MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – March 15, 2021 Don’t Waste Your Afflictions By David Wilkerson (1931-2011) Know that He is Completing a Good Work in You “But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel” (Philippians 1:12, NKJV).  In this verse, Paul tells the Christians in Philippi not to worry about all the things they’d heard had befallen him.  All those “things” he refers to included great afflictions and infirmities. Paul wrote this epistle while bound in a Roman prison.  By then he was a seasoned warrior of the gospel, having endured every conceivable hardship and human affliction.  If you’ve studied Paul’s life, you know the kinds of things he had endured: shipwrecks, beatings, buffetings, reviling, mocking, persecutions, hunger, thirst, nakedness and defamation of character. We rarely consider that some of Paul’s worst afflictions came at the hands of those who called themselves born-again believers.  Some opponents were envious church leaders who turned entire congregations against him.  They ridiculed his lifestyle, criticized his preaching, questioned his authority and misrepresented his message.  Everywhere Paul went, it seemed, he was met by affliction, trouble and sorrow.  The Holy Spirit frequently told him that “chains and tribulations await(ed)” him in his travels (Acts 20:23). Continue Reading this Newsletter Online Download PDFForward to a Friend

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