Oh My Dear Friends:

Where is the fellowship of His suffering. Please read and tell me what you think.

The secret to real joy and happiness of the Lord is in His fellowship. It is not how we start the race it is how we finish. Oh my Friends where are the saints that will suffer with Christ. Were are my warriors that are willing to pay the price, to give all to him. Did he not say you must die to live. Were are my friends who will fellowship with His suffering.

PHI 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Where are my friends who once suffered loss and rejection will rejoice because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.

ACS 5:40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

Oh my Friends where are the warriors who will Love the Lord First and formost. The secret to the Power of God is making God first in everything. Did not Jesus understand this when He said we must Love Him more than even our families.

In His great compassion and love for us Jesus was teaching us that
we must die to the flesh
we must die to our desires
we must die to our wants
we must die to our ideas
we must die to our priorities

So we can live in His Glory.

MAT 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

LUK 14:26 If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it]?

It is very clear that the Lord does not want anything between us and Him.
God's love for us is very clear.
He understands we can not be a house devided

MAT 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

PSA 34:19 Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Do we put our trust in Him to deliver us.

ACS 20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: 20:23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Again my friend it is not how we start the race. So many start so well. It is how we finish. Who will be there at the gate beautiful no matter what the world did or said. Will you suffer the reproach

JOH 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

2CO 6:2 (For he saith,
I have heard thee in a time accepted,
and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:
behold, now [is] the accepted time;
behold, now [is] the day of salvation.) 6:3
Giving no offence in any thing,
that the ministry be not blamed: 6:4
But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
in much patience,
in afflictions,
in necessities,
in distresses, 6:5
In stripes,
in imprisonments,
in tumults,
in labours,
in watchings,
in fastings; 6:6
By pureness,
by knowledge,
by longsuffering,
by kindness,
by the Holy Ghost,
by love unfeigned, 6:7
By the word of truth,
by the power of God,
by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 6:8
By honour and dishonour,
by evil report and good report:
as deceivers, and [yet] true; 6:9
As unknown, and [yet] well known;
as dying, and, behold, we live;
as chastened, and not killed; 6:10
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing;
as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

2CO 4:13
We having the same spirit of faith,
according as it is written,
I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak; 4:14
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus
shall raise up us also by Jesus, and
shall present [us] with you. 4:15
For all things [are] for your sakes,
that the abundant grace
might through the thanksgiving of many
redound to the glory of God. 4:16
For which cause we faint not;
but though our outward man perish,
yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day. 4:17
For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding
[and] eternal weight of glory;


2CO 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more;
in labours more abundant,
in stripes above measure,
in prisons more frequent,
in deaths oft. 11:24
Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 11:25
Thrice was I beaten with rods,
once was I stoned,
thrice I suffered shipwreck,
a night and a day I have been in the deep; 11:26
[In] journeyings often,
[in] perils of waters,
[in] perils of robbers,
[in] perils by [mine own] countrymen,
[in] perils by the heathen,
[in] perils in the city,
[in] perils in the wilderness,
[in] perils in the sea,
[in] perils among false brethren; 11:27
In weariness and painfulness,
in watchings often,
in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often,
in cold and nakedness. 11:28
Beside those things that are without,
that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak?
who is offended, and I burn not? 11:30
If I must needs glory,
I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

1CO 15:54
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and
this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory. 15:55
O death, where [is] thy sting?
O grave, where [is] thy victory?

Oh My Friends When can we shout for the joy of the Cross we must bear.
When can we see how we must be like him.

ISA 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men;
Can you rejoice when you are despised and rejected
Did he not tell us we were blessed in the rejection...
MAT 5:11 Blessed are ye,
when [men] shall revile you,
and persecute [you],
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad:
for great [is] your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

ISA 53:3 Jesus was a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief:
(What happens when grief introduces itself to you)

and we hid as it were [our] faces from him;
(ARE YOU HIDING FROM THE PROBLEM)
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE REJECTION)

ISA 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 53:5

But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, (FOR YOU)
[he was] bruised for our iniquities: (FOR YOU)
the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; (FOR YOU)
and with his stripes we are healed.

What are you doing for Him

I think I need to print this out so I can study it deeper than just a read through.

Father, give understanding to those who read this and wisdom to use the knowledge contained within. AMEN!

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I need boldness. I need not to be afraid to share my faith and stand up for what I believe.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2004

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24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:24)

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