STAND FIRM IN THE LORD, IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY

STAND FIRM IN THE LORD, IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY; EVEN IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR SINKING

As a child of God, you are going to come in contact with more adversity than the usual person because you love and serve YHWH, God, through His Son, our Saviour Yashuah, Jesus Christ. Therefore, we must stand firm in the LORD, in Jesus’ name and reach for His unshakeable hand.

When it seems that you are going under and family, friends, and foes are getting the best of you; your hold is slipping, plant your feet firmly in the love of God, in Jesus’ name. Don’t look left or right but straight at the Guiding Light of Jesus. Because every day the attacks against YHWH and His people (children) is becoming more and more aggressive and harder and harder for you and me to bear; not for God though, because He has seen the beginning to the end, and all that is in the middle; He knows the outcome. Therefore, He tells us to be full of joy when we encounter diverse things that temps our faith; because it tries our sincerity and truth and when we stay sure in our commitment (no matter how hard man tries to sway us) God’s perfect work, through Jesus, will have been completed in us and we will want for nothing. (James 1:2-4 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing).

But it seems no matter how much you submit yourself to God, through Jesus, and you begin to throw yourself (with great energy and determination toward morality) into your relationship with God, (using Jesus’ example of a righteous life), those (some family, friends, and enemies) who see being immoral as right and do not believe in God, try and entangle you in sin by what they say or do in matters concerning you. To this I say, as God say, stand firm in Him, shy away from those who thrive on that which is contrary to God’s will; stand in the face of your adversity. Because if we don’t, God will allow the enemy to overtake us and we will experience the painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of our wrong or foolish behavior. (1 Corinthians 15:33-34 33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame. Proverbs 18:24 One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother).

And it just does not matter how or whether or not you are delivering the Message of Truth or speaking of God, in Jesus’ name, to one who does not believe, He has the power, through His presence, to prosper His Word in the middle of our pain; His Word never comes back without doing what He has intended it to do. (Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it). God, through Jesus, will see that all things work out for those who are being wronged and made to suffer yet cling tight to His promises and hold on to His powerful hand. And if it takes all night, we must not let go until we have received our blessing from the True and pure God. (Genesis 32:24-26 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me). God want us to remain committed, bold, and courageous and stand in Him.

We must understand that when you close yourself to the Word, God’s Message, and Him, (The solution to everything), not wanting to get wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of Him, reveals about a man who sees the world through rose colored glasses (ones which he himself created), which are distorted. Most of those who do not seek God would like others to follow them and their way of thinking. They get easily upset when you do not see it their way because looking in God’s mirror of life will convict them of their sinful life; this way of thinking is like taking a slow acting poison; eventually it will work. So, we as the children of God, through Jesus, should continue to look into God’s mirror of perfected law and liberty; not forgetting what He says, and do what is right, regardless of man’s response to our love of God. (James 1:23-25 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed).

We say this to the ones who refuse to see the Lord Jesus as the Rock on which we stand, who don’t understand that He is what we need to have this firm foundation to secure our footage, in this unsteady world, among unsteady people. And know that this refusal to give up a life of sin and be willing to replace it with the glorious life our Father, through Jesus, has prescribed for us, is a serious lost to them. What it shows also, is the amount of belief, faith, and trust put in our Father, determines what type of life you and those (unless anchored in God through Jesus) around you will have. It shows that people think and worry more about what others (who are out there with them, on the edge of eternity) will say about them if they were to choose the righteous path. But God told those who chooses to follow Jesus to be strong and through the Word gain the ability to withstand the great forces and pressures that come against and are put on us every day. Our trust should always be in the LORD, not man and we are to go to God’s understanding instead of our misguided directions; letting God, through Jesus that it is He Who we want to show us the way to go and what to do when we get there. (Proverbs 3:4-6 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths).

And be aware of the delusions that are being dangled (like candy) before us by the ungodly ones of this world. God gives us discernment, through the Holy Spirit, to know when someone is speaking from God or a dark place; even if they are speaking of Him. We are to have courage (the ability to do right even in the face of fear, greed, hostility, danger) and do not be afraid nor allow yourself to develop feelings of anxiety or dismay and distress, due to the action of something someone said about you, did to you or the world try and dictate to you. Even though adversity may come at us from all sides, and we may take some licks and have some bumps and bruises, but we and our commitment to YHWH, God, in Yashuah, Jesus’ name, will remain intact; our mind may be boggled by the things that are happening in the world today, but in Jesus’ name, we will we not feel an overwhelming fear and hopelessness; we may be the subjects to hostility and ill-treatment, simply because we love God, but God will never leave nor forsake us; and even if our bodies are killed, we (our spirit) will not be destroyed, because your spirit belongs to God. So, when you remain in God’s will, despite the adversity that comes your way, the destruction of the body will have no adverse effect on your spirit; that’s God’s property. (2 Corinthians 4:8-9 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed).

Our Lord, God told us to stand up to adversity (authored by the devil), to be bold and have the courage it takes to do so. When we truly believe that God is who He say He is and that He did send us a saviour in the form of His Son, Jesus, we will not be afraid to actually show the world that we are His children. We will not be easily upset, worried, or agitated because of some unwelcome situation or occurrences in our life. Because as God has promised, and He never breaks His promises, that in the good, bad, ugly, or indifferent times He will and is with us wherever we go, never leaving nor forsaking us; helping us to be strong enough to stand firm, without hesitation, in the storms of life; whatever we face. (Joshua 1:9 Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Deuteronomy 31:6,8 Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you).

We know, from the past and present experiences that the world (man) is going to throw us curve balls every day. So, it is our duty to seek, find, and attach ourselves to YHWH, God by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, then follow His example of life. Because no matter how man came at Him (treated, persecuted, fought against Him, whipped Him, spit on Him, etc.). He continued in the path of which He authored, righteousness, accomplished His foreordained goal in God’s plan, and now He is sitting on the right hand of the Father, reaping His reward, and waiting to return to give us ours. So, we are to face adversity with an unshakeable faith; our focus cannot be broken; we are not to allow fear to stop us; we will be strong and stand, knowing God is with us, always. Joshua 1:9-10 Joshua 1:9-10 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. GODS GOT IT NO WORRY NO FEAR.

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