{"id":7649,"date":"2016-10-07T18:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2016-10-07T18:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:16:52","slug":"response-to-a-lawless-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=7649","title":{"rendered":"Response to a lawless culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wrote this post on my Facebook page today concerning the lawlessness that all of us are facing in this nation, and in particular, in my own region:<\/p>\n

With Officer Snyder’s senseless death yesterday, and with Officer Flamion’s life-changing assault earlier this year, I wanted to share something I observed this morning on a Starbuck’s run in my beautiful north county neighborhood.<\/p>\n

It’s glorious outside, and my windows were open. I was driving the slow residential speed of 25, and I heard the voice of a lone young man loudly speaking to someone on his phone. As I approached him, I could tell he was agitated and angry. I felt compassion come over me for him and I began praying for him as I passed him, asking God to help him with whatever he was upset about, to cover him with the peace that passes understanding. I asked God to send him godly intervention and clear thinking….I sensed that he could get in serious trouble without God’s intervention.<\/p>\n

As I think about him now, I still sense that compassion of God prompting me to pray for him.<\/p>\n

Jesus said that in the end times because lawlessness would increase (and man, has it ever!!!), the love of many will grow cold.<\/p>\n

I challenge you (and myself!) to pray over every police car pulled over behind someone and pray for both officer and civilians. If you see agitation in an individual or a group, pray for them boldly, asking God to intervene. We have more impact through prayer than we realize!!!! Some of us are called to intervene personally; all of us are called to intervene on our knees. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

When Jesus said “the love of many will grow cold,” it was NOT permission to despise those who you feel are wrong. It was a warning: DON’T LET YOUR EFFECTIVENESS WITHER BECAUSE OF THE LAWLESSNESS OF OTHERS…whoever they are.<\/p>\n

I believe all of us were born for such a time. We have the opportunity to witness Divine intervention as we refuse to fear, hate, or cower. We can actually LIVE in the wisdom and love of God in a lawless generation….with God’s help.<\/p>\n

Dorothy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this post on my Facebook page today concerning the lawlessness that all of us are facing in this nation, and in particular, in my own region: With Officer Snyder’s senseless death yesterday, and with Officer Flamion’s life-changing assault earlier this year, I wanted to share something I observed this morning on a Starbuck’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayerperspective","category-praying-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7651,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}