Faith Talks with Emily Preston

23/07/2025

A little while ago, our cat went missing. 🐈‍⬛

It wasn’t unusual for Stanley to sometimes disappear overnight and reappear in the morning, but this time the days were ticking by and he still wasn’t showing up, and we were getting concerned. 😥

On day five, we were very worried about Stanley’s whereabouts. We had looked everywhere, asked neighbours, asked the local pound, and checked along our road in case he had been hit by a car - still no Stanley. 😰

Then I felt strongly in my spirit to start calling Stanley “home”. 🏠

I began looking out over the fields surrounding our house and saying, “Stanley, I call you HOME in Jesus’ name.” I would do this every time I thought about Stanley. 🐈‍⬛🏠

The thought would come to me, “Maybe he’s been bitten by a snake and is lying in a field somewhere!”
I would answer that thought with, “Stanley, I call you HOME in Jesus’ name!” 🏠

Another thought would come to me, “Maybe he’s been picked up by someone and taken home with them!”
I would answer that thought with, “Stanley, I call you HOME in Jesus’ name!” 🏠

Every time I thought about Stanley I would call him “home”, and I decided that even if God had to raise him from the dead I wasn’t going to stop calling him “home”. 🏠

Then, on the evening of day seven I was pulling into our driveway and suddenly, in my headlights appeared Stanley! 🐈‍⬛

He was badly injured and starving, but he was HOME. Stanley WAS NOW what I had called him TO BE. 🐈‍⬛=🏠

Romans 4:17 tells us that God “…calls those things that BE NOT as though the WERE.” 🗣️

Another translation says God “…calls things that DO NOT exist as though they DID.” 🗣️

This verse is in reference to God changing Abram’s name to “Abraham” and calling him “the father of many nations” before there was ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of a child, and IN SPITE OF all physical evidence to the contrary (Abraham’s age and Sarah’s barrenness). 👶🏼

The God-kind of faith (the same faith that we’ve been given) goes beyond what’s currently seen and calls things as being so BEFORE there is any physical evidence that they are so.🗣️

In my situation, I called Stanley “home” before there was any physical evidence that he was “home” until he actually WAS home. 🏠

The Lord then reminded me that we can apply this principle to every area in our lives that we desire to see change. 💬

In spite of all physical evidence to the contrary, we can call any area of our lives that currently “be not” as though it “were”.🗣️

👤 Body, I call you HEALED in Jesus’ name!
💕 Relationship, I call you RESTORED in Jesus’ name!
🧠 Mind, I call you AT PEACE in Jesus’ name!
💵 Finances, I call you PROSPEROUS in Jesus’ name!
💸 Debt, I call you PAID in Jesus’ name!
🏠 I call my home and children PROTECTED and SAFE in Jesus’ name!
💍 I call my marriage STRONG in Jesus’ name!
✝️ I call my loved one SAVED in Jesus’ name!

What is the goal of YOUR faith? 😍

Don’t call the situation as it is, just like God, call those things that be not as though they WERE! 🗣️

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Listen to “Things Obey Words”, Episodes 52-55 of Faith Talks with Emily Preston podcast, available on all podcast hosting platforms, or click the link to Part 1 below 👇🏼

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/faith-talks-with-emily-preston/id1374046952?i=1000467890948

For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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18/12/2024

Imagine you decide one day that you want to lose weight and get fit. 💪🏼

🏋️ So you go out and buy a gym membership.
👚 You spend hundreds of dollars on new workout clothes.
🎧 You start listening to weight loss experts on YouTube and podcasts share their wisdom for hours a day.
🤩 You get excited and enthusiastic for all things diet and exercise.
👏🏼 You even shout a few “amen!”s when hearing other people’s success stories.

You have all the knowledge and information you will ever need on how to lose weight and get fit! 🙌🏼

BUT unless you actually go and DO the things you have been hearing and learning - unless you put CORRESPONDING ACTION to what you have heard, you will see zero results. ❌

Likewise, many of us desire to get healed, increase financially, have peace in our relationships, walk in Divine protection, and enjoy all the blessings that God has given us by His grace. 🙏🏼

🎧 We spend hours a day listening to faith teachings and Word studies.
📖 We diligently read the Bible through three times every year.
📝 We have handwritten scriptures plastered to our fridge, mirrors, and walls.
👏🏼 We even shout “amen” every time we hear a testimony of healing or deliverance.

We have all of the wisdom, knowledge and revelation and we totally believe that God wants us blessed, healed, prosperous, and protected! 🙌🏼

BUT James 1:22 warns us that unless we are DOERS of the Word and not just hearers, we are deceiving (deluding, fooling, kidding) ourselves. 🫠

James 2:17 also tells us that unless faith has CORRESPONDING ACTION, it is DEAD (inoperative, unable to produce any results).💀

We have to be DOERS of the Word we have heard and put corresponding action to our faith if we want to see any results. 🏃‍♀️

And 2 Corinthians 4:13 tells us what the corresponding action to faith is and HOW to do the Word we have heard:

“…we BELIEVE, therefore we SPEAK.”🗣️

In other words, if we BELIEVE the Word, we must SPEAK the Word. 📖=🗣️

🗣️ If we BELIEVE “by His stripes we are healed,” we must SPEAK, “by His stripes I am healed!” (1 Pet 2:24)
🗣️ If we BELIEVE “No weapon formed against you shall prosper,” we must SPEAK, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper!”(Is 54:17)
🗣️ If we BELIEVE “My God shall supply all your needs,” we must SAY, “My God supplies all my needs!” (Phil 4:19)

And we SPEAK the Word we believe no matter what it looks like, what the circumstances are telling us, or how things appear in the natural. 👂🏼👀

Our ACTION (speaking) has to correspond to our faith in God’s Word in spite of all evidence to the contrary.

We do the Word by speaking the Word, confessing the Word, declaring the Word and standing firmly on the Word and ONLY the Word. 📖🗣️

And God promises that the doers of the Word WILL be blessed (get results!) in all that they do! (Js 1:25)🥰

That’s Good News! 🥳

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For further teaching on this subject, listen to “How To Be A Doer Of The Word” on the Faith Talks with Emily Preston podcast, available on all podcast streaming platforms, or click the link to Part 1 below:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1Sirohy9wjK0ArGb9C739F

For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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25/10/2024

For my American friends 🇺🇸❤️

A vote may count for something but NOTHING is as instrumental in transforming a nation than the fervent, effective prayer of the righteous (James 5:16). 🙏🏼

“To get nations back on their feet we must first get down on our knees.” ~ Billy Graham

08/10/2024

God PROMISES that *if* we SAY of the Lord…SAY what He says about us (and never speak fear) then a thousand may fall at our side and ten thousand at our right hand but ONLY WITH OUR EYES shall we look upon destruction (Ps 91:1,2,7).

04/10/2024

Listen to this 💎 faith gem 💎 from Keith Moore 🙌🏼

“If you’re walking by sight, you’re still trying to GET it, and you’re not going to believe you’ve got it until you see it…Faith quits trying to GET it and says, “Thank you Lord, I HAVE it!” 🔥

07/08/2024

The enemy is COUNTING ON our INCONSISTENCY. 🫥

He knows that…
If we don’t grow weary in well-doing (doing the Word), we WILL reap if we do not give up. (Gal 6:9) 🏆

He knows that…
If we do not throw away our confidence (in the Word) we WILL receive what He has promised. (Heb 10:35-36) 🥰

He knows that…
If we hold TIGHTLY to our confession of faith without wavering, God can be trusted to keep His promises. (Heb 10:23) 🙏🏼

He knows that…
If we stand firm (on the promises) and don’t allow anything to move us, our labour will NOT be in vain. (1 Cor 15:58) 🥇

He knows that…
If we CONTINUE in the Word we will know the truth and the truth will MAKE US FREE. (John 8:31) ⛓️‍💥

He knows that…
When the Word is applied deliberately and consistently like a hammer, it WILL break the rock (problem) into pieces. (Jer 23:29) 🔨

He knows that…
When we RESIST the devil (remain CONSISTENT, hold our ground, refuse to be moved or pushed back) he HAS TO flee! (James 4:7) 💨

Make this a confession every day:

I am not moved by what I see, I am not moved by what I hear, and I am not moved by what I feel! I walk by faith and not by sight! God’s Word never fails! I will keep my eyes on Jesus (the Word), He is the author and finisher of my faith! (Eph 6:12, 2 Cor 5:7, Heb 12:2)

We WILL reap if we remain consistent, persistent and resistant! 💪🏼

That’s Good News!

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Listen to Faith Talks with Emily Preston podcast, available on all podcast hosting platforms, or go to

www.faithtalks.com.au

For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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24/07/2024

Becky suffered for years from an incurable digestive disorder where her body would violently reject almost everything she would try to eat or drink.

But then Becky found out about her authority in Christ and that healing was already hers and SHE began to violently reject the symptoms and lies of the enemy! ❌

Be encouraged by this powerful testimony! 🥰👇🏼

Becky writes:

Dear Emily

I mostly wanted to say thank you to you for your faith talks ministry and for your podcasts that have bought such healing joy.

My story started over 4 years ago where my body started to randomly reject food and make me sick. It started with fats and oils where I couldn't tolerate fatty foods. I stopped eating anything with fat or oil and it settled down. However after a few months I began being unwell again - upset stomach, extreme constant nausea, vomiting and extreme tiredness. So I stopped dairy, then gluten, then meat, nuts, sugar, oats, soy, fruit.... the cycle continued like this with dropping food - getting better, then starting again.

Whilst going through this tough food battle, I continued to be a mum to our three beautiful children, a school chaplain and serve at our church and where I could to help share Jesus with others - while battling constant hunger and chronic tummy pain, nausea and fatigue - it was tough.

I had people praying for me and also pursued many doctors and natural remedies. Dr's had no answers and eventually I was put on a special formula to help with the weight loss and limited diet.

In October last year I was at my lowest - I felt horrible and I had reached the end of the road with medical help - no one had any answers and I had no where else to go.

My diet was so minimal and it was also impacting the ones I loved so much - our family could not go out together for a meal, we could not go on proper holidays and if we did I would spend weeks pre baking everything to freeze and take with us, I could not have a takeaway treat or meal out with my husband and my mum couldn't bake me a birthday cake or treat like she always did. I had to spend hours cooking extra meals and baking my own bread from scratch and spending money on supplements and remedies. I faced daily nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, I had a dizzy head, anxiety, panic feelings and drained weariness as well as constant gnawing hunger.

At this low point I had the opportunity as part of my chaplain role to take on just for a term teaching indigenous children that were part of our school, but whose campuses were not on it so would involve some weekly travel. I decided to use that time to completely commit to praying for healing and also to listen to your podcast.

I began with your teachings and listened intently - at first just absorbing and then as the weeks passed I began in that little car on these journeys to put into practise what was being revealed to my spirit. I began to "speak" to my mountain. It began in my head, then a whisper in the car, then out loud and finally a loud "scream". The three hour round trip every Monday involved crying, praying, worshiping and most importantly speaking the words "I am healed". I even began putting the windows down and letting the cows and sheep hear the good news too!

I also began to bridle my tongue and whilst on the inside I still felt terrible, when the kind friends and colleagues asked how i was I said with confidence "doing really well - God is good". I also cancelled all the Dr's appointments and stopped taking the supplements and just believed that I was healed in the name of Jesus.

Finally - I got angry - I got angry that I was not having the body that Jesus died on the cross to give me - It was not right and it needed to stop.

One of the last "attacks" I had was when I trialled a piece of chocolate. It would usually give me a horrible stomach the next day. On this Friday night I had a small bite (that was all) of cherry ripe in faith one night. The next day (at my daughter's dance concert) I was stuck once again in the bathroom - but this time instead of giving in to the "here we go again" that I had experienced so many times - I got angry - I told satan to leave my body and that it was over and done and enough! That was the last time I ever had a reaction from chocolate! I was free. What had once given my so much pain was gone.

That anger continued as I fought any symptoms that continued to sneak in and the battle was tough and the voices in my head were very loud "If you eat this you know it will make you sick it always does" and when a symptom came the next day I told it to leave and I continued to to declare my healing, cast out those voices - so by Christmas day December of 2023 I was eating with my family again and in Jan 2024 we had our first meal out together eating steak and chips and pizza.

It had been 4 years since It started and 6 powerful months of discovering my healing.

It has now been another 6 months and I am still feeling complete joy and freedom in every delicious bite of food and every opportunity to share my healing testimony.

I still declare my healing and take communion and if myself or my family have a cold or anything else we take authority over it and claim our healing. It's still a journey and a battle but God is faithful and we have the victory.

Thank you Emily for your part in this story and this journey - I share your podcast with anyone I can and am so so thankful.
Blessings on your ministry and life for Jesus and His glory.

Amen - to God be the Glory.
Becky

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Glory to God!

Don’t let the enemy have his way with you or your family for one more second ❌

The violent TAKE it by FORCE! 💪🏼 (Matthew 11:12)

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For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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07/07/2024

You will never see a world-champion fighter run at his opponent blindly with arms flailing, hoping to land a punch. 🤜🏼

No, a champion fighter knows his opponent. 🤨

He has studied his opponent’s moves closely and knows exactly how he must fight in order to defeat his opponent and defend his title.🥇

When the fighter steps into the ring, he gets into an intimidating fighting stance and begins to place intentional, well-aimed and effective blows on his opponent. 🤜🏼

He does this repeatedly, for however long it takes, until the match is over. 🏆

We are in the fight of faith, and 1 Corinthians 9:26 tells us that we DO NOT fight as one beating the air. 💨

We do not fight the good fight of faith blindly with flailing arms, throwing aimless punches and hoping something hits. 😮‍💨

Instead, we take our stance boldly in front of our opponent - whether it’s sickness, lack, relationship problems, depression or anxiety, or anything that’s trying to steal our “title”- and make intentional, well-aimed and effective “blows”. 👊🏼

🤜🏼 We remind our adversary that he IS defeated and that he cannot touch us - and place a well-aimed blow (Lk 10:19)

🤜🏼 We use the name of Jesus and command that “knee” to bow - and place a well-aimed blow. (Phil 2:10)

🤜🏼 We speak to the situation (mountain) and command it to move - and place a well-aimed blow. (Mt 17:20)

🤜🏼 We declare the promises of God and call things that be not as though they WERE (body, you ARE healed, I HAVE peace and not anxiety, I HAVE abundance and no lack) - and place a well-aimed blow. (Rom 4:17)

🤜🏼 We cast down every lie and suggestion from the enemy and replace it with the Word - and place a well-aimed blow. (2 Cor 10:5)

🤜🏼 We praise God that we already have the victory and that we are triumphant overcomers - and place a well-aimed blow. (2 Cor 2:14)

We use precise, intentional, well-aimed, and CONSISTENT strategy to hit our adversary hard and keep him in his place - totally and utterly defeated. 💪🏼🥇☝🏼

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For further teaching on this subject, listen to “You Are The Boss Of The Devil: The Believers Authority”, Episodes 39-44 on Faith Talks with Emily Preston. Link to Part 1 below:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/faith-talks/episodes/039---You-Are-The-Boss-Of-The-Devil-The-Believers-Authority-Part-1-e5338i

For a FREE booklet of Confessions For Life, scriptural declarations that cover every area of your life, email [email protected] or go to www.faithtalks.com.au
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18/06/2024

Could the reason that we’re not seeing breakthrough be an inch under our nose? 🫢

We almost lost our daughter except that I learned this vital principle in the nick of time! 🙏🏼

Watch our testimony and learn one of THE MOST important revelations we can have as believers…

Life AND death are in the power of OUR (not God’s!) tongue. (Prov 18:21) ❤️

When our daughter Virginia Grace was born prematurely at 24 weeks' gestation, I suddenly had to put into practice everything I'd learned my whole life about ...

09/05/2024

Ever wished you could 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬? 🙏🏼

You may have read a scripture such as Matthew 14:36 which says, “As many as touched Him (Jesus) were made whole”…

And thought, “If only Jesus would come back to earth, then I could touch Him and be made whole too!” 😩

Good news!

We may not be able to touch Jesus’ physical body, but we can still touch Jesus by touching 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃. (Jn 1:14) 📖

And we can get the same results the people who touched Jesus did by touching The Word! 🥰

But this “touch” isn’t simply a gentle tap.👆🏼

The word “touched” used in Matthew 14 is the Greek word 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪, which means “to lay hold of, fasten or cling to, to attach oneself to.” (Strong’s)🪢

It gives the picture of fervently taking hold of something known to have immense value, as demonstrated by a woman, weak with pain and blood loss, who crawled on her hands and knees through a trampling crowd to 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇 the hem of Jesus’ garment. (Matt 9:20) 🤜🏼

It literally means to “touch someone or something in such a way that it 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌.” ↩️

And the way we “touch” Jesus is by laying hold of, fastening ourselves to, clinging to, and attaching ourselves to 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃. 📖

We lay hold of the Word with our mouth by finding out what The Word says about us and confessing (agreeing with) it. (Rom 10:8)🗣️

We fasten ourselves to the Word by casting down every thought or suggestion that doesn’t agree with the Word (2 Cor 10:5) 💭🟰📖

We cling to the Word by not being moved by what we see, hear, or feel and refusing to speak the problem. (2 Cor 4:18, Js 1:26)🤐

We attach ourselves to the Word by giving it our full attention, listening to it, speaking it, and meditating on it. (Prov 4:20-22) 😇

And if we will esteem The Word as so valuable and precious that we won’t let anything hinder us from clinging to it constantly - it will 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐔𝐒. ↩️

↩️ It will alter our bodies from sick to healed.
↩️ It will alter our relationships from broken to whole.
↩️ It will alter our finances from poverty to abundance.
↩️ It will alter our emotions from turmoil to peace.

Touch Jesus - touch 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 - and you will made WHOLE. 🥰

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Listen to Faith Talks with Emily Preston podcast, where you will learn HOW to walk by faith through grace, available on all podcast hosting platforms, or go to:

www.faithtalks.com.au

For a FREE copy of Confessions for Life: God’s Promises for You - a booklet of scriptural declarations that cover all the main areas of life, go to www.faithtalks.com.au or email [email protected]
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02/05/2024

Guys, I’d love your help!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I’m putting together a new podcast series called “The Truth About Tests, Trials, Suffering, and Persecution” and I’d love to cover any questions you may have or statements you may have heard.

For example:

- If God leads you to it, He’ll lead you through it.
- Suffering is part of our lives as Christian…but what is the suffering of the believer?
- All who live godly lives will suffer persecution…but what IS persecution if God says that no evil will befall us, no weapon formed against us shall prosper etc?
- God allows us to go through things to prepare us for bigger challenges.
- God allowed us to go through that season because it brought us closer to Him.
- God tests and tries our faith to produce patience in us.

Etc, etc, etc 😁

What statements have you heard? What questions do you have? Comment below or DM me.

I’ll be digging into the Word to answer these and more in my upcoming series!

Emily ❤️

30/04/2024

Paul’s thorn in the flesh is one of the most controversial subjects in the Bible, and is almost always used not only to justify suffering in the Christian life, but prove that God wants us to endure suffering. 😰

So let’s let the Bible interpret the Bible to give us a deeper understanding of what was really going on between God and Paul when it came to his thorn in the flesh.🧐

(It’s a bit of a long read, but totally worth it! 😉)

Firstly, Paul himself identifies his thorn in the flesh as a “messenger of Satan sent to buffet me.” (2 Cor 12:7) 👿

So right away we know that the source of the thorn was Satan, not God, and that it was sent because of the abundance of revelation that Paul was receiving. (Vs 7)💡

Not only was Paul preaching the gospel to the farthest corners of the known world, he was also writing letters to the churches teaching them his staggering revelation of God’s GRACE - that we’ve been made righteous, not because of our performance but because of the finished works of Jesus, and that we have been redeemed from the curse of the law of sin and death - the law that kept people in bo***ge to sin. (Rom 3:22, 8:2) ✝️

Paul was also teaching the church about our astounding position - seated with Christ Jesus far above the devil and his ranks of power, and our assignment - to reign in life as kings through Christ Jesus! (Eph 1:21, 2:6, Rom 5:17)👑

Of course Satan couldn’t have that! So he assigned to Paul a demonic spirit to “buffet” him - to “mistreat violently, torment, and treat harshly.” (Strong’s) 👿

And Paul called this spirit a “thorn in the flesh”.

So what exactly was this infamous thorn, this demonic messenger? Was it sickness? Disease?

Again, let’s let scripture interpret scripture. 📖

The phrase “thorn in the flesh” is used three other times in the Bible - in Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13, and Judges 2:3. And every time it’s used to describe PEOPLE. 👥

Irritating, antagonistic, hostile, violent PEOPLE.😤😠😡

In a word - PERSECUTION.🤬

The demonic messenger assigned to Paul would follow him wherever he went, stirring up the people to torment, violently mistreat, and harshly PERSECUTE him, in the attempt to discourage him, hinder him, and eventually, shut him up! 🤐

And because nobody likes to be persecuted for doing good, Paul did what so many of us still do - He pleaded with God to make it go away.😭🙏🏼

Jesus has redeemed us from a multitude of things, but do you know that we are not redeemed from persecution? That’s because we are not redeemed from other people’s thoughts and opinions and behaviour toward us. 💭

In 2 Timothy 3:12 God warns us that, “All who live godly in Christ will suffer persecution.”

When believers take a stand for righteousness and truth and for living the overcoming life God intended for us to live, people are going to hate us, talk badly about us, abuse us, get offended at us, and maybe even try to get physically violent with us - that’s persecution. 😤😡

This persecution is not a personal attack on us, it comes for THE WORD’s sake. (Mark 4:17) 📖

And the root cause of persecution is still the same as it was in Paul’s case - people are still being stirred up by the only one who can’t have people hearing the Word and getting revelation of the truth that will make them free - THE DEVIL. (2 Cor 4:4, Eph 2:2)👿

But in His great love for us, God has given us the GRACE to endure this persecution. 😇

And Paul knew this.

Paul himself was the one that had the revelation that we do not wrestle with flesh and blood - or that people are not the source of our problems. (Eph 6:12) 👿

Paul is the one who wrote, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31) 🙏🏼

Paul is the one who wrote that NOTHING - including persecution - can separate us from the love of Christ, but that in all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ! (Rom 8:35-37) 💪🏼

Paul is the one who wrote, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” (Phil 4:13) ✝️

And Paul is the one who wrote to the Romans and urged them to “Bless those who PERSECUTE you: Bless and do not curse…” (12:14)🙏🏼

Paul had a revelation of God’s GRACE! 😇

That’s why God lovingly reminded Paul: “My GRACE is sufficient for you!” (2 Cor 12:9) ❤️

In other words, “Paul, you know that I’ve already given you more than enough grace to handle this - you just have to use what you have!” 📖

Then God says, “For my power is made perfect (complete) in weakness.”💥

God was more or less saying, “Paul, your natural flesh might want to give up and quit, but that’s where you can let MY power take over! My SUPER-natural strength, ability, and might will more than make up for your weaknesses! (12:9) 🙌🏼

After receiving this powerful encouragement from God, Paul could then confidently say, “I therefore delight in difficulties, hardships, persecutions, and insults, for when I am weak (in my natural ability) I am strong (in the Lord and in the power of His might!) (2 Cor 12:10, Eph 6:10)💪🏼💥

And despite the persecutions, stonings, whippings and shipwrecks, nothing and nobody was able to deter Paul from completing his assignment - to preach the good news of God’s grace to the nations. 🌎

And finally one day, Paul declared, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” and when he was good and ready, he departed to be with his beloved Saviour whom he had served so faithfully. (2 Tim 4:7) ✝️

The story of Paul’s thorn is not justification for suffering through sickness, disease, affliction, tragedy, poverty, or emotional trauma - we have been REDEEMED from these things through the broken body and blood of Jesus. (Gal 3:13) ✝️

It’s a reminder of the grace God has made abundantly available to all who will believe. (Rom 4:16) 🙏🏼

❤️By His grace He has redeemed us and cleansed us from sin FOREVER. (Heb 10:14)
❤️By His grace He has healed us, delivered us, and freed us from the results of sin. (Gal 3:13)
❤️By His grace He has given us authority over all of the power of the enemy - over the Stealer, Killer and Destroyer. (Lk 10:19, Jn 10:10)
❤️By His grace He has given us His Spirit to dwell in us - His power, might, and ability. (Acts 1:8)
❤️By His grace He has given us His Word - our great and precious promises by which we ESCAPE the corruption in the world. (2 Pt 1:3-4)
❤️By His grace He has already made us more than conquerors, overcomers, and victorious. (Rom 8:37, 1 Jn 4:4, 5:4)

And when it comes to persecution:

❤️By His grace He loved us first so that we can in turn love others. (1 Jn 4:9)
❤️By His grace He forgave us first so that we can in turn forgive our enemies and people who persecute us. (Eph 4:32)
❤️By His grace, we too can fight the good fight, finish our race, and keep the faith. (1 Tim 6:12)

God’s grace is STILL sufficient for us!

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