God Will Test You Right
Before Your Final Breakthrough
 n our article titled "Trials and Tribulations - the
Testing of Your Faith," we gave you all of the major verses from the Bible showing you that now only will
God allow a certain amount of trials and tribulations to come our way in this life, but that He will also use
some of these trials as a way of actually testing all of us out from time to time.
And one of the key areas that God will arrange for a test to come your way in this life will be when you are
getting ready to walk into the true heart of your calling for Him. This was a definite pattern of God the Father in
both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
If God is calling you to be a great pastor, a great Bible teacher, a great evangelist, a great attorney or a
great doctor, rest assured that you will have a big test coming your way right at the point that you are actually
getting ready to walk right into that actual calling.
And when this test does come your way, it is absolutely imperative that you take this test very, very seriously,
as it will determine whether or not God will actually promote and release you into your true calling for Him. Flunk
this test and you will either lose the call all together or you will cause a major delay to occur as to when you
will be actually released to move into that calling.
Below I will give you 4 very powerful examples from the Bible where God the Father did this with 4 different
people, with one of the tests actually being done to His very own Son, Jesus Christ Himself. And if He tested His
own Son with a very specific test, then you can rest assured that He will test each one of you out if you have a
specific type of calling in His perfect plan for your life.
Study and meditate on these 4 dramatic examples from our Bible very carefully, as each one of these tests were
very severe and very trying for the actual people involved. The reason God is going to test you before your big,
final breakthrough in Him is because He has to see if you got what it takes to actually make the grade in that
specific calling for Him.
He will test your mettle out like they do in the army with all of their recruits. Pass this test and you will be
finally promoted into God's best for your life. Flunk this test or refuse to take on this test, and you will either
lose the call all together and then be forced to settle for God's plan B for your life, or you will be demoted and
set further back until you are ready to pass this kind of a test at a later date.
Now here are 4 very powerful and dramatic tests that God the Father had arranged for some of His people to pass
back in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
4 Specific Tests From the Bible
1. The Obedience Test
The first test I will show you, and this one was very severe, is what I call the obedience test. This specific
test was given to Abraham way back in the beginning of the Bible in the Book of Genesis.
Most of you have heard of this test. God asked Abraham to actually put his son Isaac on an altar and and then
asked him to take a knife and kill his own son. As we all know, Abraham went as far as actually tying his son down
to the altar and had the knife in his hand ready to strike down on him to take his life, when all of a sudden God
sends an angel down to stop him right in the nick of time.
How many of us could actually pass such an extreme test today, especially in the type of world we now live in
where you would be immediately prosecuted if you even tried to do such a thing, I personally do not think God would
ever do this type of test in our current day and age due to the extreme dangers of it.
But the point to get is that God may actually arrange for a test to occur to test your actual allegiance and
obedience to Him.
We have another article in our site titled "Obedience to the Lord." In this
article, we give you all of the main verses from the Bible showing you the extreme importance that we fully obey
every order and every directive that we receive from the Lord in this life. If we cannot be fully obedient to the
specific commands and leadings of the Holy Spirit, then God will not be able to use us in the actual callings that
He already has set up for our lives.
In the kind of world we now live in, this test will actually be hard for many to pass. The reason being is due
to all of the material and lustful things that are out there competing for our time and attention. These material
things will cause our flesh to want to try and act up and once our flesh has been riled up, it will do everything
it can to try and get its own way, even if it means disobeying God Himself.
That is why God will test you in this specific area - to see if you will have the strength and character in your
personality to be able to override the desires of your flesh and ego, and be willing to obey God over all of your
wants and desires for these material and lustful objects.
God will know where your jugular vein and weak spots will be on these kinds of tests, and He will probably
arrange for these types of tests to target some of your weak and vulnerable spots, just like He did with Abraham by
asking him to sacrifice his one and own only son at the time that this test was being set up.
God may ask you to give something or someone up. He may ask you to give up the job you are currently working at,
or the girl or guy you are currently dating, as that person may not be the one that He has personally picked out to
be your mate in this life.
But whatever God may be asking you to do for Him, realize that this is an obedience test being sent your way and
that you must fully obey the Lord with whatever He will be asking you to do for Him. If you do not obey His
specific directive and you choose to follow your own desires and your own wants on these kinds of issues, then God
will not be able to use you in the specific calling that He has set up for your life.
If you can't or won't obey Him with this specific command, then God will question and doubt your ability to
fully obey Him further on down the road with anything else that He may be asking you to do for Him.
Bottom line - God is our Shepherd and we as His sheep are to fully follow Him and only Him in this life
and every single directive and command that He will be giving us along the way. The Bible tells us that we are
to be led by the Holy Spirit in this life - not by our own wants and our own desires.
This test right here will determine who gets promoted into their true callings in the Lord and who does not.
Abraham passed his test and you saw what happened to him as a result. He became the father of many nations and his
bloodline was used as the bloodline that brought our Savior Jesus Christ into our world so He could go to the cross
and save all of us from the sinful state in which we were all born into this world with.
Here is the verse that will tell you what the ramifications were as a result of Abraham perfectly obeying
the voice of God on being willing to sacrifice his son Isaac:
"In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have OBEYED My voice." (Genesis
22:18)
If you want to enter into your true calling in the Lord, then get it settled right now in your mind and in your
heart that you will fully obey the Lord with every specific thing that He will be asking you to do for Him in this
life. If you can agree to do things God's way rather than your own way in this life, then you will be promoted into
God's best for your life and you can then proceed to leave your mark in this world in the specific calling that He
will be setting up for your life.
2. The Patience Test
Another type of test that God could pass your way right before your big breakthrough with Him is what I call the
patience test. This is where you have done everything you have been asked to do, but now God is going to ask you to
just sit and wait for the big breakthrough to occur.
A perfect example of this type of trying test in the Bible is the story of Moses and the parting of the Red Sea.
No sooner does Moses rescue and deliver the Israelites from the Egyptians, that they are then brought before the
Red Sea with nowhere else for them to go or turn to. The Promised Land is in the other side, but there is no way
they can reach it unless God parts the Red Sea.
And then what does God do next? Instead of immediately parting the Red Sea for all of them so they can quickly
get to the other side, He causes all of them to sit and wait for awhile before He actually parts the Red Sea.
The children of Israel cannot move forward or else they will drown in the Red Sea. They cannot go backwards or
else they wall fall back into slavery with the Egyptians, as the Egyptians are now starting to come back after
them. They have no other choice but to sit and wait for God to move to part the Red Sea.
The Bible does not say how long God made them wait before He parted the Red Sea. But we know it was long enough
to really try their patience, as many of them started complaining to Moses about it. Some of them even went as far
as stating they wanted to go back to Egypt, as they at least had food and shelter under the Egyptian rule.
This type of test could occur to some of you right before your big breakthrough with the Lord. What you will
have to do is override your flesh and your own impatience and simply rely on God's peace through the Holy
Spirit and God's perfect timing as to when He will want to open up that door for you.
If you ever find yourself facing this kind of trying test, make sure that you do not let your impatience get the
better of you and cause you to walk away from that door that you are sitting in front of, as that door could be
opening up at anytime. Stay put right where God has you currently at and force yourself to wait until that door
either opens up for you to walk through or God tells you to do something different.
Again, what would have happened in this story of Moses if they would not have waited for God to part that Red
Sea? What would have happened to the Jewish people as a nation and as a people if they would have gone back into
slavery with the Egyptians if they would not have waited for this miraculous event to occur with the Lord? The
course of Jewish history could have been completely changed and altered forever if Moses would not have had enough
patience to wait for God to part that Red Sea on the day that it actually occurred.
Your life is like a chessboard to the Lord. He is the One who will be making all of the major chess moves
on your chess board. Not only must you fully rely on God to make these chess moves in your life, but you must
also rely on His perfect timing as to when He will be making all of these specific chess moves. One wrong move
or one move made at the wrong time could cause your whole call in God to completely unravel and fall
apart.
3. The Faith and Belief Test
In my opinion, this next type of test may be the most trying and possibly the most severe. This is where God
will be showing you what is on the other side of your true calling in Him. When God does this, He may show you what
some of the obstacles, roadblocks and opposition may end up being. He may show you exactly what you will have to
face. This is where you will be shown all of the Goliaths and strongholds that you may have to face and engage with
once you cross over into the actual calling.
A perfect example of this type of test has to be with what God did with the children of Israel just after He had
got done rescuing them from the Egyptians in the story of Moses. Shortly after delivering them from the Egyptians,
He brought them right up to their Promised Land. But instead of sending all of them immediately in, He sends in
only 12 spies so they could first spy out the land so they could see exactly what they were going to have to face
once they actually entered into this land.
And what happens next? 10 of the spies come back with a bad report. They come back telling the rest of the
people that the people who dwell there were "strong," that many of the cities were "fortified," that it was a land
that devoured its inhabitants, that all of the men they saw were of "great stature" and that they were like
grasshoppers in the face of these types of "giants."
However, Joshua and Caleb, who were 2 of the 12 spies, came back with a different report. The saw the exact same
things the other 10 spies saw, but they had a completely different outlook and perspective about all of it. They
had just seen God miraculously deliver them from the Egyptian rule, so they knew God would have no problems in
taking out the giants and strongholds they saw in this Promised Land.
However, as a result of these other 10 spies coming back with this bad report, this kindled the anger of God and
caused Him to then pronounce a very severe judgment on all of them. He told these 10 spies that they and all of the
other men over 20 years of age would not enter into this Promised Land. He said they would all wander in the desert
for the next 40 years where they would then all eventually die out there.
However, since Joshua and Caleb had a different spirit about them and fully believed that God could take out all
of these giants and strongholds, He tells them that both of them and all of the people under 20 years of age would
be the ones who would be allowed to enter into the Promised Land - all because they had enough courage, faith and
belief in the Lord that He could give them the victories once they had crossed over and started to possess parts of
the land that He wanted them to have for themselves.
Plain and simple, this was a faith and belief test. God showed them exactly what was waiting for them on the
other side. And the test was - can they believe in God and His supernatural power to defeat the enemies and
strongholds that they would have to directly face, or will they want to turn around and go back into the
desert, never giving God a chance to show them what He could miraculously do for them?
As we all know, these 10 spies flunked this test not only for themselves, but for the rest of the men and woman
over 20 years of age. In the same way, God could test some of you with this same type of test.
He will show you exactly what will be awaiting you on the other side once you cross over into your true calling
for Him. He will show you the opposition, the giants, the strongholds and the points of resistance you will have to
directly face. He will then sit back and watch your reaction to all of it. Will you fully believe that He can
conquer and overcome all of these obstacles and roadblocks for you, or will you get scared and lose faith and
belief in Him that He can overcome all of the roadblocks and obstacles that you are seeing?
All of the Israelites 20 years and older in the above story lost their one and only chance to enter into the
Promised land - all simply because they could not muster up enough faith and belief in the Lord to fully conquer
and overcome all of the points of opposition and resistance they initially saw.
If you are ever faced with this kind of a severe test with the Lord, you will have to make a very big decision
one way or the other. You will either have to fully believe that God is calling you to go through this door and
that He will then anoint you with His power to be victorious in this calling, or you will let fear and intimidation
get the better of you and you will then walk out on the call that God has set up for your life.
Joshua and Caleb ended up going into the Promised Land after the 40 years was up and the Bible says that Joshua
was able to conquer and gain full possession of every ounce of land that his foot had stepped on - all because he
had enough faith and belief in God that He could this for him.
If God is no respecter of persons and He was able to do this for Joshua and the rest of the Jewish people in
this story, then God can do the exact same thing for every born-again believer who will fully surrender to His call
on their lives, and then be willing to have enough faith and belief in Him to enter into that call and take on all
of the opposition and roadblocks they will end up facing down the road in that calling.
4. The Sin Test
This next test is exactly what God the Father did with His Son Jesus. Right after Jesus gets baptized with the
Holy Spirit in the Jordan River, God does something rather strange with Jesus. Instead of sending Jesus right of
way into His three and half year miracle ministry and then eventually to the cross to save all of us, God sends His
Son out into the desert to face a temptation test direct with the devil himself.
Why would God send His Son Jesus out in the desert to let the devil tempt Him with three specific temptations,
knowing full well that He was going to pass this test anyway? And if He wanted to test Him, why this kind of a
specific test?
The reason God tested His Son Jesus with this temptation test was because He had to see if Jesus would have
fallen for any of these specific temptations by the devil. If He would have fallen for any one of them, He would
have sinned against God the Father. And if He would have committed so much as one sin against His Father, then He
would not have been able to go to the cross to save any of us.
One of the conditions of Jesus being able to go to the cross in human flesh form for all of us was that He had
to be perfectly sin-free. One sin would have totally disqualified Him and He then would not have been able to go to
the cross for all of us. Part of the conditions for this ultimate sacrifice for all of us was that it had to be a
"perfect" sacrifice, which meant that Jesus had to be perfect in His human flesh form, meaning that He had to be
completely sin-free.
That was why God had to specifically test Him on this issue, to see if He would fall and commit at least one
sin. As we all know, Jesus passed this test with with flying colors and the Bible says that He did not commit so
much as one sin when He walked among us for those 33 years.
As a result of not committing any sins, Jesus was perfectly qualified to go to the cross for all of us.
In the same way, God may test some of you with this same kind of a sin test. The reason being is that He will
want to test your resolve to stay out of any type of serious sin. Adultery, fornication, bribery, and the hunger
and love for money could all lead to your ruination once you cross over into your true calling in the Lord. Look
how many ministries have been brought down by adultery, fornication and the misuse of money and funds.
Just as God allowed Adam and Eve to be tested in the Garden of Eden and His own Son Jesus to be tested in a
desert setting with the devil, God may allow some of you to be tested on this same kind of issue.
Pass this sin test and do not succumb to any demonic temptations, and you will then be trusted by the Lord and
He will then promote you into your true calling for Him. Flunk this this kind of a test, and you could completely
lose your entire calling in the Lord, just like Adam and Eve managed to do in the Garden of Eden.
If by chance this kind of a test ever comes your way - take it very, very seriously, as there may not be any
second chances for you if you flunk this kind of a test. This one is very serious. If Jesus would have fallen for
any one of those three specific temptations from the devil, He would have completely lost His entire calling in God
and He then would not have been able to go to the cross to save any of us. In the same way, you could lose your
entire call in God if you succumb to any of these temptations.
There is obviously always full forgiveness and full restoration for you with the Lord if you confess and repent
of these sins, but what you could lose is that open door into the heart of your true call for Him due to the
consequences that may result from you falling into a heavier type of sin. Many major men of God have never been
able to get back their big, huge, successful ministries once they lost them due to falling into these types of
heavier sins.
Conclusion
If you will notice in the above 4 examples, these were all deal-breaking tests. When the tests were passed,
these people then went into the heart of their true calls with the Lord. When they were flunked, like the children
of Israel managed to do with God the Father on the Promised Land issue, they completely lost the divine destinies
that God had originally set up for all of them to walk into.
That is why these tests should be taken very, very seriously if you happen to have one of them come your way
right as you are waiting for your big breakthrough to occur with the Lord in the calling that He has personally set
up for your life.
These types of tests can also be brought your way by the Lord at any time during your life's journey with Him.
From time to time, the Bible says that the Lord will test the righteous. Again, when these type of tests do come
your way, make sure that you see them for what they are and do your best to pass them with flying colors. If you
do, then God will continue to bring you up higher in your divine destiny with Him. Flunk these tests or do poorly
with them, and God may have to hold you back for awhile until you can see what He is trying to teach you and show
you.
Besides the above 4 types of tests, there could be other types. Some of you could be tested on your ability to
forgive what others may have done to hurt you in your past. The Bible is very clear in that we have to forgive
everyone who has ever trespassed against us and that if we do not, then God will not forgive us of our own
trespasses. And if we can't get our own personal sins forgiven with the Lord, then we may have a very hard time in
walking out our true calls with Him since it will obviously damage our personal relationship with Him.
We hope this article will serve as good heads-up for any of you who will either face this kind of testing in
your near future, or if by chance you are already in the middle of this type of testing right now due to the close
proximity of entering into your true calling in the Lord.
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