Sifted but Not Shifted
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April 19, 2019
Good morning desired courageous unseparated women of God,
Today we get to enjoy another PEARL from Bermuda. We would love to hear your thoughts on this one as well as any other PEARLS that may have touched your spirit....
Have you ever felt like you were being put through a sifting process? Even your faith was beginning to falter as you felt yourself losing control of your own life. Circumstances were causing you to feel just like grain that is being threshed. In the threshing process, the grain is first trodden on by animals so that it can be broken up. Then it is thrown into to the air with forks so that the wind can carry away the chaff. When you are trodden on, broken up, and tossed about like the grain, you begin to realize that if God doesn't help you, you will be lost with the chaff in the whole process.
Some of us have even read this scripture verse and stopped Luke 22:31 "Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat."
But aren't you glad you continued and found that this was not the final word? In the next scripture, Jesus finished His thought by saying, "But I have prayed for you, that your faith will not fail."
If you are in the process of being tossed about, you should take courage. God knows what is happening to you right now and what will happen in the future. He knows the enemy is after your soul, but with every temptation, God has already made a way of escape for you. He will not allow His love and promises to be shifted away from us. Jesus told Peter (in advance) that the enemy was going to try to sift Peter as wheat. But Jesus also gave Peter a wonderful promise that He would pray for him during the whole process. Isn't it a relief and a comfort to know that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God and that He is praying and making intercession for us? (Romans 8:34)
Romans 8:35-39 asks, "Who can separate us from the love of Christ?" There is nothing and no one who can sift,shift or separate us away from God's love. Paul listed seventeen things that the devil used to try to separate him from the love of God, and Satan will use the same approach on us: tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword, death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come, heights, depth, or other creatures. When these things come against you and you feel like you are being crushed, beat down, thrown in the air, and then sifted in the wind like the wheat, don't lose hope. Jesus is praying for everyone of us and He never slumbers or sleeps. Ladies meditate on the Lord's amazing love and grace and His prayers of intercession for you, it will help you endure the sifting process and protect you from Satan's desire. .
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