Needing some words of encouragement?

FOR ANYONE WHO MIGHT NEED A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT:

Don't ever give up! Even though it might not seem like it sometimes, Yahweh knows what you're going through. But remember, everything that happens to us is for a reason that only HE knows; He allows it to happen!

The Destroyer cannot do anything to you that YHWH doesn't allow, because YOU ARE HIS Creation! (And so is Satan, whom He allowed to continue living - and who is being used to separate “the sheep from the goats” on Judgment Day…)

The bottom line is, there is no easy answer as to why God allows "bad things to happen to good people!" But we CAN know that YHWH does some of His best work in and through "broken vessels" - those who have suffered pain and loss and grown stronger in their faith BECAUSE of their suffering. (Psalm 51:17; Isaiah 57:15; Proverbs 3:5-6, etc.)

We must learn to recognize that "bad times" are part of our growing process. We cannot truly understand "good times" UNLESS we've suffered through "bad times.

"Part of an old Oak Ridge Boys' song says: "Where the sun always shines, there's a desert below” – meaning, we sometimes HAVE to endure trials and tribulations in order to learn and grow in our relationship with God, who created the entire universe and everything in it; and who is totally in charge. (See, for instance, Daniel 4:17 and Psalm 33:10-15.)

ADONAI Elohim KNOWS what is best for us; yet affords us the liberty and the latitude to “do our own thing.”

He ALLOWS us to choose to stray from His Path in order to teach us life lessons designed to recognize His perfect ways. How long that lesson continues is completely up to us and our willingness to “let go” of self (ego, pride, selfishness and everything else that tends to keep us from being holy/set apart for Him).

He LOVES you and WANTS you to succeed!

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future. 12 When you call to me and pray to me, I will listen to you. 13 When you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek for me wholeheartedly; 14 and I will let you find me,’ says Adonai. (CJB)

1 Peter 5: 5 Likewise, you who are less experienced, submit to leaders. Further, all of you should clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, because God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace. 6 Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the right time he may lift you up. 7 Throw all your anxieties upon him, because he cares about you. 8 Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

9 Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering. 10 You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm. 11 To him be the power forever and ever. Amen. (CJB)

TO REITERATE: YHWH LOVES you and WANTS you to succeed! (That’s one of the many reasons He gave us Messiah Yeshua!)

Luke 12:6. Are not five sparrows sold for two coins, and yet not one of them is lost before Elohim. 7. But even the individual hairs of your head are numbered. Therefore, do not have fear because you are more valuable than a multitude of sparrows. 8. And I say to you that whomever confesses me before men, the Son of man also will confess before the Messengers of Elohim. 9. But whoever denies me before men will himself be denied before the Messengers of Elohim. 10. And anyone who says a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but he who blasphemes against the Ruach haKodesh will not be forgiven him. (AENT)

2 Corinthians12:9. And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is perfected in weakness.” Gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of the Mashiyach (Messiah) may rest upon me. 10. Therefore I have pleasure in infirmities, in reproach, in afflictions, in persecutions, in distresses, which are for the Mashiyach’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (AENT)