daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? It amazes me and is interesting at the same time how people will offer up opinions and propositional ideas based on nothing but "it sounds good to me" or even "feels good or right". If we do not test or hold these ideas to the fire as it were, we are bound to stumble at the least or drift off in a place we ought not go. For example, "God'll get you for that" or "you'll go to hell for this or that". Any of these can be refuted with the Word. Worldly Ideas like "Be good and you'll make it into heaven" are easily proven to be false. The Word tells us "none are good, no not one" so what principle is that statement based on? That previous feel good idea mentioned earlier. The hard facts that refute that is the grace of Jesus. We've talked about it so many times. Yes or no on the subject of Jesus, that determines heaven or hell. Following the Master has consequences such as behaving better, doing right, being a good person and these come about as a result of our choice to believe not in order to believe. Think about any idea that is presented. Test it by holding it up to scripture. Stealing a pencil or the hope diamond, a white lie or a bald face deceptive for gain lie. Either are what they are. Propositional ideas like any performance based dogma flies in the face of scripture so why do they permeate and how do people fall for them? Upbringing is one way. It is probably the hardest thing to believe contrary to what we learned the first 10 years of our lives. Accepted truth for the only reason of who said it. That one gets most people, including me. I've been duped before on the word of someone and have learned to research for myself when any doubt exists. The point to this is for you all to put on that armor we talked about yesterday and arm yourself with truth so you don't fall for the crap around us. Sure we may get had sometimes but with an inquisitive mind and knowing the where to search, we can grow and be prepared when the devils schemes come at us.

2 Peter 2:1-22
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them-bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)- if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you. With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed-an accursed brood! They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey-a beast without speech-who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness. These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity-for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."
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Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your Word that is all true. Thank you for leading and teaching your principles. Lord, we ask a healing on the children who are sick. We ask for your touch on our hearts and minds. Be ever present in our conscience and sub conscience. Help us build up our faith so we can stand when attacked, in Jesus name, Amen