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Blessing Enemies

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Many many, are the testifying truths of enemies who became friends, of differences that were let go overnight,

So in our present differences, is any
removed from yesterday's conversion?
In the face of today's apparents
what removes a conversion of differences?
Nay, with the left hand from your head,
take the ice and secure with a vice
With the right, to the opponent's heart
Return the vice, twice as nice
Apparents must bow to providence. - rna
 
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'Don't repay evil for evil. Don't snap back at those who say unkind things about you. Instead pray for God's help for them,for we are to be kind to others and God will bless us for it' (1 Peter 3:13-15)
 
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'Quietly trust yourself to Christ your LORD' (1 Peter 3:15)
'Usually no one will hurt you for wanting to do good,but even if they should you are to be envied,for God will reward you for it' (1 Peter 3:13-14)
While in full support of these, I don't think it an introduction to disobedience to bless the worst of our time.

Freely adapt:

Up to now, isn’t most everything the collateral effect of those who run with the Devil? I’m afraid there is a bastion we who patronize and seek to know from, aren’t serving the flock well. Apparent informants, set up shop and well-referenced but under the guise of advice to warn do as much to turn the reader as they do recruit who are later found running for the Devil.

But like any derelict spirit that avoids the light, you just wish sometimes they would step out of their dual-recruitment mode and describe the things of God that need ministering. Ministering that might add to an already agreed consensus to resist.

Take for instance the Lord’s own words that speaks towards that which begs to be spearheaded, and not the usual “our calling” being passed onto deliberate peril:

“, , some of you they will put to death.”

To our increased diminishing:

“, , an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.” (Luke 21:16, John 16:2)​

All too often the candidate isn’t told how to resist the established fruits at hand. They aren’t told things beyond prayer and the armor of God. For there is peril, some places Christians are forced to choose between very destitute options, powerless to avoid.

These evil children (EC) with weapons the world lauds as “warriors” are not maintaining this fruit just because they are inspired by the Devil or pooled intent. This day and hour is I believe an organized attack upon Christian meditation itself.

The devises of the Devil we know we shouldn’t be “ignorant of”, today, some are diabolical interruptions to the sacred meditations. While we are not to be “deceived, God is not mocked”, is unfortunately shared assault upon this very thing. This EC worker of iniquity is intent on dismantling to secure such. And you don’t have to go too far to see it.

For the EC also knows there isn’t a point of contention we wish to bring against flesh, so he has figured a way to introduce it. His ministers knows we “overcome evil with good”, but if he succeeds in administering his “service” and further intimidates the candidate, the good of “kindness” is overcome.

How is the enemy blessed if we are overcome? The EC knows and is hard at work to exploit and consume passive kindness. The retrospective work of Christians is to go from city to city. They are never advised to go from sacrifice to sacrifice.

So how do you overcome this attempt to interrupt? I say, this is exactly where persecution, which will never stop, but should incorporate God’s design and seal to regulate and be assumed.

“This is also why” (Romans 13;6)​

God bless!
 
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Got enemies past or present? Come, bring them before the Lord. Share your enemy with us to bless!
One of the enemies that we have to face in our life is worry. It achieves nothing. The remedy is to trust God!
 
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One of the enemies that we have to face in our life is worry. It achieves nothing. The remedy is to trust God!
So right, because of God’s supply, we can find that relief,

“But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us” (2 Corinthians 7:6)​
 
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"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, ,"(Ephesian 2:2)

“Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I pass by safely.” (Psalm 141:10)

May God grant wisdom so as to not fall into complete ignorance of their devices. Peril, yes, but the sacrifice God expects from us is contained in that wisdom as well as the council from His word.
 
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"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, ,"(Ephesian 2:2)

“Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I pass by safely.” (Psalm 141:10)

May God grant wisdom so as to not fall into complete ignorance of their devices. Peril, yes, but the sacrifice God expects from us is contained in that wisdom as well as the council from His word.
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So right, because of God’s supply, we can find that relief,

“But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us” (2 Corinthians 7:6)​
The deriving of that of course being “conflicts without, fears within.” (2 Corinthians 7:5
 
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Our God overcomes giants! Every giant of sin,fear,unbelief and any other giant can be toppled like Goliath was toppled by David the shepherd boy!
Quite right, ,I recall specifically,

"To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand."(Romans 14:4)
 
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Arthur Blessitt once said many years ago that the media can be one of the "most evil" institutions in the world. That might be so coming from one with a front row seat.

Well there is a lot of talk these days concerning what is considered “fake” information that leads the mind astray. I would like to say for those not familiar, to invest some time on the subject of how to ‘analyze information’.

"How happy is the man who has put his trust in the LORD and has not turned to the proud or to those who run after lies!” (Psalm 40:4)​
 
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