Hollywood Prayer Network On DeceptionSample

WATCH OUT, BE WISE 

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."  William Shakespeare   

"Unless we examine what we believe and why we believe it, we can easily be deceived and not know it."   Pamela Christian

PRAY:  Dear God, I pray for wisdom today. I want to watch out for anyone who may be trying to deceive me, especially those coming in Your name, claiming to be speaking Your truths. I don't want to be listening to false teaching or following false leaders, but I need Your Holy Spirit to give me that discernment. Please, Lord, don't let me be deceived by the evil one through people who are using You for personal gain. Fill me with Your wisdom, God. Amen

REFLECT:  It's so easy to get to know or like someone and then trust everything they say. As Christians, we want to be wiser than that. But we need to pray for discernment and ask for wisdom. Jesus warns us about false leaders, but because He doesn't list who they are, we have to seek Him to know whom we should trust and whom to walk away from. We can't be untrusting of everyone or paranoid of liars, but if we place ourselves under the spiritual authority of anyone, we do need to ask God for the wisdom to see and hear that person for whom he or she really is. What would that look like in your life?

ACT:  Pray for your spiritual leaders right now. Ask the Lord to fill them with only His wisdom, truth, knowledge, and love. And ask Him to reveal to you anything that you need to know to protect yourself from any false teaching. Remember that we are all human and not perfect. Commit to pray for your pastor, counselors, prayer leaders, and even government leaders. Ask the Holy Spirit to come into the hearts of the leaders in your life, in order to clean house, build truth, and to fill them with words of truth, grace and love. And don't just pray today. Leaders, speakers, pastors and teachers need our prayers every day, for the enemy is always trying to steal, kill, and destroy lives through the words and actions of other people.