“However, I say to you, love your enemies, bless the one who curses you, do something wonderful for the one who hates you, and respond to the very ones who persecute you by praying for them. For that will reveal your identity as children of your heavenly Father. He is kind to all by bringing the sunrise to warm and rainfall to refresh, whether a person does what is good or evil.”
Matthew 5:44–45 TPT
When it feels as though everyone is against you and you are being treated unfairly, do not give up and do not allow yourself to become upset or hardened. Instead, begin partnering with the Lord by asking Him how to pray for and bless those people. It is only then that the Lord is able to work in their hearts, revealing His love and inviting them to receive His mercy and grace, which brings true transformation.
There are many who claim to love God and know Him, yet the Lord told me that many who say they know Him have never truly known Him. Some believe they are living a Christian life because they attend church and appear outwardly righteous, but Jesus made it clear that His true family is made up of those who obey God’s Word.
If there is jealous ambition in your heart, or if you seek to elevate yourself by making others look bad, you are not living for God. You are living for yourself.
If blessing and praying for all people is part of God’s plan for leading others into salvation through His mercy and grace, how will they ever come to know Him if those they oppose are not showing them love and praying for them?
Those who truly know the Lord understand that love alone has the power to completely destroy evil. War, hatred, and the murder of enemies have never been the path to eternal life.
Jesus hung on the cross and asked the Father to forgive the very people who put Him there. He understood they were being deceived by sin and evil, which led them to take His life. Jesus came to save the lost and to restore sinners back to God.
So the question we must ask ourselves is this: how are we doing with this one required mark of being in the family of God?
Someone may say, “But you do not know what that person did to me.” That is true. I may not know what they did to you, but I do know what Jesus did to forgive them and to forgive me. If He could say, “Father, forgive them,” then surely His grace is sufficient for me to forgive those who have harmed or offended me throughout my life.
Ask the Lord for the grace to forgive and release everyone who has hurt you. The next step is to pray for them to encounter God’s love and mercy. After that, choose to bless them by doing something good for them, even if they once sought to harm you.
When a person truly follows these steps, something powerful happens. Enemies are no longer enemies. Just as Scripture says, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Proverbs 16:7
If you don’t believe what I am saying is possible, watch the clip that I took from a segment of the 700 Club back in 2019. It will open your heart to understand God’s love on a deeper level.
Grace, Mercy & Miracles 
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