Is someone you care about courting disaster?

What do you do when someone you care for is heading off down the wrong path? This may be a co-worker, an employee, a friend or family member. Of course you want to pull off a mini-rapture: grab 'em by the nape of the neck and jerk 'em out of the pathway of that oncoming train.

I cannot speak for you, but I can honestly say I have been on both sides of that question: the one caught on the tracks and the one watching it happen with an almost helpless sense of impending doom. You want to spare them the pain that lies ahead, yet they will not listen to sound counsel from one who has "been there, done that, and has the T-shirt." Your age, relationship or even your past mistakes may be the excuses they use for not listening. There are a myriad of reasons one can give in self-deception.

The warfare as always lies within the spirit realm. It rears its ugly head long before it manifests in the physical, and continues alongside the physical. THIS is where the victory is won.

I strongly urge you to pray 2 Timothy 2:24-25 over yourself and over them: 2 Timothy 2:24-26 (NKJV) "And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will"

In truth, Holy Spirit can GRANT THEM REPENTANCE. To re-pent quite literally means to perceive afterward. It is a turning away from something. They can come all the way back. After all, the great God Jehovah forgave you. He will forgive it all, wash them clean inside, and forget forever the way they messed up. He never left them-- they left Him. His deliberate forgetfulness in this respect is one of the blessed aspects of being God.

They need to understand after they have agreed that He was right and they were wrong, turned away from their error, asked and received His forgiveness: if God has forgotten it, why on earth would they even want to bring it up to Him? As Jesse Duplantis said: Admit it, quit it, then fergit it! That newly clean conscience opens the spirit pathway for you to hear clearly from God.