Prayer 9

Words are hypnotic and hostile. They are viruses carried along on sound waves. We need to be a mental acrobats, with the agility of superheros, to not get embrangled by them. We need to be able to distinguish things like kindness from niceness, humility from humiliation, and habit from disease. In our world everything destructive, perverted, or immoral is either celebrated as liberation and worn like a badge, or is labeled a "brain problem" and augmented with complicated chemicals - while every Godly word is dismissed as primitive and ignorant. But you, Lord, have put before us fire and water, and your Spirit ignites our suspicions when the wisdom of the world tries to oppress your superb "foolishness." Protect our minds from the trappings of seductive words. Protect our hearts from the simplicity of secular thought. Convict us of your counter-cultural truth. Convince us. Help us see the principalities and powers behind every verb & noun
of every proposition.

(Mark 13:31; 1 Cor. 1:20-25;Jeremiah 9:8)