Romans 5:3 ...knowing that tribulation worketh patience.

This promise is right on. Even if the wording does not point that way, we need patience. This promise is the way to receive patience. We have to learn to bear, and we will never learn patience until we experience tribulation. Is it too much on us to suffer temporarily to receive this great grace? This grace keeps our minds quiet and we learn to surrender to the perfect will of God. This verse is put before us as a spiritual truth that does not go according to the natural law, but it is above the natural law. Normally, the tribulation maketh revolution, rebelliousness and lack of faith. But the power of His Holy Grace causes it to worketh in us patience. Naturally we don’t grind wheat to store the chaff, so God’s hammer of tribulation does this with us. Normally we don’t trouble anyone to give him rest, but God deals with His children in a different way, not the human way. Yet it will bear fruit to the glory of our all-wise God. So great is this grace that worketh a secret blessing from my temptation. Will I be abiding in these grace experiences?

Lord I ask you to remove my temptation but please first remove my concern and my tribulation. My dear Lord Jesus, I pray that you would print this on my heart. Amen

I just received an email from a reliable source asking why the evangelical church doesn’t join the Protestant denomination worldwide and come back to the Mother Church - Rome, and stop the division among themselves. Claiming there is 95,000 independent evangelical organizations in the world, and that they don’t have to answer to anybody but their organization. The Anglican Church and the Catholic Church are now coming to a real agreement, along with the Lutheran and the Greek Orthodox, in such a unity that has never happened before. When this finally does happen, 86% of all the worlds Christians will be under the same leadership. So the common question is, what happened to the other 14% of the evangelical churches? The article says we need to fulfill the words of Jesus in John 17:22-23, “that they will all be one, as I and the Father are one.”

As I read this I began to think, the Anglican church and the Lutheran church are protestant and they are now coming under the Roman Catholic Pope, as they refer to as the Mother Church. The whole world in the political and religious arenas are crying for unity. This is happening in this generation, and I don’t mean 40 years from now, it’s a matter of months or 2 to 3 years and this will be a reality. It’s a preparation for the mystery of iniquity to appear and control the whole world. Yes it is true that unity is important in politics and religion, Jesus meant what He said. But obviously even the early church did not get this prayer fulfilled, there were divisions among them. Carl Marx the atheist founder of communism wanted the whole human race to become communist under one banner. This is the counterfeit of the true communism, when Jesus will rule 1000 years on earth. This will be true communism because the leadership is the Lord. The spirit of anti-christ is doing all he can to stop the true church of Jesus Christ from proclaiming the truth. But our commander and chief said, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” There will be persecution of the true church from those that call themselves Christians that are uniting under one banner. Expect this to happen soon, very soon.