Last week, I wrote about Conquering the Pandemic and I asked, “What is greater—the coronavirus or fear?”
Have you come to any conclusion yet?
The enemy has spread the spirit of fear along with the coronavirus that now for the health safety of our communities, we are asked to use social distancing.
I’m a very social person who is personable. When I greet people I know, I greet with a hug. When I meet someone for the first time, it is with a handshake or a hug.
Now with social distancing, it is just a wave or perhaps a fist bump. But no hugging or handshaking.
I get it – we must use caution as the warning has gone out that the healthy may be carriers of the virus and never know it.
We are told that the healthy could spread the virus and unknowingly infect others. Those with compromised immune systems are at high risk.
The CDC recommends social groups less than 50. The POTUS asked us to keep it to 10 or less. All this to minimize the spread of this virus.
We must protect our health and the of the community. But what about “social distancing” as a new normal?
For how long? 15 days? Some reports say this could take until August to calm down.
Do we separate ourselves from one another for 4 to 5 months?
Friends, I think the enemy, the devil, is having a hayday, laughing at this unfolding of events believing his is winning this battle.
First Peter 5:8 (TPT) says, “Be well balanced and always alert, because your enemy, the devil, roams around incessantly, like a roaring lion looking for its prey to devour.”
Have you ever watched a documentary to see how a lion attacks its prey? The lion watches and waits until one is separated from the herd. That one turns into the lions’ prey.
Isolation from others makes us vulnerable to the enemy’s attack. Satan wants to disconnect us from our church families.
Churches are cancelling meetings all across the US for the sake of not spreading the virus. Pastors are accountable to God and to the government. We must pray for our pastors who need wisdom on how to lead their congregations in such a time as this. I urge you fellow saints to pray for pastors, not criticize or condemn them.
I know this, even if our churches are not meeting, we do not have to be isolated from one another. Groups can meet using a myriad of online technology such as …
- With Apple iPhone, iPad, or a Mac, you can Facetime with up to 32 people.
- Google Hangouts allows up 10 people on video calls.
- Facebook Messenger allows up to 50 people.
There are many other options out there, those are the ones I know about without having to research it. I encourage you to form prayer groups using the technology we have available to us.
To protect the health of our incarcerated loved ones, family visitations and prison ministries have been cancelled in prisons all across the U.S.
I encourage you to stay in touch and remember those who are in prison (Hebrews 13:3) through …
- Video visits, if the prison facility offers it
- Talk more frequently on the phone, if possible
- Write more letters (emails) to each other
Let the incarcerated know they are not forgotten.
Stay in communion with the Lord through this season. Pray more fervently than before and pray with others on the phone or the video calls. There’s power in unified corporate prayer.
Lastly, remember the enemy is already defeated and that nothing can separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, not even social distancing as a new normal.
“So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!” (Romans 8:38-39 TPT)
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I pray my transparency and vulnerability points to the source of HOPE for those who lost hope in the midst of despair.
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