#Confessions_for_Prosperity
#How_God_Uses_Persecution
John 15:18-20 (ESV)
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you."

Acts 1:8
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 8:1(b)-3
"On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison."

#The_Place_of_Persecution_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)