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Area of Prayer Focus
"Idolatry
- (False
Beliefs - Relativism)”
by Jim Brodi
(Prayer Team #9 - Article
4
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We are created in the image and likeness of God so
why do we continually try to form God into our
image and likeness? In today’s world, we are taught
that there is no absolute truth or morality, that we
are the ‘authority’. and that we have the right to
choose our own ‘truth’ and ‘morality’ vs. God Who is
our absolute Authority, Truth and Morality. We are
being conditioned to believe that whatever we choose
to do in our life is ok because we decide what is
right or wrong. We believe that we can make a
choice, and whatever the choice is, even if it is
contrary to God’s will, if it feels good for us it
is ok to do it. This way of thinking is known as
“relativism”.
Relativism is progressive in its nature and pulls us
away from God. “Anyone who is so ‘progressive’ as
not to
remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have
God;
whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and
the Son.”
(2 John 9) In a commentary in the devotional, One
Bread, One Body, 11-12-10, we are told:
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1. Learning
the truth from the Church (see 1 Tm
3:15)
and the Bible
2. Teaching the truth
3. Sharply (Ti 1:13), yet gently (2 Tm
2:25), correcting
false teachers
4. Staying clear of false teachers (2 Tm
3:5-7) and the
influences of secular humanism
5. Suffering persecution for living and
teaching the
truth (see Sir 4:28)
“And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and
birds
came and ate it up.” (Matthew13:4) In One Bread, One
Body, 7-21-10, we are told:
When we
fight for the truth, we will both spread
the faith
and keep from losing the faith. |
“And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path,
and birds
came and ate it up.” (Matthew13:4) In One Bread,
One
Body, 7-21-10, we are told:
God's word is now submitted to our culture instead
of our
culture to God's word. Modern culture becomes the
new
“bible.” It determines which parts of the old Bible
are
still relevant. The religion of secular humanism is
then
established. Intellectual pride becomes the new
morality,
sowing doubt, the new theology. Furthermore, the
only
heresy is orthodoxy.
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Bishop Sheen stated: “Truth is always the truth even
if
no one accepts it or believes it and error is always
error even
if everyone believes it.” This TRUTH is JESUS CHRIST
and all that He has taught. Do not choose the
progressive
way of relativism but choose the Way, the Truth and
the Life
– JESUS CHRIST. |
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(I have prepared a presentation, “New Age Movement –
The Forbidden Fruit
Revisited,” to share the elements of New Age and to
help understand some of
the lies against God’s truths and the potential
difficulties that we can
experience when we get involved in the various
elements of the New Age.
Please contact the DCCR office or Jim Brodi to
schedule a presentation.)
(Those who are led to pray for this particular
intention of “Idolatry,” please
contact Jim Brodi at #586-739-3802 to join in
praying with others for this
topic.)
(Jim Brodi is a member of the “Little Flock” Prayer
Group at St. Lawrence
Church in Utica, Michigan, and serves on the DCCR
Assembly.)
Now Word
NOW WORD
by Marge Montrief
There are times in
my prayer life when the voice of God is just not
clear to me! I can ask and plead and beg, but no
words come. What am I to do? I have hit a dry
spell and just do not hear the voice of God. My
mind and heart are willing and open, but for some
reason my mind and my heart are not hearing. Has
the Lord passed me by? Does He just not have
anything to say to me? Am I hurrying too much and
don’t stop long enough to listen?
At times like this, the NOW Word is a
great comfort. These are words our Lord is speaking
to all of us. No matter what you have on your mind,
there is always at least one line in the NOW Word
that will bring you comfort and understanding in
whatever situation is passing through your life.
Don’t read just one line each day. Read
through the entire NOW Word. The Lord will call you
to Him. He will tell you who He will be for you.
He will promise to be faithful and always be with
you. He will give you little reminders of where the
focus and the direction of your life should go.
Most of all, somewhere in those words, He will
always tell you that you are loved. No matter how
you may have failed to meet your goals, He still
wants you to know that He loves you just where you
are.
Read the NOW Word
every day. This is what our God is saying to each
and every one of us. Listen and be lifted up by His
words and direction. How can we truly say we do not
hear Him speaking to us? He sends us a letter.
Read it again.
(Marge Montrief is a
member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Prayer Group and
the DCCR Assembly. She volunteers regularly, helping
at the Center with
mailing and clerical tasks.)
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