Abiding Faith: To those in the body of Christ who are hurting behind the failure of highly respected and influential pastors, deacons, preachers, teachers or other believers – I don’t know you personally and I don’t know happened to cause this horrible situation and the huge pain in your heart. BUT the Lord has a Word for you if you will receive it.
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:6-8 (KJV)
Don’t give Satan a bigger foothold than he already has. Fill the cracks with the Word, fasting, and prayer. Deny the Devil any more conquest and refuse to become a willing victim by caving into the temptations of the flesh and becoming angry, bitter, resentful, vengeful, or distant.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 (KJV)