I really love this promise from Psalm 31 in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan for today.
16 Let Your face shine on Your servant; save me for Your mercy’s sake and in Your loving-kindness. 17 Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, or disappointed, for I am calling upon You; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the place of the dead). 18 Let the lying lips be silenced, which speak insolently against the [consistently] righteous with pride and contempt. 19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere,and worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust and take refuge in You before the sons of men! 20 In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots of men; You keep them secretly in Your pavilion from the strife of tongues. 21 Blessed be the Lord! For He has shown me His marvelous loving favor when I was beset as in a besieged city.
Whether you are serving the Lord in a foreign country (not the USA) and enduring real and severe persecution, or serving Him right here and enduring the persecution of a different kind through remarks, character smears, hostility from former friends and family, lawsuits and things like that, THIS promise is most definitely for YOU, and for RIGHT NOW! AMEN! The further promise from verses 23-24 should stir up your joy and expectation of good things to come!
23 O love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully pays back him who deals haughtily. 24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!
Remind yourself on a daily, or even hourly, basis that: GOD'S GOT THIS! Amen! Here is Hillsong with "God Is Able":
Shalom in Him!
