Strengthening Yourself in the Lord

I had a real interesting night last night in which I had certain scriptures going through my mind from 3 o'clock on. One of the kind of awkward things in Scripture is that the word of the Lord actually attracts conflict. Mary's own experience in Luke chapter two, it says that she treasures. She took this word that God spoke to her by the shepherds about her son. And then Simeon came along and said the words, the thoughts put into words of other people are going to pierce your soul. The enemy always wants to steal whatever word, seed is word, he wants to stealwhatever word was spoken over our lives.