God sets an end on our darkness, we were not supposed to go through trials and struggle forever. God searches the darkness and brings us to perfection, so when we go through things and not grow during the process, we have just went through. Many may be aging and not maturing. Go really does want to bless- Baraka- us. Speak a benefit word to us and about us to others. We can not allow ourselves to get so locked into the frustration of the moment that we cant not hear the word of the Lord. The blessings-Baraka(benefit word) of the Lord brings riches and increase and add on sorrow. When we read the word alms in the bible, we generally think of giving to the poor. In Matt. 6:1-6 here alms is our righteousness before men. Doing alms and not for the right reason. Do not just do the right act but, be sure it with the right motive. We need to evaluate why we do things, it is because the Bishop, or Pastor is watching and we want them to see our good side, and do not want them to know how we really are. God sees our heart then every intend of our actions. He sees in secret so He see what we do, when we do and the outcome how we will act to get the desired outcome. All trials have and expiration date and every promise has a due date! God does not make a promise to us then leave it aloof in maybe land. The dates, seasons and times are the same. At the ending of every trial is the announcing and beginning of a promise. Trials expire but promises do not. It does not matter how long a trial may last it has got to give way to the promise, and the promise will last longer than the trial did. Even though a promise will not expire it can be forfeited. Have you noticed the seasons winter, spring, summer, fall. Then darkness of the night eventually turns into the light of the day and the devil has no control of this. The devil can not stop our seasons and he can not block our blessings. So he will hinder us by connecting us to the wrong people. It is not possible for people to have a neutral affect on us, they will either add to, take away from, or influence us. Most of us are where we are because we could not discern the difference. We have go to recognize who is adding to, taking way from, or influencing. Jesus hand picked the twelve, when Jesus told them no one takes my life I lay it down. He was fully aware that Judas was to betray Him, He knew who was with Him and was able to control the damage. How many Ishmaels have we birthed at the suggestion of others? Or how many ideas have we allowed others to shoot down? Do not allow any more blessings to be forfeited.