Intercession about the BP Oil Spill
I have seen little coming from prophetic and intercessory sectors of the Body of Christ about the BP oil spill in the Gulf. I hope it is not indicative of a decline into the conditions depicted in Isaiah 56:10. It is my conviction that churches and Christians throughout America are obligated to intercede about the situation. Without God’s miraculous intervention it has potentials to escalate from the USA’s worst ecological disaster to the worst in human history. Unless the Lord intervenes, our way of life could be greatly altered for the next hundred years.
Intercession about the BP Oil Spill
Father God we humbly come before you asking for mercy. Your gracious intervention is the only solution for the sea life, inland wildlife estuaries and our citizens residing in the Gulf regions of the USA and beyond.
As we do so, we want to remind you of your nature and ways. Lord you are the Greatest of Environmentalists. You make note of the deaths of seemingly insignificant sparrows. (Matt 10:29) It was you, Oh God, who wanted to withhold judgment against wicked Nineveh in the Prophet Jonah’s Day. You expressed concern for its livestock as well as its 120,000 inhabitants. (Jonah 4:11) Lord it was you who commanded ancient Israel to leave the edges of their fields uncultivated in order to provide safe cover and forage for birds and animals. Similarly, you commanded Israel not to make second gleanings of their crops so that food might be available for the poor. (Ex 23:11, Lev 19:9, 23, Deut 22:6)
Lord, you have said of yourself that you do not change. We beseech you to now demonstrate your unchangeable character. Oh God, have mercy and intervene. Exhibit your love for the creatures and plant life of the sea by stopping the leak. Please protect our shores and inland marshes from further damage.
Lord, have mercy on the masses of our citizens that are dependant on the waters and shores of the Gulf for their livelihoods from coming into the grip of poverty. Lord God, please prevent the oil spillage from making its way south on the Gulf Stream around Florida and then north to bring havoc to our Atlantic waters and shores.
Man has predicted terrible storms this season. Such storms could intensify the perils of the oil spill in the Gulf. Father God, you inspired your Son to still storms. You have not changed and Jesus is ever the same. Nullify the north bound flows of any storms originating south of the Gulf. We implore you to divert any East to West, America bound hurricanes to turn north in the Atlantic without making any landfalls in any inhabited locales.
Lord, you are the God of creativity and you inspire the same in man. Let your revelations about how to stop the leak; how to purify the waters; and how to cleanse the inland estuaries come to those whom you inspire.
Oh God, you are the Loving God who miraculously purifies bitter and poisoned waters on behalf of mankind and animals. You did it for Moses and the children of Israel in the wilderness at Marah. (Ex 15:23-26) You did it for Elisha and the Jews of Jericho. (2 Kgs 2:19-22) Moses cast in a piece of tree wood to heal the waters and Elisha threw in salt.
Those instances were under the Old Covenant and we have a better Covenant, established on better promises. (Heb 8:6) Through the atoning death of Jesus on a wooden cross you brought us into your Covenant of Grace. Our responses to others are to be seasoned with the salt of graciousness. (Col 4:6) Let it be so with your response to our intercessions.
Lord, nothing is too difficult for you. Changing water into blood and back again into water was one of your first signs to the Egyptians that you are the God of All. Jesus transformed water into wine to satisfy the needs of a family wedding.
The livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families and the lives innumerable millions of water creatures and plants are at stake. Oh God, we beseech you to intervene with your mercy. Transform the waters of the Gulf into a purified state for the glory of your name. Do it by giving nautical engineers and scientist clever insights. Do it through a miraculous intervention that all will know came from you. But, please do it. Lord, we will give you honor and praise for doing so.
In Jesus’ name, Amen
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Be blessed & be a blessing,
Jim Croft
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What Are Your Thoughts?
Think about it… we live in a physical world, that we know. We can see it and touch it. But there is a hint that there is some place that exists outside of this physical world. Perhaps, we can even KNOW that some other place exists!
Have you ever pondered your thoughts… What are they, simply neurons firing in a chemical soup?
Allow me to pose another question to you… Can you show me your thoughts?
You may say they are in your head, but what I want to see are the thoughts themselves! We know they exist and are REAL, however, they do not exist spatially. In other words, they do not exist physically in our dimensional universe. Our universe is usually considered to be three dimensions, but it has a fourth PHYSICAL dimension we do not readily consider, it is time.
According to the laws of our universe, if something does not have physical properties, it would also not be constrained by time! Can you GRASP that?
If your thoughts are not constrained by time, a case could be made that they then transcend our physical universe. That means that they can travel readily through all the dimensions of our universe! Since by definition, we are limited to only knowing about the things inside of our universe, the only way to know something exists outside of our universe is that it transcends this universe.
I like to think that this tells me that we are indeed eternal spiritual beings inside temporal bodies constrained by time in a fallen universe. That the Creator outside of the universe can indeed transcend our universe at will and let us KNOW He exists.
If that is the case, we better know Who He is!
He has provided us clues, everywhere. But specifically, the Bible says in Romans 1:18-20 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
If the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, then we must take heed. We must understand our obligations to God, since we are without excuse. If we truly are unrighteous, we then willingly ingore the truth. In other words, we are more apt to believe a lie. Further, the verse indicates that HIS eternal power is clearly perceived! Yet, could we be deluded to accept a lie easier than the truth?
Paul declares, we are without excuse! Let us read further in Romans 1:21-23 “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”
You see, it is not good enough to just KNOW God, but you must glorify Him and give Him thanks… otherwise, you suffer the consequences of folly and futility. In futility, our hearts are darkened, by our own choices! This indicates a kind of subtle self-delusion… could it be, that we being unrighteous have a natural proclivity to be deceived by our own mind and heart?
You and I, all of mankind are created in the image of God, yet the wisdom of man tells you different. That all of humanity was descended from apes, and further back creeping things. This is the tree of evolution. Is it then that we have exchanged the glory of God, and if so, for what?
If you are descended from monkeys and other animals, logically, there is nothing but survival of the fittest… in essence, might makes right! But you know there is something wrong with that, it is written into your very being. It makes you want to scream that “It’s not fair!” Is this survival of the fittest really wisdom or foolishness?
The final part of this section may answer it for you, Romans 1:24-25 “Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.”
Honestly, we live in a society where it is very diffcult to not see the consequences of sexual impurity. We may even hotly deny it, but the simple truth of the matter is borne on the evidence all around us! The message of sexual immorality bombards us daily… it screams at you from television, magazines and billboards. There must be something wrong when we need to have 100,000 condoms on hand for the recent Vancouver olympics, with around 7,000 athletes attending… well, you do the math. Even with all this, sexually transmitted diseases are rampant!
If we as a society have exchanged the truth for a lie and with this curse upon us what do we do?
In the book of John, Jesus Himself has a conversation with Nicodemus that provides the answer. Let’s read it… John 3:10-21 ““Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.””
Jesus Himself declares He has physically transcended this world, teaching us of heavenly things, or those things that exist outside our fallen universe. We do not even believe the truths that are physically evident, if we willingly reject them, how then can we know spiritual truths?
We are already condemned in this world, Jesus came to redeem it and us. He was lifted up on the tree. He is the one who took all of our punishment. In taking our death upon Himself, He gave us His life, freely. And we must look upon Him in faith, that He has finished the work in our stead.
This is where you take your darkened, deluded heart, to the Light of the world. This is truth, you already know this is right, it is imparted to you.
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