Pray for those who persecute you

Do you have people in your life or around you that have hurt you, that have persecuted you, that do things that are mean, hateful, or just plain unnecessary? Do you have people around that you have to constantly forgive over and over because they just keep doing wrong things to you, or to those around you?

I had been dealing with this recently and I didn’t like the feelings that I would get inside, and even though the world might say I was justified in my feelings, I know I don’t live according to the world system, I live according to the Kingdom and the Word of God and I am supposed to walk in love. So I went to the Father and asked Him what can I do to stop these feelings, and He told me to pray for that person for a week, and then He had me read Matthew 5:43-48…

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

So I began to pray, and at first in my mind I wanted to start praying selfish prayers, I wanted them to be changed so they wouldn’t act the way they were acting, but the Holy Spirit really took control, and all I begin to do was to bless this person, I began to speak the Word over their life, I began to speak increase, etc. I began to pray from a loving perspective, not a selfish perspective, and after 3 days when I would think about that person, no negative feelings came up, it was amazing, and it began to set me free.

I am sharing all of this with you because God has told me to pose the same thing to you all. If there is someone that you may have been having some difficulties with then take the next week and pray for them every day from a place of love and not selfishness. If you do you will see God move in your heart and it will truly set you free. God bless!

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries