Trusting God's plan for your life won't always be comfortable or convenient but it will shape the character you need to sustain every calling He has for your life.
"I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well." - 2 Timothy 1:5
'While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."' - Acts 13:2
“For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.” - Acts 4:34
It was persecution that scattered the church, the book of Acts. It was a painful moment that was a catalyst to the church spreading the good news of the gospel to other nations.
“They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. ‘Go, stand in the temple courts,’ he said, ‘and tell the people all about this new life.’” - Acts 5:18-20
What the enemy uses to destroy, God uses to multiply. Are we mature enough in our faith that some of the intensity that we're facing that we would consider it a privilege from the Lord?