We live in perilous times! Sin is running rampant. People have little understanding at what is happening but there are many opinions floating around and heated debates as to why things are the way they are. In the process, the church of our Lord doesn't know what to do. Have we lost our way? Have we moved away from the primary purpose of the church and the Lord Jesus Christ? The church itself is in a difficulty in many places and dividing even more.
There is little focus on Jesus and Him crucified. The result is the power and wisdom from God is lost! Within the church itself, home life is crashing. It is getting more and more difficult to find fathers bringing up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4). What do we find instead? Fathers (and mothers) raising their children in the discipline and instruction of the world! If the church is being affected, why wouldn't the world? There seems to be less and less impact of the Lord and more and more direction from the world. It is amazing of the bad attitudes, the lack of desire from young people while the fathers sit idly watching instead of taking hold and leading their children upward into Christ.
The world is hurting. The church is hurting. What are we to do? It comes down to one simply thing: Jesus Christ and Him crucified! Within Jesus we find peace, power and all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Jesus changes people. We have a message of hope and salvation to teach to our lost friends and neighbors but if the church doesn't see the hope and salvation they possess, we look like another denomination, another religious group with the same empty message all other religions put out having little impact on the hearts and minds of this lost world. Maybe the real question we need to ask ourselves: what do we really believe? Do we really believe? What we teach in our homes and in our reaching out to a hurting world shows everything about what we believe!
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Bless your day! And the truths you write!
OH-- THAT WE, THE BODY OF CHRIST, WOULD HAVE RENEWED FAITH TO BELIEVE IN REVIVAL!
BY OBEYING THE LORD'S INSTRUCTIONS:
2 Chronicles 7:14
New International Version (NIV)
14 If my people, who are called by my name,(CHRIST-ians),
1. will HUMBLE THEMSELVES
2. and PRAY
3. and SEEK MY (GOD'S) FACE
4. and TURN FROM THIER WICKED WAYS,
THEN!!!!
1. I (GOD) WILL HEAR from heaven,
2. and I (GOD) WILL FORGIVE their sin
3. and WILL HEAL their land.
Hinderances begin first within the church leadership-- (UNBELIEF)
those who are mere hirelings--
who don't believe there is LIFE in the Holy Word,
who don't believe in TESTIMONIES,
who don't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit working through the believers by the name and power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ,
instead they preach to those who want their ears tickled.
major denominations have compromised themselves and their congregations to the deceptions of gay marriage and abortion.
FORGIVE US OUR SINS -- FATHER -- HEAL OUR LAND!
I PRAY IN JESUS NAME, AMEN
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