Posted on 09/05/2016 6:59:52 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Pray that God expose the corrupt ones for all to see.
It’s defeat had a message. What do you think that message was?
Prayer is a spiritual weapon God expects us to use.
God is the spiritual force— we are not the spiritual force.I wish we were.
Many wish they were until they realize how stupidly they would use it.
I got flak a few minutes ago for reminding someone, basically, about this. It was really defensive, like I had hurt someone’s pride. But tossing away pride is part and parcel of this. Sometimes the answer from the Lord isn’t what we had in mind. Instead of our having to rag frantically on greater America, God raised up a “standard.” Every event of need is an occasion upon which God can not only help us, but also teach us something about the way He works.
Who says we aren’t?
Scripture basically says of the time when Christ was a man that (somehow, I don’t pretend to know how it really worked) He was made a little lower than angels. That means men in general may be so as a rule.
Ever curse someone? Wanna bet it actually matters a bit? This whole world is full of the curses of men and they are undoubtedly no small part in the many spiritual strongholds that many folks are in bondage to.
We are told to bless and not curse.
The irony is that, since it is the prayers of a righteous man that avails much, there may be a good chance that human blessings are as fickle and transient as we have been.
By contrast how easy it is to rile with a whole heart against those who displease you? This is a “human” thing. We can see that these days as the filters have fallen away from many that may have held back their inward outbursts in earlier times.
She passed away today. You haven’t seen the FR threads?
Nope I’ve been up at our property cutting brush all day and my phone died. This is the first I’ve gotten to FR today. Sad to hear it but she did live a life well spent. May God bless her and bring her home.
Yep, “The power of life and death is in the tongue.” Proverbs, I think.
Good point... anti-prayers, so to speak, are possible now with humanity’s default fealty to the Devil.
That's a really good prayer. Jesus is the "Light of the world". The bible defines light as "that which makes manifest". The best exposure of the corrupt ones is for people to have the Light of the Truth, Jesus.
Prov 18:21.
Anyhow, it’s so common that at least I hear about something consternating or someone doing something wicked that just sticks in our craw, and the words flood into our head. Damn that blankety blank son of a bitch. And, God forgive me, there is still a part in me that, not guarded against, will cherish that and ruminate on it, and even if I flee right away to Jesus, will tell me that I’ve blown it, that Jesus doesn’t want me any more.
That’s when I turn to the scene of the Cross. Jesus said it is finished and that is echoing down the halls of eternity.
It’s hard to moderate our approach, but if we get overweening, then it starts to look like it’s about our pride. When we rebuke a wrong idea, we should attempt to leave room to be patient with the one who has stated it.
The gift I at least try to offer others in Jesus is the gift that Jesus will also offer to me.
And “Do not have fellowship with the fruitless works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is a shame even to mention the things that the disobedient do in secret.”
The light will do the damning by contrast, while also offering a helping hand to those whose conscience is moved to try to do better.
Do you realize what that "it is a shame to even mention..." would do to the FR and all conservative news sources if we adhered to it? {grin} I do feel constant rage while listening to or reading the news and this verse is telling me to step away from the source.
It sounds like an oxymoron, to be asked to expose it then to tell us that it’s a shame to mention it.
But Christianity is a suffer-along-with faith in contradistinction to a damn-you-right-now-to-hell faith. We do mention these things, not indiscriminately but with grief that they are going on, ready to bear the shame of our neighbor whose conscience is moved to want to do better. The country has goofed up and we have not always responded in a Christlike manner, allowing the problem to be furthered worse than it otherwise might be. So we amend our approach as best as is possible in the moment and then continue.
And I’ve pondered what such an approach might do to the way we approach people caught up in some egregious sins, such as buggery. If we can see past the damn to the shame, we can see the lie that is fueling the shame — the lie that we don’t have any means to progress past where we are now, so we might as well enjoy it before going to that hell. It would have been a truth unless Christ had gone to the Cross and made it a lie. The story of Christ is a story of vast mercy being pressed on a humanity that can’t or won’t believe it is there.
Pun on your moniker meant in kindness, Jesus is the master of the dungeon even more than Satan is. Satan presses to keep its door shut. Jesus has the key that will spring the door.
But Christianity is a suffer-along-with faith in contradistinction to a damn-you-right-now-to-hell faith. We do mention these things, not indiscriminately but with grief that they are going on, ready to bear the shame of our neighbor whose conscience is moved to want to do better. The country has goofed up and we have not always responded in a Christlike manner, allowing the problem to be furthered worse than it otherwise might be. So we amend our approach as best as is possible in the moment and then continue.
Well put. It would be wrong for Christians to sit around the Church coffee pot and say "did you hear that isis doing... or that the gay pride marchers are doing such and such... etc etc". I'm sure that goes on and that really is shameful. But exactly as you point out the light exposes the darkness. Knowing the Lord doesn't suddenly make you a witness to a gay orgy. Sadly we already knew that was going on. But it does expose it for what it really is. As a heathen one is confused as to the morality of all things. With the Lord right and wrong are very obvious and as you point out, with grief".
I think of the outcry against Sodom. I really wonder about the source of that outcry. Was it angelic, was it the Lord, or was it victims or the righteous who knew about it. I don't know.
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