"But I have prayed for thee," Jesus Christ
If you read Luke chapter 22 you will quickly realize that the night is moving fast, Scribes and Pharisees are making plans to kill Jesus. They make a deal with Judas Iscariot with money the scripture says "and they are glad"!
They have the Roman Soldiers on board, Judas is on board because of his weakness for money and they have swayed the fickle crowds that were praising Jesus a week earlier!!
In the close circle of the disciples in a closed room seated inches from Jesus there is much strife and disorder over who sits where, who does this, who does that,.....
Jesus will be crucified in less than 18 hours but yet.......
They don't know what's going on behind the scenes in the dark of the night. At this moment there are two darknesses at work. One is the natural absence of light from the day but the other darkness is a spirit!! Even if they had known all that was going on I'm not sure the human desire for self importance would have been kept in check. Jesus will die in a few hours and they don't have any idea HOW EMPTY THEY WILL FEEL at that moment when they temporarily lose all that really matters. The disciples have no idea they will soon have The Holy Ghost dwelling in them but they are so attached to the Jesus they have come to know as they have been at His side for 3.5 years. TRANSITION IS TOUGH!!! They are oblivious to the fact that all the things they are striving over with their brothers won't matter one bit in less than 24 hours.
"And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, (Peter)behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." "STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN"
Luke 22:31-32 KJV
We must pray one for another, love one another and stand with one another is this hour in which we live. We must forgive one another because holding something against your fellow Kingdom member will blind you and you will be clueless as to the Purpose of God!! You will be deceived by your own unforgiving spirit because maturity forgives, immaturity does not because immaturity deceives us into thinking we are mature and that we are always right!! We are not always right but we are not always wrong either yet regardless we must forgive because Christianity rest upon the foundation of forgiveness and peace!!! Jesus is the only character in this night that has both.
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT WAS PETER THAT FAILED 3 MAJOR TIMES IN A FEW SHORT HOURS THIS SAME NIGHT BUT IT WAS PETER THAT PREACHED ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST 50 DAYS LATER!!!
Now you tell me which is more important to you, your hurt and unforgiving spirit that you treasure so deeply that you think it has value or the fact that you can be a part of what God is about to do in the earth in these last days with all of the "Peter's" in the family of God!!! God uses the failures far more than He uses the perfect ones..... Read your Bible for yourself!!!
I Believe,
Pastor Scott L. Boatner
#Now #IBelieve #Forgive #Prayoneforanother
Scott Boatner
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