THE TEST COMES BEFORE THE TESTIMONY

We will be discussing the importance of understanding that everything that we are going through has already been predestined by God. He knows that we will travail in our relations with others. This is our test, and we must go through the trials of being able to understand that it can only become our testimony when we have persevered, been delivered, and repented, and unlike Lot's wife, desire never to look back with any reservation of what God has brought us through, but to instead move forward with our testimony of healing and deliverance from the evil that had once been our mantra, and therefore operating in love and helping others through our testimony. God's intent for allowing us to go through the magnitude of trials is to increase our faith, and orchestrate His Divine Purpose in our lives. It is only through going through the test that many of us now can have a testimony of the victory of how sufficient God's grace and mercy is, even in our rebelliousness, stubbornness, and ignorance. We all fall down, But God, we all get up! And through the fire of our test, we are pruned, and made into God's likeness on the inside, to fit the image of who He created us to be, and that is a man or woman who is Christlike.

ROMANS 8:18 KJV

 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

ROMANS 8:18-21 MSG

 That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.