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The Lord gives the Strength against becoming discouraged! Don't get tired of doing good just because you see hard times! The Lord is the Builder Up of Confidence! Your fruits of Righteousness must show forth continually, to show that there is no power that can stand against that which is Righteousness! Prove the Strength of your Joy in troublesome times, because in these kinds of times is when the Lord said that the Church will be built! What does He mean by the Church being built in troublesome times? That which is in you must become established, because the Kingdom of God must appear within you! The building up of the inward man is what the Lord is speaking about. Trials come to show you if your fruits are for real, or not! These are things that must be done continually! Sometimes you are not going to see results right away: but, endure with your belief, because everything that the Lord said will happen, is going to happen! Whatsoever need to get done, the Lord orders the steps in doing it! Troubles might seem to be rising up continually: but, the Lord has all things under control! Remember: He said in troublesome times, which means a lot of troubles will appear! The more the troubles, the more the Strength! Look for the peace of the Lord to rise up in you! Let the confidence in God be seen! The Lord has His Ways of causing our Strength to appear! Praising God in the good times is easy: but, the Power of your praises is revealed in the hard times! In hard times, people have been seen stopping their praises, and start to lean to their worrying and complaining! This shall not be! In the hard times is when you need your praises to be strong, because it is the weapon against those things that rise up against you! Address the worrying before the Lord! Amen!
And again, this is where your focus shall be: you shall seek to be strong in your belief in that which God has given you to use. Seek His Strength forevermore! God has spoken to us in these days about standing on what He told us, no matter what we hear, or read, or see! It is written in 2nd Thessalonians 2, speaking about the various means communications will come to us to try to shake us out of believing in what we have heard from the Lord. It is written, saying, “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, that you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.” This is an example to us about what we are listening to from other sources which might appear as coming from a source which the Lord has provided! Who are these people whom you have declared as being credible? People have said, “God said it; I believe it; and, that settles it!” Is it true? Is it truly settled in your mind? The Lord will tell you something through His anointed; and, then you go read what someone else said! You become shaken because what someone else said contradicts what you have heard from the person whom you declared as being a man of God. You were shaken, and you are shown how you are not able to stand! There are figures in the world that you will lean to over the men of God. God has shown you this! Is the Reporter of the Lord established with you as he is suppose to be? How is it that you can know all things if you are not established with God who knows all things? And, who is it that will speak only truth to you? You are shown how you will allow things that the Lord gave you to be taken away from you! You are not as stable as you think you are. And, watch out for that proud heart, because it will cause you to become offended with what the Lord has said. And, you don't have the men of God established in your heart the way you say you have them. In this, you have not surpassed the early Church in their respect for the men of God, which you must do in these days! The people of the early Church had a belief in the men of God so strongly, that they believed that if only the shadow of an Apostle would pass over the sick, that the sick person would be healed! This is the same belief that the woman who had the issue of blood had about the Lord. You are feeling the same way about the Lord as you are feeling about those whom He has sent! Don't be deceived by believing you are feeling any other way about the Lord, because the Lord said that whatsoever you do unto the least of His brethren, you have done unto Him. In many subtle ways you are calling the Lord a lie by your ways! The things that you do speaks to the Lord! The Apostle Paul also spoke about people's thoughts being changed, when he said certain people treated him as if he were an Angel of the Lord when he first came to them: but, sometimes afterward that same feeling was not there! What happened to you? For many years the Lord spoke about people not always seeing the preachers as being the same in every situation! When is it that he is not a man of God to you? That is a problem you have to address, because that is the same way you are seeing the Lord! You shall become fixed in your minds, and steadfast in all of your ways! And, these are the things that the Lord is showing you about yourselves! Amen!
Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men, because not all men have faith. But, the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things, which we command you. By doing these things as you are commanded, this will help you to become established! Amen!
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