My
children often view hard paths as a negative thing, but I tell you truly, they
are a very good thing, for rocky paths teach you to how to find your way.
If
there is never an obstacle in your path, if there is never a rough place in
your walk with Me, if there is never anything negative in your life, how will
you truly know Who I am? How will you know My faithfulness? If you are never in
need, if you never know pain, how will you know My healing power? How will you
know My mighty power to provide for you out of nothing, when all around you is
desolate and barren?
Just
as men train for war, I am training My children to survive in the battlefields
of the enemy that are coming.
Psalm 144:1 Blessed
be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to
fight:
James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Isaiah 41:10
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I
will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 43:15-19
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King.
16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the
sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the
army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are
extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember ye not the former things, neither
consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall
spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
