GUARANTEED PERSECUTION

If Jesus was persecuted for being about His father's business, why would

we think we would escape persecution for being like Christ? There is little

or no persecution of Christians in America. Are we not living as godly as we

should? These days it seems many Christians hide their testimony to keep

from offending others or to keep from being ridiculed. If we suffer for being

like Christ, we are blessed. And who knows but that someone's heart was

ready at that moment to receive the words we failed to speak.

Heavenly Father, we ask that you would give us boldness and courage

to live and speak your words of truth and do the deeds that show we

belong to you, no matter what the cost is to us. In Jesus' name.

Read 2 Itmothy 3:12

"In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will

be persecuted." (NIV)

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer

persecution." (KJV)

"A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings

of God in the world." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

     

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