The Devotional

Papa “J” and his thoughts?

The campaign manager says; “send money” and our candidate will be a leader for freedom and lower taxes. But God will over rule, it is the righteous prayer of the faithful that delivers us from a dying nation. Proverbs 11:4 Our money perishes and so do we!

The battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, Tecumseh the Indian warrior and William Henry Harrison, the final battle of a sixty year war. The Indian seeking to defend his land from being overrun by the “paleface”. There are few if any children playing “Cowboys and Indians” these days, it is politically incorrect as a parent to let your child play this game. It is more humane to let them become obese and expert in video games of a different war. Also, the movies of these two cultures, the Indian and Paleface fighting one another has faded away and we say, that's progress. The question: Does history repeat itself? The Indian gave up. Now, we the people of the United States have a similar battle of sixty, plus or minus years. Around 1950 someone said, “It is a violation of the separation of Church and State to have the Ten Commandments displayed in our public schools” and the Word of God is ripped out of the minds of our young people. Thus the steady regression of what once made the citizens of the United States of America – full of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness began eroding. Soon, with God's Law removed from the minds of our young adults, came the erosion of our civil laws which govern the nation. Killing babes through abortion. Young people allowing drugs to warp their mindsets, rebellion on the college campus and on the streets, civil laws stripped out of our local states for more federal control, children killing children and committing suicide, the erosion of our U.S. Constitution. Like Tecumseh, we will see the end result. History 101 is about to become – History 101.1 (James 4:13-17)

Hebrews

Hebrews 6:1-8 There is a similar battle that rages in our churches these days. God would have us to advance in His kingdom which can only be real to Him and us through the wisdom and knowledge of the Holy Spirit in saints working through our churches. Spiritual warfare has caused many godly churches to fall into three categories. Liberalists, legalists and logos-ist (logos is Greek for WORD).

As a result, many churches today need a bit of refreshment, John 4:10. We need churches that are alive in the Spirit. Maturing God's saints spiritually is the work God has placed on the church. (Acts 6:1-7). My sense of things is that we have fallen back to the basics of the gospel (repentance, faith, baptism, spiritualism, resurrections and judgment).

The church is not a ministry to the unsaved or the seekers. The truth is no one seeks after God, how easy it is for us to forget scripture when trying to push our own agenda. Romans 3:9-20 and the various Psalms that say the same thing like Psalm 14:1-3. We simply cannot expect God to move a church that has fallen from grace. Grace moves saints, seekers are not saints thus they sit in religious circles talking about politics and such, they do not mature spiritually and they do not step outside of their safe religious environment. John 13:12-20. See verse 17.