Star, I have to admit my guilt in this area. With the Lord's 'pressing', I chose to stop participating in the Prop 8 discussions in the Political forum, because it will be an endless vicious cycle. The Lord has been pressing me for weeks, since the election was over, to return to this forum and allow Him to minister to me and use me.
There is truly a gay spirit that has taken over this forum; this forum has become our window to this forum's and society's mindset and it's current state. And those 'spirits' do and will, wander over here to the Christianity forum.
And I KNOW it's the enemy's distraction. I can literally 'see' him behind it, and YET I also see where the Lord is making 'us' aware of just how far this spirit of homosexuality is trying to extend its self which is in our schools and into our Churches --- into our ministry.
Somewhere there has to be an 'awareness' made to those who are called of God and at the same time, not wrestle with the enemy.
As Christians, we cannot 'sleep' on this. This is how satan has been able to get as far as he has because as Christians we have been 'asleep' and we have not made each other aware until it was too late.
The scripture that keeps coming to mind is, "Beware of satan's devices...."
It's two fold here:
#1: A definite distraction (the threads and responses)
#2: Christians in darkness of what's going on with the gay agenda; Christians or those who say they are surrendering to the gay causes.
We need to take care of both.
#1: Not yield / participate in the distractions.
# 2: Be aware of satan's devices with the gay agenda; fight / take a stand against the gay attack upon Christianity.
As much as we would want to hide from the world, sheltered from it's sins and sorrows, we are still called to take a stand against it when it trespasses and tries to infiltrate and overtake what God has given us.
I thank God that you posted this Star.
You are a true vessell of the Lord. I will continue to pray before I post and ask the Lord to lead me and guide me to speak or not to speak and what I should say with His leading and not my own. For as the Lord says, 'No plague shall come nigh our dwelling." I'll either stamp it out or ignore it.