6 Steps To Take When Going Through Hard Times: Step 4

4.Stay Encouraged
- The story of Job shows that God allows Satan to persecute. You should find comfort in knowing that it's allowed. God allows it because what Satan is using to destroy you, God is using to build you!!!

1 Cor 2:8-Which none of the princes of this world knew:
For had they known it, they would have not crucified the Lord of glory.
- If Satan knew that Jesus would redeem mankind through His death, If Satan knew that Jesus would wrestle the keys of life and death from him, If Satan knew that Jesus would rise on the third day with the victory, Satan wouldn't have had him crucified.
- Likewise, if Satan knew the power that you will have after making it through this time, if Satan knew the great works you are being prepared for, he would just have left you alone!!

See Satan doesn't know the magnitude of the work that we'll do, but he can identify the greatness. The devil tries to kill those who are threats to him. As previously stated Jesus had just assembled the disciples. They were just beginning. They were babies. Satan tries to kill at the baby stage when He knows the future greatness. Yet while he tries to kill, God is preparing in the midst of.
Two examples are Moses and Jesus.

Moses
- Moses was placed in the house of a Pharaoh's daughter.- It is there that he would learn the customs of the Egyptians and how to enter and how he could gain access to the Pharaoh.- It was there that he was raised with the person that he would later overcome for the freedom of his people.- So, while Satan was trying to kill Moses as a baby, God was putting him in a position of preparation to set the captives free.
- What captives are God preparing you to free?
Jesus
- In Matthew 2:15 and Matthew 2:23 we see that while Satan trying to kill Jesus, God was fulfilling His word concerning Jesus.
- Just know that it's working out for the manifestation of your destiny. God is preparing you!!