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Begin forwarded message: From: Randy Walter < shilohministries@comcast.net > Date: October 30, 2014 at 10:23:00 AM CDT Subject: Without Repentance Dear Shiloh Friends: We have been reading Ezekiel during our devotions. This morning we came to chapter 22, where the Lord said in verse 30, " I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. "  Then He told me I've been praying incorrectly for our nation: "The hearts of men have to change before the government will. Praying for the government to change and lead you into morality is making government your god. "Praying against calamity without first praying for repentance is making convenience your god.  "Praying for the church without first praying for repentance is making religion your god. "Until the hearts of men change, nothing else will. All men need to grieve over the things that griev...

#The REALITIES of the "SIN NATURE"!  (By Pastor Walter L. Smith III) As I was preparing to write this particular blog, I thought about all the "discernaholics", who "major on the imperfect" and are suspicious and wounded saints that all-to-often focus most of their precious energies on being "holy ghost junior", without a genuine shred of real spiritual understanding from God's Word.  They actually spend more time "accusing others, rather than witnessing to them"; and seem to forget that the "sin nature" is why "sinner's sin", and why "complacent Christian's - struggle".  During my prayer time for the Body of Christ in the past few months, I've been having a real frustration around what I see as "the ineffectiveness and irrelevance of the status quo approach to ministry in the 21st century"; although there are a growing number of relevant and relationally-astute "kingdom repre...