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 persecution too, but 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 you have been chosen by God and empowered with the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus as the Lord of your life, then satan is no longer a threat to you! If he were, then 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? If Jesus is our Shepherd; how it is that satan can get by Him? How is it that if God is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail? 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 that we have read are lies!
We will wrestle with satan, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ! 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 God to share, absolutely, but our Father will deliver us from it. Through Christ we will win and God will receive the praise and glory as others see our victory! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ! 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 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, He is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! 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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