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kristie
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The following is from a previous conversation with someone who says:
Do not stand down though, you have come so far, do not let Satan budge you off the rock now. You would be amazed what you can do in the strength of God, just how much you can endure, just seek God for that strength, seek Him for more faith, He will give it to you.
At first it is very hard, and it honestly is probably the hardest because you have yet to gain all the growth. After you obtain the growth and changes in yourself, the stand gets easier, you lose a lot of that pain and wavering in faith, the shakiness and things affecting you emotionally so much. I very much sympathize with those who are hurting, I know that pain personally, and I get very frustrated within myself that I cannot just reach out and do a instant transfer of faith, strength, and power in their stand. The things that I gained, that I could just give it to everyone just like that. But it only comes from the endurance in the stand. It is self earned and gained.
All I can do is tell you about it and try to carry you however I can. God is the one that pulls it up and out of you over the time standing. Our faith is like a rubber band, and God stretches it and stretches it until it is big enough to carry you and everyone else. It just takes as long as it takes in standers. Some are resistant to the stretching, some do not resist and settle in determined that it is just going to take as long as it takes. I have persons who have been standing for five or more years boldly standing up and saying give up? Never! They are dug in. I have those who have responded and said I quit a long time ago, and they only stood for a few months. God does not want anyone to give up, because He does not believe in giving up, if He did, he would have wiped us all out a long time ago and just turned His back on it all. He is training us to be like Him, very large rubber bands of faith. The only way there is time and endurance, we cannot get there any other way. Affliction brings strength and wisdom, there is no other way, because we will not stand still and allow Him to have His way if there is no affliction, we just keep running on in life uncaring.
The true battle is to keep people standing long enough to get there. It is not easy. It sometimes is harder then praying back the prodigals. I also know that those who have sat down will in the future realize that they missed the miracle of God in their lives, and it will plague them worse then the stand ever did. I also know that personally. I do my best to prevent that for everyone, but sometimes I just cant and I have to let them go on to whatever it is they are trying to step into for their lives. I sadly know that they will not find peace and happiness there, and they are probably in many cases stepping into a place much worse then their stand ever thought of being. Because anyplace we step that is outside the word of God leads to the belly of the whale experience. One we run from a calling put upon us by God, we end up like Jonah.
I hope you endure, that you lock into what God says, His promises, and climb upon that rock and stand firm. May God direct your steps at all times so that you always walk the path He has planned for you and no other.
God bless you...
Kristie
You will be rewarded, believe that. God did not bring you this far just to leave you hanging, just to dash your hearts desires. God will give you the greatest desires of your heart, and it is just not His timing yet. He has more to do yet and it could be you, it could be your spouse, it could be both. All you need to stand on is that God is working here and when He has completed the rebuilding that has to be done, He will put it all together. Do not weaken now. It is very wearing, and I know how tired you are, I really know, but just rest in God now, maybe you need to rest now, the battle is Gods not yours, and there comes a point where He just needs us to rest and leave it all in His capable hands.I really can't handle the pain I am feeling from all of this. It's worse then anything I've ever felt in my life. I can't bear to keep going on like this.
Do not stand down though, you have come so far, do not let Satan budge you off the rock now. You would be amazed what you can do in the strength of God, just how much you can endure, just seek God for that strength, seek Him for more faith, He will give it to you.
At first it is very hard, and it honestly is probably the hardest because you have yet to gain all the growth. After you obtain the growth and changes in yourself, the stand gets easier, you lose a lot of that pain and wavering in faith, the shakiness and things affecting you emotionally so much. I very much sympathize with those who are hurting, I know that pain personally, and I get very frustrated within myself that I cannot just reach out and do a instant transfer of faith, strength, and power in their stand. The things that I gained, that I could just give it to everyone just like that. But it only comes from the endurance in the stand. It is self earned and gained.
All I can do is tell you about it and try to carry you however I can. God is the one that pulls it up and out of you over the time standing. Our faith is like a rubber band, and God stretches it and stretches it until it is big enough to carry you and everyone else. It just takes as long as it takes in standers. Some are resistant to the stretching, some do not resist and settle in determined that it is just going to take as long as it takes. I have persons who have been standing for five or more years boldly standing up and saying give up? Never! They are dug in. I have those who have responded and said I quit a long time ago, and they only stood for a few months. God does not want anyone to give up, because He does not believe in giving up, if He did, he would have wiped us all out a long time ago and just turned His back on it all. He is training us to be like Him, very large rubber bands of faith. The only way there is time and endurance, we cannot get there any other way. Affliction brings strength and wisdom, there is no other way, because we will not stand still and allow Him to have His way if there is no affliction, we just keep running on in life uncaring.
The true battle is to keep people standing long enough to get there. It is not easy. It sometimes is harder then praying back the prodigals. I also know that those who have sat down will in the future realize that they missed the miracle of God in their lives, and it will plague them worse then the stand ever did. I also know that personally. I do my best to prevent that for everyone, but sometimes I just cant and I have to let them go on to whatever it is they are trying to step into for their lives. I sadly know that they will not find peace and happiness there, and they are probably in many cases stepping into a place much worse then their stand ever thought of being. Because anyplace we step that is outside the word of God leads to the belly of the whale experience. One we run from a calling put upon us by God, we end up like Jonah.
I hope you endure, that you lock into what God says, His promises, and climb upon that rock and stand firm. May God direct your steps at all times so that you always walk the path He has planned for you and no other.
God bless you...
Kristie
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