Paul held great concern in all he wrote, that believers should make themselves ready for the Day of Christ, the time when He shall return to earth as He promised He would.

In this present time, a people are being prepared to receive the Kingdom along with Christ. Much of the preparation that goes into making us into a people ready to reign with Him is difficult, to say the least. Some of it will seem like the tribulation and persecutions that many Christians believe we will miss. But when we learn that persecution and tribulation is coming to us at the direction of the enemy, we can but know, with an assurance, that it will drive us in closer to the heart of God. As we pray one for the other, along the line of Paul’s Prison Letter Prayers, we will be strengthened to face whatever Satan may throw at us.

Here is Paul’s admonition as to how we can face the enemy:

Ephesians 6:11-12—Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (The word against occurring several times in this passage  means “face to face with.”)

 

DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, bring me, and these I name before You, into Your secret place. Teach us to profit spiritually from the difficulties that have come upon us. Here, I call these names before You. Please use the trials they are going through to make them strong for Your Kingdom. Teach us all to reign in life with Christ Jesus even while we’re in this time of trouble. Make us people of no fear as we “face down” our enemy in the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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