MORE on JEALOUSY and SABOTAGE
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
-by M. Liu.
I would like to comment on this issue.
Recently my friend and I were suffering intense persecutions from
people we thought all along were good friends and 'mature
Christians'. They started circulating vicious and untrue accusations
about us among our circle of friends and some of these
accusations were reported back to us.
We prayed before the Lord, and prayed blessings over our
accusers, and tried our best - asking God to give us ability - to
forgive these people.
The Lord then spoke to us. The Lord said, 'My favor is a test.
Jealousy is the fruit.'
The Lord then showed me over the next few days that when God
pours out favor over us, some of our brothers and sisters will
get so jealous and so mad that they will persecute us with all
resources at their disposal.
It is like Joseph being sold into slavery, and very nearly murdered,
by his brothers out of jealousy. After receiving God's promises,
Joseph spent years in an Egyptian prison without any visible 'public ministry'.
Jesus was also killed by people many of whom were motivated by
jealousy. Mary received a prophecy before Jesus was born that
her son would save the world. But Jesus ministered three years,
without much in the world to show that he had saved the world,
when Mary watched her son died on the cross.
The Lord later said to me, 'The alternative fruit is humility.'
So what I have learnt can be summarised as follows:
God sets up a test. He pours out favor, blessings and anointings
on a person. The people around that favored person can choose
to bless and support God's work in humility, or to oppose God's
work out of jealousy and pride.
At the same time, the favored and persecuted person is also
under a test: the person needs to forgive, to love and to suffer
graciously under persecution - just like Joseph and Jesus and the
early apostles. Alternatively the person may choose to become
disappointed, bitter and angry.
The Lord requests that we bear fruit of the Spirit in our hearts.
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