Thoughts for meditation and prayer

A sin toy is not just a toy -- it is a tool of the enemy. The more I play with it, the more power he has in my life. I am not willing to surrender myself to morally crippled, fiendishly twisted fallen angels who hate me with a hatred that is just as pure as the love with which my heavenly Father loves me. I will not be a slave to sin; I am a servant of the Lord.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

If living with an internal civil war between the spirit and the flesh wasn't enough, their are two powers that exist apart from me. With every decision I make I strengthen my connection either to God or the evil one. My decisions give one more authority and access to operate within me, and the other less.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

We all live with an ongoing, internal civil war. The desires of the spirit and the flesh are in opposition to one another. With every decision you make you feed and energize the one, and starve and weaken the other.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

We don't have to wait until we die to begin the journey toward moral sanity. Through hours and hours dedicated to meditation and prayer we can begin to change now. We can be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

The day will come when you will see clearly. When you escape from the effects of inborn sin when you die, you will experience a mental revolution that will utterly transform you. You will look at that sin toy that you now love, and you will utterly abhor it. You would be no more inclined to do that sin than you would be inclined to take a nice, refreshing swim in a pool of fresh vomit.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

If you love a sin, to that extent you are morally insane. The only reason you have survived without being institutionalized is because the whole world is a mad house. They would not suffer a person such as yourself to wander the streets of heaven unsupervised. You need your meds. You must take your meds.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

Some of the homeless people wandering our streets are homeless for one reason, and one reason alone: they will not accept the fact that they have to take their meds. We have a disease that in this life knows no final cure: inborn sin. Meditation on the word and prayer are our meds. We have to come to the point where we realize that something is very, very wrong with us. We have to take our meds every day or suffer the effects of moral insanity. We should be too afraid not to take our meds.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

I had my first serious bout with seasonal depression in 1976. I didn't know what it was. There were no medications for it. So I did the only thing I knew how to do. I could feel the flow of the God life that came to me through meditation on the written word and prayer, so for the next two years I never missed a single quiet time. I was afraid of what was happening to me, and I was worried that if it got worse, I might have to be institutionalized. Fear became my friend, motivating me to do what was right.

Thoughts for meditation and prayer

Earlier in this thread I said that we are still spiritual infants until we have come to the place where we have looked inside ourselves and seen something absolutely horrifying. Let's ad to that. We must come to the place where we look at Rev. 3:17 and we say to ourselves, "I am that man! I don't feel it! I wasn't aware of it! But the Holy Spirit is showing me that this is so."