KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 17:14 KJV” I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world”.

Our key scripture says the disciples were hated by the world because of the word of God they had received. God’s word is God expressed in thoughts. It is a revelation of how God thinks, what He does, what He is doing and what He would do. Satan trembles before nothing but before God. The word in any man is God present in that man. Acting on the word means God is working through you. This is why all things are possible to those who believe and act on the word of God. In the light of this, Satan would want to stop you from working out the word.

The bases for all persecutions of believer’s stern from this fact. All the attacks of sicknesses, and every work of darkness is not mainly to destroy or just to inflict pain, but to get you to renounce your trust in the word of God

If Satan or his messengers are to get one believer doubt God’s word or worse still to stop believing in the word, then they have achieved their greatest goal in the Christian. The Lord illustrated satanic attack of the word in the following verse, Mark 4:17 KJV “And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.”. The Lord iterated the point once again that, persecution and affliction arise because of the word.

Hebrews 10:35 instructs all Christians never to cast away their confidence in the word, because it has a great recompence of reward. In our key scripture, the Lord said, it is the world that hates the Christians who have the word in them. The world’s hatred for Christians is a remote attack of Satan against the church. Satan works through the hearts of unregenerated men to attack Christians. All these is still intended to break their confidence in God’s word. Maintain a dogged stands on the word, for you would always   come out victorious.

THOUGHT: TURN NOT AWAY FROM THE WORD, FOR GREATER IS GOD IN YOU, WHO WOULD SURELY DEFEAT THE ENEMY

FURTHER STUDIES

1Jn 4:4 KJV “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

Heb 10:35 KJV” Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, .that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”