Are you ready to start applying some prayer pressure?

Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living

They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
(1 Peter 4:4 (NIV))

Do you know people like this?

Unfortunately, we all can probably rattle off more than a few names of people who make it their mission to ridicule us for our faith. They taunt us and try to get us to do the things that they find so appealing. They call us anything from chicken to holier than thou to Bible thumpers. Why do some people feel compelled to try to make those who profess a faith in Jesus do things that go against that faith? Sometimes it seems that they think it is their life mission to cause someone to fall back into sin!

Does this sound like the tactics of the enemy?

Satan uses all that he can to get believers to give up their faith. This also includes people that we know and people that simply come into our lives for a short time. Sometimes the attacks from the enemy come in forms that completely catch us off guard, but most of the time they come as occurrences, as temptations from people we know. We must turn the tables on these temptations and start to pray for those whom the enemy is using. They don’t realize the depth or the consequences of the activities that they use to temp and taunt us with.

But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
(1 Peter 4:5 (NIV))

There will come a time when they will have to account for everything that they have done. They will be found guilty of their sins. If they do not repent and accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, they will face the eternal consequences of their sin.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
(Romans 3:23 (NIV))

Our society has a term for when people we know try to get us to do something. Perhaps we, as the Body of Christ, in addition to resisting peer pressure, need to start applying some peer pressure through prayer for those who seek our destruction.

Are you ready to start applying some prayer pressure?

Copyright 1998 – 2019 Dennis J. Smock
Daily Living Ministries, Inc.
http://www.dailylivingministries.org
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Does this sound familiar?

Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living ^©

Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
(John 12:42-43 (NIV))

Does this sound familiar?

From the time that Jesus actually walked upon the earth until today, nothing has really changed. Some people will always be swayed by peer pressure. They are more concerned with what people will think of them instead of what God will think of them. It sounds like they have a distorted sense of priorities.

Can people save them from their sins and offer them eternal life? Does God hold onto petty arguments and hold that against someone for the rest of their life? Do we go to church to worship people? Do we call God on the phone and gossip about what somebody is doing?

From a worldly perspective, we must turn our world upside down. We must realize that God is in control and that humanity is condemned to eternal separation and damnation if we do not turn to God through Jesus Christ, His Son.

Humanity does not have the answers. Perhaps, we don’t even have the right questions. We spend our whole lives searching for acceptance when all we have to do is turn to our Creator and be eternally accepted. In comparison, all else pales.

Copyright 1998 – 2014 Dennis J. Smock
Daily Living Ministries, Inc.
http://www.dailylivingministries.org
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