Remember...

Satans power is limited... God's is unlimited!

Light In The Darkness

"Like waifs clustered around a blazing fire, we gathered around it (the Bible), holding out our hearts to its warmth and light. The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer burned the word of God."

- Corrie Ten Boom

Wives and Daughters...

In all our actions we are to be imitators of God.

Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:31 & 32, 5:1

Dont let someone elses behaviour or your circumstances determine whether you will be imitators of God or not. Examine your hearts. Do you want to obey God for HIS SAKE, or your own?

"This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long suffering, gentleness, meekness-- in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on us all ".

Elisabeth Elliott

Peace

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace of mind and joy.
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully
and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.

Elisabeth Elliott


"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee".
Isaiah 26:3

The Storm

The storm isn't to be looked at. It's to be used to focus on Him. You are not in charge of the weather nor are you to be a hapless bystander. It is all for the glory of God. He wants you to grow and be wise and able to hear when He speaks. He wants your ear so disciplined to His voice that when the wind blows you can hear him. Only Him. He wants you to keep your eyes on Him when the sky is black.
He wants you to be so stayed on Him, that what He tells you to do, you will do, no matter what is going on around you. He is testing you to see that you will obey and follow Him. It is not heartless, but heartfelt. Do you love Him? Do you trust Him? Then reach out to Him while you walk out into the storm obeying His voice. He will keep you. There is a prize for you and glory for Him. The prize is the soul that watched you and saw Christ. A soul saved and brought into the kingdom because of your obedience.

Be of good courage! In the darkest and fiercest of storm you are not alone or in charge. Trust and step out. Step to the one who is there.

George Muellar advised:

Dearly beloved, don't be discouraged if you have to suffer from unconverted relatives. Perhaps very shortly the Lord may give you the desire of your heart, and answer your prayer for them. But in the meantime, seek to commend the truth, not by reproaching them on account of their behaviour toward you, but by manifesting toward them the meekness, gentleness and kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ.