Scripture shows the Church has great advancement even in times of persecution, ridicule, and mass immoral behavior and activities by unbelievers. You also will have great advancement as you apply biblical lifestyle and financial principles to govern your attitude and behavior. It does not matter that some people will ridicule you, speak against the LORD’s standards, and try to embarrass you into following along with the unbelieving herd with regard to the management of your life and the money He entrusts to you. As you pursue His plan for your life He will provide for you abundantly according to His riches in glory so that you always have enough for every good work that He called you to do and partner with.
You will experience unkind remarks from some people as you walk where God wants you to. It is possible in some Middle Eastern, African, and Asian nations that you might suffer imprisonment, torture, or death as a result of following Jesus Christ and His way of living. In the United States of America, persecution is aimed at you mostly by individuals through ridicule and slander based on your Christian beliefs because they do not like the biblically based truth you stand for. Here, it is rare to find people physically persecuted by the government, however it seems we are drawing closer to that day as people become more rebellious to biblical standards and thus more immoral and imbued with a spirit that desires to prosecute people as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted when they hold fast to and communicate the LORD’s standards for morality that are and have for thousands of years been laid out in the bible.
Satan and people living according to the world system, which he greatly influences, want you to believe that your well-being and your family's provision and legacy is tied to the love of money in hope that you will with a greedy heart seek more and more money until the desire to have more of it and material things and societal power, position, and prestige it can purchase far surpass your desire for intimacy with God. Don’t fall for this trap. Have victory over persecution by learning to trust God. He’ll teach you biblical financial principles that will help you initiate good stewardship in your life that builds the earthly and eternal wealth that God purposed for you from the foundation of the world. Follow His instruction whether times be good or bad because this lifestyle pleases the LORD and contains within it the power to provide all you need to care for yourself, your family, the Church, and all others that God would have you serve.
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Matthew 5:11-12, 2Corinthians 4:7-11, 1Thessalonians 2:18, 2Timothy 3:10-17
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