Whenever ever someone is offered an invitation to get in bed with error and deception that invitation will eventually require spiritual intimacy. At first, the union feels right because a person’s undisciplined soul has been prepared for the dark union. The union is made possible having lived a life separate from the truth of Scripture and the leading of the Spirit.
A spirit of deception has made its bed in our nation offering the fulfillment of our passions. This bed is being offered to many within the Church and our nation. This is a deception that plays on those parts of our soul that have been aligned over time with human reasoning and our undisciplined passions, instead of the unfailing word of God and the nature of His heart.
Once a person enters this bed of deception and has their first fill of its passion, they will enter a slumber so deep that any alarm of desperation and confrontation offered by friends and family will fail to rouse them. The only awakening for these bed-dwellers of deception is the faithful prayers of God’s people who will pray for the Lord to make Himself known. Those prayers are the only alarm able to wake up a slumbering individual or a nation. No one no matter how deep in bed with deception they may be is out of the reach of these prayers. Our prayers will be used by the Lord to set the waking alarm of His voice. Once we have prayed, our job is to rest, trusting in the faithfulness of God to accomplish the awakening.
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Garris Elkins
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