KNOW THAT GOD IS PERFECTING YOU, STRENGTHENING YOU, MATURING YOU, AND ESTABLISHING YOU TO REIGN WITH HIM FOREVER IN PARADISE.
Suffering for Christ's sake,
T. Renea Brodie
Associate Pastor
Training for reigning....the SUFFERING way. Here are few pointers when you find yourselves in the fire of afflictions. SUFFERING is the bearing of pain, distress, misery, affliction, to undergo pain, to be wounded.
Saints of God MUST drink the cup of SUFFERING-Psalms 73:10, 80:5, 102:9
There is a refining influence of SUFFERING-Job 23:10, Psalms 66:10, Isa 48:10
The chastisement of SUFFERING is the mark of God's love for us
Afflictions and SUFFERING are often blessings in disguise.
Check out 1st Peter 5:10-BUT THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO HATH CALLED US UNTO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS, AFTER THAT YOU HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE, MAKE YOU PERFECT, STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE YOU.
God often uses SUFFERING to educate us and mold our christian character. He is training us for reigning with Him. After all, to SUFFER with Him is to reign with Him:
1. PERFECT-Trials make the believers fit, they supply needed elements in his character to make him/her spiritually mature
2. ESTABLISH-SUFFERING makes a Christian more stable, able to maintain a good confession and bear up under pressure
3. STRENGTHEN-Persecution is intended by satan to weaken and wear out the believer, but when you are SUFFERING for Christ's sake, it has the opposite effect. It strengthens them to endure.
4. SETTLE- This verb is related to the word foundation in the original. God wants every believer to be firmly planted in a secure place in HIS SON and HIS WORD.
It is inevitable that we will escape SUFFERING, this is something that we all will have to endure in some shape or form. Let's not look at SUFFERING as an enemy, but a tool in which God uses to refine our faith, adjust our character, to establish and strengthen us, and to settle us. BE ENCOURGAGED TODAY.....WHATEVER YOU ARE GOING THROUGH TODAY, KNOW THAT GOD IS PERFECTING YOU, STRENGTHENING YOU, MATURING YOU, AND ESTABLISHING YOU TO REIGN WITH HIM FOREVER IN PARADISE.
Suffering for Christ's sake,
T. Renea Brodie
Associate Pastor
