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Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It is so brutally practical.  Psalms 119:67 - Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.  Are you afflicted?  Don’t waste affliction – It’s for now…  The fruit, the turn, the result, the choice, the victory, the overcoming.  Affliction has a purpose.  God sends it or allows it to turn our heart to obey His Word.  If you don’t turn, He’ll send some more – until you turn.  Are you afflicted?  What is God trying to expose in you, change in you, accomplish in you?  Don’t let this affliction go to waste.  Don’t look to other things, don’t think you can overcome it yourself.  Don’t think its without purpose.  That God doesn’t care, or He doesn’t know…  Gain what God wants you to gain from it.  Peace in the middle of the storm.  Humility, a closer walk with Him, increased conversation with Him, blessing not cursing, hope not despair, joy not frustration.  John 16:33 – I have told you these things so (that) in me you will have peace.  In the world you will have trouble (tribulation, affliction) but be of good courage, I have overcome the world. Recognize affliction and the purpose of it – so you now obey His Word.  When you face troubles - Be of good courage I have overcome the world.  Not just hope and strength, God wants you to have courage in affliction and troubles.  Have you thanked Him for this affliction so the now can come?  Praying that you’ll recognize affliction – so that now you will obey His Word and be of good courage! 
 
Love you all, praying for you,
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