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Prophetic
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Practical
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for 21st
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Warriors
and
Practical
Teaching
for 21st
Century
Warriors
November 2005 Teaching Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 1Peter 3:8 A wonderful statement made by Peter as instruction to the church. We admire this verse and agree with it, but most of us have been unable to keep these simple commands to be in unity of spirit, have sympathy for our brothers and sisters, love them, be tender-hearted and humble minded. Instead we find ourselves constantly failing - fault finding replaces unity, judgement replaces sympathy, gossip replaces love, selfishness replaces a tender heart and pride replaces humbleness. We know we should do better but we just keep failing. Yet, Peter would not have given these instructions if we were not able to keep them. But, how? How do we manage to overcome the fleshy tendencies to judge others instead of love them? The first step is to recognize we have a serious problem. When these things happen a rift is created between us and our Lord. He sees these failures as sin. The more we let this sin go one, our prayers lose their intensity and our ability to destroy the work of the enemy is compromised. We need to get back to some old fashion "on your face before God" repentance for not loving one another and caring for our brothers and sisters in Christ the way we should. Is it really so important that we love everyone in the body of Christ. YES! Jesus said that the world would know us by our love for one another. We concentrate on loving the unsaved pagans and heathens...and that is good, but we neglect one another. Worse yet, we gossip, back bite, betray, look down upon, and even try to destroy other Christians. The fractures of jealousy, envy and spiritualized self righteous pride have kept the church from reaching the mark of the prize of her high calling for centuries. It's time to repent of all of that divisive garbage, turn away from those sins, receive the forgiveness of the Lord, declare our love for one another and then walk in that love. Give us a humble tender heart, Father. Help us to love one another with Your Love. Heal our fractured church and bring us into divine unity, in Jesus Name. AMEN. Shalom, Cheryl |
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