Friends,
I encourage you to not despise the adversity that you're are facing. Adversity does not only strengthen you to grow straight but it directs you when you have tarried in a place too long. It pushes you out of tight places where you have outgrown and causes you to kneel more, study more, praise more and seek solitude in what is already a quiet place for you.
Oh, how I have learned to get excited about adversity and conflicts that breakout out of nowhere. Friends who turn into foes overnight and neighbors who lie and plot. Oh, how I've learned to put on my armor and gird my loins and posture myself to withstand the arrows of the enemy. I've learned to wait on the LORD. I've learned that the battle is HIS, not mine. I've learned that no one and nothing can stand against the Almighty GOD when I'm walking with HIM, talking with HIM and doing what HE has called me to do.
Oh, my Most Loved, I've learned that FAVOR is my portion and that ALL THINGS work out for my GOOD, and BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE NEW. I've learned that the LORD is GOOD in all circumstances, situations, conflicts, losses, deaths, sickness, and when I'm UP. I've learned that it's HIS WORD and HIS LOVE that endures FOREVER...Do you not perceive it, in your life?
Hebrews 12:2 Amplified Bible
2 [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, [a]disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].
