Bless Your Persecutors

This word “bless” means “to speak (reason) which confers benefit; to confer what is beneficial” (source: Bible Hub Interlinear). So this will never be about lying to people just to make them feel good, i.e. only saying nice flowery things which sound good to the human ear. This will have nothing to do with us using worldly means and methods to attract people to our gatherings and/or so that they will like us and so they will think well of us.

This has to do with speaking to others what is for their good, as God defines good, not as the world does. So this involves speaking the truth to others, in love, and not the lies, and speaking to them what is helpful, useful, positive and valuable in the eyes of the Lord, not in the eyes of a godless world.

But there is a modern movement among “Christian churches” which is leading “Christians” to this secular way of doing things in the name of God, and in the name of Christianity, and in the name of “blessing” people, and in the name of “sharing the gospel,” which has nothing to do with God or the gospel or with biblical blessings. And it uses very worldly means and methods to draw in large crowds of people to their “church” gatherings.

But “blessing” is the opposite of “cursing.” So it is positive, it is kind, it is thoughtful, it is caring, and it is loving. But it is not dishonest, ungodly, and worldly. It should be what draws people to God and to genuine faith in Jesus Christ, as opposed to drawing people to secularized gatherings of the worldly “church” by utilizing worldly means and methods to attract the world, and by altering the gospel to not offend the world with the truth of the gospel.

So, if we “bless” those who persecute us, it means we are saying to them what is kind, thoughtful, loving, honest and what will be helpful to them in a good way, as opposed to swearing at them and calling them awful names and threatening to get even with them, and the like. In other words, we treat them the opposite of how they treat us. We return their hate with love, and their unkind acts with kindness, and their mistreatment with blessings.

[Proverbs 24:17-20; Proverbs 25:21-22; Matthew 5:8-12,43-48; Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:27-36; Luke 10:27; John 13:33-35; John 15:12; Romans 12:9-11,14-21; 1 Corinthians 13:1-8; 1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 John 4:7]

All Through the Night

Based off Various Scriptures
An Original Work / December 7, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Blessed are you when you’re persecuted
Because of your faith in Jesus Christ.
Blessed are you when people insult you,
And falsely say what leads folks to doubt.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is
Great in the heavens. You’re not alone.

When you are persecuted in one place,
Flee to another. God will be there.
You will be hated by all the nations
Because you testify of God’s grace.
Many will seize you and persecute you,
And put to death the foll’wers of Christ.

Yet do not fear what humans may do to you,
For I’m with you all through the night.
I tell you, love your enemies with my love,
And forgive as I forgave you.
Pray for those who do evil against you.
Rest in my love and grace from above.


Bless Your Persecutors
An Original Work / May 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love