Please encourage non-abusive men to keep standing ever taller in this time! We need it!

Bless in the opposite direction! Today’s prayer challenge, i got from my morning devotion: when i think of abusive situations, which is pretty much everywhere these days, i immediately think about how to move in the opposite spirit!

“What if Hitler could have been displaced by prayer and kindness; what if he and Ghandi would’ve become friends!.” as a friend once challenged me with. Or, what if his father could have been loved into place, so that he was less absent and abusive? Good challenge!

I challenge you to bless any man who has ever blessed you in life today! Someone who moved in kindness, gentleness and care for and towards you in your life!

What a great and ironic time to strengthen and encourage the non-abusive men in our lives as well, and to help them walk more fully and forthrightly! As an act of displacing the false masculine, and to help women from wearing the false feminine!

It’s easier to find dark in others, than it is to live in and speak from Light, which is Love illuminated! To criticize than encourage. Encouragement takes sacrifice and true discernment, rather than our wounds.

Thinking about men who walk in integrity and kindness today (I know many who are truly laboring in Love in unseen places), and go out of their way to protect women and others who are in vulnerable situations; I am blessed to know many such men! Try to find righteous ones around you, and encourage their integrity, so that it may increase and displace the madness.

So, If you know a man like that, who have reflected fatherhood and true kindness towards you, lift them up-overtly encourage them today! Even if your own father didn’t, or couldn’t, there are those who have learned to walk in God’s ways—find them, and bless them this season! That’s part of displacing abuse, and clarifying our images of one another! Not to mention, getting a clearer image of The Father!

For in this divisive time, many are being torn down for the wrong reasons. Let’s amplify praise where we see God’s nature, regardless of what ethnicity or gender.

For, Saintliness is not exclusive, nor are the fruits of the Spirit—all by Grace! And they enter many shapes!

Gentleness, kindness, Love, Hope, Faith, endurance, self control (Galatians 4 etc), are present in whomever desires to download them, and allow them to be formed through death to self. Regardless of gender, race, or location.

Let’s honor those who are walking and increasing in that Light today, and it’s fruits! This is part of our righteous response to the times we live in! As St Peter put it, be ever increasing in love hope faith knowledge, endurance, kindness, brotherly love etc….the path has already been named by many saints before us!

And let us not get caught up in the current dualisms of sight. Look for The Spirit and give it room, amplify it! This is the opposite spirit of our times. To seek God’s Spirit in all things, and enlarge that blessed space until we are all more in it! I’m looking for bold and risky encouragements in our times! In unexpected places!

To criticize is easy, to encourage, requires death to self and prayer! That’s why true encouragement is so rare these days! To build up and heal someone is harder than to tear them down! Let’s be edifiers while here, especially in our times!

Love your enemy must at least include this! Seek out your perceived enemy, and bless them with Love! I’m proactively blessing older ones I’ve found faithful—men and women from wherever. To increase righteousness, and honor it in them, displaces the un-dealt with darkness in others!

Critical spirit aims at and focuses on naming darkness in one another; discernment increases the light in one another! If we want to see our world change, we need to receive, increase and broadcast Light! To speak words of Life as they used to say!

When we honor those who walk well, it brings Light and holds out and illuminates a standard of how to treat one another. Let’s at least do that much in our times. Find one person, who inspired, and blessed you, and proactively honor and bless them. Especially those you perceive as “the enemy”.

Honor your true parents, so that it may go well with you…..find those who are already walking well, and help them walk taller! That was my “word” from my devotion today. Just thought I’d share it. If it blesses great. I’m also trying to walk in that way of blessing in times where the airwaves are filled with curses! Bless you as you learn to speak life over yourself and others!