Yesterday’s Bible Reading, Acts 14-17 Stand your ground 14: 1 At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed. 2 But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. Isn’t this something, it was not enough that the some refused to believe. They were not satisfied with that, they also didn’t want anyone else to believe either. The King James Version of verse 2 says: their minds were evil affected against the brethren. Affected in this context means oppressed. Anytime unbelief is present, people are in a state of oppression by the enemy. The enemy lost his position in glory next to the Father and guess what? He doesn’t want us to be connected to the Father either. So he uses people and life circumstances to stir up stuff to cause us to doubt who God said we are and what He said He was going to do. When people are used by the enemy to oppress us it is usually because either they don’t believe God or that they do believe, but don’t have enough courage to step up to the plate themselves, and because of jealousy don’t want us to make it either. Sometimes people who are resistant to believing will begin to speak negative words to us, often times mocking us for standing firm in our faith. The purpose of this mockery and these oppressive words is to cause us to get discouraged from following God, to the point that we walk away from our faith. Sometimes these people are the closet people to us. But don’t be weary it is not even them, our battle is not with flesh and blood. It is the enemy working through them. #stand your ground
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:17:02 +0000
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