Ghosted - Persecuted - Cancelled

If someone doesn’t like what you believe, it should end there, but it doesn’t, in persecution, this hatred goes further and it extends to you personally. Not only do they hate what you believe, but they hate you too. Persecution is ugly as its roots in deception, devaluing and despising all mix together into a formula of hate. Persecution comes in all forms, one of the simpler forms, (if you can even say that persecution is simple), is one that we do to one another. We “ghost” one another. We make the other person feel “invisible” like they have no value. We don’t want them in our life, we don’t agree with them, so we “ghost” them, treating them very rudely. I have personally done this and had it done to me. It is used as a form of self-protection, or it is used as a form of exclusion and isolating a person from your life. Most of us don’t really know what “real” persecution is. Most of us live in freedom. To me, persecution is emotional, mental and physical abuse used to conform you to another person’s way of thinking and can lead to your death. Like in North Korea, if you are found with a Bible, you could lose your life. Or in China, if you are a specific race, you are starved, physically beaten, and killed. If you do not conform in some countries to their communistic ways, you are subjected to physiological, mental, and physical abuse until your will and spirit are broken. Freedom is a fragile thing and persecution can overtake it little by little until it is gone. Once freedom is gone, it is super hard to get it back. Persecution is the vehicle the enemy uses to steal freedom and break the spirit of mankind, so they no longer have a will, except the will of the persecutor, the enemy of their soul. Faith in Jesus Christ is a point of persecution in many countries. Jesus said blessed are those who are persecuted for theirs is the Kingdom of God. God’s Truth remains, it stands from generation to generation. Unbelief does not change God’s Truth. Many people stand on the side of truth and are persecuted for it, but they are also blessed by God in ways we can’t even begin to imagine. God does not leave us when we are being persecuted, He is with us. He told us the truth that we would have trials in this world, but His peace would never leave us. Persecution is temporary, God’s kingdom is forever. There will come a time when we all will be persecuted for our belief in Jesus Christ, for our faith. Jesus and His truth are an anchor that will hold us in these stormy days we all find ourselves in. This is a season of deception; many are deceived into thinking right is wrong and wrong is right. This is why we guard our hearts diligently with God’s Truth, and we wear it as our armor in the spiritual battles of this generation. Jesus will fight for us; all we have to do is stand in the truth and stay in followship of Jesus. If you are being persecuted in any way, let God lead. Jesus knows about persecution. He was innocent of all charges, beaten, wounded by the corrupted supremacy of mankind. The human condition corrupted by illegitimate supremacy knows no power higher than self. Jesus was selfless, humble, meek and showed the power of true, legitimate Supremacy as He loved us as if He had never been hurt by us. This is how He responded to persecution. “Father forgive them, they know not what they do”. Jesus did not let persecution stop Him from completing His mission, He died our death, so we could live His life. He was blessed beyond measure as He defeated death for us, completed the greatest change that would ever be known to mankind, death to life. Persecution never wins. Stay On Mission! God has already won. The final word of justice will be His. Do not fear persecution, take the angst it creates in your soul and use that passion to pray for those who are persecuting others, to pray for those persecuted and stand firm in Jesus, and His Truth. On this day, put your YES is on the table with Jesus and His Kingdom. Jesus will help you to face your persecutors with courage, boldness, faith and patient endurance. In the power of God go we. Never underestimate God.
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