You have enemies. You have enemies that want you and your children dead. You have enemies you need to fight. Your well-intended desire to “win them over” through niceness is a weapon they wield against you. They manipulate your long-conditioned desire to avoid conflict. They know that you are terrified of offending anyone since that will negatively affect church attendance. And so, they have rolled over you. They’ve destroyed your culture. They’ve now made you an exile in your own country. You are not going to “winsome” your way out of this. You can choose to remain silent out of cowardice, or you can begin to fight an evil ideology that could not be in more stark rebellion against the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

When it seems that the devil is causing a lot of confusion and fear in our lives and in our society, do you think it would be just like God to orchestrate a dynamic deliverance that can only be attributed to His power? We can understand that the night can sometimes seem darkest just before the dawn. This is why it’s vitally important for us to know God intimately by spending time with Jesus through His Holy Spirit as we meditate on His word. You can only do that if you prioritize time to read His word regularly and study it to seek out God’s patterns of how He accomplishes His plans.