Well, hello my friends, welcome back. It is time for the morning mindset, for you and

for me to get our minds aligned with the truth of God and want to let you know about a new resource that will

be coming very soon to a YouTube channel near you. On my YouTube channel I'm

going to be publishing some videos that I'm calling scripture sketches

and there are opportunities for us to dig into the scripture a little more in-depth, and visually

speaking, where I'm able to show the passage on the screen,

notate things, annotate, draw pictures, things like that,

to help bring the meaning out and apply it to our lives.

If you're interested, you can check out the link in the show notes to this episode for more details.

All right, we are back in the book of Romans, chapter 12 verse number 14, and this passage again like yesterday's is very simple

nothing hard to understand about it but there is a lot of difficulty in

applying this one for a lot of

reasons let's look at Romans 12 verse 14 it says bless those who persecute you

bless and do not curse them.

Wow like I said, very simple to understand, very hard to apply.

Now it's interesting to note the previous verse told us to be one who's willing to bless those who are in need who are of

the family of God. Well this is the other side of the coin. This is people who are

not necessarily part of the family of God.

These are people who are coming against you.

And the word persecute implies because of your faith

or for some unjust reason people are coming against you.

And our natural tendency as human beings

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