Keep to the road though storm arise for I shall provide the dawn warmth and cost of lodging.  What days are come that we shall find ourselves alone?  How brusk the winter’s eve that we shall pale from starkers duty?  Closing buttons and wrapping shirt to keep shivers at bay.  Gift, unused resting on the mantle, tangent my Bible’s binding.  Both left wrapped, unmolested, cloaked to my eyes, mysteries secret, joys un-felt, contents veiled.

Plausible that I should find my way to heaven charting course with strong back and sturdy wind.  Fraud and silliness this challenge to accept infinity by belief.  Utter nonsense, dreamed in dark places.  So many roads leading to Rome, incomprehensible that one alone should lead ventures to truth and light of distinction.  It is too simple to hold possibility and therefore implausible.

Juggling cardinals cramming cerebrum full of jargon, pontification and data, attempting subjugation of massive proportion.  Moribund cornea and vinegar pallet in youth, resistant to all hope, wiping their brows in fallacious freedom.  Concealment their goal, not of unavoidable truth but in fearful, frail, supine form covered from the wrath of a certain God.  Terrified in anticipation and hiding from imminent footfall of Felis Leo, the Wrath, the Judgment, the Righteousness, the Life.

Miserably seeking the endless separation of all, to numb the thrumming loneliness of exclusivity.  Cannot go alone to be alone in the nothing locked forever in moot argument of postulate, identity and reason with hecklers of Grace.  Their uncoordinated flailing a brief opportunity in which to snatch away those who through Grace may see the truth and flee.  Oh that I may see that day, I pray.  Lord Jesus come.

This new day.  I have no control of the past.  The choice to remember it as a causeway passing over dangerous waters remains to me.  The ability to change it diminished to restitution to the offended, repackaging of events to mitigate damage to reputation or learning from the victories and failures.  It remains dead to me washed by the blood of my savior, taken from me, replaced with a newly issued abundance.  Though some may choose to leave the windows and doors to the past open, cracked slightly, granting permission for the enemy to remind us of our wickedness, frailty and despair.  The powers and principalities of the air have no access to my life unless granted by the Lord my God.  If the enemy receives permission from the Lord to enter my life, or deliver flaming arrows against me then it is for the Lord’s purpose not His enemy’s.  I will not grant them open invitation to whisper discouraging remarks in to my victorious life.  There are enough circumstances to which I must respond, I will not create opportunities for harassment.

This new day.  I will tell all of the joy overflowing from my completed heart.  I resolve to dream of a future free from sin, pain, misery, war and death.  My love will be real, a true reflection of the Father’s love for His children, so that none will question my lineage.  My words will be true and build confidence within the body, preparing my Brothers and Sisters to face the storms regardless of direction.  I wish forgiveness for those who wish me harm.  May the Lord not consider their affronts and grant them mercy on His day of judgment.  They too are His children and grace allows them the opportunity to choose rebirth, eternity and freedom from the second death.  I will tell of a Lord that loved this world so much he joined a fallen race to rid it of any blemish, offering the choice of salvation to all who will accept.  I will remain in the present and think about my glorious future where I may look upon the face of Jesus, the Messiah of God.  Praise You in Your Majesty, Power and Holiness.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/iranian-regime-frightens-me-harper-says/article2304805/  There are those who will speak the unpopular truth

How frequently I hear the moans, prayers and sometimes impatient voices of those who say they are waiting upon the Lord.  Petitioning Him, repeatedly as directed, hoping that somehow they have the resolve to resist taking matters in to their own hands.  Beseeching the Lord’s emphatic response to appeal.  Knowing that the rub is always in demonstration of faith, hope and trust in the Lord’s perpetual gifts of influence, prosperity and event.  Ironically I never hear my brothers voice the perspective from what might perhaps be God’s point of view.  Does the Lord get impatient with us when He is forced to wait the duration of our worldly lives for us to act in the manner He has directed?  How does the Lord behave as He waits upon us?  Frustration, anger, incessant pestering, I somehow doubt it?

What if the Lord struck us mute when He became tired of our continued lying?  What if He caused us blindness in that right eye which refused to repent of adultery?  Can you see God giving all of our belongings to the neighbor from who we coveted his donkey, his car, his wife?  What if the Lord had twenty five people show up at our door saying that the Lord had told them to come and demand you tell them the Good News of Christ?  What if God made a judge garnish your wages for tithing or to feed the elderly, poor, widowed or fatherless?  How would you react if the Lord made you allergic to alcohol when you refused to repent of drunkenness?  Or perhaps allowed you to contract a new STD each time you chose to fornicate outside marriage even when you claimed to be saved.  How would I react if the Lord called me morning, noon and night demanding to know when I would stop worshiping mammon, practicing tarot or pursuing worldly treasure?

Thank you Father for showing me how to behave by waiting patiently upon my disobedient behavior, limited faith or apathetic performance.   I pray that my prayers are answered in Your perfect timing.  Praise you Lord, in the name of King, Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JY8LKII_MNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player  If we were to tell the truth people could make sound personal and voting decisions.

Praise the Lord, O my soul.  O lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.  He wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.  He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.  He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.  He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.  Psalm 104:1-5

Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?  The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together and against the Lord and against His Anointed One.  Let us break their chains,” they say, and throw off their fetters.”  The One enthroned in heaven laughs the Lord scoffs at them.  Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,  “I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill.”  I will proclaim the decree of the Lord: He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.  You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”  Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.  Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up on a moment.  Blessed are all who take refuge in him.   Psalm 2

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.  But his delight in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers.  Not so for the wicked!  They are chaff that the wind blows away.  Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.  For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked will perish.  Psalm 1

Father, Trinity, man.  Truly take a few minutes and ask the Holy Spirit to give His insight into these passages and you will be amazed at the picture He paints.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit have a conversation in Psalm 2 about our relationship with Jesus.  If this world gives you any pause reside in the shadow of the Lord and find peace in the shelter of His wings.  Do not let this world taint your fine white garment.  Be sustained in buoyancy by the fortifying waters of a Holy Christ.  I love you and He loves you infinitely more than I am able.  Praise His Name.

When all collapses, when all is won, when all else fails we find our self right here.  Right here is the place you would cross a million miles to get to and the people you would give your last micro gram of blood, sweat or energy to protect.  When all enemies are vanquished, all work done, all battles lost or won, where would you go?  Is it a physical location or somewhere you would be with a certain person or group of family members to spend final moments or take your last stand?  Is there no one for whom you would give everything to defend?  Does this idea even resonate in your heart?  The concepts of right here and readiness are inseparable and specifically apropos for today’s generation.

Readiness includes unique components; aptness, dexterity, preparation, willingness, maturity, inclination and many others.  It is one of those words of which we seldom think, but always wish we had.  It is often the determining factor between success and failure, comfort and despair or life and death.  Louis Pasteur understood when he coined the phrase, “chance favors the prepared mind”.  For a Christian it is less an act of random hope than a direct reaction to command.  In the Bible there are few messages repeated as frequently as “Be ready”.  In order to be ready we need to have a plan and then prepare for the eventualities.  It all comes back to where will you make your stand.  Right here Lord, right here.  Praise Your name Father.  Thank you for freeing us Lord Jesus.  Holy Spirit reside with us forever.  Amen.

http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/Archive/News/Stakelbeck_Terror_011012_NoBreaks_WS  These men are taking a very unpopular stand in defense of Israel.  One Jew one Evangelical Christian both worth support and prayer.  They have chosen and are making their stand.  I met David as well as Tommy’s youngest son they are true servants for God’s people.

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=7657  Russia threatens against any attack on Iran.  Please do a Bible study on Ezekiel 38 & 39, I have some excellent material on the audio/video tab for review.

I don’t want to be God.  I believe that this concept is what separates the three camps; believers, unbelievers and fence-sitters.  Not wanting to become deity or somehow achieve a level of personal consciousness which gains me inclusion into all that is god,  makes receiving and understanding the Word of the One God, simple.  There is no conflict within my own spirit as competing philosophies, merchants or masters jockey for pinnacle positioning.  I am okay with God being God and me being me.  I do not have to develop complicated interpretations of Mayan, Egyptian or Druid cultures to explain my personal desire to become a god.  I do not need to have a psychedelic realization of the spiritual realm and somehow bring back to this material world a shamanistic explanation for my existence.

My ego is alright with being a relatively unimportant human in a vast complicated play written by the Creator of the Universe.  It suffices to be loved and known on a highly intimate level by my God.  The concept of me achieving my greatest efficacy by surrendering and being obedient to God’s plan for my life is not only acceptable but rather freeing.  I am at peace with the universe because I am not trying to remake it in “my own image” or desired end state.

The mystics somehow believe that some planetary re-alignment, collective consciousness or cataclysmic culling will bring about tranquility.  If that is so why then am I and so many other Spirit filled Christians already residing in joy as the Bible told us we would be by living close to God?  Just as I do not wish to be God, I am equally determined that each person chooses their own destiny.  I pray that you choose Christ, salvation and eternity, but I am okay with the knowledge that there will be those who refuse His gift of grace.  If it is a golden age you seek, I point you to inspection of Christ’s reign during the millennium.  There we will no longer seek riches, wars, domination and self satisfaction but instead live together in peace, justice and comfort.  Isn’t that what we all seek?  Praise God in Jesus’ name.

http://www.opendoorsusa.org/persecution/  A Christian Organization doing the good work of faith around the world in support of persecuted Christians.  Praise Jesus.  Support them if the Holy Spirit leads you.

Self-indulgent, self importance, self worth, self evaluation, self centered, selfish, self reliant, self indignant, self determined, self satisfied, self interested, self seeking, parsimonious,  self centric, self absorbed, self serving, self idolatry, self loved.

What is served rules the servant.  Whether craven image, material wealth, desirous heart or Almighty Sovereign.  Jesus came in the Name of the Father and they received Him not, but when another comes in his own name, him we shall receive.  Do we admire self-focus to such extent that we will see this as godly behavior.  Perhaps, slight of hand or miraculous fortune will bedazzle our fantasy.

Why do we begin the path to righteousness and peace serving those things which in turn take us captive?  Our God promises freedom for surrender.  No other master offers this manner of illogical bargain for capitulation.  We serve voluntarily, we pledge sacrificially, we abstain obediently we achieve abundance and good fortune as a bi-product of doing what is right.  We serve that which is worthy to be adored.  Even Pharaoh was given the opportunity to serve God voluntarily.  How gracious, our Lord to offer the choice even to His enemies.  We will eventually serve whether in rejoicing or condemnation but we have all been given the loving gift of choice.

I AM is what He told Moses to call Him.  Not I WAS, Not I WILL BE but I AM.  Like all of the Lord’s Word this statement is pregnant with the seed of infinite contemplation.  I AM means “right now” implying currently alive right here with us in our circumstances.  I AM means I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN independent of any law, physicality, thought or episode.  I AM is endless, absent beginning, circular, yet beyond Mobius continuity in linear perception.  I AM is in all things, surrounds all things, breathes life through all things and lives with all things while watching all from every perspective and omniscient cognition.  I AM means there is no other for I AM the completion for which all men yearn.  i am merely an extension, a reflection a filial whisper of the whole to which i am part.  i am delighted to serve a God worthy of my praise, performance and sacrifice.  Thank you Father in Jesus’ name.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577159202556087074.html  Is Israeli action imminent?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/judge-says-following-christian-beliefs-wrong/

Standing on the wall with their eyes wide open, sentries quickly detected enemy movement beyond the trees and were able to prepare the people for conflict.  They had been warned by the Ancient of Days that the insidious attacks would come under cover of diversion or darkness.  Their leaders had been faithful and trained everyone to the best of their ability.  When it was all over they would rejoice in the fact that they had listened to warning and subsequently casualties were few.  Praise the Lord for His warning.

Evil can only win in a victorious Christian’s life by promoting self corruption or disobedience.  The Lord has overcome this world and all that is in it but we can choose through laziness, complicity or rebellion to remain rooted in the temporary foundations with earth-dwellers.  The stage is set and the enemy seeks to mount the final charge toward oblivion.  They will seek out the weak among us to cull them from the heard.  I will understand the dangers of pride and ask the Lord’s protection for my own deficiencies while interceding for my worldly brothers.  Praise God I will heed his warnings and keep my family, friends and community awake.  Have mercy on us Father, let us maintain and perform Your Word from our hearts with a true sense of purpose.  Until Your arrival and beyond.  In Jesus’ name.  Amen.

Father, You deserve all my praise.  Creation was a gift that I mishandled for my short sighted objectives.  Innocence was a blessing that I wagered for a headache, a tarnished reputation and attention.  Until I met You my joy was liquid finding any crack in the floor through which to disappear.  My faith was thin, my anger livid and my patience absent.  My love was selfish aimed at lobbying those in possession of my most recent or unfulfilled expectation.  My dreams were strangled with thoughts of regret, lost achievement and gray landscapes.  I lived the black and white with no concept of the stellar prism.  That all transformed with the advent of Your Spirit within my heart, mind and head.  The past belongs to someone else although I stand ready to answer for the lives I disrupted or destroyed through my actions.  You are coming and I pray that I continue to focus only upon that thought.  Keep me from sin, wash me clean so that I am prepared for our meeting day.  Please don’t let me miss one person to whom I have the chance to share Your Word of Good News.  Make this life Yours.  Thank You Lord, in Jesus’ name

• The nation of Israel became a reality in 1948.
• The Jews are pouring into Israel from the scattering diaspora throughout all nations.
• The desert has blossomed, making a tiny nation a formidable economic player on the global stage.
• Jerusalem returned to control by God’s people in 1967.
• The nations of the world continue to try to divide up God’s gift of land to Israel.
• The nations surround her and the world speaks out against Israel in unexplainable aggression.
• The Roman Catholic Church is gathering together an “Ecumenical” counsel of Faiths of global component leaders.
• Churches are dissecting, watering down, avoiding or adding to God’s Word.
• Global government, joint commerce and naturalism/evolutionary theory dominate world leadership.  Calls for one-world currency begin to resonate while nationalism dwindles.
• Celebrities mock Jesus and seek to use the name of God as a byword in ambitious pursuit.
• Violent men, indiscreet women, vulgar comedians, icons of wealth and power are held up for aspiration.
• Unborn children are murdered at the rate of over one million per year in the U.S. for personal expediency.
• Homosexuality/lesbianism are common if not glorified and promoted as mainstream.
• The collective nations of the Roman Empire are again an economic, trade and geographic reality.
• Land goes untended as people coagulate in cities seeking wealth and personal glory.
• Earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, disease, drought, political unrest and cold hearts continue to increase in frequency, severity and number.
• Messianic congregations begin to blossom for the second time in history as they begin to see the truth of Jesus the Messiah.
• Russia supports Iran who supports Turkey while Libya, Algeria, Somalia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq and Egypt are in various states of turmoil.  Yet all commonly HATE Israel exactly mirroring the circumstances leading up to the events in Ezekiel 38 & 39.
• A remnant remains ready while others stand in false security believing in salvation without repentance, obedience, demonstrative faith or Holy Spirit sanctification.

http://www.newsmax.com/video/viewid/848cb4d0-d44a-46b9-9183-9de3debe38bc  Congressman Allen West’s current prognosis of American situation going forward.