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DEBATE AND SOUL POWER 4/16/09
Someone had the impression to send me the following
photo and caption. It really ministered to me.
Caption to the photo:
I left the
front door open while I was bringing in the groceries
and after the third trip to the car I found a
hummingbird in my kitchen! I got my butterfly net, stood
on the kitchen table, and after multiple failed
attempts, trapped the bird in the net at the ceiling.
Always with my camera at the ready, I took this photo as
I opened my hand to let the bird go outside.
SANDY INTERPRETATION: To me, this said that when
someone inappropriately invades our personal boundaries
with their opinions, that no matter how strongly we feel
the need to capture their wrong mindsets with the
truth... in the end we need to resist wrestling in
debate and kindly escort them out the door, release them
and let them go. ... In forgiveness and mercy with
freedom to go and do what they will do. ... whether
that is to continue in the same wrong mindset or change
in a new direction.
Since that is the only scriptural resolution to
invasions of our personal boundaries, I saw the futility
of wrestling with another's soul and mindsets and the
grief it causes the Lord. We may point them to the
truth if we are humble to share and they are humble to
receive. But wrestling to capture someone with the
truth is grievous to the Holy Spirit. Wrestling with a
person is soul power in an effort to control. Only God
can open blind eyes to His truth and only God can bring
real change.
Rhema
12/16/03 SOUL POWER IS FUTILE
HEARD: You convince a women against her will
and she’s of the same opinion still.
Zech 4:6-7 NKJV
'Not by might nor by power , but by My Spirit,' Says
the LORD of hosts. 'Who are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall
bring forth the capstone with shouts of "Grace, grace
to it!"
2 Tim 2:24-26 AMP
And the servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome
(fighting and contending). Instead, he must be kindly to
everyone and mild-tempered [preserving the bond of
peace]; he must be a skilled and suitable teacher,
patient and forbearing and willing to suffer wrong. He
must correct his opponents with courtesy and gentleness,
in the hope that God may grant that they will repent and
come to know the Truth [that they will perceive and
recognize and become accurately acquainted with and
acknowledge it], And that they may come to their senses
[and] escape out of the snare of the devil, having been
held captive by him, [henceforth] to do His [God's]
will.
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