FAITH UNDER FIRE | God’s Purpose For Trials & Testing - Inspirational & Motivational Video

it's not a matter of if you will ever be tried and tested the the question is when will you is not an if it's a when and just remember this that everything taught must be tested and my question to you is can you trust God and His process to develop and refine you over time nobody likes tests but you can't at Advance without it so let me ask you have you ever been tested by God now there's a big difference between testing and tempting God will test you no one likes it but you can't Advance

without it God will test you but he will never tempt you God tests you in order to ratify certify fortify reinforce you when when he finds a weak spot so don't be afraid when God finds a weak spot in you because he's going to help you to strengthen that area the enemy on the other hand will tempt you with a weak spot in your life and when you give in he uses it to destroy your future your family your testimony everything that you have Warren wiby has reminded us that a faith that cannot be tested

cannot be trusted for example how would you like to get on an airplane that had never been tested how would you like to have a doctor do surgery on you who had not passed some test in medical school friend God is going to give you some trials some tests to see if your faith is real the Bible says God tempteth no man with evil neither can he be tempted the devil uh solicits us tempts us to do evil to cause us to stumble God tests us to do good in order to cause us to stand

now this is one of those testings that we have what God wants to do is to make our faith strong and pure you've got to trust God in the testing now in the Bible a test is a trial that purifies and prepares the heart a test is a trial used by God to purify and prepare the heart you are being tested always you're being prepared you're being purified we're always being shaped again if you fail to see this then you'll interpret the challenges of your life as random issues that you just want to avoid you'll

try to avoid any challenge now nobody gets excited about tests but if you understand that you serve a master Weaver who's going to weave all of this together you will be able to discover that there is purpose in the troubles that come your way for when your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow so let it grow for when you're endurance is fully developed you will be perfect and complete needing nothing 1 Peter 1:7 that the trial that is the testing of your faith being more precious than of gold that perisheth though

it be tested or tried with fire might be found into praise and honor and Glory at the appearing of Jesus when Jesus comes don't you want to have a pure Faith Like purified gold then God's going to put your faith faith in the fire some of you right now probably have faith in the fire some of you are going through a test an ordeal God means you no harm God wants you to understand whether or not you have the real thing because tested faith is more precious than gold when your faith is tested it will

grow it will be refined when Amy carmichel took her girls to watch the Goldsmith at work she pointed out to them that the refiner never leaves the gold when it is in the fire in every trial that you have faced your savior has all the time being invisibly present brother sister in Christ your faith will be tested when your faith is tested it will be refined it will grow tested faith is genuine Faith the tested faith that proves genuine will result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed the same trial that

brings you pain grief and sorrow right now will bring praise Glory and Honor when you see Jesus Christ face to face job says in job 23:10 when he has tried me I will come forth as gold he said when the trial is over God will be finished testing me and I will be better James 1:3 says consider it Joy when you're in a trial that's hard man that's so hard Paul says God's power is perfected in weakness do you believe that something difficult tragic or traumatic in your life can be meant for Good by God

because when you believe that you take away one of the key weapons out of Satan's hand and you put it back in God's hand where it belongs when you believe that you change your story testing reveals where my faith really is where my faith really is my spiritual Faith must be tested in the real world write this down God will always provide a way for me to pass the test the Lord will provide you see I don't have to cheat lie or steal I just need to trust God because God's going to provide that with

each setback each heartache each moment of loss each disappointment or or moments where I might have wavered or even questions God's intentions and what he was up to God was always doing something very intentional very purposeful and very meaningful behind the scenes now one of the ways one of the ways that God grows you up is by testing you you know when when you work out in a gym you you test your muscles by lifting weights and the more weight you can lift uh the more it tests your muscle the more it grows your muscle

and God builds your character the same way through a series of tests Faith Works like a muscle it only grows stronger as it gets tested as it gets strained muscles grow is that is that when you exercise you're actually producing thousands of little tears in the muscle but when your body recovers it builds back muscles in those gaps and then the muscles get bigger and that's how Faith Works that's how Faith work God puts us in situations that tear our faith so that it can grow back stronger now we don't necessarily like this plan do

we but I've seen it happen so often that I'm I'm inclined to say that it's it's God's standard of practice faith is the most important muscle in the Christian Life and God's committed to strengthening it and the goal of a test all you teachers you know this all right is not to try to get you to fail but to test you to to reveal what what you have the go of test is what's in there what's present and then make it stronger again James writes this he says he says consider it pure joy my brothers

and sisters whenever you face trials hard times of many kinds because you know that the what's the word the testing of your faith produces perseverance let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything trials and testing produce perseverance they they make you stronger re they they reveal what's in there and you didn't even know it was in there like wow I I didn't know I was capable of that and it strips away anything that doesn't need to be there it's what we do with like raw or ore right

we put it into a crucible we put it into a furnace and then the fire comes and the trial comes and and it burns away what is useless and what's left is pure and precious James uses the word mature and complete not lacking anything we got to change our minds a little bit when we go through hard times it's not what's God doing to me it's like what is God trying to build in me what is God trying to make stronger in me that needs to get strengthen and that's never easy you do not get

strong the easy way for listen to me carefully as it's been well said a faith that can't be tested is a faith that can't be trusted and God wants you to be able to trust your faith God wants you to know your faith can be counted on and so in this life God will never tempt you but you can be sure of this God will test you that's what he says hardships often prepare Ordinary People for an extraordinary Destiny and that's why I have never seen a strong person who had an easy past so when

God really wants to develop you he's getting ready to send some rough situations your way but it refines you it refines you you be sweating you you're hurting and you're going through these challenges but it is refining something on the inside of you and so whenever you get in a situation of testing and being tried and you cannot control your circumstances then control your focus and control your attitude control your focus and control your attitude because a bad attitude is just like a flat tie you're not going anywhere until you change it here's what I

would say to you don't allow anger and Rebellion to turn a bad moment into a bad day or worse a bad life don't allow anger and Rebellion there are some people that never forgive and they develop a heart of rebellion and they turn a bad moment a bad situation into a bad day A bad season or worse a bad life you don't have to let a bad moment turn into a bad life make the adjustments in yourself ask God God Try Me Try Me Lord and he says you've got to endure he says you've got

to endure many trials for a little while it's just for a moment it's just for a moment it's a little while so let God take you through that and while you're in a trial while you're in a test you've got to learn to get God's perspective on the test and remember while you're on the test you'll be seeking God and it seems like the heavens are brass to you like you can't even get a word from him anybody ever felt like that you're going through something and you can't get God to you can't even hear

him well oh maybe it's because when you're taking a test the teacher is always silent but sometimes in the test the teacher is silent you don't hear anything you don't see anything improving but you have to know in the dark moments God still has you in the palm of his hand he knows it's difficult he knows you feel overwhelmed he knows you don't think you can go on don't worry help is on the way weeping endures for a night but joy is coming in the morning now keep standing one day at a time don't worry

about tomorrow you don't have Grace for tomorrow stand today and when you get to tomorrow you'll have Grace for that day trust God during these times of testing God has not forgotten you God has not forgotten you do not interpret this time of testing as the absence of God just the opposite the Old Testament word for test comes from a Hebrew word that means to take a keen look at to choose to take a keen look at to choose so if you're are being tested it is because God is looking at you he is choosing

to prepare you for something in the future God is fully engaged he he sees the needs of tomorrow and accordingly prepares the test of today he sees the needs of tomorrow and accordingly he prepares the test of today how are you being tested how are you being tested are you being tested emotionally are you being tested physically is your patience being developed perhaps a good question for you to ask your heavenly father is Lord what's this test for or how am I being tested and perhaps you can even say thank you Lord consider it all

joy the scripture says when you passed through various types of Trials you consider thank you Lord that you would consider me worthy of this test but you press into the test of today you trust God in a season of testing and one more you trust God for the timing here's what I say many of the tests that we experience in life are ultimately a test of our patience can you trust God and can you trust his process to develop and to refine you over time because most of the time that you are actually being tested

is not really a a a test of your faith as it is a test of your patience that I've told you that the husband is coming the wife is coming the promotion is coming the job is coming I've told you that and we get impatient it's not that our faith is is is challenged our patience is tested when you're waiting on something when you're able to be uh patient while you have nothing you show your character so next time that you're waiting on the word to come true understand that God is waiting for your character

to be developed and for you to be refined when you are being refined it means that God is taking the unrefined parts of you out you may be in this test right now the wind test where you've been waiting for an answer and there doesn't seem like there's any end in sight you're going when when Lord when you going to take care of this problem when are you going to take care of this issue when are you going to take care of this relationship when are you going to take care care of my finances when

are you going to take care of my health when are you going to take care of my future and you're just going when Lord When Faith is waiting for God's timing without knowing when some of you have been waiting long time for your prayer to be answered waiting a long time to be pregnant waiting a long time to be married waiting a long time for that boss to be fired waiting a long time just be patient trust God for the timing God is always at work God is always at work for the good of everyone

who loves him our call is simply to wait while God works you just keep trusting God in the testing you just keep trusting God in the timing to be sure Joseph would be the first to tell you life in the pit stinks it does but for all of its rottenness it brings one beautiful blessing when you're down in the pit there's only one way to look and that's up you keep looking up and the same God who reached in to rescue Joseph is the god who will reach in to rescue you I don't know about

that if you've experienced this but God is rarely early but he is never late it may be taking longer than you thought you were determined at first you stood strong but now it's been a long time you're tired thoughts are telling you it's never going to work out you'll never get well never see your family restored don't believe those lies that test is not permanent God has already set an end to the difficulty you have to get your second wind God didn't bring you this far to leave you what he started he's going to finish

dig down deep and keep passing the test keep thanking him that it's on the way keep declaring what he promised keep believing when you don't see any sign of it stay in this attitude of faith faith is waiting on God's timing without knowing when faith is expecting a miracle without knowing how faith faith is trusting God's purpose without knowing why faith is continuing to persist without knowing how long this is a test wherever you are whatever is happening in your life it's just a test and with Jesus you can [Music] pass