While coming home from dropping off my grandsons in Columbia, MO, on Thursday, I was again reminded of how much I despise "adult businesses". It offends me to even see their signs. And the signs are all along I-70 between St. Louis and KC.
It reminds me of how the lust (definition: "I want it and I want it now") of the flesh (whether it's sex, greed, popularity, power, fun, or a host of other things) ALWAYS enslaves the people involved. The promise of anything positive is an absolute total LIE from the pit of hell itself. There is absolutely NO satisfaction or contentment that lasts. Only deception and pain.
SO, it has been my practice for some time - everytime I pass a sign - to pray that that establishment will go broke and for salvation for all those involved in it. If there are no young ones in the car with us, I pray out loud - otherwise, I pray a silent prayer in the name and power and blood of Jesus. Join me if you like. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16
About Me
- Melanie
- I've been happily married to Jim for 44 years (but I don't know how that could be since I really don't feel that old), have 2 married children, and 5 precious grandchildren (seen above).
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
The Truth About The Spirit
One of my favorite books is My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Thought this quote from his book was worth posting:
"The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze---so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowhip and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a 'still small voice' (1 Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it....Whenever the Spirit gives you that sense of restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed...But if you will go on through the crisis, your life will become a hymn of praise to God."
I guess the question has to be: Can I hear His voice?
"The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze---so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowhip and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a 'still small voice' (1 Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it....Whenever the Spirit gives you that sense of restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed...But if you will go on through the crisis, your life will become a hymn of praise to God."
I guess the question has to be: Can I hear His voice?
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