PROTECTIVE BOUNDARIES: Prayer Note # 32

 Dutch Sheets:  “Many Christians believe that protection from accidents, destruction, satanic traps and assaults, etc., is automatic for the Christian—that we do nothing to cause it—that it is based on the sovereignty of God alone. 

In other words, when God wants to protect us from these things, He does; when He chooses not to, He allows them to happen.

Whether or not God directly controls every event in the life of a Christian can be answered by stating that the basic laws of sowing and reaping, cause and effect, individual responsibility and the free will aren’t negated when we come to Christ.

All promises from God are attached to conditions—governing principles.

Most, if not all, of these conditions involve responsibility on our part.

Protection is no exception.

Why are we offended when it is implied that our inability to persevere created lack when the Bible says that we through faith and patience inherit the promises? Heb. 6:12

Why are we confused or angry when it is suggested that our not doing something caused failure when the Bible says if we’re "willing and obedient" we’ll eat the good of the land?  Isa. 1:19, KJV

Let’s cast off all laziness, complacency and apathy.

Let’s realize we will fall short at times and not feel condemned when we do.”

Prayer Note # 32 PROTECTIVE BOUNDARIES - Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer  (pgs 78-90)  

            “Search me, O God, and know my heart;Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Ps. 139:23, 24, NKJV

Next Prayer Note April 24^th – BUILDING BOUNDARIES THROUGH PRAYER

 Tomorrow’s post:  STRENGTH FOR THE STORM  Mary Southerland