tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86368585517664119512024-03-19T08:50:43.535-04:00JEHOVAH PRODUCTIONSJesus is coming. The END TIMES are here. This site provides encouragement and spiritual food. We need each other. Please contact me with prayer requests or questions. May the content you find here at Jehovah be from the Holy Spirit and not myself. I love you and remember JESUS IS LORD. Amen.jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-15203725523182022492011-02-14T19:11:00.004-05:002011-02-14T20:11:14.863-05:00THE CARES OF THE WORLD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOLB5EsNDdGXymNOeC5D4hDlh-nGFGrfEzLcQfy2oQgHWsFCwWi3_P17E9PHxxi-srq-UBDtc5luOuuHPAbeaRb8bdyGZs3OKg9Il8u-Gj1q5myhskETXDg8X63tsLh5xjdOhE8rptUlM/s1600/NOT+TOO+FAR+FROM+THE+HOUSE.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinOLB5EsNDdGXymNOeC5D4hDlh-nGFGrfEzLcQfy2oQgHWsFCwWi3_P17E9PHxxi-srq-UBDtc5luOuuHPAbeaRb8bdyGZs3OKg9Il8u-Gj1q5myhskETXDg8X63tsLh5xjdOhE8rptUlM/s320/NOT+TOO+FAR+FROM+THE+HOUSE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573714585230552626" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">My dearest followers of Jehovah Productions, please have mercy on me. Forgive me for withholding the Word of the Lord from you for almost 2 months now. Oh God, I am so ashamed. My beloved, I have allowed the cares of the world to consume me again. My car has been in the shop for almost a month now. My computer was broke for two weeks. It still isn't right. I have to use an external monitor because the LCD is shot on my laptop. Oh how I loved sitting outdoors and doing my typing. Our roof is leaking somewhere. Still haven't figured that one out yet. I could go on and on. With that said, it still comes down to me. I have no excuse except for my own lack of diligence in spending time doing what is most important. That would be taking the Throne Thoughts and offering them to you with the sincerest of love. I hope to have a message to you in the next few days. Thank you so much for hanging in there for so long. I love you dearly.<br /></span></strong></div>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-67950185539909090272010-12-22T11:00:00.007-05:002010-12-24T15:52:35.403-05:00THE CROSS AND THE CRADLE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQJMNLbNCY6_9RaKSAi0R7adgC4F4FdJG9JbHZ8RR1BGUMCkwlYI7EDXguxfcAIgSGOzfvrTn6i_4tMr2KLpGEkl2Db66t7AcX9S3crRzHrMEhNYxFrNCbgR7sxerT1zjJKGCr6003wJr/s1600/P1020106.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553539872604164098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQJMNLbNCY6_9RaKSAi0R7adgC4F4FdJG9JbHZ8RR1BGUMCkwlYI7EDXguxfcAIgSGOzfvrTn6i_4tMr2KLpGEkl2Db66t7AcX9S3crRzHrMEhNYxFrNCbgR7sxerT1zjJKGCr6003wJr/s400/P1020106.JPG" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">My fellow warriors. I pray you are well, comforted, full of joy and at peace. Times are hard right now for everyone, no worries....God is still on the throne and He is faithful. Please enjoy this message. It is one we gave to our family and friends. You are my friends. Love forever....Kenny G.</span><br /></span></span></strong><div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>THE CROSS and the CRADLE 25 DEC 2010<br />Pathway to Your Inheritance</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span>Dearly Beloved,<br />We pray that this message finds you in good health and spirits. We miss you, love you, care about you and frequently pray for each and every one of you. Before I forget, <span style="color:#3333ff;">“Happy Birthday</span> <span style="color:#3333ff;">Jesus !”</span> If you have ever read one of these holiday messages, or browsed the ones I have on </strong></span><a href="http://www.countdown2glory.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>www.countdown2glory.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>, then you will realize they are not traditional. This one will be keeping the same pattern. That is just the way the Holy Spirit has chosen to speak through me. This message goes out to many who are in different levels of their spiritual walk. To those who are walking in His heavenly ways, let this be more life to you. To all others, if you were here I would get on bended knee and beg you to listen to, and DO what you find here. Why? Because time is shorter then you could possibly imagine. Because the Kingdom needs you and because you are just plain missing out on the coolest adventure and journey ever. Holy Spirit, I am not interested in what I have to say. Please give all, who read this message, ears to hear. Let Your Living Words penetrate our very being, giving us hope, loving us and encouraging us. In the covenant Name of Jesus we pray....AMEN. With that said, let me introduce you to <span style="color:#3333ff;">Daddy.</span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><br />In Bethlehem, the God-child was born.<br />On Calvary's cross, the God-man was crucified.<br />Mary looked down on her baby boy with joy unspeakable.<br />Mary looked up at her Son Jesus with unquenchable sorrow.<br />Those gathered at the birth of Messiah cried out with joy and admiration.<br />On Golgotha's hill, many cried. Some looked on in horror.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><br />In the Word of God we see many types, shadows and patterns. All of these are supposed to teach us. The birth and death of Jesus is no different. In fact, I believe with my whole heart, that the Words you are about to partake of, are a summary of God's heart as found in the whole Bible. Pretty bold statement, but please hear me out. The whole purpose for your existence can be seen in the <span style="color:#3333ff;">Cross and the Cradle</span>, if you look hard enough. Just like our beloved Jesus, God wants you to have a death and birth experience. Why? So you can inherit something. In just a moment, you will find out what that something is.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><br />The Word talks much about sowing and reaping. Have you ever thought that Jesus was sowed in that tomb. What is the harvest supposed to be? Well, you don't sow apple seeds and get oranges. Got it? Yes, God sowed Jesus in hopes of reaping a harvest of many sons and daughters. GOD WANTS CHILDREN !! He always has. In the garden of Eden, before sin came in and put a barrier up between man and God, Adam and Eve enjoyed a child/Daddy relationship. You can too my dear ones. But we must do it God's way. And then we will be heirs. Heirs of what? EVERYTHING !! That's right. God gave Jesus everything and when we become children of God Almighty, we become joint heirs. Can you just take a moment to ponder such things? God of the universe wants to be your Daddy and give you everything. What exactly is everything? I believe it means what it says. Everything both visible and invisible. In order to call God, “Daddy,” and in order to be a co-heir with Jesus, we must follow the example Jesus set before us.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><br />The <span style="color:#3333ff;">cross and the cradle</span>. This is the pathway to eternal life and to having it all. Just as Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, we too must be born of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus was crucified, we too must be crucified. God humbled Himself, got off His lofty throne and became a man. That man, Jesus Christ, further humbled Himself and became mercy for you and me. If you haven't already, my friend, humble yourself now under the mighty hand of God. You need a savior. You have to make that choice sooner or later. What about now? Besides, you really don't know if there will be a later. Jesus paid the debt for your sin which was taking upon Himself the wrath of God. Jesus paid it all, beloved. Repent and receive the forgiveness God holds out before you in Jesus. The sinless blood covers all sin....forever. I am so proud of you. Pull up a cradle beside your King and enjoy your new birth and status as heir. But, just like Jesus, you will have to embrace your cross. That cross represents dying to your own wants and trusting Daddy for everything. I know it's hard, the Holy Spirit will help you. </strong></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong><div><br />Check this out. Born in that manger this Day was humility. God humbling Himself and becoming a man. Nailed to that rugged cross was mercy. Jesus paying for your sins and mine. God Himself poured out such things upon us. Who are we not to do the same. Therein lies the power of the Kingdom. Let's love one another.</div><div><br />Do something for me would you? Take my hand beloved. Kneel with me on this mountain top. Lift up your hands with me as we humbly praise the King of Glory. Proclaim, as did Mary: “HE IS RISEN”. The child of God has RISEN. Guess what else we can proclaim from our empty tomb? WE HAVE RISEN ! By the way, fellow <span style="color:#3333ff;">child </span>of God,<span style="color:#3333ff;"> please pass the baby bottle</span>, as we continue our heart song before our DADDY. <span style="color:#009900;">MERRY CHRISTMAS</span>.<br /></div></strong></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-23907619782876347672010-10-10T17:06:00.053-04:002010-11-06T10:31:32.382-04:00I AM BORN AGAIN. NO I'M NOT. YES I AM. NO I'M NOT. YES I AM !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88I_VATJT1fUjbUZxmJdoPbqe8qMrz9i-Cf-L3SyIlLrdn7Pan7cYbN3ayiinOSc6VNSqGk2G7FFAnZEh-JJVfxLOv3_bBg6EaH-OwWpn7MjfolNWj4LH-GL1TK8XvjDKub9VJggtp2RJ/s1600/FLOWERS+002.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88I_VATJT1fUjbUZxmJdoPbqe8qMrz9i-Cf-L3SyIlLrdn7Pan7cYbN3ayiinOSc6VNSqGk2G7FFAnZEh-JJVfxLOv3_bBg6EaH-OwWpn7MjfolNWj4LH-GL1TK8XvjDKub9VJggtp2RJ/s400/FLOWERS+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531032302245378338" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">My dearest co-warriors. I pray you are victorious in your current battle. Most of the writings you find here, at Jehovah Productions, are about things that I am going through or about things the Holy Spirit brings to my attention. By now, you have figured out that, once you surrender your heart to the Lord Jesus, you are in a spiritual battle. The devil is trying his best to steal your faith, your love and your very life. But, you are more than a conqueror through Christ. You will overcome. Unfortunately, this battle will continue until the trumpet sounds and you are called home to be with King Jesus.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Glorious Heavenly Father, we humble ourselves under Your mighty hand. Without You we are nothing, have nothing and can do nothing. But, we know of Your great love towards us who believe. Praise You. We know that with Your help we can do all things. Praise You. We know that Your faithfulness reaches to the sky and beyond. Praise You. We know that You are coming back for us. Praise You. Help us to love; to be obedient and to be light to others. Protect us in the coming months and please provide for us, Your children. Most importantly dear Daddy, help us to know the mind of Christ and to have the mind of Christ. We love you. AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The intensity of spiritual attacks seem to be increasing. I am not talking about circumstances during this discourse, but about our thought life. The satanic whisperings in your ears from the devilish hordes unleashed against us. We have the eye gate. What we look at goes directly to our heart. Images will cause us to think in a certain way. The ear gate is really important too because this is the same gate which the Word uses to access our heart. But, the music we listen to etc., demands thinking too. The soul gate is the gate we will talk about mostly during this message. This is where very private and personal struggles are taking place. The devil uses this one most. As a side note, I would like to mention the only outgoing gate we have. The mouth gate. What are you talking about? This gate can spew forth filth and unbelief or it can be a stream of living water to yourself and all those around. As you can see, the battle is between our ears. Let's talk about the soul gate.</span></span></span></span><span class="reftext"><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-9.htm">9</a></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >But as Scripture says: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him."</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-10.htm">10</a></span>God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, especially the deep things of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-11.htm">11</a></span>After all, who knows everything about a person except that person's own spirit? In the same way, no one has known everything about God except God's Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-12.htm">12</a></span>Now, we didn't receive the spirit that belongs to the world. Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-13.htm">13</a></span>We don't speak about these things using teachings that are based on intellectual arguments like people do. Instead, we use the Spirit's teachings. We explain spiritual things to those who have the Spirit.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">14</a></span>A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the teachings of God's Spirit. He thinks they're nonsense. He can't understand them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-15.htm">15</a></span>Spiritual people evaluate everything but are subject to no one's evaluation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/2-16.htm">16</a></span>"Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can teach him?" However, we have the mind of Christ. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I Corinthians. Study and get into the Word. Then you will have a choice: the mind of Christ or the thoughts of fear and chaos.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Of course we are human, but we don't fight like humans. </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The weapons we use in our fight are not made by humans. Rather, they are powerful weapons from God. With them we destroy people's defenses, that is, their arguments </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and all their intellectual arrogance that oppose the knowledge of God. We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ. </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >II Corinthians. You cannot think two thoughts at one time. When you discern a thought is not pure and good, then replace it with the Word.<br /><br /></span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep as the Father knows me. My sheep know me as I know the Father. </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So I give my life for my sheep. </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd. </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The Father loves me because I give my life in order to take it back again. </span><span class="reftext" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the authority to take my life back again. This is what my Father ordered me to do." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">John 10. If you are born from above, then you do know the voice of the Lord. HE IS ALWAYS TALKING..ARE YOU LISTENING?<br /><br /></span></span></span><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>God lives in those who declare that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God's love live in God, and God lives in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>God's love has reached its goal in us. So we look ahead with confidence to the day of judgment. While we are in this world, we are exactly like him [with regard to love]. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>No fear exists where his love is. Rather, perfect love gets rid of fear, because fear involves punishment. The person who lives in fear doesn't have perfect love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We love because God loved us first. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whoever says, "I love God," but hates another believer is a liar. People who don't love other believers, whom they have seen, can't love God, whom they have not seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> I John 4. If we are connected to God (LOVE) through fellowship and consecration, then we have His love in us. When fear knocks on your door (and it will) then stand in your love fellowship with the Almighty One and fear must go. He will give you peace, strength and whatever you need. Trust Him !! We will talk more about our thought life, where it relates to the soul gate, later in this message.<br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Another gate satan is using, to nudge us off the path of holiness, is our eye gate. You can't hardly turn your computer or TV on anymore without being bombarded by content which is sexual in nature. Practice focusing on Christ Jesus during these attacks. Within yourself...gaze upon the cross. God's love, high and lifted up. Once again, you can't think two thoughts at the same time. Force yourself to push wrong thoughts down. Think and speak the Truth you have hidden in your heart. Practice these things now because things are going to get much worse. Much, much worse. The Holy Spirit will keep you and help you my special friends. That's His job. Get as close to Him as you can. NOW, WHILE IT IS STILL DAY.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Circumstances will arise which will either take you away from the King of Glory, or draw you nearer. If you let them. Things such as the cares of life; financial troubles; sickness and loss of loved ones. I know that I said above we would not focus much on circumstances, but we must spend a minute or two because they are real and very powerful. Even your circumstances will cause your thought process to be activated. God uses the troubles of life to produce faith in us and to grow us up. Realize that God is in control. Embrace your trials and know in your hearts they will work out for your </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">good.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-28.htm">28</a></span><span>We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God-those whom he has called according to his plan.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Romans 8.</span></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Stand in faith against each obstacle. What does that mean? As a refresher, consider this. Faith comes from hearing the Word. Find out what God says about something and then stand on it. Believe it. Speak it. Believe it....speak it. Faith calls those things which are not as if they already are. Stand on the Word regardless of what you see or feel. There are verses to cover every circumstance which may come our way. For example:</span></span></p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span> who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_peter/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span> Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_peter/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span> who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_peter/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span> For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I Peter 2.</span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, <a href="http://bible.cc/john/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a> even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> John 16,17.<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span> Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span> And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> I John 3.<br /><br /></span></span> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a> See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a> And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a> And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread: <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a> But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a> But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a> Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed? <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a> Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things: <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a> But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Matthew 6.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >During your trials and pressures of life...put on God's armor.</span><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ephesians 6.</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before we leave the subject of circumstances and the cares of life, let us bathe ourselves a little more with the sweet healing Word's of the Holy Spirit. We have talked about this in past messages, but we must get it deep down into the core of our being. We must, we most certainly MUST....know how much God loves us.<br /></span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.</span> <p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”<span class="nltfootnote"></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.</span></p> <p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,<span class="nltfootnote"></span> neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/8-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Romans 8.</span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">As stated before, this message is more focused on the invisible attacks against us. The satanic whisperings. From what I gather so far, these attacks are aimed at 4 main areas. Waves and waves of satanic barrages trying to destroy: 1.) Your absolute trust in Almighty God. 2.) Your relationship with others. 3.) Your love walk (by keeping you focused on fear) and 4.) Your confidence of eternal salvation. The last one is where I want to focus on today, dear hearts. The joy of your (and mine) salvation.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> When this battle is won, then the war will be won also.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">We cannot save ourselves. It is by the grace (power) and mercy of Almighty God. He paved the way. The way is through believing. That's right, simply believing. Have faith in what God provided for you in Christ Jesus. Believe that your sins are forgiven. Believe that God loves you. believe everything God says in His Word. Hear it. Believe it, and above all, DO IT. This is faith and it is ever increasing. Just like your love and hope. But, how do you hold onto such a wonderful and glorious salvation? The devil will come and attempt to destroy your faith. How do we act when he comes? Beloved, hold that thought for a moment.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The picture of Autumn colors shown at the beginning is an example of how I feel about my soul when it waivers. I see autumn as a season which is stuck between life and death. I too feel that way at times when I doubt my salvation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Have you ever doubted the assurance of your salvation? I have. Many, many times. It's a plot and scheme straight from the pit of hell itself. How does it start? Self condemnation. That's the number one lie the devil begins with. I do something my flesh desires, such as getting angry and saying things which hurt everyone within hearing distance. Including myself and my beloved Jesus. Then the satanic whisperings begin. "Kenny G., how can you act that way if you are born again?" From there it snowballs and I continue to listen.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> "Look at all the evil you have done in your life, you haven't changed!" he whispers. Woe is to me, I continue to listen as the father of lies diligently drags me deeper and deeper into his bosom of darkness. "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">You can't be born again</span>, you have done something so evil that you are discounted from salvation," he chants. I am beginning to feel heavy and dead inside. A hatred for myself and anger against God begins to form in my soul as it is carried away to the despairing world of doubt and unbelief.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Why be angry with God you may ask. With great shame and remorse, I will share with you my darkest secrets. First, let me proclaim to you that there is a happy ending. I tell you these things because there are others out there going through the same things. I digress. Yes, unfortunately, I allowed the slimy one to persuade me to hold a grudge against God Almighty, the lover of my soul. As I reasoned with demons, I concluded that: "if I am not capable of being born again, then God created me to go to hell."</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">There, deep things from my soul has been revealed. What an ugliness you might say. I agree. But, if we don't cast down the unholy thoughts from the onset, they WILL spiral out of control. How does the story end? Let me tell you. After about a day (it used to be days and of this writing it has come to minutes...glory be to God) the darkness begins to subside. The light begins to dawn again. Not because of something I did, but because of His mercy and faithfulness to deliver His child.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The balm of love everlasting, broke through the cloak of lies and touched me. Ever so gently, my loving Father and my Jesus (through the ministry of the Holy Spirit) laid His head upon my breast. Nothing was spoken at this moment. The divine comfort was dispelled and my soul was brought back to the assurance of my unbreakable relationship with the Holy One of Israel. As the closeness of hearts became clearer, so did my souls remorse. Godly sorrow ensued because I had sinned against my God, and Him alone. This time I put my head on His breast as tears rolled from both our eyes. For me, the tears were tears of repentance. From the eyes of God, tears fell because of love and forgiveness.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I AM BORN AGAIN, AFTER ALL !!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Extra ingredients to add to our food (thoughts) from the throne:<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Knowing that heroes of faith (both in scripture and still living) have gone through similar testings, give me great comfort. Of course, comfort comes from the living Word too. Let's dive into both.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="body1" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Consider King David. God called him, "a man after My own heart." David encountered more enemies (visible and invisible) than anyone I know. He was downcast about Saul trying to kill him. He lived with guilt and shame over the murder and adultery he committed. he watched his own son raise up an army against him. He suffered the agony of losing many, many loved ones. He became depressed in his soul over his best friend, and covenant partner, turning his back on him. Such was his depression that he looked for a place to hide. A place to hide from God.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Where can I go from Your Spirit?<br /> Or where can I flee from Your presence? </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>If I ascend to heaven, You are there;<br /> If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>If I take the wings of the dawn,<br /> If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Even there Your hand will lead me,<br /> And Your right hand will lay hold of me. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,<br /> And the light around me will be night,” </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Even the darkness is not dark to You,<br /> And the night is as bright as the day.<br /> Darkness and light are alike <i>to You. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Psalm 139.</span></i></span> </p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>O L</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" class="smallcaps" >ORD</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >, do not rebuke me in Your anger,<br /> Nor chasten me in Your wrath. </span><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Be gracious to me, O L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;">, for I <i>am</i> pining away;<br /> Heal me, O L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;">, for my bones are dismayed. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>And my soul is greatly dismayed;<br /> But You, O L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;">—how long? </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Return, O L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;">, rescue my soul;<br /> Save me because of Your lovingkindness. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>For there is no mention of You in death;<br /> In Sheol who will give You thanks? </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>I am weary with my sighing;<br /> Every night I make my bed swim,<br /> I dissolve my couch with my tears. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>My eye has wasted away with grief;<br /> It has become old because of all my adversaries. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Depart from me, all you who do iniquity,<br /> For the L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> has heard the voice of my weeping. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> has heard my supplication,<br /> The L</span><span class="smallcaps" style="font-size:130%;">ORD</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> receives my prayer. </span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/6-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;<br /> They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Psalm 6.</span></span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Don't you imagine, that this great King, suffered with the satanic whisperings and battle with unbelief like we all? Yet, God brought him through every time. He will bring you through too. His faithfulness reaches to the sky and beyond. He is God and there is none like Him. How do I know that He will bring you through every battle you face? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Because He says so !</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/43-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span> But now thus said the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine. </span><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/43-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span> When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle on you. </span></p><p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/43-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span> For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Isaiah 43.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Consider the temptation of Jesus.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="standardtop" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” </span></p> <p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="nivred">“It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ <span class="nivfootnote"></span>”</span></span> </p> <p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:</span></p> <p class="TXTONE" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“‘He will command his angels concerning you,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and they will lift you up in their hands,</span></p> <p class="TXTONE" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ <span class="nivfootnote"></span>” </span></p> <p class="NPSTHALF" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus answered him, <span class="nivred">“It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ <span class="nivfootnote"></span>”</span></span> </p> <p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” </span></p> <p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, <span class="nivred">“Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’<span class="nivfootnote"></span> ”</span></span> </p> <p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Matthew 4.</span></span></p><p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Even the Son of God underwent the crucible of tempted thoughts. In His case, the devil wanted Jesus to question within Himself, whether or not He was truly the Son of God. This passage is very important because it shows us the method of satan, and God's prescription. The devil is the father of lies and he wants to make us believe a lie. Jesus showed us that the way to combat this slippery weasel, is to speak God's Word about the situation. Light always overcomes darkness. Truth always vanquishes the lie.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I would like to share something personal with you in closing. Like I haven't shared enough already. Let me start with a picture.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="NPST" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNk47qYcErqROW1bVx-R-_90nSJDCfUaoHhtbVt3su1Jig6WsYD0mieP4OBhraFwYaom02lrTqxgRbbVoZEOQG2DLTGQiVx6FfMQSonr6x1PmsxiMW1cM8j2ry4yvYJJx8FDq5DIPcXs05/s1600/FLOWERS+001.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNk47qYcErqROW1bVx-R-_90nSJDCfUaoHhtbVt3su1Jig6WsYD0mieP4OBhraFwYaom02lrTqxgRbbVoZEOQG2DLTGQiVx6FfMQSonr6x1PmsxiMW1cM8j2ry4yvYJJx8FDq5DIPcXs05/s200/FLOWERS+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536275427081632018" border="0" /></a></p><p class="NPST" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="NPST" face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">May I add something from the Word to go along with this most beautiful picture?</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="nivred">“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God<span class="nivfootnote"></span>; trust also in me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> John 14.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I shout "HALLELUJAH" with a voice of triumph. Come dance with me beloved. Why all the jubilation? Why the picture of spring? Because of the mercy and faithfulness of God. Because of the washing of the Word...giving me a new mindset. The veil has been lifted. Like the flowers in springtime, I too have resurrection flowing in my veins. I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. I guess I am <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">born again after all.</span> You can be too........if you <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">believe !!</span></span></span><br /></span></span><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span> </span></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-73453127916482483652010-08-22T18:47:00.045-04:002010-09-14T07:59:32.569-04:00BOO ! DID I SCARE INTO SALVATION ?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dh2ytcIZMHRTlnVs1lsrE4WSmgPQfO8Ny8Dbk0i7bds9Zys_N2yiz_FEhyphenhyphenANUluUk2TNdozWHTBThXqQSetEAVoLo_fWaYE2YYcPSl7ZNItbUeNYzs75c0fawz7vCNOEkNPp-9Exs-hu/s1600/Picture+011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dh2ytcIZMHRTlnVs1lsrE4WSmgPQfO8Ny8Dbk0i7bds9Zys_N2yiz_FEhyphenhyphenANUluUk2TNdozWHTBThXqQSetEAVoLo_fWaYE2YYcPSl7ZNItbUeNYzs75c0fawz7vCNOEkNPp-9Exs-hu/s400/Picture+011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511014417577274562" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hey there my fellow spiritual, "special forces." I am so glad that you have come again, so together, we may see what the Spirit is saying to us. This message is more of a pet peeve of mine. But, the Holy Spirit has given me enough of the Word to make it worth a notice. We will have a little fun expanding our minds, then we will allow the Spirit to encourage and love on us. I could use a lot of that, especially in the difficult times in which we live, couldn't you? Let us pray:
<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Thank You Father for loving us. Please help us to receive Your most awesome love and give it back to You in return. Jesus, our hero and champion, we adore You. Holy Spirit, we need You. Please teach us the Word, and show us the Father and the Son. Lord God Almighty; Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Creator of all things; soon coming King; merciful; mighty; holy; beautiful; righteous; forgiving and kind...we lift our hands and praise Your holy Name. Give us courage and great faith. Help us to be bold and effective witnesses to those You put in our path. May we have joy and expectancy of Your Coming. In Jesus name...AMEN.
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Have you ever heard of "jailhouse religion?" Have you ever heard a preacher preach a "fire and brimstone" message? We are going to talk a little about these things, and hopefully I don't offend anyone in the process. We are going to brainstorm a little about this pet peeve of mine, then we will let the Word tell us a <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">way</span>. A way which <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keeps</span>. Fear might draw you to God, but love will keep you. Whoops, almost gave away the ending. This message might not give you goose bumps or bring tears to your eyes, but then again, we never know which way the wind of the Holy Spirit will blow. Ready? Let's go.
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<br />I know of many, many persons who have found themselves behind the jailhouse bars. Do you? From observation, it seems as if a very high percentage of them, turn to the Lord Jesus during their incarceration. This is a good thing and understandable. When you find yourself without freedom and without your family, you turn to the One who can ease the pain. The One you used to have a relationship with. They turn back to the love they have neglected for so long. Sometimes it is for comfort and protection, but often they turn to that Light within for hope of being released. Sure, it usually begins like any other love affair gone sour. There is sobbing, repentance, forgiveness and acceptance. Oh! Hallelujah for such times of refreshing and reconciliation.
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<br />But, I ask you, are there fruits of repentance? Are they producing fruits of righteousness? Is their talk just that?....talk. When they melt back into the real world, do their hearts still blaze with great love and zeal for their Jesus. Or do you see them going from crisis to crisis,from reconciliation to God to reconciliation to God? Some say, "well, Mr. Kenny G., isn't that better than nothing?" To them I say: "sure, but the Holy Spirit has a <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span>." A way that will <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keep</span> that love affair alive and burning. And from it will drip droplets of peace and assurance of eternal life.
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<br />Hey, are you familiar with anyone who was born again while in prison? Once again, let us ponder their motivation to seek after such a thing. Or better yet, let us ponder why they said, "yes," when God called them to the cross. By the way, the cross is a clue to the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keeping</span> power and the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span>. You will understand more fully in just a few, stay patient my beloved. Was the prisoners motivation to kneel at the cross the same as the person described in the previous paragraph? Was it fear? Only God knows and that is the way I like it. Takes a lot of pressure off of me. But let's investigate and ponder a little further so the revelation, of the higher way, will make more sense. Oh praise God! Praise God, for the many ministers who (some put their own life at risk) go into the prisons to bring the Good News to the incarcerated. And, "Thank you Jesus," for the thousands upon thousands who said, "yes," to His calling. But, how many went back to their old lifestyles upon release? Why did they not stay the course? The <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span> would have <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">kept</span> them producing fruits of repentance. In fact, this <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span> will keep all of us. It surely will !</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
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<br />As a kid, I can remember my cousins and I going to church with our granddaddy. It was a Christian denomination, but one which put more emphasis on the outward holiness of man versus the inner sanctification of the Holy Spirit. I remember that the women couldn't wear pants or cut their hair. If memory serves me correctly, they couldn't wear make up either. There were a lot of what a person couldn't do instead of what they could do in Christ Jesus.
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<br />I guess the most vivid memory was one of us kids sitting on the front row during revivals, which seemed to occur every couple of weeks. The preacher would be pacing back and forth across the stage in a rage. His face was red, hair was matted and his suit was wrinkled and stained with sweat. We were on the edge of our seats, as spit rained down on us. I didn't know it then, but something else rained down on us that day...condemnation. All we heard in our little ears was this: God was mad at us; we were sinners and unless we came to the altar we were going to burn in hell forever. We went and knelt. Sometimes we cried, sometimes we just stayed still as the men of God came and tried to shake some kind of demon out of us. Sad to admit, but during revivals, I think we were at the altar every night. I didn't know about God's <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span> of <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keeping</span> me on the path of His love back then. But, God had mercy on me and over the years He taught me what I am about to share with you.
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">911. That very number speaks volumes. Most people of the world have an understanding of that infamous day. Let me quickly recap for those who do not know of this day. It was a day like most others, people here in the United States of America going about their daily routines. All seemed well on this fateful day. The hint of autumn was in the air as we lived our lives on that September 11th day. Most people will always remember where they were that morning, just like the day when JFK was assassinated. I was getting a haircut, when all of a sudden, the pictures being broadcast from the TV sent shock waves through my entire being.
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<br />911. Pictures of a jumbo jet, a passenger plane, plowing into one of the twin towers in New York. We all watched in horror..not understanding, not believing, not breathing. Soon thereafter, another passenger plane flew full speed into the second tower. Smoke, flames, persons jumping out windows from high up as the jet fuel created a hell on earth. Reporters were talking frantically trying to get all the info, some crying. Along with many who watched. As in a science fiction movie, we watched the towers fall in seemingly slow motion, down, down, down to the city below. The smoke from the fires, and now from the manmade towers disintegrating as they made their final resting place on the earth below, set a volcanic like scene. Fires, alarms, smoke rising to the heavens, the sun blackened, people screaming and crying. These are the lasting images we who witnessed this calamity remember on 911...the day the world stood still. The day we understood that we have a real enemy and that enemy is fueled by satan himself.
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<br />The churches were full the next day (probably that day also). Months diminished and so did the church attendance. Some will say that, "hey, Mr. Kenny G., at least they went to church, and maybe something good wore off on them." To that I say, cool, whatever. But please let me tell you about a much <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span>. The way which Father God hopes all of us will take to Him through His Son, Jesus. If we take His way, then the Holy Spirit will <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keep</span> us. We will have peace, hope, joy, abundance of life, sanctification, and all things God has for His people. And it won't take a crisis to bring it about. This way, if taken, will bring about much power and Light for all the world to see.
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<br />Before we dive into the ultimate road to His Highest, let me address a few groups of people who may be reading this. I would be in error if I didn't mention the group who are still seeking the right road to their after life. Let me introduce you to someone really cool. His name is God. Yes, the same God who created all things, including you. He is love and everything which comes from Him is good with a capital G. He created satan also. The devil is a fallen angel who was cast out when he tried to make himself like God. Through him, sin was brought into the world through the bowing down of Adam and Eve. Sin separates a person from God. Before sin, Adam and Eve communed with God face to face. Cool with a capital C. After sin entered the human race, man had no hope of assurance of salvation, fellowship with God or of their destination. God said that without the shedding of blood, there is no atonement for sin. He had a plan to win back the hearts of His children.
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<br />Let's talk more about the One True God. He is a God who is more than willing to hold you in His arms. In those arms, as you lean close to His breast, you will find the peace you are searching for. It is not the peace the world has to offer. It is an everlasting peace. Peace between you and the Almighty God who created all things. It is a peace which can only come through believing and accepting His gift of Love.
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<br />That gift (which comes with no strings attached and is something you cannot purchase or work to achieve) was the One who outstretched His arms and was crucified in your place. The rugged cross, the shedding of sinless blood and the agony of suffering the Father's wrath on unrighteousness. These are the things that the King of Glory suffered in your place and mine. Who is this King of Glory? Who is this Love, who willingly took your place and mine on that tree of death? He is the same One who keeps the stars in place by the power of His Word, and He calls them by name. He is the One who got off His lofty throne to humble Himself as He walked among us.
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<br />Who is this King of Glory? He was the One whom the Father loves with an eternal love, but He is also the One whom the Father used to purchase you and I. Think about it for a moment. Father God looked through the ages of eternal time and chose each and every person (whom He calls by name) to be esteemed worthy of being purchased. And what a price He paid for us. The price was none other than the death and resurrection of the very King of Kings Himself.
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<br />God made a way for all people's of the earth, who are created in His image and likeness, to be forgiven; to be purchased; to be redeemed; to be loved; to be chosen and to walk in His glory and power. WOW !! Chosen to be His children. Chosen to be His beloved. Chosen to be His own very special treasure. But we must all go through the Door. There is only one Door which all men must pass through to achieve this heavenly bliss which I am describing. Who is this King of Glory? Who is this Door? He is none other than Love...the One with the nail pierced hands and feet. His name is JESUS.
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<br />Pause and see that Love who loves you so! Think of the humility, shame and agony He went through to make you His very own. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Would you make Him your own? </span>Today? Now? Thank the Father for His love poured out for you on Calvary's hill. Thank King Jesus for His blood which will cleanse you of all sin. ALL SIN. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ask</span> for forgiveness and mercy NOW. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Believe</span> it. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Receive</span> it.
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<br />Bow now before your new King. Embrace your new love. He has been brought near to you now. As near as your very own heart. Rejoice my beloved. You have been been forgiven. You have been born from above. Your name is now written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Eternal bliss awaits you. I am singing, dancing and worshipping God right along side of you. And we are not alone. All of heavens Host rejoice with us. Rejoice...again I say Rejoice. Keep feeding on Jesus, who is the Word. The Word will give you daily abundance of Life. The Word gives you faith. What the Word says...God WILL do. Share that life (Jesus), who now dwells within you, with someone else. Associate yourself with like-minded believers. Grow. Love. Hope. Worship. The One living within you will <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keep</span> you. It is God's <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">highest way</span>...this <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">love affair. </span>
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<br />Are you in the category of persons who came to the Lord Jesus in a time of fear or crisis? Well, God bless you. Welcome to the family and praise You Jesus. My question is this: "has it been a stable relationship?" Did you find yourself, after your conversion, continuing in your old lifestyle or coming back to the table to dine after the next new crisis? I am in no way being demeaning. But, in love, I offer to you the more excellent way. Drum roll please. And here it is ladies and gentlemen......the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">higher way</span>. The way which will <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">keep</span> you.
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<br />Hear me out please. God never intended to get man's attention by using scare tactics or fear, because He knew that wouldn't keep us beholding His lovely Face. The following verse is about wore out, but let's look at it from a different perspective. "For God, <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">so loved </span>the world, that He <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">gave</span> His <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">only begotten Son</span>. That whosoever believeth in Him, would not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16. Let us go now to a few scriptures in the book of Acts. These are important because the church was birthed on the Day of Pentecost. What message did Peter preach to have God add three thousand souls that day to His roster of children? And by the way, every message proclaimed to people in the Bible, about being born from above, was out of love...not fear.
<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span> <div class="result-text-style-normal" style="font-family:verdana;"> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><sup id="en-MSG-11592" class="versenum">22-28</sup>"Fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man thoroughly accredited by God to you—the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge—this Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him. David said it all:
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<br />I saw God before me for all time.
<br />Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side.
<br />I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic;
<br />I've pitched my tent in the land of hope.
<br />I know you'll never dump me in Hades;
<br />I'll never even smell the stench of death.
<br />You've got my feet on the life-path,
<br />with your face shining sun-joy all around. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11593" class="versenum">29-36</sup>"Dear friends, let me be completely frank with you. Our ancestor David is dead and buried—his tomb is in plain sight today. But being also a prophet and knowing that God had solemnly sworn that a descendant of his would rule his kingdom, seeing far ahead, he talked of the resurrection of the Messiah—'no trip to Hades, no stench of death.' This Jesus, God raised up. And every one of us here is a witness to it. Then, raised to the heights at the right hand of God and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out the Spirit he had just received. That is what you see and hear. For David himself did not ascend to heaven, but he did say,
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<br />God said to my Master, "Sit at my right hand
<br />Until I make your enemies a stool for resting your feet."
<br />"All Israel, then, know this: There's no longer room for doubt—God made him Master and Messiah, this Jesus whom you killed on a cross." </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11594" class="versenum">37</sup><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Cut to the quick</span>,</span> </span>those who were there listening asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers! Brothers! So now what do we do?"<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> (Their hearts were convicted of sin and at the same time they saw God's Love poured out on Calvary's tree.) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11595" class="versenum">38-39</sup>Peter said, "Change your life. Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away—whomever, in fact, our Master God invites." </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11596" class="versenum">40</sup>He went on in this vein for a long time, urging them over and over, "Get out while you can; get out of this sick and stupid culture!" </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11597" class="versenum">41-42</sup>That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11598" class="versenum">43-45</sup>Everyone around was in awe—all those wonders and signs done through the apostles! And all the believers lived in a wonderful harmony, holding everything in common. They sold whatever they owned and pooled their resources so that each person's need was met. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> <sup id="en-MSG-11599" class="versenum">46-47</sup>They followed a daily discipline of worship in the Temple followed by meals at home, every meal a celebration, exuberant and joyful, as they praised God. People in general liked what they saw. Every day their number grew as God added those who were saved. </span></p> </div> <div class="publisher-info-bottom" sizcache="3" sizset="33"><strong sizcache="3" sizset="33"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" > (MSG)Acts 2:22-47. </span></strong>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">To myself, and to all believers, I say: "Have you been cut to the heart?" To me, being cut to the heart is a twofold process and is a work done only by the Holy Spirit. First we see we are sinners and are convicted of our sins as we stand before a Holy God. This is called repentance. Second, and this is my favorite, our heart is arrested by the love of God for us as seen in the sacrifice of His Son Jesus. We are taken captive. Gazing upon the cross we see the Father's love. We see our hero; our champion and our redeemer totally surrendered to the Father's will on our behalf. Oh what love. If we allow the Holy Spirit to finish His work in us at this moment, the moment in time when all heaven is silent...waiting for our response, we too will say in our heart: "Yes Lord, I will surrender my life to You. I have seen a pearl worth a great price and I will give my all to make it my own. Lord Jesus, I am Yours and You are mine."
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<br />Dearly beloved, God has always intended for us to see His love and mercy for us as seen in the crucifixion of Christ Jesus. If we respond to a salvation message, let it be out of love instead of fear. This is His <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">highest way </span>and that love affair will<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> keep</span> you. It surely will. Check out the following verse and you will see the Word speaking about this <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">highest way.</span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >And I, as I am lifted up from the earth, will attract everyone to me and gather them around me." He put it this way to show how he was going to be put to death.(John 12:32)
<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Do you see it? God wants to draw us to Himself when we see His love (Jesus) lifted up upon that rugged cross. Amen and hallelujah!
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<br />I know that we believers are all at different levels in our walk with the Lord. Some have come to that wonderful place of rest. A place where, not only is the heart surrendered, but it is walked out in every day life. The evidence is total obedience and a life which is completely finished with the flesh and it's demands. That person is one with God. They are His friend. There is power, love and great joy. But let me tell you a little secret. That person is still tried and tested, and they will be until Jesus comes back for His Bride. We all see ourselves as that holy man or woman of God but we may not have arrived yet because of various reasons.
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<br />Some of those reasons, if we are not very careful, will lead us away from our goal and heart's desire of being one with God. Why? Because satan is on a rampage. I have never seen such a ferocious and demonic attack on the minds of believers as I am seeing now. If you fall, get back up. Cast down the thoughts which you know are not from God. Keep praying, keep worshipping and by all means...stay connected to other believers. We need each other. Sure, sometimes we feel guilty if we are lazy; if we let the cares of the world keep us from our special time with the Lord and if we get down on ourselves because we don't believe we are being transformed fast enough. Hold on to Jesus. Hold on to Jesus. Hold on!
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<br />When I feel as if I have missed the mark and get downcast within, I like to consider King David and Moses. Both of these men committed murder and did other things which hurt the Lord. Yet, God used them mightily and even called David: "A man after my Own heart." So in closing, let's look at the way King David saw the Lord Almighty. We find this love song in Psalms 103.
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<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <hr style="color: rgb(221, 238, 255);font-size:78%;" ><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" >Psalm 103</span> <p class="PSNOTE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Of David.</span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> O my soul;</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">all my inmost being, praise his holy name. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> O my soul,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and forget not all his benefits— </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>who forgives all your sins</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and heals all your diseases, </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>who redeems your life from the pit</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and crowns you with love and compassion, </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>who satisfies your desires with good things</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. </span></p> <p class="VRSONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> works righteousness</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and justice for all the oppressed. </span></p> <p class="VRSONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He made known his ways to Moses,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">his deeds to the people of Israel: </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> is compassionate and gracious,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">slow to anger, abounding in love. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He will not always accuse,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">nor will he harbor his anger forever; </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>he does not treat us as our sins deserve</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">or repay us according to our iniquities. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For as high as the heavens are above the earth,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">so great is his love for those who fear him; </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>as far as the east is from the west,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">so far has he removed our transgressions from us. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As a father has compassion on his children,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">so the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> has compassion on those who fear him; </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for he knows how we are formed,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">he remembers that we are dust. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As for man, his days are like grass,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">he flourishes like a flower of the field; </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>the wind blows over it and it is gone,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and its place remembers it no more. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But from everlasting to everlasting</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span>’s love is with those who fear him,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and his righteousness with their children’s children— </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>with those who keep his covenant</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and remember to obey his precepts. </span></p> <p class="VRSONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> has established his throne in heaven,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">and his kingdom rules over all. </span></p> <p class="VRSONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> you his angels,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">you mighty ones who do his bidding,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">who obey his word. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> all his heavenly hosts,</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">you his servants who do his will. </span></p> <p class="VRSONE" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/103-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> all his works</span></p> <p class="TXTTWO" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">everywhere in his dominion.</span></p> <p class="TXTONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Praise the <span class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span> O my soul.</span></p><p class="TXTONEHALF" style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >King David surely chose the HIGHEST WAY....how about you?</span>
<br /></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Concerning our world's condition. God said in the last days we would see wars and rumors of wars. Boy, Israel surely had a reason, just last week, to strike nuclear Iran. But God stayed the hand of Israel's leader because the time is not yet. Trust me, when that war does begin, and the Word says it will, the world will suddenly be transformed into something we wouldn't even recognize. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Come and dine(get in the Word, feed on Jesus and love on Jesus).</span> The economy is about to collapse, not just here in the U.S.A., but around the world. Many nations have already tasted of the fulfillment of this prophecy. Come and dine. Ethnic groups are rising up against ethnic groups, just another fulfillment of prophecy. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Come and dine</span>. There is a widespread perversion of the Gospel being preached in the church. Social justice is a perversion and it leads to unrest among the people in the end. Another prophecy being fulfilled right before our eyes. The pulpit is becoming political. A great number of people are flooding these types of churches because they want to hear what they want to hear. Itchy ears. Run as fast as you can from such places and messages. Hold dear to the Truth you have been taught, encourage one another and <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">come and dine</span>.</span></span><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >In closing, I would like to make a comment real quick about the "Restoring Honor Rally" held this past weekend by Glenn Beck. If you are from America, you know who I am talking about. If not, then look him up on the web if you can. What I am about to say is NOT my opinion, but the Truth as revealed by the Holy Spirit. What happened this weekend, 8/28/2010, is a miracle to say the least. I,my wife, and millions of others around the world cried and cried as we witnessed what we knew was the hand of God and the Truth of God. Glenn is a radio and TV host (Fox News) here in NYC. If you want to know what is really happening in the world, watch Fox. OK, enough of the plugs. Glenn told his listening audience, about a year ago, that he was going to have an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.,on 8/28/2010. At the time it seemed as if it was going to be political in nature, but God changed all of that. Glenn started talking more and more about God and Jesus as time wore on, so those who attended knew it was going to be a gathering of kindred spirits. Spirits who loved God and America.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" >People from all over America came. Some reports say that almost a million people attended. Just think, who do you know that can draw such a crowd. I don't think any other crowd comes close except for that of Martin Luther King Jr. He and Glenn both, brought the same message....get back to God and the founders intent for this nation. Glenn has the spirit of Elijah upon him. He is like John the Baptist crying, "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." Dearly beloved, God is dividing the dark from the light and He is doing it all over the world. Rejoice for your redemption draws near! With much love and prayer....I bid you good night.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">BOY, THE HOLY SPIRIT REALLY WANTS TO SPOIL YOU ON THIS MESSAGE. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO BELOW BY CASTING CROWNS.ENJOY...I LOVE YOU.....KennyG</span>
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I know the world seems to have gone stark raving mad, but the Holy Spirit promises to encourage us in the days ahead. Jehovah Productions will also continue to bring you the Living Word which will be a lifter of your head. Have you got your copy of the book: "Drawing Near," by John Bevere? Get it ! Let's get started. <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">Holy God, Creator of all things, we come to You with praise on our lips. Praise You, King Jesus! You are worthy to receive glory, honor and praise. You are powerful, righteous and merciful. Praise You ! You are beautiful, good and forgiving. Praise You! You are wise, loving and holy. Praise You! Glorious One, You are Love, there is none like You. Please help us to know that we know, how great Your love is towards us. Help us to love You in return. With all that is within us. And with all that is within us..we praise You! AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">God desires intimacy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">7</span> So place yourselves under God's authority. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">8</span> Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners, and clear your minds, you doubters. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">9</span> Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super">10</span> Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence. Then he will give you a high position. </span><br /><p>James 4:7-10 (GW)</p><p><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">The children of Israel had it harsh in Egypt. Moses was treated like a king. Yet, Israel wanted to go back to Egypt when things got hard for them in the desert. Although Moses was treated like royalty...he never looked back. Why? Moses dared to draw near to God, but Israel did not. They did not want to change. Drawing near to God meant killing their flesh (selfishness, pride etc). That is what happens when you come in contact with the Living God. When God shows up, you have a choice: humble yourself; repent; worship or get your neck all stiff and say to yourself: "I enjoy my rulership and flesh the way it is...thank you very much." THEY WANTED THE BLESSINGS OF GOD, BUT NOT THE BLESSER !!</span></span></p><p><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Moses longed for God regardless of the cost to his fleshly desires. He considered the cost. Likewise, Jesus also tells us to consider the cost before we make Him Lord and submit to His kingdom. It will cost us everything.</span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a> If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple; <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a> and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a> For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what is needed to complete it; <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a> in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him, <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a> saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish? Luke 14:26-30.</span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is a message that we need to share with all who are born again from above, or desire to be. Moses got it. Drawing near to God was like breathing air....God was his all, his everything. During this message, we will discover together the </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0);font-family:verdana;" >secret of Moses.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Israel did not want to trust God and wait (patience) for their creature comforts (faith). Remember, with faith and patience, we inherit the promises of God. They made the arm of their flesh, god. "Not by might or power (fleshly strength to gain desires and provisions), but by my Spirit saith the Lord." (Zechariah 4:6) Moses surely had faith. The kind of faith that drew him near the holy mountain of God which shook; displayed flashes of lightnings and roared with ear splitting thunder which caused even the smoke (covering God's glory) to shake, rattle and roll. That is where rock and roll first started. OK, just kidding. But faith was not the only thing that Moses possessed which would cause him to courageously want to look in God's face. What was that thing that set him apart? Let's go deeper.</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0);font-family:verdana;" > Could it be love? </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Whoops, now the cat is out of the bag.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />To trust God for His promises to be fulfilled (faith), we must have love. Remember, faith works by love. Love is put into motion by complete surrender and obedience to God. Yes, we will never get away from the message of obedience. It's footprints are all over the Good Book. Think about it. Isn't obedience something you do unto your Lord? That is what makes Him Lord, King and God. The verse where Jesus said, "If you love Me then you will be obedient,"always used to bother me. I would think, "How in the world can I be obedient? How can I love God, whom I can't see?" So many people today (church people), try very hard in their own strength, to obey and do good works. But the power and glory of God isn't evident. So, obedience is not the only sign that shows a person loves God. I am not contradicting the Word. I am just saying that another ingredient is missing. Jesus <span style="font-family:verdana;">said</span> it Himself, if we dare to listen. </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0);font-family:verdana;" >If you love me....<br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Hang in there my dear ones, the secret of Moses is about to be revealed in all it's glory.(no pun intended)<br /><br />The Old Testament (covenant) presents types, shadows and examples for us to live by today. Egypt represents the worlds way of doing things. Just like the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, we too are delivered from the worlds way of doing things, as we put our trust in Jesus, Son of God. Just like Israel, we too thirst for the promised land. The blessings and presence of God. But, before Israel was to inherit the land flowing with milk and honey, they were told to go into the desert and worship God.(exodus 7:16)<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" class="reftext" ><a href="http://bible.cc/exodus/7-16.htm">16</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Then say to him, ‘The </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="nivsmallcaps">Lord,</span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:130%;" > the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert. But until now you have not listened.<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;">From this verse we can safely surmise the following: God wants intimacy with us. When we are born from above and brought out from the worlds(Egypt) way of doing things, then we can love and worship the Lord our God. May I throw a bunny trail on you my most precious soldiers? We will get back to the secret of Moses shortly. It's all good.</span></strong><br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/exodus/19-10.htm">10</a></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">And the </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/exodus/19-11.htm">11</a></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">and be ready by the third day, because on that day the </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="nivsmallcaps">Lord</span> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.(Exodus 19:1o,11)</span> </span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"></span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;">This is so important to understand since we are at the threshold of the Third and Seventh Day. From previous studies, we have discovered that a day to the Lord is like a thousand years. Let's map this out together since we are talking about two time frames. Four thousand years transpired from creation to the birth of the Awesome One. Since then, two thousand years have come and gone. This gives us a total of six thousand years since creation. Let's diagnose the finish of both. The Seventh Day: God created for six days then He rested. We are about to step into the beginning of the Seventh Day. It will begin with the catching away of the Church. Then seven years of tribulation for those left behind, the pouring out of God's wrath. Jesus returns (with His True sons and daughters..that is us). He sets up His Kingdom here on earth for a thousand years(that is the seventh day...peace on earth under the rule of Jesus. That completes the shadow of the rest of God after six days of creation) After that, we step into blissful eternity with our God and Maker. Forever to be with our hero and champion, King Jesus. This is the part where you shout and give thanks to the Lord.<br /><br />The Third Day: we are now walking in the shadow of the Third Day. The beginning of the third thousand year period since Jesus was raised from the dead and seated Himself at the right hand of the Father. What is about to happen? Much of it is about the same as the beginning of the Seventh Day because they are really one in the same, except for a few distinctions. At the end of the second day and beginning of the Third, God's Glory is going to fill the earth. This happens before the rapture of the Church. This is fantastic news because it gives us great hope in this world which seems to be self destructive. I know that sometimes you look around and wonder if God has forgotten about us. Sometimes, you might even think that there are no other believers anywhere to be found. Evil is getting worse (as the Word predicted), but trust me, God does have for Himself a remnant of worshippers and He is about to add to it. When His Glory fills the earth (through us, his holy temples) there is going to be the greatest Holy Ghost camp meetings you could imagine. God wants as many saved as possible before He pours out His wrath on all of mankind. During the past two thousand years ( or the time since you have been born from above), have you been worshipping the Lord as He commanded? The other distinction is this: God has been sanctifying His Bride for two thousand years (since it's inception). He is really picking up the pace here lately, can you feel it? <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">He is about to appear to His people. <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">J</span></span>ust like He told Moses. Jump for joy dear ones, God is about to show up. PRAISE HIM !<br /><br />Wow ! That was some bunny trail to say the least. But the Holy Spirit wanted us to know this again for our encouragement. Let's get back to Moses and his secret. The secret which caused him to draw near to the Lord. It wasn't just his great faith. It was also his love walk. But not just any type of love walk. Many of us have what he possessed, faith and love. Many of us are surrendered to the Lord God Almighty. Many of us worship Him, we adore Him, we thirst for Him. Yet still, there is a pearl of great price which is about to be revealed. One which will take us to a place just like Moses and beyond. Are you ready for it? Not just yet my dearly beloved. Not yet. First let's examine what happened to Moses when God came down to visit with the people on the Third Day. Remember though, the children of Israel did not follow Moses up to the top of Mount Sinai that day. Moses alone went to meet with God face to face.<br /><br />Uh oh. I feel another bunny trail coming on. The Word of God says that no man can see God and live. Yet, Moses wanted to see His face. During this real cool time for Moses, God did just what His Word said. He wouldn't show him His face. He hid Moses in the cleft of the rock and let him see His back side. All of who God is advanced before Moses (his back was turned). Then God let Moses see his back side. But even that part of God was enough to impart to Moses all the things he wrote about in the Old Testament. Just that glimpse of where God had been, showed Moses all about how to build the Tabernacle, how to write down all the blessings and curses, the set up of all the feasts, the jobs of the priesthood, the Law and so much more. Something else that encounter did.....It made the face of Moses shine like the sun. Oh boy, we are so close to the </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0);font-size:130%;" >secret of Moses.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">He alone has endless life and lives in inaccessible light. No one has ever seen him, nor can anyone see him. Honor and eternal power belong to him! Amen. I Timothy 6:16.<br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Yet, we (and the whole earth) will soon see a glimpse of His glory and not die. How can that be possible? It will be filtered through the <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Mercy Seat of Christ.</span> The Mercy Seat which His precious blood spilled upon, in the heavenlies, flowing from Mount Calvary. That same blood is on the Mercy Seat of your heart, if you believe. That blood makes you the righteousness of God, in Christ Jesus. Moses did not have that sinless blood to filter out the Glory of God. We do my dear ones. And that <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Day Star</span> is arising in our hearts even now. It is getting brighter and brighter.<br /><br />Let's talk about the face of Moses for a moment</span></strong>.</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD</span>. Exodus 34:29.<br /><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The ministry that brought death was inscribed on stone. Yet, it came with such glory that the people of Israel couldn't look at Moses' face. His face was shining with glory, even though that glory was fading. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Won't the ministry that brings the Spirit have even more glory? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If the ministry that brings punishment has glory, then the ministry that brings God's approval has an overwhelming glory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In fact, the ministry that brings punishment lost its glory because of the superior glory of the other ministry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If that former ministry faded away despite its glory, how much more does that ministry which remains continue to be glorious? </span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Since we have confidence [in the new promise], we speak very boldly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We are not like Moses. He kept covering his face with a veil. He didn't want the people of Israel to see the glory fading away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>However, their minds became closed. In fact, to this day the same veil is still there when they read the Old Testament. It isn't removed, because only Christ can remove it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Yet, even today, when they read the books of Moses, a veil covers their minds. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This Lord is the Spirit. Wherever the Lord's Spirit is, there is freedom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/2_corinthians/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As all of us reflect the Lord's glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.II Corinthians 3:7-18.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">As we can see from the above verses, the Glory of the New Covenant will be far superior than that of the Old. Moses gave us a shadow of things to come. Even Father Abraham's stories are shadows of things that were fulfilled in the New Covenant and are coming true today. For example: He showed us that to walk in the fear of the Lord, we must be obedient. God said that He knew Abraham feared Him as he was set to sacrifice his son Isaac. God's Word says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We are hearing more and more about Moses and Abraham in these days. It would be wise to adhere to and meditate on such things. Even Glenn Beck (whom I believe is a watchman sent from the Lord) is proclaiming from the watchtower many things he is hearing from God. Things about Jesus; Moses; Abraham and even John, who announced: <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">"Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand."</span> And it surely is.</span></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">God began to teach these things to my wife and I about 8 years ago. We dared to have faith. We dared to worship the Lord. We dared to operate in the <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">secret of Moses</span> (which is still coming). We dared to approach God regardless of the cost to our flesh. And you know what? We would often times (and we still do, and with greater intensity) come away with our faces glowing, just like Moses. We would proclaim to each other: <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">"Hey Moses! How you doing?"</span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Drum roll please. Now....<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">THE SECRET OF MOSES.</span> The thing he possessed which caused him to dare ask to approach the One who dwells in unapproachable light. The ingredient he added to his faith, worship and self denial can be summed up in the following verse. "For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son. Whomever believes in Him should not perish, but obtain eternal life." John 3:16. The key which unlocks the secret is found in the part where we discover that God loves us. Let's break that down a little further then we will be finished. Thank you so much for riding this spiritual stream all the way to the finish line.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">It is one thing to quote to your self and others that God loves you. It is an entirely different thing to really, really know it. It has to get deep into your heart. When you do, then you can better love and worship Him in return. Then you are <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">one with Him </span>and really have something powerful to give away to others. Remember the song: "The Circle of Life," from the movie: "The Lion King?" Here is a new song for you. It is called: "The Circle of Love." Love is complete when it is received by both parties.Let's look at a few verses which will help you realize God's great and passionate love for you. But before we do, consider this: God loves you as much as He does His own Son. Before you cast stones on little ole Kenny G., think about it. Do you not suppose that Jesus is Father God's prized possession? Hang with me soldiers ! When you go to the market to barter, do you not give your money in exchange for something that you deem more valuable? Of course you do. God bought you with a price. That price was the blood of His Beloved. He just had to have you for His own. Case closed.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Try it out. Worship the Lord. If you do not yet have an intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus, then by all means, ask Him to come into your heart...do it now. If you have sins to confess and receive forgiveness for...then repent. Now, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God in praise and worship. As you do, meditate on the following verses which will help you see His great love for you. Make them your own. Love Him, meditate, worship...praise Him. As a side note. Maybe some of you are like me. I have a hard time receiving love. From God or others. Let's pray together that the Holy Spirit will teach us to receive the love of God into our hearts. After all, that is what our Father God yearns for. The devil is good at condemning you for past, or present, sins and iniquity. The Word says that if we repent and ask for forgiveness, the blood of Jesus cleanses us of all sin. God removes them as far as the east is from the west. I think the part of God's love we need to receive is His great mercy.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONEHALF"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How precious to<span class="nivfootnote"></span> me are your thoughts, O God!</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="TXTTWO">How vast is the sum of them! </p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONE"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Were I to count them,</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="TXTTWO">they would outnumber the grains of sand.Psalms 139:17-18.</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONEHALF"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/49-15.htm"><b><br /></b></a></span></p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONEHALF"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="TXTTWO">and have no compassion on the child she has borne?</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="TXTONE">Though she may forget,</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="TXTTWO">I will not forget you! </p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONE"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Isaiah 49:15,16.</p><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" class="VRSONE"><br /></p><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0);font-size:130%;" ><span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son<span class="nivfootnote"></span> into the world that we might live through him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for<span class="nivfootnote"></span> our sins. I John 4:9,10.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Are you ready? Go to the mirror and take a good look at your face which God's thinks is beautiful indeed. Say it ! Don't be shy. Say it! <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">"HEY MOSES ! HOW YOU DOING ?"</span></span></span></span><br /></span><p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Boy, this one took a lot out of me, but the supply of the Spirit never ends. Give me an AMEN !</span></span></span> </span></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-38391139142569439592010-07-27T22:36:00.007-04:002010-07-28T00:10:34.608-04:00PLEASE FORGIVE ME.....PLEASE !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4T5N0FmNSHz__5yWQBsDOPkV2qwZXOUwyQI6ZWXYBYiWWvgyGELZSgxBiXMCSjl66eNxiCvafGJqNesuvDC70JRcnu-ws4dpR27qZ33jfAsMBSCHXsPcMkGzR5LuBhsx9AFFMiASHrQa/s1600/P1010813.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn4T5N0FmNSHz__5yWQBsDOPkV2qwZXOUwyQI6ZWXYBYiWWvgyGELZSgxBiXMCSjl66eNxiCvafGJqNesuvDC70JRcnu-ws4dpR27qZ33jfAsMBSCHXsPcMkGzR5LuBhsx9AFFMiASHrQa/s320/P1010813.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498803062748893426" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">My fellow journeymen (and women too), please <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">forgive </span>me because I have sinned against God and you. Once again, I have let the cares of the world get in the way of my God-given talents of writing what He says to whom He wants it written to. The Holy Ghost gives me enough messages that I could write a couple a week. But, I have chosen to let my yard keeping get in the way. Although I have almost 8 acres to mow and weed eat all by my lonesome, I cannot use that as an excuse. Kenny G., what is more important? Doing the will of God or letting the high grass get to you? <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Please pray for me.</span> Pray that I will do the will of God and trust Him to keep the yard until I get to it. I will have another message within a few days. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Please forgive me...and please stay</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">tuned.</span> I love You and miss you very much. Kenny G.<br /></span></span></span></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-86559920763832251922010-06-19T22:02:00.017-04:002010-07-07T14:57:01.160-04:00THE ROCK AND THE VINE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUW2VWO0nkMhEPm3k7miFXjmLr2Oh6RubeAEhOSXgHKJmYtkmmK7qqq4U_BlZgSu9mE_62V7nhB2nMVY6rbrbzY4thQMdwhKco9EW6tT9YzShlyrYIhEvw6zsaZI8D4gBiZaN-Dx5sO2o7/s1600/P1000752.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUW2VWO0nkMhEPm3k7miFXjmLr2Oh6RubeAEhOSXgHKJmYtkmmK7qqq4U_BlZgSu9mE_62V7nhB2nMVY6rbrbzY4thQMdwhKco9EW6tT9YzShlyrYIhEvw6zsaZI8D4gBiZaN-Dx5sO2o7/s400/P1000752.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484672875462857314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Dear fellow sojourners, I pray all is well with you. I can't thank you enough for tuning in to Jehovah Productions yet again. If you are a new, or an older, visitor to this site, my expectancies remain the same. That the Words here will be from the Lord of Glory and not my own. That they will quicken your hearts with His love. That we all may grow closer to Him and each other as we are washed with the Living Word. That all of us would be encouraged and strengthened to endure the times in which we live. Let us pray, <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Holy God, we come to you yet again on bended knees before the One who loved us first. Praising You, worshipping You and thanking You for all You have, are and will do for us...Your children. Please reduce us to love. Give us grace to be light to those around us and may we have joy and faith at Your Appearing. We love You. In Your Son's name we pray, and in our Lord's name we kneel....in Jesus...AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Let's start off with a funny story that happened to me not so long ago. And of course, just like every incident that happens to me, the Holy Spirit gave me a message about it. Enjoy ! Not so long ago, I was on my way to the eye doctor. This particular journey takes about an hour and a half, and the highway runs right through the most beautiful sections of mountainous North Carolina. I have noticed previously, that about five miles from my destination there was a pullover, or rest area of sorts. It was just a large paved section, a guard rail where you could stand and see the most breath-taking view, and a path. Now it seemed to me that the path wound itself down quite a slippery slope and was intended for the most experienced of hikers. I figured that I am one since I live on a mountain and walk up and down it many times a day. I brought my boots to change into after my doctor visit. My friend, Mr. Camera, was sure to come too, along with a pack of crackers and a good ole Mountain Dew. I had it all planned out, or so I thought. I just had to check this place out. Why? Because I could hear rushing water from somewhere way, way below. How could you fault me from investigating?<br /><br />So, after my visit at the ole eye clinic, I got back on the highway headed home. I was quite excited because I knew that in about fifteen minutes I would be off on another of thousands cool adventures. I couldn't get my seat belt off fast enough as I came to a stop near my path, which I hoped would lead to yet another waterfall out in the middle of nowhere. What a picture perfect day, not a cloud in the sky. On with the hiking boots, grabbed my camera and munchies and off I go. Well, right away, I noticed that this path went almost straight down into a rain forest like setting. Hunted and found an appropriate walking stick which would help me traverse this hazardous setting. Down I go with sounds of a waterfall echoing off the trees and finding its home in my ears and heart. If anyone was watching, they first might say to themselves, "look at that fool." But after careful observation they would change their tune to, "wow, that boy knows what he is doing." I must admit, I was pretty proud of the way I used that walking stick, tree branches and anything else I could find to scoot down that mountain. Getting back up though....umm, well, we will cross that bridge when we get there.<br /><br />And there she was in all her glory. Mrs. waterfall herself, cascading from a height of about 100 feet and dumping into a meandering river below. I can never get enough of these things. Snapped about 20-30 pictures and sat down to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells while I sipped on my Dew and let the peanut butter and cheese crackers do their magic. How can anyone deny that we have a most glorious God who created so much for our enjoyment. As I pondered such things, along with how I would climb back up to my awaiting chariot....things turned ugly.<br /><br />Instantly, and out of nowhere, came high winds; lightning; thunder and torrential rain. This was one of those praying moments for sure, and pray I did. "Please Jesus, help me get back up this slippery mountain. Oh God, please keep my camera dry, shelter me please from this horrific onslaught of just plain nastiness." This is just great, here I am in the middle of nowhere. No umbrella, no protection and the slope is getting more slippery each passing second. Oh Jesus, please help! And there it was folks. Like an oasis in the middle of a parched, barren desert. Like a life preserver found floating nearby a drowning man. Like a hot fudge brownie delight appearing in all it's glory at the end of a fast. OK, I got a little carried away there. There it was, about thirty feet away. My own personal <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span> cleft.<br /><br />I don't know if you can slip your way uphill, but I sure did. What a difference here in my cleft of the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>. My enemies, those things which sought to destroy me and make my life miserable were still there. Just inches away the rain was still coming down in sheets. The trees were bowing to the gusty winds and the thunder rolled. (Hey that reminds me of a Bob Seger song). Like my doctor says, "Stay on task." So with that said, Jesus, thank you so much for my <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>. I guess that I stayed in that shelter for about 45 minutes total. During that time, the Holy Spirit began to speak to me about how Jesus is my <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>.<br /><br />There are numerous accounts in the Bible where the word rock is used. Mostly the definitions refer to God as our shelter, covering and safe place. God put Moses in the cleft of the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span> and even covered him with His hand as His Glory passed by. In that case, God was shielding Moses from certain death. You cannot see God's Glory and live. Or at least not without the mercy-seat of Jesus to filter it. A little rabbit trail if you don't mind. You know me, I will get back to the message soon enough. Not only did God cover Moses from His Glory, but He allowed him to see the backside of God. I find that fascinating. Why? Because just in that shadow of where God had been, there was enough wisdom and knowledge imparted to Moses which enabled him to write much of the Old Covenant. That included all the laws, exact plans for the ark of the covenant, and so much more. If Moses lived today, he would be first in line to experience the fullness of God's complete Kabod. Unlike many of us, who are always running around looking for where God has been. Listen up my dear brothers and sisters, covered by the blood of Jesus, we can wrap ourselves up in God's magnificence NOW. Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.<br /><br />OK, I am back. Remember that old hymn, "Rock of Ages?" "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee." God wants to be our <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>. Think about it. Wouldn't that posture make God, God. The position of relying on Him for everything. He is our provision, peace, joy, healing, wisdom, grace, protection, salvation, friend and lover. He is our Almighty God. He must be our everything, or our nothing at all. Have you made Him your everything? You can right now if you want. Do you need your sins forgiven? Is sickness racking your body with pain? Do you need comfort over the loss of a loved one? Are you homeless? Are you without parents? Do you stress over not having enough provision? Would you like to have assurance of eternal life with a loving and glorious God? Do you feel hopeless and all alone? Say it with me dearly beloved. "Jesus, would you be my <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">ROCK</span>? And He will because He died just for that small, but powerful utterance. Those few words will bring all of heaven down for your disposal.<br /><br />What I am about to tell you might seem utterly foolish on my part. I will take a chance..here goes. While I was pondering these things under my certain security of Mr. Rock, I spied another most amazing cleft not 20 feet away. Well, in my lighting fast brain, I said to myself, "Hey, there is an even bigger rock not too far away. From there, I could probably snap a few more pictures of the water fall. Because at this point, with all the rain, the falls had picked up at least ten fold. Besides, I am starting to get a drip from time to time where I am." Off I went as fast as I could. Going up more wet, and very slippery terrain, so I could snap my little picture. About five feet from my goal, down on my butt I go. Pants completely covered in mud, along with my camera case (thank you Jesus I had a case) and right arm. Got back up and went the last five feet. Took an inventory..what a mess. So much for going shopping. Guess what? From my new rock, I couldn't even see the falls.<br /><br />The Holy Spirit brought me up to speed real quick. He said, "Kenny, did I lead you to that new shelter, or did you?" That was an easy one...ME. He went on to say, " You and so many others do this all the time. You get your eyes off of Me, and in that posture, you see so many things which you think will bring you better results at the moment. I am not God at that point. You are not living by faith at that moment. You have made something else God. You have put your faith in something other than Me. You have found another <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>." OUCH !!<br /><br />Back to rock #1. While I was calmly waiting out the storm, (boy, that will preach) I noticed Tarzan vines everywhere. I mean the kind that are big around as your arm. I used to love watching the old Tarzan movies growing up. They designated him as, "Lord of the Jungle." He would swing from tree to tree on vines which seemed to always be at his finger tips. He would use them to haul supplies up from down below. He would use them to traverse the jungle in a short amount of time. He would be high above his enemies. Always outmaneuvering them. Tarzan was one with the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vine</span>. It was his very own life line.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1.05em; font-family: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: windowtext; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold;">Chapter 15</p> <p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-weight: normal;font-family:'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;">The Vine and the Branches</p> <div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; display: block;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >1</span> "I am the Real <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Vine</span> and my Father is the Farmer. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >2</span> He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >3</span> You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >4</span> "Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >5</span> "I am the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Vine,</span> you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >6</span> Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >7</span> But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >8</span> This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >9</span> "I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >10</span> If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in my love. That's what I've done—kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >11</span> "I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >12</span> This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >13</span> This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >14</span> You are my friends when you do the things I command you. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >15</span> I'm no longer calling you servants because servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard from the Father. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >16</span> "You didn't choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >17</span> "But remember the root command: Love one another. </span></span></div> <p face="'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif" size="1em" color="windowtext" style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Hated by the World</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; display: block;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >18</span> "If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >19</span> If you lived on the world's terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God's terms and no longer on the world's terms, the world is going to hate you. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >20</span> "When that happens, remember this: Servants don't get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >21</span> "They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >22</span> If I hadn't come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn't be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >23</span> Hate me, hate my Father—it's all the same. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >24</span> If I hadn't done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn't be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0.7em;" >25</span> Interesting—they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, 'They hated me for no good reason.' </span></span></div> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">John 15:1-25 (MSG)<span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Goodness gracious ! Boy, that dog will hunt. You can meditate on the above passage over and over again and hardly gleam all the nuggets of gold Jesus is so lovingly laying before us. Being one with the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vine</span>. Like the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rock</span>, we are supposed to come to a place where our breathing in and our breathing out; where our rising up and our sitting down; where our thoughts, wisdom, peace and joy come from Him, and Him alone. We worship Him, we mediate on His Word daily...we allow Jesus to love us and we love Him in return. The <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vine</span> (Jesus) gives us all we need to sustain life. Are you one with the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">VINE</span> (Jesus) today? Or are you still relying on your own smarts to get you through life? In Him, who we have our being, fruits of righteousness are produced. There will be many "good" people in hell. Does your love and goodness come from being one with Jesus, or do they come from your own abilities?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">And of course we have come back to the same thing which we still seem to have problems with in the Church. And it is this:(and always will be) if we love God then we will be obedient to His commands. And His commands are not grievious. Did you know that if you are truly a desciple of the Lord Jesus, you will suffer persecution? Are we greater than our Master?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I surely can't leave you on such a sour note as that, now can I? God loves you so, so, so much that He took your place on Calvary's tree. Jesus bore the penalty of your sin on His own celestial/human body, which was death, hell and the grave. By showing this great love for you, God has basically pledged to be your all. He will never fail you or forsake you. Nothing can separate His love for you. Jesus went back to the Father and is seated at His right hand, but He is coming back. He is coming back for you. Will you be one with the <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">VINE</span> today? Would you make God your <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">ROCK</span> today? He is waiting. His heart yearns for you. So does mine.<br /></span></span></span></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-44757879646149853182010-05-05T09:21:00.066-04:002010-06-09T19:53:32.018-04:00A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemY-2hv27fHtPqQep5MygGq69icMo6QkhSjkqv7s9ubLIe3ZUIiOSJ8MgxI_cfWaisCflvX0wJnEIBC57QSXZHThD3mX9IIxwCtokmw13q_JrWXz0PkMeA55c7eqkuz3fm9X8AhEIQxjj/s1600/P1010368.JPG"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; display: block; height: 267px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467779019419696754" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemY-2hv27fHtPqQep5MygGq69icMo6QkhSjkqv7s9ubLIe3ZUIiOSJ8MgxI_cfWaisCflvX0wJnEIBC57QSXZHThD3mX9IIxwCtokmw13q_JrWXz0PkMeA55c7eqkuz3fm9X8AhEIQxjj/s400/P1010368.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Greetings in the Name of God Almighty. How is everyone doing? I pray that you are all doing well....body, soul and spirit. OK, I must confess right up front, the picture of the horse has nothing to do with this message. Oh yeah, one more thing, the title really has little to do with this discourse either. Well, except for the word: thousand. You will understand all of this as we progress under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Speaking of which, let us pray.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Glorious Father, thank you that we can enter beyond the veil and communicate with You one on One. We are so thankful for the sacrifice of Your Son, Jesus, on our behalf. But please help us to understand better, one of the most important issues behind Calvary. The wonderful way in which Your heart's desire was fulfilled. And that was this: You are now able to love us and have us respond in like manner. A love affair greater than any ever before or any that shall be. God of the universe now able to hold the desires of His heart. That desire being us. We love you Daddy; we worship You Most High God; we embrace You Jesus, Lamb of God; we desire and need You Holy Spirit. Have mercy on us all and please help us cling to You as never before, </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">because Your Glorious Appearing is at hand. In Jesus Name we pray...AMEN.<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Please read "The Fear of the Lord," by John Bevere. It will change your life if you let it. In times past I have referred certain books to read and pastors to listen to, for your spiritual growth. Why? Because I love you and yearn to help others grow closer to the Lord Jesus. In return, I have satisfaction that I have done God's will and that many are led to pray for me also. If you have some real good meat for me, please feel free to refer that Living Word to me my brothers and sisters.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">May I emphasize, once again, a few pastors I would love for you to meet and listen to? I have read many books and have listened to countless sermons over the past decades. I am quite certain that there exist many churches in the earth which represent the end-time church. By that I mean those who gather together in unity and singleness of heart. A heart which yearns for God above all things. Sure, the works of the end-time church may be many, but do the people desire the God of the works above the works of God? These wonderful groups are over seen by shepherds who are led by the Holy Spirit in all matters. The services are under the authority of the Holy Spirit. By that, I mean time and agenda are under His control. If they don't get to their message because God shows up....then Hallelujah!! If the service goes past noon, or even for days at a time....then Hallelujah!! These are the bodies where the Glory of God will arise and shine first above all others.<br /><br />Personally, I know of two such churches. Like I said, there are many, many more, but these are the two I know of. If you know of others, please communicate that with me because I am a sucker when it comes to listening to great men and women of God who walk with God, and it shows in the anointed Words they speak. You know the kinds of Words I am talking about. The kind that make you weep. The kind which expose your own righteousness as filthy rags before the Holy One of Israel. The kind of Words that make you kneel, that make you dance a little jig. The Words which encourages you to draw closer to the Lord. They are Words that set free, that destroy yolks and open blinded eyes. Healing Words. Life Abundant Words. They are the Words of Jesus. Love letters from the Throne.<br /><br />Wow, got a little carried away there for a moment. The two pastors I would like to share with you are: Randy Stephen who shepherds New Covenant church in Valdosta, Ga. (www.nccvaldosta.org) and Carter Conlon who shepherds (along side of David Wilkerson) Times Square Church in New York (www.worldchallenge.org). One more thing I would like to share with you my dearly beloved. Has God blessed you with seed to sow? Are you a giver? I know it is hard sometimes to find a ministry that is wholly trustworthy. I have found a few if you are interested. They are Samaritans Purse, The Joshua Fund and The Voice of the Martyrs. You can look them up on the ole computer, if you need more information and can't find the sites then get back to me. Always pray before you give to anyone. I think that is the wise thing to do, especially in today's society. The Joshua Fund is real cool because not only does it bless Israel (God's chosen people) but also her enemies. Did not Jesus tell us to bless both Israel and our enemies? That ministry is run by Joel Rosenberg. You might have heard of him.<br /><br />Now for our washing of the Word for today. The message is, "A Picture Worth a Thousand Words." The Words found here today are also found in previous messages on this site. They also come together to emphasize the very subject of this web site. We will talk about the coming Glory and the signs preceding it. We will also (God willing) speak about preparing for this awesome event, and the judgement which will accompany it. This judgement will be for believers. The Word says that judgement will begin in the House of the Lord. The Glory will be for the unbeliever, but it will work through the believer. We are about to behold the greatest revival known to man. God has saved the best for last.<br /><br />It is widely understood by followers of Jesus,that God worked and created for six days, then He rested on the seventh. About six thousand years have passed since the creation of Adam and Eve. We are on the doorstep of the seventh thousand year. This is important because it represents the time called the Millenial Reign. A time where Jesus will set up His Kingdom here on earth for one thousand years. Then comes the judgement of all men. Then eternity. Eternity with Him or eternity with satan, estranged from any goodness whatsoever. Estranged from the light of God Almighty. II Peter 3:8 says that a day to the Lord is like a thousand years. But, right before Jesus comes back to earth with His Bride(believers who either were raised from the dead or raptured), and His angels there will be a period of seven years called the Tribulation. This will be the time where there will be a different kingdom set up. It will be the kingdom of the anti-christ(one world leader). This will be a time where there will be one world government, money system and religion. The second half, of this seven year period, will be the time where God pours out His wrath.<br /><br />Let's reiterate and go over the end-time series of events one more time. If this is all new to you then please contact me and I will be more than willing to provide you scriptures to back up all that we are talking about. We are at the end of time as we know it. A time when evil is increasing, but also a time when Jesus is cleaning up His Bride. Leading her to Godly sorrow and true repentance. Preparing Her (His temple) for the in filling of His mighty Glory. This will be the last and greatest revival ever. A time where unbelievers will come to His Glory in us because of the evil that has come upon the earth.<br /><br />Then there will be an event called the Rapture. That is when the followers of Jesus(His bride or Church) will be caught up to meet Him in the air and will be taken to be with Him forever. Then begins the seven year tribulation period here on earth. Multitudes will be saved during this time, but at the expense of not bowing down to the anti-christ and being beheaded. Some will be alive and born again at His Coming. At the end of this seven year period, Jesus will come down with His mighty army and do battle with satan and his army. Of course Jesus wins and satan is cast into the lake of fire, along with his followers. Jesus will set up His Kingdom here on earth for one thousand years, with His seat in Jerusalem. At the end of the thousand years, satan will be loosed for a short season to see if anyone else can be persuaded to follow him versus the King of Glory.<br /><br />The great books will be opened and judgement will begin. If anyone does not have their names in the Book of Life then they are cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. The believers are judged according to their works and rewards are given. Then the earth is recreated and the New Jerusalem(I call it planet heaven) will come down to rest here forever and ever. Then we will be in the presence of God Almighty and His Son Jesus forever. No more sickness, tears or suffering. Instead, we will be rulers with Jesus over all that God has created. That includes planets, solar systems and galaxies that extend further than our little brains can even comprehend. Oh the joy of it all !!<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">PREPARATION FOR GLORY</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br />Now, about the Glory. Throughout scripture we see a pattern associated with the disclosure of God's Glory. Order, judgement then Glory. Numbers 14:21 says, "But truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord." <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Are you ready for His Glory?</span> Let's study some more before you answer. God's Word says that the latter temple will be greater than the former. We know how the tabernacle of David was a revelation of what true worship, between man and God, is all about. The priests couldn't even perform their duties because of the heaviness of Jehovah coming to rest on His Mercy Seat in the Most Holy Place. By the way, we are that most Holy Place now. We are the temple which houses the Mercy Seat and Kingdom of God, in Christ Jesus. Remember once again, that with God there is always divine order. The order is this: unity/order(fear of the Lord and obedience); Glory and then judgement.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Are you still willing and ready for His Glory?</span><br /><br />The more Glory....the swifter the judgement. Let's briefly talk about God's order of doing business. We will go from an example in the Old Covenant to one in the New. Remembering along the way that the process is: divine order; Glory then judgement. May this Living Bread also remind you that we are still moving in the direction of the final outpouring of God's Glory (Kabod) which is to be revealed in these latter days. It will require temples (you and I...who God is perfecting rapidly) which have a divine order within them. In our hearts there will be singleness of purpose. To be sold out to God once and for all. Hearts which are obedient. (Fear of the Lord) Temples which walk in agape, the God kind of love. Order. Then these temples will be filled with the Glory of God for all the world to see. But, judgement will be swift and great. The Word says that judgement begins in the House of the Lord. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Are you still sure that you want to see His Glory?</span><br /><br />From the Old Covenant.</span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> All the men of Israel assembled before the king on the feast day of the seventh month, the Feast of Booths. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> When all the leaders of Israel were ready, the Levites took up the Chest. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> They carried the Chest, the Tent of Meeting, and all the sacred things in the Tent used in worship. The priests, all Levites, carried them. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >6</span> King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel were there before the Chest, worshiping and sacrificing huge numbers of sheep and cattle—so many that no one could keep track. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >7</span> The priests brought the Chest of the Covenant of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> to its place in the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >8</span> The outspread wings of the cherubim formed a canopy over the Chest and its poles. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >9</span> The ends of the poles were so long that they stuck out from the entrance of the Inner Sanctuary, but were not noticeable further out—they're still there today. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >10</span> There was nothing in the Chest itself but the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb where <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> made a covenant with Israel after bringing them up from Egypt. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> The priests then left the Holy Place. All the priests there were consecrated, regardless of rank or assignment; <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >12</span> and all the Levites who were musicians were there—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their families, dressed in their worship robes; the choir and orchestra assembled on the east side of the Altar and were joined by 120 priests blowing trumpets. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >13</span> The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>—orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>: </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Yes! God is good!</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">His loyal love goes on forever!</span>2 Chron 5:2-13 (MSG)<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This is an example of <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">DIVINE ORDER</span>. Everything was done according to the instruction of Jehovah. All assembled were in unity of mind and purpose. All were sanctified and made clean by the many sacrifices made. Of course, we are made clean today by the Blood of Jesus.</span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Now, let's move on to the second part of God's sequence of fulfilling His way of doing things. The way He imparts His Glory to mankind. Are you ready? Let's see <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">HIS GLORY. </span></span></span></span>Then a billowing cloud filled The Temple of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >14</span> The priests couldn't even carry out their duties because of the cloud—the glory of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>!—that filled The Temple of God. </p>2 Chron 5:13-14 (MSG) <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">S<span style="font-weight: bold;">uper COOL !!</span></span></span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh boy, here comes the ruff part. When the Glory of God is uncovered, there is<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> JUDGEMENT.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he started out as king. He was king in Jerusalem for eleven years. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >12</span> As far as <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> was concerned, he was just one more evil king; there wasn't a trace of contrition in him when the prophet Jeremiah preached <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>'s word to him. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >13</span> Then he compounded his troubles by rebelling against King Nebuchadnezzar, who earlier had made him swear in God's name that he would be loyal. He became set in his own stubborn ways—he never gave <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> a thought; repentance never entered his mind. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >14</span> The evil mindset spread to the leaders and priests and filtered down to the people—it kicked off an epidemic of evil, repeating the abominations of the pagans and polluting The Temple of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> so recently consecrated in Jerusalem. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >15</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent warning messages to them. Out of compassion for both his people and his Temple he wanted to give them every chance possible. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >16</span> But they wouldn't listen; they poked fun at God's messengers, despised the message itself, and in general treated the prophets like idiots. <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> became more and more angry until there was no turning back— <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >17</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> called in Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who came and killed indiscriminately—and right in The Temple itself; it was a ruthless massacre: young men and virgins, the elderly and weak—they were all the same to him. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >18</span> And then he plundered The Temple of everything valuable, cleaned it out completely; he emptied the treasuries of The Temple of God, the treasuries of the king and his officials, and hauled it all, people and possessions, off to Babylon. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >19</span> He burned The Temple of God to the ground, knocked down the wall of Jerusalem, and set fire to all the buildings—everything valuable was burned up. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >20</span> Any survivor was taken prisoner into exile in Babylon and made a slave to Nebuchadnezzar and his family. The exile and slavery lasted until the kingdom of Persia took over. </span></p>2 Chron 36:11-20 (MSG) <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">OUCH !!<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Are you sure you want to see His Glory?<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br />From the New Covenant.</span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I know that I don't have to relay the entire fourth chapter of Acts to bring understanding to the message at hand, but it is so beautiful. So, here goes..... </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >1</span> While Peter and John were addressing the people, the priests, the chief of the Temple police, and some Sadducees came up, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >2</span> indignant that these upstart apostles were instructing the people and proclaiming that the resurrection from the dead had taken place in Jesus. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> They arrested them and threw them in jail until morning, for by now it was late in the evening. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> But many of those who listened had already believed the Message—in round numbers about five thousand! </span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> The next day a meeting was called in Jerusalem. The rulers, religious leaders, religion scholars, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >6</span> Annas the Chief Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander—everybody who was anybody was there. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >7</span> They stood Peter and John in the middle of the room and grilled them: "Who put you in charge here? What business do you have doing this?" </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >8</span> With that, Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, let loose: "Rulers and leaders of the people, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >9</span> if we have been brought to trial today for helping a sick man, put under investigation regarding this healing, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >10</span> I'll be completely frank with you—we have nothing to hide. By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the One you killed on a cross, the One God raised from the dead, by means of his name this man stands before you healthy and whole. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> Jesus is 'the stone you masons threw out, which is now the cornerstone.' <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >12</span> Salvation comes no other way; no other name has been or will be given to us by which we can be saved, only this one." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >13</span> They couldn't take their eyes off them—Peter and John standing there so confident, so sure of themselves! Their fascination deepened when they realized these two were laymen with no training in Scripture or formal education. They recognized them as companions of Jesus, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >14</span> but with the man right before them, seeing him standing there so upright—so healed!—what could they say against that? </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >15</span> They sent them out of the room so they could work out a plan. They talked it over: <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >16</span> "What can we do with these men? By now it's known all over town that a miracle has occurred, and that they are behind it. There is no way we can refute that. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >17</span> But so that it doesn't go any further, let's silence them with threats so they won't dare to use Jesus' name ever again with anyone." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >18</span> They called them back and warned them that they were on no account ever again to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >19</span> But Peter and John spoke right back, "Whether it's right in God's eyes to listen to you rather than to God, you decide. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >20</span> As for us, there's no question—we can't keep quiet about what we've seen and heard." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >21</span> The religious leaders renewed their threats, but then released them. They couldn't come up with a charge that would stick, that would keep them in jail. The people wouldn't have stood for it—they were all praising God over what had happened. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >22</span> The man who had been miraculously healed was over forty years old. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />One Heart, One Mind</span><br /><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; display: block;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >23</span> As soon as Peter and John were let go, they went to their friends and told them what the high priests and religious leaders had said. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >24</span> Hearing the report, they lifted their voices in a wonderful harmony in prayer: "Strong God, you made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >25</span> By the Holy Spirit you spoke through the mouth of your servant and our father, David: </span><br /><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Why the big noise, nations?</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Why the mean plots, peoples?</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >26</span> Earth's leaders push for position,</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Potentates meet for summit talks,</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers!</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >27</span> "For in fact they did meet—Herod and Pontius Pilate with nations and peoples, even Israel itself!—met in this very city to plot against your holy Son Jesus, the One you made Messiah, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >28</span> to carry out the plans you long ago set in motion. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >29</span> "And now they're at it again! Take care of their threats and give your servants fearless confidence in preaching your Message, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >30</span> as you stretch out your hand to us in healings and miracles and wonders done in the name of your holy servant Jesus." <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">These brethren were certainly in one mind and one accord. <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">UNITY,DIVINE ORDER AND OBEDIENCE.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >31</span> While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God's Word with fearless confidence. <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">HIS GLORY. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">What follows is an example of how true believers act and respond while operating in the love and glory of Christ.</span></span></span></span> </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >32</span> The whole congregation of believers was united as one—one heart, one mind! They didn't even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, "That's mine; you can't have it." They shared everything. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >33</span> The apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Master Jesus, and grace was on all of them. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >34</span> And so it turned out that not a person among them was needy. Those who owned fields or houses sold them and brought the price of the sale <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >35</span> to the apostles and made an offering of it. The apostles then distributed it according to each person's need. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >36</span> Joseph, called by the apostles "Barnabas" (which means "Son of Comfort"), a Levite born in Cyprus, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >37</span> sold a field that he owned, brought the money, and made an offering of it to the apostles. </span></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;">Acts 4:1-37 (MSG)<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Ananias and Sapphira</span><br /><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; display: block;font-family:georgia;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >1</span> But a man named Ananias—his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him—sold a piece of land, <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >2</span> secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> Peter said, "Ananias, how did Satan get you to lie to the Holy Spirit and secretly keep back part of the price of the field? <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> Before you sold it, it was all yours, and after you sold it, the money was yours to do with as you wished. So what got into you to pull a trick like this? You didn't lie to men but to God." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">JUDGEMENT.</span></span> <em>That</em> put the fear of God into everyone who heard of it. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >6</span> The younger men went right to work and wrapped him up, then carried him out and buried him. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >7</span> Not more than three hours later, his wife, knowing nothing of what had happened, came in. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >8</span> Peter said, "Tell me, were you given this price for your field?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">"Yes," she said, "that price." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >9</span> Peter responded, "What's going on here that you connived to conspire against the Spirit of the Master? The men who buried your husband are at the door, and you're next." <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >10</span> No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead. When the young men returned they found her body. They carried her out and buried her beside her husband. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">JUDGEMENT. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wow! This happened in this New Covenant we call grace. Do you not know that we are about to see such things happening again? Are you really certain that you want to see His Glory? It will cost you everything.</span></span></span> </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> By this time the whole church and, in fact, everyone who heard of these things had a healthy respect for God. They knew God was not to be trifled with. </span></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />They All Met Regularly</span><br /><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; display: block;font-family:georgia;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >12</span> Through the work of the apostles, many God-signs were set up among the people, many wonderful things done. They all met regularly and in remarkable harmony on the Temple porch named after Solomon. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >13</span> But even though people admired them a lot, outsiders were wary about joining them. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >14</span> On the other hand, those who put their trust in the Master were added right and left, men and women both. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >15</span> They even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on stretchers and bedrolls, hoping they would be touched by Peter's shadow when he walked by. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0pt;" >16</span> They came from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, throngs of them, bringing the sick and bedeviled. And they all were healed. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">HIS GLORY...AND IT IS COMING.</span></span><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;">Acts 5:1-16 (MSG)</span><br /><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I know that this has become quite lengthy. The Holy Spirit is still in control and I pray that we continue to have ears to hear what He is saying. We have been talking thus far about the preparing of God's temples(that is you and I); God's Glory; judgement that occurs when sin is brought to the Light of His Glory and the way we conduct ourselves and proclaim His Kingdom with power and miracles following. This is a two fold message. Now for part two. We will now allow the Living Word to speak for Himself about the Glory which is about to fill the earth. Through us, His latter House. Come and share this excitement with me. Why am I beside myself? Because when the temples are clean and the Glory of God comes in, we well see the end-time revival. A revival which will bring many,many souls into the Kingdom of God's dear Son. Surely you can see how the Father longs for all souls to be saved. He is giving mankind one more final push before the end of time as we know it. I can see you or I going into a hospital and all there being healed because of the Glory of God in us and on us. Can you?</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">But, let us not worry or allow the judgement of God to spurn us upward and onward. Instead, may we be the people who are like Moses and NOT like the children of Israel. May we desire and crave the heart of God instead of His hand. Psalms 25:14 tells us that the key to such an intimacy with God Almighty is a reverential fear of Him. The Israelites were afraid to approach the awesome and thunderous Glory of God on Mt. Sinai. But Moses was not? Why? Because the Israelites knew that if they came close to God they would be required to give up their selfish desires and fleshly wants. The flaws of their character would be revealed. That is what happens when the Master touches us. Moses was willing to crucify his flesh in order to hold His God. To hold His Love. We too are commanded to come to such a place and to be such a people as Moses. Jesus said unless we are willing to deny ourselves and follow Him we are not considered His disciples. Please allow the Holy Spirit to help you come to a place of brokenness. A place of total surrender to the Lord Jesus. We must come to the place of oneness with Him through obedience. To God, that is a place of love with Him. In that love affair you will discover that He has fashioned you into a vessel of honor. A vessel worthy to carry His very Glory for all the world to see. WHAT AN AWESOME HONOR !</span></span></span><br /><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">GLORY !</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;">Habakkuk 2:14 says, "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." It is understood by tens of thousands of pressed in believers that God's Glory will fill the earth before the Church is taken away and the seven year period of the tribulation begins. Some say that this verse represents the Glory associated with the Millenial reign of Jesus. This is proven false by many other scriptures which support the powerful and glorious Church which Jesus is coming back for. Besides, can't you feel it in your spirit? We are on the brink of something really big, both in the natural AND spiritual world. But, let us always remember, that we must continue to properly prepare for such a wonderful event. What a most wonderful time in which to be alive. We are at the finish line my most beloved sisters and brothers. But like Jesus said, it will cost us everything. Not only to be a part of the Glory of God Almighty, but to be a disciple. I pray that the underlying message of most you will find here at Jehovah Productions, will spurn you to a Rest in God. A place of surrender. A place where you finally make God, God. A coming to an end of yourself once and for all. A place of obedience. A place of walking in the Fear of the Lord. I personally believe that this place is not only commanded, but a characteristic of being a true born again believer and follower of Christ. Remember, we need the Holy Spirit to help us come to that place. If you are willing, then I belive that from the next piece of Living Bread (scripture) you will find that God will get us to where we need to be.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> Thunder in the desert!</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">"Prepare for <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>'s arrival!</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Make the road straight and smooth,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">a highway fit for our God.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> Fill in the valleys,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">level off the hills,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Smooth out the ruts,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">clear out the rocks.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> Then <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>'s bright glory will shine</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">and everyone will see it.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Yes. Just as <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> has said."</span>Isaiah 40:3-5 (MSG)<br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This is talking about God preparing the way for His Kabod (Glory) which will fill the whole earth. Remember, we are learning that this Glory will fill us (His Temples). This will be the greatest and last revival before the Bride (Church) is taken away. This passage is speaking of an environment of holiness and oneness with Him. This...HE WILL WORK OUT IN US IF WE ARE WILLING. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DO YOU STILL WANT TO SEE HIS GLORY? IT WILL COST YOU. THE COST WILL BE PUTTING JESUS ON THE THRONE OF YOUR HEART INSTEAD OF YOURSELF.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">We have discovered that we have hope of something really cool happening here in the last days. Did you know that the Bible also tells us when this will occur? Before we dig into that nugget, let's have a brief teaching about the ways in which God's Word tells us of things to come. The Old Covenant is almost completely written as a type and shadow of things yet to come. Most of the shadows and prophecies came to pass with the fulfillment of Christ and the New Covenant. But there are still many shadows and prophecies which yet remain to be fulfilled. The New Covenant writing also spoke in types and shadows. These were mostly comprised of the parables of Jesus. The New Testament also spoke many times in the prophetic. Both Testaments also used numbers as a means to describe future events and God's time table of things yet to come. We will discuss a few of these different methods which center around the coming Glory and God's end-time Church. Remember this, God never throws numbers around lightly. They always mean something.</span></span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Once again. "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." II Peter 3:8. God created the earth in six days then he rested on the seventh. There has been six thousand years since the creation of Adam. The seventh thousand years represent the Millenial Reign of Jesus after the tribulation. So, according to our calender here in the U.S., we are at 2010. Two thousand and ten years since Christ. There was four thousand years between Adam and Christ. We are at 6010 years. The Jewish calendar is slightly slower than ours. But, nevertheless, you can see that we are at the threshold upon when Jesus is about to come for His Bride. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PREPARE, FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD (HIS POWER, GLORY AND MAJESTY) IS AT HAND.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >1</span> Let's return to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Even though he has torn us to pieces,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; display: block;">he will heal us.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Even though he has wounded us, </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; display: block;">he will bandage our wounds.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >2</span> After two days he will revive us.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 7em; display: block;">On the third day he will raise us</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 8em; display: block;">so that we may live in his presence.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> Let's learn about the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Let's get to know the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">He will come to us as sure as the morning comes.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">He will come to us like the autumn rains and the spring rains</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; display: block;">that water the ground.</span><br /><p>Hosea 6:1-3 (GW)<span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">We can't get much more straight forward than this. We have had two days (two thousand years since Jesus) to repent and come to a place of being sold out to the Lord. He will help us. After that (between the second and third day, or between the two thousand years since Jesus and His Millenial Reign; right before the tribulation...RIGHT NOW) He will come back for us. Israel had two major rains during their farming season. The autumn rain (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">former</span>) came right after the seed was sowed. The spring rains (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">later</span>) came just prior to harvest. You probably noticed the two rains mentioned in the passage from Hosea. This is one of the biggest indicators of the coming Glory and of our temple being greater than the former in the last days. You have really hung in there for some time now, grit your teeth, the Holy Spirit has just a little more to go. We must speak more on the former and latter rain...it's just way too strong on a prophetic indicator to dismiss.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Let's list three major scriptures on this subject, then we will tie it together with a fourth. Whenever the Bible talks about rain, it is primarily talking about the Holy Spirit. In these cases, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Let us know,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Let us pursue the knowledge of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">His going forth is established as the morning;</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">He will come to us like the rain,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">Like the latter <em>and</em> former rain to the earth</span>Hosea 6:3<br /><br />(NKJV)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-size:x-small;" >23</span> Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first <i>month</i><br /><p>Joel 2:23 (KJV)</p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The prophecy of the former rain was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. This is the day when God's promise and gift of the Holy Spirit was given to mankind. Peter declared this when he stood up to preach on that most glorious day. By the way, read some of the most miraculous things that took place in the book of Acts, because of the Holy Ghost outpouring. We touched on a few at the very beginning of this message.</span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >17</span> "In the Last Days," God says,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">"I will pour out my Spirit</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">on every kind of people:</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Your sons will prophesy,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">also your daughters;</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">Your young men will see visions,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">your old men dream dreams.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >18</span> When the time comes,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I'll pour out my Spirit</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;">On those who serve me, men and women both,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">and they'll prophesy</span>Acts 2:17-18 (MSG)<br /><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This was the first outpouring of the Holy Ghost. This was the former rain that Hosea and Joel talked about. Remember, the Autumn rain (former) was given right after the seed was sown. This first Holy Ghost outpouring was given right after Jesus came with the Righteous Seed. It was Himself. That seed has been multiplying and growing for two thousand years !! We are waiting for the latter rain. The spring rain which comes right before harvest. This is the very Glory that we have been speaking of. James tied it together real well.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >7</span> Brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord comes again. See how farmers wait for their precious crops to grow. They wait patiently for fall and spring rains. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >8</span> You, too, must be patient. Don't give up hope. The Lord will soon be here. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >9</span> Brothers and sisters, stop complaining about each other, or you will be condemned. Realize that the judge is standing at the door </span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">James 5:7-9 (GW)</span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ok back to Moses again. I just can't get enough of the guy. Here we will see another Old Testament prophetic scripture which uses the number thing again. Remember, two days (two thousand years since Jesus), then where we are now(sandwiched between the second and third day....then the third day (the thousand year reign of Jesus. Let's see if you recognize the pattern here.</span></span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">So the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Go to the people, and tell them they have two days to get ready. They must set themselves apart as holy. Have them wash their clothes <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> and be ready by the day after tomorrow. On that day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will come down on Mount Sinai as all the people watch. </span></p><span style="font-size:130%;">Ex 19:10-11 (GW) <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WOW...WOW....WOW !!</span></span></span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I am sure that this message has already been received loud and clear. The Holy Spirit has just a bit more. I can't wait..so let's go my dearly beloved. Check this out...</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >11</span> On that day <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">(the day we are living in now)</span> I will set up David's fallen tent.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will repair the holes in it.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will restore its ruined places.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will rebuild them as they were a long time ago.</span>Amos 9:11 (GW)<span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" ><br />16</span> ‘Afterwards,<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">(the day we are living in now)</span> I will return.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will set up David's fallen tent again.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will restore its ruined places again.</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;">I will set it up again</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >17</span> so that the survivors and all the people who aren't Jewish</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6em; display: block;">over whom my name is spoken,</span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 7em; display: block;">may search for the Lord, declares the Lord.</span>Acts 15:16-17 (GW)<span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" ><br />6</span> "For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of hosts: 'Once more (it <em>is</em> a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >7</span> and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of hosts. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >8</span> 'The silver <em>is</em> Mine, and the gold <em>is</em> Mine,' says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of hosts. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >9</span> The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of hosts. 'And in this place I will give peace,' says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of hosts." </span>Hag 2:6-9 (NKJV)<br /><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The tabernacle of David was very awesome indeed. The priests worshipped around the altar 24/7. The Glory of the Lord would descend and the priests were unable to fulfill their duties because of His Kabod. The latter house (we His temples) is going to be greater than the first (David's tabernacle) THE GLORY IS COMING. I hear the latter rain of harvest even now. Can you hear it? Oh how sweet !</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >1</span> “I'm going to send my messenger, and he will clear the way ahead of me. Then the Lord you are looking for will suddenly come to his temple.(<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >HIS GLORY</span>) The messenger of the promise will come. He is the one you want,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of Armies.(<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">the Holy Spirit</span>) </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >2</span> But who will be able to endure the day he comes? Who will be able to survive on the day he appears? He is like a purifying fire and like a cleansing soap. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> He will act like a refiner and a purifier of silver. He will purify Levi's sons and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will bring acceptable offerings to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.(<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;">SANCTIFICATION AND DIVINE ORDER</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">) </span><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> The offerings from Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> as in the past, as in years long ago. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> “I will come to judge you. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, lying witnesses, and those who cheat workers out of their wages and oppress widows and orphans. I will also testify against those who deprive foreigners of their rights. None of them fear me,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> of Armies.(<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;">JUDGEMENT</span>...ouch</span>) </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Mal 3:1-5 (GW)</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />Then you will again see the difference between righteous people and wicked people, between the one who serves God and the one who doesn't serve him. </span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Mal 3:18 (GW) <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">That sure is a refreshing thought since we now live in a world where right is wrong and wrong is right...with the heathen anyway.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >40</span> Just as weeds are gathered and burned, so it will be at the end of time. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >41</span> The Son of Man will send his angels. They will gather everything in his kingdom that causes people to sin and everyone who does evil. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >42</span> The angels will throw them into a blazing furnace. People will cry and be in extreme pain there. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >43</span> Then the people who have God's approval will <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">shine like the sun</span> in their Father's kingdom. Let the person who has ears listen! </span>Matt 13:40-43 (GW)<span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" ><br />18</span> But the path of righteous people is like the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">light of dawn</span></span> <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; display: block;">that becomes brighter and brighter until it reaches midday</span>Prov 4:18 (GW)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >19</span> So we regard the words of the prophets as confirmed beyond all doubt. You're doing well by paying attention to their words. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Continue</span> to pay attention as you would to a light that shines in a dark place as you<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> wait for day to come and the morning star to rise in your hearts.</span>(<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">His Glory</span>) <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >20</span> First, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >21</span> No prophecy ever originated from humans. Instead, it was given by the Holy Spirit as humans spoke under God's direction. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">2 Peter 1:19-21 (GW)</span><br /><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">My dear sisters and brothers, I pray you took something away from this long discourse. It is always a pleasure working along side you my fellow soldiers. My fellow soldiers of light and <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">GLORY</span>.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Check this out:</span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >1</span> Then the Angel showed me Water-of-Life River, crystal bright. It flowed from the Throne of God and the Lamb, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >2</span> right down the middle of the street. The Tree of Life was planted on each side of the River, producing twelve kinds of fruit, a ripe fruit each month. The leaves of the Tree are for healing the nations. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >3</span> Never again will anything be cursed. The Throne of God and of the Lamb is at the center. His servants will offer God service—worshiping, <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >4</span> they'll look on his face, their foreheads mirroring God. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0pt;" >5</span> Never again will there be any night. No one will need lamplight or sunlight. The shining of God, the Master, is all the light anyone needs. And they will rule with him age after age after age. </span>Rev 22:1-5 (MSG)<br /><p style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NOW, THAT'S A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS !!</span></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: georgia;"></p></div>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-40129744360722651992010-05-04T22:33:00.002-04:002010-06-09T19:43:05.513-04:00I HOPE YOU HAVE A SOFT SPOT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMzlwEVRAURSn6h5Vd8pmz_dyExpLUiWntZ86KkbdabHDw30Oeut7ddmGneAtW7XwHuYRya5PQNMGuCuUWVpSW0sF2jB3m_EgL-d1oKHFkTj8GjpQhl8drnehfFTyQ-CL5h43oz8IT06UG/s1600/P1010512.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMzlwEVRAURSn6h5Vd8pmz_dyExpLUiWntZ86KkbdabHDw30Oeut7ddmGneAtW7XwHuYRya5PQNMGuCuUWVpSW0sF2jB3m_EgL-d1oKHFkTj8GjpQhl8drnehfFTyQ-CL5h43oz8IT06UG/s400/P1010512.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="267" /></a></div><br /><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);font-family:Georgia,";" ><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style=";font-family:Times,";" >Hello my fellow soldiers of light. Most people do have a soft spot for animals and babies. I hope you have a soft spot. Why? Because I need for you to forgive me for taking so long before posting messages. It's not that the Holy Spirit doesn't give me topics to write about. He does on a daily basis. My problem is that I feel under pressure to take care of the things of life. I must be more disciplined in taking care of the God stuff first and trust Him, that if I do, then He will help me with the rest. Please pray for me in this area and stay tuned because a message is forthcoming within the next few days. I love You !!</span></span></span></span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-67797989936906628982010-04-27T11:21:00.015-04:002010-04-29T11:46:39.378-04:00HEAVEN OR HELL<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-5jcB_Sk4hThSs8FkUaCrvH_tNC78p3nuHGl0MflAbnBqFcUH6gxamCCz4amQLmt-hlGz_VedNGvCFyo5cBdgTlRy7ymLNJOCs_S0BQxtGUjoYFKJCw9KYV0O1WTSoZtbirkHttHOMEH/s1600/P1000662.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-5jcB_Sk4hThSs8FkUaCrvH_tNC78p3nuHGl0MflAbnBqFcUH6gxamCCz4amQLmt-hlGz_VedNGvCFyo5cBdgTlRy7ymLNJOCs_S0BQxtGUjoYFKJCw9KYV0O1WTSoZtbirkHttHOMEH/s400/P1000662.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464956342729762818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">H<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">ey there my most wonderful humanoids. And you are wonderful. God thinks so and so do I because God doesn't create junk. Just think, made in the image and likeness of God Almighty. Being born again translates us into the Kingdom of God's dear Son, Jesus. We have been adopted into the family of God, you are a daughter or son of the Most High. Pretty cool ! Let us pray: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Glorious Jesus, You are our hero and champion. Our redeemer and saviour. Our soon coming King....we bow before You now with love and thankfulness. Father God, You said we could call You Daddy when done with reverence and awe of Your holiness. So, Daddy, help us to be patient as we are anticipating Your appearing. Sometimes we just want You to take us away from this world which seems to have gone mad. Help us to have the attitude of Paul during our waiting to be with You. An attitude which says, I would rather be in heaven with my Father God, but while I remain let me continue to grow. Let me continue to be light, love and hope to those around me. May Your Glory fill this temple, along with all believers, so Your majesty would fill the earth. So all could see You and know they have a choice of heaven or hell. We agree with You that none would perish. We love you ! In Jesus name.....AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Work out our salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians 2:12) "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that-and tremble." (James 2:19) "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord." (Hebrews 12:14) "No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." (I John 3:9,10) <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">OUCH ! <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8) "Because of the increase of wickedness, (Jesus is talking about the end times) the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." (Matthew 24:12,13) <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Whew ! That is some rough stuff !<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Please Holy Spirit, give us ears to hear what You are saying to us !<br /><br />Please meditate on the above verses and on the following ones. We will come back to them shortly. Trust me, we are going some where. "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I (God speaking) have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice and hold fast to Him."(Deuteronomy 30:19,20) "The man who loves his life (Jesus speaking) will lose it, While the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves Me must follow me; and where I am , my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me."(John 12:26,26) "Jesus replied, 'If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching. These words you hear are not My own; they belong to the Father who sent me.' "(John 14:23,24) "We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. The man who says, 'I know Him,' but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him. <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did</span>."(1 John 2:3-6)<br /><br />Before I get too deep into this, let us take a pause for the cause. This message is better understood, and written to, followers of Jesus. If you have not yet considered a relationship with God in Christ Jesus, then by all means consider it now while the Holy Spirit is moving upon you. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. Our righteousness is like filthy rags to Almighty God. We can not obtain eternal life, or right standing with God, on our own. That is why Jesus came..to take care of the sin problem. With sin covered, we can fellowship with God face to face. But how did God take care of this ugliness which blocks our relationship with Him? The Word says that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. Before Jesus was born into the earth, by a virgin and through the seed of the Holy Spirit, the children of Israel (God's chosen people whom He has covenant with, but now we have been grafted into the covenants of promise in Christ Jesus) would sacrifice animals once a year. With that blood, the High Priest would offer it up to God to cover the sins of the people.<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> GOOD NEWS PEOPLE. JESUS BECAME THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB ON OUR BEHALF. HIS SINLESS BLOOD HAS TAKEN CARE OF THE SIN PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What do I have to do to be born again from above? How do I approach a Holy God with the horrible sin and iniquity within me? How do I obtain forgiveness? Glad you asked. You can't work for it or achieve it on your own. You have to believe in God's goodness towards you. You must see God's great love for you. You are so valuable to Him that He allowed His only begotten Son to pay the penalty for your sins. God says that the wages of sin is death. Jesus took the penalty of your sin upon Himself on Calvary. His blood will atone and erase your sins forever. Go and get by yourself for a moment. Don't you feel the Spirit stirring your soul? Go and kneel before Almighty God. Admit to Him that you are a sinner and you want to be forgiven. Confess that Jesus is the Son of God and that you want to make Him Lord over your life. You are tired of the ugliness of your life thus far and you want to be born again by the Holy Spirit of God. Talk to God like you would talk to a person, because He is a person. But do it with humility and reverence of course. Cry out for forgiveness. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">RECEIVE IT BY FAITH. </span>Ask God to come live in your heart. To be your God and Lord. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">RECEIVE IT BY FAITH</span>. You are making a covenant with God. You desire to serve Him all the days of your life. He says that He will be with you; He will guide you; He will teach you; He will love you; He will heal you and so much more.<br /><br />Now....hoop and holler. Dance and shout. Cry with great joy. Why? Because now you have been forgiven of all your sins. And if you fall again, just repent, receive your forgiveness and get back up. The angels in heaven are shouting with great jubilation before the very throne of God over your being born again from above. Get yourself a Bible. Find you a good group of believers to be associated with. Tell someone the good news. You have made Jesus the Lord of your life and you have been translated from the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of God's dear Son. You have eternal life. Oh, I am just beside myself with great joy over your decision. God bless you. You are so loved. Not just by God, but by all believers wherever they might be.<br /><br />Now, concerning the scriptures we observed in the beginning parts of this discourse. These are but a snapshot of the theme running throughout the Bible. From them we see that being born from above is more than merely saying, "I believe Jesus is the Son of God." I am not going to get into theology. Many say that once you are saved then you are always saved. This is an argument that I refuse to enter into. Instead, I will let the Word speak for Itself. Can you not see that if a person is truly born again, from above, that he or she will follow the commands of the Lord God Almighty. That person will continue to be bent toward changing into the image of Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. That person will be quick to repent of sin when they fall into it's trap. They will go quickly to the throne of grace and receive forgiveness, by the blood of Christ, through faith. They will fall, but like the Word says:" The righteous may fall a thousand times, but they get back up." Christian, do you get back up? Then sleep well at night my dear brother or sister.<br /><br />Why did I title this discourse, "Heaven or hell?" Can I share something personal with you? Thanks ! Just last week I found myself with an angry spirit towards my wife. It led to a brief period of unforgiveness. A period of selfish, prideful me saying, "I refuse to give in, I will not ask for forgiveness or seek reconciliation." You know what God told me? He said, "Kenneth, if you maintain that heart attitude, <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">you will surely go to hell.</span>" This day I set before you life or death, heaven or hell...choose wisely." I quickly found myself walking in the fear of the Lord at that moment. God continued, "Such a heart will not enter through the gates of my eternal glory." And you know what, He was right. Think about it. If such a heart was hard, resentful, prideful, selfish and bitter, would it feel more comfortable in <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">heaven or hell</span>? Beware of how long you allow your soul to relish in the area of unforgiveness in the times we live in. BEWARE AND BE ON GUARD PLEASE ! A soul left in that condition for very long will soon cover the heart and snuff out the flame of the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />Remember the verse from above about enduring? That verse is actually the flagship verse of this writing. Whew, finally got to it. I never know where the Spirit is leading me during these teachings and letters of encouragement. But it's all good ! We are living in the very shadow of the return of Jesus for His bride. But we are also living in the shadow of God's judgement upon all the earth. Don't fret, we will not go through the seven year tribulation period. But, we will taste of horrible things which will test our faith. Get ready now....like the five wise virgins, keep your oil supply overflowing while you wait for His Glorious Appearing. Run the rest of your race on your knees. Ever praying, ever repenting and ever loving. God and man.<br /><br />If you take anything away from this message of love and warning, take the following: "For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But, if you do not forgive men their sins, Your Father <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">will not forgive your sins.</span>" We are surely going to be tested in these times of calamity coming upon the earth. Our faith will surely come out of the testing brightly shining as the Son. The Lord, Himself, shared with me a few things concerning the things to come. He said that surely we will trust Him for many things in the very near future. But the true test of our faith and love will be in the area of forgiveness. The world (especially the USA) is on the brink of civil unrest. There will be great strain in the areas of keeping our thoughts from evil towards those over us, and in the area of ethnic group against ethnic group.<br /><br />LET YOUR HEART BE QUICK TO FORGIVE, QUICK TO LOVE, QUICK TO ENCOURAGE AND QUICK TO RUN TO FATHER GOD ABOUT EVERYTHING. MAKE SURE HE IS YOUR ALL IN ALL AND THEN IN THE MATTER OF <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">HEAVEN OR HELL</span>: YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT YOU ARE ALREADY SEATED IN HEAVENLY PLACES. I love you !!<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-61912423047580534812010-03-11T09:39:00.056-05:002010-04-15T17:43:15.633-04:00BATTLE OF THE TITANS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntIPZZkhKbdL6tyZDNzyo8qh1tUBUhzeHWuY7YeBk0xcpT0RO_GYDBBnjeLtm6BVsEhwU38KQQZetu_arBHOaghTpHSuYqh0B2h3jP_8THmfNTLt99rrsI1EaxG5wseQMZgPlmGbGqfwo/s1600-h/P1010431.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449028234256792034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntIPZZkhKbdL6tyZDNzyo8qh1tUBUhzeHWuY7YeBk0xcpT0RO_GYDBBnjeLtm6BVsEhwU38KQQZetu_arBHOaghTpHSuYqh0B2h3jP_8THmfNTLt99rrsI1EaxG5wseQMZgPlmGbGqfwo/s320/P1010431.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">JEWS, MUSLIMS and CHRISTIANS</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Come and let us reason together !!<br />Come and let us see what the Spirit has to say!!<br /></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">H<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">ello my most wonderful warriors. I am real excited to see where the Holy Spirit takes us on this journey. I usually go along for the ride and experience His vision after every thing is said and done. Trust me when I say, "We are all in this together." Pretty cool stuff. Thank you so much for tuning in, we are fellow brothers and sisters, although we haven't met. So, are you ready for some more thoughts from the Throne? Me too.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">Wonderful Jesus, we love you so, so much. We will sing Your praises forever. Son of God, son of man we praise You. King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we praise You. Lion of the tribe of Judah, we sing praises unto Your most holy name. You have made Yourself ours. Please oh God, help us to make ourselves....Yours. Thank You for loving us. Holy Spirit, open our spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear what You have to say. In Jesus name.....AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">In this corner we have<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"> YAHWEH</span>. In this corner we have <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">ALLAH</span>. And in this corner we have <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">JESUS</span>. Sounds like a three ring circus, but this is the most important and ferocious battle being fought in the earth today, yesterday and tomorrow. It is the battle for men's souls. This is the most difficult message I have dealt with so far. I have spent much time meditating and praying. Praying that the Holy Spirit would help me to write what He desires. I am NOT a theologian or scholar concerning religion, but I have experienced a change from above and with that experience I come to you. I am not above you, nor do I come to you with pride in my heart about spiritual things. I come to you proclaiming Truth in Love!<br /><br />Let's start with what little common ground we have to work with. We three, all believe that we serve the God of Abraham. But God accredited righteousness to father Abraham through his faith, not through his works. The biggest difference between the three religions of which we speak of today is faith versus works. I have found, that through being a follower of Jesus, I have actually experienced assurance of eternal life through believing. I (like hundreds of millions before me) have felt the weight of my sins leave me as I made Jesus my Lord and believed in His atoning blood. God does say that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. I do know that my name is written in the Lambs Book of Life. I have peace that passes understanding about such things. I have asked for, and received, the gift of the Holy Spirit. Through my believing, I have been redeemed from the curse. Through believing, I know I have been reconciled unto God. He is not angry with me anymore, the judgement of my sin was placed on His dear Son. Our <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Passover Lamb</span>. I walk in the miraculous. I spend hours in the <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Most Holy</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Place</span> with God Almighty and come away unscathed, because the curtain in the temple was torn when Jesus died upon the cross for my sins and yours. I know that God hears and answers my prayers. I say all these things my fellow brethren because of experience. This Kingdom of God, in which I walk, is very real. That is why I come to you, so I may pass on to you words which will give you abundance of life too.<br /><br />With works, I gain no confidence of my eternal life or that God is actually pleased with me. With my righteousness, ( filthy rags to God Almighty) I encounter nothing but restlessness at night wondering if I did enough to please God. But, after God translating me into the Kingdom of His dear Son, I have what we all yearn for.....<span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">ASSURANCE</span>. Now, my beloved, we are about to embark on a journey which will be long and full of scriptures. Feel free to take a break every once in a while when you feel your eyes getting heavy. This message demands alertness and prayerful meditation. We are talking about eternal life here people. Have you ever wondered why there are so many religions in the world? And even within each religion we see many factions. Different tribes, different denominations etc. The devil himself has done this. Why? To divide us..to conquer us. May we all come away from this journey today (this journey of God breathed Words) united in our hearts to Messiah. United to Father God. United in the Holy Spirit.<br /><br />I desire to talk to the Jews first. Would you please give me permission most kind brothers and sisters? Thank You...God Bless You! Let's begin in the book of Genesis. The foretelling of Messiah began in the Garden of Eden when God said there would be (because of sin) war between the devil and Eve's seed. Of course seed here is singular looking ahead to Jesus. Here in the Garden, Yahweh said Jesus (Eve's seed) would crush the head of satan. Thank you for allowing me to use the most sacred Name of God...spelled out in its entirety. Of course you know that all of the Holy Feasts shadow and speak about Messiah. What a most holy anticipation (Jews which have not acknowledged Jesus) you must have as you partake of each holy celebration in joyful anticipation of your Messiah who is yet to come. He has come my dear ones, and you knew Him not.<br /><br />Of course your Books of Prophets foretold ( with hundreds of accurate prophecies) of the coming of Jesus, your Messiah. But as the Christian faith grew and embraced the prophets, you closed the books. God has called you a stiff-necked people. (We all fall in that category from time to time). You were looking for a King who would come and rescue you from all your enemies. A Messiah who would come with great majesty, power and grandeur. A most glorious Kingdom to be built right there in Israel with His throne in the Jerusalem Temple for all the world to see. Instead, Yahweh, chose for Messiah to come into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. You say to yourselves, this cannot be the Messiah which the Torah speaks of. We refuse to accept such a thing. Just think, God of the universe coming to us (His chosen and prideful people) in such humility. It CANNOT be so. Close the Books of the Prophets. We will not be a part of this Christian movement who dare to interpret our Holy Books in such a way.<br /><br />Didn't Father God, the Father of Abraham; Issac and Jacob, set up the Law of Moses? Laws which were given for a time to prove righteousness cannot be obtained through doing His commandments perfectly. Righteousness must be obtained with His help, His grace, His mercy. All other ways to God, through our feeble attempts to follow the written law with all its rules and regulations, are foolishness. Didn't God set up the Temple and all of its sacrifices? Each year, the sins of the people were atoned for by the High Priest taking their sins and placing them on the scapegoat, outside the city? But now, the temple and all of its sacrifices have ceased. What then atones for your sins now? Jesus prophesied that the Temple would be destroyed and it was in 70A.D. When He was crucified the curtain which separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place was torn in two from top to bottom. Yahweh, Himself, tore that six-inch curtain to proclaim to you that you can now (everyone) come boldly before the Throne of Grace through the blood of Jesus. No more sacrifices, it is now an abomination to Him. Jesus is our Passover Lamb. He fulfilled the feast of Unleavened Bread. He is our First Fruits seen in His resurrection from the dead. Jesus conquered death and the grave for us. He redeemed us from the pit. He took the sting out of death. He is none other than the Messiah King which you have been looking for. Your great glorious, conquering Messiah has come. With Yahweh, <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">IT IS FINISHED</span>.<br /><br />Please allow me to open the Books of the Prophets for you. I feel led to reveal a few things to you as led by the Holy Spirit. Of course this is no where a conclusive study, that would take days and days, volumes and volumes. That is how rich and true the hundreds upon hundreds of prophecies about the Messiah, events which have take place, and even of things yet to come is. Even now, I still hear Jesus crying over you (His chosen ones) as He says, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem , you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "(Matthew 23:37-39)<br /><br />Please turn with me to Matthew 27:5-10. "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, 'It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.' So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial-place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled. 'They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on Him by the people of Israel, and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.' " Actually, this is better foretold by the prophet Zechariah than Jeremiah. Matthew chose to attribute this to the major prophet Jeremiah just like Mark was accustomed to doing.<br /><br />So, let's turn to Zechariah 11:12-13. My dear fellow Jews, I am choosing but a few fulfilled prophecies so you may rejoice in God's faithfulness and embrace the sheer impossibility of such things occurring on their own. I call you fellow Jews, because the Bible teaches us that the promises made to Abraham was to his seed...singular. This seed was none other than Jesus Christ. We are told that because of our belief in Jesus we are grafted into the race of Yahweh's Chosen People. We are joint heirs with Christ and heirs according the covenants of promise. Trust me, what an honor this is for me and millions of others who are no longer strangers to the covenants of promise. Most of us who follow Jesus, look towards Israel as our very own nation. We see ourselves equal to the Jewish people and in no way better. We love you so, so much and pray for your peace continually. Boy, got a little side tracked their.<br /><br />Remember, we were describing the thirty pieces of silver found in the gospel of Matthew. Zechariah 11:12,13. "I told them, 'If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.' So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me, 'Throw it to the potter's- the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter."<br /><br />Please turn with me to Isaiah chapter 53. Here is one of the best prophecies concerning the Messiah and the afflictions He suffered on Calvary.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1.05em; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chapter 53</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0pxfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >1</span> Who believes what we've heard and seen?</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">Who would have thought <span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">God</span>'s saving power would look like this?</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >2</span> The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">a scrubby plant in a parched field.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">There was nothing attractive about him,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">nothing to cause us to take a second look.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >3</span> He was looked down on and passed over,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">One look at him and people turned away.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">We looked down on him, thought he was scum.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >4</span> But the fact is, it was <em>our</em> pains he carried—</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block"><em>our</em> disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">We thought he brought it on himself,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">that God was punishing him for his own failures.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >5</span> But it was our sins that did that to him,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">that ripped and tore and crushed him—<em>our</em> sins!</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">He took the punishment, and that made us whole.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">Through his bruises we get healed.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >6</span> We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">We've all done our own thing, gone our own way.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">And <span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">God</span> has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">on him, on him.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >7</span> He was beaten, he was tortured,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">but he didn't say a word.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">and like a sheep being sheared,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">he took it all in silence.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >8</span> Justice miscarried, and he was led off—</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">and did anyone really know what was happening?</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">He died without a thought for his own welfare,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">beaten bloody for the sins of my people.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >9</span> They buried him with the wicked,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">threw him in a grave with a rich man,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">Even though he'd never hurt a soul</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">or said one word that wasn't true.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >10</span> Still, it's what <span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">God</span> had in mind all along,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">to crush him with pain.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">so that he'd see life come from it—life, life, and more life.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">And <span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">God</span>'s plan will deeply prosper through him.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> Out of that terrible travail of soul,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">will make many "righteous ones,"</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">as he himself carries the burden of their sins.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> Therefore I'll reward him extravagantly—</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">the best of everything, the highest honors—</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">Because he looked death in the face and didn't flinch,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">because he embraced the company of the lowest.</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 3em; DISPLAY: block">He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block">he took up the cause of all the black sheep.</span> </div><p>Isaiah 53:1-12 (MSG)<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="font-size:130%;">O how this makes us weep, first with a bruised soul to know God's Son suffered so. Then our weeping becomes joyful as we realize the great Agape God has poured out upon us and for us all. Please allow me just a few more scriptures and then we will be done. Thanks for hanging in there so long with me. The following scripture is Jesus testifying about Himself. Listen to how beautiful His words are. Take them to heart. This time let's turn to John 5:16-47.</span></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1em; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">The Son Is Equal to the Father</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0pxfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >16</span> The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of worship. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >17</span> Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.” </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >18</span> His reply made the Jews more intent on killing him. Not only did he break the laws about the day of worship, but also he made himself equal to God when he said repeatedly that God was his Father. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >19</span> Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >20</span> The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. The Father will show him even greater things to do than these things so that you will be amazed. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >21</span> In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >22</span> “The Father doesn't judge anyone. He has entrusted judgment entirely to the Son <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >23</span> so that everyone will honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >24</span> I can guarantee this truth: Those who listen to what I say and believe in the one who sent me will have eternal life. They won't be judged because they have already passed from death to life. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >25</span> “I can guarantee this truth: A time is coming (and is now here) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who respond to it will live. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >26</span> The Father is the source of life, and he has enabled the Son to be the source of life too. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >27</span> “He has also given the Son authority to pass judgment because he is the Son of Man. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >28</span> Don't be surprised at what I've just said. A time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >29</span> and they will come out of their tombs. Those who have done good will come back to life and live. But those who have done evil will come back to life and will be judged. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >30</span> I can't do anything on my own. As I listen {to the Father}, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don't try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >31</span> “If I testify on my own behalf, what I say isn't true. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >32</span> Someone else testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >33</span> You sent people to John {the Baptizer}, and he testified to the truth. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >34</span> But I don't depend on human testimony. I'm telling you this to save you. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >35</span> John was a lamp that gave off brilliant light. For a time you enjoyed the pleasure of his light. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >36</span> But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John's testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >37</span> The Father who sent me testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice, and you have never seen his form. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >38</span> So you don't have the Father's message within you, because you don't believe in the person he has sent. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >39</span> You study the Scriptures in detail because you think you have the source of eternal life in them. These Scriptures testify on my behalf. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >40</span> Yet, you don't want to come to me to get {eternal} life. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >41</span> “I don't accept praise from humans. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >42</span> But I know what kind of people you are. You don't have any love for God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >43</span> I have come with the authority my Father has given me, but you don't accept me. If someone else comes with his own authority, you will accept him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >44</span> How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and don't look for the praise that comes from the only God? </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >45</span> “Don't think that I will accuse you in the presence of the Father. Moses, the one you trust, is already accusing you. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >46</span> If you really believed Moses, you would believe me. Moses wrote about me. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >47</span> If you don't believe what Moses wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?” <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">OK, I know many might have a problem believing that Jesus is God. You will never figure it out, but you can embrace it with the help of the Holy Spirit. There is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They are One, but they have different personalities and duties. Think of how water when it is boiled, steam is produced. We still have the liquid, but now we have a vapor too. They are both still water. Let me give you a scripture to further explain the Father and Son as One. Philippians 2:6-11 says, "Who,(Jesus) being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." WOW ! And please take a look at this scripture. "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.' " (John 14:6,7)<br /><br />My dearest fellow Jews, what is the mystery concerning the church? By church, I mean followers of Christ, both Jews and gentiles. Did you not know that we need each other to be made complete? Great power and life is in the unity of Jew and gentile walking hand in hand as a <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">new</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">creation</span>. Let's look in the book of Ephesians so we may solve the mystery of Christ Jesus once and for all.<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-- <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >13</span> But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >14</span> For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >15</span> having abolished in His flesh the enmity, <em>that is,</em> the law of commandments <em>contained</em> in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man <em>from</em> the two, <em>thus</em> making peace, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >16</span> and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >17</span> And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.<br /></span></div><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >19</span> Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >20</span> having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner <em>stone,</em> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >21</span> in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >22</span> in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. </span><p>Eph 2:11-22 (NKJV)</p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1.05em; FONT-FAMILY: georgia; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em">Chapter 3</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0pxfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >1</span> For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles-- <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >2</span> if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >3</span> how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >4</span> by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >5</span> which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >6</span> that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >7</span> of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >8</span> To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >9</span> and to make all see what <em>is</em> the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >10</span> to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly <em>places,</em> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. </span></div><p style="font-family:georgia;">Eph 3:1-12 (NKJV)</p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">My beloved, do you know when Yahweh will require your life? Do you have complete and utter shalom in your eternal destiny once you lay your head down on your pillow at night? Like my wife reminded me to tell you (God bless her..what a wonderful gift), <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">"With Jesus you will have more of Yahweh, NOT LESS !"</span></span></span></span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="font-size:130%;">You will still be Jewish if you decide to believe in Jesus as Messiah. You would then simply be a Jewish follower of Jesus. Would you pray with me please!! Let us speak this prayer out loud in all sincerity to Yahweh, God Almighty. <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">Yahweh, our Glorious One and lifter of our head, please hear my prayer. I humble myself under Your mighty hand. O Father, I believe in You and desire with my whole heart to know and walk in the whole truth You have for me. I do not know it all, but You do. Give me truth I pray, truth about Messiah. AMEN.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To my most dear Muslim friends. Please know that first of all I love you and in no way deem myself above you. Please allow me to come along side of you as a friend. I may say certain things which may offend you. That is definitely my intention. Jesus offended almost every one He encountered, but He simply spoke and did what He heard the Father say and do. Please pray now for a heart open to any Truth which God would like to impart to you. Hard hearts are the ones which get offended, let it not be so my dear ones. Please look up everything you hear here about <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Islam</span>, do not take my word. I understand that most followers of <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Allah,</span> were brought up that way in the home. Tradition (especially in Christianity) is hard to break. Sometimes our brains are washed over and over again with certain ideas, and even if they are wrong we just can't see it. The good news is that I don't have to persuade you about anything, I just let the Living Word of God come forth and the Holy Spirit will be the One who will touch your heart with the most gentlest of touches.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Although Islam teaches that Allah is God of Abraham, history teaches differently. Allah was actually the name given to a moon goddess. Look it up please. When I discovered that fact, I first wanted to take the name of Allah completely out of this discourse. But the Holy Spirit restrained me because Love wouldn't do that. Before I get into various contradictory teachings of Islam, let me say one more important thing about Abraham. Abraham had two sons, one with his wife Sarah and the other through her handmaiden Hagar. Their names were Issac and Ishmael. It is interesting to note, at this point, that the Qur'an contains bits and pieces from both the Torah and Bible.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Now back to Abraham and his son Ismael in particular. Have you ever wondered why it seems that the <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Arabian peoples and Israel are always at</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">war?</span> Why is that? Did you know that God prophesied such a thing in the book of Genesis? Turn with me please to Genesis 16:11,12. " The angel of the Lord also said to her (Hagar): 'You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ismael, for the Lord has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers." Another good verse on this subject is found in Genesis 25:17,18. "Altogether, Ismael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last breath and died, and he was gathered to his people. His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the border of Egypt, as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers." One most fantastic thing about the Bible, is the fulfillment of every prophecy from front to back. Never an error. NEVER. Pretty cool!!</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Now, let's get into this a little deeper. Still with me dear hearts? Good. Please feel free to look up the origin of Islam. Did you know that Mohammad began your religion with violence? This occurred between 500-600AD. It is true that Islam teaches that Mohammad had many "magic carpet rides." Just kidding. Glad you have a sense of humor. But he did receive his words (which have been turned into the Qur'an) while in a trance on his tapestry. It is true that Islam teaches that Mohammad would (during these trances) ride a big white horse into the heavens and the angel Gabriel gave him the words Muslims hold so sacred. If I am not mistaken, Mohammad also taught that the white horse was God Himself..Allah. Please don't tune me out just yet...PLEASE! I must interject one more thing before we get to the many contradictions, the Qur'an offers. There will be a white horse. Read with me please.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him <em>was</em> called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> His eyes <em>were</em> like a flame of fire, and on His head <em>were</em> many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >13</span> He <em>was</em> clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >14</span> And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >15</span> Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >16</span> And He has on <em>His</em> robe and on His thigh a name written: </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; DISPLAY: block">KING OF KINGS</span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; DISPLAY: block">AND LORD OF LORDS.</span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >17</span> Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, "Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >18</span> that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all <em>people,</em> free and slave, both small and great." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >19</span> And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >20</span> Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >21</span> And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh. </span><p>Rev 19:11-21 (NKJV) <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Of course this is talking about none other than Jesus Himself.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">The Muslim culture and her people are generally peaceful and good. But we must spend a few moments discussing the many discrepancies in the Qur'an and it's bent on Jihad. The Qur'an is written in the Arabic language and in poetic style. It's called Ghaseeda, which is basically a war poem. Hundreds of times it says to go and kill Jews, Christian and other infidels. Please read the entire Qur'an and not just what has been handed down to you. I know that as a follower of Mohammad, that you have been taught that questioning the Qur'an means death to you. (Q. 8:10-12; 33:36). You find yourself trapped and controlled by a religion of fear. <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">FEAR NOT</span>, my beloved, we are going to talk about the King of Peace. By the end of this message, you will become aware that there is a peace that passes understanding. You will discover that there is available to you a joy. A joy that will allow you to rest your head on your pillow tonight with sweet assurance of having your sins forgiven and your eternal destiny secure.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Jihad is the doctrine of Islam. (Q.9:5,29-30) The Qur'an teaches that any true Muslim who does not support Jihad is a sinner. Know this: <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">God is Love</span>. (I John 4:16) "This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (I John 4:9,10) Remember that we spoke about how it has been prophesied that there will be war and conflict between the two sons of Abraham? You have another choice my most wonderful friends. Let's read another teaching of Jesus. This one is found in Luke 6:27-31. "But I tell you who hear me: <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Love your enemies,</span> do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you." My dear ones, this is Love in a nutshell. Love conquers evil. Love considers others above themselves. This is what God did when He offered up His Son on our behalf. He humbled Himself and was obedient even unto the cross, thinking of us instead of Himself. Again, <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">God is Love.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">The Qur'an also teaches something, that to me, is the most blasphemous thing imaginable. Chapter 91 says that Allah inspired both debauchery and righteousness in man, which destroys the idea of free will. According to the Qur'an, Allah is the creator of sin. It was Allah who inspired sin in human kind, not satan. It says sin existed 40 years before the creation. No, no, no my dear ones. James 1:13 says, "When tempted, no one should say, 'God is tempting me.' For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone."</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">The Qur'an declares women to be inferior to men (Q. 2:228,282). Like an animal, the man owns his wife (Q.4:34). boy, please don't tell my wife about such things. How could she dare belive such a thing seeing that she has been filled with the Holy Spirit just as I. Her sins have been forgiven. She communicates with God Almighty and on many occasions has prophesied to me things yet to come. We pray together, we worship together with songs and dance. We partake of the Passover Lamb (Jesus) together. My wife completes me. I could go on and on about how God used many women in the Bible for His purposes. They are grand purposes indeed. Mohammad, who is said to be the most perfect among all Muslims, decreed the beating of wives. "COME OUT from among them", says the Lord God Almighty. "I Love ALL of my creation", says the Lord of Hosts.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Chapter 19 of the Qur'an teaches that Allah sends both the righteous and unrighteous first to hell, from there, if their good deeds outweigh their bad then you are able to cross a tiny bridge to paradise. O beloved, please consider the sacrifice, the King of Glory, made for you and I. It will take much pressure off of you. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whomever believes in Him will have eternal life." You see, God set it up whereby we cannot enter into eternal Glory with Him by our own merit.<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"> God receives all the Glory</span>. Now doesn't that sound like God? Turn to the book of Ephesians with me. Let's begin to read in Chapter 2.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1.05em; FONT-FAMILY: georgia; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em">Chapter 2</p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1em; FONT-FAMILY: georgia; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em">God Saved Us Because of His Great Love for Us</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0pxfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >1</span> You were once dead because of your failures and sins. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >2</span> You followed the ways of this present world and its spiritual ruler. This ruler continues to work in people who refuse to obey God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >3</span> All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God's anger just like everyone else. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >4</span> But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >5</span> We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God's kindness that saved you.) <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >6</span> God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >7</span> He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >8</span> God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >9</span> It's not the result of anything you've done, so no one can brag about it. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >10</span> God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do. </span></div><p face="georgia">Eph 2:1-10 (GW)</p><p face="georgia"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Did you know that the Qur'an teaches that Jesus was not crucified? (Q. 4:175-178) Allah put the face of Jesus on another and that man was crucified while Jesus went to heaven. NO, NO, NO my brethren. Let's turn to John chapter one</span></span></span>.</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; MARGIN-TOP: 1em; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1.5em; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">John</p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1.05em; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chapter 1</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0pxfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >1</span> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >2</span> He was in the beginning with God. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >3</span> All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >4</span> In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >5</span> And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >6</span> There was a man sent from God, whose name <em>was</em> John. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >7</span> This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >8</span> He was not that Light, but <em>was sent</em> to bear witness of that Light. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >9</span> That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >10</span> He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >13</span> who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >14</span> And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >15</span> John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' " <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >16</span> And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >17</span> For the law was given through Moses, <em>but</em> grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >18</span> No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared <em>Him.</em> </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >19</span> Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >20</span> He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >21</span> And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >22</span> Then they said to him, "Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >23</span> He said: "I <em>am</em> </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block"><em>'The voice of one crying in the wilderness:</em></span> <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: -2em; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 4em; DISPLAY: block"><em>"Make straight the way of the <span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Lord</span>," '</em> </span>as the prophet Isaiah said." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >24</span> Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >25</span> And they asked him, saying, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >26</span> John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >27</span> It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >28</span> These things were done in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. <span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >29</span> The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >30</span> This is He of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.' <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >31</span> I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >32</span> And John bore witness, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >33</span> I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >34</span> And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God." </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >35</span> Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >36</span> And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God!" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >37</span> The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >38</span> Then Jesus turned, and seeing them following, said to them, <span style="color:red;">"What do you seek?"</span> They said to Him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, when translated, Teacher), "where are You staying?" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >39</span> He said to them, <span style="color:red;">"Come and see."</span> They came and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day (now it was about the tenth hour). <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >40</span> One of the two who heard John <em>speak,</em> and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >41</span> He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated, the Christ). <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >42</span> And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, He said, <span style="color:red;">"You are Simon the son of Jonah.</span> <span style="color:red;">You shall be called Cephas"</span> (which is translated, A Stone). </span><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >43</span> The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, <span style="color:red;">"Follow Me."</span> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >44</span> Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >45</span> Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >46</span> And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >47</span> Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, <span style="color:red;">"Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"</span> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >48</span> Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, <span style="color:red;">"Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."</span> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >49</span> Nathanael answered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >50</span> Jesus answered and said to him, <span style="color:red;">"Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these."</span> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-size:0;" >51</span> And He said to him, <span style="color:red;">"Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter</span> <span style="color:red;">you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."</span> </span></div><p>John 1:1-51 (NKJV)</p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">WOW ! Isn't that such a beautiful passage? Now concerning the belief that Jesus was not crucified. Please understand this: Jesus is the Word, the same Word that brought all things into existence in the beginning. The Father thought it, the Son (Word) spoke it and the Holy Spirit carried it out. God Almighty is all three, just believe it because it is beyond our reasoning. Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit. She was a virgin and gave birth to Jesus, the Messiah. God in human form. God is a Spirit, Jesus gave that Spirit a human body. No sin was passed on to Jesus because He was not born of a man, but the Spirit. Jesus, the sinless and spotless Son of God did take my place, and your place, on the most cruel of all torture devices..the cross. God declared, from the beginning of time, that He required blood to atone and cleanse us from our sins. That was His choice...He is God. Sin must be judged because God is a Holy God. He could never live in us, and we in Him, if the sin problem wasn't dealt with. God transferred all of mankind's sins upon His Son, satisfying the penalty for sin which is death. Jesus did lay His own life down. <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">HE DID TAKE IT UP AGAIN</span>, conquering even the enemy death. He is a <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">RISEN </span>Lord, we do not serve a dead God. Believing such things will assure your eternal existence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Pray with me please. <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">Holy God, You are powerful and merciful. There is no way that I can make myself holy. If Kenny G. is right, then give me ears to hear You. God, You are Truth and I will believe whatever You have to say to me. I want the Truth. I want to be loved by You. Please hold me and do with me what You want. I am open to what You have to show me Almighty God, because I trust You. AMEN.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">I almost forgot. Next to the Bible, I have found the most intriguing book to read. Please pick it up if you can. The title is, "SON OF HAMAS." It is a true story of the son of a major Hamas leader. It shows the horror of war. But, it also shows the saving power of God. It also reveals the awesome and divine protection of God while the son of Hamas worked with the Israeli secret military to save countless of lives from the beast of war.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;">OK Christians, I haven't forgotten about you. Do you mind if I call you, "followers of Jesus?" Thanks. The Word explicitly describes, in many places, that there is a remnant which will be saved. A remnant for Israel and a remnant for the Church. For now, let's talk about who qualifies to be a part of the remnant. I know, you are probably thinking to yourself that everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord will be saved. If you have read any of my prior messages, which the Holy Spirit works through me, you know already my stance in that matter. But, for those who are new to such things, I will go over a few qualities and attributes which a person, <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">truly born again</span>, must be participating in.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;">A person first comes to knowing Jesus as the Savior of the world through the gospel preached, and the Holy Spirit drawing him. At that point, a person sees how sinful they are; how loving and merciful God is and they have need of a Savior. They ask to be forgiven and cleansed of their sins by the blood of Jesus. They make a quality decision to make Jesus Lord of their life. That person will eventually be baptised in water because it is commanded and as a public demonstration of what has taken place inside of their heart. They are saying, "I am entering into covenant with God Almighty, through Jesus my Lord. Just as He died for me. Just as He thought about me above Himself in obedience to the Father. I too will die for Him. My Lord and my God. By faith I am burying the old man with it's evil desires. I don't have to sin anymore..now I have a choice." I will need help being holy and making right choices in my life as I choose to humble myself in obedience to God. So, please O God, according to Your Word, give me the gift of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus was raised from the dead, by the power of the Holy Spirit, I too, publicly confess: "By faith, I desire to live a life holy and pleasing to God, by the help of the Holy Spirit. When I come out of this water I will be a brand new creature."</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;">A person who is truly born again really cares what the Father thinks. That person thirsts to be righteous. A true follower of Christ will spend quality time with God in prayer and in His Word. That person will continue to grow and produce fruits of righteousness. They will be led by the Holy Spirit and will be light to those around them. They will walk by faith (believing that if the Bible says it then God will do it) and not by sight. When they mess up and sin, they quickly get on their knees before a Holy God and asks for forgiveness and to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Does this describe you? Then you are a part of the remnant and truly born again. Hallelujah to the King of Glory. To you I say, "Keep believing, be patient and be ready to help others when the world around us begins to shake."</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;">But, there always seems to be a but. Well here goes. As I look around my community, and around the world, I do see end time churches. By that I mean churches where God is actually invited. They are few and far between, but God said it would be that way when He returned for His Bride(church). He is coming back for a Bride who is joyfully and eagerly expecting Him. A Bride who is walking in Love and exercising a life style of faith. Are you a part of a church which emphasizes prosperity over godly sorrow and true repentance?. <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Run as fast as you can</span>. Are in a Body which seems to be worried more about their agenda than the Lord's? Is God REALLY welcome? Is the minister keeping an eye on the clock instead of ending the service when the Holy Spirit says so? <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Pray!</span> Is the Body you are a part of more concerned about the works of God than the God of the works? <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Pray!</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">This is my encouragement to you my dearly beloved: Please make more time for the Lord, in prayer and in reading His Word. Isn't He worth It? Continue to grow in love and faith. If you are not, then ask the Lord to help you. Please walk in forgiveness with all people. Especially stay on your knees, praying for Israel and her neighbors. Raise your hands in worship...you can raise them at a football game. If you are so stinking religious that you think that worshipping the Lord God Almighty, with a good joyful shout once in a while, is beneath you, then you will be most miserable in heaven. I say to you:"<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Repent</span>, because you are unwilling to humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God."</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">In closing, I know what you are thinking right about now. "Boy Kenny G., this is almost a book." I know, it surprised me too. The biggest part which surprised me is I am the last person to be teaching on such things, but the Lord loves to take the simple people and confound the wise so He will receive all the glory. And that is exactly what we will do right now.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1em; MARGIN-TOP: 1.05em; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 1em; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chapter 24</p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px; DISPLAY: blockfont-size:1em;color:windowtext;" ><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; TEXT-INDENT: 1em; DISPLAY: block"><span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >1</span> Now on the first <em>day</em> of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain <em>other women</em> with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >2</span> But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >3</span> Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >4</span> And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >5</span> Then, as they were afraid and bowed <em>their</em> faces to the earth, they said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >6</span> He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >7</span> saying, <span style="color:red;">'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.' "</span> <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >8</span> And they remembered His words. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >9</span> Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >10</span> It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary <em>the mother</em> of James, and the other <em>women</em> with them, who told these things to the apostles. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >11</span> And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them. <span style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: super;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >12</span> But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened. </span></div><p style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Luke 24:1-12 (NKJV)</p><p style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: bold">HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY<br /></p><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-13599478473674675762010-03-07T10:07:00.014-05:002010-03-08T20:54:58.117-05:00HAVE YOU RECEIVED YOUR MIRACLE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpEjAKk88m4Tr7MtbvFfmmK9N35IwgjY9iasNKrbMvsWyPxwJtMXo478S7ktyu-GpU0-XHJMJeeVkN37xrVdfqtGs5LjmG5ARLLDk6bEFzYIp907G0rZOPJDYZqeNUFGTiiagXjpSdTvMp/s1600-h/P1000832.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpEjAKk88m4Tr7MtbvFfmmK9N35IwgjY9iasNKrbMvsWyPxwJtMXo478S7ktyu-GpU0-XHJMJeeVkN37xrVdfqtGs5LjmG5ARLLDk6bEFzYIp907G0rZOPJDYZqeNUFGTiiagXjpSdTvMp/s400/P1000832.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445915755611756274" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hello again my most dearly beloved. I pray all is going well with you. Here in the States, you can almost feel spring in the air. What a wonderful time of the year when all of nature seems to come alive. Even the bugs...yuck. Let's begin in prayer, shall we? <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Almighty God, creator of all things, both visible and invisible, we humbly bow before You. Praise Your most Holy Name for giving us life. As we look around this most extraordinary planet, and even into the blackness of night arrayed with such marvelous lights, we understand that the Creator is much more beautiful. We praise You for Your beauty, for Your wisdom, for Your might and for Your love. Praise be unto You for sending Your dear Son, Jesus, to pay the penalty for our sins. Oh God, help us to fall deeply, and passionately in love with You. Let that hope and love spill over to all those we meet. May Your Glory cover the earth. May all men know that You are God. May we all know of Your Love. In Jesus name..AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I say this might be a short message, but as we all know by now, the Holy Spirit usually has different plans. Together, let's see what wonderful adventure He has in store for us today. The other night I was looking up into the night sky and was spellbound, as usual. The stars seem so numerous and clear here in the non-polluted mountains of North Carolina. Have you ever just gazed heavenward on a clear winter night and found yourself literally star struck? Just think, other than our planets, each star represents a sun in a galaxy far, far away. Did you know that some suns are so far away, that even at the speed of light, their light began it's travel towards us in the days of Abraham. Simply incredible !!<br /><br />From my back porch, which I call my "crow's nest," along with the stars, I could also see a most beautiful crescent moon on the westward horizon. As I gazed, I could see clouds, which seemed to glow with their own energy, race across the moon's brightness. Now, I am about to say something which may cause you to think I am weird, but that's cool. I am sure we all have the strangest, but fascinating, thoughts at times. Anyway, as I watched the clouds, I said to myself and God, "If You, oh God, would cause those clouds to take shape, and form the words, 'I Love You,' I would kneel right here and be at Your every beck and call. I was looking for a miracle. Have you ever done that? But instead of celestial writing being formed, I heard God speak. I guess that is even a better miracle if you think about it.<br /><br />God said, "Kenny, believers walk in the miraculous, it's called blessing and fulfillment of My promises to you. Unbelievers are always looking for a sign, you are not such a person." He then began to bring into my spirit, a flood of miracles which have already touched, and continue to touch, my life. Father God raised up the gospel of Jesus unto me and gave me ears to hear. Ears to hear how much God loves me. So much, that He offered His Son, Jesus, to bear the penalty of my sins. The Word says that if I believe in my heart and confess with my lips that Jesus is my Lord then a miracle of epic proportions will take place. I will be born again. Even Nicodemus asked, "How can a person be born again?" But I chose to believe what God said, so now I have been born from above. God is now my Father and I can communicate with Him spirit to Spirit.<br /><br />Let's go to the Word so we can see for ourselves this most wonderful event. Romans 10:9-13 is a good place to start. This verse is especially enlightening to Jew, Muslim and gentile alike.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >8</span> So what exactly was Moses saying? </span> <span style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; display: block;">The word that saves is right here,</span> <span style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; display: block;">as near as the tongue in your mouth,</span> <span style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 4em; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: -2em; display: block;">as close as the heart in your chest.</span> It's the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >9</span> Say the welcoming word to God—"Jesus is my Master"—embracing, body and soul, God's work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That's it. You're not "doing" anything; you're simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That's salvation. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >10</span> With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!" <span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >11</span> Scripture reassures us, "No one who trusts God like this—heart and soul—will ever regret it." <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >12</span> It's exactly the same no matter what a person's religious background may be: the same God for all of us, acting the same incredibly generous way to everyone who calls out for help. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >13</span> "Everyone who calls, 'Help, God!' gets help." </span> <p>Romans 10:8-13 (MSG)</p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Nicodemus had a problem with something so simple as believing. Turn to John 3:1-22 with me if you please.<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >1</span> There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >2</span> Late one night he visited Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we all know you're a teacher straight from God. No one could do all the God-pointing, God-revealing acts you do if God weren't in on it." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >3</span> Jesus said, "You're absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to—to God's kingdom." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >4</span> "How can anyone," said Nicodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up? You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again. What are you saying with this 'born-from-above' talk?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >5</span> Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the 'wind hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it's not possible to enter God's kingdom. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >6</span> When you look at a baby, it's just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch—the Spirit—and becomes a living spirit. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >7</span> "So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above'—out of this world, so to speak. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >8</span> You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >9</span> Nicodemus asked, "What do you mean by this? How does this happen?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >10</span> Jesus said, "You're a respected teacher of Israel and you don't know these basics? <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >11</span> Listen carefully. I'm speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes. There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >12</span> If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don't believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can't see, the things of God? </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >13</span> "No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >14</span> In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up— <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >15</span> and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >16</span> "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >17</span> God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >18</span> Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >19</span> "This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >20</span> Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >21</span> But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is." </span> </p><p>John 3:1-21 (MSG)</p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I can almost hear you now..."Brother Ken, We thought you said this was going to be a short one!" I just can't help it my precious ones. The Holy Spirit blows where He wants to go. How can I dare tame Him? But it's all good. After we are born from above by believing, we then can talk to God one on One. Can you believe it? John 10:27 says, "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." As a child of God we try not to sin, but did you know when we do, we confess our sin..repent and can receive forgiveness? Now that's good news. We find that wonderful promise in I John 1:9. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." We see this glorious news again in Psalms 103:11-12. "For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." Now that's worth shouting about !!</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The list of miracles, that the person born from above is privy to, is endless. Do you have time for just a few more? God cut another covenant with His Son and we are participants. The Word says that it is even more glorious than the first and full of better promises. Upon Jesus was laid the curse so we are redeemed even from that. Our sickness and disease was place upon Him so by His stripes we are healed. Jesus even went to hell so we wouldn't have to. Our names are written in the Lambs Book of Life and we will live eternally with Him. The Word is alive and able to renew our minds and transform us into the image of Jesus. God's very love and nature has been imparted to us. We have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit Who teaches us, directs us and empowers us.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">So, with all these miracles which have already taken place in my life, by faith, I am able to say NOW, "Oh God, I bow before You and I am at Your beck and call !" <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I have received my miracle....how about you?</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> </span></span></span></span></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-82666233879107112822010-02-18T10:07:00.025-05:002010-02-23T10:06:06.287-05:00BUT PETER, DO YOU LOVE ME?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBoGxSZJ9-aN0Z2t3YtDskEnhk28cvJYuXz2gVJGfkDVN0mf9o77WKtc_WJwFQmI2YMmeuhPpjDh7zP-MQcJUAqZjGZeC87I4kPnM4OFI9n8cbAd5wXEHxwxpK-6RAIbaT76E8lxw1yN5/s1600-h/P1010378.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBoGxSZJ9-aN0Z2t3YtDskEnhk28cvJYuXz2gVJGfkDVN0mf9o77WKtc_WJwFQmI2YMmeuhPpjDh7zP-MQcJUAqZjGZeC87I4kPnM4OFI9n8cbAd5wXEHxwxpK-6RAIbaT76E8lxw1yN5/s320/P1010378.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439601387441563170" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Good day my most wonderful friends. Thanks for joining me again as we explore the Living Word together. Here in the U.S.A. we celebrate a holiday called Valentines Day. On this day, most of the men go crazy trying to come up with the most perfect gift for their sweetheart. I am sure that the flower, card and candy industry really get a boost during this time. Well, you know my thoughts on most of the holidays we celebrate. I say, "why not do this type of celebration year round?" Today we will look into how we can, each and every day, celebrate Valentines Day with our first love...Jesus. The conversation Jesus had with Peter, after His resurrection, will give us some clues. As always, let us pray.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Most Holy God, creator of all things, both visible and invisible, we lift up our hearts and voice to worship You. You are high above us and we humble ourselves at Your feet. Thank You for loving us and giving us life. Help us to love You and others. May we be found serving You with great faith at Your Appearing. Holy Spirit, please help us to understand the Living Bread which we are about to partake of. Give us courage to live in the days ahead. Day's which are full of evil and uncertainty. Fill the earth with Your Glory that all may know that You are God over all. In Jesus name we pray, that sweet covenant name............AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Are you ready? Then let's get right to it. Our flagship verse is found in John chapter 21. </span></span></span></span></span></span><p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1.05em; font-family: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: windowtext; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold;">Chapter 21</p> <p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1em; font-family: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: windowtext; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal;">Fishing</p> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; display: block;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >1</span> After this, Jesus appeared again to the disciples, this time at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Tiberias</span> Sea (the Sea of Galilee). This is how he did it: <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >2</span> Simon Peter, Thomas (nicknamed "Twin"), Nathanael from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Cana</span> in Galilee, the brothers Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >3</span> Simon Peter announced, "I'm going fishing." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">The rest of them replied, "We're going with you." They went out and got in the boat. They caught nothing that night. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >4</span> When the sun came up, Jesus was standing on the beach, but they didn't recognize him. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >5</span> Jesus spoke to them: "Good morning! Did you catch anything for breakfast?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">They answered, "No." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >6</span> He said, "Throw the net off the right side of the boat and see what happens." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">They did what he said. All of a sudden there were so many fish in it, they weren't strong enough to pull it in. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >7</span> Then the disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Master!" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">When Simon Peter realized that it was the Master, he threw on some clothes, for he was stripped for work, and dove into the sea. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >8</span> The other disciples came in by boat for they weren't far from land, a hundred yards or so, pulling along the net full of fish. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >9</span> When they got out of the boat, they saw a fire laid, with fish and bread cooking on it. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >10</span> Jesus said, "Bring some of the fish you've just caught." <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >11</span> Simon Peter joined them and pulled the net to shore—153 big fish! And even with all those fish, the net didn't rip. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >12</span> Jesus said, "Breakfast is ready." Not one of the disciples dared ask, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Master. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >13</span> Jesus then took the bread and gave it to them. He did the same with the fish. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >14</span> This was now the third time Jesus had shown himself alive to the disciples since being raised from the dead. </span></div> <p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1em; font-family: 'Verdana','Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: windowtext; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal;">Do You Love Me?</p> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; display: block;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:1em;color:windowtext;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >15</span> After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">do you love me</span> more than these?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">"Yes, Master, you know I love you." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >16</span> He then asked a second time, "Simon, son of John, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">do you love me?</span>" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">"Yes, Master, you know I love you." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">Jesus said, "Shepherd my sheep." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >17</span> Then he said it a third time: "Simon, son of John,<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> do you love me?</span>" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">Peter was upset that he asked for the third time, "Do you love me?" so he answered, "Master, you know everything there is to know. You've got to know that I love you." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >18</span> I'm telling you the very truth now: When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wished, but when you get old you'll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don't want to go." <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >19</span> He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And then he commanded, "Follow me." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >20</span> Turning his head, Peter noticed the disciple Jesus loved following right behind. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >21</span> When Peter noticed him, he asked Jesus, "Master, what's going to happen to <em>him</em>?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >22</span> Jesus said, "If I want him to live until I come again, what's that to you? You—follow me." <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >23</span> That is how the rumor got out among the brothers that this disciple wouldn't die. But that is not what Jesus said. He simply said, "If I want him to live until I come again, what's that to you?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >24</span> This is the same disciple who was eyewitness to all these things and wrote them down. And we all know that his eyewitness account is reliable and accurate. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >25</span> There are so many other things Jesus did. If they were all written down, each of them, one by one, I can't imagine a world big enough to hold such a library of books. </span></div> <p>John 21:1-25 (MSG)</p><p> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I Know this is a very long discourse, please bear with me. You wouldn't believe the wealth of treasure we can gleam from this chapter. Before we get into the conversation that Jesus had about Peter's love, let's look at a few cool things from this passage. First, the world not able to hold all the books about the doings of Jesus after His resurrection is mind boggling. Secondly, I always think it is funny how the disciple, John, always refers to himself as the "one Jesus loves." I bet that drove Peter crazy. You see how, after Jesus prophesied about Peter being crucified, that Peter wanted to make sure that John went through some hard stuff too. Pretty funny things to think about. Isn't it cool that the disciples were flesh and blood people with problems just like ours! I easily relate to Peter because he seemed to have a head strong nature with a lot of pride. Well at least until he was baptized with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. After that he was a new man all together, just as we are.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">To properly understand what Jesus meant when He asked Peter about his love walk, we must first interpret a few words into their original language. Let's start with the word love. The original Greek which Jesus used in His first two questions to Peter is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">agapao</span></span>. It means a deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle or duty. (It is a matter of the HEAD, a soul choice). The third time Jesus questions, and all three times Peter answered, the Greek word <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">phileo</span></span> is used. It means to be a friend to or to be fond of. Having affection for. (It is a matter of the HEART).</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Now, let's look at the words sheep and lambs. The Greek word Jesus used for sheep is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">probaton</span></span>. It means those belonging to the Lord, but are still the lost sheep of Israel. The Greek word Jesus uses for lamb is <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">arnion</span></span>. In this verse it is defined as young converts. The previous translations, with definitions, were found in Vines Expository Dictionary.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Notice that Jesus called Peter, Simon. Before Peter had the revelation of who Jesus was, he was called Simon Peter. We find that in Matthew 16:15-19. Well, we might as well turn there now. Besides, some of you, my dearly beloved, may not have the Word at your disposal.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >15</span> He pressed them, "And how about you? Who do you say I am?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >16</span> Simon Peter said, "You're the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >17</span> Jesus came back, "God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn't get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. <span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >18</span> And now I'm going to tell you who you are, really are. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">You are Peter</span>, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super; font-weight: bold;font-family:'Times New Roman','Times',serif;font-size:0;" >19</span> "And that's not all. You will have complete and free access to God's kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven." </span> <p>Matt 16:15-19 (MSG)</p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">OK, did you get it? Jesus, intentionally, called Peter by the name before his revelation. Why did Jesus do that? He knew it would dig deep into Peter's prideful nature. Jesus wasn't trying to hurt Peter, He was trying to prove a point. I can hear Peter talking to himself, saying things like: "Jesus, please, your embarrassing me in front of my buddies. Don't you remember? I was the one who (by the inspiration) of the Holy Spirit, first knew that You were the Christ." By the way, the rock that the church was to be built on was just that (and nothing more), revelation knowledge.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Peter was going crazy during this conversation with Jesus. At first, Jesus, used the word <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">agapao</span> to describe what He knew Peter would soon walk in. It is the same kind of love that God demands of us all. It is a choice. A choice to obey God and do what is right. Jesus used it twice on Peter. By then, Jesus knew that Peter didn't understand that type of love so He used <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">phileo</span> the third time. But it was embedded into Peter's spirit and he would remember it after he was baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days afterwards. I can still hear Peter, can't you? "But Jesus, you know I love you. Don't you remember? I was the one who walked on the water with you. I am the one who was at the Mount of Transfiguration. I was the one who cut off the soldiers ear when they tried to take you. I was the one, who just now, got out of the boat and swam to shore to be with you. You know I love you!"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Asking Peter the third time did not go unnoticed by anyone. Everyone there knew that it was Peter who denied that he knew Jesus..<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.three times.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-size:130%;">Jesus also asked Peter if He loved Him more than his livelihood. His fishing. I bet we all have problems with that from time to time. I do. For instance, when I have a dire emergency, I get on my knees. I fast and pray. I do everything I can think of to get God's attention. I praise Him. I love Him. I stand on His Word (faith) about the situation. But, do I love Him the same when things are going good? Or do I just play the game when I need something? I believe this is an area we are growing in, especially as His Glorious Appearing nears. At the time, Peter couldn't <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">agapao</span> the Lord Jesus. But we can, at least those who are filled with the Holy Spirit. It is He who sheds God's Love (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">agapao</span>) into our hearts and gives us the grace to, on purpose, love the Lord at all times.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-size:130%;">Let's talk about sheep and goats for a moment. Do you need a break yet? Go ahead, take one because I know this is really getting long. But isn't it good to study to show ourselves approved unto God? The Living Bread is rich beyond description. OK, when Jesus used the word sheep the first two times, He was talking about those who belonged to the Lord, but were the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus was describing to Peter his calling. The purpose he was created for. After being filled with the Holy Spirit, Peter would be preaching the gospel to the house of Israel. And he did. On the day of Pentecost, he preached (full of the Holy Spirit) and over 3 thousand people were converted and added to the Kingdom. The third time Jesus talked to Peter about lambs. Here the word arnion was used. It means young converts. Jesus was also prohesying that Peter would be loving, tender and patient with the new converts while they grew in the things of the Lord. He would be <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">humble</span>. What? Peter humble? Yes, dear hearts. The Holy Spirit will take you and make a complete new and different person out of you. Check out I Peter 5:5-6. It says: "Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.' Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time." Way to go Peter. Way to go....Holy Spirit!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-size:130%;">What do we do with this priceless information? How do we relate this to our own lives? What was Jesus telling Peter? He told him that to love Him is to obey Him. He told him that his focus should be always being ready to give an answer about the hope which was in him. He was to be a living epistle read of men. He would have to humbly care for and nurture those growing in the faith. So it is with us my dearly beloved. If you have not done so...let today be the Day of your eternal state with God. Repent of your sins and accept the forgiveness and love which was poured out for you on Calvary's tree. Make Jesus your Lord and master. Go on from there and ask God for the gift of the Holy Spirit. From there you will have the love of God in your heart. You will have God Himself living within you. Your spirit will then be able to willingly obey God. You will have power to be an ambassador of Good News unto others. So, what will it be for you and me? Shall we have the courage to answer the call? And what will that call be? For you and I the call from the Father will be this: (your name)<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> DO YOU LOVE ME</span>?</span></span></span></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-80540268314403023772010-02-03T07:35:00.020-05:002010-02-08T12:37:29.326-05:00HEY! YOU LOOKING AT ME?<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W2PUHT-yRL3tdPiEF0K8p6Uij2OGiRyt0UApoW66l6K_0_p0VpIH5WY2qhvOMnot2I8AI7ESNXUKcCoWz0Tfdi2Nxq7bHV32iQGolnwnUoskPZMNGpQ4bdy3pEV-Zd9qMh8XZMKSyIUp/s1600-h/P1010233.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px; display: block; height: 240px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433999960491248242" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8W2PUHT-yRL3tdPiEF0K8p6Uij2OGiRyt0UApoW66l6K_0_p0VpIH5WY2qhvOMnot2I8AI7ESNXUKcCoWz0Tfdi2Nxq7bHV32iQGolnwnUoskPZMNGpQ4bdy3pEV-Zd9qMh8XZMKSyIUp/s320/P1010233.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />Hello again my most wonderful co-adventurers. Yes, together we will take another journey and adventure into the glorious world of the Spirit. It is good to partake of the Living Bread together. I am so blessed that you could join me again. Our flagship verse for this session is found in I Peter 4:17-19. "For it is time for <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">judgment</span> to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And, 'If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?' So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good." </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /><div> </div><br /><div><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Let me share with you some words that I speak to my grandson from time to time. They are the following: "Sarge, when you come to a place where you do what is right when no one is looking, then you are beginning to walk in the <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Fear of the Lord</span>." Now you might be saying to yourself, "KennyG, how do all these things tie together? You have given us several things to chew on and it's hard to understand. You have given us a redbird who is doing a Clint Eastwood imitation. You have given us your saying to your grandson about judgement and the verse about judgement. What does it all mean?" To be honest, my dearly beloved, I really don't know at this point. That is usually how it is when I sit to type these messages of truth and love. The Holy Spirit, in most cases, gives me the words as I go. With that said, let's go to the Almighty One in prayer, for help making sense of all of this.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Almighty God, You are glorious and most powerful. You know all things. You are everywhere. Everything is upheld by Your Word. We worship You and we adore You. Thank You for loving us by sending Your Son, Jesus, to take our place. The place of the cross. The place where mercy meets judgment. Our sins placed upon Him and judged. Your mercy and forgiveness toward us who believe. Help us now to understand the Holy scriptures, most wonderful Holy Spirit. Help us to do the Word and not just be hearers. In Jesus name...AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Yes, someone is looking at you and I. And it is all the time. Proverbs 15:3 says, "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good." Now, that could be good or bad news, according to how we are living our life. If your life is hopeless and miserable because of sin. If you feel empty, then by all means, repent now and receive your forgiveness. Now, look at what else God does with His looking. Check out 2 Chronicles 16:8,9. "Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet when you <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">relied </span>on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand. For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">whose hearts are fully committed to Him</span>." What an awesome promise. Let's put our faith out there right now and together dare to believe this promise.<br /><br />Notice the highlighted words in the above paragraph. Hang in there with me, we ARE getting somewhere. The Bible says that the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And we found out in earlier messages that the Fear of the Lord is tied to obedience. Well, most importantly, a sold out to the Lord type of obedience. We found that out while we were studying the life of Abraham. Let's go there now for another visit. Do you have time? Cool! Genesis 22:9-12 says, "When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an alter there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the alter, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham ! Here I am, he replied. Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." Boy, we could preach volumes of sermons about those few verses.<br /><br />What do we have so far? We understand that the eyes of Almighty God is everywhere. We have learned that the commandment of the Lord is that we should revere Him and obey Him. And with that lifestyle we can believe He will always show up on our behalf when we are in dire straights. Now for the not so fun part. Judgment. Yes, contrary to many so called "feel good" messages out there, God is still in the judging business. I can hear it now, "but brother Ken, Jesus was judged in our place." Yes that is true....a thousand times YES ! Actually our sin which was placed on Him was judged. If we believe in God's salvation through Christ Jesus, by faith, through grace (His doing) then we have a right to ask for forgiveness. We have a right to be washed in His blood so that we may be cleansed of all unrighteousness. We have a right to sing the Hallelujah chorus because Jesus even went to hell in our place, so we would not have to....if we believe. But God does use many ways to get our attention. Many trials and tribulations come our way in order to test our faith, to sanctify us and to chastise us. We most certainly do suffer consequences for our sin and iniquity. God does whip us for our own good here and now. We may do a study on this most wonderful subject in the coming weeks, but for now just know this: When we sin we do have a High Priest who covers us with His own blood on the mercy seat before God the Father. But we still have all sorts of circumstance that come our way, from God, which keep us headed in the right direction.<br /><br />Brothers and sisters, we are at the end of the end. Jesus, even now is beginning to ease off of His throne to come and meet His beloved in the air. But His Word describes many things that must take place before the Bride meets her Groom. We will be caught away before the tribulation period, but even now we are experiencing the shadow of its coming. The whole world will soon know that there is a God in heaven. The Glory of God will fill the whole earth. It will flow through us, His beloved. Those who are holy, sold out and sanctified. Many will come to the Gospel of Light within us because of the darkness which will cover the whole globe. God desires that all men would be saved. We are about to witness the greatest revival known to man. Can you do a little jig with me and sing, "Oh hail King Jesus !" Good times....good times.<br /><br />Now for the part about God judging His church(remember our flagship verse). Are you still with me? Sorry this is getting so long. I must keep typing away until the Holy Spirit releases me. Take a break if need be. Get a beverage. Take a walk (even if it is only in your mind) through the glorious atmosphere of God's green earth. Sing a tune. Meditate with great thanksgiving in your heart for the many wonderful things He has done. Relax beside a cool mountain stream. Be still and know He is God, and then come on back for the conclusion. It's going to be a good one...I can't wait to see how the sweet Holy Spirit wraps this message up.<br /><br />How was it? Isn't God good? He can't help Himself...that's who He is. OK, we have learned from past studies that God's latter temple is going to be greater then His former. Speaking of the former tabernacle of David. We also know that much in the Old Testament has proven to be a shadow of things to come. We even see such a shadow in the New Testament (covenant). Turn with me to Acts 4: 31-5:1-16.<br /><br /></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" ><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >31</span> While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God's Word with fearless confidence. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >32</span> The whole congregation of believers was united as one—one heart, one mind! They didn't even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, "That's mine; you can't have it." They shared everything. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >33</span> The apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Master Jesus, and grace was on all of them. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >34</span> And so it turned out that not a person among them was needy. Those who owned fields or houses sold them and brought the price of the sale <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >35</span> to the apostles and made an offering of it. The apostles then distributed it according to each person's need. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >36</span> Joseph, called by the apostles "Barnabas" (which means "Son of Comfort"), a Levite born in Cyprus, <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >37</span> sold a field that he owned, brought the money, and made an offering of it to the apostles.</span></span><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:1em;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >1</span> But a man named Ananias—his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him—sold a piece of land, <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >2</span> secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >3</span> Peter said, "Ananias, how did Satan get you to lie to the Holy Spirit and secretly keep back part of the price of the field? <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >4</span> Before you sold it, it was all yours, and after you sold it, the money was yours to do with as you wished. So what got into you to pull a trick like this? You didn't lie to men but to God." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >5</span> Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead. <em>That</em> put the fear of God into everyone who heard of it. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >6</span> The younger men went right to work and wrapped him up, then carried him out and buried him. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >7</span> Not more than three hours later, his wife, knowing nothing of what had happened, came in. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >8</span> Peter said, "Tell me, were you given this price for your field?" </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;">"Yes," she said, "that price." </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >9</span> Peter responded, "What's going on here that you connived to conspire against the Spirit of the Master? The men who buried your husband are at the door, and you're next." <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >10</span> No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead. When the young men returned they found her body. They carried her out and buried her beside her husband. </span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >11</span> By this time the whole church and, in fact, everyone who heard of these things had a healthy respect for God. They knew God was not to be trifled with. </span></span></div> <p style="line-height: 1em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:1em;"><span style="font-size:130%;">They All Met Regularly</span></p> <div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:1em;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; text-indent: 1em; display: block;"><span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >12</span> Through the work of the apostles, many God-signs were set up among the people, many wonderful things done. They all met regularly and in remarkable harmony on the Temple porch named after Solomon. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >13</span> But even though people admired them a lot, outsiders were wary about joining them. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >14</span> On the other hand, those who put their trust in the Master were added right and left, men and women both. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >15</span> They even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on stretchers and bedrolls, hoping they would be touched by Peter's shadow when he walked by. <span style="vertical-align: super;font-size:0;" >16</span> They came from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, throngs of them, bringing the sick and bedeviled. And they all were healed. </span></span></div> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Acts 5:1-16 (MSG)</span></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">So much meat found here. I encourage you to read it for yourself over and over again. Do I believe that we will see things like this in the churches and houses of worship we attend today. YES ! Now is the time to make Jesus your Lord and Master (if you haven't done so already). If you are already a believer...then ensure that you come to a place where you are 100% sold out. A person who abhors evil, and is quick to repent when you sin. The world as we know it is on the brink of a major shift. But that's OK because the beloved of the Lord are also going through changes. We are being sanctified. God is making us vessels of honor through which He will pour out His glory so the whole world can see. We will also be the mercy seat of Christ. His glory will flow through that mercy before sinners and the like can experience Him in His fullness or they would quickly perish.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remember...God's eyes are ever upon us. Be quick to repent. Spend time with Him in your secret place. Wash yourself with the Word often. If you haven't done so yet...pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit. You will need Him to teach you, even about the things yet to come. And the next time someone asks you, "Hey, You looking at me?" You can reply most humbly, "No, but I know that Jesus, who died in your place, has His eyes upon you because He loves you with an everlasting love." Get ready my fellow vessels of light. The church which has slumbered for so long is awakening. The multitudes are about to come to the Glory in you like moths are drawn to light. Please have great, great faith...YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT. Until we meet again, peace and great joy be yours this day in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span><br /></span></p><strong></strong></div><div></div>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-78623621802592992502010-01-24T09:51:00.026-05:002010-01-26T18:31:39.638-05:00FRUIT INSPECTORS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAcb-Q_ghYS-xYAVaJsijgCK5VmTsZ4evIn5sSlm6ZgCJHgPIjvzE7_Ikju5CxDYElxJIScXTVdvdQv7Aw7MQ-fNFfqmBZzgjGuInpGIR7Rl_jRUUN7UKJz1jwawdSeWiIg5lM3TkCWyY/s1600-h/P1010283.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAcb-Q_ghYS-xYAVaJsijgCK5VmTsZ4evIn5sSlm6ZgCJHgPIjvzE7_Ikju5CxDYElxJIScXTVdvdQv7Aw7MQ-fNFfqmBZzgjGuInpGIR7Rl_jRUUN7UKJz1jwawdSeWiIg5lM3TkCWyY/s320/P1010283.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430831214838700866" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Let's begin with a scripture. Please turn to Matthew 7:15-20. "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them." Before we go into what this verse means, let's talk about what it does not mean. It does not mean that we are running around accusing everyone of not being a true believer because their fruit is bad and their character has not been perfected. With that said, let us pray. </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Glorious Heavenly Father, Your very name is holy and we worship You. Thank You for loving us so much that Your Son, Jesus, died in our place and suffered Your judgement on sin. Thank You for the Holy Spirit, what a most wonderful gift. Holy Spirit, please reveal the Word to us. It was written by You, and we need You to explain it to us. Help us to bear good fruit. Help us to Love and have compassion on all those around us. May we have great joy at Your Coming. We love You. In Jesus name...AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Thank you once again for joining me in another journey through God's Word. Regardless of whom you decide to worship, we are all fellow persons whom God loves and died for. During this discourse, I hope to answer three questions. 1) What is the fruit we are talking about. 2) Where and how do we get this fruit, and 3) why is fruit so important. So, let's start with what kind of fruit we are talking about. Galatians 5:22,23 says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Well, you might be thinking, I know a few people who don't confess Jesus as Lord and Messiah but seem to have these qualities. That may be true, but as we will find out in the next text, there is a fruit which can only come from God's grace. In fact, all things good come from God whether we admit it or not.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ></span></span></span></span></strong> </div><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#3333ff;">In order to prove to you that all fruit come from God, please go to Colossians 3:12. "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each </span><span style="color:#3333ff;">other and</span><span style="color:#ff0000;"> forgive <span style="color:#3333ff;">whatever grievances you may have against one another. Now can you think of someone who possess these qualities apart from God? So, as you may surmise, we are talking about fruit which come from God. I like to call them God's very own nature.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><br /><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Where and how do we get this most precious fruit? Like I said, from God, but let's allow the living Word to defend that statement. I would rather believe what it says versus what I say, any day of the week. We got our first clue in our reading of Colossians. The Holy Spirit, Himself, brings us the fruits of righteousness. May I assume something please? I believe we can also call these precious fruit...the fruit of love. For after all, the fruit we are talking about are surely the very nature of God. I John 4:8 says that "God is love." Got it? OK, Romans 5:5 says: "God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Please allow me to break it down for you. Jesus has ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God. He will be returning for His church (body, believers or saints). God has given unto us the gift of the Holy Spirit. We receive this gift by asking. He is received by faith. Still with me? Cool !!</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Our glorious gift from God (the Holy Spirit) does many things. He shows us the Father and Son. He teaches us, empowers us and changes us. And you guessed it.....He helps us to produce fruit. But we are still left with the question of how He does it. How does God take a believer and follower of Christ Jesus, and take the old nature and turn it into something really wonderful, a new creature, just like our Lord? Let's think of it this way. Jesus is a spiritual vine. We are a branch. The Holy Spirit is the sap and life force flowing through the vine into the branches. Fruit is produced. Not just any ole fruit either. Fruit which bear the resemblance of the Father and Jesus Himself. Righteous fruit. Holy fruit.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Now for the part which may hurt a little bit. Go with me to John 15:1-2;5-6. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, While every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." Like Joyce Meyer says, "Pruned if you do and pruned if you don't." And now for verse 5 and 6. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, He will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned."</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">If you are like me, you might say: "I want my fruit, and I want it now." Unfortunately, our fruit of becoming more like Jesus does not happen over night. The Word instructs us to be patient and tells us that we are changed from glory to glory..a little bit at a time. We must believe that if we are in Christ Jesus, if we are abiding in the vine, then the fruit will come. We must tell ourselves, and satan, that God's love has been poured into our hearts and we ARE being changed. But what does abiding and being one with Christ mean. How do we cling to the vine (Jesus) which (by faith) will provide us the spiritual growth food we need (by the Holy Spirit)? Glad you asked.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">Let's look, again, in the gospel of John for some more clues. In verse 3 we see this: "You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you." Jesus said this right in the middle of talking about producing fruit and abiding in the vine (once again, Christ Jesus). It seems out of place, but Jesus always says what He hears the Father saying, and at the right time. In chapter one of John, we learn that Jesus is the living Word. The Word, when energized by the Holy Spirit, washes us and makes us clean. But, there is always a condition with God, but..."As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">If <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">you OBEY my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His love." We find this in John 15:9,10.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Now we are getting some where. Almost everything you boil down in the scriptures usually come down to the same thing: Believe and Obey. If you think about it, that is what makes God, God in your life and mine. After we choose to repent of our sins and make Jesus our Lord. After we ask, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. We begin our abiding in the vine. We do that by prayer, reading and doing the Word,spending quality time with Father God in our secret place and worship. While we continue in such a manner, a change WILL occur, because God promises that it will. You will begin to be more holy, more righteous and filled more with God's love, nature and light. A light for the whole world to see. A win, win situation to be sure.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">And now for a little more icing on the cake. Let's go to John again. Chapter 15:14-17 to be exact. "You are my<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> friends</span> if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you (by the Holy Spirit..added by me). You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Then the Father</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">will give you whatever you ask in My name.</span> This is my command: Love each other."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">So, dearly beloved, instead of keeping an eye on the fruit of others, inspect your own. Keep abiding and you Will see the change you desire. Be patient. You know what? Others in your life will see your transformation before you do. Keep the faith. Love God, yourself and others. Until next time, this is KennyG signing off.</span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></span></span></strong><div><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></span></span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-86509187335876219662010-01-10T09:52:00.024-05:002010-01-12T21:48:49.501-05:00I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWofhadP4DdNsscn-TG_CFOr0TzJNaM4sctiDXRd1b_5zBm_KNnA7DW9ODgU-kGrlr3zlasnYroFOj5Vs2HZFWpt0dvX5HUePLloeyM-UkT2K2q4Jqdv5OQfqsqtHa1OvV6RWDxq6TqYw1/s1600-h/P1010251.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425124856428608962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWofhadP4DdNsscn-TG_CFOr0TzJNaM4sctiDXRd1b_5zBm_KNnA7DW9ODgU-kGrlr3zlasnYroFOj5Vs2HZFWpt0dvX5HUePLloeyM-UkT2K2q4Jqdv5OQfqsqtHa1OvV6RWDxq6TqYw1/s320/P1010251.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">OK, first of all, please forgive me for the mug shot. I know it's not pretty, but God thinks that I am beautiful. He thinks that of you too. Did you know that Almighty God carries around a picture of you in the palms of His hands? I can just see Him dancing and singing every time He thinks of you and I. Great is His affection for us. You can see for yourself. Let's look at Isaiah 49:15,16. "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Like my grandson says, "No, seriously," I too must say that it's time to get busy partaking of the Living Bread together. May we begin with prayer? I have found that anything we do without the Lord's help is counter productive, to say the least.</span> <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">"Glorious Father, we come to You with a great thirst to be nearer. With a great thirst to be righteous and holy, for You are holy. We come on bended knees, with a reverence for You and all that You stand for. You are high above us and we bow before You. Come now Holy Spirit and teach us the ways of God. Give us grace to do what our Father commands. Reduce us to love. Give us joy at the expectancy of Your Coming. In Jesus name.........AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia;font-size:130%;" >Have you ever found yourself saying things that you wish you could take back? </span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Sure you have. I bet Peter wished he had not denied the Lord. Isaiah seemed to understand the evil of the tongue. Let's read Isaiah 6:1-6. "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.' At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty." First let me say....WOW ! This is an awesome passage.<br /><br />Did you see what was first on the mind of Isaiah? It wasn't his impure thoughts, disobedience or unforgiveness. Don't get me wrong, these things are bad, but his most blatant sin (which just couldn't come before the Lord) was his speech. Now, this passage doesn't say exactly what our man Isaiah has spoken with his lips, to bring such dread, godly sorrow and repentance. But I can say for certainty that he was a man just like us. That takes me back to asking you one more time. Have you ever spoken words which you wished with all your heart you hadn't? Lord knows that I have. And like you, I hate it with a passion. Such nasty and hateful things too. Oh the people we have hurt because of our unrestrained tongues. Of course it hurts our Daddy too. He created our tongues to praise Him and speak words of faith. I embrace Isaiah's cry. <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">"Woe to me!" I cry. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Time for some scary stuff. I apologize in advance. You guys and gals are so funny. I think I heard someone say, "I thought the mug shot was scary enough." I still love you though. Anyway, go to Matthew 12:36,37 with me would you please. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgement for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">OK, please let me interject some good news at this point, before we beat up on ourselves some more. I John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from ALL unrighteousness." And that means gone completely. Psalms 103:12 says, "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." That's some good news indeed. We can take that to mean....all sinful acts. Included in that would be our words and thought life. Take it all to the blood my dearly beloved.</span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Time for a bunny trail. I know you have missed them. (LOL) Turn to Matthew 5:29 please. "If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." I assure you that Jesus is not talking about body dismemberment. But, he is letting us know that sometimes we have to do extreme things, to keep us going in the right direction. The Israelites did just that. They found that keeping God's Word in front of their eyes would help keep their thoughts going in the right direction. They would write it on their doors, tie it to their forearms, whatever it took. We can do the same thing. For example, if we are having problems in the area of what our eyes look at, we can tie something around our wrist reminding us to look at something else. We can't look at two things at once. Neither can we have two thoughts at once. Protect our gates at all cost. What goes in our eyes and ears go directly to our soul and spirit. But, what can we do about the gate of the mouth? It has an outgoing flow.</span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">We can't do anything. In this area we must rely on the might of the Holy Spirit. We must believe that He will help us if we ask. We must be patient while He works. Let's now look at what James said about the tongue and then we will follow up with King David's solution. James 3:3-12 says, "When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison."</span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water." Oh God help us with this terrible beast !! Now, take a look at how King David approached the problem with his mouth. Yes, we all have a problem from time to time. We find it in Psalms 141:3<span style="color:#3333ff;">. "Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips."</span></span></span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">How do we conclude? When we sin, go to the blood as quick as possible. Understand that we need God's help to be righteous. We can not do it ourselves. BELIEVE !</span> <span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span></span></span><br /></div></span></span></span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-35171692849897671112009-12-31T20:15:00.052-05:002010-01-04T11:44:35.886-05:00ACQUIRING FREEDOM 101<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_7au1gfysCpPZjl5oMWFyuKw9wmtXh2Cqqyk0zpZFZSwL_A8mnq2XUu1JkbafU6GQ-LSrUla1eDsQ9NUMoKsA7tSyGnCEo-8Dh2MxQoQrmlxZmTzANRP81G6GsMmi4wvuLft6R6WKaOS/s1600-h/P1010038.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421935888040560850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_7au1gfysCpPZjl5oMWFyuKw9wmtXh2Cqqyk0zpZFZSwL_A8mnq2XUu1JkbafU6GQ-LSrUla1eDsQ9NUMoKsA7tSyGnCEo-8Dh2MxQoQrmlxZmTzANRP81G6GsMmi4wvuLft6R6WKaOS/s400/P1010038.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Dear Beloved, I am so joyful that you have come again to share the Living Word with me. Can you believe that another year has come and gone? Maybe the Lord will come back for us this year. Only He knows the hour, but we surely know the season. I feel a home going coming on. Let's be ready at all times....walking in love, having great faith, serving and praying. The following message came about because of a dear brother's message to me a few days ago. He was in need of a Word. He was in need of prayer and encouragement. He was in need of freedom.</span></span></span></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Side note: The above picture usually represents freedom, regardless of where you live in the world. But, you can have someone in certain parts of the globe who may be jailed for owning a Bible. Did you know that in that case, that person still may have more freedom than most who live in the U.S.A.? So, yes, you guessed it ! We are going to talk about spiritual freedom and liberty.</span></strong></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">Let's pray<span style="color:#cc33cc;">, Wonderful Jesus, our Bread of Life.You </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">are our Savior, Redeemer, God and friend. You are the One who holds the key to our liberation. Free us we pray from all things which hinders us from being one with You. Remove our chains. Remove our yokes. Remove our burdens. Help us to take your yoke upon us for it is easy and light. Save us to the uttermost we pray. Holy Spirit, teach us now about the good things the Father has for us who believe. Give us ears to hear. We love You. In Jesus name we pray................AMEN<span style="color:#3333ff;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">My dear brother (I mentioned earlier) and myself, have found that there is a sin in our life which we just can't seem to shrug off. It is a besetting, or habitually besieged by, cursed thing. We read the Word. We eat it, digest it and do it. We spend quality time with the Father every day. We pray often. We worship and praise Him. We have stood in prayer lines over and over again, in hopes that we would be delivered from this hideous thing. But, we just come away with oil dripping from our beard to our garments and bald spots from multitudes of, "laying on of hands." We are sincere. We love the Lord. But we just can't seem to find our way free of the sin which continues to plague us. Are you in a similar situation? If so, then this message is for you. I am not promising a cure all. In fact, I don't know the answer. Nobody does, unless they are given a word or special wisdom from the Holy Spirit. And, even then we may still go on, forever it seems, with the same condition. But take hope in this message and don't give up. We will all be delivered. Some before others, but we will all find freedom. I know that I know. Can't you feel it? Hope is building all ready.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I will confide with you my sin. With me it is anger. I will be going along just fine one minute and the next I will be out of control. The most stupid of things will set me off. Oh God, I hate it so. From there I will go into a tail spin for days. If you get in my way, then look out because at that point I hate everybody and everything...especially myself. My poor wife. Oh the words she has heard come from these lips. Bless her Jesus. Thank God she understands and prays. During this course of hatefulness I don't even think of getting out. It's almost like it has to run it's course until I finally want to disappear. To the point where I wonder if I am born again, or even can be. But always...always (so far)(thank God), a light shines in my heart and everything is put back to normal again. God does it, I don't even know how, but He does. It's like a cycle which must run it's course. I am redeemed from the curse, so in time, this madness will be broken off of my soul. It will for you too my dear brother or sister. Whatever habitual sin you may, or may not, have. God wants it gone more than we do. PRAISE GOD, HALLELUJAH !</span></strong></div><br /><div></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, <span style="color:#3333ff;">there </span><span style="color:#3333ff;">is </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">freedom</span>. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 3:16-18) We see here that the Holy Ghost (whom God has given us) will give us freedom as we continue to gaze upon and abide in the Lord. Freedom from what? Many things. But for now let's just plug in yokes which have us tied to a besetting sin. A yoke is simply a device used to harness two farm animals together so they would go in the same direction. While we are talking about yokes, check out this verse in Isaiah 10:27. " In that Day (we will talk about that Day in the next paragraph) their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing." The anointing here represents the fatness, the richness, the power of God. The Holy Ghost endows us with such power.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">In Luke 4: 17-21, we read the following: "The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him (Jesus). Unrolling it, He found the place where it is written: 'The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim <span style="color:#ff0000;">freedom</span> for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release <span style="color:#ff0000;">(set free)</span> the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.' Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Him, and He began by saying to them, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." Boy, I bet you could have heard a pin drop. Super cool !! This was the Day we read about in Isaiah chapter 10. It was the Day of Jubilee...the Day of <span style="color:#ff0000;">Freedom.</span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Wow, we have learned a lot so far. We know that God want us completely free, and He has given us the precious gift of the Holy Spirit to accomplish just that. Of course we must believe. We must pray. Yes, we continue to refresh ourselves in His presence and find ourselves in the prayer lines as the Spirit leads. Another wonderful passage about the freedom Jesus died for to give us is found in Isaiah 58. I encourage you to read the whole chapter. A real good discourse on fasting. Remember that Jesus said, "when you fast." He also told the disciples that certain demonic activity came off by prayer and fasting. So, fasting is another great weapon we have against the yokes of the enemy. Isaiah 58:6 says, " Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed <span style="color:#ff0000;">free</span> and beak every yoke?" Remember, read the whole chapter.</span></strong></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"><strong>The work that Jesus started in us dear beloved, He will finish. Right now satan knows his time of doom is at hand and he is pulling out all the stops. But God is also shaking us and purifying us. For what? For His Glory to fill the earth....through us. Can you believe it? Believe it ! Let's close with a most wonderful scripture of faith and hope. It is found in Ephesians 6:10-18. I know this will be long, but worth it's weight in gold. "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power (anointing). Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is <span style="color:#ff0000;">not</span> against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."</strong></span></div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">"Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that <span style="color:#ff0000;">when</span> the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then<span style="color:#ff0000;">(keep on standing</span>), with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Above all, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish <span style="color:#ff0000;">all</span> the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests."</span></strong></div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">I promise you this thing: If you continue to look upon the face of Jesus, you will experience victory. Because in His face (abiding with Him) you will find the anointing, His presence, His glory..........His love. And, do you know what else you will find? <span style="color:#ff0000;">FREEDOM !!</span></span></strong> <div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><br /></span></div></span></span></span></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-74920627277404424402009-12-19T18:00:00.037-05:002009-12-22T22:10:57.465-05:00THE THORN OF BLESSING<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JkahZsKCNfl9I5CDRjD-LySmRau0tWzNdhyphenhyphenoGwGL8YArj3fuFOEVO2cpgGMdTj8G4d5NlMzGahqdWslLnW2hZBAX0rUOyXQ_-ldB7zkYPEd3DK7rK29W97-9dO3wHS5HF7ljGDEwyDLT/s1600-h/P1010143.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417105813515194354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JkahZsKCNfl9I5CDRjD-LySmRau0tWzNdhyphenhyphenoGwGL8YArj3fuFOEVO2cpgGMdTj8G4d5NlMzGahqdWslLnW2hZBAX0rUOyXQ_-ldB7zkYPEd3DK7rK29W97-9dO3wHS5HF7ljGDEwyDLT/s400/P1010143.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Greetings again my most wonderful friends. Yes, here in the U.S.A. it is Christmas time again. The time where we have much joy as we reflect on how great Father God's love is for us, as seen in the miracle of His Son's birth. The birth of Jesus (the Messiah for our Jewish friends) finally arrived about two thousand years ago, fulfilling hundreds and hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament (Covenant). To me the greatest thing was that God loved us so much that He humbled Himself to become a man. To walk among us in human form so we could witness His heart. And it was a heart full of love, compassion, mercy and hope. The list could go on and on. Of course Jesus has ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father after He had walked among us for thirty years. After He performed many miracles. After He was crucified (shedding His sinless blood to pay the penalty of our sins). After He was resurrected from the dead. Afterward He appeared to many, many more just before He ascended. And now He lives in us by the Holy Spirit if we would but believe and commit our lives to Him. And He is coming back for us, very, very soon.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>The following is the Christmas message God gave me for this year. The first part is the original message I have mailed to my friends and family. At the end are additional passages which were not part of the original. I felt that the Holy Spirit wanted me to add a little more for my friends here at Jehovah Productions. <span style="color:#cc66cc;">Lo</span></strong><span style="color:#cc66cc;"><strong>rd God Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth....we adore You. Thank You for Your Son Jesus. Thank You for Your Word, Your Holy Spirit and for Your mercy. You are coming back for us who believe. Keep us we pray during the troublesome times ahead. Keep us walking in love, humility and faith. We long to be with You. God, You love us and we love You too. In Jesus name we pray....AMEN.</strong></span></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>As I stooped down to get a better view of our nativity scene, all aglow from our lighted tree...I wept. That usually happens to me when God speaks. Probably with you too. While I gazed upon the baby Jesus, Father God said, “You are bowing before the One who bowed low for you. This posture is who I am. I am Love displayed in humility. I got My mind off of Myself and purposely placed it on you, my son. This is the greatest weapon I have given you against all your enemies.”</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>He then reminded me of the following: "Don't act out of selfish ambition or be conceited. Instead, humbly think of others as being better than yourselves. Don't be concerned only about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others. Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Although he was in the form of God and equal with God, he did not take advantage of this equality. Instead, he emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant, by becoming like other humans, by having a human appearance. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, death on a cross. This is why God has given him an exceptional honor— the name honored above all other names— so that at the name of Jesus everyone in heaven, on earth, and in the world below will kneel and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." Phil 2:3-11.</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>As long as we live here on this earth. Until we hear the sweetest sound we will ever hear. The sound of Jesus calling us home. We will constantly have a battle between our flesh and our spirit. Our flesh will always want things done it's way. It will always seek to put itself first. By the power of the Holy Spirit we have the ability to on purpose choose to put God and others above ourselves. But, sometimes, even this wonderful life of love and humility can get us into trouble. Out of God's great love for us, He has decided to hold back the reigns of our being perfected. If everything was perfect in our life then our flesh would soon make itself god with no need for faith or a reason to submit to God.</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>There was given Paul a thorn. I call it a thorn of blessing. The original Greek word defines Paul's thorn as a physical ailment. Regardless, the thorn represents something sent by God to be troublesome to us. It keeps us humble before God and others. Thank God that He loves you and I so much that He helps us to stay humble, like Paul. Now, go ahead, worship and embrace our baby Jesus. And while you are bowed low, embrace your Thorn of Blessing !</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>And why did God say at the beginning that humility is the greatest weapon that we have? Because I firmly believe that lucifer, that father of lies, doesn't understand Love(God) or humility. By the way, don't you agree, that you have to go through humility to reach love? I Peter 5:5 says, "All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Take time to look up other scripture which pertain to humility. You might be surprised to find that there are many. I have always contended that the door to God (love) is humility. That position also works the same way when we love others. When we esteem them higher than ourselves, IT DRIVES THE DEVIL CRAZY !</strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>OK, back to the Garden of Eden again. The devil knew it was just a matter of time before Eve's seed kicked his butt. Why? Because he was there when God cursed him and prophesied. We find that in Genesis 3:15. "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed (those who do not belong to God) and hers; He will crush your head and you will strike His heel." From that day forward the devil was always looking over his shoulder. "Could Moses be the one," he asked himself. So he tried to kill Moses. We see that in Exodus 1:20,21. "So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own. Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live." The devil whispered in Pharaoh's ear. Or could it be Samson? Maybe David, Abraham or Noah the devil must have wondered. Hundreds of years came and went, but the devil had plenty of time and he was very patient.</strong></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">But then he knew he had his enemy pinpointed when to his surprise he overheard Gabriel, the angel he hated, prophesy over a virgin named Mary. Turn to Luke 1:30-33 with me. Here we read, "But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; His kingdom will never end." The devil thought there was some sort of mistake. Why would God humble Himself to become a man? Just in case, he put a host of demons in charge of following Mary. But the Love of God (shrouded in humility) out witted him again because Jesus was born in a humble stable among the livestock. The devil's host were asleep at the wheel. They just can't see through the humility.</span></strong></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>So the devil did some more whispering. This time to King Herod. Let's read Matthew 2:1-3;13,16. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, 'Where is the One who has been born king of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.' When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him." "When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. Get up, he said, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." "When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi."</strong></span></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>Even before Jesus began His earthly ministry, during his wilderness experience, the devil was still not sure He was the One. Why? Because in Luke 4:1-4,9 we read, "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days, He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to Him, <span style="color:#000099;">if you are</span> the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread. Jesus answered, It is written: Man does not live on bread alone." "The devil led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the highest point of the temple. <span style="color:#000099;">If you are</span><span style="color:#ff0000;"> the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down from here."</span></strong></span></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>So, when indeed did the devil realize that Jesus was the Christ? When did he realize that this was indeed the One who would do him in? When he saw Jesus acting in concert with the Father and Holy Spirit as it was from the beginning. In the beginning, the Father thought. The Son spoke. And the Holy Spirit brought it into being. The devil witnessed this process in the creation of the world and he saw it in the miracles Jesus performed. Now do you understand why <span style="color:#000099;">the thorn of blessing </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">is so important? Think about it for a moment. First of all it is a good thing to depend on God for all things. Sometimes, He gives us a troublesome thorn to keep us in His Face. This posture will keep us walking in love with Him and others. From there springs the very power of God. The anointing. The devil is after the anointing. Anti-christ...anti-anointing. Christ means, "the anointed One and His anointing." Humility gets us to God (love). And it gets us to love others. God is love. Love is power. So be it unto us all</span><span style="color:#009900;">. MERRY CHRISTMAS !<br /></span></div></strong></span>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-10787722711792751722009-12-11T10:20:00.004-05:002009-12-11T10:24:51.148-05:00PLEASE STAY TUNED<strong><span style="color:#000099;">My fellow soldiers of Light. I will have a new message in the next few days. Please stay tuned and thank you for your patience. We have been real busy this week getting ready for Christmas. We have the grandchildren for the time being, so we are doing more than we usually do. GOD IS GOOD.......LOVE YOU !! </span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-66550258910814299662009-12-06T17:09:00.035-05:002009-12-14T20:56:03.683-05:00DADDY, I'M COMING HOME<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO9EZjl5zQcVeSyXi_FAH1hEQ0BuB2CWtXwSnu1S2lSvIYypPnhEerO4OwxglhBTNLgKonyV28zTH_nn3zerWb4EPom8J8K-XZPK_3wLkVKsymeXxe5KTWppB3sTP9MQ9B9vfmt2qALGZ/s1600-h/P1010132.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412683900435984706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO9EZjl5zQcVeSyXi_FAH1hEQ0BuB2CWtXwSnu1S2lSvIYypPnhEerO4OwxglhBTNLgKonyV28zTH_nn3zerWb4EPom8J8K-XZPK_3wLkVKsymeXxe5KTWppB3sTP9MQ9B9vfmt2qALGZ/s400/P1010132.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:blue;">Greetings in the most wonderful name of Jesus! Would you come with me now as we begin our journey together, humbling ourselves before the throne of grace? <span style="color:#cc33cc;">Heavenly Father, we joyfully come before you in sweet adoration of Your glory and love. We will sing forever in Your presence about the mercy You have had on us all. Oh Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world...we shout thank You !! Our cry day and night is that You, oh Holy One of Israel, would visit with us. And in Your visit, would You please bring unto us the grace of restoration. The fullness of restoration with You and with each other. Daddy, we love you. In Jesus <span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;">name</span>....AMEN</span><span style="color:blue;">. So, how have you been my fellow brethren and soldiers of the Light? I know that it seems as if the whole world has gone crazy. But God has everything in control and the wicked one will not touch you. King David often times cried out for justice and the demise of his enemies. But as followers of Jesus you must fulfill the commands of the new covenant and pray for your enemies. I know it is hard sometimes, but you can do it. Put yourself in agreement with God that none should perish, but all would come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.</span></span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">The most obvious script for the picture and title above would be concerning Jesus and His heart's cry. We will start there and afterwards explore another group of people who have the same longing. The longing to be with the Father. In John 14:28 (the Message Bible) we see Jesus saying the following to His disciples: "You've heard me tell you, 'I am going away, and I'm coming back.' If you loved me, you would be glad that <span style="color:#ff0000;">I'm on my way to</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">the Father</span> because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life." And if we look at the prayer Jesus prays for His disciples in John 17 we can sense the longing in His voice. The longing to be with His Father once again as it was from the beginning. Seated at His right hand, robed with the glory which was His for all eternity. Look at the beginning of verse 11 and the beginning of verse 13. Jesus says: "I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and<span style="color:#ff0000;"> I am coming to you.</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">I am coming to you now</span>, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them." I do not think that it would be a stretch to believe that Jesus longed for His mission here on earth to be fulfilled, so He could return to Daddy.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">Who else should have the mindset which cries, "Daddy, I'm coming home?" Well it should be us my dearly beloved. May I have the privilege to regress for a minute? Thanks. Let us first discuss what our stance should NOT be. I have thought from time to time that I am ready to be clothed with glory and eternity so I could escape the hardships here on this blue marble we call earth. WRONG ! And have you ever heard someone say, " Oh, I don't care if the Lord prospers me, and I don't need a mansion, I will take a little shack in the corner of heaven and I will be happy." WRONG ! Some may even think that it is wrong to have a desire to go to heaven. They may think, " heavens no, I can't think about going to heaven because there is just too much work here on earth to be done." WRONG !</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">So, what should our attitude be about such things? First let me tell you something really cool. God says we are going to rule and reign with Him. Now that doesn't mean we are going to spend all of eternity around the Throne singing the hallelujah chorus. OK brothers and sisters...are you ready to think big? There are solar systems and galaxies out there that are more numerous then we can count. In fact, they have continued to create themselves ever since God gave the command. I believe God will say, "KennyG, go over to this solar system for awhile and rule over it for me." And after I finish bathing in my golden bathtub, I will just think where I need to go and I will be there...at the speed of light. Now please don't shut me out just yet. I am not crazy. Just trying to encourage you to think big...Big...BIGGER ! And by the way, Jesus showed us a few things our glorified body can do when He appeared to His disciples after His resurrection. He passed through a wall and ate fish with them. Remember? That was the time that Thomas said he would only believe that He was the Risen One if he could touch his hands and side.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">Turn over to ll Timothy 4:8 and read with me will you? It says: "There is now in store for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but also to all those who have<span style="color:#ff0000;"> longed for His appearing</span>." The proper posture is to be anxiously and joyfully longing for Him to come and take us home. Nor should we falsely humble ourselves with the idea of being happy with a little shack. Remember, think BIG ! Let's look at what Jesus said in John 14:1,2. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; trust also in Me. In My Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you." I am sure that any room God builds will be a mansion beyond belief...not a little squatters shack in the corner somewhere.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">In Revelation, John gives us a small description of what we can expect heaven to be like. Now mind you, John was describing something he saw with the limited vocabulary of a human. Let's read Revelation 21. " And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven of God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God: and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true. And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal: having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal. (That's about 1400 miles in a cube) And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits (that's about 200 feet), according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb. And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there): and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it: and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life."</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;">So, while we still remain, awaiting the call to come home, let us continue to be love and light to others. Let us continue to have great faith while we serve. And let us have the same mindset. And what mindset is that? Come on, say it with me <span style="color:#ff0000;">"DADDY, I'M COMING HOME."<br /></div></span></span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-13265869580256147392009-11-30T20:00:00.014-05:002009-12-01T20:38:23.916-05:00THEMS FIGHTING WORDS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmIdRfLQGL7KXI3h3SaSp7wpHhDis3vFsySB7aA_YPoGNH0O_Qro8HHW_cTK6Eo8G043P-bCLTglbZOfdqu6QPZLrP44dmk_tg7fkRfZdRJj2DupaDHWX_2mLIASEQmnYPIh9tV3_TAnx/s1600/THEMS+FIGHTING+WORDS.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 352px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 352px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410066860132283106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmIdRfLQGL7KXI3h3SaSp7wpHhDis3vFsySB7aA_YPoGNH0O_Qro8HHW_cTK6Eo8G043P-bCLTglbZOfdqu6QPZLrP44dmk_tg7fkRfZdRJj2DupaDHWX_2mLIASEQmnYPIh9tV3_TAnx/s400/THEMS+FIGHTING+WORDS.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">May God Himself heap many blessings upon you my dear brothers and sisters, for coming once again to share in the Living Bread. <span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)">Oh Heavenly Father, thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done, on earth (in me; in us and in the Body) as it is in heaven. Thank You for your provision, forgiveness and love. Help us to love. Come soon Lord Jesus (Maranatha). Oh God create within us a humble heart. A heart that thirsts for righteousness. Give us a heart that joyfully expects Your Coming. A heart that longs to be with You. In Jesus name..AMEN.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Prophetic words and utterances are to cause men to see God more clearly. They should cause us to thirst for Him and to magnify Him. They should urge us to, first and foremost, evaluate our own spiritual condition. I pray that the following scriptures and prophetic utterances do just that.<br /><br />Before Jesus comes back for His Bride, there will be a great falling away. Men and women will stop seeking His face. They will place all their attention on their works instead of the God of the works. Their Love will grow cold. Their faith will fail because faith works by love. A great number will walk in the fear of man instead of the fear of the Lord. These people will continually worry about what man thinks. They will seek after material things instead of storing up in heaven spiritual fruit which will last. They will deny the power of God, which they once walked in, by becoming religious. Always worrying about the outside of the cup instead of what's inside. Continually anxious about their presentation to the world instead of their presentation to the Father. Many people will cling to what man has taught them, even at the expense of losing their own souls. Many so called followers of Christ Jesus, are not anxiously awaiting His Appearing. All of these conditions rob us of the anointing and power of God. This is the anti-christ spirit which has continued to operate in the earth since the very beginning. The devil is after the anointing (power of God). Christ means, "The anointed One and His anointing." Just like in the days our precious Lord walked the earth, we have come to the place where many in the Body are dead men's tombs. Hypocrites. White washed tombs on the outside but full of deadness on the inside. By now you might be saying: <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">"Now Kennyg,.......... THEMS FIGHTING WORDS."<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">But what if my words are true? Do you find yourself gravitating toward any of these conditions? Are you willing to gamble with your eternity by stubbornly holding onto what you believe, at all costs? Are you willing to listen to what the Word and Holy Spirit have to say? Are you ready to let go and let God? According to Matthew 24:12, the love of a large part of the Body will grow cold. This happens because of false teachings and religious mindsets that detract from intimate relationship with Jesus. Relationship equals anointing (power), so we see that pesky anti-christ spirit again. In this condition there is self gratification, wickedness and iniquity. But all the while that person is deceived into thinking everything is OK. And why not? They go to church and read the Word. But without confidence and power (anointing) because there is no committed relationship. An attitude of staying where they are, no thirst to go higher in the things of God.<br /><br />In Revelation chapter 2, John talks to the church in Ephesus. Ephesus represents the modern church of today. If we read, then we will discover that the church continues to do good but she has left her FIRST LOVE. In that state we are lukewarm. (Not committed, no intimate relationship, no power.........deceived.) <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)">"Kennyg, there you go again, meddling with whether I have a true and fruitful relationship with Jesus. Put up your dukes !"<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">There are countless ways a person could find themselves drifting towards this lukewarm condition. Sometimes, satan can make us believe that we have gone too long without intimate time with God and we think that we can never come back. So we have a sense of unworthiness and are lulled into believing that we should stay at a distance. Sure we may come to the point where we see ourselves and ask for forgiveness. But do we take the next step of repenting? (actually trying and expecting change...going the opposite direction.)<br /><br />If you continue to read Revelation chapter 2, you will come to the passage where John says that only those who overcome will be free from this condition. And what is that condition again? It is the condition of beginning a wonderful life with Jesus and somewhere down the road you got off course. You took your eyes off of Your Savior and put it on yourself and man. You became lazy and decided to stop short of the finish line. This Christian stuff is too hard for me. It is so much easier just to look good on the outside instead of dealing with the sin on the inside. Have you ever felt that way?<br /><br />GOOD NEWS ! Jesus said that we who overcome that lazy; anti-christ and deceptive spirit will enter the gates of heaven. We can't do it, but I know who will help us. The Word and the Holy Spirit. God's Word says we ARE over comers and more than conquerors. So, let's stir up the overcoming power within us and take a stand. Surely we are able to break through this deception if we but utter the words: "Jesus, please help me !"<br /><br />Let's arise together in these last days and shake off the enemies lies. God died for us when we were strangers and enemies to Him. How much more so now that we have been translated into the Kingdom of His Son will he now and daily deliver us from the dominion of sin and blindness. The devil will not win. God is greater. Today and now, let's shake off this blanket and heaviness of deception. Peel back the canopy of death inducing spirits and cry with a loud voice............JESUS, MY DEAR SAVIOR AND CHAMPION.....MY SOON COMING KING.....PLEASE HELP ME, YOUR CHILD AND SERVANT,TO LIVE AGAIN !!<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,51,204)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div></div>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-24926076274698441032009-11-25T15:18:00.019-05:002009-11-25T21:36:05.968-05:00DID YOU INVITE SATAN TO YOUR HOLIDAY?<span style="color:#000099;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbIims95Ztl6fyGaeKugW5KhO71myWw2ZxnCegEjCmCo29Os-x1K-NIZSXlibZbHuEZyA_IQ5b7yzEzKr-qGgyKveBW0_DOiFBYDtmZLKCVmrolsmTKK-t3peEdsB_vFiFnKTC8iFbIah/s1600/WHAT+BIG+FANGS+YOU+HAVE.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408138574334078898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbIims95Ztl6fyGaeKugW5KhO71myWw2ZxnCegEjCmCo29Os-x1K-NIZSXlibZbHuEZyA_IQ5b7yzEzKr-qGgyKveBW0_DOiFBYDtmZLKCVmrolsmTKK-t3peEdsB_vFiFnKTC8iFbIah/s400/WHAT+BIG+FANGS+YOU+HAVE.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>My most beloved sisters and brothers. Let me be the first to say, "May God Himself visit with you and bless you with the most awesome THANKSGIVING ever !" On that note let us go right to the throne room of God with our thoughts of love and adoration. <span style="color:#993399;">Wonderful Father, we thank You today, and every day, for Your love poured out for us on Calvary. Thank You for Your Word. Thank You for the gift of eternal life and the Holy Spirit. Thank You that You are in control. Thank You Glorious Jesus that You are coming back for us. Thank You Almighty God for Your mercy, grace, healing, protection and provision. We stand in amazement of Your wondrous works displayed all around us. Because of You we have hope, joy and peace in the midst of the storm. Thank You for our families and friends. Oh that You would raise up Jesus before all men of the earth. That You would draw all men unto Yourself that none would perish. We worship You. We love You. We want You. Maranatha.......AMEN.</span></strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Jesus says that He stands at the door and knocks.(Revelation 3:20) He says that if we HEAR His voice and open the door then He will come in and eat with us. Jesus is always knocking and desiring sweet fellowship with His beloved. But another visitor is at the door too. His name is satan. Also known as lucifer and the devil. Notice that I never capitalize his name because with me he doesn't deserve the honor. Now when our spirit hears Jesus knock we will know it because He always brings life. It is more tricky with that slippery devil. In most cases, he makes his voice and ideas as close to what sounds good as he can. The devil always has a counterfeit of what God has. He is wicked, which means twisted. His thoughts, formula and plans are just a hair off of what Truth is. God says that His sheep know His voice. If we choose to listen to the devil's trickery then it is our choice. No where is this more noticeable then the holidays our country celebrate. I am sure that all countries have tradition and holidays, but for now please allow me to discuss those of the U.S.A.</strong></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Thanksgiving. The title itself gives away what this day has been set aside for. Now, I am not completely down on the holidays, just partially. The partial part being those things which are distorted and just not true. I am in favor of the parts which bring family and friends together in the spirit of love and joy. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come Jesus and dine.</span><span style="color:#000099;"> And as followers of Christ, shouldn't we be thankful every day of the year? Think about it would you. Wouldn't you expect that lovers of God Almighty, would have something to be thankful for every moment of every moment? Can't think of anything? Then just stick with what you surely know to be good. Such as: God loves me and allowed His only Son, Jesus, to take my place on the cross (suffering God's penalty for my sin) and even to go to hell so I wouldn't have to. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come Jesus and dine.</span><span style="color:#000099;"> </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Do you find yourself bringing your heart of thanksgiving to the family table and church house only once a year? Are you excited about the extra time off you have so you can sit around with your buddies, drink beer and watch football? Do you sit down to the turkey feast and gorge yourself to the brink of sickness? Do you feel the pressure of society to go in debt on Black Friday (the big shopping day here in the States, the day after Thanksgiving) so you won't offend someone? Do you witness to someone one moment that you are a Christian and the very next moment you are fighting, cussing and shoving to get the prized gift on sale? Then possibly the invitation will read: </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come satan, pull up a chair.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Concerning Christmas. Wouldn't it also be possible (and probably mandatory if you are a Christian) to hold the wonderful thought of the birth of King Jesus in your heart at all times instead of just once a year? </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come Jesus and dine.</span><span style="color:#000099;"> And isn't it your heart's desire to be ready to give to someone at all times and not just on this most holy of days? To have a heart which is always on the ready to hear about someone elses needs and fulfill them. Is this you my dearly beloved? Then, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">come Jesus and dine. </span><span style="color:#000099;">Do you find yourselves teaching your dear children the miracle of the birth of Jesus, but then encouraging them to open their presents from santa? What is that I hear? Oh yeah, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">come satan, pull up a chair.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">At Easter time do you enjoy and eagerly anticipate the sunrise service at church? That special time when you gather with your brothers and sisters to reflect on Christ in you, the hope of glory? In fact, do you hold that special miracle in your heart year round? Then </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">come Jesus and dine. </span><span style="color:#000099;">Oh the shame, the most terrible shame of those who have listened to the devils lies about this most glorious holiday. I am almost fearful of saying what is on my mind because (just like santa) those deceived will say, "What harm is there? It's all about the children." The sickening shame of which I speak is this: do you arise on Easter Sunday, put on your most striking outfit and enjoy what the easter bunny has brought before going to the house of the Lord to sing His praises? </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Come satan, pull up a chair.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Which guest have you brought to your table this holiday season? It's bad enough that we sit idly by while the courts take away everything which pertain to Jesus and Almighty God. Most of these things we have no say in. But we do have a say about which guest we carry in our heart. Not only on the special days, but year round. Would you make a choice with me my dear ones? Together let's us choose to say with great joy, faith and anticipation.....</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">COME JESUS AND DINE !!</span></strong></div>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-56338262184887350362009-11-18T11:31:00.026-05:002009-11-19T20:12:28.190-05:00VANISHING POINT<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgelVLRy_pOSOpI7qgYe22beScH9QUcMITdvyZIyG7cpSEumKKJ5lgtGINvKSxVJXt3ypTAU05OhkZ66jQ0nSkMEXxP6JRQdEm02_v135QZOPhG7Ta-4C0Szhe5qe3fRqjjIqbrX-d_O00X/s1600/P1000989.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgelVLRy_pOSOpI7qgYe22beScH9QUcMITdvyZIyG7cpSEumKKJ5lgtGINvKSxVJXt3ypTAU05OhkZ66jQ0nSkMEXxP6JRQdEm02_v135QZOPhG7Ta-4C0Szhe5qe3fRqjjIqbrX-d_O00X/s400/P1000989.JPG" yr="true" /></a><br /></div><p><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:red;"></span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;"><strong>God is good, let us praise Him ! Right now seems like a good idea to go to the throne of grace. <span style="color:#cc33cc;">Almighty God, thank you for loving us. Holy Spirit, please flow through me the words that You want said. Use Your living Word to awaken those who slumber. Open our eyes and ears that we may see and hear what You are saying to us. Help us to love You. Jesus, our hero and champion...we adore You. In Your name we pray...AMEN. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Well, let's get right to it !</span></strong></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">CURTAIN OPENS</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">ACT 1</span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 1</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"Goodbye momma, we love you !" The children sang in unison. "And I love you too, Mary, my most glorious wife from God !" John, my husband said to me. "And God bless you too." John said as he strolled out the door, on his way to drop the children off at school and then on to work. It's really great that we still have a school and employment, I thought. Most schools in the inner cities are closed because of all the rioting and chaos. The whole world seems to be in turmoil these days because of lack of employment and an economy where it seems like if you can buy a loaf of bread you feel as if you have struck gold. John believes that it is God who continues to provide for us supernaturally. And it didn't hurt to put a lot of money in savings a few months back. That in itself is helping us through these hard times. My views about such things have changed over the years, and I really don't know why. I used to be on fire for God, but now I am just content to do my church thing and be content with the provision we have regardless of where it came from.</span></strong> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 2</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"Today, I will veg out on this old couch with my box of doughnuts...maybe watch the View, Oprah and who knows what else." I said out loud to myself as if anyone were here to listen. Boy, things have really changed in the world over the past few months. It started with the meltdown of our economy system worldwide and the replacement of our dollar and all world currencies with what they call, "NWO" (New World Order) money. Most in the world are still having trouble with the transition and with the UN (United Nations) forming a world wide government. I kind of agree with president Bama when he explains to us the world wide peace we will enjoy soon because of all the changes. He is really helping to clean up the TV broadcasts and Internet usage. The enormous earthquake we had a few weeks back seemed to aide in this cleanup.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">I still remember the violent shaking as if it were this morning. The whole world felt it. It began somewhere in Israel, but the news won't tell us what is going on over there right now. I just know that there is a big war of some sort. The quake took out a lot of stations, both in radio and TV. Bama had already stripped the TV broadcasts of Fox news and Christian stations. He said they were escalating the riots we seem to have everywhere. I just see it as people being scared because they are without jobs and money. "Thank you John for being so wise and putting some money aside!" I proclaimed to myself. Maybe I will read for a while until my shows come on.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">Scene 3</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"Oh my God, I can't believe this!" muttering to myself. "I have slept through Oprah and my other programs." Boy, its cold in here. And why are all the dogs howling outside? Are those car alarms I hear? Gee, only another hour before the kids get home and I haven't even prepared supper. I am so cold ! I guess that I can turn the boob tube on while I am preparing dinner. "What the heck !" I proclaimed. The president is on, but what is that sign on the podium? It says, "World Emperor Bama." "I guess he got a promotion." Laughing out loud. That dog howling is driving me crazy. Where is my sweater?</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">ACT 2</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 1</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">Another world crisis I see. Let me turn this up...."My fellow citizens of the New World." Emperor Bama begins. "Please do not be alarmed ! Seemingly millions around the world have vanished. I promise you that the situation is under control. This vanishing trick is just another way for the radicals to push their agenda. The NWO police are making progress in finding their hiding places. We will not bow to the radicals demands because of some parlor trick. Again, let me reiterate...we will not bow. This administration, and now as you can see, the NWO, will bring peace to us all. We have brought about many restrictions aimed at curbing the agenda's of so called "freedom fighters" in the past few months. Now, armed with more might; intelligence and freedom from restraint, we at the NWO will stop these radicals once and for all. Rest assured, peace will be brought to us on a global scale soon and at all cost. Beginning now, you will be seeing the NWO police going door to door. Not only will they be looking for the tricksters who have seemingly vanished, but by my instructions they will assign everyone in the world a number. To ensure everyone is of one mind and one accord in the pursuit of world peace, we will mandate that everyone make a pledge to this administration which will be recorded. Anyone failing to answer all questions truthfully asked by the NWO will be incarcerated. All people's who resist to take the pledge will be incarcerated. For the good of all mankind, I urge all NWO citizens to follow all , now and future, directives given by myself or the NWO police who are representing me. Thank you for your time."</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 2</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"What the heck is going on ?" I managed to get out between my sobbing. I will call mother, she will know what to do. If those dogs don't stop howling I will go insane. Where is my blanket? All the lines are busy. That's just great. I can't even e-mail anyone because we have a block on our computer and it can only be used two hours during the evening and even then it is monitored by the NWO police. My gosh, they are everywhere. One reason for the block is because the administration has deemed John a potential radical because he goes to church and even teaches from time to time. I think his teaching about homosexuality being a sin landed us in hot water. I told him not to talk about stuff like that. "John, where are you...oh baby, I need you. I feel so alone." John and the kids should have been home by now. Are they part of this so called radical underground movement Bama just talked about? How could he do this to me? "Oh God, make the dogs and sirens stop." I exclaimed. "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left." "Who is that?" I asked. That's just weird because I am all alone. If I remember correctly, that quote came from the Bible. Now, where did I put that thing?</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 3</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">And there it is. Matthew 24:40. "Oh MY God...Oh My God.........this is talking about Jesus coming back. OH MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE, Oh God, Oh God." "Oh Jesus, please forgive me of my sins. Have mercy on me. Please, please, please have mercy on me." Narrator: " Mary continues to sob as the reality of what has happened hits her. Actually, shock is the better word."</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">ACT 3 (and final act)</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 1</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"How oh how could this have happened? What an idiot I have become." Once I was one with the Lord and then seemingly overnight my interest and faith began to drift. I knew better. I should have listened to John and so many others who tried to warn me that my love for Jesus had grown cold. I didn't want to hear it because being taken care of with no worries in the world was a better place for me. Besides, in the back of my mind, I always thought that I could come back to God whenever I wanted. "Mary, what an idiot. How could you have been so selfish and blind?" I screamed at the top of my lungs. It is so cold in here. And why can't I feel the presence of the Lord Jesus any more? "Dogs...SHUT UP !" I yelled. Yeah, I almost forgot. John had put an old CB radio down in the basement for emergencies. I believe that being LEFT BEHIND surely counts as an emergency.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 2</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">Now what was my CB handle? Who cares, we are talking about the end of the world here. "Hello, is anyone out there?" Anyone, please help me !" I somehow managed to say through my sobs. "Is that you, Mary?" A voice said. "Yes, yes this is Mary." I said. "This is John's cousin, Mark." A familiar voice said. "Oh Mark, I am all alone and I think that John and the children aren't coming home. I think that Jesus has come and I have been left behind. I don't know what to do. Oh God please help me, anyone, please help !" I pleaded. "Mary, this is Mark, what you said is true. There are already hundreds and hundreds who I have heard with the same story. Some in the local area have made plans to meet before the NWO come knocking on our door. Do you remember the old barn where you cared for horses as a kid?" Mark said rapidly. "Why yes. Mark, what did you mean the NWO is coming? Do you mean the police. Am I in trouble. What shall I do, I am so scared." I fearfully sputtered through the microphone.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">SCENE 3</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">"OK, listen to me real carefully Mary. And if we get cut off, then meet us at the old barn as soon as you can. Only bring a change of clothes and your Bible. We will be traveling light. Go on foot. The NWO are everywhere, and they are going door to door. One other thing before we have to end this, Go get your bible as soon as we finish. Look up Matthew 24:13 and Revelation 13:16,17. By the way, by no means be there when the NWO show up, and please do not take the pledge to Bama or the I.D. he wants to plant on you. Oh please Mary, don't." Mark pleaded. "Oh Mark, I have so many question, Mark, Mark?" I yelled in desperation, knowing that our talk had ended. OK, what were those verses again? Here they are. Matthew says, "and those who endure til the end shall be saved." Well, that's just great. I could have endured some humility, taken my mind off my self and been out of here on the first boat load. Now, I will have to endure all the terrible plagues coming upon the earth during the last half of the seven year tribulation. How long can I run from the NWO before they catch me? Almost forgot. Revelation 13:16,17 says, "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." Oh that I would have stayed close to the Lord, Jesus. It wasn't that hard, why couldn't I do it? "Mary, you lazy, selfish, prideful person...look what you have done !" I raged. Oh how I miss John and kids. <span style="color:#3333ff;">KNOCK..KNOCK...KNOCK</span><span style="color:#ff0000;"> Oh God, I see blue helmets through the window. Narrator: "Mary barely escapes before the door is broken down."</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;">CURTAIN CLOSES</span></strong></p><p></p><p><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><br /></p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:red;"></span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-30087084397197953542009-11-10T19:18:00.021-05:002009-11-14T09:52:16.079-05:00TO THE WORLD'S UNSUNG HEROES<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5HLS4FSU3Cl9TS0D-P3Mwpm-O3aPZj1nY49BDdgKBkfcGchG9uZseRAHzZXGCBSUJacZt9CcQ3_Xr4pUGbvvpmPpZxp42_MR1EWsv1yNN7xTf1QDttiLkHVMbMI2Ftm0sC_NJ4mGIsdX/s1600-h/P1000738.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402636930368633746" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5HLS4FSU3Cl9TS0D-P3Mwpm-O3aPZj1nY49BDdgKBkfcGchG9uZseRAHzZXGCBSUJacZt9CcQ3_Xr4pUGbvvpmPpZxp42_MR1EWsv1yNN7xTf1QDttiLkHVMbMI2Ftm0sC_NJ4mGIsdX/s400/P1000738.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)">I am not familiar with all the holidays other parts of the world celebrate when that once a year time arrives. I say once a year because that is one of my pet peeves which I will address at closing. As a citizen of America, I must first say: <span style="color:#ff0000;">" HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY!" </span><span style="color:#000099;">As far as I know, this is an exclusive American holiday. Please allow me to share with you my personal outlook about this special day. Now, some of you here in the good ole U.S. of A. might be offended by my insight, so we better start off with some prayer to Almighty God. </span><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Wonderful Jesus, we bow before You our glorious King. Through Your eyes let us see and explore the true meaning of heroes and servants. Holy Spirit, come to our rescue. Help us to be that hero each and every day. Every single one of us can be that special someone who gains Your attention and the attention of the world. We want to. You want us to. So be it unto us oh precious Savior whom we adore. In the name of King Jesus we pray...AMEN.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>Let's start off with a look at honoring our veterans since we have this special day set aside for them. Oh, by the way, hello my dearly beloved. Thanks for visiting again so we can share the Word together. Having a thirst for righteousness is a win, win situation. Yes, today let us honor all soldiers world wide who have lost their lives while serving their respective countries. Those who have fought against evil and for the freedom of their native lands. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO !</span> We pray that they were born again from above and went on to be with their true love...Jesus Christ. We honor you and ask for God's comfort for all the loved ones you left behind. We pray that all soldiers who have been wounded would be blessed with a speedy recovery. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO !</span> We honor you dear men and women wherever you happen to be in the world. We also pay tribute to all who have served and those who continue to serve. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO !</span> Of course all who serve the armed forces in their respective countries are NOT heroes. Some go in with the mindset to work for a paycheck with no inner retrospection that they are serving their countries. Some even use the armed forces for their own personal welfare state...putting in a few years so they can thrive off the benefits if they can manipulate the system. I have every right to say such things because I myself am a disabled veteran. If you have followed the news lately then you have discovered (in horror with the rest of us) that some who took the oath to serve their respective countries are actually the very evil enemy we are fighting against. You are no hero...in fact you are a big fat ZERO !!</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">Would you allow me to name a few more groups of people whom I declare as heroes? Thanks and God bless. To me, I see the class of elderly people wherever they are in the world worthy of honor. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">Just think about your surroundings. Think of the roads, buildings, shopping centers etc. Do you think they just supernaturally appeared? No my dear friend. The older woman who sits by you on the bus; the retired gentleman who waits in line with you at the store; your grandmother and grandfather and all senior citizens around the world helped build the great societies of the world. Some countries do hold their older persons in high esteem, but to our shame the U.S.A. is not one of them. In fact, our president (and many of his evil colleagues) actually feels that health care money spent on the elderly is a waste. Big fat ZERO !</span></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">I can think of a few more groups who deserve honor. How about you? Teachers surely work very hard to teach our children (even doing things for the little ones which the parents should be doing) with little pay. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">One quick side note please. Surely we cannot lump everyone who fall into these groups as heroes. There is evil grouped in with us all. So, back to our groupings of people who should be honored. How about the intercessors of the world? Those who kneel before the throne of God day and night....praying, praying and praying. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO!</span><span style="color:#000099;"> Let's remember the nurse; the rescue worker; the legislator who continues to stand for good amongst his co-workers; Glenn Beck and all radio/TV personalities who dare to bring us the truth; the single mom who works two jobs; the teenager who refuses to have sexual relations before marriage; and godly parents. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">HEROES ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">As you can see, the list could go on forever.</span></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">If you watch much TV (I don't) then you can see that the world honors the most craziest things. They honor people who have wealth, fame and power. They honor the prized athlete, the famed rapper whose lyrics are about violence and drugs and they honor government representatives who embrace the blood shed of innocent babies. The sad part is that we continue to elect them into office. Shame on us. In God's Word we find the following: "Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor." (Romans 13:7) So, how do we know who to honor? If good resides inside you then your spirit will let you know. Who does God say to honor? I would rather be on His side in this matter, wouldn't you?</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">How does God define hero? How does He define a true servant? From what the Word says we can safely define hero into two categories. One who lays their life down (their own desires etc.) for the betterment of someone else. The other hero would be that person who humbles themselves under the mighty hand of God in complete obedience. How can we not first turn to our best example of God's hero and champion...none other then Jesus. Turn to Matthew 20:26-28. Here Jesus says, "Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave--just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many." <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">God considers a person who humbles him or her self as a servant...great. I am sure He is talking about a kindness done to another with a pure heart of love and compassion.</span></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">God also defines someone great as one who is obedient to Him. Let's look at I Peter 5:6. It says, "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time." <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO !</span><span style="color:#000099;"> How about John 12:26? Jesus says, "Whoever serves Me must follow Me; and where I am, My servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves Me." </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">Did you know that God's Living Word even gives us a list of men and women He thinks are heroes? Feel free to read Hebrews chapter 11 sometime. The section is called "heroes of faith." Some real cool cats such as Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and a host of others. They believed and obeyed God...all </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">HEROES !</span></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">OK, one more verse for the road. Turn if you would to John 15:13. "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO !</span> Jesus was talking about two things here. Of course the first was denoting Himself laying down His life for us all. The second example of laying down one's life is for us all. It means that I put away my selfishness and pride. It means that I esteem others more than myself and actually show it by taking my time, talents and provision to help others who are in need. <span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO ! </span><span style="color:#000099;">So, my dear brothers and sisters, are you concerned about what God thinks? Do you love righteousness and abhor evil? Are you willing to tell the truth even at your own peril? Do you forgive others who have wronged you quickly? Do you seek reconciliation with someone to keep peace..even if you did nothing wrong? Are you willing to spend your precious time helping someone who is less fortunate than you? Then you are my </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">HERO!</span></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">And P.S. Instead of honoring those who deserve honor only once a year, let's pay tribute, serve and obey every day. In our hearts every day is Christmas. In our hearts every day is Easter. In our hearts every day is the day in which we should respect and honor those who are deserving.</span></strong>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8636858551766411951.post-18303287214709573042009-10-29T09:58:00.019-04:002009-11-05T22:35:03.789-05:00THE FARMER'S ATTITUDE<strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVSVo0iXkvjMlrtga16lGYcr5mep2slkxgMAc_pbO9t5dPAZD6yjb_heafK1RwAb_6Oc4V9H8_B6ojoWiexkRwhDPdD1fQD7-fu5HFKTMi-gwRGgu5C9wPXWHuEgoWC4fkZIa-L009GIi/s1600-h/THE+FARMERS+ATTITUDE.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398021322409647474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBVSVo0iXkvjMlrtga16lGYcr5mep2slkxgMAc_pbO9t5dPAZD6yjb_heafK1RwAb_6Oc4V9H8_B6ojoWiexkRwhDPdD1fQD7-fu5HFKTMi-gwRGgu5C9wPXWHuEgoWC4fkZIa-L009GIi/s400/THE+FARMERS+ATTITUDE.jpg" /></a> <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">The above picture is of my beloved Granddaddy Reid. He had his home going a little over a year ago. He is ever on my mind and this message will be a tribute to him. His life is a testimony of what Jesus can do for a person. In the 1950's, Grandaddy Reid gave his life to the Lord. There was an instant transformation, something most of us do not experience. For the most, our transformation is an ever increasing event, but that is OK because God did say we will be changed from glory to glory. A little bit by little bit. I guess the most amazing quality about my Granddaddy Reid was that once he put his hands to the plow, he never looked back. Once he decided to follow Jesus, his dedication never wavered. Never ! And you want to know something else? He had the farmer's attitude. That is what I want to share with you today. Do you have a minute? Thanks, and I am so joyful that I have yet another opportunity to share more thoughts from the throne with my dearly beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord. And if you haven't decided to follow Jesus yet and inherit eternal life, well then maybe this is your hour...you are only a prayer away.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Let's begin as we always do. May we gather together on our knees as we approach Almighty God with our hearts, hoping to touch His as He surely has ours. </span><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Glorious Father God, we humble ourselves under Your mighty hand. Thank You for Jesus, Your Word and Holy Spirit. Place within us a great thirst for You and righteousness. Transform us into the image of Your dear Son. Reduce us to love. Create within us a great joyful expectation of Your Coming. Use us as Your light in this dark world we pray. We receive Your love....please receive ours too. AMEN. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Well, let's throw out a bomb shell right off. Turn, if you will, to Hebrews 6:12. It reads, "We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and PATIENCE inherit what has been promised. Did I lose any of you? Most don't want to talk about the patience thing...but we must.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Many people shy away from praying for patience because of their misconception of the following verse. In Romans 5:3 we read: "But we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces patience. Have you ever heard someone say,"Oh, don't pray for patience because it means we will have to go through some kind of suffering?" But let's continue in Romans to get the bigger picture. Verses 4-5 says, "Patience produces character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts(which means we can trust Him) by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us." Don't we want to display the character of Jesus? It takes time. That is probably the one area I am having trouble with as far as being patient is concerned. Waiting on righteous fruit to be formed in me. I want to be like Jesus...NOW. God says that it will come. And it will !! Why does Father God talk so much about suffering, tribulation and the like? How does going through the fire of life cause us to grow up in Christ Jesus? Well, that question will be answered more fully in a future study. For now, let's just ponder a simplified version. When you go through a test or trial, does it cause your flesh to act in an unChrist-like way? God knows how to draw out what only He knows is in our hearts. The things that must be crucified. We see an ugliness come out during our crisis then we look at it; we ask forgiveness (if it caused us to sin); then we ask for the Holy Spirit to help us come up higher in that area. </span><span style="color:#993399;">DON'T STOP PRAYING FOR YOUR LOVED ONES !!</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Are you praying and praying for that loved one, friend or co-worker to be brought into fellowship with the Lord Jesus to seemingly no avail? You may even see them getting worse. But good news ! Go to I Corinthians 3:6,7. Let's read, "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." Here we see that Paul was sowing the seed of the gospel. Another came along and watered it (preached it some more). But God is the One who brings the soul harvest. He also brings the prayer harvest. Try not to agonize over that unanswered prayer concerning your loved one because God does and will answer prayer. He will bring a harvest when it is time. That reminds me of a verse in John 11:39,40. This was the story where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. But Martha (the sister of Lazarus) had some doubts about the power Jesus had at His disposal. She (and many more too, I would imagine) just couldn't get herself ready to receive a miracle. Her believing was stuck on the circumstances surrounding the event and not on God's Word. That's what happens when we take our faith eyes off the promises of God and His faithfulness. Our problem becomes bigger then God. OK, back to John, and we read: "Take away the stone," He said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." (Martha was also upset that Jesus didn't get there sooner...hey Martha, didn't you get the memo? The promises come by faith and patience!) Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" </span><span style="color:#993399;">DON'T STOP PRAYING FOR YOUR LOVED ONES !!</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">I look at patience like this: I see a promise in God's Word (and often even things I hear the Holy Spirit saying to my spirit); I believe it and then I wait for God to fulfill His part which is to perform what He promised to do. I must admit that God, most of the time, causes me to wait on almost everything. With that said, how about some more scripture on this most important subject? Here goes....fasten your seat belt ladies and gentlemen, we are coming in for a landing. "But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the Word, retain it, and by patience produce a crop." (Luke 8:15) This was Jesus explaining the Word being sowed in our hearts. This one in particular described the heart which was good ground. In Romans 8:24,25 we see that hope (or fulfilled promise) is the end item of our faith. It says: "But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." OK, one more for good measure shall we? "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops patience. Patience must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. </span><span style="color:#993399;">OUCH, HALLELUJAH !!</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>"But Brother Kenny G., what does all this have to do with the farmer?" Glad you asked. Have you ever noticed that much of the examples and analogies in Scripture have to do with agriculture? The people's of the day usually understood such things because many of them were farmers. So, what exactly is the farmer's attitude? Let the Holy Word speak to us again. "Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near." The farmer is patient as he waits for the plants to be fed and come to maturity. I believe that God is telling us to wait, and be patient, for all things which come from Him. That includes His promises and our prayers. My dear brothers and sisters, do you have the <span style="color:#993399;">FARMERS ATTITUDE?</span></strong></span><br /><br /><p></p>jehovah productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516073503666285812noreply@blogger.com0