Let’s be practical.  There is a lull in the, “what appeared to be steady march toward prophetical, end-times fulfillment.  This nation, home to the bulk of the world’s dwindling population, cried out to God in humility and faith.  God as always delivered on his promise to hear our cry from heaven and turn his face back toward our land, so that we might be healed.  What of it?  What shall become of this forbearance?  We know that the Bible predicts that there will be a one-world government, a one-world religion and an emerging ruler who will conquer by peace but eventually declare himself God and nearly shatter the world.  Since that must come how do we reconcile this reprieve, however brief with the inevitable prophetic fulfillment?

We can take a wait and see attitude, trusting God to work out all the details, comfortable through inevitability of scriptural promise.  This is the faithful route, but how should this divine intervention effect the worker output?  Any delay, ought not be looked upon as an opportunity to re-establish the norms and status quo for all things are determined in a direction well past event horizon of a return to normalcy.  Disambiguation has arrived, compelling forces drive us forward toward eternity and yet we remain governed by the keel of our free will to choose destination and reward.  If we know that the U.S. is not pictured in Revelation, then something pivotal, logically must impact the sovereignty of this Republic.  I believe in my gut that occurrence is the rapture of the believing church, which will leave America’s leadership decimated by the instant disappearance of a great swath of our nation’s leaders.  The only thing holding back an entire move toward ethical relativism and co-existent religion is the Holy Spirit of God indwelling each Christian.  The Bible is clear until this restraining spirit is removed the son of perdition may not be revealed.  Additionally, after God resoundingly defends Israel by destroying five sixth’s of the attacking armies, it is written that the world will never again deny that God exists.  Therefore it is paramount that this respite be used appropriately and efficiently to spread the Good News of Christ like wild-fire throughout the world while time remains.

Rapture is coming.  We will not be here for the Wrath of God poured out upon this disobedient Earth, but that does not permission us to forget that we may drag, pull, convince and plead with others to come with us into God’s rest.  This delay if it indeed is a momentary pause in God’s Plan, ought be prized for the obedient opportunity it has become.  I do not wish to stand in front of Christ, giving an account for an unfulfilled, inconsequential, disobedient and wasted Christian life.  My joy is found in other’s knowing the grace, peace and love of Christ.  I refuse to go timidly into history.  If I must leave boldly then let it be proclaiming his love at the top of my lungs with my very last breath as I am called homeward.  Nothing else will suffice.  We see the events emerging before us.  We see the signs that indicate his return is nigh upon us.  How then, armed with such defining knowledge may we ever proceed with a sense of nonchalance.  Look to the heavens your redemption draws near.  Make straight you path for the Kingdom of God is here.  In Jesus’ Holy Name.  Amen.

About me, thinking of me, more of me, poor me, can’t you see me, homage to me, just plain me.  Jesus didn’t give me a new life, cleansed of all unrighteousness to serve my own needs.  Yes, those are taken care of according to his grace, provision, protection and abundance, according to his riches and glory.  However, I was set free to offer the message of freedom to others so that they might receive rest.  If I continue to focus upon my needs as the driving influence of my existence, I will undoubtedly never find the skinny path I was meant to traverse.

Jesus, is God, was God and will always be God.  I know you hate him, I know you hate me for even mentioning him, but none of your adoration or hate makes his sovereignty any less the truth.   You see, Bob over there has his ideas, you have yours and the crowd outside is filled with opinions, some match but most are divergent.  How can they all be true?  You suggest that they all run along the same continuum, in parallel, never meeting, never cancelling each other out, that is in direct conflict with reason.  One thing occupies one space at one time for we are not spanning dimensions and time.  Therefore there are governing principles, realities and a foundation truth that supports this reality into which we inject the diversity of our opinion.  My opinion does not change that reality, alter that reality or control that reality, it simply offers a perspective of reflection upon this reality.  God is the creator, the foundation, the rule maker, the judge, the life-giver.  His opinion forms, changes and sustains the reality in to which our variations are intertwined.   You hate him and me by relation because you want to be master of your own universe, the director of your own fate and do, eat, swindle, master, enslave or free whatever your emotions and thoughts tell you is consistent with your appetites.

Torturing a child cannot both be good and bad at the same time.  It is a thing that by its nature is pure evil.  How then do you reconcile two men with alternate opinions upon that subject?  They both cannot be right on this matter, they are mutually exclusive views of reality, therefore one is right and the other wrong.  If both claim to be morally superior and submit themselves as the origin of righteousness, what then becomes of public, moral construct?  The power of the masses would dictate to the weaker, what in fact is right and what is wrong.  Then we are at the mercy of the powerful, hoping upon nothing, since there is no eternal truth that those that have the authority do not believe that hurting children is okay.  We are left without mercy, held in the arms of chance and opportunistic reason.

Praise be to God that we did not have to subject ourselves simply to the whims, emotions and desires of the powerful.  For there is a sovereign Lord, who gave us the ten commandments to show us our sin, acting as mirror that we might see our behavior in God’s intended reflection.  But we mistook that mirror for something that would give us access to heaven, when in fact men are all sinners, none have never lied, never stolen, never disrespected their parents or God, but God himself in the form of a man named Jesus.  Religion is man’s attempt to earn his way to heaven.  God’s gift to man is access to heaven by belief and faith in his sacrifice upon the cross.  We continue to try to earn something which has been freely given with a qualification of belief and faith.  None are righteous, but God.  None can gain heaven but through God.  None may know him without a relationship with Jesus.  This sets the world of men afire with hatred for a God who would dare and have rules within his own creation.  God made man, not the other way around.

If I sound outrageous, you better hope that I am.  If I am right you better pray with all your might to the universe, rocks, idols and natural spirits that I am wrong.  Or perhaps you could listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit of God spoken in my words today and let your heart be touched by truth.  The truth of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and his soon return to judge, rule and reign for all eternity.  Silencing me will not constrain the truth, so you better look for a more robust solution.  Perhaps you can hide from him when he comes?  No that won’t work because the Bible says that men will hide themselves in the rocks, hoping that the mountains would fall on them to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb, and will find no such hiding place.  Their is no solace but surrender to Christ.  If you cannot find in yourself the will to surrender to the God of all universes then you are doomed to be judged, separated and suffer for all eternity.  If you find hope, reason and conviction in the truth, then turn to him and find rest, freedom and sanctification at the hands of our master.  For he loves you and offers grace to all who will hear what the spirit is proclaiming, even at this late hour of Christ’s soon return.  Be blessed, get saved, Christ Loves  You.  Amen.

But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go,…

How can I now be silenced when this is the example I have been directed to follow?  You wish me to control my conversations on God as they ignite the ever burning fuse you have sought to extinguish in your own soul.  Your battle is with the Almighty, but I will accept your anger as his ambassador and fully understand the lengths to which you must go in order to silence the Word of God in your heart.  I pray however, that his spirit’s voice never be quenched for you that you may still have time to make the eternal decision to which all are required.

I love you.  I neither have to agree nor disagree with you to love you.  Your position may be as solid as you presume it to be or it may be constructed upon loose soil, only time, challenge and obstacles will tell.  Let your path be your path, but there is a reason we have been brought together this day and I have no desire to avoid that purpose.  You may think it chance, in which case, you most likely forget our passing, choosing to wipe your memories clean of the impacts we have had upon each other.  You may wish to label me fool, so that you may justify yourself in memory that you have bested me at argument, so that you may free yourself of the truth or obligation of my words.  Or you may hear a quiet voice or reason and love bidding you reach out to the savior so that you may spend eternity at his side instead of weeping and gnashing of teeth in fire.  Whichever the choice, I will honor your right to deal with our meeting as you choose.

What then is next?  Can you silence every Christian?  Perhaps you wish to become like Saul in his persecution of Christ, seeking out all Christians and ridding the world of their abomination.  Or maybe you will simply walk away from each Christian paying careful mind to keep all of them outside your range of hearing and relationship, so that you never have to consider their position or argument.  Or maybe you will listen and take the time to understand their plea to you out of unconditional love for God, choosing to consume the information and act upon it in the positive or negative.  Whatever happens the choice again is yours.  As it is my choice to follow my God as He commands me to spread the Gospel Good News of Christ.  You see we both are at the same position, that of choice.  The only difference our masters.  Mine is God, guided by His Holy Spirit yours is perhaps your self or maybe some unknown worldly thing or god.  The choice still resides with each of us.  In Jesus’ Name I pray that you are touched by his Spirit such that you see the righteousness of my pleas and choose to know God through Christ.  Be well

It is alright to love with my whole heart, not a smidgen, a section or a portion but the entire energy of my being.  I know inherently that others will react to this unbridled sometimes with curiosity, others with doubt, some with recrimination and unbelief.  But still it will be offered.  I was asked today if my enemies came through the door there is no way that you would forgive them and let them go free of the crimes they have committed.

It surprised the asker, who truly believed to have set me up in front of a crowd when I said that I would forgive them of the wrongs they have done me and God would forgive them and cleanse them of their sins and unrighteousness if they believed upon the Lord Jesus, but that their crimes would still require punishment if they had broken man’s law.  You see they mistakenly believed false information about Christianity, that if you commit crimes God will just set you free of the consequences.  Understandably if that is what they believed about our faith I can see where it would seem odd that people would just be freed of all culpability and accountability for worldly action.

I had the blessing of being used to preach the Gospel to over 10,000 people this week.  It has been the greatest joy of my life as Christians cheered, fence sitters asked endless questions and the enemies of God answered with vitriol and grief. Many demanded I stop preaching or simply stop speaking the Word of God and use my own thoughts.  To which I answered, that God’s Word never returns void and is marvelous for teaching, preaching, rebuke, reproach and reminder.  Some simply demanded I shut up and I responded with a loving request for them to make their lives settled with God as judgment approaches.  I was used of God and that is the greatest gift I have received outside of God’s Grace, forgiveness and redemption.  To realize one’s purpose for God is the achievement of wholeness.  Today, I was given the chance to fulfill my duty as a Christian Ambassador or remain silent and I spoke until all that was appropriate to say had been said.

The time has come for action.  This country was formed differently than our predecessors whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, because we determined for the good of all that we would put aside our personal desires as secondary to the needs of the nation.  We came together in love, settled in our Christianity or other faith and even in disagreement “got the work done”.  We became a nation of doers, differentiating us from all other nations.  God Blessed our works and provided us enormous bounty from which to produce stupendous achievement.  At some point we forgot this factor allowing sedentary practices to replace our once great desire to achieve great objectives.  This effected Christians the most, for the work of our faith and love for God is always there awaiting our will to stand and preach, teach, heal, provide and love upon this lost world.  Although our faith is not based upon works we forgot that our worship is demonstrated by our works of love for God.

We were designed for many purposes but they all come back to the same life giving root, the Good News of Salvation through Christ.  If we cannot tell others of Christ then we have failed to attach ourselves to the power of the life giving vine of the Holy Spirit from whom we receive the power to pronounce the Gospel. If you are not telling people about Christ then you are simply disconnected, disobedient and unsure of your testimony.  This is some cause to fear, but it is better a warning sign to be instantly attended.  Find a mature Christian and ask some questions, get some help, learn to achieve the objective for which you were given access to power and authority.  If you aren’t going to use it, then you are a disobedient child and your one talent should be taken away and given to the one who wants to turn it into ten.  You know who you are, the time has come to do something about that knowledge and if you do not you alone hold the blame that you will certainly dread telling Christ.

God’s Plan for your lives is wonderful.  Don’t leave this plane having achieved less than the best for your life.  Find out what he wants for you and then stand ready for him to act, provide, fulfill, secure and deliver upon those promises for it will most certainly occur in due time.  Christ’s return is imminent, are you ready, look up, he’s almost here. Can you feel it.  We love you.  God loves you.  In Jesus’ name I pray for you right now.  Amen.

What do you do when you realize that the person  you are doesn’t match the story you’ve been telling?  The nature of things puts you smack dab in the middle of an enormous conflict.  Spilled milk always seeks the low point on the floor in which to pool or conforms to its container.  How then do you expect to surpass these natural laws and keep the parts of your real personality compartmentalized from the one you virtually maintain?

Christianity makes it impossible for believers to fit into the world.  Those God induced changes bring about a contempt for societal norms regarding the acceptance of sin.  The Holy Spirit continues to remind, rebuke, instruct regarding the complacence, acceptance or participation in the what God defines as unacceptable behavior.  This interaction causes either a conscious separation from the worldly or a chosen determination to those things over God.  Truth is you get changed and then you just can’t hang with worldly folks anymore, that is if you are serious about your relationship with God, ie..truly transformed by a renewing relationship with Christ.

I have found that the world no longer loves me, in fact their feelings have turned to contempt, exasperation or outright exclusion.  One cannot be in truthful relationship with Christ and have the same with the world, it just is not possible.  These two things are mutually exclusive, they will never mix, if you wear the shirt you will no longer be invited to the party.  So, don’t adorn yourself with Christianity if you don’t want to be changed, because it will change you.  I mean the Holy Spirit will change  you, you will truly become someone different then you used to be.  The Lord has transformed me into someone consistent with his Will for my life and that has made me unacceptable to society.  Sure they play nice to an extent but when they quiz me as they always do about the things of God and the Truth of God’s Word, they instantly realize that I am not like them nor can we ever be friends.  I love them, pray for them, but their rebellion against God cannot be overlooked.  Nor can they ever accept me for who I am.  We are separate, why?, because we were made to be that way.

My duty is to God and that requires I tell the truth to a population in desperate straights.  They are headed for a judgment and a sentencing that they do not fully understand.  My job is to tell them the thing that most definitely do not want to hear and the thing that they most desperately need to hear.  The greatest news they will ever receive is that of Christ’s redemption and God’s grace.  It is a joy to tell them, but in that delivery there is always conflict, and unfortunate sorrow upon the realization that many will not listen, no matter what, they will refuse to listen.  The choice is theirs to make.  I think many Christians do not wish to tell them because they know intrinsically that something will change and instantly the relationships they once counted as solid were never more then houses built on sand.

There is no savior complex on my part, merely the desire to show people the way to break free from the shackles I so comfortably accepted in my past existence.  I cannot free you of the guilt and shame of your sin, I cannot provide you the access to eternity, I cannot change, provide and correct your life, but I know who can.  There is a wonderful story to tell and it will lead to the greatest things in this life and the next.  I hope that you voluntarily wish to discuss, consider and choose Christ, but I am prepared for the alternative.  You see, most do not wish to hear, but tell them I must for this is true love, to offer each person a way to escape the pain of sin, shame, death and eternal separation from the God who created everything.

I first whispered and hoped, then I argued and cajoled, then I spoke the Word and honored God’s control of the outcome.  I have been hoping and praying for the many of you who I have shared the Gospel with over the years, that you would have Aha moment, where the Holy Spirit revealed something to you.  God has now told me that tribulation is coming, not as a matter of simple, outrageous wrath, but as a grand gesture of His Love for mankind.  He loves you enough to turn the heat up to 12 so that you must let go of the ladder you continue to climb in to darkness.  He is going to make the light so bright that you cannot stay in darkness except by choice.  He is going to make the series of tragedies so compelling that everyone knows God is in charge.  I now know that my job has been completed, I now ready myself for the return of the Lord.

Please review your works.  You manipulate everyone around you, you deceive trying to control the situation with magic or clever behavior.  No one will apologize to God for you, because that he does not allow.  We will pray, that he has mercy upon your soul, but forgiveness is his, redemption is his, eternity is his alone to dispense.  I have begged that you see your illness and cry out to God for assistance, begging again for him to set you free from bondage.  He has been waiting for your repentance, with the keys to your shackles, patiently he waits to set you free.  I am sorry that you have not availed yourself of his forgiveness, that you have not heeded his Word in justice, but the time for payment approaches.  I hope that you understand the cost for if you stand without decision made you still have made a choice through disobedience.

What now is left for me but to encourage, comfort and build up the Body of Christ.  I will preach the Gospel and allow its effect to be of God.  God gives us clear guidelines regarding how to conduct ourselves in the world.  We cannot ignore his command to holiness just because we have not written his word upon our hearts.  We cannot ignore his command to remain unspotted and free of sin while we walk through humanity.  We are to conduct ourselves as his children, with clear understanding of what that means, especially when we thing he is not watching.  For the power of God is in the Holy Spirit, which indwells each believer.  Therefore conduct unbecoming a child of God, grieves the Holy Spirit and demonstrates a willingness to serve another master, whether it be self, or false god or sin.  The Church is now in the state of luke warm salvation.  They seemingly do not care to be obedient only to comforted in their self service.  As believers in Christ if this is the truth then it is the truth that we should be speaking.

I cannot make decisions for you.  I am the worst of sinners, I need God.  I beg him to rid me of this worldly skin, so that I might know again my innocence.  If I have asked that you hear God and you have never listened then please forget my words.  For if you will not heed his word enough to ask him to tell you the truth, then you never wanted to know in the first place.  I am sorry that you will have to face tribulation.  I do not plan on being here for that.  I pray that it provides sufficient awakening that you remember the things of God.  I pray that at that time the seed I once planted sprouts and delivers you unto eternity with Christ.  However, your choice is your choice, I will weep no tears for you in heaven for you are serving whom you wish to serve, right now.

I cannot argue effectively or defend my faith without contention, for the Word provokes either resistance or capitulation.  God does not ask, He tells, He yells at the universe and it obeys, why would a man have leeway?  Because a man is beloved, so God speaks calmly waiting for the choices we all must make.  Do not contend with God if you like winning, do not contend with man if you wish them simply believe.

It never returns void, the knowledge that the plans will always sprout, the sun will always shine that someone will love you forever.  This Word is unlike any treasure you’ve found, it is the power to make, to break to shine light upon the fake, shaming, taming, waking and growing all things to zenith.  It presents you with The Truth about life, death and what comes after, between and before perception.  This Word is perfect, it was with God at the beginning, it was and is God.

I stand overwhelmed in my simple crisis of humanity, struggling to understand that which is beyond my comprehension, my universe stretching, frighteningly toward rupture.  Destiny has made me the man God wished.  I have seen glory and become addicted, that face, the face of a God willing to die to get my attention, my allegiance, my faith.  How can I have ever pleased this perfect God, which seems impossible? Yet, he tells me that he sees me cleansed and righteous, wearing the suit of armor gleaming like the sun, The son given a second chance to live a second life for purpose, for reason, for the Glory of a deserving King.

He died so that I might live, Jesus be praised.

The concrete of my life falls away, leaving those things green and supple.  I am nothing that my dreams have made, the dreams made me.  Having become what God intended, I yearn for Him and hunger for the redemption of mankind from the cruel reign of false gods.  There are many things I had once wished to conquer or complete, now my only hope is to save as many as may be saved in the time remaining.

They have gone astray from God, wrongly equating Him and the Church, they now have decided upon it irrelevance.  The apostasy is God’s present reminder that we rapidly approach and end of the Church Age.  We are not of desperate mindset, only quiet understanding that those who have ears to hear shall hear and those who sit upon the fence shall forever regret having never exercised the greatest gift of free will choice.  That is the abomination here, is that a humanity which might be wholly save turns its nose to the food of restoration.

Lord, I am so thankful that you chose me, for any purpose.  The fact that I have been able to any positive effect for the Kingdom humbles me and delights my mind with new and positive memories.  These people you love and I am sorry that they are too self-focused to come to you and be saved.  Please forgive us for not telling them sooner, perhaps we may have made a difference.

Your love sustains me as I lose taste and desire for the things of this world.  I see the innocent smile and that brings me joy.  I see those who love you and obey your commands and that makes me smile.  I see the men and women you’ve created and your love for them shines bright from my eyes.  They don’t know how to handle it Lord and are often left for words.  They see immediately that I love them even before we have ever spoken.  I am sorry for the times that I looked at my Brother otherwise.  As this world grows strangely dim let them see my readiness for rapture so that they too might have oil in their lamps, watching for your return.

In all these things I love you Almighty God for all that you are and pray that Your Name be Blessed in Heaven and Earth, In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray.

Yes I fall, I fail, I flounder lying upon the sand feeling inadequate to circumstance.  But, I get up, sometimes waiting for the strength to rise from my knees.  There against the spiteful wind I stand in the knowledge of God, expecting resistance but tasting the eventual and imminent victory of God’s Promise.

How do you explain my continued resolve.  You who warned me against believing in something made up by man, something that controls sheep, an opiate?  How do explain my sobriety, my willingness to give and my continued ability to survive on a field rife with fiery arrows?  My wounds evident, my scars not so much but still reflected in the light of God’s love pouring forth from my eyes.  Bloodied, beaten, forgotten, unloved, you beg me to lie down and quit, but I have other ideas.  My investment is in Christ, I have placed all that I have in his hands, seeking return following this life.  Your glory Lord, I will benefit in the long-haul.

Why do you avoid battle in my quadrant, you thought me frail, easily sidestepped or beaten?  Am I foe worthy of your concern?  Absolutely not, I will not pump you up with false bravado to which are not worthy.  My strength is the Lord’s, my patience built of faith, faith in his righteous willingness to destroy you to protect me.  You have been beaten by love, his Love and that astounds your sensibilities.  Something as low as me could survive every assault simply because he loves me.  There is power in understanding the authority of one’s Father.  Mine owns everything, made everything, knows everything and has power and authority beyond comprehension.  Where does that leave you?

I may be on my belly, but I soon will be on my elbows, knees and feet, standing in the midst of darts with my shield locked against my Brother, firm footed in the knowledge of the inevitability of our victory through Christ.

If it requires I be a fool to love you, then an able fool I stand before you. loving.  If I must lose all to gain the moments we spend in concentrated learning, loving and laughing, then here are the keys to my castle.  If I must slave to righteousness, forbidden in things outside your character, then shackle me anew with the Spirit of You.  If I must dig in to an extended battle, pushing forward only to collect our wounded, then in this dirt I dedicate my life to our victory.  If I must run, let it be in your strength so that I never weary or faint.  If I must commit this life to be of any relevance then to which paper do I place my mark?

They are excruciatingly tiring in their questions, demonstrating their fear and desperation.  They are tiresome in their inability to consider anything but themselves and they exhaust me when I find myself having to define hope for someone who knows it not.  They challenge me when my teeth must be clenched in responding to their repeated negative responses.  However, they are his and I love them.  They are his and I love them.  They are his.

Lord I am okay with the timing of your coming.  I think I would prefer rapture, but the dead in Christ rise first.  I know this, that I miss you and know that my time is accounted for in this duty.  It is exciting to wait upon you.  It is easy to believe in you.  It is comforting to trust in You.  May your Mighty Name be Blessed and may you be held in full account of your Glory and Wisdom.  In Jesus’s Holy Unblemished Name.