Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. Psalm 138:7
Troubles take a toll on us at times, but there is hope in Christ Jesus that knows all about everything that we face! And as we fully trust Him we can say with full assurance: "Thou wilt revive me!"
You see Jesus said that in this world we would have tribulations! He let you know before the fact of all that you are facing right now that it would come! But Jesus also said: "Be of good cheer, I have overcome." Your problems are real with awful pain and challenging of your resources. Again, Jesus said: "Be of good cheer, I have overcome."
Jesus said to you if you are saved by the Blood of Christ, "Greater is He that is within you than he that is in the world. In this world you shall have tribulation but the Greater is He is within you!
Every devise that the enemy raises up to try to destroy us, God's unchanging hand will put down! He will hold us by the power of His right hand! "We must walk on with God!"
In this time as the Bible says are perilous times, it's time for the Church to walk with God! You can't walk with God and be in disagreement with God! Your trouble is real___but God wants to be made more real to you that all that can be devised against you. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper if you walk on with God!
Never has there ever been a man or a woman that walked on with God that was ashamed of God! Paul said: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation! Total salvation! Total victory! Nothing by any means shall hurt you! "Walk on with God!"
Abraham walked with God, He heard the Only True God call him and he walked with God! He left land, home, and kinfolk and walked with God! That walk with God was a walk of faith!
Troubles of uncertainty came his way but he walked on with God!
Troubles came from his enemies but he walked on with God!
Troubles came from his family but he walked on with God!
Troubles came from his own doings but he walked on with God!
You see, just like Abraham you have been called out to walk with God and you are going to be faced with the same kind of troubles that Abraham was faced with. Abraham walked with God!
You've got to come out whenGod calls!
You've got to believe the promise God gave to you!
You've got to deal with the flesh!
You've even got to be willing to let the promise die! Abraham did and he walked on with God!
What are you going to do? "You must walk on with God!"
The Psalmist David said: Thou I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me! Thou shalt stretch for thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies! Thy right hand shall save me!
David knew God! And David knew God was for him!
Do you know God? Do you know that He is for you? "Walk on with God!"
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. Psalm 138:8
Our cry should be: "God you have made us! We are in your hands! You have called us out of this world to bring us into Yours!
Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this world."
I am no longer my own! I belong to God! All that concerns me__concerns God! When He called me to walk with Him, He gave me the power to walk with God! God has given you power to walk with God! "Walk on with God!"
I'm no longer my own, I belong to God! I'm at His mercy! His mercy endureth for ever! As David cried out: Forsake not the works of thine own hand! "I cry out to God with that same prayer!"
I will walk on with God! Will you?
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
I'm Back!
When the Lord returns and it will be soon, He won't even have to say, "I'm back!"
Every eye shall see Him! They that pierced Him will see Him! Every tongue will confess that He is Lord! Every knee will bow before Him!
Many will say in that day, "Lord, Lord!" But Jesus will say to many, "Why call Me Lord, Lord and you haven't been doing what I have been saying to you?" Jesus will say to many, "Depart from Me ,you worker of iniquity,I never knew you!"
No, Jesus won't have to tap you on the shoulder and get your attention off the flesh you're walking in! Those looking for Him will already been appeared to by Jesus and will come back with Him to this earth! He won't have to let anyone know that He is back! Everybody will see Him! We must be ready!
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! No one can be saved by any other! You will be lost forever in eternal torment unless you repent of your sin and believe in Christ blood for your payment for your sins. Today is the day of salvation! Will you trust Christ? He's coming back!
Every eye shall see Him! They that pierced Him will see Him! Every tongue will confess that He is Lord! Every knee will bow before Him!
Many will say in that day, "Lord, Lord!" But Jesus will say to many, "Why call Me Lord, Lord and you haven't been doing what I have been saying to you?" Jesus will say to many, "Depart from Me ,you worker of iniquity,I never knew you!"
No, Jesus won't have to tap you on the shoulder and get your attention off the flesh you're walking in! Those looking for Him will already been appeared to by Jesus and will come back with Him to this earth! He won't have to let anyone know that He is back! Everybody will see Him! We must be ready!
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! No one can be saved by any other! You will be lost forever in eternal torment unless you repent of your sin and believe in Christ blood for your payment for your sins. Today is the day of salvation! Will you trust Christ? He's coming back!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Are you living as if God's Word will pass away?
"What a tragic mistake that has a great price to pay!"
Matthew 24:33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
"Jesus tells us in His word that the generation at His coming would be a generation that would be living to themselves! And all the while the true prophets of God would be faithfully warning this people to come back from their compromise and their fleshly inventions. But for the most part the true voice of God would be taken lightly, after all there's the farm, the merchandise, and the things of the world that has to be relevant to reach the people. Such nonesense that pastors and leaders of churches allow places of worship to be turn into night-clubs! We must come out from among them saith the Lord! We are not to try to imitate the world. If we love the world the love of the Father is not in us! We have been called out of this world's system, why should we want to bring that system that is opposed to God, back into the church?
In 1 Kings, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah almost was killed when he joined into that worldly church of his day, by being deceived by King Ahab of Israel. Elijah had already built again the altar that had been broken down! The fire had fell and consumed the sacrifice that was placed in order! The prophets of Baal were slain! Elijah prayed until the rain came! But that was in the 18th chapter and now in the 22nd chapter King Ahab still is able to gather 400 false prophets to prophesy a lie!
But God will always be looking for a man to stand in the gap! He finds a man! A true prophet that most of the people don't want to hear! A man of God that isn't going along to make it bigger! A man that would be willing to please his God than to please Mr. Moneybags, or Mrs. High Society! A man that says I must be faithful or die! Micaiah the prophet that nobody want to hear! That people say,"who does he think he is?" This true prophet was struck on the face as he proclaimed the truth!
That's the true prophet of God then and that will be the true prophet in this hour! A man that will be truly led by the Spirit of the Living God! He will not join anything that God is opposed to, no matter how many leaders and people in religion say they think they are in a move of God! The only move of God that most are seeing today is that He has move outside of their door!
It's too late to be a part of this worldly-minded church that cannot be a diciple of Christ! Repent and die to yourself and start going to those in the nursing homes, the jails, the prisons, the hospitals, and to the highways and the hedges with the message of a "LIVING CHRISTin you!"
Jesus must weep over what His Church has become! We must die again so that Christ can go to those that sit in darkness may come to the Light!
Please! I beg of you! Wake up Church! Put off all this flesh and put on Christ! LET CHRIST LIVE! A-MEN!
Matthew 24:33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Matthew 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Matthew 24:39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
"Jesus tells us in His word that the generation at His coming would be a generation that would be living to themselves! And all the while the true prophets of God would be faithfully warning this people to come back from their compromise and their fleshly inventions. But for the most part the true voice of God would be taken lightly, after all there's the farm, the merchandise, and the things of the world that has to be relevant to reach the people. Such nonesense that pastors and leaders of churches allow places of worship to be turn into night-clubs! We must come out from among them saith the Lord! We are not to try to imitate the world. If we love the world the love of the Father is not in us! We have been called out of this world's system, why should we want to bring that system that is opposed to God, back into the church?
In 1 Kings, Jehoshaphat the king of Judah almost was killed when he joined into that worldly church of his day, by being deceived by King Ahab of Israel. Elijah had already built again the altar that had been broken down! The fire had fell and consumed the sacrifice that was placed in order! The prophets of Baal were slain! Elijah prayed until the rain came! But that was in the 18th chapter and now in the 22nd chapter King Ahab still is able to gather 400 false prophets to prophesy a lie!
But God will always be looking for a man to stand in the gap! He finds a man! A true prophet that most of the people don't want to hear! A man of God that isn't going along to make it bigger! A man that would be willing to please his God than to please Mr. Moneybags, or Mrs. High Society! A man that says I must be faithful or die! Micaiah the prophet that nobody want to hear! That people say,"who does he think he is?" This true prophet was struck on the face as he proclaimed the truth!
That's the true prophet of God then and that will be the true prophet in this hour! A man that will be truly led by the Spirit of the Living God! He will not join anything that God is opposed to, no matter how many leaders and people in religion say they think they are in a move of God! The only move of God that most are seeing today is that He has move outside of their door!
It's too late to be a part of this worldly-minded church that cannot be a diciple of Christ! Repent and die to yourself and start going to those in the nursing homes, the jails, the prisons, the hospitals, and to the highways and the hedges with the message of a "LIVING CHRISTin you!"
Jesus must weep over what His Church has become! We must die again so that Christ can go to those that sit in darkness may come to the Light!
Please! I beg of you! Wake up Church! Put off all this flesh and put on Christ! LET CHRIST LIVE! A-MEN!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Faith of God
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
In most church circles today faith is look at a totally different way as God intended.
First of all, it is faith of God if we adhere to God's word correctly.
By the way , what is the most important thing that one could ever hope for? It's not all that most are putting first! Jesus said: But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
The most important thing we could hope to seek is the Blessed Hope...and that Hope is Christ!
God tells us that we cannot serve God and mammon. God said: "Thou shalt not have any other god before Him!
Most are seeking to use faith to get things that only move them farther away from God!
Faith is the substance, as the Strong's Concordance tells us that it is the foundation of stability. That why Satan can win his fight against the Believer unless he lose his faith! Satan cannot take it away by force, the only way and sadly to say, it is being surrendered to him by so many today because their heart is focused on things instead of Christ, the Only Hope.
We must in this last hours before Christ return, must return back to Christ first being our all in all!
I'm blogging from a different place today and am currently fasting from the Internet and Television under the Lord's direction. Pray for us that God will continue to revive His Church and pour out the Latter Rain just before His return!
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ forever! Pastor Gary Gulledge Standing in the Gap
In most church circles today faith is look at a totally different way as God intended.
First of all, it is faith of God if we adhere to God's word correctly.
By the way , what is the most important thing that one could ever hope for? It's not all that most are putting first! Jesus said: But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
The most important thing we could hope to seek is the Blessed Hope...and that Hope is Christ!
God tells us that we cannot serve God and mammon. God said: "Thou shalt not have any other god before Him!
Most are seeking to use faith to get things that only move them farther away from God!
Faith is the substance, as the Strong's Concordance tells us that it is the foundation of stability. That why Satan can win his fight against the Believer unless he lose his faith! Satan cannot take it away by force, the only way and sadly to say, it is being surrendered to him by so many today because their heart is focused on things instead of Christ, the Only Hope.
We must in this last hours before Christ return, must return back to Christ first being our all in all!
I'm blogging from a different place today and am currently fasting from the Internet and Television under the Lord's direction. Pray for us that God will continue to revive His Church and pour out the Latter Rain just before His return!
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ forever! Pastor Gary Gulledge Standing in the Gap
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
I Don't Think that ------ ----- ------. A Real Problem!
Now we've all began many an answer to someones question by the above title. I don't think that what I'm doing hurts anyone else. I don't think that there is anything wrong with what I'm doing.I don't think that Gods Word means that we have to be so commited to obeying all of what the Bible says.
Some who may read this may be thinking and going along with the statements above, after all we are only human. (I don't think...) would be more of a true saying that most of us speak when we say what we don't think. We don't think! God has called us to know Him! God has called us not to think what we do and say is alright but to be guided into all truth! God doesn't want us to think that we are saved but to know that we have passed from death unto life! Jesus said: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life! No man comes to the Father but by Me! (That means you and everybody born into this world!)
Yes! God does want us to think! But not in the context that we often speak what we think. Here's a good mind renewer! Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
We would do ourselves a great help and less grief to others if we choose to delete "I don't think that" from our vocabulary. Besides, if we were to take Philippians 4:8 at face-value and put it into practice in our daily living, we would find that we would know more and have less time to think about what we don't think that.
If your are confused by this message, just meditate on Philippians 4:8 and put it to practice in your life and you will know and have less time to say "I don't think that"
Aren't you glad that God didn't think that! GOD KNOWS ALWAYS! Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Child of God, God knows you!
Now, you and I can try to think our way through this life and think about what we can get by with that God won't cast us away! Or we can obey the Holy Spirit and allow God to conform us to the image of His Son!
God will have a people that will love Him and be conformed to Jesus Christ!
We should never have to even ask, "What would Jesus do?" No! If we will abide in Christ and Christ in us, nothing is too hard for God to bring us through to conform us to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ! We would know and not think.
GOD WE CRY OUT FOR YOUR HANDS TO BE PLACED UPON YOUR CHURCH TO MANIFEST CHRIST TO THIS WORLD!
NO MORE THINKING, BUT ONLY TO KNOW CHRIST IN THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERING. I WANT TO KNOW YOU MORE, LORD.
Some who may read this may be thinking and going along with the statements above, after all we are only human. (I don't think...) would be more of a true saying that most of us speak when we say what we don't think. We don't think! God has called us to know Him! God has called us not to think what we do and say is alright but to be guided into all truth! God doesn't want us to think that we are saved but to know that we have passed from death unto life! Jesus said: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life! No man comes to the Father but by Me! (That means you and everybody born into this world!)
Yes! God does want us to think! But not in the context that we often speak what we think. Here's a good mind renewer! Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
We would do ourselves a great help and less grief to others if we choose to delete "I don't think that" from our vocabulary. Besides, if we were to take Philippians 4:8 at face-value and put it into practice in our daily living, we would find that we would know more and have less time to think about what we don't think that.
If your are confused by this message, just meditate on Philippians 4:8 and put it to practice in your life and you will know and have less time to say "I don't think that"
Aren't you glad that God didn't think that! GOD KNOWS ALWAYS! Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Child of God, God knows you!
Now, you and I can try to think our way through this life and think about what we can get by with that God won't cast us away! Or we can obey the Holy Spirit and allow God to conform us to the image of His Son!
God will have a people that will love Him and be conformed to Jesus Christ!
We should never have to even ask, "What would Jesus do?" No! If we will abide in Christ and Christ in us, nothing is too hard for God to bring us through to conform us to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ! We would know and not think.
GOD WE CRY OUT FOR YOUR HANDS TO BE PLACED UPON YOUR CHURCH TO MANIFEST CHRIST TO THIS WORLD!
NO MORE THINKING, BUT ONLY TO KNOW CHRIST IN THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERING. I WANT TO KNOW YOU MORE, LORD.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Only King the Everlasting King
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
The Word of God declares to all of mankind, no matter who you are...no matter where you....no matter what god you believe in and serve. If your serving any other than Jesus Christ you will be without a King in the finality of your life!
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
He has given each of us a will to receive or reject Him. But He cannot deny Himself. He is the Chief Cornerstone!
No other name! No other way! If you reject Christ__you reject life!
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is coming!
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Repent and believe the Gospel of Christ! Let Him be your King today.
1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
The Word of God declares to all of mankind, no matter who you are...no matter where you....no matter what god you believe in and serve. If your serving any other than Jesus Christ you will be without a King in the finality of your life!
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
He has given each of us a will to receive or reject Him. But He cannot deny Himself. He is the Chief Cornerstone!
No other name! No other way! If you reject Christ__you reject life!
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is coming!
Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Repent and believe the Gospel of Christ! Let Him be your King today.
Friday, May 15, 2009
"You've got a Friend."
Luke 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
I remember the song by James Taylor, You've got a friend, where he sings about, that no matter what time of the year, the person he was singing to had a friend.
For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.
"What a terrible place to be in! Someone has come to me at midnight in his journey and I have nothing to give!"
God will allow people in their journey to come to you!
A friend on a journey that may have made a lot of wrong choices or turns in their life.
But in their midnight hour, they're knocking on your door!
Not only is it late! Not only does it seem like a bad time!
But you have nothing to give to your friend!
We have a Friend that we can go to at midnight__the most darkest and desperate hour that we find ourselves in! When many peoples lives are in ruin because of their journey! When everyone is trying to work things out themselves.
In all of this that's going on__"you've got a Friend!"
When that friend comes to you in the most unlikely time___"you've got a Friend!"
When you don't have it in you to supply your friends need___"you've got a Friend!"
In this midnight hour___God is beginning to awaken His' servants by allowing people at the time of His choosing to show up!
You have nothing within yourself! "But, you've got a Friend!"
He will rise and give him as many as he needeth!
Ain't it good to know..........."You've got a Friend!"
11:6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
11:7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
11:8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
I remember the song by James Taylor, You've got a friend, where he sings about, that no matter what time of the year, the person he was singing to had a friend.
For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.
"What a terrible place to be in! Someone has come to me at midnight in his journey and I have nothing to give!"
God will allow people in their journey to come to you!
A friend on a journey that may have made a lot of wrong choices or turns in their life.
But in their midnight hour, they're knocking on your door!
Not only is it late! Not only does it seem like a bad time!
But you have nothing to give to your friend!
We have a Friend that we can go to at midnight__the most darkest and desperate hour that we find ourselves in! When many peoples lives are in ruin because of their journey! When everyone is trying to work things out themselves.
In all of this that's going on__"you've got a Friend!"
When that friend comes to you in the most unlikely time___"you've got a Friend!"
When you don't have it in you to supply your friends need___"you've got a Friend!"
In this midnight hour___God is beginning to awaken His' servants by allowing people at the time of His choosing to show up!
You have nothing within yourself! "But, you've got a Friend!"
He will rise and give him as many as he needeth!
Ain't it good to know..........."You've got a Friend!"
Sunday, May 10, 2009
"A Greater than Momma has Come."
I want to share some of my thoughts and recollections of someone that hopefully all who may read this today may identify with my account of a mother. It's "Mother's Day" and as I was thinking about my mother, who is still living and is eighty-three years old. First of all, I've always called her "Momma",pronouced the way it looks, that name to me has always seemed what a little kid would call his mother. I can assure you that I called the name "Momma" alot through the years and still do! Momma!
I was thinking if you've ever thought of this person called "Momma" as I have, she was the one that at the very beginning of life was the closest. In fact, for nine months "Momma" held you inside her body. She was your protection, she was your supply of food, she heard your every heart beat because you were near to her. It was her comfort she gave up to comfort you. And finally, after those hours of labor, when you came out from her into this world, it was only the beginning of "Momma's Work"!
From the very start, once you were out of the secluded place of only her presence,you wanted to be close to her. Protection, food, and closeness took on a whole new meaning for you! You were under Momma's watchful eye and care and that was a good feeling to know. Let's think back just a moment about Momma's watchful eye. I am the third child born out of seven children, three boys and four girls. Some of you kids born today according to statistics on the family, where I believe I read that has 2.4 children in the family,I don't don't know how they come up with that number, you don't know what you're missing! Momma's eye didn't miss a thing, she always knew what was going on, what needed to be done, and she was always our protection, supply, and the one we came running to be near!
I remember this about "Momma", her attitude was that we are in this thing together! She always wanted to keep us together! We went every where that Momma and Daddy went! If she couldn't take her kids, she didn't go! Oh, I remember visiting kinfolk but she always made sure that she knew that we were safe.
I remember one night when I was eight and my brother Randy was four I think, we had to sleep in the same bed back then, and it was past time to be asleep. Everyone is in their beds, all nine of our family members, (seven of us and Momma and Daddy)and Randy and I had the giggles and our bedroom had a door going to our parents room and another door to our sisters bedroom, there was no such thing as a hall in that house, every room had two doors which went to two other rooms. It's a week night, my Dad is a brickmason, which he has been working all day and is tired and has got to get up in the morning to go to work. We've already been given the last warning to be quiet and go to sleep! We just can't stop talking our giggling. So, in one last effort to stop this laughing matter, you know who comes up with a plan. Only "Momma" can come up with a plan that will turn our laughter into mourning! Daddy told Momma not to do her plan because it would scare us to death! She slips out of her bed, and she crawls in the darkness of that summer night, back then we slept with the windows raised, no air-conditioner in the house. She eases to the foot of our bed and we are talking and giggling to each other and all of a sudden there is a tug on our bed sheet. Randy didn't feel the first tug because of our laughing and moving so much, but I did and my laughter was about to turn to mourning. "Randy did you pull that cover?" I said. "No," he said. About that time "Momma' pulled the cover again! I said: "Was that you that pulled that sheet?" Randy said: "It was you!" I said: " No it wasn't! Somebody in this room!" When I said that, Randy let out a scream, he was on his back and he bounced straight up grabbing the sheet with both hands and as he came back on the bed, he covered up with all of the sheet! I have no cover and no protection from the burgular! My next words were loud, real loud! "Daddy! There's somebody in our room! By this time, "Momma" can't stop sniggering at the foot of the bed! Daddy knows... and says you boys better go to sleep, it's just your "Momma"! Never in our lives were Randy and I so glad it was "Momma"! Our mourning was turned to laughter, although it took the next day for the sound to come out! I could probably write a book on growing up with "Momma"!
I love my "Momma" and she's the greatest, but I'm sure that your's is the greatest to you. I hope that she is. Maybe, you don't have the memories of your "Momma" like I have but there is one that wants to be your protection, your supply, and He wants to be near you so much! The Heavenly Father who knows...., who gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have Everlasting Life! He's more than "Momma" can be! Believe Him this day! You need Him! He loves you! Call on Jesus Christ, He will save you from all your fears! A greater than "Momma" has come! "Jesus Christ!" May God bless you and all the "Mommas" today!
I was thinking if you've ever thought of this person called "Momma" as I have, she was the one that at the very beginning of life was the closest. In fact, for nine months "Momma" held you inside her body. She was your protection, she was your supply of food, she heard your every heart beat because you were near to her. It was her comfort she gave up to comfort you. And finally, after those hours of labor, when you came out from her into this world, it was only the beginning of "Momma's Work"!
From the very start, once you were out of the secluded place of only her presence,you wanted to be close to her. Protection, food, and closeness took on a whole new meaning for you! You were under Momma's watchful eye and care and that was a good feeling to know. Let's think back just a moment about Momma's watchful eye. I am the third child born out of seven children, three boys and four girls. Some of you kids born today according to statistics on the family, where I believe I read that has 2.4 children in the family,I don't don't know how they come up with that number, you don't know what you're missing! Momma's eye didn't miss a thing, she always knew what was going on, what needed to be done, and she was always our protection, supply, and the one we came running to be near!
I remember this about "Momma", her attitude was that we are in this thing together! She always wanted to keep us together! We went every where that Momma and Daddy went! If she couldn't take her kids, she didn't go! Oh, I remember visiting kinfolk but she always made sure that she knew that we were safe.
I remember one night when I was eight and my brother Randy was four I think, we had to sleep in the same bed back then, and it was past time to be asleep. Everyone is in their beds, all nine of our family members, (seven of us and Momma and Daddy)and Randy and I had the giggles and our bedroom had a door going to our parents room and another door to our sisters bedroom, there was no such thing as a hall in that house, every room had two doors which went to two other rooms. It's a week night, my Dad is a brickmason, which he has been working all day and is tired and has got to get up in the morning to go to work. We've already been given the last warning to be quiet and go to sleep! We just can't stop talking our giggling. So, in one last effort to stop this laughing matter, you know who comes up with a plan. Only "Momma" can come up with a plan that will turn our laughter into mourning! Daddy told Momma not to do her plan because it would scare us to death! She slips out of her bed, and she crawls in the darkness of that summer night, back then we slept with the windows raised, no air-conditioner in the house. She eases to the foot of our bed and we are talking and giggling to each other and all of a sudden there is a tug on our bed sheet. Randy didn't feel the first tug because of our laughing and moving so much, but I did and my laughter was about to turn to mourning. "Randy did you pull that cover?" I said. "No," he said. About that time "Momma' pulled the cover again! I said: "Was that you that pulled that sheet?" Randy said: "It was you!" I said: " No it wasn't! Somebody in this room!" When I said that, Randy let out a scream, he was on his back and he bounced straight up grabbing the sheet with both hands and as he came back on the bed, he covered up with all of the sheet! I have no cover and no protection from the burgular! My next words were loud, real loud! "Daddy! There's somebody in our room! By this time, "Momma" can't stop sniggering at the foot of the bed! Daddy knows... and says you boys better go to sleep, it's just your "Momma"! Never in our lives were Randy and I so glad it was "Momma"! Our mourning was turned to laughter, although it took the next day for the sound to come out! I could probably write a book on growing up with "Momma"!
I love my "Momma" and she's the greatest, but I'm sure that your's is the greatest to you. I hope that she is. Maybe, you don't have the memories of your "Momma" like I have but there is one that wants to be your protection, your supply, and He wants to be near you so much! The Heavenly Father who knows...., who gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have Everlasting Life! He's more than "Momma" can be! Believe Him this day! You need Him! He loves you! Call on Jesus Christ, He will save you from all your fears! A greater than "Momma" has come! "Jesus Christ!" May God bless you and all the "Mommas" today!
Friday, May 8, 2009
God is a Perfectionist
I remember when I was just five or six years old, when I would play with my cousins outside. We most of the time had to play "Make Believe", such as cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, fox and the hounds, or in a front porch swing, I can still see my two cousins, Bill and Richard Bass as they called me "Uncle Magic". Think of this, they were at least four years older than me, and they called me Uncle Magic! While Uncle Magic had control of that swing on their porch, while I was visiting them for the week-end, there was no limit to the feats I could do! I stopped great calamities, rescued out of control cars, and with a wave of my hand and a command I could do mind-blogging sights. But later on that day, I might of stepped on a nail, or got a splinter in my hand, or fell some way, only to realize the reality of life. No matter what my cousins called me and we believed, it was all our imagination. Uncle Magic faded away when the real trouble came! When he faded out the tears came when I stepped on the nail. I forgot all about being that super- person when that splinter went in real deep! In other words I made it all up and it was fun while I was in the swing but when I really got into the "swing of things" I was learning the way to grow up was that it meant that I would suffer some things as I would live in this world.
I want to talk to you Brother or Sister in Christ. You have genuinely been saved and washed in the Blood of Jesus, yet when God has allowed trouble to come your way, you have decided it's easier to walk away from that husband or wife than to come before God with a repentant heart so God can fix it! The world system has made it easy for you today to divorce and give up! If we are willing to grow up in Christ, He still can work a miracle in your marriage today!
Or maybe two Believers have sinned against the other and you've bought into the worlds' way of solving the problem, "Get you another friend!" No! Grow up and make it right through God's grace and forgiveness!
Christians, you that aren't in fellowship with Gods' people, you've allowed compromise in your walk with God and you've decided that you'll serve God without the Body at home. You are walking in disobedience to God and that sin has kept you away for the Body, your local church family, and it has kept you away from God and you need to repent, and grow up in the Lord!
I say this in the love of Christ because I have had to repent and grow up in Christ myself. And I must continue to grow in Christ and in the knowledge of Him!
God is our Great and Powerful Creator who watches us and helps us learn and grow up to His pleasing.
It pleased God to allow suffering to come our way sometimes that we may learn obedience. For in everything He desires to hear our cry unto Him, His ear is opened and He will always do what's needed to make us more like His Son, Jesus!
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: 1 Corinthians 13:11.
You see, when just a little boy, when I got shot playing cops and robbers, we could count to ten and we would be a new man!
Folks, it's not that way in real life! There is a real robber that's not afraid to steal, kill, and destroy! We can't count to ten and then start over! We must grow up in Christ! He is come that they might have Life! and they might have it more abundantly!
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? John 11:25-26
If we will grow up and learn this, "I must decrease and He must increase!"
If we will grow up and learn this, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain!"
If I will only grow up to the resolve in my heart that the only way for me to save my life, is to lose it!
By His' grace I say in faith:"I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live!"
God is a Perfectionist!
He will bring the Church into that which He has ordained!
Let us grow up in Christ!
I want to talk to you Brother or Sister in Christ. You have genuinely been saved and washed in the Blood of Jesus, yet when God has allowed trouble to come your way, you have decided it's easier to walk away from that husband or wife than to come before God with a repentant heart so God can fix it! The world system has made it easy for you today to divorce and give up! If we are willing to grow up in Christ, He still can work a miracle in your marriage today!
Or maybe two Believers have sinned against the other and you've bought into the worlds' way of solving the problem, "Get you another friend!" No! Grow up and make it right through God's grace and forgiveness!
Christians, you that aren't in fellowship with Gods' people, you've allowed compromise in your walk with God and you've decided that you'll serve God without the Body at home. You are walking in disobedience to God and that sin has kept you away for the Body, your local church family, and it has kept you away from God and you need to repent, and grow up in the Lord!
I say this in the love of Christ because I have had to repent and grow up in Christ myself. And I must continue to grow in Christ and in the knowledge of Him!
God is our Great and Powerful Creator who watches us and helps us learn and grow up to His pleasing.
It pleased God to allow suffering to come our way sometimes that we may learn obedience. For in everything He desires to hear our cry unto Him, His ear is opened and He will always do what's needed to make us more like His Son, Jesus!
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: 1 Corinthians 13:11.
You see, when just a little boy, when I got shot playing cops and robbers, we could count to ten and we would be a new man!
Folks, it's not that way in real life! There is a real robber that's not afraid to steal, kill, and destroy! We can't count to ten and then start over! We must grow up in Christ! He is come that they might have Life! and they might have it more abundantly!
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? John 11:25-26
If we will grow up and learn this, "I must decrease and He must increase!"
If we will grow up and learn this, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain!"
If I will only grow up to the resolve in my heart that the only way for me to save my life, is to lose it!
By His' grace I say in faith:"I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live!"
God is a Perfectionist!
He will bring the Church into that which He has ordained!
Let us grow up in Christ!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Who is in front of you?
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ephesians 5:1
The word be means to cause to be, to become, or to come into being!
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19
Jesus said: "Follow me, and I will make you the fishers of men."
The word make has the same meaning as Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created which means to cut down, select, feed(as formative processes):- choose, create= do, make.
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
When Jesus saw Peter and Andrew fishing at the sea of Galilee, an act of creation was about to begin in their lives!
Before the "I will make you fishers of men" could come into being they had to follow!
And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. Matthew 4:20
Their will to follow the words of Jesus allowed God's will to begin in their lives.
Are you ready to follow Jesus? What does this mean?
Peter and Andrew didn't hesitate, they immediately left their nets and followed Jesus! They had just been cut down and selected! The process of "I will make you fishers of men" had begun in their lives, they were followers of Jesus!
Now they would go through the process of being made! Christ beginning in their lives would only become greater and glorious! Every test, mountain, failure, and triumph would be working in them the fulness of Christ as long as they knew who was in front on them.
They were being changed from glory to glory! But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18
Who is in front of you?
• Is it the person that you think may help your career climb?
• Is it a sucessful place in the world where you will receive recognition?
• Is it a person that you have set out to win them to fullfill your life?
• Is it some kind of sport or acheivement that feeds you own self?
Who is in front of you?
Jesus said :"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
As dear children are to the heart of God, we are to follow God. Knowing that all we do for Christ as we follow as dear children, God is creating in us that full stature of Christ! What the Church could be in this hour if we followed Him as dear children.
When we follow Christ, we will begin to do the things that Christ is in this world!
When my wife,Charlene and I were rearing our children while they were little, we would pray for each other when sickness or time of need would be upon us. Our children could see what we were doing! They were following us! I remember one day when I was sick in bed, and our daughter, Danielle, then was three or four years old. She saw that I was sick and it came automatic to her to cry out: "Get the oil!" Why did it come automatic to this little girl! Because she was following as a dear child! A child that knew she was loved of her father and desired to follow in his ways! I still can still feel that little hand with oil all over it, standing on her tip-toes along the side of my sick-bed.
There was more than just oil on her fingers! There was a love and great concern for her father! She was going to touch God for me! Praise God! She did! I came up off of that bed that day knowing the power that belongs to a dear child that will follow God!
"I ask you today, who is in front of you?"
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ephesians 5:1
The word be means to cause to be, to become, or to come into being!
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19
Jesus said: "Follow me, and I will make you the fishers of men."
The word make has the same meaning as Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created which means to cut down, select, feed(as formative processes):- choose, create= do, make.
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
When Jesus saw Peter and Andrew fishing at the sea of Galilee, an act of creation was about to begin in their lives!
Before the "I will make you fishers of men" could come into being they had to follow!
And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. Matthew 4:20
Their will to follow the words of Jesus allowed God's will to begin in their lives.
Are you ready to follow Jesus? What does this mean?
Peter and Andrew didn't hesitate, they immediately left their nets and followed Jesus! They had just been cut down and selected! The process of "I will make you fishers of men" had begun in their lives, they were followers of Jesus!
Now they would go through the process of being made! Christ beginning in their lives would only become greater and glorious! Every test, mountain, failure, and triumph would be working in them the fulness of Christ as long as they knew who was in front on them.
They were being changed from glory to glory! But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18
Who is in front of you?
• Is it the person that you think may help your career climb?
• Is it a sucessful place in the world where you will receive recognition?
• Is it a person that you have set out to win them to fullfill your life?
• Is it some kind of sport or acheivement that feeds you own self?
Who is in front of you?
Jesus said :"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
As dear children are to the heart of God, we are to follow God. Knowing that all we do for Christ as we follow as dear children, God is creating in us that full stature of Christ! What the Church could be in this hour if we followed Him as dear children.
When we follow Christ, we will begin to do the things that Christ is in this world!
When my wife,Charlene and I were rearing our children while they were little, we would pray for each other when sickness or time of need would be upon us. Our children could see what we were doing! They were following us! I remember one day when I was sick in bed, and our daughter, Danielle, then was three or four years old. She saw that I was sick and it came automatic to her to cry out: "Get the oil!" Why did it come automatic to this little girl! Because she was following as a dear child! A child that knew she was loved of her father and desired to follow in his ways! I still can still feel that little hand with oil all over it, standing on her tip-toes along the side of my sick-bed.
There was more than just oil on her fingers! There was a love and great concern for her father! She was going to touch God for me! Praise God! She did! I came up off of that bed that day knowing the power that belongs to a dear child that will follow God!
"I ask you today, who is in front of you?"
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; Ephesians 5:1
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Church that lives the Truth will know their God does not fail!
Isaiah 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
How do you see God? Is He just a figment of your imagination? So many today aren't living the Truth so therefore they look to men today. Religion today mirrors the time when Christ came as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.They had reduced God down to man's rule and authority. Whatever they thought was right was what it did. The religious heads today are so much as when Jesus came , when the Christ begins to ask it, "How do you see God?" They look among themselves for their answer. Man has no solution! In vain we look to the flesh and we are pulled from God's purpose.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38
This verse gives us the picture of Christ and what He was doing when He came the first time.
It also shows us what we are to be as we are living the Truth daily. The times are perilous we know but God said through Isaiah, "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. " Isaiah 40:25
Let the Church living the Truth__ boldly say that Christ can't be substituted by man's schemes and dreams!
To see God we must lift up our eyes on high!
Our focus must be higher than any person, place, or things!
When we look to God right, we will see that He has created all things and by number He brings them forth! He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His power!
He is strong in power! His power to work in His creation never fails to maintain His cause!
Why then, if we see this powerful God that we serve and know that He brings into creation and sustains this creation, why then do we say that God has passed us by?
The Bible tells us not to become weary in well-doing, for we shall reap__if we faint not!
Living the Truth our eyes are steadfast upon the Lord! We will always find a hope in Christ to hold us steady!
Isaiah 40:28 But the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary! There is no end to His strength! There is no end to the supply of His power that is available to those that trust in Him!
He gives power to the faint! He increases the strength of those with no might!
Our strength will come at the precise time as we wait upon the Lord!
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
May God help us to see Him as we live the Truth! We will wait upon thee, O God
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
How do you see God? Is He just a figment of your imagination? So many today aren't living the Truth so therefore they look to men today. Religion today mirrors the time when Christ came as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.They had reduced God down to man's rule and authority. Whatever they thought was right was what it did. The religious heads today are so much as when Jesus came , when the Christ begins to ask it, "How do you see God?" They look among themselves for their answer. Man has no solution! In vain we look to the flesh and we are pulled from God's purpose.
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38
This verse gives us the picture of Christ and what He was doing when He came the first time.
It also shows us what we are to be as we are living the Truth daily. The times are perilous we know but God said through Isaiah, "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. " Isaiah 40:25
Let the Church living the Truth__ boldly say that Christ can't be substituted by man's schemes and dreams!
To see God we must lift up our eyes on high!
Our focus must be higher than any person, place, or things!
When we look to God right, we will see that He has created all things and by number He brings them forth! He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His power!
He is strong in power! His power to work in His creation never fails to maintain His cause!
Why then, if we see this powerful God that we serve and know that He brings into creation and sustains this creation, why then do we say that God has passed us by?
The Bible tells us not to become weary in well-doing, for we shall reap__if we faint not!
Living the Truth our eyes are steadfast upon the Lord! We will always find a hope in Christ to hold us steady!
Isaiah 40:28 But the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary! There is no end to His strength! There is no end to the supply of His power that is available to those that trust in Him!
He gives power to the faint! He increases the strength of those with no might!
Our strength will come at the precise time as we wait upon the Lord!
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
May God help us to see Him as we live the Truth! We will wait upon thee, O God
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Post Script to "The Cost of God's Last Day Revival"
There is a last day revival that is breaking the horizon even as I speak to you this day!
You mark it down it's coming but it's going to cost you and me everything!
It's "I surrender all or nothing at all!"
It's going to cost you more than just showing up on a Sunday and give your hour of time and then blend back into this world for another week!
This is it people! It's coming! Then Jesus is going to take those of us who are willing to pay the price to be a part of it!
I surrender all__I surrender all__ All to thee my Blessed Saviour____I surrender all.
Four Men Praying to God
Saturday February 28, 2009 6:40 a.m.
God spoke this to me concerning the Church
The Church Must:
Every idol must be pulled down!
Purity has to come back!
Prayer must be a daily part of the Believer's life!
The Believer must be filled with the Holy Spirit!
Obedience is not an option!
It must finish the work of Christ to reach this world!
Church___Awake! Awake! Rise up in the Power and Obedience of the Living Christ and be that "Glorious Church!"
Look up! Your redemption draweth nigh! Jesus Christ!
You mark it down it's coming but it's going to cost you and me everything!
It's "I surrender all or nothing at all!"
It's going to cost you more than just showing up on a Sunday and give your hour of time and then blend back into this world for another week!
This is it people! It's coming! Then Jesus is going to take those of us who are willing to pay the price to be a part of it!
I surrender all__I surrender all__ All to thee my Blessed Saviour____I surrender all.
Four Men Praying to God
Saturday February 28, 2009 6:40 a.m.
God spoke this to me concerning the Church
The Church Must:
Every idol must be pulled down!
Purity has to come back!
Prayer must be a daily part of the Believer's life!
The Believer must be filled with the Holy Spirit!
Obedience is not an option!
It must finish the work of Christ to reach this world!
Church___Awake! Awake! Rise up in the Power and Obedience of the Living Christ and be that "Glorious Church!"
Look up! Your redemption draweth nigh! Jesus Christ!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Cost of the Last Day Revival
Ignore them, and they won’t go away!
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
The King James Bible says: "Thus shall ye deal with them;"
When we think of a deal being made, we think of two parties agreeing together on something that satisfies both sides involved.
That's not what God is saying at all! God says:
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
God says this is the deal!
• You destroy their altars!
• You break down their images!
• You cut down their groves!
• You burn their graven images with fire!
God says: "You are the temple of the Living God!"
• I won't share you with another god!
• If you expect Me to dwell in you and walk in you__"Thus shall ye deal with them!"
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Those of us who have been delivered are a holy people!
God has chosen us to be a special people unto Himself!
God has set His people above all people!
(Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
He, Christ has made us holy!
We are a chosen generation! We don't have to look and talk like the world!
We are in the world but we are not of it!
God has called us to raise the standard with our life in Christ!
We don't need the world ways, to manifest Christ in our lives!
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
God is not running a numbers racket! No! He just looking for a somebody that will respond back to that great love that He reaches out with!
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
He's looking for a man today! Will you be that one that will make up the hedge!
It's different when God removes the hedge and when man removes the hedge.
As long as we keep that hedge up, the word of God! Our enemies will be held at bay! No weapon formed against us shall prosper! Even if God removes the hedge__like He did with Job__if we didn't take it down!__Hallelujah!__we will come through that fiery trial with faith in God as pure gold!
If the hedge is down on your account__make it up! You stand in the gap!
Doesn't matter if everybody is making deals with the world and the devil!___You stand!
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
It was because of Gods love for you that you stand delivered today if you are saved!
It was His mighty hand that brought you out from the complete bondage of sin into complete deliverance if you were willing to obey His word and come out!
It is He that continues to deliver you through every test and temptation if you look to Him and look not to the world for deliverance!
• "It's the economy stupid!" was one of the politicians statements as he ran for President as he referred to the real issue of the day in his campaign!"
• How far off can one be! It's that God has suddenly come to judge rebellion among His people!
• We've returned to Egypt! And God won't just sit by without judging this compromise in His people!
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
We call Him Lord our God!
He is God!
He keeps covenant with His people!
He is full of mercy!
"But all of the blessings of this verse has a condition on our part to meet! He is!! and He does to them that love him and keep His commandments!
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Payday's coming to those who continue to walk in sin!
There is coming a last day revival! It's starting to happen!
Jesus is about to rapture His Church and the part of the Church that's mixed with the world won't make it!
We must be ready! It's midnight__and the cry is going forth! "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him!"
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:(the temple of God) and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
God is seeking for somebody to make up the hedge and stand in the gap! “Will you?”
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
The King James Bible says: "Thus shall ye deal with them;"
When we think of a deal being made, we think of two parties agreeing together on something that satisfies both sides involved.
That's not what God is saying at all! God says:
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
God says this is the deal!
• You destroy their altars!
• You break down their images!
• You cut down their groves!
• You burn their graven images with fire!
God says: "You are the temple of the Living God!"
• I won't share you with another god!
• If you expect Me to dwell in you and walk in you__"Thus shall ye deal with them!"
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Those of us who have been delivered are a holy people!
God has chosen us to be a special people unto Himself!
God has set His people above all people!
(Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
He, Christ has made us holy!
We are a chosen generation! We don't have to look and talk like the world!
We are in the world but we are not of it!
God has called us to raise the standard with our life in Christ!
We don't need the world ways, to manifest Christ in our lives!
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
God is not running a numbers racket! No! He just looking for a somebody that will respond back to that great love that He reaches out with!
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
He's looking for a man today! Will you be that one that will make up the hedge!
It's different when God removes the hedge and when man removes the hedge.
As long as we keep that hedge up, the word of God! Our enemies will be held at bay! No weapon formed against us shall prosper! Even if God removes the hedge__like He did with Job__if we didn't take it down!__Hallelujah!__we will come through that fiery trial with faith in God as pure gold!
If the hedge is down on your account__make it up! You stand in the gap!
Doesn't matter if everybody is making deals with the world and the devil!___You stand!
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
It was because of Gods love for you that you stand delivered today if you are saved!
It was His mighty hand that brought you out from the complete bondage of sin into complete deliverance if you were willing to obey His word and come out!
It is He that continues to deliver you through every test and temptation if you look to Him and look not to the world for deliverance!
• "It's the economy stupid!" was one of the politicians statements as he ran for President as he referred to the real issue of the day in his campaign!"
• How far off can one be! It's that God has suddenly come to judge rebellion among His people!
• We've returned to Egypt! And God won't just sit by without judging this compromise in His people!
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
We call Him Lord our God!
He is God!
He keeps covenant with His people!
He is full of mercy!
"But all of the blessings of this verse has a condition on our part to meet! He is!! and He does to them that love him and keep His commandments!
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Payday's coming to those who continue to walk in sin!
There is coming a last day revival! It's starting to happen!
Jesus is about to rapture His Church and the part of the Church that's mixed with the world won't make it!
We must be ready! It's midnight__and the cry is going forth! "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him!"
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:(the temple of God) and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
God is seeking for somebody to make up the hedge and stand in the gap! “Will you?”
"The Cost of God's Last day Revival"
Deu 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
When the Lord saved you! If it was this morning or last week or last year or 30 years ago!
You must realize that you were completely held by your sin!
Seven nations! greater and mightier than you which represents all this world has to hold you in bondage had its grip on you and you could not break loose because you belong with those nations!
But God! Set you free! And only Jesus Christ can cleanse and set the sinner free!.
God's word here is giving the saved a word picture of what has happened and what we are to be!
He delivers those that are drawn by the Holy Spirit who hear the Gospel and who repent of their sins and believe the Gospel! Thank God for salvation! But that's only the beginning!
Deu 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
God delivers our enemies before us but He expects us to slay them! And just as they completely held you, you are to utterly (or completely) destroy those things that would cause you to be brought back into bondage!
The problem with so many today is that they have never truly come out of bondage!
But to those who have been delivered__God says:
"When I deliver these nations before you __you shall smite them! and utterly destroy them!
Don't you make any covenant with them! Don't you have intimate relations with them! Don't regard them!
Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
There's no differance of the divorce rate in the Church than outside the Church today! Why? Because the Church refuses to obey God's word!
Thou shalt not make marriages with these nations! Why? Look at verse 4
Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Because for first of all God said not to and we are in rebellion to God when we do it! We wound God's heart!
Because He tells us that the heart of those that persist in this rebellion will be turned away from the Lord and will serve other gods!
Because God's anger is going to be against that rebellion!
Because those that are in rebellion and refuse to repent will be visited by sudden destruction!
To some it may seem like God isn't moved by their persistant rebellion, but sudden destruction will come as a woman in travail! (My pain of kidney stones, doesn't compare to the pain that I would experience if I hold the truth in unrighteousness!)
When the Lord saved you! If it was this morning or last week or last year or 30 years ago!
You must realize that you were completely held by your sin!
Seven nations! greater and mightier than you which represents all this world has to hold you in bondage had its grip on you and you could not break loose because you belong with those nations!
But God! Set you free! And only Jesus Christ can cleanse and set the sinner free!.
God's word here is giving the saved a word picture of what has happened and what we are to be!
He delivers those that are drawn by the Holy Spirit who hear the Gospel and who repent of their sins and believe the Gospel! Thank God for salvation! But that's only the beginning!
Deu 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
God delivers our enemies before us but He expects us to slay them! And just as they completely held you, you are to utterly (or completely) destroy those things that would cause you to be brought back into bondage!
The problem with so many today is that they have never truly come out of bondage!
But to those who have been delivered__God says:
"When I deliver these nations before you __you shall smite them! and utterly destroy them!
Don't you make any covenant with them! Don't you have intimate relations with them! Don't regard them!
Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
There's no differance of the divorce rate in the Church than outside the Church today! Why? Because the Church refuses to obey God's word!
Thou shalt not make marriages with these nations! Why? Look at verse 4
Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Because for first of all God said not to and we are in rebellion to God when we do it! We wound God's heart!
Because He tells us that the heart of those that persist in this rebellion will be turned away from the Lord and will serve other gods!
Because God's anger is going to be against that rebellion!
Because those that are in rebellion and refuse to repent will be visited by sudden destruction!
To some it may seem like God isn't moved by their persistant rebellion, but sudden destruction will come as a woman in travail! (My pain of kidney stones, doesn't compare to the pain that I would experience if I hold the truth in unrighteousness!)
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