prayer

Many people minimize spiritual warfare. No one should. Its real and it affects everyone.

Are you a believer in Christ? Then someone hates you. It is his purpose to destroy you and his goal is for you to not want to do anything to the glory of God. He will make war against you till one of these things happens. And then he will celebrate. As whittaker chambers said, “You have enemies? Good. You have stood up for something.” Or something like that.

But for those of you who are Christians, there is good news too. For every war must have at least 2 sides. As much as you have an enemy, so much more do you have someone who will fight for you and protect you. So many people ignore the fight which God wages for us. In doing so, they diminish God and his place in the universe. He is more than your champion, He is more than your savior, He is more than anything He is to you. He is God. He is the Lord of life. His existence isn’t about you or for you. But He fights for you and saves you because He loves you. And that is awesome. It takes all the pressure off your actions and off your persistence. He is going to fight for you whether you think He should be happy with you lately or not. He just loves you.

And I want to apologize to all of you who pray for me and for this team. Especially those who persist to pray every day. im sorry. you pray for us in America, yet we rarely if ever pray as a team for ourselves. Sure, we pray as individuals, but that’s not the same. It is wrong to rely on you to pray for us, yet to not pray for ourselves. Im not usually part of the spearhead of a project, im used to being part of the support system. I am responsible to you all to take care of myself as much as possible so that your prayers can reach that much further in support of us. And we as a group are responsible to take care of ourselves as a group. But we haven’t been. This situation really struck me last week as a group gathered at my parents’ house to pray for us. I became very embarrassed of my lack of action towards our self-preservation in this most crucial of dimensions. The next day we began to pray as a team before each day. so we have entered the fight for us as a team. Not just as individual pray-ers. Sorry it took us so long.