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1 Peter, 2022, Questions

Chasing Rabbits

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Devils. Demons. Evil spirits. 
Is that it?
Are there other names that refer to the fallen ones in the spiritual realm? 

Are they real? Do they exist? Do we have a real enemy? 

Oh my, my Friends.  
To answer the question do we have a real enemy I went to the Word, a familiar Word.  1 Peter 5:8.  Do you know the verse? 

Do you know it in context? 
To gain context I backed up to verse 6 and discovered I needed to back up at least one more  — you see verse 6 begins with, Therefore. And when you read a Therefore in Scripture, you need to know why the Therefore is there for. 

Actually, I urge you to backup all the way to 1 Peter 4:17 but for this session let us read 1 Peter 5:5-8.

5 You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God is opposed to the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time, 
7 having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you. 
8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

First, do you see verse 8?
There is our answer, do we have a real enemy?
We do.  

But allow me to chase a rabbit that popped up as I read.

Did you notice verse 7 stuck right there in the middle? 
It’s familiar, isn’t it?
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 
Did you notice that verse 6 and verse 7 are one sentence?

Could it be? Could it be when we have anxieties it is because our humility has slipped?
I’m just asking. 

6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time, 
7 having cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares about you. 

Let me finish chasing this rabbit with verse 5. 
We know GOD resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble, don’t we? The WORD states it. 

All this being read, let us be alert, on guard, and not become prey to our enemy. 
How? 

Here’s what I think.
When we feel the anxieties rising, we will (again) humble ourselves and (again) seek The LORD and we will obey Him – we will TRUST Him (again) to be with us and protect us through our troubles, our cares, our fears. And as we do this (again and again) our enemy will see and he will know he lost another battle.
I like that. I like it a lot.  Do you?

Do devils, evil spirits, and demons exist? 

Here’s a link, there you will find Bible references to get you started in your search for Truth.  Click

Oh, one by the way before I leave today — you do know there is a WHOLE LOT MORE in those verses than we looked at today? Yeah! 

Love, Kathie

2022, A Quick Hello

The End of the Day

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I’m here with nothing spectacular to say, I just wanted to put something on the page to say hello, Friends.

It’s been a remarkable day and it is just about to close. I hope you have had some delight in your day and that the coming tomorrow will bring even more joy. 

Perhaps you have had the great joy and privilege of praying with a sister or brother.
If you do not have someone dear that you regularly pray with, I encourage you to ask The LORD to bring you a trusted prayer partner.
There’s something strengthening, encouraging, stretching, and sometimes corrective when you have a sister or brother who will regularly pray with you.
You learn things about yourself. :)

The clock is chiming.

 

 

 

 

 

Love, Kathie 

2022

Voila

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This is a second posting as the first posting disappeared  – one second it was there and the next gone. With prayer I found it hidden in revisions and I am publishing it again. 

I think Christians (myself included) should stop worrying about this Administration and its antics; instead, concentrate on telling every hungry person who will listen to us, time is of the essence for them to turn from their sins to GOD.

This was John The Baptist’s message.

It was JESUS ‘ message.

It was the Disciples’ message.

It was the Apostle Paul’s message.

Check it out.
Read all four of The Gospels and The Book of Acts and you will find the Gospel Is Turn from your sins to GOD (or you will burn.)

Like it or not that is the True Gospel.

Don’t believe me?

Read the Bible, particularly The New Testament for starters, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book.

I challenge you to sit with Holy Spirit and read and you will find the Gospel really is Turn or Burn.

Long ago here in America The Gospel was watered down to make it as easy as A B C.
Just say a little prayer, you can even repeat after me and voila, you’re saved. 
It’s beyond time to change this.
People are dying every day lost and bound for the devil’s hell.

Who in their right mind can believe that it is love to stand outside a house that is burning and you know a person is inside asleep but oh it wouldn’t be loving to wake them up and disturb their sleep, just let them burn to death?

Who would do that?!

But every time we (Christians) refuse to tell inquiring people they MUST TURN FROM THEIR SINS TO GOD because if they die in their sins they will spend eternity in the devil’s hell, we are letting them sleep to their death in a burning house.

Does that sound like love to you?

JESUS never did that with any sinner He spoke to.

Read the accounts of each of His encounters with sinners (people).

So let’s just stop this doctrine of demons right now that is rampant in America:
‘JESUS just loved everybody so much and today He would just walk right up to your table and hug you and tell you how wonderful you are just like you are and say oh it’s okay you can live any way you want as long as you are happy and you don’t hurt anyone’s feelings you can still go to Heaven with Me.’

That is not what He told the woman at the well nor the woman who was taken in adultery and slung at His feet. 

JESUS CHRIST is NEVER soft on SIN and neither will THE FATHER be soft on people who die in their sins.
Only SAINTS go to Heaven. 

As Christians it is not our mission, nor is it love to make people comfortable in their sins. It is not our mission nor is it love to sell out the Gospel to keep from hurting someone’s feelings.

Sinners will never come to repentance as long as they feel comfortable in their sins.
Sinners will never be saved until they can accept they are hell-deserving sinners, and that GOD would be completely just at The Great White Throne to assign them to the hell they have chosen by their refusal to turn from their sins to Him before death.
No sinner is ever saved apart from this personal encounter of repentance and deliverance with The Living GOD.

I am deliberately not giving you supporting Bible References  — if you look for them until you find them, they will be YOURS indeed. 

Again, I remind you, to read your Bible in context and you will with Holy Spirit’s help see the Truth. 

 Love, Kathie

A morning afterthought: why is it so distasteful to open the Scriptures from a heart of compassion with a lost soul showing them the penalty for their sin? 
Do we not know when they see it, when they receive it, Holy Spirit will confirm to them they don’t have to go to that place of torment because JESUS paid their sin debt IF they will turn from their sins to HIM, He will deliver them from sin, death, hell and the grave? 

This is the Greatest News anyone can EVER hear on this earth! 

How can it be unloving to open our Bibles and show people what the Bible says about living in sin?

The most unloving thing on this earth is to have this deliverance from GOD ourselves and refuse the opportunity (due to discomfort, theirs and ours) to open the Bible, and give the Bread of LIFE to a hungry, dying soul. 
I am forever grateful to the man who did this for me!