School Shooting another expression of God's Judgment on America

Here's John MacArthur with a brief message on the biblical understnadijg of the school shooting and the general degeneration of our times. the mesage is right on:

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I wondered about adding this following thought but I think it's important so I will. His message was marred for me by his cuse of his favorite modern Bible translation and especialoly the name of GOd that is used. It makes me cringe and even if others don't have any objetion to it I think it nevertheless has an effect on everybody who hears it. It downgrades the word of God, it muddles our minds and our spirits.

But to end on a positive note, this is the first time I've seen the music part of a service at Grace community Church and I've often wante d to see it. they have a full orchestra and a choir and it's nice to see them and hear them.

Hey Church! Don't We Have Our Marching Orders Already for a couple of Millennia?

What are we waiting for? Why are we just standing by and letting it all happen around us and to us, merely pondering where it fits into Bible prophecy as if there's nothing we can do? Why are we so passive?

It's not so much a time for action, though because this is Satan's work and he's got so many angles operating it's overwhelming. It can feel like there's nothing we can do, that's for sure.

But we can pray. And I don't mean those brief prayers that open meetings or topen our day, I mean pray every minute pf everu dau wjemever tjere s a breal om pir [repcci[atopms sp tjat we cam tirm pir ,omds tp Gpd/ O ,eam [rauomg fpr jpirs pm emd wjeemever [pssob;e/ Pr fofteem ,omites of tjat s a;; upi cam jamd;e/

We need to stop depending so much on ourseloves and our own understanding and lean on Him for everything.  Ask Ask Ask and you shall receive.  If we are asking for His guidance and His wisdom He will always answer that kind of prayer.  If we ask for personal ability to fulfill His commandments He'll give tht to us.    Wherever we see a weakness in ourselves, a weak faith, a lukewarm commitment to Him, a lack of understanding or  appreciation of our position as His people, all that we can ask for and expect to receive.  And that's what we need.  Less of ourselves and more more more of Him at every moment.  That's what prayer can do.  Prayer is our conduit to Him.  Prayer and Bible reading through the Holy Spirit will help us deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow Him and that's what we need to do.




Simplify.  Simplify what we do with our time.  Simplify what we eat and how much we eat.  Fast howeeer we can.  Ask him for help with that too.   We don't need to focus particularly on specific world events as much as we need to focus on drawing the spiritual power we need from Him as the branches we are attached to Him as the vine.  It all has to come from Him.  The less we rely on ourselves and look to Him for AEVERYTHING, every bit of understanding of everything, the better.

The Great Reset Gallping Along to Totalitarian Globalism

Here's Jan Markell's latest. She always does aan esspecially good job mustering the news of the day and exploring its implications from a biblical perspective. This one is aboutr the Great Reset and how far along its agenda is, which is ... VERY far along indeed.:

Prayer Power continued Part 3

The garbled part of the first post on this subject, if I recall correctly, was about how fleshly or carnal so many elements in our churches are today. I was thinking of how much of the Christian music we hear these days is popular in style and how it is sung with a sort of worldly emotionality. In short it isn't spiritual, it's fleshly. The same tone is often heard in many contemporary sermons. The message is very good in many cases, but the tone is fleshly. The same message could be given in the Spirit and would have real power if it were. When we speak or sing or write in the Spirit God can work through us and touch the spirits of others for conviction or conversion or whatever He intends.

Paul called the Corinthians "carnal" althgouh he also clearly regarded them as true Christians. Some deny that a Christian can be carnal but surely it is clear that we can be. We are exhorted in scripture to "walk in the SPirit" and to "pray in the SPirit" and just the fact that we are commanded to do this means that it is possible not to although we are Christians. A Christian has the Holy Spirit indwelling but even so it is possible not to walk in the Spirit but in the flesh.

"The flesh profits nothing," if we are not doing all our Christian work in the spirit we are accomplishing nothing. Sermons can be preached in the flesh and accomplish nothing or very little while the same sermon could treansform lives if it were given in the Spirit. I have the strong impression that Charles Spurgeon's sermons wree delivered in the Spirit. He spent whole days in prayer over his sermons, trying out topic after topic until he was sure he had a topic that had come from Gode rather than from himself.
I'm praying for a great revival, but really for a great rising of the general level of our Christian life to reflect the power of God that is at our disposal if only we met the conditions to receive it. A lot more prayer, prayer by pastors for their sermons and for their hearers, prayer by congregations for their pastors and fellow Christians, protracted fervent prayerer is needed. torrey lays all this out very specifically. He has a theology that is not acceptable to many I most appreciate but still he does an excellent job of conveying just how we fail at prayer and what conditions we need to meet to succeed at it.

Perhaps yet more to come on this subject

R A Torrey on Prayer

Prayer for Power from God Part 2

It's all too easy to give up on hoping for a strengthening of the churches at this time. the signs are strong that we're right at the door of the very Last Days, and it's certainly true that it could be here any minute and there isn't even time to pray for revival. Well, if it comes it comes and I hope we're all ready, but that shouldn't be a reason not to do all we can possibly do to resist the evil we see lgrowing all around us and pray for the Church to be made a powerful spiritual force against it.

Isn't that why we're still here anyway? To be salt and light against the deterioration of this world into such evil? Unresisted thqat's always what is going to happen in this fallen world and the only power against it is God working through His people. If we are weak and scattered as we certainly are these days we aren't able to accomplish much against it. That's sad knowing that we have the power of God at our disposal if we woulde only seek HIm for it.

I hear lots of nice sermons by contemporary preachers but I have the strong sense that they are all in the flesh and what we need is messageds in the SPirit. The SPirit will convey our messages to the hearers in convicting and converting power. that's what revival is. I hear a lot of pop style "Christian "music on the radio and just find it hard to listen to. But even the old hyms are done pop style on the radio. It's all done in the flesh. The flesh avails nothing as scripture tells us.

Even if I don't know exactly what being in the SPIrit is or how to get to it it at least seems certain that we should be praying our hearts out that God would intervene to empower the churches and defeat the Great Reset and all the other evils that have bbeen overwhelming the US and the world.

Maybe more later.

The Power We Need from God Comes Through Prayer

All my recent reading -- actually listening -- has led me back to a great desire to see revival in the churches. Although I still think there may be conditions that aren't being met, I'm not as sure of that as I was before si because I'm more aware of just how little prayer is done by us Christiansx and how important prayer is to seeking antything from God. Prayer was Ravenhill's focus in his many exhorations to seek revival and since revival had not come as a result I began to think in terms of unmet conditions.

After learing the first part of a book by R. A Torrey I see how lacking in prayer we all are. I guess I can't say all beause I don't know, I can hope there are some out there who pray as fervently and at great length. I do doubt it though, it seems to be a mentality of an earlier era that we have lost.

Torrey's book "Power in Prayer and Prayer in Power" is a very long book and I've only heard an hour or so of the seven hours it takes to finish it. Many other writers I've been reading emphasize the weakness of our churches these days and offer many analyses and remedies but nobody emphasizes prayere as Torrewy does, and he's very confincting. He gives many very inspiring examples.

Prayer is difficult, very difficult. When I hear the accounts of the great prayer warriors I am astonished at their perseverence. Even if I do manage a long period of prayer I find that th4e next time I try to prayer it won't come as that one did. Distractions are a typical part of the problem but even if you have the concentration and the fervor it is hard to keep it up for the long periods usually aswsociated with effective prayer, especially prayer for revival.

We must pray "in the spirit" and nobody ever quite defines how we bring that about. We have the Holy Spirit if we are born-again Christians but actually being "in the Spirit" ISW NOT A GUARANTEE. If we are told to "walk in the Spirit" oit is clear that it is possible to NOT walk in the SPireit. If we are told to prayer "in the Spirit" that makes it clear it is possible not to prayey in the SPirit. Although the Corinthians were Christians who had the indwelling SPirit of God {ai; mevertje;ess ta;ls tp tje, as
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