Don’t tell anyone that you have reported this to me. Acts 23:22
Finding the right person or people to tell!
Paul’s life was in grave danger and his nephew had been sent to warn him. The commander had to get Paul away from the Jewish plot to murder him and he assembled a small army to protect Paul during the journey. But he also warned the young man not to tell anyone that he knew about the plot.
I have spoken previously about the fastest growing church in Iran. “Everything is foundational on prayer. We find people of peace through prayer. We even find locations through prayer”, the Iranian Church leader noted. The church in Iran is a persecuted church and like the early church can only operate undercover, yet it is growing rapidly. The persecuted church has to be a supernatural church, a Spirit led church. It operates under the direction of Heaven, not by the plans of men. Above all the church has power from above.
As a friend said recently, ‘we are living in strange times, but God is still the same(unchanging)’. None of us knows what the future holds but things may never return as they were. The church is coming under increasing pressure to conform to a society which is moving further from God. The power of heaven is available to those who are willing to listen and follow the leading of the Spirit.
Church in Smyrna: ‘I know your afflictions and your poverty – yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do you not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to the point of death and I will give you the crown of life’. Rev 2
May God bless and keep you today.