Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
9 30 2024
How our Spiritual Freedom is being stolen from us. Sundays Prophesy
I felt the Holy Spirit say to me that: “The war has been intensifying. You can see the carnage. You have been called to be salt and light. I came with a sword. I am a disruptor. I am love but it is pure and holy as I have called you to be. You are my voices, and you must NOT be silent. People will come for you as they came for me. Take courage for I will be with you. You cannot continue to overlook the evil around you, you must be my voice and light. The world must see and hear you stand for Jesus and the Bible. I will protect you. I will give you strength and wisdom to be heard for my sake. For my gospel… not a watered down Kumbaya Be strong and courageous. The days are dire and the time is short.
We talked last week about Spiritual Warfare. Taking authority over the spirits we have allowed to enter our homes and lives and the setbacks and often destructions it has taken on our lives.
It is so much like the catastrophic water surge on the back side of a hurricane. It can be devastating.
The surge…is almost like the consequences of where we have been compromising, where we have let down our spiritual shields, where we have outright rebelled in one area or another to God himself.
Or by just being silent! He is not mocked.
We cannot continue to live with the culture and thinking of the world seeping into our lives like the surge after a storm. When we leave open a spiritual door…when we allow the demonic influences of the world to walk into the open doors of our lives, we have invited all their influences,
all their ways of doing things to influence our decisions, our filters and before long,
their ways have become our reformed way of thinking and doing and it all looks like…
“that’s just the way it is now”.
Typically that doesn’t happen to the Christian all at once, but like the tide it comes in and keeps beating away at the shoreline.
What has happened since the days of our grandparents? We have abandoned the biblical world view. What has happened to our voices to stand for salt and light?… overcoming evil with good vs just overlooking evil. We have been lulled into overlooking it, accepting it for the sake of peace. But the truth is… We have a spiritual problem. We even hear the church’s saying, “Oh that way is too divisive to bring in here and so the board who directs most of the pastors say NO”.
But is that the truth Jesus spoke of?
Jesus said in Luke 12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace? ...No, I tell you, but division. (New Living Translation) Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other!” Yet the world’s culture screams inclusion, acceptance, and some form of violence to those who don’t cowl down to the woke society that is prevailing. But Jesus came to bring a sword….and division. His way was not their way yet he turned the world upside down. Yet his new way separated homes and families.
We are in a war and we cannot stand by with a spirit of inclusion and cease to carry Gods standards and light into the day to day confrontations they are bringing. We have another feel good and joyful culture, as long as you don’t cross them, and like the parent who is too busy to discipline their children and create respectful young adults, they get rebellious prodigals and a society who wants and screams, at you, for what they want…or else. We created that with our silence. But Jesus was not silent. In John 5:18 He made himself equal to God! Both the left and the right wanted him dead for that.
So the question is: Who is Jesus to you? Is what the bible stands for… what you stand for? Is it something you both live and speak about?
Jordan Peterson put it this way:
This is how your freedom is taken.
Things get to terrible places, one tiny step at a time.
If I encroach you and I’m sophisticated about it, I’m going to encroach two millimeters. I’m going to encroach right to the point where you begin to protest. Then I’m going to stop.
Then I’m going to wait.
I’m going to encroach again, right to the point where you protest. I’m going to stop. And then I’m going to wait.
I’m just going to do that forever.
Before you know it, you’re going to be back three miles from where you started. And you’ll have done it one step at a time. You’ll ask “Oh, how did I get here?”.
The answer is “Well I pushed you a little farther than you should have gone, and you agreed.” From The Joe Rogan Experience #877, published in 2016.
Someone else said, “This is exactly what the “ tolerance” agenda has been about. Pushing us to tolerate abuse, immorality, perversions, and then gaslighting, shaming, guilting, and bullying us all along to manipulate us. Now here we are with a society and country we don’t recognize.”
The world has chipped away at our boundaries, and it seems radical to us now to say STOP. You have crossed the line! But that is what Jesus is calling us to do. Personally. Individually. To follow his example. To have faith… learn obedience…Love your neighbor, but Love Jesus first as Lord and Master and be a difference maker and a Godly leader.
I love the moment at the well with the Samaritan women. John 4 She was estranged…shunned for the town knowing of her 6 men and living unmarried with the last one…BUT… She was so moved by Jesus she dared to enter a hostile environment…perhaps living on the edge of being stoned,.. minimally these were people who wouldn’t talk let along listen to her. But they listened to her testimony and an entire town was largely saved! She had no seminary degree, so discipleship learning, she just told of her Jesus experience. So, who is Jesus to you? When was the last time you shared your faith…your testimony? Your story…saying come and see …Jesus…You can have him too.
So how is that different from today?
He is not a light but THE light. His way is not a way but THE WAY.
His bible is our instruction manual, jam full of boundaries for us to live by and if necessary to die by. Whether we grew up in the 50’s or 60’s or in this new millennium Gods views are still different than the world. They will always be, and we are not to be conformed to the ways of the Prince of the Air and his worldly ways that he has systematically instituted in every area of our culture and lifestyle.
We are in more than a war but a spiritual war that Jesus has given specific weapons to win with.
Eph 6:10 We have to more than choose this day who we will serve…we must choose to speak and do every day and give him the glory for the voice that says, you are for your King.
Matthew 16:13b, 16 NIV
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