Let's begin by addressing the concerns raised and bringing them before the Lord in prayer.
Firstly, it's commendable that you're seeking God's will in your relationship with Felicia. It's crucial to have God at the center of our relationships, and He promises to guide us when we seek Him. Remember, God's will is always aligned with His Word. He will not contradict His own teachings on relationships between men and woman that are not married. Therefore, it is important to understand that pursuing her romantically or courting with her should be based on scriptural teachings on martial, romantic relationships, avoiding fornication, and only in Jesus name will we seek Him. The Bible tells us, Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In speaking to God about this, there should be a clear reason or sense to marry Felicia if you pursue a romantic relationship with her. If you two marry then you will be committed for life. If you pursue a relationship with her, then pray about this and let us pray for you. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight Proverbs 3:5-6 WEB.
We pray: Heavenly Father, we come before you in Jesus' name to seek your will for Dexter2020 and Felicia. Reveal your purpose for their lives, and guide them in your truth. Show us through the Holy Spirit, that works in the hearts of the believers, Christian family, and friends around them that it is appropriate to pray about a future marriage or whether to pursue courtship only if your confirmation leads to this. If it be your will God, we pray that you will confirm this to Dexter2020 that marriage to Felicia is possible and that courtship should begin.
Our Spirit which we should always cherish and believe in our heart confirms that we can have confidence in the Lord when we pray in Jesus name. If we are meant to marry then know that the Lord says "that he will take delight in you with his love. He will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17 WEB. This combined with Philippians 4:7 we are told to and be filled with peace and we can know this if we are walking with Him in a close relationship as believers. This is a promise that will be confirmed when we continually walk with Him. Help them to be patient, wise, and discerning,and always following the Word as we have been taught.
In that Spirit of God either revealing to our heart or through others confirmation, if it is intended for us to marry then He will give us the assurance that and if we are pressured with anxiety or lust we should immediately pause, reassess, and pray when we are considering romantic relationships if the spirit is not giving us a confirmation for us to move forward. It is at this immediate crossroads where God maybe calling us to take a different path. Therefore, there might be another option that God will guide you to, whether through scriptural affirmations, Godly counsel, prophetic words, or a true heart of peace. The piece of mind that God gives us maybe the answer that we seek to pursue love with Felicia. When the time is right and we're both in union as sincere believers we can take a journey of union together as husband and wife that is intended in the Bible. God may give you peace of heart that He is leading you to witness Christ to her. Give Dexter2020 the strength to resist temptation and avoid the path of a fornicater. For don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute unites into one body with her? As it says For the two will become one flesh. If there is not commitment to Felicia she does not have authority and ownership under Christ as her husband over her sexuality which is only to be be used between a husband and a wife. Therefore, avoid fornication under the Word that tells us to Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man can do is outside of the body; but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own spiritual body. Dex2020 we must approach this very diligently as the body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Run Dexter2020 if you can from sin. Us the wisdom the Spirit gives us when walking in the Lord to decide the path He wants you to take. Cast out the sin of fornication and even those temptations that give off the appearance of sin by walking away. Fornication only takes from that which is holy and legitimate in the Lord. Understand the type of love for Felicia and if our motives will needs development. If she is not a believer then we should know and be clear that our fornications do not take from that which is proper and therefore we pray in the Words of 1 Corinthians 1:6 I am convicted that. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which Holy Spirit is in you, you have received this from God and is not from yourself? For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Concerning Brian Phe, it's important to remember that God calls us to speak the truth in love. Veganism itself is not contrary to biblical teaching as the Apostle Paul makes it clear and our Christian Maturity understands when he states that Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat. Let's make sure that we are not let him who does not eat judge him who eats: for God has received him. Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has the power to make him stand. (Romans 14:3-4 WEB). For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. For we should not destroy the work of God for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a barrier by eating. It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.(Romans 14-17-22 WEB).
It's not the act of being a vegan that Brian is passing judgment that is conflict with the Word. It is the man that maybe thinking they have knowledge even if they do have it should know that in the Lord we are not puffed up. For if any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know; but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him. As it is written, But he hath known me, saith the Lord: therefore, I know him. 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 So Brian should know that our knowledge is useful and the ways of the Christian believer to simply boast in love and not push their ideas of food on someone else. If it offends your brother, and makes him weak. Then it could destroy him for whom Christ died 1 Corinthians 8:11.
We can pray as to what would follow regarding the behavior of a man that is being harassed. This may result the very outcomes you have stated but we are wish Brian Phe to not make another man's servants to be evil spoken-of. Therefore, we know it is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak. Romans 14:21. We should surely spread the gospel even when it is contrary to our instinctual human wisdom and beliefs but we speak the truth in love. We pray for him in Jesus name that he ceases to cause any dissensions.
We must keep the boundaries of what Christ teaches us from Matthew 13 24:30 Another parable he set before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?' "He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?' "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."' He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened." Jesus said all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
Let us pray for wisdom and that the Spirit will guide the pastors to be aware of the situation, address it appropriately, and provide guidance to Brian Phe. God calls us to forgive as we have been forgiven, knowing that He doesn't condone sin but will call us to repentance. We should remember the pastors should know and follow Thessalonians 5:12-13 We recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem and respect them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Pray with us: Lord Jesus, we ask you to intervene in the situation with Brian Phe. Convict his heart we pray to do so and give him a spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Christ. Convict and turn him away from spreading his teachings on veganism, or teachings about what he believes is the subject of his belief. Then we ask him to turn and that he could be given a heart to cease this behavior and the soil that this possibly conveys to the bretheren. Further, help our pastors to address these issues with the church and keep a presence of order among us. Convict and turn him away from spreading his teachings on veganism, or teachings about what he believes is the subject of his belief. Convict him to stop harassing others and instead, help the church which is your body to be building heavenly peace and joy there. Plead with the pastors to not simply side to avoid the conflict and confront the situation if it arises. We Warn those who are causing divisions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. For such people don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent. (Romans 16:17-18 WEB). We pray not for and because of is veganism in a vacuum but we plead that fornicate relationships, spirits, beliefs, of distractions from the gospel may rise and to turn away from all false teaching. We know that any form of misappropriation of behavior may cause a person to seek refuge to another church, Lord we pray for healing of the church and we ask him to repent ourself. With the spirit of intercession we ask God for others and our church's comfort.
We ask God to convict the hearts of your servants so that we may first love you. We increase our churches love for one another and we will love the way we are taught. Convict us and convict Brian to make sure our testimonies even those of views that do not necessarily contradict the scripture are not misplaced in the house of God. Lord teach everyone to be more considerate of one's beliefs do not contradict your Word and should convict our hearts Lord of those who are weaker in the faith. Lord help Brian Phe realize that they it is not necessary to have one's faith contradicting with them and the effects it may have on those you would have come to your salvation and knowledge of you, Jesus Christ. Silence and Vas (referencing parable with Yeast) must be used not to interrupt the course of the Holy Spirit and creation of new believers. Finally Lord if there is any sin associated with Dexter2020, the pastors and elders sin, in putting up with Phe's teachings pray that all of us can hear your voice and be convicted. This post lacked the nature of the name of Jesus. We ask God to convict the soul of the one posting this request to understand that Jesus is the only way of salvation. The prayer is that Dexter2020 made pray that the channel to God through Jesus and only Jesus through a belief in him that he may have everlasting life. His beliefs should be so intertwined with our faith that his name is on our lips. Imagine their act of creation, salvation, his gospel foundation, and the name of the Son and therefore name to be addressed in each prayer we make.