This past week I was speaking once again to my mentor and teacher in Christ (C.B.)inre to a situation regarding a young lady in our church.  This young lady has an annointed calling on her but has slipped back into the world and is not living the way she should anymore.  There have been several instances where she has slipped and come back each time causing greater heartache to her family.  There is a boy who is just simply bad news, friends that are just not the best of company, and a barrell full of worldly pleasures that will continue to lead her down the wrong road.  I know...because I myself have traveled a very simular road.

When asked what I thought I began giving my two cents worth.  We began talking about a "getting up in her face" type deal and making sure we did an "intercesery prayer" before hand...a type of intervention.  But then the Spirit intervened and said "Up in her face Spirit filled intervention".  That sounds brutally scary.  When you start talking about getting up in someones face that immediatley brings to mind forcefulness and getting into someones space.  Intervention means getting honest about the things they are doing that is bothering you or you don't like.  Both of those things automatically put people on the defensive.

But when you add the words "Spirit filled" things start to pull together and it completely changes the whole direction.  An UP IN YOUR FACE SPIRIT FILLED INTERVENTION is a Spirit led face to face, up front, loving and honest confrontation that is meant to open the eyes of a Christian who has slipped back into the things of the world so deeply that it is the only way for them to see their way back.  It takes a lot of prayer, a plan with a back up, and dedicated people whose input will hit the mark. 

All too often in life we watch people fall into the ways of the world and from time to time we hold our own little interventions and try to pull them out.  A family member or friend falls into drugs or alcohol and we tell them how bad it is for them, beg them to stop, and hope that one day they will listen because we know they are on a path to destruction.  But how often do we do the same for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ?  How often when we start to see them fall do we really reach out and give them a pull back in the right direction?  How often are we honest with someone and say " Brother/Sister...you know I been praying for you and the Lord has shown me your hanging on the edge and I want to give you a hand an pull you back up on the Word."

Sadly, we are so blinded sometimes by our own lives we fail to notice the others around us that are slipping off the edge and hanging on just waiting for us to look down and give them a hand back up.  God knows, if I happen to slip...I would want them to give me a hand back up too.  Sometimes, we slip by just not looking beyond ourselves and not seeing or helping our fellow Christians when they have slipped.

So the next time you see your brother or sister in Christ needing a hand to help pull them back up don't be afraid to call for an UP IN YOUR FACE SPIRIT FILLED INTERVENTION when it's needed.  Because sometimes, it might just take that to open their eyes enough to see their way back.

God bless.