This is the path forward:
1 Cor 13, 1 John 2-4. The path forward is with, in and through our Lord Christ Jesus and faith, hope and love.
1 Cor 13:
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
How do we change the world? We walk like Jesus did in it, which is what you will read in 1 John 2-4 and 1 Cor 13, and this is also the path of love. Love is the dividing line between those who belong to the evil one and who belong to the Lord. People can "do" all kinds of seemingly nice, great, wonderful things and yet without love they are all perfectly useless. And this love paradigm is what helps us solve this problem that puzzled or troubled this writer for years:
Matt 7
21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
This ^^^ is the reason this blog was created or at least one of its founding motivations. People calling Jesus "Lord" are Christians. Atheists, satanists, muslims, etc do not call Jesus Lord-we do. So to have "many" in this category above is extremely troubling. That is, until we are given the decryption key which we now have and we understand its because they had not love. They did miracles, they prophesied, they drove out demons and all kinds of other seemingly good works and yet they still find themselves in the hot seat. Now we know why.
When we read 1 John we also see that love is directly tied to obedience:
1 John
3In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
The most direct match is John 14:15: "If you love me, keep my commands."
We must love and we must obey. Its very simple. If we want to change the world we must first change ourselves into conformity with our Lord Jesus Christ. We are to walk like Jesus did in this world which means in love and obedience. Once we get that settled, then comes the signs, wonders and miracles. Not through some "pastor" or rabbi or priest-through YOU.
John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. (NOT some pastor, priest or rabbi-YOU)
Our Lord God wants us to do great things in this world for Him, with Him and through Him. This is a family thing. In this world we still have our training wheels on, in the next world the training wheels come off. We are training here in this temporary world for ruling and reigning with our Lord in eternity. What we need to keep in the forefront of our minds is love and obedience. That is the theme of this year. Nothing has changed. We are praying for a spiritual awakening that is world wide, and repentance and revival in the Church.
Acts 2:17
“’In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
The last days are now ^^^.
2 Cor 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
One of the prayer targets is binding, rebuking and suppressing the satanic blindness that is over the people so they can see clearly how wicked, terrible, ugly, repulsive and hypocritical the evil is, turn and be saved.
Recently the Lord reminded this servant of Nick Saban's "process" and how it is works even with our Christianity. He speaks to us in language we understand (thats what communication is). Nick Saban's process involved being fully present, giving 100% effort on each play, 1 play at a time. Its about focusing on the process of what needs to be done rather than the outcome at the end because if the process of doing what needs to be done is done perfectly the outcomes take care of themselves.
How does this relate to us? The mid term elections are an outcome, what is the process that leads us to the outcome favorable for us? We already know, its war on complacency, its fasting and prayer. Its walking in love and obedience today, right now. Its forgetting about next year or 2028 and doing what needs to be done right now today and letting tomorrow take care of itself. Sound familiar? It should:
Matt 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
We need to take care of our business in the here and now and tomorrow will take care of itself. We need to level up today, become the best versions of ourselves today, get off our butt and get busy today, wage war on complacency today, do those things the Spirit of the Lord told us to do today, love and obey today, and tomorrow and the mid-terms and 2028 will take care of themselves. There is no need to prophecy about next year until we are doing what needs to be done today.
We already know what the future looks like if we do not do our job. We are salt and light in this world and salt and light both restrain. Salt restrains rot and decay and light restrains darkness. Thats our job. We are to bind, restrain, suppress, hold back, retard and otherwise slow the advance of the evil one and the kingdom of darkness while we are on this earth. Its not some hypothetical fantasy its literally in our job description.
Today we will finish with this
2 Cor 10
3For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
^^^ We have been given every tactic, tool and technique necessary to do our job against the kingdom of darkness. The strongholds that have been setup and operate against the human race in this world, can and will be demolished by the Church. Reference again the prayer target list, there are strongholds setup over our schools, school boards, court rooms, corporations, towns, cities, counties, states and federal government etc. We are to be demolishing these strongholds, praying against them to tear them down daily.
The highest, best level/best version of ourselves operates in obedience, faith, hope and love. Let us commit to these foundational, fundamental tenants of the faith and go forth to do our jobs.
Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.
Glory to God
grace and peace
