Temper Adversity  - dont run from it!

Rick Godwin tells the story of his father who was a pilot in the US Military. He did clandestine operations and if his plane would go down no one knew about it, as if he never existed. Soldiers who were wounded in battle during clandestine operations often returned to the battlefield. These soldiers who were brave enough to go back into combat were awarded a medal known as the eye of the “tiger”. When a fellow soldier saw that medal, he knew he was looking at a seasoned soldier, a predator, who had become a lethal weapon in the hands of the military -  Rick Godwin


So, it is with a seasoned man or woman of God who has tempered adversity. They become the predator against the works of darkness and a lethal weapon in the hands of God. They overcome him (satan) by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony.


We live in a fallen world and adversity comes to the saved and the unsaved, however we have an Ark called Christ and it is sealed by His blood. We can temper adversity and pass through the midst.


If satan had not come against Lazarus he would not need to be raised from the dead and multitudes would not have heard about Jesus.


If Goliath had not defied the armies of God a boy named David would not have knocked the giant out with a stone and slain him with his own sword. 


When Stephen was martyred a man in the crown named Saul one of the greatest persecutors of the church held the apostle’s cloak, however Stephens death put one of the most powerful weapons of our age in the hand of God namely Paul who wrote two thirds of the New Testament.


Adversity comes but greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Each time we overcome we become more lethal in the hands of God against the powers of darkness - Maria