Restoration

According to the Apostle Paul, the power of God that a church can witness is directly related to its strict adherence to the life of holiness and how that church judges sin inside the body. Judging is an act of godly love that results in restoration or reward and is very different from being judgmental which yields no spiritual fruit but only results in condemnation. (1 Corinthians 4-7)

We are living in days where this difference is not clear to many. Believers and churches are lost like sheep without a shepherd because they refuse judgment and correction, without realizing that by doing so they deprive themselves of the power of God’s love, all in the name of love. What a deception!

The Apostle Paul, who has had his fair share of persecution not only from Jews and gentiles but even from churches he had fathered, does not spare them correction and rebuke. I see nothing but love in that.

He demonstrates to the Church in Galatia how they’ve been deceived and were judging by the flesh by reminding them of how they used to behave by welcoming him as an angel sent by God and were even ready to pluck their own eyes out and offer them to him (this I’m sure is an expression meaning how devoted they were). And he tells the Church in Corinth, that they should think twice before boasting because they lack the real power of God because they fail to judge sin in the body as they should. He makes it clear that he is there with them in spirit and will visit then to weigh their pride to see whether there is any real power in it.

I pray for an awakening, an awakening stirred by the power of God’s love. I pray for spiritual fathers to rise and for spiritual sons to return home. I pray for order to return to the House of God.