Posted on 08/29/2024 12:34:38 AM PDT by spirited irish
Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)
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“The self-justifying ideology that dominates society today, with its shameless moral posturing – the jiggery-wokery of the West – is especially difficult to deal with because it is a form of stupidity which is less self-aware than rank evil and is no respecter of persons. It seems immune to reasoning and inconvenient truths. Intellectuals, scholars, political elites, and journalists are frequently afflicted with this brand of stupidity – indeed more so than ordinary working people, who are practically forced to consume their vacuous messaging in every form of media.” Why Church Leaders Act Like Cowards, Joe Boot, Clear Truth Media, 8/24
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the pastor executed by Nazis, had this to say about collective stupidity. His remarks are particularly reflective of today’s woke stupidity:
“The fact that stupid people are often stubborn should not hide the fact that they are not independent. When talking to him, one feels that one is not dealing with him personally, but with catchphrases, slogans, etc. that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell; he is blinded; he is abused in his own being. Having become an instrument without an independent will, the fool will also be capable of all evil, and at the same time, unable to recognize it as evil…But it is also quite clear here that it is not an act of instruction, but only an act of liberation that can overcome stupidity… The Bible states that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Thus, the inner liberation of man begins by living responsibly before God. Only then may stupidity be overcome” (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.“Von der Dummheit”: Widerstand und Ergebung. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft. S. 17–20. Muenchen, Christian Kaiser Verlag, 1951; cited by Joe Boot)
The most important takeaway from Bonhoeffer’s remarks is: “He is under a spell; he is blinded; he is abused in his own being. Having become an instrument without an independent will, the fool will also be capable of all evil, and at the same time, unable to recognize it as evil…“
It is not popular in our anti-supernatural worldview age to speak of demons. However, the very apt description above, especially the “instrument without an independent will” is best made sense of within the context of the supernatural:
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
With that said, below are six observations about todays woke stupified people:
1. If you are not in the Kingdom of the Lord then you exist within the kingdom of Satan and he controls your will.
2. As the wills of woke stupid people are controlled by Satan, the minds, memories, and consciences left unused by them become grounds occupied by demons.
3. This is why woke stupid people are fully capable of all evil why but they are unable to recognize it as evil
4. Woke ideology is one of many modern teachings of demons.
5. ‘Woke’ wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. James 3:15
6. “the whole world lieth in wickedness” (1 John 5:19), occupied by “the prince of this world” (John 12:31) who is “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesian 2:2).
Let us go in pray to our Father:
O Lord our God, a dark wing overshadows our land. In its darkness demons have found multitudes of new homes within the Woke, Democrats, Luciferians and many more who say, “No one sees me.” But because Your church O Lord has lost its spiritual. discernment it does not engage in the spiritual warfare raging all round us. Please Lord, renew a right spirit within Your church that its eyes may open and see the spiritual warfare and engage it through prayer and throwing down the teachings of demons at work within great numbers of minds–of those who can be redeemed and those who cannot, for they cannot atone. On them, destruction “Will come suddenly.” In the name of the crucified risen Lord we pray. Amen
“You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ‘No one sees me,’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’ “But evil will come on you Which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you For which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know Will come on you suddenly. Isaiah 47: 10-11
@2024SpiritedIrish
Please join us in prayer!
Please join us in prayer!
I prayed.
Agreeing with you in prayer.
Lord, please bring renewal and revival to Your church.
Amen!
AMEN, thank you. Joining in prayer.
Thank-you!
Amen, spirited irish
We are fighting a spiritual battle.
Joining in prayer for our beloved America.
Here is a good summary of Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity:
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=GrrS2gq2PurCHk98
Grant us Wisdom through the power of the Spirit and knowledge of His Word.
In Jesus Name
Amen
The above teaching explains something that has mystified me. Sweet-looking, seemingly kind-hearted ladies here in Pennsylvania joining together in making political ads AGAINST Dave McCormick for his stand against abortion. I sit slack-jawed seeing these ladies bellyacheing that McCormick doesn’t want them to kill innocent infants in the womb; like they have no conception that aborting a baby in the womb is murder. They’re totally blind, and have consciences “seared with a hot iron”.
Amen to your prayer and excellent description of our current dilemma in society and the church. If only we had spiritual eyes to see our own stupidity at times. Lord, you are waiting for us to awaken from our slumber. We need a royal flush of your Spirit in these dark days. Lord, I know you will do whatever it takes to awaken us, even bad government, difficulty and strife. May we understand and be ready. In Jesus Name, Amen.
Amen.
Amen and thank you
Lord, You are our safe harbor, our harbor of light, love, mercy and truth.
Thank You so much.
Lord, we pray for those who are noncommittal, those who are not offended by wokeness, those who roll with the culture, good or bad. Lord, we pray that they will be shook from their slumber and run into the hands of the Almighty.
We pray that the numbers of those who love and fear You will be multiplied.
Amen!!! <><
Psalm 113
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise, O servants of the Lord;
praise the name of the Lord.
2 Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time on and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting
the name of the Lord is to be praised.
4 The Lord is high above all nations,
and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust,
and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
8 to make them sit with princes,
with the princes of his people.
9 He gives the barren woman a home,
making her the joyous mother of children.
Praise the Lord!
My prayers always. God bless.
Agreeing with you in prayer.
Amen to your prayer, SisterK.
Amen
Amen.
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