Once again a short article for all of us here including me who wonder why God tests us so much...
Once again, the post pertains to no specific religion or belief. Its just the message that I'd want to bring forth.
The Father has got many methods to bring out our fruit and how to mature us for greater things and greater responsibilities in the Kingdom. Here is one of them...
OUR TEXT:
1 Peter 4:12-13 (New King James Version)
12 - Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 - but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.
Now when Peter says beloved he is meaning saints of God who are precious to Him and that includes us. A fiery trial is something that I have been living in for three years now.
For three years I have been waking up chronically depressed because of too much sleep and yet I can't get out of bed as I am just too tired. The doctors don't know how to fix it, but it seriously hampers my life. I have fought it by staying up all night twice a week and having fun.
Of late I have been having more of the presence of the Lord life when I get up and this has put the depression at bay.
Trials are to make us stronger. Fiery trials you might say are more serious and hurt much more than just a day to day trial. We have to be conformed to Christs image, so how can we get to that place without suffering like He did as he cried most nights because of all the hurting on the earth that He couldn't reach. Isaiah 53 says that Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
There is something like partaking of Christ's sufferings that makes you get so much closer to the Lord Jesus. When you weep like him over the lost and how many people are going to hell, and you can't warn them all, you draw closer to Jesus in the process.
Some people in my life have been saying that my face is a bit shiny and what they are seeing is a touch of the Glory of the Lord on my face. You see the more you cry, the more you weep over the things that made Jesus weep, the closer you com to the heart of God and the more of his anointing he drops on your life. The more you are anointed, the more the trials come to make you press in further in your relationship with Jesus and the Father
If you have prayed to be refined by the Lord or you have prayed with all your heart to be used in the Kingdom in a big way, well don't be shocked when a fiery trial comes into your life.
God allows trials for two major reasons:
1. So that as you experience your fruits of the Spirit will grow as well as your faith.
2. So he can prove that talk is not cheap when it comes to you. Many people want to be used and have a big ministry and a huge anointing and they say all this to the Lord and then mid way through the first trial they are getting upset with the Lord and begging for it to stop. These are the people that give up on their dreams as they cannot deal with the Refiners Fire in their life.
So readers if you want to do big things for God and you are having a very hard trial, let me encourage you to keep praising God and push though. I am proud of you.
And readers who want to do big things and have read this, as sure as I am about my own Salvation, let me say God is going to test you in some hard trials.
Be Blessed
Matthew Robert Payne
Topic: Why is God testing us (Read 991 times)