Oh my…oh my…..my heart sinks…..Please pray with us for America.
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I have 12 friends with COVID right now. It is exploding all over the world. Yesterday one of my friends told me that he was getting better and then he got ‘a second wave.’ One of my friends is on a ventilator, one is having struggles in the recovery period, loss of balance. We really do not know that much about COVID, we are a society that thinks we know it all. The after affects are truly not known, but as time goes on we are seeing some research. My heart breaks for what it is doing to children, growing up wearing a mask and not being able to go to school. My heart breaks for all those that have lost their businesses and all those that have lost their jobs. Most of all for those that have lost loved ones and for those cannot visit loved ones in the hospital or nursing home. Fore the first time as a Pastor I cannot visit folks in the hospital or nursing home, it breaks my heart.
I am a man that values every life, every life is precious to the Lord.
My heart breaks for our world. We must show much love and empathy in all cases. I have heard some very hurtful comments from people regarding those that are sick or die. This is a time for people that truly beleive in the Lord to show the love of the Lord.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.
–John 13:34-35
We are in constant prayer for all. Dear Lord, we lift to You our concern for people who are more likely than others to become severely ill from COVID–19 — the elderly and people with chronic health conditions. Protect them from harm and be their comfort in this time of uncertainty and, for many, preventive isolation from loved ones, in Jesus name we prayer, Amen! 20 Prayers to Pray During This Pandemic
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The division in America breaks my heart very much, so many have left God.
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America is in very bad shape……….I have said that one of the greatest failures of Christians is to carry out THE GREAT COMMISSION! We are paying a deep price for that failure. Too much preaching to the choir! Way too many high school pep rallies! Not enough mature Christians. The majority of the American Church lost the salt shaker and replaced it with the candy dish. The Prosperity Gospel is one of the worst things that has ever happened in history! So many Pastors have deviated from the Word of God.
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. Matthew 5:13
One of my heroes of Faith Dr. Jim Denison reports:
In the years just prior to my salvation experience and new life in Christ Jesus, Satanism was my “religion” of choice. I was pursuing him, the evil one, to teach me things that I was so hastily seeking to know. I desired him to fill my mind with knowledge to do supernatural things in one particular grave yard. He was more than willing to oblige.
Satan’s greatest goal and achievement in man is mind control. If he can control your mind he has your body for action. It is all about lies, deceptions, and destruction. I am telling you this first of all as a warning, and the reason I am so set against any substance, be it alcohol or any mind altering drug, even some approved drugs.
When a substance has altered, or clouded my thinking, I have just opened the door to my mind and the demonic strolls in and takes charge. (Some forms of music have this ability to control mind and emotion as well. Ask natives of superstitious cults in remote areas who have come out, what they would do to call out demons. It was music/drums/chanting and natural mind altering drugs).
I have enough trouble keeping satanic influence out of my natural mind and emotions. I will not help him by numbing my mind from truth.
Secondly, to the believer, you need to understand that Satan does not need to possess your total body to control your life. All he needs is to plant his thoughts, suggestions, temptations, lies and deceptions into your mind. He then watches to see if you naively act on those things. If he sees you are prone to believe or accept these influences as being truth for you in the moment, he will feed you with more. Very soon, he is controlling your mind and you act accordingly, by your choosing. You believe you are right in what you are thinking, speaking and acting. Why do you think so many churches are struggling within their own membership?
When Jesus was incarnate, by choice because of His never ending love for you, He deliberately laid aside all the prerogatives of being God, and chose to be as we are. All of His wisdom, strength, and determination came through the Spirit by prayer with the Father.
When the Spirit led Him into the wilderness for 40 days of fasting and prayer, the enemy approached Him in His physical weakness from hunger thinking He would be an easy target for his deceptive traps. Satan thought that if the body was weak, so too the mind. (Luke 4:1-13)
What the devil did not realize was that Jesus’ spirit and mind had been fully nourished and strengthened by every Word from God. He answered each tempting challenge with the Father’s Word brought to mind by the Spirit to overcome the lies and false promises.
“Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.
14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.” (Luke 4:13-14)
Notice that after Jesus’ baptism and being filled with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit led Him into the wilderness, but after a season of fasting and prayer, Jesus came back in the power of the Holy Spirit, which had defeated the evil one’s advances toward His mind.
American churches are so divided today because of fear, panic, anger, political fervor, and depression, all of which have weakened our spiritual concentration to recognize the onslaughts and deceptions of the evil one in our midst. What is needful right now is for believers to fast and pray for extended periods; even fasting from media influences about the things that cloud our best judgments.
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 2:5)
Church, take your mind into the silence of a wilderness journey led by the Spirit for a season of fasting and prayer, leaving behind all anxiousness and personal agendas. Solitude; simply and powerfully, only you and the Spirit of God, seeking together His face and you will find His agenda; follow that faithfully!
Church, Wake Up; Come Alive! Pray On!
