The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

Lord will “present to himself a church without spot or wrinkle . .

. holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:27). When God’s people

offer themselves on the altar of sacrifice (Rom. 12:1) with a truly

surrendered heart to God, it is one of the most powerful ways

in which they are cured of being self-serving. Here, purification

is the removal of sinful tendencies and builds the ways of our

new nature in Christ (Col. 3:9; Eph. 4:22). Peter states that

those who have suffered for the cause of Christ find the power

of sin broken more and more in their life (1 Peter 4:1), because

they are giving up their rights and desires for the sake of the

Lord.

I am not saying that redemptive suffering makes a believer

perfect; but when it is endured patiently and with trust towards

the Lord, it moves a believer to greater Christ-likeness. It is

clear that end-time believers will suffer more than any other

generation for the cause of Christ. In light of this, clearly they

will manifest the greatest maturity of any Christian generation.

the Lord our healer is willing to heal us. The type of suffering I am speaking of is how others chose to treat us for the cause of Christ.