Persecution

Dear Lord please be with us this day and please may Your Holy Spirit be guiding and protecting us in every thing that we say and do. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings and protection that You give us and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of accepting opportunities to show love to others that are shut out of  opportunities to experience Your Love and the brotherly love of their neighbors as is taught by the Light of Your Word that is in Your Teaching.
Dear Lord please lead us into paths of accepting the persecution as part of the reward of finding the direction that You would have us follow as we seek Your Kingdom, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.

Quotation:*
Persecution often does in this life what the last great day will do completely- separate the wheat from the tares. --Milner

KJV*
Mt 22:34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Mt 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Mt 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mt 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mt 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mt 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mt 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.