I was down with a cold over the weekend. Sneezing, sore throat, etc.
But sickness has a benefit of quieting the mind at times. I thought about politics, health, family, friends, goals, dreams, bills, and Jesus.
My Bible reading was helpful. I have found over the many decades of “quiet time” that the consistent and sequential plan of Bible reading is most beneficial to my spiritual walk. God always speaks to me in the plan.
I’m currently reading five chapters a day in my Henry Morris Study Bible. I also read (KJV) the corresponding day of the month/chapter in Proverbs. (Today is the 17th, Proverbs 17) and I also read Psalm 71 every day.
Add to that “Daily Light on the Daily Path” and Institute of Creation Research “Days of Praise” and I get a sweet diet of spiritual counsel. It takes me about 45 minutes every morning.
It was a few years ago that Jude 23 hit me in a different light. I developed a list that I prayed for daily, a “Snatch List” that covers everyone I want to be in eternity with, that I plea for before the Lord to snatch them from the fire.
Maybe it’s like praying a Rosary, or something, but here, on this St. Patrick’s Day, I avow that I am just a plain Christ-follower, a Christian. I love Jesus and I believe the Holy Bible.
I am a believer in the power of prayer.
I went to funeral last Saturday. The man was born to a German Roman Catholic family. His parents and an older sibling had emigrated from Germany in the 1920’s. It was a good funeral. The gospel was preached, and the testimony of the man’s faith was pretty solid.
The service, in a Free Church, was a nice respectful blend of Protestant and Catholic for his mostly Catholic family.
Traditions are fine if the life of the Holy Spirit is in them. Dead traditions are worthless.
I affirm faith in Scripture, faith in Christ.
I liked what the pastor said about “belief” and the strong, willful meaning of it regarding faith. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.”
He chose to use this English word in the sense of putting absolute trust and faith in someone. Jesus.
This belief will change a life, fill a heart, heal a spirit, give joy and peace. This is the truth of faith in Christ.
So I pray for my Snatch List, that each and every person on it will seek that type of “Belief.”
I am praying in accordance to God’s will, as He is not willing that any perish.
Each person must willingly make a decision to follow Christ, but the Holy Spirit must open the eyes of the spiritually blind. This transaction is what I am praying for.
You may be on my snatch list.
I am resting in the confidence of answered prayer in Jesus’ name. I will find out the results when I am with the Lord, and at that time I can trust Him to be everything to me, all of my desires and dreams.
I will pray for these loved/listed ones until that day.
Start a Snatch List. Let’s pray these loved ones into the kingdom of heaven.
We are called to be light. We are not to hide it under a bushel, as Jesus preached in his Sermon on the Mount. We need to be constantly interacting, sowing seeds, speaking the truth and the Gospel to everyone that we can!
Prayer is the basis for that action.
Lately I have been under severe spiritual attack. Warfare. I can almost feel the presence of evil beings as they put thoughts of failure and inadequacy in my mind. I’ve even listened to those voices! I’ve agreed with them.
Several of my friends are also being attacked with the same lies.
The battle is real. We need to be in the Word, we need to be in prayer. We need to be confessing our thoughts and sin before the Lord—-
In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus.
His mercies are new every morning.
Each day is a brand new start.
Remember Anne of Green Gables? That wonderful quote she had? Each day is a brand new day with no mistakes in it! (It was something like that.)
We need to walk spiritually like that. Too often we are mired in the mistakes and sins of the day before, week before, years before—
Start fresh. Pray. Get a snatch list. Be light.
Jesus is coming again soon.
Are you ready?
PERHAPS TODAY!
MARANATHA!!!