Encouragement

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When a man takes the step to receive Christ into his life, he feels a WHOLE new sense of well being,
he feels on top of the world.
A new peace and calmness of spirit which he can not describe overwhelms him and he knows that he has never felt this way before.
This feeling he can not describe in words to anyone.

All he knows is that, he feels rejuvenated and he feels like going to the highest mountain to shout it to all who care to listen that he has found something very special.

This is the first step into a whole new world, a world of forming a partnership and developing a relationship with the one who created him


As the journey progresses, new things begin to unfold, the good the bad and the NOT SO VERY PALATABLE.


He loves the GOOD but nobody told him about the bad or the NOT -SO-VERY-PALATABLE, in fact that is putting it nicely! This is horrible!

How can a born again child of God experience the bad and the other one with the loooong name?
No foresight.
No premonition.
No fore-warning.
What is this?


Brethren, THIS ONE TOO SHALL PASS.

I tell you this because it is the waters that come flowing like rapids towards you because, the enemy that you were snatched from is raging mad or that which you need to pass through sometimes on the journey to eternal bliss but the Lord has promised that we shall pass through them but THEY SHALL NOT OVERWHELM US!

Like a refiner's fire it is, he says we must be purified like gold by passing first through that fire but it shall not scorch us (REMEMBER THE THREE HEBREW BOYS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL)

After-all, the children of Israel walked through the red sea!

Remember the journey through the river Jordan as well

How about Jonah? Three days and nights in the whale's belly!

After being tossed in a raging storm into an angry sea, the end result is that he did the Lord's bidding, saved a whole nation from impending doom and destruction, today he is a source of testimony of God's awesome greatness and wonder.

So why worry when you can be happy at the good news that Jesus Christ is Lord and SAVIOUR!
We have been promised that God will neither leave nor forsake His own.
That situation that you are in today may look like no one has ever been there and never will, but the news I have for you is that; THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

Pray for strength to persevere, and most importantly, be faithful.
If you have prayed for deliverance and it does not seem forthcoming because it is an important step, hang in there.
Afterwards pray for a revelation of the purpose and discernment of lessons that you need to learn if the time is not ripe for the CUP to be taken away from you

Also, seek TRUE brethren to join you in prayers as you lift your hands like Moses did and he eventually needed two helpers to keep his hands up at each side of him, to keep the battle won.
Without this help, he could not hold them up for too long on his own because of loss of strength and tiredness.

So do not relent, hang on and you shall surely find the right path and see your way of escape soon.

Out of this present seemingly deep waters, you will VICTORIOUSLY simply wade out.


JESUS CAN AND IS MORE THAN ABLE TO DELIVER

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