2Th 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
AS WE LIVE OUR LIVE'S FROM DAY TO DAY WE OFTEN FIND OURSELVES GROWING WEARY IN WELL DOING.
DUE TO OUR ADAMIC NATURE IT IS FAR MORE SECOND NATURE TO DESIRE THINGS CONTRARY TO GOD'S NATURE.
IN OTHER WORDS IT EASIER TO SIN, THEN NOT FOR MOST OF US.
I REALIZE THAT MOST CHRISTIANS ARE PROBABLY IN DISAGREEMENT WITH ME OVER THAT STATEMENT.
THIS IS BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH EFFORT THEY EXPEND EACH DAY IN THEIR EFFORT TO WALK UPRIGHTLY BEFORE GOD.
THE FACT THAT RIGHTEOUS LIVING REQUIRES SO MUCH EFFORT IS IN IT'S SELF PROOF OF OUR PROPENSITY TO SIN.
I ALSO REALIZE THAT THE MAJORITY OF US BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE WE NO LONGER DRINK, LIE, STEAL, FORNICATE, CUSS, COMMIT ADULTERY, OR OTHER BLATANT SINS MOST DAYS THAT WE ARE VOID OF SIN.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, IS SIN IS MORE THEN SIMPLE ACTS OF COMMISSION, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES OMISSION, AND EVEN MORE COVERTLY SIN INCLUDES OUR ATTITUDES, DISPOSITIONS, AND EVEN OUR THOUGHTS.
THOUGH IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE DAILY STRIVE TO WALK UP RIGHTLY LISTED 2 PARAGRAPHS AGO, THEY ARE RATHER ELEMENTARY DUE TO THE OBVIOUS NATURE OF THE SINS.
THE TRUE EFFORT MUST BE PLACED IN THE CONTROLLING, AND BEING DELIVERED FROM THE SIN'S OF OUR HEARTS, SOULS, AND MINDS, THE SINS NOT SO EASILY SEEN BY THE NAKED OR UNDISCERNING EYE.
WHEN WE ENVY, COVET, HATE, ARE UNFORGIVING ETC......MOST OF THE WORLD IS NOT AWARE OF IT, THEREFORE THEY ARE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY OUR HYPOCRITICAL WAYS.
THOUGH UNDETECTED BY THE MASSES WE ARE, NOT SCOTT FREE WITH THE LORD.
EFFORTS OF THIS NATURE CAN BE QUITE DRAINING PHYSICALLY, SPIRITUALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY, ESPECIALLY AS WE WATCH THE APPARENT WICKED SEEMLY PROSPER WITH EACH PASSING DAY.
THAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR PAUL'S ADMONISHMENT TO NOT GROW TIRED WHEN IT COMES TO OUR DOING THE RIGHT THING ACCORDING TO GOD, AND HIS WORD.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE CAN, AND MORE THEN LIKELY WILL GROW TIRED OF HAVING TO WORK, PAYING BILLS, DEALING WITH THE WORLD, HEALTH ISSUES, FAMILY MATTERS, AND COUNTLESS OTHER PROBLEMS, BUT WE MUST NEVER GROW WEARY IN OUR WELL DOING.
JUST WHEN IT APPEARS AS THOUGH WE CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER STEP DOWN, OR BACKWARD WE MUSTN'T CEASE FROM DOING WHATS RIGHT EVEN WHEN THE SIN IS NOT OBVIOUS TO ANYONE ELSE.
WE NEED ALWAYS RESERVE THE MIGHT FOR WHATS RIGHT.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
WHERE ARE THE HYPOCRITES ?
hypocrite [ˈhɪpəkrɪt] n: a person who pretends to be what he is not
THIS IS THE DEFINITION FROM THE DICTIONARY, DESCRIBING, AND EXPLAINING WHAT THE BULK OF SUPPOSED CHILDREN OF GOD ARE, HYPOCRITES !
OF COURSE MOST WILL IMMEDIATELY ASSUME THAT I AM BEING OVERLY HARSH, EXAGGERATING, BEING PESSIMISTIC, OR JUST PLAIN WRONG.
LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND SEE IF I CAN PERHAPS SHINE SOME LIGHT ON WHY IT IS THAT I WOULD MAKE SUCH A STATEMENT.
MOST PEOPLE RESERVE THE LABELING OF HYPOCRITE FOR THOSE THAT ARE SAID TO BE PROFESSING CHRISTIANITY, OR SOME OTHER BELIEF, AND LIVING CONTRARY TO THEIR OWN DECLARATION.
TODAY BY THE UNCTION OF GOD I WILL BROADEN THE DEFINITION OF HYPOCRITE FOR THE CHURCH, BUT WILL BE WELL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF THE DICTIONARY
WE MUST REALIZE THAT WHENEVER WE FILL A POSITION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT WE WERE NOT CALLED TOO BY GOD HIMSELF, THEN WE ARE PRETENDING TO BE THE RIGHTFUL INHABITANT OF THAT POSITION.
THE SAD THING IS THAT SO MANY ARE AFFECTED BY SUCH TRAVESTIES AND MAY BE SUBJECTED TO EXPERIENCES EASILY AVOIDABLE IF LED BY GOD.
EVEN MORE SAD IS THE FACT THAT THE OFFICE MOST COVETED AND THEREFORE FILLED WITH MORE HYPOCRITES IS THAT OF MINISTER.
THE TITLE MINISTER CAN COVER MANY OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE CHURCH.
APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELIST, ELDERS, AND PERHAPS THE MOST DEADLY, AND SINISTER OF ALL IS THE SELF PROCLAIMED, OR MAN CALLED, AND APPOINTED PASTOR'S.
IF WE WERE ACCOUNTANTS, WEARING POLICE UNIFORMS AND STOPPING CARS, WE WOULD BE ARRESTED BY REAL POLICE FOR IMPERSONATING, OR HYPOCRITING AS POLICE.
I AM AWARE THAT SOCIETY NO LONGER UTILIZES THIS WORD IN THAT FASHION, BUT THAT DOESN'T RENDER IT'S EXISTENCE AND DEFINITION NULL AND VOID.
WHEN WE PRETEND TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOT, WE ARE HYPOCRITES.
JUST AS WE CAN NOT IMPERSONATE THE SWORN IN, POWER WIELDING, OFFICIALLY AUTHORIZED AND ORDAINED OFFICER, WITHOUT SEVERE REPERCUSSIONS, WE CAN'T DO SO IN THE CHURCH WITH CALLED, ORDAINED POSITIONS WITHOUT EVEN MORE SEVERE REPERCUSSIONS.
IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A PROPHETIC WARNING TO THOSE FILLING MINISTERIAL POSITIONS YOU KNOW YOU WERE NOT CALLED, OR ORDAINED OF GOD TO FILL, ESPECIALLY PASTORS.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: EVERYONE HOLDING ECCLESIASTICAL, OR MINISTERIAL POSITIONS IN GOD'S CHURCH PLEASE PRAY FOR GOD'S UNBIASED EXAMINATION OF OURSELVES TO SEE IF WE ARE TRULY HOLDING POSITIONS GOD ORDAINED US FOR, AND INTENDED US TO FILL.
IF AFTER EXAMINATION WE DISCOVER WE MISSED HIS VOICE, WE ASSUMED POSITIONS ON OUR OWN, OR EVEN HAD THEM BESTOWED UPON US BY FAMILY, OR POPULAR OPINION, WE NEED TO ACT IMMEDIATELY.
THE PROPER REACTION WOULD BE TO REPENT, CONFESS, AND RESIGN.
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT OUR REACTION BE IMMEDIATE TO PREVENT BEING FOUND HYPOCRITES WHEN THE LORD RETURNS, OR BEFORE WE LEAD MORE ASTRAY BY IMPERSONATING WHAT WE ARE NOT TRULY CALLED TO BE.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT PRIDE WILL CAUSE US TO KEEP POSITIONS WE KNOW WE ARE ILL QUALIFIED FOR TO PREVENT EMBARRASSMENT, BUT THE SAME PRIDE WILL KILL US AS HYPOCRITES SENDING US TO HELL.
SOME TRULY CALLED PASTORS MAY NEVER SHEPARD LARGE CHURCHES , BUT THAT'S NOT A INDICATOR OF THEIR ANOINTING, OR CALL.
JUST BECAUSE WE CAN DO A DECENT JOB IN SOME OF THESE OFFICES DOESN'T INDICATE GOD'S SEAL OF APPROVAL, OR PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP.
I PRAY THAT OUR EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED TO LOOKING FOR HYPOCRITES IN SOME NON-TRADITIONAL PLACES, AS WELL AS ALERTING US TO HOW MANY ARE IN THE FOREFRONT, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE SMOKING, DRINKING, CUSSING, FORNICATING, COMMITTING ADULTERY. LYING, STEALING, OR FIGHTING.
IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETENDING.
PRETENDING TO BE OUR MINISTERS, EVANGELIST, APOSTLES, PROPHETS, AND YES OUR PASTORS.
SO NOW THAT WE REALIZE HYPOCRITES ARE MORE THEN WE THOUGHT WE MUST NOW ASK THE QUESTION.
WHERE ARE THE HYPOCRITES
THIS IS THE DEFINITION FROM THE DICTIONARY, DESCRIBING, AND EXPLAINING WHAT THE BULK OF SUPPOSED CHILDREN OF GOD ARE, HYPOCRITES !
OF COURSE MOST WILL IMMEDIATELY ASSUME THAT I AM BEING OVERLY HARSH, EXAGGERATING, BEING PESSIMISTIC, OR JUST PLAIN WRONG.
LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND SEE IF I CAN PERHAPS SHINE SOME LIGHT ON WHY IT IS THAT I WOULD MAKE SUCH A STATEMENT.
MOST PEOPLE RESERVE THE LABELING OF HYPOCRITE FOR THOSE THAT ARE SAID TO BE PROFESSING CHRISTIANITY, OR SOME OTHER BELIEF, AND LIVING CONTRARY TO THEIR OWN DECLARATION.
TODAY BY THE UNCTION OF GOD I WILL BROADEN THE DEFINITION OF HYPOCRITE FOR THE CHURCH, BUT WILL BE WELL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF THE DICTIONARY
WE MUST REALIZE THAT WHENEVER WE FILL A POSITION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT WE WERE NOT CALLED TOO BY GOD HIMSELF, THEN WE ARE PRETENDING TO BE THE RIGHTFUL INHABITANT OF THAT POSITION.
THE SAD THING IS THAT SO MANY ARE AFFECTED BY SUCH TRAVESTIES AND MAY BE SUBJECTED TO EXPERIENCES EASILY AVOIDABLE IF LED BY GOD.
EVEN MORE SAD IS THE FACT THAT THE OFFICE MOST COVETED AND THEREFORE FILLED WITH MORE HYPOCRITES IS THAT OF MINISTER.
THE TITLE MINISTER CAN COVER MANY OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE CHURCH.
APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELIST, ELDERS, AND PERHAPS THE MOST DEADLY, AND SINISTER OF ALL IS THE SELF PROCLAIMED, OR MAN CALLED, AND APPOINTED PASTOR'S.
IF WE WERE ACCOUNTANTS, WEARING POLICE UNIFORMS AND STOPPING CARS, WE WOULD BE ARRESTED BY REAL POLICE FOR IMPERSONATING, OR HYPOCRITING AS POLICE.
I AM AWARE THAT SOCIETY NO LONGER UTILIZES THIS WORD IN THAT FASHION, BUT THAT DOESN'T RENDER IT'S EXISTENCE AND DEFINITION NULL AND VOID.
WHEN WE PRETEND TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOT, WE ARE HYPOCRITES.
JUST AS WE CAN NOT IMPERSONATE THE SWORN IN, POWER WIELDING, OFFICIALLY AUTHORIZED AND ORDAINED OFFICER, WITHOUT SEVERE REPERCUSSIONS, WE CAN'T DO SO IN THE CHURCH WITH CALLED, ORDAINED POSITIONS WITHOUT EVEN MORE SEVERE REPERCUSSIONS.
IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A PROPHETIC WARNING TO THOSE FILLING MINISTERIAL POSITIONS YOU KNOW YOU WERE NOT CALLED, OR ORDAINED OF GOD TO FILL, ESPECIALLY PASTORS.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: EVERYONE HOLDING ECCLESIASTICAL, OR MINISTERIAL POSITIONS IN GOD'S CHURCH PLEASE PRAY FOR GOD'S UNBIASED EXAMINATION OF OURSELVES TO SEE IF WE ARE TRULY HOLDING POSITIONS GOD ORDAINED US FOR, AND INTENDED US TO FILL.
IF AFTER EXAMINATION WE DISCOVER WE MISSED HIS VOICE, WE ASSUMED POSITIONS ON OUR OWN, OR EVEN HAD THEM BESTOWED UPON US BY FAMILY, OR POPULAR OPINION, WE NEED TO ACT IMMEDIATELY.
THE PROPER REACTION WOULD BE TO REPENT, CONFESS, AND RESIGN.
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT OUR REACTION BE IMMEDIATE TO PREVENT BEING FOUND HYPOCRITES WHEN THE LORD RETURNS, OR BEFORE WE LEAD MORE ASTRAY BY IMPERSONATING WHAT WE ARE NOT TRULY CALLED TO BE.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT PRIDE WILL CAUSE US TO KEEP POSITIONS WE KNOW WE ARE ILL QUALIFIED FOR TO PREVENT EMBARRASSMENT, BUT THE SAME PRIDE WILL KILL US AS HYPOCRITES SENDING US TO HELL.
SOME TRULY CALLED PASTORS MAY NEVER SHEPARD LARGE CHURCHES , BUT THAT'S NOT A INDICATOR OF THEIR ANOINTING, OR CALL.
JUST BECAUSE WE CAN DO A DECENT JOB IN SOME OF THESE OFFICES DOESN'T INDICATE GOD'S SEAL OF APPROVAL, OR PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP.
I PRAY THAT OUR EYES HAVE BEEN OPENED TO LOOKING FOR HYPOCRITES IN SOME NON-TRADITIONAL PLACES, AS WELL AS ALERTING US TO HOW MANY ARE IN THE FOREFRONT, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE SMOKING, DRINKING, CUSSING, FORNICATING, COMMITTING ADULTERY. LYING, STEALING, OR FIGHTING.
IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE PRETENDING.
PRETENDING TO BE OUR MINISTERS, EVANGELIST, APOSTLES, PROPHETS, AND YES OUR PASTORS.
SO NOW THAT WE REALIZE HYPOCRITES ARE MORE THEN WE THOUGHT WE MUST NOW ASK THE QUESTION.
WHERE ARE THE HYPOCRITES
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
HOW I GOT HERE
TODAY I WILL JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THE LORD FOR BRINGING ME THROUGH THIS YEAR.
I LOOKED AT THE CLOCK THIS EVENING AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 PM AND REALIZED THAT LAST YEAR AT THAT EXACT HOUR MY FIRST BORN DAUGHTER HAD PASSED AWAY 5 HOURS PRIOR.
I HAD NO WORDS TO EXPRESS MY GRIEF, PAIN, AND DESPAIR AT THAT TIME, NOR DO I POSSESS THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THOSE STILL FRESH EMOTIONS NOW.
IT IS UNBELIEVABLE TO ME THAT I CAN STILL RECALL THE EVENTS OF THAT SADDEST OF ALL DAYS IN MY LIFE AS THOUGH IT WERE TODAY.
WHATS MORE UNBELIEVABLE IS THAT I SURVIVED, SANITY INTACT, I THINK, AND ABLE TO SOMEHOW FUNCTION AT WHAT APPEARS TO BE A NORMAL LEVEL OF COMPETENCY.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK THE LORD FOR TODAY.
THE WAY GOD TOOK ME FROM DAY TO DAY, AND ALLOWED ME TO MAINTAIN A PEACE THAT DEFINITELY SURPASSED MY UNDERSTANDING IS WORTH ALL OF THE THANKS, PRAISE, AND WORSHIP I CAN MUSTER UP TO GIVE HIM.
I HONESTLY CAN NOT DESCRIBE TO THE WORLD HOW I FUNCTIONED, AND MADE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR.
MONTHS, WEEKS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, AND EVEN SECONDS ARE BLURS IN MY MEMORY, BUT I HAD TO LIVE, AND SURVIVE THEM BECAUSE I'M HERE.
ONLY GOD CAN DO WHAT HE DID FOR ME IN THESE TRYING TIMES, AND I'M EVER SO GRATEFUL FOR HIS CARRYING ME, INSPITE OF ME.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: STORE UP ALL YOU CAN ABOUT GOD DURING THE FAT YEARS, BECAUSE WHEN LIFE, PEACE, AND JOY ARE RARE IN THE LEAN YEARS THEN WE WILL NEED TO COUNT ON OUR SPIRITUAL RESERVES TO TAKE US THROUGH.
I ADMIT THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES THAT I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE PRAYING, OR SIMPLY COULDN'T PRAY, BUT GOD KNEW ME BASED ON OUR PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP.
PLACE ALL OF OUR TRUST IN GOD, AND HE WILL NOT ABANDON US WHEN WE NEED HIM MOST.
I STILL MISS, AND CRY ABOUT MY DAUGHTER, BUT GOD SUPPORTS ME DAILY.
I LOOKED AT THE CLOCK THIS EVENING AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 PM AND REALIZED THAT LAST YEAR AT THAT EXACT HOUR MY FIRST BORN DAUGHTER HAD PASSED AWAY 5 HOURS PRIOR.
I HAD NO WORDS TO EXPRESS MY GRIEF, PAIN, AND DESPAIR AT THAT TIME, NOR DO I POSSESS THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THOSE STILL FRESH EMOTIONS NOW.
IT IS UNBELIEVABLE TO ME THAT I CAN STILL RECALL THE EVENTS OF THAT SADDEST OF ALL DAYS IN MY LIFE AS THOUGH IT WERE TODAY.
WHATS MORE UNBELIEVABLE IS THAT I SURVIVED, SANITY INTACT, I THINK, AND ABLE TO SOMEHOW FUNCTION AT WHAT APPEARS TO BE A NORMAL LEVEL OF COMPETENCY.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK THE LORD FOR TODAY.
THE WAY GOD TOOK ME FROM DAY TO DAY, AND ALLOWED ME TO MAINTAIN A PEACE THAT DEFINITELY SURPASSED MY UNDERSTANDING IS WORTH ALL OF THE THANKS, PRAISE, AND WORSHIP I CAN MUSTER UP TO GIVE HIM.
I HONESTLY CAN NOT DESCRIBE TO THE WORLD HOW I FUNCTIONED, AND MADE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR.
MONTHS, WEEKS, DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, AND EVEN SECONDS ARE BLURS IN MY MEMORY, BUT I HAD TO LIVE, AND SURVIVE THEM BECAUSE I'M HERE.
ONLY GOD CAN DO WHAT HE DID FOR ME IN THESE TRYING TIMES, AND I'M EVER SO GRATEFUL FOR HIS CARRYING ME, INSPITE OF ME.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: STORE UP ALL YOU CAN ABOUT GOD DURING THE FAT YEARS, BECAUSE WHEN LIFE, PEACE, AND JOY ARE RARE IN THE LEAN YEARS THEN WE WILL NEED TO COUNT ON OUR SPIRITUAL RESERVES TO TAKE US THROUGH.
I ADMIT THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES THAT I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE PRAYING, OR SIMPLY COULDN'T PRAY, BUT GOD KNEW ME BASED ON OUR PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP.
PLACE ALL OF OUR TRUST IN GOD, AND HE WILL NOT ABANDON US WHEN WE NEED HIM MOST.
I STILL MISS, AND CRY ABOUT MY DAUGHTER, BUT GOD SUPPORTS ME DAILY.
Monday, December 28, 2009
REAPING (PART III)
Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
IN FURTHERING OUR LOOK AT REAPING, TODAY WE WILL EXAMINE THE THE REAPING THAT FOLLOWS THE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TRULY AVAILABLE TO US.
FOR ALL OF SEEMINGLY MYRIAD OF CHOICES AVAILABLE TO US HERE ON EARTH IF WE WERE TO FUNCTIONALLY CATEGORIZE THEM THE OPTIONS WOULD BE NARROWED DOWN TO TWO.
WE ARE EITHER CATERING TO OUR FLESH OR TO THE HOLYSPIRIT.
PAUL NOT BEING ONE FOR THE MINCING OF WORDS HAS CUT TO THE CHASE BY ALSO NARROWING THE REPERCUSSIONS, OR REAPING FOR THIS CATERING DOWN TO TWO OPTIONS OR RESULTS.
AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE OF OUR LIVES ON THIS EARTH, IT WILL ALL BOIL DOWN TO EITHER CORRUPTION, OR EVERLASTING LIFE.
NO PURGATORY, NO REINCARNATION, NO HAUNTING OR ROAMING THE EARTH AS GHOST, NO TO GOOD FOR HELL, BUT TO BAD FOR HEAVEN STATUS, OR TO BAD FOR HEAVEN, BUT TO GOOD FOR HELL STATUS.
AT THE END, WE WILL EITHER BE SENTENCED TO CORRUPTION, OR ETERNAL LIFE.
GOD MAKES THIS VERY PLAIN THROUGH PAUL, AND CLEAR TO US RIGHT NOW AS WE READ THIS TODAY.
WHEN WE ALWAYS ALLOW THE FLESH TO HAVE IT'S WAY, WHETHER IT'S SINFUL OR NOT WE ARE BUILDING A PATTERN FOR FAILURE, AND HEADING FOR CORRUPTION.
FOOD, NOR TELEVISION BY THEMSELVES IS BAD, BUT WHEN WE CONSTANTLY EAT EVERY TIME WE DESIRE, OR ALLOW OURSELVES TO WATCH ANY, AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES ON TELEVISION WE ARE CONDITIONING OUR FLESH TO BELIEVE IT CAN CRAVE AND BE FED WITHOUT RESTRAINT.
SO THEN WHEN TEMPTATION PRESENTS ITSELF AS SIN FLESH WILL ALSO BELIEVE IT SHOULD FED WHEN, AND HOW MUCH IT DESIRES.
I MUST INFORM YOU THAT UNLIKE OUR STOMACH THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME FULL, OUR FLESH WILL RARELY, IF EVER BE SATISFIED WITH ENOUGH SIN.
IN OUR EFFORT TO SATIATE THE VORACIOUS APPETITE FLESH HAS FOR SIN, IT IS AT THAT TIME, THAT WE WILL BEGIN OUR JOURNEY TO CORRUPTION.
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH THE SPIRIT DESIRES THE THINGS OF GOD, WHICH OF COURSE IS GOOD BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD.
IN OUR FULFILLING THE SPIRITS NEED TO SEEK THE FATHERS FACE, AND TO DESIRE ALL THINGS PLEASING TO HIM, WE THEN BECOME PLEASING TO HIM.
THE END RESULT OF THIS TYPE OF LIFESTYLE WILL LAND US IN LIFE EVERLASTING.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IN USING A PAUL LIKE APPROACH I WILL CUT TO THE CHASE AND SIMPLY STATE "DOING WHAT WE WANT, WILL PLACE US WHERE WE DON'T WANT".
I WILL ALSO STATE, "SURRENDERING OUR LIFE, FOR GODLY LIFE, WILL GAIN US LIFE, EVERLASTING".
EVERYONE WILL, AND MUST REAP, WHAT WILL OUR REAPING BE ?
IN FURTHERING OUR LOOK AT REAPING, TODAY WE WILL EXAMINE THE THE REAPING THAT FOLLOWS THE ONLY TWO OPTIONS TRULY AVAILABLE TO US.
FOR ALL OF SEEMINGLY MYRIAD OF CHOICES AVAILABLE TO US HERE ON EARTH IF WE WERE TO FUNCTIONALLY CATEGORIZE THEM THE OPTIONS WOULD BE NARROWED DOWN TO TWO.
WE ARE EITHER CATERING TO OUR FLESH OR TO THE HOLYSPIRIT.
PAUL NOT BEING ONE FOR THE MINCING OF WORDS HAS CUT TO THE CHASE BY ALSO NARROWING THE REPERCUSSIONS, OR REAPING FOR THIS CATERING DOWN TO TWO OPTIONS OR RESULTS.
AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE OF OUR LIVES ON THIS EARTH, IT WILL ALL BOIL DOWN TO EITHER CORRUPTION, OR EVERLASTING LIFE.
NO PURGATORY, NO REINCARNATION, NO HAUNTING OR ROAMING THE EARTH AS GHOST, NO TO GOOD FOR HELL, BUT TO BAD FOR HEAVEN STATUS, OR TO BAD FOR HEAVEN, BUT TO GOOD FOR HELL STATUS.
AT THE END, WE WILL EITHER BE SENTENCED TO CORRUPTION, OR ETERNAL LIFE.
GOD MAKES THIS VERY PLAIN THROUGH PAUL, AND CLEAR TO US RIGHT NOW AS WE READ THIS TODAY.
WHEN WE ALWAYS ALLOW THE FLESH TO HAVE IT'S WAY, WHETHER IT'S SINFUL OR NOT WE ARE BUILDING A PATTERN FOR FAILURE, AND HEADING FOR CORRUPTION.
FOOD, NOR TELEVISION BY THEMSELVES IS BAD, BUT WHEN WE CONSTANTLY EAT EVERY TIME WE DESIRE, OR ALLOW OURSELVES TO WATCH ANY, AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES ON TELEVISION WE ARE CONDITIONING OUR FLESH TO BELIEVE IT CAN CRAVE AND BE FED WITHOUT RESTRAINT.
SO THEN WHEN TEMPTATION PRESENTS ITSELF AS SIN FLESH WILL ALSO BELIEVE IT SHOULD FED WHEN, AND HOW MUCH IT DESIRES.
I MUST INFORM YOU THAT UNLIKE OUR STOMACH THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME FULL, OUR FLESH WILL RARELY, IF EVER BE SATISFIED WITH ENOUGH SIN.
IN OUR EFFORT TO SATIATE THE VORACIOUS APPETITE FLESH HAS FOR SIN, IT IS AT THAT TIME, THAT WE WILL BEGIN OUR JOURNEY TO CORRUPTION.
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH THE SPIRIT DESIRES THE THINGS OF GOD, WHICH OF COURSE IS GOOD BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD.
IN OUR FULFILLING THE SPIRITS NEED TO SEEK THE FATHERS FACE, AND TO DESIRE ALL THINGS PLEASING TO HIM, WE THEN BECOME PLEASING TO HIM.
THE END RESULT OF THIS TYPE OF LIFESTYLE WILL LAND US IN LIFE EVERLASTING.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IN USING A PAUL LIKE APPROACH I WILL CUT TO THE CHASE AND SIMPLY STATE "DOING WHAT WE WANT, WILL PLACE US WHERE WE DON'T WANT".
I WILL ALSO STATE, "SURRENDERING OUR LIFE, FOR GODLY LIFE, WILL GAIN US LIFE, EVERLASTING".
EVERYONE WILL, AND MUST REAP, WHAT WILL OUR REAPING BE ?
Sunday, December 27, 2009
REAPING (PART II)
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
MANY WONDER WHY SO MUCH PAIN, SUFFERING, AND SORROW VISITS THEIR LIFE AS THOUGH THEY WEREN'T PRESENT WHEN THEY WERE DOING ALL OF THE PLOWING, AND SOWING SPOKEN OF IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT GOD'S WORD WILL NEVER RETURN UNTO HIM VOID.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
SO WE SEE IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT IF GOD STATES SOMETHING TO BE THEN IT WILL BE REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE THINK, SAY, OR DO IN ATTEMPTS TO VOID IT.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
IN OTHER WORDS YOU, NOR I, WILL EVER MAKE GOD LOOK FOOLISH, LIKE A LIAR, OR POWERLESS.
PAUL CLEARLY STATES THAT IF WE WERE TO BE ABLE TO AVOID REAPING WHAT WE HAVE SOWN THEN GOD WOULD BE BEING MOCKED BY MERE MORTALS, AS THOUGH HIS WORD WAS TO KNOW AVAIL.
THE POINT TODAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS THAT WE WILL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN.
IRREGARDLESS OR WHETHER WE HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED IN JESUS NAME, FILLED WITH THE HOLYSPIRIT, A TEACHER, PREACHER, DEACON, USHER, OR EVEN A PASTOR.
WE MUST REAP IN ORDER FOR GOD'S WORD TO BE TRUE.
SO THEN THE NEXT TIME WE ARE SITTING AROUND LICKING OUR WOUNDS AND FEELING SORRY FOR OURSELVES WE SHOULD SIMPLY REVISIT OUR PAST.
IF WE EXAMINE SOME OF OUR OWN PAST DEVILMENT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GRASP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY WE ARE AFFLICTED.
THE GOOD THING FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE NOW CHILDREN OF GOD IS THAT OUR REAPING WILL BE METED OUT WITH GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW WE WOULD BE MOANING, GROANING AND COMPLAINING IF WE WEREN'T SAVED, AND OUR REAPING WAS METED OUT AS UNTO BASTARDS ?
LET'S REALIZE THAT WE TRULY HAVE REASON TO GIVE THANKS IN THE MIDST OF OUR WORST TIMES.
AS BAD AS THEY ARE NOW THEY WOULD BE MULTIPLIED WITHOUT OUR HAVING BEEN CONVERTED, ADOPTED CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE MUST REAP BECAUSE IT IS A PRINCIPLE OF GOD, AND PART OF HIS IMMUTABLE WORD.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT NOT ONLY FOR PAST DEEDS MUST WE REAP, BUT FOR THE DEEDS DONE TODAY THAT WE FAIL TO CONFESS, AND ASK GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR AS HIS CHILDREN
THANK GOD FOR THE SIN CLEANSING BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, AND THE FORGIVENESS AFFORDED THE CHILDREN OF THE FAITHFUL GOD.
MANY WONDER WHY SO MUCH PAIN, SUFFERING, AND SORROW VISITS THEIR LIFE AS THOUGH THEY WEREN'T PRESENT WHEN THEY WERE DOING ALL OF THE PLOWING, AND SOWING SPOKEN OF IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT GOD'S WORD WILL NEVER RETURN UNTO HIM VOID.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
SO WE SEE IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT IF GOD STATES SOMETHING TO BE THEN IT WILL BE REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE THINK, SAY, OR DO IN ATTEMPTS TO VOID IT.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
IN OTHER WORDS YOU, NOR I, WILL EVER MAKE GOD LOOK FOOLISH, LIKE A LIAR, OR POWERLESS.
PAUL CLEARLY STATES THAT IF WE WERE TO BE ABLE TO AVOID REAPING WHAT WE HAVE SOWN THEN GOD WOULD BE BEING MOCKED BY MERE MORTALS, AS THOUGH HIS WORD WAS TO KNOW AVAIL.
THE POINT TODAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS THAT WE WILL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN.
IRREGARDLESS OR WHETHER WE HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED IN JESUS NAME, FILLED WITH THE HOLYSPIRIT, A TEACHER, PREACHER, DEACON, USHER, OR EVEN A PASTOR.
WE MUST REAP IN ORDER FOR GOD'S WORD TO BE TRUE.
SO THEN THE NEXT TIME WE ARE SITTING AROUND LICKING OUR WOUNDS AND FEELING SORRY FOR OURSELVES WE SHOULD SIMPLY REVISIT OUR PAST.
IF WE EXAMINE SOME OF OUR OWN PAST DEVILMENT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GRASP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY WE ARE AFFLICTED.
THE GOOD THING FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE NOW CHILDREN OF GOD IS THAT OUR REAPING WILL BE METED OUT WITH GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW WE WOULD BE MOANING, GROANING AND COMPLAINING IF WE WEREN'T SAVED, AND OUR REAPING WAS METED OUT AS UNTO BASTARDS ?
LET'S REALIZE THAT WE TRULY HAVE REASON TO GIVE THANKS IN THE MIDST OF OUR WORST TIMES.
AS BAD AS THEY ARE NOW THEY WOULD BE MULTIPLIED WITHOUT OUR HAVING BEEN CONVERTED, ADOPTED CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE MUST REAP BECAUSE IT IS A PRINCIPLE OF GOD, AND PART OF HIS IMMUTABLE WORD.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT NOT ONLY FOR PAST DEEDS MUST WE REAP, BUT FOR THE DEEDS DONE TODAY THAT WE FAIL TO CONFESS, AND ASK GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR AS HIS CHILDREN
THANK GOD FOR THE SIN CLEANSING BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, AND THE FORGIVENESS AFFORDED THE CHILDREN OF THE FAITHFUL GOD.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
REAPING
Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
THIS MAY BE THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES ON THE MANY LESSONS OF REAPING WHICH IS SOMETHING WE ALL WILL DO, THE QUESTION IS WHAT WILL WE REAP?
IN THIS PSALM WE SEE THAT IF LIFE HAS SERVED US A MYRIAD OF REASONS TO CRY THAT WE ARE TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE JOY'S PROMISED AFTERWARD.
MOST OF LIFE'S TEARS ARE PRECIPITATED BY HEARTBREAK, DISASTER, TRAGEDY, LOSS, GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, LONELINESS, AND NEGATIVE EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL, OR DUE TO OUR OWN NEGLECT, AND/OR POOR DECISIONS.
THOUGH I AM AWARE OF TEARS OF JOY, FROM MY OWN LIVE'S EXPERIENCES THE MAJORITY OF EVERY TEAR EVER SHED IN MY LIFE HAVE NOT BEEN TEARS OF JOY.
IN ALL HONESTY I AM STILL AWAITING MY JOY, WHICH I'M SURE THE ULTIMATE JOY REFERRRED TOO HERE IS THE JOY OF BEING WITH THE LORD ETERNALLY.
I WOULDN'T BE HONEST THOUGH IF I FAILED TO GIVE THE LORD CREDIT FOR THE JOY I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN BETWEEN THE TEARS SHED.
GOD IS A VERY GOOD GOD, AND HE HAS BEEN EXCEEDINGLY GOOD TO ME INSPITE OF MY TEARS, BUT I ADMIT I AM STILL PURSUING AN EVEN GREATER JOY THEN I HAVE YET TO FIND HERE ON EARTH.
THANKS BE TO GOD, AND THIS PSALM THOUGH YOU AND I CAN BE CONFIDENT THAT OUR EARTHLY TEARS ARE NOT IN VAIN.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: GO ON AND CRY, THE PSALMIST, AND GOD KNEW WE WOULD, BUT BE ENCOURAGED BECAUSE WE WILL REAP JOY BEFORE IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
THIS MAY BE THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES ON THE MANY LESSONS OF REAPING WHICH IS SOMETHING WE ALL WILL DO, THE QUESTION IS WHAT WILL WE REAP?
IN THIS PSALM WE SEE THAT IF LIFE HAS SERVED US A MYRIAD OF REASONS TO CRY THAT WE ARE TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE JOY'S PROMISED AFTERWARD.
MOST OF LIFE'S TEARS ARE PRECIPITATED BY HEARTBREAK, DISASTER, TRAGEDY, LOSS, GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, LONELINESS, AND NEGATIVE EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL, OR DUE TO OUR OWN NEGLECT, AND/OR POOR DECISIONS.
THOUGH I AM AWARE OF TEARS OF JOY, FROM MY OWN LIVE'S EXPERIENCES THE MAJORITY OF EVERY TEAR EVER SHED IN MY LIFE HAVE NOT BEEN TEARS OF JOY.
IN ALL HONESTY I AM STILL AWAITING MY JOY, WHICH I'M SURE THE ULTIMATE JOY REFERRRED TOO HERE IS THE JOY OF BEING WITH THE LORD ETERNALLY.
I WOULDN'T BE HONEST THOUGH IF I FAILED TO GIVE THE LORD CREDIT FOR THE JOY I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN BETWEEN THE TEARS SHED.
GOD IS A VERY GOOD GOD, AND HE HAS BEEN EXCEEDINGLY GOOD TO ME INSPITE OF MY TEARS, BUT I ADMIT I AM STILL PURSUING AN EVEN GREATER JOY THEN I HAVE YET TO FIND HERE ON EARTH.
THANKS BE TO GOD, AND THIS PSALM THOUGH YOU AND I CAN BE CONFIDENT THAT OUR EARTHLY TEARS ARE NOT IN VAIN.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: GO ON AND CRY, THE PSALMIST, AND GOD KNEW WE WOULD, BUT BE ENCOURAGED BECAUSE WE WILL REAP JOY BEFORE IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE.
Friday, December 25, 2009
ANSWERS OR SOLUTIONS ?
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WORDS SIMPLY CAN NOT CONVEY THE EMOTIONAL DEPTHS EXPERIENCED IN LIFE.
IT IS DURING THESES TIMES THAT I'VE LEARNED, AND CONTINUE TO LEARN TO SIMPLY SAY THANK YOU LORD.
FORTUNATELY GOD KNOWS, AND SEES OUR HEARTS FOR MORE THEN SIMPLY JUDGING OUR MOTIVES, BUT HE ALSO KNOWS OUR HURTS, CONCERNS, FEARS AND ANYTHING ELSE BEYOND OUR VERBAL CAPABILITIES.
SO WHEN I'M SPEECHLESS DUE TO BURDENS, TROUBLES, HURTS, PAINS, DISTRESS, SADNESS, CONFUSION, DESPAIR, LONELINESS, OPPRESSION, SUPPRESSION, OR JUST PLAIN CRIED OUT.
THESE AFOREMENTIONED, AND ANY OTHER EXPRESSION STEALING EMOTIONS CAN ALL BE SUMMED UP, DECIPHERED, PROCESSED, AND ACCEPTED BY THE ALL KNOWING, EVER PRESENT, FORGIVING, AND LOVING GOD, WITH A SIMPLE THANK YOU JESUS, AND THEN HE'LL DO THE REST.
HOW CAN THAT GET ANY BETTER, OR EASIER.
GOD WILL DO IT ALL IF WE BUT ACKNOWLEDGE HIM IN THANKS !
1Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: FROM THIS POINT ON WE SHOULD FEEL COMPELLED TO GIVE THANKS WHEN THINGS ARE BAD, INSTEAD OF ASKING WHY.
ISN'T GOOD THAT WE SERVE A GOD THAT KNOWS OUR THOUGHTS AFAR OFF, SO THAT HE'LL KNOW EXACTLY WHY IT IS WE ARE SAYING THANK YOU WHEN WE SHOULD BE ASKING WHY !
Psalms 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
ASKING WHY MAY GET US AN ANSWER, BUT SAYING THANK YOU WILL BRING A SOLUTION .
IT IS DURING THESES TIMES THAT I'VE LEARNED, AND CONTINUE TO LEARN TO SIMPLY SAY THANK YOU LORD.
FORTUNATELY GOD KNOWS, AND SEES OUR HEARTS FOR MORE THEN SIMPLY JUDGING OUR MOTIVES, BUT HE ALSO KNOWS OUR HURTS, CONCERNS, FEARS AND ANYTHING ELSE BEYOND OUR VERBAL CAPABILITIES.
SO WHEN I'M SPEECHLESS DUE TO BURDENS, TROUBLES, HURTS, PAINS, DISTRESS, SADNESS, CONFUSION, DESPAIR, LONELINESS, OPPRESSION, SUPPRESSION, OR JUST PLAIN CRIED OUT.
THESE AFOREMENTIONED, AND ANY OTHER EXPRESSION STEALING EMOTIONS CAN ALL BE SUMMED UP, DECIPHERED, PROCESSED, AND ACCEPTED BY THE ALL KNOWING, EVER PRESENT, FORGIVING, AND LOVING GOD, WITH A SIMPLE THANK YOU JESUS, AND THEN HE'LL DO THE REST.
HOW CAN THAT GET ANY BETTER, OR EASIER.
GOD WILL DO IT ALL IF WE BUT ACKNOWLEDGE HIM IN THANKS !
1Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: FROM THIS POINT ON WE SHOULD FEEL COMPELLED TO GIVE THANKS WHEN THINGS ARE BAD, INSTEAD OF ASKING WHY.
ISN'T GOOD THAT WE SERVE A GOD THAT KNOWS OUR THOUGHTS AFAR OFF, SO THAT HE'LL KNOW EXACTLY WHY IT IS WE ARE SAYING THANK YOU WHEN WE SHOULD BE ASKING WHY !
Psalms 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
ASKING WHY MAY GET US AN ANSWER, BUT SAYING THANK YOU WILL BRING A SOLUTION .
Thursday, December 24, 2009
ARE WE RUNNING, OR ROARING ??
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
THE WISE KING SOLOMON SAID A MOUTH FULL WHEN MAKING THIS COMMENT, AND IT ALL WAS SAID IN ONE SENTENCE, WITH FEW WORDS.
OFTEN WE SPEAK IN CIRCLES, AND FAR TO MUCH DETAIL TO SAY WHAT CAN BE SAID IN SECONDS IF WE WOULD JUST BE STRAIGHT WITH ONE ANOTHER.
THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE HONEST, DIRECT, INSIGHTFUL, AND WISE.
WE SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS FEELINGS, BUT NOT TO A FAULT.
SOLOMON OBVIOUSLY OBSERVED THESE TRAITS IN INDIVIDUALS POSSESSING THESE CHARACTERISTICS, AND FEELING THE NEED TO INFORM, AND EDUCATE HE RECORDED IT.
MORE THEN LIKELY IN THE HOPES THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WOULD CAUSE OUR SELF-EXAMINATION, THEREBY ALLOWING US TO NOT BE FOUND IN A WICKED THAT CONDITION, CAUSING US TO FLEE UN-NECESSARILY.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ACCUSED OF DESIRING, OR COVETING POSSESSIONS, OR THE SPOUSE OF ANOTHER WHEN THAT WAS NEVER EVEN ON YOUR MIND.
THOUGH I'M NO SOLOMON, I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH THE DETECTION SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE ALLOWED ME TO WITNESS THE EVIL HEART, AND MIND AT WORK.
I'VE DISCOVERED THAT THOSE THAT STEAL, HAVE THE BIGGEST LOCKS, AND THOSE THAT CHEAT, NEVER TRUST THEIR MATES.
TO GO ALONG WITH THESE EXAMPLES WE CAN ADD THAT A LIAR WILL RARELY BELIEVE YOU, AND A PERSON THAT ATTAINED THEIR STATUS BY ILL MEANS, BELIEVES YOU WILL UNDERMINE THEM TO GAIN OURS OR THEIR POSITIONS.
THAT IS WHY SOLOMON ACCURATELY REPORTS THAT THE WICKED WILL FLEE WHEN NOT PURSUED.
WICKED PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ON THE RUN, AND NEVER FEEL SAFE IF ONLY IN THEIR MINDS DUE TO THEIR BELIEF THAT SOMEONE IS ALWAYS AFTER THEM, AND THEIRS.
THE WICKED IS ALWAYS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLEEING BECAUSE DEEP INSIDE THEY KNOW THEY DESERVE TO BE CAUGHT, AND PUNISHED, BUT WHO REALLY WANTS THAT ?
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH THE RIGHTEOUS CAN DIG IN, STAND THEIR GROUND, AND ROAR LIKE A LOIN, DECLARING WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG FOR ALL TO HEAR, WITHOUT APOLOGY.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: ARE WE ALWAYS LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDERS AWAITING THE FALL OF THE JUDGES AXE, OR ARE WE ABLE TO STAND ON THE WORD, AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY ?
FINALLY BROTHERS, AND SISTERS IT COMES DOWN TO THESE TWO DO OR DIE QUESTIONS.
ARE WE WICKED OR RIGHTEOUS ?
ARE WE RUNNING, OR ROARING ?
THE WISE KING SOLOMON SAID A MOUTH FULL WHEN MAKING THIS COMMENT, AND IT ALL WAS SAID IN ONE SENTENCE, WITH FEW WORDS.
OFTEN WE SPEAK IN CIRCLES, AND FAR TO MUCH DETAIL TO SAY WHAT CAN BE SAID IN SECONDS IF WE WOULD JUST BE STRAIGHT WITH ONE ANOTHER.
THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE HONEST, DIRECT, INSIGHTFUL, AND WISE.
WE SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS FEELINGS, BUT NOT TO A FAULT.
SOLOMON OBVIOUSLY OBSERVED THESE TRAITS IN INDIVIDUALS POSSESSING THESE CHARACTERISTICS, AND FEELING THE NEED TO INFORM, AND EDUCATE HE RECORDED IT.
MORE THEN LIKELY IN THE HOPES THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WOULD CAUSE OUR SELF-EXAMINATION, THEREBY ALLOWING US TO NOT BE FOUND IN A WICKED THAT CONDITION, CAUSING US TO FLEE UN-NECESSARILY.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ACCUSED OF DESIRING, OR COVETING POSSESSIONS, OR THE SPOUSE OF ANOTHER WHEN THAT WAS NEVER EVEN ON YOUR MIND.
THOUGH I'M NO SOLOMON, I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH THE DETECTION SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE ALLOWED ME TO WITNESS THE EVIL HEART, AND MIND AT WORK.
I'VE DISCOVERED THAT THOSE THAT STEAL, HAVE THE BIGGEST LOCKS, AND THOSE THAT CHEAT, NEVER TRUST THEIR MATES.
TO GO ALONG WITH THESE EXAMPLES WE CAN ADD THAT A LIAR WILL RARELY BELIEVE YOU, AND A PERSON THAT ATTAINED THEIR STATUS BY ILL MEANS, BELIEVES YOU WILL UNDERMINE THEM TO GAIN OURS OR THEIR POSITIONS.
THAT IS WHY SOLOMON ACCURATELY REPORTS THAT THE WICKED WILL FLEE WHEN NOT PURSUED.
WICKED PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ON THE RUN, AND NEVER FEEL SAFE IF ONLY IN THEIR MINDS DUE TO THEIR BELIEF THAT SOMEONE IS ALWAYS AFTER THEM, AND THEIRS.
THE WICKED IS ALWAYS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLEEING BECAUSE DEEP INSIDE THEY KNOW THEY DESERVE TO BE CAUGHT, AND PUNISHED, BUT WHO REALLY WANTS THAT ?
ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH THE RIGHTEOUS CAN DIG IN, STAND THEIR GROUND, AND ROAR LIKE A LOIN, DECLARING WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG FOR ALL TO HEAR, WITHOUT APOLOGY.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: ARE WE ALWAYS LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDERS AWAITING THE FALL OF THE JUDGES AXE, OR ARE WE ABLE TO STAND ON THE WORD, AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY ?
FINALLY BROTHERS, AND SISTERS IT COMES DOWN TO THESE TWO DO OR DIE QUESTIONS.
ARE WE WICKED OR RIGHTEOUS ?
ARE WE RUNNING, OR ROARING ?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
THERE ARE BETTER BLESSINGS !
LIVING OUR LIVE'S WITHOUT GOALS, DREAMS, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY GODLY VISIONS, PURPOSE, AND DESTINY WILL CAUSE US TO AIMLESSLY WANDER.
WE WILL ROAM LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID IN THE WILDERNESS FOR FORTY YEARS.
WHAT A TRAVESTY, 40 YEARS FOR WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A 3 DAY JOURNEY.
THOUGH THEY HAD A DESTINATION, GOAL, AND VISION, THEY FAILED TO COMPLETELY GRASP IT, CAUSING THEM TO POSSESS A DEFEATIST MINDSET.
THEY ALSO WERE PRONE TO MOANING, GROANING, AND COMPLAINING BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF FAITH, AND POOR ATTITUDES.
IN OTHER WORDS THEIR WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE WAS ALLOWED OF GOD, BUT SELF-IMPOSED DUE THEIR ACTIONS, OR IN-ACTIONS.
HOW MANY OF US LACK DIRECTION, PURPOSE, VISION, ETC....AND HAVE REPEATEDLY FAILED TO SEEK GOD'S WILL, TRUST HIS WORD, AND JUST FLAT OUT LACK FAITH IN HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER US THE IMPOSSIBLE ?
ARE WE WANDERING IN SELF-IMPOSED WILDERNESSES ?
IS GOD SIMPLY ALLOWING IN OUR LIVE'S, SITUATIONS HE NEVER INTENDED FOR US TO ENDURE, BROUGHT ON BY OUR OWN LACK OF FAITH, MUMBLING, GRUMBLING AND DISOBEDIENCE ?
WE NEED TO GROW TIRE OF THESE WILDERNESS DAYS, AND STOP SAYING WE ARE BLESSED BECAUSE OUR SHOES, AND CLOTHES HAVEN'T WORN OUT, AND BECAUSE WE HAVE MANNA, AND QUAIL.
GRANTED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL FOR THE BLESSINGS PROVIDED, BUT THEY WERE BLESSINGS IN THE MIDST OF SELF-IMPOSED
TRIALS.
ARE WE RUNNING AROUND AS THOUGH WE ARE VICTORIOUS BECAUSE OF A FEW LITTLE BLESSINGS, WHEN ALL ALONG THE BIGGER, BETTER BLESSINGS ARE TIED UP IN OUR INITIAL OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND OVERALL ATTITUDES.
SURE QUAIL, AND MANNA ARE FINE BUT GENUINELY LIVING LIKE A KINGS CHILD HAS GOT TO BE FULL OF FAR MORE PERKS THEN THE SURVIVAL RATIONS OF DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN IN SOME WILDERNESS.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: LET'S STOP BEING SATISFIED WITH THE BLESSINGS THAT MERELY ALLOW FOR SURVIVAL, AND BEGIN LIVING THE LIFE OF A KINGS CHILD, RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE, AND ABUNDANCE.
THE BLESSINGS I AM REFERRING TO ARE NOT TO BE LAVISHED UPON OURSELVES, BUT THEY WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BRING ALONG SOME FRINGE BENEFITS, WHEN USED TO BLESS AND BUILD THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AS WE BECOME THE GLORY OF GOD.
WE ARE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR ALL BLESSINGS BUT, THERE ARE BETTER BLESSINGS. THEN WILDERNESS BLESSINGS.
ESPECIALLY WHEN WE PLACED OURSELVES IN THE WILDERNESS.
WE WILL ROAM LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID IN THE WILDERNESS FOR FORTY YEARS.
WHAT A TRAVESTY, 40 YEARS FOR WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A 3 DAY JOURNEY.
THOUGH THEY HAD A DESTINATION, GOAL, AND VISION, THEY FAILED TO COMPLETELY GRASP IT, CAUSING THEM TO POSSESS A DEFEATIST MINDSET.
THEY ALSO WERE PRONE TO MOANING, GROANING, AND COMPLAINING BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF FAITH, AND POOR ATTITUDES.
IN OTHER WORDS THEIR WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE WAS ALLOWED OF GOD, BUT SELF-IMPOSED DUE THEIR ACTIONS, OR IN-ACTIONS.
HOW MANY OF US LACK DIRECTION, PURPOSE, VISION, ETC....AND HAVE REPEATEDLY FAILED TO SEEK GOD'S WILL, TRUST HIS WORD, AND JUST FLAT OUT LACK FAITH IN HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER US THE IMPOSSIBLE ?
ARE WE WANDERING IN SELF-IMPOSED WILDERNESSES ?
IS GOD SIMPLY ALLOWING IN OUR LIVE'S, SITUATIONS HE NEVER INTENDED FOR US TO ENDURE, BROUGHT ON BY OUR OWN LACK OF FAITH, MUMBLING, GRUMBLING AND DISOBEDIENCE ?
WE NEED TO GROW TIRE OF THESE WILDERNESS DAYS, AND STOP SAYING WE ARE BLESSED BECAUSE OUR SHOES, AND CLOTHES HAVEN'T WORN OUT, AND BECAUSE WE HAVE MANNA, AND QUAIL.
GRANTED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL FOR THE BLESSINGS PROVIDED, BUT THEY WERE BLESSINGS IN THE MIDST OF SELF-IMPOSED
TRIALS.
ARE WE RUNNING AROUND AS THOUGH WE ARE VICTORIOUS BECAUSE OF A FEW LITTLE BLESSINGS, WHEN ALL ALONG THE BIGGER, BETTER BLESSINGS ARE TIED UP IN OUR INITIAL OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND OVERALL ATTITUDES.
SURE QUAIL, AND MANNA ARE FINE BUT GENUINELY LIVING LIKE A KINGS CHILD HAS GOT TO BE FULL OF FAR MORE PERKS THEN THE SURVIVAL RATIONS OF DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN IN SOME WILDERNESS.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: LET'S STOP BEING SATISFIED WITH THE BLESSINGS THAT MERELY ALLOW FOR SURVIVAL, AND BEGIN LIVING THE LIFE OF A KINGS CHILD, RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE, AND ABUNDANCE.
THE BLESSINGS I AM REFERRING TO ARE NOT TO BE LAVISHED UPON OURSELVES, BUT THEY WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BRING ALONG SOME FRINGE BENEFITS, WHEN USED TO BLESS AND BUILD THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AS WE BECOME THE GLORY OF GOD.
WE ARE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR ALL BLESSINGS BUT, THERE ARE BETTER BLESSINGS. THEN WILDERNESS BLESSINGS.
ESPECIALLY WHEN WE PLACED OURSELVES IN THE WILDERNESS.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
THE ULTIMATE STEWARD
YESTERDAY MY INTENTIONS WERE TO SPEAK ON STEWARDSHIP FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, BUT AS I BEGAN THE LORD LED ME IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, WHICH LED TO " WILL THE REAL WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT PLEASE STAND".
SO TODAY I WILL ATTEMPT TO SHARE WHAT THE LORD SHARED WITH ME YESTERDAY, BUT WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO SHARE UNTIL TODAY.
WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING THE LORD REQUIRES OF US, WE CAN REST ASSURED THAT HE NOT ONLY DOES IT HIMSELF, BUT HE UNDOUBTEDLY DOES IT AT
A FAR SUPERIOR LEVEL THEN OUR FINEST OF EFFORTS CAN PRODUCE.
AS I THOUGHT ON MY RECENTLY PASSED DAUGHTER, I THOUGHT ON HOW SPECIAL SHE WAS TO ME AND OUR FAMILY.
SHE WAS UNIQUELY TALENTED, CARING, FUNNY, GIFTED, LOVING, AND EXTREMELY PERSONABLE, WHICH HAD ME THINKING WHAT A WASTE THAT THE WORLD NO LONGER HAD HER HERE TO BLESS US WITH HER PRESENCE.
IT WAS AT THAT TIME THE LORD WHISPERED IN MY SPIRIT THAT NOT AN IOTA OF HER SPECIAL UNIQUENESS HAS BEEN WASTED, THEN HE PROCEEDED TO BREAK IT DOWN FOR ME.
GOD ALLOWED ME TO SEE THAT THE PAIN AND SUFFERING ENDURED BY HER WHILE ON EARTH WAS FOR HER MAKING, AS WELL AS THE OTHER EXPERIENCES HER LIFE AFFORDED HER.
HE THEN ASKED ME HOW COULD HE BE JUST IF HE ALLOWED US TO LIVE AND DIE ON THIS EARTH TO FORM SUCH BEAUTIFUL SAINTS AS MY DAUGHTER WAS, ONLY TO ALLOW THE FINALLY FINISHED PRODUCT TO NEVER BE ENJOYED, OR IMPACT OTHERS, OR EVEN GOD HIMSELF AGAIN ?
THIS WAS WHEN THE LORD INSTILLED IN ME THE FACT THAT HE IS THE KEEPER OF SOULS, AND JUST LIKE WE ARE TO STEWARD OVER ALL ENTRUSTED TO US, HE LIKEWISE DOES THE SAME WITH THE SOULS ENTRUSTED TO HIM.
IT THEN BECAME PLAIN, THAT IF GOD SIMPLY ALLOWED THE SUFFERING FOR THIS EARTH HE BE A TORTURER, AND NOT A SAVIOR, BUT HE IS A SAVIOR BECAUSE THE SUFFERING IS DESIGNED AS AN ESCAPE, NOT DESTRUCTION.
THE LORD BEING A WISE STEWARD WOULD NEVER WASTE THE SOUL THAT HAS ENDURED THIS WORLDS PAIN, SUFFERING, TEST AND TRIALS TO MATURITY, AND COMPLETION IN HIM AND THEN DISCARD IT.
THOUGH I AM STILL VERY MUCH GRIEVING, AND MOURNING MY DAUGHTERS LOSS, I GAINED A NEW MEASURE OF UNDERSTANDING, WHICH BRINGS A MEASURE OF PEACE WITH IT IN RELATION TO MY DAUGHTERS PLACE IN CHRIST.
SO OFTEN WE HEAR TAUGHT, AND PREACHED AT FUNERALS THAT TO BE ABSENT FROM THIS BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD, WHICH IS TRUE.
NOW I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I GENERALLY HEAR A GREAT EMPHASIS BEING PLACED ON THE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF OUR EARTHLY BODIES, AND HOW WE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN, WHICH IS ALSO TRUE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: TODAY I REALIZE THAT MORE IMPORTANTLY THEN MY SEEING MY DAUGHTER AGAIN AND RECOGNIZING HER PHYSICALLY, THAT SHE WILL VERY MUCH STILL HAVE HER PERSONALITY WHICH WAS COMPLETED AND MATURED IN CHRIST PRIOR TO HIM CALLING HER HOME.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO NOT SEE HER, BUT HEAR HER TALK OR LAUGH, AND BEFORE I TURN AROUND KNOW THAT IT IS THE VOICE OR LAUGHTER OF MY DAUGHTER THAT DISCUSSED ISSUES WITH ME, AND RODE MY BACK HORSEY STYLE.
THE JUST LORD HAS PRESERVED, AND STEWARDED WELL OVER HER AND WHEN REUNITED WE WILL BE ABLE TO PICK UP ON CONVERSATIONS AS THOUGH WE NEVER HAD AN INTERRUPTION.
WHY WOULD HE SPEND ALL OF OUR TIME ON EARTH TELLING US TO L,OVE ONE ANOTHER ONLY FOR US NOT TO LOVE EACH OTHER IN ETERNITY ?
HE WOULDN'T !
ONCE SAVED OUR SOULS ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE ULTIMATE STEWARD, PRESERVING US FOR HIS GLORY, BUT DUE TO HIS GOODNESS ALSO BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE TOWARDS US SO WE CAN CONTINUE LOVING EACHOTHER FOR ETERNITY.
SO TODAY I WILL ATTEMPT TO SHARE WHAT THE LORD SHARED WITH ME YESTERDAY, BUT WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO SHARE UNTIL TODAY.
WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING THE LORD REQUIRES OF US, WE CAN REST ASSURED THAT HE NOT ONLY DOES IT HIMSELF, BUT HE UNDOUBTEDLY DOES IT AT
A FAR SUPERIOR LEVEL THEN OUR FINEST OF EFFORTS CAN PRODUCE.
AS I THOUGHT ON MY RECENTLY PASSED DAUGHTER, I THOUGHT ON HOW SPECIAL SHE WAS TO ME AND OUR FAMILY.
SHE WAS UNIQUELY TALENTED, CARING, FUNNY, GIFTED, LOVING, AND EXTREMELY PERSONABLE, WHICH HAD ME THINKING WHAT A WASTE THAT THE WORLD NO LONGER HAD HER HERE TO BLESS US WITH HER PRESENCE.
IT WAS AT THAT TIME THE LORD WHISPERED IN MY SPIRIT THAT NOT AN IOTA OF HER SPECIAL UNIQUENESS HAS BEEN WASTED, THEN HE PROCEEDED TO BREAK IT DOWN FOR ME.
GOD ALLOWED ME TO SEE THAT THE PAIN AND SUFFERING ENDURED BY HER WHILE ON EARTH WAS FOR HER MAKING, AS WELL AS THE OTHER EXPERIENCES HER LIFE AFFORDED HER.
HE THEN ASKED ME HOW COULD HE BE JUST IF HE ALLOWED US TO LIVE AND DIE ON THIS EARTH TO FORM SUCH BEAUTIFUL SAINTS AS MY DAUGHTER WAS, ONLY TO ALLOW THE FINALLY FINISHED PRODUCT TO NEVER BE ENJOYED, OR IMPACT OTHERS, OR EVEN GOD HIMSELF AGAIN ?
THIS WAS WHEN THE LORD INSTILLED IN ME THE FACT THAT HE IS THE KEEPER OF SOULS, AND JUST LIKE WE ARE TO STEWARD OVER ALL ENTRUSTED TO US, HE LIKEWISE DOES THE SAME WITH THE SOULS ENTRUSTED TO HIM.
IT THEN BECAME PLAIN, THAT IF GOD SIMPLY ALLOWED THE SUFFERING FOR THIS EARTH HE BE A TORTURER, AND NOT A SAVIOR, BUT HE IS A SAVIOR BECAUSE THE SUFFERING IS DESIGNED AS AN ESCAPE, NOT DESTRUCTION.
THE LORD BEING A WISE STEWARD WOULD NEVER WASTE THE SOUL THAT HAS ENDURED THIS WORLDS PAIN, SUFFERING, TEST AND TRIALS TO MATURITY, AND COMPLETION IN HIM AND THEN DISCARD IT.
THOUGH I AM STILL VERY MUCH GRIEVING, AND MOURNING MY DAUGHTERS LOSS, I GAINED A NEW MEASURE OF UNDERSTANDING, WHICH BRINGS A MEASURE OF PEACE WITH IT IN RELATION TO MY DAUGHTERS PLACE IN CHRIST.
SO OFTEN WE HEAR TAUGHT, AND PREACHED AT FUNERALS THAT TO BE ABSENT FROM THIS BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD, WHICH IS TRUE.
NOW I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I GENERALLY HEAR A GREAT EMPHASIS BEING PLACED ON THE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF OUR EARTHLY BODIES, AND HOW WE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN, WHICH IS ALSO TRUE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: TODAY I REALIZE THAT MORE IMPORTANTLY THEN MY SEEING MY DAUGHTER AGAIN AND RECOGNIZING HER PHYSICALLY, THAT SHE WILL VERY MUCH STILL HAVE HER PERSONALITY WHICH WAS COMPLETED AND MATURED IN CHRIST PRIOR TO HIM CALLING HER HOME.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO NOT SEE HER, BUT HEAR HER TALK OR LAUGH, AND BEFORE I TURN AROUND KNOW THAT IT IS THE VOICE OR LAUGHTER OF MY DAUGHTER THAT DISCUSSED ISSUES WITH ME, AND RODE MY BACK HORSEY STYLE.
THE JUST LORD HAS PRESERVED, AND STEWARDED WELL OVER HER AND WHEN REUNITED WE WILL BE ABLE TO PICK UP ON CONVERSATIONS AS THOUGH WE NEVER HAD AN INTERRUPTION.
WHY WOULD HE SPEND ALL OF OUR TIME ON EARTH TELLING US TO L,OVE ONE ANOTHER ONLY FOR US NOT TO LOVE EACH OTHER IN ETERNITY ?
HE WOULDN'T !
ONCE SAVED OUR SOULS ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE ULTIMATE STEWARD, PRESERVING US FOR HIS GLORY, BUT DUE TO HIS GOODNESS ALSO BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE TOWARDS US SO WE CAN CONTINUE LOVING EACHOTHER FOR ETERNITY.
Monday, December 21, 2009
WILL THE REAL WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT PLEASE STAND-UP
Mat 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
IN MATTHEW 25:26 THE LORD TELLS OF A PARABLE WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT FAILED TO WISELY ATTEND TO HIS MASTERS TALENT WAS REFERRED TO AS A WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT.
THOSE ARE RATHER HARSH WORDS TOWARDS A MAN THAT DIDN'T ROB OR STEAL FROM THE MASTERS COFFERS.
THIS MAN WAS SIMPLY GUILTY OF BURYING WHAT WAS GIVEN HIM BY THE MASTER.
AFTER CLOSER EXAMINATION WE WILL DISCOVER THAT THE MASTER DIDN'T EVEN GIVE INSTRUCTIONS WITH THE TALENT'S.
THE LORD STATES, HE GAVE THEM TALENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITIES, AND THEN HE LEFT.
ONE WOULD THINK, THIS WOULD EXEMPT THE SERVANT FROM SUCH A HARSH CRITICISM SINCE HE WAS LEFT UP TO HIS OWN DEVICES TO DO AS HE WOULD WITH HIS ALLOTTED TALENT.
AS I'M SURE MOST, IF NOT ALL ARE AWARE THAT WE ARE TO SEE OURSELVES IN THE LORDS PARABLES THAT WE MAY LEARN FROM THE PARABLES EXAMPLES THE MORALS OF THE STORY.
THE OBVIOUS LESSON IS THAT ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO GIVE ACCOUNT FOR WHAT IT IS WE DO WITH THE TALENTS ALLOTTED US.
ONE OF THE NOT SO OBVIOUS LESSONS IS, EVEN WITHOUT DIRECT ORDERS OF WHAT TO DO WITH OUR TALENTS AND ABILITIES, WE ARE STILL GOING TO BE CALLED ON THE CARPET BY OUR MASTER.
IF WE SHARED, AND ENJOYED THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR MASTER WE WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO WHETHER HE SPECIFICALLY SPOKE IT OR NOT.
THE HIDDEN MORAL THAT REQUIRES A PROPHETS ILLUMINATION FOR MOST, IS THAT THIS PARABLE IS MORE ABOUT RELATIONSHIP THEN IT IS TALENT !
JESUS STATES THAT THE MASTER TOLD THE SERVANT THAT HE KNEW WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS, THEREFORE HE SHOULD HAVE DONE WHAT HE KNEW HIS MASTER EXPECTED, NOT WHAT HE SPOKE, OR DIDN'T SPEAK.
IT WAS THE FACT THAT HE KNEW THE MASTER, AND STILL REFUSED TO DO WHAT HE KNEW WOULD PLEASE HIM REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS SPOKEN OR NOT THAT MADE THIS SERVANT WICKED AND SLOTHFUL.
I. THE SERVANT WAS WICKED BECAUSE SOMEWHERE IN HIS HEART HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD REBEL AGAINST WHAT HE KNEW THE MASTER WOULD LIKE.
II. THE SERVANT WAS THEN CALLED SLOTHFUL BECAUSE AT THE VERY LEAST HAD HE SIMPLY ALLOWED THE BANKERS TO BE AWARE OF THE TALENT THEY COULD HAVE PROVIDED HIM INTEREST WITH ZERO EFFORT ON HIS BEHALF.
PROPHETS COME TO BRING ORDER, AND ORDER BEGINS WITH KNOWLEDGE, AND
UNDERSTANDING, BOTH OF WHICH ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF WISDOM.
JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES THAT HE USED PARABLES TO CONFOUND THE WISE, AND THE SUPPOSED WISE HAVE FOR MILLENNIUM BEEN TEACHING THAT THIS PARABLE WAS ABOUT TALENTS, BEING WICKED AND SLOTHFUL, AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE THEY'VE TAUGHT.
TODAY THOUGH THE LORD HAS SENT HIS RHEMA WORD TO REVEAL TO US THAT HIS PRIMARY CONCERN WITH US IS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
THE TALENTS ARE SIMPLY TOOLS FOR THE UP BUILDING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD WHICH WE ARE ALWAYS SPEAKING OF.
MY QUESTION IS HOW MANY OF US GREAT KINGDOM BUILDERS HAVE EVER STOPPED TO REALIZE THAT WITHOUT SUBJECTS THERE IS NO KINGDOM, AND WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP THERE CAN BE NO SUBJECTS.
JESUS IS THE ULTIMATE KINGDOM BUILDER, AND HIS PURPOSE WAS NEVER TO HAVE A BUNCH OF TALENTED FOLLOWERS, BUT TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FOLLOWERS.
WHY WOULD GOD NEED US TO BE TALENTED WHEN HE IS OMNIPOTENT ?
TALENTS ARE A MEANS, OR GAGE BY WHICH TO QUALIFY US, JUST LIKE TEST, AND QUIZZES IN SCHOOL ARE TO REVEAL WHAT WE HAVE RETAINED IN CLASS AND DETERMINE IF WE ARE WORTHY OF THE NEXT GRADE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE OUR EYES OFF OF THE TALENTS, AND PLACE OUR EYES, HEART, AND MINDS ON THE GIVER OF THE TALENTS.
GOD DESIRES WE KNOW HIM SO WELL THAT WE CAN MOVE ON HIS BEHALF WITHOUT DIRECT INSTRUCTION BECAUSE WE HAVE BECOME MEN AFTER HIS OWN HEART.
THERE IS ONE MORE THING I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IN THIS VERSE, AND THAT IS THE FACT THAT THE MASTER DID SOMETHING OFTEN OVERLOOKED BY THE SUPPOSED WISE TEACHERS ALSO.
Mat 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
NOTICE THE TALENTS WERE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO EACH MANS ABILITY.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT GODS JUDGEMENT IS JUST.
GOD WON'T JUDGE US FOR NOT BEING A SURGEON SINCE HE DIDN'T GIFT US WITH SURGEONS HANDS.
NOR WILL GOD JUDGE US FOR NOT BEING EINSTEIN, SINCE HE DIDN'T GIFT US WITH EINSTEINS BRAIN.
BUT, GOD WILL JUDGE US FOR BEING PASTORS, WHEN HE ONLY BLESSED US WITH DEACON ABILITIES.
LET'S LEARN THE WORD, WHICH WILL HELP US LEARN GOD, WHICH IN TURN WILL LEAD TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, WHO WILL THEN TRUST US DUE TO OUR RELATIONSHIP AND REVEAL OUR PURPOSE.
ONCE OUR PURPOSE IS KNOWN IT IS THEN THAT WE DECIDE TO RETURN IT TO GOD THAT HE MAY USE IT FOR HIS GLORY, OR WE CAN REBEL AND HIDE, OR DENY WHAT IT IS WE KNOW HE DESIRES FROM US.
IN MATTHEW 25:26 THE LORD TELLS OF A PARABLE WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT FAILED TO WISELY ATTEND TO HIS MASTERS TALENT WAS REFERRED TO AS A WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT.
THOSE ARE RATHER HARSH WORDS TOWARDS A MAN THAT DIDN'T ROB OR STEAL FROM THE MASTERS COFFERS.
THIS MAN WAS SIMPLY GUILTY OF BURYING WHAT WAS GIVEN HIM BY THE MASTER.
AFTER CLOSER EXAMINATION WE WILL DISCOVER THAT THE MASTER DIDN'T EVEN GIVE INSTRUCTIONS WITH THE TALENT'S.
THE LORD STATES, HE GAVE THEM TALENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITIES, AND THEN HE LEFT.
ONE WOULD THINK, THIS WOULD EXEMPT THE SERVANT FROM SUCH A HARSH CRITICISM SINCE HE WAS LEFT UP TO HIS OWN DEVICES TO DO AS HE WOULD WITH HIS ALLOTTED TALENT.
AS I'M SURE MOST, IF NOT ALL ARE AWARE THAT WE ARE TO SEE OURSELVES IN THE LORDS PARABLES THAT WE MAY LEARN FROM THE PARABLES EXAMPLES THE MORALS OF THE STORY.
THE OBVIOUS LESSON IS THAT ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO GIVE ACCOUNT FOR WHAT IT IS WE DO WITH THE TALENTS ALLOTTED US.
ONE OF THE NOT SO OBVIOUS LESSONS IS, EVEN WITHOUT DIRECT ORDERS OF WHAT TO DO WITH OUR TALENTS AND ABILITIES, WE ARE STILL GOING TO BE CALLED ON THE CARPET BY OUR MASTER.
IF WE SHARED, AND ENJOYED THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR MASTER WE WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO WHETHER HE SPECIFICALLY SPOKE IT OR NOT.
THE HIDDEN MORAL THAT REQUIRES A PROPHETS ILLUMINATION FOR MOST, IS THAT THIS PARABLE IS MORE ABOUT RELATIONSHIP THEN IT IS TALENT !
JESUS STATES THAT THE MASTER TOLD THE SERVANT THAT HE KNEW WHAT KIND OF MAN HE WAS, THEREFORE HE SHOULD HAVE DONE WHAT HE KNEW HIS MASTER EXPECTED, NOT WHAT HE SPOKE, OR DIDN'T SPEAK.
IT WAS THE FACT THAT HE KNEW THE MASTER, AND STILL REFUSED TO DO WHAT HE KNEW WOULD PLEASE HIM REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS SPOKEN OR NOT THAT MADE THIS SERVANT WICKED AND SLOTHFUL.
I. THE SERVANT WAS WICKED BECAUSE SOMEWHERE IN HIS HEART HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD REBEL AGAINST WHAT HE KNEW THE MASTER WOULD LIKE.
II. THE SERVANT WAS THEN CALLED SLOTHFUL BECAUSE AT THE VERY LEAST HAD HE SIMPLY ALLOWED THE BANKERS TO BE AWARE OF THE TALENT THEY COULD HAVE PROVIDED HIM INTEREST WITH ZERO EFFORT ON HIS BEHALF.
PROPHETS COME TO BRING ORDER, AND ORDER BEGINS WITH KNOWLEDGE, AND
UNDERSTANDING, BOTH OF WHICH ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF WISDOM.
JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES THAT HE USED PARABLES TO CONFOUND THE WISE, AND THE SUPPOSED WISE HAVE FOR MILLENNIUM BEEN TEACHING THAT THIS PARABLE WAS ABOUT TALENTS, BEING WICKED AND SLOTHFUL, AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE THEY'VE TAUGHT.
TODAY THOUGH THE LORD HAS SENT HIS RHEMA WORD TO REVEAL TO US THAT HIS PRIMARY CONCERN WITH US IS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
THE TALENTS ARE SIMPLY TOOLS FOR THE UP BUILDING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD WHICH WE ARE ALWAYS SPEAKING OF.
MY QUESTION IS HOW MANY OF US GREAT KINGDOM BUILDERS HAVE EVER STOPPED TO REALIZE THAT WITHOUT SUBJECTS THERE IS NO KINGDOM, AND WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP THERE CAN BE NO SUBJECTS.
JESUS IS THE ULTIMATE KINGDOM BUILDER, AND HIS PURPOSE WAS NEVER TO HAVE A BUNCH OF TALENTED FOLLOWERS, BUT TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FOLLOWERS.
WHY WOULD GOD NEED US TO BE TALENTED WHEN HE IS OMNIPOTENT ?
TALENTS ARE A MEANS, OR GAGE BY WHICH TO QUALIFY US, JUST LIKE TEST, AND QUIZZES IN SCHOOL ARE TO REVEAL WHAT WE HAVE RETAINED IN CLASS AND DETERMINE IF WE ARE WORTHY OF THE NEXT GRADE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE OUR EYES OFF OF THE TALENTS, AND PLACE OUR EYES, HEART, AND MINDS ON THE GIVER OF THE TALENTS.
GOD DESIRES WE KNOW HIM SO WELL THAT WE CAN MOVE ON HIS BEHALF WITHOUT DIRECT INSTRUCTION BECAUSE WE HAVE BECOME MEN AFTER HIS OWN HEART.
THERE IS ONE MORE THING I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IN THIS VERSE, AND THAT IS THE FACT THAT THE MASTER DID SOMETHING OFTEN OVERLOOKED BY THE SUPPOSED WISE TEACHERS ALSO.
Mat 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
NOTICE THE TALENTS WERE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO EACH MANS ABILITY.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT GODS JUDGEMENT IS JUST.
GOD WON'T JUDGE US FOR NOT BEING A SURGEON SINCE HE DIDN'T GIFT US WITH SURGEONS HANDS.
NOR WILL GOD JUDGE US FOR NOT BEING EINSTEIN, SINCE HE DIDN'T GIFT US WITH EINSTEINS BRAIN.
BUT, GOD WILL JUDGE US FOR BEING PASTORS, WHEN HE ONLY BLESSED US WITH DEACON ABILITIES.
LET'S LEARN THE WORD, WHICH WILL HELP US LEARN GOD, WHICH IN TURN WILL LEAD TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, WHO WILL THEN TRUST US DUE TO OUR RELATIONSHIP AND REVEAL OUR PURPOSE.
ONCE OUR PURPOSE IS KNOWN IT IS THEN THAT WE DECIDE TO RETURN IT TO GOD THAT HE MAY USE IT FOR HIS GLORY, OR WE CAN REBEL AND HIDE, OR DENY WHAT IT IS WE KNOW HE DESIRES FROM US.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
ONLY SECONDS FROM BLESSINGS !
WHEN GOD DECIDES TO MOVE ON OUR BEHALF, HE CAN DO IN MINUTES, OR SECONDS WHAT WE HAVE PRAYED FOR, BELIEVED IN, GIVEN UP ON, DOUBTED, AND PRAYED FOR AGAIN BEFORE WE CAN EVEN REALIZE IT'S DONE.
Habakkuk 2:3 though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
IN THIS FINAL CLAUSE OF THE VERSE THE LORD IS REVEALING THAT OUR VISIONS, AND PROMISES WILL BE ON HOLD, BUT INSTEAD OF GIVING UP WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO WAIT.
THE WAITING IS SIMPLY A PART OF THE PROCESS, BUT IT IS NOT IN VAIN BECAUSE THE PROPHET STATES IT (THE VISION/PROMISE) IS SURE TO COME.
THAT ELIMINATES ALL GUESS WORK, AND/OR DOUBT, IT WILL SURELY COME.
SURELY IS A DEFINITIVE STATEMENT, ONE WITHOUT ROOM FOR WAVERING.
ALL OF THIS IS GOOD NEWS, BUT TODAY I FOCUS ON THE SWIFTNESS OF GOD'S MOVING ON OUR BEHALF ONCE THE PRESCRIBED TIME OF TARRYING (WAITING)
IS COMPLETE.
GOD JUST WANTS TO SEE IF WE WILL LEARN HIS WORD, LEAN ON IT, AND TRUST HIM TO DELIVER ON EACH AND EVERY PROMISE HE HAS SPOKEN INTO OUR LIFE'S.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WHEN IT'S TIME FOR OUR VISIONS, AND PROMISES TO COME TO FRUITION, THERE IS NO FORCE ON EARTH THAT CAN PREVENT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD FROM COMING TO PASS.
GOD DESIRES THAT WE LEARN HIS WORD, LEAN ON HIS WORD, AND TRUST IN HIS WORD, THESE ARE THE TOOLS NECESSARY TO WAIT ON THE BLESSINGS REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATIONS.
THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE LIKE THE VAULTS OF BANKS, THEY ONLY OPEN AT THE PREDESTINED TIME, IT IS THEN THAT ACCESS TO THE MONEY INSIDE IS POSSIBLE.
OUR PREDESTINED BLESSINGS ARE THE SAME, THEY WILL ONLY COME TO PASS AT THE ALLOTTED TIME, IN THE APPOINTED PLACE, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THEM.
ONLY GOD KNOWS THE TIME, AND ONLY GOD HAS THE ABILITY TO BRING THE BLESSINGS TO PASS.
AT THE TIME THE BLESSINGS WILL NOT ONLY BECOME OBVIOUS, BUT THEY WILL LITERALLY OVERTAKE US.
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
IF WE WAIT, WITHIN SECONDS WE CAN GO FROM TEST AND TRIALS, TO BLESSINGS, AND SMILES
Habakkuk 2:3 though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
IN THIS FINAL CLAUSE OF THE VERSE THE LORD IS REVEALING THAT OUR VISIONS, AND PROMISES WILL BE ON HOLD, BUT INSTEAD OF GIVING UP WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO WAIT.
THE WAITING IS SIMPLY A PART OF THE PROCESS, BUT IT IS NOT IN VAIN BECAUSE THE PROPHET STATES IT (THE VISION/PROMISE) IS SURE TO COME.
THAT ELIMINATES ALL GUESS WORK, AND/OR DOUBT, IT WILL SURELY COME.
SURELY IS A DEFINITIVE STATEMENT, ONE WITHOUT ROOM FOR WAVERING.
ALL OF THIS IS GOOD NEWS, BUT TODAY I FOCUS ON THE SWIFTNESS OF GOD'S MOVING ON OUR BEHALF ONCE THE PRESCRIBED TIME OF TARRYING (WAITING)
IS COMPLETE.
GOD JUST WANTS TO SEE IF WE WILL LEARN HIS WORD, LEAN ON IT, AND TRUST HIM TO DELIVER ON EACH AND EVERY PROMISE HE HAS SPOKEN INTO OUR LIFE'S.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WHEN IT'S TIME FOR OUR VISIONS, AND PROMISES TO COME TO FRUITION, THERE IS NO FORCE ON EARTH THAT CAN PREVENT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD FROM COMING TO PASS.
GOD DESIRES THAT WE LEARN HIS WORD, LEAN ON HIS WORD, AND TRUST IN HIS WORD, THESE ARE THE TOOLS NECESSARY TO WAIT ON THE BLESSINGS REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATIONS.
THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE LIKE THE VAULTS OF BANKS, THEY ONLY OPEN AT THE PREDESTINED TIME, IT IS THEN THAT ACCESS TO THE MONEY INSIDE IS POSSIBLE.
OUR PREDESTINED BLESSINGS ARE THE SAME, THEY WILL ONLY COME TO PASS AT THE ALLOTTED TIME, IN THE APPOINTED PLACE, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THEM.
ONLY GOD KNOWS THE TIME, AND ONLY GOD HAS THE ABILITY TO BRING THE BLESSINGS TO PASS.
AT THE TIME THE BLESSINGS WILL NOT ONLY BECOME OBVIOUS, BUT THEY WILL LITERALLY OVERTAKE US.
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
IF WE WAIT, WITHIN SECONDS WE CAN GO FROM TEST AND TRIALS, TO BLESSINGS, AND SMILES
Saturday, December 19, 2009
WATCH WHERE YOU'RE POINTING !
TODAY OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE AS I WAS MEDITATING ON THE LORD, AND JUST WHAT HE WOULD HAVE ME OFFER FOR TODAY'S ENTRY, I BELIEVE HE SPOKE INTO MY SPIRIT THAT I'VE BEEN ANGRY WITH HIM.
I WILL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT 2009 HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY YEAR FOR ME, DUE TO THE EVENTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF 2008, AS WELL AS MAJOR EVENTS IN 2009.
STILL I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT OF MYSELF AS HAVING BEEN MAD AT THE LORD, BUT WHO AM I TO DOUBT THE LORD IF HE SAY'S IT'S SO ?
GIVING MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE WAS NO LIGHT FEAT FOR ME.
THIS WAS NOT DIFFICULT TO HER CHOICE IN HUSBAND, IT WAS SIMPLY THE FACT THAT ANOTHER WOULD NOW BE REQUIRED TO LOVE, PROTECT, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY BE HER SPIRITUAL COVERING.
THESE WERE JOBS I HELD HER ENTIRE LIFE, AND TOOK EXTREMELY SERIOUS, SO NEEDLESS TO SAY I FELT A LOSS, AND AN APPREHENSION.
ON TOP OF THAT THOUGH MY OLDEST DAUGHTER PASSED AWAY AND I DISCOVERED A HURT, CRUSHING, AND SHATTERING I NEVER EVEN KNEW EXISTED ON EARTH.
MY DAUGHTERS PASSING IS WHY THE LORD SAYS I AM ANGRY AT HIM.
I DO MISS HER BEYOND WORDS, BUT JUST RECENTLY I WAS ASKING MYSELF IF I MISS HER MORE, OR DO I MISS THE THE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES MORE, AND I COULDN'T SAY THEN, NOR CAN I NOW.
I DO LITERALLY ASK THE LORD TO KEEP ME FROM THINKING TO MUCH, FOR FEAR IF I STARTED TO CRY I SERIOUSLY DOUBT MY BEING ABLE TO STOP.
I'M JUST AMAZED, AND DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF THAT I COULD FIND THE NERVE TO ACTUALLY BE MAD AT THE GOD THAT HAS REPEATEDLY FORGIVEN ME, AND LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS TO SEE, AND ATTEND TO MY NEEDS.
IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE LORD I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN MY DAUGHTER, OR HAD HER FOR THE TIME IN MY LIFE THAT I DID, AND YET HERE I'VE BEEN HARBORING SOME WELL CAMOUFLAGED ANGER IN MY HEART AGAINST THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN BRING ME THROUGH THIS HEARTACHE, PAIN, AND DESPAIR.
I HAVE KNOW IDEA OF WHERE THIS IS GOING , OR WHY I'M EVEN SHARING THIS BUT I AM GRATEFUL THAT THE LORD HAS TOLD ME OF THIS ANGER THAT I MAY APPROACH HIM FOR FORGIVENESS, AND ASK FOR HIS DELIVERANCE FROM THIS .
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GRIEVE, AND I DEFINITELY DON'T KNOW HOW TO MEND MY OWN SHATTERED HEART, BUT I KNOW I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WHATS LEFT OF MY LIFE BEING ANGRY WITH THE GOD THAT BY HIS GRACE HAS BOUGHT ME THIS FAR DURING THE MOST TRYING TIMES OF MY LIFE.
WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE ON GUARD FOR DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS, AND THOUGHTS IN OUR HEART.
THESE CAN LAY HIDDEN IN OUR HEARTS FOR YEARS BECAUSE THE HEART IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED ACCORDING TO THE WORD:
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2 DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: HOW CAN WE EVER ADVANCE, AND GROW IN THE LORD WITH ANGER IN OUR HEARTS, ESPECIALLY AGAINST THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN HEAL, DELIVER, AND FORGIVE US OF THIS ANGER.
TODAY I MUST APPLY THE WORD I SO OFTEN QUOTE TO YOU, TO MYSELF.
Hebrews 12:1 and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (NEXT TO LAST CLAUSE IN VERSE)
I GUESS THE PRIDE OF LIFE HAS CREPT IN AND BESET ME.
WHAT ELSE, OTHER THAN PRIDE COULD GIVE ME THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO BE ANGRY AT THE ALL MIGHTY GOD.
I KNOW IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT WE WILL NEED GOD BEFORE HE WILL NEED US.
SATAN IS SO SHREWED THAT HE HAS LEARNED TO HIDE PRIDE RIGHT IN THE OPEN AND SO MANY OF US FALL PREY TO THE OBVIOUSLY INVISIBLE.
I'M GRATEFUL FOR STILL KNOWING THAT STILL SMALL QUITE VOICE THAT I COULD BE WARNED ABOUT THE ANGER.
IT IS WISDOM THAT EVEN WHEN WE LOSE ALL THAT WE COUNT NEAR, AND DEAR TO US WE MUSTN'T POINT OUR FINGERS AT GOD IN ANGER !
I WILL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT THAT 2009 HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY YEAR FOR ME, DUE TO THE EVENTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF 2008, AS WELL AS MAJOR EVENTS IN 2009.
STILL I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT OF MYSELF AS HAVING BEEN MAD AT THE LORD, BUT WHO AM I TO DOUBT THE LORD IF HE SAY'S IT'S SO ?
GIVING MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE WAS NO LIGHT FEAT FOR ME.
THIS WAS NOT DIFFICULT TO HER CHOICE IN HUSBAND, IT WAS SIMPLY THE FACT THAT ANOTHER WOULD NOW BE REQUIRED TO LOVE, PROTECT, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY BE HER SPIRITUAL COVERING.
THESE WERE JOBS I HELD HER ENTIRE LIFE, AND TOOK EXTREMELY SERIOUS, SO NEEDLESS TO SAY I FELT A LOSS, AND AN APPREHENSION.
ON TOP OF THAT THOUGH MY OLDEST DAUGHTER PASSED AWAY AND I DISCOVERED A HURT, CRUSHING, AND SHATTERING I NEVER EVEN KNEW EXISTED ON EARTH.
MY DAUGHTERS PASSING IS WHY THE LORD SAYS I AM ANGRY AT HIM.
I DO MISS HER BEYOND WORDS, BUT JUST RECENTLY I WAS ASKING MYSELF IF I MISS HER MORE, OR DO I MISS THE THE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES MORE, AND I COULDN'T SAY THEN, NOR CAN I NOW.
I DO LITERALLY ASK THE LORD TO KEEP ME FROM THINKING TO MUCH, FOR FEAR IF I STARTED TO CRY I SERIOUSLY DOUBT MY BEING ABLE TO STOP.
I'M JUST AMAZED, AND DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF THAT I COULD FIND THE NERVE TO ACTUALLY BE MAD AT THE GOD THAT HAS REPEATEDLY FORGIVEN ME, AND LOOKED BEYOND MY FAULTS TO SEE, AND ATTEND TO MY NEEDS.
IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE LORD I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN MY DAUGHTER, OR HAD HER FOR THE TIME IN MY LIFE THAT I DID, AND YET HERE I'VE BEEN HARBORING SOME WELL CAMOUFLAGED ANGER IN MY HEART AGAINST THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN BRING ME THROUGH THIS HEARTACHE, PAIN, AND DESPAIR.
I HAVE KNOW IDEA OF WHERE THIS IS GOING , OR WHY I'M EVEN SHARING THIS BUT I AM GRATEFUL THAT THE LORD HAS TOLD ME OF THIS ANGER THAT I MAY APPROACH HIM FOR FORGIVENESS, AND ASK FOR HIS DELIVERANCE FROM THIS .
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GRIEVE, AND I DEFINITELY DON'T KNOW HOW TO MEND MY OWN SHATTERED HEART, BUT I KNOW I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WHATS LEFT OF MY LIFE BEING ANGRY WITH THE GOD THAT BY HIS GRACE HAS BOUGHT ME THIS FAR DURING THE MOST TRYING TIMES OF MY LIFE.
WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE ON GUARD FOR DESTRUCTIVE EMOTIONS, AND THOUGHTS IN OUR HEART.
THESE CAN LAY HIDDEN IN OUR HEARTS FOR YEARS BECAUSE THE HEART IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED ACCORDING TO THE WORD:
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2 DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: HOW CAN WE EVER ADVANCE, AND GROW IN THE LORD WITH ANGER IN OUR HEARTS, ESPECIALLY AGAINST THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN HEAL, DELIVER, AND FORGIVE US OF THIS ANGER.
TODAY I MUST APPLY THE WORD I SO OFTEN QUOTE TO YOU, TO MYSELF.
Hebrews 12:1 and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, (NEXT TO LAST CLAUSE IN VERSE)
I GUESS THE PRIDE OF LIFE HAS CREPT IN AND BESET ME.
WHAT ELSE, OTHER THAN PRIDE COULD GIVE ME THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO BE ANGRY AT THE ALL MIGHTY GOD.
I KNOW IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT WE WILL NEED GOD BEFORE HE WILL NEED US.
SATAN IS SO SHREWED THAT HE HAS LEARNED TO HIDE PRIDE RIGHT IN THE OPEN AND SO MANY OF US FALL PREY TO THE OBVIOUSLY INVISIBLE.
I'M GRATEFUL FOR STILL KNOWING THAT STILL SMALL QUITE VOICE THAT I COULD BE WARNED ABOUT THE ANGER.
IT IS WISDOM THAT EVEN WHEN WE LOSE ALL THAT WE COUNT NEAR, AND DEAR TO US WE MUSTN'T POINT OUR FINGERS AT GOD IN ANGER !
Friday, December 18, 2009
R & R TIME
LET'S LEARN TO TAKE SOMETIME TO RENEW OURSELVES IN THE LORD BY SETTING ASIDE A DAY OR TWO EVERY NOW AND THEN JUST TO BE WITH OUR FATHER.
EVERY GENERAL KNOWS THAT THE EASIEST ARMY TO DEFEAT IS A TIRED ARMY.
WHEN AN ARMY FACES A SUPERIOR FORCE, IT IS A COMMON TACTIC TO MAKE NUMEROUS LITTLE ATTACKS TO KEEP THE LARGER ARMY ON THEIR TOES, AND DENYING THE REST REQUIRED TO BE ALERT.
ATTACKS OF THIS NATURE ARE NOT NECESSARILY TO GAIN VICTORIES, OR EVEN INFLICT CASUALTIES, BUT SIMPLY A MEANS OF DEPRIVING THE FOE OF NECESSARY REST.
SAINTS NEED TO SET UP DATE NIGHTS WITH THE LORD AS WE DO WITH OUR SPOUSES, OR AS WE SHOULD DO.
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO SET ASIDE DAYS FOR GOD, AND GOD ALONE.
THESE ARE SIMILAR TO R & R DAYS FOR COMBAT TROOPS.
R & R STANDS FOR REST AND RELAXATION, SO THAT TROOPS CAN GET AWAY FROM THE SOUNDS OF GUN FIRE, AND BOMBS BURSTING.
TROOPS RETURNING FROM R & R ARE USUALLY REFURBISHED, RE-ENERGIZED, RENEWED, AND RECOMMITTED TO THE TASK, AND VICTORY.
HAVE WE ALLOWED FATIGUE TO GIVE SATAN THE UPPER HAND IN OUR LIVES.
HAVE WE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SPIRITUAL BOMBS, AND GUN FIRE TO LONG WITHOUT A SESSION WITH THE FATHER TO RE-NEW, RECHARGE, REFURBISH, AND RECOMMIT US TO OUR TASK OF WINNING OUR BATTLES HERE ON EARTH THAT WE MAY MAKE IT TO HEAVEN.
WE MUST BECOME AWARE OF THE SIGNS OF BATTLE FATIGUE BEFORE SATAN MAKES US INTO CASUALTIES OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE, WHERE WE THROW UP OUR HANDS AND SAY WHATS THE USE ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: ARE WE SHELL SHOCKED, OR GUN SHY FROM REPEATED ATTACKS FROM SATAN.
HAS THE SPIRITUAL GUERRILLA WARFARE TAKEN IT'S TOLL ON US AND WE NEED SOME TIME IN GOD'S R & R ?
NEVER TAKE FOR GRANTED THE LASTING BENEFITS OF JUST A FEW HOURS ALONE WITH THE LORD, LET ALONE THE BENEFITS OF A FEW DAYS IN HIS PRESENCE !
LETS CHECK OUR CALENDERS AND SET UP R & R DATES WITH THE LORD !
EVERY GENERAL KNOWS THAT THE EASIEST ARMY TO DEFEAT IS A TIRED ARMY.
WHEN AN ARMY FACES A SUPERIOR FORCE, IT IS A COMMON TACTIC TO MAKE NUMEROUS LITTLE ATTACKS TO KEEP THE LARGER ARMY ON THEIR TOES, AND DENYING THE REST REQUIRED TO BE ALERT.
ATTACKS OF THIS NATURE ARE NOT NECESSARILY TO GAIN VICTORIES, OR EVEN INFLICT CASUALTIES, BUT SIMPLY A MEANS OF DEPRIVING THE FOE OF NECESSARY REST.
SAINTS NEED TO SET UP DATE NIGHTS WITH THE LORD AS WE DO WITH OUR SPOUSES, OR AS WE SHOULD DO.
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO SET ASIDE DAYS FOR GOD, AND GOD ALONE.
THESE ARE SIMILAR TO R & R DAYS FOR COMBAT TROOPS.
R & R STANDS FOR REST AND RELAXATION, SO THAT TROOPS CAN GET AWAY FROM THE SOUNDS OF GUN FIRE, AND BOMBS BURSTING.
TROOPS RETURNING FROM R & R ARE USUALLY REFURBISHED, RE-ENERGIZED, RENEWED, AND RECOMMITTED TO THE TASK, AND VICTORY.
HAVE WE ALLOWED FATIGUE TO GIVE SATAN THE UPPER HAND IN OUR LIVES.
HAVE WE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SPIRITUAL BOMBS, AND GUN FIRE TO LONG WITHOUT A SESSION WITH THE FATHER TO RE-NEW, RECHARGE, REFURBISH, AND RECOMMIT US TO OUR TASK OF WINNING OUR BATTLES HERE ON EARTH THAT WE MAY MAKE IT TO HEAVEN.
WE MUST BECOME AWARE OF THE SIGNS OF BATTLE FATIGUE BEFORE SATAN MAKES US INTO CASUALTIES OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE, WHERE WE THROW UP OUR HANDS AND SAY WHATS THE USE ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: ARE WE SHELL SHOCKED, OR GUN SHY FROM REPEATED ATTACKS FROM SATAN.
HAS THE SPIRITUAL GUERRILLA WARFARE TAKEN IT'S TOLL ON US AND WE NEED SOME TIME IN GOD'S R & R ?
NEVER TAKE FOR GRANTED THE LASTING BENEFITS OF JUST A FEW HOURS ALONE WITH THE LORD, LET ALONE THE BENEFITS OF A FEW DAYS IN HIS PRESENCE !
LETS CHECK OUR CALENDERS AND SET UP R & R DATES WITH THE LORD !
Thursday, December 17, 2009
FORK'S FOR SOUP ?
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
IN THIS PASSAGE GOD WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL, BUT IT CAN BE APPLIED TO US TODAY AS WE STRIVE TO MEASURE UP TO GOD'S CRITERIA.
I BELIEVE IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT MOST, IF NOT ALL THAT ARE PROFESSING CHRISTIANITY, AND STRIVING TO LIVE A LIFE PLEASING TO GOD HAS AT SOME TIME OR ANOTHER WONDERED WHY THINGS WERE AS THEY WERE IN OUR LIVE'S AT SOME PARTICULAR TIME.
THOSE TIMES WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WRONG EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE WALKING UPRIGHTLY, AND LIVING ALL YOU KNOW IN THE LORD.
THE TIMES WHEN WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE COULDN'T GO ONE STEP FURTHER, OR ENDURE ONE MORE TEST, OR TRIAL.
JUST AS IN THE ABOVE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHERE GOD WAS SHAPING, AND MOLDING ISRAEL, HE USES THE SAME PATTERN IN OUR SHAPING AND MOLDING.
WE, LIKE ISRAEL ARE ALREADY MADE VESSELS WITH OUR OWN WAY'S, AND HABITS.
THOUGH WE'VE DONE THINGS, AND HAVE LIVED WITH THINGS FOR YEARS AS THOUGH THEY WERE ALRIGHT, WE WERE ACTUALLY FAULTY, FLAWED, OR WARPED JUST LIKE SOME POTTERY IS.
SINCE THIS POTTERY IS ALREADY MADE, IT MAY REQUIRE BREAKING TO FIX, BUT MOST TIMES IT IS SIMPLY SUBJECTED TO THE NECESSARY FORCE, AND PRESSURE REQUIRED TO RE-SHAPE, RE-MOLD, AND MADE USEFUL FOR THE POTTERS PURPOSE.
NOTICE IT IS NOT ALWAYS BROKEN, BUT IT CAN BE.
ALSO TAKE NOTE THAT IT IS RE-MADE FOR PURPOSES DESIGNATED BY THE POTTER HIMSELF, AND NOT LEFT UP TO THE CLAY WHAT IT WOULD LIKE TO BE MADE INTO.
WE, LIKE THE CLAY, AND MORE SO ISRAEL ARE IN NEED OF BREAKING FOR SOME, AND WATER AND PRESSURE TO BE RE-SHAPED, AND RE-MOLDED.
YOU DO REALIZE THAT POTTERS USE WATER TO SOFTEN CLAY AND MAKE IT MORE PLIABLE.
GOD USES BAPTISMAL WATER TO SOFTEN OUR HARDEN HEARTS, BEFORE HE REALLY BEGINS THE RE-MOLDING INTO HIS PURPOSE PROCESS.
I SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT THAT THE WATER, AND THE RE-SHAPING ARE ALL DONE PRIOR TO THE FURNACE FOR THE SETTING.
JUST AS IN THE NATURAL CLAY, WE AS SAINTS MUST ENDURE EACH AND EVERY CYCLE OF THE PROCESS IF WE ARE EVER TO BECOMES USEFUL VESSELS OF THE MASTER POTTER, GOD !
SO WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE GOING HAYWIRE, AND NOTHING APPEARS TO BE IN OUR FAVOR WE SHOULD BEGIN TO PRAISE THE LORD FOR WE NOW REALIZE HE IS SIMPLY APPLYING THE NECESSARY PRESSURE TO MOLD US INTO USEFUL VESSELS FOR HIS GLORY.
BE THANKFUL WE ARE NOT BEING BROKEN, THOUGH SOME MUST BE BROKEN COMPLETELY AND THEN MOLDED.
WHATEVER OUR CASE THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT GOD OBVIOUSLY WANTS TO USE US IN AN EVEN GREATER CAPACITY OR WE COULD STAY AS WE ARE.
FORTUNATELY OUR POTTER IS PERFECT, AND NEVER APPLIES TO GREAT OF A PRESSURE, OR LEAVES US IN THE FURNACE TO LONG.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE SHOULD ALL UNDERSTAND THAT THE SECOND WE ASK THE LORD TO USE US THE PRESSURE BECOMES NECESSARY.
AS WE ARE, WE ARE NEVER READY FOR EFFECTIVE MINISTRY BY GOD'S STANDARD.
THE GREATER THE CALL, OR WORK THE GREATER THE PRESSURE WILL BE, RIGHT DOWN TO A BREAKING, AND SHATTERING IF NECESSARY.
DON'T FRET BROTHERS AND SISTERS, GOD IS THE MASTER POTTER AND HE NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE.
IF WE ATTEMPTED TO MOLD OURSELVES INTO A PASTOR, BUT HIS PURPOSE FOR US IS AS A USHER, THE PRESSURE WILL BEGIN, AND BE APPLIED TO RE-MOLD WHAT WE TRIED TO SHAPE INTO THE SHAPE HE KNOWS WE WILL BE MOST EFFECTIVE.
GOD MAY EVEN NEED TO BREAK US BECAUSE WE JUST MAYBE SO FAR FROM THE DESIRED SHAPE, OR USEFULNESS.
IF WE ATTEMPT TO EAT SOUP WITH A FORK, WISDOM WILL TELL US TO GET A SPOON, THAT IS HOW SO MANY OF US ARE.
MANY TIMES WE ARE FORKS ATTEMPTING TO DO A SPOONS WORK, BUT GOD WANTED US AS SPOONS ALL ALONG.
ARE WE FORKS FOR SOUP ?
Jer 18:5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
IN THIS PASSAGE GOD WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL, BUT IT CAN BE APPLIED TO US TODAY AS WE STRIVE TO MEASURE UP TO GOD'S CRITERIA.
I BELIEVE IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT MOST, IF NOT ALL THAT ARE PROFESSING CHRISTIANITY, AND STRIVING TO LIVE A LIFE PLEASING TO GOD HAS AT SOME TIME OR ANOTHER WONDERED WHY THINGS WERE AS THEY WERE IN OUR LIVE'S AT SOME PARTICULAR TIME.
THOSE TIMES WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WRONG EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE WALKING UPRIGHTLY, AND LIVING ALL YOU KNOW IN THE LORD.
THE TIMES WHEN WE FEEL AS THOUGH WE COULDN'T GO ONE STEP FURTHER, OR ENDURE ONE MORE TEST, OR TRIAL.
JUST AS IN THE ABOVE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHERE GOD WAS SHAPING, AND MOLDING ISRAEL, HE USES THE SAME PATTERN IN OUR SHAPING AND MOLDING.
WE, LIKE ISRAEL ARE ALREADY MADE VESSELS WITH OUR OWN WAY'S, AND HABITS.
THOUGH WE'VE DONE THINGS, AND HAVE LIVED WITH THINGS FOR YEARS AS THOUGH THEY WERE ALRIGHT, WE WERE ACTUALLY FAULTY, FLAWED, OR WARPED JUST LIKE SOME POTTERY IS.
SINCE THIS POTTERY IS ALREADY MADE, IT MAY REQUIRE BREAKING TO FIX, BUT MOST TIMES IT IS SIMPLY SUBJECTED TO THE NECESSARY FORCE, AND PRESSURE REQUIRED TO RE-SHAPE, RE-MOLD, AND MADE USEFUL FOR THE POTTERS PURPOSE.
NOTICE IT IS NOT ALWAYS BROKEN, BUT IT CAN BE.
ALSO TAKE NOTE THAT IT IS RE-MADE FOR PURPOSES DESIGNATED BY THE POTTER HIMSELF, AND NOT LEFT UP TO THE CLAY WHAT IT WOULD LIKE TO BE MADE INTO.
WE, LIKE THE CLAY, AND MORE SO ISRAEL ARE IN NEED OF BREAKING FOR SOME, AND WATER AND PRESSURE TO BE RE-SHAPED, AND RE-MOLDED.
YOU DO REALIZE THAT POTTERS USE WATER TO SOFTEN CLAY AND MAKE IT MORE PLIABLE.
GOD USES BAPTISMAL WATER TO SOFTEN OUR HARDEN HEARTS, BEFORE HE REALLY BEGINS THE RE-MOLDING INTO HIS PURPOSE PROCESS.
I SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT THAT THE WATER, AND THE RE-SHAPING ARE ALL DONE PRIOR TO THE FURNACE FOR THE SETTING.
JUST AS IN THE NATURAL CLAY, WE AS SAINTS MUST ENDURE EACH AND EVERY CYCLE OF THE PROCESS IF WE ARE EVER TO BECOMES USEFUL VESSELS OF THE MASTER POTTER, GOD !
SO WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE GOING HAYWIRE, AND NOTHING APPEARS TO BE IN OUR FAVOR WE SHOULD BEGIN TO PRAISE THE LORD FOR WE NOW REALIZE HE IS SIMPLY APPLYING THE NECESSARY PRESSURE TO MOLD US INTO USEFUL VESSELS FOR HIS GLORY.
BE THANKFUL WE ARE NOT BEING BROKEN, THOUGH SOME MUST BE BROKEN COMPLETELY AND THEN MOLDED.
WHATEVER OUR CASE THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT GOD OBVIOUSLY WANTS TO USE US IN AN EVEN GREATER CAPACITY OR WE COULD STAY AS WE ARE.
FORTUNATELY OUR POTTER IS PERFECT, AND NEVER APPLIES TO GREAT OF A PRESSURE, OR LEAVES US IN THE FURNACE TO LONG.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: WE SHOULD ALL UNDERSTAND THAT THE SECOND WE ASK THE LORD TO USE US THE PRESSURE BECOMES NECESSARY.
AS WE ARE, WE ARE NEVER READY FOR EFFECTIVE MINISTRY BY GOD'S STANDARD.
THE GREATER THE CALL, OR WORK THE GREATER THE PRESSURE WILL BE, RIGHT DOWN TO A BREAKING, AND SHATTERING IF NECESSARY.
DON'T FRET BROTHERS AND SISTERS, GOD IS THE MASTER POTTER AND HE NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE.
IF WE ATTEMPTED TO MOLD OURSELVES INTO A PASTOR, BUT HIS PURPOSE FOR US IS AS A USHER, THE PRESSURE WILL BEGIN, AND BE APPLIED TO RE-MOLD WHAT WE TRIED TO SHAPE INTO THE SHAPE HE KNOWS WE WILL BE MOST EFFECTIVE.
GOD MAY EVEN NEED TO BREAK US BECAUSE WE JUST MAYBE SO FAR FROM THE DESIRED SHAPE, OR USEFULNESS.
IF WE ATTEMPT TO EAT SOUP WITH A FORK, WISDOM WILL TELL US TO GET A SPOON, THAT IS HOW SO MANY OF US ARE.
MANY TIMES WE ARE FORKS ATTEMPTING TO DO A SPOONS WORK, BUT GOD WANTED US AS SPOONS ALL ALONG.
ARE WE FORKS FOR SOUP ?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
LIVING AND LEARNING
OUR GREATEST WITNESS WILL NEVER COME OUT OF THE BIBLE, OR IN THE STREETS WITH STRANGERS.
MOST SAINTS ARE OF THE BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT TRULY DOING GOD'S WORK OF WITNESSING TO OUR FELLOWMAN, UNTIL WE PAIR UP IN TWOS AND GO DOOR TO DOOR, OR INTO THE STREETS TO TELL STRANGERS ABOUT JESUS AND HIS PLAN OF SALVATION.
THE SAD FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT EVEN THOUGH MOST CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THIS TO BE OUR COMMISSION, AND THAT TO BE THE MANNER OF WITNESSING, MOST STILL DON'T DO IT.
SO EVEN WITH OUR FLAWED SENSE, AND METHOD'S OF WITNESSING WE ARE AT BEST INCORRECT, AND AT OUR WORSE DISOBEDIENT, AND DERELICT IN WHAT WE BELIEVE OUR DUTIES, AND CALL TO BE.
WHATS WRONG WITH US ?
WHY WOULD WE FIRST OF ALL BELIEVE GOD WOULD CALL US TO WITNESS TOO, AND SAVE STRANGERS MORE THEN OUR OWN FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND LOVED ONES ?
DO WE TRULY BELIEVE GOD WANTS US TO PUT ON SUIT AND TIES TO LEAVE OUR HOMES WITH UNSAVED FAMILY TO GO OUT AND TELL STRANGERS TO BE SAVED.
HOW ARE OUR LOVED ONES TO BE SAVED, OR WITNESSED TO ?
SHOULD THEY STAY AT HOME IN THE HOPE THAT SOME STRANGER WILL KNOCK ON OUR DOOR IN OUR ABSENCE TO WITNESS TO OUR LOVED ONE'S ABOUT BEING SAVED ?
OF COURSE I'M BEING FACETIOUS, BUT IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE SO GUILTY OF DOING SUCH OFF OF THE MARK THINGS WHEN IT COMES TO FOLLOWING, AND SERVING THE LORD.
THIS COMES FROM BEING LAZY SAINTS.
TO LAZY TO RESEARCH GOD'S, MEANING, PURPOSE, AND SPIRIT BEHIND HIS WORDS.
SAINTS SHOULDN'T SIMPLY BE ACCEPTING THE REGURGITATED SPEWING'S OF PASTORS, PREACHERS, AND TEACHERS THAT ARE THEMSELVES TO LAZY TO RESEARCH IF THEIR REGURGITATING OF OTHERS TEACHINGS, AND PREACHING TO EVEN BE ACCURATE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: OUR GREATEST WITNESS WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR OWN HOMES, OR WITH THOSE THAT KNEW US PRIOR TO SALVATION.
WE WILL NEVER BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN OUR WITNESS THEN WITH THOSE WE SPEND THE MOST TIME, AND KNOW US BEST.
STRANGERS MAY HEAR US, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW US TO BE LIVING WHAT WE'RE PREACHING.
IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY WITH THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS THOUGH, BECAUSE THEY WILL KNOW IF YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.
LAST, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST IS THE ADMONISHMENT TO CEASE FROM TAKING THE RANTING, RAVINGS, SO CALLED PREACHING, AND TEACHING OF PASTORS, AND PREACHERS WITHOUT KNOWING FOR OURSELVES WHAT THE WORD SAID, AND THE CONTEXT AND SPIRIT IN WHICH THEY WERE SAID.
NOW LET'S GO WITNESS TO THE WORLD, NOT WITH OUR WORDS, BUT BY OUR LIVE'S !
WE NEED TO LEARN, AND LIVE THE WORD OF GOD.
MOST SAINTS ARE OF THE BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT TRULY DOING GOD'S WORK OF WITNESSING TO OUR FELLOWMAN, UNTIL WE PAIR UP IN TWOS AND GO DOOR TO DOOR, OR INTO THE STREETS TO TELL STRANGERS ABOUT JESUS AND HIS PLAN OF SALVATION.
THE SAD FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT EVEN THOUGH MOST CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THIS TO BE OUR COMMISSION, AND THAT TO BE THE MANNER OF WITNESSING, MOST STILL DON'T DO IT.
SO EVEN WITH OUR FLAWED SENSE, AND METHOD'S OF WITNESSING WE ARE AT BEST INCORRECT, AND AT OUR WORSE DISOBEDIENT, AND DERELICT IN WHAT WE BELIEVE OUR DUTIES, AND CALL TO BE.
WHATS WRONG WITH US ?
WHY WOULD WE FIRST OF ALL BELIEVE GOD WOULD CALL US TO WITNESS TOO, AND SAVE STRANGERS MORE THEN OUR OWN FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND LOVED ONES ?
DO WE TRULY BELIEVE GOD WANTS US TO PUT ON SUIT AND TIES TO LEAVE OUR HOMES WITH UNSAVED FAMILY TO GO OUT AND TELL STRANGERS TO BE SAVED.
HOW ARE OUR LOVED ONES TO BE SAVED, OR WITNESSED TO ?
SHOULD THEY STAY AT HOME IN THE HOPE THAT SOME STRANGER WILL KNOCK ON OUR DOOR IN OUR ABSENCE TO WITNESS TO OUR LOVED ONE'S ABOUT BEING SAVED ?
OF COURSE I'M BEING FACETIOUS, BUT IT'S BECAUSE WE ARE SO GUILTY OF DOING SUCH OFF OF THE MARK THINGS WHEN IT COMES TO FOLLOWING, AND SERVING THE LORD.
THIS COMES FROM BEING LAZY SAINTS.
TO LAZY TO RESEARCH GOD'S, MEANING, PURPOSE, AND SPIRIT BEHIND HIS WORDS.
SAINTS SHOULDN'T SIMPLY BE ACCEPTING THE REGURGITATED SPEWING'S OF PASTORS, PREACHERS, AND TEACHERS THAT ARE THEMSELVES TO LAZY TO RESEARCH IF THEIR REGURGITATING OF OTHERS TEACHINGS, AND PREACHING TO EVEN BE ACCURATE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: OUR GREATEST WITNESS WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR OWN HOMES, OR WITH THOSE THAT KNEW US PRIOR TO SALVATION.
WE WILL NEVER BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN OUR WITNESS THEN WITH THOSE WE SPEND THE MOST TIME, AND KNOW US BEST.
STRANGERS MAY HEAR US, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW US TO BE LIVING WHAT WE'RE PREACHING.
IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY WITH THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS THOUGH, BECAUSE THEY WILL KNOW IF YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.
LAST, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST IS THE ADMONISHMENT TO CEASE FROM TAKING THE RANTING, RAVINGS, SO CALLED PREACHING, AND TEACHING OF PASTORS, AND PREACHERS WITHOUT KNOWING FOR OURSELVES WHAT THE WORD SAID, AND THE CONTEXT AND SPIRIT IN WHICH THEY WERE SAID.
NOW LET'S GO WITNESS TO THE WORLD, NOT WITH OUR WORDS, BUT BY OUR LIVE'S !
WE NEED TO LEARN, AND LIVE THE WORD OF GOD.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
FAITH + FOCUS = MINISTRY
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
I BELIEVE MOST IF NOT ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SAYING "ONE DAY AT A TIME".
WELL WHETHER THE WORD, OR EVEN THE CHURCH IS AWARE OF IT OR NOT, THAT SAYING IS RATHER CLOSE, EVEN ALMOST SYNONYMOUS WITH CHRIST PRAYER EXAMPLE, AND GODLY PRINCIPLE.
JESUS HIM SELF INSTRUCTED THE DISCIPLES TO ONLY BE CONCERNED WITH BREAD ENOUGH FOR TODAY.
SOME HAVE TAUGHT THAT THIS IS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT US ATTEMPTING TO PLAN FOR TOMORROW, WHEN IN ACTUALITY HE WAS TEACHING THEM TWO THINGS.
1.) WAS TO LIVE IN TODAY, AND NOT ASSUME WE WOULD EVEN SEE TOMORROW.
2.) WAS TO HAVE THE FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT IF WE DID REACH TOMORROWS THAT GOD'S AMPLE PROVISIONS WOULD REACH THERE WITH US, AS WE PRAY THEM DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
THOUGH I REALIZE THE VERSE FROM MATTHEW THE COLLECTOR WILL SUFFICE, I ACTUALLY PREFER LUKE THE PHYSICIANS WORDING BEST.
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
LUKE'S WORDING MAKES THE PROCESS ALL THE MORE CONCISE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
IF WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR BREAD DAY BY DAY, IT MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE SHOULD NOT DO ANY PLANNING FOR THE NEXT DAY.
WITH OUR PRIMARY FOCUS BEING TODAY WE ARE BETTER SUITED TO DEAL WITH THE TEST, TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO MINISTER TO OTHERS AS THEY APPEAR THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
IF WE ARE BUSY PRAYING FOR TOMORROWS BREAD TODAY, WHO WILL PRAY FOR TODAY'S NEEDS IF WE'RE DISTRACTED PRAYING FOR A HUNGER THAT HASN'T YET REACHED OUR BELLY'S.
IN CLOSING, LET'S ALL LISTEN TO THE LORD'S PRINCIPLE AND LIVE IN THE MOMENT LEAVING THE REST TO HIM.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IF WE WOULD ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD, AND WE SIMPLY FULFILL OUR ROLES IN LIFE, WE WILL LIVE WITH OUR EYES WIDE OPEN FOR DISCERNMENT.
WE ALSO WILL HAVE OUR EARS TUNED IN TO THE STILL SMALL QUIET VOICE OF THE LORD.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE WILL ALWAYS BE READY TO MINISTER AS OPPORTUNITIES ARISE.
THOUGH THIS LESSON IS OBVIOUSLY ABOUT FAITH, IT IS ALSO ABOUT FOCUSING ON THE NOW, AND NOT ANTICIPATED HUNGERS, THAT GOD CAN SATISFY IF WE SIMPLY DON'T ASK AMISS AS THEY ARRIVE.
I BELIEVE MOST IF NOT ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE SAYING "ONE DAY AT A TIME".
WELL WHETHER THE WORD, OR EVEN THE CHURCH IS AWARE OF IT OR NOT, THAT SAYING IS RATHER CLOSE, EVEN ALMOST SYNONYMOUS WITH CHRIST PRAYER EXAMPLE, AND GODLY PRINCIPLE.
JESUS HIM SELF INSTRUCTED THE DISCIPLES TO ONLY BE CONCERNED WITH BREAD ENOUGH FOR TODAY.
SOME HAVE TAUGHT THAT THIS IS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT US ATTEMPTING TO PLAN FOR TOMORROW, WHEN IN ACTUALITY HE WAS TEACHING THEM TWO THINGS.
1.) WAS TO LIVE IN TODAY, AND NOT ASSUME WE WOULD EVEN SEE TOMORROW.
2.) WAS TO HAVE THE FAITH TO BELIEVE THAT IF WE DID REACH TOMORROWS THAT GOD'S AMPLE PROVISIONS WOULD REACH THERE WITH US, AS WE PRAY THEM DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
THOUGH I REALIZE THE VERSE FROM MATTHEW THE COLLECTOR WILL SUFFICE, I ACTUALLY PREFER LUKE THE PHYSICIANS WORDING BEST.
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
LUKE'S WORDING MAKES THE PROCESS ALL THE MORE CONCISE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
IF WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR BREAD DAY BY DAY, IT MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE SHOULD NOT DO ANY PLANNING FOR THE NEXT DAY.
WITH OUR PRIMARY FOCUS BEING TODAY WE ARE BETTER SUITED TO DEAL WITH THE TEST, TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO MINISTER TO OTHERS AS THEY APPEAR THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
IF WE ARE BUSY PRAYING FOR TOMORROWS BREAD TODAY, WHO WILL PRAY FOR TODAY'S NEEDS IF WE'RE DISTRACTED PRAYING FOR A HUNGER THAT HASN'T YET REACHED OUR BELLY'S.
IN CLOSING, LET'S ALL LISTEN TO THE LORD'S PRINCIPLE AND LIVE IN THE MOMENT LEAVING THE REST TO HIM.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IF WE WOULD ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD, AND WE SIMPLY FULFILL OUR ROLES IN LIFE, WE WILL LIVE WITH OUR EYES WIDE OPEN FOR DISCERNMENT.
WE ALSO WILL HAVE OUR EARS TUNED IN TO THE STILL SMALL QUIET VOICE OF THE LORD.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE WILL ALWAYS BE READY TO MINISTER AS OPPORTUNITIES ARISE.
THOUGH THIS LESSON IS OBVIOUSLY ABOUT FAITH, IT IS ALSO ABOUT FOCUSING ON THE NOW, AND NOT ANTICIPATED HUNGERS, THAT GOD CAN SATISFY IF WE SIMPLY DON'T ASK AMISS AS THEY ARRIVE.
Monday, December 14, 2009
NO PODIUM NEEDED !
WE OFTEN BELIEVE THAT WE MUST BE INVOLVED IN BIG ELABORATE EVENTS IN ORDER TO MINISTER, OR STANDING BEHIND A PULPIT, OR IN FRONT OF A CROWD.
THOUGH THESE ARE LEGITIMATE FORMS OF MINISTRY, THEY ARE THE LEAST LIKELY, AS WELL AS THE LEAST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF MINISTRY.
CHRIST DID HAVE CROWDS, BUT HE DIDN'T USE PODIUMS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
WHAT CHRIST DID DO WAS HE MOVED BY COMPASSION, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO MINISTER AT THE MOST OPPORTUNE TIME, BUT IN SOME OF THE MOST INCONVENIENT, PUBLIC, AND UNPLANNED PLACES.
SOME OF OUR MOST DYNAMIC DISPLAYS OF GOD'S MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS ARE WAITING FOR US NOT IN OUR MEGA-CHURCHES, CONVENTIONS, SEMINARS, REVIVALS, OR CRUSADE, BUT RIGHT IN THE STREETS OF YOUR CITY, OR TOWN.
GOD IS EVERYWHERE SO WE SAY, SO THEN WHY DO WE NEVER EXPECT HIM TO SHOW UP TO HEAL OR DELIVER AT WAL-MART, OR POP-EYES CHICKEN ?
WHY DO WE BELIEVE GOD ONLY MOVES WHEN WE HAVE ON SUITS AND ARE IN A CHURCH ?
WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR, SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT ?
WE CLAIM TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD, SAVED, AND SANCTIFIED ETC... SO WHATS THE HOLD UP ?
THE HOLD UP IS US, AND OUR LACK OF FAITH, AS WELL AS OUR LACK OF A GENUINE CHRIST LIKE LIFESTYLE.
IF WE ARE CHRISTIANS, THEN WE ARE CHRIST LIKE.
IF CHRIST LIKE THEN WE WILL DO LIKE CHRIST AND PRAY FOR THE SICK, AND BOUND WHENEVER OPPORTUNITY ARISES, JUST LIKE CHRIST.
TODAY I PRAYED FOR A BROTHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH MY VEHICLE STILL RUNNING AS HE WAS OWN HIS WAY TO MEET WITH SOME ACCOUNTANTS OVER MONEY HE OWES THE GOVERNMENT.
I COULD SEE, AND HEAR HIS APPREHENSION, AND HE IS NOT SAVED, BUT HE KNEW I WAS.
AS WE SHOOK HANDS TO DEPART I SIMPLY HELD ON TO HIS AND ASKED IF I COULD PRAY FOR HIM.
AT THE END OF THE PRAYER HE WAS SO GRATEFUL, AND AWED BY THE WORDS OF THIS SPIRIT CHARGED AND INSPIRED PRAYER THAT HE APPEARED TO BE VISIBLY MORE AT EASE.
BEFORE LEAVING HE ASKED IF HE COULD BE APART OF A BIBLE STUDY IF I STARTED ONE.
SO YOU SEE EVEN WITHOUT SEEING THE END RESULTS OF THAT PRAYER HE WAS ALREADY BEING DRAWN INTO THE KINGDOM, AND ISN'T THAT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF MINISTRY, TO WIN SOULS ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: GOD IS WAITING ON US TO CALL ON HIM, IN STRANGE PLACES, FOR STRANGERS, AND HE WILL DO THE REST.
LET'S GO OUT INTO THE STREETS, AND LIKE ELIJAH CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN THAT THE IDOL WORSHIPPERS MAY SEE WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD !
WE DON'T NEED A PODIUM TO PROVE WE SERVE THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD !
THOUGH THESE ARE LEGITIMATE FORMS OF MINISTRY, THEY ARE THE LEAST LIKELY, AS WELL AS THE LEAST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF MINISTRY.
CHRIST DID HAVE CROWDS, BUT HE DIDN'T USE PODIUMS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
WHAT CHRIST DID DO WAS HE MOVED BY COMPASSION, WHICH CAUSED HIM TO MINISTER AT THE MOST OPPORTUNE TIME, BUT IN SOME OF THE MOST INCONVENIENT, PUBLIC, AND UNPLANNED PLACES.
SOME OF OUR MOST DYNAMIC DISPLAYS OF GOD'S MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS ARE WAITING FOR US NOT IN OUR MEGA-CHURCHES, CONVENTIONS, SEMINARS, REVIVALS, OR CRUSADE, BUT RIGHT IN THE STREETS OF YOUR CITY, OR TOWN.
GOD IS EVERYWHERE SO WE SAY, SO THEN WHY DO WE NEVER EXPECT HIM TO SHOW UP TO HEAL OR DELIVER AT WAL-MART, OR POP-EYES CHICKEN ?
WHY DO WE BELIEVE GOD ONLY MOVES WHEN WE HAVE ON SUITS AND ARE IN A CHURCH ?
WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR, SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT ?
WE CLAIM TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD, SAVED, AND SANCTIFIED ETC... SO WHATS THE HOLD UP ?
THE HOLD UP IS US, AND OUR LACK OF FAITH, AS WELL AS OUR LACK OF A GENUINE CHRIST LIKE LIFESTYLE.
IF WE ARE CHRISTIANS, THEN WE ARE CHRIST LIKE.
IF CHRIST LIKE THEN WE WILL DO LIKE CHRIST AND PRAY FOR THE SICK, AND BOUND WHENEVER OPPORTUNITY ARISES, JUST LIKE CHRIST.
TODAY I PRAYED FOR A BROTHER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WITH MY VEHICLE STILL RUNNING AS HE WAS OWN HIS WAY TO MEET WITH SOME ACCOUNTANTS OVER MONEY HE OWES THE GOVERNMENT.
I COULD SEE, AND HEAR HIS APPREHENSION, AND HE IS NOT SAVED, BUT HE KNEW I WAS.
AS WE SHOOK HANDS TO DEPART I SIMPLY HELD ON TO HIS AND ASKED IF I COULD PRAY FOR HIM.
AT THE END OF THE PRAYER HE WAS SO GRATEFUL, AND AWED BY THE WORDS OF THIS SPIRIT CHARGED AND INSPIRED PRAYER THAT HE APPEARED TO BE VISIBLY MORE AT EASE.
BEFORE LEAVING HE ASKED IF HE COULD BE APART OF A BIBLE STUDY IF I STARTED ONE.
SO YOU SEE EVEN WITHOUT SEEING THE END RESULTS OF THAT PRAYER HE WAS ALREADY BEING DRAWN INTO THE KINGDOM, AND ISN'T THAT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF MINISTRY, TO WIN SOULS ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONISHMENT: GOD IS WAITING ON US TO CALL ON HIM, IN STRANGE PLACES, FOR STRANGERS, AND HE WILL DO THE REST.
LET'S GO OUT INTO THE STREETS, AND LIKE ELIJAH CALL FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN THAT THE IDOL WORSHIPPERS MAY SEE WHO IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD !
WE DON'T NEED A PODIUM TO PROVE WE SERVE THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD !
Sunday, December 13, 2009
ALL THAT MATTERS
I'M PRAYERFUL THAT I MUST BE ON THE VERGE OF SOME FANTASTIC BREAKTHROUGH WITH THE LORD, NOW THAT I AM FAR TO TIRED TO CONTINUE ON, AND FAR TO BROKEN TO QUIT.
SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER IDEAL TIME FOR STANDING, BUT THAT REQUIRES A MEASURE OF RESOLVE AS WELL.
WHAT IS A CHILD OF GOD TO DO WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO DO, BUT DO NOTHING.
I KNOW, THIS IS A DEVOTION, AND I'M ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP, OR LEAPING OVER WALLS, AND CONQUERING HOARDE'S OF DEMONS SINGLE HANDEDLY.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE READERS OF THIS I AM ONLY ABLE TO ONE PERSON AT A TIME, AND I CHOOSE TO JUST BE ME.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THERE ARE TIMES THAT I DON'T FEEL SO SPECIAL, OR
UNFORSAKEN.
THERE ARE EVEN TIMES I DON'T FEEL AS THOUGH I HAVE GOD'S FAVOR, OR EVEN HIS ATTENTION AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
MANY MAY BELIEVE THAT SPEAKING ONLY IN VICTORIOUS TERMS IS THE BEST WAY TO MOTIVATE, AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS AS THEY STRUGGLE, AND PRESS IN THIS CHRISTIAN WALK.
I BEG TO DIFFER THOUGH, BECAUSE PERSONALLY I FIND IT A BIT DIFFICULT TO PLACE A LOT OF VALIDITY, OR WEIGHT IN WORDS SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED WHERE I AM IN LIFE.
HOW CAN I ENCOURAGE, OR MOTIVATE YOU TO HOLD ON IF I'VE NEVER HAD TO HOLD ON, OR BELIEVE GOD FOR A JOB, FINANCES, HEALTH ISSUES, OR FAMILY REMEDIES.
TODAY AND EVERYDAY I SIMPLY STRIVE TO BE THE VERY BEST ME THAT THE LORD HAS CALLED FOR ME TO BE.
IF THE FACT THAT I HAVE TRIALS, AND SLIGHT LAPSES IN ENTHUSIASM DURING THE INTENSITY OF BEING BROKEN, AND REMADE BY GOD, CAUSE YOU TO DOUBT MY EFFICACY AS A DEVOTIONAL AUTHOR, I PRAY YOU STAY WITH ME UNTIL THE END , BECAUSE GOD ALWAYS MANAGES TO SHINE SOME LIGHT BEFORE I CLOSE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS NOT IN OUR FEELINGS THAT WE POSSESS OUR MOST EFFECTIVE TESTIMONY, OR THE WORDS OF LIFE THAT WILL STRENGTHEN AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
IN OUR WILLINGNESS TO BE TRANSPARENT THROUGH HONEST REPRESENTATION OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES, EMOTIONS, AND LAPSES OF JOY, AND EVEN GREAT FAITH THAT WE WILL BEGIN TO BE ABLE TO REACH OTHERS.
WHEN IT ALL IS SAID AND DONE WHETHER I FEEL LIKE IT, LOOK LIKE IT, WALK LIKE IT, OR TALK LIKE IT, I STILL BELIEVE GOD, AND THAT'S REALLY ALL THAT MATTERS.
BELIEVING GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEELINGS, OR EMOTIONS, BUT ONCE AGAIN, BELIEVING IS ALL THAT MATTERS!
SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER IDEAL TIME FOR STANDING, BUT THAT REQUIRES A MEASURE OF RESOLVE AS WELL.
WHAT IS A CHILD OF GOD TO DO WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO DO, BUT DO NOTHING.
I KNOW, THIS IS A DEVOTION, AND I'M ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP, OR LEAPING OVER WALLS, AND CONQUERING HOARDE'S OF DEMONS SINGLE HANDEDLY.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE READERS OF THIS I AM ONLY ABLE TO ONE PERSON AT A TIME, AND I CHOOSE TO JUST BE ME.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THERE ARE TIMES THAT I DON'T FEEL SO SPECIAL, OR
UNFORSAKEN.
THERE ARE EVEN TIMES I DON'T FEEL AS THOUGH I HAVE GOD'S FAVOR, OR EVEN HIS ATTENTION AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
MANY MAY BELIEVE THAT SPEAKING ONLY IN VICTORIOUS TERMS IS THE BEST WAY TO MOTIVATE, AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS AS THEY STRUGGLE, AND PRESS IN THIS CHRISTIAN WALK.
I BEG TO DIFFER THOUGH, BECAUSE PERSONALLY I FIND IT A BIT DIFFICULT TO PLACE A LOT OF VALIDITY, OR WEIGHT IN WORDS SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED WHERE I AM IN LIFE.
HOW CAN I ENCOURAGE, OR MOTIVATE YOU TO HOLD ON IF I'VE NEVER HAD TO HOLD ON, OR BELIEVE GOD FOR A JOB, FINANCES, HEALTH ISSUES, OR FAMILY REMEDIES.
TODAY AND EVERYDAY I SIMPLY STRIVE TO BE THE VERY BEST ME THAT THE LORD HAS CALLED FOR ME TO BE.
IF THE FACT THAT I HAVE TRIALS, AND SLIGHT LAPSES IN ENTHUSIASM DURING THE INTENSITY OF BEING BROKEN, AND REMADE BY GOD, CAUSE YOU TO DOUBT MY EFFICACY AS A DEVOTIONAL AUTHOR, I PRAY YOU STAY WITH ME UNTIL THE END , BECAUSE GOD ALWAYS MANAGES TO SHINE SOME LIGHT BEFORE I CLOSE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS NOT IN OUR FEELINGS THAT WE POSSESS OUR MOST EFFECTIVE TESTIMONY, OR THE WORDS OF LIFE THAT WILL STRENGTHEN AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
IN OUR WILLINGNESS TO BE TRANSPARENT THROUGH HONEST REPRESENTATION OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES, EMOTIONS, AND LAPSES OF JOY, AND EVEN GREAT FAITH THAT WE WILL BEGIN TO BE ABLE TO REACH OTHERS.
WHEN IT ALL IS SAID AND DONE WHETHER I FEEL LIKE IT, LOOK LIKE IT, WALK LIKE IT, OR TALK LIKE IT, I STILL BELIEVE GOD, AND THAT'S REALLY ALL THAT MATTERS.
BELIEVING GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEELINGS, OR EMOTIONS, BUT ONCE AGAIN, BELIEVING IS ALL THAT MATTERS!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
WHY DON'T I HAVE FAVOR ?
Proverbs 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.
TODAY I WILL BE SHORT AND SWEET, OR MAYBE NOT SWEET, BUT IT WILL BE SHORT.
GOD DOESN'T ALWAYS NEED TO BE LONG AND DRAWN OUT, NOR DOES HE ALWAYS NEED TO BE DEEP, AND PHILOSOPHICAL, BUT HE DOES KNOW HOW TO GET HIS POINT ACROSS.
THIS WORD IS DIRECT AND TO THE THE POINT, AND IT IS FOR YOU, AND ME, SO TAKE HEED AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
IF WE ARE STILL MAKING LIGHT OF OUR SIN'S BY CALLING THEM FAULTS, SHORT COMINGS, HABITS, ETC....WELL THEN GOD, NOT ME IS CALLING US FOOLS.
THE QUESTION TODAY IS ARE YOU A FOOL, IF YOU CONTINUE TO OVERLOOK GOD'S WORDS, AND ADMONITIONS, YOU ARE WALKING YOURSELF INTO HELL EYES WIDE OPEN.
ISN'T THAT FOOLISH ?
IT IS WHEN WE CEASE FROM SEEKING VENGEANCE, BEGIN FORGIVING ALL THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US, NO LONGER PRAY FOR PERSONAL OR MATERIAL GAIN, PLACE GOD FIRST IN OUR LIVE'S, FAST, PRAY, AND WALK UPRIGHTLY BEFORE GOD, AND FOLLOW, AND OBEY HIS WORDS TO TO THE LETTER, AND IN THE SPIRIT OF THE WORD, THEN WE ARE RIGHTEOUS.
THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF OUR OWN DOING THOUGH, EVEN THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH GOD.
IT IS NOW THAT WE ARE RIGHTEOUS THROUGH HIS GRACE THAT WE WILL BEGIN TO SEE HIS FAVOR, SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: GOD'S MERCY, AND GRACE ARE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE EARTH, BECAUSE THE SUN SHINES, AND THE RAIN FALLS ON THE JUST AND THE WICKED, BUT GOD'S FAVOR IS RESERVED FOR THE
RIGHTEOUS.
IF YOU'RE LACKING GOD'S FAVOR TODAY, THEN CHECK YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!
TODAY I WILL BE SHORT AND SWEET, OR MAYBE NOT SWEET, BUT IT WILL BE SHORT.
GOD DOESN'T ALWAYS NEED TO BE LONG AND DRAWN OUT, NOR DOES HE ALWAYS NEED TO BE DEEP, AND PHILOSOPHICAL, BUT HE DOES KNOW HOW TO GET HIS POINT ACROSS.
THIS WORD IS DIRECT AND TO THE THE POINT, AND IT IS FOR YOU, AND ME, SO TAKE HEED AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
IF WE ARE STILL MAKING LIGHT OF OUR SIN'S BY CALLING THEM FAULTS, SHORT COMINGS, HABITS, ETC....WELL THEN GOD, NOT ME IS CALLING US FOOLS.
THE QUESTION TODAY IS ARE YOU A FOOL, IF YOU CONTINUE TO OVERLOOK GOD'S WORDS, AND ADMONITIONS, YOU ARE WALKING YOURSELF INTO HELL EYES WIDE OPEN.
ISN'T THAT FOOLISH ?
IT IS WHEN WE CEASE FROM SEEKING VENGEANCE, BEGIN FORGIVING ALL THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US, NO LONGER PRAY FOR PERSONAL OR MATERIAL GAIN, PLACE GOD FIRST IN OUR LIVE'S, FAST, PRAY, AND WALK UPRIGHTLY BEFORE GOD, AND FOLLOW, AND OBEY HIS WORDS TO TO THE LETTER, AND IN THE SPIRIT OF THE WORD, THEN WE ARE RIGHTEOUS.
THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF OUR OWN DOING THOUGH, EVEN THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH GOD.
IT IS NOW THAT WE ARE RIGHTEOUS THROUGH HIS GRACE THAT WE WILL BEGIN TO SEE HIS FAVOR, SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: GOD'S MERCY, AND GRACE ARE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE EARTH, BECAUSE THE SUN SHINES, AND THE RAIN FALLS ON THE JUST AND THE WICKED, BUT GOD'S FAVOR IS RESERVED FOR THE
RIGHTEOUS.
IF YOU'RE LACKING GOD'S FAVOR TODAY, THEN CHECK YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Friday, December 11, 2009
CHRISTIAN CONTRADICTION
I FIND IT AMAZING THAT THOSE CALLING OURSELVES GOD'S CHILDREN EITHER DON'T LISTEN TO OUR FATHER VERY WELL, OR WE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW THE ONE WE CALL OUR FATHER.
BASED ON MY PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS I'M INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT BOTH ARE THE CASE.
THIS IS SAID BECAUSE I BELIEVE MOST SO CALLED CHRISTIANS DON'T KNOW GOD THE FATHER.
THEY BELIEVE IN GOD THE DEITY, AND ARE FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF HIS EXPLOITS, AND THE LIKE, BUT AS FAR AS KNOWING HIM MOST DON'T.
MOST OF THE ONES ATTEMPTING TO KNOW HIM AREN'T LEARNING HIM AS THE FATHER HE DESIRES WE WOULD SEE, AND APPROACH HIM AS.
WE ALSO MUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE CATEGORY OF CHRISTIANS THAT FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF THOSE THAT DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, ONCE WE HEAR HIM.
IT IS A SAD STATE THE CHURCH IS IN, AND THESE ARE TWO OF THE PRIMARY REASONS FOR THE CHURCHES DEMISE, AND WEAKENED STATUS.
THE SMALL PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIANS THAT DO KNOW GOD, DON'T KNOW HIM IN THE VAIN HE DESIRES WE KNOW HIM.
THEN FROM THAT SMALL PERCENTAGE THAT ACTUALLY DO KNOW HIM IN SOME MODICUM, A LARGE PORTION OF THEM FALL INTO THE CATEGORY THAT WON'T LISTEN, HEED, OR OBEY.
THE LATTER CATEGORY WOULD BEST BE LABELED AS REBELLIOUS.
I SEE THE LORD IS LEADING ME BACK INTO A VERY POPULAR SUBJECT MATTER IN HIS MINISTRY THROUGH ME.
THAT TOPIC BEING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THE FATHER, AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH US AS THE FATHER, AND OUR GOD.
THE CONTRADICTION LAID UPON MY HEART IN THIS WRITING IS IN REFERENCE TO HOW WE CHRISTIANS, SAINTS, AND CHILDREN OF GOD ARE QUICK TO MENTION HOW GOD IS OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT, OMNIPOTENT, AND IMMUTABLE.
EACH OF THESE DECLARATIONS ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT TRUTH, AND WE WILL FOR THE MOST PART CONCEDE THE FIRST THREE, BUT WHY IS IT THAT WE WILL REPEATEDLY BELIEVE WE CAN CONTEST THE LAST CHARACTERISTIC I LISTED.
BEFORE I CONTINUE I WILL CONCEDE AT THIS TIME THAT THERE IS NO POSSIBLE I WILL BE ABLE COMPLETE THIS IN ONE WRITING, BUT PRAYERFULLY I WILL PROVOKE ALL THAT READ THIS TO THOUGHT, AS WELL AS TO RE-THINKING.
THE WORD IMMUTABLE ITSELF MEANS UNCHANGING YET WE HEAR ABOUT THE CHURCH BEING PROGRESSIVE, AND WITH THE TIMES.
WE HEAR OF GROUPS, OR SECTS IN THE BODY ATTEMPTING TO MAKE ACCEPTABLE IN THE CHURCH TODAY WHAT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED IN THE WORD.
IF THE WORD IS GOD'S, AND GOD IS THE WORD, AND GOD DOESN'T CHANGE, OR MAKE MISTAKES, THEN HOW CAN HIS WORD CHANGE, BE WRONG, OR FOR THAT SAKE EVEN BE PROGRESSIVE.
SOMETHING PROGRESSES BECAUSE THERE IS ROOM FOR PROGRESSION, BUT GOD'S WORD, AND WORK BEING COMPLETED WHEN HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY HAS ZERO ROOM FOR PROGRESSION, ADVANCEMENT, OR IMPROVEMENT.
THIS MAY HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH PASTORS, BUT THE BODY AS WELL NEEDS TO BEAR BLAME FOR THE POLLUTION, OR BETTER YET THE SIN THAT HAS CREPT INTO THE CHURCH.
WE MUSTN'T THINK GOD'S WORD HAS WIGGLE ROOM.
THE BIBLE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST AIRTIGHT, BINDING, INDISPUTABLE, AND COMPLETE CONTRACT IN EXISTENCE, BAR NONE.
NO MAN WILL WIN APPEAL IN GOD'S COURT, BECAUSE HE IS A JUST JUDGE, THAT WILL NOT ERR IN THE APPLICATION OF HIS LAW.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF US TO STOP TRYING TO CHANGE GOD'S MIND B Y OUR ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE HIS WORD.
EVEN IF WE REWROTE THE ENTIRE BIBLE, DON'T YOU BELIEVE GOD REMEMBERED VERBATIM WHAT HE SAID.
GOD'S WORDS, AND WAYS ARE IMMUTABLE BECAUSE HE IS PERFECT, AND HOW DO YOU IMPROVE ON PERFECTION?
HIS WORD IS THEREFORE IMMUTABLE BECAUSE HE, THE PERFECT ONE IS THE WORD, THEREFORE THE WORD LIKE HIM IS PERFECT.
THE WORD IS IMMUTABLE BECAUSE THE WORD IS BASED ON HIS HEART, AND PRINCIPLE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE PURE, AND PERFECT, THEREFORE ONCE AGAIN HOW CAN THAT BE IMPROVED UPON.
IT'S TIME WE GAIN DELIVERANCE FROM OUR PRIDE, AND ALLOW GOD TO CHANGE US.
LET'S STOP SAYING GOD IS IMMUTABLE, AND THEN CONTRADICTING OURSELVES BY ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE HIM !
BASED ON MY PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS I'M INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT BOTH ARE THE CASE.
THIS IS SAID BECAUSE I BELIEVE MOST SO CALLED CHRISTIANS DON'T KNOW GOD THE FATHER.
THEY BELIEVE IN GOD THE DEITY, AND ARE FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF HIS EXPLOITS, AND THE LIKE, BUT AS FAR AS KNOWING HIM MOST DON'T.
MOST OF THE ONES ATTEMPTING TO KNOW HIM AREN'T LEARNING HIM AS THE FATHER HE DESIRES WE WOULD SEE, AND APPROACH HIM AS.
WE ALSO MUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE CATEGORY OF CHRISTIANS THAT FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF THOSE THAT DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, ONCE WE HEAR HIM.
IT IS A SAD STATE THE CHURCH IS IN, AND THESE ARE TWO OF THE PRIMARY REASONS FOR THE CHURCHES DEMISE, AND WEAKENED STATUS.
THE SMALL PERCENTAGE OF CHRISTIANS THAT DO KNOW GOD, DON'T KNOW HIM IN THE VAIN HE DESIRES WE KNOW HIM.
THEN FROM THAT SMALL PERCENTAGE THAT ACTUALLY DO KNOW HIM IN SOME MODICUM, A LARGE PORTION OF THEM FALL INTO THE CATEGORY THAT WON'T LISTEN, HEED, OR OBEY.
THE LATTER CATEGORY WOULD BEST BE LABELED AS REBELLIOUS.
I SEE THE LORD IS LEADING ME BACK INTO A VERY POPULAR SUBJECT MATTER IN HIS MINISTRY THROUGH ME.
THAT TOPIC BEING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, THE FATHER, AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH US AS THE FATHER, AND OUR GOD.
THE CONTRADICTION LAID UPON MY HEART IN THIS WRITING IS IN REFERENCE TO HOW WE CHRISTIANS, SAINTS, AND CHILDREN OF GOD ARE QUICK TO MENTION HOW GOD IS OMNISCIENT, OMNIPRESENT, OMNIPOTENT, AND IMMUTABLE.
EACH OF THESE DECLARATIONS ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT TRUTH, AND WE WILL FOR THE MOST PART CONCEDE THE FIRST THREE, BUT WHY IS IT THAT WE WILL REPEATEDLY BELIEVE WE CAN CONTEST THE LAST CHARACTERISTIC I LISTED.
BEFORE I CONTINUE I WILL CONCEDE AT THIS TIME THAT THERE IS NO POSSIBLE I WILL BE ABLE COMPLETE THIS IN ONE WRITING, BUT PRAYERFULLY I WILL PROVOKE ALL THAT READ THIS TO THOUGHT, AS WELL AS TO RE-THINKING.
THE WORD IMMUTABLE ITSELF MEANS UNCHANGING YET WE HEAR ABOUT THE CHURCH BEING PROGRESSIVE, AND WITH THE TIMES.
WE HEAR OF GROUPS, OR SECTS IN THE BODY ATTEMPTING TO MAKE ACCEPTABLE IN THE CHURCH TODAY WHAT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED IN THE WORD.
IF THE WORD IS GOD'S, AND GOD IS THE WORD, AND GOD DOESN'T CHANGE, OR MAKE MISTAKES, THEN HOW CAN HIS WORD CHANGE, BE WRONG, OR FOR THAT SAKE EVEN BE PROGRESSIVE.
SOMETHING PROGRESSES BECAUSE THERE IS ROOM FOR PROGRESSION, BUT GOD'S WORD, AND WORK BEING COMPLETED WHEN HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY HAS ZERO ROOM FOR PROGRESSION, ADVANCEMENT, OR IMPROVEMENT.
THIS MAY HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH PASTORS, BUT THE BODY AS WELL NEEDS TO BEAR BLAME FOR THE POLLUTION, OR BETTER YET THE SIN THAT HAS CREPT INTO THE CHURCH.
WE MUSTN'T THINK GOD'S WORD HAS WIGGLE ROOM.
THE BIBLE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST AIRTIGHT, BINDING, INDISPUTABLE, AND COMPLETE CONTRACT IN EXISTENCE, BAR NONE.
NO MAN WILL WIN APPEAL IN GOD'S COURT, BECAUSE HE IS A JUST JUDGE, THAT WILL NOT ERR IN THE APPLICATION OF HIS LAW.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF US TO STOP TRYING TO CHANGE GOD'S MIND B Y OUR ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE HIS WORD.
EVEN IF WE REWROTE THE ENTIRE BIBLE, DON'T YOU BELIEVE GOD REMEMBERED VERBATIM WHAT HE SAID.
GOD'S WORDS, AND WAYS ARE IMMUTABLE BECAUSE HE IS PERFECT, AND HOW DO YOU IMPROVE ON PERFECTION?
HIS WORD IS THEREFORE IMMUTABLE BECAUSE HE, THE PERFECT ONE IS THE WORD, THEREFORE THE WORD LIKE HIM IS PERFECT.
THE WORD IS IMMUTABLE BECAUSE THE WORD IS BASED ON HIS HEART, AND PRINCIPLE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE PURE, AND PERFECT, THEREFORE ONCE AGAIN HOW CAN THAT BE IMPROVED UPON.
IT'S TIME WE GAIN DELIVERANCE FROM OUR PRIDE, AND ALLOW GOD TO CHANGE US.
LET'S STOP SAYING GOD IS IMMUTABLE, AND THEN CONTRADICTING OURSELVES BY ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE HIM !
Thursday, December 10, 2009
NO WHERE TO GO !
Joh 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
PETER ASKED THIS QUESTION OF JESUS AFTER THE LORD ASKED THE TWELVE IF THEY TO WOULD CEASE FROM FOLLOWING.
YOU SEE MANY, IF NOT MOST HAD TURNED FROM FOLLOWING CHRIST BECAUSE OF THE WORD HE HAD JUST FINISHED TEACHING ON WHAT IT TOOK TO FOLLOW THE HIM.
AFTER THESE CASUAL FOLLOWERS HEARD THE REQUIREMENTS THEY CHOSE TO OPT OUT AND GO HOME.
THEY DISCOVERED IN ONE LESSON WITH CHRIST WHAT OFTEN TAKES US YEARS TO LEARN, AND THAT IS THE FACT THAT BEING A TRUE DISCIPLE ENTAILS MORE THEN SIMPLY EATING OF THE LOAVES AND FISH, AND HEARING A GOOD WORD.
IF YOU ARE STILL OF THE BELIEF THAT SERVING, AND FOLLOWING CHRIST IS ALL MIRACLES, AND WONDERS, YOU ARE DEFINITELY STILL ON YOUR SALVATION HONEYMOON.
PETER ASKED TH4E OBVIOUS QUESTION THOUGH. AFTER HAVING BEEN WITH THE MASTER, THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE THERE'S NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN.
THEREFORE AFTER BEING WITH THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST, WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO ?
THE TRUTH IS AS PETER STATED IN HIS QUESTION, "THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO, FROM HERE".
PETER STATES THAT JESUS' WORD WERE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE, THEREFORE IF WE LEAVE ETERNAL LIFE, WE MUST OBVIOUSLY BE HEADED FOR ETERNAL DAMNATION.
PETER DID IT AGAIN, WITH HIS QUICK TO SPEAK, IMPULSIVENESS HE ANSWERED HIS OWN QUESTION.
JESUS YOU ARE LIFE, SO TO LEAVE YOU IS DEATH, GIVEN THE CHOICES, WHERE DO YOU THINK THERE IS FOR US TO GO ?
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE PEOPLE, CHRISTIANS, SAINTS, CONTINUE TO WALK AWAY FROM LIFE, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE FISH, BREAD, AND MIRACLES AREN'T A EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: WE'D BETTER BE SLOW TO TURN AND WALK AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF LIFE, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE OF EVER BEING ABLE TO WALK BACK TO THEM.
LET'S REALIZE THAT TO LEAVE CHRIST DUE TO HIS STANDARDS DOESN'T RELIEVE YOU OF HIS STANDARDS.
IT SIMPLY MAKES US FACE THE JUDGEMENT SIDE OF HIS STANDARDS.
WITH THAT PROPHETIC REVELATION KNOWN NOW IT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE PLAIN TO SEE THAT THERE IS NO ESCAPING OF CHRIST RULE.
STAY WITH THE LORD PEOPLE, THROUGH THE GOOD AND THE BAD, BECAUSE TRUTH IS CHRIST, AND TRUTH ALSO IS THAT "THERE IS NO WHERE TO GO" !
PETER ASKED THIS QUESTION OF JESUS AFTER THE LORD ASKED THE TWELVE IF THEY TO WOULD CEASE FROM FOLLOWING.
YOU SEE MANY, IF NOT MOST HAD TURNED FROM FOLLOWING CHRIST BECAUSE OF THE WORD HE HAD JUST FINISHED TEACHING ON WHAT IT TOOK TO FOLLOW THE HIM.
AFTER THESE CASUAL FOLLOWERS HEARD THE REQUIREMENTS THEY CHOSE TO OPT OUT AND GO HOME.
THEY DISCOVERED IN ONE LESSON WITH CHRIST WHAT OFTEN TAKES US YEARS TO LEARN, AND THAT IS THE FACT THAT BEING A TRUE DISCIPLE ENTAILS MORE THEN SIMPLY EATING OF THE LOAVES AND FISH, AND HEARING A GOOD WORD.
IF YOU ARE STILL OF THE BELIEF THAT SERVING, AND FOLLOWING CHRIST IS ALL MIRACLES, AND WONDERS, YOU ARE DEFINITELY STILL ON YOUR SALVATION HONEYMOON.
PETER ASKED TH4E OBVIOUS QUESTION THOUGH. AFTER HAVING BEEN WITH THE MASTER, THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE THERE'S NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN.
THEREFORE AFTER BEING WITH THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST, WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO ?
THE TRUTH IS AS PETER STATED IN HIS QUESTION, "THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO, FROM HERE".
PETER STATES THAT JESUS' WORD WERE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE, THEREFORE IF WE LEAVE ETERNAL LIFE, WE MUST OBVIOUSLY BE HEADED FOR ETERNAL DAMNATION.
PETER DID IT AGAIN, WITH HIS QUICK TO SPEAK, IMPULSIVENESS HE ANSWERED HIS OWN QUESTION.
JESUS YOU ARE LIFE, SO TO LEAVE YOU IS DEATH, GIVEN THE CHOICES, WHERE DO YOU THINK THERE IS FOR US TO GO ?
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE PEOPLE, CHRISTIANS, SAINTS, CONTINUE TO WALK AWAY FROM LIFE, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE FISH, BREAD, AND MIRACLES AREN'T A EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: WE'D BETTER BE SLOW TO TURN AND WALK AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF LIFE, BECAUSE WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE OF EVER BEING ABLE TO WALK BACK TO THEM.
LET'S REALIZE THAT TO LEAVE CHRIST DUE TO HIS STANDARDS DOESN'T RELIEVE YOU OF HIS STANDARDS.
IT SIMPLY MAKES US FACE THE JUDGEMENT SIDE OF HIS STANDARDS.
WITH THAT PROPHETIC REVELATION KNOWN NOW IT MAKES IT SO MUCH MORE PLAIN TO SEE THAT THERE IS NO ESCAPING OF CHRIST RULE.
STAY WITH THE LORD PEOPLE, THROUGH THE GOOD AND THE BAD, BECAUSE TRUTH IS CHRIST, AND TRUTH ALSO IS THAT "THERE IS NO WHERE TO GO" !
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!
LAST YEAR THIS TIME I WAS MUMBLING, GRUMBLING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FREQUENCY OF EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS, AND HOSPITAL STAYS NECESSARY FOR MY DAUGHTER.
THE TOLL OF TRANSPORTING, AND SPENDING TIME IN THE HOSPITAL HAD BECOME QUITE TAXING.
IT WAS EMOTIONALLY, AND PHYSICALLY FATIQUING, AND VERY, VERY SAD TO WATCH HER STRUGGLE THROUGH HER BATTLE AND NOT BE ABLE TO OFFER ANY COMFORT AS HER FATHER, AND SUPPOSED PROTECTOR.
MY LOVE FOR HER NEVER WANED, BUT THE FATIQUE, AND DISPAIR WAS BEGINNING TO MANIFEST AS FRUSTRATION, AND COMPLAINTS.
MY HANDS WERE TIED, WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO ?
SITTING AND WATCHING JUST ISN'T IN MY DNA. IT IS MY NATURE TO JUMP DIRECTLY IN THE FRAY, BELIEVING I CAN OFFER ASSISTANCE, AND RELIEF IN THE WORSE OF SCENARIOS.
FOR MANY YEARS I WAS A FIRST RESPONDER PROFESSIONAL FIGHTER AND I'M JUST BUILT TO HELP, TO RESPOND, AND TO RESCUE, BUT FOR MY DAUGHTER I WAS HELPLESS, RELOGATED TO ONLY TRANSPORT, AND TO VISIT, HOW FRUSTRATING!
BEING SO FRUSTRATED, MAGNIFIED MY FATIQUE, AND THAT LED TO COMPLAINING.
THIS YEAR WITH MY DAUGHTER HAVING PASSED, AWAY I WISHED SHE WERE HERE, AND IF I HAD STUMPS FOR LEGS, AND HAD TO CARRY HER TO AND FROM THE HOSPITAL ON MY BACK, I BELIEVE I WOULD SO WITHOUT A MURMUR OR COMPLAINT.
LAST YEAR I KNEW HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO LIVE WITH HER, AND HER DESEASE, BUT THIS YEAR I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO LIVE WITHOUT HER.
MY DAUGHTER WAS BEAUTIFUL AND BEAUTIFULLY SAVED, AND I THANK GOD TO NO END FOR THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW SHE IS NO LONGER IN PAIN, AND WITH THE MASTER.
SHE HAS ALREADY RUN HER RACE, AND FINISHED HER COURSE, NOW HER DADDY MUST DO THE SAME.
CHRISTMAS WAS ALWAYS BIG IN OUR HOUSE, AND I ALWAYS WENT ALL OUT SEARCHING FOR THE VERY BEST GIFTS MY DAUGHTERS ASKED FOR, AND COST WAS NEVER A FACTOR.
NOW I SEE THE VERY BEST GIFT MY WIFE AND I EVER GAVE OUR DAUGHTERS WAS THE GIFT OF INTRODUCING THEM TO THE LORD FROM CHILDHOOD.
THIS WAS TRULY THE ONE GIFT WE GAVE THAT KEPT ON GIVING, EVEN TO THIS DAY.
THOUGH WE DON'T SEE HER, THE GIFT OF JESUS IS GIVING HER ETERNAL LIFE EVEN NOW!
TO THE VERY END, INSPITE OF HER PAIN AND SUFFERING, MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER OF 28 YEARS WAS PRAISING GOD IN HER WRITINGS, HER SONGS, AND MOST OF ALL HER LIFESTYLE THAT TOUCHED AND MOVED SO MANY, INCLUDING ME.
MY ONLY COMFORT IS IN KNOWING THAT THE FATHER OF ALL FATHERS NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE, AND HE SAW FIT TO END HER SUFFERING ON EARTH, CALLING HER TO FINALLY BE WHOLE, AND WITH HIM.
NOW SHE HAS EXPERIENCED TRUE FATHERLY LOVE, THE KIND THAT DOESN'T MUMBLE, COMPLAIN, OR GROW FRUSTRATED.
IF I RUN OUT OF EVERY REASON TO PRAISE GOD FOR MYSELF, I CAN ALWAYS FIND A PRAISE FOR HIM FOR WHAT HE DID FOR MY BABY, AND HOW HE' HAS SUSTAINED MY VERY SANITY THROUGHOUT THIS ALMOST 1 YEAR OF GRIEF, MOURNING, AND LOSS.
I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THAT I'VE BEEN CRYING THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE BEEN TYPING THIS, AND I'M SURE I'LL CRY SOMEMORE, BUT MY TEARS ARE BECAUSE I MISS HER, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HER THINGS I WISHED I HAD, OR TO SIMPLY EXPRESS THEM BETTER.
I IMAGINE GOD IS SIMPLY ALLOWING ME A SMATTERING OF HOW HE MUST GRIEVE, AND MOURN OVER US AS HIS CHILDREN.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION:
GIVE THANKS TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH
LIVE TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
LOVE TODAY LIKE IT WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
FORGIVE TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
HOW HELPLESS THE FATHER OF HEAVEN MUST FEEL, WHEN HE CAN ONLY TRANSPORT AND VISIT US, BECAUSE WE NEVER TRULY INVITE, OR ALLOW HIM INTO OUR LIVE'S.
LET'S GIVE OUR CHILDREN THE ONE GIFT THAT TRULY KEEPS ON GIVING, THAT GIFT IS JESUS.
THE TOLL OF TRANSPORTING, AND SPENDING TIME IN THE HOSPITAL HAD BECOME QUITE TAXING.
IT WAS EMOTIONALLY, AND PHYSICALLY FATIQUING, AND VERY, VERY SAD TO WATCH HER STRUGGLE THROUGH HER BATTLE AND NOT BE ABLE TO OFFER ANY COMFORT AS HER FATHER, AND SUPPOSED PROTECTOR.
MY LOVE FOR HER NEVER WANED, BUT THE FATIQUE, AND DISPAIR WAS BEGINNING TO MANIFEST AS FRUSTRATION, AND COMPLAINTS.
MY HANDS WERE TIED, WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO ?
SITTING AND WATCHING JUST ISN'T IN MY DNA. IT IS MY NATURE TO JUMP DIRECTLY IN THE FRAY, BELIEVING I CAN OFFER ASSISTANCE, AND RELIEF IN THE WORSE OF SCENARIOS.
FOR MANY YEARS I WAS A FIRST RESPONDER PROFESSIONAL FIGHTER AND I'M JUST BUILT TO HELP, TO RESPOND, AND TO RESCUE, BUT FOR MY DAUGHTER I WAS HELPLESS, RELOGATED TO ONLY TRANSPORT, AND TO VISIT, HOW FRUSTRATING!
BEING SO FRUSTRATED, MAGNIFIED MY FATIQUE, AND THAT LED TO COMPLAINING.
THIS YEAR WITH MY DAUGHTER HAVING PASSED, AWAY I WISHED SHE WERE HERE, AND IF I HAD STUMPS FOR LEGS, AND HAD TO CARRY HER TO AND FROM THE HOSPITAL ON MY BACK, I BELIEVE I WOULD SO WITHOUT A MURMUR OR COMPLAINT.
LAST YEAR I KNEW HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO LIVE WITH HER, AND HER DESEASE, BUT THIS YEAR I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO LIVE WITHOUT HER.
MY DAUGHTER WAS BEAUTIFUL AND BEAUTIFULLY SAVED, AND I THANK GOD TO NO END FOR THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW SHE IS NO LONGER IN PAIN, AND WITH THE MASTER.
SHE HAS ALREADY RUN HER RACE, AND FINISHED HER COURSE, NOW HER DADDY MUST DO THE SAME.
CHRISTMAS WAS ALWAYS BIG IN OUR HOUSE, AND I ALWAYS WENT ALL OUT SEARCHING FOR THE VERY BEST GIFTS MY DAUGHTERS ASKED FOR, AND COST WAS NEVER A FACTOR.
NOW I SEE THE VERY BEST GIFT MY WIFE AND I EVER GAVE OUR DAUGHTERS WAS THE GIFT OF INTRODUCING THEM TO THE LORD FROM CHILDHOOD.
THIS WAS TRULY THE ONE GIFT WE GAVE THAT KEPT ON GIVING, EVEN TO THIS DAY.
THOUGH WE DON'T SEE HER, THE GIFT OF JESUS IS GIVING HER ETERNAL LIFE EVEN NOW!
TO THE VERY END, INSPITE OF HER PAIN AND SUFFERING, MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER OF 28 YEARS WAS PRAISING GOD IN HER WRITINGS, HER SONGS, AND MOST OF ALL HER LIFESTYLE THAT TOUCHED AND MOVED SO MANY, INCLUDING ME.
MY ONLY COMFORT IS IN KNOWING THAT THE FATHER OF ALL FATHERS NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE, AND HE SAW FIT TO END HER SUFFERING ON EARTH, CALLING HER TO FINALLY BE WHOLE, AND WITH HIM.
NOW SHE HAS EXPERIENCED TRUE FATHERLY LOVE, THE KIND THAT DOESN'T MUMBLE, COMPLAIN, OR GROW FRUSTRATED.
IF I RUN OUT OF EVERY REASON TO PRAISE GOD FOR MYSELF, I CAN ALWAYS FIND A PRAISE FOR HIM FOR WHAT HE DID FOR MY BABY, AND HOW HE' HAS SUSTAINED MY VERY SANITY THROUGHOUT THIS ALMOST 1 YEAR OF GRIEF, MOURNING, AND LOSS.
I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THAT I'VE BEEN CRYING THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE BEEN TYPING THIS, AND I'M SURE I'LL CRY SOMEMORE, BUT MY TEARS ARE BECAUSE I MISS HER, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL HER THINGS I WISHED I HAD, OR TO SIMPLY EXPRESS THEM BETTER.
I IMAGINE GOD IS SIMPLY ALLOWING ME A SMATTERING OF HOW HE MUST GRIEVE, AND MOURN OVER US AS HIS CHILDREN.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION:
GIVE THANKS TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH
LIVE TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
LOVE TODAY LIKE IT WAS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
FORGIVE TODAY LIKE IT IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH.
HOW HELPLESS THE FATHER OF HEAVEN MUST FEEL, WHEN HE CAN ONLY TRANSPORT AND VISIT US, BECAUSE WE NEVER TRULY INVITE, OR ALLOW HIM INTO OUR LIVE'S.
LET'S GIVE OUR CHILDREN THE ONE GIFT THAT TRULY KEEPS ON GIVING, THAT GIFT IS JESUS.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
LET'S PLEASE OUR FATHER !
HOW SAD GOD MUST BE TO HAVE CHILDREN LIKE US.
WE'RE UNAPPRECIATIVE, INCONSIDERATE, DISOBEDIENT, REBELLIOUS, OBSTINATE, AND EMBARRASSING TOO NAME BUT A FEW THINGS.
I KNOW HOW MY HEART HURT WHENEVER MY CHILDREN DISAPPOINTED ME, AND I MUST SAY THAT I WAS BLESSED TO HAVE CHILDREN THAT SELDOM DID DISAPPOINT ME.
ON THE RARE OCCASION THAT THEY DID DISAPPOINT, ALL OF THE HURT WAS USUALLY MANIFESTED INCORRECTLY IN ANGER, AND ALL OF THE ANGER I COULD MUSTER UP COULD NEVER EXPRESS ALL OF THE HURT IT WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISPLAY.
IN ALL OF MY INEPT LOVE, I LOVED THEM WITH ALL I KNEW WHICH OF COURSE AT IT'S VERY BEST PALED IN COMPARISON TO GOD'S LOVE FOR US.
YET, I DID LOVE THEM, AND DISCOVERED THAT AS LONG AS WE LOVE, WE WILL HURT.
AS LONG AS WE ARE LOVED, WE WILL HURT OTHERS.
I AM A LONELY MAN NOW THAT MY DAUGHTERS ARE NO LONGER A PART OF MY DAILY LIFE.
MY YOUNGEST IS NOW MARRIED, AND FOCUSING ON BEING A WIFE AS SHE SHOULD, WHILE MY OLDEST DAUGHTER PASSED AWAY AND CREATED A VOID THAT IS BEYOND FILLING, AND A HURT THAT DEFIES EXPRESSION.
AS I SIT AND REMINISCE OF DAYS GONE BY, AND OPPORTUNITIES MISSED, I WONDER IF I'LL EVER BE THE SAME WITHOUT THEM IN MY DAILY LIFE.
I'M FIGHTING BACK TEARS AS I WRITE THIS, AND I MISS THEM SO MUCH, YET I CAN NEVER CHANGE WHAT WAS, AND WHAT IS.
WITHOUT GOD, I WOULD HAVE LONG AGO LOST MY BALANCE, AND FALLEN TO WHO KNOWS WHERE, BUT GOD IS MY FRIEND, AND HE HAS HELD ME THROUGH IT ALL.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: LET'S IMAGINE HOW GOD FEELS ABOUT OUR ATTITUDES, REBELLION, STUBBORNNESS, AND DISOBEDIENCE, AND LET'S IMPROVE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIM RIGHT NOW.
IF I, IN MY IMPERFECT, INCOMPLETE LOVE CAN HURT, AND FEEL LIKE THIS, LETS IMAGINE GOD'S HEART, AND PAIN CAUSED BY US.
LET'S CHANGE TODAY, AND PLEASE OUR FATHER!
WE'RE UNAPPRECIATIVE, INCONSIDERATE, DISOBEDIENT, REBELLIOUS, OBSTINATE, AND EMBARRASSING TOO NAME BUT A FEW THINGS.
I KNOW HOW MY HEART HURT WHENEVER MY CHILDREN DISAPPOINTED ME, AND I MUST SAY THAT I WAS BLESSED TO HAVE CHILDREN THAT SELDOM DID DISAPPOINT ME.
ON THE RARE OCCASION THAT THEY DID DISAPPOINT, ALL OF THE HURT WAS USUALLY MANIFESTED INCORRECTLY IN ANGER, AND ALL OF THE ANGER I COULD MUSTER UP COULD NEVER EXPRESS ALL OF THE HURT IT WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISPLAY.
IN ALL OF MY INEPT LOVE, I LOVED THEM WITH ALL I KNEW WHICH OF COURSE AT IT'S VERY BEST PALED IN COMPARISON TO GOD'S LOVE FOR US.
YET, I DID LOVE THEM, AND DISCOVERED THAT AS LONG AS WE LOVE, WE WILL HURT.
AS LONG AS WE ARE LOVED, WE WILL HURT OTHERS.
I AM A LONELY MAN NOW THAT MY DAUGHTERS ARE NO LONGER A PART OF MY DAILY LIFE.
MY YOUNGEST IS NOW MARRIED, AND FOCUSING ON BEING A WIFE AS SHE SHOULD, WHILE MY OLDEST DAUGHTER PASSED AWAY AND CREATED A VOID THAT IS BEYOND FILLING, AND A HURT THAT DEFIES EXPRESSION.
AS I SIT AND REMINISCE OF DAYS GONE BY, AND OPPORTUNITIES MISSED, I WONDER IF I'LL EVER BE THE SAME WITHOUT THEM IN MY DAILY LIFE.
I'M FIGHTING BACK TEARS AS I WRITE THIS, AND I MISS THEM SO MUCH, YET I CAN NEVER CHANGE WHAT WAS, AND WHAT IS.
WITHOUT GOD, I WOULD HAVE LONG AGO LOST MY BALANCE, AND FALLEN TO WHO KNOWS WHERE, BUT GOD IS MY FRIEND, AND HE HAS HELD ME THROUGH IT ALL.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: LET'S IMAGINE HOW GOD FEELS ABOUT OUR ATTITUDES, REBELLION, STUBBORNNESS, AND DISOBEDIENCE, AND LET'S IMPROVE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH HIM RIGHT NOW.
IF I, IN MY IMPERFECT, INCOMPLETE LOVE CAN HURT, AND FEEL LIKE THIS, LETS IMAGINE GOD'S HEART, AND PAIN CAUSED BY US.
LET'S CHANGE TODAY, AND PLEASE OUR FATHER!
Monday, December 7, 2009
JUMP OR WASHOUT !
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
JOB WAS A VERY SPECIAL KIND OF PERSON, WHICH IS WHY THE LORD ALLOWED HIM TO ENDURE ALL THAT THE DEVIL DID TO HIM.
GOD ALL READY KNEW JOB WOULD STAND, BUT SATAN, AND EVEN JOB NEEDED TO SEE THAT HE WOULD STAND.
THIS IS A MIGHTY, MIGHTY BOLD STATEMENT TO BE MADE BY ANYONE, AT ANYTIME, LET ALONE SOMEONE THAT HAS ALREADY ENDURED ALL THAT JOB HAD UP TO THIS POINT, ESPECIALLY NOT KNOWING WHAT LAID AHEAD.
I AM REMINDED OF ABRAHAM AND HIS BELIEF, LOVE, TRUST, AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ALMIGHTY.
IT IS EVIDENT TO ME THROUGH THESE GREAT MEN OF GOD, AND THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT ONLY THOSE POSSESSING GENUINE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WOULD, OR EVEN COULD MAKE SUCH BOLD STATEMENTS AS THESES MEN OF GOD DID.
ABRAHAM WHILE HEADING UP THE MOUNTAIN TO SACRIFICE HIS PROMISED SON MADE THE BOLD STATEMENT OF FAITH THAT THEY BOTH WOULD RETURN.
JOB AFTER HAVING LOSS ALL BELONGINGS, AND EVERY CHILD PROCLAIMS THIS BOLD STATEMENT OF FAITH, THAT EVEN IF GOD WERE TO KILL HIM, HE WOULD STILL TRUST, BECAUSE LIFE WAS TRULY ALL JOB HAD LEFT.
ONCE AGAIN I AM INSTRUCTED TO POINT OUT TO US ALL THAT THESE WERE NOT MERELY STATEMENTS OF FAITH.
THESE WERE DECLARATIONS OF VERY STRONG, LONG AGO ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS WITH AN UNSEEN GOD THAT HAD NEVER FAILED THESE MEN OF GOD IN THE PAST, SO WHY SHOULD THEY BELIEVE HE WOULD NOW ?
WHEN WILL OUR FAITH, OR BETTER YET RELATIONSHIPS ATTAIN SUCH STATUS WITH GOD THAT HE CAN TRUST US WITH THE HIGH HONOR OF TESTS, TRIALS, AND SUFFERING AS HE DID THESE MEN OF GOD ?
THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS ALSO THE PROBLEM, BECAUSE WE'LL NEVER KNOW UNTIL WE ARE IN THE VERY MIDST OF THE SITUATION THAT THREATENS TO ACTUALLY CRUSH US, OR DRIVE US AWAY FROM GOD.
CAN WE SAY AS ABRAHAM THAT WE WILL BE BACK, UNLESS WE ARE FIRST INSTRUCTED TO SACRIFICE OUR LONG AWAITED PROMISES ?
WILL WE BE ABLE TO STATE WE WILL TRUST GOD EVEN IF HE SLAYS US, IF WE ARE NOT FIRST TRULY FACING DEATH ?
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WE ARE QUICKLY APPROACHING ZERO HOUR AND MANY OF US ARE ON THE BRINK OF BREAK THROUGH, BUT NOT BEFORE WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION.
WHAT WILL WE SAY, WHEN OUR ULTIMATE TEST IS STARING US IN THE FACE ?
AS A PARATROOPER I HEARD MANY A MAN STATE THEY WOULD JUMP FROM PLANES AND EARN THEIR WINGS.
THAT WAS UNTIL THE AIRPLANE DOOR OPENED AND THE SOUND WAS DEAFENING, AS THE PLANE ROCKED, AND THE GROUND LOOKED SO FAR AWAY.
MANY A MAN COMPLETED THE TRAINING ON THE GROUND, BUT THE TRUTH TO BEING A PARATROOPER IS JUMPING FROM PLANES.
THOSE THAT FAILED TO COMPLETE THE JUMP PORTION WERE WHAT WE CALLED WASHED OUT OF THE PROGRAM.
THEY WERE STILL SOLDIERS, THEY WERE JUST NOT OF THE ELITE BAND KNOWN AS PARATROOPERS.
MY POINT IS MEN CAN RUN LIKE PARATROOPERS, DO EXERCISES LIKE PARATROOPERS, DRESS LIKE PARATROOPERS, CALL CADENCE LIKE PARATROOPERS, BUT UNTIL YOU JUMP FROM A MILITARY AIRPLANE WITH 100 LBS OF EQUIPMENT, AND HIT THE GROUND RUNNING TOWARDS YOUR MISSION, YOU ARE NOT A PARATROOPER.
HOW MANY OF US TALK LIKE SPIRITUAL GIANTS, SING, WALK, ACT, AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS LIKE SPIRITUAL GIANTS.
MOST OF US ARE GUILTY OF THAT PROBABLY, BUT THE TIME IS AT HAND FOR US TO REALIZE THAT THE DOOR IS OPENING, THE GROUND IS FAR BELOW, AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO JUMP, OR WASH OUT OF THE PROGRAM.
WE CAN STILL BE CHRISTIANS, WE JUST WON'T BE KNOWN AS THE ELITE BAND OF SPIRITUAL GIANTS, OR TRUE MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ENJOY PRIVILEGE WITH GOD WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY, OR WITHOUT SUFFERING FOR HIM!
JOB WAS A VERY SPECIAL KIND OF PERSON, WHICH IS WHY THE LORD ALLOWED HIM TO ENDURE ALL THAT THE DEVIL DID TO HIM.
GOD ALL READY KNEW JOB WOULD STAND, BUT SATAN, AND EVEN JOB NEEDED TO SEE THAT HE WOULD STAND.
THIS IS A MIGHTY, MIGHTY BOLD STATEMENT TO BE MADE BY ANYONE, AT ANYTIME, LET ALONE SOMEONE THAT HAS ALREADY ENDURED ALL THAT JOB HAD UP TO THIS POINT, ESPECIALLY NOT KNOWING WHAT LAID AHEAD.
I AM REMINDED OF ABRAHAM AND HIS BELIEF, LOVE, TRUST, AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ALMIGHTY.
IT IS EVIDENT TO ME THROUGH THESE GREAT MEN OF GOD, AND THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT ONLY THOSE POSSESSING GENUINE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WOULD, OR EVEN COULD MAKE SUCH BOLD STATEMENTS AS THESES MEN OF GOD DID.
ABRAHAM WHILE HEADING UP THE MOUNTAIN TO SACRIFICE HIS PROMISED SON MADE THE BOLD STATEMENT OF FAITH THAT THEY BOTH WOULD RETURN.
JOB AFTER HAVING LOSS ALL BELONGINGS, AND EVERY CHILD PROCLAIMS THIS BOLD STATEMENT OF FAITH, THAT EVEN IF GOD WERE TO KILL HIM, HE WOULD STILL TRUST, BECAUSE LIFE WAS TRULY ALL JOB HAD LEFT.
ONCE AGAIN I AM INSTRUCTED TO POINT OUT TO US ALL THAT THESE WERE NOT MERELY STATEMENTS OF FAITH.
THESE WERE DECLARATIONS OF VERY STRONG, LONG AGO ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS WITH AN UNSEEN GOD THAT HAD NEVER FAILED THESE MEN OF GOD IN THE PAST, SO WHY SHOULD THEY BELIEVE HE WOULD NOW ?
WHEN WILL OUR FAITH, OR BETTER YET RELATIONSHIPS ATTAIN SUCH STATUS WITH GOD THAT HE CAN TRUST US WITH THE HIGH HONOR OF TESTS, TRIALS, AND SUFFERING AS HE DID THESE MEN OF GOD ?
THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS ALSO THE PROBLEM, BECAUSE WE'LL NEVER KNOW UNTIL WE ARE IN THE VERY MIDST OF THE SITUATION THAT THREATENS TO ACTUALLY CRUSH US, OR DRIVE US AWAY FROM GOD.
CAN WE SAY AS ABRAHAM THAT WE WILL BE BACK, UNLESS WE ARE FIRST INSTRUCTED TO SACRIFICE OUR LONG AWAITED PROMISES ?
WILL WE BE ABLE TO STATE WE WILL TRUST GOD EVEN IF HE SLAYS US, IF WE ARE NOT FIRST TRULY FACING DEATH ?
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WE ARE QUICKLY APPROACHING ZERO HOUR AND MANY OF US ARE ON THE BRINK OF BREAK THROUGH, BUT NOT BEFORE WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION.
WHAT WILL WE SAY, WHEN OUR ULTIMATE TEST IS STARING US IN THE FACE ?
AS A PARATROOPER I HEARD MANY A MAN STATE THEY WOULD JUMP FROM PLANES AND EARN THEIR WINGS.
THAT WAS UNTIL THE AIRPLANE DOOR OPENED AND THE SOUND WAS DEAFENING, AS THE PLANE ROCKED, AND THE GROUND LOOKED SO FAR AWAY.
MANY A MAN COMPLETED THE TRAINING ON THE GROUND, BUT THE TRUTH TO BEING A PARATROOPER IS JUMPING FROM PLANES.
THOSE THAT FAILED TO COMPLETE THE JUMP PORTION WERE WHAT WE CALLED WASHED OUT OF THE PROGRAM.
THEY WERE STILL SOLDIERS, THEY WERE JUST NOT OF THE ELITE BAND KNOWN AS PARATROOPERS.
MY POINT IS MEN CAN RUN LIKE PARATROOPERS, DO EXERCISES LIKE PARATROOPERS, DRESS LIKE PARATROOPERS, CALL CADENCE LIKE PARATROOPERS, BUT UNTIL YOU JUMP FROM A MILITARY AIRPLANE WITH 100 LBS OF EQUIPMENT, AND HIT THE GROUND RUNNING TOWARDS YOUR MISSION, YOU ARE NOT A PARATROOPER.
HOW MANY OF US TALK LIKE SPIRITUAL GIANTS, SING, WALK, ACT, AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS LIKE SPIRITUAL GIANTS.
MOST OF US ARE GUILTY OF THAT PROBABLY, BUT THE TIME IS AT HAND FOR US TO REALIZE THAT THE DOOR IS OPENING, THE GROUND IS FAR BELOW, AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO JUMP, OR WASH OUT OF THE PROGRAM.
WE CAN STILL BE CHRISTIANS, WE JUST WON'T BE KNOWN AS THE ELITE BAND OF SPIRITUAL GIANTS, OR TRUE MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ENJOY PRIVILEGE WITH GOD WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY, OR WITHOUT SUFFERING FOR HIM!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
LIFE IS NOT A GAME !
I GUESS I'M STRANGE, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I'VE LOOKED AT LIFE THE WAY I'VE HEARD OTHERS LOOK AT IT.
SINCE AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER, I'VE ALWAYS WISHED I WAS NEVER BORN.
YOU MAY ASK WHY WOULD I SAY SUCH A THING, OR WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME, AM I DEPRESSED, SUICIDAL, OR SUFFERING FROM SOME SORT OF IN BALANCE ?
THOUGH I'VE NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED, MY SELF ASSESSMENT IS A POSITIVE ONE.
GOD HAS PLACED SOME SORT OF SUPERNATURAL REALIZATION IN MY DNA THAT INFORMED ME EVEN AS A CHILD THAT LIFE WAS NOT A GAME, OR TO BE PLAYED WITH BECAUSE THE REPERCUSSION'S WERE DIRE AND ETERNAL.
SIMPLY PUT, I NEVER WANTED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LIVING THE LIFE THAT WOULD ALLOW ME TO EVADE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
AS A CHILD I HAD KNOW IDEA OF WHAT ETERNAL PUNISHMENT MAYBE, BUT I DID KNOW IT EXISTED.
I ALSO NEVER THOUGHT IT FAIR, AN INDIVIDUAL THAT NEVER ASK TO BE BROUGHT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE WOULD NOW BE BURDENED WITH THE TASK OF HOW I LEAVE HERE.
STUCK WITH RESPONSIBLE LIVING, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES.
IF THIS DILEMMA ALONE WEREN'T BAD ENOUGH, ISSUES MULTIPLY OVER TIME, AS DOES ONE'S RESPONSIBILITIES.
WE GAIN SPOUSES, CHILDREN, FRIENDS, JOBS, ETC...... THESE ARE PEOPLE YOU DON'T WANT TO FAIL, DISAPPOINT, OR LET DOWN.
WE WANT TO BE ROLE MODELS, MENTORS, EXAMPLES AND ANY OTHER POSITIVE IMPACT WE BELIEVE WE ARE TO BE FOR THESE CHERISHED INDIVIDUALS.
THEN GOD WILL HIT US BELOW THE BELT WITH THE SUCKER PUNCH OF ALL SUCKER PUNCHES, WHEN HE CALLS US INTO POSITIONS OF MINISTRY.
IF EVER THERE WERE A BURDEN TO BEAR, IT IS TO KNOW THAT GOD IS COUNTING ON YOU, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT YOU, AND YOU ARE NO LONGER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELL-BEING OF YOUR SOUL ONLY.
EVERY SOUL THE LORD PLACES IN YOUR LIFE MINISTERIALLY WILL BECOME A NEW REASON TO FEEL THE BURDEN OF LIFE'S NOT BEING A GAME.
WHAT A MESS, AND A BURDEN THIS UNREQUESTED LIFE CAN BE.
WHY DOES GOD ALLOW, AND MAYBE EVEN DO THIS TO US WHOM HE CLAIMS TO LOVE SO ?
IF YOU'RE AWAITING FOR AN ANSWER FROM ME IT COULD BE AWHILE, BECAUSE OFF-HAND I JUST DON'T HAVE IT.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE WILL "UNDERSTAND BETTER, BYE, AND BYE".
I'M SIMPLY AIRING OUT MY QUESTIONS, AND DISSATISFACTION, IN HOPES IT WILL BE BOTH CATHARTIC FOR ME, AS WELL AS BENEFICIAL FOR YOU !
IN CLOSING, I GUESS ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I LOVE, AND TRUST GOD, THEREFORE I BELIEVE IN HIS PROCESS, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE, OR ENJOY IT, I WILL BY THE GRACE OF GOD CONTINUE TO ENDURE UNTIL THE MY END.
THE WORD ENDURE SAYS IT ALL, DOESN'T IT ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: EVEN THOUGH NONE OF US HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR BEING HERE, WE HAVE GOT TO BELIEVE IN GOD, AND IN THE FACT THAT IF HE SELECTED US FOR WHATEVER IT IS WE ARE FACING, HE KNOWS WHATS BEST.
SAINTS WE MUST STOP LIVING OUR LIVES AS THOUGH IT WERE SIMPLY A GAME VOID OF WINNERS, AND LOSERS.
THERE WILL NEVER BE A BIGGER WINNER THEN THE CHILD OF GOD THAT GETS THIS JOURNEY RIGHT.
NOR WILL THERE EVER BE A BIGGER LOSER THEN THE ONE THAT FAILS TO HEED THIS WARNING, AND CONTINUES TO LIVE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE IMMUNITY TO GOD'S JUDGEMENT.
REMEMBER WHETHER WE ASKED TO BE HERE OR NOT, WE WILL ALL CERTAINLY LEAVE HERE, BUT HOW ?
SINCE AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER, I'VE ALWAYS WISHED I WAS NEVER BORN.
YOU MAY ASK WHY WOULD I SAY SUCH A THING, OR WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME, AM I DEPRESSED, SUICIDAL, OR SUFFERING FROM SOME SORT OF IN BALANCE ?
THOUGH I'VE NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED, MY SELF ASSESSMENT IS A POSITIVE ONE.
GOD HAS PLACED SOME SORT OF SUPERNATURAL REALIZATION IN MY DNA THAT INFORMED ME EVEN AS A CHILD THAT LIFE WAS NOT A GAME, OR TO BE PLAYED WITH BECAUSE THE REPERCUSSION'S WERE DIRE AND ETERNAL.
SIMPLY PUT, I NEVER WANTED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LIVING THE LIFE THAT WOULD ALLOW ME TO EVADE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
AS A CHILD I HAD KNOW IDEA OF WHAT ETERNAL PUNISHMENT MAYBE, BUT I DID KNOW IT EXISTED.
I ALSO NEVER THOUGHT IT FAIR, AN INDIVIDUAL THAT NEVER ASK TO BE BROUGHT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE WOULD NOW BE BURDENED WITH THE TASK OF HOW I LEAVE HERE.
STUCK WITH RESPONSIBLE LIVING, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES.
IF THIS DILEMMA ALONE WEREN'T BAD ENOUGH, ISSUES MULTIPLY OVER TIME, AS DOES ONE'S RESPONSIBILITIES.
WE GAIN SPOUSES, CHILDREN, FRIENDS, JOBS, ETC...... THESE ARE PEOPLE YOU DON'T WANT TO FAIL, DISAPPOINT, OR LET DOWN.
WE WANT TO BE ROLE MODELS, MENTORS, EXAMPLES AND ANY OTHER POSITIVE IMPACT WE BELIEVE WE ARE TO BE FOR THESE CHERISHED INDIVIDUALS.
THEN GOD WILL HIT US BELOW THE BELT WITH THE SUCKER PUNCH OF ALL SUCKER PUNCHES, WHEN HE CALLS US INTO POSITIONS OF MINISTRY.
IF EVER THERE WERE A BURDEN TO BEAR, IT IS TO KNOW THAT GOD IS COUNTING ON YOU, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT YOU, AND YOU ARE NO LONGER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELL-BEING OF YOUR SOUL ONLY.
EVERY SOUL THE LORD PLACES IN YOUR LIFE MINISTERIALLY WILL BECOME A NEW REASON TO FEEL THE BURDEN OF LIFE'S NOT BEING A GAME.
WHAT A MESS, AND A BURDEN THIS UNREQUESTED LIFE CAN BE.
WHY DOES GOD ALLOW, AND MAYBE EVEN DO THIS TO US WHOM HE CLAIMS TO LOVE SO ?
IF YOU'RE AWAITING FOR AN ANSWER FROM ME IT COULD BE AWHILE, BECAUSE OFF-HAND I JUST DON'T HAVE IT.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE WILL "UNDERSTAND BETTER, BYE, AND BYE".
I'M SIMPLY AIRING OUT MY QUESTIONS, AND DISSATISFACTION, IN HOPES IT WILL BE BOTH CATHARTIC FOR ME, AS WELL AS BENEFICIAL FOR YOU !
IN CLOSING, I GUESS ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I LOVE, AND TRUST GOD, THEREFORE I BELIEVE IN HIS PROCESS, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T AGREE, OR ENJOY IT, I WILL BY THE GRACE OF GOD CONTINUE TO ENDURE UNTIL THE MY END.
THE WORD ENDURE SAYS IT ALL, DOESN'T IT ?
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: EVEN THOUGH NONE OF US HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR BEING HERE, WE HAVE GOT TO BELIEVE IN GOD, AND IN THE FACT THAT IF HE SELECTED US FOR WHATEVER IT IS WE ARE FACING, HE KNOWS WHATS BEST.
SAINTS WE MUST STOP LIVING OUR LIVES AS THOUGH IT WERE SIMPLY A GAME VOID OF WINNERS, AND LOSERS.
THERE WILL NEVER BE A BIGGER WINNER THEN THE CHILD OF GOD THAT GETS THIS JOURNEY RIGHT.
NOR WILL THERE EVER BE A BIGGER LOSER THEN THE ONE THAT FAILS TO HEED THIS WARNING, AND CONTINUES TO LIVE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE IMMUNITY TO GOD'S JUDGEMENT.
REMEMBER WHETHER WE ASKED TO BE HERE OR NOT, WE WILL ALL CERTAINLY LEAVE HERE, BUT HOW ?
Saturday, December 5, 2009
JUST A SAMPLE !
WE COMPLAIN ABOUT OUR LIFE'S AND HOW THEY ARE SO FULL OF DISAPPOINTMENTS, TEST, TRIALS, AND TRIBULATIONS.
NONE OF US ARE EVER TRULY SATISFIED WITH EVERY ASPECT OF OUT LIFE.
WHETHER WE ARE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, HAVE OUR HEALTH, STILL HAVE OUR FAMILIES INTACT, HAVE FOOD AND SHELTER, OR MANY OTHER AMENITIES THAT MANY DON'T HAVE, WE SEEM TO MANAGE TO CONTINUALLY FIND REASONS TO COMPLAIN, AND NOT BE GRATEFUL.
UNFORTUNATELY MANY WILL FACE THE BETRAYAL OF FAMILY, FRIEND, SPOUSES AND LOVED AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS.
WHY IS THAT, AND WHY MUST IT BE THAT WAY FOR BELIEVERS, AND NON-BELIEVERS AS WELL ?
MY BELIEF IS THAT WE WILL NEVER, EVER BE ABLE TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE PAIN, AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY JESUS, AS HE WAS WHIPPED, SPIT UPON, REJECTED, BETRAYED, CRUCIFIED, AND ALL AROUND JUST DONE WRONG.
OUR LITTLE ORDEALS, THOUGH LARGE TO US, PALE IN COMPARISON TO BEING THE CREATOR OF ALL BUT REJECTED BY YOUR OWN CREATION.
GOD ALLOWS OUR SUFFERING IN HOPES THAT WE WOULD MORE GRATEFULLY EXCEPT, AND APPRECIATE WHAT HE ENDURED FOR OUR SAKES.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: PERHAPS WE WILL ONE DAY ALLOW OUR PERSONAL CRUCIFIXIONS TO LEAD TO OUR OWN SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION INTO TO HEAVEN WHERE CHRIST HAS PREPARED MANSIONS FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE, AND ENDURE TILL THE END.
NONE OF US ARE EVER TRULY SATISFIED WITH EVERY ASPECT OF OUT LIFE.
WHETHER WE ARE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED, HAVE OUR HEALTH, STILL HAVE OUR FAMILIES INTACT, HAVE FOOD AND SHELTER, OR MANY OTHER AMENITIES THAT MANY DON'T HAVE, WE SEEM TO MANAGE TO CONTINUALLY FIND REASONS TO COMPLAIN, AND NOT BE GRATEFUL.
UNFORTUNATELY MANY WILL FACE THE BETRAYAL OF FAMILY, FRIEND, SPOUSES AND LOVED AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS.
WHY IS THAT, AND WHY MUST IT BE THAT WAY FOR BELIEVERS, AND NON-BELIEVERS AS WELL ?
MY BELIEF IS THAT WE WILL NEVER, EVER BE ABLE TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE PAIN, AND SUFFERING EXPERIENCED BY JESUS, AS HE WAS WHIPPED, SPIT UPON, REJECTED, BETRAYED, CRUCIFIED, AND ALL AROUND JUST DONE WRONG.
OUR LITTLE ORDEALS, THOUGH LARGE TO US, PALE IN COMPARISON TO BEING THE CREATOR OF ALL BUT REJECTED BY YOUR OWN CREATION.
GOD ALLOWS OUR SUFFERING IN HOPES THAT WE WOULD MORE GRATEFULLY EXCEPT, AND APPRECIATE WHAT HE ENDURED FOR OUR SAKES.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: PERHAPS WE WILL ONE DAY ALLOW OUR PERSONAL CRUCIFIXIONS TO LEAD TO OUR OWN SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION INTO TO HEAVEN WHERE CHRIST HAS PREPARED MANSIONS FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE, AND ENDURE TILL THE END.
Friday, December 4, 2009
THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP
Gen 22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
IN THIS VERSE LAYS THE SECRET TO RELATIONSHIP IN MY OPINION.
ABRAHAM WAS INSTRUCTED BY GOD TO TAKE HIS ONLY SON ISSAC TO THE MOUNT AND OFFER HIM AS A BURNT OFFERING.
ABRAHAM UNDERSTOOD THAT ALL OFFERINGS HAD TO BE SLAIN, AND THEN BURNT, THIS LEAVES NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT ABRAHAM KNEW THIS MEANT ISSAC WOULD BE DEAD.
IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT HE WAS HIS ONLY SON, BUT HE WAS ALSO THE SON OF THE PROMISE THAT AS OF YET HAD NOT COME TO PASS.
THIS IS WHERE ABRAHAM HAD TO KNOW WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT GOD, AND HE COULDN'T ALLOW ANYTHING INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY TO ALTER WHAT HE KNEW THROUGH EXPERIENCE, THROUGH RELATIONSHIP.
2Chronicles 20:7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?
Isaiah 41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT EVEN THOUGH ABRAHAM WASN'T CERTAIN OF WHAT GOD WOULD DO, HE KNEW GOD WAS HIS FRIEND, AND HE COULD COUNT ON HIS FRIEND BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF GODS CHARACTER, HIS LOVE, HIS PROMISE KEEPING, AND MOST OF ALL HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, HIS FRIEND.
TAKE NOTE THAT IT WASN'T ABRAHAM THAT CALLED GOD HIS FRIEND, BUT IT WAS GOD CALLING ABRAHAM HIS FRIEND.
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, BECAUSE HUMANS BY NATURE WILL ALWAYS ATTEMPT TO ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THOSE DEEMED IMPORTANT.
WE DO SO THINKING IT WILL MAKE US LOOK IMPORTANT, BUT WHEN THE POWERFUL, AND INFLUENTIAL CALL US THEIR FRIEND THAT ALWAYS BEARS MUCH MORE WEIGHT, AND SIGNIFICANCE.
GOD SAYS ABRAHAM WAS HIS FRIEND, THAT PLACES THE PRESSURE ON GOD TO SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY AND ABRAHAM KNEW, AND COUNTED ON THAT.
IT IS TRUE THAT ABRAHAM DISPLAYED GREAT FAITH, BUT HIS FAITH WAS FRIENDSHIP BASED, WHICH STRENGTHENED IT, AND MADE IT EASIER TO BELIEVE IN.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN A DRUG USER OR ALCOHOL DRINKER IN MY LIFE, THEREFORE IF MY WIFE WERE TO BE TOLD THAT I WAS KILLED WHILE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, CHANCES ARE SHE WOULD NEVER BELIEVE THAT.
NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS THERE, BUT DUE TO HER KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH ME, SHE SHOULD KNOW THAT I WOULDN'T DO THAT.
SHE UNDERSTANDS MY CHARACTER.
THIS IS WHY GOD SO DESIRES TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS CHILDREN, SO THAT WHEN WE ARE IN POSITIONS THAT RAISE DOUBTS, AND UNCERTAINTIES WE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK IN FAITH.
WE SHOULD KNOW HIS CHARACTER THROUGH RELATIONSHIP, NOT SIMPLY WORDS, OR ACQUAINTANCE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: EVEN IF WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GOD IS DOING IN OUR LIVE'S, OR WHY HE HAS US DOING CERTAIN THINGS IN OUR LIVE'S WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO TRUST HIM DUE TO OUR RELATONSHIP WITH HIM.
WE MUST SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH GOD IN PRAYER, AND STUDY OF HIS WORD TO EVER TRULY KNOW HIM.
KNOWING THAT GOD WAS GOOD TO ABRAHAM, NOAH, MOSES, AND OTHERS IS GOOD, BUT WE MUST KNOW, AND TRUST HIM FOR OURSELVES AS OUR FRIEND.
THAT IS WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK UP OUR MOUNTAINS ALONE, WITH OUR MOST PRIZED PROMISES AND SAY"WE'LL BE BACK", TRUSTING THAT OUR FRIEND WILL KEEP HIS WORD PERTAINING TO HIS ORIGINAL WORD, OR VISION TO US.
ABRAHAM KNEW ISSAC WAS THE SEED OF HIS PROMISE, SO HE KNEW SOMEHOW HIS FRIEND THAT ORIGINATED THE PROMISE WAS GOOD TO HIS WORD AND WOULD MAKE SURE ISSAC WOULD BE AROUND EVEN IF HE HAD TO SACRIFICE HIM.
IN THIS VERSE LAYS THE SECRET TO RELATIONSHIP IN MY OPINION.
ABRAHAM WAS INSTRUCTED BY GOD TO TAKE HIS ONLY SON ISSAC TO THE MOUNT AND OFFER HIM AS A BURNT OFFERING.
ABRAHAM UNDERSTOOD THAT ALL OFFERINGS HAD TO BE SLAIN, AND THEN BURNT, THIS LEAVES NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT ABRAHAM KNEW THIS MEANT ISSAC WOULD BE DEAD.
IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT HE WAS HIS ONLY SON, BUT HE WAS ALSO THE SON OF THE PROMISE THAT AS OF YET HAD NOT COME TO PASS.
THIS IS WHERE ABRAHAM HAD TO KNOW WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT GOD, AND HE COULDN'T ALLOW ANYTHING INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY TO ALTER WHAT HE KNEW THROUGH EXPERIENCE, THROUGH RELATIONSHIP.
2Chronicles 20:7 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?
Isaiah 41:8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
James 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
WE MUST REALIZE THAT EVEN THOUGH ABRAHAM WASN'T CERTAIN OF WHAT GOD WOULD DO, HE KNEW GOD WAS HIS FRIEND, AND HE COULD COUNT ON HIS FRIEND BASED ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF GODS CHARACTER, HIS LOVE, HIS PROMISE KEEPING, AND MOST OF ALL HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, HIS FRIEND.
TAKE NOTE THAT IT WASN'T ABRAHAM THAT CALLED GOD HIS FRIEND, BUT IT WAS GOD CALLING ABRAHAM HIS FRIEND.
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, BECAUSE HUMANS BY NATURE WILL ALWAYS ATTEMPT TO ALIGN OURSELVES WITH THOSE DEEMED IMPORTANT.
WE DO SO THINKING IT WILL MAKE US LOOK IMPORTANT, BUT WHEN THE POWERFUL, AND INFLUENTIAL CALL US THEIR FRIEND THAT ALWAYS BEARS MUCH MORE WEIGHT, AND SIGNIFICANCE.
GOD SAYS ABRAHAM WAS HIS FRIEND, THAT PLACES THE PRESSURE ON GOD TO SHOW HIMSELF FRIENDLY AND ABRAHAM KNEW, AND COUNTED ON THAT.
IT IS TRUE THAT ABRAHAM DISPLAYED GREAT FAITH, BUT HIS FAITH WAS FRIENDSHIP BASED, WHICH STRENGTHENED IT, AND MADE IT EASIER TO BELIEVE IN.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN A DRUG USER OR ALCOHOL DRINKER IN MY LIFE, THEREFORE IF MY WIFE WERE TO BE TOLD THAT I WAS KILLED WHILE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, CHANCES ARE SHE WOULD NEVER BELIEVE THAT.
NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS THERE, BUT DUE TO HER KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH ME, SHE SHOULD KNOW THAT I WOULDN'T DO THAT.
SHE UNDERSTANDS MY CHARACTER.
THIS IS WHY GOD SO DESIRES TO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS CHILDREN, SO THAT WHEN WE ARE IN POSITIONS THAT RAISE DOUBTS, AND UNCERTAINTIES WE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK IN FAITH.
WE SHOULD KNOW HIS CHARACTER THROUGH RELATIONSHIP, NOT SIMPLY WORDS, OR ACQUAINTANCE.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: EVEN IF WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GOD IS DOING IN OUR LIVE'S, OR WHY HE HAS US DOING CERTAIN THINGS IN OUR LIVE'S WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO TRUST HIM DUE TO OUR RELATONSHIP WITH HIM.
WE MUST SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH GOD IN PRAYER, AND STUDY OF HIS WORD TO EVER TRULY KNOW HIM.
KNOWING THAT GOD WAS GOOD TO ABRAHAM, NOAH, MOSES, AND OTHERS IS GOOD, BUT WE MUST KNOW, AND TRUST HIM FOR OURSELVES AS OUR FRIEND.
THAT IS WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK UP OUR MOUNTAINS ALONE, WITH OUR MOST PRIZED PROMISES AND SAY"WE'LL BE BACK", TRUSTING THAT OUR FRIEND WILL KEEP HIS WORD PERTAINING TO HIS ORIGINAL WORD, OR VISION TO US.
ABRAHAM KNEW ISSAC WAS THE SEED OF HIS PROMISE, SO HE KNEW SOMEHOW HIS FRIEND THAT ORIGINATED THE PROMISE WAS GOOD TO HIS WORD AND WOULD MAKE SURE ISSAC WOULD BE AROUND EVEN IF HE HAD TO SACRIFICE HIM.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
WHATS THE PLAN ?
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR OUR LIVES.
IT IS A PLAN THAT WAS MAPPED OUT PRIOR TO OUR BIRTHS, OUR CONCEPTIONS,
ADAMS FALL FROM GRACE AND BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH AS WE KNOW IT.
THAT IS WHY HE REVAMPED EARTH MAKING IT FOR OUR HABITATION.
WE MUST DISCOVER THIS GODLY PLAN FOR OUR LIVES, OR LIVE IN VAIN, DESTINED FOR HELL.
EACH ONES PATH IS DIFFERENT, AS IS EACH PERSON'S PROCESS AND CALL, BUT ONE THING IS APPLICABLE TO ALL, AND THAT IS WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DISCOVERING OUR PURPOSES, AND TIMING.
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
PAUL MAKES THIS STATEMENT FOR TWO PRIMARY REASONS THOUGH THERE MAYBE MORE, I'LL FOCUS ON THESE TWO FOR NOW.
1.) BECAUSE HE REALIZES HIS LIFE WAS PREDETERMINED BY GOD AND IT HAS A SPECIFIC POINT, PURPOSE, AND GOAL, OR MARK.
2.) HE ALSO REALIZES SINCE SATAN IS AWARE OF THIS FACT HE WILL ATTEMPT TO THWART HIM AT EVERY TURN, THEREBY CAUSING HIM TO PRESS THROUGH ALL OPPOSITION.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WE MUST REALIZE THAT OUR LIVE'S ARE NOT OUR OWN, AND GOD HAS MAPPED OUT PLANS FOR THEM.
WE MUST SEEK HIM IN PRAYER, STUDY, AND LIFESTYLE TO DISCOVER THIS PLAN.
WE THEN MUST PRESS THROUGH ALL OF THIS WORLDS OBSTACLES TO ARRIVE AT GODS PREDETERMINED MARK, WHICH FOR ALL OF US IS HEAVEN.
GOD KNOWS THE BEGINNING FROM THE END , BECAUSE WE ALL HAD THE SAME END PLANNED FOR US AND THAT IS HEAVEN.
SATAN THOUGHT HE DEFEATED GOD'S PLAN FOR ALL OF US IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, BUT CHRIST WON FOR US IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
THAT IS WHERE HE WON THE BATTLE TO ALLOW THE FATHERS WILL TO OVER RIDE HIS WILL, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TO DO.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: THE PROOF THAT GOD PLANNED ON VICTORY FOR ALL IS THE FACT THAT ALL OF OUR NAMES ARE ALREADY IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE, AND ONLY WE CAN CAUSE IT TO BE ERASED.
I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !
G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON
IT IS A PLAN THAT WAS MAPPED OUT PRIOR TO OUR BIRTHS, OUR CONCEPTIONS,
ADAMS FALL FROM GRACE AND BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH AS WE KNOW IT.
THAT IS WHY HE REVAMPED EARTH MAKING IT FOR OUR HABITATION.
WE MUST DISCOVER THIS GODLY PLAN FOR OUR LIVES, OR LIVE IN VAIN, DESTINED FOR HELL.
EACH ONES PATH IS DIFFERENT, AS IS EACH PERSON'S PROCESS AND CALL, BUT ONE THING IS APPLICABLE TO ALL, AND THAT IS WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DISCOVERING OUR PURPOSES, AND TIMING.
Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
PAUL MAKES THIS STATEMENT FOR TWO PRIMARY REASONS THOUGH THERE MAYBE MORE, I'LL FOCUS ON THESE TWO FOR NOW.
1.) BECAUSE HE REALIZES HIS LIFE WAS PREDETERMINED BY GOD AND IT HAS A SPECIFIC POINT, PURPOSE, AND GOAL, OR MARK.
2.) HE ALSO REALIZES SINCE SATAN IS AWARE OF THIS FACT HE WILL ATTEMPT TO THWART HIM AT EVERY TURN, THEREBY CAUSING HIM TO PRESS THROUGH ALL OPPOSITION.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WE MUST REALIZE THAT OUR LIVE'S ARE NOT OUR OWN, AND GOD HAS MAPPED OUT PLANS FOR THEM.
WE MUST SEEK HIM IN PRAYER, STUDY, AND LIFESTYLE TO DISCOVER THIS PLAN.
WE THEN MUST PRESS THROUGH ALL OF THIS WORLDS OBSTACLES TO ARRIVE AT GODS PREDETERMINED MARK, WHICH FOR ALL OF US IS HEAVEN.
GOD KNOWS THE BEGINNING FROM THE END , BECAUSE WE ALL HAD THE SAME END PLANNED FOR US AND THAT IS HEAVEN.
SATAN THOUGHT HE DEFEATED GOD'S PLAN FOR ALL OF US IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, BUT CHRIST WON FOR US IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
THAT IS WHERE HE WON THE BATTLE TO ALLOW THE FATHERS WILL TO OVER RIDE HIS WILL, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TO DO.
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: THE PROOF THAT GOD PLANNED ON VICTORY FOR ALL IS THE FACT THAT ALL OF OUR NAMES ARE ALREADY IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE, AND ONLY WE CAN CAUSE IT TO BE ERASED.
I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !
G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE !!!!
WHEN WE LOVE AS WE SHOULD WE'LL STOP KEEPING A RUNNING TALLY OF ALL WE'VE DONE FOR SOMEONE OR ALL THEY'VE DONE TO US !
GOD LOVES IN THIS MANNER, THAT IS WHY HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF LOVE. HIS LOVE IS SO INTENSE, FOCUSED, PURPOSED, AND COMPLETE THAT HE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME LOVE HIMSELF.
WE SPEAK OF LOVE, AND MAY EVEN PERFORM CERTAIN ACTS OF WHAT WE PERCEIVE TO BE LOVE, BUT ARE WE CONSUMED WITH, AND BY LOVE ?
LOVE PERFECTED IS SO COMPLETE AND NATURAL THAT IT WILL PREVENT OUR EVEN HAVING AN IOTA OF A DESIRE TO HURT, HARM, IGNORE, OR CEASE LOVING WHO WE SAY WE LOVE.
DO WE DOZE OFF IN LOVE TO HAVE DREAMS OF LOVE, ONLY TO AWAKE LOVING MORE THEN WHEN WE FIRST WENT TO SLEEP ?
DO WE LOVE SO INTENSELY THAT IT SAPS VIRTUE FROM US AS WE ATTEND TO THE OBJECT OF OUR LOVE ?
ARE WE SO FOCUSED ON LOVE THAT WE CAN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THE WRONGS BEING DONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, BECAUSE WE ALWAYS GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
LOVE IMMEDIATELY FORGIVES WHEN IT DOES SOMEHOW NOTICE THE WRONGS !
DO WE LOVE WITH SUCH PURPOSE THAT WE MAINTAIN FOCUS INSPITE OF THE DISTRACTIONS, HURTS, DISAPPOINTMENTS, AND STORMS ?
IS OUR LOVE SO COMPLETE THAT IT LITERALLY ENVELOPES THE OBJECT OF OUR LOVE, PLACING A INVISIBLE, IMPENETRABLE FORCE FIELD AROUND IT TO PROTECT IT FROM THE ONSLAUGHT OF HATERS, AND EVILDOERS ?
GENUINE LOVE IS NEVER A CHOICE, BUT A LIFESTYLE, EVEN A CALLING. THIS SORT OF LOVE IS ALL CONSUMING, UNDENIABLE, AND CONTAGIOUS.
WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER IN THIS MANNER, AS GOD LOVES US !
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE SHOULD MULTIPLY THIS LOVE TOWARDS GOD THAT GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE !
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IF WE LOSE OUR HOMES, MONEY, FAMILIES, JOBS, FRIENDS, HEALTH, AND EVEN OUR MINDS, WE MUST BE DETERMINED TO NEVER LOSE OUR LOVE FOR GOD, THAT LOVED US SO MUCH HE "GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON"!
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO AS CRAZY THAT LOVE GOD. MY QUESTION WOULD BE, CAN ONE TRULY BE CONSIDERED CRAZY IF THEY MAINTAIN LOVE FOR CHRIST ?
MY ANSWER WOULD HAVE TO BE NO !!
I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !
G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON
GOD LOVES IN THIS MANNER, THAT IS WHY HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF LOVE. HIS LOVE IS SO INTENSE, FOCUSED, PURPOSED, AND COMPLETE THAT HE HAS ACTUALLY BECOME LOVE HIMSELF.
WE SPEAK OF LOVE, AND MAY EVEN PERFORM CERTAIN ACTS OF WHAT WE PERCEIVE TO BE LOVE, BUT ARE WE CONSUMED WITH, AND BY LOVE ?
LOVE PERFECTED IS SO COMPLETE AND NATURAL THAT IT WILL PREVENT OUR EVEN HAVING AN IOTA OF A DESIRE TO HURT, HARM, IGNORE, OR CEASE LOVING WHO WE SAY WE LOVE.
DO WE DOZE OFF IN LOVE TO HAVE DREAMS OF LOVE, ONLY TO AWAKE LOVING MORE THEN WHEN WE FIRST WENT TO SLEEP ?
DO WE LOVE SO INTENSELY THAT IT SAPS VIRTUE FROM US AS WE ATTEND TO THE OBJECT OF OUR LOVE ?
ARE WE SO FOCUSED ON LOVE THAT WE CAN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THE WRONGS BEING DONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, BECAUSE WE ALWAYS GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
LOVE IMMEDIATELY FORGIVES WHEN IT DOES SOMEHOW NOTICE THE WRONGS !
DO WE LOVE WITH SUCH PURPOSE THAT WE MAINTAIN FOCUS INSPITE OF THE DISTRACTIONS, HURTS, DISAPPOINTMENTS, AND STORMS ?
IS OUR LOVE SO COMPLETE THAT IT LITERALLY ENVELOPES THE OBJECT OF OUR LOVE, PLACING A INVISIBLE, IMPENETRABLE FORCE FIELD AROUND IT TO PROTECT IT FROM THE ONSLAUGHT OF HATERS, AND EVILDOERS ?
GENUINE LOVE IS NEVER A CHOICE, BUT A LIFESTYLE, EVEN A CALLING. THIS SORT OF LOVE IS ALL CONSUMING, UNDENIABLE, AND CONTAGIOUS.
WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER IN THIS MANNER, AS GOD LOVES US !
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE SHOULD MULTIPLY THIS LOVE TOWARDS GOD THAT GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE !
2DAYS PROPHETIC ADMONITION: IF WE LOSE OUR HOMES, MONEY, FAMILIES, JOBS, FRIENDS, HEALTH, AND EVEN OUR MINDS, WE MUST BE DETERMINED TO NEVER LOSE OUR LOVE FOR GOD, THAT LOVED US SO MUCH HE "GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON"!
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO AS CRAZY THAT LOVE GOD. MY QUESTION WOULD BE, CAN ONE TRULY BE CONSIDERED CRAZY IF THEY MAINTAIN LOVE FOR CHRIST ?
MY ANSWER WOULD HAVE TO BE NO !!
I PRAY GOD'S PEACE N MERCY B UPON U AND URS !
G-TEP aka K.J. DUMPSON
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