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If you didn't need... You would not grow....or work around the challenges you face every single day! If you didn't wonder... You wouldn't leave behind the mediocrity....o r discover that there's more to life than what you "know" and say! If you didn't feel... You'd never desire the love of another, or give yourself away to someone else in need! If you didn't anger... You'd permit the world's injustices, without fighting for what is right and despising greed! If you didn't hurt... You'd never know how to minister to someone else's brokenness, or be free from your own "selfish" needs! If HE didn't come... We'd ALL be stuck in a world of darkness, without "the answer" in HIS Son - The Prince of Peace! WS-3   Sent from WS-3's iPhone

Some lessons don't come easy, and this one that I'm writing about this morning ("YOU Are NOT Your OWN!") has cost me everything, in regards to the learning curve that God has allowed me to experience, including untold - attacks, conflict, isolation, persecution, and suffering. Don't get me wrong, I agree with the Apostle Paul, when he said, "But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Chr...

"2009" was an incredibly challenging year for me, with the loss of my father and wife - two months apart! Almost two years prior to their deaths, while interceding and worshipping, I had an "open vision" of both my father and wife passing; and I immediately went into travail... For over two hours, a cry that surpassed the deepest groaning and most violent tears, poured out of me - like a floodgate! At first, I thought God was "showing me" so that I could curb or change what was being revealed, by the Spirit; but instead, HE was preparing me for the forthcoming affliction and attack that were permitted against my father and my wife... You may be asking, was this a result of "sin" or disobedience to God? I do NOT believe that it was...Yet, it was a consequence of their personal decisions, our spiritual warfare, and a planned attack of Satan - that worked in a cooperative and destructive way against my beloved family! ...