In life every man is bound to face low times and challenges.
The grace and ability to carry on can be found in holding unto God.
Deuteronomy8:1-10" Obey faithfully all the laws that I have given you today, so that you may live, increase in number and occupy the land which the Lord promised to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past firthy years, sending hardships to TEST you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey HIS commands. He made you go hungry, and then gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten beforw. He did this to TEACH you that man must not depend on bread alone to sustain him, but on everything that the Lord says. During these forty years your clothes have not worn out nor have your feet swollen up. Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as a father disciplines His childten. So then do as the Lord has commanded you; live according to His law and obey Him. The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land, a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills. A land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates,olives and honey. There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them and from its hills you can mine copper. You will have all you want to eat, and you will give thanks to the Lord your God for the fertile land that He has given you".(Good News Bible Today's English Version)
Halleluyah and Amen
The test we go through in life is well known to God. How we handle such time depends on our understanding of who God is and His grace upon us.
Many are times when people give up in their test because they believe their ability can not carry on. This happens because they have neglected or do not put in account ability of the one who is MOST ABLE GOD ALMIGHTY.
When you live on what you see, you can only achieve on what you see and your level of success will be limited to what you see.
When you live in God and what He sees about you, your coast will expand beyond what you can see.
There are diffetent times in life, the wilderness time is your time of testing.
Even in that testing wilderness time, God is there to see you through. In the scripture quoted above verse 5 says" during these forty years your clotges have not worm out, nor have your feet swollen". If you take time to think deeply of all the tests you have gone through in life, there must have been a point when you thought yes this is it, there can be no other way to overcome but there comes that point that God steps in and all you can mouth or think os THIS can ONLY BE GOD.
If you do not have a test how experienced will you be when others run to you for help. So every test has a testimony. Your testimony can be when you help people who go through similar situation summpn courage and have faith in God.
There is no test that man can overcome without the intervention of God, the intervention of fellow mam is temporal whilst the intervention of God os permanent and glorious.
Verse 7 of the chapter above says" the Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land".
Halleluyah when something is fertile it reproduces more and more till its creator says its enough. How can you get to a fertile land without a small test.
How do you intend to testify later after all the test if you give up?
Even school children must pass some basic test to get promoted to the next class. As an adult you think the school children test is so easy but to the children it can be very hard. Yoi think its easy because you have passed through it at some point now you look back and you are glad you did.
So the challenges you face in life can only be looked back on and be thankful on only if you succeed to the next stage.
At every state there is a test. So after every testimony there is another test waiting but with God on your side you will testify again to His glory about that new stage and new test.
Verse 1 of the scripture above says obey faithfully. In your test do you obey God faithfully. To obey Faithfully, you must be dedicated totally to what God wabts and wills.
Obeying faithfully is not thesame as obeying partially. By obeying pertially you are disobeying God. If God says go to the west and you say well I think the North west is similar to west becaust they both have west, you are disobeying God.
Obedience is better than sacrifice, you must be able to identify God's mind in that situation. You cannot disobey and still expect to testify like an obedient child no way. Do not mix black die with white die and still expect to get a black shining result or white result now way. Except a miracle happens. Obey God always make it your top most priority. God teaches through every test but how can you learn the lesson He is teaching you when you disobey.
God is always ready to do what no man can do because He is able.
Ephisians3:20"
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