Take My Hand Inspirations: August 2018

Monday 27 August 2018

31: HELL IS REAL: Prayer of Salvation

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SALVATION SERIES

HELL IS REAL: Prayer of Salvation

Let’s stop sugar-coating Christianity. To coat something with sugar means to make it so sweet that you can’t identify the danger in it. It’s sweet to the five senses we earthly mortals possess—sweet to the ear, sweet to the eyes, sweet to the tongue, nose and to the touch on the body. Oh Lord, break us out from the addiction this sweetener has over our lives!

We love to hear: “Oh, no, child, God is not like that. He is a loving Father, and would never punish us.”

We love to see that which gives pleasure to our sexual instincts—the nakedness of the human body.

We love to taste—exactly, what are we putting into our mouths today? Have you examined the cleanliness or filthiness that you voluntarily put into your mouth these days?

We love to smell that fragrance of flowers and sunshine and laughter. Is that fragrance the aroma of pure Christianity; or the stench of sex without marriage or sex outside of your marriage or sex with the same sex? Or is it the odour of a foul mouth with vulgar jokes? Wow!

And, we love to touch . . . . ?!?!

ARE WE FUNCTIONING IN OUR RIGHT SENSES?

SIN is anything or anyone or any action, thought or word that goes against the beautiful everything that God planned for you when you were born.

And SIN can never, ever be sugar-coated. It is the nastiest, most bitter sensation that we feel; and we feel it so strongly that we add more sugar on top of it to keep us from vomiting on ourselves. That vomit is called shame; that’s what sin brings to the table of our lives: shame seasoned with pain, grief, guilt, heartache and stress. The sugar we top it with are the lies we tell ourselves about God—most often scapegoating our Creator and Father for the shame. We blame God for the troubles we face, ignoring (sugar-coating) the fact that it’s OUR CHOICES THAT PUT US WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.

Let’s stop lying to ourselves and comprehend fully that HELL IS REAL (Revelation 20:11-15).SALVATION IS REAL (Revelation 22:12-21). Now you have a choice to make acknowledging that once you leave this earthly body, your spiritual body, your soul, is going to be in a place for eternity, forever, never dying again, but living always. Where do you want your soul to live for the rest of your life? IF YOU CHOOSE HEAVEN, THEN PRAY THIS PRAYER OF SALVATION RIGHT NOW.

Men of every age, PRAY!

Dear Jesus,

(You are calling on God, the Father, through His Son, Jesus, whom He sacrificed on the cross to redeem you from the clutches of satan.)

I know that I’m a sinner.

(You have made choices that do not reflect God’s beautiful and productive plan for your life.)

I’ve made bad choices.

(Deep down into the depths of our soul we know or sense when our choices are wrong—not right with God.)

I am sorry and ask for the forgiveness that You freely offer.

Women of every age, PRAY!

(Your forgiveness was not free. It was paid with the blood of Jesus. When you repent and ask forgiveness, you are promising God that you will never crucify Jesus again with the choices you make today and will make tomorrow and He is freely offering to trust you to keep your promise.)

I believe that you died on the cross to pay for my sin,

(Think clearly about that overwhelming pain staking position Christ put himself in for you. Who else could die for you in such a shameful way, to take away your shame?)

but that You rose again on the third day proving your power to conquer the grave and cover all my sin.

(Because Jesus resurrected, the devil is defeated in the life of a true believer; and all your sinful past is blotted out, erased from the memory of God. He gives you a second chance at life, a chance to start afresh in how you make your choices.)

Let us pray for our children!

Give me the gift of your Holy Spirit, and help me live my life according to Your ways so that I may look forward to a future filled with hope and eternal life spent with You.

(You are aware that our earthly bodies cannot overcome the powers of darkness thatsatan attacks the believer. Instead, we must be filled with God’s Holy Spirit which has all power to stop the work of the devil against our journey toward heaven.)

In Jesus’ name,

(Philippians 2:5-11: At the mention of Jesus’ name, the devil and his host of demons tremble, fall, and flee away from the repented born-again Christian—YOU.)

Amen.

(It is done—You are now a child of God, an heir to the Kingdom, saved and sanctified, washed from sin and clean in Christ!)

CONGRATULATIONS. You have received membership into the greatest Kingdom of all—the joy of the Heavenly Host. You are welcome. To stay a member of this grand institution, you must breathe the air of prayer through study of God’s Word; and daily strive to become the image of Christ in fellowship with other true believers also striving to maintain our salvation. IT IS NOT ONCE SAVED, FOREVER SAVED.Everyday, we must work out our salvation with the fear of God knowing that satan is mad at losing your soul and seeking to get you back through one sense or another. Take My Hand and stay connected to this blog and the blogs that follow as we travel together toward our heavenly mansion.

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Wednesday 8 August 2018

30: Prayer For the Healing of the Nations

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Fruit of the Spirit Series

Prayer For the Healing of the Nations

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:1-2).

Wow, if we have discussed the life-long processes and blessings of bearing and harvesting the nine Fruits of the Spirit, can you imagine just what the other three will do to our glorified bodies in heaven?! O, what we have to look forward to—everlasting life—and there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him (Rev. 22:3).

And who are His servants? We are the ones redeemed to God by His blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation (Rev. 5:9c).

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them (Acts 28:27).

It’s time to stop weeping, Children of God, stop hating and being rooted in bitterness. The works of the flesh will quench the Holy Spirit and prevent Him from manifesting His Fruits in you. You must let go of the pain. What’s troubling us the most is not being able to get rid of the pain—for some of us the pain is pounding; others the pain is dull and eerie and is like a still small voice constantly reminding us to stay angry at that old oppressive invisible “man”.

Don’t grow used to the pain, dear Christian. Do accept it as a permanent part of your life. IT’S TIME TO BE FREE into abundant life, energetic physical, emotional and spiritual health. You are a child of God; and our Father will never leave you. He’s only a breath away—waiting for you to simply A.S.K.: Ask for His forgiveness for the stubbornness/disobedience in you that has put you in this pain you’re in. Seek for His favour and mercy. Knock on the door of His heart through prayer, fasting, meditation of His Word—in other words, draw closer to God and the devil (the pain) will flee from you.

Sometimes we build our own prison of pain by the wrong choices we make (can’t blame all our suffering on the devil). The devil can only wait to see what choice we make, then he knows how to put the shackles on you when you break the Law of Christ. But when you bear the multitude harvest of the Fruits of the Holy Spirit, you manifest the power, the capability, to break those satanic strongholds . . . and be free, to love yourself again, to be wholly healed.

The Fruits of the Spirit are your character formation; and you must be transformed by the renewing of your mind (the driver of your soul). You must change from disobedience to complete obedience in Christ and in His Word.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God (Romans 12:1-2).

THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD IS THE BEARING OF HIS FRUITS—TO BECOME LIKE HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

Prayer For the Nations

Holy Spirit,

Fall afresh upon every tribe of every nation

Tear us apart in the inner man and destroy that which gives us pain.

Please forgive us of our sins masked in murders,

hailed in hatred, buried in bitterness and brutality.

And shower your mercies upon us mere flesh and bones.

May you ignite a fire, a passion in us, for serving you, O Lord

In Spirit and in Truth

Proving what is good and right by you;

Then put us back together again that Your love be our love

Your power our power; Your mind our mind, Your heart our heart

And Your hands our hands to help us reach out and touch

Somebody’s life as channels of healing

making this earthly world a reflection of our home in heaven.

In Jesus Name we pray.

Amen

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