The imposed cross draws us to GOD. „I came to the faith as a prisoner of war, behind barbed wire, being 20 kilos underweight (others being 40 kilos underweight), sick, and hungry like never before in my life, without any future. And I was unbelieving … The imposed cross drew me to GOD because He is the only One who can save and help in this situation, the only One who has an answer. The imposed cross is the blessed cross. Have the courage to say to every cross you face and which you have not voluntarily loaded on your shoulders yourselves: ‚GOD blesses me through this cross! He anoints me. He gives me something which I had never been able to accomplish by myself.‘

In the cross the Spirit of GOD comes on us! Never will we feel drawn so near to the LORD deep down inside as in these hours, days, months of the most extreme cross and utmost desolation. Being rejected by  men is certainly one of the great crosses as well. Theses are often terrible, purging crosses when GOD asks: ‚Do you believe that I am able to help you?‘ However, no human being feels the weight of the cross in the same way and everyone will be purged differently.

In times of trouble and hopelessness man surrenders to GOD. My faith in GOD was an alien ... more