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We are God's handiwork, created to do good works God 

has prepared, in advance, for each of us. These good 

works are for welfare and not for evil. These good works 

may include, but are not limited to: praying, giving 

generously, caring for the poor and oppressed and so 

forth. These good works encompass all that we do by 

God's grace for God's purposes. The more we see 

ourselves as God's masterpiece, we will live our lives

 through and for God. In doing so, we will graciously

 contribute towards God's greater purpose. 

God can work through our pain, suffering, and tragedies 

to accomplish His purposes in our lives.

No matter what our circumstances are...

God's purposes overrides everything!

Ultimately, God is in control. He allows the good and bad 

things in life, and we can trust Him to work all things 

together for good in the lives of those who love Him.

 When God allows us into positions of great trial... 

He compensates by larger gifts of grace. 

It is a dangerous thing to scheme against others... 

especially when a good person is the object of the attack.

God is all-knowing, all-wise, and 

all-powerful.

Those who love God can trust God's grace, mercy, 

goodness, and power. No matter who, what, when, or 

where... God's Master Plan will work out as God desires, 

and no devil in hell can stop, rock, or slow down 

God's plan.

Satan will set a trap for us, meaning it for our harm and 

destruction. But when God gets involved, He takes that 

thing that Satan meant to use to destroy us and turns it so 

that it actually works for our good instead.

To an extraordinary and humbling 

extent, who we are as Believers can be 

determined by events that happened to 

us.

God wants us to be equipped and confident in knowing 

that His tender mercies, amazing grace, and forgiveness 

can take away the agonizing burdens of our past shame, 

guilt, condemning thoughts, and/or fears. 

God, in His loving-kindness has bottled every tear we 

have ever shed. He has seen every need. He has known 

our every thought, and He loves us!

God has a way of orchestrating a series of unlikely events 

that will work together for our good. God is well aware of 

what is going on behind the enemy lines and He knows 

exactly what it will take for us to become His mighty 

warriors. 

God will not abandon His people... 

even at our weakest, darkest, and 

worst. 

God does not want us to be afraid, nervous, worried or 

imprisoned by our present or past. Sometimes, God will 

allow us to have a breakdown in order to have a 

breakthrough.

One of the most potentially frightening aspects of being a 

Believer is knowing that when we put our trust in God, 

all of Hell breaks out against us intending evil upon our 

lives. And, yet what overrides fear and evil is knowing 

that, God is God and no matter what comes, God is the 

Master of all... even the wind and waves obey God. God 

takes what was intended for evil against us and flips the 

script for our good.

Judas was one of the original twelve disciples who 

followed and was taught by Jesus. Being in Jesus’ “Inner 

circle,” Judas had a closer relationship to Jesus 

than most people during His ministry. 

Often, foes disguise themselves as 

friends.

 Evil often wears a mask to conceal its true purpose.

Satan possessed Judas in hopes of 

using him to destroy Jesus’ ministry 

and getting Jesus out of the way. Satan 

used a kiss... a sign of affection... to

 unleash a surge of hatred.

Judas betrayed Jesus to the authorities. The pre-arranged 

signal was that the person Judas kissed was to be arrested 

and taken away to be crucified. 

Mark 14:44

Judas used such an intimate expression of love and respect 

to betray Jesus. For a student who had great respect for his 

teacher, a kiss fell well within the healthy expression of 

honor. 

When Jesus was betrayed with a Judas kiss, He identified 

with the troubles of David, who wrote, “If an enemy were 

insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against 

me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my 

companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed

 sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about 

among the worshipers” 

(Psalm 55:12–14).

Job’s emotional pain also foreshadowed Jesus’ sorrow: 

“Those I love have turned against me” 

(Job 19:19).

Judas was “seized with remorse” (Matthew 27:3) over 

what he had done. He threw the silver back into the 

temple and, out of guilt, went away and hanged himself. 

(Matthew 27:5).

These words spoken by Jesus over 2,000 years ago... are 

very relevant for many believers in the world today.

My pain and loss, like most others, has been tremendous,

 but we can rest assured those experiences are not in vain. 

I believe, God is using the pain and loss to draw us all into 

a faith relationship with Himself.

We believe God allows us to go through trials,

tribulations, and the crucibles of life

 to refine us so that we might grow, mature, 

 build, and solidify our faith and character... 

as we learn to trust and depend on

God and God alone.

We believe suffering is not only leading us to perfection 

of character, but it is also allowing us to have a closer,

more intimate, relationship with God.

We know that God never allows any of us to go through 

more than we can handle, and we know that God will not 

allow us to be tested beyond our ability to endure the test.

We have no right to believe that God will do or allow 

anything to hurt or hinder our Spiritual growth. We don't 

believe suffering is indicative of God's disfavor, but of 

God's favor.

We believe God permits sorrow, grief, tears, and 

heartaches. We believe that life's difficulties and troubles

are not intended to impede our progress, but to catapult us 

to greater heights... allowing us to press past our 

difficulties, focus on and embrace the life lessons learned,

and get in harmony with God's Will... even when we don't 

understand it.

We know God can do things far beyond our puny 

comprehension.

We believe God is able to reach 

down and touch the point of our 

greatest need.

Through our upclose and very personal knowledge,

 observation, and experiences...

we know God is able

to make all things right.

Joseph's brothers treated him very cruelly

and sold him into slavery causing Joseph to experience

a chain of painful, but divinely purposed events.

God caused all things to work together for Joseph's good

and bountifully blessed Joseph

 in the land of his afflictions.

We know that no matter how deep the pit...

God is able to divinely orchestrate 

the most painful events in our lives...

into the most beautiful and amazing experiences

we could ever hope for.

God's shaping, molding, 

and transformation process

 can be a very painful process at times;

however, some people have made their greatest strides 

in spiritual development and personal growth

 in the midst of their pain and suffering.

God, Our Maker, our Master 

Gardener, and Sculptor

has a way of grooming, pruning, cutting, burning, filing, 

purifying and expelling anything that is not of Him.  

God buffs, polishes, molds, shapes and refines our 

affections and desires so that as the good is implanted in us

we can bloom, thrive, and totally be assured that we can 

rely on Him, the most remarkably powerful influence we 

can know.

This process of perfecting us is not a painless task,

but it is what we need so that we might bloom,

flourish, and reflect God in every facet of our lives.

We have seen, up close and very personally,

that God is able to use our trials, tests, and tribulations

to prepare us for greater callings.  

We believe tests and trials are inevitable,

and are generally temporary,

but they have a purpose, a Divine purpose

which, eventually, becomes profoundly beneficial

for others and ourselves.

We believe God is able to turn our painful experiences...

into beautiful and powerful purposes!

 We also believe God is able to 

turn our times of difficulty and pain 

into times of sublime expression!

We know the power of God can be demonstrated

in our trials, tribulations, conflicts and adversities

and God's glory can be shown through us.

May we use our personal trials, tribulations, 

conflicts and adversities

as a spring board to become much better people.

We have come to realize that the overcoming

is never the overcoming 

of the one or ones who troubled us,

but the overcoming of the weaknesses 

and corrections needed in our own nature... 

aroused by such a one.

We believe during times of crisis

we gain insight into certain areas of suffering

that helps us to empathize and encourage others

when others are faced with similar tests. 

As gold is proved in the fire and separated from impurities,

and as steel is strengthened in the smelting furnace,

so our faith can only be purified 

by perseverance under pressure,

and can only be strengthened

when we learn to rely on God in times of crisis.

The "Fiery trials of life", as Peter refers to them

(1Peter 4:12),

also serve to refine our faith.

We believe the qualities of character and righteousness

are forged in the furnace of affliction to teach us, 

prepare us, equip, perfect, and purify us 

for greater works.

We are God's artistry... His diamonds in the rough.

Within each person are diamond-like qualities...

waiting to be mined.

The beauty of diamonds come from the extreme pressure

that the refining process takes it through.

The same holds true for each of us.

Just as the diamond...

our beauty and worth comes from

the extreme pressures that trials and tribulations bring.

We have a deep appreciation for each dry, 

barren desert experience.

We are grateful to God that He has allowed

the low points in our lives to unfold.

Most of us can look back on our seasons of pain

and see that we have become stronger because of them.

God's training and teaching time

has taught us well.

We count these lessons fashioned of

difficulties, trials, tests, wounds, healing, joy, and sorrow

simply as the necessary rungs in the ladder.

We know that "Man proposes, but God disposes."

"What the devil meant for evil,

God intended for good."

I encourage you not to waste your pain. God will use it if 

you give it to Him.