Are you ready to endure

Are you ready to endure 

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake; Philippians 1:29

Is given - means - To give or bestow a thing willingly

 To believe - means - To have faith in , commit to trust, to entrust one's spiritual well being .

 To suffer - means - to experience , undergo an experience, to experience a sensation or impression ( usually painful)

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.  But all these things will they do unto you for My Name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me. John 15:18-21

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Acts 14:22 

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Timothy 3:12

persecution is and will come to christians in America . believers in America are about to suffer for the Name's sake of Christ our Lord. we are blessed to be accounted worthy to suffer for His Name's sake. 

For me to live is Christ and to die is gain . Philippians 1:21

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 

Endure hardness - endure hardships , to suffer afflictions , to toil , suffering ill , 

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 2 Timothy 2:1-4

Be encouraged in the Lord. 

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 

let not your heart be troubled - of uncertain affinity , to stir or agitate

be not afraid - faithless , fearful, to be timid 

 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 

My friends the Lord will lead us in a plain path because of our enemies . His word is a Lamp unto our feet and a Light unto our path. abide in the Living active powerful word of God. His Name is the word of God . come into alignment with His will His ways His word and let Him Govern your life for it is not your own our body is His temple we have been bought with a price. we are His purchased possession rise up and be a city set on a hill that cannot be hid the kingdom of God dwells in us and it is time to walk in it the Lord has given us His spirit we are His building His church in whom the gates of hell shall not prevail against