Testimonies of how you remained faithful even in difficult times. Moments when you will be able to look back and be grateful to God for them. Those moments will increase your faith and you will be able to trust God because of what happened in the past. Your testimonies are great for building yourself up, but even better for building up other people. Using your experience, you will be able to encourage people in their relationship with God. If we look at Daniel in the Bible, we know that he was a good man who feared God, yet God allowed him to be condemned to death in the lions' den. Daniel was saved by God, so it is difficult to call it suffering, but we still see that God used this situation to show his power to King Darius and his nation: "I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and revere the God of Daniel. For he is the living God and endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. He saves and performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He saved Daniel from the power of the lions.” Dave Earley says it very well: “God's ultimate plan behind all His activities on this planet is to present mankind with a clear testimony of who He really is and what He really is.
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