Mentoring Minutes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:14-16  (emphasis in original)

Love and Lordship in Focus (this is the focus for L&L LIVE)…Our American Dream version of Christianity elevates happiness over holiness. This is idolatry as God’s Word commands us to “be holy” even as He is holy. Let’s trust God for real happiness as He makes us holy in Christ and blesses our obedience.

What is God’s plan and purpose for you? For each of us? For His Church? If you listen to many sermons today the undeniable conclusion would be that more than anything else God desires our happiness. Unfortunately that has led to many false doctrines and teachings as well as broken and destroyed lives, relationships, families and more.

Nowhere in Scripture will you find that God simply wants us to be happy.  Now before you stop reading and lose your religion with your choice of words for me, let me say…God certainly wants us to be happy. It’s just that it’s not His top priority for us and He knows happiness done our way ultimately brings ruin. He desires us to know happiness…His way. He, being The Author and Creator, knows that we live in a fallen world and in our injured and sinful flesh; happiness can be easily found in the moment in both those settings (world and flesh) only to end in devastation and destruction.

Also, happiness is closely tied to blessing. However, as we take a closer look at this concept of blessing and happiness, we find that these are always tied to obedience and/or the state of the heart (see Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12; also see John 13:17 and 14:15).  This means that happiness in Scripture is much more about the consequences of our lives, actions and hearts than simply circumstances being what we want and us getting what we want. 

With that said, let’s look back at the opening Scripture and find out what God is calling and commanding us to do and be…HOLY!  We are created in His image and in no way can we mirror that image apart from Christ. Any “happiness” separated from Christ and His Spirit in our lives is fleeting and circumstantial and will ultimately lead to our ruin. Only in the holiness that Christ has imparted and imputed to us can we find and know who we are created to be…and experience joy and happiness that’s real and lasting.

God’s desire for you above everything else is for you to be holy. Real happiness and joy is a byproduct of holiness…while at times worldly happiness may be the farthest thing from your being holy and choosing His righteousness. With this in mind we’ll explore how we should interpret Scripture from the Kingdom perspective of Holiness rather than the worldly and fleshly perspective of happiness (the latter being the case in so many churches and teachings today).

As believers in Christ we should always seek His Kingdom perspective above all else as we are commanded to do in Matthew 6:33, “Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness and all these other things will be added to you.” What are all these other things? What The Lord knows you have need of…not what you think you need. He loves us way too much to give us what our selfish hearts desire because He knows our own “needs” (usually just selfish desires justified by calling them “needs”) will ultimately destroy us.

As we look at several Scriptures keep this in mind…it’s OK for us to have things in this world but when we claim that we’re seeking The Lord and His Kingdom while deceiving ourselves, we will never find the peace, contentment and joy that comes from seeking Him and His Kingdom. We may find momentary happiness but it will never last. The only true joy (happiness) that lasts is found in His presence and perfect provision as we become holy in Christ.

There are 2 questions that are asked over and over in our book, “The Authority of Love, 2nd Edition,” which essentially compels us to determine whether or not we are living in God’s Truth, i.e., seeking to be Holy or just happy?

Everyone of us has a Lord or lord…1) Who’s your Lord or lord? 2) What does your life say about who you are a disciple of?

Paul David Tripp in his “New Morning Mercies” devotional lays this out very poignantly…

“Love for God competes in our hearts with love of self (remember love of self is rooted in the enemy’s deception from the beginning). Love for God battles with our craving for the love of others. Material things and physical experiences command our affections and our motivations…

I find that most of the things that lay claim to my heart and battle for the position that only love for God should have are not evil in and of themselves…But here’s the thing you and I need to remember, what the battle for the love of our hearts is all about: a desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing (who’s your Lord/lord?). When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

You see, we are always placing the love of our hearts on something (you have a Lord or lord), and it is important to remember that there are only two places where we can invest that life-shaping love–on the Creator or on the creation. It’s not wrong to love God’s glorious creation, but it’s a spiritual disaster to be ruled by that love.” (parenthesis mine)

This is the essence of Lordship and discipleship and why we must know who our Lord or lord is and whose disciple we are. Apart from Christ we have no hope of being holy, which is what we are called to be and what He has made us by His grace. Also, those who are mature in their faith, walking with Christ as Lord, must be willing to help others do the same (2 Timothy 2:2-6).

Let me ask you one question and suggest something to think about that will likely change completely how you live your life and deal with all that it entails…What are the major problems, sins or issues that you are enslaved to in your life?

Now the suggestion that I know is true in every life but we fail to recognize and therefore do what needs to be done…You first and foremost don’t have a personal problem; a relationship problem; a marriage problem; a parenting problem; a porn problem; drug or alcohol problem or __________ (fill in the blank) problem…

First and foremost, you have a God problem! Every person or couple I meet with, every circumstance or problem presented, in every situation has ultimately always gone back to the real issue that they don’t truly know Christ as Lord and are deceiving themselves (Galatians 6:7-9). They are living for the false idol of happiness first in their life (lives) rather than the holiness that God designed us to live and bestows to us only in Christ.

This is hard to hear but it is the same lie and deception the enemy used through the serpent in Genesis 3:1-5…

Do you really know God’s Word/Truth (v. 1…”did God really say”)?

Can you detect the lies and deceptions of the enemy, the world and even your own flesh (v. 4…”you certainly will not die.”)?

Are you drawn in by the lure of “being your own god/lord” (v.5)?

Therein lays the root of every sin, addiction, problem that we have ever had…and the answer is the same for every one of them…Jesus Christ (John 8:31-32; 14:6)! This is the God/god problem and He is the solution to every sin, addiction or issue in your life. Get right with Him and you will be able to handle every other temptation, problem, sin or addiction in your life…and you will be walking in the holiness that He came to give you when you receive Him as Savior…and Lord!

Holiness is found in The Living Word – Christ, and in His written Word – The Bible.  What do you think of when you think of God’s Word?

Let me give you 3 things that may help you both appreciate it and desire it even more than you already do…Here is where you can learn to live out “being holy” even as He is holy.  God’s Word is…

1) The very life that God gives. His Word brings life (Psalm 119:25). Where is your life coming from?
2) The very breath of God that gives that life…2 Timothy 3:16 the word “inspired” in many translations literally means “God-breathed.” His breath is what gives life (Genesis 2:7) therefore His Word is the breath that gives life.
3) The very Word (Logos) of God…the final Word of Truth that should guide every part of our lives and Jesus manifested it by becoming The Word (Logos) in the flesh (John 1:1, 14).

Food for Thought…Why would we look to anyone other than God and His Word for anything in our life? (Psalm 19, emphasis vv. 7-11…notice all the synonyms for His Word) This is how you live a life of holiness and trust Him for the blessings and happiness that are a result of His holiness in and through you.

Love in Action –

1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Honestly assess and list the things that you look to for happiness. Where does this rank in your life compared to holiness?
3. How do you see holiness in your life and how are you pursuing this holiness that Christ has placed in you?
4. If you haven’t surrendered to Christ as your Savior and Lord seek out someone (contact us at L&L) to find out more so you can “be holy” as He is holy.  You won’t regret it!

Prayer Focus…Heavenly Father, forgive me for falling for the lies that substitute happiness over holiness. Thank You for Christ that makes me holy even as You are Holy as I live in faithful, loving obedience to You.  In His Name. Amen.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.    Ephesians 6:4

Love and Lordship in Focus…If you want your children to walk in the way of The Lord you must first walk that way yourself (Deuteronomy 6:6-9)

Who’s discipling us and our youth?  The greatest attack on Biblical foundations and our youth today is pornography or porneia (Greek word for sexual immorality of any and all kinds). We like to think that our churches are discipling our youth but the results show something quite different…

Whoever is training our children up in the way they want them to go will have their hearts and minds. We are called to do this as Christian parents, first and foremost, and then with Godly ministers, teachers, and servant-leaders to reinforce. Remember we are commanded to be diligent in training up our children in what we provide for them and what we protect them from.

The overwhelming fruit coming from the roots and teachings in our schools, media and government programs are promiscuity, porn, depression, cohabitation, abortion, STDs, teen/unwed pregnancies, divorce, broken homes, and much more. All of these are a direct affront and attack on God’s foundations and order.

For the most part, how has the modern day church countered these and how well is it working?  

The current paradigm as peddled by our culture through education, government programs and media by Planned Parenthood, SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) and AFY (Advocates for Youth) leads to broken relationships, marriages and families and to sexual immorality of all kinds.

These groups set themselves up with compassionate and expert sounding names to draw people into their lies and deceptions while preaching and teaching their brand of relationships and sexuality apart from God’s Word. The message is rooted in “free sex” and promoted and encouraged through condom promotion, porn disguised as “sex education,” and abortion, with devastation and death left in the wake.

We have conformed to the world in subtle and not-so-subtle ways and are reaping what we’ve sown… (Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 6:7-8)

The proof is in the pudding and we as Christ’s followers and as His Church need to graciously and firmly stand for His Truth and against anything that tries to compromise and/or blatantly or subtly counter that Truth. Here’s the fruit of today’s teachings and our lack of resolve to stand against it…promiscuity, porn, depression, cohabitation, abortion, STDs, teen/unwed pregnancies, homosexuality, gender dysphoria, divorce, broken homes, and much more, all a direct affront and attack on God’s foundations and order.

We learned in previous posts that in Proverbs 22:6 the Hebrew word for “train up” means to “bend or shape” and it applies to whoever is doing the “discipling or teaching.” Those sowing the “seeds of destruction” here in US are “discipling” our children with this message in our schools and media, and internationally through USAIDS dollars and the free sex agenda. BEWARE!

Again, I ask the question, “Who’s discipling our youth?” Let’s BE STRONG in standing in God’s Truth and sharing His Word to remind others that God alone can take what’s wrong and make it right. (Joel 2:25)  Oswald Chambers states this as…

“Do I believe that God can deal with my ‘yesterday,’ and make it as though It had never been? I either do not believe he can, or I do not want Him to. Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost God the agony of Calvary. When Jesus Christ says, ‘Sin no more,’ He conveys the power that enables a man not to sin any more, and that power comes by right of what He did on the Cross.”

Current Church Paradigm: Symptomatic Response – Conformed to the World/Reaping What Is Sown

Romans 12:2 states that we are not to conform to the world and Galatians 6:7-8 remind us that the outcome of doing so is that we will reap what we sow.

There have been some attempts in today’s churches, but for the most part they have followed the knowledge-based teaching and a symptomatic response with little positive impact. These efforts and the fruit from the programs the modern church has implemented show clearly that the culture is having a much greater impact in discipling our youth and people in general than our churches.

Many who sit in our churches today are perfectly comfortable attending while entrenched in porneia or other sin(s) and often living hidden lives with very little pushback in discipleship or accountability…”just keep coming to church, giving your money and serving and we’ll all be fine?!?”

They’re at “peace”…until they are not because each will reap what is sown even when sown in the dark. God must be faithful to expose our sins so we will hopefully come to Christ for salvation and maturity in a discipleship walk with Him.

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” (Matthew 12:33)

Churches usually engage with a symptomatic response of some great programs – marriage prep, enrichment, mentoring, reconciliation, divorce recovery, possibly Sexual Risk Avoidance programs that teach and encourage abstinence and building healthy relationships. This results in some saved marriages and restored families, which is wonderful, but far too many are still exposed to the filth and immorality of the “free sex (porneia)” programs and mandates from education, media and government and reap the consequences.

How often have our classes, programs and ministries, again even with the greatest of hearts and intentions, fallen flat because we have either ignored His priorities and order or we have been blinded to them and based our success on numbers that nearly always ebb and flow. When this happens we have to come up with a new class, ministry, or program to keep the excitement rather than encourage, test, and hold accountable in loving relationships built on His Truths.

The fruit in the current paradigm remains overwhelmingly bad because of the seeds sown and ultimately the roots are bad; therefore, Scripturally, we must reap destruction as we pluck a few out of it. (Jude 1:17-23)

The roots and foundations of the horrific programs, media and messages remain the same with several hours weekly or even daily in schools and this is exponentially multiplied as they direct youth and children to their Internet presence. Contrast that with our churches combating the message with symptomatic programs that may add up to a few hours annually in youth group or a sermon or two.

Knowledge based information, evident in the programs and outcomes currently, is not discipleship. Unless we change the paradigm to obedience-based discipleship in loving relationships we will continue to win a few hearts but lose many, many more.

As stated earlier, I believe these are done with great hearts and intent, but the real question is, “Are they working?” We may “rescue” a few from the dangers and consequences of immoral relationships and sexuality, many that last a lifetime, but the enemy’s message continues to reach thousands through schools, Internet, and social media.  The destruction left in the wake is horrific and in many cases, eternal.

We must stand more strongly and faithfully on His Truth and build the relationships in loving obedience and discipleship with the expectation of living and encouraging one another to live in integrity and purity of heart, body, mind and soul to His Glory!

Proclaiming and standing boldly in God’s Truth against the corrupting and destructive tides of culture requires diligence, but it will be worth it as we see healthy marriages, homes, and families that are the building blocks of His Bride and Family, the Church. The life-infusing examples of marriages and loving, Godly relationships, others will clamor for this kind of love that they obviously are not seeing presently! This doesn’t mean there aren’t good examples and some wonderful relationships out there, but the reality is that in our churches and certainly in the larger culture there is a glaring absence of this.  (2 Peter 3:11-14)

I do not think at all that it’s because we don’t care. I think it’s because, in our desire to see people saved, we’ve “redesigned” His order to draw people in to hear the Gospel message, which is so important. However, the enemy has taken full advantage of our heartfelt but misplaced priorities when it comes to building loving relationships, making disciples and expecting obedience by the indwelling power of His Holy Spirit. (John 14:15, 21; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 John 2:5; 5:2).

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He has rejected you as king.” (1 Samuel 15:22–23)

According to God’s Word there’s a better way. Obedience-based discipleship under Christ’s teaching in our families with churches stepping up to reinforce the messages and help encourage loving relationships, obedience and accountability with grace and Truth! Strengthen the family and we all win!

The “New” Old Paradigm – His Loving Discipleship in Relationships

We’ve looked at the world’s destructive messages and schemes. We’ve looked at the churches’ symptomatic responses. Now let’s look at God’s plan in line with His Covenant Order…

The solution, in line with God’s Word, is obedience-based discipleship rooted in the love of marriage and family extended to all relationships. The Church partners with parents and families as well as good programs that promote Scriptural principles and prioritizes marriage and family to work at the root cause and lay a firm foundation for Kingdom fruit.

In the current paradigm 70+% are receiving an immoral and rotten seed and foundation through our schools, media and government…and even in many churches. What kind of impact would obedience-based discipleship in this and all areas of teaching and character have in your home? In your church? What impact would your church have in your community? (Colossians 2:4-8; Hebrews 5:12-14)

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – As churches prioritize Biblical marriage and family we will see the healthy fruit of loving relationships built on His Love and Lordship and obedient discipleship. What a difference it would make if people, couples and families were built on this solid foundation…in our homes and His Church!

Love in Action –
1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Determine who/what is having the greatest impact on your children and family.  If it is not you as married parents, make the changes needed to do so.
3. How are you placing your marriage and parenting as priorities in your family?  Is your church helping or hindering?  What will you do about it?
4. Seek out a mature couple to help you in your marriage and training up your children in The Lord and ask them to mentor you.

Love and Lordship Prayer Focus…Heavenly Father, forgive us for abdicating the work of raising up our children in Christ to our churches and culture.  According to Your Word we as married parents are the priority disciplers and educators of our children.  Help us train them up in Christ. In His Name. Amen.

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.  Matthew 10:16

Love and Lordship in Focus…Wisdom and gentleness (humility) is how Christ’s disciples are to approach the world and make disciples.

We have been spending nearly a year in these posts looking at God’s Covenant Order…His salvation and Lordship in our lives; our discipleship response; building every relationship on His Love & Lordship; honoring marriage as the highest of human relationships; family as the foundation of society and building block of Christ’s Church; loving and relationally servant-leading our families and then Christ’s Church…Now that we’re serious about following His Word and making disciples who make disciples in His Covenant Order, He equips us to do what He’s called us to do…

Taking His Gospel message to a lost and dying world and it won’t be easy. Let’s quit fooling ourselves and trying to do it our way. It hasn’t worked. We are making weak church converts rather than strong disciples with a very family-like resemblance to Christ! This is a statement based on both working with individuals, couples and families and the general state of our culture…both the world and our churches.

In our microwave, convenience store, fast food, Internet-driven world, discipline and patience are almost afterthoughts. We “train” our new church converts in a four to eight-week class, call it discipleship, and send them out to show others how much God loves them, how much we love them, and to win their souls for Christ!

We are sending out “empty infants” in Christ!

On the other hand, Jesus, knowing His time for ministry was short, was not willing to send out His disciples until He knew they were ready. Ultimately He spent two of the three years of His public ministry training His disciples before sending them out. He then gave them the encouragement and warning found in Matthew 10:16 (KJ21), “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

How are we doing when it comes to sending out wise and shrewd messengers and disciples? What are we exporting?

We have not, cannot, and will not be able to do this with programs and systems alone…we must prioritize the difficult, but eternally rewarding work of making disciples in loving relationships!

There are many issues that we as a country, and even through our churches, have exported around the globe with horrific consequences. As we have removed or compromised the Biblical Truths and perspectives the results have been lacking at best and devastating at worst. The culture, through our education, media and government, has co-opted the Gospel message for some time, couching it in familiar terms but exporting death and destruction. Abortion couched in human rights language, sexual sin in terms of health, well-being, sexual rights, and pornography labeled as free speech. The Church has done little in many cases to counter the messages and efforts, and in others cases has helped to spread the demoralizing and devastating outcomes. (2 Timothy 4:2-4; Romans 1:18-32)…Folks we are there!

Much of what has been shared from the western culture progressivism has elevated unhealthy relationships and sexual immorality disguising them as education and legislation. Not content to let others decide for themselves we have forced other cultures and countries to comply through financial incentives or held them hostage with financial restrictions, such as withholding government funding for HIV-AIDS or other program funding if they will not agree to teach and promote the destructive and devastating condom and contraception-based sex education.

Where’s the Church, specifically in standing strong in Truth and Love against those who perpetuate theses destructive lies and ideologies? When we comply, by consent or silence, we are allowing the enemy to attack the very foundations of God’s creation and order from the beginning (Ephesians 5:6-11).

The reason I’m focusing on porneia and sexual sin as we discuss taking His message to a lost and hurting world is because this is the core issue and the greatest ammunition the enemy has in destroying the foundations that God laid down at creation. In His design, male and female were created for marriage in a lifetime monogamous covenant commitment and sex is reserved for this union only. When porn is disguised as “education” and deceitfully marketed as “safe,” it goes directly against all that is God and His Truth and Love. (Philippians 2:12-16a)

As stated previously, porn/porneia is the greatest destroyer of love and relationship and the only thing that will overcome it is the power of the Gospel lived out through His families and Church. Loving relationships is the currency of Christ’s Kingdom!

If we are going to re-establish the foundations of God’s Word in marriage, family, and His Church then we must expose and stand firm against this evil. We must be as wise as serpents and as gentle as doves. And we must not be afraid to proclaim His whole Truth regarding relationships, marriage, family and sexuality.

Look at the root of the sin, porneia, which the enemy uses to destroy lives, relationships, and communities through relational brokenness, sexual perversion and immorality, divorce and broken families. The result is that we hinder our ability to serve the Church, and ultimately cripple its ministry. Most of it is exported from a pornified culture rooted in Churchianity!

How can our churches survive if we continue to placate the culture? What was and is being exported is what is far too prevalent in our churches today. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 18-20)

C.S. Lewis says it this way in The Weight of Glory, “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” (2 Corinthians 12:21; Colossians 3:4-6)

Only in Christ and by the blood and body of His sacrifice can and have we overcome. May we walk in His overcoming!

In our modern day culture, it is obvious that there are several issues that we need to address in order to come against what the world and enemy of our souls is pandering and boldly, yet graciously, step up and proclaim God’s Truth over all things. As Abraham Kuyper stated, “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”

Why have we, as Christ’s Church, allowed the world to dictate when and where His

Truth can be spoken and applied? It is the only thing that will set people free, but we claim graciousness in withholding His Word in politics, schools, media, and more while Satan continues to enslave and destroy.  (John 15:18-19; 1 Peter 3:15)  We must do so in spite of the world’s spite for Him and for His Truth in and through us!

Here are current issues and outcomes that give evidence to our fear and timidity, and Paul said: “For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:7 NASB)

CURRENT OUTCOMES/POTENTIAL STRUGGLES

• Emotionally-driven salvation
• Very lacking in obedience-based discipleship
• Spiritually immature, fleshly driven service
• Focus on people above God
• Churches/Christians that look/act like the culture – Conformed to the world

The Father seeks those who worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23-24). This is not those who just attend church, give and serve and their idea of worship is a 15-minute song service during the weekend. These are those who give all of their lives as a living sacrifice in realizing the incredible grace and mercy that we’ve been given in Christ (Romans 12:1-2).

All of the issues of conforming to the world listed in yesterday’s devotional have been addressed throughout this series as a response to Jesus’ own prophecy of Judgment Day in Matthew 7:21-23: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’”

The only thing that we have any control over in this prophecy is whether we are contributing to the “many” whom Jesus refers to or working to diminish the “many” that don’t really know Him and add to the souls that do! Are we conforming to the world thinking we’re doing a great job…or are we living as Christ’s true disciples and helping others know Him?

“When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3)

Will He find us faithful and fruitful for His Kingdom as we build loving relationships and make disciples? Or are we content to make church members and converts? (Ephesians 5:1-4)

There are many problems facing our churches today but the greatest and most blatant, and yet most hidden, is the issue of porneia or sexual immorality. This permeates our culture and directly attacks the foundations for marriage, family and loving relationships upon which God created the world and that symbolically point to Christ and His Church.

We have been looking at the current state of marriage, family and the churches. The lies and deception permeate our systems, destroying God’s design for gender, relationships, sexuality, marriage, and family, and cripple His Church. All the while we keep up the facade through numbers, giving and serving that help to hide this destroyer of Kingdom currency – loving relationships!

Love and Lordship…Food for Thought – May we repent and confess and/all of these issues and bring them into the light.  As we do and with forgiveness received we can then move forward in Christ’s Authority and the power of The Holy Spirit to impact our world for His Glory!

Love and Lordship…Action Item(s) –

1. Read the Scriptures in this article and ask The Holy Spirit to teach you.
2. Check school curriculum in your community, media and legislation to determine where you can stand up and expose and potentially shut down the information and teachings that go against God’s Word.
3. Step up and make your voice heard where you can.
   1. School committees and boards;
   2. Legislators – Contact The Family Foundation; Kentucky Right to Life and others.

Love and Lordship Prayer Focus Heavenly Father, help us to stand firm on Your Truth with wisdom and gentleness in our homes, churches, and wherever we find the enemy spreading lies and destruction. In Jesus Name. Amen.