PRAYER REQUESTS – – – WHO DOES THAT ?

July 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

Prayer requests—who are they for ?

Prayer requests—how do you do that ?

Prayer requests—do they work ?

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You may have heard something on radio or tv or from a church, inviting anyone to send in prayer requests–and they promise their prayer team will pray over your requests.
You may take that seriously, maybe not.
You may never have sent in your own prayer requests.

Asking someone you don’t know to pray for you is great, if their ministry is Biblical, and if the offer to pray for you is never associated with giving money.

Bring your prayer requests—your honest needs—down to a personal level, and people you have a personal relationship with.
Broadcasting your prayer requests on social media is definitely not where it’s at spiritually (danger of “casting your pearls before swine”).
Meaningful personal relationships with individuals you trust, are not built on line.

A good foundation for building a prayer partner connection, a prayer warrior, is praying together, in person.
That is the spiritual version of building any personal relationship connection—time together, in person.
THEN, sharing everyday stuff, highs and lows, and prayer requests right away when you need help—then you can use the phone to talk or text these personal items with that special friend.
I caution against sending group text prayer requests, except in emergency.

By the way, “Prayer requests—do they work ?”
YES ! YES ! YES !

Don’t miss out on the blessings of having a trusted person who prays for you, for anything, any time.
Can we admit our deepest needs, even our weaknesses, to another believer ? Yes, indeed !
Reluctance to ask someone for specific prayer for specific needs, thinking I should handle this myself, likely also means a reluctance to ask God .

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”

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PROTECTING OUR STUDENTS

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Which is more effective in protecting our students in school ?

A-Bible
Prayer
Ten Commandments
God

or

B– Outlaw Bible, Prayer, Ten Commandments
Outlaw Parent Authority
God’s Help Forbidden
Evolution (just animals)
‘Counseling’ (for acting like animals)
Sex Education/Experimentation
Metal Detectors
Gun Control Laws
More Gun Control Laws

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What’s so hard about the answer ? A
Why is there even a debate ? A or B
Someone must have an evil agenda ? B
How can we go back ? A
Can we go back ? A
People say we don’t want to go back. B
What ? A
They must want to destroy this entire country. B
They are succeeding. B

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THERE IS HOPE. A
Maybe not nationwide, but you can ‘make a difference in someone’s life, in the parts that are for keeps.’ That is A ! ! !
Talk to somebody you know—A
Talk to somebody you don’t know—A
Talk about something basic, something creative, something Godly, something Biblical, something that you could do in your community—A

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Remember before—A
What worked before—totally documented. A
What worked before—just read history. A
What worked before— just ask anyone over 50 or 60. A
What worked before—every high school had unlocked pickups with guns in the rack, with no school shootings, with God and Bible and Ten Commandments and Prayer in school. A

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God is not bound by national defiance against Him.
God is bound by our silence and caution.

It’s not comfortable for me to write this:
The opposite of bold is coward.
The first in the Revelation 21 list of eight who practice evil, headed to the lake of fire, is cowards.

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RAPTURE

July 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

“The Great Escape before The Great Tribulation”

Instead of comforting, there is something theologically scary about that repeated statement.
Fear of tribulation as motive to trust in Jesus surpassed fear of hell—stated clearly by not mentioning hell over tribulation.

Often repeated logic concludes rapture before Tribulation, because church is not mentioned after the first three chapters of Revelation, when the horrors are described in detail.

Likewise using logic, why should Christians read a significant part of the Bible that does not apply to us because we won’t be here ?
Every time someone offered to voluntarily address that question, the answer was a lame non-answer, with a rush back to more familiar territory, very much like the pattern of seasoned politicians.

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