There is an entire world out there filled with afflicted people… there are no other kind of people… they need to hear the good news that I wrote about last night. They need to understand that we have been born into a world at war… God’s enemy wants to destroy everything that God has created and called good... that includes the destruction of the human race… Satan is the father of lies… the master of deception… his goal is to kill and destroy… us….
That is why we have trouble in this world … that is why “each day’s trouble is sufficient for that day” … Part of the deception is that the enemy has convinced us that it shouldn’t be this way… everything should be wonderful… never a problem… everything should go just the way I plan it… everything successful… always win… and everyone lived happily ever after…. sorry… it doesn’t work that way…
The only one who can bring us past that deception is our Father… who loves us so much that He sent His only Son…. who has broken the power of that deception … who is able to reveal the truth to set us free from that deception. That is good news for all of us afflicted ones…. very good news.
What Philip needed to learn was that it is not just words I say… it is a life He lives in me… a Life that needs to come forth from that death process I’ve talked about so often… His life must touch those that He sends across my path, in the normal course of an ordinary life lived where He has placed me. Only His life will help afflicted ones…. not Philip’s words about Him…
He sends us to do just that…. bring good news to the afflicted….
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