Choose life

Well today mum sent an awful email to Julz, Dave, Lori, Erik, Marcus and I about vampires. I know what she was implying - that Grunde is a vampire who is sucking the life out of Julz. What a sick thought to ponder. It troubled me reading her quoted text. I just got home and typed up a response. I'm sure the Holy Spirit led me in replying. This is my response:

What do i think? ... I think it's weird content mum. I think it's am unhealthy focus on the demonic personally. I prefer to speak life instead of death and focus on how awesome God is and the fact that when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, His Spirit lives inside us and as the Bible says "Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world".... "the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside us". Jesus is the name above every other name - at the name of Jesus EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue confess that Jesus is Lord. What may look impossible to man, is possible to God. All things are possible to him who believes.

No situation and no person is beyond the reach of God's hand, no matter how messed up they may look to us. His love is unconditional and He's waiting for us to pray and intercede for these people. When we take our eyes off Jesus, we lose hope. When we don't make time to read His Word and spend time in His presence, like a branch that doesn't get water, we wither and die.

In the same way God miraculously healed you and delivered you from death, He can do the same for anyone who is sick in any way, whether it be physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, etc... God is no respecter of persons - what He has done for others, He will do for those we pray for. He delights in our prayers and the times we put our complete trust in Him over everything that concerns us. A promise He gave me personally is Psalm 138:8 - He will perfect ALL that concerns me.

There are loads of people in this world we can look at and see problems in. I don't think anyone is perfect and without issues. I think often we we focus on the negatives, the devil lures us into thinking things that don't line up with God's Word, when in actual fact the Word of God should be our focus. It brings life to our bodies and health to all our flesh. It brings hope into seemingly hopeless situations. As soon as we start confessing the negative thoughts, we partner up with the devil and curse with our mouths and speak death. Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). We can choose to either tear down or build up, comfort and edify. I choose life.