Cheryl

Hi folks,
I got an email today from Pastor Frank Campos in California and I found it so encouraging that I thought I would pass it on. It is an encouragement to stay the course and how trials are really meant to be an opportunity. Frank’s letter below:

“We will be in prayer over this circumstance. However, what a privilege to be in this place. The Lord has counted you worthy of the suffering. “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

I hope to bring you encouragement sister. This is not about the ministry as much as it is about you, yourself. Trials do not mean resign. It means opportunity to enter into the sufferings of Christ. Paul said of himself, “to know Him in His sufferings.” Trials don’t produce faith, but when trials are received with faith, the outcome is patience. If difficulties are received in unbelief and grumbling, trials can produce bitterness and discouragement. This is why James exhorts us to “Count it all a joy” is faith’s response to a time of trial.

Sister Cheryl, we will stand with you in this time. Please count on our prayers and faithfulness to this. Nothing is ever lost in Jesus’ hands.

Always in Him,
Frank”