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Lisaleenie on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

Lisaleenie — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:24:38 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this, TN Dove. This really spoke to me. I needed to hear that.

And welcome to Rita Now, Eccodecco! Good to have you here in this loving fellowship!

Eccodecco on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

Eccodecco — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:40:15 +0000

We are going through what I would definitely call suffering with our teenager. We are feeling worn out so thank you for posting this.:)

TN Dove on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

TN Dove — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:27:14 +0000

Glad I could encourage you both. It encouraged me, too!

tyner rn on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

tyner rn — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:51:28 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It is a real encouragement for me while I wait for my healing. Things just keep on looking impossible in my eyes, but I know that all things are possible with god. Again thank you. I am so weary and tired from this battle. Thank God the battle is the Lords! God bless.

Tender Reed on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

Tender Reed — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:41:53 +0000

Thanks TN, a powerful and instuctive message. How timely, when so many of the saints of God today are being pressed down and shaken. May we all be able to differentiate between the darts of the enemy, and discipline of the Lord!

This should be bumped, until we're outa here!

Love & blessings...Tender Reed

TN Dove on "Just Before Victory - David Wilkerson"

TN Dove — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:59:02 +0000

Fair use for educational or discussion purposes only.

JUST BEFORE VICTORY

by David Wilkerson

If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him. Through all the suffering of God's people, he is at work. The miracle soon follows the confusion.

Study your Bible and you will discover these same patterns in the lives of all of God's people. In case after case, when God began to fulfill his promise, the roof seemed to cave in first!

Think of Daniel and the three Hebrew children. They gave themselves to a life of holiness and separation from the world and all its pleasures. Daniel pledged himself to a life of prayer, tears, and intercession, but what did that get him and his three Hebrew friends? Testing just before victory!

You don't go from the prayer closet to some mountaintop victory—you go to the lions' den. You don't go from consecration to a life of ease and blessing only—you go to the fiery furnace. These men were not afraid to face pain and suffering, because they knew it always ended in God having his way. Through lions and red-hot furnaces to God's perfect will!

Think of Elijah. God gave him a glorious promise of a spiritual awakening in the land; of an outpouring of abundant rain; of a new day of victory for God's people; and the overthrow of Ahab and Jezebel. But look at all the confusion that broke out after the promise was given. Jezebel threatened his life, chasing him into hiding in the mountains. Wicked forces killed the prophets of God and the land continued in wickedness and drought. In fact, the Word of God seemed like a hoax.

Can you imagine how confused Elijah must have been? “What kind of answered prayer is this? I'm left all on my own. Where is the Lord? Has his promise failed?" And all the while God was doing exactly what he said he would do. The confusion would soon pass and the answer would be forthcoming.

Christ left his disciples a promise that could have seen them through all the confusion and pain, but they were too broken up in sorrow to remember. He had told them: "After I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee" (Matthew 26:32).

In other words, "Don't try to figure it all out. Don't question the time of confusion. It's not your battle. God is at work! When this is all over, I will still be going before you. Your shepherd will still be there." What an encouraging word!

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