Amen.
I am getting baptized this evening. Total immersion baptism. Was baptized as an infant. Holy Spirit has put on my heart to be baptized as an adult who realizes what it means and what Jesus did for me and still does and will for all eternity.
I have been praying since Tuesday for all evil and fraud to be exposed concerning the election.
Have prayed for years for evil to be exposed and for justice.
We must have clean honest elections to survive as a country.
We do not have that now, that’s for sure.
God bless you!
We need to have sufficiently intense caring for justice before it happens. The philosophy of many has become chillingly Machiavellian and savage.
In a way, the churches are beginning to look at a situation that has more and more resemblance of the challenges of early gospel days.
Please everybody pray for me too. My heart burns with desire for the Lord, but then the enemy comes around and burns against me, singing his “doom, doom, doom!” song. Some time ago I came to the conclusion that prayer is vastly underestimated today, because its doors are open all the time. But the enemy comes to try to distract us from going to those doors. Oddly enough, a few weeks ago one of the bible study hand-outs that appeared at my church pointed out how prayer is such an underrated spiritual discipline. I looked and said, wow, this isn’t just me that’s thinking it. The Holy Spirit is, too.
Praise God! I believe the Lord is calling his people to repentance, and doing a work in the hearts of many unbelievers. Lord, please give us revival. One thing that has been nagging at my heart, is that though Jesus raled against the false religious of His day, who supposedly represented God, he otherwise preached love and repentance. How many of us show love to our enemies? How many of us are willing to show love to the antifa person? So many of us, instead,cry for justice, and feel almost hatred for them and others. What emotion wells up in you, when you see or hear one of them, or one of our crooked politicians spouting lies? Do we pray for them, or curse them? What would Jesus do? The Old Testament is full of righteous wars. And I believe and revere the Old Testament. But Jesus walked the earth under the cruel and Godless reign of the Roman Empire, and he said NOTHING about it. He preached NOTHING about “standing up for our rights”. He “captured” souls with love. What would Jesus do, in response to those evil ones around us? We are His representatives on Earth. I don’t know the answers to my own questions, but I do know that, “Only what is done for God will last.”
Bless you. May you be flooded with grace!
God bless the witness of your baptism. In the New Testament, baptism in water frequently appears as the outward confirmation of the hope that results from the spiritual immersion (or baptism) in the Holy Spirit. It is the voluntary recognition of the pledge made by the Holy Spirit of a good conscience towards God.
God speed a day when the idea of an election that is otherwise is as antiquated as American chattel slavery.