Jesus Vs. Heroin: Police in Kentucky Pray Away The Drugs

Mary Etheldreda

Well Praise the Lord Jesus Christ Almighty! Will His Sovereignty ever cease to amaze us? Officials in Owensboro, Kentucky have a problem on their hands - Heroin. But they have Almighty God on their side! Armed with the full armor of Christ, the police department and local justice system are going straight for the jugular of Big Drug - Sin!

Owensboro service held to 'pray the heroin away'

Pastor Isaac Peters

Through Scripture, God promises us that He will glorify Himself by purging Daviess County of heroin:

[John 14:13 KJV] 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Faith_Machine

This is wonderful! All the drug rehab and social services are just ways to make busy work for public employees. Prayer is more effective, and it doesn't cost the tax payer anything!

Walter Van Slyke

Amen, and amen! However, I'm was a little puzzled when I read:

"The jail was also dedicated as a place where God can work in the lives of the inmates."

Are they saying God couldn't work His miracles before the "dedication?" Also, why are they making this so difficult? If they are true Christians, all they need to do is ask. (John 14:14). In the closet. (Matthew 6:6).

If a Channel 14 camera happens to be in the closet while they are praying, I guess it's not their fault.

Faith_Machine · 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Walter Van Slyke

If a Channel 14 camera happens to be in the closet while they are praying, I guess it's not their fault.

Right you are, friend. Why, you'd be amazed at the surprises I've gotten when away from home, and praying in a closet not my own.

Ex-soccer player

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Originally Posted by Faith_Machine

This is wonderful! All the drug rehab and social services are just ways to make busy work for public employees. Prayer is more effective, and it doesn't cost the tax payer anything!

Praise Jesus! Prayer and Biblestudy are the only effective ways of fighting drug abuse. People who drink too much or use drugs just try to fill the emptiness that atheism and disbelief leave behind. Accepting Jesus as your personal Savior will fight the cause of drug abuse, everything else will at most fight the symptoms.

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It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. - John 6:63

WWJDnow

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Originally Posted by Walter Van Slyke

Amen, and amen! However, I'm was a little puzzled when I read:

"The jail was also dedicated as a place where God can work in the lives of the inmates."

Are they saying God couldn't work His miracles before the "dedication?"

Of course God could have worked his miracles in the jailhouse without a dedication. But would He have? Obviously not, since they still have a heroin problem. The dedication certainly won't hurt.

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Also, why are they making this so difficult? If they are true Christians, all they need to do is ask. (John 14:14). In the closet. (Matthew 6:6).

In fact, they don't even need to ask, since, as Jesus told us in Matthew 6:7-8,

...when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

My guess is that they did pray privately in their prayer closets, but also made this public to put Satan and his minions on notice that they aren't welcome in Owensboro, Kentucky. I am confident that no demon will ever set foot in that town again. They can probably get rid of their police force entirely, now that they're under God's protection.

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If a Channel 14 camera happens to be in the closet while they are praying, I guess it's not their fault.

It's been known to happen.