Precious

Father, the moments I spend with you, the giggles of children who smile back or play peek-a-boo, the admiration of those august adults we call elder statesmen, the kind tender encouraging words of a good woman, helping up the fallen, healing before the eyes of those who do not yet know God, worship in full voice that those around may see my Love and Relationship with You, that moment when someone’s resolve break’s down and they surrender all to Grace, a quiet moment with Saints in fellowship and breaking bread and a world that realizes its kinship to Almighty God, Creator of the Universe.

Strength, when I have none and joy when I am in trouble or punished by painful circumstance.  Confident discussion with love and respect that allows all to be valued, heard and yet leads to consensus thinking regarding higher ideals. Walks in the woods or prairie, wherever God’s Creation reminds me of His Love for all.  Dancing to a beat only heard by me in a language that only I speak and somehow being understood by some people who get you. Seeing young people realize their stride as they go out into a world armed with the courage and poise of faith. Old women or men singing the tunes in harmony that sponsored a safe, curious and prosperous nation.  Delightful days and warm comfortable nights spent inside blanketed by the deep snows of Colorado’s Winter or surprising Spring snowfall.  Taking a ride with the wind testing the aerodynamics of my cranium whether on motorcycle or peddling my best up or downhill.

Dreams, daydreams being best, but treasuring the visits of God’s choosing in the middle of the night. Wonderful, glorious unselfish giving to those who least expect or deserve it and tremendous joy when those who do deserve it are awarded through God’s obvious blessing.  Old ladies who cook like no body’s business.  Farm land and pastures where farmers give all that we might have some.  Dogs, who wait at the window for a brief whisper or engine sound indicating your arrival. Life in all its abundant fantastery.

Thank you Lord for all these precious things here and the thought that I get to be with you forever after I enjoy all that you have given.  In Jesus’ Precious and Mighty Name, Forever and Ever, Amen.

Measured Response

 

For the purpose of demonstrating circumstantial understanding let us for a moment imagine the Police, duly anointed representatives of the Government, showing up at your door mistakenly demanding the forfeiture of your; Car, Weapons, Children, Cash and offering you the solace that everything that you say or do will be used against you in a court of law.  You’re frantic, you cannot take any actions for sake of your family’s safety, yet you know that if you don’t do something that all will be lost.  Then you remember the warnings of many years where those we deemed conspiracy theorists said that this day would arrive and none believed.  You also recall the times that the media painted this individuals, who were now arguably right on with their predictions, with demagoguery, insanity or the picture of foolish lost and troubled minds.  All memory aside the time for action has arrived and yet you are powerless, paralyzed and frozen by the reality of it all.

Now let us recall or replay the same circumstances in our heads, this time with the knowledge that they have specifically targeted you and authorized your family’s removal and certain demise for the purpose of establishing global government control of all; lands, minerals, air, water, buildings, pecuniary devices and human assets. They have come because AI has catalogued all of your communications, relationships, finances, medical, voting and political activities for the last decade and categorized you as one who will never be swayed to their understanding of the New Green Deal America.  They are not sorry for they have ridden themselves of the moral compunctions and foundational ideals associated with a faith based nation and now atheistically Know that you are an unavoidable obstacle to the realization of the World Peace they so publicly adore.  As, they pull your children from your arms they strike you on the shoulder with a baton, poke it again into your liver and smack your wife so hard she falls out the front door and on to the front porch landing.  What do you do now that it is clear that this is not a simple case of removal for just cause but rather an extraction, matching your profile with those who must be disposed to meet their strategic objectives.  Oh, now you fight, too late they now have the cuffs on, so you not so quietly demand they stop and then they knock you unconscious and cart you off to their determined destination for your eradication.

You think I am being absurd, perhaps, but what I am proposing has happened to a projected roughly 120,000,000 people in the 20th and twenty first centuries by governments that had become so large and then been swayed as they always are to turn to socialism for the good of their people.  Read the history books those that have not been dumbed down or changed in order to sell the same product to a vulnerable America.  No wonder they have our children thinking that socialism is a wonderful idea because they have hidden the truth that we simply forgot to reinforce in their tiny, vulnerable minds because we had better, more important things to do.  Oh, and they don’t have the same moral guidelines of their parents and grandparents because again we determined that a life of faithful understanding of God’s values for mankind was just too dogmatic to teach them, so we left them in the hands of teachers, liberal thinking idealists with no knowledge or faith in God and expected them to come out healthy productive members of a Constitutional Republic that secured its foundational beliefs in something they had never been taught.

Now let’s rewind this clock two years and leave each of us with the understanding and clear resolve to prevent this type of occurrence in our own homes.  What do we do now?  Is it worth everything you’ve got now to save the loss of everything you have later?  Perhaps.  Do you see the likelihood of this type of circumstance standing in the shadows of our not so distant future?  What does it make you want to do right now?  What are the emotions you are feeling, anger, upset, worry, agitation, frustration, helplessness or motivation?  Do you immediately imagine arming yourself and coming up with a family escape or emergency plan now?  Well that’s really curious because I have been asking you to develop one for over a year now and to date you didn’t listen to me.  What has changed in the last few minutes? Oh, the truth, the truth came home to roost in your own personal circumstance.  I get it, you couldn’t see the references I was making previously as personal.  You couldn’t imagine yourself losing power for six months, or having an arson fire a blizzard a storm a hurricane.  It’s okay, I am sorry to have to get you to an emotional state in order to sponsor some action, but I will not ask forgiveness for telling the truth of our current circumstance.  Point blank, the people we are fighting against, will stop at nothing to achieve their objective of world, global complete and utter domination of all things, resources, food and people. And each time in history this group has gotten broad power over lands and humans they have put to death all those who opposed them in order to have agreeable sheep or beasts of burden I believe is their common term for average Americans.

Since we now have time, can we stop them?  Yes, but we better get out ahead of them and make such a stand that they run from the watchtowers and signal fires and bodies we have amassed before them.  Otherwise we will find ourselves being selected rounded up and disposed by whatever means them deem efficient measure.  I know it is hard to imagine someone doing this to us because we are thinking with our own merciful hearts but that is not the heart of this enemy.  This enemy is ruthless beyond resolve and will steal, kill and destroy all that they might gain power and complete authority.  If you still need more evidence, look to all socialist countries throughout history, they all became communist at some point in the social evolution because the government is in control in a socialist nation, not the people and the government has no heart only a never fulfilled appetite and a great big set of teeth.  Remember they have gassed, shot and beaten to death over a hundred million people already. The worst of which were simply starved to death by a merciless ruling of government that left them without food, a horrible death.  We must understand and face the certain truth of where we are likely headed if we lose this war.  Does that somehow change the urgency with which we face this future we hold in our vision?

Agenda 21 and the Green New Deal are globalist sponsored, Illuminati, satanic based resolutions to bring about that global authority in the same year, 2030.  Do we think it coincidence now that we have seen so many planned steps by this deep state enemy adding up to our current position upon the door step of national failure?  We have the opportunity to do something to win this war that is being waged behind the scenes of a globalist owned media that will NEVER tell the people of its actions.  These characters have been hand selected to push this socialist, globalist, satanic, empiric, freemason agenda upon an America they believe is ripe for their conquer.  Are we ripe, are we easy pickens?  They have a plan do we?  Oh, we do but it is the plan of those in the same government fighting against the representatives of this global cabal, hoping to win the day and continue this government in a less progressive fashion, but it is still the government that will eventually haul people from their houses, whether they be of our political persuasion or those of humans with whom we apparently contend.  It is the government that needs to be dissected, diminished, renewed and restructured.  Do you think these efforts are going to stop if perhaps the party of one political persuasion persist or win the day?  Who do we think constructed, designed and started the political parties?  A look again to history will reveal the true intent of division, paralysis and utter control no matter what your affinity.  We need to determine that we are American’s first and of certain persuasions and ideals second, that is the only way to a prosperous and mutually beneficial Free Future.  Certainly that future depends on understanding how we got here and the fact that if we fail to teach what God has shown all men the moral fabric and foundation that guides all behaviors then these changes and interventions shall once again over time fail miserably.

If the socialist agenda wins, we lose, perhaps all that we have including our lives as free men and women.  It is the truth and the truth, the objective truth does not require that you believe to be true.  Nor does you disbelief provide any solace, understanding or protection from the inevitable reality of what will occur when these globalists gain power.  Now Biblically, there is another horrible twist to this agenda.  You see if you have an empire then by nature you need an Emperor.  In the Bible it states that they will receive an Emperor thinking him the greatest thing that the planet has ever seen; a diplomat, a healer, a charismatic savior of the world, promising peace without war and free things for all in magnanimity. This is the truth of the future we face and it may perhaps seem frightening, but we are made of the stuff of kings and we do not shy from the impossible but instead take the field in the quiet faith God Almighty fights for us and we can never lose.  They may show up for each of us at some point in the future but if we are properly prepared, aware and ready for that circumstance it will look much different than the initial vision we discussed.  Are you prayerfully prepared for the future we shall face together as Americans?   I hope and pray that we win the day and that God allows us to dissect this behemoth Government, returning it to something manageable by the due diligence of the People who are the authority.  However, if we do by chance somehow by miracle or horrible occurrence lose this war, we will be ready to face our destiny with Courage, Honor and Strength of the True mind and Spirit of the Americans we will always be. May God quiet your fears, lead you to awareness and preparation of mind, body, spirit and goods.  May you face what comes before you courage and faith in the Almighty God who loves you so dearly he will face every circumstance with His hand in yours.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Expect It

America, an idea that astounds the world.  A concept born of trial, lives lost in mud and monarch directed slavery, wars and economic bondage that crashed upon the stage following the birth of reformation.  High minded psychological experiments dwindled in comparison to the land of poor and disenfranchised seeking opportunity, the opportunity that each man deserves to make of this life whatever may be created through sweat, innovation, invention and endurance.  They were told from outset they better mind their elders, their betters, those of bluer blood and better stock or face the resounding consequence that befalls all disobedient to tyrants.  They found their ideas among the limited free thinkers in Europe, Africa, Asia and determined to create something that had yet to meet record in the historical texts, a Nation governed by man but ruled by God.

The story of America is not simply about today’s display of impoverished thinking or indoctrination thoroughly dispatching narrative, coated with the arsenic of self-denial and the seeds of national destruction.  It is a story of work, cooperation, agreement, compromise, struggle and Love.  Men and women, yes women though history never recorded their contributions accurately, gave everything for this idea, making all who contemplate labor through the real world questions of why, and what could be so precious that you would give your life to see it achieved?

We can begin with beauty, provision, pride or prosperity, but none possess the considerable gravity necessary to spin the globe of understanding those previous questions.  Was it fear, fear of living lives indebted to a king or queen to whom you owed no measure of fealty or policy agreement?  Perhaps it was glory and the concept of self-aggrandizement that sponsored this regard?  What was it that made all want to give all to achieve something that they hoped would progress, grow and endure, a nation of people living by their own capacity to overcome by the Grace of God.  Now we are close to the chewy center of the hard candy, this idea rings true.  We wanted to build something unique, unlike the world had previously known and idea so unexpected, so pure, so worthy of investment, that all would join in swearing allegiance to the same.  This was the birth of America, this was the purity of thinking, the agreement of all that we would align a country to the Judeo Christian ideals of following the mirror provided in the Law of God and lives in such a way that it brought Glory to His Mighty Name.

It would prove more difficult than some anticipated, not the beginning but the pathway to national endurance.  For to sustain any nation, especially one Under God the ideals must be protected, renewed, reviewed, taught and continually reinforced with the new leaders following us in generation.  This is not the nation that would survive the assaults of evil and tyrannical intent without the overwhelming dedication of men and women determined in their collective resolve to make sure that everyone in this nation knew their duty of fealty and volunteerism to defend and idea worth, Everything.  Youth must be reminded of the nature of the world circumstance that sponsored this glorious idea.  People must be assimilated into the national agreement and understanding that only together regardless of faith, gender, political affiliation or culture we are all, after all Americans.  We forgot, so they forgot and now it is rarely taught this necessary formula for national endurance.  Why then now are we surprised by the challenges arising to meet us?  This is always the natural occurrence in any system that it fragile and requires maintenance.  Nations too break down over time without proper care and tending. The question has become now that we appear to have forestalled the eroding process, what shall be birthed from the soil of our present planting?  Will we return and improve upon the concepts so determinedly published in our sacred documents or will we allow those who snicker at our freedoms to enslave in the jailhouses of failed tyrannical thinking?  There are only two ways, forward or backward.  Some would say that the narrative they are proposing is some manner of enlightened thinking born out of superior understanding and a guided approach to a brighter tomorrow.  However, a simple review of historical concepts brings with it the enlightenment they wish to escape you, that they are proposing the same tired concepts of failed history, where the rich remain the rulers and poor take whatever they are given, remaining silent.  Shall we proceed into a future of an American ideal that is renewed, rededicated to the Lord who provided our Sovereignty or slink into the cages provided by our tyrannical past?

Well, having visited the heart of America, not a place but a spirit residing the breast of everyday regular people throughout this grand nation, I am thoroughly convinced that not as many have imbibed of the Kook Aid that they offer.  Politics, religion, origin and gender aside we see the rebirth across this country of that same determined spirit that created an America reigned by possibility, opportunity and vision.  People are excited about what we may once again collectively achieve, rededicating our lives to God, prosperity and the pursuit of a fair living where all are loved, respected and may join in the growth of something precious that belongs to every participant.  We may deny that this idea began from the origins of Christianity, but in that denial we will fail to understand the only method forward is in that remembrance.  For it takes an understanding, a reliance and personal agreement and pledge to be one nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all unless we understand the faith based understanding of reliance upon divine providence that sponsored such resolve.

What then should be done with those who are determined to live by failed historical ideas that do not mix with an America that wishes, desires, Demands to be free within the inalienable rights given each by a belief in the Sovereign God who protects them?  Well, it is unlikely that they will ever conform having determined for themselves that they wish to either live under the tyranny they so desire or become themselves the sponsors of tyrannical bureaucracy in their quest for Global Dominance.  Yes, they understand the importance of this battle, to them if they prevail it will change the world forever, giving them the empire they have striven to reveal.  Do we understand the complexity and severity of our current predicament?  We do understand that if we lose this we lose America, our freedom our Sovereign rights and the light that shines for the world wishing to be free the grand flame of Liberty shall be extinguished.  Is it worth standing up and determining that if it requires all I have in this fight that I am ready and willing to give that willingly?  For without that primary PLEDGE to see this flag raised and believe in the proclamation, “Forever May It Wave”, we must make the initial and essential commitment to doing just that.  For just as no sin is ever committed without first having thought out, no nation has or ever will be preserved without the primary agreement to do all in its defense and maintenance.

To those standing up against the continuance of America as a Sovereign Nation, I say that you have a short list of very clear, precise choices that must be made soon; A. you can determine to change your thinking and once again join us in the pursuit of an America given us by God, with a set of inalienable rights that make us different from all nations in history, B. you can stick to your failed ideals and false narratives of the big lie program in which case we will confront you root you out and imprison, deport and force you from our shores, C. You can leave now and choose the nation state that most closely approximates your desired living environment and quit this grand experiment. D. You can give all that you have to declare yourself an enemy of this Sovereign Nation and be defeated right here to be planted for all to see a historical marker of the price of Liberty and sedition.  Just as God demonstrated His Love to us by giving us the ability of Free Will, you now get to exercise that resemblance and grace given by His Hand in making your own choices.  We pray that you make the right choices and join us in the rebuilding and defense of something righteous, hopeful and good, an America that is rededicated to the things of God, agreement, dedication, volunteerism and mutual regard.  The time for you to make these decisions just as the time to make a choice of belief upon the Lord’s Salvation are limited. Please be mindful in your decision and we will work with you accordingly whichever road you choose.

This is America, given us by God’s Grace.  You may either stand beside her and guide with the help from God above or you can fight her and willingly determine that you will leave your fate to the Grace and Mercy of Almighty God with whom you contend.  We will give all to defend and sustain her, how confident are you in your ideas?  We shall see you, hopefully in love and fellowship but we will meet you nonetheless whether in embrace or grapple, Expect it.

 

The Snare of Perspective

Perspective dictates our entire known universe.  For those of us unwilling to look through the eyes of another upon a world that is supported on the buoy of ideals, opinions and outlooks there is a frame capture outside of which we must argue the validity of all idea.  This process of challenger and submitter creates a natural conflict through which a wrought perception is created leading the unwise to document that the fittest are the winner in this exchange.  If all idea or thought is shaped by the strongest among us then it will by nature possess a domineering characteristic with penchant toward subjecting all other opinion.  That is why God uses the weak to confound the overpowering confidence of those deeming themselves wise.

When looking upon the frail and misshapen do you have naught but pity or contempt?  What is the heart of man that we believe there is an acceptable shape, size, character or level of performance, beneath which perception becomes brutal in deeming them worthless, unsustainable or worthy of eradication and gene extracted genocide?  What if the error is in the perception of the masses with tendency toward declaring itself perfect?  What if the truth of the matter is that these in power position of authority and mass acclaim have themselves demonstrated their inability to conceive God’s True Intent?  What if the entire sequence of massaging one’s perspective to commiserate, align in compassion for and edify those with greater challenge to a position of wonder and esteem for the sole purpose of making the viewers heart enlarged?  What if those with greater challenge are the stronger among us having overcome time and again greater challenge than other mortals face?  What if our desire to diminish their beauty and transform public perception is in effect our attempt to conceal our own weak stature?

I look upon all that God created and weep for it astounds.  I look upon all that man has created and though there is truly impression born of man’s attempt to prove resemblance to their creator, I cannot help but feel there is something amiss.  Our constructs lack tenderness, compassion and the simple understanding that among the poor we find the greatest demonstrative faith available, among the crippled we find the greatest hope of heart imaginable and among those of challenged academic regard the purest hearts and child like understanding with curiosity and simple but undying Love.  What are we that have been given all or a measure beyond the gifts of others, but indebted to the Lord and required to share the more?

This world is not a place that was designed for loneliness or self completion and self-actualization as the new ager’s profess, for they also portend an measure of collective understanding unreachable from the promontory of their grand vision.  We don’t get there alone, none of us.  There is not one of us who got where we are in treasure or demise without the interaction, causality or catalyst of those who traveled with us.  God said there is one thing that He made that was not good and it wasn’t good for man to be alone, for in our status of singularity we miss the relationship residing as the greatest treasure among men.  We are meant to get there together not as some man created ideal of economic superiority but as a reflection of the God who created us to love one another enough to step outside or transform our own perspective to one that includes the volunteered responsibility and duty to fellow man in his support and inclusion.

We were made to Love.  In Jesus’ name.

Clarion

What is evidence?  Is evidence something that holds the public acclaim to be convincing that all who are witness agree?  No, for some have seen evidence of many physical outcomes to which witnesses continue to disagree as reflection of their perspective opinion.  Is evidence some visual context that after viewing would defy logic in its denial? No, because data manipulation has surpassed that point of doctoring, so even visual documented evidence is suspect by some and questionable by most.  What then passes the requirements to be classified, evidence to either truth or guilt?  Well isn’t the determination entirely subjective having now fallen under the auspices and whims of the judge for said evidence?  Yes, so then appointing those of similar outlook or understanding would then in fact move the crossbars of what is in fact considered, evidence?

So, objective agreement upon the subjective determination in reflection and review of evidence either makes it valid or invalid.  So then there is no evidence that may credibly pass the objectivity test and be pronounced as, in fact, absolute evidence of a thing because it falls prey to the purview and constraints of the subjective opinions of the determinant judge.  Well, yes, so evidence and the validity thereof is an agreement by nature to accept that a thing is substantial proof or credible constructive data that lends to a particular truth.  Yes, So when you ask me for the proof of God or that Christ was God in human form and came to die for all mankind to be free, you are in fact asking me to provide material that you the judge will subjectively determine meets the criteria by which you will be convinced of that argument.  How subjective.

God exists regardless of my belief.  He is in fact the only objective evidence required of Himself.  We have been given the truth that exists in our own hearts and our own resemblance to His Glory.  We have been given a yearning for a relationship with Him and to find out the purpose of our existence.  We have been the glorious unfolding mystery of this complex Created World around us as evidence of His majesty and existence.  Time after time we have seen His hand upon the beloved throughout the ages and these episodes consistently match the Bible Word we were told was dictated to the scribes by the Holy Spirit’s guidance.  Yet, we stand here demanding some manner of argument or substantive analysis, perhaps as Thomas required the opportunity to probe the hole in His side or feel the scars on His hands and feet.  Thomas found this to be a truly unfulfilling position even as in its realization He proclaimed Jesus, “My God and My King.”  If we require evidence that matches our own subjective requirements for substantive quality of the evidence and there is in fact a time limit to our determinations, wouldn’t it be prudent that we make the decision to believe before the teacher says, “pencils down”?  Look I don’t believe that any subjective argument on my part will transcend the miraculous self-confirming evidence already provided by God, though He needs no belief by us to exist, will ever get you over the threshold of not believing that which has already been given us.  However, I will tell you that I respect the gift God gave you in determining your own resistance or surrender.  But even in that respect I must beseech you to look to the quality of the evidence that already exists and if not swayed by any, then go to God Himself, for He promises to answer if you seek Him.  Will you be so bold, will you admit that your stubbornness is indeed beyond leverage or will you seek the Truth from the only one who can give you the objective truth, that I certainly cannot.  Although, I know the Gospel to be the absolute Truth, you may determine me invalid judge and therefore, out of the importance of this moment and the impact of your salvation in the balance, Please Go to the Only Source of Objective Truth available, Almighty God Himself.

I respect and love you and pray that you join us in eternity, but if you don’t it does not reduce my love for you.  It will however be a sorrowful moment when I realize you aren’t there when I get to God’s Presence.  It’s okay He’s promised to wipe my tears and take away that sorrow, so I guess now is the only time I have to implore, beg, argue, promise and provide example of the Love He Has For You.  I will do my best and pray that His Holy Spirit reaches your heart with His clarion Call.  In Jesus’ Name.

In, Through, Of

Is it okay to not conform to the surroundings in which you find yourself placed?  Of course, that is the model demonstrated over and again throughout history where Bible Leaders shook off the expectations or norms of the society around them to be “set apart” for the lifestyle and works of Almighty God.  Please forgive me, I have been making the reverse mistake and perhaps sin of trying to fit into the world by changing my spots.  However, when God made you unique, I have previously used the example of a purple tiger upon the plains, you cannot help but stand out against the surroundings.  I was not made for this world but for the next.  I have never fit in here, because this world is not my home.  Yet I have been sent like anyone else to experience the Choice we all must make and the sanctification of this wonderful training ground.  The realization of my misgiving is that I have been attempting conformity for the purpose of receiving attention, mistaking it for love.  However, when I solidified my relationship with the Lord through His offer of Grace, my understanding of Love was transformed, leaving me breathless, then irreproachably repentant and finally in contentment of my separation from the constraints and morals of popularity.  You can only be what you were designed to be if you are contented and at home with that which God perfectly designed for His Good Purpose.

Now comes the greater rub.  Christians have been because of their own good intentions and worldly resolve to rebuff me into becoming something greater than that which the Lord has spoken.  I am simply a disciple of Christ, nothing more.  This leaves me in difficult regard, for at this point I must rebuke my fellow believers, something I am always remiss in doing.  Then to proceed upon the path that the Lord has directed in exalting His name and leaving the outcomes to Him.  I am simply to Love, Him and You and plant the seeds of His Gospel message that always returns the perfect and intended, (based on the intentions of God) return on investment.  I cannot make the mistake I have previously made in attempting to please the brethren and try and conform to a new set of requirements and expectations placed upon my life by the surrounding believers.  This would be the same mistake of which I have already repented and been forgiven.  Please honor God’s intention for my design and allow me to follow Him alone through Christ alone, though I am sorry that I cannot please or fulfill your expectations for me.

I don’t need to determine in front of which audience I stand.  The Lord makes that selection very clear in the Bible, I need no analytics or marketing analysis of my own, though I do have the standing to do such work my undergraduate being in business marketing.  The Lord says if they will not hear the message of the Gospel that I am to kick the sand from my sandals and move on to somewhere where they will hear the message.  I ask you have the people around me on PSB, my blog, twitter, email, movies and Bible studies heard anything from me but the Bible message of Love, Grace and salvation?  Has that exaltation of His Name brought people to me to hear and receive that offer He is making to all men?  Do we see evidence in our surroundings of the Holy Spirit’s presence found in myself displaying His characteristics and the circumstances and people within my sphere being duly effected by that Spirit, thus coming to Christ?

If you see as I do that the answer is YES, then I have traveled the road upon which the Lord placed my sandaled feet.  If No then I must apologize to you and ask your forgiveness for I shall not try and meet the personal expectations you apparently have of me.  I serve God and Him alone through the Good Shepherd, Christ through Him alone through the utilization, training, counsel, empowerment and blessing of the Holy Spirit alone.  These are the times for our wise existence.  Those who do not know God’s requirements for their lives are either; hearing and not obeying, having never heard for not asking or not hearing or not pursuing the things of God in misunderstanding of His direction.  If you do not know what you are supposed to be doing with the power placed upon you by adoption into the inheritance and Kingdom of the most High God, then ask.  If you don’t ask then you either do not wish to know, do not wish to obey or are filled with the fallen spirit of fear in not asking.  It is time for us to be clear.  It is time for us to choose whom we serve and then demonstrate that allegiance and act like it.  It is time to determine your crafting for in that crafting there is great purpose for the Coming Kingdom.  Do you know, do you want to know?  Are you set apart from the things of this world or just blending in, biding time as I was originally.

I stand on the field of open battle as a purple tiger with His Righteousness, Faith, Hope, Truth, Peace, Prayer and Word written upon my heart and readily visible to a hopeless enemy.  I don’t need to know the nature of my audience because in so doing I am saying I need to adjust God’s Perfect Word or do something within my own inadequate skills to achieve the Supernatural Miracle that I could only achieve through the Holy Spirit’s Power and Authority.  I will do what God has directed, until He tells me to stop or changes my job description.  Although, I do appreciate the edification and encouragement of the saints please do not take upon yourselves the sinful expectations that you will somehow give me the missing components to making my ministry Worldly Successful.  I need none of that and I believe you are at that point directly confronting God and saying egomaniacally that you perhaps know better than He does how to offer Grace and Salvation, which is through Christ alone.

My job is clear, my position is set apart from this world and my place is among the saints building, encouraging and Loving everyone as God intended. Please if you want something of me that is outside of this description then know I will resist with all my being to the point of kicking the sand from my sandals and moving on to the next town.  Be powerful in Spirit, Be peaceful in the relationship with God and be hopeful of the Life to come in the Return of Christ Jesus the King.  Amen.

Will You?

Certainly there is something that can be done to break the hold of tyranny upon this world.  For sure there are positive steps that may be employed to correctly and effectively navigate the treacherous waters of those who would enslave free humanity.  With no doubt it makes common sense that all is not lost, the battle unfinished and no victor declared if even one of us still possesses the avenue to shout the ideals of free speech to those that might be in listening distance. What then inspires the desire to declare loss, apathy, despair and shame the only roads left travelling?

We are sovereign, not only in our reflection to this nation and its inception but to the Creator who would have us empowered by the authority and expression of the “Free Will” he gave us.  If God had meant us to be enslaved then He would have placed us in a nation that does such to its people from birth.  That apparently is the structure of the argument and capacity that this foul beast of global empire has sought institution within this great nation. How then might a gift that was given by God be so carelessly tossed by wayside, forgotten, relinquished and merely mourned by those given those authorities as reflection of their Creator’s character and Love?

This battle has begun not ended. we are the voices remaining, declaring that Freedom shall not be governed by the few in proclamation of their superiority to all men.  We shall fight wherever men are the property of other avaricious humans to see that they are set free to reflect their God given aspirations of hope and purpose.  This is not a duty easy stricken from the record, the columns of debits and credits regarded in the accounting of nations.  This is an idea for which all effort may be employed and that greatest talent for preservation must be our Hope.  For without that hope there is no bright tomorrow arising in the vision of the future.  We must collectively look upon that vision at this very moment and see the future to which we have all dedicated our thinking, resolves and direction.  Where are we headed?  For not knowing the course or possibly understanding the desired destination hopeful vision may never be employed and therefore fail to fire prior to launch.

What is it that we want for this world?  A system of folks pursuing their own interests that guarantees that the ideals and vision of those with the money will invariably be overtaken?  What then of the bulk of humanity who are neither rich nor slave to this thinking? How is it that our vision differs?  Do we wish to serve the Creator who gave us the characteristics of sovereignty, concern, accountability and shame for our own personal sin? Or do we want a world unbridled by the ideals that there are certain things that are just plain WRONG?  We stand at that battle ground today upon a field where the battle has only now begun.  Will we armor up in the Characteristics of Christ and take the field in Hope and shared vision of a future He has told us is soon coming? Or will we capitulate to an enemy that has already been defeated and simply awaits the arrival of the One and Only King of All, Jesus Christ the Lord?

Some Manner of Clarity

 

In the beginning was God, the Word, and the Spirit of majesty that determined Creation was necessary, not for any specific purpose, simply for His Own Good Pleasure.  The Lord, content alone, wanted someone to nurture, support, love and grow that He might from time throughout their curious lives wish to walk with Him and investigate the limits and depth of existence and relationship with their Creator.  There was nothing absent in this dynamic display of creative authority and to make certain that it was not some simple replica, reflection or make believe reality, he included the unpredictable seeds of chaos or perfection in the concept of choices by Free Will.  He would not govern in a manner that was iron fisted requiring all to behave a certain fashion or conform to a certain ideal though He express all right, authority and intent that they do so, He allowed all to choose. No avatars, no daydream, no escape from the accountability facing each of us at the end of our time within the existence, for this life was created for its specific talent for delivering the harsh awakening that accompanies the Truth.

From this point forward the Lord allowing all to make certain choices drew a time line within the sands of man’s completion, for being eternal, He had no purpose for time.  Though He knew that man’s inclination would be to test the limits of authority and venture to disobedience in their choices made, just as the angels had done previously. The difference in this real manifested Earthen existence is that having known what would occur beforehand He prepared a method at outset to redeem all but one choice the denial of this gift called salvation.  What would become of man now that they were told of the escape mechanism from the prior mistake of choice?  Would they turn from the ill intent that sponsored that reckless and regrettable choice or would they maintain their position, defiant, unhealed, eventually condemned in their own disagreeable ignorance or bliss?

Now the Twist, into the mix an enemy sowed deceptive tactics designed to shroud the truth, obscure the price of making these determinations and swindle the gifts freely given to all by their Holy Creator.  Lies would be devised with such grand technique that only the spirit of God living within a man would deter their eventual downfall. Those having heard the Grand Call to Grace and obeyed through the acceptance of Spirit found those around them vulnerable to its enchanting cry of freedom that truly meant its opposite.  For those who hoped to escape God’s Will for their lives through disobedience would find themselves indebted, enslaved by the fallen angel who would bring them nothing but misery and eventual eternal punishment in separation from the God who lovingly designed them to be free.  They would get their wish, they would live outside of God’s Will or so they thought only to come crashing down upon the granite reality that God created in the realization that God’s Will would enter in their everlasting and final judgment.  The enemy laughed for time until he himself was judged and placed within the same container meant only for angels, that would include a huge swath of humanity simply through their disobedience, stubbornness or deception.  All would fall who listened to his version of the truth, for in so doing they would be blinded to the only Absolute Truth available in this or any universe, the Truth of Almighty God found through Christ Jesus Alone.

Okay now the present, today, the only day that really matters, the only day over which we have any manner of control, influence or authority.  Today, the wonderful day that God has given us to make of whatever we see possible and if we see the impossible as possible then it may be achieved through Christ. Yes, although we have some manner of understanding that the past gives us models and scenarios for comparison from which to glean experience and expectation for the purpose of making our own lives easier than those in the historic model.  We are still left with the understanding that we have the honorable gift of making these choices through our own determination, modeling, guessing or relying upon the Word of God in resolution of those problems before us. It all winnows down again to the idea of choices made today that we might live a better tomorrow, ironically reflective of God’s intention for humanity.  So making my choices today will lead me to the potential of a tomorrow that I have not yet seen but have some measure of hope that it will somehow be a brighter place that is only achieved through the prudent decisions that came with yesterday’s choice.  You see it all follows the same paradigm?  We must all have hope otherwise we don’t study history, we are not concerned with the quality of our choices and we don’t put faith hope and trust in the choices we’ve made to bring us to a tomorrow in which we were devoid of hope.  Without Hope there is no concern for choice, unless it is simply the stomach’s growl, the loins call, the lusts siren demand for sustenance and quenching.  Therefore Hope, is a belief in the things not yet seen.  Therefore those who make decisions are operating within God’s paradigm for future fulfillment based upon an idea that something better awaits all of us as a product of the decisions we make today.

Now for the differentiating factor; what is the motivator that drives that vision of a future for which we all make hopeful daily decisions?  Is your hope in this world?  Is it in some relationship, some bounty, some security, finance or wealth?  Is it in the realization of historic glory, where your name is posted on the billboards, social media surfaces and pages of history for all to search and ponder now and after your passing?  Is it for some home into which you will pour all of your efforts, desires, life and treasure, building for a family that is not yet here?  Is it for your business that it may become the immortal extension of you when you’re gone, that your name might be displayed on its bylaws past your mortal ending? Or are you living for the lusts and hungers of today alone, never concerned with tomorrow for you will go out in a blaze of lightning today if it were to come as some realization of a nirvana or state of epiphany?  There is a drive for your hope.  What is it?  Do you quest for some achievement in this world, which drives those decisions upon which your hope resides? Or have you heard the Truth of God’s Word in that this world is not your home, only a temporary training residence and that your hope is in a day that cannot yet be seen except through the telescope of Faith in God’s Truth and Promise of Eternity?

What are you living for, it is either for God for something else, there is no matter how much you wish there to be no middle ground in this question?  It is one of those pestering questions for which most avoid a discussion or even listening to a pastor who preaching in expository.  The Lord God has told us the Truth.  I have made a significant argument that it is the choices that we make which determine our future whether or not that future is one focused upon worldly events or something eternally minded.  It is the hope that God created that forces us to have a vision of where we are going in order to be even minutely concerned about the quality of today’s choices.  If we are living for God then we make choices based upon the Word he has given us, the relationship we have in tandem and the direction we receive through the power of His indwelling, Spirit’s Will.  Certainly, there are those of us who may venture into a reality where we have one foot in eternity and one upon the Earth, but the Lord’s Word expressly tells us what to expect as result of this practice.  Backsliding or serving the world is something that as a decision made by those who proclaim a faith in the Truth of God’s Word will be the most excruciating, concrete outcome known to man.  You cannot serve two Masters, if you are and you somehow have devised a method through which you and you alone are going to avoid the consequences, then you have departed from the Word of God and I pray for your soul in the outcome, because you are not going to like it when it arrives.  Now is the time of certain and simple clarity and Truth of purpose and action.  We are all adults and the children entrusted to our care are even greater reason to establish this manner of clarity for all your family.  You know when asked if you are serving God’s Will for your life or if you are chasing the aspiration and hopeful choices for achieving some Earthly reward.

I know this because it is by far the most frequent question that I receive from Christians, that being, “What is God’s Will for my life”?  This is an escape ploy and avoidance mechanism to deny the fact that first; the Bible tells us what God’s Will is for All Christians and secondarily that you know what His will is for your life but don’t want it to be the truth or the sacrifice of which He is commanding you.  You are being naïve and coy with a God who knows your heart and that is eternally foolish.  It is time for us to make a decision, a choice, since we all make choices based upon our hope of a greater tomorrow.  God has promised you Eternity, Adoption, Inheritance, Service, Rule and Reign, Power and Authority and Eternal Love spent with Him in a body that does not feel pain, get sick, grow old and will not decay or die.  If that is not enough upon which to base your hopeful vision to stimulate the God Based choices you are making each and every day than nothing will ever be enough.  I Wish to tell the Story the greatest Story of Glory, sacrifice and Love expressed for all mankind that ALL might be saved and find themselves spending eternity with a Holy and Righteous God.  There are rules that He set forth in order to receive this hopeful future that clarity of which are unmistakable to all.  We must believe upon the virgin birth of Christ Jesus, that He lived a sinless life that He might become the perfect sacrifice to pay for the sins of ALL Mankind, historical and future, if they would but believe that He took their punishment upon that Cross and died having become ALL SIN and was resurrected and arose to be with the Father in Heaven, just as those who believe shall be.  He lives now within each believer, cleansing, transforming, preparing them for that future we hold in such regard.

What is the basis for each decision I made today?  Did I make it in quiet agreement with the Word, Prayer and the Voice of God within my heart?  Do I live each day with the end in mind, the end for us that means the beginning?  Have I lived like I will never die?  What is the nature of my hope and what the vision which it inspires?  For what am I living and upon which vision are my decisions being hopefully constructed?  Do I live for now of for then?  Am I concerned that my now is not working out how I planned or am I looking at my now in contented and hopeful faith that God has prepared this now that I might get to that glorious day, Then?  What is your simple clarity?  Is it profoundly simple just as the choices made represent God’s gift of free will choice or are they complex, difficult and requiring evidence and supporting argument that portend a dedication to the things of this world.  It’s okay, you can choose whatever your heart desires.  I pray that you choose Christ, but I love you so much I understand if you can’t see your way to that hopeful promise.  For now I just pray that you will take a moment and ask God quietly to give you the clarity of your purpose that you might be free to pursue that which is truly within your heart.  If you choose this world, the Bible tells you what to expect, I am sorry that eternity is not your thing.  I still love you and pray that God touches the center of your heart with a hope constructed upon the foundation of His Everlasting Love for You.  In Jesus’ Mighty Name I pray that we all come to the knowledge of that hopeful future and begin making decisions consistent with our Free Will choice.

 

One degree of separation

The Bible says; 2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.  This elucidates the principle that a seeker of knowledge is performing the works base analysis of the world based on a collection of knowledge to achieve a specific, enlightened, “knowing”.  Perhaps this is why those mentioned may never find the Truth for they are looking at in a “works” based defined accumulation system?  How does faith differ from the collection of knowledge, faith in itself being an action word portraying the belief in something after a certain accumulation of understanding?  Here in lies the difference between faith and knowledge.  Faith is a suspicion that something is true or false, rather a collection of emotion and mounting evidence leading to a conclusion.  Where knowledge may lead to an enlightened understanding or it may not based upon accumulation of data and inductive reasoning some “epiphany” may or may not occur.  Faith will always grow as evidence is pursued as the accumulation of knowledge also grows when learning continues.  However, as faith grows and becomes stronger there is less need for evidence as at some point it is simply taken as Truth where learning will always be seeking additional information to in fact achieve that state of desired epiphany.

Here in is a clear declaration and definition of the battle lines between believers and those who continue to seek evidence of God.  One group started out with something small and then as it was built upon it grew into something that required no more feeding but continued to grow through understanding, relationship and evidence of promises kept, that being the faith group.  The other group, continued to seek evidence and learning and was unable to find the necessary proof of the supernatural understanding sought so it continued in its doubt, never growing simply adding more data to a ever increasing accumulation of ideas, history, principals and knowledge.  Faith leads to some purpose and that purpose is an increased relationship with God and the courage to continue in the face of overwhelming odds armed with nothing but a belief in promised success or victory.  Where knowledge may be pursued for a lifetime and still remain knowledge at the end of that lifetime having never reached an epiphany or evidentiary confirmation of some manner of Truth.  Certainly accumulation of knowledge will lead to experience and that experience will give a manner of street wisdom based on having seen situations in past experience, but it does not promise a growth or an understanding of supernatural ideas and ideals as faith portends.

What then of what pleases God or what may be used as a deceptive device for the enemy’s purpose of alienating us from Almighty God?  Certainly faith must be limited by the enemy or inhibited in its growth stages in order to deconstruct, diminish or place governing limits upon the growth of faith within each believer.  As the Bible says, “without faith it is impossible to please God”.  Why then does this become relative explanation for the enemy’s continued efforts to limit growing faith within the body of believers.

Well, simple.  If faith is the call that first acquainted each believer with the Truth of God and growing faith allows them to become rooted, sure and safe in those promises as reliance upon them grows with our faith, then the enemy must do everything in his power to stop our faith in its infancy.  Additionally, if as in the garden of Eden, the enemy is capable of convincing us that Knowledge is in fact equally or more important than faith, he has effectively achieved the one degree of separation between our path and the skinny path God intended us to walk.

For once questing knowledge instead of taking the Truth of God on faith, a human is turned over to their own decadent thinking and begins a spiral toward narcissism and misunderstanding eventually leading to academic reasoning and the absence of the faith that pleases God.  So the enemy’s motives, groups, followers and those in danger of missing God will always be shrouded in a singular focus upon the accumulation of knowledge in that absent faith.  Therefore they are typically easy to identify by this over or laser focus upon knowledge as the way to future prosperity in comparison to believers who hold steadfast to the emotional understanding that a faith in God’s promised deliver, provision, protection and prophecy is the only element necessary to successful future endeavors.

This argument may have seemed at outset something trite or minute, but in actuality this is argument that separates the two halves of the population of man.  Those who either subscribe through faith in some understanding of the supernatural outcomes of humanity’s future and the everlasting based upon logic, reasoning and data analysis.  Or those who have heard the call of God through the Holy Spirit placed upon their hearts and by faith have sought a greater understanding of those supernatural issues outside of the embrace of logic and reason to grow in their educated faith and become sure in the reality that is Almighty God and His Will for Mankind.  This battle rages before us and I will continue to point out this mounting gap that separates us, but we must become aware of the signs that indicate the division between the Earthly and the Heaven Bound that we might be called out from those secular things into the holiness in which God wishes we reside.  I pray for clarity in your minds, hearts and souls regarding this difference for though it may appear subtle, within that subtlety resides the enemy’s talent to lead us astray from our growing faith in God’s Promises.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Greater Than

Sat around dreaming of another way, extremely glad to safely say there was none.  All my worth wrapped up in Kingdom work, so glad to see investing could be so much fun.  Another day, some way to express myself and find a way to paint the pictures etched inside my mind.  Unafraid, cause even in the heart of evil there’s always good to find.  Signatures of the great men that came before me, penciled in where I had always fancied some crazy notion or idea.  What to do when the old thoughts simply bore you and the new hasn’t yet come to be?  Where might a man go when not yet given direction to leave from the one that gives the promises upon which we believe?  What new conceptual thought or program does one lend when every thought within his head never bring good’s end?

Are there worlds that are worth finding, climbing, observing or defining outside of God’s Perfect Will?  Shall we be explorers of that which is beyond the veil, hidden from our eye assuming that it has been done for protective or other unrealized purpose?  What depth must we reach when to do so brings about potential for calamity, calamity for which we have prepared no restriction, concept of readiness?  What venture that is self-authorized beyond the consult and relationship with God shall turn to any good?  David was our perfect model in this regard as each time he embarked on his own escapade, whether driven by fear, desire, conquest or investigation without first contemplating the voice of God through prayerful meditation ended precisely in disaster.  Do I vainly believe myself beyond the model and fancy of the man who God said is one after His own heart?

I don’t mind being guided by a Holy God who loves me.  I don’t mind having limitations and applying self-control to my own curiosity that I might remain safe from the things that are not yet known.  It does not degrade my life’s joyous ambition to remain within the specific gravity of God’s lead.  That is frivolous thought to believe that answering to a Sovereign God who knows all those things that are beyond our control and from whence the dangers project threat is somehow limiting our own growth and personal power.  I do not wish to go where God has not bid me, I do not wish to know that which God has not told me and I do not wish to become in my own pursuit of glorification what has not directed that I should become.  I am contented with that which He gives me for Jesus is more than enough for me.