Set aside the Lord, God (THE WORD) in your hearts

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

I Peter 3 ... 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness 'sake, happy are ye:and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Each person who belongs to God will suffer persecution on this earth for the Word's sake.

God will put in our heart HIS word on the matter at hand and that is what we believe.  Others (even church going people) will come along speaking something opposite to that which God has said to us.  Don't we suffer because of their words? 

Didn't some mock Jesus?  If they mocked the master, they will mock HIS servants.  So it is no strange thing for us to suffer when we are carriers of the Word.

It is shocking to us when the church rejects the word of God.  But all that shows us is they say Jesus is Lord, but they show Jesus is not their Lord for they refuse to allow THE WORD, Jesus, to reign over them.

II Tim. 3 ...  5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:from such turn away. 

They may even accuse us who carry the Word.

We will become bitter against them unless we learn to sanctify the Word of God in our hearts and just walk away when this happens ... committing the keeping of our souls to God, focusing on what God has said, not on what "they" say.