The reason why we need to experience suffering
In the background of Job’s suffering and before his suffering began, there was a conversation between God and the devil in the spiritual realm which we are not aware. Certain things will be determined within the conversation between God and the devil. When certain things are determined, it will manifest as tests in the natural realm. God allowed the devil to attack Job by taking his wealth and children. Job was also attacked through his wife and friends as much as the devil had desired. Job was not aware of God’s intention and but Job suffered with purpose. Therefore, the conclusion is that when Job had passed his tests and hardship, Job received the blessing. Your suffering and hardship may be related to your sin or it may not be related to your sin. One important thing to remember is when it comes to suffering, hardship, and tests, everyone has their own perspective. There are different views within suffering, hardship, and certain events. But, there will be some people who will react to it. When suffering and hardship begins, some people stumble and never make it to the end. But there will be some people who will pass the tests and suffering and go to the end. When suffering and difficulty comes, you will have a role to play. The power and blessing is disguised in the form of suffering. There will be power and blessing after you pass the tests and suffering. It will be great if we all can pass the test(s). In the bible, the characters in the bible had passed various tests with their faith which they had maintained within their daily lives. It is very important to maintain/keep an unshakable faith during your daily life. People are good at disguising themselves when they fellowship. But we will not know what they do when they go back to their homes. When the people go through suffering and tests, many and all things will be revealed.
All things went well and Job had served God with good faith because God was already blessing Job. But God was not satisfied with Job. This is a scary thing. You may carry out a good christian life. You may pray daily and you may even attend the nightly prayer meetings. You may have received the holy fire and you may be serving the Lord. You may have great pride of what you have been doing and granting yourself depth to it. Even if you have been serving in any way, all your services to God may not be viewed as God is viewing it. You must be quick on spotting your wrongs and sins and repenting as soon as you realize them. It is better you quickly forget what you have done for the Lord. You must remember, there will be different perspectives. God may say, “You’ve done it out of your selfish interest.”
When I was taken to the throne of God, God showed me the process of sorting out the prayers of people. I saw angels bringing many prayers to God and I thought that was the end of the process. But when the angels arrived in front of the throne of God, the angels began sorting out the prayers.
“Throw away this prayer. This prayer is suitable. This prayer is insufficient…..”
I was greatly shocked. I saw tremendous number of prayers being brought to God. But after the prayers went through the process of much sorting, in the end, a very small amount of prayers were left. Sometimes, only a tiny amount of prayer like dust was left for a certain person.
I was thinking, “What should I do?”
I can’t stop ponder about it. Sometimes, the weighing scale appears before the throne of God. Normally, it is not there in front of God’s throne but whenever people die and come to the throne of God, the weighing scale appears. When people die, they will need to step up on the weighing scale. Once a person steps on the weighing scale, all their service and work the person had done in his/her life will be revealed in precise detail. The lumps will appear. Some lumps will represent the amount of prayer time. Some lumps will represent the amount the person had witnessed. Some will represent tithing, thanksgiving offering, missionary offering, sacrificial works for the Lord, and many more lumps will appear to be weighed. Whichever represents accordingly will be weighed on the weighing scale. Those who have stolen tithes which belongs to the Lord must repent a lot. This will be the time of embarrassment. Most of time, their lumps will not be heavy enough to go down. Just because you have received Jesus and you are saved, do not stop there. When you die and go to the throne of God, eternal reward and blessing will be determined based on how you have lived on the earth. When you stand before God to be judged accordingly, all the heavenly saints will also be watching you as well.
Our bodies are only a husk. Our spirit and soul are placed within our bodies. If we do not live spiritually, the side effects will manifest and show through our mentality and physical bodies. Although, we need to live spiritually, you must not neglect the areas of you mentality and physical bodies. If you are not balanced, you will crumble down. There are things that you need to carry out spiritually but there are things that you must carry out physically. You must carry out according to each circumstance. There are things in which you need to use your body. But if you think it is always about spiritual and spiritual, you will create a distance. When it comes to the physical, you must compare yourselves to determine if you are lagging behind. You must perform better or at least not lag behind. You must at least sustain your level to their level. God will give you wisdom so that you can carry out many things according to each situation.
When God corners people with severe discipline, they tend to fall away from God. But at the same time, If God gives too much grace and lead them without much discipline, they tend to become brats. There will be times when you have to have extraordinary faith. But most of the time, depending on how you keep up with your faith in your daily life, you will either overcome and pass the tests, suffering, and tribulation or not pass. When it comes to suffering, tests, and tribulation, time is a dilemma to the people on when it will be finished. Continuous problems occur to individuals, households, and our circumstances nationally and globally. The difficulties in our lives do not stop. When will difficulties be completed? it will be finished when you have chosen and are determined. When you decisively choose with faith, the Lord will work.
There is inflexible faith and there is dynamic faith with variables. If we claim that we have faith, we must be willing to risk our lives. When we are willing to take risks, we call it faith. We always pray, worship, serve, and attend service. God is pleased as He receives it. But praying, worship, serving, attending service will not completely satisfy God’s heart. Therefore, God will allow tests in our lives. When difficulties comes into our lives, we finally shout out to God as we pray and cry. It is difficult for us to even cry when all things are going well. The tears of thanksgiving and the tears of struggle within our difficulties are totally different in quality.
I used to pray 18-20 hours. When my spiritual eyes were opened, I went to the throne of God. There was a weighing scale in front of me. I saw the amount of my prayers being weighed. I thought God was going to be very pleased with my prayer. But I witnessed the angels continuously sorting out my prayers with some type of kitchen tong. When you pray in tongue, within that prayer, there will be matters of physical, psychological, spiritual, circumstances, material, family, job, business, children, husband, wife and much more. God then sorts out the prayers that are not related to the kingdom of God. The more you pray, the more your spirit will become purified as God sorts things out. The more you pray, the more God will powerfully restore you. At the end, we pray to become empty vessels. Even if you make a lot of money, even if your household is well in all things, and even if you have obtained fame and some kind of high position, if God decides to take it all away, you will not be able to do anything to stop it. Therefore, you must empty yourselves. Before you die, make sure that you put all things in order and empty yoursleves. It is very important how much you are broken? Are you being broken wholly or partially? Do not just be satisfied because you come and attend church, serve at the church, pray, praise and worship. What is the reason why we must become broken and shattered before God? People come and serve the church in a very common way. Then only common grace will be granted to you. God will comfort you commonly. But instead of being common, God desires more and beyond. How and when will we perform and do more things beyond? When we go through suffering, trials and in the midst of life threatening like situations, something God desires that goes beyond will be created.
“Father God!! Please save and deliver me!!”
When you go through an unfair situation, you may become very upset. You want to fight back. But if you only go to God and cry out to Him, He will manifest. God corners you in such a situation because He desires the relationship that is beyond what is a common relationship. When God corners us, we will become broken. We become broken when someone continuously pushes us, provokes our personality, and touch our nerve. There are levels even when comes to becoming broken and shattered.
Job’s ten children had died. When all his children died, he is no longer praying common prayer. He prayed with tears and blood. Although he did not pray with much words, he humbly prayed.
“You give and You take away. I come to this world naked, naked I will return.”
When Job’s wife cursed and left him, exact payers came out. We live for about 70-80 years. Therefore, when you have strength and when you are still in your youth, it is best that you place all yourself in the Lord. If you are in the latter stages in your life, confess to God that you will use the rest of your life for the Lord. It will be great if you always come to the temple to pray and evangelize. You must always adjust to the will of God. In your youth and while you are still young, if you arm yourselves with prayer, you will have the faith that will give you boldness to jump into the fire and the den of lions.
No matter how hard Job tried to understand the will of God, he could not understand. It was because his understanding level was low. He did not possess the understanding which God had desired. Although, Job tried to understand the will of God, his understanding could not be obtained until all his ten children died. Therefore, God had to allow for all his children to die. But because still he could not fully obtain the level of understanding which He desired, fire fell from the sky and burn up all his wealth. Thieves came and stolen all his wealth. But still, he was not fully emptied to obtain the such understanding. Job’s wife cursed and left him. Job was placed in a horrible situation. When we are not reaching up to the level which God desires, God will allow many more years for us to go through to be disciplined. If any ounce of within us believing our own strength or righteousness, more time will be required for us to go through difficulties. The people who believe in Jesus must go through discipline and test. Through hardship, we will know God. Jesus tried to explain this to his disciples, but they could not understand.
Job was placed in a certain situation. God had desired something from Job within that situation.
“Job, I desire for you to think about your spirituality. Through the agonizing process, your spiritual level must be advanced. You have not reached the level of repenting in the midst of dust and ashes.”
In order for God to make Job an empty vessel, God handled him in such a way. We must go through intensified thought processes so that our thinking develops and matures. Job needed the deep realization and understanding when it came to his children. Therefore, God took all his children. Job needed deep realization and understanding when it comes to his overflowing wealth. Therefore, all his wealth was taken away. We must be stressed spiritually as it is God’s desire and this will make us to think,
“Why are these things happening to me?”
Our spirit will become renewed and we will boldly come before God. The motivation to pray will be created and we will repeatedly ponder and think deeply. Job had never intensively thought nor ponder about life and death. Through natural calamities and loss, He began to intensively ponder about those things. Even though he had a relationship with his friends, he was severely stressed. Painful boils and being cast out of the town worked as powerful pressure in his life. Job’s wife spoke as she tried to provoke him. She told him to curse God and die. But in order for him not to sin, he responded with silence. Job felt his limitation. Job became “human trash.” Job’s faith and life in which he walked with God were dissected into pieces before God. He still had many more days to be broken spiritually. We are not easily broken. Although it seemed like God had ignored Job, Job did not know that God was watching him intently. God watches like a spectator. God will see one thing. He will see our response or reaction. Do you think Job did suffer unfairly? Do you think Job did not have any anger, hurt and anguish? Whenever these things are created in you, God will see the sincerity of your confession, reaction, behavior, thought and the way you speak. God will observe if you are fake or genuine, and/or if you disguised with good action. God will see if you have sincerity. Not only will God observe and see you, the devil will also intently watch you. Job was handling the most difficult matters.
These things can occur unto us. We obeyed God but things went wrong. Then, how do we react before God? In Job’s case, he has no idea of cause of his events. But still, discipline came to his life all at once. When we are disciplined, little doubt and disappointment towards God may be created within us. It could have been great if God had already informed Job,
“Job, Satan and I have a bet regarding your faith and your life of faith. You know that Satan is a very mean being but still I had to allow your suffering to see how long you will be able to endure. Since I have allowed it, please endure to the end. I believe in you. The tests will include all your children’s death, taking all your wealth, suffering from painful boils, cursed by your wife who will leave you and the harassment of your friends. You must endure well.”
But God will never tell you in such a way.
Job chapter 38-40 God spoke to Job and in the beginning of chapter 40, “Job 40:2-6The Voice (VOICE) Eternal One: Have you heard enough? Will the one who finds fault with the Highest One now make his case? Let God’s accuser answer Him! 3 Job answered the Eternal. 4 Job: Oh, I am so small. How can I reply to You? I’ll cover my mouth with my hand, for I’ve already said too much. 5 One time I have spoken, and I have no answer to give— two times, and I have nothing more to add.
God will never move according to your expectation. We will not know the will of God nor understand it. Whenever I prophesy and interpret your tongue, it would be great if you receive a clear answer. But most of the times, God will not give you a clear answer to you. I am not God. I only speak what God shows and inspires me. It would be great if God gives you all your answers clearly but God would not. God speaks as though your fortune will open and at the same time, it is not very clear. It would be great if God tells us the reason of our suffering and when it will end, but He only gives us signs that we have to wait. God will not waste our time of suffering. I’ve already preached to you about the person who will receive the blessing. Through the suffering process, Job’s spiritual level significantly went up. When Job passed his suffering, he received a double blessing. When he received the double blessing, his faith shone brightly and had displayed to all people. Job’s spiritual level is publically shown. God warned Job’s friends and his friends brought oxen and sheep for Job. Job now had obtained power in his mouth. If he speaks curses onto his friends, his friends will die. If you fight and argue, you might feel better, but if you endure the person and be patient God will give authority and power on your lips. Your lips will receive the authority and power to bless. Your lips will receive the authority and power to oversee people. Your lips will receive the authority and power in the spiritual and more authority and power will be given to you. Until then, we must endure and obtain victory.
Amen.
Pastor Kim Yong Doo
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