Monday, November 18, 2013
Life
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
5:27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
verse 24
Truly, truly! "The honest to Gods truth!"
He that hears God's Word and believes on Christ! You cannot separate Jesus from the Word of God!
First, you've got to hear His word! "You'll have no ability to believe if you haven't heard His word!"
He that hears the word of God and believes on the Father who sent His Son, Jesus has everlasting life! This believer will never come into condemnation!
"He has passed from death to life!"
verse 25
An amazing three-fold miracle Jesus says will happen when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God!
1. The miracle of dead people the ability to hear the voice of Christ!
2.The miracle of the dead people coming to life at the hearing of the voice of God!
3.The miracle of hearing God's voice and still remain dead!
Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
"If you are are still dead, it's your own fault. Jesus said that now is the time for the dead to the voice of God and live!"
Jesus said: "The hour is coming and now is!"
That should tell you and me that God is speaking in this hour!
His voice is speaking clearly and distinctively in this hour and He is speaking through Christ Jesus through the Word of God!
"We must realize what kind of person, we want to be!"
Are we the kind that hears His word and lives or are we the dead that remain lifeless in the tomb that the world has bound and covered!
"We must realize if we want to remain dead or live!"
verse 26
Just as the Father has life in Himself, so the Son has the same life in Himself! "Out side of Jesus Christ, there is no life!"
verse 27
The Father has given Jesus the authority to execute:(to carry out with unlimited power to do all things right and pleasing to the Father!)
"What an awful place to be, a place where there is no life."
2 Peter 2:1-22 False prophets will come that promise life but bring bondage and then destruction.
"When Noah and his family stepped off that ark, there was no life except what was coming out of the Ark!"
That Ark was Jesus! Life will and can only come out of Jesus Christ!
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
"But the sad reality of after Noah and his family stepped out of the Ark and back into this world, even though all other life had perished, they still had to deal with their own flesh that by nature is opposed to everything that God is and represents!"
Our only hope is in Christ and staying in Christ!
"Life"
2Kings 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
Elisha's name means: God of suppication, or of riches.
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Heb 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
"That recompence of the reward is life!"
"Life is founded in Christ!"
"I want to talk to you today about Life. In it's truest meaning, in Christ!"
Account of Gehazi, the servant of Elisha being asked by the King :
2Kings 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
Turn in your Bibles to:2 Kings 4:8-37
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Read 2 Kings 4:8-37
2Ki 4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
2Ki 4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2Ki 4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
2Ki 4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
2Ki 4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
2Ki 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
2Ki 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
"The woman chose life!"
2Ki 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2Ki 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
2Ki 8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
"The woman has returned to claimed what is hers."
2Ki 8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
2Ki 8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2Ki 8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
The servant said to the King: " This is the woman I'm talking to you about! This is her son who was raised from the dead! She obeyed the voice of God to sojourn where ever she could for seven years because of the famine God would bring to her land. She left her home and land but she's returned! She made through the famine by faith and she's knocking on your door now!"
God gave her back everything! She lost nothing! She may have been a little uncomfortable for awhile, but she hasn't lost anything serving God! God gave it all back! "He'll do the same for you when you fully trust Him and obey Him!"
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
"There is life in Christ for all who seek the Lord and do His will!"
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Fear will cause you to make wrong choices
"Fear will make wrong choices."
1Samuel 21:7 -15
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Look at what fear cause a person to do that loves God but fears man.
David has already been anointed King, Saul has been rejected by God as King because of rejecting God's word.
David has already killed Goliath. David has already killed the ten thousands that he has faced in battle. "God is with him!"
He is a man after God's own heart, God said.
But now, because of the king that has been rejected by God , King Saul, who cannot stand to be rejected by people is full of jealousy and has murder in his heart toward David. David says in his heart that I must flee! Fear makes us run.
David in 1 Samuel 21:7 is being watched by Doeg the chief herdsman of Saul. Doeg sees David with Ahimelech the priest. He sees the priest give him bread, he sees David take Goliath's sword from the priest.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
Just think about what this man that is after God's own heart is doing.
Fear has caused him to lie Ahimelech about why he is come to Nob.
He fears Doeg and ask for a sword because he said hewas in such haste to do the King's business that he didn't gird his sword.
He is given the sword of Goliath.(He has the enemys' sword)
And now for fear of Saul, he flees to Gath. (The enemy's hometown)
This sound like what most Christians do today. Instead of facing their problems and trusting in the Lord to deliver them and protect them, they run in fear and make all kinds of crazy decisions!
"Are you making crazy decisions that don't make sense right now?"
"If it were not for the grace and mercy of God David would have been destroyed!"
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 1Samuel 21:10-11
David goes to Gath. (Not a good decision!)
He goes to the home of Goliath, their champion. David comes walking into the city carrying a sword that was familiar to the people there. The same sword he used to cut off Goliath's head! (And you think you're in the wrong place!)
"Fear will cause you to make crazy decisions!"
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 1Samuel 21:12-13
"Fear for ones life will do strange things."
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? 1 Samuel 21:14-16
Have you ever said to yourself: "What am I doing here?" I'm sure was asking himself the same question! David truly loved God but fear of man had taken over David's sense. David thought: "I must be crazy for being here in the same townof my enemy, with the sword of the same enemy. David heard what they were saying. Is not this David the king of the land? Did not they sing one to another of him in dances?, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
"Fear will cause a person to act like a nut!"
David acted like a crazy person because of fear.Fear will cause you to run, hide, lie, cause you to take up the sword of the enemy, go to the land of the enemy thinking there is protection there. When God says to you, "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord!" David was acting like everything that he wasn't to preserve his life!
"There's a cave in Adullam waiting for David!" But thank God, David hasn't lost his faith and trust in God.
What about you? Are you trusting the Lord or yourself?
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
"There is no fear of man to those who trust the Lord."
1Samuel 21:7 -15
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Look at what fear cause a person to do that loves God but fears man.
David has already been anointed King, Saul has been rejected by God as King because of rejecting God's word.
David has already killed Goliath. David has already killed the ten thousands that he has faced in battle. "God is with him!"
He is a man after God's own heart, God said.
But now, because of the king that has been rejected by God , King Saul, who cannot stand to be rejected by people is full of jealousy and has murder in his heart toward David. David says in his heart that I must flee! Fear makes us run.
David in 1 Samuel 21:7 is being watched by Doeg the chief herdsman of Saul. Doeg sees David with Ahimelech the priest. He sees the priest give him bread, he sees David take Goliath's sword from the priest.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
Just think about what this man that is after God's own heart is doing.
Fear has caused him to lie Ahimelech about why he is come to Nob.
He fears Doeg and ask for a sword because he said hewas in such haste to do the King's business that he didn't gird his sword.
He is given the sword of Goliath.(He has the enemys' sword)
And now for fear of Saul, he flees to Gath. (The enemy's hometown)
This sound like what most Christians do today. Instead of facing their problems and trusting in the Lord to deliver them and protect them, they run in fear and make all kinds of crazy decisions!
"Are you making crazy decisions that don't make sense right now?"
"If it were not for the grace and mercy of God David would have been destroyed!"
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 1Samuel 21:10-11
David goes to Gath. (Not a good decision!)
He goes to the home of Goliath, their champion. David comes walking into the city carrying a sword that was familiar to the people there. The same sword he used to cut off Goliath's head! (And you think you're in the wrong place!)
"Fear will cause you to make crazy decisions!"
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 1Samuel 21:12-13
"Fear for ones life will do strange things."
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? 1 Samuel 21:14-16
Have you ever said to yourself: "What am I doing here?" I'm sure was asking himself the same question! David truly loved God but fear of man had taken over David's sense. David thought: "I must be crazy for being here in the same townof my enemy, with the sword of the same enemy. David heard what they were saying. Is not this David the king of the land? Did not they sing one to another of him in dances?, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
"Fear will cause a person to act like a nut!"
David acted like a crazy person because of fear.Fear will cause you to run, hide, lie, cause you to take up the sword of the enemy, go to the land of the enemy thinking there is protection there. When God says to you, "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord!" David was acting like everything that he wasn't to preserve his life!
"There's a cave in Adullam waiting for David!" But thank God, David hasn't lost his faith and trust in God.
What about you? Are you trusting the Lord or yourself?
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
"There is no fear of man to those who trust the Lord."
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
"Waiting for the moving of the water."
John 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
John 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
John 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
John 5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
"It was supposed to be a joyous celebration!"
This feast of the Jews, or it could be called today: "Our high-energy worship service." Jesus is about to show up to someone who just wasn't able to join in with their celebration.
"While so many others were celebrating during this feast time. While so many others were celebrating in other places in Jerusalem with such exuberant joy. Jesus enters through the sheep gate where the pool called Bethesda was."
Bethesda which means" house of kindness." A place where probably those that were really having church, so to speak, didn't feel a need to visit. After all, they have the best worship leaders, the best support groups, the best activities for everyone, and their pastor can relate to them using his new today's -language version of the Bible!
While the feast was once called the feast of the Lord, the people had changed it to "a feast of the Jews."
"It's like today, so many have taken the emphasis off of Christ and placed it upon themselves."
In all the hype and celebration, we've reduced Christ down to an event rather than the Person that He is!
So, we have people talking about their awesome praise and worship service but with no power to be willing to go through the sheep gate to the pool of Bethesda!
But Jesus will go there! And if He is truly in you, you will go there too!
Once Jesus came to the pool, what did He see?
He sees every person in their most desperate need!
Laying all about are the most miserable of the miserable. Those that probably had been in the meetings of those that were to busy with their praise services. They have heard all the "religious chiches'" that they could stand. None of it has brought them any victory!
They are looking for an angel now. Just trying to make it through another day.
A great multitude, the Bible says of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
There are many today that don't know how or when their help is going to come, but they are waiting for the moving of the water!
Jesus comes to the pool of all those waiting for the moving of the water. I don't know if anyone had ever been healed there or not. It may have been that was the formula that the churches in their city were using to be relevant to them, I don't know!
But I do know what the Bible says about what Jesus did.
He came through the sheep gate!
He came to the pool where the need was!
He had His eyes open to all of the people!
" I believe He looked upon the most miserable and the most helpless of that crowd that day."
Thirty eight years is a long time to be like you are if you had what this man had.
He's had heard it all and seen it all by religious folk. He's resigned to just lay at the pool with no faith in any man to help him.
"When we get to the point where we know that man doesn't have our answer, we are to the point where most likely, Jesus will come through the sheep gate to the pool where we are lying."
Jesus knows where you are and He knows what kind of case you are in.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Jesus asked the impotent man, "Will you be made whole?"
The man said to Jesus: "I've done everything that they told me to do!"
Someway I've made it to their meetings!
I waiting for something to happen!
They said: "Just hang in there!"
Just claim it, your answer is on the way!
Just keep sending your seeds to us!
"And man says, after all of the hype and the celebration, I have no man to put me into the pool!"
That's what wrong with so much of so-called church today, after all the celebration, nobody can put those that really have a need into the pool of kindness!
But thank God, JESUS CAN!
The man says:Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Look what Jesus says.
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
The man heard Jesus say:
RISE Which means to get up!
TAKE UP Which means to carry!
WALK It means to tread all over the place!
"All it took for this man and all it will take for you today is that you hear Jesus say: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk."
"And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked!"
If we truly hear Jesus say anything to us, regardless of the impossibility of it. His words are Spirit and they are Life!
We can believe it and do it through Christ which strengthens us!
Are you waiting waiting for the moving of the water?
Jesus is faithful to come to you.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Clean out your well.
"Clean out your well!"
I'm talking about : "The importance of the Holy Spirit."
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah chapter 12 is a picture of the Church that has allowed the world to fill it's wells with earth. Just as Israel began to rely on other nations instead of God, much of the Church has turned to this world for it's reliance instead of the Holy Ghost!
I love praise and worship but when we magnify a song over God's Word we have lost our first love! Most people today will sing for an hour and then fall asleep fifteen minutes into the preaching of God's Word!
God was not pleased with Israel and God isn't pleased when we look to any other power to move the Church to where God wants to take us. We must be filled with the Holy Ghost!
The Holy Ghost loves the Word! The Holy Ghost loves the Truth! The Holy Ghost loves Jesus! Jesus is the Word! Jesus is the Truth! The Holy Ghost will talk about Jesus! Jesus is what we should be talking about! What we should be doing about!
If we would call off about 90% of what we are doing, and fall on our faces in Holy Ghost prayer, our answer would come! Our answer is Jesus! He will come to a house of prayer! He will come and overthrow the table of those that have settled for a den of theives!
God's comfort will come to His Church by the Holy Spirit. There is a remnant that is seeking Gods face and are crying out for His grace to come upon the Church again as it did upon those at the beginning! Verse 1 (thou comfortedst me!)
Verse 2 as we behold God! He is our salvation! Faith says: "I will trust and not be afraid!"
The LORD JEHOVAH is my strength!He's my song! He's my deliverance!
"JESUS, HIMSELF! IS MY SONG!"
"It's through those wells of salvation, that the joy and glory of God will rest upon the Church in these last days!"
We can look at a passage of scripture in the book of Genesis and see the importance of the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Verse 12, We see a type of the Church that God intended for us to be!
A Church sowing in the land! Sowing the seed of the Word of God!
A Church being added to such as should be saved. Most churches today are just swapping fruits! Trying to do something that will keep them in their basket! That's not the will of God! God will never put His blessing on that.
But we see from verse 12, God blessing the Church sowing in the land!
I must know that I've been planted by the Lord! "And bloom by His grace and power there!"
Verse 13, We see this Church being strong in the Lord and in the power of His might!
The man waxed Great! This man represents the Man! I'm not talking about some man that has been elevated up to where they can no longer see Jesus! 1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
This Man represents the Church, the Body of Christ! 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 Church will go forward, it won't compromise when it is put to the test!
This Church will grow into that glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle! Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Verse 14, We see the true and faithful Church!
This represents the Church that Jesus said that He would build!
A Church God is building with servants empowered by the Holy Ghost to stand and do the will of God in this hour!
This Church will be envied of by this world.
Many have tried to copy the world and the world doesn't envy that!
But you let the Man Christ Jesus, be the Head of the Church, the Master builder of the Church and with a people full of the Holy Ghost with their eyes on Jesus, this world will take notice!
"The joy and glory of God will always rest upon Gods people who are obedient to Him."
This all sounds good, but how it it going to happen?
Psalm 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
"Let thy glory be above all the earth!"
Let nothing in your life be above His glory!
If your well has been stopped and filled with this earth, there is a remedy. Start digging! Dig deep in God's Word, there is power in His word!
Gen 26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Gen 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
Gen 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
"Isaac started digging the wells of water!"
Verse 15, These were wells that his father , Abraham had digged! (The same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost!)
The same wells! The Philistines had stopped them! Isaac had to clean them out!
We must get up every day determined that we are going to be filled with the Spirit! We must dig again the wells of water! You can be filled today!! You can be filled tomorow! That's our joy! That's our power! It don't come easy. Clean those wells out with prayer to God!
Gen 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
You can find "springing water" in the valley, if you'll but only dig!
Gen 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
This world will try to lay claim on your water, but keep digging! But this water is for those who do hunger and thirst after righteousness!
Gen 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation! Keep digging! Clean out your wells!
Gen 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Keep on digging! God makes room for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness! You shall be fruitful! Keep digging!
The Lord is about to appear! When God makes room for us, it's just a little while and then He shall appear!
Gen 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
Gen 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
God will give you a Word that no devil in hell can stop! If you will just keep cleaning out your well! Get into His Word! Jesus is a Person that you can know! We know Him by the Spirit of the "Living God!"
Gen 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
When you build your altar to God and begin to call on God. When you decide to clean out the wells of water that this world has stopped, it won't be long until this world doesn't like it!
Gen 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Gen 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Gen 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
Gen 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
There is a visible differance between the Church and the world!
Abimelech saw the differance!
Verse 28, "We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee!"
Let us make a covenant between us that you will do us no hurt!
The Church that has its wells of water cleaned out, will be a Church that this world is afraid of!
Abimelech was saying to Isaac (whose name means to inherit the Promise!) "You be who you are and we will be who we are!"
You don't try to be who we are, and we won't try to be who you are!
What a word for the Church to come back to in this hour!
Gen 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Gen 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Gen 26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
The same day when the Church realizes she doesn't belong to this world! The same day that the Church realizes that she belongs to God and acts like she belongs to God, is the day the Church proclaims to this world: "We have found water!"
Therefore, with joy shall ye draw out of the wells of salvation! Isaiah 12:3
The well of seven lambs offered by Abraham as a witness to the covenant between Abraham and Abimelech in Genesis 21:22-33.
"Clean out your well!"
I'm talking about : "The importance of the Holy Spirit."
Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah chapter 12 is a picture of the Church that has allowed the world to fill it's wells with earth. Just as Israel began to rely on other nations instead of God, much of the Church has turned to this world for it's reliance instead of the Holy Ghost!
I love praise and worship but when we magnify a song over God's Word we have lost our first love! Most people today will sing for an hour and then fall asleep fifteen minutes into the preaching of God's Word!
God was not pleased with Israel and God isn't pleased when we look to any other power to move the Church to where God wants to take us. We must be filled with the Holy Ghost!
The Holy Ghost loves the Word! The Holy Ghost loves the Truth! The Holy Ghost loves Jesus! Jesus is the Word! Jesus is the Truth! The Holy Ghost will talk about Jesus! Jesus is what we should be talking about! What we should be doing about!
If we would call off about 90% of what we are doing, and fall on our faces in Holy Ghost prayer, our answer would come! Our answer is Jesus! He will come to a house of prayer! He will come and overthrow the table of those that have settled for a den of theives!
God's comfort will come to His Church by the Holy Spirit. There is a remnant that is seeking Gods face and are crying out for His grace to come upon the Church again as it did upon those at the beginning! Verse 1 (thou comfortedst me!)
Verse 2 as we behold God! He is our salvation! Faith says: "I will trust and not be afraid!"
The LORD JEHOVAH is my strength!He's my song! He's my deliverance!
"JESUS, HIMSELF! IS MY SONG!"
"It's through those wells of salvation, that the joy and glory of God will rest upon the Church in these last days!"
We can look at a passage of scripture in the book of Genesis and see the importance of the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Verse 12, We see a type of the Church that God intended for us to be!
A Church sowing in the land! Sowing the seed of the Word of God!
A Church being added to such as should be saved. Most churches today are just swapping fruits! Trying to do something that will keep them in their basket! That's not the will of God! God will never put His blessing on that.
But we see from verse 12, God blessing the Church sowing in the land!
I must know that I've been planted by the Lord! "And bloom by His grace and power there!"
Verse 13, We see this Church being strong in the Lord and in the power of His might!
The man waxed Great! This man represents the Man! I'm not talking about some man that has been elevated up to where they can no longer see Jesus! 1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
This Man represents the Church, the Body of Christ! 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 Church will go forward, it won't compromise when it is put to the test!
This Church will grow into that glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle! Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Verse 14, We see the true and faithful Church!
This represents the Church that Jesus said that He would build!
A Church God is building with servants empowered by the Holy Ghost to stand and do the will of God in this hour!
This Church will be envied of by this world.
Many have tried to copy the world and the world doesn't envy that!
But you let the Man Christ Jesus, be the Head of the Church, the Master builder of the Church and with a people full of the Holy Ghost with their eyes on Jesus, this world will take notice!
"The joy and glory of God will always rest upon Gods people who are obedient to Him."
This all sounds good, but how it it going to happen?
Psalm 57:1
57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
"Let thy glory be above all the earth!"
Let nothing in your life be above His glory!
If your well has been stopped and filled with this earth, there is a remedy. Start digging! Dig deep in God's Word, there is power in His word!
Gen 26:15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Gen 26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
Gen 26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
"Isaac started digging the wells of water!"
Verse 15, These were wells that his father , Abraham had digged! (The same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost!)
The same wells! The Philistines had stopped them! Isaac had to clean them out!
We must get up every day determined that we are going to be filled with the Spirit! We must dig again the wells of water! You can be filled today!! You can be filled tomorow! That's our joy! That's our power! It don't come easy. Clean those wells out with prayer to God!
Gen 26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
You can find "springing water" in the valley, if you'll but only dig!
Gen 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
This world will try to lay claim on your water, but keep digging! But this water is for those who do hunger and thirst after righteousness!
Gen 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation! Keep digging! Clean out your wells!
Gen 26:22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Keep on digging! God makes room for those who hunger and thirst after righteousness! You shall be fruitful! Keep digging!
The Lord is about to appear! When God makes room for us, it's just a little while and then He shall appear!
Gen 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
Gen 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
God will give you a Word that no devil in hell can stop! If you will just keep cleaning out your well! Get into His Word! Jesus is a Person that you can know! We know Him by the Spirit of the "Living God!"
Gen 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
When you build your altar to God and begin to call on God. When you decide to clean out the wells of water that this world has stopped, it won't be long until this world doesn't like it!
Gen 26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Gen 26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Gen 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
Gen 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
There is a visible differance between the Church and the world!
Abimelech saw the differance!
Verse 28, "We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee!"
Let us make a covenant between us that you will do us no hurt!
The Church that has its wells of water cleaned out, will be a Church that this world is afraid of!
Abimelech was saying to Isaac (whose name means to inherit the Promise!) "You be who you are and we will be who we are!"
You don't try to be who we are, and we won't try to be who you are!
What a word for the Church to come back to in this hour!
Gen 26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Gen 26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Gen 26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
The same day when the Church realizes she doesn't belong to this world! The same day that the Church realizes that she belongs to God and acts like she belongs to God, is the day the Church proclaims to this world: "We have found water!"
Therefore, with joy shall ye draw out of the wells of salvation! Isaiah 12:3
The well of seven lambs offered by Abraham as a witness to the covenant between Abraham and Abimelech in Genesis 21:22-33.
"Clean out your well!"
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
"To be like Jesus."
Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
"His power comes out of His righteousness!"
"His anointing was upon Him because He loved righteousness and hated iniquity!"
If you will ever be anointed of God it will be when you love righteousness and hate iniquity!
You can say that you are anointed all day long, but if you don't love what Christ loves and hate what Christ hates, you will never be anointed! And you just might be saying to the Lord one day: "Didn't I cast out devils in Your name Jesus?" And Jesus says to you: "Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity, I never knew you!"
Act 10:38 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.
Look at how God anoints He who hates sin and loves righteousness!
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power!!!!! Why did God anoint Him?
To go about doing righteousness! That which Jesus loved__Jesus did!
"What do you love?" Are you a true believer in Christ? Do you love what Jesus loves and do you hate what Jesus hates?
Jesus received power from God because Jesus hated iniquity and he loved righteousness!
Every thing that He did was righteous! Everyone didn't like it either. But Jesus still loved righteousness and still Jesus hated iniquity!
Jesus went about doing good! Healing all that were oppressed of the devil!
There are those all around us today oppressed of the devil. God is looking for His people to love righteousness and hate sin!
Just as God was with Him, Jesus, God will be with the Believer in Christ in this hour!
1John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
"You won't have to spend a couple of hundred dollars to have someone train you how to be anointed of God! No!!!!!! Just love righteousness and hate sin, then go about doing good! God will be with you and God's anointing will be with you to do everything that He tells you to do." A-men! and A-men!
Monday, April 8, 2013
"Is Pentecost Being Lost?"
When God birthed the Church in the book of Acts it came in baptized in the Holy Ghost and speaking with tongues as the Spirit give it utterance!
That Church was an obedient Church! They obey God to wait until they would be endued with power from on high!
Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
That Church worshiped Jesus Christ and they had great joy!
This Church wasn't Assembly of God, Baptist, Methodist, and any other of the labels we put on ourselves. It was birthed Pentecostal! Spirit filled, controlled by the Spirit of truth!
Out of the obedience of the first century Church to tarry in Jerusalem until they would be endued with power from on high, power came upon them and was infused into that Church! Why? Because they were obedient to the Word of God. they obeyed God!
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
There was a hunger birthed into their heart to want to walk holy before the Lord and they knew they needed God's power to live pleasing to God!
There is no good thing in our flesh, it has never wanted to hunger and thirst after righteousness and it never will!
There has to be that desire in a human being that is created by God that says: "GOD I WANT YOU! GOD I NEED YOUR PRESENCE! I DESIRE YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! I HUNGER AND I THIRST FOR YOUR HOLINESS IN MY LIFE!
John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
"It's all tied into our obedience to God! And our love for Jesus Christ!"
Jesus said: John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
"He filled the Church at the beginning who waited upon the Promise of the Father!"
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This Church was a Church that was obedient, a Church that would wait upon the Lord until, a Church that would pray, and a Church filled with power!
Power to heal!
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Act 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Acts 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
Acts 3:8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Peter didn't have silver and gold! But he gave what he had! Peter had the resurrected Christ living on the inside of him by the power of the Holy Ghost!
"The Church had Holy Ghost Boldness to Preach Repentance unto salvation!"
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Act 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts 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.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
"The worlds only hope today is that a Holy Ghost filled Church preach repentance and remission of sins!"
"The Great Fear came upon all the church!" God was truly awesome to the Church in as much as great reverence to His presence was realized in their midst.!"
Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Acts 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Acts 5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
Believers were added daily, both men and women!
Not tares, not numbers, but Believers were added!
We need to be filled with the Spirit every day!
Pentecost isn't being lost!
Jesus said : Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! A-men.
I believe it!
That Church was an obedient Church! They obey God to wait until they would be endued with power from on high!
Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
That Church worshiped Jesus Christ and they had great joy!
This Church wasn't Assembly of God, Baptist, Methodist, and any other of the labels we put on ourselves. It was birthed Pentecostal! Spirit filled, controlled by the Spirit of truth!
Out of the obedience of the first century Church to tarry in Jerusalem until they would be endued with power from on high, power came upon them and was infused into that Church! Why? Because they were obedient to the Word of God. they obeyed God!
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Act 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
There was a hunger birthed into their heart to want to walk holy before the Lord and they knew they needed God's power to live pleasing to God!
There is no good thing in our flesh, it has never wanted to hunger and thirst after righteousness and it never will!
There has to be that desire in a human being that is created by God that says: "GOD I WANT YOU! GOD I NEED YOUR PRESENCE! I DESIRE YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS! I HUNGER AND I THIRST FOR YOUR HOLINESS IN MY LIFE!
John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
"It's all tied into our obedience to God! And our love for Jesus Christ!"
Jesus said: John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
"He filled the Church at the beginning who waited upon the Promise of the Father!"
Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This Church was a Church that was obedient, a Church that would wait upon the Lord until, a Church that would pray, and a Church filled with power!
Power to heal!
Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts 3:3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
Act 3:4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Acts 3:5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Acts 3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
Acts 3:8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Peter didn't have silver and gold! But he gave what he had! Peter had the resurrected Christ living on the inside of him by the power of the Holy Ghost!
"The Church had Holy Ghost Boldness to Preach Repentance unto salvation!"
Acts 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Act 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Acts 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Acts 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.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
"The worlds only hope today is that a Holy Ghost filled Church preach repentance and remission of sins!"
"The Great Fear came upon all the church!" God was truly awesome to the Church in as much as great reverence to His presence was realized in their midst.!"
Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Acts 5:13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Acts 5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
Believers were added daily, both men and women!
Not tares, not numbers, but Believers were added!
We need to be filled with the Spirit every day!
Pentecost isn't being lost!
Jesus said : Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! A-men.
I believe it!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A Written Message
2Corinthians 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
A written message is a powerful thing! It has brought great good. It has launched nations into war! It has brought joy to people and it has been the bearer of great sorrow to people! Peoples lives have been changed by a written message! But greater still, when our lives become the words of the message! What power!, what influence we become in the Hands of the Living God!
Jesus said: "My words are Spirit and they are Life! When we are determined to know Christ, our Life becomes the written message!
Galations 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Paul ask the question: "Do we begin again to commend ourselves?"
Do we have to write a letter to tell of the validity of our ministry to you! Or is there any need of being introduced by a letter of you or do you have need to receive a letter of commendation from us?
Paul said to the church at Corinth, "you are our letter!"
You are written in our hearts! Paul was saying in fact, that this people that became a part of the Church, was birthed by God because God had written them upon his heart. Therefore, Pauls' letter was written with a greater substance than that of ink and paper! His very life!
These souls were written upon his heart! Before salvation came to Corinth, God had to have a man to stand in the gap for a people in that city. Pauls' life literally became that written message to the city of Corinth!
What volumes a life speaks! of a man or woman who God has truly written down upon their hearts the souls of the lost in their city! Paul was a written message for all to read! That message was truly the burden of the Lord and it would not be in vain!
But it doesn't stop with the message written in our life, but that message reaches those that are written upon our heart. They become epistles ( a written message) that men read! Suddenly, because somebody has became the written message, Holy Ghost conviction begins to come to the people that you are praying for! The Harvest is truly ready but we must pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers to us! The Harvest itself doesn't realize that it is the Harvest until the laborers pray and go forth. That prayer for the Holy Ghost to bring conviction will give us the ability to gather the Harvest!
We can talk about the message, but until our lives become that message, there will be nothing in us worth reading!
We can talk about the Harvest truly being ready without acting according to known Truth, and there will be no gathering!
We must become written epistles that men may know God through!
2Corinthians 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
We may be moved by the Lord to write a letter to someone as the Spirit directs. But more powerful is a man or a woman that their life is a written message for people to read! May God write His message through our life! Then after communion in prayer, let us go forth into the city and be known and read of men! The Harvest will be gathered! God, I pray that my life may be the letter that You've already written!
Amen!
3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
A written message is a powerful thing! It has brought great good. It has launched nations into war! It has brought joy to people and it has been the bearer of great sorrow to people! Peoples lives have been changed by a written message! But greater still, when our lives become the words of the message! What power!, what influence we become in the Hands of the Living God!
Jesus said: "My words are Spirit and they are Life! When we are determined to know Christ, our Life becomes the written message!
Galations 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Paul ask the question: "Do we begin again to commend ourselves?"
Do we have to write a letter to tell of the validity of our ministry to you! Or is there any need of being introduced by a letter of you or do you have need to receive a letter of commendation from us?
Paul said to the church at Corinth, "you are our letter!"
You are written in our hearts! Paul was saying in fact, that this people that became a part of the Church, was birthed by God because God had written them upon his heart. Therefore, Pauls' letter was written with a greater substance than that of ink and paper! His very life!
These souls were written upon his heart! Before salvation came to Corinth, God had to have a man to stand in the gap for a people in that city. Pauls' life literally became that written message to the city of Corinth!
What volumes a life speaks! of a man or woman who God has truly written down upon their hearts the souls of the lost in their city! Paul was a written message for all to read! That message was truly the burden of the Lord and it would not be in vain!
But it doesn't stop with the message written in our life, but that message reaches those that are written upon our heart. They become epistles ( a written message) that men read! Suddenly, because somebody has became the written message, Holy Ghost conviction begins to come to the people that you are praying for! The Harvest is truly ready but we must pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers to us! The Harvest itself doesn't realize that it is the Harvest until the laborers pray and go forth. That prayer for the Holy Ghost to bring conviction will give us the ability to gather the Harvest!
We can talk about the message, but until our lives become that message, there will be nothing in us worth reading!
We can talk about the Harvest truly being ready without acting according to known Truth, and there will be no gathering!
We must become written epistles that men may know God through!
2Corinthians 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
We may be moved by the Lord to write a letter to someone as the Spirit directs. But more powerful is a man or a woman that their life is a written message for people to read! May God write His message through our life! Then after communion in prayer, let us go forth into the city and be known and read of men! The Harvest will be gathered! God, I pray that my life may be the letter that You've already written!
Amen!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The Down Playing of Truth
Titus 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; ( 1. Hope of eternal life! 2. God cannot lie! 3. Promise before time!)
1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed (in trust) unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ!
"Paul says, I'm a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ!"
The Greek word, doulos doo'-los S.C. G1401 SERVANT
From G1210; a slave (literally or figuratively, involuntarily or voluntarily; frequently therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency): - bond (-man), servant.
The Greek word, apostolos ap-os'-tol-os S.C. G652
From G649; a delegate; specifically an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ (“apostle”), (with miraculous powers): - apostle, messenger, he that is sent.
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Deu 15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
Two types of servants (slaves) are these:
1. Those that through the law are commanded to serve their master.
2. Those that through the law of the Spirit have been made free to serve by the love of God.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
1:24 And they glorified God in me.
Paul said: When it pleased God! The God who separated me from my mother's womb! The God who called me by His grace!
When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me! That I might preach Him! That I might preach Jesus Christ among the heathen!
"Immediately, I didn't rely on anyone or anything else for my ability to do what God was pleased to do in my life!"
When it pleased God! Jesus Christ touched my life! (Acts 9) To reveal Himself in me! That I might preach Him! Jesus!
Acts 19:8 And he (Paul) went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
"It pleased God to reveal Jesus his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen!"
Acts 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
"We've got a generation today that has "down played" the truth to where they think that the answer to reach the heathen is to be relevant to what they are involved in."
It pleased God to separate Paul from his mother's womb to reveal his Son, Jesus, in Paul!
That he might preach Jesus Christ among the heathen!
Paul didn't back-peddle from the truth to be relevant to the heathen!
God is always pleased when we stay with the truth and preach that truth! God will do special miracles by the servant of God who is separated and called by God who will preach the truth!
But there's a lot of vagabonds that have come into the Church today that are taking it upon themselves to use fleshly means to try to build the Church!
They watch the world all week and then use their idols, their reality shows, and their stars to try to preach some kind of mixed-up gospel!
Paul, when it pleased God! Preached Jesus Christ, a Rock of offence to all flesh, but God wrought (to make or do) the miraculous when he preached the Truth!
No down playing the truth! No mixture so it could be swallowed easily without gagging the flesh ! The Truth was called to crucify and slay!
The Truth of the gospel is that I must die!
The Truth of the gospel is that all have sinned and that all must die!
Just preach it the way Jesus said! Then they will be drawn to the Cross! The place of death to sin and the flesh!
Acts 19:13-20 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
"There was an outward sign that the Truth had changed the lives of many heathen (unbelievers)."
Those masquerade parties the seeker-friendly crowd tried to win converts with back-fired on those smart boys!
They were stripped naked of their costumes and had the tar beaten out of them !
They had to flee out of the house with no authority from God!
No power of the Truth to make a differance in the heathen they were trying to reach!
"God, Do it again in this hour! Strip us naked before this world if we try to down play YOUR TRUTH!"
But at the same time Truth, God's Truth will be enough and it will prevail!
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. Acts 19:17-20
God's Word will grow mightily and prevail in this hour!
1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; ( 1. Hope of eternal life! 2. God cannot lie! 3. Promise before time!)
1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed (in trust) unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ!
"Paul says, I'm a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ!"
The Greek word, doulos doo'-los S.C. G1401 SERVANT
From G1210; a slave (literally or figuratively, involuntarily or voluntarily; frequently therefore in a qualified sense of subjection or subserviency): - bond (-man), servant.
The Greek word, apostolos ap-os'-tol-os S.C. G652
From G649; a delegate; specifically an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ (“apostle”), (with miraculous powers): - apostle, messenger, he that is sent.
Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Deu 15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
Two types of servants (slaves) are these:
1. Those that through the law are commanded to serve their master.
2. Those that through the law of the Spirit have been made free to serve by the love of God.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
1:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
1:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
1:24 And they glorified God in me.
Paul said: When it pleased God! The God who separated me from my mother's womb! The God who called me by His grace!
When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me! That I might preach Him! That I might preach Jesus Christ among the heathen!
"Immediately, I didn't rely on anyone or anything else for my ability to do what God was pleased to do in my life!"
When it pleased God! Jesus Christ touched my life! (Acts 9) To reveal Himself in me! That I might preach Him! Jesus!
Acts 19:8 And he (Paul) went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
"It pleased God to reveal Jesus his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen!"
Acts 19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
"We've got a generation today that has "down played" the truth to where they think that the answer to reach the heathen is to be relevant to what they are involved in."
It pleased God to separate Paul from his mother's womb to reveal his Son, Jesus, in Paul!
That he might preach Jesus Christ among the heathen!
Paul didn't back-peddle from the truth to be relevant to the heathen!
God is always pleased when we stay with the truth and preach that truth! God will do special miracles by the servant of God who is separated and called by God who will preach the truth!
But there's a lot of vagabonds that have come into the Church today that are taking it upon themselves to use fleshly means to try to build the Church!
They watch the world all week and then use their idols, their reality shows, and their stars to try to preach some kind of mixed-up gospel!
Paul, when it pleased God! Preached Jesus Christ, a Rock of offence to all flesh, but God wrought (to make or do) the miraculous when he preached the Truth!
No down playing the truth! No mixture so it could be swallowed easily without gagging the flesh ! The Truth was called to crucify and slay!
The Truth of the gospel is that I must die!
The Truth of the gospel is that all have sinned and that all must die!
Just preach it the way Jesus said! Then they will be drawn to the Cross! The place of death to sin and the flesh!
Acts 19:13-20 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
"There was an outward sign that the Truth had changed the lives of many heathen (unbelievers)."
Those masquerade parties the seeker-friendly crowd tried to win converts with back-fired on those smart boys!
They were stripped naked of their costumes and had the tar beaten out of them !
They had to flee out of the house with no authority from God!
No power of the Truth to make a differance in the heathen they were trying to reach!
"God, Do it again in this hour! Strip us naked before this world if we try to down play YOUR TRUTH!"
But at the same time Truth, God's Truth will be enough and it will prevail!
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. Acts 19:17-20
God's Word will grow mightily and prevail in this hour!
"Church, there's no need to down play Truth."
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Mama is Home!
Nettie Lenora Gulledge
August 30,1925-December 28, 2012
Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price (value) is far above rubies.
H2428 chayil khah'-yil =word for virtuous probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength: - able, activity, (+) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, (+) valiant (-ly), valour, virtuous (-ly), war, worthy (-ily).
God given abilities by which are the means of caring for those whom one loves.
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"And that we do to our Mama!"
I have had people to show their love toward our family and we thank you so much. But there is this word "loss" that needs to be left out for me. We still have her because as a believer she's in Christ I am in Christ. The only loss is the mortal body of Mama's. But God will raise her body up to be like that of His Son and our Lord Jesus!
I. Mama's watching.
If we were sick Mama was watching. Doing all the right things that only a good Mama could do to make it better.
Mama was watching when Debbie was trying to convince a little cousin that he didn't have to be nervous while she was giving him a bath. Our sister Debbie was giving one of our cousins a bath outside in a washtub with cold water. She was saying: "Don't be nervous Peanut, it's only a bath, you don't have to be nervous." Mama said: "He's not nervous, he's turning blue! You're about to freeze him to death! Get him out of that water and dry him off!"
A bully on the playground didn't stand a chance, because "Mama's watching! One day while Mama had to go run an errand, on the way back she passed by the school playground when my sister Vickie's class was outside and she just happen to see a boy that was alot bigger than Vickie push her down to the dirt. She stopped the car and came to Vickie's rescue and told the boy that it better not happen again! Mama was watching! For a couple of days, I know that bully saw our Mama's car go by and he didn't even think of pushing anybody down!
Mama was always watching, she could see in the dark! My brother Randy and I found that out one night! One night Randy and I got the giggles and we couldn't stop. We were laughing and giggling, everything was funny! Except to Daddy who was tired and had to get up early in the morning to go to work. He'd heard about enough of our laughing. As we were laughing I felt a tug at the sheet. "Randy was that you?" I said. Randy said: "What?" I said: Was that you pulling the cover? He said,no. We giggled on and several times Daddy would holler from their bedroom for us to go to sleep. Then after a couple of easy tugs on the sheet and several times I asked Randy if it was him pulling the cover and he would say, no. Mama pulled the cover where we both could feel it. I said Randy was that you? Randy said: That was you! I said: No it wasn't! There's somebody in our room! Randy is on his back, goes up into the air with the sheet, falls back into the bed with the sheet wrap around him leaving me uncovered for the intruder to get me! Daddy!! Somebody's in our room! By this time Mama is rolling and laughing in the floor of our bedroom. Daddy realizes that Mama has slipped out of bed to make sure that we will stop our giggling and go to sleep. Daddy said: "It's your Mama!" That stopped our giggling that night.That was the same year Randy was on television! Daddy and Mama were in the kitchen/dining room drinking coffee and talking with some kin or friends and all of us kids were in and out of the kitchen and finally Daddy said: "Why don't all ya'll kids go in yonder and get on the television!" Bad choice of words! He was trying to tell us to go into the living room and watch television. Randy out runs us all and jumps up onto the television and it falls over onto the floor smashing it! Glass everywhere! Daddy said: "What in the world is going on in here!" Daddy couldn't give Randy a whoopen for something he told him to do. "I don't know if Randy has been on television since."
Mama was always watching but she did have her off days. Even then it seems like God brought help in those times. "God stopped traffic for Vickie to cross the Bessemer Super Highway 78!" Vickie in the Dobbs House at two years old! God used a hound dog to keep Vickie from falling off a high wall into a parking lot. And there was the day that Vickie rubbed off on Clyde and they decided to walk to Sister Bishop's house about three blocks away! By the way, in those days we didn't have the weather channel, we had Sister Bishop! She knew her weather!
Later on that year I believe Clyde was caught lighting the tassles around the bottom of the bed spread.
Mama was watching when Jodie tried her hand as a news reporter and went next door to report to the Raileys, our neighbors, that our house was caving in! (It was only the weight of 3 layers of ceiling paper that turned lose. Her report turned out to be a hoaks! Nobody believed it!
We moved up about three blocks higher because of the lay of the land onto the top of a hill. Where our oldest sister Sylvia led Debbie, Jodie, Randy, and myself a trip called "Kids lost in snow!" I didn't think we were going to make it out alive. We finally made it back home with fingers and toes about frozen. We didn't see snow much and I guess we got snow-blinded! We had a great eldest sister to took us out but also brought us back home. I love you , Sylvie!
Mama was watching! when the man that decided to play king of the bridge at Lake Purdy with Mama that didn't stand a chance! Mama didn't have to back up! Mama's got back-up! Daddy! Tired from a weekend at Lake Martin and almost home Mama, Sylvi, Debbie, Jodie, and Vickie are just ahead of us in the car and there's a man in car that it determined to make Mama back up off the bridge and let him pass first! My Daddy,Randy, Clyde, and me are in sight of the chicken match! Daddy got out of the truck and walked onto the bridge and told the man in a convincing tone _Back it up buddy! Mama watched Buddy back up!
I will say that Mama on one occasion almost passed a poor soul walking on the back road to Dadeville (Madwind Road). My Aunt Lorene and Mama were coming back from Dadeville and passed a man walking. Mama said to Lorene: "Who is that old man walking there with that cane?" He looked so tired. As she drove on by the weary walker, she realize it was Daddy and she said: "That's Joe Lee!" Mama stopped and backed up the car and Daddy walked over to the car and he said: "Slide over, I'll drive." He added: "If you hadn't stopped, if I had a gun I would have shot you!" Not really.
I don't know what model your mama is. But my Mama is a 1925 model and she had all the options!
That model washed clothes and hung them out to dry for 7 children, our Daddy and herself every day!
Ironed clothes, folded clothes, hung them up on a clothes line for a long time until she got her first electric dryer!
She would fry a dozen eggs with bacon, or sausage,or sometimes white meat. Or sometimes milk gravy and biscuit! (And she taught us how to do those things too!)
She would fix lunch for those that were not in school and in the summer we all had lunch.
She cook supper in the evenings for us all.
It was against the law in our house to eat without asking the Blessing for our food.
No acting up at the table was allowed while eating food that was blessed. (I feel some thoughts right now that some here might think that we were under legalism! It didn't hurt us! We're okay.) It was always a good time around the table. To claim the purdy egg at breakfast! The purdy egg is the country way of saying the pretty, or best looking egg that was fried just right! "The purdy egg!" Or to be the one that got the honor of the tenth porkchop! Nine in our family and tonight we've got ten porkchops with gravy! We would of us would eat aliitle faster without giving ourselves away. Then we would ask to have the tenth porkchop. Hallejujah!! I got the tenth porkchop! Sometimes! What a blessed time we had with Mama and Daddy and each other growing up together.
I remember that she made the best home-made biscuits, if you are among one those who have ever eaten one of her biscuits you will agree with me! She made the best Caramel Cake, it was always made for our birthdays. And later on she added the best spagetti with ground beef for each birthday dinner. "When we smelled spagetti and saw caramel cake we new it was another birthday around the Gulledge's home." The Gulledge's, that always sound good when I hear it! Because it speaks of family! A great family with lots of family! And Mama was a Gulledge, full of love for all of us in our family and all those who would be born into this family or that would become a part of this family by marriage or just by being a friend, that made you a part of the Gulledge's.
Yes, that 1925 model Mama is not disappointing at all!
That model was very comfortable to be with.
That 1925 model was loaded with plenty of love for us and also for others.
The only problem that I can find with the 1925 model Mama is , ( and it's only a slight problem I find), is that on the outside it one day wears out. This model Mama never loses the inner strength within herself from which comes from_God!
As I have watched this 1925 model Mama's outside abilities get weaker, it's amazing how this 1925 Mama never decreases in value! Remarkable, how this model keeps her worth! I'm glad to report to you all here today that in fact that this 1925 model Mama has increased daily in her inner strength. I know for a fact that this 1925 model Mama has out done many other models! This model Mama operated by the Love of God that was shed abroad in her heart!
2Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The time would fail me to tell you of all that this model has done, has endure, and has accomplished for all those that she loves!
Though the outward mans perishes__ the inward man (Jesus in us) is being renewed day by day!
Friday December 28th, 2012 I watched that 1925 model Mama's outward man perish but the 1925 model Mama continues to be renewed day by day!
1Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Mama fought the good fight! She had laid hold eternal life long before she passed from death unto life!
2Timothy 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
From 4:00 a.m. to 5:20 a.m I watched that 1925 model Mama of ours run it's final course in this life. No jump starts, no tune-up, because the race is over and the 1925 model Mama gets the checkered flag! She has come in first place!
We're not surprised by the out come! We knew she would do it!
Sylvie! Debbie! Gary! Jodie! Randy! Vickie! Clyde! It's no surprise at all! Because that 1925 model Mama was loaded with the Love of God!
The Love of God! The Love of God! The Love of God!!!
There are alot of women who had more education than Mama but never!!!!! was there a Mama with more wisdom. She knew her abilities were limited but she had the wisdom to know that Jesus said: "Ask anything in My Name and I will do it."
There are many that had more in this life but none!!!!!! that gave more life from the riches of Christ dwelling in her heart!
I've got the greatest Daddy in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Mama in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Wife in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Brothers and Sisters in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest children in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest grand-children in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest friends in the whole creation of God!
I belong to the Only True God________Jesus! Who hold me and blesses me and makes me what He wants me to be by His Grace and Power!
Mark 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
(You are first, number one but you are willing to let others go before you. Therefore you place yourself behind others but being last__God says you shall be first!)
Know this today, God loves you!
That nothing is impossible with God!
He was saying to the Lord that they esteemed Him greater in worth than their families, their jobs, than everything or everyone else!
Jesus said: "There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mama, to have such a one, came with such a price. But it was worth it to her, she's fought a good fight, she's kept the faith through the good times and the bad. She's now in the presence of the Lord and in that great cloud of witnesses!
As I leaned over to my Mama's ear at 4:10 a.m. Friday December 28th. Ï said: "Mama, Mama!' She opened her eyes halfway open. I said: "Mama, I love you!" She said: "I love you." I KNEW SHE RECOGNIZE MY VOICE! I love you, Mama said! It goes without saying! But God in His great mercy, gave Mama the strength to let me hear her say it for the last time in her earthly tabernacle. Thank you Jesus!
Mama's watching us with all the others there.
August 30,1925-December 28, 2012
Mama is Home!
H2428 chayil khah'-yil =word for virtuous probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength: - able, activity, (+) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, (+) valiant (-ly), valour, virtuous (-ly), war, worthy (-ily).
God given abilities by which are the means of caring for those whom one loves.
A virtuous woman! Mama!
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"And that we do to our Mama!"
I have had people to show their love toward our family and we thank you so much. But there is this word "loss" that needs to be left out for me. We still have her because as a believer she's in Christ I am in Christ. The only loss is the mortal body of Mama's. But God will raise her body up to be like that of His Son and our Lord Jesus!
I. Mama's watching.
If we were sick Mama was watching. Doing all the right things that only a good Mama could do to make it better.
Mama was watching when Debbie was trying to convince a little cousin that he didn't have to be nervous while she was giving him a bath. Our sister Debbie was giving one of our cousins a bath outside in a washtub with cold water. She was saying: "Don't be nervous Peanut, it's only a bath, you don't have to be nervous." Mama said: "He's not nervous, he's turning blue! You're about to freeze him to death! Get him out of that water and dry him off!"
A bully on the playground didn't stand a chance, because "Mama's watching! One day while Mama had to go run an errand, on the way back she passed by the school playground when my sister Vickie's class was outside and she just happen to see a boy that was alot bigger than Vickie push her down to the dirt. She stopped the car and came to Vickie's rescue and told the boy that it better not happen again! Mama was watching! For a couple of days, I know that bully saw our Mama's car go by and he didn't even think of pushing anybody down!
Mama was always watching, she could see in the dark! My brother Randy and I found that out one night! One night Randy and I got the giggles and we couldn't stop. We were laughing and giggling, everything was funny! Except to Daddy who was tired and had to get up early in the morning to go to work. He'd heard about enough of our laughing. As we were laughing I felt a tug at the sheet. "Randy was that you?" I said. Randy said: "What?" I said: Was that you pulling the cover? He said,no. We giggled on and several times Daddy would holler from their bedroom for us to go to sleep. Then after a couple of easy tugs on the sheet and several times I asked Randy if it was him pulling the cover and he would say, no. Mama pulled the cover where we both could feel it. I said Randy was that you? Randy said: That was you! I said: No it wasn't! There's somebody in our room! Randy is on his back, goes up into the air with the sheet, falls back into the bed with the sheet wrap around him leaving me uncovered for the intruder to get me! Daddy!! Somebody's in our room! By this time Mama is rolling and laughing in the floor of our bedroom. Daddy realizes that Mama has slipped out of bed to make sure that we will stop our giggling and go to sleep. Daddy said: "It's your Mama!" That stopped our giggling that night.That was the same year Randy was on television! Daddy and Mama were in the kitchen/dining room drinking coffee and talking with some kin or friends and all of us kids were in and out of the kitchen and finally Daddy said: "Why don't all ya'll kids go in yonder and get on the television!" Bad choice of words! He was trying to tell us to go into the living room and watch television. Randy out runs us all and jumps up onto the television and it falls over onto the floor smashing it! Glass everywhere! Daddy said: "What in the world is going on in here!" Daddy couldn't give Randy a whoopen for something he told him to do. "I don't know if Randy has been on television since."
Mama was always watching but she did have her off days. Even then it seems like God brought help in those times. "God stopped traffic for Vickie to cross the Bessemer Super Highway 78!" Vickie in the Dobbs House at two years old! God used a hound dog to keep Vickie from falling off a high wall into a parking lot. And there was the day that Vickie rubbed off on Clyde and they decided to walk to Sister Bishop's house about three blocks away! By the way, in those days we didn't have the weather channel, we had Sister Bishop! She knew her weather!
Later on that year I believe Clyde was caught lighting the tassles around the bottom of the bed spread.
Mama was watching when Jodie tried her hand as a news reporter and went next door to report to the Raileys, our neighbors, that our house was caving in! (It was only the weight of 3 layers of ceiling paper that turned lose. Her report turned out to be a hoaks! Nobody believed it!
We moved up about three blocks higher because of the lay of the land onto the top of a hill. Where our oldest sister Sylvia led Debbie, Jodie, Randy, and myself a trip called "Kids lost in snow!" I didn't think we were going to make it out alive. We finally made it back home with fingers and toes about frozen. We didn't see snow much and I guess we got snow-blinded! We had a great eldest sister to took us out but also brought us back home. I love you , Sylvie!
Mama was watching! when the man that decided to play king of the bridge at Lake Purdy with Mama that didn't stand a chance! Mama didn't have to back up! Mama's got back-up! Daddy! Tired from a weekend at Lake Martin and almost home Mama, Sylvi, Debbie, Jodie, and Vickie are just ahead of us in the car and there's a man in car that it determined to make Mama back up off the bridge and let him pass first! My Daddy,Randy, Clyde, and me are in sight of the chicken match! Daddy got out of the truck and walked onto the bridge and told the man in a convincing tone _Back it up buddy! Mama watched Buddy back up!
I will say that Mama on one occasion almost passed a poor soul walking on the back road to Dadeville (Madwind Road). My Aunt Lorene and Mama were coming back from Dadeville and passed a man walking. Mama said to Lorene: "Who is that old man walking there with that cane?" He looked so tired. As she drove on by the weary walker, she realize it was Daddy and she said: "That's Joe Lee!" Mama stopped and backed up the car and Daddy walked over to the car and he said: "Slide over, I'll drive." He added: "If you hadn't stopped, if I had a gun I would have shot you!" Not really.
I don't know what model your mama is. But my Mama is a 1925 model and she had all the options!
That model washed clothes and hung them out to dry for 7 children, our Daddy and herself every day!
Ironed clothes, folded clothes, hung them up on a clothes line for a long time until she got her first electric dryer!
She would fry a dozen eggs with bacon, or sausage,or sometimes white meat. Or sometimes milk gravy and biscuit! (And she taught us how to do those things too!)
She would fix lunch for those that were not in school and in the summer we all had lunch.
She cook supper in the evenings for us all.
It was against the law in our house to eat without asking the Blessing for our food.
No acting up at the table was allowed while eating food that was blessed. (I feel some thoughts right now that some here might think that we were under legalism! It didn't hurt us! We're okay.) It was always a good time around the table. To claim the purdy egg at breakfast! The purdy egg is the country way of saying the pretty, or best looking egg that was fried just right! "The purdy egg!" Or to be the one that got the honor of the tenth porkchop! Nine in our family and tonight we've got ten porkchops with gravy! We would of us would eat aliitle faster without giving ourselves away. Then we would ask to have the tenth porkchop. Hallejujah!! I got the tenth porkchop! Sometimes! What a blessed time we had with Mama and Daddy and each other growing up together.
I remember that she made the best home-made biscuits, if you are among one those who have ever eaten one of her biscuits you will agree with me! She made the best Caramel Cake, it was always made for our birthdays. And later on she added the best spagetti with ground beef for each birthday dinner. "When we smelled spagetti and saw caramel cake we new it was another birthday around the Gulledge's home." The Gulledge's, that always sound good when I hear it! Because it speaks of family! A great family with lots of family! And Mama was a Gulledge, full of love for all of us in our family and all those who would be born into this family or that would become a part of this family by marriage or just by being a friend, that made you a part of the Gulledge's.
Yes, that 1925 model Mama is not disappointing at all!
That model was very comfortable to be with.
That 1925 model was loaded with plenty of love for us and also for others.
The only problem that I can find with the 1925 model Mama is , ( and it's only a slight problem I find), is that on the outside it one day wears out. This model Mama never loses the inner strength within herself from which comes from_God!
As I have watched this 1925 model Mama's outside abilities get weaker, it's amazing how this 1925 Mama never decreases in value! Remarkable, how this model keeps her worth! I'm glad to report to you all here today that in fact that this 1925 model Mama has increased daily in her inner strength. I know for a fact that this 1925 model Mama has out done many other models! This model Mama operated by the Love of God that was shed abroad in her heart!
2Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The time would fail me to tell you of all that this model has done, has endure, and has accomplished for all those that she loves!
Though the outward mans perishes__ the inward man (Jesus in us) is being renewed day by day!
Friday December 28th, 2012 I watched that 1925 model Mama's outward man perish but the 1925 model Mama continues to be renewed day by day!
1Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Mama fought the good fight! She had laid hold eternal life long before she passed from death unto life!
2Timothy 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
From 4:00 a.m. to 5:20 a.m I watched that 1925 model Mama of ours run it's final course in this life. No jump starts, no tune-up, because the race is over and the 1925 model Mama gets the checkered flag! She has come in first place!
We're not surprised by the out come! We knew she would do it!
Sylvie! Debbie! Gary! Jodie! Randy! Vickie! Clyde! It's no surprise at all! Because that 1925 model Mama was loaded with the Love of God!
The Love of God! The Love of God! The Love of God!!!
There are alot of women who had more education than Mama but never!!!!! was there a Mama with more wisdom. She knew her abilities were limited but she had the wisdom to know that Jesus said: "Ask anything in My Name and I will do it."
There are many that had more in this life but none!!!!!! that gave more life from the riches of Christ dwelling in her heart!
"I want to make you jealous today!"
I've got the greatest Daddy in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Mama in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Wife in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest Brothers and Sisters in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest children in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest grand-children in the whole creation of God!
I've got the greatest friends in the whole creation of God!
I belong to the Only True God________Jesus! Who hold me and blesses me and makes me what He wants me to be by His Grace and Power!
Keep yourselves in the Love of God!
Mark 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
(You are first, number one but you are willing to let others go before you. Therefore you place yourself behind others but being last__God says you shall be first!)
Know this today, God loves you!
That nothing is impossible with God!
Peter said to Jesus: "We have left all to follow thee."
He was saying to the Lord that they esteemed Him greater in worth than their families, their jobs, than everything or everyone else!
Jesus said: "There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mama, to have such a one, came with such a price. But it was worth it to her, she's fought a good fight, she's kept the faith through the good times and the bad. She's now in the presence of the Lord and in that great cloud of witnesses!
As I leaned over to my Mama's ear at 4:10 a.m. Friday December 28th. Ï said: "Mama, Mama!' She opened her eyes halfway open. I said: "Mama, I love you!" She said: "I love you." I KNEW SHE RECOGNIZE MY VOICE! I love you, Mama said! It goes without saying! But God in His great mercy, gave Mama the strength to let me hear her say it for the last time in her earthly tabernacle. Thank you Jesus!
Mama's watching us with all the others there.
"Mama's Home."
I want to give my warmest thanks and appreciation, along with all of my family, to all of those who have been so gracious to give your love and acts of kindness toward our family at the passing of our Mama. May God bless you and your family and give you comfort in your times of need.
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