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| Re: Prayer Request For capturedbygrace... [message #5583 is a reply to message #5580] |
Fri, 13 March 2009 13:40   |
Abiding
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I am praying for her full healing and restored abilities so that she is able to do all that she could do before the stroke and more! She is an awesome woman of God with such a tremendous heart to minister to others.
This morning I went back and read some of the messages she'd posted here last year and I would encourage those who missed them to do the same. Or reread them. They're thought-provoking to say the least! (I will include a link to a list of them at the end of this message.)
Here is a copy of the last message she shared here:
| capturedbygrace wrote on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:04 |
I keep seeing people in Indiana, northern IN especially who are wounded and still lying on the battlefield. They are by no means all in big error or deception. That doesn't mean there is no deception, just certainly not enough to divide over. I would like to know of any Christian (even one) who has attained to the place of no deception--I know I'm not it.
If I believe that is the case, and if I believe the Lord is the One to build His church, why am I trying to defend it? Better yet, the question for me is, how do I defend it without becoming a "vigilante in the flesh?" I live the truths-I become a demonstration of God's Word through obedience to His voice. If I obey the letter of the Word without the Spirit's direction, I easily become legalistic--and my defense of God and His Word becomes more of a "crusade empowered by zeal" than a walk of love.
What will not quench the smoking flax and break the bruised reed? It will be my life of being well-loved by God (not love through religion or love through feelings) that I then pass on, for I can only give what I have received. If I am not a crusader, others can freely explore and live what being a Christ-follower in this world means without my voice taking the place of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. I am sister, not Father. To perfect them is His work, not mine. For many a hurt person, it is essential to have a climate of respect, love, truth and prayer to be made whole. Until and unless we can come to this as Christians, I think we won't be seeing much that we long to see and that God longs to give us. We will be too afraid we are going to be hurt again, or we will be too afraid that our "pure doctrine" will be tainted by "those others."
Until both our fear of being hurt again, and our concern over doctrine is yielded to and filtered by the Holy Spirit, we will be distorted, and leaders and people won't have the power to model servanthood as Jesus Christ did--and it is servanthood leadership with His love that will truly bring Holy Spirit anointing and authority to deal with what He says is wrong.
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Link to her other messages: http://overcomersonline.com/FUDforum2/index.php?t=showposts& amp;id=201&S=174b327fc93dfb02f710896bf082c8af
Blessings,
Abiding
"I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."--Phil 3:12
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