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This is something that I wrote in my journal from October, 2004:
...please stir up our body and let us grab up the equipment you've supplied for us. Equip your saints so that we can make other saints. In Psalm 149, it is written: "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of ___, to execute on them the judgement written; This is an honour for all His godly ones! Praise the LORD!" So, Lord, I pray that you will burn this into my heart. Lord, I want to have the sword, your sword in my hand at all times. Help me to bring vengeance to the people. Convict Rush County of their sins and bring them to you! And I'll surrender myself to you. Do with me as you chose. AMEN!
It's amazing to look back at the prayers and to notice that some of the things in the prayers from then are the same prayers I have today. I pray for sin to be revealed and for chains of bondage to be broken. I still pray for vengeance on those that persecute the church and I also pray that we will provoke sinners to want God. I think it's fantastically miraculously awesome that Paul in Acts 2 ripped everyone apart and a huge number of them repented and were saved because of it. Today, we feel that we have to sugar coat the gospel. How in the world can we make it any better than it is? Christ died for us. Period. We were born sinners and He came so that we could be redeemed from the judgement of our sins. I am ready to tear my flesh down and press on toward the mark of the high calling. I want to be like a soldier in battle who carries the flag. Whether their are fellow soldiers around me or not, I want to bear the flag of the Lord and wave His banner freely.
...please stir up our body and let us grab up the equipment you've supplied for us. Equip your saints so that we can make other saints. In Psalm 149, it is written: "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of ___, to execute on them the judgement written; This is an honour for all His godly ones! Praise the LORD!" So, Lord, I pray that you will burn this into my heart. Lord, I want to have the sword, your sword in my hand at all times. Help me to bring vengeance to the people. Convict Rush County of their sins and bring them to you! And I'll surrender myself to you. Do with me as you chose. AMEN!
It's amazing to look back at the prayers and to notice that some of the things in the prayers from then are the same prayers I have today. I pray for sin to be revealed and for chains of bondage to be broken. I still pray for vengeance on those that persecute the church and I also pray that we will provoke sinners to want God. I think it's fantastically miraculously awesome that Paul in Acts 2 ripped everyone apart and a huge number of them repented and were saved because of it. Today, we feel that we have to sugar coat the gospel. How in the world can we make it any better than it is? Christ died for us. Period. We were born sinners and He came so that we could be redeemed from the judgement of our sins. I am ready to tear my flesh down and press on toward the mark of the high calling. I want to be like a soldier in battle who carries the flag. Whether their are fellow soldiers around me or not, I want to bear the flag of the Lord and wave His banner freely.
posted by Nichole at 10:41 PM
2 Comments:
Amen!! It's time for everyone to realize we are ALL sinners and NEED Christ our Lord in our lives! I hold up that banner with you and there's room for plenty more!
Hey sis, just wanted to let you know that I opened up my old blog and dusted it off again.
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