"If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are
comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance
of the same sufferings we suffer." - 2 Corinthians 1:6
"God must love you a lot! He doesn't allow someone to go through the kinds
of adversity you have experienced unless He has a special calling on your
life." Those were the words said to me by two different mentors at two
different times within a three-year period. Later I would learn another
related truth from a respected man of God - a man who lives in another
country, a man whom God uses throughout the globe. "The depth and width of
your faith experiences are directly proportional to your calling." What
were these men of God saying?
They were describing a process of preparation that God takes each of His
leaders through when He plans to use them in significant ways. A "faith
experience" is an event or "spiritual marker" in your life about which you
can say, "That is where I saw God personally moving in my life." It is an
unmistakable event in which God showed Himself personally to you. It was
the burning bush for Moses; the crossing of the Red Sea or the Jordan
River for the nation of Israel; Jacob's encounter with the angel. It was
the feeding of the 5,000 for the disciples. It was the time when you saw
God face to face in your life.
If God has plans of using you in the lives of many others, you can expect
that He is going to allow certain faith experiences to come into your life
in order to build a foundation that will be solid. That foundation is what
you will be able to look back on to keep you faithful to Him in the times
of testing. Each of us must have personal faith experiences in which we
experience God personally so that we can move in faith to whatever He may
call us. Do you need a personal faith experience right now in your life?
Pray that God will reveal Himself to you. He delights in doing that.
For the Christian Prayer is not an option but an opportunity.
"In prayer; expect setbacks, but refuse retreat. R. Eastman
Exposure To The Son Will Prevent Burning
Seven days without prayer makes one weak!
Do your best; bring out the best in others,
Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is,
tell the problem how Great the Lord is!
Put God first, be happy at last!
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