July 12, 2023 In prayer today I asked the Lord why there are so many pedophiles in the world today who wish to harm children and adult who are attracted to children and young teens. The Holy Spirit Immediately replied, “By man’s standards and his cultures. You forget that man’s standards are different than mine. I separate adult from child, not by age as man does. Man formed his own cultures apart from me. I define manhood by capability. The capability to provide, protect and care for. Being capable and responsible by my standards of being a leader, a husband or a wife, of bearing and raising children and caring for them and teaching them to love, honor and fear me. Man has carved out his own ideals and laws that aren’t mine, careers, technology, finances outside my plan. In ancient times, kings ruled a country while they were still in their first decade of life. Your own paternal great grandmother married a man who was nearly thirty and began raising her very large family at just fourteen years old. Age is not a standard measuring line for me. However, sin is still a sin. Lust, greed, adultery, sexual immorality and harm of a child are still sins which are all worthy of death. Sacrifices of life and theft of innocence anger me and;

Matthew 18:6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Mark 9:42 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.

Matthew 18:10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

My standards are to love me with all your heart, to fear me and obey My commands, to love your neighbor as yourself not to marry those who worship foreign gods and practice idolatry, to write my words upon your heart and to raise up your children in the way they should go so that when they are old they should not stray from it. Men shall lead their families, love their wives and children and not exasperate them. Wives shall humble themselves before and honor their husbands for this is good and right before the Lord. She shall be the helpmeet that I created her to be. Her hands shall not be idle and she shall carry her load. Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

Ephesians 5:33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Ephesians 5:22-33 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Peter 3:7 7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

1 Corinthians 11:9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 24:3 want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

                           jWinters