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Originally Posted by Carpenter
It sounds like out of the mouth (fingertips) of two or three, that it is a very desperate and difficult time for your faith and comfort zones to be tried.
I can certainly identify with that.
I remember one night driving up to Red Rocks and screaming out at the Lord to either take my life or give me direction. I fought the urge to speak in tongues because I wanted to understand what he was saying to my spirit. If I were God, I probably would have been hit by lightening that night.
...and yet while I still am holding fast to my heritage, I fight seemingly tooth and nail every single day.
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Carpenter,
Funny you should start this discussion. A friend and I was sharing this week about how the times when we were shaken, at least I know it is true in my case, that I became stronger in my belief system and in my prayer life.
While going through several years of counseling post-divorce, post UPCI, I always defended God when my counselor [who was a Christian BTW] would ask me..."So, you're mad at God?" I would vehemently deny this and say, "If it weren't for God I would have lost my mind by now." After approximately one year of him confronting me with the same question, I finally said, "You are darn right I am mad at God, He could have fixed this and I would be done with it!"
It was at this time that I learned about the sovereignity of God, and all about His mercy, and His grace! I had an awesome counselor that helped me to heal. But I could not heal until admitting that my faith was shaken and that I was mad at God. When it was all said and done, it reconfirmed what I believed all along...Ro. 8:28 and that God would take the things that happened to me, whether they were of my choice or that of others, and turn it around to make it work to my benefit.
My faith had to be shaken for me to try myself to see if I was in the faith or not. I am, and I know it.
Blessings, Rhoni
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