What is the danger of narcissism or political motivation within the Church Body?  When I am looking at me, I am not listening for God’s direction.  When I am manipulating people, assets and situations for my own intention then I am winnowing energy necessary to complete God’s Plans.  When I am segregating people and things toward achievements built within my own vision, I will naturally divide, segment and divert people, assets, time and energy such that I limit our over all potential.  We see the effects of this division in every city across our nation, where Churches are all trying to succeed on their own with no general cooperation.  This division of potential whether by denomination, color, ethnic origin or simply ego places the victory within our cities outside the realm of achievable goals, thus keeping us from the radical breakthroughs or miracles we know are possible in Christ.  This is America in my day, where the enemy has largely convinced us we must remain divided, fractured and mediocre instead of embracing the victory promised us by Almighty God.

The good thing is that He also uses all things for the good of His Good Purpose for them who love Him and walk according to that Purpose.  That means even when I have less than perfect intentions He intervenes through my actions and turns things to His desired results.  That is comforting, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all stopped in fighting, back biting, segregating, territorializing and setting up our own little religious fiefdoms instead cooperating to achieve His intentions for our cities, towns and counties?  That may be why Jesus hates the practice of separating the professional clergy from the laity.  For when we have a professional clergy they develop their own vision for their church with a little “c”, thus diverting from the overall vision of Jesus’ Church, with the big “C”.  Isn’t that what led satan to fight against God in the first place, his ego, his pride, clouding his judgement to the point where he actually believed he could lead successful rebellion?

I have had enough of my own rebellion.  Certainly I have a reasonable measure of ambition and vision, but that vision should never limit what is possible if I simply dedicated myself to giving God all the Glory by applying one hundred percent of my time, talent and influence to achievement of Kingdom directives.  Do you see the divisions in your own church, your community, your city, state or country?  How can you help heal these divisions and bring people together so that God may heal this land, build bridges and cooperative effort toward resolving some of our greatest problems.  We all know that if we do not work together that we cannot do what must be done.  Why then do we continue to settle for second best?  Lord, help me to bring you into every interaction today.  Please heal these wounds that have been festering for decades in our cities.  Give our leaders fresh vision of cooperation and self-sacrifice, a vision that may have been present in our God fearing past but has been forgotten or overlooked for our own pursuit of glory.  Let me be humble in my service so that you may hear my prayers and heal this land as I turn from my own understanding and embrace Your Vision for Creation.  Give me the power to overcome fear, division and ego to encourage a better world.  In Jesus’ Name.

We know that God looks to a man’s heart.  What is love to you?  Not to the guy next to you, to you.  For Love’s purpose within your own heart, whether craving in neediness, giving in self-sacrifice or burdened with having never felt its velvet touch drives a man to immeasurable heights.  What could measure to this precious gift?  You will struggle to name it even in comedic attempt.

What God has given us is for use to seed the garden.  He will bring the increase, exponential perhaps, but again something left to His Will, Kindness and Promises.  Why then must we use the love he has given us so sparingly?  It seems as though we do not know abundance only rationing and scarcity.  How may a man overflow into another person’s life when he himself is only slightly full?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried in fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 1Peter1:3-9

This life, this Christianity, this living for Christ, in Christ and He through each of us is meant to be a time of overflowing joy, peace and most of all, Love.  We were not meant for sparse thinking but to share for the Living Waters of an Eternal Well Spring.  To offer water, or air or food, help, praise, song, prayer or counsel we must have first been filled of these things by Almighty God through Christ.  For this life is simply a time of trial in our faith through various temptations, situations and emotion.  But we never face these alone as does every man or woman that does not know Jesus.  Imagine your pain intensified by being entirely helpless without shelter in Christ.  I remember so short a time ago when I was a wretched man and I thank God that I am able to help those still caught firmly in the chain of sin.  They need His help and we are meant to lead them to Him for relief.

My struggle is with myself for command of my conscious attitude.  Shall I whine about circumstance when I know these trials produce patience leading to renewed, invigorated or increasing faith?  Shall I demonstrate negativity when those about me desperately seek relief from the python grasp of sin and death?  Or maybe, can I raise my eyes in victory, knowing where my hope resides, proclaiming hope and joy and peace to those who desperately need, Him?  This fire, is a Holy thing, consuming the chaff of my life, forcing the dross from my bones, leaving only refined mettle, the mettle of man born again through Christ.  I will stand in it awhile, if He bids me so and know that doing so makes me more like Him.  Thank you Father, thank you Dad.  This is the day I was given I will rejoice and be glad in it.  All Praise to God the Father in the Name of Jesus Christ the King.

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If you see and do not recognize the signs then perhaps you do not know what God told us will swiftly come to pass.  Don’t you want to know so you can either ignore or be prepared?

Either the Bible is true in its entirety or it is dispensable.  Most and I repeat Most Christians face the Bible with an eisegetic perspective.  That is, they have a behavior, concept or idea that they want to be true and scour Bible Verse for validation.  These same people will continually fail to read the Bible from cover to cover, for that would invalidate their excuse in painted negligence.  If I don’t know about it then I will not have to honor its direction is their cry as they approach life in direct disobedience to God’s Second Commandment.  It must be noted that this argument neither works with God nor when confronted by judge or jury in the court of law.  What then is the cost for my never having read or heard the Bible?

How do I know God if not but by reading, comprehending and making decision to depend upon the Word He has given?  If I don’t know what He wants us to do, how can I safely and truthfully state that I believe?  How may I have a relationship with someone I do not know?  Knowledge provides data leading to belief.  Belief is based upon conscious determination resulting in demonstrable action reliant upon a foundation of faith that something is, in fact, to each of us, real.  Do each of us know the parameters of salvation?  Do we know that salvation is based entirely upon faith, faith in the redemptive price paid to buy back each of our souls from slavery, a fee paid by Jesus Christ upon the Cross.  Salvation may not be found in good behavior or deeds, it does not matter how good each of us is, only that we believe in the Works of Jesus Christ Himself.  Additionally, salvation is not based on how bad each of us is or was, again sin is forgiven for all mankind when they believe in the redemptive Work of Jesus Christ on the Cross.  How may I know this without having been heard God’s Word preached or having read the Word of God regarding this issue within the Bible?  And may I simply overlook, escape or correctively re-interpret God’s Word to my own liking to avoid the consequence or rationalize any action I feel like taking?

Do I know God’s Word or am I putting on a front hoping that no one will notice?  I am an effective thespian, I may put on the guise of a true believer when mingling.  Does that free me from the reality to which I am consigned, that I neither know God’s Word or truly have relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, the only Way, Door and Light?  I ask this because the reality found in asking myself this question brought me to the beginning of wisdom where I truly began to fear God.  This is the one place in our lives where our acting ability is a detriment and perhaps our greatest and most deceptive enemy or obstacle.  For each of us must be entirely true before God where our self-centered works will be incinerated when first we meet.  Each of is known fully, totally, entirely by God.  Nothing of my life is concealed from His omniscience.  Negligence in this circumstance does not effectively explain away my continued deception or lack of initiative to know and follow His Word.  With God there is no excuse it either is or isn’t for He is the Great I AM.

So how do you look upon the Bible?  Do you know what I mean when I speak of New Jerusalem and if not are you willing to take off the mask of your rebellion and admit that you do not know the Bible and therefore are limited in your relationship to God?  Do you know the intention of the Ten Commandments as the law given to show us our sin so that we might know the need for salvation?  Are you depending upon anything that you have done or will do in this life to earn you access or permission to enter God’s Presence?  Do you lack the power of conviction in your life, have you ignored your calling to tell others about Jesus?  Is there evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life and if there isn’t are you willing to face the fact that you may not have ever been saved?  Do you know Jesus or does He just know you?  Read the Bible, Listen to its preaching, discuss it with other believers and stay connected with God through the Holy Spirit by belief in Jesus Christ.  That is the only way to Truth.  Any other path is one you’ve paved yourself and leads to the broad road of destruction.  In Jesus’ Name.

It is near impossible to fend off evil when you have been convinced that evil is only a matter of perspective.  Though beauty lay within describer’s scope, evil steals from the blind, rapes the unwilling and craves innocent blood.  Just because you have never seen the passionate eyes of wickedness, as it watches life subside within its strangle, simply leaves it outside of your experience not outside existence.  There are those who would take what you have, poison all that is good and giggle at your gasping breath.  Do not be fooled into believing that every man knows compassion for some shake their fists at God.  Certainly forgive them, certainly offer them up in prayer, but also know that God will consign them to Hell in eternal judgment for their unwillingness to repent, their service of sin and their allegiance to the powers and principalities of the air.

This is the enemy of God, this wickedness, this penchant for sin and desire to consume in the soul’s endless hunger for stimulus.  That is why the term is spree, for they delight in consumption, craving, seeking hungering for that which belongs to others.  What they cannot control out of strong character, honor, work and love they will feed upon, owning it in tyranny.  We were not meant to coincide, condone nor cohabit with evil.  We are meant to stand against it, knowing that God’s fight for all humanity out of love for His Creation.  Do not be led astray, take a fresh look upon your life and offer any sin, dark corner, rebellion and harbored filth to God for cleansing.  These practices, thoughts and hidden whims are part of your rebirth, they are succubi, clinging to your eternal spirit, praying for your descension.

Evil exists, though it will try it hardest to convince you that ethical relativism makes everything acceptable.  They will beckon you to “do as they do”, until you are satisfied, but trust this, you will never be satisfied.  For wickedness and sin are temporary highs.  They bring you into euphoria, then drop you from the heights, leaving you ravenously craving, “More”.  There is no true fulfillment in sin, even God’s enemies never tire in their endless hunger.  There is only one absolute power and He wants for nothing except that we be saved through faith.  Just as we must remain conscious of evil, we must never forget that God remains in charge of everything.  Yes, He could rid the world of evil, and He will but just not yet.  Why?  Because, He loves mankind so much that He is waiting for all those who will come to decision, repentance and life everlasting to do so before He passes resounding and final judgement.  That is the true extent of God’s Love.  He knows that some who are currently doing evil will have a change of heart and turn their lives around on bended knee asking for forgiveness and release.  Evil will have its day in court, just not yet, so while we wait upon God’s patience, do not be deceived or conned into slumber.  Be ready, be prepared, be watchful and be filled with His Spirit.  In Jesus’ Name

I do not know, nor do any of the day or the hour, but we all see the storm.  Its massive black clouds linger, edging in from the horizon of humanity.  Will we embrace the signs as we were told to prepare in service for His second coming, for His retrieval of His bride the Church?  Will I be found doing the work He set before me, fostering preparation for the harvest, watering, weeding, fertilizing and praying for the harvest?  When dark is coming we look for the light.  Will we each ask to find our lamps full of the fuel necessary to find our path through the blackest night if that be the point of His return?  Are we each of us sealed for eternity by the Earnest of our Salvation the Holy Spirit of God, marking us for His calling?  Do we find ourselves clear that His return must be soon because of the rapid state of advancing decay, corruption and penchant for war, pestilence and wickedness, found through God’s Creation?

Are we all that self-concerned that we will not do any preparation for eternity?  There is not a single one of us, having a work deadline, who would neglect preparation so that we might keep our jobs or foster our personal advancement.  There is not one of us, having a pregnant spouse who would ignore the necessary preparation of Fatherhood, responsibility and financial requirement.  There is not one of us who would forget to chop wood for winter, knowing that without it we would fail to survive the impending cold.  How then may we continue to excuse the greatest preparation in each of our lives, the return of God for the Church and His Coming Reign?  Perhaps we have given into the pressures of acceptance by this world, not wanting to be excluded, labeled or considered strange by them from whom we crave love?  Maybe we have failed to deliver a message of which we have been made courier, handler, herald and ambassador because the prices of exclusion and retribution?  Or perhaps we have simply delayed in our disobedience or disbelief, hoping that somehow someone from humanity would produce resolution for our impossible problems?  Whatever the cause none may ignore the coming storm for to do so is making the choice from which there is no recovery, denying the voice of the Holy Spirit upon each of our hearts.

Face the storm, whatever its fury, knowing that Christ said we are going to the other side together.  Do the work that He has placed upon each of us individually, remaining free from bitterness, corruption or remorse.  Rejoice for the Kingdom of God is here. Right here in each of our hearts willing to sacrifice for Him as He did for each of us.  Know the storm, face the storm and love the storm for its power and significance in announcing the imminent return of Christ.  Do not be found unaware, unprepared, unwilling or asleep, being left out in darkness of weeping and gnashing teeth.  I pray we awake as a combined a committed church to face the storm we all see soon coming.  In Jesus’ Name.

What do you see over that fence?  The other side broad, green and wide?  What is it that captures your eye?  Health, wealth, pliable dreams or are your esteems piqued by curiosity?  Do you petition God for their sort of happiness?  Is being like them freedom from being me?  Is there some place I would rather be, than in this moment, this struggle, this episode of a life I find unpleasant?  If not what is the allure of another man’s life?  Why must I look upon his wife, his car, home, position or fame, wanting the same?  Who then can I blame for this longing built into the scope of my wanton eye?  Am I dry, unfilled with joy and thankfulness for what I have been given?  Or is there purpose served in this comparison?  A purpose meant to bring positive change, to my language, my perspective, my heart?

May I truly, fully enjoy the taste so sweet of my own sustenance when wishing more, or other or none?  What have I done to the honor designed into my own existence?  Can I give glory to He who deserves every ounce, watt or ampere without acceptance, wonder and thanks.  Do I commit my own yearning to an expectant, constant pursuit of that which I do not have?  Or may I have it at all without delighting in its value?  What is the measure of a man except that which he constructs from the materials available?  The song he writes with melodies and harmonies in his head.  The world he feeds with part of his treasure.  The communities he invites with the grace within his heart.  The wrong he rights with sense of justice and sword hand.  Does it matter what I think of myself or what others believed me to be or am I a story to be reviewed, contemplated and remembered?

Is not love a delight in my circumstance, my things, gifts, talents treasure and friends?  May I truly love my wife without looking upon her in grace and wonder?  Will my children ever please me if they have not first been viewed as gifts for which I may never make remuneration?  Is this true of my salvation?  May its value never be realized without this manner of gratefulness and love?  May my Saviour never be truly served without an awe of His doing?  Why then my luring eye, scanning the horizon with relentless hunger for something other than what stands before me?  The wealth in my poverty is my poverty, for within it is the delight of my eternal purpose toward God.  Lord let my eye no longer wander.  Give me your Grace and Understanding and let me love them to the extent a man may love with a view of heaven within my heart and feet planted firmly upon the Solid Rock of Ages.  In Jesus’ Name.

Should we remain silent?  What are the repercussions of staying our defense of righteousness?  What if no one spoke up for the orphaned, raped, abused or starving?  Could we feasibly allow them to suffer, perhaps die and simply look the other way?  Why doesn’t that sit well with you?  You are all right in your circumstance, you need pay them no homage.  What is this thing internally that requires, demands, begs us protect the weak?  It is not a thing of evolution, for its mandate requires that only the strong survive that the weak are sacrificed on the altar of moving ahead.  Why then do even those who follow its unproven precepts still come to the aid of those incapable of self-defense?  Why then would we ever protect our children, knowing that to do so makes them potentially weaker?  These arguments confound reason yet reason is the only evidence atheists demand we use.

Why do those who will not consider God as an option for our origin cling to the principles of a homogeneous “force” or connecting universal energy?  Although they came to a belief in this binding force through reasoned power of the mind they cannot for a moment entertain that a mind greater than our own, could have reasoned our creation.  The concept of a Universal God does not present barrier or difficulty for reason.  What they cannot and must not discuss is the possibility that this Universal God would have the unmitigated gall to set guidelines for the creatures within that creation.  People do not have a problem with the concept of God, what they have heartburn over is that He has the sovereign authority to determine parameters for our behavior in this reality and set standards governing our destination in what follows this life.

Thus the homogeneous acceptance theory of a disinterested force presents little challenge to the mindset of them who seek to fulfill all whim or fantasy.  For accepting that an all encompassing energy exists does not challenge the principles of self-determinism.  However, the moment we perceive God as having the ability to make choices and directly participate in the outcome and direction of the human paradigm we somehow offend.  That is not reason but denial and self-service at the cost of reason.  I cannot prove to you that God exists nor can you prove to me that man was formed via primordial ooze.  Therefore, it is faith, belief and reason that dictate our adherence to moral guidelines.  What makes a man good if there is no good or bad only energetic exchange?  What causes you to come to the aid of injury, weakness or suffering, if it were merely energetic binding then there would be no internal prompting, no responsibility?  I know that God exists because I feel connected to you and I feel responsibility and respect for the life next to me.  For if we were simply products of chemical possibility I would let you die if you did not have the assets to overcome that death, for only the strong would be significant.

Would you think it evil for us to stand bye as a child died when we had the means to defend, protect or nurture it to health?  Then you too acknowledge the existence of an “interested God”.  I challenge you, not to debate my reason, but to simply acknowledge the possibility that He exists.  For if you find yourself denying that possibility, you are limiting your own capacity to argue from a reasoned position.  God exists, He cares and He wants us to love and watch out for each other, and coincidentally that is my natural state.  I love you and pray for your growth, strength, prosperity and understanding and that some day you are there to help that child desperately in need of your assistance.  Thank you Lord for the opportunity to love those you’ve created, in Jesus’ Name.

Can any human save me?  Am I going through life, the victim, decrying my predicament in hope that someone will come and set me free?  Do I hold aspirations to rectify my childhood shortfalls, depending upon the dream of a fatherly or motherly figure coming to my aid, showing me the love absent from my upbringing?  This yearning is not folly, but our childlike imagination of its resolution may be.

I cannot save you from your dilemma.  I may love you enough to provide relief or do my best to stave off your oppressors in hope that you find peace and rescue, but I cannot save you.  I couldn’t even save myself, when my situation seemed permanent, desperate and hopeless.  What I can do is be there for you with encouragement, counsel and intercessory prayer.  Prayer, my greatest asset, as my voice is heard and answered by the Creator of every universe.  Yes, I am incapable of providing you freedom, but I am not entirely impotent, for I know where you may find eternal peace, power and rest.  You my friend, need Jesus.

God, knew our worldly predicament would be inescapable through human means.  We cannot escape a prison of our own making.  Our plight required divine sacrifice for the price of our conviction was eternal separation from relationship with God.  Only He can set us free, only He has provided the path, albeit skinny leading to reconciliation with our Maker.  No I cannot save you, but I can show you where to meet the One who can, the Lord Jesus Christ who takes away the sins of the world.  Are you living in desperation, fear, inescapable pain of prison, loss or guilt?  There is only one door, one path, one way to finding peace and purpose.  His name is Jesus Christ.  He is waiting for your humility, repentance and belief.  He holds the keys to sin and death and gives them freely upon recognition of your trust.

I am here if you need someone to listen, but I will not lead you into misplaced belief and faith in man’s non-existent capacity to set you free.  Please consider me at your service for encouragement, love and prayer, but remember anything that I can offer is trumped by my desire to point you to the Wellspring of Eternal Life, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World.  In His name I pray.

Irony that the situation provides perfect impetus for transformation, yet we crave escape from circumstance.  We want desperately for God to produce miracle and we are unwilling to stand in the fire long enough for His Timing to arrive.  When was the last time I appreciated the dynamism of my implausible scenario?  Have I ever understood the possibility built into my painful, desperate, unhappy circumstance?  Wouldn’t that be the miracle, loving and trusting God enough to simply stand, no matter the cost, within the scene into which I’ve been injected, loving, trusting, representing that trust?

We were meant to overcome this world, just as our Lord has already.  Isn’t overcoming viewing each other from eternal perspective and seeing God’s Grace in our testimony?  What has He done for you, not the prizes, the treasures, the rewards, but the wonderful pregnant circumstance into which He has placed you?  I am in awe of His Creative genius, endless love and perfect timing, in that each of us have been perfectly placed into the exact scenarios through which we will be precisely prepared to complete His Will for our lives.

How does this view flip perspective?  You mean that oppressive job, the trickle of love I receive and this poverty are intended?  Precisely.  it is through the struggle within my relationships, predicaments and surroundings that I am shaped in this training ground of life.  How better might that be achieved if I were to welcome each arduous moment, transforming my opinion to one of acceptance and appreciation?  My scarcity would then become opportunity to learn stewardship and gratefulness for plenty.  My marriage a wonderful platform for learning love, unselfish behavior and appreciation for the mechanisms of personal change.  The pressures of life and work a grand environment for building patience, creativity and reliance upon God’s faithfulness.

How then would I find my life unfulfilling when even the difficulties are viewed divinely?  How often would my courage be bolstered when I heard saints’ testimony describing these wondrous opportunities, provided before the beginning of time through the Grace of God?  This world may only thrash them who have personal expectations.  Would it change our lives at all if we were to forget the loud voice of human desire, the “I wants” and “I wishes” instead fully embracing what we have been given by God?  How would we differ as men and women if we finally surrendered to God’s wishes, living out the Word which lay beside our beds in the top drawer?  What if I embraced my circumstance as a gift, a present given me by God, intentionally and specifically designed to prepare me for the miracle of service for Him?  Don’t we want to see the miracle?  It only happens if we have the courage to stand, gratefully, patiently, dependently upon God’s timing.  If you look that is what the Word teaches.  My advice stop trying to escape, instead embrace, accept and appreciate your wonderful circumstance, trusting in God’ Wisdom, not your own desirous, misguided understanding.

Father give us the faith to wait for the miracle crafted within each of us.  Give us the strength of character necessary to love those who don’t deserve it and accept the shaping provided by our perfect circumstance.  Gird our loins with expectation, the expectation of your Miracles and Promises.  Make us not bitter in the pursuits but thankful for the opportunity to be shaped according to Your Intended Will for each of our lives.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.  Revelation 12:7-12

Victory causes uncontrollable Joy.  A joy, a wellspring of true emotional response in realization of freedom from our greatest oppressor.  Does your heart sing, with every ounce of internal abundance, exhibiting powerful harmonies, testimony to your salvation?  Have you set the enemy to flight, by God’s Word and overcome by the power of His Blood and the tranformative word of your testimony before all that hold witness?

Let me tell you about transformation.  We all know that there is something wrong in the churches.  We don’t see the presence of God’s Holy Spirit, the Power, the Authority of God in the pulpit, leading people to Christ and to their purpose.  Diverse critics have long theorized and come up with campaigns, programs, prayers and men centered logic to overcome this difficulty.  This very week I saw the method by which we may truly succeed in inviting God’s Holy Spirit back into the congregation.  We have a monthly men’s prayer breakfast, as simple thing where we eat, pray and the pastor preaches.  Yet, recently this normal event has been transformed by what we thought a simple revision.

Now, each month, a new man from the congregation gets up in the pulpit and preaches.  This has produced so many unintended and quite lovely consequences.  First the pastor has been changed, by the sight and knowledge that each man has the Holy Spirit living within him.  Each man has delivered a powerful message, each man in succession, becoming sharper at giving testimony, prayer and counsel.  This has also transformed the capacity of every man present to deliver their testimony.  It has returned the Holy Spirit’s leadership to an event that was traditionally another rote procedure.  We have reinvited the Holy Spirit into our church and His presence is transforming us from within.  No one knows where this will lead but we are effected by it, even to the point where those who are not right with God have stopped coming to the event.

This is the power of Christ, to overcome the enemy through His Blood having cleansed each of us from unrighteousness and prepared us to disciple.  Now it is our testimony of salvation that keeps him at bay.  Perhaps now we will learn what it means to not love our lives, even unto the death.  We are the victors, shouldn’t there be some evidence of that conquest?  Rejoice o Earth, for the Lord our God is still the only one in charge.  In Jesus’ Name.