2016 True Education Symposium

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Pattern Education

Vicky Jorgensen

Travail of His Soul

I want us to turn in the Bible, first of all, Isaiah 53.

There is so much in this, we're not going to read the whole thing, But we're going to read verse 11, He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.

And only His bride, as we talked about this morning, only his bride can meet the real heart, desire of his heart.

And it's only, and of course, The bride is the 1 that can relate to the husband.

That's why he marries her, is that they are 1.

They're 1 in their thinking, their aim, their efforts.

And that's why in Elohim, the very first chapter in Genesis, it brings that out, that they are so in unison.

They're just so united in everything that it acts as though it's 1, a singular verb, when it's 3 persons.

And then he gave the illustration and the demonstration of Adam and Eve.

Well, you have actually before you get to their creation, you have the day and night.

I mean, day doesn't look like night, and night doesn't look like day, but they are considered 1.

And then it comes to the point of man and wife.

There's 2 people, 2 individuals, but they act in unison.

They're always working together, and They have made a commitment to each other because it's all based on love.

And so this, this Bride of Christ right here that can actually enable the travail of His soul to be satisfied, bring about the final result that He's been longing for ever since sin came in.

God couldn't just stand up and make a statement.

Sin is going to bring ruin and destruction.

And down here at the end of time, at the very time when divorce is so high, now he wants to show his, and he's going to say, have you considered my servant, Job?

He's going to say, have you considered my servant?

You're going to have a perfection of evil as well as a perfection of righteousness.

And they're going to be in stark contrast.

This is the best statement that God can make.

It's coming from a demonstration of what the Holy Spirit can do when man realizes that he has this choice, that he could be set free from all wickedness in his own heart and become an overcomer.

So with this kind of a thought in mind is that it is our desire and that's why we first started out.

Isaiah 42, 1, Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

God again is pointing at His servants and He says, they're the ones I'm upholding.

It's not that they have strength in themselves, I'm the 1 that's upholding them.

So, with those thoughts, I want you to quickly now turn over to Galatians 2, 2.20.

This verse has really always been 1 that I have appreciated, but I have appreciated it more just since my husband's death, and I'll tell you why, is that because I have felt like that, the whole thing that I have passed, am passing through, but have passed a lot of the worst part through was when I was so weak and so devastated was that I was realizing more than ever God was actually trying my faith.

And because I have studied a lot in the Bible about proving, being proved, tried and all this, I realized that how I related, the very way that I related to my husband's death would either prove that I really had faith in my God and in His promises or else it would show that I had a weak faith.

And when I really grasped that, and 1 of the ways that I grasped that, and I'll quickly just share it right here, is that the very day after my husband's death, I had people call of course, and they wanted to come over and be with me.

And I didn't want to see anybody because I hadn't slept a wink all night, you know, found out a little after 10 that your husband is dead.

You don't just go to bed and sleep like you usually do.

You wake and you're just, all you can do is just reach out after God.

So the next morning when I got up, you know how you feel like when you haven't had any sleep and Then you know, nothing's gonna get better.

I mean this this isn't nothing's gonna change and crying doesn't help it It doesn't fix it.

So when I got these calls, I thought, I'm in no shape to reach out to anybody.

And I didn't realize at that moment, I mean, they were trying to reach out to me, but I just felt my need of God.

I knew where my strength lie and I knew that it was only Him that could help me through this.

So it was at that particular time, a friend just came over anyway.

And they came over and they played a CD with a song on it.

And I'm going to read you the words to that song because that's what God got my attention with was the words to that song.

And it was talking about Paul and Silas singing songs at midnight in the prison.

And this is the words, Their chains were fastened tight down at the jail that night.

Still Paul and Silas would not be dismayed.

They said, it's time to lift our voice, sing praises to the Lord.

Let's prove that we can trust Him come what may.

God wants to hear you sing when the waves are crashing around you, when the fiery darts surround you, when despair is all you see.

God wants to hear your voice when the wisest man has spoken and says your circumstances are as hopeless as can be.

He loves to hear our praise on our cheerful days when the pleasant times outweigh the bad by far.

But when suffering comes along and we still sing him songs, that is when we bless the father's heart.

And after she played it, she went home, you know, I mean, she was with me for a while and then she went home and that song stayed with me.

The Lord kept replaying that in my mind was, That's when I want to hear you sing." And I'm like, I don't feel like singing.

I mean, this is about the least time I feel like singing.

But the thought just kept coming back to me about how I related to my husband's death would prove whether I had faith in God.

And so, little by little, the Lord began to put me back together again and strengthen me.

And that's why I shared with you the thought about he kept guiding how I could even think, this is what you're gonna have to do.

You're gonna have to talk and act as though your faith is invincible.

And it kept taking me to passages like that.

All through the spirit of prophecy, things like that would just jump out and just speak to my mind.

And so I began to see God is with me, he's gonna help me.

And the timing, the timing of our situations is a very key factor, and that's the whole reason I bring it in right here, is because we are all going to have our time when we are going to need to remember these things, because the trial of our faith, being much more precious to God than gold and silver.

It's how we respond to what's coming at us.

Is our focus in the Most Holy Place where we have an intercessor and he's going to help us and the Holy Spirit is in our hearts because we've been asking for him every day.

He is the source of all our understanding.

He's the 1 that directed Philip to go over to the Ethiopian eunuch right at the right time and give him the understanding of Isaiah 53 and who that was talking about to the point where the Ethiopian eunuch responded, wanted to be baptized, he wanted to follow this God.

And so that's how we're going to make it is by the Holy Spirit in our hearts because we are trusting Him.

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