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7. Fight the Good Fight of Faith
Not only must we learn how to walk by faith, but we must also learn how to use our faith to help us overcome all of the obstacles that these trials and tribulations will present to us. In other words, we must learn how to put our faith into action. And when you are thrown into the middle of any type of fiery trial, you will be forced to put your faith into major action.
These next set of verses are extremely powerful. The Lord is really driving home the point with some of the wording in these verses in that we must learn how to fight the good fight of faith and stand fast in this faith to the very end, no matter what comes our way to try and knock us off course.
Each one of these verses will show us the extreme importance that we not let go of our faith in the Lord, and that if we hold on to it to the very end, we will become eventual victors and overcomers in Him, and eventually gain victory, deliverance, and whatever blessings and rewards God will want to bestow upon us for making it through some of these tough trials and tribulations.
These next set of verses are whopper power verses. Burn these verses into your memory banks if you really want to learn how to become a good and mighty soldier of Jesus Christ. The revelation that is in these verses are the key to being able to get God to give you an eventual victory and deliverance, no matter how severe the storm cloud you may be facing, and no matter how hopeless things may look to you in the natural.
One of the ways God will test your faith in these trials and tribulations is to see if you will hold on to your faith in Him to the very end, and through some of the trying circumstances that will occur throughout parts of the trial. Here are some of the most powerful verses in all of the Bible about the importance of having a strong, powerful, and unwavering type of faith in the Lord.
- "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called …" (1 Timothy 6:12)
- "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith." (1 John 5:4)
- "Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong." (1 Corinthians 16:13)
- "… if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you have heard …" (Colossians 1:23)
- "Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life." (Revelation 2:10)
- "Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end." (Hebrews 3:12)
- "But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you." (Deuteronomy 4:4)
- "And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations." (Revelation 2:26)
- "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne." (Revelation 3:21)
- "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels." (Revelation 3:5)
- "For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises." (Hebrews 6:10)
- "Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise." (Hebrews 10:35)
- "Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been proved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." (James 1:12)
- Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it." (Numbers 13:30)
- "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people … And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke." (Acts 6: 8,10)
- "… and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens." (Hebrews 11:32-34)
- "By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household … By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he as going … By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son …" (Hebrews 11:7,17)
Every single one of these verses are a major mouthful! These verses are loaded with major revelation and knowledge from the Lord on how to become victorious warriors in this life, even through some of the most difficult and trying circumstances you can possibly imagine.
Notice in the last four verses God is specifically pointing out Caleb, Noah, Stephen and Abraham as men who walked with great faith. And every single one of them ended up becoming total victors and overcomers in the Lord as a result of their strong and unwavering faith in Him. Each one of them had successfully completed all of the divine assignments that the Lord had given to them.
If you are looking for good, spiritual, role models, these giants of the faith are some of the best of the best. And our one and only Bible has recorded all of their deeds so we can study and learn from them, and why they were all able to become so successful for the Lord in the divine missions that He had sent them out on.
Other major giants in the Bible are King David, Moses, Joseph, Samson, the apostle Paul, and many of the prophets such as Samuel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Daniel. All of these men received great calls from the Lord, and though most of them had their own personal shortcomings, every single one of them held fast to the Lord and eventually accomplished everything that He wanted them to get done for Him.
This is the way that we are supposed to live this life – to live for the express purpose of accomplishing whatever God's perfect will is for each one of us.
As we all know from first hand experiences, this life is rough, and we will all have to face a certain amount of trials and tribulations in this life. This is why these verses in particular are so extremely important to have a full understanding on.
It is only by the grace, power, and guidance from the Lord can we even begin to make it through some of these trials and tribulations in the first place – and the only thing that will get God to want to move on our behalf through some of these very trying circumstances is our total faith and belief in Him that He will actually help us fight some of these battles.
The second verse mentioned above is a real fascinating one when it says that our faith is what can overcome the world. It is quite obvious that it is God working through us and for us that will overcome all of the adversity of this world – but God is really trying to drive home the point with the wording of this verse is that it is our faith in Him that will get Him to want to move on our behalf to overcome any obstacle, roadblock, or trial that may want to come our way!
This is why our faith in God will be tested from time to time. One, to see if we hold fast to Him, and two, to increase the levels of faith we already have in Him to higher levels – as the Bible tells us that our faith is actually capable of growing in the Lord. And great fights and great trials is what will help increase our current levels of faith to these higher levels because we will be forced to rely on God and His supernatural help in a way that we may never done before.
And once you see God supernaturally move in to really help you out, then your faith will move up to the next level. This is why the Bible tells us that we can go from "faith to faith" and from "strength to strength." This specific wording is telling us that our faith and strength in the Lord can literally move from one level to the next highest level as a result of being forced to put our faith into major action to engage a fiery trial.
All of these verses are telling us that we are going to have to learn how to develop the mindset that we are going to become good and brave soldiers for the Lord, and to be willing to take on any adversity that may come our way and not run away from it. Peter could not have walked on water unless he first stepped out of the boat to walk on that water. David could not have defeated Goliath unless he had first stepped out onto the battlefield to face him head on.
We can either run and hide when a storm cloud does get ready to come our way, or we can step out onto the battlefield like David did against Goliath and face our giants and storm clouds head on operating under God's anointing and power to be able to do so.
8. God Will Preserve You Through the Trial
Not only can God bring you eventual freedom, victory, and deliverance from the trial if you are willing to hold fast to Him to the very end of it, but He can also help keep you properly preserved during it so that you can make it out in one piece.
These next set of verses will show you that God:
- Preserves the faithful
- Preserves the souls of His saints
- Delivers them out of the hand of the wicked
- Delivers him out of them all
- Makes a way of escape
- Guards all their bones – not one of them is broken
- Can give you perfect soundness of mind, body, and spirit through the trial
- Will properly support you through the trial
If God is wanting you to go through a specific trial for your own sanctification and for your own testing in Him, then He will make sure to keep you properly supported and protected during the trial.
Study the wording in each one of these verses very carefully as they will show you that God can supernaturally keep you in one piece as you continue to press on through the trial.
- "For the Lord preserves the faithful …" (Psalm 31:23)
- "These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing." (Deuteronomy 2:7)
- "Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years." (Deuteronomy 8:4)
- "You who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked." (Psalm 97:10)
- "And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong … Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." (Acts 3:16)
- "My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me … So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God." (Daniel 6:22-23)
- "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones, not one of them is broken." (Psalm 34:19-20)
- "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed – always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh." (2 Corinthians 4:7-11)
- "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)
Notice in the last verse that God will not allow you to handle something that is beyond your abilities to be able to handle. In other words, if God is going to allow a specific type of trial to come your way, rest assured you will have what it takes to be able to make it all the way through the trial. God will not test you beyond what your personal limits may be.
Notice in verses two and three that the Israelites while being tested in the desert for the forty years, "lacked nothing," and that their garments did not wear out on them nor did their feet swell on them during the entire ordeal. In other words, God kept them properly supported with the necessary food and clothing to help them get through it.
As long as you are walking in a full surrender with the Lord and you have not brought down any unnecessary tribulation on yourself as a result of engaging in any type of serious sins, these trials and tribulations when brought your way by the Lord, will have the necessary provisions and supplies given to you so that you can make it all the way through them.
Notice in verse 6 that Daniel came out of the lions den without having a hair on his head harmed "because he believed in his God." David defeated Goliath without suffering a broken bone.
If you can keep your faith from dipping too low with the Lord, make a personal commitment that you will hold fast to Him, and have faith that He will eventually bring you out of the trial in one piece and with some kind of victory – then you can expect God to keep you properly supported and protected so you will have everything you will need to make it all the way through the trial.
9. All Things Will Eventually Work Together For Good
This next verse is another major one that you will hear every preacher and teacher talk about – and for very good reason. This next verse will tell us that God will eventually work out all things for good for those who love Him and for those who have been called by Him to complete His divine purpose for their life.
Here is another very powerful verse for every single person who has fallen into a trial, or will be falling into one anytime in the near future.
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28)
Notice that God can work all things for good, but there is a condition attached to it. It is for those who love God. In other words, it is for those who have established a good personal relationship with Him.
If you are walking in a full surrender with the Lord and have established a very good personal relationship with Him, then expect God to eventually work out all things for the best, no matter how bad and how hopeless some things may appear to you in the natural in your present set of circumstances.
When you are in the middle of some of these fiery trials, sometimes you cannot see two inches in front of your face. This is when you have to totally trust God to work everything out in His time frame and in His way. And when you look back on everything at a later date, you will then be able to see how God eventually worked out everything for His own good.
10. God Will Be Totally With You During the Trial
Some of the trials and tribulations that you may have to face may have some length to them. These trials and tribulations will obviously vary in how long each of them will last. Some will only last a few days, others a few weeks, some even longer at several months, and then you will have those on the heavier side that can last for a certain number of years.
No matter how long each of these trials will end up being, these next set of verses will really drive home the point that God will be with you from the very beginning of the trial to the very end of it. He will stick with you through thick and thin. He will totally be by your side no matter what goes down and no matter how ugly things may get from time to time.
If your trial is going to have any kind of considerable length to it, you will really need to ground and believe on the verses I will now list, as they will help you stay the course to the very end of it.
- "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me." (Psalm 23:4)
- "Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by." (Psalm 57:1)
- "The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You." (Psalm 9:9)
The first verse is an absolute classic. It has been quoted so many times, that even many in the heathen and secular world have heard of it. It has been used in movies, in songs, and in public and private speeches all across the world. Everyone can witness to the words "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death."
For all true Christians, this verse has major meaning, as we all know that no matter how bad the valley is that we are walking through, that our Lord will always be there with us and will help comfort and take care of us as we walk through this valley.
Notice the last two verses are telling us that God will also be our refuge as we bide our time waiting for the trial to end – which will now lead us right into the next section.
11. Waiting on the Lord
As a result of some of these trials and tribulations having some kind of considerable length to them, there will be many times that the only thing left for us to do after we have done all of the battling that the Lord has wanted us to do, is to simply wait for Him to finally end it.
These next 5 verses will all hone in on the point that there will be those times that all we can do is wait for the Lord to make His final move to end the trial once and for all. These verses need to be added to all of the other ones listed above to help give you all of the ammunition you will need to get through and weather any type of storm cloud that may come your way in this life.
- "The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord." (Lamentations 3:25)
- "I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!" (Psalm 27:13-14)
- "For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more …" (Psalm 37:9)
- "Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy." (Psalm 126:5)
- "O Lord my God, I cried out to You, and You have healed me. O Lord, You have brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit … For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." (Psalm 30:2,5)
As the last two verses are telling us, you may start the trial with tears and mourning, but eventually you will end up reaping joy in the morning if you hold fast to the Lord and wait for His deliverance.
12. God Will Eventually Deliver You
Most trials and tribulations will have some kind of length to them, otherwise they would not be real trials. As a result, you will have to hold fast to the Lord for a certain length of time.
If you are thrown into any type of waiting mode with the Lord while going through a trial, the one thing you will have to hang onto is that the Lord will eventually deliver you if you continue to put all of your faith and trust in Him to do so – and hold that faith and trust in Him to the very end of the trial.
These next set of verses will tell you two things:
First, that absolutely nothing is too impossible for God to deal with or handle – no matter how grave, hopeless, and severe your present set of circumstances may be. These are the kinds of verses you will really need to ground on when faced with trials and tribulations that are on the more severe side. Remember – God can eventually work all things out for His and your own good, which will include handling any type of severe trial that may come your way.
Second, the other set of verses will tell you that God can eventually deliver you from the trial if you will hold fast to Him. Though you may get really impatient while waiting for your deliverance, remember that God is working patience and other godly qualities and traits into your personality during the course of your trial. As a result, He will be the One to decide how long the trial will last – not you or the trial itself. God has full control of every little thing on this earth, including you and every little detail of your life.
- "For with God nothing will be impossible." (Luke 1:37)
- But He said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." (Luke 18:27)
- But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)
- Then Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." (Mark 9:23)
- As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe." (Mark 5:36)
- "The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles." (Psalm 34:17)
- "He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces." (Psalm 107:14)
- "For You, O God, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined. You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our backs. You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but You brought us out to rich fulfillment." (Psalm 66:10)
- "Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because they are quiet; so He guides them to their desired haven." (Psalm 107:28)
- "You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself." (Exodus 19:4)
- "For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us …" (2 Corinthians 1:8)
- "And the Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before … Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning …" (Job 42:10,12)
The last verse is talking about what God did with Job. This man probably had one of the most severe testings any man could possibly go through in this life, and yet he held fast to the Lord with his strong faith. As result, God ended the trial and gave him twice the amount of blessings than what he had when he first entered into the trial.
The last sentence is speaking volumes as to what God can do for you with an eventual deliverance when it says that the latter days of Job ended up being more blessed than what he had from his beginnings – and this man had a very blessed life at his initial beginnings.
Notice verse number six, where it says that the Lord can deliver you out of "all" of your troubles, not just some or part of them.
Bottom line – God can break the chains of your bondage no matter how strong those chains may appear to you. God can fully deliver you and fully restore order back in your life if you will ride on His back and be guided by the Holy Spirit as to what chess moves you will need to make on your end to make it out of the trial.
13. Suffering for Jesus' Sake
As a result of every single one of us having to go through a certain amount of trials and tribulations in this life, an additional thing that we will all have to put with and endure is a certain amount of actual suffering.
I know the word "suffering" is something that most of us do not want to hear about, much less talk about or actually experience. But whether we like it or not, and whether we want to face up to it or not, suffering is not only a part of this life and world, but it is also an actual part of our walk with the Lord.
Some of the trials that are on the more heavy and extreme side will bring with them a certain amount of mental, emotional, spiritual, and possibly physical suffering with them. Victims of bad natural accidents and different types of illnesses and diseases can all bring with them a certain amount of physical suffering – and in some of these heavier cases, we will be talking about extreme suffering.
People dying of terminal illnesses, people sustaining horrible injuries in severe car accidents, and people being burned over 80% of their bodies in fires can all go through a horrible of amount of not only mental and emotional suffering, but also a great deal of physical suffering as well.
Again, God is not causing all of these bad things to happen, thereby causing this kind of horrible suffering.
Since the Bible tells us that there is no darkness in God, there is no way that He could cause some of these bad and horrible things to occur.
These bad and horrible things are all occurring because of the Adamic curse that is still in full operation on this earth.
And until this curse is fully and finally removed in the New Heaven and New Earth, a certain amount of physical, mental, and emotional suffering will not only be a part of this world and life, but it will also be a part of our individual walks with the Lord.
To try and run from this reality, or to try and ignore it is just simply ill-equipping yourself should you ever be forced to personally deal with it either for yourself or a close loved one. And sooner or later, a certain amount of physical and/or mental suffering will eventually come your way.
This is why every single Christian needs the knowledge on this entire part of the walk with our Lord – so they can properly handle this type of adversity and suffering when it does come their way in this life.
This is where you will really need to ground on the next set of verses I will now list if the trial that has just come your way has a certain amount of physical, mental, or emotional suffering coming along with it. These next set of verses will tell us that we must learn how to:
- Suffer for Jesus' sake
- Be willing to suffer shame for His name
- Be willing to suffer for righteousness' sake
- Be willing to suffer for doing good
- Be willing to suffer for doing the will of God
One of the verses I will list in this section will tell us some of the things that the apostle Paul had to suffer – and that was after he had been saved and was working full time for the Lord. Here were some of the specific things Paul had to go through:
- Whipped with 39 stripes five different times
- Beaten with rods three times
- Stoned one time
- Shipwrecked three times
- In prisons frequently
- Often in sleeplessness, hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness, weariness and toil
- In perils of waters and the sea, robbers, his own countrymen, Gentiles, false brethren, the wilderness and the city
Trials and tribulations are obviously all relative. There is always somebody that will have it much worse than what you will ever have in this life.
If the apostle Paul, who I believe was the greatest of all of the New Testament apostles, had to go through a certain amount of trials and tribulations in his walk and call for the Lord, then you can bet your bottom dollar that every single one of us will also have to go through a certain amount of adversity and conflict in this life – no exceptions.
When you do have to undergo any kind of suffering in your walk and call for the Lord, really meditate and chew on the wording in these next set of verses.
They will help bring peace and comfort to your mind, soul, and emotions if you can grasp this deeper revelation that at times we will all have to face a certain amount of suffering for our Lord's sake in this life.
- "For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake." (Philippians 1:29)
- "So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ." (Acts 5:41)
- "But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed … For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit …" (1 Peter 3:14, 17-18)
- "But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you." (1 Peter 5:10)
- "Are they ministers of Christ? – I speak as a fool – I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness – …" (2 Corinthians 11:23)
- "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35)
- "For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (2 Corinthians 5:1)
- "For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Romans 8:18)
The first verse really lays it out for all of us – that not only must we have faith and belief in our Lord, but that we must also be willing to suffer for His sake. As a result of working for the Lord and being His ambassadors and representatives on this earth, there are times that we will simply have to stand up and be willing to suffer shame, ridicule, and possibly some kind of persecution for being willing to do and say the right thing, along with doing the will of God for our lives.
Each Christian should develop the strong mindset that if Jesus Himself was willing to come down to our earth to undergo the most extreme and brutal form of physical punishment known to mankind at the time that He came down to our earth – that we should also be willing to do the same thing for Him if the call or need ever dictates that we face a certain amount of trials, tribulations, and suffering.
If Jesus was willing to suffer and die for us, then we should also be willing to suffer and die for Him, even if it means having an early departure from this life. If Jesus was literally willing to die for us, then we should also be willing to die for Him.
For those of you who may end up going through trials and tribulations that will be on the more extreme side, really meditate on the last three verses. Verse number six is a major power verse where it says that absolutely nothing in this life will ever be able to separate us from the love of our God.
Our Lord will stay with us through thick and thin. No amount of trials, tribulations, distresses, persecutions, or demons will ever be able to separate us from our Lord as long as we are willing to hold fast to Him. Hold fast to the Lord, no matter how trying and severe the trial may end up becoming, and He will hold fast to you.
Remember what the two last verses are telling us. This earthly life is just for a brief moment compared to the eternal time frame that is operating up in heaven. Sooner or later, we will all leave and depart from this life. And when we do, we will all enter into heaven and all of our trials and tribulations will be no more.
As verse number 7 is telling us, this life may be able to destroy our physical tents on this earth such as our bodies and any physical possessions we may have – but it cannot touch or destroy the buildings, the mansions, our new, spiritual, glorified bodies, or whatever else God may have in store for us on the other side once we cross over to be with Him for all of eternity.
Any sufferings, trials, and tribulations we may have to go through in this earthly life are just for a very brief moment compared to what is waiting for all of us up in heaven.
Sooner or later, all of our trials and tribulations will eventually end, along with all of the pain, heartache, and suffering they have brought with them. As the very last verse is telling us, all of the suffering we may have to undergo in this life will never compare with the glory that God has in store for all of us on the other side!
This article on scripture verses for Trials and Tribulations is part of our 6 parts series on Trials and Tribulations – The Testing of Our Faith. Here are the other parts.


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Spooky October 7: A Mother's Love Defied The Bonds Of Death
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This morning is cloudy and dark. The overcast sky puts me in mind of days in the mountains in my childhood when the clouds hung low and fog rose like a giant shroud hiding the majestic peaks that stood like sentinels over Choestoe Valley.
Then I thought of the tradition of mountain storytelling, and how we were entertained as children by hearing stories that had been passed from generation to generation by our Scots-Irish forebears. My favorite storytellers from my childhood were my first cousin, much older than I, my mother's nephew, Earl Hood and his wife Allie Winn Hood. This delightful couple had no children of their own, but they seemed to be very pleased when Earl's nephew and nieces and his young cousins went to spend the night. With no electricity then in that mountain home and the only heat being from an open fireplace, we settled down to a wonderful night of entertainment provided by master storytellers, Earl and Allie Hood.
The recipients of this rich legacy of mountain tales, many of them about ghosts and haints, were Little Ed and Bertha Hood Dyer's children, our cousins Wilma, Genelle, Harold and Sarah Ruth, and my younger brother, Bluford Dyer and I, Ethelene. We all got permission in advance to go to Allie's and Earl's to spend the night on certain Friday nights, and walked the distance from Choestoe Elementary School to their house. It must have been more than three miles, but the anticipation of what we would enjoy once we arrived made us skip along, laughing and talking all the while, with the boys, Harold and Bluford, outstripping the girls and arriving first, boasting that they were stronger than we girls.
After the evening chores of milking and feeding and getting in the wood were finished, Allie served us a wonderful meal of hot cornbread, vegetables and country-cured ham, topped off by dried apple stack cake. We quickly washed the dishes and then settled down for an evening's entertainment, the likes of which has never been surpassed, even with the advent of television years later.
One ghost tale I remember them telling—and they had a way of making us "see" the scene they laid out before us with their words---was one about a mother's love for her baby. Allie would warn us that we should not try to match the names in the stories to people, living or dead. This had happened so long ago it would be hard to remember them exactly. The story went something like this:
Years ago, when sawmillers first came to our mountains to cut down the virgin trees and saw them into lumber, there lived far up near Round Top Mountain, a couple named Sexton, Eliza and John. They loved each other dearly. And in the course of time, Eliza had a beautiful baby girl whom they named after her mother but called her Liza. The midwife or "Granny Woman" named Mary had attended little Liza's birth. Things were going along well until two days after Liza's birth her mother came down with a raging fever. Granny Woman Mary administered her herbal remedies, but none had any effect on the fever. Eliza grew worse.
John told Granny Mary that he was going to Blairsville, some fourteen miles from his home, to get the doctor. He took off down the rutted mountain road, made worse by the snaking out of the saw logs and the rough treatment from big trucks, just then coming into the mountains, hauling out the sawed lumber. John finally arrived in town in his buggy drawn by his horse. But the doctor was out on a call delivering a baby and was not expected back until the next day. John decided to stay in town and wait for the doctor, because he would have to take the doctor in his buggy back up to his cabin on Round Top. John didn't get much sleep that night, trying to rest in his buggy. Fortunately, he had brought along a blanket to protect himself from the night's cold. All he could think about was how sick Eliza was, and even how still the newborn baby seemed in the large basket that was her crib.
About daybreak the doctor came back from his all-night call, tired and sleepy. But he agreed to go with John to examine Eliza and little Liza. After a hot breakfast and coffee which the good doctor's wife prepared for her husband and for John, the two men got into John's buggy and took off at a lope, as John urged the horse to a trot.
Finally they arrived at the John Sexton home. Granny Woman Mary met them on the porch. "I'm afraid you're too late," she said. "Both Eliza and little Liza died during the night." John, gripped with deep grief, went inside his cabin where he saw his beautiful Eliza and the little baby laid out for burying. How could this have happened? If only the doctor had been at home, maybe his wife and child could have been saved.
The doctor and Granny Woman Mary tried to console John. Neighbors came, and made a casket. They placed the bodies together in the homemade casket, the baby in Eliza's arms. They were buried in the cemetery near the little log church called Salem. John, so devastated, did not want his neighbors' sympathy or their food which they always took with loving concern to the household that had experienced death. John latched his cabin door and told his neighbors he would have to bear his burden of grief alone.
The next morning John's neighbor, James Collins, went to his barn before daylight to milk his cows. Times were hard in those days, and there were always people on the road dropping by farmhouses and barns to beg for food. James realized someone was in the barn with him. He turned and saw a woman, dressed in black, the sort of finer dress like the women in the community wore to church. She sat a tin cup down on a bale of hay. James knew she wanted it full of milk, so he took the cup and soon filled it with warm rich milk. The woman nodded her thanks but did not say a word. The next morning and the next, the same woman visited James as he was milking, begging with her cup. On the fourth morning, James decided he would follow the woman who would not give him her name. Maybe he could find out where she lived.
He saw her dark form disappear into the woods, but, running, he was able to follow her to the cemetery. Then it was just as though she disappeared into one of the newly heaped graves. This frightened James, but he knew he must do something.
James quickly returned home, got his shovel and ran to his nearest neighbor's house. He told Lish Hunter what he had seen. "Get your shovel," James said, "and come with me." Lish wondered what had come over his neighbor James Collins, but he grabbed his shovel and the two men went in that early, foggy morning to Old Salem Church Cemetery. There they began to dig into the newly-formed grave. Getting down to the casket, they gingerly removed the lid, and there was the woman James had seen four mornings in a row at his barn, rigid and cold in death. There was the cup in her hand. And lying on her breast, gurgling but weak, was a beautiful baby girl, still alive, still breathing.
The they removed the baby, and covered the grave. They went to John Sexton's home. The door was still barred with the grieving husband and father inside. "Open up," James ordered. "We have a gift for you. Here is little Liza, alive and well."
John could not believe his eyes or the story James told him about the baby's rescue. What rejoicing he had as the baby, safe in his arms, began to cry. "Come down to my barn and I'll give you some milk for the baby," Jim Collins told John. And he did. Nevermore did James Collins see the woman in a black dress with the tin cup come to his barn begging milk. But you can be assured that he remembered it the rest of his life, and told the story again and again.
Little Liza grew up to be a beautiful young lady. Her daddy, John, married again and had more children. But Liza always held a special place in his heart because she was the miracle baby, his first-born rescued from the grave by his neighbors James and Lish.
"Is that true?" we kids asked Allie and Earl. They only smiled and told us it was time for bed. But every time we climbed the hill to Old Salem Cemetery, we looked at the grave marked with a fieldstone, with no names readable on it. We always remembered the story told to us by Allie and Earl, and wondered about the mother who loved her baby so much she would return from the grave to get warm milk to keep little Liza alive. And as we milked our own cows early on foggy mornings, we were always aware that if a woman with a cup appeared, we were to fill it promptly with warm milk. I think we were a little disappointed that no woman ever came to our barn for us to do this service of love and mercy.
I certainly hope you enjoyed Ethelene's story as much as I did!
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I feel honored that "A Mother Defies the Bonds of Death" was included among your "Spooky October" offerings. The whole month's repertoire has been wonderful. We in the mountains have a rich heritage of storytellers and stories. You are doing a great service to encourage us to share them and to preserve them for posterity.
I really loved the story by Ethelene Dyer Jones
My story pales in comparison..but I have a story about a ghost mother, too.
When I started to read this story, "A mother's love defies the bonds of death", I thought for certain it was going to be the following story. I am not as good a story teller as Ethelene Dyer Jones, who did a wonderful job of telling that story, btw.
Well here is my story, which my mom told, long ago.
The Ghost Mother
A man who was widowed ,with small children, married a vain woman, who like the proverbial step mother did not nurture the man's children. She did not cook for them and they would complain to their daddy when he came in from work. They would say, "We are hungry, Daddy!"
The Step Mother started greasing their mouths, and when her husband would come in from work, and they complained about being hungry, she would say, "They have eaten like pigs all day! Just look at them!"
One day when she was getting ready to grease their mouths, the ghost of their mother appeared to her. The ghost mother slapped the woman across the cheek, and said, "You feed my children!"
The Stepmother still bears a white hand print on her face to this very day.
Cool Story!
Oh! I have goosebumps from that story. Really a good one!
Very well told. It takes a good story teller to make it hair raising and this tale did good.
That had me on the edge of my seat, Tipper. What a story.
Tipper: What a great story, thanks for sharing this neat tale.
Wow, This is a wonderfull story!
I loved your story. The lady who wrote it is exceptional in bringing the story to life.
Thanks for sharing it.
Tipper, that's quite a story! I don't know if it's more a spooky story or a story of a mother's love!
It touched my heart!
Tipper, I really enjoyed these stories. I had to dig out my book "Mysterious Oklahoma". This book has quite a few spooky stories and even has a mystery that happened around my hometown and I remember when it happened. People were seeing a large lion. There were reports of farm animals being eaten, and very large cat tracks were plaster cast,and photographed. My dad, granddad, and uncle all joined in the all day hunt for the lion. No one saw it, and afterwards I don't remember hearing about it anymore. I have newspaper clippings my mom had saved and someone drew a cartoonish picture of all the "hunters". Too funny really, but at the time it was a real concern.
I rambled on too long, Thank you again for all the great stories.
You have put forth a wonderful blog for October, but then you alwyas do. God bless and have a blessed weekend.
I think this is the best story I've heard in a while. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us. Happy Halloween Tipper! xxoo
I love stories like this!
I am wondering whether I might be related to Ethelene; one of my ancestors is named Bluford Dyer (her brother might be named for him?), father of a girl (named Elizabeth, Jeriah, or Nancy?) who married a Bolin Clark (my gggg-grandfather) in Warren County, KY.
Happy Halloween!
Tipper, I have really enjoyed your spooky tales this month. Great writing! Keep it up. I really like this entry.
Great story, Ethelene!
And thank you, Tipper for hosting this Spooky October!!!
Great story! Happy Halloween!
Nothing better than reading a good story like that on a cloudy overcast day.
I did enjoy the story.
excellent tale!
A great story,Tipper. I heard those kinds of stories growing up also. Back in the days when there was no electricity, TV and other distractions, my uncle Jimmy and my Daddy told some great stories.
I love this story!
There are so many unexplained things that happen in this 'ol world, it's amazing.
Happy Halloween!
I hope Chitter and Chatter have a very Happy Halloween. I've enjoyed very much your scary Halloween stories. You've done a great job posting spooky stories this month. Great job!!!
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- 2 (3/4 lb) boneless strip steaks (about 3/4 pound each)
- cracked black pepper
- 1 baguette
- olive oil
- 1 garlic clove
- salt
- 1⁄4 lb Roquefort cheese
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- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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Somehow I managed to come from a really musical family – which is weird as hell because The Larter Ancestors were not musical. Yet we Larter cousins have managed to thwart science and be musical and arty anyway.
Needless to say – I was crazy excited to receive this little gem after my brother's last visit to Cape Town. And guess why I got it? Because I contributed to her campaign on FundFind which is another bit of awesomeness created by my other cousin, Amy's brother, Steve.
Amy's CD launch is going to be held in Cape Town soon. But guess what? You can't go because the tickets are all sold out. You can try finding her on Facebook and begging if you want – otherwise you'll just have to wait for another show. But when she has one…you should go. Really. Because she is kind of magical.
Love you Aims and I am such a super proud big fat cousin!!
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Amy's infectious pop melodies combined with hints of Jazz harmony create her unique Jazz-pop brand.
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Her strong songwriting and arranging skills are wonderfully showcased in her debut album
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05-14-09, 20:48 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: IT Dept taking away Access
Our IT director decided several months ago that IT would no longer install nor support Access though it didn't remove already-installed software. I built an Access database that I use very regularly so the news was unwelcome to me because the alternative (a pre-packaged database) is less efficient. I have heard no clear reason for his decision to do this, but he will not provide alternative database software. Some updates were done this week that caused problems on my computer and resulted somehow in the uninstallation of Access. IT refuses to reinstall it. Some think the IT director is a control freak, and he refuses to listen to my side. But I am trying to see his reasoning and perhaps some evidence that he knows what he is doing and is not a complete horse's behind.
I work for a mostly rural county government and am probably one of maybe 2 or 3 people who even know how to use Access. So I'm sure the demand is low. Any other thoughts as to why this is a good idea from an IT standpoint that might help me cope with my growing anger? If I understood it, I might be able to reconcile with it. Thanks.
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This sounds like either a political\ business decision or financial one (he might be downgrading the license to save money), but it might be something else.
I would escalate this via your manager - you need an answer as to why before you can hope to argue your case.Testimonial:
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either the IT departments budget is constrained and has chose to redirect the money tied up in Access to other areas
he is an IT zealot who sees access as a toy database that has no role in his organisation
if its a budget war then he may be deliberately choosing to deny services as a way of getting an increased budget from elsewhere. however the only area i can see budget being eroded is either buying new copies of Access or getting rid of or redirecting support staff away from Access to other software. I cannot see how there is any saving on licences already accquired.
so in effect its a standoff
you and other access users need to put forward the case why you need the applications currently written in Access. and if the policy is that Access is persona non granta, then what is the alterntive the IT department are prepared to support/procure/provide.
essentially it comes down to a business decision. its all well and good for the IT department to lay down diktat, but they need to be reminded that its the operations arm that consumes the it services and pays the bills for IT. if the operations arm of the organisation cannot survive without the access application then it requires access to Access OR a suitable alternative.
my guess is that its the start of a bit of empire builiding by the IT
I wouldn't be at all surprised if your IT director is an ex computer minder/network troll rather than an application developer. they may well view users as a nuiscence, or neccessary evil, that stops network trolls gazing in thrall at the hardware.I'd rather be riding on the Tiger 800 or the Norton
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I still think that speculation could be fruitless at best and dangerous at worst. Step 1 has to be finding out why Access has been withdrawn.Testimonial:
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Or maybe the IT direcor is right? (Just to play devil's advocate!)
You say that (importantly) their IS an alternative 'pre-packaged' database? (Not sure what you mean by 'pre-packaged' - Do you mean 'off-the-shelf' i.e. not customised for your business model in anyway?).
When you say it is 'less efficient' this may just be in your opinion (have you received training? Are there performance issues?) - maybe that application is somehow linked to your core business data and he is trying to get everyone to use a centralised system?
That being said, the fact that you had to 'develop' the application in the first place (and that it was regularly used) indicates that there was a legitimate business need for it - If the 'pre-packaged' database does not provide the same functionality, you should expect a reasonable answer as to why you can't use your app. - and if not why your 'pre-packaged' database cannot be developed or tweaked to provide the same function.
Perhaps you could start by listing the ways your appication assists you in your / collegues in your work? If he is a reasonable man, he should listen and take heed.
IT Should be providing you with the tools you need to do your job and supporting / developing them along side you, so if he can't give you a reasonable explanation, then you're right, he's just a probably just a...<insert your favorite expletive here>
Good luck and if all else fails, accidentally spill coffee on his laptop!...
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Thank you all for your responses! It's interesting to read others' thoughts. "Healdem" I think you hit the nail on the head!
It has been some time since I posted but I just now have an update. The IT Director still insists that we may not have MS Access, despite our dept head's argument (I'm a peon and he won't speak directly to me) that the db we developed fits our needs exactly and runs smoothly and efficiently. The best explanation I can get as to why he doesn't want us to use it has something to do with Access being a security risk. We are a local govt agency so have access to citizens' personal information and somehow our having Access puts that information at risk. I don't understand it one bit.
At any rate, the software company that built the Oracle-based db we use to maintain the agency's customer/inventory data (the pre-packaged db I mentioned, didn't know what else to call it) has proposed a solution that they will build into the existing db. The result will be similar though not quite as good as we have it now. Sadly, there is a cost involved which our agency will have to pay using what reduced funds we have been allotted this fiscal year. But IT will have it no other way.
I am plotting now how I can sneak over to the IT director's office and accidentally spill the coffee. I wonder if they have security cameras in there...
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All sounds distressingly familiar. "Security" sometimes means "my reason is secret so I don't have to tell you". The next step is that he will need new budget and more people to look after the reduced service he (or she) is about to offer. Asking for detailed examples sometimes flushes them out.
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LOL @ your IT department!Owner and Manager of
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