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The Holy Spirit will help Believers !!

For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

Matthew 10:20

Jesus instructed His disciples on how to handle the persecution that was coming to them. He told them not to worry about how to answer those who would charge them with sedition and blasphemy.

This morning, I read in Acts Chapter 7 of the arrest of Stephen, the Deacon in the early church who would become its first martyr. When they leveled the charges against him, the high priest asked Stephen if the charges were true. And then Stephen delivers the most amazing and concise history of Israel in the bible. And in his answer, Stephen never once answered the false charges! When I read his answer, I fully understood that it wasn’t really Stephen who was speaking. He was inspired by the Person of the Holy Spirit to answer as God led. When we read Acts 7, we are reading the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of the history of the nation Israel. And I know that God used the death of Stephen to help change a persecutor present at his execution named Saul, into an Apostle for Christ by the power of God named Paul.

I thank God for His Spirit Who lives within us. It may be that the church will face more fierce times of persecution. If we do, don’t worry about how to answer your persecutors, for I know that God will provide us with the right message at the right time. He always has, and He always will!

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To my brothers and sisters in Christ, please feel free to share this message of the cross with those in need…

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