Leonidus

There are people in this world who doesn’t like Christians. They love to harm Christians Psychologically, Physically, Emotionally…etc. I called them
Anti-Christians.

One of the things Anti-Christians do is test the faith of Christians. I would like to call this as testing the servants of GOD or testing GOD. Anti-Christians do so many things to destroy faith such not giving opportunities to Christians in terms employments, social recognition…etc. Anti-Christians harm, threatens, ridicules and give a lot of crap to Christians.
e.g.: In a work place Anti-Christians may treat Christians differently, discriminating Christians, don’t give job promotions to Christians, putting unnecessary work stress on Christians…etc. I believe they do all because Anti-Christians don’t like GOD and they know Christians are fueled by faith in GOD. So if they give crap to Christians, hoping the Christian might give up the faith. These things could happen if a Christian lives in an Anti-Christian country…

If a Christian faces that kind of pressure from the Anti-Christians, what he can do to survive and keep faith in GOD?

Cheers

violet

Boanerges

Keep your eyes on Christ. God will fight your battles, pray for these lost souls and rejoice. God is our source and He gives promotion.

Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Mark_18

I love how in the end, the best response to pretty much any question on this forum is to trust God.

I get very confused by some topics on here and the "thy thou art doth haveth" kind of talk confuses me, but overall things seam a lot more simple when you have faith.

jerichojon

i think the best solution besides having faith is to rejoyce for the persecution because this shows they are leading a life of a true disciple. They should not feel discouraged or disheartened but thank God for the trials.

Christian Commando

All very good responces. Of which I will add to that as well-

1- God declares the battle we face is not of the flesh but of the spirit.

Therefore, rather than frowning upon people who treat you badly as a Christian, love them back. But, hate Satan and his demons for influening that person or those people for treating you as such.

2- Love those who hate you-

God declares to do exactly the opposite of what our flesh would tell us by emotions or feelings to do, love those who treat us ill. Rather than respond in a negative way, respond with love and compassion, that the Spirit of God may turn evil to good in them by your example.

3- Pray for blessing upon those people-

By Blessing, God declares to pray for those who treat you ill, that in time, God may be able to touch thier heart and change it over to belonging to and following Him, as according to His "foreknowledge" to know if will accept the Truth when presented them. (Saul of Tarsus, greatest persecutor of God's Children became the Apostle Paul).

4- Be forgiving-

God declares to forgive those who wrong you, hate you, etc. Why? Christ declared on the cross- "forgive them, for they know not what they do". Both Paul and those who had rejected Christ as the Messiah, were forgiven, as they had done so out of ignorance. As Saul, thru unbelief, the Jews, not recognizing the signs of the Messiah having come amongest them or rejecting Christ, expecting some other kind of "leader" as a Messiah.

God bless!!

Daniels

Jeremiah

1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against
thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Jeremiah
20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be
greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting
confusion shall never be forgotten.

I Peter
4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let
him glorify God on this behalf.

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Eccle 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep

his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret

thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Banarenth

Simple quote, know who you are! You are one of God Almighty in Heaven's beloved! What can anyone ever say to even decrease that by the smallest fraction?

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Daniels

Romans

8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can
be against us?
8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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Eccle 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep

his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret

thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

frontporchrocker

Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.

I have a tendency to use this verse for everything. It is my favorite because it does not matter, whatever is going on around me...I am fine because God is with me. It helps me to remember that I am not living for the people that persecute me; I am living for my Lord. They can do whatever they want to me, against me, kill me even and I will be okay. I am saved, I am loved, and I know where I am going when this old body dies. HALLELUJAH!!! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!! I can feel the spirit moving this morning. Nothing is too big for the Lord to take care of. Turn it over to him. He will either take care of it for you, show you what to do to fix it, or give you the strength to endure it. Keep the faith and God Bless.