Pray For Your Enemies!

"Pray for your enemies, baby." I was shocked and chagrined, I thought my grandfather was crazy. "I ain't praying fa' dem!"; was my incredulous retort. I didn't get it. How could I do good to someone that made me hate them?

Granddaddy was right of course. Forty years later, I finally get it.

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you." (Matthew 5:44)

Now that's what Jesus said. I get it. Jesus was telling us how to defeat the devil. Jesus understands why you are being attacked. The devil is jealous of your goodness and sees your great potential and the devil wants to destroy everything beautiful, good or righteous.

While you are trying to fight the devil own your own, while you are plotting revenge and getting even, you're losing. You've lost your concentration, you've lost your focus. If you are not careful you will lose your anointing, or at least delay it.

Why are you wasting your time and energy arguing with or trying to understand that demon? They don't know! They walk in darkness. They don't even know that they are ignorant.

They have gotten you so upset that you think you need a drink or a pill or something to chill you out. You don't need that. Just ask GOD. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." (Mark 9:23) That's what Jesus said. Again, "You have not because you ask not."

"With men it is impossible, but not with GOD: for with GOD all things are possible." (Mark 10:27) Again, Jesus.

That is what that envious evil creep wanted in the first place.

That devil wants your Joy.

Don't give that devil your Joy. Love the hell out of them. (From a great distance of course.)

"Therefore speak I to them in parables; because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew 13:13)

"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of E-sa'-ias, which saith, BY HEARING YE SHALL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND SHALL NOT PERCEIVE: FOR THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS WAXED GROSS, AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND HEAR WITH EARS, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND I SHOULD HEAL THEM." (Matthew 13: 14 - 15)

GOD keeps the wicked in the dark. They are not privy to the knowledge of the Kingdom of GOD.

The wicked won't even read the Bible. The Bible is like kryptonite to the wicked. The wicked know just enough Bible to try to trick you. Like; "Honor thy mother..." Your mother is the person that loves and nurtures you.

My "mother" was my grandfather. I was three years old, but I remember, he used to comb and brush my hair so gently. He was a man, a man's man , but he tied ribbons in my hair. Held me in his lap, read to me, told me stories. My grandfather even blew my bubbles for me because I didn't know how. He would chew my bubble gum for me, blow the bubble, then put it back in my mouth, just so I could pretend that I knew how to blow bubble gum.

I know I am a blessed woman. There are few people that have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of such a great man. That man saved my life, thank you GOD.

It is called deductive reasoning. My grandfather was nothing but kind and wise. That woman was a handful and famous for being hot headed and violent.

Come on people! Are you really that blind? that stupid?

There is no statute of limitations on murder.

"We've got to fulfill the book." It is all in divine order!

Your homework is 2 Corinthians 10: 3 - 7.

Be a Blessing and be blessed. "Keep yourself up much as you can." Remember, "Apart from Christ you are nothing."

Much Love, Peace and Happiness,
Rachel