The Believer's Prayer

Dear Lord, help me subdue my trouble spots
That endless strive my actions to control;
I must imprison my swift anger's darts;
Make vain pride lie dormant instead of bold;
Let my greed wither on giving's lush vine;
Teach my tongue never to gripe or complain;
Or my ears to listen when gossips malign;
May I void vengeance, which is Your domain;
Guide me to spurn hatred; or to despise;
Stay alert to this alien world's deceit;
Train my mind to discern the devil's lies,
Nor to dwell on lust; idleness defeat.
Keep me from loving the ways of this world,
Where hell's delusions at people are hurled.

The apostle Peter , born an uneducated Gallilean fisherman, was taught by Jesus Christ and became a key leader in Christianity. In one of his letters to the new believers, he said, "The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins." (1 Peter 4:7-9)

As far as the world in which we live, we are warned repeatedly by many Bible passages that this world is not our home, that it is full of deception furnished by Satan, and that we are not to love it. Love the people of this world, whether friend or enemy, but hate the things of it. John wrote these words:

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world---the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does---comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." (1 John 2:15-17)

Oprah Winfrey sponsors a daily radio series on Miracles that is a great deluder, and if you become trapped in its teachings, you will be following a great lie. It is but one of many such perversions of the truth of God being spread over the people today. They are manifestations of a great deception called postmodernism, a false belief that dominates society today. It uses the terminology of the Bible to spread the lie that every person possesses God somewhere in his being; that one only has to think inwardly to reach God; that when one does this, he is free to do anything he wills himself to do; and that there is no sin or guilt, no matter what a person does. God does not live in a person who is not a believer in Jesus Christ. Believe Oprah's teaching on Miracles and spend eternity in hell.