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the warning, the choice, the freedom

Over the past several weeks after writing humanistic socialism….light of our understanding….God has been dealing with me to write the next part of a series which is to open the eyes of those that are truly call by His name. The Lord has allowed me to see things and have a understanding through revelation by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I pray those that have ears to ear that which is coming forth from the Lord….

1 Samuel 8

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; 5 and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.

As I read this section of scripture I knew exactly what the Lord wanted me to bring forth.

Over the last eight years the United States as suffered some devastating blows. Our then President suffered more mental and physical abuse than any man should of ever faced. I think when history looks back on this man, they will see a man that weathered every kind of adverse situation under extreme circumstances. From 2000-2008 this country suffered; a massive terror attack which would kill 3000 Americans, fighting two wars on two different fronts in two different countries with little to no support from any other country or the support of its own citizens. Dealt with rogue nations with nuclear technology and a desire to use these weapons on those with different ideology and religious beliefs. We suffered devastating hurricanes systematically back to back, to include one that devastated the gulf coast and caused levies to be breached virtually destroying a entire city. Massive floods along the Mississippi River basin and wild fires in the western part of the United States which would burn hundreds of thousands of land and thousands of homes. A mass exodus of illegal alien insurgency from a country to the south which would lead to crime and massive financial problems to this country. Record gas prices, unemployment numbers started to escalate, a credit crisis and the beginning of a huge foreclosure rate on a housing bubble that would pop and shine light on the would be years of false prosperity and huge corporate greed like none we have ever seen in the States, this is just to name of few.

While this country was suffering at the hands of powers that are unseen. America should have been on its face repenting to keep any further devastation from continuing. However it would never come to pass, the country would continue to spiral out of control in debauchery. The pro gay and lesbian groups would gain substantial ground in communities around this nation. God would continue to be taken out of public arenas and our schools. Church attendance around the nation would begin to dwindle while mega church’s would grown beyond comprehensions. Messages of sin and repentance and the Blood of Jesus would be come taboo while feel good messages that tickled the ear would make the listener drunk with fleshly excitement. This time frame would be come known has the age of may roads lead to heaven, just pick one and you will make it there. The mass media outlets of this country would start to sway the populace against the then President Bush and attack him and any thing right and moral at every opportunity. If the President breather wrong they found criticism. At one point the media and public in general saw fault with the way he pronounced certain words, never taken into account the mans southern Texas draw.

As the years wore on it would become evident the democratic party would begin to gain substantial ground with in the world of politics and public opinion. Daily the war effort in Iraq was swaying for the enemies. I remember when we invaded Iraq and those that did not agree with the war, flew to Iraq to become human shields for key instillations for the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. To there amazement everything the President attempted to tell them was true. They came back, still believing what they went over there for, only knowing the truth that he was a brutal dictator. In the end, they switched there own war strategies and will declared the Bush lied and people died.

The second election would come and go Mr. Bush would become President once again. Even in the middle of a unpopular war. If it was not for the true conservative base and those that filled the churches on Sundays, things might have been quite different. I look back on those years now to see that things went the way they did according to a master plan. I look at the now distant past realizing that America and the world was given a chance. Mr. Bush in a way to establish freedom for a people and a region which was under sever oppression. Yet, people to this day still believe that we did the wrong thing. They believed the same with Vietnam we did the wrong thing by attempting to liberate a country that was being over run by a brutal government with a ideology that suppress people causing them to become property of the state. The same people rallied around Castro because he took over a island and established communism. They still believe the man did right to this day, while thousand if not hundreds of thousands attempt to escape daily, monthly and even yearly giving their lives if it must be in the name of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom is one of the most amazing gifts God ever gave us, when he breathed life into us he also gave us the ability to make choices by free will. The founding fathers knew this they thought is was key, they though it was important they placed it with in the Declaration of Independence “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is important to note they even mentioned a Creator. To see this country being attacked with-in will surly bring our demise. To study history one could and can clearly see that countries divided fell, Roman and Greece are two that come to mind. Roman because of Christian religion and Greece because of power struggles.

The point I am attempting to make would be, America had its time, this country had every opportunity to do right and it failed. What if everything America went through was see how we would react to the given situations and circumstances. What if every storm, attack, war, famine, fire, flood, tornado, drought, and financial crisis was to attempt to open the eyes of this country. What if by all that has been stated we were to look to God and our Lord Jesus Christ and not President Bush? What if…..

What if, is a very important question, because it answers today’s questions of why we are in the mess and turmoil we are currently in. What if, instead of blessed we became cursed because we cursed? Duet 28 comes to mind, God said Himself if you will do this then you will be a blessed nation, however if you do that you will be a cursed nation. Have we now become a cursed nation? Is it to late to turn around and repent, I would like to say no, but I am afraid we are at the point of no return as a nation.

The nation, has turned from righteousness to forsaken the Living God for a man people has declared a messiah. The messages of hope and change have now become the inspiration for those that want nothing to do with God and His Son Jesus Christ. Like Israel when they wanted a king even with all the warns, they still rejected God, God was willing to give them what they wanted and they got King Saul. It would set the stage for the true King of Kings and Lord of Lords., they received Him and they would reject him also.

With all the signs and warning this earth has given and the crying out of the very rocks because we refuse to praise Him, the stage is now set for the end times and the ushering in of the antichrist. I would have to stay that the spirit of the antichrist had firm control of the election. Now that I look back at the people with their euphoria and erotic behavior of a person that was created by the same Creator. I see the land has received exactly what they wanted. Now will we walk in the same steps Israel did, but is this the beginning of the true end?

Take for instance the 40 days this President has been in power. Every time this man speaks the market slides to the negative. Every time a new piece of legislation is passed the market does not react in a positive manner. Every time a new idea or a proposal is given people sales their shares in the stock market. People are losing their life savings because as a nation we rebelled against the Living God and chose a person and a social idea rather than Jesus. It is important to not that the next four years could be far worse than anyone could of imagined. I say this because we knew the Words were written and we chose to not look at the writing on the wall. We chose not to Praise and Worship, we chose to praise and worship the very things that separated us from God. We chose…….

Looking back over the last eight plus years this country has suffered at he very hands of freedom and choices. We chose everything and reaped that what we chose. Now is the time to prepare for the inevitable for the next four or eight years. They will prove to be everything scripture has indicated and then some. I would encourage you to get your house in order and prepare to pray and learn to do it extremely well, because it will be the only thing you will have to rely on….He will listen if you will call, he can heal our land if will humble ourselves before him. The true question is, what if and time….How will you choose……?????

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socialistic humanism....the light of our understanding

Let those that has ears hear that which is coming forth…..In the name of Jesus…..

The new president has been in office two weeks now. Leading up to the inaugural there was massive media exaltation and a cultic like gathering at the alter built by those loyal followers to see this now humanistic deity.

I say this because of comments that were made prior and during and events after the swearing in of President Obama. Things like, ‘even the pigeons are in awe‘, ‘I get a tingle coming up my leg‘, the massive sea of people going to witness a historical event, 2 million strong. One could not get away from the media hype and the blitz that was surrounding this man. Every newspaper and magazine in the nation has featured him, his wife and or children. Coins, shirts, DVD’s, and if it could be printed on or designed in a way with this mans name, face or some sort of logo it was accomplished, entire web sights, my space accounts and other social venues have been devoted to this individual, streets, holidays and schools have even been renamed.

A eloquent charismatic individual has come on to the seen with no vetting by the media or others in the public arena. This individual managed to escape scrutiny and harsh criticism, and hard questions of his personal beliefs and ideologies.

On average not one person that voted for him in the election knew exactly what he stood for. Record numbers turned out to vote for a man they knew very little about. Yet some how some way he brought a message that tickled the ear a message for the itchy ear, hope, change, if you will only believe and be inspired. A theology for the humanistic socialistic idea and movement that is sweeping the nation.

In Matthew 6:21-24

21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. 23 "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

What eloquent word got the attention to those listening? What kind of tactic of military sorts did the forces that are unseen use to dim that light of the understanding? How dark had that light become, how scaled the eye must have been that the light of the day turned into darkness for the beholder.

This man of proper language and a voice of vintage charisma like that of a old time country preacher offered a message of hope and change, if you will only believe, be inspired. Can he bring grace, and salvation to those, can he bless you in your midnight hour. When you cry out in pain or wonder how you are going to pay your bills will he hear you? Will this man really give you your hearts desire? Did he know you before you were ever created? With a word, did he call you into existence? Is he closer than a brother, did he or will he give his life your yours? Can he count every hair on your head, does he know the past presence and future of your existence.

Hundreds of thousands of people put there faith in a man they thought would be their savior. They though he would heal their financial whoa‘s. They gathered to tickle the flesh of what that thought was their hearts desire. He gave a promise that he cannot deliver on, and words he never intended to keep. This man now called the President of the United States, has brought a message of changed, if you will only believe. I have to ask, believe in what or who. Are we as a people to believe in the political machine or the person? Are we to buy into the socialist agenda that is a man made idea form Marxism? Can man save himself from the wrath of judgment that is coming to America for its disobediences and not living in and following all of Gods Commandments, precepts, decrees, and laws.

I ask you, do you believe in the God of the Universe and His only begotten son Jesus Christ or the god that you have made in your own created human heart. A god that has been fashioned of stone, possibly wood, precious in metal or intellectually designed by heart and hand. A god that cannot answer your prayers yet looks good in your own minds eyes, because you yourself fashioned this abomination out of your heart and mind before God Almighty, might it be that your light of understanding and comprehension has been seared to the reality of the truth.

Ask your self in the end is it worth it, to make a god or elected a self imposing deity are they not one in the same. After all with all the hype and blitz has he ever once spoken out telling people not to worship him, has he ever at any time given any true praise and worship to Jesus Christ and the One and only Living God of the Universe…..too be continued….

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hurt by those closest to you

Over the years I have watched people that I have come in close contact with and come to notice a couple of things. The people that have a tendency to hurt us the most are the ones that are closes to us. Often times enough I would have to say that our relatives and close family members can be our nemesis. I say this in the sincerest regards because, the ones we love the most has the capability to hurt us the most in the most damaging ways.

Over the years I have witnessed first hand assault by family members and those which are closest to me and others. Not in the physical manner, but in the mental sphere to say the least. The people that are the dearest to us know the notches of who we are, they know what makes us tick; this kind of information is nuclear in nature.

I would like to say at this point there might be someone out there that has been hurt by someone extremely close to you a father, a mother, may be a sister, or a brother, a spouse, or even a child, or a closest of friends. The message I bring tonight is your not alone. I have battled for weeks about his very subject, because it is something that is not talked about and is often over looked.

There are a lot of people out there that have scares which run deep, sometimes those scares are reopened, when we are around these people which have hurt us or around similar people that may have a characteristics of people previously stated.

What ever the case I hope this will start the road to healing or at least allow the light of Jesus to shine into areas that we hold onto, the scares which continue to be reopened.

The first step to anything is to admit that you have been hurt and sometimes because of the hurt you hurt yourself. In other words you are now the person that betrayed you the most. Until you can admit it you can never move forward, because you are holding on to the past. The key to admitting this is when you see the person that has betrayed you or hear that persons name, something wells up inside of you that you cannot describe.

I would like to share with you a person that is close to me and my wife, my wife‘s sister. Over the years this individual has attempted to break up my wife of 13 years with two beautiful children. The areas she is a master in and has been cultivated in by unseen forces are debt. This individual is unable to manage her personal finances. I bring this up for good reason, because in the past, she lived with us or to put in into a better context she shared a house with us, her son was included in this venture.

During the coarse of one year, she refused to pay her half of the electric bill and never paid for groceries or any of the house expendable items, shampoo, soap, laundry detergent, you get the picture. Subsequently we had to barrow 1000.00 to pay her half of the electric bill because she refused to do so. Then she happens to marry a individual while living with us that was straight out of prison which I did not have a problem with, until I found out he was a white supremacist. The man absolutely hated Jews…. He was really horrified when I informed him that my ancestors where Jewish, Alexander Neibeur. This was a great great great grandfather, he is considered the first Jew to convert to Mormonism in the 1830’s I believe. His father was a personal doctor for Napoleon and a translator for the French army, because he spoke Hebrew. The Army at that time wanted him to be a spy for them with regards to the goings of Napoleon. Subsequently he refused to do so on the grounds of morality issues. Thus cause my mothers side of the family to experience attempt extermination in Poland and or French region at that time.

I digress, so over the years I have suffer at the hands of this individual and those on my wife’s side of the family. I truly pray for the Lord to bless this woman and I pray for her salvation on a daily basis. Asking for the Lord to have mercy on her, because she is now reaping everything she has sown over the coarse of 13 years. The judgments of the Lord has come in ways that I would of never of asked for, but when he says that he will make your enemies a footstool He is not joking.

To date, she is basically homeless and with out work, because she left her racist husband and got fired from a job on measures that might not completely be her fault. So she has been staying at her brothers house. The past couple of days she has spent the night in our house, which is fine, but I told her she had to stay in my youngest room. The reason being I get up early for devotional time with the Lord, which consist of prayer and meditation and Biblical study. With complete disregard and contempt this individual chose to roost on my couch. I informed her that it was not alright to do so, because of my devotional time. You must understand, in this house God comes first in everything. He is the absolute center in my life. She laughed it off and proceed to do what she wanted to any way.

Then the Lord showed me the only reason why she was staying over here was because of my computer. See the computer at my brother in laws house had been damaged because of some online up dates that eroded the Microsoft internet program, or something to that nature. The Lord started to show me this the following day when she proceeded to stay a second night on my couch. With that information and with the decrement of the Holy Spirit on some other things. I was able to reconcile spiritually and move on.

If we will open ourselves up to the Holy Spirit, He will inform us of things that are truly bothering us. When we feel grieved inside, God has His ways of informing us of things so we can go on. It is a way of defeating the devil with out the devil actually knowing what is going on.

I would like to take you on another journey of sorts and tell you of people that are closest to me, my parents. Sometimes our folks are the individuals that do the most damage to us. Over the coarse of 38 years, yes even to this every date, they have managed to hurt me in ways that I continually have to ask the Lord to give me grace in.

In my teens I caught my father in my bed with another woman, while my mother was in the next room asleep. During that time frame, he would start trying drugs, marijuana was the first, then came coke, then he would start to deal. During the day he had a normal job and at night he spun records in a bar. My mother worked also, to this day, I cannot figure out why we lived in the manner we did. My father was also a alcoholic which was a trait he would inherit from his father who was severally abusive to my grandmother. The abuse he brought to our family was more mental than physical. My brother and I would also be raise with baby sitters and the streets. Yet sometimes I have to wonder what would have been worse, not having a father at all or having on in the house that was never one in the first place.

Another time, was all year my father had promised me a walkie talkies for Christmas. On one occasion I had messed up and did something I should not of done. My father came in drunk that night, to inform me that I would not be getting them for Christmas that year. I remember crying myself to sleep that fateful night. He was true to his word, I did not get them for Christmas. The most damaging to me was the days I would spend talking to my friends about how much fun we would have with the gadgets.

Then came the day I graduated high school, is a day that I do not think I could ever forget. After the graduation proceedings, my parents and grandparents were no where to be found. No pictures were taken, no congratulations were spoken. I wandered around for a hour looking of them. After which I frantically drove home only to find my mother at home. I was told they wanted to beat the traffic, that is why they left. Nothing more was ever said.

People often wonder why I hold on to the Lord like I do, walk the road I have walked then you would hold on to him has tight has you could also. I can look back now and know that I have a calling on my life. There are things that I do not want to discuss, because the Lord has not brought me to that place yet. Events shaped by people in my life have made me the person I am today. I look back with no regret for the past, because it has shaped me to be a fighter of sorts. I pray, I rebuke and I call for mercy daily, with out the Lord Jesus Christ I do not know who or where I would be. The love and joy of the Lord Jesus Christ is truly my joy. I can call him my father and my mother, and even my brother. [See my brother and I are not close because of the way we were raised. Sometimes it maybe a year before we speak, it is just the way things are. Plus they have not forgiven me for moving a way and marrying a woman from Illinois.]

I want you to know I have managed to forgive everyone in my life present and past. God has brought me through some of the toughest times and blessed me beyond measure. I am still under construction, but each day is a new day and brings new joys.

With that I hope someone out there will be able to move on, you are not alone. Seek the Lord, here is there, if you do not know Him. Ask Him to come into your life, as Savior and Lord, Repent of your sins and believe that he died for you. It is that easy. Then start on a path that will for ever change you. He is waiting. Amen

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Armor of God

Over the past several days, weeks, and even months I have struggled in my prayer life and even in my walk with Jesus [not in a sinful manner, I just seemed distant.]

Last night I was attempting to find a sermon on the internet that I had seen on Godtv, by Perry Stone. He was teaching on judgments’ that came against Israel or Judea, at one point, he talked about judges being used to rule the land, meaning eminent domain.

That got me to thinking about some thing’s; I wanted to research the scriptures he was using, however, I didn’t know the scriptures he was using…

So I searched and searched the internet until I came across a message which was different from that which I was looking for, on youtube.com. The discussion consisted of subject matter in regards to confusion on election years and how he had been tracking it seen 1988. Whether there is any truth to his research I do not know, but this I do know, something in his message made sense. It was his teaching on the spirits of this world. A major revelation to me, because like another revelation, my mind was opened and I was able to commune with my God this morning in my pray closet and my eyes were opened to the reality of what this man spoke.

Thus it is bring forth this message which can and will open the eyes of this that read this message in the name of Jesus..

During my pray, God revealed to me my next message. See I had just finished reading and studying the Bible from cover to cover a couple of weeks ago. So I have been going back through the New Testament. Has I was reading in the Book of Matthew, a section just struck me funny my eyes were beginning to see the light, but I was not sure of what God was attempting to tell me. But there was a connection to that scripture and something’s I had been praying about and some others things that I had been pondering sense the election and the inaugural of now President Obama and the masses of people that are now in following.

YOU WILL HAVE TO READ MY NEXT MESSAGE TO HEAR WHAT THE LORD SAID AND SHOWED ME….

So has I was praying and kind of meditating upon what Perry Stone taught on, I starting praying against the realm of spirits and the army of darkness and its rankings. Whether you believe it or not Satan is real and so is wicked spirits. Like the kingdom of heaven there is a kingdom of this world and there is a structure in the system, aka., a military style rank system.

Principalities, [despotism]

The powers

[The master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness

The spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

With this revelation that was coming to me through the internet, he also spoke of praying in the Spirit to break through this unholy bombardment of demonic strongholds in the heavenliness. All of this hit me like a rock this morning in my prayer and a river of life came flowing out of me that brought unspeakable joy. Joy surely comes in the morning…

Let those that have ears hear that which is coming forth…

See Daniel talked about the same thing, when the Angel of the Lord finally came to him, he spoke of being healed back for forces of darkness, meaning there was a separation between God and Daniel. Yet, Daniel never gave up, he stayed and continued to pray until his prayers were answered.

I myself continued to pray the same prayers and clamed victory, but I knew something was wrong I felt disconnected from God. I felt as if the heavens were brass to me. The revelation was given to me that Satan had been blocking my prayers with the demonic powers of Ephesians 6 and the structure.

See there are 4 levels that our prayers have to get through, however, in the Spirit, it goes straight through to God. When we pray in the Spirit the devil does not know how to combat that which has been spoken by the Spirit. But in worldly language he can use his captains and lieutenants to fight that which we are praying.

Often times enough, I have had thoughts and pondered if I should say anything because I did not want Satan to find out that which I thought or had been thinking. When one speaks, it releases power and activates the atmosphere around us and therefore allowing the powers either for us or against us to work. Remember what you speak in the natural has potential to be loosed in the supernatural.

There is an old adage, be careful for that which you ask for, I am going to modify that some what, be careful of that which you speak and pray for, because the air has ears.

God pondered telling Abraham his plans about Sodom and Gomorrah. [Genesis 18:17]

[God either said this because He not know how Abraham would respond or He wanted to commune with his servant Abraham, or could it be that he did not want to activate the oppositions to his plan.]

Matt 7:6

"Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. [Often times enough I have let revelations out that which God has given to me, after doing so, I have to repent of that which I have done. I have allowed those that do not have the same walk has I do to see my relationship with God, but I have also allowed Satan into my relationship and given him opportunity to flank me.]

Matt 6:3

"But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, [I know this scripture is taking about doing things in secret, is not our prays to be in secret and in the Spirit. It is kind of out of context, but let the Spirit of the minister to you that which is being said.]

Lord I come boldly before the Thrown of Grace bring prayers and sublications before you, believing that you hear the prayers of your children.

Allow the light of Jesus to shine into our prayer life and allow us to have a deeper walk with Him our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I pray that the powers of darkness which have been spoken of in this will be rebuked in the name of Jesus and eyes, ears and minds will receive that which has come forth from the River of Life. I pray that those that have not been baptized in the Spirit will receive the Spirit which brings life, the Comforter which Jesus said he would send. Lord Jesus I pray that this word which will continue to strengthen your Church in your holy name Jesus.

I plead for the Blood over ever believer in your holy name and ask that the body in these last days to go forth to evangelize and answer to the Great Commission to make disciples.

In the name above all names I pray Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior… Amen…

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nothing but the Blood of Jesus

The Blood of Jesus Christ is something that is rarely talked about these days across American. Few pastor talk about the subject because it is not seeker friendly, it causes the listener to become uncomfortable in their flesh, they wiggle in their worn in padded seats. The Blood forces the individual to reflect upon the things he does in secret. This Crimson Flow shines Light into the dark spaces of our souls, causing us to see the reality of who we really are.

The Blood of Jesus enables us to be part of the fruit of the True Vine, and not a vine of many shoots, aka., good works or good deeds. To be part of His Vine, means we have to bare fruit that is consistent of the True Vine itself. (John 15:1) The subject is something you will not see on the local evening news. There won’t be a expose on the subject in Vanity Fair. Oprah won’t be discussing it with Tom Cruse. Dr. Phil cannot use it with his worldly psychotherapy of day time television treatments for the self medicating individual. Headlines, sitcoms and talk shows alike it will not ever make, because it brings conviction to the sinner, repentance to the lost, healing to the unsaved and brakes the chains of those in bondage.

To talk about the subject brings power and conviction up on the believer, the fruit it bears causes one to act in ways that are not in harmony with the rest of the world, and it gives the individual a good look at themselves in the mirror of the Holy Spirit. The Blood enables us to commune with the Most High allowing us to repent of our transgressions in His Holy Presents. It cleanses us having our iniquities never to be remembered, being removed from us as far as the east is from the west and thrown into the seas of forgetfulness.

The Blood of Jesus is a miracle in its self. It can make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, the broken to be make whole, the crushed to have strength, and the poor to be rich. Through the Blood of Calvary we are given authority in the name of Jesus. We become blood bought children of the Living God. Satan is rebuked in the name of Jesus because of the Blood, the accuser of the brethren no longer has anything against us, because of the price we could not and did not pay.

Listen friend….

2009 years ago the curtain was torn from the top down (Mark 15:38), indicating that we could now have a personal relationship with a God that loves us, that wants to commune with us, walk with us and talk to us (Gen 3:8-9). The earth shook, the skies took on darkness like that of the midnight hour, all stood still. Christ Jesus, was suspended between heaven and earth on a cross that was cursed, a death He did not have to pay, a death that was meant for a capitol offences. He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His strips we are healed. (Isa 53:5) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all. (Isa 53:6 KJV)

Prior to Christ coming in the flesh, their was no way for man to escape the penalty of death. We are born in sin, born of fornication and lust of every kind, children of the world are we. (Ephesians 2:1&2) If we are children of the prince of this world and friends of this world, then we are enemies to God. (John 8:44 & James 4:4). Popular messages are being preached in the pulpits of America that tickles the ear and sooths the soul. (2 Tim 4:3&4 - 1 Sam 16:14-16) These messages never tell us that we are to be Holy for He is holy. (1 Peter 1:16) They give us messages that causes us to shout with praise, dance in the isles and skip in the alters areas of our sanctuaries. Instead of leading us on paths of righteousness, repentance, holiness and sanctification.

Today, there is not preaching of the fruits of the Spirit and Godly living. Preaching against the things of this world you will not find and that one can become backslidden and lose his salvation. The worldly church of today and popular messages of would be Christian evangelist says that He will never leave us or forsake us, He is closer than a brother, that we are his always, which is quite true. However, Pastors will tell you that hell was never meant for us, it was created for the devil and his adversaries only. They will lead you on paths that points to just make it to church when every you feel then need to come, works, deeds and half beliefs make you a good person, we are all children of God rather than the real truth that we are all made in His image. They wont tell you that personal responsibility with actions of willful disobedience through freewill can destroy the personal relationship with Christ. The pulpits across America will try to make you think that the sins in the Bible are just for the world and the unsaved. You will never hear that the Bible is the roadmap for the believer and the believer only. Yes it does discuss what the sins of this world are but the sins of this world are not being preached against today. Christians far and wide are being lead down paths of self destruction because the Truth and the Blood is not being preached. If one is being taught that the sins of the Bible are of the world and the world only, then the believer is blind to what is actually sin, because he knows no better and the truth is not being preached. If you know the truth the truth will set you free… (Revelations 3:14-17, 21:8, Romans 1, 2 Tim 2)

Let those that have ears, let them hear the Word that is coming forth this day. The Blood of Jesus has never changed it is the same yesterday today and forever more. Jesus died so me might have life and life more abundantly. Do not let some pastor disregard the Blood of Calvary it brings power, healing, sight and life. The Blood of Jesus was the plan from the foundations of the world. God Himself asked who would go, all was silent, until one individual step out and said I will do it.

When God told the Jews to slaughter the lamb for Passover, it was the beginning of the end. The Blood ensured that the angle of death would Passover the house that was painted with the life giving source of all of living creation. Years would come and go the Passover and atonement was give for the sins of the people, but it never brought life, it never truly covered the sins of the people and protected them, there was something missing, love.

Today you can make a choice, today you can believe in Christ Jesus and repent of your sins, believe He died on Calvary for the last and final time. The Blood of Jesus is sprinkled upon each and everyone of us when we receive Jesus Christ and our Lord and Savior. The Blood of Jesus was and is and always will be a price that we could not pay. Allow the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Jesus to cleanses you of your sins today and become a child of the Living God. Stay in the Word and never ask any doubting questions about the infallible Word, never allow anyone to plant seeds of doubt, allow the Holy Spirit to anoint you this day with the Blood of Jesus. Make a choice today, be hot for Jesus or cold like the devil. God said Himself that He would spit us our of His mouth, that He never knew us. He also said that it would be better to never know the truth than to know the truth and still walk in disobedience. Matt 7:23 & Rev 3:15, 16

Remember, no matter how unpopular it might be and how much it might hurt, the Blood of Jesus heals and makes us walk and commune with the Most High, it was the plan from the beginning and it will never change. Amen….

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stongholds.....

Today, has I was mediating upon a few things for the new year, the Holy Spirit placed upon my heart the word “Strongholds.” Stronghold, is a fortified place or walled city by definition. Looking at it in the spiritual sense, strongholds are often things that hold us in sin. They are areas in our lives that we seem to have trouble in; braking habits, emotions, addictions, and any other thing that we cant figure out why we do them.

This very subject is rarely discussed and at the least very few pastors know anything about and/or refuse to talk about because of their personal agendas.

2 Corinthians 10

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Paul talks about the pulling down of strongholds with the discussion talking about the mind. For one to understand you have to truly understand that the mind is a battlefield. It is the center of our imaginations, thoughts, ideas, starting place of passion, creativity, and evilness. The nature of a stronghold is wrong or false thinking, which is why strongholds start in the mind, and can consume us and even become the nature of who we are. If Satan can come against us with a false idea, situation, or even create a circumstance that gets us to the point of self condemnation. Then he has something in us. See the idea of something in us comes from Jesus being tempted in the desert. Satan could not tempt Jesus, because he had nothing in him, meaning Jesus had not committed any sins. Not only that but Jesus was the Word of God (John 1), so every time Satan tempted Jesus (Matt 4), Jesus being the word knew how to combat Satan.

Satan has an opportunity to have something in us because we don’t know the Word. A crack is created in our mental processing, slowly over time, strongholds are developed with in us. During this process we can fall under self condemnation. The point of one judging one’s self. Satan is the master of getting us to fall under condemnation. He bombards us with destructive thoughts If we can give a nod of self condemnation or a wink at sin in general, then he has us in his cross hairs.

All it takes is one not so innocent thought, idea, repeated reflection of past situation and/or circumstance or a willful defiance of something; and when one continues to entertain these thought repeatedly, we soon give into the impulses of what they are.

There is a process, as children it may be a innocent glance at a nude seen in a movie, it could be a erotic touch by someone or by someone of the same sex, the introduction to a sip of alcohol, peer pressure to drugs or a dare. These things have to be appealing, they have to be packaged just right. However, often times enough though we are introduced to these strongholds, through our parents. These types of strongholds are called sins of our fathers, or generational curses. Examples would be, if a parent smokes, the child will smoke, if the parent drinks, the child will drink. The child imitates that which it sees. However, some stronghold are created through circumstances or something we may have been exposed at other times during our or teen years or early adulthood; with time and loneliness Satan can incubate these things in us and before you know it, we have become exactly what time has created. But, these things do not really become true strongholds until we act upon them. Until then we become depressed and even anxious at times, this battle is weighting inside of us we seek doctors with medications, our friends and families enablers that subscribe subscriptions that feed into the battle in our inter most being. Then we give into the impulse which may be difficult at first, yet with time and repeated behavior it becomes easier and easier. At this point it is critical to note that if not corrected it can consume us and even control us. This is where supposed lifestyles are argued and addictions are manifested.

Strongholds sometimes takes a whole life time to develop to full maturity. They can be in a wide verity of areas: anger, fear, anxiety, depression, sexual identity, lusts of every kind, smoking, drinking, pornography, abusiveness personalities and attitudes to include abusive language, and compulsive disorders. Often times enough people are not aware they have a problem until it cost them something or completely consumes them.

Satan got to Eve through the fruit of the tree, though she knew she was not suppose to eat it, he enticed her through visual and mental appeal or with the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life. He also got her to question everything she knew to be true or the morality she had been taught from her husband and God Himself, with half truths, twisted with temptation. These so called half truths is the greatest schemes of the adversary, our minds question itself with such ideas as; sex out side of marriage isn’t really that bad, everyone is doing it; drinking isn’t so bad after all even Jesus drank wine, I must be made this way because after all if God is so perfect and he does not make mistakes then I am not a mistake; the Bible was written by men, its just a collective array of stories, or if I can‘t see it and feel it, then it must not be real. The greatest of all lies are the coexistence religions, which inform us of many ways to heaven, you just chose your own path and you will get into the pearly gates; but these are all paths of bondage and strongholds.

The master of lies is not short on supply of schemes to keep us out of the presences of God and from true freedom all together.

The prince of this world which subscribes to: Lucifer, Satan, the devil, Beelzebub, sometimes is liken to an angle of light but is a imposter, he blinds us with the battle over sin and salvation aka., religion. He has made hundreds of thousands of people to believe that salvation is bondage and sin is freedom. He has also blinded us with highlighting the faults of the church, which creates hypocritical attitude about those that follow Christ. Often times enough, he will use one of a wide verity of mind games to get us to question what we know to be right, verse what we know to be wrong. If he can get us to rethink everything we know with such ideas as post modern thinking. We question and even challenge morality with subversive thinking that battles our own character causing our mental processing to darkened to good and evil becomes our light. Our minds ability to understand what has taken place is darkened. we then become bound by the things we know to be wrong and the things we know to be right, become the things we hate the most. Strongholds have now taken control, we are spiritually lost. Hence the fall of man…

This is where faith in Jesus and the Word of the Living God can heal us of every stronghold, of every binding addiction, and every crippling mental disorder, but we must first admit that we are sinners and are bound. Being a sinner is hard to admit because we have to realize we are imperfect, we are not a god and we have to come to ourselves like the prodigal son (Luke 15 11:32) we have to admit that we are nothing without God and have fallen short of the glory of God.

The Bible has a whole shows a loving God, that knows what is right for us and what happens when me make the wrong choices in life. It points to a path of Gods righteousness, justice, and commandments verses mans disobedience which cause dead and destruction and strongholds.

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images

 Today has I was reading the Word of the living God in the Book of Revelations, I noticed a couple of interesting passages. It is funny sometimes how a person can read the Bible over and over again, the Word can mean something different every time, and or, you will see passages that you may of never seen before. Has is the case with the scripture I will be discussing in depth.

Revelations

13:15

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Has I was doing my Bible study last night and rereading it this morning. It seemed interesting to me because I had never noticed it before. The interesting parts would be the image breathing, speaking, and it passing judgment.

I started meditating upon the Word of God, the Holy Spirit placed upon me the Ten Commandments and the Images/ idols we build in our own lives.

The Ten Commandments

1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2.You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

In Exodus 31 God Himself carved out stones and wrote on them with His own finger the Commandments that the children of Israel were to carry with them has a testimony in the Ark of the Covenant. Yet while Moses was in the presence of God, the Israelites chose to have Aaron the brother of Moses make them a molten image of a calf made with gold. The very gold they had acquired from their enemies in Egypt which God had given them favor for. It is important to note that the people could see the glory of the Lord from where they were camped. Daily they could see the fire of His Holiness and hear the rumble of His might voice. Yet they chose to make a molten image, sacrifice to it and dance before it.

Further reading in the 34 chapter of Exodus tells us God made Moses carve stone tablets and carry them upon the mountain to be offered to God once again and written upon again. For when Moses came down in 31 he broke the tablets because of the sins of the people. Moses had caught the children worshiping a image of gold.

The first 3 commandments given by God deal with God Himself and how we are to respect Him; no other gods before Him, making molten or carved images and taking His name in vain. Yet in the thirteenth chapter of Revelations we see a violation of the first 3 commandments. It is also important to note; thirteen also is a number of rebellion with regards to God.

Has I was thinking about the passage; it came to my mind the importance of this in our daily living. How often do we ourselves make images in our imaginations and or strive for the lust of this world, thus placing them a head of God. We give them life, breath, and allow them to control our every move. Even allowing them from time to time kill those that will not bow down to them per say. In other words, how many of us out there allow these images to destroy our relationship with God and Jesus, friends, family, jobs, etc.

The Hebrew words for image is Pecel, further study of the word leads to Pacal.

The word Pacal means: to cut, hew, hew into shape

(Qal) to hew, hew out, quarry

The word Pecel is associated with Idol or image

Where or how do we get idols from our imaginations? The dictionary gives several ideas for the word.

Imagination

1.

the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.

 

2.

the action or process of forming such images or concepts.

 

3.

the faculty of producing ideal creations consistent with reality, as in literature, as distinct from the power of creating illustrative or decorative imagery. Compare fancy (def. 2).

 

4.

the product of imagining; a conception or mental creation, often a baseless or fanciful one.

 

5.

ability to face and resolve difficulties; resourcefulness: a job that requires imagination.

 

6.

Psychology. the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination).

 

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Often enough we take our imaginations to the next level; allowing materialism and other worldly lust to be exalted above the Living God? These are gods enter in and we never even know it. They may not seem like idols at first but how often to we taste their wine and become drunk by the intoxication they have to offer. We strive for worldly pride, alcohol, drugs, pornography, cigarettes, gambling, bingo, cars, homes, televisions give us programming we have to watch weekly or even daily. These are just a few of the things we often tell ourselves that it will not hurt us. Yet they soon tell you what to do, when to do it, how to do it and why you should do it. Weren’t the children of Israel addicted to the very gods they made of wood, stone and precious material, gods they were introduced to from Egypt, Philistines, Edom, Moab and Canaan? Which is the very reason God told them to have nothing to do with the inhabitants of the region and or destroy them completely.

Solomon loved women more than he loved his God, He built high places for them to worship and make offerings to their foreign gods. He soon found himself in idol worship.

It may seem like a reach, but think about it, at first he just built temples for his foreign wives, but looking deep into it, Solomon loved women. It was estimated that he had over 400 wives. The love of these women caused a gradual slip into idol worship.

Judas the one that betrayed Jesus, he was a thief in his heart, he worshiped money and he was in the presence of the Savior daily. Judas evangelized, healed the sick, made the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, he even cast out demons. His love of money caused him to stealing from the purse, having him to plot selling Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. He got upset because of some perfume, the very oil Mary use to anoint Jesus for his burial, saying it could be sold and given to the poor. When he no more cared about the poor, he just wanted to pilfer it from the treasury that he kept.

Over the summer I attended a revival at a church in Summerville, SC. The evangelist that preached the word of God, brought this every subject up. During the coarse of the sermon, he brought up television, instantly the Holy Ghost brought to my mind programs that I had been watching, instead of spending time in the word of God. During that service I went down to get prayed for and to repent of the things that I allowed into my life, which I placed in front of God. Sense that day of healing, I have yet to of watched any of those programs.

The point I would like to make, someone out there God has been dealing with this very subject or even family and friends. We all allow things to come into our lives, being unaware of it, they take complete control over us. We give them life and breath of their own, they speak to us and even judge us when we do not do what they want us to do. Before we know it, they have control of us and we are worshiping them when they tell us to.

Allow me to further demonstrate the grace and mercy and love of the Living God. When I quit smoking in 2006 it was a commandment from God to do so. I remember standing in front of the Savvies Center in St. Louis during the Promise Keepers Gathering looking for a place to smoke a cigarette. The Lord told me it was time to quit smoking. A couple of days later Aug 4, 2006 at 945 pm I had my last smoke. One week to the day, I remember sitting in church, wanting a smoke. It was consuming me. What the pastor preached on I could not tell you, all I remember was looking at my watch and screaming inside for a smoke and for this man to hurry with his jabbering. When we got home, I begged my wife for the pack she had hidden somewhere in the house. She refused.

I had to go to work that night, when I got in my car, I looked for a butt in the ashtray. Attempting to light the thing, I came to myself, saying, I do not need this thing and I threw it out the window. At that very moment, I felt a brake in my spirit, God healed me instantaneously and miraculously from smoking.

After the divine intervention, Jesus showed me how Smoking became a idol to me and how I worshiped it rather than the creator. See I had place the cigarettes on the thrown of grace and left Jesus upon the Cross of Calvary. Instead of nailing the cigarettes on the cross and allowing Jesus to heal me, I went to them first and Jesus second.

The last thing I would like talk about is our own conversations and or opinions. God showed this to me a few months ago. Have you ever been around a person that loves to chat? People are draw to the stories they tell or what they talk about. Conversations by those around us and even ourselves have the opportunity to become idol chat and we never even know it. How often do you talk to those around you rather than talking to God through prayer. When we chose to listen to people about our problems, situations and circumstances and not to God. We are making the opinions of others more valuable than that of God and His might word.
I am preaching to my self on this one, often times enough in the past, I would go to those that I knew instead of talking to God. The people I confided in, they could not give me what I needed, but they could give me a whole lot of what I didn’t need. Not only that, God showed me how, their opinions became more important and complicating the problem that much more.

Has I close this let to whom ever will read it and whom ever it was meant for, I would like to ask you a question: when you are doing the thing that you love to do, how often do you feel the need to pray or read your Bible, but you chose the things that is more entertaining?

I believe the Lord had me to send this message through the electronic highways and bi ways, because the things of this world have been exulted in our lives for to long. God is calling His church once and for all. Christ is near and drawing closer daily to His second coming. On the day of judgment what are you going to tell Him, when He asked you about the images that you carved out in your own mind and the possessions you strived for and worshiped.

Ask Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit to show you the things that have come in between you and the relationship He wants to have with you. I promise He will show you and even some things you may not be ready to see.

He has me….

Sanctify yourself for you are holy because I am Holy says the Lord.

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the unspakeable gift

Today has I sat in Sunday school, I had confirmation about a message that I was suppose to of posted a couple days ago. Ironically enough, I erased it just hours prior to the class. Further, proof of the Word that I was to send through the electronic highways and byways would come from the sermon my pastor would preach shortly after the mind boggling realization of what I was suppose to do.

Another confirmation came about a message I had written and posted this morning called “Praise Him.” During the sermon, my pastor used a series names and attributes that describes our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He would further sing a praise and worship ballet written by the late, Dottie Rambo called “I call Him Lord.” This song sent an anointing which causing tears of joy and praised to my Lord. I realized that I followed the leading of the Holy Spirit.

The teachers of Sunday school class talked about ‘child like faith’, has the class would proceed the Lord placed upon my heart 1 Corinthians 13:11 ASB

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

Has children we believe what our parents tell us. We are inspired by our imaginations and the magic of Christmas. With child like faith we believe what do our parents place in our heads? They regurgitate what the Hollywood big screen movie machines and what the mega industrial commercial industries transpose on films, they inspire the imaginations of young and old at heart; a man with a red suit, elves that make toys, rain deer that pulls a sled and fantasies that speak magical folk lords of giving presents to impoverished children. They say that belief in these speaks of the gift of, family and peace and love.

Over the years the true meaning of Christmas has been lost to a industry that has been geared toward greed and a secular idea of a man called Santa Claus.

Santa brings the idea and theology of giving children toys of their imagination. He puts a face on commercialism yet hides it at the same time with chubby red cheeks, a white beard and sparkle of Christmas magic in his joyful eyes.

Through the years this soda created individual has replaced Jesus Christ. The reason for the season has been stricken from the public arena by legal jargon that interprets the Constitution in ways that was never to be. Organizations like the ACLU sue to keep the true meaning of Christmas out of public parks and out of government schools. They say that the true meaning of Christmas might offend someone that differs in ideologies and beliefs. While claim that God does not exist and the virgin birth could never happen. Yet the seem not to mind the idea of a fat man in a red suit. Ironic…

Through the ironic idea of this imagined individual, they force parents to conform our children minds to the stories of the media machine. We tell Christmas stories of sugar plums that dance in our heads. It brings hope to the magically morning of rushing to the Christmas tree in a mad dash. Ripping open gifts of extravagant wrapping paper, throwing bows and ribbon to the four winds of our living rooms. Only to realize that months, days and weeks are over in a matter of minutes.

We spend the rest of our day putting together toys that must first be freed from the plastic wrapped wire bands which the Chinese desire to use, making the day that much more memorable. Some of us almost lose our salvation on the plastic casings that wraps these Santa inspired toys.

Others spend the day mindlessly watching some sort of holiday story that Hollywood has created proclaiming it to be tradition. Sports enthusiasts sit in front of the latest high definition plasma flat screen televisions screaming for their favorite teams. When the movies has ended or our teams of worship has either won or lost and our spoiled children have gotten bored with their newest high tech toys, video games and gadgets. We sit down at our festive holiday tables either at the end of the day or a mandatory brake is called by the chef of the home. We sit to give thanks and arbitrarily uttering some words to bless the feast of tasty delectable meats, starches to increase our waste line and fancy sugars that make us giddy in side. We feel blessed to have family and friends and never giving honor or blessing to the one that deserves it most. The day has come and gone in a matter of months, weeks of shopping, days of planning, minutes of unwrapping and during that time we never gave second or a thought about the true unspeakable gift.

“The Unspeakable Gift” was the message for this morning Christmas service. My pastor brought forth a message with the anointing of the season. His words made everyone in the sanctuary realize that Christ was and is the true gift. A gift that no sum of money can buy, no commercial can be created to tantalizing describe Him and no media outlet can accurately film or title Him.

He came in a way that was not of fancy design. His hospital room consisted of a barn, there was not breathing machines or pain medications, no staff to assist in the delivery, no one waiting for the joyous news in a near by room. The only witnesses would be the expecting mother and father, heavenly Host and animals being sheltered from the cold. He would be laid in a make shift crib, which could be used to feed animals. The air was the only royalty that He would know angelic voices sing praises to the Most High. The announcement of a King is born was made to the lowest of the social circles of the time, shepherds that watched over flocks of sheep.

Wise men would travel from distant lands following a heavenly star which shined with such brilliance like none ever seen, it show that a gift to all of creation was born a miracle. These magi would bring gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. These strangers from foreign lands bowed before a child a infant to worship him for He, the Promise, the King, the Messiah, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God had come.

He fulfilled a prophecy that had been written 700 years prior, in a matter that was not the idea of what they were expecting. He came to fulfill the law, but those that studied the law, and enforced it rejected him. Yet strangers that were not of his own from distant lands received him has their King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They deceived a king, they received a word from God himself not to return the way the came. They endured the harsh land and long travel to see a Child.

This Prince of Peace brought a message of hope. He was tested in all areas, He was and is God, the Word made flesh, so that He might know and have compassion. He taught in parables for His names sake. Men followed because he spoke a word to them, I will make you fishers of men. In their sight, they saw healing of the sick, the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dead brought to life with His authority and power. They saw endless baskets of bread, fish multiplied before their very eyes, thousands were fed at the hands of the Master. In their sight He calmed the seas with “peace be still“, walked on water, slept in the raging storms because is was the faith. Demons trembled, they screamed in His presences, men shackled by principalities’ were set free from spirits of infirmities. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, chastised for our peace was upon him, by His stripes we would be healed.

Time would tell and history would prove the greatness of this unspeakable gift. Thousands and millions would and will come to believe upon His name. History would prove that leaders would lie about those that believed upon this one called Jesus. Men, women and children were fed to lions, burned in the streets for light in the nights sky. Mutilated and tortured, sawed in half because they chose to be believers. They would not give in to the pain or harsh reality, they endured and suffered for the sake of the unspeakable gift. Caves and tunnels made with blood, sweat and tears would be their homes. They didn’t have the latest in clothes, sheep skins they wore. All this they endured because they chose to believe the creator rather than the created.

Time has come and the season is here, what are you believing for this Christmas Season. Is it a created image of man in a red suit that brings presents to put under a ever green tree. Or have you giving thought to the true meaning of the season: the Christ child our Lord and Savior was born who brought peace, love and joy to a dying world.

 

 

 

 

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quit fighting and start praying

Hebrews 3

5 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; 6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house- whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you hear His Voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked me, as in the days of trial in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tried me by testing me, and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore, I was angry with this generation, and said, ’They always go astray in their heart, and they did not know My ways’; 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘they shall not enter My rest’.

Has I sit here at my kitchen table I have to wonder if there is anyone out there which continues to struggle day in and day out? You continue to ask yourself questions; if I could just get a brake [?], Will one day go right for me [?], Is this all that life has to offer me [?], If there really is a God, if so why do I always suffer while those around me prosper[?]. My life seem to spiraling out of control and there is nothing I can do about it, why [?].

The real question you should be asking ; Am I fighting for a brake through or am I praying for a brake through?

The Bible is filled with example about how we should pray and what happens when we are lead astray by our own works. I do mean by our own works. When we fight for what we want, we are stepping out in the flesh, not believing God for anything, thus making a pray for ourselves rather than offering a pray to Him. This may sound legalistic of sorts but it is very much the truth.

Look at Jesus for instance, how often did He go and pray in the midnight hour away from everyone. The scriptures give illustrations time and again, about Jesus going into the wilderness to pray, alone. Meaning He gave time to God, but more importantly, He shows us the importance of pray.

What would of happened if Christ would of never prayed? Would He been able to perform the miracles’ like He did? I say this because prayer gives us an insight and understanding that nothing in this world can give us. Pray allows one to free His mind from the garbage in of the world around us. Prayer allows us to receive Wisdom and Knowledge from the Holy Spirit for daily living. Prayer also allows us to withstand the trials and tribulations that the day will bring us.

For example: Look at the below scriptures, they should help build up your faith. For Christ is to be our example in all things.

Luke 6

12 It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles.

Mark 6:45-56

45 Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the crowd away. 46 After bidding them farewell, He left for the mountain to pray. 47 When it was evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and He was alone on the land. 48 Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea; and He intended to pass by them.

Luke 22

31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; 32 but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail;

If this is not enough look at the very subject written by Paul:

Philippians 4

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension, will guard you hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Look at the second half of that scripture, and the peace of God…..will guard your hearts, and your minds in Christ Jesus. Through Jesus prayer allows us to be watchmen on the wall, it allows us to see further than others see, to see things before others see them, and to see things that others just don’t see.

Prayer is a survival mode that allows us to have a deeper walk with the Almighty God, it allows us to catch the opportunities God has for us. It helps us to believe in faith, believing God is with us. Prayer is the formula that allows us to step-up, step-in and step-out.

Step up to the Thrown of Grace

Step in boldly to His Presence

Step out in Faith believing that our request has been made know to Him.

 Prayer gives us strength to fight and allows us to make sound decisions in times of Crisis.

The illustration I like about Crisis is a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, esp. for better or for worse, is determine, a turning point. It is what all you thought and knew are now what you are not sure of. It can be a place of opportunity or a place of danger. What ever the path you chose prayer can make your steps steady and sure. You can either have a house built upon a rock or a house built on sinking sand. What ever the path, prayer can help you make those decisions in the spirit tried and true, rather than out of fear and self.

Prayer allows us to submit to Jesus rather than submit to our own works. It give us an insight like that we never see in the nature. Prayer, forces us to give authority to one that is mightier than us, and it give us an opportunity to give a part of us that we never would openly give to anyone else.

Pray today a new prayer, repent of working in the self and just talk to God. Be mindful of what you ask for, because sometimes what you ask for God will give you weather you want it or not. We may think we want something, but do we really need it.

For years I had been seeking for God to put people in my life that were like me, hurting men. Yet more importantly, I want some friends. When I got hired on with a company I so wanted to be part of the group. I only ended up being the center of their jokes and ridicule. These where men that were unsaved and wanted nothing to do with God. Over the next 6 months I progressively got worse and acted in a way that I thought would allow me to be part of their group. Mistake number one. I would soon learn and God will allow me to see, they were just out to destroy me and take me to a level that I would of never thought was possible.

Then One day, God called me back to the fold. He said enough is enough that was in December of 2007

March 28, 2008 at 950 am I was informed that I no longer had a job. The housing market, credit crisis, and environmental laws put my section of the company out of business.

After receiving the news and we were told to show up the next day for our severance packages. I quickly left the building devastated and not wanting to embarrass myself. I cried out to God wanting to know why. I acted out of self and strived to figure things out in my flesh rather than to God. Over the coming weeks I fasted and prayed, while my flesh and spirit was devastated. I can remember sitting on the sofa, thinking, I have no job.

Then 30 days to the day, I received a call from a company that I had not ever heard of nor did I apply to.

God heard my prayers and made a way for me to be able to support my family. Because I was faithful, in that season, it would take me to a new level in my prayer life. Over the coming months I grew in my prayer life, but more importantly, I grew in the Lord. My prayer life opened up windows that the natural could never give me. The world around me tells me that America is in trouble, prayer tells me that everything will be fine. See yet again, I am out of work. Things are different this time, I am not devastated this time around,. It took the past for me to see the future, it took situations to see the circumstances. It took people of the world for me to see God.

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hard times...

Hard Times

During this time of year, it is really hard to have what it is needed to get through the Christmas Season. It seems like every time I turn on the television there is just more depressing news report. Yet this year seems to be even hard than years past. The economy is in ruin, unemployment in climbing ever higher every day, and Wall Street has created a new class of poor; white collar poor.

What are the American people going to do in this new economic crisis’s? This is something we has a nation have not know sense the great depression or 1974, you take your pick. What ever the case, we have become a nation of over spending, self indulging its all about me and ps3 violent video game generation. Our children have become self absorbed, I don’t have to respect anyone unless they respect me first. [Matt 24:

12- Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,].

So what does that leave for the rest of us, to hold tight to our faith and wait for the One who has called us by his name. However, like I have written before there has been a split in this country; theology of political beliefs and spiritual belief, conservative vs. liberal; Christians vs. atheist and/or to include agnostic of sorts and other cultic religions. Those that chose to believe in man and those that chose to believe in a God that created heaven and earth. What ever the theology there lies the separation.

Yet more importantly there has been a separation of and a deep division in the church of Jesus Christ. I saw on the television today [Dec 8, 2008] where there was a church in Detroit, MI which had Detroit vehicles on the pulpit, praying and fasting for the hopes that the federal government would bailout a system that has become corrupt and bankrupt. It would seem to me that the pastors and congregations of this self proclaim church of God, is hoping for a move of man rather than a move of God.

[sheep goats posted 12/8/8]

I have to wonder if God has removed his might hand from this country in an attempt to open our eyes and allow us to see the destruction; in hopes for national repentance before we are driven to Babylon, or complete ruin before the usher in of a new world of prophetic decree. What would it take to usher in the one world order and leader? What would have to take place for the one world religion? What would it that to have a one world currency and market system? Hard Times?

What ever the situations or circumstances, we have to look at the past to see the future and the future to see the past. One would only have to look at the past governments and economic prosperity to see where we are heading. Or to sum it up, just read the Bible, Our Lord and Savior discussed it with is disciple in great depth in [ Matthew 24:1-51:{Mark13

; Luke 21:5-36} ]

 

 

The Hoover and Roosevelt presidential election in the 20s had some strange similarities’ of what our recent presidential election faced. The twenties had a stream line of economic success, when Wall Street fell, during the Hoover administration, he attempted to allow the market to correct itself. While pleading to the people that things were fine. The modern media at the time seemed to only heighten the problems of the economic turmoil. There were also massive layoffs due an influx of products in the market and people started to safe there monies rather than spending it. WW I caused huge debt to the United States from foreign allied countries and the debt owed to America seemed to only deepen the economic depression.

However, the Democratic candidate seemed to preach a New Deal Economic policy.

Roosevelt created a network of social programs that would use men between the ages of 18-25 to form a collation that would equal a massive environmental program. He also created jobs with schools and highways, during his administration, Unions seem to grow beyond any precedent and the Social Security Administration was created. Yet because of the government intervention, the depression lasted longer than it should of.

If things could not of gotten any worse; the mid-section of the country would suffer a catastrophic drought that would cause men, women and children to roam the country looking for shelter, jobs, food and wages.

What ever the past, the American people has not learned from the mistakes of the past. The eyes and hearts of the people of this nation needs to understand that there are things at work here that they will never understand. The only way to correct the problems would be to pray and fast for God to move on our behalf. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Read the old testament to see what it took for the people of Israel to understand God.

 

 

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silent tears

The silent tears of a scared man can run deep, long and hard. Has time continues to march and more and more men continue to be left behind in the world that we now know. Men everywhere are looking into their own personal mirrors, only to realize that they are not the dream that they hoped. When they grow up the put away childish things. Forgetting where they came from and what they had long ago hoped for.

Our prisons are load with every kind of man; drug dealers, murders, child molesters, and frauds of every kind and sort, people just wanting to be someone else, because life dealt them a raw deal. So they go and do what they grew up doing, dreaming of a life that they never had; running from the person that they think they are.

Yet no one is asking questions of why. Men in America are being left behind in record numbers and turning to do things that they were never created to do.

Men everywhere are crying inside and no one cares or attempts to solve the problems they have. They turn to pornography, drugs, alcohol, ,men of every sort age and race are becoming online predators because they just want to be loved and cared for. They want to feel needed, but no one cares no one hears the cries of the lonely in the night. Men just wanting to be heard and felt need. Men have turned to one another thinking that they will be loved and recognized for who they are inside. They some how start to believe the lie that is whispered in their individual ear. So they go one after another in what men think is a one final shot of happiness; thinking that now they belong to a group who will be heard amongst a group who say they care and understand the issues they face. Men around the world have given up on women; society has told them that they are not needed and it is ok to do the things that you what to do.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch (2006) summed it up a few years ago, men are being the minority in the classrooms across America, grades are dropping, men are no long in search of higher education. Thus, it is creating a vacuum in the work place because men are under educated and not given the same attentions because of the laws in this country that have tilted, a reverse discrimination of sorts.

Why are men being told that they are not worthy of what society has to offer and they are not equal when society cry equality?

When was the last time someone told you ‘man with silent tears’ that you are worthy? You where created with the love and admiration of His own image in mind. That everything you ever done can be turned around; being made into something positive.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ came to earth to redeem man that; was, is, will continue to be lost. You where created to praise and worship one true God and to be loved by a God that loves you. Jesus showed and continues to show this ultimate love. A love that is so powerful that no critic in the world can disprove it, no demon in hell can deny it, He gave of himself to save a world that was dieing and continues to moan. He suffered a death that He did not have to endure, beaten beyond any comprehension, ridiculed by His own people, forced to adorn a crown of thrones that was impelled into the brow of skull. He was then made to carry His own cross, a cross that would be His eventual demise. Even on the cross, suspended between heaven and hell he still had compassion, HE cried out to His father asking for forgiveness for those around Him.

He that has ears to hear, hear the words of the Living God. He paid a price that He did not have to pay. Was laid in a tomb that was borrowed, sealed. Only to rise on the third day, HE had to suffer all to have victory for the world. He rose to a promise made to humanity spoken throughout the Old Testament.

John

3:16

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

 

 

 

The Old Testament is filled with examples of men that fell from grace yet, the Almighty God redeemed each and everyone of them.

One of the most amazing stories in the Bible is the story of Moses, This was a man that was suppose to exterminated by the mid-wives because he was a male child. Exodus 1&2

An order that was given by the Pharaoh of Egypt, however the mid-wives feared God more than man. Has time went on, Moses would deny his adopted parents and go back to his birth people. After which he would take matters into his own hands and kill a person and run to the wilderness. After 40 years wondering the back side of Mount Horeb God called him from a burning bush. He would eventually call for the wrath of God to come down from heaven, lead the people through the Red Sea, deliver the law of God to the chosen people. The were fed by heavenly bread, sickened on from over eating pheasants, received water from a rock, received divine revelation about the tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant. The story continues with finally, taking the people all the way to the promised land only to be turned away, because they rebelled. Moses never gave up hope and had a promise.

I say to the one that hurts on and cries silently inside, you have hope. God loves you more than you will ever know. However, you have to have a willing heart and ears to hear him calling you. Make your voice hear to the one that calls you,

Sinners Prayer;

I am a sinner, I believe that you sent your only begotten Son to die on a cross that he did not have to bear. Please for give me of my sins and I ask that you come into my heart. I believe that Jesus Christ reigns supreme over heaven and earth and sits at your right hand. I believe that he rose after 3 days. Help me Jesus my Lord and Savior to live a life that bares your name and your calling. Amen….

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sheep and goats

The GOP has been taken over by those that no longer care for the values of what the base considers godly morals. The true conservative base and mighty men and women of God have now been isolated in American politics. It is in my opinion that this past election has shown exactly what a majority of Americans feel, based on those feelings they came to the conclusion that they believed  in believing in wanting change was the right choice. Now with that being said, Obama managed to gains a whole lot of "base supporters of the GOP that became independants. However, I do not thing one will ever really beable to tell? After all like the heart of a man, no one truly knows what went on in side of the voting booth.
 
The point that I am attempting to make would be, the line has been drawn in the sand, the sheep are on the right and the goats are on the left. Matt 25:32-33. When people begain looking for change, they looked at the figure of a man rather that God. Did not Russia and Germany do the same things? I believe that the people of this great country of ours are in for a rude awaking. They are going to get every thing they want and a few things that they did not bargain for. 
 
The Church of Jesus Christ has been silenced and has lost its voice. Like my Pastor said, things happened and we never knew it. We have been blind to the facts of what is going on in our country and now that our civil liberties are in jeopardy, we are fighting back; however is it to late? 
 
The ACLU and its agenda based organizations have waged war in the name of equaity and civil rights. Abortion is suppose the be reproductive rights, but according to the ACLU it is religious rights. Gay marriage is equality and civil rights does'nt everyone have the right to be happy? Or is it in an attempt to make the church reconize gay marriage and or silence the pulpits of America. Pastors' around the world are being thrown in jail for preaching the truth and the message Jesus Christ spoke about.
John 15
       18 if the world hates you, you know that it has hated ME before it hated you. 19 if you were of the world, the world  would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' if they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated ME and My Father was well. 25 But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their (Law), THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE'
 
In the name of civil liberties and privacy we attempt to justify sin and the evils of our own hearts and minds.
   Matt 15
13 But he answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14 Let them alone;
they are blind guides of the bline. And if a blind mand guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.
15 Peter said to Him, "Him Explain the parable to us." 16Jesus said, "Are you still lacking in understanding also.?"
17 "Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?"
18 "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man."
19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders."
20 "These are the things which defile the man;.....
 
That is what this election what about.
 
The prince of this world did a real good job about hiding the fact about the candidates. We never found out what Obama really stood for and his personal plateform. He was not truly vetted by the media and those that control the airwaves. Why did this happen, Fear, and they managed to get someone in power that protrayed him to be something that he may not really be. Smoking cigearettes, gay marriage, and abortion are just some of the fruits that come to mind that are not of the Father. After all is not the Church of Jesus Christ suppost to judge itself. After all if one is to believe the whole Word of Christ, then the previous statement stands true.
 
In closing, look at the signs of the times, and look to the Word of the Living God and Jesus Christ. God is calling out to His people, if you will have a heart to hear what He is telling us, then you can truly have the ears to hear.
 
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