{"id":398,"date":"2014-01-13T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/144.208.71.131\/~shinethru\/palmquists\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:11:12","slug":"strongholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/palmquists.glorifyJesus.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/strongholds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling down strongholds — or reinforcing them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim sent this message to local pastors on January 6, 2014:<\/em><\/p>\n

Our Lord has charged us with the divine power to demolish strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4).\u00a0 But all too often it seems that Christians in our community are reinforcing demonic strongholds instead of seeking to tear them down.<\/p>\n

“A stronghold is a mind set impregnated with hopelessness that causes the believer to accept as unchangeable something that he\/she knows is contrary to the will of God.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(Ed Silvoso, quoted in Possessing the Gates of the Enemy: A Training Manual for Militant Intercession by Cindy Jacobs).<\/div>\n

Do we believe that it is God’s will for babies to be aborted in Bakersfield?\u00a0 Do we believe that God wills that those who attend our churches participate in abortions?\u00a0\u00a0 Do we believe that God wants His people to speak up for the innocent children who cannot speak for themselves?\u00a0 Do we believe that we honor God by enabling members of our congregation to “sin that grace may abound”?\u00a0 Do we accept as “unchangeable” the continuation of the carnage of abortion (nationally, locally, and in our own congregations)?
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\nSeveral minutes ago I listened as a Christian young woman justified her participation in having a child killed in Bakersfield’s FPA abortion center today, quoting scriptures to condemn us for seeking to save the children.\u00a0 (I wish I could say that I was shocked to hear such venom coming from a Christian, but this is all too common.)\u00a0 The woman chose to trust the doctor’s judgment instead of choosing to trust the God who created the child.<\/p>\n

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At the very moment that this woman was chastising us, another woman arrived unexpectedly to show us her two month old child who was saved from abortion.\u00a0 Even though this saved child and his mother had faced a similarly negative prognosis to the mother and child being aborted today, the woman was resolute in her determination that today’s scheduled abortion must be executed.\u00a0 Although she is a Christian who knows her Bible well, her mind has been captured by a stronghold.<\/p>\n

Has God called you to pull down strongholds which exist in the minds of those who attend your church?\u00a0 Are you teaching your church to have faith to believe that they do not need to abort a child God placed in their womb, no matter the circumstances?\u00a0\u00a0 Are you teaching your church to take a stand against the killing of children in our community?<\/p>\n

Are you teaching your church to pray as Jesus taught us?\u00a0 Are you teaching your church to pray for God’s will to be done here in Bakersfield as it is in heaven<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is less than two weeks away (Sunday, January 19, 2014).\u00a0 Unfortunately it seems that even at this time, many leading local pro-life pastors find other concerns to be more important than taking a stand against abortion in their own congregation.<\/p>\n

If you had other plans for January 19, even if find yourself in the midst of a series, let me ask you this: did you preach a different sermon than you had planned on the Sunday after 9\/11\/01?\u00a0 With almost 3000 dead in one day, most pastors quickly rewrote their sermons, believing that to ignore the carnage would be to dishonor the dead (and to dishonor God).<\/p>\n

Yet over 3000 children die every day in our nation from abortion!<\/p>\n

I’m sure you know that you can change your plans if you want to.\u00a0 But perhaps the children dying here in your backyard (perhaps even in your church) are not sufficient reason to change your plans.<\/p>\n

If you are one of the few who plans to preach against abortion on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, please let us know so that we can tell others (perhaps some of those we reach will be there to listen).\u00a0 Also, consider sharing your sermon with us, so that we can pass it along to others through the Pastors Pro-Life Resource Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Christ’s service for those who cannot speak for themselves,
\nTim Palmquist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

P.S.\u00a0 If there is anything we can do to help you have a more meaningful Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, please don’t hesitate to contact me at (661) 412-2291<\/a> or reply to this message.\u00a0 To learn more about how God calls us to be involved in spiritual warfare against abortion, including pulling down strongholds which tolerate and enable abortions, read chapter eight of my book, available free at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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