TEN DAYS OF PRAYER FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH: OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 2, 2014, Day 2

SO WHY PRAY AT ALL?  - Part 1

This is a valid question from many who are non-believers/professing and/or Cultural Christians. While this demographic is usually the same group of folks, even committed disciples of Jesus Christ have become seemingly helpless enough to inquire and ask "why doesn't God do something? He sees the pain of the persecuted by the religion of "peace" and various other atheists" in the countries of yesterday's World Watch List (from Open Doors). The shrinking numbers of those who care in the west, about these things, may even ask why the Lord has not intervened as this brutality increases? Can we discern the Mind of God and His thinking about this?

We can, to a certain extent. His Arm is not short and He is timing is flawless, whether we like it or not. Just as in the Days of Noah (Genesis 6) when the earth was so corrupt and evil with sin abounding, thus it is the same now before the Second Coming of the Son of Man. God will not act before His time. However, but He HAS done something. He has commanded us to pray. He has commanded us through His word. Here is the proof:

Luke 18:1 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart (speaking about Jesus).
Matthew 26:41 "Keep watching and praying, that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." (some final instructions from the Commander in Chief).
Colossians 4:2-4 "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak. (The Apostle Paul, who spoke for Jesus).

These are the Commands and Exhortations from the verses above:
- Pray and do NOT lose heart.
- Keep watch (be vigilant) and pray, 
- Prayer will keep us from physical and emotional sin so our prayers will be effective.
- Not just pray once, but be DEVOTED to a lifestyle of prayer.
- Pray for those in bondage (like Paul was in Philippi), who opened up prison ministries and even led the Philippians prison guard and his family to the Lord. Pastor Saeed has led over 30 people to Christ in the Iranian prison which the muslims are keeping him in, just to torture him for being a Christian.
- There are more passages which will be explored and prayed over on Day 3/10. The key is -we pray!

SO FATHER, IN THE POWERFUL AND MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, WE REST ON YOUR WORD AS OUR COMMAND AND DIRECTION TO PRAY. LORD, UNLIKE THE WORLD AND THOSE WITH RELIGIOUS TITLES WHO REJECT THE VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU TO SERVE THEMSELVES AND WALK AROUND IN LABYRINTHS AND OTHER CREATIONS OF THE SINFUL CORRUPT MINDS OF MAN, WE COME DIRECTLY TO YOU, IN HUMILITY, GRATITUDE AND AN ALERT MIND TO THE THINGS YOU HAVE CALLED US TO,

FATHER, YOU TOLD US TO BE ALERT AND VIGILANT MORE THAN ONCE THROUGHOUT YOUR WORDS TO US, BECAUSE THIS IS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM TO WORSHIP YOU. LORD WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE SPIRITS OF THOSE UNDER PERSECUTION ARE WILLING BUT UNDER SUCH STRESS AND DURESS AND BRUTALITY FROM THE SONS OF THE DEVIL, THEIR FLESH FAILS AS OUR BRETHREN AS MORTAL MEN, SUCH AS WE ARE. THEREFORE, YOU HAVE COMMANDED US TO PRAY FOR THEM AS ONES WHO ARE PART OF THIS SAME BODY OF CHRIST - THE CHURCH.

THEREFORE FATHER, WE PRAY FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND THEIR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN TO NOT LOSE HEART. WE PRAY, RESTING ON THE SCRIPTURES (BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THEM WITH ALL OUR HEART) FOR THEIR COURAGE TODAY. LORD EVEN AS THEIR FLESH FAILS, EVEN IF YOUR ENEMIES STARVE THEM, EVEN IF THE REST OF THE WORLD AND ITS POMPOUS LEADERS IGNORE THEM, WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE NOT. WHILE YOUR SPIRIT WILL NOT CONTEND WITH MAN FOREVER, YOUR HEART IS FULL OF LOVE FOR ALL YOUR ELECT, AS YOU SEE THE BEGINNING FROM THE END, AND YOU SEE THESE PERSECUTED SAINTS WILL BE GREATER IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN THAN THOSE WHO ARE ENJOYING THEIR REWARDS NOW, ON THIS SIDE OF GLORY.

FINALLY FATHER, WE BELIEVE THAT EVEN IN THIS STATE, YOUR PEOPLE CAN TESTIFY TO THE HOPE THAT IS IN THEM, EVEN TO THEIR CAPTORS - LIKE PAUL IN THE PHILIPPIAN JAIL & LIKE SAEED IN IRAN RIGHT NOW. SO WE PRAY THE SCRIPTURES, WE PRAY LIKE PAUL THAT A DOOR WILL BE OPEN FOR THESE UNNAMED SAINTS TO REACH EVEN ONE OR TWO OF THEIR PERSECUTORS TO SPEAK THE GOSPEL OF LOVE AND SALVATION CLEARLY TO THEM, LIKE GRACIA BURNHAM DOES, TO PRAISE AND GLORY OF YOUR NAME, AND ETERNAL SALVATION OF THEIR SOULS, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, AMEN.

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FIVE YEAR OLD STOPPED FROM PRAYING FOR HER FOOD
Mark 9:42 reports Jesus as saying “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea".

In an Oviedo, Florida public elementary school, five year old Gabriella Perez was told by a lunch monitor at the Carillon Elementary School that she was not allowed to pray and thank God for her food. The very impressive Gabriella (watch short video here) reported that she had bowed her head when the monitor told her she was not allowed to pray (in school). We all know the Supreme Court has ruled it IS constitutional for student-led prayer. This is bore out by the numerous Fellowship of Christian Athletes bible study groups in PUBLIC schools and the annual "See You at the Pole" prayer event. 

The thing is these public educators know the rules but their goal is indoctrinate as many parents' children as possible into a way of thinking, far from the Biblical and moral foundations of decent humanity. All kinds of social engineering are being promoted by the ungodly, and it is stunningly refreshing to see such a young saint boldly proclaim "IT IS GOOD TO PRAY"! 

After watching the movie GOD's NOT DEAD and seeing almost all students in the actor Kevin Sorbo's character's Philosophy class write down "God is Dead" in order to get along with the world, pass a class and not make waves....and knowing this actual sell-out of their souls for temporal material gain is the norm rather than the exception in real life, it is just heartwarming to see a 5 year old show up the majority of young people in America. Church youth groups in this country are packed with a majority of cultural Christians who put on their halo for a couple hours or so a week. They proceed to take off the facade and their faith the rest of the time and act just like anyone else around them.

Five year old Gabriella has shown them all up. She has not only shown up the spiritual paucity of the educated (and lost to perdition) class, but the religious. Her impressive statement that "they caught me again", when she resumed trying to do what she knows is right - being grateful to God, shows two things - this wonderful child, as part of the Elect, knows what Perseverance of the Saints really means. Secondly, it raises the following question: IF YOU WERE ACCUSED OF BEING A CHRISTIAN - WOULD THERE BE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YOU? If there is any doubt in your mind, read what Jesus said in the following three verses; then examine yourself to see if ye be in the Faith, as this little child most definitely is:

Matthew 7:21-23

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

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NOTHING FROM NOTHING LEAVES NOTHING

....is actually part of a lyric from the old Billy Preston song "Nothing from Nothing" (1975). This word from the "Fifth Beatle", who was given that title due to the few gigs he had with the British pop group aptly described what the "Big Bang" is really all about.  

Fresh on the heels of the great Creationism debate between Answers in Genesis/Creation

Photo from Answers in Genesis

Museum Founder Ken Ham and the former engineer from Boeing and well known atheist Bill Nye, the former TV Science Guy, the debate on Creation, Evolution and the Big Bang is raging once again. This is a debate which will never die or go away, until the Return of Jesus Christ removes all doubt - literally!

What is particularly troubling to many of us who personally know and believe the Literal Truth of God and His Word is not the insults from Bill Nye that we put our faith in an ancient text written in "American English", but that so many self-described Christians think they can believe in both Creation and Evolution. While Bill Nye is blaspheming the Lord by repeatedly doing the exact thing the pharisees did, before Jesus condemned them all in Matthew 23, people who say they are Christians are denying the Word themselves, when they - like those in the Emergent Church - say it is "the Bible plus" or "Jesus plus"...evolution.

A. To walk in the two worlds, which modern liberals in the church have to do, in order to hold that belief, rejects the Creation story of the Book of Genesis. Right off the bat, under terms of logic, this discounts the rest of their so-called belief if they then claim to believe only Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount" or their selective out-of-context "judge not less ye be judged" or 1 Corinthians 13 "The Love Chapter".  The man or woman who rejects Christ outright is actually more honest than this kind of "a la mode" Cafeteria Christianity. In order words, there is no such thing as selective belief in the Word of God. Why? Jesus is the Word (Logos) and it is written in John 1, 1 John 1 and Revelation 19:13. The written Word of God is true. It is 66 books written over a period of 1600 yeras by 40 authors, most of whom did not know each other. It is one seamless proven story from beginning to end - about the same Person - Jesus!

B. To walk in two worlds, modern and misled evangelicals have to have bought into the lie that you can influence the culture by "lifestyle" when the opposite happens. They buy this lifestyle lie because they do not know the Truth of Jesus, or are afraid to mention the Name of Jesus, or in most case - don't even know Jesus as Lord and Savior! These young people have been indoctrinated into believing in evolution and modern philosophy are truer than the air they breathe and are not even allowed to think critically anymore. The majority are taught not to question where these things came from, because "the evolution matter is "settled"". They do not even know that the Father of Evolution - Charles Darwin, a failed seminary student, said repeatedly in his THEORY that "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case...(while trying to figure out the complexity of the human eye).

They do not know that some of the biggest villains in history misused Darwin's theory to justify their agendas - from Margaret Sanger (who started Planned Parenthood), to Adolph Hitler in his book "Mein Kampf" to Eric Harris and Dylan Kleybold who are still talked about almost two decades after their 1999 shooting spree at Columbine High School in Colorado. Both young men wore T shirts which had Darwin's "Natural Selection" written on it.
Watch this video from Ken Ham "Where Darwin did go wrong":

They do not know the made up hoax about the "Missing Link" or the PILTDOWN MAN, one of the biggest lies in human history. This is from my own blog post on "Seven Things God Hates" (click here): The Piltdown Man is one of the longest run false testimonies ever about the origins of man. The Word clearly states that it was God Who made man in His own image. In the same way, a man named Charles Dawson created his own false mechanism. The fraud which last for more than 40 years - the longest running "scientific" falsehood in history - began when Dawson said he was "given" the remains of a "being" found in the quarry at Pilton, Sussex County in India. These remains of the secular "being" confirmed to some that here indeed was the "missing link".

For four decades - lies after lies after lies abounded in the scientific/academic community.  All kinds of study and illogical reasoning were imputed to this so called Piltdown Man. That is, until the quiet investigation of this led to a big exposure in 1953 in TIME magazine. The Piltdown man was the Hoax of the Century! For four decades, the world's academic community thought their "missing link" of the bridge between apes and humans had been found. IT TURNED OUT TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN A WELL CRAFTED, DECEPTIVELY FILED AND STAINED PARTS OF A FULL DEVELOPED 600 year old HUMAN SKULL AND A JAWBONE OF AN ORANGUTAN!!! It was carefully crafted to deceive....to be a false witness to the lie of evolution, against the Truth of Creation.

When you teach a kid the demonic lie that they are descended from an ape, when no such proof exists and never will, you are actually oppressing the soul of a your fellow human being and destroying his/her self-worth as a loved and valued child of God. If you wish to know why there is so much hopelessness in western society - the richest and most advanced ever on this planet - look no further than their lack of Faith in the real Creator Who does not make junk or mistakes. Unfortunately for these many alive today, and those yet to be born, there are not many pastors/teachers or men like Ken Ham, Ray Comfort or Eric Hovind who will speak the Truth to these wonderful young folks, even if it means being called a crazy person by liberal people in bow ties and the media.

C. To walk in the world, modern evangelicals (since we already lost the liberal church to secular society) have to believe the lie of the "The Big Bang". The story of how a Jesuit priest from Belgium - Monsignor Georges Lemaitre - came to develop, promote and have his fiction validated by people who should know better, is both too long and stunning to include here.(Click here to read the full account). The only thing we need to know about Lemaitre and those who bought into this insult against Holy God - this: Lemaitre did NOT believe the Book of Genesis was literal about Creation! This is correct - a priest who did not believe the most crucial part of the Bible....the same Book of the Bible which contains the very signature of God the Creator right off the bat in Genesis 1:1 (see below) the letters Aleph Tav (e t).

Click here to read what that signature is.

The fact that Lemaitre's Big Bang theory is now being used to brainwash society, defies logic and just plain old common sense. Forget all the expanding universe and his math formula debates with Albert Einstein and his experiences with Hubble. In fact, I think Eric Hovind did the best job explaining what certain religious theologians have to twist their unbiblical selves in a knot to try to defend. Please watch this one (1) minute video:

Ken Ham in his debate with the contentious Bill Nye on February 4 (you can watch his debate here) had one purpose in mind, which was to defend the basis for Creationism.  He did that with civil finesse and showed the remarkable link between God and true science. The post debate discussion has now taken on a life of its own and while Nye was judge the winner on technical debate points on style, Ken Ham is now on the circuit delivering the good message of Creation, the Truth and Validity of the Bible and belief in Jesus Christ which underlies all of this...and could even be said to be winning the post debate by so doing! What is now taking place, is that the true story and science of Creation, the Big Flood, the Fossil Record and the myth of carbon-dating are now getting out there to those who have been getting only one side of the story, increasingly, for over half a century!

This can only be good...and is much needed in order that people can come to the beneficial (to their own eternal souls) realization that one cannot walk on both sides of this fence. We are either for God and His Word.....or we are with Bill Nye and the rest of secular western world.