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How To Treat An Enemy Scripture Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; And let those who hate Him flee before Him Psalm 68:1 (NASB) If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. Proverbs 25:21, 22 (NIV) For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Romans 5:10 (NASB) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:5, 6 (NIV) |
|  How To Treat An Enemy |
| One day I wrote the following prayer to the Lord. "Lord, be moved against our enemies and be moved against Your enemies, and I hope they are the same. God has offered much wisdom and given many commands on how we are to respond to our enemies. Romans 12:19: "Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,' says the Lord." Solomon's example in 1 Kings 3 is worth considering. Solomon could have asked anything of the Lord at the outset of his kingship. He asked for wisdom, essentially telling the Lord, "I am like a little child who does not know his way around. Give me an understanding mind so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong" (see 1 Kings 3:8,9). The Lord was pleased with Solomon's request. He was pleased that Solomon asked for wisdom and did not ask for long life, great riches, or the deaths of his enemies. You wonder if Solomon perhaps considered asking for these three...but it is significant that he did not ask for them. God gave Solomon, unconditionally, a wise and understanding mind - plus riches and honor! Conditionally, God also gave Solomon the promise of a long life if Solomon would follow Him and obey His commands. God equates asking for the death of our enemies to asking for riches and long life. None of these requests please Him. Because Solomon did not ask for them, God also promised riches and honor. Imagine what might have happened if Solomon had asked for the deaths of his enemies. If God had obliterated Solomon's enemies, no one would have resisted Solomon's efforts as king. Solomon would have received the glory for building a successful kingdom all by himself, without God's help. Solomon did not ask for the lives of his enemies. He left the revenge to the Lord. He was wise, and God was pleased! Ask rightly and ye shall receive. |
Jean-Pierre calls us to cancel yesterday's heaviness in the momentary celebration of grace:
It requires heroic courage and self-surrender to hold firmly to a simple faith and to keep singing the same tune confidently while grace itself seems to be singing a different one in another key, giving us the impression that we have been misled and are lost. But if only we have the courage to let the thunder, lightning and storm rage, and to walk unfaltering in the path of love and obedience to the duty and demands of the present moment, we are emulating Jesus himself.
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Only as we meet and walk with Christ in the present moment can we triumph over the secular and threatening past. This is true of the future too. What we cannot change is best left to our forgetting. What we have not met we must not seek ahead of time.
16. Epigraph, Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment. trans. Kitty Muggeridge, from the original text of Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982) op. cit., p. 53.
pp. 201-2
Walking With Saints: Through the Best and Worst Times of Our Lives
by Calvin Miller
Will Daylight Come? Robert Heffler pens this moving illustration:
There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. And he was given a slingshot to play with out in the woods. He practiced in the woods but he could never hit the target. And getting a little discouraged, he headed back to dinner. As he was walking back he saw Grandma's pet duck. Just out of impulse, he let fly, hit the duck square in the head, and killed it. He was shocked and grieved. In a panic, he hid the dead duck in the wood pile . . . only to see his sister watching. Sally had seen it all, but she said nothing.
After lunch that day grandma said, "Sally, let's wash the dishes." But Sally said, "Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen today, didn't you Johnny?" And then she whispered to him, "Remember, the duck?"
So Johnny did the dishes.
Later Grandpa asked if the children wanted to go fishing, and Grandma said, "I'm sorry but I need Sally to help make supper." But Sally smiled and said, "Well, that's all right because Johnny told me he wanted to help." And she whispered again, "Remember, the duck?" So Sally went fishing and Johnny stayed.
After several days of Johnny doing both his chores and Sally's, he finally couldn't stand it any longer. He came to Grandma and confessed that he killed the duck. She knelt down, gave him a hug, and said, "Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the whole thing. But because I love you, I forgave you. But I was just wondering how long you would let Sally make a slave of you."
I don't know what's in your past. I don't know what one sin the enemy keeps throwing up in your face. But whatever it is, I want you to know something.
p. 162
Finishing Strong: Finding The Power To Go The Distance by Steve Farrar
My Faithfulness
I am the faithful God. I do not change, you can trust Me completely. Look to Me, lean on Me, and rest in Me.
The words I have spoken are true, My promises are dependable, My covenants are reliable. All I have given you through My Son I have sealed forever with My holy vow.
My faithfulness gives you confident hope, a sure foundation, and an anchor for your soul. I will never fail you.
In faithfulness I keep what you have committed to Me, I perform My ministry through you, and perfect My love within you.
I cared for you as a child. I will not forsake you as an adult (in old age).
I have provided for you in times of need and I will care for you in the future.
You will never be disappointed as you trust Me. You will never be put to shame.
"Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God" (Deut. 7:9).
-compiled by Roy Lessin
p. 106
Triumph Against Trouble: Finding God's Power in Life's Problems
by W. Phillip Keller
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1. Pray: How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Psalm 13:2 (NIV)
2. Pray: But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 (NASB)
3. Pray: For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safely? May the Lord therefore reward you with good in return for what you have done to me this day.
1 Samuel 24:19 (NASB)
4. Praise: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Psalm 23:5 (NIV)
5. Pray: But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44 (NASB)
6. Pray: And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:24, 25 (NASB)
7. Pray: Completion of the Preservation Project of Don's material.
8. Pray: Philippines radio & OnePlace.com broadcast.
Prayer: Lord, it is my prayer that the Spirit produce His fruit in me: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
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In the loving name of Jesus,
Pearl Anderson
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
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