Learning about love and persecution

Ok, I was wondering how to share the truth/help people come to Christ or whatever. I think I heard the Holy Spirit tell me show them love. Well, I got a confirmation. For, I can't find the discussion but I think it's Tammy Henson's reply on a discussion about what's the best way to share the gospel or something like that. The answer was/is,love.

Anyway, I was wondering yet again last night. And, guess where I got lead before I went to bed to read? 1 Corinthians 13.

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

⁶ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸ Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

¹² For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

¹³ And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&am...

Anyway, verse 7 caught my eye.  And, last night the Holy Spirit used it in my life to show how to practice true love.

He's helping me understand what love really means, it's not just some word that makes a person get all cuddly and cute (for lack of a better term). Love is stonger than that and yes the bible is a living word.

He's also helping me to learn about persecution. I read Foxe's book of marytrs (from the Voice of the Martyrs). Today was Sunday Nache Achi, he died in Dec. 9th 2004, I read in that book (I like reading atleast one story a day). He got strangled by Muslims. He did alot for Jesus.

Anyway, one of the people he probably knew at the university said this

"Evangelism is something we must be prepared to die for. I see in the Bible examples of many who had to lay down their lives for the sake of the gospel. Why not me?" P.311

That got to me. And now I understand atleast a little better, by God's grace, what the brothern mean when they'd rather risk physical harm than live content lives. It's all worth the risk, even for one lost soul...

I thought the JW were just decieved but not harmful (like Muslims and Hindus overseas for the brothern)...I was wrong. I kept the info. in the back of my mind that I found (there's others who knows as well). I thought since this I'm in America I don't hae to worry about it...I may not be allowed to show the links...

:sighs: Anyway, I know whatever physical risk is on this earth, if even one person comes to Christ because of it, like those overseas, than it's all worth it...please pray for their salvations and that I don't deny the Lord Jesus Christ.

Honestly, I'm not extreamly scared but I think ether fear is trying to break into me/I'm atleast a tad bit scared. God has actually given me a peace this world doesn't understand. A song that's helped is Days of Elijah...Praise Jesus, for He is faithful!

He is letting me see through the eyes of those overseas better...To understand the risk of telling the truth yet knowing even just one soul won to Christ makes it all worth it. I still have a long ways to go, it won't be finished until I meet Jesus but I know that He will Phil. 1:6

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

http://bible.cc/philippians/1-6.htm

In Christ,

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