{"id":3104,"date":"2014-05-19T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2014-05-06T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T09:49:38","slug":"persist-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/05\/19\/persist-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Persist Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death\u2019 <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/rev.12.11.kjv\" target=\"_blank\">Rev.12:11 [KJV]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came\u2019<\/em> Luke 4:13. Don\u2019t think that because Jesus has empowered you then satan will fear you. Don\u2019t think that because you are anointed then satan will back down from attacking you. He will not; but you will defeat him. Although your victory will not stop him from coming back but you shall be consistently victorious in Jesus Name. Even with Jesus, the Bible says he left Jesus for a season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third thing you must know about the enemy is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how he fulfills persistent accusation<\/span>. He uses believers to accuse other believers. In <a title=\"Read the Bible\" href=\"https:\/\/bible.com\/116\/job.1.7.nlt\" target=\"_blank\">Job 1:7<\/a>, God asked satan where he had been and satan said that he has been going to and fro. He has to run to and fro to monitor what is going on. Meaning, if satan is in Afghanistan now, he cannot be in Nigeria at the same time. I know this is shocking to some of us. God alone is Omnipresent. So how does he fulfill this ministry of staying before God and accusing the brethren day and night? As believers, we carry the presence of God and we have access to God. So he uses believer \u2018A\u2019 that is jealous of believer \u2018B\u2019 to accuse him. Then satan moves to another location. Believer \u2018A\u2019 goes to believer \u2018C\u2019 to gossip and accuse believer \u2018B\u2019 and so on. Who exactly are you working for? Jealousy is just one trait, offense is another trait and the list goes on and on. But whatever the enemy uses, it is usually legitimate. And the believers who are accusing another feel justified. But thank God for we overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. That is how satan fulfills his ministry of consistent accusation before God; he needs and uses believers. That is why in God\u2019s Favourite House, we have zero tolerance for gossip. We don\u2019t do gossip as part of our value system. So if you find someone that comes to you with gossip, say to him or her, this is God\u2019s Favourite House &#8211; we don\u2019t do that here! That is bad behavior. We do not do gossip. It is a spiritual thing and we are deliberate about it. We cannot afford to gossip. We will stand before God in intercession for and not in accusation of others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Father, I [fill in your name] declare that the enemy will not use me to fulfill his ministry of accusing other believers, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death\u2019 Rev.12:11 [KJV]. &nbsp; \u2018When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came\u2019 Luke 4:13. Don\u2019t think that because Jesus has empowered you then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-holy-spirit","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}