Friday, January 5, 2024

Pray for Families (Unity Trumps Division)

 Greetings Prayer Warriors,


Be on alert about those who seek to divide you. Satan loves division. He has many minions, as so many inadvertently have drifted from God and right into the comforting words of the devil. “Be you. Nothing is wrong with following your passions.” 


Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions, and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds, who are deprived of the truth, supposing religion to be a means of gain. 1 Timothy 6:3-5


We all experienced the havoc and division Satan facilitated over the v@ccines. Families became pitted against one another where previously the subject matter was inconsequential. But what’s next? Some Catholics are now being labeled violent extremists, Jews are being demonized, and Christianity and its values are under serious attack. Laws are changing, unbeknownst to most people. No longer is it beyond the realm of possibility that targeted religious persecution could be next, for such will become labeled “intolerant” and “haters”. Not to be alarmist, but will there come a day when family members will be coerced into turning one another in?  


Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. Matthew 10:16-18


We need to remember whose we are. We are the sons and daughters of the Most High King. We must claim our identity before we are assigned a new one.


Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. Matthew 10:32


Claim your royal identity for you are heirs of a heavenly kingdom.


The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. Romans 8:16-17


Stay united in Him, and together you can avoid the snares of the devil. Pray the Unity Prayer* on behalf of yourself and your family.  It is said to blind Satan**. What is better than that?  


Peace, Joy, and Love,

Janet


Keep praying! Pass it on!


*Unity Prayer

**Jesus said, “Through this prayer, Satan will be blind and souls will not be led into sin. ( p.25 Flame of Love by Elizabeth Kindelmann, OCDS)