I love the Lord because he hath heard my cry.  I cried out to the Lord in distress and he answered me.  The Lord is an ever present help in the time of storm.  The Lord is my buckler and shield.  The Lord is my salvation.  God is my refuge, my fortress.  Hold thy peace and let the Lord fight your battle.  Through the trying of your faith works patience.  Let patience have her perfect work in you.

All of these short biblical phrases are so familiar to us; but do they suggest that life will be a bed of roses?  No.  For example:  I love the Lord because he heard my cry.  Crying suggest pain or a continual aggravation.  Or the Lord is an ever present help in the time of storm; means he will help right now in whatever it is that you are going through. So you WILL go through something.   It might not be a storm; but if it is he won't leave you because he controls the winds.  Remember the disciples said, "for what manner of man is this that even the winds obey."  Another example, let patience have her perfect work in you.  Well, in order to exercise patience you have to have  an irritant that is causing you grief in order to develop patience for.  For many of you that may be a boss, your children or an unanswered prayer.  Patience is need to see the end of a thing.  Especially, if you are trusting God for something, and it may SEEM like he is taking too long.  Many just throw in the towel because their patience is thin, but they that wait with patience will see the outcome that God promised.  But never is waiting/patience easy.  It take patience; which is strength to wait on God.  So that means you will have to go through....the fire, but the process is making you more of a refined gem.

Why would God allow his children to endure problems, aggravations, storms, and grief to teach us?  I don't know.  I do know this; he is God, and he does what he pleases. The result is always for our good.  When he allows us to go through trials from the beginning, he already sees our end.  He knows the results will make us better, stronger and much more wiser.  Praise God!   What a loving Father we have.

So let us look at life, and it's struggles through the eyes of the Father.  Maybe then we will begin to own our TRUE identity.  A King's kid.  We are made of our Father's DNA so we do not crumble under life's pressures like the world does; we just cast our cares onto the one who can truly handle it all. GBU

In the Master's service,
Minister Katherine Price

HEAVEN BOUND; OUR FINAL DESTINATION.