WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT

​IT IS NEEDFUL TO DISCUSS BETRAYAL IT HAS BEEN PREACHED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS IN CHURCHES IN DIVERSE PLACES. MOST OFTEN WHEN BETRAYAL IS MENTIONED THE DISCIPLE JUDAS IS ALSO MENTIONED. HE WAS A DISCIPLE WHO WALKED WITH JESUS IN HIS INNER CIRCLE FOR THE WRONG REASONS. THOUGH HE KNEW JESUS PERSONALLY TO BE THE SON OF GOD, HIS HEART WAS CONTENT WITH OPERATING IN COVETOUS PRACTICES, LYING, AND DECEIT. MOST OFTEN IT SEEMS WE HEAR OF TROUBLES AND AFFLICTIONS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE BECAUSE OF OUR VERY OWN TRUSTED FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHO CLAIM TO BE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH. THERE ARE SO MANY “CHURCH HURTS” AS SOME CALL IT. MOST FREQUENTLY THE OFFENSE HAS ORIGINATED FROM WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN SECTOR AND NOT FROM THOSE WHO ARE “OF THE WORLD”.
MATTHEW 11:6
AND BLESSED IS HE, WHOSOEVER SHALL NOT BE OFFENDED IN ME.
DO NOT BE OFFENDED BY THE THINGS THAT TAKE PLACE KNOWING THAT THE LORD HAS ALLOWED ALL THINGS FOR HIS PURPOSE AND REASON.
DO A SELF-EXAMINATION FOR A MOMENT WITHOUT LOOKING AT WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE TO YOU, BUT LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO JESUS HAVING NEGLECTED THE THINGS CONCERNING HIS SPIRIT. HE HAS FORGIVEN THEE SEVENTY-TIMES-SEVEN AND MORE. HE HAS LONG SUFFERED AND HAS SHOWN EXCEEDING GRACE AND MERCY TOWARD US. MANY OF US ARE THE WORST OFFENDERS AND THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITES CONCERNINGG FORGIVENESS AND MERCY. MEANWHILE, WE ARE THE ONES WHO NEED IT THE MOST. LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS. LET US ACKNOWLEDGE THE CUSHION OF GRACE TO ABOUND IN THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT DISSIMULATION (ROM 12:9). HOLD FAST TO THE TESTIMONY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED WITHIN US.