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

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…

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….

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.

 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

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.

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

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.

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.