There are people now who are innocently attempting to get prayer and "God" back in public school. While I desire for God to be honored everywhere, I know that we live in a culture in which most people who talk about God do not know the One True God.
Even those who claim to be Christian are allowing their children to remain in the public institutions, being brain washed by many liberal teachings and agendas.
What would getting prayer in school, in our present climate create? It is my opinion, if prayer were to be re-instituted into the public system, it would be perverted to include every religion and especially Islam, since the powers that be are working to integrate Islamic lessons into the system already.
When the students can go on a field trip to a Mosque but not allowed to be taken to a Christian church, we can expect that along with the teachings of the Koran in school, there will also be allowed the prayers of Islam to be observed too, as soon as the law allows.
The best thing for children now, in our present world, is to keep children of Christian families out of the public institutions entirely. Parents are equipped to teach their own children at home, out of the influence of the continuing push to accept all religions as valid. We have moved passed tolerance of other religions to total acceptance.
It is one thing to accept people, love them and show kindness to them no matter what their religion, but quite another to endorse their paganistic practices and prayers by involving ourselves in them.
And, finally, we are responsible as parents to train and teach our own children. Our prayer as families should be in the home. Far too many fathers are neglecting prayer in the home, desiring for the church and the school to do the job of training in prayer, to those institutions, rather than doing it themselves.
Let's call it what it is.......laziness and lack of interest in the things of God.
If prayer is instituted in the public system, mark my words, it will extend to all religions and Islamic prayers will be favored over the intercom. Expect it.
Wouldn't it be better for our children to experience prayer at home with family, rather than by ungodly teachers who are unsaved?
Don't think for a minute that if prayer is endorsed by the public system that it will only be the "Christian" variety, as soon as legislation is passed in our houses of government, all religions will be working for that prayer to be theirs. Since our country has effectively been the country of "freedom to worship as you please", we have no reason to think that the God of the Bible will be the only One prayed to and worshiped.
We have only to remember the Imam that prayed in the Houses of government just recently. Prayer has always been in our tradition, but in the past it was always prayer to the God of the Bible. But now it is any prayer from anyone whom is chosen to reflect our religious diversity.
How can we expect our schools to stay to the God of the Bible in prayer, when the highest government institutions of the land are using Imams, Priests, Mormon Elders and other cults to recite their prayers over the governing bodies?
Before we get on any bandwagon about prayer in school, it is best to pray about it and think it through. Where does the idea of prayer in school lead to in its' logical conclusion. In a godless culture where most teachers and principals are not born again, we can expect just about anything other than submission to Christ.
I am not going to get on this bandwagon about prayer, I am however an advocate of parents removing their children from the public godless institutions in favor of protecting them, training them and teaching them in the ways of the Lord at home with those who love them and are dedicated to them.
There are plenty of Scriptures that tell us to train our children, I don't recall any that tell us to leave that training to others to do.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
The Most Frightening Words A " So Called Christian" Could Ever Hear!
Matthew 7:21-23 is the most frightening passage in the Bible, in my opinion. Those who think they are saved, only to get before the Lord and have Him say to them, "I NEVER KNEW YOU." They were convinced they were going to heaven and ended up in hell.
" 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
" 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"
Words Are Not Enough
James 1:1-25
"1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed"
"1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed"
The Brokenness is Necessary
Without brokenness over sin, there can be no true repentance. Far too many people think they have become saved because of an emotional response that manifests itself in words and emotion only, there is no true brokenness.
Psalm 51:17
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."
Psalm 51:17
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."
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