“I WILL GIVE YOU!”

Luke 31:10-19                                (ESV)

“10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

12 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

13 THIS WILL BE YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BEAR WITNESS.

14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

15 for “I WILL GIVE YOU” A MOUTH AND WISDOM, which NONE OF YOUR ADVERSARIES will be able to withstand or contradict.

16 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

17 YOU WILL BE HATED by all for MY name's sake.

18 But not a hair of your head will perish.

19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

One of the most difficult things I had to adjust to following the Brain Hemorrhage was not being able to have the quick and witty responses THAT I USED TO have prior to July 09, 2007!  To describe this as a BLESSING would appear that I was loosing my mind, but learning to TRUST IN GOD even for the words that come out of your mouth isn’t anything that someone else can be credited with.  The Speech Therapists that were assigned to my case were simply the best, but they couldn’t “fix” something that THE ALMIGHTY had Planned for my life.  

Just as human nature would have done everything possible to prevent the Brain Hemorrhage, we too will quite possibly (and unsuccessfully I might add) attempt to avoid the perilous times that GOD IN THE FLESH tries to prepare us for.  HE said in the Scriptures above that “I WILL GIVE YOU” WORDS that none of our adversaries will have an answer for.  Even family will turn on family because “the enemy” is all about tearing apart all the things of GOD.  

In Genesis 50:20 Joseph was speaking to his brothers who had sold him into slavery and said “....you meant evil against me, but GOD meant it for good...”!  JESUS said “YOU WILL BE HATED by all for MY name's sake” and then follows that up with the word BUT!  BUT not a hair of your head will perish!  

There might be heartache and difficulties ahead in our future, but we are PROMISED that ALL THINGS (Romans 8:28) will work together for our good.  “I WILL GIVE YOU”, not only WORDS to speak, but also WISDOM to know when to speak them and when to NOT speak them.