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   From:  Minister Falcon (OSMFalcon)     8/14/2004 1:41 pm  
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So many times, we pray for people who are in the occult, or have backslidden, or abusive alcoholics...and I often wonder how we should be praying for them.
 
Being born-again is a wonderful thing, but often times even if we are born-again we still fall from God's ways.  The five soils comes to mind of how shallow we can become as young Christians if the seed is not planted in fertile rich soil.   Fertile rich soil is made of lots of dung...cow pies, or manure...however you want to call it.  This dung is sin, deep abiding sin.  Now some might find exception to this, but if you have any agricultural knowledge, you would have to agree, good soil is consistent with this animal by-product.  
 
There came across my desk a request to pray for someone who had been released recently from occult practices but is still quite taken with worldly pursuits -- drinking, clubbing, and breaking house rules.  People who come from the occult and new age practices suffer from reprobate minds and need a tremendous amount of love as encouragement to walk upright.  
 
The request was to pray for this person...but I say, let him fall.  It's in the falling that he will learn to pick himself up.  Prayer is essential, deliverance is essential, but no amount of persuasion will prevail in the natural.  So let him fall!
 
Saul, now Paul, had to fall before he got the understanding of what he was doing to Christians.  The Damascus experience is what I pray for hard-headed reprobate minds.  The light brightens the dim soul to expose the area of blindness.  Saul could not see that he was persecuting God's children.  So Jesus had to blind him in the natural, a form of cleansing from His glory, so that he could 'see' in the spiritual.  Not only could he see but also he could hear, where others only could see a great light, but not hear the voice of Jesus.
 
The line in scripture is so precious, it comes from the lips of Ananias.  He told Saul, that God has chosen him to know the Father's will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth, to become a witness to all men.  But before he could do this, he had to arise....he had to be baptized...he had to wash his sins away...and then he had to call on the name of the Lord.
 
So now, we know, a Damascus experience is what we pray for, so that the one, who labors with an unrepentant heart, a reprobate mind will come willingly to the Lord by the light of your prayers.  
 
Prayers aerates the fertile grounds of your sins to bring forth the fruit of your prayers, bearing the work of the cross, and the resurrection of the soul...so pray for a Damascus experience for those who have reprobate minds...it worked on Saul...it will work for the 'Saul' in your life too. ~Minister Falcon
         

 
  
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