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What’s Really Happening When Your Little Son or Daughter Shows Gay Tendencies

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There are Christians who believe that no person is born gay, and that the environment, the influences in childhood, and other factors cause a child to identify his or her body with the gender of the opposite sex.

That’s what I too believed once. Until, after more than forty years of prayerful study of the Scriptures, I know now that this belief is only partially true. Circumstances, influences, and the environment do affect a child’s sexual identity, but only to a certain extent. The far greater cause of a child showing tendencies of the opposite sex is a living force in him or her.

Before I explain what that living force is, let us see what God says about a person who identifies himself or herself as the opposite gender.

A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.   Deut 22:5 

The Creator of the sexes gives no room for a man or a woman to claim they were born that way, with the inclination to act and dress like the opposite sex. They may be born with those tendencies, but that does not permit them to change their sexual identity.

Now let me tell you about that living force that is in a child who has gay tendencies.

If you believe the Bible, then you believe there is a spirit being called Satan. Under him are millions of fallen angels, called demons. Each demon has a rank and a certain level of authority. The various kinds of evil spirit forces mentioned in the Bible are called in the Greek language: arche (principalities), exousia (powers), kosmokratōr (rulers), kokhot ruchaniyim ra’im (spiritual hosts of wickedness). Eph 6:12

Just as Christ gave gifts of positions and responsibilities to man – some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers – Satan gave various positions of authority to his demons. He gave some power over various sicknesses, some over depression, some over sexual temptations, some over addictions, some over phobias, and so on. The great servant of God, Derek Prince, says in one of his books, there is even a demon of toothache!

Every principality has numerous demons serving under him, and they enter and affect the bodies and minds of vulnerable human beings around the world.

One of the most powerful principalities that Satan placed over mankind for their destruction is the demon of homosexuality. Under this principal demon of homosexuality are many lesser demons, each over a particular perverted aspect of homosexuality. So you have the sodomites, and the catamites, and the effeminate, and the butch, and the queer, the transexuals, and so on. The Bible mentions a couple of these particular kinds of homosexuals.

Have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [also means catamites], nor sodomites…  I Cor 6:9  YLT

…nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners…  Lexham Version

Families who have not had the Godly legacy of grandparents and parents praying for the spiritual protection of their children are easy targets for various kinds of demons of homosexuality. When one of these demons enters a child and infuses gay feelings into him or her, the child begins to think and act accordingly. There is no outward cause, in the sight of the parent. The child ‘naturally’ feels such inclinations.

Such possession of an individual’s syche by a homosexual demon is not limited to children. In these end times, the gay demons are entering many people, who had not exhibited such tendencies in their earlier years. Year after year, you hear of more people, especially celebrities, ‘coming out’. This phenomenon is but the manifestation of the work of demons of homosexuality taking over their thoughts and feelings.

This possession by the demons happens to people who disdain God’s commandments, and therefore they are left with no divine protection against the evil forces entering them and transforming their attitudes.

For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.   Rm 1:26-27

If God opens your eyes to the truth about homosexuality, as revealed in the Bible, then there are ways you can protect your child from such tendencies. And if your child already exhibits such feelings, there are definite steps you can take to save your little son or daughter from this deadly spiritual pandemic.

Here then are the steps you should take to keep your child safe from the demons of homosexuality:

Pray for your child’s sexual safety and purity every day. Also, regularly pray with your wife, or with your husband, for your son or daughter’s protection from this specific danger of the evil spirits.

Pray over your son or daughter, by placing your hand over es head, and declare God’s protection over em from demonic attacks.

Talk to your child, whenever he or she exhibits or talks in a way that reveals es gay tendencies, and tell em what’s really happening, but in a way e can understand at es age. Don’t talk about demons and sins, or you will frighten em and affect es syche badly. Just tell him or her there are thoughts and feelings which are not good if they are allowed to continue.

Don’t make em feel guilty. They are not responsible for causing such tendencies in themselves. This quality must be corrected in the same manner as you correct your child when e tells a lie or steals something.

Watch his or her influences in school and in the playground. Schools are increasingly encouraging a transgender policy. If your child has any friend with gay inclinations, it is a friendship and association that must end immediately.

Watch the media that e is exposed to. More and more films for kids are made with a transgender theme. Keep your child away from them like you keep em from the coronavirus.  

There are other areas where you can act to keep your child safe from these demons of sexual perversion. Let your own wisdom and constant seeking of guidance from God lead you to the best course of action in keeping your precious son or daughter from becoming yet another victim of the gay invasion of homes, schools, media, and other aspects of modern society.

I pray that you, if you are a parent of a young child, will be blessed with the understanding and the wisdom to bring up your child in a wholesome and Godly way.

 

Pappa Joseph

 

 

What you need today above everything else is peace

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Is there something troubling you today? Is it something to do with your health, or with the health of someone in your family? Perhaps it’s a problem in your job or business? Is it the relationship with your spouse? Or some problem your child is having? Or is it a general anxiety about the world situation today? Or is it that you need money for something urgent, and you just don’t have it and don’t know where you will get it from? Or could it be it is a secret sin you are struggling to overcome?

Listen, dear child of God. If you are going through one or more of the problems I mentioned earlier, I have an encouragement for you today that can bring you what you need above everything else right now. Many preachers give encouragement from their knowledge of God’s Word, but in many cases they do not speak from their personal experience. Which is quite ok. You can’t expect every preacher to experience directly what they preach about. The testimony of God’s Word is more than enough for them. But when a preacher occasionally gives you an encouragement from his direct experience of it, then I think there is an extra dimension of comfort and assurance in it.

I have gone through all the problems I mentioned in the beginning, plus some. And I have gone through them all in severe intensity, sometimes to such an extent that but for God’s timely intervention, death and destruction would have devastated my family. So please listen carefully, for I have an encouragement for you, if there’s something in your life today that is taking your peace away.

Perhaps you had been praying fervently for some time and nothing happened, and you feel it is useless continuing to pray as earnestly as you had been doing. Nothing may have happened in response to your prayer yet, but here’s how you will surely receive your answer — DON’T GIVE UP! Don’t give up praying for a miraculous deliverance. Never, never, never give up praying fervently for a miraculous deliverance! Because that’s exactly what the Enemy wants you to do. If you don’t give up praying for deliverance, then your answer is surely on the way. The delay in God’s answering you is purposeful. It is creating in you a steadfastness that only serious problems can produce in you. Continue asking fervently, perseveringly, and surely one of two kinds of deliverances will come to you.

This is the first kind of deliverance:  God will remove the problem that is troubling you by a miraculous intervention. Your healing will come, or your money will appear from an unexpected source, or something else will happen that will end the problem.

The second kind of deliverance is, the problem will not go away soon, and you will have to just endure it until it goes away by itself. Sometimes the problem may continue your whole life. If you had prayed fervently and the problem continues on and on, then that is EXACTLY what God wants you to go through. Just as he wanted Paul to experience the pain of a thorn in his flesh for his entire life, though Paul prayed for his deliverance from it repeatedly.  2 Cor 12:8-9  When permanent UNdeliverance is God’s answer to your prayer, then keep this truth in the forefront of your mind: He may allow your trouble to go on for a long time, or even for a lifetime, BUT ONLY AFTER HE HAS PROVIDED YOU THE MIRACULOUS STRENGTH FOR IT.

Remember this promise of your Savior whenever you begin to worry that you don’t have the strength to endure your trouble :

No temptation [regardless of its source] has overtaken or enticed you that is not common to human experience [nor is any temptation unusual or beyond human resistance]; but God is faithful [to His word—He is compassionate and trustworthy], and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability [to resist], but along with the temptation He [has in the past and is now and] will [always] provide the way out as well, so that you will be able to endure it [without yielding, and will overcome temptation with joy].   1 Cor 10:13 AMP

When I look back at nearly 50 years of various troubles I and my wife went through, I see that both kinds of deliverances have happened to us. I can’t say the exact proportion, but probably in the case of about half of our troubles, we were delivered out of them miraculously, and in the other half, we were delivered THROUGH them miraculously. Some of the troubles have continued to afflict us to this day even after nearly half a century since they began. But we have perfect peace in these troubles. We can easily endure them.

It is this peace that my wife and I are enjoying today that I want you too to be blessed with.  The way to that peace is simple, but it requires a firm decision on your part.  This is the way: First, don’t give up praying for a miraculous deliverance, and, second, don’t give up expecting God to deliver you miraculously in one of the two ways he always delivers his people from troubles.

Pour out your heart to him. Take ALL your troubles, bundle them into a sack and then, on your knees, throw them upon your Deliverer. That’s exactly the way the Bible tells you to do it. Listen to this verse.

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.   1 Pe 5:7 AMP

The word ‘casting’ in Greek literally means ‘throw upon, place upon’. The trouble that you throw upon him then becomes his personal trouble.

That’s what George Muller, one of the greatest servants of God, did, when he was pressed down with the burden of caring for ten thousand orphans. When asked how he could be so calm in the middle of a hectic day with so many uncertainties at the orphanage, George Muller answered, ‘I rolled sixty things onto the Lord this morning’. Now that great burden was off his shoulders, and was on God’s shoulders.

Precious child of God, who is going through some trouble right now, don’t give up praying for a miraculous deliverance.  Every morning when you get up, and every night before you go to bed, roll all your anxieties one by one into a sack, and then, while on your knees, throw them all upon the Lord. Trust this encouragement from your Lord:

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.  Phil 4:6 NLT

And this is what is going to happen to you if you do that:

Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.  Phil 4:7 NLT

 

Pappa Joseph

 

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When Someone Does You Dirt, You Never Recover Until…

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A man did dirt to my family many years ago. Until then he was an amiable neighbor to us. He owned a taxi, and we hired his services whenever we needed a car to go somewhere. Then one day, my mother had an acute heart problem and needed to be taken to the hospital immediately. We called him as usual. But it was an odd hour of the day, and he refused. Somehow, we managed with difficulty to find another car.

Since then, the very sight of him was an abomination to me. If I passed him by, I deliberately ignored him. Over the past one and a half decades, whenever I thought of him, I also thought of how he responded to us that day.

Now, I certainly knew about Christ’s teaching on forgiveness and about praying for those who have wronged us. I agreed with Christ in principle and strove not to hate him. But my natural man continued to abhor him without abatement.

Yesterday, as I write this, another neighbor mentioned to me about this abominable man’s son. Now his children know nothing about this incident and have not partaken of their father’s dirt. Nevertheless, I wanted to have nothing to do with his children either. When the father didn’t drive anymore, one of his sons took over, and once, without knowing who his dad was, I hired the son’s services. Later, when I came to know it was the dirtman’s offspring, I wished I hadn’t taken that car. And since then, there were several occasions that when I needed a car someone would propose the offensive vehicle, and I would immediately decline it with an imperceptible snort.

This morning, I realized my dislike of him and his family cannot continue if I am to grow in the stature of Christ. You just cannot remain in a static state of not loving anyone. As a wise minister once preached to me, you either keep growing in love, or you keep growing colder. In other words, it is not enough not to hate someone. If we do not keep growing in our love for someone, we will eventually grow to hate him.

So I knew it was not only not enough to stop disliking the dirtman, and all his descendants as well, but now I have to deliberately demonstrate my love for him. My natural man couldn’t take it – no way. But by now I know how to handle my natural man. I know, thanks initially to secular sychologist William James, that I cannot control my feelings, but I certainly can control what I think, say, and do. So I went on my knees to God and prayed thus:

‘Lord, you know there is no way I can come to like that man naturally. I suppose I can keep myself from hating him with a deadly hatred, but there’s no way I want to have anything to do with him. I certainly don’t want to see him struck with a bolt of lightning, or see his family suffer a tragedy, but I, that is, my natural man, would certainly enjoy seeing him in a situation where he is having a heart problem and his children are struggling to find a car to take him to the hospital. Now that’s what I feel naturally, Lord, and there’s nothing I can do directly to confront those feelings. But you have shown me what I can do: Ignoring my natural man and his feelings, my spiritual man can pray for him and his family. And I am doing that now. Lord, bless that man and his family. Prosper them…’

After praying for him, my natural feelings remained stubbornly the same toward the man. No, I couldn’t say, ‘Hey presto! I prayed for my enemy, and behold, now my love for him is brimful and overflowing in my heart.’ But I could certainly say that from that time I had a clear conscience before God. I knew I was on my way eventually to loving him with my feelings as much as with my will. God would grant that change in me in his own time. In the meantime, every time thoughts of the dirt he did to us frothed up in my mind, my spiritual man was directed by my will – against my natural feelings – to immediately ask God to bless him.

Today, many years later, I can say that my natural feelings of dislike for that man has totally evaporated. As Christ grows in me, so does his mercy and love in me toward those who do me dirt.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.   Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country

 

Pappa Joseph