Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Mourning Mohammed Ali!

I spent my whole life looking at my father's faith experience! He was my subject of incessant concern and prayer for his soul. I could see the reasons behind my father's conversion to Islam, even though it was far more secretive a thing than Mohammed's. I could understand the sense of human demoralization that made him turn to a more respectful alternative. I still expect that at the end, his heart knew that Jesus is no respecter of persons.

I am thankful that some of the dehumanizing aspects of American Christianity have been dealt with. I am thankful that we don't live in the civil rights era and that there are many churches with multicultural congregations. I am thankful that much work has been done to grow our hearts to love other cultures and people groups, in America. We will have to answer to God for the souls who couldn't see themselves as made in the image of God, because of our prejudices. Dear God, please continue to draw the souls who have experienced such demoralization of faith, that their discouragements blind them to the true truth. Make our churches real expressions of love and faith, so that others can see the Jesus is real. I am the one, who needs prayer in this regard, much. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Is my faith "Glorious" or "Spurious"?

Christ works in us, we are well aware, but...Do we ever go to that point in self-examination, that challenges our motivations? Christ paid it all and we don't have to worry that His works will not be efficacious. But, He bids us to examine ourselves, that we be not deceived.
At least, we should look at seasons and say, did God author this season of my faith, or did I author this season. The more we know about God and truth, the more we can pen, that which looks like God has authored. Beware, my soul, that Christ is the author and finisher of your faith and not your own hand.
I imagine God handing me the book of my faith, in the judgment and it is alot shorter than I thought it would be, with many chapters deleted for having been penned by my own hand. God forbid. May my faith book be penned by Jesus' completed work and not by my imagination.

Friday, June 3, 2016

The Pen is mightier...But what, when I am impaled on my own pen?

We are bid to write. Our hearts and minds take thoughts captive and pen them. Did you not know that they are alive, those words you wrote? Beware!

I had no idea that the words that I imbibe and especially those that I have written and reimbibed again and again would take root in my soul as they have. Pray, Pray Pray! Dear God, give me deliverance from this plight. My mind is rolling in the mud and I cannot get it out. It jumps into the mud and I cannot get it out. Like that child, demoniac that Jesus delivered, my mind jumps from the fire into the water and back and forth and I had no idea that my words and mind would do this. Take my mind captive, Lord to Your Word. Help me find deliverance and relief from the thoughts of my mind. Help the accomplishing of this good goal be glorifying to You alone, In Jesus Name. Amen

Help me take my thoughts captive to the Word of God. Help my words be the anvil to bring captivity captive and give me the grace, through the study of Your Word, to be protected from the power of the Devil who seeks to steal my mind and kill my intellect and destroy all my live efforts, ie. my sanity, my family and my soul. Help, Dearest Lord that all these things will stand and that they would not be the ransom for the devil as he makes it look to me, in His temptations. I had no idea that the rootedness of Words would be such a spiritual battle. God grant victory, for the sake of Christ and His Church. In Jesus' Name. Amen