THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS FULL OF ENJOYMENT WITHOUT TROUBLES: TRUE OR FALSE? ONLY CHILDREN WHO PASSED THEIR EXAMS GET PROMOTED TO A HIGHER CLASS. Any child that cannot pass the exam shall repeat the class, and any child that repeats the class continuously is kicked out of school. Do not let anyone deceive you - Trials, Temptations, and Troubles must come, and you have to pass the test. Glorify GOD when you pass through tribulations and trails as a Christian. You may never know the great plan of GOD behind what youre going through - it may be for your promotion to a higher spiritual level for the benefit of the church. When you are crushed! The best of you comes out, for all to share - like a squeezed fruit bringing out nourishing juice. Your good seeds also come out as you are crushed and the good seed are planted and shall multiply for the benefit of the church. And yet you shall always be preserved through the trials – as long as you put your trust in GOD – you shall be preserved. Yes, find it in your heart to rejoice more in times of tribulation and trials as a Christian - glorify GOD because HE has counted you worthy as HIS child to go through a test - for promotion to a higher level of grace. It is also possible as a child of GOD for unrepented sin to cause trials, temptations and tribulation - but they are not to destroy you - rather they are to draw you back to godliness and repentance. Also, if you are a child of GOD – you should be ready to prove your sonship – do not let anyone deceive you for the tempter must come and your faith shall be tested - but when you overcome you shall be refined and purified as fine gold. Trials and temptation are allowed to warn you when you stray away from HIS will, or if you ask something with wrong motives, or when you stubbornly insist on your own way - HE shall use the trials to draw you closer to His Word, to prune away dead works so that you can bear much fruit, to teach you obedience, to make you a better and more useful vessel by purifying and refining you, to prepare you for future assignments and blessings, to teach you patience, to make you stronger and wiser, to teach you compassion, to preserve you from destruction, among other things. If you refuse the warnings, the Lord shall leave you to your will and Satan shall sift you, distract you, and deceive you and have you in a delusion - and finally deliver your soul to destruction- because your heart refused correction to godliness and sound doctrine – you shall be handed over to everlasting doom because you rejected wisdom and preferred your lusts and evil desires. The tempter must come, and if you overcome - if you pass the test – you shall inherit eternal life. Therefore do not complain - do not murmur - do not curse God when you undergo trials, temptations and tribulations... rather pray to know the Lords Will, pray for sensitivity of spirit and for wisdom, pray for the spirit of obedience, pray for comfort of your soul, pray for help from GOD, pray for deliverance and healing from all evil, pray against all foul spirits causing troubles - resist and rebuke them, and pray with trust, faith and thanksgiving to GOD. Then start dancing... rejoice... celebrate and jubilate with high praises to GOD – because promotion to a higher level has come - for The LORD has not forgotten you but Loves you as HIS own child and shall reward and promote you when you endure all trials till the end. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for MY sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matt 5:10-12. I am the true vine, and My FATHER is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit HE taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, HE purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:1-2. But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appeareth? for He is like a refiners fire, and like fullers soap: And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Mal 3:2-3. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on MY Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is MY people: and they shall say, The LORD is my GOD. Zech 13:9 But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. 1Peter 3:14-18. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of GOD resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other mens matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify GOD on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of GOD: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of GOD? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of GOD commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. 1Peter 4:12-19. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of GOD. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, GOD dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Hebrews 12:1-8. That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 1Thess 3:3-5. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. Psalm 34:18-19. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1Corinth 10:9-13. But He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10. And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. Acts 14:21-23. For MY Names sake will I defer Mine anger, and for MY praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For Mine own sake, even for Mine own sake, will I do it: for how should MY Name be polluted? and I will not give MY glory unto another. Hearken unto ME, O Jacob and Israel, MY called; I Am HE; I Am the First, I also Am the Last. Isaiah 48:9-12. Because they rebelled against the words of GOD, and contemned the counsel of the most High: Therefore He brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! Psalm 107:11-15. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of Thy law; That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. For the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance. Psalm 94:12-14. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes. The law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Psalm 119:71-72 Behold, the LORDS hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither HIS ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Isaiah 59:1-4. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. Jere 5:25 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah 13:11. Nevertheless the foundation of GOD standeth sure, having this seal, The LORD knoweth them that are HIS. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Masters use, and prepared unto every good work. 2Tim 2:19-21.
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