What can we each give that we would call “first fruit”?  In the next one hundred days I challenge each person who may read these words to consider giving Christ their all.  For one hundred days, waking in the morning and before rolling out of bed, acknowledging God’s presence, authority and priority position as number one in each of our lives.  What would happen if one-hundred, or one-thousand or dare I mention one-hundred-thousand Christians were to suddenly make God first in each of the next one-hundred days?  Would there be an impact?  Fiddlesticks, it would be a tsunami wave spreading the power and joy of the gospel resounding in cascading waves circling this globe.

The Lord is asking us for a lifetime of this “first position” prioritization.  I am asking for that lifetime to begin with a commitment of one-hundred days.  What would you do?  How would you impact your local, regional, or global world?  What talents have lain dormant or have been allocated to serving other gods, idols or selfish desires?  If you were to give your best to the Lord for the next one-hundred days would you stop there?  Being just one man, I have seen that I can accomplish little on my own, but wholly surrendered to the Will of the Lord I can move mountains, walk through enemy fire and overcome obstacles with ease, success and victory.  Please join me in committing the next one-hundred days to serving the Lord with your best and giving the world what you have left.

Praise Jesus, come soon Lord we need you.  Oh how long will you wait Father?  How long will your enemies prosper and speak openly against Your Great Name?  Wickedness abounds.  Let not our hearts grow dim but let them be filled with joy surpassing worldly understanding.  Let us shine with a light that illuminates falsehood, spreads truth and gives life to all it touches.  I proudly proclaim the name of Jesus and humbly serve His Glory.

http://youtu.be/O7ByJb7QQ9U  The Palestinian deception

This puzzle of humanity is where my piece fits in the grand mosaic.  Unfolding riddles, stories told again and those yet to be written, featuring marvelous daughters, wonderful sons, landscapes, lawyers and legend.  Why were any of us chosen to be written into the manuscript at certain moments bringing with us answers, talents and voice to change the course of circumstance or to constructively weave our individual stitching into time?

My thoughts cry out in awestruck, joy.  I see delightful resemblance in every face, every smile, even in panicked emotion.  This world is my family, being alone amongst seven billion siblings, impossible.  Some will remember, others forget and a few volunteer.  A gauntlet of cherished gifts and freedom given to the undeserving with foreknowledge of becoming.

With great big crocodile tears at our every movement, I imagine the Eyes of God upon each of us.  Eyes beyond the sands, hills, valley and trees.  None of us less or more than any other, each one adorable and worth it.  A Father’s love for every child.  Their pain His suffering, their joy His delight, their toil His to use for good.  In all His glory, this light He gave for all to see.  Amen.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/where-have-all-the-fish-gone/2438721.aspx   When do suspicions become supported fact?

http://www.openbible.info/topics/power_of_words  A list of scripture surrounding God’s warning on the power of our words and the need for caution as we speak.

Why can’t I take back a word once it has been said?  What energy resides within a word that it can start wars, evoke peace, withstand history, transcend death, create eternal friendship and even provide a steady income?  How could something that is without cost come with such a price?  Why do tyrannical societies restrict and fear the words of peasants.  What is this power to elevate or condemn given to each man whether pauper, prince or saint?

The ability to use words is one of our likenesses to God in His infinite depth. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God., John 1:1.  If you want to know the will of God for your life and hope to receive true discernment meditate on this line of scripture every day for at least ten minutes.  Father, what does this mean, how can the word precede the beginning?  How can the Word be with God and also be God?  How can I use my words or my silence to bring glory to Your Name?  Teach me the power of words and their proper intention and use?  Make me a man of clean lips, I beg of you.  In Jesus’ name.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/new_orleans_police_pressed_ove.html  If we aren’t watching we will miss the enemy’s approaching troops at the door.  Remember deception, dissembling, and misdirection are his favorite weapons.

Two men who do not share our beliefs sitting in the most powerful seat in the world representing our country.  How has it come to this, in a self-pronounced Christian nation that we should have before us the choice between two pagan men as our leader?  Are we truly in slumber or comatose to our own desires?  Last time I checked the Lord’s prayer, which Jesus gave His disciples, commits each of us to accept His Will in Heaven and on Earth.  How can people even say these words if they A) Don’t believe them and B) Never intended on surrendering their own will to the Will of the Lord?  How can we stand by while men who have no faith in Jesus Christ are elevated to positions of authority over our lives?

Obama, obviously an unbeliever as evidenced by his stance on abortion, Islam, his obvious lack of humility and the atheists, God haters he surrounds himself with.  Romney, a subscriber to the false religion of Mormonism, commercialism, his obvious lack of humility and his repeated votes siding with homosexuality, greed and government domination of God’s people.  Rick Santorum is the only one of the bunch of characters with any allegiance to the Lord, any humility, any true character and yet he is dismissed as not being flashy enough to get our votes.

How did we get to this point?  The route is clearly traceable back to the day when we departed from obedience to the Lord and were turned over to our collective deviant minds as punishment for our sin.  The worse thing that God can ever do to one of His children is let that child alone to pursue their own desirous heart and wickedness.  A nation who goes astray of the Lord will be turned over to homosexuality.  If there is one person out there who does not see the viral, aggressive transformation of this beloved country into something that we don’t recognize please let him/her stand up, take their blindfold and ear plugs off and explain to us the true circumstances.

There is only one way back to stability, honor and national solidarity, that is to turn from our sin, cry out to God in humility and pray that He hears us from Heaven and heals the wounds we have masochistically inflicted upon this gift of a nation He gave us.  Praise Your Holiness, Righteousness and Truth, Father, in the name of Your one and only Son, Jesus Christ the Lord, Savior and Judge of mankind.

http://www.wnd.com/wnd_video/the-religion-of-evolution-vs-the-facts/  State Sponsored Religion that we are funding.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/how-to-make-the-rest-of-your-life-the-best-of-your-life-247748.html  Is it easy to distinguish what the Lord offers from what the enemy offers?  The late pastor Adrian Rogers clearly differentiates the two.

Does this world look as if you’ve imagined it?  Are the lilacs in bloom, crops bountiful in the field, a glint in every child’s eye and abundance in the store houses, enough to share with all who may be in need?  Does news of the day reflect your concept of social justice, coming collective enlightenment and hope in the opportunity provided to all, no matter their circumstance?  Is there mutual respect shared between government and its peoples as representatives seek the best course of action regardless of personal benefit or business impact?  Is there global unity or a promise of shared international commitment where all shall live in understanding and harmony?  Is the present environment truly depicted and honestly reflected in scripture could things possibly be that bad?

The Bible has yet to be wrong and it states emphatically without equivocation the things which will soon unfold.  If in fact you do not believe in the eschatology of Bible prophecy then your hopeful view of world unity solidifies your susceptibility to one of the greatest deceptions ever perpetrated upon mankind.

The antichrist will come claiming to be Messiah and fool all those hopeful hearts yearning for global unity.  Jesus even foretold that although He was not received when He came in the name of the Father that another will come in his own name and he will be received.  The world will rejoice as they welcome this character, thus allowing them to deny Jesus the True Lord of Lords and King of Kings.  They will feel justified in all their mockery, derision and historical wickedness.  The Bible depicts the antichrist as a rider on a white horse without any arrows in his quiver who will conquer many through “peace”.  This is such an unusual concept it should immediately arouse suspicion in the minds of all who believe themselves Christians.  This is how he will succeed in the deception, portraying himself as a peaceful, loving, savior who will disarm the world by fooling them into believing he is the predicted messiah.  He will perform miracles, evoking peaceful movements and binding many to agreements without justifiable reliance.  He will be the false image of an anointed character preaching freedom from the accountability to God’s Word, in fact proclaiming himself god.  He will blaspheme the One True God and those who may not be fooled into worshiping his effigy will be forced by penalty of cruelty, poverty and death.

This world is on the rim of the eternity’s precipice, teetering between righteousness and sin.  Rapture is a reasonable argument seeing this precarious wobble.  Losing the believing Christian population in an instant would plunge this delicately balanced civilization into the turmoil from which it is restrained by our indwelling Holy Spirit of God.  Absent that collective faithful population there will be no voice left to call the unholy to reason.  Praise be to God that even then He will send angelic and human messengers on a mission of grace to proclaim the coming Kingdom, the need for repentance and the offer of salvation.  All who call upon the name of Lord shall be saved.  What a mighty God we serve.  Be ready, be watchful, be filled with courage and love.  King Jesus awaits His bride.  Amen.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/head-cut-off-jesus-statue-outside-dorchester-church/  Irreverence, the new American Freedom!

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=7708  At all cost

Speak up, speak out, march in indignant disagreement, throw tantrums aimed at bringing down the establishment, protect the right to freedom of religion, unless of course that religion involves a belief in Jesus Christ.  For this to happen in Boston is especially symbolic of the depths to which this once great nation is fallen.  Where is the public outcry of the masses, where are the marchers protecting the rights of those to whom this discrimination is being openly perpetrated?  It is not God who is dead but the fear of God.  We have lost all self-respect and the foundational beliefs which set us apart from other failed model republics.  This nation of citizens with mutual respect, practicing a voluntary adherence to decent morals and belief in the common good which rose above the foray to become something worth believing in has now blended into mediocrity.  Lord, forgive us for we have gone so far astray from Your righteousness that we can no longer measure the distance between us.

Judgment is not far for us if we do not have a drastic revision of our present course.  I pray for Your mercy on us, but I know that justice will be served as it must.  Praise Jesus.  You may smash our statues and burn our churches but you will never take the Lord’s love from our hearts nor His likeness from our faces.  We serve the One and Living God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.  The creator of all men and all things in this universe.  You cannot destroy Him by smashing a plaster representation in front of a place of worship for He lives right here inside each Christian.  And He will have His day where all mockery will receive its reward.  In this we can depend.  Amen.

http://laymanswatch.com/LaymansWatch_files/Commentaries/Rapture-HowClose.htm  It is always interesting to see how people continually try and predict what should not be known, ie..the timing of the rapture and the return of Christ.  However, this fellow does have all the Biblical references, the signs and the date ranges cogently organized.  What do you think?

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html  Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic gravitational forces.

The strong or the weak?  Which side do you believe yourself to belong?  The majority of humans rarely contemplate physical relationships at the subatomic level.  Once again it appears that the great scientific attempt to separate God from His creation ends in a cul-de-sac.  No matter how precisely we dissect the universe into its component parts it retains its mystery and complexity.  We remain where God intended us to be; forced to make our eternal decision based on Faith and the hope that God’s Word is true.

These structures, particles and forces effectively diagram the relationship within our atomic composition.  They are the building blocks with which the Lord tied together the universe.  Again even in space too small for us to actual see the particles we are confronted with the majesty of God’s creation.  Just as in the human cell, forces and matter at the subatomic level remain too statistically complex to owe design to random possibility.  In fact, physicists are increasingly declaring that there is special complexity beyond measure for logical probability as the atom is broken down to particle exchange and force cohesion.

I remain curious as to why we have to know?  Isn’t the living of life in itself its own meaning?  I will know at some point the answers to all these questions but for now it is more important for me to exercise and build my body of faith.  Nothing is incapable of creating everything no matter how I rewrite or break down the logic. God stands behind every door, waiting for us to invite Him in.  Won’t you ask the Lord to sup with you?  Praise the Father in Jesus’ name.

I continue to try and fail, yet God still loves me.  Although I keep doing it wrong, I still feel His hand in everything that I do.  Such an amazing idea.  How do we become something more than just the efforts of an inadequate man, the ramblings of a self righteous sinner or the not so comical attempts of this blind man trying to describe the masterpiece in the portrait of Messiah?  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen Hebrews 11.1 (KJV).

I cannot do anything, but I hope to.  I cannot make a difference, but I pray that the Lord allows me to make one.  I pray for the miraculous to occur for people and yet I know that if it were dependent upon my successful performance such hope would be foolish.  I have to believe that He will somehow make a difference through my in-poetic preaching, my imperfect delivery of His word or that somehow a kernel of my testimony will reach someone.  I cannot save anyone, but in my heart of hearts I wish that something I say or something I do for someone helps them seek the Lord in all of His love, power and glory and consequently find their way to salvation.  In effect, although I keep doing it wrong there must be some smidgen of evidence for God in my wanting to do the right thing and believing that somehow He will find His way through my clumsiness.

And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death. Revelation 12:11 (KJV)  What does this mean to you?  Is it open for interpretation or is it clear?   The “they” that this passage is referring to in the text is obviously Israel in their coming flight and persecution from “him” the “red dragon” (satan, the Lord Jesus rebuke him).  But don’t we all feel like this passage refers to us personally?  Am I not the an over-comer by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony?  Don’t the words that I proclaim, about God’s Righteous Glory, somehow give me victory over the enemy?  Doesn’t the power of His sacrifice somehow give me the “upper hand” in this battle to rise above the attempts of the accuser of the brethren?  Isn’t this about everyone who believes in and proclaims the gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord?  Isn’t God’s word amazing in depth and relevance?

Father, forgive my miserable attempts.  I continue to fall short of Your Glory and the objectives You have set before me.  Please grant me pardon when I bring shame to Your perfection.  Forgive me my blasphemy, my misrepresentation, my poor analogy and my weak patience, love and understanding in sight of my brother.  Please make right what I seem only capable of doing incorrectly.  I am amazed that You chose me at all, but I am so joyously, grateful that You did.  I choose You Lord.  I will continue to seek You with all my heart, mind and soul, like I seek no other.  You are my Creator, my King, my savior and my love.  May I overcome the enemy through Your Blood and the words of my testimony.  May I not love my life even unto death.  May I continue to demonstrate faith through the substance of my hope in the things not yet seen.  I believe in Your power, glory and might and in Your eternal plan of salvation for all mankind.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.

http://youtu.be/O1ZBlLU7XIQ  Dr. John Barnett, the truth about the real and eternal HELL.

The truth remains, our attitude towards it does not diminish, improve, tarnish or remove one tittle.  The time of mockery, apostasy and luke-warm devotion is upon “all” of us.  All of us know that we could join endless argument with hecklers, foolish men and prideful sojourners given the opportunity to discuss the evidence for God and His coming judgment.  They seek to best you in debate, they must ridicule your faith, they are compelled to dispel your evidence and expose you as angry, uneducated, lying or crazy.  This farce is perpetuated by Christian men believing that somehow we can best them in their argument.  Having exchanged the Truth of God for a lie they cannot see the Truth (Romans 1).  Enjoining them in argument only perpetuates the resounding mockery.  Perhaps we should speak the word of God and let the Holy Spirit do any convincing that must be done?

We are not allowed to let our children learn about the Christianity, giving them the freedom to make their own decisions, as we have.  Rather they must be indoctrinated with the philosophies of Bhudda, Muhammed, Darwin, Nitsche, Hawking and Dawson without competitive reason, history and argument for the Truth of God.  These educational power brokers, calling themselves teachers are afraid in their own pursuits, so much so that they cannot allow our children the opportunity to contemplate a loving creator.  They have participated in the edification, revival and continuation of “man-centric” religions like; commercialism, evolutionism, naturalism, communism, mormonism and satanism, in which we all either have no need for God or we become a god.  These people must escape, disavow, dissolve, attack, confront or avoid the Truth of Judeo-Christian history.  It is not the beginning that they fear but the end.  Yet they must deny the beginning because it validates the inevitable judgment where we “all” must give an account for our lives.  To avoid that reality they will dash your children upon the rocks if necessary then blame you for doing so.  These things make no sense unless satan, the Lord Jesus rebuke him, is real and contending for the souls of the damned.  Confident men do not fear a good solid discussion of competing philosophies.  All men should fear God in reverence but only those who will not respond to His truth need fear judgment.  That fear is a loving gift from our Creator in hope that it will cause us to repent, seek His face asking forgiveness and redemption.

I do not personally wish that God’s judgment was so final, but my wishing it were different is irrelevant to truth.  Whether I like it or not we “all” will have to face an accounting some day for our actions in this life.  Knowing that truth does not make me dislike God or resent His plan but rather makes me closely monitor my own behavior as He intended.

I do not love my own will for it has been proven “false”.  As evidence I offer that we all know that there is enough food produced in the world everyday to feed every hungry man, woman and child on the globe.  Why then do some choose not to share, or others put profit above the common welfare of those in need?  I am compelled to chastise myself for not doing everything in my power, including expending all my savings to eradicate this suffering.  The explanation is so simple yet it will not be the Christian that will avoid this truth but rather the realist, the naturalist and the atheist.  For them the words are just a mantra, their lives just an entertainment, their gods self-serving, finite and chaotic.

A Christian may be selfish and not feed others but he knows that there will someday be a price to be paid for that selfishness.  Perhaps that is more wicked than the man who helps not and believes not that there is any personal consequence.  Either way we all know the truth whether or not we will admit it, avoid it or champion it.  The world and all that it is in it, including me was created for God’s purposes and good pleasure and that gives me peace.  Praise the Lord.

Your role, your conversation to have with your Maker.  Our collective role is not an issue of interpretation but rather acceptance and accountability.  What He told us all to do, in His Will, is not reasonably visible, but so crystal clear that if there were a descriptive above “absolutely transparent” that would be the one I would choose to describe the Lord’s direction to His people, His church, His disciples.  The answer to understanding God’s Will for our lives begins with surrender and ends with performance.  Giving our lives, in their broken state to the Lord, then growing in His Word and Fellowship to the point where we receive, understand and perform His Will for our lives.

Although, it is through His authority, His power, His ability to transform each believer and must not be confused with personal works or earning salvation, there still is need of performance to comply with the direction God has given us.  Not doing something for my own benefit but for His Glory.  Jobs He had prepared for me before the beginning of time that I will accomplish through His guidance and power still require me to take the action.  Individual paralysis through fear, false security based on mention of the “sinner’s prayer” in a moment of contrition or inaction due to complacency are all joyous to God’s enemies, because they all commonly offer excuse for not performing the works for which God designed us.  If we had no obstacles to overcome we could never demonstrate God’s glorious victory through our personal triumph.  The obstacles are “de facto” evidence of God’s participation in our lives and should be celebrated not avoided, feared or misunderstood.

We surrender to the truth that we are all sinners, and NONE of us reaches the Glory of God.  ALL are in the need of a savior.  We intuitively know these things because the Lord gave us that understanding at the core of our being.  This is the point of surrendering to that knowledge of God in His attempt to recover us from the depth of our ancestral fall.  He reached out to us we must then reach back to Him.

There Has to be a “visible” evidence of gratitude, transformation, willingness, belonging and believing in the purposes for which we were set free.  Joyous performance is one such “visible evidence”.  So too are actions like; eagerly seeking the Lord’s Word, eagerly remaining in prayer and voluntarily outwardly demonstrating the inward transformation through things like repentance, restitution, remembrance, right-action, JOY, PEACE and LOVE.  If these evidences are not identifiable then one of several Mal-occurences should be expected; backsliding through self-service or idol worship, lack of Holy Spirit filling or worse yet “apostasy” (downright abandonment of the truth of the Lord).

However you cut the pie up there is still a first piece and a last piece with the determining factor between them being “Time”.  We are inside of time and therefore the time of surrender and performance is finite.  We only have so much time to make decisions and take actions.  The Lord is the determiner of the time line, it started when He declared the beginning and will end when He says “enough”.   Not knowing when the declaration will come should impart to each believer a sense of urgency.  If it isn’t then there ought to be some sincere prayer because “something ain’t right”.  Praise Your Holy Name Lord, Jesus be praised.

http://youtu.be/jDuDN2FtrIo  Time to expose false teachers, thank you John.