Lord of all creation - I come to You now in the name of this Jesus I have heard about. I was born into a sinful world and have lived in ignorance and rebellion to Your truth. Jesus, I accept You as God manifested in the flesh, born as an offering for my sins. Born to pay the price I am unable to pay - the price required for restored fellowship with my Creator.
I am sorry for all my sins and turn away from them. Please forgive me and make me a vessel fit for Your use. I release any bitterness or unforgiveness in my heart and ask You to deal with those situations. I believe You were born of a virgin, died on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, ascended into heaven and are now sitting at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for me.
You are now Lord of my life.
JESUS IS COMING SOON! HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION?
Confess Jesus before men and He will confess you before the Father.
Take me home now please.
a world upside down
i don't mean that in the way you might think. one looks around at the world the way it is today and think "everything is the opposite of what it should be". that's if someone has good christian, moral, biblical values. "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - edmund burke
the fact is, the world has been in this state since the fall. don't you imagine perversion was just as evil during the times of nero, the roman emperor - lust, greed, indulgence, self-gratification. we have just found different ways and means of expressing the evil that dwells in men's hearts.
for a season we walked in the light of the Lord, influencing things for good. but evil was always there, lurking in the dark places, just waiting for enough sin to creep into lives and make them it's captive. sin always leads to captivity. there is only freedom in the truth and Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." john 14:6
the Father has promised, "yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." heb 12:26 i say it is time for the shaking to begin. and Lord, let it begin with me. let it begin in each of us who cherish Your name and seek to exalt it. He has said, "and I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." john 12:32
it is time for His people to once again lift Him up and shake up the world. let the world say of us as it did of the early believers, "these who have turned the world upside down have come here too. " acts 17:6 it will never be said of a shallow, power denying people who are friends with the world. "adulterers and adulteresses! do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." james 4:4 perhaps you would startled to see someone practicing actual idolatry, but is the church committing adultery with the world even now?
so how do we turn the world upside down? "I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you." matt 5:44 we love the hell right out of them! you say, "but Lord, i don't even like them". that doesn't matter to God in the least. in scripture, love is never simply an emotion but is always accompanied by action. love is something we do.
i credit the following excerpt to a writing by joe mckeever. he has words to help us turn the world upside down.
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no teaching of our Lord’s has been more attacked, slandered, ridiculed, and vilified than His calling on people to love those who hate them, to turn the other cheek when hit, to go the second mile with one’s oppressors, to give one’s shirt to someone stealing his coat. and yet, this may be the most amazing, revolutionary, world-saving principle ever. so, when the Lord commands us to love our enemies He gives four actions that explain precisely what He had in mind.
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It is designed to print front and back, 2 up on 8.5x11" paper. There are two versions which should be cut in half.
We recommend heavy-weight paper. One version has lines to write your personal promises on. A nice book marker for your Bible.
Ministry of Prayer currently has several outreaches. We believe Jesus is soon returning and like the Father, we are not willing that any should perish. Our hope is to offer encouragement to all - we pray that their faith fails not in these times.
To God be all the glory!