And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution. Jesus teaches us that we will suffer it too, but we have the peace that our Father will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time about the struggles that we have with satan. People there is no struggle with satan! If we have been chosen by God and empowered with the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus as the Lord of our life’s, then satan is no longer a threat to us! If he were a threat than he would have to be a threat to Jesus, Who is our Head!
Through Christ we have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so how could satan penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm us, Ephesians 4:30? If Jesus is our Shepherd; how is it that satan can get by Him to us, John 10:11? How is it that if our Father is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail by letting satan defeat us? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think that he is, but if he is, than all of these verses of Truth are lies! We will wrestle with satan, Ephesians 6:12, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ, Romans 8:37! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is in control of, that can come against us as we stand anointed and united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!
Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by our Father to share, absolutely we will, but our Father will deliver us from it and we will win. Our Father will receive the praise and glory through the victories; others will see it as well and God will be praised! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:8! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not often preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, our Father is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! The Truth is that through Christ we win each and every time. No one who has been chosen by God, and who has truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good!
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
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