Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is Amped Up, Praying Church.

For those who are interested in the political process, which should be all of us, but sadly is not,

it is almost impossible not to guess and speculate what each side is doing.

In this era of big money, globalism, intricate election tampering, shadow governments, media spin, etc.,

this tendency is even more appealing.

It's actually necessary for campaigns, fundraisers, and candidates to do so.

For the rest of us, it's usually just to scratch our curiosity itch.

As one who tries to stay informed, I'm constantly listening to others,

both secular and spiritual voices. Much of what I hear from both arenas is this speculative guessing,

must be taken with a grain of salt.

That's a nice way of saying it's a waste of time.

I'm sure I'm guilty of diving into this speculation at times as my curiosity kicks in.

But as intercessors, we don't need to involve ourselves in this guessing game in order to pray effectively.

Our assignment is to pray according to Scripture and the leading of Holy Spirit.

Even when in conversation with trusted prophetic leaders and intercessors, I listen for and try to

distinguish between the I feel, I believe, or I think, comments versus the Holy Spirit said comments.

There are prophetic voices I trust very much when they prophesy,

but I realize they are no more accurate than anyone else with their I feels.

Be careful what you take as credible, and as prophetic voices,

it's okay to speculate with our friends,

but publicly, we must carefully delineate between our personal opinions and our words from the Lord. Spiritual maturity and the knowledge of the word give us the ability to divide between soul and spirit

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