The Power of God's Word: In the midst of Adversity

Living Righteously has consequences

2 Timothy 3:12 NKJV

12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Psalm 119:69 NKJV

69 The proud have forged a lie against me, But I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:84–87 NKJV

84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me? 85 The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your law. 86 All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me! 87 They almost made an end of me on earth, But I did not forsake Your precepts.

Saints Cry Out to God

Psalm 119:134 KJV 1900

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: So will I keep thy precepts.

Psalm 119:153–154 KJV 1900

153 RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: For I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: Quicken me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:41–42 KJV 1900

41 VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, Even thy salvation, according to thy word. 42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: For I trust in thy word.

Saint Cling to the Word

Psalm 119:143 KJV 1900

143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: Yet thy commandments are my delights.

Psalm 119:23 KJV 1900

23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Psalm 119:51 KJV 1900

51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not declined from thy law.

Psalm 119:53–54 KJV 1900

53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked That forsake thy law. 54 Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.

Psalm 119:61 KJV 1900

61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: But I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalm 119:78 KJV 1900

78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: But I will meditate in thy precepts.

Psalm 119:92 KJV 1900

92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Psalm 119:95 KJV 1900

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: But I will consider thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:110 KJV 1900

110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: Yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Psalm 119:115 KJV 1900

115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: For I will keep the commandments of my God.

Psalm 119:157 KJV 1900

157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:161–162 KJV 1900

161 SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: But my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.