IF YOU CANNOT ENDURE THE ATTACKS THAT COME IN ATTENDING TO THAT WHICH GOD HAS CALLED YOU, YOU MOST ASSUREDLY CANNOT DO IT IN A POSITION OF LEADERSHIP. GOD TRIES US FOR PROMOTION, THE WORD IN US, BUT IT IS NECESSARY FOR US TO SHOW OBEDIENCE TO HIS COMMANDS DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER! SO MANY PEOPLE ABORT THEIR DESTINY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT ENDURE THE GATES OF HELL THAT COME AGAINST THEM TO BE AND GO WHERE GOD HAS CALLED THEM AND AS A RESULT THEIR FLESH AND THE EXCUSES OF THIS WORLD CAUSE THEM TO ABORT THE SEED OF DESTINY DEPOSITED UNTO THEM BY THE LORD. THE SEED GOD GIVES YOU WILL BE TRIED AND TESTED!!! THE WORD OF GOD TRIES US AND AS IT TRIED JOSEPH AND HE WAS SENT BEFORE THE FAMINE AND HAD TO ENDURE THAT WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE ONLY BY GOD'S ANOINTING, LOOKING CURSED AND LIKE A FAILURE HOW DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE FOR US? BEFORE YOU ARE PROMOTED INTO GOD'S PROMISES MANY WILL THINK YOU ARE CURSED BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE PERFECTING OF GOD'S LOVE IN YOU AND THAT IS WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE YOUR LOVER HAS LEFT YOU (WHICH HE HASN'T) IS WHEN YOU ARE BEING SHIFTED INTO A NEW REVELATION OF CHRIST JESUS IN YOU!!!!! THIS COMES THROUGH PERSECUTION, MISUNDERSTANDING AND BEING DISMANTLED BY THOSE THAT YOU WOULD THINK REJOICE IN THE CALL OF CHRIST JESUS!!!! LOOK AT JOSEPH (GENESIS 37: AND THE SHULAMITE (SONG OF SOLOMON 5). BOTH OF THEM HAD THEIR MANTLES RIPPED BEFORE THEY WERE PROMOTED! MOREOVER, THEY HAD TO GRAB A HOLD OF THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ENDURE THE TRIAL AND THE TESTING! BEFORE THEY WERE TRIED IT WAS PROVEN THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE DISLOYAL TO THE LORD! THEREFORE, YOU DO NOT EVEN QUALIFY FOR THE TEST UNTIL YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR LOYALTY TO GOD! HOW DO YOU DO THAT, THROUGH OBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER! I AM MEANS MANY THINGS AND ONE THING IT MEANS IS "COMMITTED!" BEFORE WE CAN BE OVER A MINISTRY, A BUSINESS, AN ORGANIZATION WE HAVE TO BE COMMITTED TO WHAT HE HAS CALLED US AND OVERCOME ALL THE OBSTACLES NECESSARY AND ENDURE THE TRYING OF THE WORD!!!!! BEFORE JOSEPH WAS SECOND IN COMMAND TO HELP A NATION (ISRAEL) THE WORD HAD TO BE TRIED IN HIM IN A PLACE WHERE HIS SOUL ENTERED THE IRON, HE FULLY WAS IN BONDAGE! BUT GOD REACHED DOWN AND PULLED JOSEPH'S SOUL OUT OF THE IRON!!!!!! WHEN THE WORD WAS TRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL COST YOU EVERYTHING!!! COMFORT, CONVENIENCE, YOUR REPUTATION, FRIENDS, ALL YOUR POSSESSIONS! OH BUT THE JOY OF IT ALL!!! IT IS SO WORTH IT!!!!!!! LOVE YOU FAITHFUL ONE OF THE LORD WHO IS PRESSING IN FOR MORE OF JESUS DISPLAYING YOUR OBEDIENCE TO DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU! ROBIN KIRBY-GATTO 17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. 18 His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron and his soul entered into the iron, 19 Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried and tested him. PSALM 105:17-19 I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words I have gathered the richest perfumes and spices]. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends [feast on, O revelers of the palace; you can never make my lover disloyal to me]! Drink, yes, drink abundantly of love, O precious one [for now I know you are mine, irrevocably mine! With his confident words still thrilling her heart, through the lattice she saw her shepherd turn away and disappear into the night]. 2 I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake. [I dreamed that I heard] the voice of my beloved as he knocked [at the door of my mother’s cottage]. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my spotless one [he said], for I am wet with the [heavy] night dew; my hair is covered with it. 3 [But weary from a day in the vineyards, I had already sought my rest] I had put off my garment—how could I [again] put it on? I had washed my feet—how could I [again] soil them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him. 5 I rose up to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid [sweet-scented] myrrh, [which he had left] upon the handles of the bolt. 6 I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and withdrawn himself, and was gone! My soul went forth [to him] when he spoke, but it failed me [and now he was gone]! I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took my veil and my mantle from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am sick from love [simply sick to be with him]. 9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women [taunted the ladies]? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you should give us such a charge? 10 [She said] My beloved is fair and ruddy, the chief among ten thousand! 11 His head is [as precious as] the finest gold; his locks are curly and bushy and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, bathed in milk and fitly set. 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices or balsam, like banks of sweet herbs yielding fragrance. His lips are like bloodred anemones or lilies distilling liquid [sweet-scented] myrrh. 14 His hands are like rods of gold set with [nails of] beryl or topaz. His body is a figure of bright ivory overlaid with [veins of] sapphires. 15 His legs are like strong and steady pillars of marble set upon bases of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent, stately, and majestic as the cedars. 16 His voice and speech are exceedingly sweet; yes, he is altogether lovely [the whole of him delights and is precious]. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem! SONG OF SOLOMON 5:1-16

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