"So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man... destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites. But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line... the second day... destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel... third day... the battle was hard, but the Benjaminities didn't know that disaster was close upon them. And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel."
The battle was hard on the third day, but the Lord defeated! Although the Lord said, "Go up against them" three times, but they failed the first two! I don't know why, but we all know that the Lord already won the battle invisibly, so the Israel won on the third day!
Sometimes things appear to us that everything is beginning to fall apart when they didn't. Like how National Community Church feel like the perfect property had fallen out of our hands when it didn't because it had been in the Lord's hands even before March 17! So it finally fall into National Community Church's hands on June 17! In Pastor Mark Batterson's blog, he says, 'Despite those three deaths in the physical realm, it didn't die in my spirit. I preached a message on Easter about Lazarus. Even after her brother had been dead four days, Martha said: "Even now God will give you whatever you ask." What's amazing about that is that Jesus hadn't been raised from the dead yet. She didn't even have a category for resurrection, but she still believed. It was like she was saying: it's not over till God says it's over.' - www.evotional.com/2010/06/real-estate-miracle.html
Let us be like Bruce: "Over the past twenty-eight years, on a number of occassions his faith had been tested almost to the point of death. In those times the Lord had sustained his confidence in Him. Bruce had come to the jungles of Colombia because he believed He wanted him there. So long as he remained obedient to that vision he had to believe that Lord would provide for whatever his needs would be." - "Bruchko"
Stay strong to the vision whatever the Lord had given you to follow!
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