Do y'all remember when coming up-those of us who had siblings-and how when they would misbehave? And then mama or daddy would get the switch or the belt and start tearing their butts UP?
And -especially if you're an older sibling, and you KNOW the pain their feeling as they are getting their butts beat-you feel SO bad for them?
But as bad as you felt for them, you KNEW better than to intervene in that whipping?
You knew NOT to go to mama or daddy and say a THING while they are getting whipped!
Because you KNEW if you did - heck, even if you were in the same ROOM as them while they are getting whipped - you KNEW you were gonna be NEXT?
You didn't quite understand it coming up. You thought mama or daddy was being extra mean or something when they'd tear your hide, too...
Maybe it was for covering for the sibling when you KNOW they did wrong....
Maybe it was because you had the audacity to try and STOP the beating!
Maybe you lied about YOUR PART in the wrong doing...
Whatever the reason was, you BOTH got your tails beat. GOOD!
Ever wonder WHY that happened????
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Hebrews 12:10-12
Our human parents disciplined us for a little while, as it seemed best to them, but God does it for our benefit so that we can share his holiness.
No discipline is fun while it lasts, but it seems painful at the time. Later, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who have been trained by it.
So strengthen your drooping hands and weak knees!
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Some folks who know folks who are 'going through' are feeling sorry for those folks....the folks who are going 'through' present their problems as 'an attack from the enemy.'
And, of course, in the church arena and realm, all you got to do is use certain lingo and catch phrases, and the whole gang of 'prayer warriors' flock and think its their 'job' to 'tear down strongholds' and 'wage warfare' against 'the enemy.'
And then they 'go in...' thinking that they are doing 'God's bidding and service' by praying for a person who is going through.
And THEN they start to catch ALL kinds of hell and what some call 'backlash in the spirit,' thinking that its the enemy....
WHEN REALLY, IT'S GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD HIMSELF will whip the very ones who call themselves 'waging warfare' on the behalf of someone(s) that is going through....
Let me share some thing with you....
Some folks DO go through as the result of a REAL enemy...the devil.
In THOSE cases, YES. By ALL means, PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. The Word tells us to pray!
And SOME folks are going through because THEY BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES!!!!
And GOD HIMSELF is CHASTISING THEM!
Their 'going through' is the chastisement of THE LORD!
And here you are (with your prayin, warring self!) are just like that older sibling who feels bad for the younger sibling getting their TAILS whipped...so you make the MISTAKE of trying to STOP the whipping!!!!!!!!
YOU CANNOT STOP OR PRAY AWAY THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I repeat...
YOU ...Prayer Warrior...Intercessor....WOG....MOG....CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT INTERVENE WHEN SOMEONE IS UNDER THE CHASTISEMENT (or even worse) THE JUDGMENT OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You may fool around and catch a beating YOURSELF!
You can pray that they ENDURE their chastening like a big boy or a big girl...
You can pray that their strength fail not....
You can pray that God will have MERCY on them....
But don't think you're so big and bad and bold 'in the spirit' that you can STOP what GOD is doing in a person's life....EVEN if what GOD is doing is (temporarily) bad!
Just step back...and let GOD BE GOD!!!!!
Because YOUR hands are TOO short to box with GOD.
That person NEEDS the chastisement of the Lord. That person needs judgment to be administered to their life so that the peaceable fruit of RIGHTEOUSNESS can prevail and manifest in their lives.
That person's VERY soul being SAVED depends on if they accept-AND endure-the chastening of THE LORD!
I don't care HOW God uses them. I don't care HOW anointed some think they are. I don't care WHO they are...
NO ONE is exempt from the chastisement of the Lord....
EXCEPT, of course, those who BELONG to the DEVIL!
Hebrews 12:6-8
Because the Lord disciplines whomever he loves, and he punishes every son or daughter whom he accepts.
Bear hardship for the sake of discipline. God is treating you like sons and daughters! What child isn’t disciplined by his or her father?
But if you don’t experience discipline, which happens to all children, then you are illegitimate and not real sons and daughters.
If they don't 'take their whipping,' ENDURE IT, then God says they are NOT Sons (of God!)
Some folks you know TODAY are enduring hardships.
They are suffering consistent, unending depression. They are burying folks right and left. They are experiencing all kinds of loss. They are literally tormented in their minds...with no relief. They are suffering in their bodies.
And the MORE you pray for them, THE WORSE THEY GET!
Now, HOLD UP....
I THOUGHT that the PRAYERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS AVAILS MUCH?????
Isn't that what the Word of God SAYS????
Ok, then...if that is true (and we all know the Word is TRUE), then if your praying, PRAYER WARRIOR, for these people is NOT making things BETTER in their lives....but worse, then that means that what they are going through MUST BE ORDAINED BY GOD!!!!
IT IS NOT THE DEVIL AT WORK IN THEIR LIVES!!!!!!
If GOD allows it, and your prayers, your intervention, doesn't bring about any change to the situation, you need to step back and ask GOD, 'GOD, is this YOU? Are YOU doing this in this person's life????'
And if He says YES, then BACK OFF!
Do not try to manipulate God with your prayers b/c you feel bad for what a person's going through. You can feel bad for them, pray, but WATCH HOW you pray!
Because you COULD be praying AMISS, operating in the realm of witchcraft, AND SUFFER THE SAME DISCIPLINE/CHASTENING of the Lord that the person you're praying for is!
I know what I'm speaking of. I used to be a 'prayer warrior' in church. Head of intercessory teams. Stayed 'on my face' praying for folks...and turns out those folks were under judgment or being chastened by God...and then all of a sudden, I found myself going through craziness, too.
I had to step back and go to God and seek direction...
And that's when HE gave it to me!
And that's when HE gave it to me!
So its best you MOVE OUT OF THE WAY when God's judging folks or whipping their tail!
They may lose their life...but they WILL gain salvation!
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