Many of God’s strongest warriors are now enduring some of the most painful situations in their lives.  Pressure from all sides, receiving condemning, judgmental and harsh words from people in the church, emotional abuse from their spouse, disrespect from their children, control and manipulation from their employer, city, state and national government and having all their enemies’ gossip, betray and lie about them, dealing with sickness and having hardly any money left in their bank account.  You can do EVERYTHING correct as God has directed you - not thinking that you can endure one more trial - and yet be in God’s perfect will.  All the great warriors for Christ suffered and were persecuted, all the while doing exactly what God wanted them to do. We are all being stretched to our maximum in order to be stronger for the upcoming months of war against the enemy in the world as well as showing God who we really are and what we are made of.  It is always important to ask the Lord if there is anything that needs to be loosed from us (pride, unforgiveness towards someone, sexual impurity, etc.) but sometimes you can be doing everything that the…

It has been amazing to watch as the ungodly people in the world take control over anyone who chooses to try and live a godly life simply by threatening, yelling, complaining, and mocking them.  Sadly many in the church are living as corruptly and sexually impure as those outside the church as they hear the voices of demons which tell them they are hypocrites in their thoughts if they dare try to stand up for the rights of those who are choosing to serve Christ with their hearts and minds.  There are so many lukewarm Christians in the world. We know that God’s remnant of people who are truly choosing to live a bold and godly life like Christ is a small percentage of those who attend church, with real fruit of the spirit being evident in their lives. Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” So many pastors have watered-down their messages to their congregants out of fear of the ungodly government edicts and desiring to keep their 501 (c)(3)’s intact hoping their tithers continue to make their donations.  No one wants to offend anyone with the…