Am I presume that I will be consumed in this process of fire, fury, lies and deceit?  Should I give in to the certain and sustained cries of “give up” or “you can’t do it”?  Shall I lose this barrel of joy because the fallen seek to devour all that is right, good and pure?  Or maybe I should laugh just to laugh, dance because I’m saved and sing at the top of my inexhaustible lungs to Praise My King. I will not go lightly when expected to whither and blow away, for I am made of the stuff that constructed the heavens, the Breath of Almighty God.

What then should I say to them who would be depressed, unforgiving and forgetful of the Mighty, Righteous, Omniscient God who calls us His?  Should I help you wallow in the miry clay of your own remorse or drag you through the sadness of past episodic nightmare?  Maybe I should agree with the fallen that you never could, should, would or have the stuff to rise above your own inadequacy? Perhaps I should encourage your tears, fears and watch as you consume beers to buy your way out of the reality to which you find yourself frozen?  Then again, NOT!

You my friend are heaven bound.  Yes, it sucks some times but this short test will end and you will be set free into a life without sin, pain, age or time.  What then of your suffering, your poverty, your filth and despair?  Should we honor it, dwell in it, perhaps place it upon the shelf in the living room that we never forget the cruelty of our past, that we might gather pity out of our victimization?  I am not making short of this world’s capacity to kick our butts, leaving us dirtied with tire tracks over both sides of our bright white shirt.  I am not forgetting, diminishing or belittling the damage or pain you have suffered, the road you have traveled or the misery you have endured.  I honor your pain, I honor your travails, your worries, hurts, disasters and loss.  I welcome talk of how much it used to hurt, but we have been healed and shouldn’t the discussion then turn to the joyous transformation and the joy we have found through Christ?

We must be born again to stand in the midst of trials beyond our own will and authority to conquer.  We have the Spirit of Almighty God living inside, we are imbued with power, RIGHTEOUS power, to move mountains and laugh in the face of certain destruction, because at that moment we would enter our true lives as Citizens of the Heavenly Realm.  This is the fight that we voluntarily entered when we accepted Christ’s payment on that Cross.  Now is the time to realize your true position in the Kingdom and stand in the knowledge that we belong to and are empowered, protected and provided for by the King of All.  What is courage, I don’t know but I think that should give us courage.

Lord I love you and am excited by my trials as they sharpen, empower and shape me for my real life with you.  In Jesus’ Name.

Surprised, heart racing, breath shortened captured by my fearful chest I tighten my grip, with gaze aloft, focused.  They moved my heart to the point where I remembered Christ and his tears for them.  Hosannah, Hossanah they cried yet failed to understand the portent of his arrival, the steel of his resolve or the pain of that week’s proceedings.  Could I carry that weight for you Lord, would that I had a chance.  I did not get that opportunity that I may carry my own now.  Lord, I can see a vision of you on that tragic surrounded by torrid sky, ground shaking, the Earth crying out at the death of the perfect Lamb. My clothes torn, soaked with my own tears as my heart was torn from top to bottom leaving nothing between it and You.

That pain motivates me to do those things beyond exertion.  Tomorrow resides around the corner of my perception, that point at which this world brings it to the material.  Does it exist in some realm, predetermined, written, cataloged for release into the now?  Or is material based upon choices made, the base tincture, the stem component determined, then brilliant colors fed as mix to create the emerging mystery? Or is it all chaos left to chance, happening as an infinite series of computations in probability?  What evidence have you but sense?  What word have you but that which has been given us over time?  What proof have you of the coincidence, the deja vous, the memory of the brief whisper of purpose?

Christ died, he didn’t need to, but gave his life on a specific day, at a specific pretold place at the appropriate time to complete a task that had been sitting around the bend of time awaiting his arrival.  He died which is evidence that he had to in order to set us free.  We know the truth of it, certainly each of us is free to explain it away in order to deny our need for surrender or ignore the upcoming judgment facing each man.  We all see the order in the chaos, that something is controlling the flow in to and out of this material dimension called life.  Whether determined, planned or happening instantaneously what faces each of us is always just around the bend.  Are you ready?

In Jesus’ Name.

What is Truth?  Do you know it, do you love it or do you play fanciful in its proper delivery?  Do people ask you to fill in the gaps for them or avoid you suspecting they may be led astray?  Do you believe something absolutely without doubt, without consideration, confusion or ponderance?  What has the absolute truth upon which you stake your reputation given you in exchange for that dedication? Oh you didn’t know that you received by believing in some absolute understanding?

What is achieved in salvation without belief?  Nothing, we answer resoundingly!  That’s it without a truth upon which we may confer our kinship there is no belief and we have just established without belief, there is no salvation.  So we must first establish our truth claims to provide catalyst for eventual reliance.  Without reliance there can be no sacrifice and without sacrifice there is no legal understanding, so the sacrifice must be the Truth.

Therefore Jesus was SACRIFICED.  That is the truth, and since a sacrifice requires a beneficiary who then was that person?  You.  That sacrifice bought you back from your slave master, SIN.  Okay so we must establish that you were owned by sin and that the sacrifice was adequate payment of your debt in order to establish the sacrifice sufficient to the requirement.  Romans 3:23 says that all have fallen short of the glory of God and have sinned.  So, in order for this statement to be adequate proof, we must establish the ABSOLUTE TRUTH of the Bible.  Is the Lord’s Word 100% true?  Would you stake your life on that, okay maybe not your life but your reputation, your wealth, health and friendships? Again with Truth there can be no belief without belief there can be no salvation, so, I ask again emphatically is the Bible True?

Cannot have one without the other.  To believe we must have truth upon which that belief is based.  What is that Truth?  Is it up to you to decide for yourself, it is your debt for which He was sacrificed.  Do You Believe or Just Pretend?  In Jesus’ Name.

Obedience to God is the greatest freedom and coincidentally demonstrates to him my overwhelming Love. The burdens I carry are typically associated with my unwillingness to follow God’s direction, let go of the things He has been asking me to forfeit or forgive those with whom I have reserved anger. Please forgive me Lord for constantly offering excuse when I knew all along what it was you wished of me. I love them and never wish to let them down but in that enablement I transfer the leadership of my life to people instead of You. I cannot follow two masters especially when so doing is adultery to God.

Lord help me with perspective, for it is the perspective that defines the day.  Leaving judgment to You, for it was never my job, allows me to see each day in a fresh perspective. I don’t know what is going to happen, but isn’t that exciting, isn’t that abundance?  Must I imagine difficulty, poverty, depression or divide? Am I discounting the capacity to imagine wealth, health, provision and prosperity? Truly the life dedicated to following your lead is the grandest probability available for it makes the impossible likely and the adventure certain. Embracing this truth is the freedom we seek.

Lead on Father, to foreign lands or language, to new ventures in building or reconstruction, to healing and the ensuing peace.  This mystery excites, it provides, confounds and forces, yet reinforces my dependence on You, My King.  What comes next?  I certainly do not know, but it will be well lived, leaning forward either with the fair winds or walking easily against the winds designed to build my resolve. At the end it is sufficient to know that whatever occurred will be absent regret for I lived fully dedicated to the purpose for which each of us has been created.  I am content with this life as You provide it for me.

In Jesus’ Name I walk this world in search of the person yet to hear His Word.

I have been struggling with telling the truth about the organized business called the Church.  Which is ironic as many of them have dropped the word Church from their names determining that it limits the breadth and depth of the marketing reach.  “People don’t like to come to Church,” they say, “People want to come to a community”.  I love you my Brothers and Sisters, but as Jude, Jesus’ step Brother clearly stated we have been infiltrated by men and women who have nothing to do with God, but with mammon.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  Jude 1:4

The enemies of God are deceivers, deniers, dividers and infiltrators.  They join those righteous efforts sporting good intent but bring in the corrupting poison of lust for the world.  We were never meant to be non-profit, we were told to render unto Cesar that which is his.  Pay the taxes, do the world and wait on God to provide for our needs, but that wasn’t good enough we had to get special exception from the government of man.  What have we to do with the world, we are “the called out ones”, called out from what, the world of course?

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep your selves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

The enemy has always determined that it is much more effective to join us to break us up than it is to persecute the Church, which continues to make it grow.  So, the enemy has come up with the perfect plan to make the Churches just like the world and have them comfort and complacent waiting for the injured to come in the front door seeking a salvation they know nothing about.

So, we can ignore the fact that we were told that the enemy would come in and nest in the mustard tree finding it comfortable or we can be vigilant, ware, prepared and spirit filled as the Lord told us to be.  You decide.  I pray my greatest prayers of hope, encouragement and protection for my Catholic Brothers and Sisters as in this time, this crucial time they are finding out the truth about their organization.  Many have written me and lost hope and faith in their denomination.  It is understandable as they have a long history of wars, sexual immorality, nefarious government relationships, greed, injustice and even now are being associated with the acts of the fallen.  This is not what the Lord intended.  Father shine your glorious light upon their wicked deeds that they might be seen in the public’s eye and have the opportunity to repent and turn their faces back to you before it is too late.

To those believers who have become jaded, don’t blame God for what men do.  Love Him with all that you are as He loves you.  He will deliver you.  Make some choices that are guided by the Holy Spirit in preparation for the King’s return.  Don’t waste your time, your precious time of harvest associating with false believers.  Share the Word of God and if they choose to remain carnal then stay away from them, remaining unspotted by this world.  The Lord will sort this all out, keep the faith, keep your eyes skyward awaiting His glorious return.  My comfort is a small sacrifice for the glory that awaits us in the Kingdom.  I love you so much and pray for you the strength of Almighty God, a filling of His Holy Spirit of Power and Truth through the Path of Jesus Christ our King.

What is love?  An operative phrase about the passionate drives to follow to the ends of time those qualities we find undeniable?  The mooring, tethered to another heart, lashed tightly enough to stand a mid-deck through the great Nor-Easter?  The cumulative sacrifice to time, tenure, talent and treasure for the sake of those for which responsibility resides?  The agonizing yearn for return of the spark which kindles the brightest flame?  The petrifying, fear having lost something breakable for not having valued gentility or having crushed it by a clutch too firm?  Or laying down Glory to come to Earth, giving every ounce of blood, tears and life, so that every man and woman has the opportunity to be set free of the power of sin and death, cleansed of life’s poison to spend eternity with a Holy and Righteous God.

My concepts, my words fail me.  Ensnared by my throat, saving me, putting a stop to my inability to express something beyond my understanding.  How can I love when I cannot even comprehend?  I am capable of puppy’s affection nothing more.  It is through His love for me that I even have a basis for expression.  Having never felt the unconditional treatment I was offered for simply believing, I was awestruck from the outset, perpetually humbled in the Light of God’s Transforming Love.  Even now in the telling, the recount, the explanation, I am strangely insufficient to relaying my own history.  How can this be that I am too frail, too simple, lacking the complexity to even relay the wonderment of God’s Provision?  Laid Bare.  I point to God and know you will find Him the same.

How then am I to love these humans, simple creatures like me, who have a frail but wonderful understanding of that precious endeavor, love?  They waste it, playing fickle, acting as if its power is some how mastered by the frivolous, yet knowing all along that those who taste it superficially have never known its truth.  In depth, in the waiting, in the patience of a lifetime, learning to love is savored.  Remembered each time and craved, but honored as a warm house, a cool drink or the smile of a contented child.  Love is not the sinful thing of black knighted conquest in horror tales.  It is the moment when something finally becomes important enough to give us for its continued freedom.  It is Life’s Meaning.

In the words of the wonderful Bible Hymn, “I love you Lord and I lift my voice to worship You. Oh my soul rejoice, Take joy my King in what You hear, let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.”  The rest I will leave to the foreign cries and moans of my unknown heart as its words are translated by You, Oh Holy Spirit, the Majestic voice of God that lives and Loves Within each of us.  I cannot express my Love for You Lord.  May I love them in the way You have commanded.  In Jesus Name.

And when he had called all the people to him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile the man.  If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.  And when the was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.  And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also?  Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out in the draught purging all meats?  And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within and defile the man.  Mark 7:14-23

Jesus said it, I listen, remember, believe and follow.  We cannot blame this world for our corruption.  It is out of my own imagination that come the sinful measures that taint my own existence.  There isn’t a single one of those evil things of which I am innocent, except murders though the Lord says that being angry with my Brother without cause is the same.  I hate because I have chosen to pursue that perspective that arose as an idea, then grew to an emotion which rose to retributive thought and then to action.  This world may be wicked but it is not the wickedness of the world that colors me wicked, it is the blackness and evil precursors within my own soul that label me corrupted.

Lord, I am undone, by the works within my person.  Free me from my evil thoughts, ideas and actions before I hurt someone or defile myself when I am supposed to be a vessel for your glory.  There shall no sign be given unto this generation.  

Father, I don’t need a sign to see that I have been blaming the things, people and situations around me for the darkness within when it is by my own heart that I have been made wicked.  Cleanse my heart of its unrighteous proclivity.  Give me freedom from the evil that resides dormant or active within.  Set me free from those influences which seek to produce wicked behavior that I might remain free from perpetual sin.  Lord I give my heart to you and ask that you protect it from my own propensity to spoil.  Let me remain clean that I might give powerful witness of righteous living in this life and the next.  In Jesus’ Holy Name.

What happened to my friends who started out in love with Christ and have either slowly or suddenly lost interest in that love?  What drew them away, as the Kings of Israel and Judah begun to do the things that pleased God and then suddenly began worshiping idols in high places?  The initial presumption must be that they knew the things that pleased God because they evidenced that through primary action.  What then did they forget, did they rebel against or did they get somehow led astray of those things they knew to be right?  With my friends the original indication that something was wrong was indicated by the extended length between communication or the sudden absence thereof.  They had at some point stopped or slowed to a leak the spigot of their service for the Lord so I became a reminder of that diminished relationship, they didn’t want to hear from me or see me.  It seems personal but it actually is a sign of blessing, that they would so associate me with the Lord that having a relationship with me is a conviction.  Yes, it hurts when friends divorce you but it hurts worse to imagine them back slidden to the point of quenching the Holy Spirit or worse blotted from the Book called Life.

None of us imagines ourselves back sliding.  None of wants to be away from God, but we must first admit that all are in the danger of reclaiming our space in the world and take preparative steps to prevent this drastic and abominable occurrence.  What, it can be prevented?  Of course most disasters can be avoided or at least the damage done minimized.

Are you staying in the Word, not just a casual read but everyday opening it up looking for the answers to our hurts, desires, riddles, puzzles and dreams?  Are you staying in relationship with the Lord through prayer?  Since this is your greatest privilege of salvation, audience with the Creator, don’t you think that ought to be valued and protected as vital for your secure and prosperous living?  Finally are you spending time with other Christians, doing ministry, counseling, learning, encouraging and enjoying the joy of other saints? We were given God’s Glory in one place and that is the unity of the Saints that we might be one in Christ Jesus and press down against each other set beside the Cornerstone (Christ) and fortify our collective mortar.  If you ain’t seeing Christians then you ain’t achieving the Glory available here on Earth.

I have lost so many family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances to the world that I have to try and stop this constant siphoning of Saints.  I miss you and what is more important the Lord is sitting there with open arms awaiting your return and will run to you as he sees you afar.  Let us all rejoice at your return to the Lord and your return to the Body of Christ.  I am missing big toes, a nose, an arm a hand and heart.  Please bring them back so that we might be whole again.  We are not the same without you.  In Jesus’ Name.

Demonstrating that you understand someone’s recommendations is proof of listening.  However, learning new ways of doing things and obeying the Lord’s direction for doing things must always remain in imperfect relationship.  You see, I love the Lord like no other so, having heard your recommendations as long as they are consistent with the Lord’s guidance I am okay in delivering, but if there is conflict, I will be following the Lord.  See I have one master, not the job, not the pope, not people,nor money, not my dog, parrot or pig, but the Almighty maker of the universe, Father God.

So recently you have been hearing a series of messages related to getting busy for God.  I have been stressing that we need to do what the Lord told us to do because time is short.  I have continually been going over the fact that this is the time to bring the crops into the storehouse in anticipation of the Master’s return for the church when we can work no more.  I have been carrying with me a general weight of urgency that frankly I know has probably worn some people out.  For those who are doing God’s Will, I understand your angst concerning the repetitive message.

However, I am not sorry for the following reasons and will continue to do the same; first, we have now seen all the signs that the time of the Lord’s return is imminent.  We have heard, understood and believe the messages of Daniel, Ezekiel, Jude and Revelation that had been previous mystery for the times are applicable.  We understand that the Holy Spirit must be removed to some extent in order for the son of perdition to rise.  Therefore that portends the rapture as the Holy Spirit was sent to be our teacher, guide, counselor, power of witness and seal.

We have seen Turkey, Iran and Russia enter into cooperative agreement necessary for Ezekiel 38 & 39 to occur.  We are seeing evidence of the Spirit of Anti Christ in corporate form in the City of London through freemasonry, in that the Illuminati game plan requires destruction of the Christian faith.  Additionally we see a one-world government planned and almost installed by a cooperative group that uses Luciferian and Biblical symbols or the Red Dragon and the White Horse of the first rider of the Apocalypse.  Furthermore, Christians all tell me that they feel as if Christ’s return is nearly upon us.  What then do we do today if tonight is that blessed night where the sounding of the clarion calls brings us home?

Let me tell you what is not going to happen.  I am not leaving this place without doing the work that the Lord told me to do.  That means telling everyone I meet about Jesus, I don’t care if they are saved, think they are saved, don’t want to be saved, don’t think they can be saved, hate me, love me, like me or otherwise, because the Lord said that he died that whosoever shall believe.  And the moment we get yanked out of here in rapture everyone past that point will probably have to lose their lives in order to be with us in eternity.

I don’t want to leave them to the mercy of an enraged arch angel who knows is time is up, especially since they will not have the protections afforded by the Holy Spirit and the Armour of God and will be easy pray for deception, lies, miracles and wonders that we are told the fallen will do.  The work can only be done now, so if in this fourth quarter you hear me give pep talks and rah rah speeches imploring you to get off your butt and get into the game I know that you will forgive me. For I know your hearts and I know that you Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength like you love no other and that you love your neighbor as you would want to be loved.  So being your Brother that is the best way I can imagine to love you by reminding you that the time is short to do the work God has given you.

I know it will probably make me unpopular at parties.  I know that some of you want to punch, poke, chop or bite me, well when you come out to the desert don’t expect to see a reed easily bent, but I might turn the other cheek, because he would want me to because he loves you so much and he knows I could use a good smack every now and then.  I love you.  In Jesus’ Name I pray for your understanding, thank you for your prayers and wish for you a courageous and powerful tomorrow.

Wishy washy, pishy poshy, it is all a mechanism for excuse.  Feigning fogginess remaining so overwhelmed that I am under duress, hiding in my hobby hole I must confess are methods of avoiding the King’s Calling.  I am a master at avoiding clarity, with a severe brow a practiced rye smile and  a determined look I ponder, wander and reflect about the nothing that I have been accomplishing. Then I do the unthinkable and complain to God that I am not getting clear guidance or cannot hear His Will for my life.  Prehistoric!

There is no one better at creating circumstances by which and because of which or absent which I could actually do what God has commanded.  Just as Adam I would rise to the audacity of blaming God for giving me a partner that forced me to be disobedient instead of accepting the role I was provided and doing the right thing.  So complex there isn’t a sufficient textbook adequate to describing the intricacies of my meandering machinations.  I am foiled, again and thrice by the mice within my own machinery, gnawing, biting, chewing up the mechanisms and soft tissue of my resolve.  These are the excuses of a man attempting to out clever my own cleverness. The Word is clear, so clear that my only device to avoid the clarity with which it counsels or to ignore the clear conviction of the Holy Spirit within me is to bring on the fog.  This of course is absolutely foolhardy when operating within a relationship with the Almighty, Omniscient God, Omnipresent Lord.

Am I therefore done with the dew, disavowing the mind mud, swearing allegiance to the light of a clear mind, readied and willing to do that which is guided by Spirit?  We shall clearly see in the days to come.