Posted on 09/16/2002 10:45:34 AM PDT by Quix
WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE. PRAY IN TONGUES"
Meri Burlingame
Sep 16, 2002
Chris Strom
From: "Chris Strom" Date sent: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:48:45 +1200
"WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE. PRAY IN TONGUES"
- by C. Strom. [-My father. -Andrew.]
I was woken early this morning by the "noise" of my spirit shouting silently in tongues. (Nothing can shout as loud as when silently praying in tongues!) Over this prayer was the clear message in English:
"WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE. PRAY IN TONGUES."
As I continued to pray I felt the following things:
(1) To alert as many people as possible to this message. That it wasn't just for me.
(2) That the battle is spiritual, not physical. That if we Christians win the battle spiritually, the physical battle will not be necessary (2Chron 20).
(3) That the same negative spiritual power that was behind Nebuchadnezzar is behind Saddam Hussein. First we must bind this strong man in the background before his puppet, the strong man in the foreground will equally submit and allow his goods to be spoiled.
(4) In practical terms: we must win the prayer battle before that spiritual power will allow Saddam to submit to the unqualified unrestricted viewing of all sites essential to prevent war.
(5) That tongues is essential. That we cannot possibly pray accurately enough in sufficient detail in English to accomplish this depth of intercession.
(6) To especially draw Christians' attention to 1 Thess 5:17,19:
Pray without ceasing...Quench not the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit will continue to pray in tongues through us (Acts 2:4) so long as we continue to co-operate with Him in this urgent occupation. Don't let other preoccupations quench Him, as can so easily happen.
(7) That fasting acts as an intensifier. Fasting amplifies the prayer. That any form of fasting is better than no fasting at all. Fasting from TV, or partial fasting, for instance. If you can't pray because of work but can fast, remember that "fasting is your whole body praying."
(8) Finally, that things would never have got this bad if only Christians had prayed. Far too many Christians are sidetracked on other good things and are neglecting the essential of prayer. Far too many intercessors are stuck on receiving revelation before praying when we already have the supernatural weapon par excellence of Holy Spirit gifted tongues. Pray without ceasing! Literal Greek: Pray without a pause!
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YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! You are using those verses to support that assertion? I think we have a very different dictionary and I have no idea, not the first clue how your "logic" works.
SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON HEB 1:1--AS IN MY SHEEP KNOW MY ****VOICE**** AS IN VOICE--AS IN EARS TO HEAR!!! sigh.
Heb 2:1-4 I like the heading notation: "Warning to Pay Attention" "We must pay more careful attention, therefore wo what we have HEARD, [emphasis added!]so that we do not drift away. 'for if the message SPOKEN by the angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a GREAT SALVATION? This Sal ation which was first ANNOUNCED by The Lord, was confirmed to us by those who
HEARD Him. God also testified to it by SIGNS, WONDERS and VARIOUS MIRACLES AND GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRITDISTRIBUTING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL.
Awwwww shucks--not according to my constipated theology?
Heb 3:7:
Today, if you
HEAR His VOICE, do not harden your HEARTS as you did in the rebellion . . .
YUP, sounds like GOD WANTS US TO WALK SO HAND IN HAND WITH HIM, SO SENSITIVE TO HIS SPIRIT AND HIS VOICE that we are like a well trained horse responding quickly and obediently to every subtle movement of the rider's body, finger, tone of VOICE.
In another place you assert that The Bible alone--as you say it:
Bible reveals everything a believer needs to know as a Christian, in order to fear, love, serve, and please God
I suppose I could agree in a sense and to a point. The Bible LEADS ME TO HAVE A SENSITIVE-TO-HIS-VOICE WALK WITH GOD AND THEREIN I learn all else I need to know.
If I'm torn between marrying two women. And I have a hard time knowing from reading The Bible which one is best for me--they still appear equal and I Love both of them seemingly equally. . . Ahhhh Ha, I can TALK TO GOD AND LISTENT O HIS VOICE! Certainly HE KNOWS WHICH ONE IS BEST FOR ME! He can tell me. He says Ask, Knock, Seek! Not as acts of futility but as a dynamic dialogue, dance with Almighty God. Song of Solomon comes to mind. How exciting.
Of course if you prefer to dance silently and deafly with a printed page, be my guest.
We are being led into a war with Islamic fundamentalists for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that most of them want us dead.
At this time in history, I think it's prudent to squash every Muslim terrorist on the planet.
Sometimes governments do the right thing, even when they never intended to in the first place.
The purpose of prayer is not to influence Gods decisions ..they were made before the foundation of the earth...prayer moves our hearts toward God..
Come on zadock.."all the worlds a stage "don't you know that ? *grin*..Now tell them that God owns the stage and the "actors" and that HE wrote the script they will have a fit. He can set the stage and "participate as "one of the players " ...but they want to write the script.....
Anything but interacting rationally, logically, and factually with Scripture.
Dan
Yep. The eternal comfort of God's total control.
Yep. The eternal comfort of God's total control.
If you are saying this is the amil position, you are wrong. And also being very unfair in stating that it is and I've not ever thought of you as being that.
A book that sets forth the amil position in a very simple readable style is Vern Poythress' new book, The Returning King. I hope you'll become more informed on subjects before misrepresenting them so badly and for that matter so flippantly.
Now, a simple task:
Dan
Yes! Thank you! A much more eloquent way of putting it.
What of the man that wants to die....the woman that enjoys her illness becuse she likes the attention? what of the man that does not want to be saved?..What if your prayer violates Gods plan??
Here is our relationship with God...that He chooses to use us to accomplish HIS plans...That he allows us to participate in the spreading of the gospel...that He places a desire to pray in our heart so that we can be part of His plan...
Quix..this is not about YOU it is about HIM...
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