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TOPIC: EXAMINING “LET MY ENEMY DIE” PRAYER
TEXT: JOHN 8:1-12
TUESDAY DECEMBER 19TH
Key verse: John 3:17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
Some pray that God should kill their enemies. These ones desire all witches and wizards to die. They desire all their human enemies to be judged and killed. Some quote a passage in the Old Testament which says, Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live; Exodus 22:18. This command was to Israel, a nation of God, and not to the church which is a small segment of people living in the world filled with all types of sinners. Jesus showed clearly that this command should not be adopted by New Testament believers.
The Old Testament also said whoever was caught in adultery should be stoned to death. When the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery to Jesus and demanded that she be stoned to death according to the law, Jesus said he that was without sin among them should be the first to cast a stone at her. The Lord set her free. Jesus showed here that all sins are equal before God. If we must target our prayers at witches and wizards for their death, then we must equally target our prayers at liars, angry men and women, fornicators, adulterers, thieves, drunkards, envious men and women, stubborn children, etc to die.
Jesus revealed that the spirit we have received as believers is not the spirit of revenge against others for the wrong done against us. Rather the new creature in Christ is patient, loving, and forgiving. Let no man or woman use the name of Jesus to destroy his or her fellow human being. God will not answer such prayer, because it is not according to His will. If such human beings actually die it is not God who killed them in answer to such prayers, but Satan, and God will require the blood of that person killed from the hands of the one that invited Satan into action through ungodly prayers. The Scripture has let us know clearly who our actual enemies are and how they should be treated in prayer.
Thought for the day: Jesus did not come to condemn sinners but to save them.
Song for the day: God has done so much for me, He has taken away my sorrow…
Bible reading for the day: Micah 1-3; Revelation 10
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