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This article is dedicated to all the victims of abuse, and neglect who wish to become victors over their circumstances. Only those who choose to believe God can transform themselves from being victims to victors and become victim-proof!

It’s been said, “Life isn’t fair, it just is.”  Bad things happen to good people, and this is a fact of life. But good people don’t have to turn bad just because a bad thing happened to them.  This is when we find out what we’re made of and where our faith really is.

Maybe a person gets hurt in a bad accident or molestation or rape has occurred. Maybe a parent abandons a child, and that child grows up with feelings of inadequacy that plague him or her far into adulthood. The Bible says that God allows trials and tribulations and even persecution into the life of the believer.  Sometimes we know the reason and purpose of it and sometimes we don’t.

Most people understand that God created human beings with free will, but don’t fully consider what this means.  Most people are under the impression that God is in charge here on earth, but according to the Bible, He gave mankind dominion of the planet with the responsibility to control this planet’s affairs the same way God rules in heaven.

“Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 18:18-19″

And God will not contradict Himself by re-taking that control.  To do so would be an imposition and an intrusion.  God will not intervene in Man’s affairs on this planet unless permitted to do so.  Man must CHOOSE to activate God’s supernatural power to subdue satanic activity in this life for any given situation through prayer, and God has given man this ability.

Since the freedom to choose or reject God exists in the earth, there will always be some who live righteously for Him, and some will choose to live un-righteously.  This means there will always be people who kill, steal, murder, rape, slander, abandon their children, etc. Until God Himself wipes out the devil and all followers of the devil in this earth, there will always be sinful acts against others.

The very first older brother Cain killed the very first younger brother Abel, God didn’t stop it, and Cain continued to live, got married and produced a son after that. And instead of the death penalty, God went so far as to mark Cain on his forehead and warn anybody who would ever kill Cain for what he did that “vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” How fair was that?

We must be very careful speaking on what’s fair and not fair.  Evidently the human measure of fairness is not the same as God’s.  We all know that bad things happen to good people in this life and often times it comes to a point were victims wonder “If God is so good and loves me so much, why did He let this happen to me?”

The implication of such a thought or statement is that God is not fair or just. Right then and there, if that person doesn’t get the PROPER counseling and instruction about viewing their circumstances and God the right way, a terrible chain of events begins.

The temptation one goes through when persecuted, attacked or when something bad happens to them is to turn against God for it, and this is exactly what the devil is hoping for. Doubt and unbelief with strong emotions like anger, bitterness and resentment become entrenched in that person’s mind and heart, thus opening the door for Satan to lead them further down a slippery slope of deception and unrighteousness in their lives.

For example, women who have been abused by men sometimes turn to homosexuality because they have trust issues with men.  The only flaw in this train of thought is that women are human too and just as capable of being inhumane.  Women can cheat on their mates, lie, steal, abuse other women as well, so what’s really going on?  What makes a man think he’s supposed to be with another man, and a woman think she’s supposed to be with another woman?

Homosexuals typically say that they were born that way, but this does not line up with scripture.  The truth of God’s Word does not change if people don’t believe it. According to Romans 1:18-25 people who hold the truth in unrighteousness bring God’s wrath upon themselves, and the mindset that leads one to believe homosexuality is right is part of that wrath.  This wrath is a process which begins with the rejection of God’s righteousness.

How does this happen?  The devil has a way of deceiving people into believing God’s righteous ways are an unjust prison rather than a zone of safety.  When people don’t believe God has their best interest at heart, such as when a close loved one dies, or when they suffer a terrible accident, or are neglected, abused or persecuted somehow, unbelief opens the door for Satan to deceive them.  And once that deception starts, it snowballs into a monstrous trap that is hard (but not necessarily impossible) to escape.

God loves homosexuals just like He loves every person He’s ever created. But He does not want them to continue in sin, because sin brings destruction and death.  When one rejects God, in essence they choose the creature over the Creator, they choose Satan as their god:

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another: men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. Romans 1:26-28″

A reprobate mind is a mind void of sound judgment, and the reason it is void of sound judgment is because God has withdrawn His wisdom and intelligence – His very presence from that individual.  Such a one’s nature becomes carnal or animalistic. When God who is Righteous steps back, it’s like a Light being switched off in order that darkness may take over: when Righteousness vacates, unrighteousness prevails.

Retaining the knowledge of God is the only way to prevent and/or reverse this devastating domino effect.  When bad things happen to good people, the human tendency is to blame God rather than blame the negative human behavior, the human perpetrator and the devil.

Even though we don’t understand the infinite wisdom of God’s mind, this “doesn’t mean He doesn’t love us.  No matter how badly people treat us, the Greatest Being ever to exist, the One who created us loves us and is on our side as long as we’re on His side.  “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world, and if God be for us, He is greater than the whole world against us.”

God didn’t stop that bad thing from happening, but He didn’t do it to the victim and by His own Word, this God who can not lie promised vengeance against the attacker/enemy by saying “Vengeance is mine, thus saith the Lord. I will repay.” It may even look like somebody got away with something.  They may even have escaped law enforcement, or they got away because of a crooked judge, but they’ll never escape God. Nobody does.

It’s been said “whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”  Maybe, maybe not: Whatever doesn’t kill us MIGHT make us stronger if we continue to trust God and appreciate the fact that we survived and still have His unconditional love with many blessings.  God is STILL good no matter what happened to us.

Retaining such knowledge of God, and the fact that He loves us beyond our wildest dreams can get the victim back on the right train of thought and hold him/her there.

Giving thanks to God for the good we still have is always better than focusing on the negative thing that happened to us over and over again, because according to God’s Word and spiritual law, that which we think about, we bring about more of the same: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

People who choose to be bitter towards God for allowing the bad thing to happen negatively program their own minds, and thus set off a continuous chain of negative events into their lives.  Hopefully at that point, it won’t be too late to hear and accept God and His righteous ways, which must be viewed as a border of protection and not an unjust prison.

In conclusion, once again (and it can’t be overstated), the only way to escape this downward spiral of self-destruction is to retain the knowledge of God in our minds by receiving the Word of God in our hearts.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6″ This is how to retain the knowledge of God in one’s mind.  Think of it as a spiritual reboot: a wipe and reload of the operating system of one’s mind in order to set off a chain of righteous events in one’s life.

When one rejects God, God offers salvation but He also reaches a point where He rejects the one who rejected Him.  To be reprobated means to be rejected; cast off as worthless or immoral like a defective part on an assembly line that was removed after an inspection and stamped REJECT.  Salvageable? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody wants to be stamped REJECT by God, because hell in this life and possibly in the afterlife are sure to follow.

Is this a threat?  Think of it as a SWOT analysis used to plan for future prosperity. In order to recover from past mistakes and shortcomings and become better than we are right now, the acronym SWOT is used to help people assess Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

While the threat of hell is real, the opportunity to avoid hell by receiving God grace, His love is also real. Human beings apart from the Creator are weak and vulnerable to satanic deception and destruction, but God’s Word is solid as a Rock from which we gain supernatural strength and become like Him.

Recovery from abuse and persecution is as simple as deciding to do so and saying out loud: “I am no longer a victim, but a victor.  I am a survivor, I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me, I am more than a conqueror, God gave me dominion and authority over all circumstances in my life, I have power over the enemy and the ability to command the devil to flee, no weapon formed against me shall prosper, God makes my enemies my footstool, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, God will never leave me nor forsake me, I have the ability to think myself happy, and I shall have whatever I say– all according to the Word of God in the name of Jesus by the power of His shed blood!  Amen!

Incidently, each of these phrases come from specific scriptures in the Bible, and as I wrote them, the only reason I can quote them off the top of my head is because I have studied them for myself, and the knowledge of them are retained in my mind.

“You can’t make me doubt Him, because I know too much about Him – Oh, my life is in His hands!”

The more we retain the knowledge of God in our minds, the more ‘victim-proof’ we become.

Be Blessed!
The Fount