The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of life and the Spirit of truth….
How can one who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ and have within them the Spirit of Christ believe in and support the spirit of death and untruth ?
Abortion is the taking of innocent life which is the spirit of death…
Abortion has been sold to our generation as just a ‘choice’ – that is the spirit of untruth…
We in this nation are coming up against a time when ‘everyone does what is right in their own eyes’ (just as in the time of Judges)…
And we don’t seem to be drawing any lines between the Spirit of life and truth and the spirit of death and lies…
The enemy’s strongholds appear to gaining strength and momentum…
As our war is not against flesh and blood but against the principalities and powers of this world (the spirit of anti-christ) -
we must begin to boldly take our place as aliens in this world and not be of this world,
we must stand firm in our faith and fight the good fight of faith,
we must wage war in the heavenlies using the weapons of faith that have been given to us as believers in Christ,
our focus must be on Christ’s commands to us -
love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength
love (with God’s love not man’s version) your neighbor as yourself
preach the gospel to all creation
make disciples
and the only way we can do these things is by our abiding completely in Him and allowing the Spirit of Truth to leads us
have we surrendered all to Jesus ?
prb
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Handwriting on the wall
Our country, which was founded upon the understanding of and guidance by divine providence, is without excuse….just as it was in the book of Daniel so might it be with our country…
Let’s see how we respond to the handwriting on the wall ?
1) has the Lord numbered our country and will He put it to and end
2) have we been weighed and found deficient
3) will we be divided and our independence be given over
As we move through this time of turbulence and uncertainty in our country will the pendulum continue to move further out and find us more deficient, will we become more divided ?
Or is it possible that if we stand firm in our faith and recognize that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and humble ourselves turning from our self exaltation and the praise of the gods of silver and gold that we can stave off the handwriting on the wall ?
Whatever shall prove to be the sovereign move of the hand of God may we all say as the apostle John did ‘the grace of the Lord Jesus be with all” and “come, Lord Jesus, Amen.”…….
prb
Daniel 5:20-31
"But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken away from him….until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind, and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.
"Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this, but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven…..and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and your ways, you have not glorified.
"Then the hand was sent from Him, and this inscription was written out.
"Now this is the inscription that was written out: 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.' "This is the interpretation of the message:
'MENE'-- God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
"'TEKEL'-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
"'PERES'-- your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."
That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.
Let’s see how we respond to the handwriting on the wall ?
1) has the Lord numbered our country and will He put it to and end
2) have we been weighed and found deficient
3) will we be divided and our independence be given over
As we move through this time of turbulence and uncertainty in our country will the pendulum continue to move further out and find us more deficient, will we become more divided ?
Or is it possible that if we stand firm in our faith and recognize that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and humble ourselves turning from our self exaltation and the praise of the gods of silver and gold that we can stave off the handwriting on the wall ?
Whatever shall prove to be the sovereign move of the hand of God may we all say as the apostle John did ‘the grace of the Lord Jesus be with all” and “come, Lord Jesus, Amen.”…….
prb
Daniel 5:20-31
"But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken away from him….until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind, and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.
"Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this, but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven…..and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and your ways, you have not glorified.
"Then the hand was sent from Him, and this inscription was written out.
"Now this is the inscription that was written out: 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.' "This is the interpretation of the message:
'MENE'-- God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
"'TEKEL'-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
"'PERES'-- your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."
That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.
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