This was my message today from God: God wants you to know that suffering is just as important as well-being. Like a tree accepts all seasons, accept your suffering with grace. Good days, like sunshine, will help you bloom and prosper. Hard days, like storms, will make you strong and resilient. I pray God takes your pain away, and heals you. In Jesus name I pray! Amen!

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
—2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Your welcome very much, I just thank the Lord I can help in a positive way. Lord know's we can react in a negative way if we want to. When I was growing up my father always told me that there are two kinds of people in the world-1. Builders, and 2. destroyers. He told me I would have to choose what kind of person I wanted to be. A builder or a destroyer.

I choose to be a builder. I choose to help, and in that helping process, building process, we are going to take alot of negative thoughts, words, and actions from others. The devil's job and his minions are to tear Jesus down, His works, His people, His good. The devil's job is to take us all to hell with him, to destroy, to separate, cause hate, confusion, hopelessness and fear in our lives.

It is a spiritual war going on here. We either belong to the Lord (the home team), or the devil (the away team). If we can see it for what it is, it makes dealing with that negativity alot easier for us. One thing I've never done is take other's bad intentions, bad words, or bad actions personally, or to heart.

When people are mean and hurtful to me I know I'm doing something right. I know it's the devil trying to stop me from doing something good, God's will. God will put those on our path for us to help, and we must help them. He will put those on our path to help us, and we must let them help us. Same goes for the devil-he will put those on our path to hurt us, to stop us from helping others, to destroy us, to stop us from spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, to stop us from shining our lights in a dark world.

I thank God today for you, and I thank the Lord today for saving me. Without Him I am nothing, He gave me a purpose, He gave me Hope, and He gave me a future. It feels good to be recruited to play for the home team, and to have teammates like you my brother in Christ. Have a blessed day in Jesus name! Amen!