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- If
you have decided to be a soldier in the army of the Lord, there
will never be a time in this life when you will hit and remain
on the plateau of having it all under control.
All of the control factors that
the western church strives for today are directly in contradiction
to God's Word.
It is not possible to submit to
a walk by faith and have a constantly predictable income that
always covers all bills ahead of time. If you are living that
way, you are missing God's best financially, and you are depending
on predictability rather than the provision of the Lord. You
are also giving in proportion to what you think you have, not
according to the heavenly riches which would be yours, if you
were not clinging to the tiny surface of the iceberg.
There is a strange worship of family
harmony today that is not scriptural. It is not scriptural because
the Bible makes it clear that the believer must lay down his
or her life so that God can do whatever. It is a false teaching
that all things must be worked out and everyone must be nice
to everyone else.
It is actually a heresy to teach
that you must have the human concept of family harmony, and I
know many women who almost explode with the joy of the Lord because
they have submitted to Him in the most difficult situations.
It is up to Him, and how I am treated in this life is not important.
Christianity today takes biblical
terms and whole verses and attempts to portray a God who simply
wants us to have all things worked out in this life.
I am here to tell you that Paul
was beheaded. Isaiah was sawn in half. Peter was crucified upside
down. John was twice boiled in oil and exiled to Patmos.
- Day by day,
and with each passing moment,
- Strength
I find to meet my trials here.
- Trusting in my
Father's wise bestowment,
- I've no
cause for worry or for fear.
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- He whose
heart is kind beyond all measure
- Gives unto
each day what He deems best.
Lovingly, its part of pain and
pleasure,
- Mingling
toil with peace and rest.
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