This morning, as I sat listening to Holy Spirit, this statement came immediately to mind.
When tribulation comes it comes against your foundation.
The adversary in this world is hoping to find weak areas in your foundation that will cause you to stumble, or at the very least to feel the blows. The blows are aimed at past areas where there was a breech that occurred. If those areas have not been repaired it is likely that they will be his target once again. But, when we stand on the firm foundation of Jesus Christ we are standing on the foundation of HE who overcame. The Bible tells us that in this life you will have tribulation, but take heart, Jesus has overcome the world. John 16:33
In other words, when difficulties come and you see many falling on your right, and left, you take heart. Psalm 91, our prayer of protection, prepares us for the thousands falling on our side, but comforts us in decreeing that the danger will not come near us. We will be as a spectator looking on with our eyes to witness this destruction, but watching safety from the shelter of the Most High. Hallelujah. Be focused and ready, but do not allow fear to enter in. Remember His joy is our strength!
2 Timothy 3:1-6 But understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress andtrouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear].For people will be lovers of self and[utterly] self-centered, lovers of money andaroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud andarrogant andcontemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy andprofane.(They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate andloose in morals andconduct, uncontrolled andfierce, haters of good.(They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures andvain amusements more than andrather than lovers of God.For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny andreject andare strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].
2 Timothy 3:14 But as for you, continue in the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced (holding tightly to the truths), knowing from whom you learned them