Today's Prayer Alert 10-27-2009

  • Oct 27, 2009
  • Bob Willhite
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on My own {authority}; but He sent Me. Why is My language {or speech} not clear to you? It is because you are not able to hear {and receive with understanding} what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's evil desire. He {the devil} was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language {the only thing that he knows to say}, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me {Jesus}! Can any of you prove Me {Jesus} guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? Anyone who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."   John 8:42-47

Ladies and Gentlemen, WHAT IS A MURDERER?

By most definitions, a “murderer” is someone that gives kills the spirit of someone else. A person that commits the action of destroying the very life of another person that is created by God is a murderer. Our Lord God, gave us a specific commandment against killing.  (Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17)

So the question is, why does Jesus link together a liar and a murderer and command us NOT to do these things?

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit (John 3:6).

It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life (John 6:63).

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:5-6).

We must all remember that every word spoken can bring life or death, blessings or curses, truth or false statements to the people that hear what we say.

 

Heavenly Father, we know that You ARE Spirit and You are Truth!

We pray for Your Holy Spirit discernment to test the spirits that we encounter in our lives today. We believe that the Spirit of God confesses and proclaims that Jesus Christ, Who was born of a woman is God Incarnate among us. We believe that the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, is now resident within us. We know beyond any shadow of doubt that Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in this world. (1John 4:4).

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His Love is perfected within us. When we confess that Jesus IS the Son of God, we can receive and understand His Words. We can love Him with all of our heart, all of our soul, and all of our mindset, because He first loves us and laid down His Life for us!

Amen and Amen!