So many lost, so many wandering through the desert unable or unwilling to receive Your Grace, so many looking for evidence where only faith resides.  Leaders recounting their resumes instead of pleading for God’s wisdom.  Followers reluctant, rebellious or impervious to good advice.  A church praying for peace when the Bible says that turmoil approaches and the only peace is found through relationship with Christ.  What then of our enemies?  Are they understood, are they inactive, idle or disinterested, or perhaps is the enemy fielding troops, dispatched for specific reason, armed to steal our joy and purpose?  What is the truth that we want to believe, for we know the Truth of God’s Word, but it apparently does not pique or please our collective perspective?  Which master do we serve?

Passionate and persistent participation in prayer may be the clearest evidence of belief.  If my personal powers of persuasion and protection are impotent where spiritual battle prevails.  Then why must I continue in the folly of unbent knee, hoping for another outcome or simply choosing to remain defeated when victory is readily received?  What is it about the human spirit which causes us to rebel especially to the point where solid wisdom would immediately/permanently relieve our predicament?  Is the original sin that consuming or have even we who have been set free remained deceived, reluctant and wounded beyond salvation?  The condemnations and accusations of a defeated foe should consistently fall upon deaf ears, yet I daily see the tears of saints who continually ponder their own inadequacy.  Our inadequacy is what makes salvation so precious, it is the awesome majesty behind God’s Gracious Gift.  None of us can do it, none of us deserve it, none of us defeated or is capable of defeating God’s enemies.  The completion of Works or victory has nothing to do with us except that we are willing to stand and let God achieve victory using us as conduit.  We are only important because God loves us so much.

I cannot help them but to point them to God, kindly and gently suggest God’s Wisdom through His Word and regularly go to the mat in defense of them by petitioning my Father in prayer.  But isn’t that enough?  Have we been so subtly and effectively convinced that somehow this world and all that is created by God has some mysterious capacity to overwhelm and outdo God?  This world and all that is in it, including God’s fallen creation are subject to the Will and whim of Almighty God.  He rules and no lie or fiction may convince humanity otherwise, unless of course we do not wish that God is Sovereign, or perhaps that we refuse to believe in His Grace and Gospel.  For unbelief is the only sustaining reason by which any man may fear enemy successes.  For in Knowing God we are relieved of all deception and are made peaceful in the knowledge of God’s resounding, unavoidable and rapidly approaching judgment of all whom contend against His command.

I pray for you now, my Brother, Sister, Wife, Father, Mother, Son and Daughter, for that is demonstration of my greatest love for You and My resounding Love for God.  It is my greatest honor that I may humbly approach the King of Everything, I will not forsake that gift, especially when I know it overwhelms all obstacles, enemies and strongholds aligned against us.  Be faithful as God is faithful to us.  Share the Good News of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that all might come to a saving Knowledge of the Truth and be saved.  Pray continuously as God has directed and remain in the shelter of His Wings as we approach the calamitous episodes preceding His Glorious Appearing.  In Jesus Holy and Mighty Name, a Name above all others, A name whose simple mentions causes enemies to flee.  Amen.