{"id":496,"date":"2007-12-17T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=496"},"modified":"2007-12-17T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T15:02:45","slug":"he-wants-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/he-wants-my-family\/","title":{"rendered":"He Wants My Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nLuke 22:31-46<\/font>
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Jesus told Peter, “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat”<\/font><\/b> (31).<\/p>\n

I don’t know what all that means. But I do know it doesn’t mean anything good.<\/p>\n

As I read that, the thought impressed itself into my heart that Satan desires to have and sift my family (me included).<\/p>\n

I was challenged and encouraged and comforted by what Jesus told Peter next:<\/p>\n

“But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren”<\/font><\/b> (32).<\/p>\n

As I shake under the devil’s sifting efforts, sometimes it seems like I can barely hang on any longer. I’m so glad for God’s reminder of Jesus’ work for me. I know verse 32 is Jesus speaking to Peter, but other New Testament verses make similar promises for me.<\/p>\n

Mine! I claim them for me!<\/p>\n

That said, something else really strikes me from these two verses: I must pray for my family, that their faith fail not.<\/b> Satan is attacking and will continue attacking them.<\/p>\n

In my own sifting and struggling and hurting, I remain the husband and father in this family. I cannot be careless or forgetful in resisting the devil and his work against them.<\/p>\n

But I must hang to verses 32 and 43.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"[Pray,<\/a>
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from Luke 22:46<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Luke 22:<\/b> Ministering Spirit<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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