When you have lost what seems to be 500 battles in a row and things don't look good, remember:
2 Cor 5:7 For we live by faith, not by sight
When your strength seems to be at an all time low and you are not sure if you can make it even one more day, look inside yourself and ask if you have enough strength left in you to compare with a speck of sand or said another way:
Luke 17:6 He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.
Why are these questions and answers important? Because you can lose every battle (seemingly) and still win the war. This works on a micro level (your life) and the macro level (the battle between good and evil God and the devil). Look around, seems like evil has been winning in this world for a long long time right? Guess what? Today it looks worse than ever but we know for a fact we win this war in the end. Lose many battles but win the war....
If you can find enough fight/faith within you to measure with a mustard seed
then you can win your war (get your prayer/miracle answered). Why? That is the way this test which we call our lives has been setup. Yes, everything is a test. Everything? Almost, yes.
1 Peter 4:12 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
What are the test parameters? Faith over time. That is pretty much it in a nutshell. It pleases the Lord to wait in order to test us.
James 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing
And when we have been tested, and we have suffered in patience and great emotional and spiritual tribulation and we held on with the last mustard seed sized strength that we had not giving up, that is when out of nowhere, almost instantly our answer/miracle shows up swiftly. Then we exhale with relief and dance before the Lord with tears and rejoicing.
Is this ^^ all just theory or theology? No, this is testimony from a brother who has been there and done that, many times. Each time repeats the same pattern (more or less).
Its easy to move forward when you are full of strength and energy and everything is going right, but what do we do when things go wrong. What decision do we make when we are weak and nothing is going right? Do we hold on in faith with our last mustard seed worth of strength? I pray that we do because at those moments when we have reached what feels like our last stand, it is those times when our answer is just a heartbeat away. We can never ever give up. When we feel the weakest is when the Lord is at His strongest in our lives:
2 Cor 12:9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.
It is always darkest just before the dawn. The Lord is strongest in our lives when we feel the weakest. Remember that this is a test. The Lord can give us our answers any time He wants to but He is at work in many different ways in many different lives and each one is unique. We are being perfected by the fire of patience and suffering in our spirits. That said, our Father is merciful and tenderhearted towards us. He knows how much we can handle and He knows how much strength we have. We are expected to hold out and fight for our answer down to the last mustard seed worth of faith within us.
When you fight the good fight of faith and win:
1 Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
you will have your answer and a testimony to help those who are going through what you are going through now. Glory to God.
grace and peace
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