Is it a test?

Hi there.
how's your morning going?
I hope that it's going well.
At church yesterday, it was encouraging to hear about the interserve president, talking about is everything worth while?
He spoke from the bible passage, about Cornelius, and Peter.
It comes from 1st Acts chapter 10.

It's a small piece of the bible,  it doesn't take long to read it.
If you're on your own, or need encouragement, you need to read this.
Because we can learn a lot from this passage.
Cornelius wasn't a Jew, he was from the Italian  regiment, and he believe that he was on this earth for a mission.
He prayed,  to God regularly, and he helped people in need.
The more he prayed he he heard where he should be.
He didn't pray out of guilt, he didn't give out of guilt, he did everything to the Lord.
He sent gifts to the people who believed in God.
He held nothing back, and when he had this vision he didn't doubt that it was God.
Sometimes we can live our lives through, church, we can lean on other prayers, we can think that we can tithe in appreciation of God coming through for us.
I've done it and thought it.
When God calls you, he knows that he has equipped you for the work he's told you do.
And when you're on that course, of work there's nothing else for you, but to be in the flow of that power of God  to carry out the work.
You don't need to keep up with the Jones, or the people next door, or even in the pew in church.
We aren't up against things that causes us to clash, because in Christ there is no fighting, there's nothing stopping me and you coming to God, if you're at rock bottom.
Cornelius knew this, he wondered if he believed in God and he wondered if his good works were received by God and to Peter.
We can all do good works but Cornelius prayed and he knew by God's vision was correct.
God never discourages us by putting things on the back burner.
Jesus broke the mould, and his disciples were never the same when they were with him.
You might think you've missed that first time calling on your life.
You might have friends engaged, you might think that God isn't on your case, that no one is, that promises are broken, and people fail.
Yes, raises us up, for us to walk on stormy seas, and we are strong when we are on God's shoulders.
And on those shoulders is the cross, splatted with blood, he took up your cause, he is fighting for you, if you've lost hope.
Keep praying, Cornelius did, and he did it regularly and he loved God, the more he  knew him the more things he told God the thing he came through.
Peter came to him and the Jewish church, discouraged him because Cornelius wasn't a Jew.
If you're struggling in the fight, believe that others have that, and good friends know, and pray for you and believe and will carry you in their mind, and pray for the outcome.
God blesses that broken road that you're on.
Chloe