Season of Tests and Trials

Have you ever wondered WHY situations arise that try to get you off of the work you want to do for God?  I mean, in my life, I am trying to go full throttle working for God, and then WHAM, I get broadsided with stuff that I did not even have any part in!!!

I am not going to go into detail, but now, today, I am preparing to go to the Police Department to file a written response to a Letter of Complaint which was mailed "in my name; with a forged signature" making outrageous claims that I have never declared...a NASTY letter, full of racial overtones and such...it makes me sick and MAD at the same time!

Thank God the Major assigned to conduct the investigation called me...I told him I had absolutely NOTHING to do with this letter.  So, today, I am going in with a written statement totally absolving myself of this thing...I am also asking for a complete and thorough investigation be made to expose the person who did write this.

Thank God for His Word.  Immediately after I found out about this letter, the Lord dropped Isaiah 54:17 into my spirit, "No weapon formed against me will prosper and every tongue that rises against me in judgement, I will condemn, saith the Lord...for your righteousness is of me saith the Lord."  PRAISE GOD!  Then, although I have prayed to forgive the person who did this thing, I also asked the Lord to uphold Psalms 109:7-8 where the person who did this thing will be brought before the judge and his prayer turn into sin and he be removed from his office and it be given to another.  In other words, may he be exposed, judged and what he was praying for (an investigation) be turned against him...then judgement be rendered and his position on the police force be terminated and replaced with another.

Well, Brother Bob, that sounds harsh!!!  I thought you forgave him.  I DID!  I could pursue legal ramifications for Libel and Slander.  But, after praying, I will not.  However, the office of a police officer must be above reproach.  If he is discovered and only gets a slap on the wrist, this will come back in his career later.  He could be promoted and end up in charge of a large, major criminal investigation.  Then, the defense attorney obtains a copy of his police file and asks in court, "Did you ever commit fraud?  NO?  What about this....?"  Then turn to the judge and say, "Not only did he commit fraud, but he is lying about now, while under oath.  We cannot trust anything this officer says."  And the whole case will be thrown out and every case he ever worked on would be under appeal.

This person, by doing this act, violated his oath and now must be judged and removed from his office, regardless of rank or position.

I started this out talking about a Season of Tests and Trials...Seasons, tests and trials are not permanent. Just like summer, fall, winter and spring...they are a cycle.  So, stand fast in the Lord, never loose Faith that God is in control.  Psalms 66:12 says when we have gone through the Fire and through the Flood, God will bring us out into a WEALTHY PLACE!  Daniel 20:20-21 says that the seasons are under God's control - not the devil's.  When God says your season of trials and temptations are over - they are OVER!  Praise God!

Well, I guess I better get going.  Off to file this police report.

Be Blessed everyone and thanks for allowing me to vent.

Pastor Bob