It ain’t about me telling you what is wrong with your life, why you are going to have problems getting into heaven or what you need to change to get right with God.  My job is to love you and if I can be filled by the Spirit at the just the right time find a way to specifically encourage you in the circumstances or challenges you are facing, right now.  It is not my desire to bludgeon you with a solid argument or memorized attack speech, such that you feel you have been effectively cornered by a good politician or attorney.  He loved me enough to make me realize how much I love you.

There are no gimmicks, no tricks, no ideologies outweighing my consciousness of your struggle.  If I come to you without love, I have already failed toward whatever quest I have convinced myself that the Lord commended me.  Because I cannot fail at the true purpose for my life, which is to love you enough to help, listen, pray, intervene and help you up when you stumble, then point you toward the light so that you can find peace.  This is not a chess match to me, you are not a pawn or an enemy knight against whom I must craftily perform.  You are my Brother, My Sister, My Mom, My Wife, My Friend, neighbor or stranger.  How I treat you matters to God and therefore it ought to be of utmost concern to me.  How can I feed a sheep if I am too busy bullying it into acting the way I wish it would act?  I am here to help not to hurt in the process.

It is me who needs to ask God for forgiveness and to turn His face back to me and pardon my disobedience, so that He might have mercy and heal our land.  That is not the job of the unbeliever or worldly man, for they have no relationship or distance from God’s Fellowship, they simply cannot know Him.  But He knows them and He expects us to go to them in love, gentleness and convincing authenticity out of example, out of true care out of Truth so that they might be set free.  That is not a challenge, a sport, a job or a thing to be mastered, but a purpose to be respected, feared, considered and honored by real action without egoistic desire for passion, points or regard.  These are humans hosting the original sin, wearing Abraham’s disobedience, Moses’ anger, Jonah’s flight and Balaam’s disregard for God’s Will.  They have been badgered, fooled, prodded, herded, captured, sold, bought, traded and twisted into believing the great perpetrated lie.  How then will their hearts be changed even one iota by my deliberate disregard for their plight?  They need love not more of the same and until we as Christians can first connect with God to learn about His Endless Regard, we will fail miserably at this simple representative ambassadorship.

Go to God first and if you must sit in the back until you find peace with other men, then please find rest in listening to His preached Word.  They are not our enemies and if you see them that way then please step away from the altar until God has healed your heart.  We are representing the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords who made the Sun, Moon, Wind and Rain.  He moves the mountains we just have the wonderful privileges of being there when they deposit themselves in the ocean and being used as the vehicle for His Perfect Will.  He wants us to Love Him and Love them.  It is really that simple and if you think it is more complicated then perhaps you should examine the voices to which you have been listening, cause it ain’t coming from God.  Be at peace my Brothers and Sisters, In Jesus’ Holy Name.

What is it that you are waiting to see that will bring you into belief?  If Jesus materialized in front of you right now would you be convinced?  Would you have to probe His side for the spear wound or His hands and feet for the spike scars?  What questions would you ask Him to give you sufficient evidence of His identification and personality?  Would you ask Him for a miracle, maybe a magic trick or two, heal your broken hand from college?  And after He went through this list of qualifying steps, would you then listen to what He had to say or would you still listen as skeptic?  Would He have to command you in order to get you to follow Him, and when He did so would you love Him or resent Him for ordering you around?  What if He wanted you to learn the Bible so that you might not be afraid and that you might begin to understand His loving grace and purpose for your life?  Would you obey or still be rebellious?

None of us have a problem believing in God, we have a problem obeying God.  It is all well and good to have a long-bearded, Father figure up there to whom we might pray in time of need.  It is heart warming to imagine Him watching over each and every one of us, sending Angels on demand to protect us from the darkness and ill things that might sicken, impoverish or wound us.  We are entirely okay with imagining that He sacrificed for us, created a world that we might be satisfied and raised up prophets to give us wisdom when we went astray.  The real problem is when He has the audacity, as Sovereign God, over all creation to set standards, rules and predictions for judgment, justice and eternity.  We don’t like that He would set parameters for those who would be allowed into heaven and those who would be disciplined for their behaviors on Earth.  We cannot begin to tolerate that He would die for us and in so doing we owe a debt that we cannot pay and must by His direction, believe or face eternal death and separation.

See man by nature is self concerned, self aware and believes that happiness requires self-determinism.  We don’t want to have to listen to anyone, yet we work at a job where we don’t make the rules, pay taxes to a government who bosses us around and adjust our character to gain the benefits of good relations with the opposite sex.  It is an illusion that we are free to determine anything.  In fact if we determine to drink alot we become slaves to booze, or take drugs we are driven by those viral urges.  We sign 30 year mortgages to which we become long term servants.  None of us if free in this life and if you think you are go around tomorrow exercising every whim and you will be locked up by the cops by days end.

Even if we knew that Jesus is all loving, all knowing and all caring, being entirely dedicated to directing us toward the best things for this life, we would still resent it because we just don’t like being told what to do.  Does anyone have the sovereign authority in your life to tell you what is right and wrong, such that you would listen if they told you stop some negative behavior or start some positive ones?  It is not about How much He wants to save us from sin, death and the assaults of unrighteous enemies.  We simply see His direction as intolerant because it doesn’t allow each of us to follow our own rules.  That is fool hardy immaturity, for there has never been a king in the history of man that has allowed such behavior.  Why, if man would never accept our own personal right to establish relativistic rules by which other must follow, do we expect that the One Spirit with the Established Right to make such rules is not allowed to do so?  Look at Israel, He tried to save them over and over again and get them to live righteous lives as He continually blessed them, and they simply straight up refused, choosing instead to follow their own wicked ways.

You’re right it seems strange for a man or woman to surrender to the Will of God.  But I submit that it only sounds strange because of our stubborn desire to be our own God coupled with an unwillingness to recognize any Sovereign authority.  I don’t want the responsibility of being God.  I have made too many mistakes when left to my druthers that I am assured that I do not know the right thing to do.  This is where you jump in an out of your own arrogance and lack of experience tell me that you can guide me to righteousness.  This only means that you have not yet lived enough to learn that you too don’t know squat.  Either that or you have been blinded to your own ignorance which is truly a worse predicament than I will ever venture.  I know that God is God and I am not.  I know that Jesus saved me from eternal separation from God and slavery to my sin and death.  I know that He gets to make the rules and I have the free will choice to follow or fight His Sovereign Authority.  I know fully where fighting Jesus will get any of us and having a spot of wisdom I don’t choose to fight a battle I would certainly loose to a God I certainly love and respect.  I have chosen my own road and seen where that led, to misery.  Now I let God choose and you know what I am happy being an obedient man.

I am sorry that you feel you need to struggle against a righteous and Holy God.  I pray for you daily and hope that you give up the futility of battling against omnipotence.  In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray.

What do you view when you dream of that perfect day?  How does it begin, with a lovely, calming dream before you wake?  When you open your eyes do you review your loving wife or husband beside you, or do you wish to be alone, facing the dawn in all its divine reflection?  How do you lie there thinking or just remaining in peaceful repose, delaying the process of considering the day ahead?  Are you warm, cold, hot or just right?  Does your stomach rumble reminding you of the great things that await, do you smell them downstairs in the kitchen?  Are people rising to show how much they care for you in preparation of your morning?  Have you taken time to leave kind reminders for them of your love, surprising them?  Do you dream of money, fame or crave political banter to stimulate your musings?  Is your peace fed by music as you lean over the bed reaching for the remote control?  What is your first real thought?

How does that day unfold?  Does it follow a strict regimen, keeping you free from regret in completion of a laundry list of awaiting tasks?  Do you spend time to chat with your kids as they drag their stocking feet across the wooden floors?  Does you wife pepper you with questions about how you feel, and what you must do and what you would like to eat?  Does your morning refuse to open until you’ve read some media or watched a particular show?  Do you hope that something happened during sleep that made the world better or are you fed by the tragic episodes of a world gone wild?  What is the first good comment or encouragement you offer?  Do you go to shower before any speech, knowing that until you’ve had your morning routine you’re of little regard for anyone?

Are you at home or perhaps abroad?  Surrounded by loved ones or strangers?  What is the perfect environment that will breed that perfect day you seek?  How much money do you have, what car do you drive, how respected are you for the important work that you do?  Or are you totally content feeding the livestock, tending to the watering and maintenance of farm equipment and appliances?  Do you like to chat with others or keep thought reserved for self?  Do you write, do you sing, do you do a simple dance that you know anyone would laugh about as you wait for your tea?  What would you eat on this perfect morning?

I have to be honest this is most frequently how my days begin and they certainly never end up perfect.  Perhaps my perfect day will be that one that begins and ends with God, having taken time and care to follow His will for my life in between?

The instant, when your power fades and your heart opens, you may know the Truth.  Read the Word and you will cry, laugh, plead, regret and hope, for this is not the fickle word of man but the Story of Glory’s call to all.  Today, we rejoice for the Lord has risen to be seated at the Right Hand of God, awaiting the time when He shall return for all men who believe.  This is not something that is simply ours but for all humankind, for He died so that all might see freedom from sin and death and in the face of Mercy to be repaired to God.

These things humble me, not out of fragility, but the strength of a man choosing to kneel before His Master.  Authenticity is not a formula, it is passion, it is will to challenge the wrongs against humankind, it is the overwhelming drive to rise to a place beyond human regard.  Do we dream of “Thy Will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven”.  Do we plot, conspire and labor at any cost to see God’s Intentions completed?  If not then we serve our legacy.  It is not about me, yet it fulfills me more than the greatest personal achievement, that moment when I see someone aspire to know God’s Face.  I am refreshed beyond my own capacity each time that someone cries out for help and I am able to show them the Light God sparked within my spirit.  I am at peace resting at His Feet.

They hurt so Father, but I know the purpose for their pain.  They are so lonely, but I see how being alone makes them thirst for You.  They hunger Lord, in a way that may never be fulfilled by the food of this world.  Each time Lord I even hear of how they treated You, I am crushed, for it should have been my flesh they rent with that cat of nine tails.  Every time I think of You laboring with that rugged tree upon your back heading up the hill to take my place, I wish for the opportunity to somehow pay you back.  Every time I see them spit upon You and pull at Your Beard, shivers travel my entire soul, as I think that could have been me on the Via De La Rosa, conspiring to kill my God.  Each time I remember the moment when the disciples betrayed You, I remember what a horrible fool I have become.  For Lord I love you, but I love You with the imperfect heart of a man, and as such I am flimsy in my grasp of these Eternal Things.  Give me a clean heart.  Prepare me for that moment when I will walk across the expanse of time and death to fall at Your Feet in jubilation.  The moment when we meet and I am finally acquainted with the Face I have longed to behold.

Thank You Jesus for dying for all mankind.  Thank you for showing me the way to the cross and beyond it where I might be set free.  Thank You for hearing my prayers in the middle of the night asking that You help those I love to find the same.  Give us this day, the Bread of Your Body that was crushed for us.  Give us this day the sin cleansing wash in Your Healing, Redeeming Blood that was shed for all mankind.   Forgive me as I continue to struggle in my humanity to do even one thing righteous, fully knowing that it cannot be done.  Any good deed I will ever do will be done through Your Spirit living in me.  For a moment let me breathe free of my own foolish heart and live Truly For You, With You and By Your Perfect Will.  In Jesus’ Name, there is no other name by which we might be set free.

Fear of the inevitable is worse than the inevitable.  For fear is an addition to the impending impacts of reality.  My life, its worries, strife and predicaments will certainly come for the Lord said in this world that we will have troubles.  If I know that the troubles are coming then I may prepare for them physically, mentally and spiritually.  It stands to reason that since fear requires maintenance and reactive energy then it siphons reserve from the kinetic or potential energy of any system.   Certainly the effect of unexpected troubles may carry a devastating blow but that blow will invariably be a magnitude of impact less than troubles that are approached in fear.  It is the same as approaching old age, for it is appointed to all men once to die, but fearing old age sucks the joy from our existence.

Fear causes us to  put off knowing the facts which we all certainly may never avoid only forestall.  If there is history of chronic illness in your family then you may be assured that the factors leading to that diagnosis exist in your life.  Not knowing out of fear will only prolong the inevitable, in fact ignorance sponsored by fear may prohibit you from taking the actions that might physically delay the inevitable or help avoid the eventual chronic illness.  So in this case fear is not only serving no purpose, while stealing energy but it may also be invalidating any chance at avoiding the object of your original fear.  What a nefarious enemy this fear, what a tool of the dark one.

We have not been given this spirit of fear.  So, to recognize its presence is to recognize either the presence of enemy combatants, immaturity in your walk with Jesus or direct disobedience to the Word of the Lord.  If I possess something which the Lord did not give me then I have acquired it outside the will of God.  So, if I am perpetually fearful then I am least likely to be hearing the voice of Almighty God as He whispers to me, bidding me step away from the circumstance into shelter and peace.  If peace is not available then perhaps you have stepped away from relationship with God through Christ Jesus.  For He is the Prince of Peace and promises that we will have joy, peace, strength and wisdom through Him.  If these positive attributes are not available then perhaps we should ask God why?

Yes, I do not wish to grow old, but that is where I am headed as time ticks on.  I do not wish to have the subsequent effects of getting old that invariably impact each of us.  But I will not make my circumstances more difficult by being so afraid that I prolong the inevitable by tolerating of following the voice of fear.  I will listen to the Spirit of God who says to be filled with joy, peace, faith and hope, knowing that these things I face will only build patience, character and perseverance in my heart.  If fear is present in your life won’t you please examine it.  Is it rational, is it causing you to do something foolish so that you may ignore truth and take subsequent action?  If so please give your fear to God and ask Him for peace, wisdom and faith in exchange.  Don’t let fear make your life more difficult than it already certainly will become.  In Jesus’ Name.

We are all facing the last vestiges and the onslaught of a defeated enemy, pent upon stealing our joy, causing us to be deflated such that we miss our opportunities for victory.  Don’t forget that this battle has been won.  Hear the clarion call, not the darkened musings of despair.  We are filled with Spirit, changing us, sustaining us, providing for us in the midst of the world’s entropy.  Yes, there is tribulation, but it is a good thing as the fire increases many who were silent are now forced to cry out for help from God.  Fortunately, since the clock is also expiring the importance of our daily commitment increases in value.  We now have the opportunity to love the unlovable, to forgive the unforgivable and to love even our enemies as we remember what they do not yet know.  That God is Sovereign over all and that He loves them with all of His heart, right up to the end of time.

Is my day filled with events, am I working without experiencing joy as if this life is filled with a bunch of tasks that must be done in the prescribed, but short time each day.  Perhaps, it is my perspective that needs refreshing.  What if I viewed each task as an opportunity to meet someone new, encourage them and show them an example of overcoming this world through Spirit and Love?  How would my day change if I welcomed each event for its pregnancy?  What would be born in my own life if I sought each Divine Event in Life, knowing that time is short?  How would my life differ if I remembered that there are enemies seeking to steal my joy and that I must be mindful in my preparation and practice?  But praise God that I serve the Almighty God who has already overcome these enemies.  These enemies are living on borrowed time awaiting the Return of the King of Everything.  They know that they will be thrown out of power and used frankly to bring more souls to Christ.  How would my life differ if I remembered these things?

Don’t forget today to Praise and Love God.  Don’t forget the extent to which He is willing to go in order to return us to His Good Graces.  He came here, lived this life as a mortal, so that He could experience our pains and share our joyful moments.  He came so that He could die for us, in perfection, fulfilling the requirements of forgiveness for all mortal sin.  We live this life in freedom.  Not the freedom of the man driven by his stomach or his urges.  The freedom that comes with not being a prisoner to this life and our mistakes.  We have the freedom to be forgiven, refreshed, washed and start anew, created in the image of God without the stains of our past.  Don’t forget who lives with you, alongside you, within you.  Don’t forget the changes are being made, even as the battles are being waged outside of the eyes of our mortality.  For this has been a war waged in the Heavenly Realms by God’s Servants, a great number for us and a smaller number against us.  But remember what it means to be on the winning side in any war.  Victory is yours, won’t you live it today?

Praise Almighty God in all His Mercy Grace and Glory, for ever and ever.  In Jesus’ Name.

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 1Peter1:17-21

Does God give you the Grace to understand these Words?  Is it particularly important that you do understand them or might you claim  them obtuse and look away in disinterested boredom?  All this has been done out of love for you.  Does it interest you now to know that this passage is about how much you matter to God?  Is your faith and hope in God or has God’s intention failed to win your heart?

Christ was made manifest in these times for you so that in His resurrection and subsequent Glory that you might have faith and hope in God.  The price of my ransom was not mere silver, gold, paper or rustible content nor braggadocio of inheritance from worldly fathers, but the incorruptible material of the Holy Lamb of God, unblemished, un-spotted, perfect.  See God didn’t just give enough to buy us back from our captors, He gave the greatest treasure known to man or heaven to buy us back for eternity.  He infinitely overpaid for each of us, unworthy sinners, in order that there is no shadow of misunderstanding as to Whom we belong.  He cleansed us by the incorruptible blood of this Perfect Lamb, giving us the inheritance to the same said incorruptibility.  This is miracle, this astounds angels.

Again we are faced with the principle of fearing God in our travails through this world.  Do each of us fear God, really, truly?  Does it bother you resoundingly each time you let Him down, do something untoward or walk away from His direction in self-service?  I sin against Him daily.  I wish I didn’t, but it still shows its face every day of my life.  That is made whole by my reverence for God and my surrender to His hand of discipline and reformation.  He is changing me, often so steadily and stealthily that I fail to see it until each iteration has transpired.  Will you fear Him and meet wisdom?  Will you Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength so that you might truly begin to know Him personally?  I pray that you begin to understand, adhere to exhibit a reverent fear for Almighty God so that you might stay beneath the shadow of His Awesome, Almighty Wings.

May He speak clearly to your heart this very night and you find the will to listen and follow.  In Jesus Holy Name.

We must digest and understand Prophecy.  Take a fresh look at Ezekiel 38 &39 to see why this is so relevant and important to the current global landscape.  Study, pray and act for the Kingdom of God is here.

Ezekiel 38-39

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.   

*Those who will attack Israel. Do you know who they are? If not, you cannot determine the signs leading up to this event.

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

*Who will be attacked. This defines Israel as the People who will be besieged.

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

*Who will turn their backs on Israel when the attack comes?

Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken. And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

*God’s Proclamation to satan and all his minions as to what God will do in response to this assault upon His people.

Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God.

*The effects of God’s overwhelming and swift reaction. The enemy becomes a sacrifice.

And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

*God’s Glory is undeniable throughout the Globe, not just Israel but even unbelievers will know that God is there and that His promise to defend Israel is everlasting.

You doubt that judgement must come because things are in disarray and God, having the power to set them right refrains from intervention.  This is blatant disregard of understanding, logic and God’s proclaimed Love for mankind.  He said that He sent His beloved son to die for all of us, so that we might be set free, reintroduced to the Holy God who made us.  Why then would He cut that opportunity short to enforce a final judgement when to do so would dissolve the coming turn of hearts back to Him, chased home by the tragic events He said must and certainly will soon come upon us all.  You see many will find the heat unbearable, realizing in the midst of their plight that God had been there always, waiting patiently for their arrival.  That is the extent of God’s Love for humanity, in waiting He must watch our suffering, knowing that to eradicate sin from the world would nullify the salvation of millions, perhaps billions of souls.  That is Love.

Do not believe in lesser gods when the One who Loves us so dearly is the origin of Awe.  We do not serve or wait upon an imaginary god, or something crafted in man’s imagination.  God is something that surpasses our imagination, because we paint everything with our own frail faith and our worldly wounds at the hands of corruptible man.  I pity your wounded imagination which cannot perceive an incorruptible God, outside the stains and blotches of humanity.  This makes Him no less real because we lack the capacity to perceive, comprehend or believe.  Nor does it free the world from His coming Wrath and Judgement simply because we refuse in rebellion or disbelief to prepare for the inevitable.  See He does not need my understanding or my imagination to exist nor does He need my permission or compliance to enforce His order, His discipline upon a world that He created and sustains out of patient Love for those people who He cares for dearly.

I love you, but if you will not listen to God, then you most likely will consider me fool.  No matter my concern for you, no matter the truth and love of my words, though they be filled with wisdom, insight and irrefutable logic, you will ignore them all.  For this exercise, this life is about one choice.  Not a simple choice made without consideration, but one encoded within the DNA of each man and woman.  A choice to hear, obey and accept God’s Truth or to deny it, serve ourselves and face the horrors of our imagination, because that is what awaits us all if we fail to choose wisely.  My care for you, my softly chosen words, my regard and respect for your spirit will mean nothing, except to solder my tears in catharsis.  But this is why I speak to You in His Words, because they unlike my own may raise the dead and save the innocent.  That is why I speak in scripture, because His Word is the two edged sword sharp enough to the cleave bone from sinew and spirit from soul.  Did you ever wonder what that meant, separating spirit from soul?  Or do these grand mysteries the greatest treasures of this life leave you bothered and bored?  I pray in the Mighty Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that some words I give you spark your curiosity such that you are forced to ask for answers, seek to unfold the riddles and eventually find the Truth at the foot of God’s Throne.  For that is where He waits for you as a kind, loving Father would for His children to come Home.

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What are you afraid of, is it man’s unfavorable opinion of you, the loss of wealth, coming inevitable old age and death or is it God’s Wrath upon the ungodly?  Doesn’t that fear govern your possibility?  Isn’t fear the single largest barrier to your victory in whatever endeavor?  What you fear you will not pursue, you will not challenge but rather avoid, conceal or ignore until it once again changes your course and destiny.

Do you believe that you can be free of all these virtual prisons?  They are virtual because they fool the senses into belief in their reality even to the extent of raising the blood pressure and causing panic.  They mimic reality and utilize the natural instinctive alert systems telling us to fight or flee in order to cause panic, flight or paralysis.  Don’t you think that satan knows this factor and continues to play the heart strings of our nervous systems?  What then must a believer do to be free?  The answer, nothing.  We are not works performers, we are believers in the power of the Holy Spirit and the Works of the Lord Jesus Christ in cleansing us, freeing us and leading us into assured victory.  Fear is the enemy, reverence in God is the key to our pardon.

Do you fear what God could do to your eternal destination?  Then you have met wisdom.  Certainly we want to be assured in our salvation and that is entirely possible, in fact it is a reward that comes with our faith.  But in order to meet Wisdom, the Mind of Christ, we must first acknowledge God’s Sovereignty.  That includes God’s Sovereignty over our fears, fears dispelled in the certain knowledge that God Reigns and Rules even in the fearful factors that confront us.  Psalm 23, Davids proclamation of faith in God’s Sovereignty over his fear is the perfect place to begin the practice of turning over our worldly fears, exchanged for reverence in God’s Faithfulness, Power and Trustworthiness.

The sense of fear running up and down my spine is a electrical communication signal.  What I do in response to those signals must then fall within my reasoned or determined reaction.  If not, then I am simply a puppet to this world’s stimuli to be manipulated by whatever impetus blows by on tonight’s chilly wind.  I am not ruled by the stimuli, signals and impetus of the night, the devil or my own recollection.  I have been set free by the Holy Spirit of God, set free for eternity, anchored to the immovable Rock of Ages, The Lord God.  When fears come I appreciate their stimuli, their indication of potential danger, but I will not be governed by those electronic and illusory signals.  I will not continue to leave an open door for the enemy to control my access to victory.  I will pray to God to close that door and give me wisdom and discernment to determine what is real and what is virtual.  I will fear God and be filled with wisdom rather than fear man and the devil and be relegated to the prison of the unreal or emotion.  I will believe in the Power of God, the Freedom of Faith in the Works of the Lord Jesus Christ to set me free from sin, death and the devil.  In God I trust.  Thank you Jesus.