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LHT,\u00a0<\/p>\n

My heart has been greatly grieved since Sunday when I first started researching CCP [contemplative\/centering prayer]. And the fact that I mentioned my concern over Priscilla Shirer being used as a study was met with \u201cwe are not always going to agree with everything others teach,” by my pastor’s wife. And as a friend, who is a pastor, pointed out to me \u201cthis isn\u2019t debating the gap theory or even whether or not it really was an apple Eve ate,” it is serious.<\/p>\n

And then I continue to search out your blogs and others, only to find that IHOP is mentioned often. The youth in my church are involved, though I had no idea what it was. So I asked my fifteen year old if IHOP has been mentioned to him at church. He said yes, and that\u2019s when I informed him that I will not abide his being involved in it.<\/p>\n

Why am I writing? I need your prayers. I am a eight-years now single mother with three sons still at home. I have always been the only \u2018physical\u2019 spiritual guidance (outside of my parents, who live far from us) these fellows have and when I was led to the church we now attend nearly three years ago, I truly felt the Holy Spirit guided us there (finally, I thought, they will have godly men to \u201cwatch\u201d). They are a wonderful people who love the Lord with all their hearts. And now this concern of mine over the advocacy of CPP authors.<\/p>\n

Please pray that the Holy Spirit makes clear the way in which to lead these responsibilities (my children) God\u2019s given me. I don\u2019t wish to make a mountain out of a molehill . . . and neither do I wish to sit back and just let things fall where they may. Clear leading, this is my prayer always.<\/p>\n

Thank you for what you do, and God bless this ministry to continue to shed light on the subtleties of the devil against the Lord\u2019s children. Kim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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