Dependence and Brokeness on God

~Sometimes God uses a greater affliction to bring us to a place of greater dependence and brokenness.
~Sometimes God will use affliction to reveal His Love for us.
God will use affliction to give one of His children a greater sense of compassion for others.
There are times God will use affliction to encourage others.  We need to be careful in our thought life as it`s all for the good of God`s Kingdom.  We have His promises, but when He see`s a burning desire to follow Him, be like Him, we get His attention.
~As we start to learn who our God is He will slowly make Himself known to us.  If we are willing to recieve it, God wants to use our season of affliction to reveal His Love for us.  Job 21:9 Say`s. "God`s rod is upon the righteous..."But He leaves the wicked one alone."    God`s discipline comes to us because He loves us.
~One of the first things I have learned through my affliction is compassion.  I keep saying, I know the ministry that is my hearts desire if I ever am blessed to be able bodied once again.  Until then, I will look to Him, lean on Him and put all my trust in Him.
The Devil is a liar.  Jesus said that an much more.  This evil enemy is here for the sole purpose to break, kill and destroy God`s children.  If you are healthy, keep your Spiritual armor on as the enemy will attack you in ways that will surprise you.  Before we can become dependent on God, we must understand that it is .necessary to be broken of this world..  What ever state you are in ill health, healthy, rich or poor, you need God`s armor.
~I have said earlier that I am not a graceful sufferer.  I am working on His grace in this area and learning to hear His whispers to me when the enemy attacks.  You see it usually isn`t just one demon that is coming at me, there are spirits of confusion, depression, pain on and on.  But Jesus has given us the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven and the Power to bind these evil beings out of our lives...yes, you and I can order this evil out of our life.  It is always in the name of Jesus Christ, covering ourselves in the precious blood that He shed for us at Calvary.
Afflictions, aggravations, family problems, kids, mis-communications and just our own weaknesses should be enough to bring us to our prayer closet daily.  I have been in my affliction for a number of years.  I was in my prayer closet, crying, weeping.  "But Jesus, what else can I do, I have lost every bit of family that I had, and now the church.  I was fretting about who now was going to take care of me.  He reminded me, it is not for me to hold on to bitterness of broken promises, what I though was a rotton life as a child I brought before Him-reminded Him!! See!! Lord?  Now what?  You know what our Father said to me?  He broght me to the passage of scripture that say`s "when your mother or father do not want you, I want you, I love you, I will take care of your needs, you are my daughter." *(my loose translation)
To those who know me and judge, I wish you`d ask.  I have something important to tell you.  Something that will make your life so happy, that you will have nothing else you can do but become dependant on God so that in your brokeness He will make you pliable to do His will do a good work in you.  Not the work you are enjoying, have chosen to do, but what He wants...