Corona Devo 1358
Would you join me in praying for "Megan"?
She's gotten lost in this topsy-turvy world. Her priorities are her own, instead of God's, and they are not even her own, they are manufactured and conjured priorities and mirages that a pagan culture or (worse) satan has planted in her heart, and she has been running very hard after the wrong things. She has a public platform, and so she influences others along her lost way.
But, (surprise), none of these false-truths, fake-gods, or self-care ideologies are fulfilling her.
Would you join me in praying for "Megan"?
Where Megan is...is not unfamiliar or foreign to me, and maybe you. There was a time when I was lost in this topsy-turvy world. My priorities were my own, instead of God's, and they weren't even my own--they were manufactured and conjured priorities and mirages that a pagan culture or (worse) satan had planted in my heart. There was a time when I was running very hard after the wrong things, and I influenced others along my lost way.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~Romans 5:8
Megan is angry. She is vocal. And (if you ask me), she is battling with the innate Truth that God has planted in each of us...that He made us and He loves us.
Were we angry and maybe vocal prior to knowing God? Did we ever battle with the Truth that God made us and He loves us?
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
(14) I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (15) My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
(16) Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. ~Psalm 139:13
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Would you join me in praying for "Megan"?
Our Heavenly Father loves her, just as He loves each one of us. God is after her heart because He has amazing plans for her (just as He does for us).
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
It's going to be hard for her and a struggle...if she decides to let Jesus in...because first, we have to die to ourselves.
Can we remember the moment that we decided to do that? I still have to crucify parts of myself daily as God points them out to me and kindly, wisely, authoritatively says to me, "Come and return to Me".
Though you are such wicked rebels, my people, come and return to the Lord. (7) I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made. ~Isaiah 30:6-7
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In comparison with God, we are all sinners. We are all (at some time and place) hotheads, ungodly fools, and scoundrels who practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord...
But...we don't have to be.
And we were not made to be that. Would you join me in praying for "Megan"?
(1) Look, a righteous king is coming!... (3) Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it.
(4) Even the hotheads will be full of sense and understanding. Those who stammer will speak out plainly. (5) In that day ungodly fools will not be heroes. Scoundrels will not be respected. (6) For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans. They practice ungodliness and spread false teachings about the Lord...
(7) The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. They plot crooked schemes...
(9) Listen, you women who lie around in ease. Listen to me, you who are so smug. (10) In a short time—just a little more than a year—you careless ones will suddenly begin to care. For your fruit crops will fail, and the harvest will never take place.
(11) Tremble, you women of ease; throw off your complacency. Strip off your pretty clothes, and put on burlap to show your grief.
(12) Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines. (13) For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
...(15) until at last the Spirit is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.
(16) Justice will rule in the wilderness and righteousness in the fertile field. (17) And this righteousness will bring peace. Yes, it will bring quietness and confidence forever.
(18) My people will live in safety, quietly at home. They will be at rest. (19) Even if the forest should be destroyed and the city torn down, (20) the Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely. ~Isaiah 31:1, 3-7, 8-13, 15-20
What does it all mean?
We have to turn from us and to God.
But if we will choose Christ (He has already chosen us)...oh, the relief of ceasing to please the world. Oh, the immediate acceptance and forgiveness of God. Oh, the bliss of being fully and unconditionally loved.
We will know (and every "Megan" can know) safety and quiet. Our hearts and minds and souls can be at rest (Isaiah 31:18).
I want that for Megan. I want that (daily) for me. I want that for you. And God wants that for every "Megan" and every one of us.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (10) For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
(11) Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. ~Romans 5:8-11
Would you join me in praying for (every) "Megan" and their reconciliation with God.
sarah
https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com
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