Act 24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Act 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Act 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Act 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
Luk 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luk 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Luk 14:25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
Luk 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luk 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Luk 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luk 14:29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Luk 14:30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luk 14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Luk 14:32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
Luk 14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Luk 14:34 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Luk 14:35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
40 Years In The Wilderness
1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Greetings Brethren in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Before I start let me say I am giving this Word of my testimony publicly as the Lord has called me to declare his Word and share my little piece the Lord has given me with the rest of the body. Thereby no one will ever be able to say how wonderful I am, or any other blah blah blah about me. Let me be clear, this is soooooo not about me. I bring nothing apart from Christ in me and I am dead in him with my life hid with God in Christ. Praise the LORD. ...This has been a year of tribulation without a doubt. The loss of a dear friend and brother in Christ David Meyer. I knew David about 7 years and during that time I learned many things. God used David to bring forth some key pieces in the understanding of prophetic metaphor, but I also learned how easy it is to take your eyes off God and look at flesh and become lukewarm and double minded. Some of you may know the Lord led myself and a couple other brethren to start a outreach connected to LTM on Paltalk Chat Service. During that time we saw growth and the Lord blessed the effort. Soon however it began to trouble me and I did not know why exactly. I later learned it was that I had sin in the camp and was sharing the gospel in sin. David Meyer was taken ill, I myself suffered a terrible backsliding. Without a doubt these were both judgments from God.
This trial was used of God to tear down an awful strong hold where Satan got a strong hold on me when I was a child of 6 traumatizing me to the point that I developed a form of D.I.D. aka. multiple personality disorder. Now in my case this did not lead to my have an alter personality so my mind did not suffer a complete split, but many times in my life it affected my behavior and I did not understand many of my own actions. But what it did was create a compartment in my mind as a dissociative place I could escape the torment and pain and fear that came upon me as a child, where I also was cast into prison 10 days by Satan.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
The number here in God's prophetic metaphor means the entire time of testing. Like for example:Gen 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
You can research it further if you would like to see more, but its clean ten is the number of testing. When I was 19 I declared myself for the Lord but was in deep bondage to Satan an bound in chains of witchcraft and sorcery and Satan had been developing this alter personality thru severe torment and the use of illicit drugs leading me to practice forbidden occult means of entering the demonic spirit realm. This grew and grew and eventually in my early 20's I encountered methamphetamine, which only enabled longer and longer periods of escape from reality in the altered state. Now I was aware of this but in deep denial and I did repent after each episode but continued to backslide over and over bringing more and more devils each time. I eventually married at 25 and had a step son and 2 beautiful biological children, a son , then a daughter. I tried desperately to maintain reality and work to provide for them, but this programmed stronghold in my subconscious mind was always pulling on me. When you get into this realm of which craft you are literally bypassing the conscious mind and engaged directly with fallen angels in the subconscious mind, also called devils or demons.
This went on for years and years with Marijuana being the link from each methamphetamine experience. I was truly in torment, but trying to keep a stiff upper lip as it were. My sin eventually found me out and committed some crimes as a result of this 20 years after becoming addicted to drugs as a teenager of 15. This ever growing strong hold destroyed my reality, and I lost the very thing that was most precious that I loved, my family. I was deceived into trading my family for a fantasy that was holding me captive in this alter part of my mind. Over the years I did try to repent thinking it was drugs etc. However I could never hold my ground and eventually after 6 months of being clean, began a backsliding that led to my almost going to prison. The Lord intervened to save my life and soul as I was out of control and headed for the grave. My precious wife also suffered much through this, and she also was tormented as a child and I believe suffered from the similar disorder and so when I hit the wall so to speak, even though I was in the system, she could not face the sin or humiliation and fear that came upon her and she insisted I divorce her.
This was a crushing blow to me as I did truly have repentance, but outside of my awareness the enemy was still working in me and I was not yet possessing the land. As I still was not delivered as I did not know where the strong hold was due to the brain function that puts an amnesic barrier around severe trauma so we an cope with reality. When my father left at age 6, I was crushed and unable to defend myself against the lies Satan told me and so I thought God abandoned me and my Dad did not love me and so I withdrew into this altered state.
During a long probation I had 4 shoulder surgeries which also caused me to gain weight and I began to have severe back spasms but did not know what the problem was at the time. The Dr.s eventually gave me Oxycotine and I became addicted. So this thing was yet again working in me only my behavior was retrained due to my fear and probation. I was compliant and thought I was out of the woods, when at the time of my probation ending the Dr. abruptly cut me off of the pain meds and I relapsed to street drugs. At this time the backsliding was so server I lost the ability to pray or talk to God which I had never experienced and it horrified me. I was utterly cut off from God and knew it. God in his infinite mercy caused me to began fasting in order to spark prayer again and assuage his wrath from me. He also afflicted another brother at one point who was laying in his bed thinking he was going to die, thank you Jesus and thank you brother.
This went on for five months, the number of death. Rev 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
This signifies being held captive by the powers of darkness. I was conscious of being held prisoner and could only wait on the Lord for my deliverance. While I was in trouble the Lord gave me enough faith to believe he would deliver me. Thank you Lord. At the end of this trial I was arrested by God, not breaking any law accept unlawful possession of a controlled substance. But the people I was associating with to get the drugs had caused a disruption previously at a business and the police where called and I was searched. Thank you Jesus. I was able to get out of jail with out seeing the judge as there was no crime against other people. It took another few weeks but I finally broke and repented, and when I confessed to the Lord, he moved in and tore down the entire strong hold and showed me where the devil had been playing hide and seek and he broke the back of the strong man. He also gave me much mercy as this thing came upon me as a young child but I did have to repent of that which was my own lust and sin before he moved in and ran the rest of the enemy out of the land. Thank you Jesus. I truly am in awe of God and was so thankful I could feel the cool breath and the fire I was in was removed. and the hedge of protection even the wall of fire about me, returned.....
I humbled myself and said well this is okay, I will get thru it the Lord is with me. I plead guilty to felony unlawful possession of methamphetamine, and accepted responsibility before the heavenly judge and the earthly and got a year probation. I figured I will use this to learn and not take RX meds and get in shape. 3 weeks later I went to probation to check in.
Exo 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Then Pharaoh handed me a letter saying you do not qualify for supervision at this time..Parting of the red sea and Jordan before my very eyes. ..and I said what they don't have the man power to supervise felony drug convictions... Pharoah just glared at me thru the eyes of this woman probation officer and she stood mute and refused to answer me her countenance reflecting Satan's contempt that God check mated him in his attempt to put me back in prison, literally. I was already moving away and you could have knocked me over with a feather. This was a few days after I quit taking Rx drugs for with drawl from the other drugs and 7 days after I quit and said no more and threw the cable out of the house cutting the head of the black snake and cleaned house of any idols within or without. and turned to God Almighty with a whole heart, I received the anointing of the Holy Ghost at the end of a 10 year test literally and 27 years after becoming Christian, the number of books in the NT. If any of you think you have time for entertainment or have other idols. Jesus will not stand among them though his hand may be on your life working with you. When I received the Holy Ghost I was crying like a baby for God to help, with all the desperation I have as a human being. Thank you JESUS for my complete deliverance 40 years after being taken captive in the wilderness at six years old. I am entering the promised land and am striving to diligently hearken unto all he has commanded me to do that my days may be prolonged in the land where he brought me out of the wilderness across the Jordan , to possess. Praise the LORD our God for he is a consuming fire. I tend to be a little in personality like Peter. Not comparing to him, just his personality reminds me of me. I am learning temperance as after taking enough drugs to kill 10 elephants, I lack temperance in controlling my emotions and like Peter I tend to grab the sword and start swinging. The Lord is tempering me and helping me to crucify this and receive his correction. I love you all in Christ and would rather tell the whole truth and suffer scoffing and rejection and some embarrassment as I am chief among fools, than to be silent in pride. Thank you Jesus my Lord , my God.
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
1Co 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Greetings Brethren in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Before I start let me say I am giving this Word of my testimony publicly as the Lord has called me to declare his Word and share my little piece the Lord has given me with the rest of the body. Thereby no one will ever be able to say how wonderful I am, or any other blah blah blah about me. Let me be clear, this is soooooo not about me. I bring nothing apart from Christ in me and I am dead in him with my life hid with God in Christ. Praise the LORD. ...This has been a year of tribulation without a doubt. The loss of a dear friend and brother in Christ David Meyer. I knew David about 7 years and during that time I learned many things. God used David to bring forth some key pieces in the understanding of prophetic metaphor, but I also learned how easy it is to take your eyes off God and look at flesh and become lukewarm and double minded. Some of you may know the Lord led myself and a couple other brethren to start a outreach connected to LTM on Paltalk Chat Service. During that time we saw growth and the Lord blessed the effort. Soon however it began to trouble me and I did not know why exactly. I later learned it was that I had sin in the camp and was sharing the gospel in sin. David Meyer was taken ill, I myself suffered a terrible backsliding. Without a doubt these were both judgments from God.
This trial was used of God to tear down an awful strong hold where Satan got a strong hold on me when I was a child of 6 traumatizing me to the point that I developed a form of D.I.D. aka. multiple personality disorder. Now in my case this did not lead to my have an alter personality so my mind did not suffer a complete split, but many times in my life it affected my behavior and I did not understand many of my own actions. But what it did was create a compartment in my mind as a dissociative place I could escape the torment and pain and fear that came upon me as a child, where I also was cast into prison 10 days by Satan.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
The number here in God's prophetic metaphor means the entire time of testing. Like for example:Gen 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
You can research it further if you would like to see more, but its clean ten is the number of testing. When I was 19 I declared myself for the Lord but was in deep bondage to Satan an bound in chains of witchcraft and sorcery and Satan had been developing this alter personality thru severe torment and the use of illicit drugs leading me to practice forbidden occult means of entering the demonic spirit realm. This grew and grew and eventually in my early 20's I encountered methamphetamine, which only enabled longer and longer periods of escape from reality in the altered state. Now I was aware of this but in deep denial and I did repent after each episode but continued to backslide over and over bringing more and more devils each time. I eventually married at 25 and had a step son and 2 beautiful biological children, a son , then a daughter. I tried desperately to maintain reality and work to provide for them, but this programmed stronghold in my subconscious mind was always pulling on me. When you get into this realm of which craft you are literally bypassing the conscious mind and engaged directly with fallen angels in the subconscious mind, also called devils or demons.
This went on for years and years with Marijuana being the link from each methamphetamine experience. I was truly in torment, but trying to keep a stiff upper lip as it were. My sin eventually found me out and committed some crimes as a result of this 20 years after becoming addicted to drugs as a teenager of 15. This ever growing strong hold destroyed my reality, and I lost the very thing that was most precious that I loved, my family. I was deceived into trading my family for a fantasy that was holding me captive in this alter part of my mind. Over the years I did try to repent thinking it was drugs etc. However I could never hold my ground and eventually after 6 months of being clean, began a backsliding that led to my almost going to prison. The Lord intervened to save my life and soul as I was out of control and headed for the grave. My precious wife also suffered much through this, and she also was tormented as a child and I believe suffered from the similar disorder and so when I hit the wall so to speak, even though I was in the system, she could not face the sin or humiliation and fear that came upon her and she insisted I divorce her.
This was a crushing blow to me as I did truly have repentance, but outside of my awareness the enemy was still working in me and I was not yet possessing the land. As I still was not delivered as I did not know where the strong hold was due to the brain function that puts an amnesic barrier around severe trauma so we an cope with reality. When my father left at age 6, I was crushed and unable to defend myself against the lies Satan told me and so I thought God abandoned me and my Dad did not love me and so I withdrew into this altered state.
During a long probation I had 4 shoulder surgeries which also caused me to gain weight and I began to have severe back spasms but did not know what the problem was at the time. The Dr.s eventually gave me Oxycotine and I became addicted. So this thing was yet again working in me only my behavior was retrained due to my fear and probation. I was compliant and thought I was out of the woods, when at the time of my probation ending the Dr. abruptly cut me off of the pain meds and I relapsed to street drugs. At this time the backsliding was so server I lost the ability to pray or talk to God which I had never experienced and it horrified me. I was utterly cut off from God and knew it. God in his infinite mercy caused me to began fasting in order to spark prayer again and assuage his wrath from me. He also afflicted another brother at one point who was laying in his bed thinking he was going to die, thank you Jesus and thank you brother.
This went on for five months, the number of death. Rev 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
This signifies being held captive by the powers of darkness. I was conscious of being held prisoner and could only wait on the Lord for my deliverance. While I was in trouble the Lord gave me enough faith to believe he would deliver me. Thank you Lord. At the end of this trial I was arrested by God, not breaking any law accept unlawful possession of a controlled substance. But the people I was associating with to get the drugs had caused a disruption previously at a business and the police where called and I was searched. Thank you Jesus. I was able to get out of jail with out seeing the judge as there was no crime against other people. It took another few weeks but I finally broke and repented, and when I confessed to the Lord, he moved in and tore down the entire strong hold and showed me where the devil had been playing hide and seek and he broke the back of the strong man. He also gave me much mercy as this thing came upon me as a young child but I did have to repent of that which was my own lust and sin before he moved in and ran the rest of the enemy out of the land. Thank you Jesus. I truly am in awe of God and was so thankful I could feel the cool breath and the fire I was in was removed. and the hedge of protection even the wall of fire about me, returned.....
I humbled myself and said well this is okay, I will get thru it the Lord is with me. I plead guilty to felony unlawful possession of methamphetamine, and accepted responsibility before the heavenly judge and the earthly and got a year probation. I figured I will use this to learn and not take RX meds and get in shape. 3 weeks later I went to probation to check in.
Exo 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Then Pharaoh handed me a letter saying you do not qualify for supervision at this time..Parting of the red sea and Jordan before my very eyes. ..and I said what they don't have the man power to supervise felony drug convictions... Pharoah just glared at me thru the eyes of this woman probation officer and she stood mute and refused to answer me her countenance reflecting Satan's contempt that God check mated him in his attempt to put me back in prison, literally. I was already moving away and you could have knocked me over with a feather. This was a few days after I quit taking Rx drugs for with drawl from the other drugs and 7 days after I quit and said no more and threw the cable out of the house cutting the head of the black snake and cleaned house of any idols within or without. and turned to God Almighty with a whole heart, I received the anointing of the Holy Ghost at the end of a 10 year test literally and 27 years after becoming Christian, the number of books in the NT. If any of you think you have time for entertainment or have other idols. Jesus will not stand among them though his hand may be on your life working with you. When I received the Holy Ghost I was crying like a baby for God to help, with all the desperation I have as a human being. Thank you JESUS for my complete deliverance 40 years after being taken captive in the wilderness at six years old. I am entering the promised land and am striving to diligently hearken unto all he has commanded me to do that my days may be prolonged in the land where he brought me out of the wilderness across the Jordan , to possess. Praise the LORD our God for he is a consuming fire. I tend to be a little in personality like Peter. Not comparing to him, just his personality reminds me of me. I am learning temperance as after taking enough drugs to kill 10 elephants, I lack temperance in controlling my emotions and like Peter I tend to grab the sword and start swinging. The Lord is tempering me and helping me to crucify this and receive his correction. I love you all in Christ and would rather tell the whole truth and suffer scoffing and rejection and some embarrassment as I am chief among fools, than to be silent in pride. Thank you Jesus my Lord , my God.
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Friday, June 25, 2010
A Time & Season For Everything
Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecc 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecc 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
I just was reminded of this verse after I was shown by the Lord my path is changing in him. I have been working on the internet for approximately 5 years, and in that time have seen many amazing things. Recent changes in administrative policy in the LTM Online Chat Room at Paltalk, have helped me to see the Lord wants me to turn a new page. This type of clear direction from the Lord is most precious to me. I dearly love all I have been blessed to meet and know in Christ, and look forward to continuing those relationships in the Lord Jesus. Steven has been gracious to take the administrative responsibility and I pray the Lord to guide him in his new, most sobering responsibilities, and I urge all to keep him and all in Beaver Dam in our prayers. The loss of a husband, especially one so full of love for his wife and children is a tremendous loss and it takes a long time to heal.
Pastor was used by the Lord in mentoring many in ministry and the faith, I was blessed to be one of those. Now we all are challenged by God to follow him, in whatever he will call upon us to do. I cant imagine what my life would be like not having spent time with David. His family is in my view, not the ministry he steered, is his greatest testimony of his love for God and the true witness of his faith.God says a Pastor must be able to rule his own house well as a witness in order to stand as a Pastor. And clearly David was able to stand. To see the love his family has for him has in itself has had a deep and lasting effect on how I see my relationship and responsibility to my own children. I want to thank all for the encouragement offered me in my time as admin of the Last Trumpet Outpost on Paltalk. To the Lord be the glory.
Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecc 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecc 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
I just was reminded of this verse after I was shown by the Lord my path is changing in him. I have been working on the internet for approximately 5 years, and in that time have seen many amazing things. Recent changes in administrative policy in the LTM Online Chat Room at Paltalk, have helped me to see the Lord wants me to turn a new page. This type of clear direction from the Lord is most precious to me. I dearly love all I have been blessed to meet and know in Christ, and look forward to continuing those relationships in the Lord Jesus. Steven has been gracious to take the administrative responsibility and I pray the Lord to guide him in his new, most sobering responsibilities, and I urge all to keep him and all in Beaver Dam in our prayers. The loss of a husband, especially one so full of love for his wife and children is a tremendous loss and it takes a long time to heal.
Pastor was used by the Lord in mentoring many in ministry and the faith, I was blessed to be one of those. Now we all are challenged by God to follow him, in whatever he will call upon us to do. I cant imagine what my life would be like not having spent time with David. His family is in my view, not the ministry he steered, is his greatest testimony of his love for God and the true witness of his faith.God says a Pastor must be able to rule his own house well as a witness in order to stand as a Pastor. And clearly David was able to stand. To see the love his family has for him has in itself has had a deep and lasting effect on how I see my relationship and responsibility to my own children. I want to thank all for the encouragement offered me in my time as admin of the Last Trumpet Outpost on Paltalk. To the Lord be the glory.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Are You In The Inner Court? Or the outer court?
Rev 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jdg 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
All who fear God, feel an urgency right now to examine ourselves to see whether we be in the faith and prepare for translation. The Lord is putting the finishing touches on his people who remain behind in the world. As we see the day approaching we are admonished to not forsake the coming together to bolster one another, as is the custom of some, even more as you see THE DAY approaching. The day approaching looks to be more than one thing. The day star rising in us which is the sign from God that salvation is working in us. As our hearts are being converted and Christ if being formed in us. I also just was wondering if the day approaching is also the day of our conversion, when the Lord carries us thru to the inner court. It is true that this refers to the end when the Lord appears visibly and at that event time is stopped, when we are converted and both as David would say, visibly,butled with the Holy Ghost, Jesus did return to us. the only thing that matters is that we travail from being a baby, until we are delivered, and filled with the Holy Ghost. The character God builds in us through this process is what equips as for what is ahead. Continual preparation so as things come up we are continually prepared. Nice thanks Lord. This is all that matters. I believe this as the Lord says thousands will fall at thy left..and 10,000 on thy right but it wall not come nigh to thee, this seems to be indicating what I was just saying. As long as we remain on the highway of holiness where no beast can come, we have all we need, as he is our provider. The travail of our death as we enter the fellowship of his suffering. I am deeply humbled, as I recently had a difficult trial, I fell backward in sin and was turned over for the destruction of the flesh unto the saving of the soul. While I sought freedom and desired to get out of Satan's dungeon, I was powerless. God let me continue in this bondage until such time and I was able to face the truth of my condition in the present tense, condemnation was on me and I was dead in sin. This was the most horrifying thing I have ever been thru, if those who labor build without the Lord, they do it in vain. The flood continually coming out of the dragons mouth, washes you away and your taken captive by the devil at his will for not being in obedience to God. What God showed me in the last couple days, was my utter powerlessness and death, when I finally saw the strong hold, I had to confess out loud to God all that he had shown me, as I confessed I was aware and saw him calling to remembrance the Word he wanted and as I confessed I watched each confession and point of sin, renewed and healed, As he applied the Word. Dear brethren,I cannot understate the sense of urgency, that we remain in a continual state of examining ourselves to see if we are in the faith. This is another way of saying....
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
I received reproof for my conduct and back slidings, it was difficult to face. The Lord gave me grace to see him working in me, comforting me. He kept me not sleeping much or eating much for 3 days and 3 nights, after which he broke the stronghold and I felt the spirit of death leaving,and the river started flowing. If any sin has a foothold, even if you are just struggling and cant see it yet, cry out. HELP ME JESUS at the top of your voice. Sound the the alarm, blow the trumpet. He will, at the point of repentance move on our heart.In that he reveals our powerlessness and is glorified by our confession and praise him for his rod and staff for they comfort us. Praise the Lord. Also as we mature in the faith, the stakes go up and we are help accountable for what we understand. Sin is death and we immediately begin to suffer death in that sin and loss begins as Satan comes but to steal and destroy. Peradventure, If the Lord would give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,that they MAY recover themselves, who are taken captive by the devil at his will. If we are struggling with sin, be advised as you reaching for the sin and trespass into Satan's kingdom, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE YOU WILL COME OUT. The biggest danger is the doubt and unbelief that comes with the death, for faith and confidence in him are our shield. So as soon as the devil comes in he strips us of our armor. God judges the thoughts and intents of the heart, if he sees we know better but and don't look to him, he will answer us according to our idols if we are in sin. We are then wandering in the wilderness eating our fill of fowl/foul sin until we vomit. Only his Word clarifies our true motives, and the flesh is so wicked, we must watch over our mind with extreme diligence. For 120 days I was aware that I was in the outer court. I needed that reproof, if God did not show me that, I may have not have finished the race by receiving a finished work. He doesn't want us scared, that fear paralyzes, he wants faith and reverence in our fear of him. He wants us to behold the goodness (cross) and the severity of God,(he is not a respecter of man and will thrust all who wont submit into eternal separation. This is what they love so they will eat of it forever. Those who wont repent receive the slow death in this realm and don't know it, waking up in hell is a slow death, and are continually aware that the torment will never end. Many are called and few are CHOSEN, those with him, present tense seated in heavenly places in Christ, are called/hear the gospel and believe, and chosen,God sees us respond so he moves in our heart applying the blood,and faithful, the only way to enter the inner court is to be in a constant fellowship with the Lord following after him walking on his Word and he keeps us faithful because we are submitting to the constant discipline of being in his Word. Salvation is not our understanding of what God is doing, or as I now clearly understand, salvation is a work not in our mind. But a work in our soul and spirit that yields a renewing of the mind as we cannot even think to look at the Word of God accept he draw us. Our flesh hates God and must be by the power of his Spirit and Word in us be brought in submission and made to obey held in subjection by the working of our salvation and obedience to the Word. The renewing of the mind is the continual washing of our mind in the Word. Walking as a bond servant, submitting to the yoke and leading of the Lord. We need to be in the inner court when time stops, either by your leaving the earth or at our translation. Get in while you can, this is the time of the bolted door. God is gathering us all into the ark of his covenant in Jesus Christ that we are hid today from his indignation. I have been so blessed by the present tense. If we don't apply the Word in real time now, and look to the future or the past, we will miss of what God is showing us. I know this as the Lord commands us to not think about tomorrow. As we enter into salvation and are passed to life in the present tense we are in heaven,now and forever. If your in trouble cry out. If your stuck keep confessing your faults to those God has in your life that they can pray, if are too ashamed to tell the truth, then pride needs to be subdued,and let the Lord sit in the seat of the king, in our hearts. I witnessed,looking back, God moving some of the crushing burden to those who are faithful in prayer. During the darkest hrs of my trial, the trial for my eternal life. God worked salvation in a brother next door. I at the time was seeing him doing things thru me, while I was paralyzed in my sin. This was an object lesson for me to see how much I contribute to his work, nada. It is one thing to know and confess we bring nothing to the table. It, is another think entirely to subdue the flesh. Part of the reason we admonished to be in the Word, is there are things God wants to take away from us that we can see until the Word is applied in our hearts. God delivered somebody by the trial I was going through. Our nature is such that we cant endure too much praise, I find that if you remain humble and trust God he will see to the encouragement you need, not the attention flesh wants. The walk with God is not even comparable to anything we see in the world. In the world people love to man please and as Pastor would say, pass Glory around. Haha..Thank you Lord for all the memories. The point I am driving at is that many in the body are being hurt by lack of knowledge. God says his people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. What we do not know in the Word can cause us to suffer loss. The only way to completely subdue the flesh is by fasting and prayer. The supernatural component in fasting is a amazing and necessary gift. The power of fasting was just used in my life in a way I can only describe is like the paramedics who do the scoop and run when the patient is in bad shape and they need to get moving even before they know the full picture. This mechanism should be known and practiced by all who fear God. Fastings and prayer are an ongoing tool to keep the flesh in subjection, and also a last line of defense when the battle turns for the worst, and the banner needs to be raised, only you dont have the strength to raise it. What then? The Lord caused me to start a modified fast during my trial. The fast in that circumstance I just learned, is a way for God to defer some of his anger and judgment when one of his children falls. I was in those hours of my sin, fearful the Lord was going to smote me where I stood.. Our dear brother , new in Christ, was in his bed unable to get up for almost a week. Toward the end of that, he is laying there in the dark , God says pray for Robert. He has marvelous innocent faith. A real joy to see. God also afflicted my brother to show me the effect of sin on the body, if one part is sick we are all sick. And when I confessed and asked his forgiveness, all he said was I love you. Not only did I have to ask forgiveness for him having to carry part of mine, but for hating him. If or when we choose our own will, we are hating our brothers and sisters and we are whipping and beating the other servants. There is an effect on the entire body. The evil was so heavy at one point, I , while was unable to cry out and being devoured, felt the earth shake under my feet from the evil. So I ask the forgiveness this day from all my brothers and sisters in Christ, for any suffering I caused or grief from my own selfishness. Please forgive me, and pray for all in the body who are in the condition. While my trial was unique in details I am convinced that there are many who are needing more water and food then what there getting and are just not able to see. The ordained process is God gives us all a piece of the picture and we as a body must operate so that we are sharpening each other, and each part of a congregation in the body but I just learned be operating in harmony with God for his will to get done. This means we all have an individual responsibility to the whole body. Submit one to another. The denial of self in this world is a foreign concept. The whole body needs to know that part of loving our neighbor as our self, is denying ourselves for others. This is the most powerful testimony and witness of the gospel. God can do more through submitted Christians. This is a sobering responsibility, as we may if we fall into sin, cause the brethren in our immediate life, to stumble as now the door in their heart connected to you becomes a conduit for evil communication. Thank you to the disciplined prayer warriors, I praise the Lord for that ministry in faithful brothers and sisters. I reached a point of such exasperation at my own sin, if not for all those who God had praying for me, I see I could have very easily not made it out by giving up. I have thought I just need to not give up. What I was able to see with this reproof, is that God is doing it all. I had a bad habit of saying in struggles I gotta do better. I would pray Lord help me do better. That is a problem, what I need to do is do nothing. :) Its me that is in the way. We all died in the garden and we are all resurrected in Christ. But our resurrection is the soul and spirit at this point. So until our bodily resurrection hits the time line and our mortal bodies are quickened, we are still dead in Christ hid in God. It makes total sense but until God showed me what my mind was doing to me, I could not see it. Not because of lack of wanting, the constant washing of our mind in the Word is the only thing that will expose the evil in us we must repent of to finish the race. If you cant pray and have no fellowship, how will you cry out. Who will intercede in prayer, The Holy Ghost, will, however he ordained the process of how we work in the body and help each other. The mechanism God used to pull me out of the fire was the working of his spirit in the body. For a period of time before deliverance he had me confessing the truth of my condition to my brothers and sisters so they could pray and I could be healed. It was a lot easier to repent of the pride once I was shown my actually location outside where the dogs go back to their vomit, thank you Lord, how can we repent if we are blind and cannot see what to pray. The fasting he imposed gave me the spark of his spirit to again be able to pray, then he resurrected me again, from the dead and quickened me in his Word. Through that process he showed me that I would not have been set free, accept he caused me to confess my faults repeatedly to brothers and sisters, caused me to fast, and appeased his anger by sharing the burden with brethren and afflicting our brother here. This is submitting one to another, carrying each others burdens. As I confessed repeatedly he transferred some of the weight to my dear brethren. And as they all prayed over and over period of time, the vial filled up and was poured out, and I began rising out of the fire. And again could see the door of repentance and escape. If anyone thinks they can go in and out of that realm, repent now. The tools you have in the battle walking with him, are absent when we sin. The sea of glass mingled with fire, the picture of our deliverance and salvation, is of us rising above the curse as our bonds are burned off by suffering in the flesh, we cease from sin as we enter the fellowship of his suffering. We enter his rest. I believe for us him swearing they would not enter his rest, means without the finished work of salvation working in us, we cannot enter the inner court and no more go out. I have done the unstable in and out thing, yikes, ouch, don't do that. Our minds are working against us, if we don't every day renew and put on the mind of Christ feasting with the Word at the wedding feast, our natural mind starts to gain ground against us as we fall backward...when we sin in willful disobedience, and resist as our fathers did in the provocation while we walk in the same wilderness, we are testing him, and he will show you his work....of discipline. It grieves our Father when he sees the spirit of Anti Christ standing in the Holy Place, and he will cleanse it, out. With or without our cooperation. Please hold fast to what you have as our eternal lives depend on it. Give all you have and make sure you have your exact spiritual GPS location by steadfastly looking at your reflection in the face of Jesus, he brings us to continued repentance, if we are not working on our salvation we are in jeopardy. Praise the Lord... if we betray him and sin, this is tantamount to accepting 30 pieces of silver, death disguised as sin, from the devil for breaking covenant with the Lord, and at that point we blaspheme making our Holy God out to be a liar by denying his Word in the present tense. We are lost until we repent and enter into the covenant again. The Lord ,he alone is God, the bride is making herself ready as God brings us all to our position in his perfect will. Praise the Lord Jesus..there is nothing greater then his work of salvation at the cross. The unbelief is the serious danger in sin. It overtook and spread in me like a spiritual pathogen. Thanks to all who have been so loving and gracious to me during a difficult trial, God bless you for your continuing efforts, all who labor in the harvest.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jdg 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
All who fear God, feel an urgency right now to examine ourselves to see whether we be in the faith and prepare for translation. The Lord is putting the finishing touches on his people who remain behind in the world. As we see the day approaching we are admonished to not forsake the coming together to bolster one another, as is the custom of some, even more as you see THE DAY approaching. The day approaching looks to be more than one thing. The day star rising in us which is the sign from God that salvation is working in us. As our hearts are being converted and Christ if being formed in us. I also just was wondering if the day approaching is also the day of our conversion, when the Lord carries us thru to the inner court. It is true that this refers to the end when the Lord appears visibly and at that event time is stopped, when we are converted and both as David would say, visibly,butled with the Holy Ghost, Jesus did return to us. the only thing that matters is that we travail from being a baby, until we are delivered, and filled with the Holy Ghost. The character God builds in us through this process is what equips as for what is ahead. Continual preparation so as things come up we are continually prepared. Nice thanks Lord. This is all that matters. I believe this as the Lord says thousands will fall at thy left..and 10,000 on thy right but it wall not come nigh to thee, this seems to be indicating what I was just saying. As long as we remain on the highway of holiness where no beast can come, we have all we need, as he is our provider. The travail of our death as we enter the fellowship of his suffering. I am deeply humbled, as I recently had a difficult trial, I fell backward in sin and was turned over for the destruction of the flesh unto the saving of the soul. While I sought freedom and desired to get out of Satan's dungeon, I was powerless. God let me continue in this bondage until such time and I was able to face the truth of my condition in the present tense, condemnation was on me and I was dead in sin. This was the most horrifying thing I have ever been thru, if those who labor build without the Lord, they do it in vain. The flood continually coming out of the dragons mouth, washes you away and your taken captive by the devil at his will for not being in obedience to God. What God showed me in the last couple days, was my utter powerlessness and death, when I finally saw the strong hold, I had to confess out loud to God all that he had shown me, as I confessed I was aware and saw him calling to remembrance the Word he wanted and as I confessed I watched each confession and point of sin, renewed and healed, As he applied the Word. Dear brethren,I cannot understate the sense of urgency, that we remain in a continual state of examining ourselves to see if we are in the faith. This is another way of saying....
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
I received reproof for my conduct and back slidings, it was difficult to face. The Lord gave me grace to see him working in me, comforting me. He kept me not sleeping much or eating much for 3 days and 3 nights, after which he broke the stronghold and I felt the spirit of death leaving,and the river started flowing. If any sin has a foothold, even if you are just struggling and cant see it yet, cry out. HELP ME JESUS at the top of your voice. Sound the the alarm, blow the trumpet. He will, at the point of repentance move on our heart.In that he reveals our powerlessness and is glorified by our confession and praise him for his rod and staff for they comfort us. Praise the Lord. Also as we mature in the faith, the stakes go up and we are help accountable for what we understand. Sin is death and we immediately begin to suffer death in that sin and loss begins as Satan comes but to steal and destroy. Peradventure, If the Lord would give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,that they MAY recover themselves, who are taken captive by the devil at his will. If we are struggling with sin, be advised as you reaching for the sin and trespass into Satan's kingdom, THERE IS NO GUARANTEE YOU WILL COME OUT. The biggest danger is the doubt and unbelief that comes with the death, for faith and confidence in him are our shield. So as soon as the devil comes in he strips us of our armor. God judges the thoughts and intents of the heart, if he sees we know better but and don't look to him, he will answer us according to our idols if we are in sin. We are then wandering in the wilderness eating our fill of fowl/foul sin until we vomit. Only his Word clarifies our true motives, and the flesh is so wicked, we must watch over our mind with extreme diligence. For 120 days I was aware that I was in the outer court. I needed that reproof, if God did not show me that, I may have not have finished the race by receiving a finished work. He doesn't want us scared, that fear paralyzes, he wants faith and reverence in our fear of him. He wants us to behold the goodness (cross) and the severity of God,(he is not a respecter of man and will thrust all who wont submit into eternal separation. This is what they love so they will eat of it forever. Those who wont repent receive the slow death in this realm and don't know it, waking up in hell is a slow death, and are continually aware that the torment will never end. Many are called and few are CHOSEN, those with him, present tense seated in heavenly places in Christ, are called/hear the gospel and believe, and chosen,God sees us respond so he moves in our heart applying the blood,and faithful, the only way to enter the inner court is to be in a constant fellowship with the Lord following after him walking on his Word and he keeps us faithful because we are submitting to the constant discipline of being in his Word. Salvation is not our understanding of what God is doing, or as I now clearly understand, salvation is a work not in our mind. But a work in our soul and spirit that yields a renewing of the mind as we cannot even think to look at the Word of God accept he draw us. Our flesh hates God and must be by the power of his Spirit and Word in us be brought in submission and made to obey held in subjection by the working of our salvation and obedience to the Word. The renewing of the mind is the continual washing of our mind in the Word. Walking as a bond servant, submitting to the yoke and leading of the Lord. We need to be in the inner court when time stops, either by your leaving the earth or at our translation. Get in while you can, this is the time of the bolted door. God is gathering us all into the ark of his covenant in Jesus Christ that we are hid today from his indignation. I have been so blessed by the present tense. If we don't apply the Word in real time now, and look to the future or the past, we will miss of what God is showing us. I know this as the Lord commands us to not think about tomorrow. As we enter into salvation and are passed to life in the present tense we are in heaven,now and forever. If your in trouble cry out. If your stuck keep confessing your faults to those God has in your life that they can pray, if are too ashamed to tell the truth, then pride needs to be subdued,and let the Lord sit in the seat of the king, in our hearts. I witnessed,looking back, God moving some of the crushing burden to those who are faithful in prayer. During the darkest hrs of my trial, the trial for my eternal life. God worked salvation in a brother next door. I at the time was seeing him doing things thru me, while I was paralyzed in my sin. This was an object lesson for me to see how much I contribute to his work, nada. It is one thing to know and confess we bring nothing to the table. It, is another think entirely to subdue the flesh. Part of the reason we admonished to be in the Word, is there are things God wants to take away from us that we can see until the Word is applied in our hearts. God delivered somebody by the trial I was going through. Our nature is such that we cant endure too much praise, I find that if you remain humble and trust God he will see to the encouragement you need, not the attention flesh wants. The walk with God is not even comparable to anything we see in the world. In the world people love to man please and as Pastor would say, pass Glory around. Haha..Thank you Lord for all the memories. The point I am driving at is that many in the body are being hurt by lack of knowledge. God says his people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. What we do not know in the Word can cause us to suffer loss. The only way to completely subdue the flesh is by fasting and prayer. The supernatural component in fasting is a amazing and necessary gift. The power of fasting was just used in my life in a way I can only describe is like the paramedics who do the scoop and run when the patient is in bad shape and they need to get moving even before they know the full picture. This mechanism should be known and practiced by all who fear God. Fastings and prayer are an ongoing tool to keep the flesh in subjection, and also a last line of defense when the battle turns for the worst, and the banner needs to be raised, only you dont have the strength to raise it. What then? The Lord caused me to start a modified fast during my trial. The fast in that circumstance I just learned, is a way for God to defer some of his anger and judgment when one of his children falls. I was in those hours of my sin, fearful the Lord was going to smote me where I stood.. Our dear brother , new in Christ, was in his bed unable to get up for almost a week. Toward the end of that, he is laying there in the dark , God says pray for Robert. He has marvelous innocent faith. A real joy to see. God also afflicted my brother to show me the effect of sin on the body, if one part is sick we are all sick. And when I confessed and asked his forgiveness, all he said was I love you. Not only did I have to ask forgiveness for him having to carry part of mine, but for hating him. If or when we choose our own will, we are hating our brothers and sisters and we are whipping and beating the other servants. There is an effect on the entire body. The evil was so heavy at one point, I , while was unable to cry out and being devoured, felt the earth shake under my feet from the evil. So I ask the forgiveness this day from all my brothers and sisters in Christ, for any suffering I caused or grief from my own selfishness. Please forgive me, and pray for all in the body who are in the condition. While my trial was unique in details I am convinced that there are many who are needing more water and food then what there getting and are just not able to see. The ordained process is God gives us all a piece of the picture and we as a body must operate so that we are sharpening each other, and each part of a congregation in the body but I just learned be operating in harmony with God for his will to get done. This means we all have an individual responsibility to the whole body. Submit one to another. The denial of self in this world is a foreign concept. The whole body needs to know that part of loving our neighbor as our self, is denying ourselves for others. This is the most powerful testimony and witness of the gospel. God can do more through submitted Christians. This is a sobering responsibility, as we may if we fall into sin, cause the brethren in our immediate life, to stumble as now the door in their heart connected to you becomes a conduit for evil communication. Thank you to the disciplined prayer warriors, I praise the Lord for that ministry in faithful brothers and sisters. I reached a point of such exasperation at my own sin, if not for all those who God had praying for me, I see I could have very easily not made it out by giving up. I have thought I just need to not give up. What I was able to see with this reproof, is that God is doing it all. I had a bad habit of saying in struggles I gotta do better. I would pray Lord help me do better. That is a problem, what I need to do is do nothing. :) Its me that is in the way. We all died in the garden and we are all resurrected in Christ. But our resurrection is the soul and spirit at this point. So until our bodily resurrection hits the time line and our mortal bodies are quickened, we are still dead in Christ hid in God. It makes total sense but until God showed me what my mind was doing to me, I could not see it. Not because of lack of wanting, the constant washing of our mind in the Word is the only thing that will expose the evil in us we must repent of to finish the race. If you cant pray and have no fellowship, how will you cry out. Who will intercede in prayer, The Holy Ghost, will, however he ordained the process of how we work in the body and help each other. The mechanism God used to pull me out of the fire was the working of his spirit in the body. For a period of time before deliverance he had me confessing the truth of my condition to my brothers and sisters so they could pray and I could be healed. It was a lot easier to repent of the pride once I was shown my actually location outside where the dogs go back to their vomit, thank you Lord, how can we repent if we are blind and cannot see what to pray. The fasting he imposed gave me the spark of his spirit to again be able to pray, then he resurrected me again, from the dead and quickened me in his Word. Through that process he showed me that I would not have been set free, accept he caused me to confess my faults repeatedly to brothers and sisters, caused me to fast, and appeased his anger by sharing the burden with brethren and afflicting our brother here. This is submitting one to another, carrying each others burdens. As I confessed repeatedly he transferred some of the weight to my dear brethren. And as they all prayed over and over period of time, the vial filled up and was poured out, and I began rising out of the fire. And again could see the door of repentance and escape. If anyone thinks they can go in and out of that realm, repent now. The tools you have in the battle walking with him, are absent when we sin. The sea of glass mingled with fire, the picture of our deliverance and salvation, is of us rising above the curse as our bonds are burned off by suffering in the flesh, we cease from sin as we enter the fellowship of his suffering. We enter his rest. I believe for us him swearing they would not enter his rest, means without the finished work of salvation working in us, we cannot enter the inner court and no more go out. I have done the unstable in and out thing, yikes, ouch, don't do that. Our minds are working against us, if we don't every day renew and put on the mind of Christ feasting with the Word at the wedding feast, our natural mind starts to gain ground against us as we fall backward...when we sin in willful disobedience, and resist as our fathers did in the provocation while we walk in the same wilderness, we are testing him, and he will show you his work....of discipline. It grieves our Father when he sees the spirit of Anti Christ standing in the Holy Place, and he will cleanse it, out. With or without our cooperation. Please hold fast to what you have as our eternal lives depend on it. Give all you have and make sure you have your exact spiritual GPS location by steadfastly looking at your reflection in the face of Jesus, he brings us to continued repentance, if we are not working on our salvation we are in jeopardy. Praise the Lord... if we betray him and sin, this is tantamount to accepting 30 pieces of silver, death disguised as sin, from the devil for breaking covenant with the Lord, and at that point we blaspheme making our Holy God out to be a liar by denying his Word in the present tense. We are lost until we repent and enter into the covenant again. The Lord ,he alone is God, the bride is making herself ready as God brings us all to our position in his perfect will. Praise the Lord Jesus..there is nothing greater then his work of salvation at the cross. The unbelief is the serious danger in sin. It overtook and spread in me like a spiritual pathogen. Thanks to all who have been so loving and gracious to me during a difficult trial, God bless you for your continuing efforts, all who labor in the harvest.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Isa 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Hello Everyone, Just wanted to say that I feel a renewed spirit in my heart, as we all have grieved the loss of our Pastor and Brother in Christ, David Meyer. I am always in awe when God lets us see his hand in events as we pass thru this world. I have had a trial of my own this year aside from the loss we all have shared. It was a sobering thing to see that where I was standing was not where I perceived. I was reminded by the Lord how he gently speaks to us, to walk after him.
Psa 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Psa 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Psa 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Psa 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Psa 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psa 95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
If we even slightly push aside the voice of the Holy Ghost in our hearts, it is the same exact provocation God is referring to as the verse above and the generation he refers to that tested him. If we see any circumstance that is the same in front of us as in the bible, the Word applies. And it just so happens God Almighty covered every possible eventuality in his instructions to us through his Holy Word. Disciple means one under discipline.So we must receive this discipline and correction with great zeal as God says this is the proof we are sons of God and not bastards lost in the world. Sin blinds the mind and even the subtlest of backsliding, or taking our ease as it were, can lead us over time to be a long ways of track, and we will not realize it until he gives us repentance. Even though this following verse is addressing how to share the truth, we ourselves if we have unrepentant sin or we sit back and take our ease with the knowledge of our salvation, can find ourselves in a position of again being ensnared in sin and find ourselves having to repent from dead works. Something we are also admonished to cease from doing by Paul for the LORD.
2Ti 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2Ti 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
If we find ourselves in sin we are opposed to the truth in some area as a man speaks from the abundance of his heart, and his words lead to actions. Thinking sinful thoughts, saying sinful things, doing sinful deeds. This is the progression that starts with one thought not brought into obedience in Jesus Christ. This is a real time in the present tense process of vigilance over our thoughts. I should probably add that this is the battle ground where we fight to subdue our flesh and die so that Christ may be formed within us. Sin repented of and forsaken is a step closer in the process of becoming 100% submitted to God in our hearts. I know I wanted to believe I was completely serving God. However I know that many of us have received correction from our Lord recently through the shared trial of losing our Pastor. I had been slacking in my service to him and I became acutely aware of the need to come to a deeper repentance. The truth is when I examined myself, I did know it, I had ignored the Lord's many quiet warnings to repent. Instead I listened to my flesh complain that it did not feel good, so I continued to depend on man to comfort me in areas of discomfort in my flesh, rather then to let go. I did in past times attempt to repent of this, however it always seemed to find a way to creep, and I mean creep, back in. This has been one of my big mountains that I need to command to be thou removed, and cast into the sea by Jesus Christ,never to be remembered. We must face our hearts with faith and humility by the Word of God and come to a complete repentance.
All of us need to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. The danger I have seen in myself is from the pride of knowledge. I do not mean a conscious thought of how wonderful I am or how much I know. I am talking about a very subtle shift in how we listen to others. Do we always listen in the spirit? Do we pause, and look to the Lord even though we think we know the answer to a question? Can we walk carnally minded but answer and sound as though we are spiritual? As we are all living epistles, known and read of all mean, and have been given the knowledge of how the universe is governed by our Father, The Lord Jesus Christ. We are often given opportunities to explain doctrine to those Christians who may need what we have from the Lord. I feel we are all vulnerable to this snare as we are in the time of midnight, the darkest of spiritual hours. We are warned against the snare of what knowledge can do. I have found that the warning given us about this to be crucial in understanding how knowledge "puffeth up"
1Co 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
You can see it says puff ETH up. This ETH in the middle English as we have learned, signifies an on going condition in the present tense. As we learn and grow we need to be temperate and not rush to answer. If the answer is plain and we see it immediately, then lets always in that moment pause for a second and thank the Lord for the understanding we have to share and remember to minister from the point of our own faults. The Lord says We are known for we have love for one another. Lets not forget that its out of love that we even have to reprove, and lets keep our flesh in subjection by bringing every thought into obedience to Jesus Christ, and bring down any thoughts or imaginations that would exalt themselves against, in other words, thoughts that lie against the truth. Now this might sound elementary to some who are secure to the peace of the Holy Ghost, but many struggling for deliverance from sin need to know their thoughts will lie to them as Satan will attempt throw his voice to make it seem as though it is your own thought voice. One time in my past as I was seeking deliverance from drugs, the devil told me while I was under the influence, that the way to get off drugs is to get some more, so you can slowly stop. Notice his plan was to GET MORE, and when it comes to sin this his his desire. Had God not shown me that, that thought would have raced right by and gone into my heart as acceptable to me. It is in this split second we must bring every thought into captivity by the Word of God. If we minister from what we remember and know as truth apart from looking to Jesus Christ by faith in that precise moment for what to say, are we truly speaking the oracles of God? We speak the oracles of God when the Holy Ghost gives us utterance. Mar 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
This verse is a wonderful instruction on how to deal with the arrows fired at us each day as we strive to walk on the Word by faith. We only have to remain humble before the Lord's thrown in our hearts, as we are the temple of God and his thrown is in his people. His train fills the temple.
Isa 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
We, as God's children have an abundance of knowledge and wisdom residing in our minds, and yet we only have to keep our minds stayed on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ continually, and he will call all things to remembrance, even what we should say as we stand before his thrown in faith. Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The above verse also says "but charity edifieth". If we truly love God with our whole heart, and we love each other as we love ourselves, then pride cannot enter into our hearts and our love for others and our humble service to one another are protections against the pride of knowledge. I believe this is saying that if we are so busy meeting the needs of those around us in Christ, we will be protected. As it turns out the temptation that came to me, came at a point when after a tough trial, A year or more ago, I allowed myself to shift in my thinking and became concerned for myself. This I believe was the first step in backsliding. Taking our eyes of the Lord to look at ourselves, is as destructive as taking our eyes off of him and looking at the world. As soon as I pulled back from my duties I was in sin. I didnt realize it at the time, but that is not an excuse. The Lord reproves us at a rate that we can handle, so if we begin to derail this process with our own will,the Lord does not go on break and say well, guess we will work on this later, he wants to go play. Not only do we not move forward, we retake the test until we pass. This is our wandering in the desert 40 years. The danger for us as Christian's, is when sin sneaks up on us, and sets up camp in our hearts, or is an existing stronghold of Satan yet to be removed that we are tollerating. All sin comes from the lust if the flesh, lust of the eyes, the pride of life. How easy it it to become irritated with others in the flesh and forget in the moment that only by his grace do we live and breath, and we having been forgiven of so much, need to walk in constant gratitude before our God.
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Thanks to all who have poured out their hearts and encouraged us in our efforts on paltalk to share the truth in the vast darkness of the world wide WEB. Grace and peace in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Psa 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Psa 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Psa 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Psa 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Psa 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psa 95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
If we even slightly push aside the voice of the Holy Ghost in our hearts, it is the same exact provocation God is referring to as the verse above and the generation he refers to that tested him. If we see any circumstance that is the same in front of us as in the bible, the Word applies. And it just so happens God Almighty covered every possible eventuality in his instructions to us through his Holy Word. Disciple means one under discipline.So we must receive this discipline and correction with great zeal as God says this is the proof we are sons of God and not bastards lost in the world. Sin blinds the mind and even the subtlest of backsliding, or taking our ease as it were, can lead us over time to be a long ways of track, and we will not realize it until he gives us repentance. Even though this following verse is addressing how to share the truth, we ourselves if we have unrepentant sin or we sit back and take our ease with the knowledge of our salvation, can find ourselves in a position of again being ensnared in sin and find ourselves having to repent from dead works. Something we are also admonished to cease from doing by Paul for the LORD.
2Ti 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2Ti 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
If we find ourselves in sin we are opposed to the truth in some area as a man speaks from the abundance of his heart, and his words lead to actions. Thinking sinful thoughts, saying sinful things, doing sinful deeds. This is the progression that starts with one thought not brought into obedience in Jesus Christ. This is a real time in the present tense process of vigilance over our thoughts. I should probably add that this is the battle ground where we fight to subdue our flesh and die so that Christ may be formed within us. Sin repented of and forsaken is a step closer in the process of becoming 100% submitted to God in our hearts. I know I wanted to believe I was completely serving God. However I know that many of us have received correction from our Lord recently through the shared trial of losing our Pastor. I had been slacking in my service to him and I became acutely aware of the need to come to a deeper repentance. The truth is when I examined myself, I did know it, I had ignored the Lord's many quiet warnings to repent. Instead I listened to my flesh complain that it did not feel good, so I continued to depend on man to comfort me in areas of discomfort in my flesh, rather then to let go. I did in past times attempt to repent of this, however it always seemed to find a way to creep, and I mean creep, back in. This has been one of my big mountains that I need to command to be thou removed, and cast into the sea by Jesus Christ,never to be remembered. We must face our hearts with faith and humility by the Word of God and come to a complete repentance.
All of us need to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith. The danger I have seen in myself is from the pride of knowledge. I do not mean a conscious thought of how wonderful I am or how much I know. I am talking about a very subtle shift in how we listen to others. Do we always listen in the spirit? Do we pause, and look to the Lord even though we think we know the answer to a question? Can we walk carnally minded but answer and sound as though we are spiritual? As we are all living epistles, known and read of all mean, and have been given the knowledge of how the universe is governed by our Father, The Lord Jesus Christ. We are often given opportunities to explain doctrine to those Christians who may need what we have from the Lord. I feel we are all vulnerable to this snare as we are in the time of midnight, the darkest of spiritual hours. We are warned against the snare of what knowledge can do. I have found that the warning given us about this to be crucial in understanding how knowledge "puffeth up"
1Co 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
You can see it says puff ETH up. This ETH in the middle English as we have learned, signifies an on going condition in the present tense. As we learn and grow we need to be temperate and not rush to answer. If the answer is plain and we see it immediately, then lets always in that moment pause for a second and thank the Lord for the understanding we have to share and remember to minister from the point of our own faults. The Lord says We are known for we have love for one another. Lets not forget that its out of love that we even have to reprove, and lets keep our flesh in subjection by bringing every thought into obedience to Jesus Christ, and bring down any thoughts or imaginations that would exalt themselves against, in other words, thoughts that lie against the truth. Now this might sound elementary to some who are secure to the peace of the Holy Ghost, but many struggling for deliverance from sin need to know their thoughts will lie to them as Satan will attempt throw his voice to make it seem as though it is your own thought voice. One time in my past as I was seeking deliverance from drugs, the devil told me while I was under the influence, that the way to get off drugs is to get some more, so you can slowly stop. Notice his plan was to GET MORE, and when it comes to sin this his his desire. Had God not shown me that, that thought would have raced right by and gone into my heart as acceptable to me. It is in this split second we must bring every thought into captivity by the Word of God. If we minister from what we remember and know as truth apart from looking to Jesus Christ by faith in that precise moment for what to say, are we truly speaking the oracles of God? We speak the oracles of God when the Holy Ghost gives us utterance. Mar 13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
This verse is a wonderful instruction on how to deal with the arrows fired at us each day as we strive to walk on the Word by faith. We only have to remain humble before the Lord's thrown in our hearts, as we are the temple of God and his thrown is in his people. His train fills the temple.
Isa 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
We, as God's children have an abundance of knowledge and wisdom residing in our minds, and yet we only have to keep our minds stayed on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ continually, and he will call all things to remembrance, even what we should say as we stand before his thrown in faith. Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
The above verse also says "but charity edifieth". If we truly love God with our whole heart, and we love each other as we love ourselves, then pride cannot enter into our hearts and our love for others and our humble service to one another are protections against the pride of knowledge. I believe this is saying that if we are so busy meeting the needs of those around us in Christ, we will be protected. As it turns out the temptation that came to me, came at a point when after a tough trial, A year or more ago, I allowed myself to shift in my thinking and became concerned for myself. This I believe was the first step in backsliding. Taking our eyes of the Lord to look at ourselves, is as destructive as taking our eyes off of him and looking at the world. As soon as I pulled back from my duties I was in sin. I didnt realize it at the time, but that is not an excuse. The Lord reproves us at a rate that we can handle, so if we begin to derail this process with our own will,the Lord does not go on break and say well, guess we will work on this later, he wants to go play. Not only do we not move forward, we retake the test until we pass. This is our wandering in the desert 40 years. The danger for us as Christian's, is when sin sneaks up on us, and sets up camp in our hearts, or is an existing stronghold of Satan yet to be removed that we are tollerating. All sin comes from the lust if the flesh, lust of the eyes, the pride of life. How easy it it to become irritated with others in the flesh and forget in the moment that only by his grace do we live and breath, and we having been forgiven of so much, need to walk in constant gratitude before our God.
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Thanks to all who have poured out their hearts and encouraged us in our efforts on paltalk to share the truth in the vast darkness of the world wide WEB. Grace and peace in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
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