Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The world brings their various gods to us and if we aren't careful their gods can get to be a part of our thinking without our knowing such.
Last night, I mentioned to Pam Padgett that it had rained 24 straight days in Fort Worth, TX. where they were having golf tournament this weekend.
Pam replied: "It is an el nino year ..." Then she said, "I don't know what that means."
(I know Pam knows rain is from God. But the world (weathermen on TV) want to explain the weather and leave God out.)
Certainly God could use warm currents in ocean to make weather effects just as God created a wind to bring quail upon the children of Israel in wilderness when they complained about not having meat.
Numbers 11:31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey
on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round
about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the
earth.
The way the people of the world would likely view this is "the wind" caused the quail to come into the camp. They would not want to see God behind the wind as the cause of the wind.
Other weather events caused by God ...
Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exodus 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
The world would say the strong east wind caused the sea to go back and the east wind brought the locust. Again the world would want to leave God out. That is exactly what the weather men do when they report el nino as being the cause for the weather.
Concerning the weather called "el nino", according to Wickipedia (Internet encyclopedia), this name came from Catholic church who noticed warmer water currents in ocean around Christmas.
We, of course, know the weather is caused by God though man has gotten skilled at reading signs even though man often cannot see God behind the signs.
But we do not want to have in our heart worldly sayings which come from our mouth without giving due credit to God and making other people think these worldly gods have caused something which God causes.
Their gods can creep in without our realizing it.