The TRUTH book Volume 1 (PDF) - For My People Ministry

270the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTHLinda Kirk says: (see Appendix L)“From your own testimony, Ernie, the biggest red flag that has beenraised is regarding your conversion experience. You shared with us howyou were a “pew warmer” for those 25 years that you were an Elder, anddidn’t have a close relationship with Jesus. Then, you got sick, lost yourjob, and lost everything. You began questioning God, then you startedblaming God for allowing you to become sick, and cause you to lose yourjob, and to be humbled to being a person of no importance, even tohaving to vacuum your mother-in-law’s living room. When you went tobed on the night of December 9, 2006, you were discouraged, angry atGod, and wanting to die. You challenged God to prove that he loved you,by coming down and talking to you like He did the other prophets.”FactThere is a difference between anger and discouragement. Ernie and Beckytestify that he was never angry with God or yelled at Him as others have stated.Ernie actually felt that God was angry with him, and he did not feel God’s loveat the time because of what he was going through, even though He knew thatGod is love. That is why feelings cannot always be trusted. Ernie did not realizeat the time that God allowed those very trials for his good.If Linda is willing to discredit Ernie for wanting to die, is she willing to make thesame statement regarding Job and Elijah?God says:Job 3:11; 6:8-9; 10:1, 18-21Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost whenI came out of the belly? [6:8-9] Oh that I might have my request; and thatGod would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would pleaseGod to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off![10:1] “My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint uponmyself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.” [18-21] Wherefore thenhast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up theghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had notbeen; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not mydays few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and theshadow of death.Conflict and Courage, p. 223In the desert, in loneliness and discouragement, Elijah had said that hehad had enough of life and had prayed that he might die. But the Lord inHis mercy had not taken him at his word. There was yet a great work forElijah to do; and when his work was done, he was not to perish indiscouragement and solitude. Not for him the descent into the tomb, butthe ascent with God's angels to the presence of His glory.The Acts of the Apostles, p. 56As the Elder Brother of our race He knows the necessities of thosewho, compassed with infirmity and living in a world of sin andtemptation, still desire to serve Him. He knows that the messengers