Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this brother of ours, who has been through so much and now he is coming toward your glorious light. I thank you Lord, because he has a real genuine love in his heart .. after all the hurts, he still is able to forgive! That is something special. Lord, he has encountered some perspective of your love that is radical and unexpected, it is hard for him to believe, and being so foreign to all that he has come to believe about your character and the way you are portrayed by those who misuse your name, Lord God, our brother is at risk of not grasping hold of that opportunity you have given him, to reach out to you in faith, trusting that you are good, and asking for a real relationship with the only one who saves. Dear Jesus, it is you and not I who knows the true depths of where his mind has wandered, into the realms of the devil's mischaracterisation of you through the deceitfulness and naiivety of those who seek to have relationship with you and who mistakenly follow flattering false teachers. Lord God, I pray with our brother here, that you will keep in his mind the reality that all who do truly know you have found that you are good, that you love, that there is no malicious or untrustworthy thing about you. I pray that you will cause his wisdom to grow even stronger still, that he will be confident in his ability and his right, to be cautious about those who teach questionably in Your Name, and give him a new realisation too: that as he does dig deeper into this issue of the apostasy and find out how vast, delicate yet severe it has become, that You are with him and for him in his pursuit of the truth. Make it become that our brother cannot even consider that anyone else possesses a right to teach him, but instead bring him to reach out to you for those things. So now we submit these requests to you, Heavenly Father, asking that you will lift the feelings of hopelessness and confusion from him, and instead lay upon him a feeling of peace and understanding, a new knowledge, that he cannot obtain salvation from any other than you. Stir up his confidence, Lord, to open the scriptures in faith that when he does so, you are not going to harm him, but you will speak to him. We pray this in Jesus' name, that our brother can receive the blessing of your salvation to your glory. Amen.
Brother, I just felt that a prayer was the right response to that. I hope you will not fall back from your pursuit of the truth. It occurred to me while praying this, that you've really gone a long way into the depths of the delusion of the apostasy, and you are encountering a very radical difference in perspective of what the holy scriptures really teach. Who is able to really measure the contrast between light and darkness? Yet, the light of God's holiness is so perfect that He has to veil it from us in order that we are not consumed by it. Because of that, I do strongly suggest that you will visit Him in the scriptures, so that He can speak tenderly to your heart in the most perfect way.
Do you understand why?
