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IN THE FURNACE OF FIERY TRIALS

July 26, 2016 · Lanre Oyeleke · 2 views

1Pet4:12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.(13) Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. NLT

There are Christians that hold the view that suffering is unbiblical especially for a Child of God. Well,that assertion is not true because Jesus said in John16:33 that we shall face tribulations in this world but we should be of good cheer because he has overcome the world.

One of the thing that trials do for us is that it refines us. We all have rough edges that God need to smoothen. While in the furnace of trials, God want to use that medium to separate the wheat from the chaff in your life and teach you patience. While in the furnace of trials, God want to build a solid relationship with you in the secret place, in that same furnace of trials, God want you to know who your real friends are.

If you can approach your challenges in life from the standpoint of seeing the purpose it is intended for, you will come out quickly. We cannot enter into destiny unrefined, the furnace of trial is our school of preparation before we emerge on the scene. Moses couldn't enter into God's plan for his life not until after he was schooled in the university of wildreness. He came out of the wilderness a better leader.

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I receive grace to learn what God wants me to learn quickly in my trials In Jesus name. Amen

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