eyes wide shut. I remember when that movie came out. I remember seeing the provocative trains being advertized on tv. I remember thinking "why would anyone want to fill their mind with that?"
Just at that time my friends saw it. I have no idea if that movie spurned them on into hedonistic treasures (Matthew 6:20-21), but they used to use me as a sounding board. -Word to the wise, don't let just anyone be a verbal dumping ground about what is going on in their life. The husband and wife got into Sodom & Gomorah like issues. drugs sex bad stuff. I pulled out all the warnings and commands from the Bible. (I'll give them to you if you want them.) In moments of clarity they even prayed with me. The problem is the planting was done on rocky soil (Mark 4:5 & Mark 4:16-17and Matt 13:5-6 & Matt 13:20-21) Now a few years later. They are divorced. One is an addict of pornography and drugs.
eyes wide shut. I am absolutely wide awake. It's past 2:00 am.
I've been posting on things I hate. I want to make this clear. I am not obsessing on them. It's everywhere I turn. I'm not asking "Slayer" to come to my church. I'm not asking Harry Potter to come to Fa Ha Lo, Pentacostal kids camp... I haven't even posted on kids camp. Kids camp was the most incredible, God-filled week of my life. Now that was two weeks ago.
The spiritual warfare (at camp) was intense. I don't want to talk about it. But I do want to say that God's presence was thick. It was way more impacting than anything the deceiver could set forth. God Rocks! And Jesus is the Rock that I stand on (Matt 16:16-19).
2:23am. 2:24.
Spiritual warfare. I really have some stories to tell. What would the stories glorify?
2:57am and still not sleeping.
Glorify this: Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The amplified: Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. This is what Jesus says about faith in Matthew 17:20-21 (whenthe disciples unsuccessfully tried to drive out a demon): He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothin will be impossible to you. But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
I am dealing with spiritual things. So I understand that I am dealing with things that I do not see. Real things, but things I can't put my hands on. The thoughts that I can conceive, the hopes I aspire for they are just as real and substansive as things. God says that spiritual things are more true. That we even must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. My favorite verse in the Bible: Matt 6:19-21 Matt 6:20 But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal"
I am going somewhere with this...
Now it is 3:41 a.m.
Jesus says we must proceed in faith. That action gives us Righteousness. That action (faith) gives us Power (Acts 3:6) We have to seek the treasures of heaven. Not what we can see and touch. That we concur the demons and manisfestations of sin and satan with faith in Jesus' name. Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in and through no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by and in which we must be saved. Acts 3:16 And His name, through and by faith in His name, has made this man whom you see and recognize well and strong. [Yes] the faith which is through and by Him [Jesus]has given the man this perfect soundness [of body] before all of you.
We must have this faith that is given by God (Romans 10:17). It is an essential.
eyes wide shut! I am finally tired. I know I will sleep soundly thinking this all over. And I will wake up in peace. (Matt 6:34)
