Thursday, January 21, 2010

Following Truth, Rejecting Lies

Dear Lord,
I pray that You will fill each of my children and grand children with Your Spirit of truth. Give them each a heart that loves truth and follows after it, rejecting all lies as a manifestation of the enemy. Flush out anything in them that would entertain a lying spirit and cleanse them from any death that has crept in as a result of lies they may have spoken or thought. Help them to understand that every lie gives the devil a piece of their heart, and into the hole that's left comes confusion, death, and separation from Your presence. Deliver them from any lying spirit. I pray that they will not be blinded or deceived, but always be able to clearly understand Your truth. I pray that they will never be able to get away with lying, that all lies will come to light and be exposed. If they lie, may they be so extremely miserable that they have to confess it and live with the consequence that comes from it. Help me to be a good example of how not giving into lies can help improve one's life. Your Word says that "whom He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth." (John 16:13) I pray that You, Spirit of truth will guide each of these children into all truth. May they never be people who gives place to lies, but rather people of integrity who follow hard after the Spirit of truth. I release them into Your hands this day.
I ask this according to Your good and perfect will,
In Jesus' Holy name,
Amen

(Prayer and scripture from "The Power of a Praying Parent"-Stormie Omartian)

"WEAPONS OF WARFARE":


Proverbs 12:22 (Amplified Bible)
Lying lips are extremely disgusting and hateful to the Lord, but they who deal faithfully are His delight.


Proverbs 3:3-4 (Amplified Bible)
3)Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.
4)So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man.



Psalm 119:28-29 (Amplified Bible)
28)My life dissolves and weeps itself away for heaviness; raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.
29)Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness [to You], and graciously impart Your law to me.


2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 (Amplified Bible)
9)The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels--[all of them] lying wonders--
10)And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved.


John 14:15-17 (Amplified Bible)
15)If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.
16)And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever--
17)The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

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