Strong Ones
[Updated 1:45 AM-Jan28.2026 May this article bless you, and may Yahweh be glorified through Jesus -BP]
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. [1Cor 16:13] ESV
To those who have been standing strong, with silent cries, wailing silently [literally], holding back all sound so no one hears but God. Silent tears flowing down your face as if a leak had sprung somewhere in that invisible connection between the heart and the eyes.
It is written that Yahweh collects our tears in a bottle. (That is how precious our tears are to Him.) Does He send forth a holy angel to collect them? Does He command another holy one to mark that precious time in a book of records, for the day comes when you will be given a crown for it?
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You have kept count of my tossing [restlessness]; and put my tears in your bottle: are they not in Your book? When I cry to You, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. [Ps 56:8-9]
Trials upon earth always end, even when they seem to be endless. The remnant of the Lord have groaned like Job, like Abraham, like Joseph, like Elijah, like so many of the remnant that have gone before you - groaning at what seems like a most difficult season that will never end.
Waiting and trust are two of the hardest lessons God's people must learn. Now is the time the enemy is doing all he can to make the true believers give up, to fall away. Ask Abraham. God is 'always' right on time. We are the impatient ones. Yes, waiting has always been a hard lesson. You are doing well.
Trusting anyone that we can see in a world such as this seems an impossibility, yet God is a profound teacher. He knows precisely how to teach us to trust Him, whom we cannot see. There are different levels of trust. Can you trust Yahweh that He will provide your next meal?
Indeed, He fed the multitudes with two fish and five loaves of bread [miracle of the 5000] [Jn 6:13] with twelve baskets left over. When the godly widow of Zaraphath gathered up her mustard seed of faith, along with every ounce of trust in God she could muster, to selflessly make a little cake for Elijah the prophet, what happened?
She took the last of her oil and flour (which were to be the last meal for her son and her before they die in the famine). What was she thinking as it baked over the open fire and she glanced over at her young son? Yet, her faith and trust was rewarded. Indeed, Jehovah Jireh [the Lord will provide] came through.
He provided for the widow, making sure she had enough oil and flour to feed both her and her son for the duration of the famine. Yet, there are different levels of trust. How so? It is one thing to trust God for your next meal.
However, can you trust the same God if you have been given a diagnosis of a terminal illness? Leprosy in ancient times, and even in times not so long ago (late 1800s), was a death sentence.
Yet Jesus healed lepers. Can you trust God for healing? That is the different levels of trust. It is one thing to trust for your next meal and another to trust for something that has no cure. Whether you are healed on earth or when you meet the Lord, will you trust Him?
God will lead you. He will let you know. He speaks through His written Word (the Word is active, alive and speaks into today's situations). And even if you beg to be taken home, like Elijah, like Moses did, like many others who said, "It's enough!", you too will come through this time victoriously.
You are already doing it; it just has not been easy, but you have not given up. You are still hoping, still trusting, still waiting.
As everything in the world aligns for the prophetic time of the lawless one, so it is aligning for the promises many have been LONG waiting for...and never gave up, though it felt like it at times. You never let go when others did.
You hung in there with a mustard seed of faith [Mat 17:20], as small as it is, you held fast. That is why the opposition has been so strong, so chaotic, so confusing, so difficult. It is not punishment; it is a sure sign that you are about to enter into your promises.
When it was Stephen's time, or Paul's time, or Peter's time to leave this earth because of the hour of their persecution was upon them, as was their appointed time, God will give supernatural strength in that hour. They also 'knew' it was their time. They were not deceived. Fear not.
Whether you are walking into your promises or into eternity with the living God through Jesus Christ, His shalom covers - you will know. Give glory to a good and just God who watches over His own in this sinful, corrupted, defiled world.
Standing on the Word of God, speaking any one of the precious names or titles of our Creator, Yahweh, El Shaddai, running to Jesus, abiding that is, clinging to Him like healthy grapes cling to a strong vine. You are a strong one.
The name above all names is like a strong tower, surrounding you with walls of strength and comfort – you sense the safety that lies in Him. You are a strong one for the joy of the Lord is your strength. [Neh 8:10]
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous run into it, and is safe. [Prov 18:10]
In God will I praise His Word: in the Lord will I praise
His Word. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to
me. [Ps 56:10-11]
The reality of the spiritual warfare you are involved in
even stings your nose. You are not afraid; you are tired. You are not giving up;
you need rest. You have asked Father to send forth holy angels and assign them
to keep your arms lifted up in prayer much like Aaron and Hur kept up the arms
of Moses.
He will do something even more profound to remind you of His love and that no person, no demon, not even the devil himself can interfere and stop Yahweh’s love for you. The God of providence finds profound ways to assure you He is with you, such as stumbling across a random post out of billions on the internet – like this one.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, [nothing] shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord. [Rom 8:38-39]
Hold up your shield of faith; hold fast to trust.
Yea, before the day was, I AM He; and there
is none that can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who can
turn it back? [Is 44:13] ESV
I AM the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Thus says the LORD, who makes a way Lord. [Rom 8:38-39]
Hold up your shield of faith; hold fast to trust.
Yea, before the day was I AM He; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who can turn it back? [Is 44:13] KJV
He tells us to forget the past. It can serve no
purpose. Do not let it define you. Allow Abba to mold you into a vessel unto honour through
which He will be glorified. You did not allow the long wait to make you bitter.
Instead you cut the bitter root to the quick, with forgiving love
Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not perceive [know] it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. [Is 43:15-19] KJV
Hope for the hopeless; courage for the
discouraged; strength for the weak; truth for those once deceived.
Yeshua/Jesus is the way the truth and the life,
and no one goes to the Father but through (by) Him. [Jn 14:6] NSAB
for His glory alone
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