Suffering Spelled Backwards is Positive Spiritual Growth Intended For Your Maturity And Effectiveness

Ha, but ok, so no it’s not the backwards meaning but it is the intended meaning. Let me say it another way, “suffering is necessary for positive spiritual growth which is intended to increase our maturity, both in the natural and spiritually speaking, and life effectiveness.” Is that more clearerness? Ha…

I will try and show our intense need to go through suffering, trials, testing, and God correction in order to meet that objective. I tell you that without these elements happening, that is suffering, trials, testing, and God correction in our lives, we would run to worshipping false gods in a heartbeat. Do you have support for that position Mister, Mister? Yes. Every time the Israelites got comfortable in the things of God, they soon drifted into sin and began to take on the same characteristics of those whom didn’t give a hoot about God. Yes, every time without exception. I recommend reading the book of Ezra and see how and what the Israelites departure from God looks like. Their departure from worshipping the one true living God is expressed 100’s of times in the Old Testament. And but if you pinch yourself and reply ouch, and but if you didn’t get that reply give it a stronger go and when you get to the ouch part, let it be a simple and funny reminder that we are no different from them. 

We, for perhaps due to our American culture don’t really like suffering and at times we can attribute it to a non-believers destiny because they are attached to the world and to the will of the god of this earth (2 Cor 4:4). But suffering, trials, testing, and God correction is to strengthen us and to keep us on the right God path in order that we don’t stray into false-god harlotville and make the same mistake they did. It seems that God placed the Old Testament first so that we could look into the mirror of history and avoid doing what His own people did. It is like the Jews went first for our benefit so that we could learn from them, and but are we learning from them? I say that we can but according to Rev chapter 3 some of us won’t learn.

Perhaps this message can change that.

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Hello, this is Kenya Podcast Preacher. Welcome back to my podcast each part. This podcast is brought to you by a five strength ministry, where we believe we're gonna get our strength in the effect of working out, will and calling of God, and into our lives. Thanks for joining me. Let's open up in prayer. Bless to be the God and Father who are to Jesus Christ to adjust you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Just as he chose you and him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without raised before him am I, having predestined you to adoption as a son or daughter by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, which he professed in himself, to the praise of the glory of his grace, for which he made you accepted in the beloved. In him he has redemption through his love, to forgiveness of sin, according to the riches of his grace, which he made to abound for you all wisdom and fruit. Having made known to you the mystery of his will, that in the dispensation of the time, he might gather together, in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth in heaven. Ask that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Lord may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, and the knowledge of the mystery of hell, and to the deepest knowledge of him that you are willing and able to receive, that the eyes of your understanding would be opened wider, and that you would be enlightened to who he is, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in you, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards you who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and seated him in his right hand in the heavenly place, that he would grant that you would be strengthened with might of his spirit, in the inner man, and into your spirit of heart, and that you would be able to stand against your clouds of the world and the devil, and into any and all temptation. That you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere without a fitness of the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of Christmas which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God, ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work, strengthen with all might according to his glorious power, and all patience and longsuffering with joy, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to be partakers of the inheritance of the faith, who walk in the light. I pray that your hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love and unity, and that you would attain to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which has been given to each of my listeners by Christ Jesus, that you are enriched in everything by Him, in all utterance and all knowledge, so that you do not come short in obtaining or operating in your calling and purpose, nor in using any spiritual gifts or talents, eagerly waiting for the continued revelation of our Lord Jesus, who will confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the near coming of the day of our Lord. God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus. Okay, so now therefore, my sisters and brothers in Christ, when things get tough, think about whatever things are true, noble, just pure, lovely, and whatever things are of a good report. If there is any virtue, and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things alone. I pray that in these very days that you would let your love be without hypocrisy, hate and loathe what is evil, cling to what is good and righteous, be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor, giving preference to one another, not lagging in diligence, fervent and fully engulfed in spiritual fire, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, walking in the peace of God, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfast in prayer, distributing to the needs of the saints, that is each other, and that you would be given hospitality. May the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like minded towards one another, according to Christ Jesus, that we learn to be of one mind and one accord, operating completely and fully in love and unity, always striving for the working out of God's specific will for each of our lives, while working in partnership with each other within the church and the Holy Spirit, as He manifests His miracles, signs and wonders through the daily activities of our ministry and kingdom work, and while we also go out preaching the gospel and word and deed. Let us love and serve one another, our enemy, and those who wouldn't expect us to do so, considering each person better than ourselves. Find up any words or thoughts that are contrary to the love of God, or which would set you back in your Christian walk. Ah step out in faith today and walk with God, being assured that nothing will separate you from Him as long as you abide in Him. Call the saints that don't exist as though they do. Remember, he that is in you is greater than He that is in the world. Be more than a conqueror today, submitting to the will of God and everything. But each of us express uncompromising love towards one another and humility while maintaining a teachable spirit. I pray that God will give you the revelation within this message that He intends you to receive with the understanding. Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. In Jesus' name we pray amen. The title of this message is Suffering Spelled Backwards is positive spiritual growth intended for your maturity and effectiveness. Okay. So no it's not the backwards meaning, but it is the intended meaning. Let me say it another way. Suffering is necessary for the positive spiritual growth, which is intended to increase our maturity, both in the natural and spiritually speaking, and life effectiveness. Is that more clearness? I will try to show our intense need to go through suffering, trials, tests, and God's correction in order to meet that objective. I tell you that without these elements happening, that is suffering, trials, testing, and God's correction in our lives, we would run to worshiping false gods in a heartbeat. Do you have support for that position, mister Mister? Yes. Every time the Israelites got comfortable in the things of God, they soon drifted into sin and began to take on the same characteristics of those who didn't give a hoot about God. Yes, every time without exception. I recommend reading the book of Ezra and see how and what the Israelites' departure from God looks like. Their departure from worshiping the one true living God is expressed hundreds of times in the Old Testament. And but if you pinch yourself and reply ouch, and but if you really didn't get that reply, give it a stronger go, and when you get to the ouch part, let it be a simple and funny reminder that we are no different from them. We, for perhaps due to our American culture, don't really like suffering, and at times we can attribute it to a non believer's destiny because they are attached to the world, and to the will of God of this earth, second Corinthians four four. But suffering, trials, testing, and God's correction is to strengthen us and to keep us on the right path in order that we don't stray into false God Harlotville, and make the same mistake they did. It seems that God placed the Old Testament first so that we could look into the mirror of history and avoid doing what his own people did. It's like the Jews went first for our benefit, so that we could learn from them. But are we learning from them? I say that we can, but according to Revelation chapter three, some of us won't learn. Perhaps this message can change that. I've been watching some of Philip Anthony Michael's videos on YouTube, and this church pastor can preach. He is a founder and lead pastor of church called twenty eight nineteen church. His videos and teachings are spot on necessary for these days. He will add strength to your walk if you heed what he shares. I say this because it gives me hope that we are not all going our own way, doing whatever we want to do, ignoring the fact that the church organization belongs to Jesus, and it is not a ship that we ourselves steer. Okay, so we're back to the message. Have you ever noticed that gold, silver, pearls, and other precious metals and gems are hidden away during their process? Yes, and of course you see where I am going. These things are formed into precious things while they are hidden away. Allow God to use the same process with you during your precious forming days. Let's see how gold, silver, diamonds, and pearls are made, so as to get an idea of how life is also made precious. Gold is formed in nature through stellar nucleosynthesis, supernova explosions or neutron star collisions billions of years ago. Now I'm not going to get into the age of the planet, but I don't think it's that old, but that's for another message. No, wait, I already did one on the age of the Earth. Anyways, scattering gold atoms across space that later formed Earth. I don't know what book they got this from that tells them that this is how it happened, but I am less inclined to believe it. But anyways, we'll continue to read this definition from AI. On Earth, geological processes concentrate it within the crust, primarily through hydrothermal activity, that is, hot fluids transporting gold through cracks, and erosion, which deposits it into quartz veins, and riverbed deposits. Cosmic origin gold does not originate on Earth. It was formed by high energy cosmic events, such as supernova or the collision of neutron stars. These events would produce heavy elements, which were then embedded into the Earth when it was formed. This doesn't sound like the creation truth, so take it with the grain of salt. Hydrothermal processes. Over millions of years, hot, mineral rich fluids travel through the Earth's crust, often triggered by seismic activity, earthquakes, or molten magma. As this liquid passes through fractures, gold dissolves and precipitates to form thin veins, often mixed with quartz, pyrite, or priolite. Kind of makes me want to know where do the nuggets come from? But that's another story. Weathering and erosion breaks down gold bearing rocks, releasing the metal. Water carries the gold downstream, where, due to its high density, it settles in riverbed sediments. Asteroid impact. A significant portion of the gold found in the Earth's crust was brought here by meteorite impacts, which bombards the Earth after its core had already solidified. Again, this is not true, but I'm just reading the definition. Gold is typically found in ingenious and metamorphic rocks, such as granite and schist, and is usually found in trace amounts, often requiring massive amounts of earth to be processed to find significant quantities. Simple enough to understand, right? Nope, not at all. I would have liked a definition kind of like, well, God created it and put it on Earth for us so that we can make wedding rings. Anyways, it doesn't sound like an awesome journey to go through, does it? Well, you might care more if you were a gold nugget. Silver is naturally formed in the universe via supernova explosions and nuclear processes, then concentrated on Earth through hydrothermal activity. Its deposits within the Earth's crust around two to four hundred degrees Fahrenheit when hot, mineral rich brines transport dissolved silver through rock cracks, leaving silver sulfide ores, like acanthite. When the liquid cools, cosmic origins. Silver is created through stellar nuclear fusion and scattered by supernovas, eventually becoming part of the planetary formations. Hydrothermal deposition. Hot mineral rich water carries silver and sulfur compounds through rocks, often near volcanic sites. When these fluids cool, the silver precipitates into ore deposits. Seafloor hydrothermal vents, known as black smokers. These underwater vents deposit silver and other metal sulfides on the seafloor. Ore association. Silver is rarely found in its pure native form. Instead, it is mostly bound with sulfide ores like argentite, galena, which is lead ore, or mixed with gold as electrum. Secondary deposits. Silver is frequently concentrated as a byproduct of ingenious and metamorphic geological processes. Also simple enough to understand, right? Except for those big words and all. Does this sound like an awesome journey to go through? No, and especially if you were a silver nugget or vein. Okay, so I will do one precious gem in the life or beginnings of a pearl and then get into the scripture. Natural diamonds are formed ninety to one hundred and fifty miles deep in the Earth's mantle, where carbon atoms are subjected to extreme heat over a thousand degrees Celsius, and pressure forty five thousand times sea level. These conditions occur over billions of years, creating a stable crystal lattice, rare, violent volcanic eruptions then transport them to the surface through kimberlite pipes. Location, the Earth's mantle, deep beneath stable ancient continental crust. Ingredients pure carbon, bonded in a unique, incredibly hard cubic structure. Conditions, temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees and pressures of over forty five thousand atmospheres, or four point five gigapascals. Time, most diamonds are one to three billion years old. Transport to surface, deep source volcanic eruptions, push magma through kimberlite pipes, carrying the diamonds up. The myth, contrary to popular belief, diamonds do not form from coal. Most diamonds are much older than the Earth's plant life, which are the source of coal. I don't know, that sounds like a myth trying to debunk a myth. So I looked it up and found this article fascinating. I know, I know, I have to stick to the message. Alternative formation methods. Subduction zones some diamonds form when tectonic plates carry surface carbon deep into the mantle. Asteroid impacts. High pressure impacts such as meteorites hitting the Earth can produce small diamonds. Diamond transport and discovery. The Kimberlite magma originates deeper than typical volcanic magma, acting as a rapid elevator to transport diamonds safely through the crust. These carrot shaped pipes are found in stable regions called cratons. Okay, so remember as we go through this message that everything on Earth is reflecting back to humanity the processes of God, either in part or totality. Onto the pearl. Natural pearls form when a foreign irritant, such as a parasite worm, or shell fragment, enters a mollusk, oyster or muscle, and becomes trapped in its soft tissue. The mollusk protects itself by coating the intruder with a layer of macrae, a mixture of calcium, carbonate, and proteins known as mother of pearl. Over several years these accumulating layers create a pearl, a process mostly used by mollusks as a natural defense mechanism. The natural formation process, irritation. A foreign subject, often a parasitic worm or parasite that breaches the shell, gets trapped inside, causing infection or irritation to the mantle tissue. Defense mechanism To protect itself, the mollusk uses its mantle tissue to coat the invader with a shining hard material called necreaccumulation. The mollusk deposits hundreds or thousands of microscopic layers of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonite, and conclein, a protein over the intruder. Pearl sac formation. A pearl sac or pocket is created around the intruder, allowing the pearl to form in a protected, isolated environment. This process takes many years, during which the layers of Nacrate buildup to form a unique, unusually non spherical pearl, natural versus cultured pearls. Natural pearls form by pure accident in the wild. Without human intervention, they are incredibly rare, with only roughly one in ten thousand oysters producing one. Cultured pearls, creating in farming environments where technicians insert a bead, the irritant, into the oyster, which then coats it in an acray over time in the same way as a natural wild pearl. The key difference is shape. Natural pearls are rarely perfectly round, often appearing baroque or irregular in shape. Source, both freshwater mussels found in rivers and saltwater oysters in oceans can produce pearls. Occurrence, only certain species of molus produce high quality necreus pearls. One of the things that we see right away is that as time works on these processing of each of these elements, they become more valuable and even sometimes priceless. It is the same process that we go through as Christians. We start out as babies, move on to young people, and then culminate as parents and sages. I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. I write to you fathers, because you have known him who was from the beginning. I write to you young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. Pay attention to that because as young Christians we ought to be able to overcome the wicked one. I write to you little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you fathers, because you have known him who was from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. So what happens to us? Like as happens to some of the diamonds that do not complete their maturing process. Hebrews twelve fourteen. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. But solid food belongs to those who are full of age, that is, those by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. And Jesus never told us to become like these elements, but that we should get comfortable going through similar processes so that we can become what God intended us to become. So you know when perhaps on some days you say that you are irritated and that it makes you uncomfortable or irritable towards others who might be watching and question you as to why you are irritable. Maybe you have told someone that they are irritating you. But maybe God is allowing it that you would produce a pearl for someone who is in need of hearing about him. Look at what happens when someone hears about a pearl of great price. Matthew thirteen, forty five through forty six. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. Now pay attention to what wasn't said there, but it was said he wouldn't have sold everything that he had to take a loss. He sold everything that he had so that he could move forward. When we receive Jesus into our heart and give up all things earth, we actually move forward. We come out way ahead. I think this is something that we can miss sometimes. And well so maybe we have some miners or jewelry lovers among us, Matthew thirteen forty four. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Have you ever wondered why he bought the whole field, and not just a half an acre or a ten by ten plot? Cause I bet you that man was thinking there may be more in this field. And isn't that the way it is with our walk with Jesus? Is that we can discover little nuggets all along the way and they never end. This is why Jesus says he who doesn't die of himself cannot be my disciple. There is so much treasure that can be found in the Word of God that we ought to be digging for it all the time. It is a never ending field, and that's what I believe this scripture is really saying. So how do we get here? Where when someone hears of our Jesus and how he has made us so precious, owe so much more than gold, silver, diamonds, or pearls, wants to dump their old garbage life, and move and sell all that they have to get some more of that gospel inside of them. Process unwavering, staying and standing in our process. Look, we had a great model go before us to show us a proper way in order that we get the proper outcome. ten for it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, to bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Okay, so let's see if anybody else went through this process well, and what the results were in the Bible. Second Corinthians eleven twenty three twenty eight. This is Paul talking. Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool, I am more, in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep, in journeys often, in perils of water, and perils of robbers, and perils of my own countrymen, and perils of the Gentiles, and perils in the cities, and perils in the wilderness, and perils in the sea, and perils among false brethren, in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, and fastings often, in cold and nakedness, besides other things, what comes upon me daily, my deep concern for all the churches. Second Corinthians six four through five. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience and tribulations, and needs, and distresses, and stripes, in imprisonments, in torments, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings. Acts fourteen nineteen. Then Jews from Antioch and Akon came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. Acts sixteen twenty two through twenty four. Then the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods, and when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely, having received such a charge. He put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Second Timothy three ten twelve. But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Aconium, at Lystra. What purpose? and persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. What is important to know is that God, in Philippians two thirteen states, for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure. And so what was Paul's response to these precious pressures Second Corinthians four seventeen through eighteen for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for in the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Can we say perspective? Again Paul states Philippians three eight eleven, yet indeed I also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things. I count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. What did he know that we maybe should spend some more time getting to know what he knew? Then perhaps we could say to others what he could say to others that he was discipling eleven four imitate me just as I also imitate Christ Corinthians four sixteen, therefore I urge you imitate me. Philippians three seventeen Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern Philippians four nine The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you Second Thessalonians three seven for you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you. Thessalonians one six, and you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit. Yes I included all that I could find because I wanted you to see a pattern. And what makes these things Paul shared with us so awesome is that no one else that I know of, other than Jesus stated such things such as do what I do. Paul knew that because he went through the refiner's fire, the pressure to remove any impurities, even receiving a thorn in his side to keep him grounded and humble, that he could say such things in humility, and but also for our benefit. Essentially he is saying that if we do what he did, we would, by following his example, be doing what Jesus did and desires for our life. Now none of us are going to write thirteen New Testament books in the Bible, but that doesn't mean we won't be going through some things to get some things in us and to get some things out of us. Now others went through some things of which it is written in Hebrews Hebrews eleven thirty five thirty eight women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trials of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. Now so what processes must we go through in order to get the same results? It ought to be a desire within us so that we don't get sideways and turn from the one living God and begin to worship false gods of which some are empowered by demons. Deuteronomy thirty two seventeen they sacrifice to demons, not to God, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear Psalm one six thirty seven they even sacrificed their own sons and their daughters to demons. Leviticus seventeen seven they shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations. Even Paul saw it in his day twenty twenty one rather that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. Don't think you can fall into this error? We already have in America, and this weird behavior will increase as we draw through to the end of the end of times. Hey podcast mister I thought we were talking about suffering trials, testing and God's correction not demonology yes, but it may well be that if you remain a spiritual baby or young man, you may not be able to deal with people needing deliverance because of your position with and to God. You can survey those in your church and see how many have ever encountered a devil. The numbers will be low to zero. The devil has us right where he wants us to be, which is ill equipped to be the more than conquerors that God has called us to be Romans eight thirty seven. We are in a war over souls, and so few are equipped for the fight and yes there are a few other reasons, other than the fact that we resist going through the process to become precious while God removes the impure dross that represents the world's thinking and behaviors. Back to what processes we must go through in order to get the same results that Jesus and Paul got Zechariah thirteen nine I will bring one third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say this is my people and each one will say The Lord is my God Malachi three But who can endure the day of his coming and who can stand when he appears for he is like a refiner's fire, and like Lauder's soap, he will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver he will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness in this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Psalm sixty six ten for you, O God, have tested us you have refined us as silver is refined Isaiah forty eight ten. Behold I have refined you, but not as silver I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Proverbs seventeen three The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart Job twenty three ten. But he knows the way that I take when he has tested me I shall come forth as gold. Miracle signs and wonders prevented many of God's chosen and elect to simply die in their process. God's purpose is that we would become righteous, holy, pure, blameless, among many other things. But we must, in order to get those things in us, allow for God's process to work out of us the impurities of our old life, so that people can be drawn to our gospel without hindrance. In heaven everything is described as sort of a great big bling thing, all shimmery and shiny. Revelation twenty one twenty one the twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. Some of us may not be aware that the apostle of love that is John was boiled in oil, and but miraculously untouched by the scathing heat and due to the miracle and his faith and but also the increase of his faith as he went through it. Now not saying that his faith was such that he rolled around in flour and told his chef persecutors to bring it on. But anyhow, no doubt he needed a boost in faith as he was sent to the island of Patmos, whereby he wrote the book of Revelation, started a church, and left treasures on an island that before his arrival had no hope. We have need in these end time days to be filled with endurance. Listen to how some of these other scriptures help us to go through when it's our time to go through Corinthians thirteen one through thirteen Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal, and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails, but where there are prophecies they will fail. Where there are tongues they will cease, where there is knowledge, it will vanish away for we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away with When I was a child I spoke as a child. I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things for now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I am also known and now abide faith, hope and love these three, but the greatest of these is love. Do you think you need to walk in love when you are being irritated so that a pearl of great price can come forth? How about love while you are sitting under the refiner's fire? Look at these following characteristics that we must have not only to go through, but also on the other side of our going through Galatians five twenty two through twenty three. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such there is no law. Notice the first fruit mentioned is love. Endurance is not how much faith you have, but how long you can remain in that faith that you have. We close with how God is working in us and why we should allow it to happen. Hebrews twelve eleven and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons. My sons do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him, for whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom the Father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he, that is God, for our prophet, that we may be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful nevertheless, afterward it yields the feasible righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Be encouraged that whatever you were into before you became a Christian was far worse than God's love being presented to us for our benefit, so that we could benefit of it. We are right now being prepared to live with God forever, on a newly refurbished planet. I want with everything in me to be fully equipped for those days yet to come. And those days are right now, very near to coming, so go through in love and in the grace of God. Expose and prayer, may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and all, so that you may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before your God and Father at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ all his things. Now may the God of peace the one whom we call wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, the Prince of peace, may he himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to our Lord of Lords and our King of kings, to our high and lifted up great high priest who has, once and for all, paid the price, that you might see and hear God, may you hear and respond to our prayers. To our God we stand and pray as he too always lives to make intercession for you, seated at the right hand of the Father, and the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, the great shepherd of the sheep, to the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you with well pleasing in his sight. To Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever. In Jesus' name we pray amen. Well that's it for today. Remember now what you find wrong or disagree with hard in his messages for what you can take away from it. Together we can do more to impact the kingdom than if we work alone. Let's put the script and still kill and destroy the works of the enemy and create space for the light of light to shine through in people's lives. 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