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In my journey as a Kingdom Practitioner in this world, I have quickly learned of persecution.  When you engage in the business of the Father with the purpose of bringing deliverance to those who are trapped in religious systems you can expect a new level of warfare coming your way..  Every new level that you enter in Christ comes with a new level of attack.  It is like a planting a new tree.  When the seed falls into the ground it has to endure a certain level of persecution before it produces a tree.   As nature takes its course the seed is persecuted by the heat, the water, the wind and several other circumstances which are all pivotal to the developing process of the seed.  The seed has to die before it starts to grow.  Every new Kingdom Practitioner or minister of the Gospel is a seed on the earth.                                           

1 Peter 1:23-25
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,  25 But the word  of the Lord endures forever."     

The persecution is part of your dying process and vital to your existence and survival in ministry.   Every disciple of Christ must go through a dying process.  You have to take up your cross daily and follow Him.

Gal 5:24-26
24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.                     

This is a process; the seed does not germinate overnight, but as a result of persecution.  I often wondered why I have to endure so much persecution in ministry.  In some towns it is easier to start a night club than a ministry.  I also realized that 99% of the persecution I face is not by unbelievers but by my fellow brothers and sisters.  I am being persecuted by the religious order of the day.  I am being persecuted by institutions and "super apostles" and men who exalted themselves above Christ by installing themselves as the "gates" to the city.  Would they persecute me for starting a night club, or opening a restaurant?  What about a gay and lesbian club?  While their own children are victims of these things, they spend all their time, trying to prevent a younger generation with some fresh manna to enter their city and start a ministry.  These men and women have not died to their own passion and desires.  Their burden is not for the Body of Christ, but to build a name for themselves.  They are threatened and insecure and would rather persecute the new seed to the point of death.  Oh yes, it was the religious order, the Scribes and the Pharisees of the day, who persecuted Jesus to the point of death.   Jesus was the Seed that was raised from the dead.  (2 Timothy 2:8)