EMPOWERING LIVES WITH PURPOSE:
Does anyone really like taking a test? Personally, I’m still having nightmares of “test day” from school. God’s testings are not like school tests.
God already knows how much we know. The tests He gives are not for Him; they’re for us. God’s testing helps us to clearly see what we’re made of, and it teaches us about ourselves and so much more about God. It’s a learning process.
I personally felt I had gone through test after test over the years of beginning a ministry and then growing along side by side with it. As this precious group of women kept growing in leaps and bounds and things were happening in our midst, I faced myself as I faced many challenges in personal life circumstances. Looking back, I see how God grew me through each struggle. It was not easy for me. Often times “things” made me cry and wonder, what is going on here? Why are there so many obstacles if this group is growing so beautifully? I knew in my heart I had to push through the challenges I faced and ask God question after question while I walked through. I was learning! I was growing in FAITH! The beauty is deep inside; despite my questions, I knew God was with me.
Please remember we are often put to our most difficult test just before the greatest work of God in our lives is to be accomplished.
Don’t fear the times of testing God allows you to go through. He loves you! God wants you to have unshakable FAITH through it. Think of it as a refining time.
Just think, God may be bringing you to a place in your life right now which requires more purity of heart, more faith, and more obedience than you’ve ever had before. Embrace it because God has a PURPOSE for you, I promise❤!