Does frustration usually precede peace and grace?

[martincisneros]

Do any of you ever tend to go through a storm of frustration prior to God's grace being increased in your life?  I'd been frustrated for days over the last couple of years and then a tsunami of peace came into the room a little while ago, and as I was basking in God's Presence, suddenly He explained absolutely everything to me and my next course of action.  It couldn't have been more clearly spoken to me if He'd picked up a telephone and called me with it.  I don't mean just some ideas came.  I mean, all is well. :HeartThrob: :cloud9:

[Doc]

Do any of you ever tend to go through a storm of frustration prior to God's grace being increased in your life?  I'd been frustrated for days over the last couple of years and then a tsunami of peace came into the room a little while ago, and as I was basking in God's Presence, suddenly He explained absolutely everything to me and my next course of action.  It couldn't have been more clearly spoken to me if He'd picked up a telephone and called me with it.  I don't mean just some ideas came.  I mean, all is well. :HeartThrob: :cloud9:

Yep. Sure do. It's that whole, weeping may last for the night, but joy comes in the morning thing.

[Cardinal]

 :cloud9: Yep, me too. Although I've also had seasons where joy hit me inexplicably, and from past experience, when it "wore off", I was looking nervously about, waiting to see what that strength (the joy of the Lord is your strength) had come for.   :winkgrin: Blessings...

[fire walker]

Hello Martin,

Yes I have exprienced what you are talking about here in your opening post.

In my personal past experience, it was usualy preplexity over some situation or development in my life or the problems I witnessed others passing through that ate at hope that caused the frustration, though I was never completely without hope in any of these times there have been things that preplexed me for just a long enough period of time that was followed by a period of frustration and this then been followed by an inward restful  peace that appearantly  quickened, frustration evaporated not by anything I or anyone else did at the time so it can only be the hand of the Lord that lifted me up at the time because it surely wasn't my self efforts or any other mans doings that could have done this.

Peace,
Fire Walker

[sven]

I sometimes feel a great fear, that I couldn't bear it if the Lord would reveal himself to me.