• Freedom

    Machine Gun Preacher 

    by
    Jeff
    Published on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 12:20 PM  Number of Views: 307 
    Categories:
    1. Opposition
    2. Freedom
    3. Missions


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    A Prayer for Greater Intimacy, Peace and Freedom 

    by
    Scotty Smith
    Published on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 09:44 PM  Number of Views: 486 
    Categories:
    1. Devotion
    2. Freedom

    Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help. Daniel 6:10-11
    Heavenly Father, I’m so drawn to the heart which beat in Daniel’s breast—a heart filled with praise for you, not paranoia about his life. His love for you was magnetic, even contagious.

    He just learned about the decree that anybody praying to any other god or man but King Darius would become lions’ lunch. So what did he do? The same thing he’d been doing for decades in Babylon. The windows were open. His knees were bent. His gaze was set, and even before he asked you for help, he offered you thanks. He was neither paranoid nor presumptuous, but he was most definitely at peace.

    What freedom and intimacy this your aging son and servant enjoyed with you. But why am I surprised? Haven’t you promised, “The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green.” (Psalm 92:12-14).

    You never demanded Daniel to get on his knees three times a day. You didn’t have to, for it was his delight. No government decree could keep your son from seeking your face and enjoying your grace, for he was much more committed to your eternal glory than to his personal survival.

    Father, may the same peace and freedom that defined Daniel’s life shape ours as well, no matter what Satan throws at us. For even as “the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour,” (1 Peter 5:8), he’s a defeated foe. We live in the victorious day Daniel anticipated from afar. Indeed, Jesus, “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed” (Revelation 5:5). Jesus is the main Lion with whom we want to be thoroughly preoccupied.

    As we get older, gracious Father, please keep us fresh and fruitful through the gospel. Deeper our intimacy with you. May your grace always be amazing to us. Continue to pour your transforming love into our hearts, and use us however you choose the rest of our days in this world. So very Amen, we pray, in Jesus’ magnificent and merciful name.


    Scotty Smith
    Pastor for Preaching
    Christ Community Church
    1215 Hillsboro Rd.
    Franklin, TN 37069
    615-468-2230

    It’s good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace Hebrews 13:9

    What is SIMPLE Church? 

    by
    Admin
    Published on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 08:27 PM  Number of Views: 752 
    Categories:
    1. Evangelism
    2. Searching
    3. Freedom

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    A Prayer for Friends Struggling with Pornography 

    by
    Scotty Smith
    Published on Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 10:00 AM  Number of Views: 268 
    Categories:
    1. Opposition
    2. Freedom

    Jesus, my heart goes out today for friends and their spouses whose lives are being assaulted by the ravaging and enslaving grip of pornography. I know of no other power sufficient for the task but the gospel. This is why I run to you today with grave concern, but also with great hope.

    O Lord of resurrection and redemption, bring your mercy and might to bear in stunning fashion. Things impossible for us are more than possible for you. You have come to set captives free and to heal the brokenhearted. Pornography is creating an over abundance of both.

    Jesus, for friends somewhere in the pornography continuum of titillation to addiction, we ask you to reveal yourself in the deepest place of their hearts. We ask for the holy gift of godly sorrow, not the short-lived remorse of worldly sorrow. For your non-condemning love has great power to deliver those who cry, “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body which is subject to death?”

    Lead them to that cry, Jesus. They need a lot more than embarrassment and fear, they need contrition and hope. Where pornography has desensitized our friends, re-sensitize them so they can see and feel the horror of their entrapment, and more so… much more so, the wonder of your deliverance. ...
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    Re-Facing and Re-Making America 

    by
    Judy Hitson
    Published on Sunday, October 31st, 2010 07:43 PM
    Categories:
    1. Freedom
    2. Jesus

    On August 12, 2009 I woke to hear these words, “Re-Facing and Re-Making America.” Alarmed, I said, “LORD, That’s what is happening before our eyes.” Freedoms are being stripped away in the guise of an old face called “Socialism,” a nation living under government control and rules.

    No longer will we hear, “Let Freedom Ring.” Freedom in the making will only be seen by those who choose Christ Jesus as their LORD and their God, and receive His Spirit within their spirit. II Cor. 3: 17 “and where the Spirit of the LORD is there is freedom.” That is under Christ’s rule and government called, “Theocracy.”

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