Spiritual Warfare and Territorial Spirits (~5.5 MB) - Moriel Ministries

Letters & CommentsFeedback AustraliaYour letters and CommentsDear Marg,Thank you for putting together theintercessors’ prayer list. There certainlyis enough to say grace over, as FatherTim says in the Mitford series. Thereare lots of hurting people out there.What I’ve done - perhaps it may helpyour other readers - is put half the pagesof the prayer list in the New Testamentwhich I read in the morning, and the otherhalf in the Old Testament which I read atnight. So that helps me to remember tobe faithful praying in depth for one personon each list every day. I also have writtenout a quote from Ephesians 3:20-21 on abookmark kept there too, to remind mewhen daunted that it’s not my prayers butthe One to whom I’m praying that’s effective,and that He is not limited in any way.One can become discouraged whenprayers don’t get the quick answers wewant. I remember my pastor from Americasaying that time is part of God’s answeredprayers, something difficult for usin this day of quick fixes (Jacob preachedabout that in South Africa in 1994 or‘95; that we Christians have adopted theworld’s mindset with the expectation thateverything has to be done pronto). ButI’m not in any particular hurry to prayfor patience, because I know from experiencehow the Lord answers that one! :)But just to provide encouragement toothers: about five years ago the Americanpastor above - he was a church planter -left South Africa to go back to his country,and he’d decided it was just too expensiveto ship out his furniture once again. Heasked us to pray for him and his wife; thatthe Lord provide whatever they neededto replace what they were going to giveaway in South Africa. Well, later fromAmerica he said to me: ‘I think you canstop praying now; all the furniture wecould ever need, and more, has been provided;it just came in from everywhere!’.I have lots of answered prayers likethat in a notebook; reflecting on God’spast faithfulness strengthens my beliefin present and future help; thoughone has to resist the worldly mercantilenotion that one can exhaust one’scredit with God. I write ‘Ebenezer’on the cover of each, after Samuel, aswell as this poem by John Newton:“I will trust and be notafraid” - Olney Hymn 37By John NewtonBegone, unbelief,My Savior is near,And for my reliefWill surely appear;By prayer let me wrestle,And He will perform;With Christ in the vessel,I smile at the storm.Though dark be my way,Since He is my Guide,‘Tis mine to obey,‘Tis His to provide;Though cisterns be broken,And creatures all fail,The word He hath spokenShall surely prevail.His love, in time past,Forbids me to thinkHe’ll leave me at lastIn trouble to sink:Each sweet EbenezerI have in reviewConfirms His good pleasureTo help me quite through.Determined to save,He watched o’er my path,When Satan’s blind slave,I sported with death;And can he have taught meTo trust in his name,And thus far have brought me,To put me to shame?Why should I complainOf want or distress,Temptation or pain?He told me no less.The heirs of salvation,I know from His Word,Through much tribulationMust follow their Lord.How bitter that cupNo heart can conceive,Which He drank quite up,That sinners might live!His way was much rougherAnd darker than mine;Did Christ, my Lord, suffer,And shall I repine?Since all that I meetShall work for my good,The bitter is sweet,The medicine, food;Though painful at present,‘Twill cease before long,And then, oh, how pleasantThe conqueror’s song!Isn’t that hymn just so strengtheningto one’s spirit and so full of goodtheology? A vast improvement onthe advertising jingles passing themselvesoff as worship nowadays.May God bless you and Morieland all the Moriel supporters too,and may all our problems last aslong as our New Year’s resolutions!In ChristDenise of New South WalesAustraliaConsider these two facts:1. The Purpose Driven Church byRick Warren has sold over 1 millioncopies in 20 languages and is a standardtextbook in hundreds of Bible Colleges.2. Over 400,000 pastors from 162 countrieshave been trained under Rick Warren’schurch growth seminar material. Is it anywonder that Warren calls his philosophy a“stealth movement flying beneath the radarthat’s changing literally thousands ofchurches around the world”? Yet despitethe incredible popularity of Rick Warrenand others like him, there are numerousserious problems with the church growthmovement. For a new critique of Warren’sdangerous book see www.webtruth.orgJune 2007 • Moriel Quarterly 45