Sister in his hands,John 15:18-20 Here is what many fine believers do not realize,there hatred of you, never has to affect you! Most who do this are themselves so very unhappy in there own relationship with the Lord, that they wish for someone else to join them in there despair!
The only power someone has over you,is you giving it to them! DON"T!! Jesus did not care that others hated him,he knew this would happen and so do we! Do not allow your own feeling to guide your peace with others.( Rom 12:18) if possible! To some as we all well know it is not possible because they do not look to reason, only argue,so God gave us two feet to walk away from them as well!
Who says you have to stand there and become abused in word? It is there loss,do not make it your loss to! I remember after coming to Jesus my old pals I hung around with, would make fun of me," there goes the Jesus freak! ( 1 john 3:5-18) Your position! After many weeks of this,and seeing they could no longer push my buttons, I was walking down a street near an alley one of those pals I had came up to me, looked around and said hey man I have seen Jesus in you,I now know he is real in your life, would you pray for me? When those who would hurt you both in word and deed, find out that Jesus is truly alive in you,they do not come to the persons who mocks God, they come to the person who believes God!!
I said sure ,I would be glad to pray for you!( Matt 5:14-16!!) Darkness hates the light,and our Jesus came to live in us to bring light to a very dark city,so let him indeed do this in your life!! A Word from the Lord came to me many years after going through what some of you have! This same word is for my fine sisters in Christ to both read and yes believe in!!!( Isaiah 41:9-13!!!!!!) We are in Christ Jesus to be strong.not like others who are weak.( rom 15:1-6! In this my brothers and sisters we keep one of the greatest gifts from our Jesus!!!! LASTING HOPE!!!! ( rom 15:13!!!) God kept his own peace by choosing to look at ( Phil 4:7-8) we follow in this to keep ours to!! Blessing all!