Why are the saints targeted in this world?

[me again]

Why do evil men pick on the saints? :devil1:
What happens to evil men when they single out the saints? :( :confused:1 Thessalonians 5:17-18
Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. This scripture is extremely hard to implement when we're under the spiritual gun. But by faith, I will exercise this scripture.My Prayer:
Lord, thank You for these trying and testing times that have knocked on my door. You have a plan for our lives and there is a horrible end for the un-repentant men who have targeted your servants with lies and slander. We should pray for them, but instead I commit them into your hand that your will might be done in their lives. :banana:

Luke 21:19
In your patience possess ye your souls.

Romans 5:3b-4
We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope.

Romans 8:24-25
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-5
We ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.And lastly:James 1:2-4
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.:banana:

[Tom]

John 15:18-20If the world hates you, keep in mind it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it's own. As it is you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you; No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me they will persecute you also.

2 Timothy 3:12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

[Eurogal]

Horrible is the scenerio as children are kidnapped as a pawn in the hands from enemies of the parents. To hurt the parents in an act of revenge or extortion, touching their most prized object targets the heart on closest.

We are the closest objects of love to the heart of God. His archenemy Lucifer is non-stop unceasingly aiming at hurting God in the most effective way. Stealing our devotion from worshipping our Lord on first place is his standard bill of fare. Hurting us with circumstances is another typical ploy to weaken our faith in the love of God for us.

Positively claiming promises for us already revealed in our bibles is a wonderful soul stengthener. Loudly singing well chosen hymns with good doctrinal content is also very helpful if building up our resilence during trails. Plus not forgetting that each of us here on the forum that have been leading godly lives in agapé for Jesus have gone through the same substance of suffering in trials as yourself.

I hold your hand and pray for you...

Eurogal

[me again]

Posted by Tom
John 15:18-20
If the world hates you, keep in mind it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it's own. As it is you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you; No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted me they will persecute you also.
This scripture is heartwarming. :)Posted by Eurogal
Snip...
Hurting us with circumstances is another typical ploy to weaken our faith in the love of God for us.
Amen. :agree:

[7thwatch]

One of the greatest and most amazing verses in the Bible:

Acts 5:41 "The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name" (of Jesus)

Also:

1 Peter 4:16 - However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.

[Eveningstar]

Matthew 23:34-39
Suggested further reading: Luke 10:1-16

These verses form a conclusion to our Lord's address on the scribes and Pharisees. We learn that God takes notice of the treatment which his messengers and ministers receive and will one day pay it back. The Jews as a nation had often given the servants of God most shameful usage. They had often dealt with them as enemies because they told them the truth. Some they had persecuted, some they had scourged and some they had even killed (v. 34). They thought perhaps that no account would be required of their conduct. But our Lord tells them they are all mistaken. There was an eye that saw their actions. There was a hand that registered all the innocent blood they shed in the books of everlasting remembrance. The dying words of Zacharias would be found after eight hundred and fifty years not to have fallen to the ground (2 Chron. 24:22). Yet a few years and there would be such an inquisition for blood at Jerusalem as the world had never seen. The holy city would be destroyed. The nation which had murdered and destroyed so many prophets would itself be wasted by famine, pestilence and the sword. And even those that escaped would be scattered to the four winds and become fugitives. Well might our Lord speak as he did! (v. 36).

It is good for us to mark this lesson well. We are too apt to think that `bygones are bygones' and that things which to us are past and done and old will never be raked up again. But we forget that with God one day is as a thousand years and that the events of a thousand years ago are as fresh in his sight as the events of this very hour. God will require an account of the treatment of his saints — all in every age. The world will yet see that God judges righteously (Ps. 58:11).

Present persecutors should know that all who injure, ridicule, mock or slander others on account of religion commit a great sin. Christ takes notice of everyone who persecutes his neighbour because he is better than himself, or because he prays, reads his Bible and thinks about his soul (Zech. 2:8).

For meditation: As pains in the body send signals to the brain, so pains in Christ's body send messages to the Head.