Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Jesus said: 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. Jn. 16:33
The phone rings. Caller ID shows it is some business that frequently calls. You pick up phone to ask to have your name removed. It is amazing how much trouble you encounter by picking up the phone.
Jesus guarantees we will have trouble in the world.
We go out for a simple task. Often we run into trouble we did not expect. And we feel terrible about that trouble.
But always in Jesus, in what HE speaks to us by HIS Spirit there is peace.
We have light and darkness in these examples and light and darkness are not compatible so we expect trouble between light and darkness.
We always overcome and become stable through the Word HE gives us. In the world we will have trouble. It is normal and to be expected.
I Peter 2 ... Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Rejoice in HIS mercy which has made us different.