Father, they are my purpose.  To see them know peace, to realize the sweet comforting breeze of love’s touch upon their smiling faces, to accept freedom from personal prisons of sin, history and remorse.  There is no greater moment for me than that instant following encouraging someone, seeing their relief from anguish, as I share a simple hug, a kind word or inspiration and hope from Your Holy Gospel.  That is the moment of my fulfillment, the pinnacle of my existence here on this plane is to know that I have planted a small seed that when grown may lead a person to everlasting relationship with You, Father.

Sometimes I have nothing to give them but a reminder of hope.  Other times I can feed them well or introduce them to other Christians who might help them through dilemma, poverty or addiction.  Regardless, knowing that I am living within that function for which You have created me is repeatedly refreshing to my soul, no matter my circumstance.  I don’t have great oratory capacity, I have no great wealth, no miracles, no coffers full of health and influence, yet you still send them to me.  They are my hope, my evidence of kinship and authority given me by the King, for I may in some small manner diminish their pain, and that just feels right.

Lord, we see that this world is leaning toward chaos.  As evil gnashes its teeth, hoping in foolishness for victory, we who call ourselves by Your Name are humbled to serve in whatever capacity Your Will directs.  For the outcome is determined, my place in paradise assured and therefore my hope irresistible.  Who can take anything away from a man who has secured a mansion at the behest of Almighty God?  I long to look into Your Eyes and walk with You in the cool of the day, but for now I will simply enjoy serving Your Glory by applying my Grace given gifts to comfort those who desperately need to know Your Name.  For those waiting, wondering and hoping, that Name is Jesus, The King of Kings, the Lord of All.

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How are you reacting to all the data regarding Christ’s imminent return?  Are you on the fence as the apparent lack of coincidence with regard to historical, numerical, prophetic and circumstantial information, preferring to maintain a “wait and see” approach?  Or are you preparing your heart, doing the work with renewed vigor as you see the signs of God’s coming judgment and unfolding plan for humanity?  Maybe you are paralyzed not knowing what to believe and because you have limited knowledge of Biblical and human history you are unsure, afraid and uncertain of which way to turn or whether action is prudent, even necessary.  Whatever your standing, I must encourage you to ask these and other questions so that you may at least understand what position you believe, for Christ remanded us to a position of vigilance and readiness of the Master’s return.

I must say that I am fascinated with the age in which we live.  Let us look at what we know for sure, Christ’s return is assured, we are to prepare for that return by being found doing the work commensurate with that belief and at some point the entire Earth will suffer significant chaos preceding His landing upon the Mount of Olives as God’s Judgment is poured out upon the masses.  There will always be argument, speculation and opinion on the events predicting and preceding that return, but they are simple sign posts along the road to glory.

God chose for His own purposes not to reveal the date, that may have been so that we would have choose to be ready instead of waiting until the last minute to seek salvation.  I do not know, but I do know that He chose not to tell us and that purports that He didn’t want us to know.  So there must be some intention or surprise value associated with not giving us this information.  I must therefore make a choice to “have oil in my lamp” or be found without the light necessary to follow the master when He comes.  I do know that we must not give into fear for that leads to either paralysis or unwise action.  God is in charge all the time, even when bombs are falling, pestilence is spreading, criminals are committing atrocities and leaders are seeking self satisfaction.  So it really doesn’t matter when He returns just that He will and we should be prepared, keeping our eyes skyward for He shall come just as He left.  Praise Him in His infinite Glory, write His Word upon your heart and walk as if you mean it.  Intentionality is a bi-product of a believing heart.  In Jesus Name.

How does the fly know to seek relative safety at the boundaries of my sight?  What is it that I cannot see, not those things which are manifest in mirror’s glimpse, but those things remaining just outside the event topography of my visual capacity?  What potency does love possess beyond its influence in every apparent relationship?  How does it impact the definition, understanding and malleability of my universe?  Does my giving freely into God’s Love transform the entire sphere of my wake within this world and every plane to which I have random, chaotic or intended connection?  How is my spirit changed by God?

Is the Love of God my expression of power within this law constricted world?  Can my expression of love for those people, like myself whom are undeserving of such care, a valid demonstration of authority, strength, understanding, wisdom, hope and force unavailable to those outside of relationship with God?  Does this love, which remains at the periphery of my understanding yet colors every interaction, circumstance and belief remain the basis of my authoritative kinship to God?  Am I a prince and a priest, loving His sheep as God intended or do I seek merely to preserve my own legacy, carefully calculating the historical record of my passage through this one way dimensional transition, life?  What is it that I do not know but just take for granted, that in true understanding my view of everything would be fundamentally and definitively transformed?

I am so limited in myself, yet limitless in Christ Jesus, such that my comprehension and approach to “impossibility” is uniquely exchanged for functional understanding of infinity within a finite space.  Can I comprehend a God with no beginning, no end, no controls, limits or laws without having first asked for, accepted and dwelt upon the Love of God through Christ?  Lord, yes, I am inadequate to the tasking, yet, I see now how truly unimportant that factor becomes.  Even my understanding is a conduit for Your limitless capacity to Create, Renew and Orchestrate Glory and Righteous Victory.  I am in awe of You and through the Grace of Your Mighty Love I understand Just how awesome, Awesome really is.  I love you God in the name of Jesus Christ my Shepherd and King.

The truth exists outside of my influence or interpretation.  It does not need my recognition, support, validation or belief in order to start, remain or continue in its authenticity.  I cannot extinguish, abolish, avoid or eradicate its natural authority over every law, principle, action and will, for it precedes all of them.  I may in a mad attempt to influence my fates or fulfill my unique and selfish desire warp the truth in hopes of hiding, supporting or justifying my behavior to quell my own feelings of inadequacy, guilt or to prop up my self created delusional existence.  I may live the fairy tale for moments controlling every prop and person upon the stage I have constructed but the truth confounds my efforts through its overwhelming capacity to lift the curtain to the sunlight of its revelation.  The truth sets me free from my surrendered sins and makes me scurry to the dark if I continue in my will to conceal the reality of my existence.

I love you Lord for your truth lays bare all my misconception.  I do not wish to hide, but instead want all those hidden compartments opened to the cleansing power of the light.  Take from me all that I have attempted to conceal, let it be revealed so that I might serve and join in Your Glorious Truth.  All those I have wronged let me treat them right, according to Your standards of love and care.  The wounds I have created, let me aide in their healing, serving, bandaging, caring for those tragedies created by unwillingness to surrender.  I am exhausted by holding up the sheet or cardboard cutouts behind which the people and things of my life must reside to support my created universe.  Let me find rest in Your Truth, no longer wishing to massage reality in order to make myself look good.  I am empty, laying here a vessel committed to Your Will.  Mold me, shape me, use me or smash me upon the Rock of Ages, but do it according to Your Glorious Truth in my creation.  Use me for my True purpose, let me rest from my efforts of climbing mountains and descending to caves I was never meant to traverse.  Lead me to the light of Your Righteous Fate for my existence.  This is Your Life, give me the courage to live it for You.  In Your Holy Name I pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ the King, lift up my voice Holy Spirit so that my prayer may be heard by the ears of God.  Amen.

Authenticity and hypocrisy are stark opposites.  They are anti matter composites that clash and seek to vanquish each other on the world stage.  If my actions, my behaviors and my beliefs do not specifically coincide then I have chosen the side of ambiguity and hypocrisy.  If I have chosen to “damn the torpedoes” and plow ahead no matter the chaff, flack or poll-baited feedback then I am standing firmly on the side of living out my philosophy.

Let us be cautious and remember that just because someone is authentic does not make them good for we all may in deed be living real for the sake of evil.  However, direct combat against those living declared for evil is much easier then sorting out those who have another face, and may be living in our midst.  That is why our enemies will always choose deception, for they must blend amongst us in hopes that God will allow them to root not wishing that in pulling them out of their grounding he takes with them a handful of those destined for righteousness in eternity.  That is why hypocrisy is the true enemy of the righteous man and why the Lord Jesus Christ acted so responsively to its presence.  For if we see hypocrisy in the church we may be assured that those who serve the enemy of God have weaseled themselves to nest among the branches in the mustard tree of the faithful.  For God’s enemy is the father of lies and deception seeking to bring those who might be led astray into dangerous thinking and subsequent sins against God.

Just yesterday a young man came to me riddled with health and mental ailment.  His obvious physical pain was eclipsed by the emotional and spiritual turmoil evident through his eyes.  Seeing a pentagram dangling from his neck chain I asked him what he believed and he said that he was a “spiritualist” and then corrected himself saying he was a wicken.  My heart went out to him in love, for this man and his pain is not my enemy, but rather the demonic spirits who have contorted him in disbelief.  I asked what led him to this choice and before he spoke I thoroughly expected his response.  He said the hypocrisy, back biting and judgement of the church.  As he spoke I begged God for forgiveness of myself, my brothers and sisters for allowing our position as the bride of Christ to be poisoned by such monstrosities.  I asked him to forgive us for this was not what the Lord intended for the redeemed.  As I told him that our true intention was love for him, even in his most sinful moment, a tear took shape at the event horizon of his spirit.  After speaking with him the Holy Spirit directed me to speak about the importance of absolute truth.  This he understood and actually said the following, and I am poorly paraphrasing, ” the wicken do not judge me and they let me be me so I can pursue God”.  I asked him if I might pray for him and he wept as I prayed for God’s revelation in his mind and spirit and that God might see in His will to heal him in mind, body and spirit.  I told him that I was able to love him because God first loved me at my absolute worst, at that moment when I could not even love myself, for who could love a man full of sin and unrighteousness?  Then I answered that question by saying, God alone can love us at that moment and that is why I love God and I love you, because he has never left me from that moment until now.

We know that the Bible clearly states that we will never end the hypocrisy in the church, for it is a thing which will only be done through judgment, and that belongs to Christ Jesus.  However, I may recognize, elucidate and speak out against hypocrisy within the church for this is the King’s position and I am called in mimicry to do the same.  Let us learn that hypocrisy within the body is evidence of the presence of evil.  Let us pray and fast, declaring this territory in the name of Lord Jesus Christ, banishing the fallen from our midst through the power of the Blood of the Lamb.  For in these evil days, knowing that God’s enemies are masters of deception and then turning a blind eye to the evidence of its existence within our own ranks is absolute foolishness.  Since we are the vessels of the Holy Spirit and thus wielders of wisdom and truth, we cannot stand idly while God’s enemies stand in God’s House uncontested.  For we are the restrainers of evil in this world until the Lord calls us homeward.  Let us do our job and be authentic in defense of righteousness and truth by speaking out against hypocrisy and loving through the power of God’s Almighty Grace.  In Jesus’ Name.

What does it mean to be chosen by God for good works?  What strength avails my heart in the knowledge that there is an absolute truth, and me being redeemed to God that I may call myself in line with it?  How am I changed knowing that God knew me before the beginning of this world and that He had specific intentions for my unique gifts in the salvation of humanity?  Have I fully comprehended the value in presence of the Holy Spirit within my life, heart, mind and soul?  What sets me apart from all that is false in this world or the heavenly realms?  Do I utilize my kinship to Christ in establishing resounding and lasting victory?

I may not have much, but what I do have has been given me by God for the purpose of creating change, change that leads to many people who were lost being re acquainted with God.  I may be frail, underprivileged, forgotten, alone and uneducated but I do know God and that relationship trumps all negativity.  The moment I feared God in reverence I began to understand wisdom which led me to make choices leading to endurance, patience and the eventual, necessary courage in order to fulfill the purpose of my life through God’s will.  Why now would I even entertain for a millisecond the idea that I am powerless, when all evidence establishes the opposite?  My predicament is simply one of self governance in belief.  I must as we all must come to a self understanding that the truth will always win over our other established methods of data/input acquisition.  My emotions are important as value indicators or warning beacons indicating necessary decisions, but they do not govern the choices I make to avoid the identified circumstance, God’s voice does.  The law provides a mirror from which to guide my path, keeping me to the most extent within the boundaries of safe travail, but the law does not save me or provide me access to eternity, that is done through belief and dependance upon the work of Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary.  Facts and man’s history do not govern my necessary actions, indicating the absolute best choice or direction, God’s Word alone gives me a firm foundation that will never lead me astray in decision, action or time of rest and peace.

Yes reality is important, but only in that it gives me to opportunity to demonstrate my firm understanding of who I am in Christ, what must done for Christ and what may be done through reliance upon the same.  This entire scenario is a test of our choice, that is why the enemy is fixated, fascinated and utterly determined to warp even the moral use of that word, “choice”.  For choice represents all human opportunity through freely given love of God.  We have the choice to make mistakes or victory because God gave us this platform, into which we may inject our free will decisions and measure subsequent result of our actions.  We also have the choice to go to God prior to making any decision and ask for guidance, understanding and peace such that our decisions remain inline with His intention.  Doesn’t it comfort you to know that you could exercise the true power of making decisions within the will of God, firmly establishing a practice of assuring the righteousness and correctness of our choices, before we’ve made them?  True power is found only in obedience to God, for all other choices are made from a platform of human inadequacy, guiding by our predilections and particular sinful comport.  I ask God’s guidance to keep my heart targeted specifically to submission to His Good Will, therein my power lies.  In Jesus’ Name I pray this day.

I have seen you do wonderful things, giving to children without expectation, planting seeds to feed the poor and giving up your place so that the weary may rest.  I have heard the songs of your heart, your voices and instruments reverberating within my memories as your voices raised in worship, praise and peaceful prayer.  I have listened to your ideas, ideas given you by God, hoping upon hope for a better future where men might be free of evil, and the innocent, elderly and impoverished might find lasting love and care.  I have heard your dreams for a better mankind, free from the egregious usurpation’s of greed, avarice and plunder.  I have felt the strangling arm of my sin around my own neck, choking me until I found the wind to cry out in God’s Holy Name for relief.  I have seen, heard and believe that you are all made in His image and for that I love you more than you could know.

So dance, dream, play, build, grow and care for those in need, as this is all in service to the King.  Love them as they would not be loved but for your kindness and exception.  Forgive where it seems impossible to do so, for that is the power of Christ’s Spirit within each of us, to overcome the limitations of this world in doing what is beyond our own righteousness.  For we are kin to the King of Everything, the Maker, the Creator, The Lover of all, the Righteous Redeemer, the Right Hand of the Father, The Word, The Lamb, The Lion, The Christ of God, our Savior and their only Hope, Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords.

I will watch and be amazed at the work of His Hands done in you.  You are an artwork of God, capable of so much more than they will ever allow you to know.  But God is our Father and their is no end to the bounty of His Riches and Kingdom.  Do not fear, for in fear there is disbelief and in hope faith resides eternal.  You are the son or daughter of the King and there is no where that the enemy may take you, even in capture that is beyond His Mighty Hand.  You are safe, you are free, you are loved and you are filled with the power of the Spirit of God through Christ.  Fulfilled and prepared for the works and courage that must be displayed in the coming months and years til His arrival sets all things right.  So walk with courage in humility, knowing that God watches every step that you take, So take them in surety of favor, the favor of God Almighty.  Jesus My God and My King.

Excitement anticipates the storm.  Not the type lacking trepidation, the cautious understanding of what calamity may come.  Yet respecting, acknowledging and preparing for the awesome display of raw, unbridled, power, uncontrolled by authority of man.  The Lord cometh.  There are those who would seek to deny this fact, call it outdated language, beg proof or simply compartmentalize the associative feelings in exchange for solidarity with stimulation.  No matter the method no one may look away from the blinding light of God’s Coming Day of reckoning with humanity.  It will be awesome, unavoidable and finite expressed by the Lord of Hosts, who was there before the beginning and who alone determines the end.

I saw it in their eyes, heard it in their voices and accepted their anger as proof of overwhelming fear and disgust.  They no longer have reconciliation of freedom to play out the tortured definition of their realized passions.  That is the price of reckoning for it calls payment due, tallies accounts and sets right what has been imbalanced.  This world owes a debt, a debt that surpasses all worldly understanding of depth, longevity and breadth.  Every man knows the truth that is God and though they profess the doctrine of demons, deceiving, demanding further defilement, all know that purity, wholesomeness and innocence are the Glory of humanity.  Some wish in the evil hearts to corrupt it, poison it, crush it and ruin it but none may dismiss its prize and relevance to man’s fulfillment.  That day of purification approaches and none shall escape the scythe of judgement’s sweeping harvest.  When humanity is separated wheat and chaff for the feasts of eternity.

What then shall we do if we feel that our place is upon the fenceposts and moorings watching as other march?  I do not often caution or recommend panic, but that is your best recourse at this juncture in history.  For if you feel compelled to remain on the sidelines as God demands “choice” then you shall be counted among the fallen.  There have been and will always only be two sides, those with and for God and those against Him.  Choice is the grand gift of glory He has shown humanity, just as Adam made a choice and damned us so did Christ choose obedience to set us free.  Now it is incumbent upon each man, rich, poor, free or slave to make that decision to repent and believe, being set free and redeemed to God for eternity or to simply deny and choose separation, imprisonment and death.  That day is near, that storm visible on the horizon, all men see it but some will act and others will ignore.  Which are you?  I pray you cry out to God for succor, finding Jesus Christ through salvation, repentance and prayer.  May He have continued mercy upon us all and delay that day until every man has made a rational decision.  In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray.

We are standing at the end of the age of mediocrity.  Aghast they say, “certainly man has made the grandest scientific advances in the last hundred years”, followed by, ” you cannot even begin to call this time anything less than spectacular.”  I do not do this in jest or to provoke some argument, envy or attention.  It is simply that what comes next for the race of man is beyond our comprehension as mortals.  Only them who have accepted God’s Spirit have an inkling as to the enormity of what lie around the bend for our planet and its people.  We are about to see the coming of the Lord and in advance of that great and Glorious Day, we shall see an untold number come to Christ in repentance and belief.  Praise God that we have been chosen to be alive during this the most electrifying time of all the ages of men.   We shall see devastation, and hunger, pestilence and regrettably war, but this all precedes the return of the Light, The Word, The Creator, The Lord.  The songs of praise that will rise above the wreckage will restore even the crushed and broken spirit of those facing tribulation.  Ah, I have tasted the Lord and His Word is Sweet, His mercies never ending, His Light Pure and Holy.

What do you say to millions being redeemed to God, saved from sin, cleansed to spend eternity in His presence?  What do you think about His evangelists being protected from each and every evil seeking their harm so that they might spread the Gospel of Love to those in desperate need of salvation?  What will you say when you see the harvest of souls bound for never ending life with God?  There is no sadness that may deflate the joy associated with God’s plan for humanity.  There is no sting left in death’s bite that may dampen the spirits of the redeemed.  We are nearing trumpets call a time when pure evangelism will ring from sea to sea, over top every mountain across each prairie and river.  The story of Jesus Christ will be told so that all might come to the knowledge of the Truth and be set free.  One glimpse of God’s Coming Kingdom will remove even the most remarkable memory of man’s attempts at empire.  We will be left in awe when we see that day.  I pray mercy upon those who shall bear the brunt of its overwhelming finality and I rejoice in the knowledge that so many will once again turn their faces to God in forgiveness and salvation.  Praise God in the Name of the Lord of Lords Jesus Christ the King.

Must I be allowed to contract cancer in order for me to listen to the Lord’s Word for my life?  Do I have to destroy my family, my marriage, my finances and friendships before I will consider that my disobedience to my Christian faith is a destructive catalyst?  Must I holler at or ignore Almighty God for not giving me the contents of my own understanding, when His Word repeatedly educates me to the repercussions.  For I have not found faith until I have believed in and obeyed the Sovereign God of this universe.  If faith is hope and dependence upon things not yet seen, then I must equate God’s prophecy about my sin with those things yet to be seen.  Therefore my subsequent disregard for that “right” walk is evidence of my disregard for God’s Holy Truth.  Must I ask for continued discipline or may I at some point appreciate maturity and walk as a man in faith, no longer a boy?

What will it take for you to listen to the Truth that God has been delivering to you?  Must you lose your job, your husband, your children or your health to finally recognize His authority?  For we must understand that our God is a jealous God and He will not leave us alone in our disobedience, for this is the purpose of God’s enemies to be utilized as a tool to chase God’s children back into His arms.  He is a loving Father and He is also Holy, Righteous and True, meaning that He will never go back on His Word and His Word says that “He will chastise those whom He loves”.  Is that you?  Are you running from, ignoring or worse yet blatantly disobeying God’s Will for your life?

What must we lose or even worse yet, how long, dark and deep must our pursuance of sin become before we cry out to God for mercy and redemption?  Is your way working?  If it is by all means continue, but only until you realize how far it has separated you from God’s True purpose and protection.  Then run for the shelter of His wings.  I wish that I never even once considered disobedience, rebellion or ignorance, but alas that has been the fodder for my education.  For the Lord will never lead me into sin, but He will let me wander into it when I knew better all along.  For it by choice that we are saved, it is by choice that we determine a path of righteousness and obedience and it is by choice that we write God’s Word upon our hearts.  These are the greatest of our freedoms, choosing God above all else, including the most unrighteous of man’s opponents, “Self”.

Father, let me choose You above all else, never stopping to consider wandering into the wiles of deception and self aggrandizement.  Have mercy on me for being so difficult to train, may You walk with me every day so that I never cause harm and never venture outside your direction and will.  Give me grace to walk like Jesus.  In His name I beseech you.  Set them free Father, unleash them from the grasp of the control of Your enemies.