Daily Devotional. Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but OUT OF THEM ALL THE LORD DELIVERED ME. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Timothy 3:11-12. Ok “Prosperity Gospel” preachers, teachers, and Joe Sheepers, read on. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I (Paul) am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 2 Corinthians 11:23-27. Ya boy, Paul sure knows how to lay it on thick with all the good news about that prosperity gospel. It’s so simple, all we have to do is Walk His Roadmap, how much gooder do it get??? While we’re at it, let’s tell Paul how much tougher it’s going to be during the 7 years of very hard Tribulation, and how the Lord is going to take us all out of here before it all starts, because Paul didn’t suffer anything like we would, IF, we were still here. Obviously Paul would never have made it through the tribulation because his sufferings were light duty, compared to what’s soon coming. Or did Paul actually show us the way BY EXAMPLE, and He expects us to follow??? Ok Lord, you can give each one of us what Paul had, but no more, and we will, Be Blessed.
