#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.

Rom 12:1-2 KJV
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We must have a willingness to do His will whatever it involves. Like David, we must have that willingness, whether it seems to us pleasing or painful, and whether it harmonizes with what we would like or with something that we had not expected at all.

#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 ????
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)
6. It helps us to wait, to learn, to prove and to know the perfect will of God (Psa 143:10)