Pray, Why pray? He did. He told those He had been with before and after His crucifixion to do the same. We have been instructed to do so also! We are told to "pray for our enemies". Who are our enemies? We are told to tell others about the Lord's love , the identification and acceptance into family, and the power He has to forgive our sin ( sin means we missed the mark). Without His redemption we are lost and lost eternally. Hell, damnation , forever torment and lost-ness is what we have and get without Him.
In this post 9/11 world it seems to me that so many of the woes we have experienced on 9/11 and after the same have to do with radical Islam. These woes I speak of are not just American or Western problems. You can find radical Islamic acts of terror and horror around the world over in the past eight years. The majority of radical Islam has come out of the Middle East and especially from Saudi Arabia.
I believe that what has happened across the world by these radicals has been horrible. The acts have been despicable acts of violence, even so are just the tip of the iceberg of what is to come if there is not a change in the heart's of the Saudi's. There is only one that I know who is a heart changer, and that is the LORD JESUS! He knows the heart of man that it is sick and wicked. He knows how to help, heal and then lead us the rest of our days, for He is the Good Shepherd! He Saves Us.
Who do you belong to? Are you saved? Are you lost? If you are saved, Who prayed for you before you became born again? Did someone talk to you about Jesus? Who pointed out that you needed help and only God could give you peace and love everlasting? Who prayed for you? Who prayed for the one who helped you find the WAY?
What do you think your chances would have been in getting saved if you had grown up in Saudi Arabia? Do you think you would be saved now? Would you be dead and damned? Would you be lost and left to it! Would you be brought out of one of Satan's playgrounds- his strongholds? Would you be left to despair, social restrictions, binding traditions, unbearable lack of freedoms if you are female? Would you be lost in a male dominated world and you are a male who wants to be free? You too most likely would be lost and left with no way to change the way things are done, because the other men of the tribe you belong to would be watching your every step and action to see if you were holding up Islam or not.
You can be killed for leaving Islamic teachhings- man , woman or child. So what are their chances? How will they ever hear the truth? How will they have a shot at spiritual freedom, freedom to choose, freedom to live and follow the Good Shepherd?
The poison that has seeped out into the world from the epi-center of Islam is affecting us whether we like it or not, whether we want to admit it or not, whether we will open our eyes to the real needs of a lost and despised people or not. Radical Islam is growing! The world as we knew it pre 9/11 is gone! We are in a battle over freedoms now. All of our Freedoms are being challenged!
What can we do about this? I choose to pray! REAL Saudi's are lost and living in a kind of hell now, and unless there is intervention will surely be living in Hell after death. Please pray for them with me. We benefit as we pray not just in their Salvation , but in preserving life as we have known it with our freedoms in tact.
What's all this Goob Gob about prayer? Are you in or out? Take a few and pray!
PzNprA (Pause and Pray)
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Pray? Why Pray?
Should I pray? The next question is , WHY?
The simple answer is , Yes I should. The why is easily answered , because HE did. The Lord gave us the good example of doing it. He didn't ask us to do something that He wouldn't do himself. Nice! He prayed. He instructed the disciples to pray while He was still with them. He told them before He ascended that He would give a gift of the Holy Spirit who would comfort us, convict us of sin( or missing the mark) , teach us truth, and live inside of us. The Holy Spirit is helping us with our weaknesses. Double Nice! When we don't know how to pray the Holy Spirit does and He intercedes for us. Romans says it best, Romans 8: 26, 27 NIV
Notice that "the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will." We are saints if we have had a new birth experience. So we are getting help all the time.
If you are reading this and you have no idea what the difference is , then please read this: Jesus is reaching and teaching Nicodemus (funny name, just insert yours and ask the same question) John 3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said , "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth , no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. " Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, " You must be born again. The wind blows, wherever it pleases. You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." Nicodemus asked "How can this be?". " You are Israel's teacher, said Jesus, " and do you not understand these things? I tell you the truth , we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe: how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven---the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the dessert, so the Son of Man must ge lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
" For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemened, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Reader, God loves you! If You are lost, You don't have to stay that way. If You are "Born Again" You and I are to pray for the lost. Believer's join in with me to pray. Stay focused- this blog is about two things.
The first is prayer. Now is the time to pause and pray! (PzNprA) Notice my creative use of letters- ( PzNprA) The second is to be revealed soon.
PzNprA
The simple answer is , Yes I should. The why is easily answered , because HE did. The Lord gave us the good example of doing it. He didn't ask us to do something that He wouldn't do himself. Nice! He prayed. He instructed the disciples to pray while He was still with them. He told them before He ascended that He would give a gift of the Holy Spirit who would comfort us, convict us of sin( or missing the mark) , teach us truth, and live inside of us. The Holy Spirit is helping us with our weaknesses. Double Nice! When we don't know how to pray the Holy Spirit does and He intercedes for us. Romans says it best, Romans 8: 26, 27 NIV
Notice that "the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will." We are saints if we have had a new birth experience. So we are getting help all the time.
If you are reading this and you have no idea what the difference is , then please read this: Jesus is reaching and teaching Nicodemus (funny name, just insert yours and ask the same question) John 3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said , "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth , no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. " Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, " You must be born again. The wind blows, wherever it pleases. You hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." Nicodemus asked "How can this be?". " You are Israel's teacher, said Jesus, " and do you not understand these things? I tell you the truth , we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe: how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven---the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the dessert, so the Son of Man must ge lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
" For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemened, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Reader, God loves you! If You are lost, You don't have to stay that way. If You are "Born Again" You and I are to pray for the lost. Believer's join in with me to pray. Stay focused- this blog is about two things.
The first is prayer. Now is the time to pause and pray! (PzNprA) Notice my creative use of letters- ( PzNprA) The second is to be revealed soon.
PzNprA
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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