Any church gathering that would blame the woman because her husband watches filth must be chastised, and the woman must leave that gathering.
The woman who is enduring this adultery and abuse by a husband who is lusting after porn should take steps to cleanse her house of it. Women are afraid to discipline their husbands by removing the devices that he uses to indulge in sin. She must pray for him while at the same time removing the demonic influences. And, if she has trustworthy godly friends, she should enlist those friends, men who can engage the husband to discipline him.
Women have been trained that they should never counsel their husbands, but that is what a helpmate does. She is to counsel him, and if he will not listen, then she must take steps to protect her household from demonic influence. She is the keeper of the home and must pray for strength to protect it and her children.
Sapphirah obeyed her husband to lie to the Holy Spirit, and God killed both of them. Sapphirah was judged for "conspiring with her husband" when she did the evil her husband wanted her to do.
When a woman does not protest when her husband sins, then she is allowing it and is counted as complicit in it.
Believers are called to discipline and chastise anyone in the church who is sinning in the Spirit of love, helping them to repent and become cleansed by God.
Women are to be "keepers at home", the Greek word oikourgos, meaning a guard or watcher of the house.
A woman cannot obey God when she is obeying a rebellious husband. And, a woman is not a help to the husband when she endorses his sin by ignoring it.
Acts 5:29 "29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
Titus 2:4-5 "4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."
A woman submits when her husband obeys God but not when he disobeys Christ. It is impossible to train our young women the right way with that demonic influence in the home.
Also remember, "more is caught than taught." When a woman allows it, the children are influenced by the filthy habits of the husband. The children must see the mother protecting them from filth.
Yes, women must pray for their husbands, and if they love them, they will do what they can to influence the husband to do what is right and repent of the sin.
Love does not coddle and enable; it fights (through prayer and a strong stand against) to defend what is true so that everyone involved will be cleansed of what destroys families.
Monday, July 27, 2026
Sunday, July 26, 2026
God is not finished with Israel; soon they will return to Him.
Romans 11: 25-28 "25 For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
27 “This is [e]My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 In relation to the gospel they are enemies on your account, but in relation to God’s choice they are beloved on account of the fathers; 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
27 “This is [e]My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 In relation to the gospel they are enemies on your account, but in relation to God’s choice they are beloved on account of the fathers; 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
Growing in Christ takes a Spirit of Humility
Have you ever met people who seem to want to know things about you but don't act as though they want to know you?
The world is full of people who want to fill their heads with knowledge about God but have no interest in personally knowing His heart.
Matthew 7:21-23 "I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Knowing the Bible stories, prophecy, and the principles of God is not the same as knowing and loving God for Who He is and what He has offered us.
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?"
We are living in the end times in which most people who say they are Christians use God's Word, the Bible, to make themselves feel special through a sort of Gnostic pride.
Gnostic pride is a worship of knowledge, the desire to know things to elevate oneself rather than a desire for self-improvement through God's work in our lives.
When Christianity has become Gnostic, the love of the pleasure we get from having information we have lost, if we ever had, that love for the Lord that makes us want to submit everything to Christ.
Knowledge and wisdom are two very different things. Those who crave knowledge to elevate themselves are all about the pride that motivates them. Those who desire wisdom have a burning desire to please God because of His love for them.
Matthew 12:50 "For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Those who genuinely love Christ understand a need to be corrected and instructed by Christ to become more like Him.
1 John 2:17 "The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever. "
James 1:22 "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves."
John 14:21 "Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Hypersensitivity to correction is a sign of one who lives their Christianity to be elevated by man.
Those who love correction want more than anything else to grow in the wisdom of Christ.
Ephesians 4:1-3 "1 As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3 and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace."
Ephesians 4:17-25 "17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27 and give no opportunity to the devil."
When we love Christ fully and without pretense, we are willing to admit any flaws in ourselves that we might be cleansed by Christ, growing in holiness. He will not work in anyone who believes they are already good enough.
Impressing others is not important to the believer who wants to be continually changed by Christ.
May each born-again believer seek Christ in the Spirit of humility, desiring to improve our hearts, to be better witnesses of the glory of Christ.
The world is full of people who want to fill their heads with knowledge about God but have no interest in personally knowing His heart.
Matthew 7:21-23 "I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Knowing the Bible stories, prophecy, and the principles of God is not the same as knowing and loving God for Who He is and what He has offered us.
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?"
We are living in the end times in which most people who say they are Christians use God's Word, the Bible, to make themselves feel special through a sort of Gnostic pride.
Gnostic pride is a worship of knowledge, the desire to know things to elevate oneself rather than a desire for self-improvement through God's work in our lives.
When Christianity has become Gnostic, the love of the pleasure we get from having information we have lost, if we ever had, that love for the Lord that makes us want to submit everything to Christ.
Knowledge and wisdom are two very different things. Those who crave knowledge to elevate themselves are all about the pride that motivates them. Those who desire wisdom have a burning desire to please God because of His love for them.
Matthew 12:50 "For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Those who genuinely love Christ understand a need to be corrected and instructed by Christ to become more like Him.
1 John 2:17 "The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever. "
James 1:22 "Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves."
John 14:21 "Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Hypersensitivity to correction is a sign of one who lives their Christianity to be elevated by man.
Those who love correction want more than anything else to grow in the wisdom of Christ.
Ephesians 4:1-3 "1 As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3 and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace."
Ephesians 4:17-25 "17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27 and give no opportunity to the devil."
When we love Christ fully and without pretense, we are willing to admit any flaws in ourselves that we might be cleansed by Christ, growing in holiness. He will not work in anyone who believes they are already good enough.
Impressing others is not important to the believer who wants to be continually changed by Christ.
May each born-again believer seek Christ in the Spirit of humility, desiring to improve our hearts, to be better witnesses of the glory of Christ.
Friday, July 24, 2026
Running from Trials will bring Spiritual and Emotional Stunting
I was saddened by another post that told Christians to avoid trials because they steal our peace. This is the opposite of what God tells us about trials.
Those who avoid trials will not grow or change; they lack maturity and are more self-focused than Christ-focused.
God uses trials and tribulations to make us stronger; there is no spiritual or emotional growth without them. You are right that they are not secret; they are right out in the open and are a witness to others of the power of Christ to carry us through the worst life experiences.
Romans 5:3-5 "3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us."
2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison."
God never told us to "resist" trials; He told us to accept them while praising Him in the midst of them. Job is a very good example of trusting and praising God in the middle of our trials.
Be careful to compare the Bible with everything you hear people saying; some things sound very good but are very wrong.
Those who avoid trials will not grow or change; they lack maturity and are more self-focused than Christ-focused.
God uses trials and tribulations to make us stronger; there is no spiritual or emotional growth without them. You are right that they are not secret; they are right out in the open and are a witness to others of the power of Christ to carry us through the worst life experiences.
Romans 5:3-5 "3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Romans 8:18 "I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us."
2 Corinthians 4:17 "For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison."
God never told us to "resist" trials; He told us to accept them while praising Him in the midst of them. Job is a very good example of trusting and praising God in the middle of our trials.
Be careful to compare the Bible with everything you hear people saying; some things sound very good but are very wrong.
The Error of Binding Satan
Rachel Rice Mercier Quoted Marsha West
Why do some Christians think they can bind the devil? The proof text they often use is Matthew 18:18: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
In context, however, "binding and loosing" refers to the authority Christ gave His church to make judgments regarding sin, repentance, forgiveness, and church discipline. The context begins in Matthew 18:15: "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother."
This passage is not a promise that Christians can bind demons in order to cast them out of believers (no true believer needs a demon cast out), bind territorial spirits, or command Satan to cease his activity in a particular region or sphere. Nothing in the context has anything to do with spiritual warfare against demons.
If this is what you believe, or what you have been taught, then you have misunderstood the context of Jesus' words. Whoever taught you this is twisting the Word of God, has deceived you, and should cause you to question whatever else they teach.
Borrowed from Marsha West
Why do some Christians think they can bind the devil? The proof text they often use is Matthew 18:18: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
In context, however, "binding and loosing" refers to the authority Christ gave His church to make judgments regarding sin, repentance, forgiveness, and church discipline. The context begins in Matthew 18:15: "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother."
This passage is not a promise that Christians can bind demons in order to cast them out of believers (no true believer needs a demon cast out), bind territorial spirits, or command Satan to cease his activity in a particular region or sphere. Nothing in the context has anything to do with spiritual warfare against demons.
If this is what you believe, or what you have been taught, then you have misunderstood the context of Jesus' words. Whoever taught you this is twisting the Word of God, has deceived you, and should cause you to question whatever else they teach.
Borrowed from Marsha West
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