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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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….