Prayers Devotionals

How does religion become dangerous and used by Satan to destroy the lives of people? Satan and demons are good poetry, myth, psychology and storytelling. God is love, God is spirit, and God is real. Those who belong to the truth listen to Jesus and understand that a healthy conscience avoids evil especially when it partners (chooses to be born again) with the Holy Spirit (not an evil one). Religion should have no more to do with Satan than with Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. When asked about hell, Pope Francis said it was a difficult subject and expressed hope that no one who dies will go there. Sin may cause death in the poetic sense of separation from God but our ability to forgive others is at the heart of our redemption and reunion with God. One of the biggest dangers of religion are the hypocrites that claim to know what God meant and why God said this or that, based on their personal interpretation of a fantastic poem, allegory, story, myth, or parable in scripture. Sometimes

  Job 9 "Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?"    Have you ever thought of this, adversity comes now matter if you’re a Christian or not so why not have somebody watch your back and is ALWAYS there to listen, if it doesn't happen like that then remember God's timing.

  Our Prayer: We thank You, O God, for the pleasure You take in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree. Keep us from pride. Let us not be as the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards You and scornfully towards all mankind. Let us not be as those who lift up themselves in pride and folly! Rather make us further into Your holy image day by day as we trust upon Your sanctifying Spirit!

 On forgiveness I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and excusing. Forgiveness says “Yes, you have done this thing, but I accept your apology, I will never hold it against you and everything between us two will be exactly as it was before.” But excusing says “I see that you couldn’t help it or didn’t mean it, you weren’t really to blame.”. . . Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it. C. S. Lewis

On happiness What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could “be like gods”—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.  C. S. Lewis