VIKTORIOUS MINISTRIES

Innocence – it seems as though it is something that we have lost. For me it began in the sports world. Baseball was the first one I noticed, and then running right behind it was the sport I participated in, Hockey.

The game began to be filled by stimulants; drugs that would make your heart beat faster and of course pump the blood quicker. It gave players a “high” and allowed them to play at a heightened emotional state.

The game wasn’t the game anymore, it was a business, and if you wanted to succeed you would have to do what the other players did. What seemed to be a sport for the “natural” had become a sport for the drug addict and those who were willing to BUY victory and sell themselves in the process.

As a child Christmastime was a time that seemed so innocent to me. It was if the world was perfect and all was well. Looking back I wonder if I was totally disillusioned and ignorant or if the world really was a better place.

Now Christmas is very different for me than it was as a child. The reality of Christmastime is that suicides are prevalent, loneliness is at its peak and our poverty grows with all the gift buying.

Of course this puts us off on the wrong foot for the coming New Year and our depression seems to grow larger than it was before; because we seem to be living a life of hope of ever reaching our dreams.

So, what’s the good news? I’m sure by now you are tired of my depressing introduction; but I wonder if it’s very different from your life? Oh sure, you’ve had some good times, some great experiences; but I’m not talking about those, I’m talking about those lonely moments right before you go to sleep.

I’m talking about those mornings when you don’t feel like getting out of bed because there seems to be no purpose in both your life and life itself.

How do cope with these moments? How do you pull yourself out of these moments? And what causes these moments of insignificance that you have?

It has been my experience that life really has not lost its innocence. No, I recently realized that it was not life that had lost its innocence, but rather it was me.

The reason was not that I had changed into a terrible person over the years, or had become someone who was a determent to society. No, it was what I was doing that made me feel this way.

I have begun to realize the reason I do not “feel” innocent. It is because at times I have a wrong perception of me. I am beginning to see that as a child I saw myself as pure and clean. Somehow that changed and looking back at myself through the eyes of that child I realize I never put any expectancy on myself.

As a child believed I could do anything, with little or no effort. As a child I believed that I was perfect; even though I made mistakes. As a child I knew I didn’t know very much; but somehow I knew it would all work out.

Looking at myself now though, through the eyes of an adult, I seem to see things very differently. I realize I believe I can do anything, but somehow now I believe it will take a lot of work and some figuring (WRONG).

I no longer believe I’m perfect because now I look back and dwell on the mistakes I have made. It also seems to me that pointing out other peoples mistakes is something that comes very natural to me.

I have WAY more knowledge than I ever did as a child and those ideals that I had as a child seem to be absurd. Now I seem to believe I must have the correct knowledge for my situations and circumstances to work out. Although this is the way I “feel” some days, these kinds’ thoughts and actions totally contradict the Word of God.

Often as believers we wonder why the Bible doesn’t work for us, or even seem real to us at times. I think sometimes can’t see how the Bible even relates to our daily life because we believe that we have to have the answer to our own problems.

We have forgotten that way of the innocent child. If we ever expect to live in joy, peace and prosperity we must get back to that child like state. We must remember daily the price Jesus paid so that we would be innocent and would never again be tried for our crimes.

You and I are no longer guilty. We must live our lives as CHILDREN of God. Ignorance is not bliss. You must know who you are in Christ if you are to experience this world through innocent eyes.

MARK 10:14-15

¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

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Today I was thinking about people. When I look at a person I often wonder to myself; what made them who they are? Was there some defining point in their lives, some point that they believed was a point of no return? Or was it because one morning they woke up and were just tired of being the person they had been all their lives?

My question to you is; what has made you who you are up until this point in your life and do you believe this is the correct view of yourself? Now, I’m not trying to go into some “thought provoking” context; but I do believe we should take account for ourselves from time to time.

One thing that astounds me is how I can always see a problem with a person. It never seems to fail; I can always find some kind of fault in every person I meet.

I am beginning to realize that we all have our problems; but it is only a very select few that have solutions. I believe most people are defined by their problems and it’s because of this they fail to reach the solutions that will enable them to live a prosperous and healthy life.

There was and old quote that said “People seem to bring out the worst in people”. My question is why? Maybe it’s because all our life we have been taught to treat people like pop machines.

It’s the give them something; so you can get something in return mentality. It seems as though we have lost respect for each other and treat each other like dirt because all we can see is everybody’s problems.

We have lost unity in our families, unity in the Church and unity in our country. We are divided by our problems it seems and the sick part about it is that we believe these problems are who we are!

We have become a society that says “this is who I am and you have to accept me” rather than saying “What can I do to be a part of the cause so that we can bring our family, Church and Country into unity”?

It’s like one sports coach always said “The strength of the wolf is in the pack”. We need to get back to a place of unity. We need to find things that connect us with others. We must find the common goal of all believers and I believe that goal should be to salvation to go forth throughout our whole nation.

Matthew 7:12

12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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Mark 11:17

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

“My House Shall Be a House of Prayer” We are called to be houses’ of prayer, people of prayer; people who are dedicated to asking things of God. But what are we supposed to be asking for? The Bible says that you don’t get your prayers answered because you ask for the wrong thing.

So let me ask you; what are you asking for? Are you asking God to heal you? Are you asking God to prosper you?

Now, this may be the best way you know how to pray and this maybe the way you hear people around you pray. But if this is the way you pray; you’d better not expect God to answer your prayers, because He won’t.

Now, I don’t want to get “technical” with the Word of God and try to make some kind of “Perfect Method” to praying the “Right Way”.

No, this is not about the WAY you pray, but it is WHAT you ask God for.

Now, I first want to ask you something; why you pray for the things you do?

Because if you don’t have a scripture to back up what you pray for; I’ll let you in on a secret; your prayer won’t be answered. Why? Because God can’t answer faithless prayers. He never has, and He never will; so don’t waste your time.

In James 5 we see that we are to pray the prayer of faith. It says that it is the prayer of faith that will heal the sick. Notice though that it does not say that we are to ask God to heal the person. Understand one thing: The Bible will never degrade the price that Jesus paid on the cross and the blood that He shed for you.

No, when the Bible says that “By His STRIPES you WERE healed, that’s exactly what it means. When it says in the Word that He (Jesus) became poor so that you could be rich: that’s exactly what it means.

If someone had already given you something, would you ask them for it again?

So what should you be asking God For?

James 1:5

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James 1:6

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

I Corinthians 14:13

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

II Corinthians 13:7

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Ephesians 3:20

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

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