The Warrior Priestess
In my last devotional, we looked at how an idol is anything that we fear more than God. God should be our motivation for the reason we live and what we do throughout our day. Sometimes this idol hides in the form of pride. When I talk about pride today, I’m meaning anything that we... Continue Reading →
It has been taught that an Idol is whatever we love more than God. But we cannot know what we love more than God without first examining what we fear more than Him.
Upon digging further, I also found 1 John 5:14-15, “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” So it’s not just whatever we ask; it’s whatever we ask according to His will. Our confidence in prayer then can be held in promises He has already given us in Scripture, or occasionally devine personal revelation. But that left me lost about prayers for healing or personal requests. What is the point praying for our health or desires, when we have no power to change God’s will?
Amber Skye Mileusnich 