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are about to break forth upon this world with great suddenness and fury. Yet we can
rise above the storms, putting them under our feet, and maintain a peace and a calm
in the midst of the storm. To do so we must focus on Yahshua. If we look at the
storms and make them our focus we will succumb to fear and will be overwhelmed
by them. We can only walk as Overcomers as we keep our eyes on Messiah.

Many are making the storms of this world their focus. By constantly paying attention
to what is going on in the world as it relates to wicked men and their schemes, these
saints are filling their minds with fear and they are being assailed by doubts. As they
see the schemes of evil men moving forward they become fearful of the power of
these same men. Yet evil men are merely pawns in God’s hands. They can do nothing
without His permission. Their power is an illusion. The early apostles understood
this.

Acts 4:23-29
And when they had been released, they went to their own companions,
and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one
accord and said, "O Lord, it is Thou who didst make the heaven and the
earth and the sea, and all that is in them, who by the Holy Spirit,
through the mouth of our father David Thy servant, didst say, 'Why did
the Gentiles rage, and the peoples devise futile things? The kings of the
earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the
Lord, and against His Christ.' For truly in this city there were gathered
together against Thy holy servant Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, both
Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of
Israel, to do whatever Thy hand and Thy purpose predestined to occur.

Did you note that it said that Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Gentiles (Romans) and the
people of Israel only did what Yahweh’s hand and purpose had predestined? They
simply fulfilled the plan of God. It was necessary that the Messiah should suffer and
then die for the sins of the people. Satan did not have a victory on the day Yahshua
was crucified. It was the day of Satan’s doom.

In the same way there are many people today who are raging against God and they
are devising futile things. Kings (mighty ones) are taking their stand, and rulers are
gathering together (conspiring). Yet not a one will prevail in their wickedness.
Certainly, many saints will be martyred, even as Yahshua was martyred, but the end
will be glory for the saints and judgment for the wicked.

Why focus on what wicked men are doing? The predestined purposes of Yahweh are
moving forward and they cannot be turned. Has it not been prophesied that in the
last days men will wax worse and worse? Has it not been foretold that wickedness