Some even decided to move away from any intimacy with God all together.
Yet, others have chosen to stay incarcerated, stuck in the chains and shackles of religion embracing its sorcery, the deception and defrauding of the open Truth.
Stuck.
The damage is real.
God in us.
God present.
… and then, looking at what is preached, I wonder … who is this God?
Is it the same God that Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 7:14?
Is it the same God quoted in Matthew 1:23 and Luke 1:35 when the prophecy was about to be fulfilled?
Is it the same God who promised never to leave nor forsake us in Hebrews 13:5?
Let me be the 1st one to admit that I cannot pray a near perfect prayer.
In my pre-relationship days I tried. Moving from the conservative protestant to the Pentecostal and Charismatic denominations, I also moved from praying in one way as taught to praying in another way as taught by man.
Most of us do not realize that we pray according to what we were taught and the examples that we got and are still getting. Our prayers are learned behavior emanating from mostly indoctrinated and conditioned thinking and conduct.
Praying is not what we think
Violent screams pierced the dark early morning
The other night we were woken at 3am in the morning by the petrified screams and shouting of a woman in the neighbourhood. On our social media groups we shortly discovered that there was an armed house robbery in the street just behind us.
We did not hear the shots fired … only the screams that went on and on for what seemed to have been several minutes.
These are some of the shocking realities when you live in a country where human rights are violated all the time and with no regard for human life, neighbourly love or well-being of others.
Why am I writing this post?
Moving from poo-induced to poo-free
Really? After what Jesus did? Still?
It is always a good idea to get the context when reading, and especially when quoting verses in the Bible.
But here is the soppy social media story first:
[soppy social media story starts] There was once a group of women studying the book of Malachi in the Old Testament. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three, which says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.”
You'll remember that Paul was referring to the undiluted word of Truth (2 Corinthians 2:17, James 1:21), mixed with nothing but Faith (Hebrews 4:2).
In the previous post we caught up with Paul explaining how that there is an accursed Gospel preached by trouble-makers, mixing the pure Good-News Gospel with poo (law, rules and doctrine), the latter being a toxic, deadly mixture that should be discarded immediately. We were reading what he said in The Message Translation.
In this post we look at Paul’s explanation on what to do once we’ve decided to reject the poo-induced Gospel to receive the pure Good-News-Gospel. This time we’ll read from both The Message and the KJV.
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Similarly, calling someone a child or childish, offends that person maximally.
However, in the economy of Jesus this is not true and we may even find that the exact opposite is appropriate.
There is this cool, prophetic history in the book of Numbers (13 and 14) which resulted in Joshua and Caleb being the only ones from their generation to enter the promised land - Joshua and the dog ... and the children from the younger generation.
How is this significant?