I am the mastermind behind everything that happens in your life. Why do My children think the adversary is the master mind of their lives. I know it has been tough; I know that it looks like the enemy is in control; but what it looks like and what is reality is entirely two different things.

You would not serve Me if I did not put you to the test. You would not even trust Me if I did not allow the test to come. My children, why do you want everything handed to you on a silver platter. You still do not fully realize what price My Son paid for your salvation. All during his ministry he was rejected; despised and mocked to scorn; but still he continued on His journey to make a way for your salvation. He endured the conflict of the cross just so you could be free.

Now, stand up like a good soldier and keep marching upward and onward. My trail does not have backwards on it anywhere. It only goes forward, never backward. I love you and I am holding your hand as you continue on your forward journey with Me.

 
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” (John 15:13-16, NKJV)