There may come a time in your walk with Jesus in which He sets you in a place of isolation just waiting for His grace to rescue you.    Just as we read in 2 Samuel 9    Mephibosheth, the once heir apparent of all Israel was regulated by God to a place of Lodebar  [1] .  When God has put you in a spiritual Lodebar, it is a place in which all past experiences are of no value, your education, and your contacts, even your resources can not pull you from this desolation.    It is a time of such stillness where God does not even speak to you. It is as if there is a wall around you, fending off any good that may come your way.   No new opportunities –  No positive way for escape – Even your prayers seem overlooked by God.  Yet, you are faithful. Though God seems to have put your needs on the back burner, you remain faithful.    You see the prosperity of everyone around you, sinners and saints alike, even those in thei...

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10 (KJV ) One way the enemy seeks to destroy us is to magnify our troubled experiences.  Circumstances may cause us to walk a mile, but it’s the enemy that put splinters in our feet alone that journey. Satan does not care how he weakens us, be it small or large, physical, emotional, or financial, as long as he can infect us with the disease of wrong thinking, as long as he can affect our experiences in such a way that it causes us to question God’s love for us, as long as he can take our joy which is our strength, Satan is happy in our suffering.  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy His (Satan's) intent is to destroy not just our physical and spiritual but also our emotional happiness as well. But happiness comes from what happens in our life, when we p...