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| December 2002.. tiavi.... I so much want to encourage each one of you to never give up! As I write this I know your struggle I can picture your faces and see your tears. I cry with you and soon will laugh with you. As Jesus my Lord said," a pregnant woman is in great travails and anguish but when the child is born great joy" . The Psalmist says mourning may endure for the evening but joy comes in the morning. This has been the greatest and also the worst year of my life... Jesus promised me near the beginning of this year if I would realize it is all Him, he could take me to new level. Turning 30 this year he showed me of David Joseph even himself they all came to a new level at the age of 30. David went from being hunted to being crowned king, Joseph went from the prison to ruling in the palace and Jesus emerged forth from the wilderness with power and began his ministry. As I grew closer to my Lord than ever it felt as if all hell broke loose against me. All the hounds of hell and even myself are against me- surround me-on me-and sometimes in me it seems. I don't recognize those eyes- me it can't be I am on my knees begging for mercy now I truly realize I'm nothing can only you can make nothing something so take me mold me shape me I want to be the me that you see and not what they tell me I am or should be. This monster in the mirror I can't be! The me that you see that's the only me I want to be ! I feel this is where many of us are as God soldiers his generals his revolutionaries... Satan desires to sift us as wheat ! But our faith will not fail and we will come forth tried and true gold refined from the fire. Trials will breed triumph and our comeback will be greater than are beginning. What was designed to be our demise will be our greatest victory as we realize our helplessness and total dependency on our Lord Jesus and run to his arms realizing the depths and heights of his awesome unconditional love and extreme ever enduring mercy. We will emerge forth as the soldiers of the greatest revolution the world has ever seen overthrowing evil freeing the hearts and minds of man. We are those who it was written of in the prophetic book of Joel "a generation the like of which there has never been and never will be again ". The army that carries out God's word. A fire before them and desolation behind. You see God's word out of their mouth will be as fire burning the stumble destroying the strongholds of darkness and setting the world on fire with a passion for Jesus . Who will declare my generation? We will! This is your generation Jesus! The Christ generation ! But we are weak....Yes but in our weakness his strength is perfected -we realize our weaknesses ,submit to his strength and become stronger than any foe in the power of his might! you see we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the glory and the excellency of the power might be of God and not of us. He gets all the glory! but I've been too bad! I went too far. ..No! Gods mercy is great ! it is new every morning! Endures forever! It is long suffering and his call on your life is without repentance. irrevocable.. he does not change his mind ..Remember he chose you ...you didn't choose him.. he knew what you would do and your weaknesses and still he chose you.. he still believed in you ! He sees your end from your beginning ,the author and finisher of your faith. He started it so trust him to finish. He can write a better ending than any success story you have ever seen... trust him no matter what it looks like now. That reminds me of seeing an episode of the vh1s' driven about kid rock.. he faced many obstacles of which most people would have just given up but he didn't! He was asked after he hit it big if he ever thought he would be in this place? he said boldly "yes everyday"! those around him speaking of his unbelievable positive attitude in the face of seemingly impossible odds said he kept saying "I'm going platinum"! well he did! We must have the same boldness and greater confidence ,the Creator has our back ,who can stand against us? I don't care what you've done or said, it wasn't the real you... Get up and come out swinging.. A righteous man falls seven times and gets back up seven times. I don't feel righteous. It doesn't matter what you look like , feel like or smell like... Jesus says you are ,so you are. God doesn't lie. Because of Jesus' blood you are righteous. Get up and never give up! Soldiers never quit.. rejoice in hope! The babies are in the birth canal. Let your weeping turn to tears of joy. As Paul and Silas praised God singing hymns in the dungeon at the midnight hour and all the prisoners saw them and the power of God shook the place -the chains fell from all of them and prison walls were no more! so it is in the darkest hour of your life, praise Him in your midnight hour and not only will you go free but also all those around you... so praise Him in the midst of your pain... watch God break the chains and His glory fall ! persecuted yet not forsaken (2Corinthians 4: 9) Jesus hasn't forgotten you! He died for you now he lives for you. He lives to ever make intercessions for you and me ,WOW !So next time evil slithers your way trying to intimidate, laugh point to Jesus and say you'll have to go through him first. I now have much more sympathy on all sinners! I hate the sin but now more than ever I love the sinner and really hate the sin for what it does to the sinner . This new greater compassion compels me.. drives me to want to be a light in the darkest dungeons, the deepest parts of the darkest hearts were Satan has held Gods greatest generals in the dungeons of his devices ..As Jesus was moved with compassion and miraculous healing flowed from Him also it will be with us. This great love will activate great faith and we will see great miracles! so no matter how bad now it seems or how cruel the tortures pain ..HOLD ON ! as William Wallace in Braveheart scream out with everything in you! scream" freedom"! You are a revolutionary in the greatest revolution ,in the only revolution worth living for and the only one worth dying for! Don't think that you are alone - we are
all tempted by darkness and we must all stand together in the love and
in the power of Jesus.
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