Heavenly Father we lift these men up to you. For you are the only one that can save their souls. We ask for revival in this prison Lord. We wanna see all come home to you Jesus. Many of these men have done horrible things as you know Lord, yet you can do mighty things with the worst of us. So if possible we ask for a miracle here. Turn these evil mens heart back to you so they may feel the love and presence that changes hearts and minds. Jesus this is one of the harder prayers to pray. If I'm being honest part of me feels ok with just letting these people rot. Yet the part that knows you Jesus, knows they are your creations as well. And that you love them and want them home. You call us to pray for our enemies. Though Satan is our true enemy, he has a grip on so many lost souls. So remove that grip and set your children free. We love you Jesus. Amen
Showing love in darkness is one of the hardest things for man to do. Yet it's what transforms the darkness into Light. It ain't easy though. Lord give us strength. We need you to shower us with your presence so we may shower others in that same love and mercy and grace. Amen
Yes it's definitely something I reflect on a lot as well.
Something that often comes across my heart is this. Many of these horrible people have probably had little to no love in there life. It breaks my heart to think about. i genuinely feel for them and it's hard because I also know the evil and pain they have brought on others. Tough to balance
My first instinct was to see them as an infant in the arms of their mother. To think of the suffering of their mother. I didn't want to think of them this way. I wanted to hate them. Deep down, I was separating the evil behavior from the person they were.
"When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend."
"It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler?"
That's the question that scares me. As Lewis puts it: "One man may be so
placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at."
What sins have I committed in my heart that did not in reality rise to murder, genocide, or sexual abuse simply because I had not the power to carry my thoughts through to action. When all is stripped away, revealed, what does God see?
Heavenly Father we lift these men up to you. For you are the only one that can save their souls. We ask for revival in this prison Lord. We wanna see all come home to you Jesus. Many of these men have done horrible things as you know Lord, yet you can do mighty things with the worst of us. So if possible we ask for a miracle here. Turn these evil mens heart back to you so they may feel the love and presence that changes hearts and minds. Jesus this is one of the harder prayers to pray. If I'm being honest part of me feels ok with just letting these people rot. Yet the part that knows you Jesus, knows they are your creations as well. And that you love them and want them home. You call us to pray for our enemies. Though Satan is our true enemy, he has a grip on so many lost souls. So remove that grip and set your children free. We love you Jesus. Amen
Amen. And t/u for the reminder.
All glory to God. I needed this reminder just as much as you. I think we all do!! God WINS.
Amen (and yes. It us a hard prayer.)
Showing love in darkness is one of the hardest things for man to do. Yet it's what transforms the darkness into Light. It ain't easy though. Lord give us strength. We need you to shower us with your presence so we may shower others in that same love and mercy and grace. Amen
Absolutely true. I think about this every time I pray "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors...(and the transgressions version)"
Yes it's definitely something I reflect on a lot as well.
Something that often comes across my heart is this. Many of these horrible people have probably had little to no love in there life. It breaks my heart to think about. i genuinely feel for them and it's hard because I also know the evil and pain they have brought on others. Tough to balance
My first instinct was to see them as an infant in the arms of their mother. To think of the suffering of their mother. I didn't want to think of them this way. I wanted to hate them. Deep down, I was separating the evil behavior from the person they were.
This is such a truly beautiful and pure comment. ♥️🫂😁
Love you fren. Keep shining that light 🕯️
C.S. Lewis:
"When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend."
"It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler?"
That's the question that scares me. As Lewis puts it: "One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at."
What sins have I committed in my heart that did not in reality rise to murder, genocide, or sexual abuse simply because I had not the power to carry my thoughts through to action. When all is stripped away, revealed, what does God see?