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Misdirection!
Are our eyes being misdirected from the reality of what is happening to us right under our noses, while we look at the shiny objects all around us?
Misdirection is a principle element in the art of deception.
Misdirection is sometimes defined “as the intentional deflection of attention for the purpose of disguise.”
It has also been suggested that misdirection is not simply about directing attention away from the cause of a magic effect, but toward something interesting, which again prevents the spectator from noticing the method.
Whilst some misdirection principles involve manipulating what people attend to (and thus, what they see), “real misdirection deceives not only the eye of the spectator, but his mind as well”.
More precisely, successful misdirection might manipulate not only people's perceptions, but their memory for what happened, or their reasoning about how the effect was done.
Don’t be fooled by those who use misdirection to convince you all is well, while leading you down the path of deception and destruction!
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The LORD is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you.
We are living on borrowed time! It’s been around 6 thousand years in God’s history of the world, and He promised that Christ would reign for a thousand years on this earth! A day is as a 1000 years, so the millennium will very likely be the 7th day of rest!
Jesus is coming again, and I believe He is right at the door! So be vigilant that you’re found with your eyes on Him watching for His return and prepared by being clothed with His righteousness through faith in His Son Jesus Christ!
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
1 Peter 5:6-9
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Revelation 7:9
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.
In closing, remember that the antichrist will deceive many, and those who aren’t deceived will be scorned, mocked, hated, and possibly even killed for standing firm in their faith!
Take heed then, that you aren’t among the deceived!
#EyesOnHim
Golden Age?
We are told that the deception of the last days will be so great, that if possible even the elect will be deceived!
Mark 13:22-27
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall He send Hid angels, and shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Is it possible for those who are in Christ to be deceived? If so, how is that possible?
First of all, yes, I believe it is possible or else why would be given so many warnings in God’s Word?
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
How then will he deceive? The antichrist will be so convincing that many will believe he is good!
He will give Christians so many victories that they will fall into his trap! He will promise everything you desire. He will promise to be a peacemaker!
This is so important — He will come in the Name of Christ!
At first, he will only claim to love God and say he’s a fellow believer in Jesus Christ! But I believe that we’re taught that at a certain point into the tribulation he will turn and show who he really is!
At that point he won’t merely be content to have people believe his “great swelling words”, but he will require people to worship him! He will set himself up as Christ!
Daniel 8:11-14
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Matthew 24:4-14
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My Name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Revelation 13:4-8,15-18
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His Name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
BREAKING: The NCAA has just finalized a new policy that limits competition in women's sports to those assigned female at birth.
This is another step in the furtherance of ridding our nation of one of the most destructive, anti-science, and evil ideologies in our world.
Yes!
Read this too regarding this false theology!
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What is Dominion Theology?
Dominion Theology, also called "Kingdom Now Theology," is a false teaching stating that man is commissioned to bring the entire world under the dominion of Christianity, by force if necessary, and then, hand over the Christianized world to Jesus when he comes.
Dominion Theology is predicated upon these basic beliefs:
•God gave Adam dominion over the earth
•Satan usurped man’s dominion over the earth through the fall of Adam and Eve
•Jesus defeated Satan and took dominion back in his victory on the cross
•He then gave dominion back to believers
•The Church must gain control of the earth’s governmental and social institutions, and establish the Kingdom on earth
•Then, and only then, can Jesus come
“DT teaches that the kingdom of God is not extended by preaching the Gospel alone but more crucially by Christians – more specifically, God’s end-time apostles and prophets – taking over and controlling the major institutions of society and culture (the seven mountains), especially the government.
Most significantly, the dominionists maintain that the extension of the kingdom and the return of Christ are dependent on the work of the Church under the leadership of the end-time apostles and prophets. Christ will not be able to return until the Church has taken control of at least a significant portion of the world’s governments and social institutions.
Thus, it is the Church – not Christ – that will ensure the success of the kingdom of God and its extension across the globe.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dave-hayes-christians-must-rethink-their-understand-of-the-end-times-because-trump-is-creating-a-utopia/
President Trump wants to make America “religious”.
Do you know what the “religious” church of the end times is called?
See Revelation 17
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Читать полностью…I did my very first healing prayer for someone last week. Was working out in pool at my physical therapy after care. A guy came in whom I've seen before, looking in pain. I heard him talking to the pt. He'd had back surgery in November and was having numbness and pain. I heard God tell me to pray for him. In my mind I was just going to go home and pray but no, God said now, with him. I was putting back my equipment and the guy looked at me from in the pool and smiled, so I leaned down and said I'd overheard him talking about the surgery. I asked if I could pray for him and his face lit up and he said yes. I put one hand on his shoulder and held his hand and asked his name and prayed for his back, joints, bones, tissues and nerves to be healed in the name of Jesus. I was almost crying. When I was done he said thank you and I told him that was my very first time and he said "I pray for people all the time!" I think Papa God was proud of me.
Читать полностью…LEAKED: VA Insider Reveals HHS Memo Detailing “Presidential Inauguration Support Deployment Request”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhar8_7vCTk
Who here wants to see Covid vaccine manufacturers held liable for the harm they caused to millions of Americans? ✋
Читать полностью…WOW: Jackson Local School District will pay $450,000 to a middle school teacher who was forced to resign for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns.
For the sake of our children and teachers, we must continue to fight against this woke sickness that is plaguing our country.
Have you received Jesus Christ as your Savior and LORD? Have you followed Him in baptism as is Word tells you to do? Are you walking in obedience to Him, or have you strayed and left your first Love?
We will all leave this earth one day and it could be today! Would you be going HOME?
Psalm 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in His temple.
#EyesOnHim
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Читать полностью…And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? and how long will it be ere they believe Me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
As I listened that morning, I realized once again how important it is to trust God during difficult times, and to remember His faithfulness in the past!
Remembering not only the faithfulness we read about in stories such as the ones above, and others in His Word, but also remembering what He has done in our own lives, as well as others we know!
Our desire should always be for the LORD to be pleased with us! I so want to please Him, and I know you do as well!
Psalm 23 brings so much comfort when we are walking through the trials of this life!
Psalm 23:1-6
The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His Name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Even though we were so sad and grieving to be separated from our loved ones — We were not without hope! We believed with all our heart that God had promised a good end! Because of this we continued to pray, to believe, and to walk forward in faith, knowing who it was who was going before us, and who was guarding us from behind!
Isaiah 52:12
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward (rear guard).
We also knew that we had so many brothers and sisters in Christ standing with us in prayer and in faith!
Galatians 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
We knew that God understood what we were going through too! He sent His Son to a world that hated and rejected Him and ultimately crucified Him! He did it because He loved us!
Jesus willingly came because He loved the Father and He loved us too!
In Hebrews we are told to look to Him as our example of enduring the trials of this life!
Hebrews 12:1-2
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Beloved child of God, are you walking through a trial today? Perhaps it feels like the valley of the shadow of death! Praise God for He is on His throne and He is in control! He is working something far greater than you can imagine?
He is orchestrating all that He allows in this world and in our lives! Knowing this, we can with the host of angels cry out to Him — Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory!
Isaiah 6:1-3
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.
#EyesOnHim
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Reverses Government Position in SCOTUS Trans Surgery Case
The Biden DOJ initially opposed Tennessee, but today, the Trump DOJ reversed course, siding with the state. In an unusual move, they also urged SCOTUS to issue a ruling rather than dismiss the case—suggesting confidence in a decisive outcome.
AFLDS was the only physician organization to stand with Tennessee, filing an amicus curiae brief defending the state’s right to ban transgender surgeries and procedures. Other major medical groups supported these horrific interventions.
This ruling could set a critical precedent for state authority in regulating these mutilation procedures nationwide.
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. [15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
So, beloved, when we look around us and we see good things seeming to happen, let us not be deceived by the desires of our flesh, for a golden age set up by men! Even those coming “in His Name.”
Matthew 24:15,21-31
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand): [21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Let us be sober, and watchful, discerning what we’ve been told in the Word will happen in those days!
1 Thessalonians 5:6-9
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ.
Don’t listen to the scoffers of our day who are still mocking those who say we’re in the last days! Be encouraged, because their mocking is a sign that those days are surely upon us!
2 Peter 3:3-15
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Dear Anthony Fauci,
You will not escape justice.
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Читать полностью…Why is President Trump talking about a golden age coming and destiny? I believe it should be evident to those who know the Word of God. He is surrounded by false teachers who teach lies. His selection of Paula White further shows this!
What do most of these “religious” leaders believe? They believe in Dominion Theology, so let’s look again at its tenants!
"At the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle that each person should decide for himself or herself the ideas and beliefs deserving of expression, consideration, and adherence." Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. F.C.C., 512 U.S. 622, 641 (1994).
This did not happen during the "pandemic." Instead, big pharma, big government, and big tech conspired and suppressed differing ideas, beliefs and information.
We will never forget.
When the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), a non-partisan non-profit group of physicians, public health professionals, scientists, and journalists requested for the Pfizer safety data on the "vaccine" the FDA responded by asking for 75 years before releasing the data.
Ask yourself this: Would a reasonable person believe the "vaccine" is both "safe" and "effective" when (1) the pharmaceutical companies receive legal immunity and (2) refuse to voluntarily release the safety data?
We all know the answer.
RETRACTO IS BACK:
RETRACTION #1: Newsweek Reporter Sophie Clark FORCED to RETRACT Article After Falsely Reporting O'Keefe Was Not Detained in Vermont
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Well, I did it!
I prayed for someone else in public today. I’m pretty reserved, but God made this really clear to me.
I overheard a Walmart worker talking to a friend about her broken down vehicle. I heard God say, “I can fix that for her. You have the faith to pray for that.” The thought was followed by this amazing peace.
Last year God fixed my tire after I prayed. So, I do believe He can and will do it for this lady.
I left Walmart without praying. As I was walking out, God told me that He wanted to bless her.
I left and went to a nearby store. I told Him that if He reminded me after this errand, I’d go back and pray over her.
Well, He did, and I did. I told her what I’d overheard and asked if I could pray over her car. She agreed. I prayed and released power for fixing her car. I also sent “fix it” angels.
Turns out the lady is a Christian. She thanked me for praying and gave me some little angel keychains that she makes. They had the plan of salvation attached to a little card.
It’s kind of hard to walk away and not know the outcome, but I did what I felt I was supposed to do. I hope I see her again in WallyWorld someday! 😁
Talks about bird flu are making their rounds throughout corporate media.
What they did in 2020 they may try to do again if we allow it.
Do not repeat history.
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Thank you for your prayers!
A few months ago I emailed you asking for prayer for my left knee. I have listened to your healing and emotional healing videos a few times with amazing results!
A few months ago I tore my meniscus causing swelling in my knee which resulted in my knee giving out and jamming my joint up bone on bone pain. I could hardly put weight on it, straighten it or pivot whatsoever. I was devastated since I take care of my young grandkids and have no insurance. I left my job and moved across the country to help take care of my grandkids and be close to my own children I’m a year away from Medicare, very active and healthy never thinking something like this would happen to me. I was told by a Dr. my injury was beyond shot treatments and the only thing that would help me is a knee replacement which I cannot afford.
I have followed you for years and found your healing videos so I started listening and praying daily for healing and WOW after a few weeks the pain started subsiding and it just got better from there! I was totally amazed at the power of prayer and how God has given us these tools to use for our own healing and to heal others! I have been so excited I have been sharing my testimony and your videos to everyone I know needs healing! No knee replacement for me for quite some time!! God loves us so very much! I can’t thank you enough for teaching us how to use God’s spirit and energy to heal! Thank you!! You have changed not only my life forever but so many others as well!
Wishing you and Denise a wonderful and healthy 2025!
Thank you!
Julie
HOME!
We had a dear friend — Granny, who would send email updates of special dates and events in the lives of her family and friends!
When a loved one who was a Christian would pass away, and on the anniversary of their passing, she would send their name and the date of their passing with this word all in capital letters — HOME!
These lived ones had gone to their eternal destination! They were finally HOME!
Jesus told His disciples about this HOME when they asked Him where He was going! He told them to prepare a HOME for them, and that one day He would escort them there Himself!
John 14:1-6
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him, LORD, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.
This world is not our HOME as the words of the song say — We are just passing through!
‘This world is not my home; I’m just a-passing through. My treasures are laid up; Somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me; From heaven’s open door; And I can’t feel at home; In this world anymore.’
‘Oh LORD, you know I have no friend like you; If heaven’s not my home then Lord what will I do. The angels beckon me from heaven’s open door; And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.’
Beloved, we are strangers here!
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Hebrews 11:13
They were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
David understood the longing for HOME!
Psalm 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not Thy commandments from me.
We live in this world, but we are not of the world! If we were the things we see here wouldn’t break our hearts as they do! We are not supposed to feel at home here!
John 8:23
And He said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
If we aren’t longing for our true HOME, perhaps we have fallen in love with the world!
If our hope is in this life alone, the Word says that we are miserable!
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Paul longed for HOME!
Philippians 1:21-24
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Beloved, if you aren’t ready for HOME, is it because your heart is not right with God?
BREAKING: A peer-reviewed study performed at a FDA laboratory by high school students has confirmed the presence of a high level of DNA contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
The peer-reviewed study was authored by three high school students and performed under the supervision of FDA scientists.
High school students found problems that the “experts” could not? Or have the “experts” been hiding things all along?
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-study-high-school-lab-dna-contamination-pfizer-covid-vaccine/
Joseph’s Story — Our Story!
In the fall of 2013 as I was getting ready for the day, I tuned into a local Christian station!
They had a children's program on as they did on Saturday mornings! This particular program was an interview with Joseph from the Bible!
I came in on the end of the interview as Joseph was telling how God had given him a dream, and when he told the dream to his brothers they were angry and jealous and sold him into bondage!
Hearing this story was timely, as we were in the midst of one of the darkest hours of our lives!
Because of our distress, my spouse and I would daily walk in our neighborhood and pray aloud as we walked!
On one of those walks we had talked about how what we were going through was similar to Joseph's story, in that what Satan had meant to harm us, God meant for our good!
I had not thought before that morning, as I listened to the children’s program about how sad Joseph must have been!
Not only was he betrayed by his brothers, but he was separated from his Dad!
Obviously Joseph and his Dad had a very close relationship! How Joseph must have grieved to be separated from him! We know from the Word that his Father grieved deeply over his son!
My spouse and I, and our family had also been going through extreme grief over being separated from our loved ones!
Beloved, God understands our grief! He too was separated from His beloved Son when He sent Him to die for our sins!
As the interview on the program went on, Joseph remarked that in all he went through — Never once had God forsaken him or left him alone!
God was with him through every single thing he faced! God gave him favor and provided for him even in his captivity!
God was doing much more than Joseph or anyone else for that matter realized at the time by allowing this trial in Joseph's life!
In fact Joseph tells his brothers this!
Genesis 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
God was using Joseph's captivity to save the entire nation of Israel, His beloved people!
My spouse and I understood too that the trial and test of our faith was not just for us! We knew that God was using it to affect many lives! His Word tells us He uses all things in the lives of those who are His children, the called, for His purposes!
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
That morning as I continued listening to the radio another program started! It was recounting the story of Joshua, Caleb and the others who were sent to spy out the land God had promised to give His people!
Everyone who went into the land came back with a report of a good land; but all but Joshua and Caleb said it was a land that was too difficult to take!
Here’s part of their report!
Numbers 13:30-33
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
In Numbers 14:11 we read God's response to their unbelief!
Numbers 14:11