Commit..........Petition..........Rely on the Holy Spirit...............8:23 So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer.
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I'm sure you all know what it is like to go without sleep, it is exhausting. Can you imagine how you would feel after a year of a broken sleep pattern is like and never getting a restorative sleep with no end in sight? Or how about being constantly hungry? Having a hunger that is never satisfied no matter how much you eat that wakes you up many times a night and makes you eat and eat. It would be horrible, a terrible existence.
Some of you here know Phoebe and have been praying for her. This is her life. She is 3 years old, battling for her life and has to deal with constant, unsatisfied hunger. Her mom and dad can not sleep because they are constantly being waken up during the night to care for her. Now, if she was an only child this would be doable but Phoebe is the youngest of 4 and Amey deeply desires to continue homeschooling her 3 boys. You can read about Amey's frustration here.
A miracle is needed here. :) Will you join your heart with mine and ask Father to work a miracle for Phoebe? I know our God can restore this part of her brain that is just not working or that He can cause her to sleep peacefully through the night. If Father can grow heart values in Joy then He can also grow a working pituitary gland in Phoebe.
Father, my God the maker of heaven and earth You are holy and worthy of praise and worship. I esteem You and hold Your name on high. I praise You for creating Phoebe and I thank You for bringing her through brain surgery and her first year of chemo therapy. Your so good Lord. Now Lord, I don't need to tell You what is wrong with Your daughter, You know, so I lift Phoebe up to You and ask for Your healing hand upon her and for You to restore her body to function in the way it was designed to. Lord Jesus, Healer remove this constant hunger from Phoebe and give peace and rest to her and her family. Jesus grow, in Phoebe, a new pituitary gland that functions perfectly. Under Your wings they will find shelter and comfort. Cover them Lord. Thank You. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ I pray, amen.
And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.
I had a chance to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit yesterday while I ministered to an atheist and a satanist on Twitter. I do not go out of my way to step into enemy territory because I have learned that if I do something in my own strength then the Father is not with me and I get trashed. So how this occurred is pretty interesting and totally God's doing.
Thursday night I had an amazing time of praising God in #GodsPraiseRoom on Twitter. The normally hour long session went well over 2 hrs plus and this hashtag was #1 trending, reaching millions of people. It was amazing. Friday morning, a friend of mine, sent me a link to one of Ray Comfort's videos called Hell's Best Kept Secret. I have seen this one before but felt urged to watch it again, and man am I glad I did.
Just after watching the 37 minute clip I got a tweet from an atheist and believed God wanted the video to go to this person. The man was very polite and agreed to watch the video and chat with me about it at a later time. Then just after that a satanist sent me a tweet and I confronted him which led into an amazing conversation.
Later that afternoon the atheist got back to me and we chatted for 2 hrs!!! Now, I cannot say that he is now a Christian, but I can say that I know the Holy Spirit is working in his heart. Although he tried to take me down and pull me into a fight, I didn't veer from the gospel and Scripture and he just couldn't argue with that. In the end, he took a good jab at me and so I just praise GOD because I know he was stirred in his soul and some tender spots of his belief system were challenged.
The conversation with the satanist was really cool too. Although it didn't go on for long it was totally amazing to see God's Word make Satan flee. After quoting some Scripture, the demeanor in the, I think boy, changed from being demonic to defensive. He was totally polite, yet still jabbing but him too, I could see the Holy Spirit work in him.
When we as Christians, will ignore the jabs and underhanded ways of non-Christians, and we stick to Scripture, then the Holy Spirit will do His work and minister to those who are in need. This is a spiritual war and we are caught in between. The fight is between God and Satan, so when we fight wearing the armour of God it is God who will win the battle every time. God's ways are upside down to the worlds way and seem very foolish to those who do not know Him BUT, it works! Scripture diffuses the bomb and they cannot argue against it and it leaves the Word of God on their mind and the Holy Spirit will work in them.
Here's the clip from Ray Comfort, I urge you to watch it as it is really good and helps us to know just how to break up the hard heart and sow in God's Word.
The Lord has been leading me into spiritual warfare for the last 6 years or so and this year, for 2013, He gave me the words Spiritual Warfare and the verse Ephesians 6:12 NIV For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
So, like I have been doing for the past 6 years, I again asked the Lord, "What do You want me to do with this?" "Where are You taking me? You know I am not a writer or a speaker." Finally on Tuesday I told Father that whatever He wants me to do I will do it trusting that He would guide me and give me the right things to say at exactly the right time. With this, I was urged to start another Facebook page and call it Spiritual Warfare, an education site with the hope of educating people about the war that we are in.
I am not sure where this page will go and right now there are only 16 followers but I do know that if God is in it and this is what He wants then He will take it where He wants it to go and it will do the work He has planned for it. Right now what I am doing is making pictures with Bible verses on them and trying to encourage healthy discussions about the war we are in and how we can properly fight in this battle and hopefully lead oppressed or possessed people into freedom in Christ.
Like this blog, this page is dedicated for Him and to Him and I only hope I hear His voice clearly and many Christians will wake up and shake off this slumber that Satan has put on us. That Christians will pick up their battle armour and fight in this spiritual war and claim souls for the Kingdom of God.
If you are interested in checking out this page you can click on Spiritual Warfareand if you are interested please like this page.
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