Home

Jeremiah 30:2 (KJV) Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

MISSION

To foster, encourage and inspire

To make a difference in someone’s life

To share spiritual insight through The Word of God, deeds, experiences and victories

To serve God by being a symbol of hope, to be a link to understanding and an assurance in seeing a castle of realized dreams

If there is No Test there will be No Testimony

To share God’s Love through The Gospel of Jesus Christ to the unsaved, unchurched and the uncommitted

To reach the lost because God desires all men to come to repentance and remission of sins in Jesus’ Name

To remember God uses our circumstances to make us strong

Home
Scripture Reading
Inspiration
Testimonials
Contacts
Links
Gospel Inspiration

Find the Treasures in Your Trials

Trials are sent by God to test and create character in us. To treasure something is to value highly or appreciate the value. To increase the value of something over a time is a work in progress. This takes action to something and a reaction from something.

I often speak about spiritual muscle – use it or lose it. How do you know what you are able to do or withstand until you’ve been tried. A trained classical danseur/danseuse is not made overnight. That being said, I began to think about other areas of discomfort which produce great rewards.

What does it take to produce a baby? The discomfort is only for a time and the finished product is a beautiful babe. Was the discomfort worth it? A toddler doesn’t just get up and walk. There is a progress to get to the point where the toddler can even stand. As often as not, the toddler will have fallen too numerous times to count. The achievement of walking is not without bumps, bruises, tears for the little ones and encouragement and cheers from the onlookers.

What does it take to make a pearl? There is something so soft and lovely about the appearance of pearls, that it is hard to imagine the organism from which they come and the process that creates them. Pearls, since their discovery, have held a place of value throughout the various cultures of the world, and rightly so. A pearl is not made overnight, nor is it even always created. The way they come to be has long been related in stories, myths, and parables, but it turns out that the shimmery pearl has quite a humble beginning. A pearl begins when a foreign object enters the mollusk, or the mantle has suffered damage as a result of an attack. To address the irritation caused by these two factors, the mollusk forms a pearl sac around the irritant made from mantle cells, and then begins to secrete calcium carbonate and conchiolin to cover the sac in protective layers, a process which is repeated many times over.

How are diamonds made? Diamonds are formed 111 miles below the surface of the earth. This area is the mantle of the earth's crust, which was present when the planet was formed billions of years ago. The mantle is mostly made of molten rock and metals. When the carbon in the mantle is subjected to extremely high temperatures and high pressure, diamonds are formed. The temperature is about 2,462 degrees Fahrenheit. The high pressure comes from having 111 miles of rock on top of this high-temperature crystalline material. Other trace elements in the mantle, like sulfur and nitrogen, combine with the crystalline substance as it is formed, giving diamonds their color. Pink, yellow and blue diamonds are rare.

So what does it take to make us the jewels worthy of Our Father the King of Kings?

2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (James 1:2-4 NKJV)

Take away dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. (Proverbs 25:4 KJV)

But He knows the way I take; When He has tested, I shall come forth as gold. (Job 23:10 KJV)