Life’s Homage.

Remember the days when worry was your last concern? What is peace but that framework that sustains one’s mind in the moments of chaos or embraces the lack of same? To where do we proceed into an unhopeful future attained by ideals, philosophies and wishes of incumbent morality and the history of mankind? What have we produced as men that is so objectively rewarding? To what manner of elevated performance have we manifested those good things of man? What is the status of Peaceful mankind? As travesty walks, we applaud him in his orange apparel proclaiming him pedestal man, hero of a twisted nation?

Whose counsel have we accepted and inured? Our children have split, fractured or warped perspective born of sciences who know not yet how to bend space and time, yet are thoroughly ministered in defense of destroyed innocence. When have we proclaimed ourselves beyond introspection, criticism and truthful comparison to the things of this dimension? When do the laws of physics fail in application to the geography and gravity of this worlds’ subject? To what have we esteemed? To what objective do we attend? To what fanciful reason do we apply our thinking if it fails to match the wisdom in God’s Word, history and empirical truth?

I hold in mind the giggles of children unrestrained and unmolested by the brutalities of men’s mind. What is their purpose in this world and do they serve the Creator’s Glory or the machinations of bullies in subjection to cruelty? What is the reason for our birth? Is it to serve as progeny to parent or as link through a history intent on elevation of thought and action? What have we demonstrated in our applied theory of man’s greater gifting? I see no regard to self reflection. No attendance or precise measuring of efficacy versus idea. No accountability for submitted theory that should never have been considered for the probability or possibility of law. We have failed miserably at holding ourselves up to the light by which all should be defined. Who are we if not considered in our production versus our design? A watch that imperfect records time is of spurious worth at best.

We shall not be accounted in history by our failure to feed men’s lusting. Au contraire that inability to please men in their wickedness, shall in fact be our regard. How pleasing are my pursuits to God? How rewarding my actions to the protection of those things righteous and favorable to furtherance of man’s health, purity and growth? We have long pursued and arguably achieved the skewed intentions of mankind having found sinful wounding in our short lived existence. Our response when given freedom has always been to consume that which is lovely, merciful and by real measure, perfect. When to this reason and reality will we pay homage due? and time worthy of the living?

Intention

Precious Lord may your name be praised in all that I think, say and do. I am grateful for this inevitable conflict helping all determine the true nature of their occupation in this created world. May each of us make a clear decision between the light and dark in allotted time so that our power, privilege and gift is not rejected by non-compliance in misunderstanding and failed reason. May the innocent be protected and preserved under your Divine intervention. May I be steeped in experience of using the power given unto me to represent your Glorious Will as we wait for your return. Lord, it is clear to me that you love all so much that you want none be left behind. My heart goes out to you in prayer that they receive the adequate and sufficient prompting to awaken to the invitation you’ve given each of us.

It is not logical nor effective in any manner to look away from my own recuperative transition via your hand of sanctification. To exclude myself from working out my salvation with the focus and clarity of self-reflection and supplication your word demands is prideful at best. There would be no love in a man who believes himself beyond reproach, having determined himself someone completed against the evidence of remaining in this dimension. When God is done with each of us we will go to be with Him, not before or after but precisely at His perfect timing. That gives us rest as well as clarity in focus of humility before God’s changing hand. For we know equally that we shall not be removed until it is His Timing which gives us courage in the knowledge of our unresolved position in the dangers of humanity and chaos.

This is the stage, the mudpit, the valley of my work for you. Thank you for allowing me to step away from the capture of my own will and begin, remain in those works for which I was designed to prepare the fields and byways of this life for your return. There is no completion in self focused effort but only validation and the mark of temporary existence. I crave the eternal, those things that allow me to do lasting and vital works for your Kingdom, not my own. I am so sorry that I have learned slowly and adapted poorly to the level to which I am meant. Clearly the objective is to be transformed to someone who is clearly your Kin and in that effort I know it impossible to my own talents or abilities. Again, this joy to know that it is not dependent upon my own effort but in trust and patience waiting upon your molding of my new nature. Just as the seed is the house into which is programmed the coming flower or plant, I know this mortal man to be home of the same internal programming. Lord let me be completely at rest and content in being the home of your Holy Spirit as you live your life through my existence in this plane. For that is the only way I will achieve or embrace the impossible that only you alone may do.

All that I do matters but not as achievement or works to earn my entry to everlasting for that has already been achieved by you upon that Cross as I believed. No this life is so much more important than just working to be good enough or make a mark, this life is now about representation of the Great King of All and His plan for humanity. With this new life I focus upon the people not the things, the titles or the personal victories but upon the treasures of humanity I meet each day and offer the Love you gave me. This is the purpose of my making to meet, greet, share, love and edify each of those you love until they too find that moment of their decision and road forward. I pray to be that positive influence upon all that I meet. I ask forgiveness for the mistakes I continue and invariably shall make along the path you lead. And I beg you to fill me to exactly the level necessary to achieve your objectives for this life. Keep me close Father for when I venture wrong thinking and works ensue. My mistakes are regretted on for missed opportunities for your outcomes. Please let me get it right this time. In Jesus name, this is the hour of my intention

Arrival

When time efficiently displays the presence of perfect opportunity, we have been blessed with the pregnant moment to make our own history. In my illusion I walk through life oblivious of my intentions, arguments, planning or preparation, thoroughly expecting to have brilliance and plenty drop from the sky before me, with a personal note to me attached. How frail is my constitution that I scrape barrel’s bottom seeking character to take some measure of commitment to God, Family and Country or Globe, yet will spend nearly 24 hours per day seeking the objects of my desire. What then is the label appropriate for my generation? Certainly not selfless, volunteer, careful about nothing in effort to protect and feed the innocent and vulnerable. It is clear Jesus was speaking of me when he said wicked.

All those falsely representing God have no love for those they deem unworthy. I must repeatedly hold back the bile in my throat when hearing how they view the people yet to find or make a decision for or against Christ. How may any disciple reach those of the children of disobedience without the Spirit sponsoring their own transformation from the hateful, judgmental human they claim has expired with Christ Jesus. I do not know who is saved. Surely, I look for the fruits of the Spirit, or Clouds without rain, but a clear indication of something askew is the absence of love. For Love is the first Premise of salvation. God’s Love for the World and our extension of the unconditional love for those yet to become part of His Adopted Family. To be in this time is to accept the need for extraordinary understanding, patience, long-suffering and gentility. Unfortunately, those things that we as humans are in scant supply. That is the demand for the Holy Spirit to accomplish these impossible tasks.

Everyone thinks they are the Church of Philadelphia, pious, on fire and true to God’s design for their lives, obedient to a fault. But that doesn’t mesh with the real human I know myself to be, reluctant, afraid, guaranteed selfish with God’s direction, chastisement and transforming sanctification. You mean to tell me that everyone who does a couple hours a week of focus upon God is On Fire for Christ. We must all either be totally self-deceiving, or we have such a limited scope of what it means to align ourselves in tandem with God’s Holy Spirit. Most I know barely hear God, barely study God’s Word and if I am any example, I know that I never pray enough, study enough, disciple enough and I certainly never give God either Worship He deserves or ALL OF ME. Taking this into account and performing that reckoning with God’s view versus my own, I am forced to recognize I am surely of that Wicked Generation.

What then is the Sign given to Jonas in Matthew 16:4 and since I am the one looking for signs and that is all I will be given shouldn’t I clearly know and understand that implication? I will arrive when my plans are consistently developed after focus upon God’s Plan, His Word, His Spirit, sprinkled with a bit of my own discernment using His Tools of that Holy Spirit. I couldn’t save myself, forgive myself, know God, Love Him, be cleansed, be righteous or be everlasting of my own accord. What oddity of transformation makes Chistian’s somehow become self-righteous in their own lack of piety following an induction in the Christian Hall of Fame? I don’t know how many people will be saved, I simply assume that God’s loves everyone so much He wants me to love them all. I know my own mind. I don’t know God’s, but I know that I can trust His and if left to lean on my own understanding that I will find fault with everyone else and reward myself with perfection. Thank goodness I am not in charge, I can barely convince myself of my own wickedness. Thank God He laid it our clearly before me or I would have never cried out for salvation. Going into Christianity forgetting how bad I was is a recipe for failure at Christianity.

Indefensible

Is it love to be filled up by my yearning your missing piece in my design? Or is love a gift received in kind to be offered back the same to one who loves me? I am complete having been given love when I least deserved it and better yet the forgiveness for that moment I occupied. I do not receive love out of a demand or yearning but as answer for the natural hope of all men to be with and adore humans. I cannot love you the same as I love my God for He is the one who made each of us. There is no greater love and no way to demonstrate such love without obedience and faith.

Perhaps the greatest gift of obedience is the denial of the love of those with whom I would find comfort and rescue from the sacrifice of Kingdom Work. Yet, that makes no sense as God does not want sacrifice but obedience so love should not be forsaken when found. It is in the yearning and drive to fulfill my own will which acts as obstacle to God’s Holy Work. When Love is right it is with someone equally in love with God and determined to join with another to serve Him perfectly.

Giving of self and unconditional love to those God loves is the greatest gift I may offer the Lord in obedience. Overlooking their circumstance, growth level or piety when offering love is how He views each of us. This may never be translated to mean that He is then condoning the wicked thinking and behavior at the time of offering. No, on the contrary, men of power in the Church Administration will seek to build these false gospel loop holes that they may manipulate these false plateaus or rules to their own aggrandizement.

For example, The Ecumenical Counsel of Churches was present at the Council of Nicea in 324AD when the Catholic Church became a merger of; The Pontifex Maximus (Constantine’s Title) Pagan faithful, the Christians having been invited to eat at the King’s Table and the Askenazi Jews formed in 321AD. Why was there a council of churches making decisions for the Church when Christ alone is head? Why was this same counsel present at the 1893 World Exposition of Columbia in Chicago discussing the formation of a one world church, then again instrumental in completing the formation in 1993, one hundred years later?

We must be careful that those elements of this world will always seek to insert themselves between the People and God, even knowing that the veil was torn forever when Jesus died on the Cross. We must be sober in love to offer it that none many interfere in this perfect expression of our likeness to God. Love is indefensible, a most powerful weapon as with faith is hated by all God’s Enemies seeking foothold to intervene. We therefore must offer love in purity and communion with God’s Holy Spirit, not born of emotional compelling or lust as these catalysts are trojan horse for worldliness and separation.

I do not yearn for this world but for God. I do not yearn to be with my Brethren but am joint heirs of the power God has given that we may be ambassadors of Christ. My Love for them is a kinship born of our desire to be with and like God. We are unified in His Glory and Love a gift that transcends the offerings of this world. Yes, I dream of love and adoration as the imaginations of my heart, but the heart is desperately wicked and God says that He alone knows it. I offer the Love of God to all, those who accept find Him and then may choose to return the gift He allowed me in offering. But free will bids that it is always choice as nothing happens without first being decided. That is freedom and accountability in one. For none may claim excuse having made themselves a recipient of God’s Love and a regifter of the same.

Truth

Are my deliverables consistent with my intention, my review of the outcomes and above all achieving what God wants through my gifting, efforts and time? Do people see the Spiritual Objectives in God’s read or studied Word? Is what I am doing consistent with what God commands me to produce or am I viewing it through a lens of my own projection? Are people ready for God’s timing, steady in their identity and prepared to take action when God’s timing is indicated? Do they all understand the Lamp Filling of the Oil of the Holy Spirit and are they mindful/urgent in watching for God’s arrival? Should I care if people do not view me in powerful light when all God’s objectives are being fulfilled?

What have I left behind, what have I undertaken, who is critical of my best efforts especially when they have an alternative or differing view of intentions and outcomes when polled? What has God told me to do and are the concerns of those in the Body overriding what God’s has commanded as they are emotionally cautious of the dangers to my person or my comfort? Do I owe a duty to those of Christ’s Body to appear blessed and fully cared for when the commands God has given lead me into battle scenarios where comfort is unexpected at best? Can I be true to the will of my family/friends when it is incongruent, inconsistent or in direct contention with God’s Direction?

Am I worried that people will not achieve God’s objectives knowing fully that all will be provided for, taught and guided by His Perfect Spirit? If so, what is the origin of the doubt in God’s promise? Is this unbelief or simply not knowing or respecting God’s Fully? Am I working my own salvation in fear and trembling as God directs or am I more concerned about how other people view that salvation in strength to sponsor their growth? Who am I dependent on Self or Spirit? How am I denying, Quenching or inhibiting/promoting the Holy Spirit’s power in my walk?

Have I become what God intended me to be? Is the Spirit’s transformation evident and are the changes that have been made consistent with evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Fruit in every undertaking? Are people investing in the ministry out of free will, a sense of belonging or a joy of giving to what God is doing through each of them? Do the men lead as God commanded and designed them? Are the women encouragers, confident and consistent in their relationships with God, their Families and the Body? Are body members employing all their heart mind soul and strength in love for God to see His objectives fulfilled through them and all around them? Are the body members confident disciples for Christ who accept and believe upon the Power of Spirit to do the impossible through them? Are the ministry objectives the Holy Spirit’s objectives or are they human contrived and powered efforts to do what they think they should be doing? Are changes made when the Holy Spirit directs or ignored to quench him back into silence?

What is the world doing in this body? Are they joining or keeping distance, knowing fully that infiltration would be extremely difficult without maturity, relationship and authentic Grace? Are those who have yet to decide seeking out members of this body or vise versa? What ministry efforts are being undertaken and are they sponsored by voluntary desire to please and not displease the Father? How are the marriages in the body? Do they reflect a mature agreement to live by the Word of God? Are people seeking trials in joy or are they musing about the circumstances, pitfalls and dangers of the life they are leading in the world? Do they feel grateful to be challenged or do they feel victim? Is evidence of their salvation clear as well as the joyful desire to seek the next thing God has in store for them? Are they tired or filled with joy and excitement for the Glorious Appearing? Are they looking forward and readying themselves and their family for Christ’s return?

Is the faithful gathering of all that is in Christ Jesus the main focus of every willing heart? Are we believing especially when it is nearly impossible to see the path forward through the chaos and maelstrom of this world? Are we believing in, seeking and achieving the impossible through the Spirit’s use of each of us and the body as Ambassador’s? What is changing around us especially when we are out of energy, talent and treasure? Is God using us to do the impossible things because we believe that He will? Is my Family and the world gravitating even in a concealed fashion to what is being said in this body, seeing something truly peculiar and attractive? Are they turned off by what is going on? If Christ told us we had six months’ time left, would we use every moment for His Kingdom or make excuses to Him at our meeting? How many of this body will be glad to stand in front of Jesus giving account and how many will dread it? How many look forward to being humble with Jesus and how many want to extend their worldly existence?

The Basis

Discounting the elements of change that I have to offer this transformative world. This is not my show, however I as everyone else am a contributing member of this creation God has given. Do not be fooled by those who would have us silent. Hearing each opinion, each of us grappling with the wrestling match of the world’s shaping, is frankly the purpose of those who would share love. Each heart, every mind, even those we find repugnant matter to the Maker. Therefore, to love as He has loved us requires, demands the capacity to subjugate our own bias/prejudice in order to offer love and grace to all.

Most would have me war against those I find distasteful, pronouncing them beyond God’s offering of Hope and rebirth. That however denies the Promises of a God and His Word which state that He is no respecter of persons, finding all the same in the Love of a Fair, forgiving Father. Denying myself forces me to let go of my own muses, misgivings, grudges and color commentary on people groups to see all through the same eyes of God’s Will for Humanity. This is freedom through service to a God and His commandments, direction and imagination which is forever greater than my own.

This realization and the incumbent influences upon my heart demand that I also maintain and improve my capacity to see that each has perspective. That individual framing and parameters of “Reality” mold, guide and unfortunately limit the liberty to see things in a new or different focus. Often searching hearts, listening to testimony offers the only avenue to understanding a particular focus so that it may deliver insight and subsequent opportunity for counsel or assistance. I cannot go into a conversation with predetermined actions or expectations for in so doing I am limiting my own capacity to see each unique situation and hear from God the answers to those often rare, unexpected influences.

This is the Power of God in the Body of Christ; That we are made safe in His imputed Righteous, Hope, Peace, salvation, Truth and Word. Being courageous often depends fully upon the ability or perceived capacity to weather the storm or stand the onslaught of enemy artillery. In Christ we find more than this. We not only may stand in Good Courage, knowing ourselves impervious to enemy approach, we find within us His Holy Spirit that Created all things, knows all things and controls/has defeated any of the enemies against whom we are expected or volunteer to stand. There is NOTHING outside of God’s Scope of understanding, authority, precognition and Dominion. Mankind losing the imputed authority given to Adam and lost by him and Eve, was not a disaster for God but the exact opportunity through which to inject His Son for our salvation.

Without Friction there is no polished result. Without calamity there is no cry to God for assistance, deliverance and salvation. Without Conflict there is no discussion to resolve the internal differences or resolve potential difficulties. Without Hope there is no increase of Faith and without Faith there is no Trust or Love for God. Without Death there can be no reward of Eternal Life. Having had its power removed governing the lives of men who accept Grace, we find its overcoming. It is natural in these understandings to rest upon the differences of perspective as the progenitors or influences of Choice. Knowing that each person will invariably choose based upon their belief, we must leave space, range and patience of time/reflection for them to embrace upon the consequence of that choice. May God receive all Glory, Honor, Worship and Fealty for each decision made or counsel offered. In Jesus Name, the basis of My Hope.

Loosed

Hurling across the universe at a parsec beyond light. Always thought I’d win the war but never had to fight. Sped headlong toward eternity, facing mercy armed with grace. The joy of daily troubles forgotten in this endless space.

The pious and the chastened are stretched beyond retort. The enemies poke fun at me as if only meant in sport. Wiggling room and cleverness, forgotten with the shame. Often well convicted riven by the endless shame.

Fear a non-contender having been left upon the pier. The whisper once forgotten got a grip of my inner ear. The atrocious and the savory envisaged in one mind. Never failed to come upon the things I was meant to find.

Lost in my surrender, left behind with me. From prison and poor thinking, invariably set free. Contained in understanding, remiss in mischief’s plight. A pinhole of bright wonder sliced through embrace of silken night.

Leave me to judicious rhymes and rhetoric of hope. The artist and the barrister argue legality and scope. If you would be where we were meant to be supposedly in fate. Just in time for love opined to be fueled beyond the hate.

Sacrifice superficial and obedience forgot. We had to dust up principles and offer the whole lot. Seldom experimental and challenged by ideas. To traipse across the vacuum propelled and fostered by fair seas.

The Gap

Does Dastardly begin within my own heart? Do the resounding arms of evil move through my best intention, self-justifying to keep myself free from the weight of causality? Am I my and the worlds’ worst enemy? Am I the ticking time bomb of prideful discoloration as my perspective paints all in swaths of red, black, yellow and gray? These are not the times to stand the field of battle only to fall upon unsheathed sword of personal power and protection. These are the days of fealty, faith and predicaments in power beyond my own capacity.

I have tasted the despicable nature of my own heart’s desirous implication. Calculating all effect within parameters of my own fulfillment, taking careful disregard of the need of those around me. That having been stated, there is freedom to be found when finding liberty outside the boxes of self-service and rebellion. The confidence of knowing the voice that is followed belongs to the one who gave us life, sets those in that understanding apart from the animalistic or brute beast proclivities of mankind. The difficulty then resides in not judging them from action’s potential, but by fruits delivered.

I have seen war and the unsavory cravings of man to feed upon the innocent in a quest of consummation. Evil is no surprise though its flippant treatment of the precious will shock those finding creation a gifting. I will not stand by in the allowance of torture of the innocent, feeble or to those of measured years. We must make statements in our choices and defending life is the greatest of these offerings. What is a man who allows the precious spongelike nature of youthful exuberance to become prostitute in observance? What is a man who collects regret instead of standing against the usurpations of wickedness?

When do my paragraphs, descriptions, explanations and definitions stop beginning with I? Where are the origins of my thinking if not emanating and perpetuating the hungers of my own aggrandizement? What is transformation when held outside ideology, rather consistent with doctrine and mystical, miracle of superior reprogramming? How did I get here if I was incapable of defining or getting here in the first place? Realization is something beyond self. The Palpable understanding of mysteries beyond conjugation. What then is grace when held through insufficient perspective or outside the field of cognition? It is parable without requisite insight.

The ticking clock

No time for relaxation, the subject being love. Work to tell the story how once is not enough. When rhyme isn’t reason and time escapes the season. Too far round the corner to see where we’ve started and find out together, we’re all broken hearted. In peace play the marches where the battle once started. And dreams taught us laughter to feed ever after to the sound of hearts beating in tandem through time.

Words our element, speech being temporary explanation, betrayal inevitable. When rhyme and time mismatched leave us breathless and alone. Cold, granular to the bone. In the heart of esteem, we scream for fear of laughter at moment’s pause. The clause repeats as the sand defeats all aspects of morally challenged crimes. When education drops dimes on wisdom resolve dismembered.

Brief accolade, shadows fade into the occlusion. An illusion to pray false memories from a dope who can’t cope. The scope and depth so precise it’s nice to wander randomly slow. The snow is swept aside as the white adorned bride, with nothing to hide from the groom at her side. Above the chasm of unrequited love, a lonesome, powerful dove alighting upon the shoulder for who time was formed. Stormed onto scene and dimension with millennial intention. We dreamt unkempt with clothes misaligned in the foyer we dined never failing to angle our laces with no social graces and smirks on our faces. Peace begets us as it forces the age to forget.

Honorable mention, inclining our souls to the drops of omnipotent meanderings. As if any or many may dabble in rabble and babble cadabra. Doors slung wide revealing the promise and pain deep inside. The halls of forgotten whispers filled with lispers and saints free of restraints. The mosaic it paints in swath on the floor depicting the poor and monarch entombed by quick hardened stone, left alone underground our thoughts rithe in question which of us was found?

Steadfast

There is no greater requirement for trust then consistency. For men to anticipate and rely upon a person’s character it is not charm, mercy or strength that they seek, but enduring reliability. That is why in our duty as men and the observance of Faith that the Holy Spirit is always referred to as Earnest or Steadfast. For the quality of a Good Shepherd or King depends specifically upon the surety and certainty of performance during crucial moments. That knowledge and dependence may never waver if a man, King or Troop are to observe the confidence of men beneath them or in service and reliance upon promise of such participation. We will never trust that which does not support our weakness during time of trial.

In my walk this characteristic most closely aligns me with the Work of the Holy Spirit. For people look to a shepherd, their shepherd for defense, provision, protection and direction primarily when decisions must be made or obstacles traversed. There is no more damaging plunge of personal reliance then to be found missing when needs arise. Thus, to begin in our pursuit of mirror likeness to God we must become absolutely reliable to those who deem us Trustworthy. Failure to perform or even be found accountability in time of trial will damage the fragile and squeamish dependence of people upon their shepherd, master or defensive Marshal.

Why is the Holy Spirit so filled with Power? It is that steadfast nature of God’s Spirit that makes it so incredibly powerful. Never an excuse, never an absence, never an unfulfilled promise, direction or supply. Faithful beyond our personal expectation, the Holy Spirit is so tremendously steadfast that He exceeds all expectation and arrives precisely on time, often arriving in anticipation of difficulty or need. He is the guarantee of our Rebirth in Christ, the sign and seal of our salvation, the physical manifestation of Promises Made by God through Christ Jesus. A certain, sure, faithful Spirit who never fails, is never late and most often exceeds any reasonable expectation of sheep and fold.

Anticipate questions to my anointed authority. For all must make a choice as to whom they trust and obey. That choice is the rudiment of rebellion to the Word, Promise and direction from the King. His desire alone matters. A shepherd, privileged to speak that Word or offer assistance is offering that same assistance of the Holy Spirit as if originating from source. Speaking slowly in Wisdom, given by God a man of God shall not find upset in the refusal of his offering. God alone is judge, but rebellion to the anointed is aimed at God’s Messenger and all things are in God’s Domain. Do not offer off hand slander, praise or curse believing that it shall not come before inspection of God.

Being consistent in content and delivery manifests trust within the Faithful heart. Living in consideration and review of all mannerisms and performance through similitude and likeness to Almighty allows a certain leeway and lack of doubt. One walking in the Will of God fully apprised of the convictions or commendations of the Holy Spirit, may walk in such a way as to know His Righteousness. When walking in such a way as to welcome fear and trembling at the Awesome Hand of God, we may rest assured in cooperation with His Will. Those who refuse to recognize the messenger bearing the righteous message, not opinion, false doctrine or mockery of the King ought to heed that message. But all remains Choice in the Love and Grace of God’s salvation for mankind. Even the devout believer may walk away from God, quenching the Holy Spirit in blasphemy and shame, for it was freely offered and accepted.

If a stone or tree spoke the Correct Gospel to passer’s bye. Would that tree or stone be disrespected or cherished? Would those vessels of God’s Merciful Word be resisted or accepted immediately as the miracles they appeared? Who feared the rage of the King for the prophets yet Killed and martyred? Why then do we doubt the men God has sent for our provision and encouragement. Yes, test the Spirits, yes be Barean and search the Word to measure that veracity. But do not disrespect or stone the messenger’s of Christ’s Gospel simply because you have the spirit of rebellion residing deep with your wounded heart. Certainly if false they must be called out and avoided, but the True, imbued by the righteousness of God ought be held in close regard as servants of the King. In Jesus name.