#Confessions_for_Prosperity
#How_God_Uses_Persecution_for_Our_Good

Mark 10:29–30 (ESV):
29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

2Cor 4:7-11 ESV
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but snot forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh."

#The_Place_of_Suffering_in_the_life_of_a_believer
1. Faith is purified in us like gold as the refiner's fire (Malachi 3:3)
2. God uses persecution to advance the Gospel and grow His Kingdom (Acts 8)
3. God changes the hearts of persecutors for His glory (Acts 9:1-19)
4. It gives us the right perspective of our calling (Rom 8:17-19)
5. It reminds us of our fragility, and deepens our dependence on God alone (2 Cor 4:7)

#Perspective:
“It is the capacity to view things in their true relations or relative importance.”
Do we see things as they really are and as important as they truly are?