With Empowerment Comes Persecution

Very soon many of you are going to see the Lord start doing amazing miracles through you as you pray for people. People will be genuinely healed, evil spirits will be cast out, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit will accompany each new believer that asks for it. It will be a time of great celebration and rejoicing, but it will also be a time of great persecution as the enemy tries to knock you off your game to get you to shrink back and slow down. These attacks will come mainly in areas that you feel insecure or guilty about, like character flaws that you think you should have already mastered and past sin that you haven't forgiven yourself fully for yet. You must forgive yourself, be secure, and learn to manage these attacks so that they do not hinder you.

The best thing you can do when you are attacked is to hold your peace, ignore it, and pray if need be. Don't let slander, accusations, or false guilt creep into your thinking; and understand that we are all still a work in progress. We all have to minister flawed so stop thinking that you have to be perfect to minister; you just have to be willing. Know too that you will be betrayed by some people close to you and this will hurt a lot, so pray for these people instead of talking about it with everyone, and know that God will bring justice at the proper time. Stay on mission no matter what and don't let yourself be distracted for any reason. These are days of great victory and harvest, but remember this is a war. But it is a war we have already won in Jesus!