IMPOSTER ON THE LOOSE

Lord Jesus,

         There's a lot happening in the world today. According to God's Word, it appears that we are nearing the end of the age with Your second coming being imminent. Of coarse it has appeared that way for many a year, even for several centuries - some might even say for more than a millennia. Even so, there's nothing that You have not over come and can even still over come in this life time. And for that I am very grateful.

Lord Jesus,

         It seems to me that we don't think of things in the manner we should. Is war actually necessary? Does war have to be a part of life? The factions between good and evil and between Heaven and hell just don't make any sense. I understand that when it comes to usurping God's authority and attempting to take over His throne is a big no-no. But is that really what life is all about? Is that what life is supposed to be, Lord Jesus, always fighting to one degree or other? Lord Jesus, I may be a full grown adult asking what may seem to be childish questions, but is this really how it's supposed to be until the consummation of the ages?

Lord Jesus,

         People blame life for giving them a bum rap. But I think we some how discredit life and don't give life the honor life is due because we don't rightly cherish life. And of all the things God has blessed ... life is the only thing God has commanded us to choose and life is the one thing He has blessed and commanded to be everlasting. So it can't be life that is fickle, Lord Jesus. Some how it has got to be us. I can't believe that life has lost its moral compass, or that life was meant to be or express anything less than divine.

        You know, Lord Jesus, I know what it means to feel like life has despised me. There were times when I'd look at my life and wonder if God got His jollies at my expense - that if He made me just to be life's joke. And if I felt that way, how many others have felt that way or wondered the same thing? It makes me shudder to even think such a notion. But You know where I was at, Lord, and all that I was going through and how ignorant I was. And I took it out on God, not knowing or realizing that it was the devil all the while lying to me and pretending to be somebody he wasn't. He was showing himself to be God when he was nothing but a faker, a pretender, an imposter. But thankfully God did not hold it against me. You made it that way, Lord Jesus. You understood my condition and all that was involved. You stood in the gap for me and fought the good fight of faith for me, doing whatever was necessary to save me from Satan's power and  deliver me from the kingdom of darkness. When all I could comprehend was how much I was hated and despised and treated as though I had no right to life, You were (and still are) at work to show me something better - that God does love me and that God would never do or provide anything other than what's best.

Lord Jesus,

           I am so grateful to God for You. So many people are beside themselves and overcome with so much grief and torment that they think that God must hate them and that life has thrown them overboard to sink or swim on their own. But that's not true, Lord Jesus. Is it? So many people are so lost and so heart broken that they don't know how to live life well or live it to the fullest. Some people are so overwhelmed with heinous abuses and torture, Lord Jesus, that they think God is the source and cause of it. They don't know how to think any better nor conceive of anything more splendid for themselves or their situation because they have lost hope. Not everyone has either heard of God or has any concept of God. But somehow that seems inconceivable to me because even at a very young and tender age I knew that God existed, though I had no concept of what it meant to truly be accepted, appreciated, valued, or treated as precious. Even well into my adulthood, I am still coming to terms with that. My only concept of any semblance of acceptance, appreciation, value and worth came only on my knees and in God's Word. But to truly experience such treasures is something I am still learning. I know very little of experiencing such treasures, yet I have no doubt there are countless others who know even less concerning the personal experience of such treasures. But God knew that it would be that way for the bulk of us; didn't He, Lord Jesus?  God knew that there was an imposter on the loose who would do anything and everything necessary to keep us from knowing The Truth and from knowing how much God really did and does love us. That's why You came, isn't it, Lord Jesus?  That's why God made sure to reveal that it is You Who is The Way, The Truth, The Light and The Life of men; isn't it, Lord Jesus? -- Bless You, Lord Jesus. Bless You for fulfilling God's desire and for being the perfect expression, the perfect reality of His joy manifest. Bless You. Bless You. Bless You.

Lord Jesus,

         You know who it is that needs to read these words, who needs to hear that they are not alone. You know who it is that can be helped and blessed by the reading of these words, so I trust You to do what is best for them. But there are those who don't have access to the internet or to reading, so I trust The Angel of The Lord to minister to them in Jesus' Name, what is necessary to helping them to do more than merely survive just so they can exist or merely exist just so they can survive. I trust Him to help them in every way possible so that they can really learn to rightly live and thrive in Jesus' Name for the sake of The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. Life didn't hand them a bum deal, Lord Jesus. That was the devil's doin'. But glory to God Most High! Life is about to become the most amazing, miraculous experience they have ever known. And I praise You for it, Lord Jesus. I praise You for it, to the glory of God The Father. Amen.

Copyright 2013; Terri Spahr (aka: Prayer Writer Terri) for The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.