On Saturday I was able to attend a Calvary Chapel Teach the Word Conference and it was so refreshing. Twenty-seven different bodies of believers sitting together hearing the Word and worshiping together was just amazing and exactly what I needed.

One of the speakers was Brian Broderson and he spoke on trials and there were a few things he said that really stuck out to me and encouraged me.

1 Peter 1:6 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials.” Trials are temporary. They don’t last forever. That isn’t to say that there won’t be another trial after this one but each trial is just for a season to grow us in our walks with Him. It is in these trials that our faith grows stronger and we rely more on Jesus and less on ourselves.

Trials are necessary to strengthen our faith in the Lord as well as the faith of others. God uses these trials that we go through to encourage other people in the same situation. If a trial I go through will one day encourage and draw someone closer to the Lord than it is worth going through.

Now, I have days where it seems like these trials I have, no matter how worth it in the long run they are, just seem like they are too much to handle. But then the Lord gently reminds me that He never gives me more than I can handle. “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” (1 Corinthians 10:13) How awesome is that! Even in the midst of trials our God is looking out for us.

Please pray for the lost people of King’s Lynn who don’t know that there is a God who will make a way of escape for them and take care of them even in the darkest moments. Pray that they would find the light of Jesus before it is too late.

Pressing on,

Carleigh