PEER PRESSURE
I understand your desire to please Me and yet keep favor with men. Overcoming man’s disapproval is something I want you to be completely free from. This includes shrinking away from men’s opinions, running away from their coercion to conform to their image, and fear of loss for choosing to follow Me and not their path. I understand the trauma of your soul in overcoming man’s word curses and judgments. I understand that you are My peacemaker and do not want to cause offense. What matters most to Me is that you follow My will for your life and that you do so without condemnation or shame. Your choices are pleasing Me, but I want you healthy on the inside as you walk My path.
John 12:42-43 NKJV
Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Prov 29:25
The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe.
1 Sam 15:24-25
Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
Matt 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matt 15:12-14
Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
John 9:20-23
His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
2 Tim 4:16
At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be charged against them.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
