http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/Archive/News/Stakelbeck_Terror_112712_WS  We will not be humbled, think again.

Relied upon God and He took me there.  Dropped my pack in exhaustion at the foot of the rugged cross and He bore my burden then left me with peace in exchange.  Looked for old ways out or clever techniques to somehow stop the pain but the Lord stayed my mouth, and my feet.  Stand there, He said to me.  Feel it and remember how utterly unbearable it was at last examination.  Strong despite my self.  Weak enough to know that I could never do this alone.  You are my God.

Lord, failures seems to be my namesake.  Get up, fall down, get up, slip, go down again.  I know you would not allow me to lie there in defeat and I love that about You.  When I am spent, You are endless.  Father I will wait to see Your Hand, Your Path, Your Guidance.  And if I am to move then I pray that You give me speed and determination.  After all this is Your life that I have been allowed to live.  I am so thankful now that I don’t just spend time making a mess of it.  My goal of the furtherance of Your Coming Kingdom, is revealed a bit more each day.  You are my God.

When I count on me I am perpetrating deception sponsored by self.  It wants to say that it knows best, but history says otherwise.  Where I should be, for what should I strive, how should I spend the bulk of my time, with whom should I be aligned?  I don’t need these answers.  The questions are only pertinent when submitted through the humble inquiry of a man seeking guidance.  Otherwise these questions and the self-delivered answers are part and parcel of the same quest for self-fulfillment.  The Lord will provide answers and those answers alone have the power to fill me up.  Self actualization is a satan-inspired myth sold to humanity at large.  Nothing in this world can give me that realization of total life direction, where every ounce of spirit, spit, sweat and silver are expired in pursuance of a divinely designed purpose.  Nothing less is acceptable.  Please let me have no regrets when I first look into those Eyes.  All that is worthy about me came from You, please take it all.  You are my God.

Most Americans have never reflected upon what made this country rise above other nations in its character, prosperity and might.  Our schools no longer teach the foundational principles upon which a people fostered such a unique country.  Even worse the atheistic leaders who disagree with that history go further than simply not teaching those principles, they have revised history to redact those principles.  For a complete, layman’s understanding of the effects of such redaction one need merely review what Alexis De Tocqueville spoke insightfully about American ideals and how they would be circumvented.  Conspicuously, De Tocqueville made these observations/predictions about America in the early 19th Century, a period that saw the rise of the American Nation.  Additionally, Alexis died in 1859 the year in which Darwin published his “Theory of Evolution” as if somehow to add accent to his predictions of American downfall based upon diversion from God’s word as its foundation.

Coincidence is applicable solely when a solid prediction of coinciding events has not been clearly predicted by reliable sources.  This man was not an American, but he admired, researched and wrote about American ideals because we once were inspiration for all those “yearning to be free”.  Freedom from tyranny, freedom from thought police, freedom from unlawful taxation and the limits of social classification.  As surprising as Monsieur De Tocqueville’s observations were, they dwindle in comparison to the compendious array of clarity and truth available to any seeker within the historical pages of the Bible.  Wisdom is available to all who cry out to the Lord for access.  De Tocqueville knew that the greatness of America is directly correlated and proportional to the Public dissemination of the Good News of Jesus Christ.  Without it we are just another mediocre democracy captured and struggling against the pitfalls of republics led by imperfect men.  Ah, but with those principles we are blessed beyond comparison with insight, compassion, ingenuity, and willing self-sacrificial underpinnings capable of propelling us to greatness.

In a word De Tocqueville was right.  We have not fallen from some pinnacle of human experiment because of economic downturn, the lack of political leadership, poor weather, health or bad luck.  We have fallen from our blessed position as the obedient children of a generous God.  A God who always delivers on promises and promises what will consistency deliver individuals and nations from the ills which confront all men, kings and countries.  The youth inspiring, double-edge sword leading from our pulpits has been nullified, muffled and in many cases silenced for the sake of public approval.  There are the courageous few who will not be swayed, diverted or corrupted, refusing to preach a popular Christianity and they hold with them the only prayer of a recovered America.  Without the prayers, preaching and purposeful performance of those who would spend their lives to further God’s Kingdom, this nation is without hope of restitution to greatness.

For it is either within God’s Mighty Hands we will be lifted up or underneath His feet we will be trodden based upon our adherence, choice and loyalty to His direction.  America has ceased to be great.  The reality, cost and fearful future are as evident as the cause.  We have one chance, to humble ourselves, repent of our sins against God and cry out to Him for resuscitation.  Our current course arguably from which we will not depart leads directly to failure and perhaps Hades.  Ironically it is consciousness that will set us free, not as the Buddhists or New Age philosophers view it but as a removal of the veil set before our eyes blinding us to the truth of God’s Word and our subsequent downfall as reward for such oblivion.  America open our eyes and return to the practices that once made us a great nation.  Set God before us as guide, let His light and faith in Jesus be our salvation.  The alternative is obvious and inevitable if we choose otherwise.  Praise God in Jesus’ Name.

The whole entire thing is about Him.  From the outset, God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit were present before the beginning of this or “any” world.  God stood, the Word commanded and the Spirit oversaw.  All of the Bible is about Jesus, something for which the Jews remain blinded because they see history through the lens of themselves.  They do not take a step back and see themselves an integral component of the Historical narrative.  A Bible that is entirely about God and His love for all that He has created.  We as extensions of the Lord see in ourselves; creativity, thought, goodness, courage and other divine components reflective of our Maker.  However as created beings we also display the impurities of this creation, absent in the Creator.  We are burdened by the various lusts, distractions, iniquities, hate and self service that estrange us from our Perfect God.  He came here, to a planet full of disobedient children, to provide an escape plan, a purification system a road map by which we may find our way back to His nature.

We are not gods as some religious malefactors would have us believe, we will not become gods as many collective philosophers would have us contemplate but nor are we absent divinity.  All things created by a Master possess an imprint or some DNA of their Maker.  We must not attribute satan’s apparent creativity to that of actual creation.  The enemy’s power resides in taking what has been made and corrupting it until it is transmogrified.

In the case of man, Adam the man made from dirt and the Breath of God, was made without flaw.  Sin made him into something other than God intended.  Just as satan twisted the Lord’s, righteous words in order to corrupt Eve then Adam.  We became something twisted, unpure, revised, beings that now resembled our new master, satan and put us at odds with our true Father in Heaven.  Just as satan was created and became something other than God intended, so we became a vial and lesser representation of God’s original Adam.  Adam gave up His golden, divine purpose and dominion in exchange for fool’s gold and servitude to a cruel master.  Hallelujah and thanks to Almighty God, through belief in the Lord Jesus, His intervention into man’s history, His sacrificial death, resurrection and ascension.  Sin and death have been conquered once and for all.  Every man now has a path to re-acquaintance with the Father for eternity through confession, repentance and belief.

The enemy is no longer master of those who place their faith and belief upon the Lord of all.  The corruption has been forgotten and is being removed, replaced by the goodness, kindness, patience, self-control, mercy and love of our real creator.  We have been given back more than was taken from our disobedient ancestor’s Adam and Eve.  We now are indwelt by the Divine, the Holy Spirit lives within us.  Where Adam had God’s likeness and had been given extraordinary gifts to rule upon the Earth, we have been cleansed of all unrighteousness, and become joint heirs in the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We have become princes and priests to serve the Lord and share in His Sovereign, Eternal Reign.

There is no greater gift then what we have been given.  It defies perception, it confounds contemplation, it surpasses the paltry claims of all who are falsely worshiped.  There is but one God and He deserves the praise of “all” creation.  Unfortunately though He gives us the choice to do what is right, there will be many that must be forced to offer confession.  Resist as they may there will come a day when every thing that lives or has ever lived upon this earth will bow knee and openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.  I pray for peace in Jerusalem and that all men bend their knee now to our Sovereign Lord, the God of all.  His name is Jesus, Jehovah, I Am, The Rock of Ages.  His name is Great, Worthy, Righteous and True and He loves us so much and awaits our decision.  I pray that all make the correct choice.  Amen.

Handshakes, smiles and kisses.  Laughter, long slow breaths of mountain air and kids having a great time just being kids.  Sights that bring gasp to the heart and tears to the eyes, sonnets, and bonnet-wearing African American Women with their kindness and strength.  How men will run in front of buses, trains, bullets and bad economies in defense of people that they barely even know.  Wishes, clean water and butter.  Mistakes to point me to growth, pain to make me grow up and character that makes me spit out the dirt, wipe off the debris and get back into the fight.  One True God who never changes and keeps everything including me suspended in space, time and glorious life.

Women to test us and keep us from thinking we have anything mastered.  Gifted with their unique hearts, minds, faces and fashions who desperately want justice and love peace.  Dogs that steal your spot whether it’s cool or hot.  Cats who go catatonic when you scratch that space right in front of their ear.  Nights that make the world slow down and days so bright that even ugly things seem washed in glory.  Words to construct things born in the mind, stored in the heart trying desperately to be set free.  Pats on the back, whispers of encouragement or correction, spoken solely for our benefit.  Men who love obediently and women who honor out of truth while kids listen intently and respectfully.  Cold, hot and spicy that seasons life and changes things up, especially while it rains like the sky opened up.

Lord God we are humbled by what You have freely given for us out of love.  Let us give back even a portion of that grace by loving each other in the same way.  We await Your arrival in faith, light and truth.  Let us light the way with Your reflection in our eyes.  Let our hearts open fences to free the forgotten, lost and faithless.  Give us just what we need in order to do what must be done, in Your Holy Name Lord God by all the riches and glory through Christ Jesus our King.  Amen.  Forgive us so that we may be unbridled to do the same for all.

Has the sham passed?  Are all the misconceptions of false hope for America/Globe achieving consciousness finally put to rest?  Do we comprehend that these countries are now playing with the use of nuclear weapons?  Does anyone really believe that countries such as North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India, and others are going to stand bye their conventional weaponry when Israel is forced to use absolute means to protect her existence?  Do you believe that God will stand bye and allow this to happen to His planet without intercession?  Perhaps He will let us come close to destruction for instructional purposes.

Does anyone now see the academics, philosophers and diplomats capable of stopping the missiles mid launch?  No, this is what the Bible has always proclaimed would, should, will and is currently happening regardless of the well wishes of golden-agers.  Even they are divided between marching to utopian cadence and borrowing as much money as possible to go out in a tremendous bash if the Mayans were perchance correct.  They fight so hard to come up with an alternate explanation for their origin/eternity other than the one promised by God Himself that they will invent rabbit holes down which to disappear.

Forgive me for being flippant on such a serious topic.  I apologize for appearing to make fun, because folks this is no joke.  A large segment of the world’s population has fallen into trance, wavering to the false flute lulling everyone into the state of euphoria where somehow everything is going to “magically” turn out alright.  I think they have effectively convinced some that extra-terrestrials or outer-dimensional beings are going to show up just in time to deflect us from our eventual self-termination.  Even when all indications are that we are headed toward global catastrophe if not World War III.  Most hold some kind of faith in mankind’s yet undisplayed ability to avert calamity through pure-hearted motivation.

On the other hand you have survivalists preparing to wait out the worst.  Although this may provide a semblance of security for the coming tribulation, the Bible is clear that there will be nowhere to avoid the coming global tragedy.  Everyone will either run to the Shelter of the Lamb, throwing themselves upon His mercy or they will be mercilessly crushed by the Rock of Ages when they seek shelter from the Wrath of the Lamb.  Death itself will not even provide solace, there will be no eternal rest for the wicked.  Since their party ends at the climax of this lifetime they have to perpetuate the lie that it will go on forever through collective consciousness, voluntary economic equality or perpetual reincarnation.   There is a reason they are called “pipe” dreams.

This world is about to face the denouement of mankind’s history.  We have climaxed and are now cascading toward resolution that will separate one from the other.  The Middle East has now set fire and Israel must pursue military action against Iran to prohibit their realization of nuclear weapons capability.  The current projections are somewhere between six months and a year until Iran achieves this goal.  Do not let the media fool you nor the diplomatic attempts hypnotize you into false complacency, Biblical Moments of Truth have arrived.  The next steps surround the Arab nations wishing to take over Israel and having Jerusalem as the capital of their new islamic nation.  This will never happen despite their best attempts, or even due to overwhelming odds in their favor, because the Lord God shall give victory to the Jews.  Not because they deserve it for superior morality, good behavior or even intellectual ascendancy, but because He promised that He would protect them.  He after all is not finished with the Jewish Nation and although He may have turned His head away for them for an extended period, He shall never forget nor forsake His Covenant People.  God is after all Perfect Righteousness and Truth and it is against His nature to go back on a promise.  But lest we forget and paint Him with singular brushstrokes of Love, Kindness, Mercy and Grace.  He is all of these things but He is also Just and He hates “All Sin”.  He must and will deliver the Judgment, Justice and Punishment of “All Sin” for the entire mankind just as He promised.  Which side of history will you be found standing upon when the final curtain rises?  Choose Life, Choose God and find Him through the Forgiveness and Grace of Jesus Christ Our Lord.  Amen.

Participate in the nonsense or remain on the sidelines as the mockers and blockers throw pejorative hoping it will stick or somehow be perceived, cool or comedic.  The allure of good one-up-man-ship draws the worst from humanity, pleading come drown others with dung, mud and tar all the while making yourself appear the oracle.  We have exchanged real compromise for moments of microphoneya, we have sold our birthright for sour soup and greenery and we have sidestepped Truth by proclaiming ourselves uninvolved parading that tired excuse that we didn’t know God’s will for our lives.  None of it rings of honesty, something our grandmothers and founding fathers expected of us.  Freedom exercised unwisely is more costly than ignorance.

What have we become?  And when I say We I mean we, not me, or they, or the others who don’t happen to agree with my position or follow my stance.  Where is the common ground, for I see none?  Rather for fact I see people staking claims, ideologies and lines from which they will not depart, I see no attempt at commonality.  That has been replaced by deceptive bargaining leverage and perceptive marketing.  It matters less who leads than those who would be led.  History clearly demonstrates that population erect/elect the idols to which their hearts find loyalty.  An honest man could not prevail in these times for we ourselves refuse truth.  An unselfish woman could not bring us together for egalitarian purposes because we WANT, in all caps.  A humble youth could not capture the collective will of America’s passion as pride spreads like wildfire through the oaks of our future state.  We will have a tyrant because that is what it takes to lasso the unbridled.  We wish to be free but in that improper use of our passion, power and liberty we will be instead, broken for all the globe to review.

Heaven help us.  Father I cry out now for this land, its people, its water, grass and air.  Forgive us for wandering so deeply into the forest of self-reflection.  Let us return to simpler concepts of Lord, Family and Fealty.  Take from us this constant yearning for conquest and control.  Come be our King so that no earthly ruler puts us underfoot, subjecting all political foes to poverty.  We continue to muck the whole thing up with each passing century and now are hurling headlong to catastrophe.  Save us Lord as hate grows and our hearts ebb cold to grey ember.  Come soon Lord Jesus.  We need you so.  Amen

Do we have a concept of Peace in Israel?  Does imagination lend a vision of circumstances which would safely be deemed peaceful for the Holy Land and Jerusalem?  Do the parties wish for peace or is this just a concept injected into the conversation by well-wishers from afar?  How is it conceivable for this land which for millennium has not seen peace to somehow resolve its ageless differences and choose good will toward men as its mantra?  This land has been a contention because God said that it would be so in response to the disobedience of His chosen people and mankind.  There will be no peace in Jerusalem brought about by the negotiations of men.  In fact when “supposed” peace comes to Jerusalem for a short time it will be the greatest deception perpetrated upon humanity by the beast to come.  A man who will eventually consume all in his path especially those of the Hebrew Nation called the State of Israel.

Stop the rhetoric for Arab and Israeli people do not seek peace.  It is all we can do to hold back all out war at this point, for Israel as well as the entire region.  The Middle East is too  many old sticks of nitro-leaking dynamite become unstable by too many centralized power grabs by nation states seeking dominance over the Muslim, global revolution.  Even now the United States and its left leaning President seeks an influential role in the growing movement of Islam to submit the entire world to its inquisitional, version of faith.  His intentions may be undiscovered but his pellucid attempts evidence of ambition.

These are passionate people caught up in a war that is larger than themselves brought about by the plans of God before time had yet begun.  We are merely supporting characters playing out the parts for which our upbringing conformed us.  If not for foolish rhetoric and man’s ridiculous forms of philosophical conditioning we might have even grown to like one another from the outset.  So, the road to peace requires that we give up this false hope of peace between nations who want no part in such a peace.  The only peace this world will ever know will be brought about by the Lord Jesus when in His timing He returns to rule and reign.  Man will not stop the fighting, we don’t know any better.  Thinking that academics and diplomats will resolve what has been unresolvable for thousands of years is naivete.

Jesus is the Prince of Peace.  He will bring peace through justice, judgment and grace extended to a humanity out of love and sovereign grace.  Pray for peace in Jerusalem as the Lord commands us but know that this peace will only arrive through the return of Jesus Christ the Messiah of Israel, the Bridegroom of the Church, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.  Jehovah the God of All.  Praise God.

On this day when you have no obligations, to what are you feeling led?  I don’t mean emotionally, or just a pang of guilt, but to something that has nothing to do with personal gain.  The question put to myself in honesty will do tremendously to clarify my soul, “What did the Lord God design me to do for the furtherance of His Kingdom”?  Additionally, does the answer to such a dynamic question prompt action or just contemplation?

Execution is the missing component between; wins/losses, successes/failures, completions/plans.  We cannot simply be the best at planning, commentary and criticism, we must “get out on the road” two by two to become catalyst for movement and change.  We, the movers and the shakers of God’s Family, must break the capturing influences of friction and paralysis if we are ever to become over-comers.  Do not mistake that I mean anything will be achieved in my own authority, power and efficacy, but I must be willing to step out into the field of battle/building/reconstruction in order for God to work through me toward change.  He will use me where I am unless that place is on the couch for myself.

This world has no hold over Christians.  Fear is not our lot.  We need not be concerned about occurrences as war, pestilence, famine and death, for they have been stripped of all authority for God’s people.  Do not forget that the wars to come are firmly predicted and placed within God’s prophecy and plan for His World.  That’s right, this is His World and He will do with it as He sees right to do.  That is why it must be allowed to fester, decay and crumble, so that those who would seek salvation from the sinking ship will in that desperation CRY OUT to GOD.  I am thankful that I suffered enough pain, sin, hardship, defeat, disgust, shame and unfulfillment to drive me to the arms of the Lord.  That makes me no different than any of my suffering Brothers and Sisters, it merely gives me the greater drive, responsibility and accountability to show them to the LIGHT.  God be praised in the mighty name of Christ, Jesus.  satan’s days are numbered the Lord Jesus rebuke him on this coming Great Day of the Lord Father of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and me.

The day of the layman preacher has dawned.  The morning of the disciple, evangelist, standing on the promises of God has arrived.  A new sun has arisen where the fields are ripe for scythe and beckon harvest.  People are overwhelmed, frightened and softened by the rawness of the world’s onslaught, ready for a clear voice of reason, love and purpose.  Are you that ambassador prepared to lead them to the shelter of Almighty God through the blessings of grace and salvation by the Lord Jesus?

Number one, do you see the need?  If you cannot agree from the outset that this world is in desperation for the Savior then this conversation need proceed no further.  However, if you can rationally see that this world is in entropy, winding down toward the climactic return of Christ for His Church, Judgment upon the world and eternal reign then please offer your gifts to providing solace for the lost.  Isn’t that why anyone practices a discipline, with the hope that someday the opportunity will come about for which all the planning and sacrifice pays off?

Have you prepared yourself as a warrior, prince and priest?  Do you know who you are in Christ?  Are you firmly rooted in the promises of God and His prophecy for a world gone astray?  Are you well versed in the use of Sword and Armor?  Could you take back territory ceded to the enemy or yank back souls from  the precipice of Gehenna?  Are you secure in the knowledge of your salvation and that you have been sealed for eternity by the Holy Spirit?  Will you stand and be of good courage as the Lord fights for us in that moment when everything worldly tells you to despair?  I hear the roar of the Lion of Judah within you.  You feel as I do that our time is coming, the mockers of God shall be silenced and the Lord is soon to return for His people and His Throne.

Can you face this fight with stamina, because that is what it will take?  This will not be a victory of moments, but of overcoming testimonies delivered in faith against armies of the wicked.  There will be moments of sorrow, where loving daughters and sons of Christ and Israel will be taken from us, gone with the knowledge that they have stepped into the embrace of our Loving Father, God.  The Earth will be scorched, battered and blistered by pestilence, war, death and judgment, only to arise again remade by the Mighty Hand of Righteousness.  The enemy will throw all his fury at the innocent and undeserving out of hate for the Lord Jesus and those who call Him Lord.  But that is all the enemy will ever own in this world or the next is hate.  Hate destroys it cannot create, hate takes it cannot give, hate divides it cannot build.  The Lord Jesus  rebuke His enemy satan and all his minions regardless of principality, form or name.  There will only be victory in Jesus.  Who will live for Him?  You, I knew you would.  Bless you in the Awesome Name of Jesus Christ the King.  Amen.

Accepting that you are willing, the Lord will always bring you to the places, times and circumstances and give you opportunity to choose to perform your designated works.  What a mouthful and although it takes a fair amount of words to describe such conditions for doing good works, it really is rather simple.  God has work for You to do and your willingness dictates the frequency of opportunity.  Again today I was put in a situation that I could not have constructed and had to make the decision to get involved or be spectator.  The Lord is showing me, and I see clearly through these tears of joy that He has designed me with purpose in mind.

Please listen to my words of warning.  The time for Christian preparedness is upon us.  There is no longer wiggle room with regard to study, prayer and fellowship with the Father.  Clouds loom thick over yonder mountain and the storm is near.  Today, I had the distasteful experience of listening to a self-prescribed, “Progressive Catholic” Priest bantering harmoniously with New Age Mystics about their common bond of spirituality.  This Pastor, the head of non-traditional Catholic Church in town, misquoted Jesus to validate the new ager’s proposition that all roads lead to Heaven.  Then agreed merrily when these meta-physicists described that the tribulation will be the siege engines for the coming Golden Evolution.  I had remained silent hoping that this Priest would intervene, but it was apparent that he would do anything to have them show up at his mass, including collude with the enemy to twist the Word of God for his own purposes.

He was shocked when I said, “Pastor you know that scripture you just quoted ended with, those who obey my commands, right.  That Jesus only meant that for believers?”  He was dumbfounded that a bystander knew God’s Word.  Then his new friends came to his aid stating that Jesus was about love and that he came to show us a metaphor on how to live together.  Then I saw the hate in their eyes when I said, “Jesus clearly stated that He was the way the truth and the life and no one comes to Father but through Him.”  They had been undone by the two edged sword and immediately retreated to the darkness proclaiming me a “intolerant misinterpreter”.  I saw the Priest give them his card inviting the birds of the air to nest in the mustard tree and I walked away loving them but praying for God to intercede in their lives.

I did nothing in that meeting but decide to participate when the Lord gave me the chance.  He gave the opportunity, the voice, the memory, the words, the love and the prayer that I now say for them.  Holy Father, make Your light so shine in their hearts that the veil is dropped and their minds freed to see Your Blessed Truth.  Father, lead that shepherd’s misguided flock away from the influence of his deception and let them see his attempts to manipulate Your Faithful Word to his own requirements.  Father have mercy on them in this hour of their greatest need, but let me not weep one tear for them if they will not accept Your truth.  Father I pray for peace in Jerusalem this night Father, protect Your children.  Let them live to glorify Your Name on that Holy Mountain.  Defeat their enemies and let them see Your Hand of Love for them.  Praise You Lord Jesus, it appears that Your return is nearer than any once thought.  Amen.