Travel "through" with the God of grace!

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After you have borne these sufferings a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to share his eternal splendour through Christ, will himself make you whole and secure and strong. 1 Peter 5:10 - J.B. Phillips' translation


We all go through hard times at some time or another in our life.

The pressure, the affliction, the temptation or the attack might come through people or through circumstances or just your perception of things.

Nevertheless, whatever form it takes your "going through it" should be stamped "a little while" and once that little while has passed you can be out the other side and into a place where your God has made you whole, secure and strong. Psa.84:5-7.

When you enter a country they stamp your passport with a date of entry... they you have only so long you can stay there and then you have to leave.. you are just visiting! You can't live there!

When you face hard times remember you are not a citizen of that... but of the kingdom of God and you are just visiting! After a certain time... YOU MUST LEAVE!

The way you face life and its events is important. The story of Esther provides a good illustration. Esther went through a preparation in her life.

First, through the spiritual mentoring of her uncle Mordecai so that the favour of the Lord might be on her.

Second, through the oils and fragrances of the palace so that king Ahasuerus' favour and heart might be towards her.

From these preparations come provision and the prevailing of God's kingdom through her life and victory for God's people. Esther 2:12.

How does your story sound?

Are you giving time for a sweet preparation of God's Spirit in your life?

God has a plan of deliverance and beauty for your life. His plan is one of you getting under the comfort and counsel of His Spirit. When you do that He places you under the flow of His anointing. He pours on you the fragrance of Christ. He makes crooked places straight before you and He makes darkness light! He counsels and consoles you. 1 John 2:20, 2 Cor.2:15, Isa.42:16.

The only way this will happen is if you get on your knees and pray it through!

That is an old fashioned term the the Saints from the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the 1900's use to use. They would pray and pray and pay until they got the victory and a knowing in their spirits that the victory had been won.

They didn't pray just one time and "stand in faith". They were not praying and praying because they didn't know if God would answer them, or they doubted that the prayer would be heard. They prayed to break through the strongholds of the enemy who would withhold the answer from coming.

This is what Daniel had to do, he prayed for 21 days and when the message was delivered the Angel said that he had been dispatched the moment Daniel prayed, but that he was fought by the devil who tried to stop the answer from arriving!

So get on your knees in prayer and push through in prayer!

Travel "through" with the God of grace!