Daily Archives: March 8, 2013
No Trials, No Triumphs
Acts 14:22
We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when He chose His people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, He included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they were predestinated for us in Christ’s last legacy. So surely as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the “Father of the faithful.” Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction. It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King’s vessels of honour are distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God’s children, they have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they have His presence and sympathy to cheer them, His grace to support them, and His example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach “the kingdom,” it will more than make amends for the “much tribulation” through which they passed to enter it.
In this Month of March, March!
In this Month of March, March!
In this month of March
Get your marching orders
Get up and go, saint
Get up and begin to march
March toward the Land-
The Land ordained for you
The Land flowing with milk and honey.
Let no excuse keep you back
It’s time for you to make your mark
Be not bothered by the giants
Whether or not they are adamant.
You have got what if takes
For about your past mistakes
Know that angels are on assignment.
Believe in God and believe in yourself
Self confidence and confidence in God
Should be allowed to interplay
If you will enter and occupy.
Stand your ground always
Give no room to your enemy.
Then you will clinch the victory.
Put fear far away from you
Visualise always the breakthrough
Fight with every fibre of your being
Know you’re called priest and King
Take dominion over the wicked foe
Put him in his proper place- under your feet.
Don’t relent until the conquest is complete.
©Fenny West2013
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