Must I struggle in my prayers for this nation?  Must I temper my prayers for the return of our Constitutional Republic fully knowing that the Bible describes the eventuality of a one world government, religion and commercial system?  Am I to struggle in the belief and reliance upon 2 Chronicles 7:14, knowing that if God heals our land it will probably be turned fallow at some point as indicated in revelation?  I do not know necessarily how God is going to resolve this apparent logical conflict.  What I do know is that the Lord’s Promises and Word are inerrant and entirely reliable.

How then am I determined to modify my prayer life steeped in the knowledge of this apparent incongruity? Are both things possible?  Are they mutually exclusive or can they both come about in the time remaining?  Well considering no one knows the day or the hour of God’s return, I would have to say we don’t know how much remaining time is in fact remaining.  But back to the question Gertrude.  I am praying for the healing of this country, that we might turn from our wicked ways, repentant and forgiven, humbled before God’s outstretched arms welcomed back into his embrace and turning his face back to our country to heal this land.  I am also preparing for the eventuality that this world and those who do not serve the Lord want a one world government, religion and commerce.  You know it, I know it and God most certainly knows it.  We have always been foolish and when the Jews wanted a King instead of God he gave them a King and they regretted it.

Look we have prayed to God that he might hear our voices and extend the opportunity to us as a nation.  A nation, that had begun committed to him yet over the years has turned its face and its heart away from God serving their own lustful desires of greed and sensory fulfillment.  This is truth, you know it and so does everyone else.  This opportunity requires that as God hears our prayer we must in our humility of his attention turn from our wicked ways to evoke the next promise which is to receive again his face toward our nation and the subsequent healing. Are we?  Are we turning from our wicked ways, humbled by the opportunity to save our land, fearing God and his wrath if we are found to be a nation of wicked people serving the enemy?  I will leave that to you to determine.  I bet you can guess my opinion.  Nineveh repented, though according to Jonah they were so wicked they did not deserve salvation or reprieve.  They fasted, prayed, threw ash on themselves and wore sack cloth to escape God’s Wrath.  Do you see anything resembling this type of humility and fear in our country?

What if we were given this time that all people might inspect themselves and make a decision for or against Christ?  What if this Constitutional Republic is won back as answer to prayer by Christians only to have the Christians raptured out to be with Christ? What happens to this nation without those of us praying to God’s for its healing? What happens to this nation without the restraining Spirit that is holding back the Spirit of Anti-Christ? What happens when suddenly all the Christians who love living free in a capitalist society, blessed by the hand of God are suddenly gone?

Well perhaps there is no struggle here.  I continue to pray for the healing of our land, humbling myself, repenting and asking God to spare us and bless us once again.  I continue to pray that the rest of the people in this nation find the same fearful, humility.  I continue to pray against the Spirit of Anti-Christ, restraining its ugly head from emerging.  I continue to pray that all those who have an ear to hear make a decision for Christ and are found ready when he comes. I continue to pray that the Lord give me the endurance to face what must be done before he comes to snatch me from this place.  But I also pray Maranatha Lord, Living for You is Christ but I miss you and will welcome that Glorious day when I am to be with you forever.  No Struggle, all is as it should be in God’s Will, God’s Timing and firmly held within his unbreakable grasp.  In Jesus’ Name.

Predicaments. My mind would have me be victim to the supposedly random impacts upon my day.  The truth is my mind in this manner is being used against me, to slow me, disengage, paralyze or refocus me toward concentration upon the events not the storyline.  This is a war, which may seem a word containing too much contextual drama that you are likely to turn off the ideas expressed hereafter.  But if you are willing to venture this explanation then read on and my prayers are this segments alleviates some of the gravity holding back from jumping sky high in your rejoicing.

Things. They happen, they come at you, they may even appear to follow a pattern consistent with the narrative played out in my mind’s attempt to become victim.  Since, I am awakened to the battle plans of God’s enemies with regard to each and every soldier for the Lord.  I must then understand and make record of every item, battle implement, strategic manipulation and tactical advantage that may be employed or exploited by a very clever enemy.  Since the enemy knows that I am prone to be disinformed, misled by rumor, heckling or emotive involvement that must be recorded as an avenue form which the enemy may render me less than useful.  This should immediately begin to set off teaching alarm bells  2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Thoughts. Often we may look no further into the power of the words used in the living Word of God’s Direction, but that is leaving useful content on the table when leaving for battle.  So let us remember the potency, the power and the depth of the contracted phrase “strong hold”.  This is often passed over when it need be thoroughly investigated. An enemy stronghold in our own thinking is a frightening concept.  This is a defensible embattlement designed from which to launch campaigns and repel any assaults.  In this case we are admonished to remember that our weaponry is not carnal, therefore it is spiritual and not flesh, like our fists, our feet or our emotions.  Our spiritual weaponry for that matter allows us to repel or disengage enemy embattlements that have set themselves up in our thinking by taking captive the thoughts of our own minds.  So, doesn’t that give you strength to know that you have the power, the authority and the means to defend your mind from these angled assaults against your efficacy?

Now that we have acknowledged several things; that the enemy will attack our thinking in an effort to set up embattlements from which to launch attacks on our attitude and render us less useful to the kingdom and subsequently our family and friends, and praise be to God we have the spiritual weaponry requisite to repelling these assaults dismantling or destroying these strongholds and building our own joyous parapets from which to engage the enemy in spiritual battle ourselves.  So we no longer may fall pray to the victimization ploy engaged by our enemies.  We now have the authority and the power to take our own thoughts captive that they not be hijacked and utilized to weaken us by the very enemies we thought to mount defenses against.  And finally that we may reflect upon all that is good, right, true and uplifting employing our own spiritual weaponry to fill our minds with positive thinking that we might be MORE effective rather than the original intention.  Philippians 4:8 teaches, Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

This is the power of predicaments, thoughts and things from which we become mature and effective driven by the mystery of Christ’s love and Holy Spirit indwelling to take the battle to the enemy rather than be side lined.  Rejoice for there is in this knowledge the true reason for that joy.  We have never been losers simply immature, misunderstanding our position of authority over all things, thoughts and enemy strong holds that may have appeared to inject palsy in to our lives.  Be set free from these predicaments and be renewed in the power, peace, love, authority and fellowship of the Love and Unity of God’s Holy Spirit living and empowering us from within.  And Pray, for this is the ultimate power against which nothing may stand, access to the Father through Faith in Christ.  He shall not be moved, but all things must answer to His Word.  In Jesus’ Name.

Is it reasonable to assume that a person could read the Bible, become familiar with God’s provided recounting of the history of the Earth, and simply choose to believe?  Is it believable that a God who has the power, knowledge outside of time’s constraint and Love necessary to create a species with the capacity to both get themselves into inescapable predicaments and accept the loving avenue given them to be freed of that confinement?  Would it be necessary in order to provide the insight, intelligence and experience necessary to developing the faith necessary to making such a choice to provide a historical set of tales, proofs and promises familiarizing man with His character?  Then taking all these reasonable statements in the affirmative why then are people perplexed, surprised or incapable of utilizing the Bible in order to make those important determinations for themselves?

Simple set of options in answering this interrogative; we don’t care, we don’t want to know, didn’t know or perhaps the enemies who neither want us to know God nor to perhaps make a decision to side with him desire to dissuade us from its uses.  Okay, some may not care, but it is pretty obvious that most people truly do have concern for their families and lives as the world becomes problematic.  We may not wish to know because having known enough about it to determine that it will require self sacrifice or the loss of our current self-determinism, it may be something we wish to avoid fully comprehending.  We may have suddenly become aware of this reasonable set of circumstances and now stand in that rare predicament of having to make a choice going forward.  Or the arch angel who currently rules here has done everything that he can to discredit, keep us out of and confound, complicate or twist God’s Word in ways that deprive or dissuade us from seeking our own understanding of its promise.  Whichever description aptly describes your current situation, I want you to know that God loves you and has given us the Bible that we might know Him and understand that He is waiting for each of us to make that fateful decision that will determine our eternity and our purposeful fulfillment on Earth.

Now the last obvious option is to choose to turn down God’s offer of salvation and thus choose a fate of spending eternity separated from his love, those who you loved and suffering for eternity in a lake of fire with the rest of those rebelling against God.  Now no one would choose that option would they, well if you’ve read the Bible you will know the horrible truth that many actually will choose to go to hell, though it was a place designed specifically for satan and his angels.  Yes, I said it, men were never meant to go there, they choose to go there, by turning down God’s offered salvation.  So, even those who turn down that offer and choose hell must have the necessary information to make that informed choice.  Well the only place to become sufficiently educated to making that choice is in the Bible.  I pray that you choose God, but I know the Bible well enough that many, even many that I know and love or loved will choose hell.  So at least learn the Bible that you might make an informed decision.  Perhaps if by reading it you may have your minds changed into accepting his offer of salvation and grace.  Then I will be doing my happy dance for that is the purpose for which I was sent in to your life.  May God be praised, may you get to know him personally through His Word, prayer and Spirit and may we spend eternity together enjoying the blessings of God.  In Jesus’ Name.

I will believe in spite of circumstantial evidence contrary to God’s Promises. Those are the underpinnings of faith, the seed from whence shall grow a mighty Tree, so bountiful the enemy will even seek to infiltrate its splendor.  Let’s be practical in our faith.  Reason dictates that God is omnipresent, so He is everywhere.  Therefore, He could dispel all doubt and stand in front of us right now, proving his involvement in humanity, that we might no longer need to fight the competing influences of doubt and belief.  Why then doesn’t he just do that and have it done?  Aha, because we are meant to experience that conflict because it is the only appropriate method through which Choice may allocate a portion of either ideal.

We can only have faith having not seen the hope of our hearts.  For that matter we can only have doubt, having never physically seen God before our own eyes, utilizing our own sensory recognition.  So, He cannot appear for that natural process of Choice to occur.  There cannot be accountability without Choice.  So we are left to the perfect opportunity to make that self determination with the provided knowledge.  Choose Christ or don’t it is up to each of us.

Okay what if I were to remind people that He already appeared right before human eyes, proving His existence, involvement and a love for us that took Him beyond death to resurrection.  What did that appearance create?  Well it created exactly the division of ideals to which I have previously referred, the Choice.  Eye witnesses penned the new testament, yet we still find that most have chosen doubt or disbelief, why because faith is difficult.  It requires that intangible component of HOPE.  Those with a Thomas-like, show-me mentality will need to see his wounds, his physical manifestation in order to make that choice.  Unfortunately they are going to be left behind to ponder that mistake in reasoning and hopeful determination.

Christ appeared in front of us.  God came to Earth for the purpose of showing us His Love and yet we still struggle with doubt and disbelief.  What does that tell us that even in the face of physical proof we are still going to struggle with our faith?  Aha, now you see why faith is the tiny seed from whence grand things of power are made manifest.  For without it we cannot even imagine completing the tasks to which we were designed and called. Faith is the on switch to our purposeful fulfillment and the avenue to the Power of the Holy Spirit, with it we may move mountains without it it is impossible to please God. Do you have that tiniest of seeds.  Care for it, pray over it, tend it, weed it, feed it and soon you will have a masterfully full set of bows from which to view this universe.  I pray for you in Jesus’ Name.

When we started playing it was simply discordant, such that I knew we need take a step back ward to discuss the rules of engagement.  There is obvious misunderstanding and need for clarification.  Now hearing your agenda, I must question if we will perhaps ever be in harmony, for your objective is one of your own and mine the Lord’s alone. Please forgive me in the mistaken misunderstanding, I should always take the up front time to clarify from which book, sheet and score we are going to play.

Don’t be upset, unless perhaps you were looking at me as a beast of burden, a mule to carry the package of your agenda to some distant location.  For I am already a beast of burden for the Lord, having his light yoke upon my shoulders, pulling the plow through the fields of his bidding.  Since yours is an objective of self, I will consult the Lord in prayer to see if there is a way or even if I should be playing a supporting role, but as to carrying the burden you had mentally placed upon me, that ain’t gonna happen.  This show may be slow, boring and going nowhere fast, but it is going somewhere and that somewhere is the destination to which the Lord is leading me.  Please do not assume that because we are not congruent that the same discord exists between myself and the Lord.  For we are perfectly in synch, at least for his part, mine always has hiccups but I always catch my breath with his patient assistance.

Please do not make the largest mistake that people who have assets make with anointed men of the Lord.  Do not assume that contributing X amount of dollars suddenly buys your word more credence to direct the ministry.  It is the Lord’s ministry, not mine nor would I ever sell it, so plain and simple, if you wish to contribute to the furthering of the Lord’s Will through this ministry then contribute, but remember it is a contribution not a controlling interest.  The Lord will direct all my moves and if you are in line with those moves then the Lord will tell you how or if to assist.  If he directs you to get involved then wonderful.  If he tells you that you should sit on your butt at home eating potato chips then please do that to the best of your ability.  Or if he tells you not to get involved with this ministry feel free and know that I support your response to his direction.  Please only get involved here if you wish to support what the Lord is doing through his ministry, because that is to whom it belongs.

I will never tell you what you should be doing for God, do not ever try and do that to me.  I have one master that is Jesus Christ the King and although you are member of the body of Christ and may have a message from him to give me it is still his message, his direction and my discernment to obey what you’ve given me for the accountability is mine alone.  Listen and seek the Lord’s counsel in all things.  I have never told anyone what they should or shouldn’t be doing for Christ, so if you have said that I am then you need to take that to God.  Be who he made you to be.  Plain and simple sing the song he placed on your heart.  I will sing the one in mine.  In Jesus’ Name.

How can faith be blind if I am to walk by it and not by sight? My faith must be rational, sound, clear and believable even when absent requisite evidence.  For I must be so glued to its position so assured of its validity that in times of doubt, trial, anger or disaster I must proceed against all odds based upon its promised Truth. That considered, in transition, we must never wear the shirt prepared for us by enemy, commenting brusquely that we are of blind faith, for a faith that is built upon the immovable, unchanging, immutable Rock of Ages is clearer than human ocular processing.

These are the times of vacillation and concern, the permutations of a ill determined identity.  We are told to follow this fad, catch that bus, run after boarding that train, believe this miracle, embrace that philosophy or look skyward for interstellar importation.  Who benefits from constant flux?  Do we as humans do well in this state, with nothing solid upon which to base reference frame?  No, in fact we begin to lose grasp of current realistic understanding as our psychological frame rate fluctuates, leading into dimensions foreign to domestic comprehension.  Why then would chaos reign in a world where its main inhabitants cannot well function within such circumstance?

That question presents obvious answers that must be investigated in our faithful understanding of who currently reigns upon the Earth.  God is upon the throne and nothing happens without his allowance but that does not mean he hasn’t allowed satan and his minions to rule here for the time being as part of his overall unfolding plan for humanity.

Get used to it folks, for it is about to speed up, become more difficult to keep things in focus as right becomes wrong and vise versa.  The context upon which our senses are determined in calculation will begin to break down as the enemy’s erosive plan continues.  However, our Faith Sight continues in crystal focus, perfect correlation to our belief that God will at some point in the perfect timing of His Good Will step in to set things right. Even if that means in the interim I lose my standing, health, wealth or life here in this plane, my eternity is assured.  We are entering a time in fact where the capacity to walk by faith will be the determining factor in our victory here in this era.  Without that capacity to clearing proceed by faith we will be left to the mercy of the chaotic waltz spinning out of control to entropy.

Stand your ground, walk in the clear hopeful sight of Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and never leave the skinny path leading directly to life everlasting.

Lord let the pain enable me to speak encouragement to those yet to experience it or searching for a way to shore from the depths.  Give my heart fresh speech, understanding and level of love that surpasses my brains desire to look away disinterested in the hazards of another man’s trial.  There are things that may be done in each situation to assist, repair, unite or breed peace.  Internal focus or the spirit of disregard and flippant participation must be brought to heal for the sake of efficacy in fellowship.  Doing nothing must only be the product of the discernment and the Spirit’s voice directing us to remain at ready, preparing ourselves for the appropriate timing to assist.

This is not the end, in fact even the end is not the end, but merely launching pad to the next beginning.  How then may I reflect upon my participation in regard to having been or being too late for intervention, rather as what are the remaining options viable to provide relief, assistance or comfort.  Just because I didn’t close the sale or make the touchdown in the best available timing does not make life consistent with the timed events of sports and romance.  There are always chances to go and get it right this time.

Accountability is returning to America and to the Body of Christ.  Though my past is not my future it is reservoir from which to fish the bounty of past performance, those lines cut or bait lost. What then is my role in self-reflection and recommittal to the things left untended?  Am I responsible to make things right where possible and to pray in to health those things beyond correction?  Of Course.  How may I do otherwise and claim to have obeyed the Spirit of Good Conscience?  This is a welcome age that comes with reflection and revision to habits, understanding and action.  If you knew that you were in the fourth quarter of the state championships in the last year of your school attendance, with the love of your life the Prom Queen and your entire Family watching, how would you perform differently than alone?  Please take the field for that whistle has just been sound.  In Jesus’ Name

Opening or not you are going to receive fire from enemy cannons.  The initial question of course, is possessing this foreknowledge what then have you done to determine what will be your reaction to these expected and determined assaults?  If you have any measure of dedication or gumption to deliver against the tasks which God has determined for you before the beginning of time, then you must be thoroughly convinced that you will not only make the enemy’s radar but will receive concerted attacks in attempt to dissuade, divide or destroy your will to proceed.

Now after that exhausting run on sentence we are forced to advance to what may be done.  First, have you studied to show yourself approved rightly dividing the Word of God? If not then you ill prepared and ought venture no further for the Word is the Spirit of God that is sharper than a two-edged sword and frankly one of the two offensive/defensive weapons in your spiritual arsenal.  The other is prayer.  Have you established a regular, meaning perpetual line of prayer to the throne room of God? Are you petitioning him in the spirit in humility and faith? You will need to and if you haven’t yet established this relationship, then go back two squares and get talking to God.

Next you must understand that in a spiritual battle the only thing that matters is the Spirit that indwells each of us.  Your flesh will do nothing in this battle, in fact using your flesh to fight a spiritual battle indicates that you do not understand the Word of God. for it tells you that these are powers and principalities of the heavenly realm and may not be ventured, controlled or defeated by worldly means.  Only Christ has defeated these enemies and it is only Christ that they fear.  So if your showing them your muscles, your brains or your guns you are sadly outnumbered and hopelessly doomed.  They will only succumb and surrender to the Holy Spirit that restrains them and seals you as belonging to God.  That they fear, me they don’t.

Additionally, the attacks will come from all sides so don’t run, surround yourself with other believers to watch your back and your flanks.  In fact, if you have family, ,friends, colleagues or others close who have not yet surrendered all to God through Christ then they will be susceptible to use as bludgeons to reach your back side.  The enemy seeks all avenues of approach and anyone not protected by the Holy Spirit or perhaps those who have back slidden in their faith present footholds in to your ministry.  Avoid them, pray against them and protect yourself by cleaning out or closing these open avenues.

The attacks will come.  Yes, God allows them, that is the wonderment of His Glory and Grace that the enemy is used to grow and challenge our faith.  Otherwise the Lord would have placed a hedge of protection around each of us that the enemy may not penetrate.  So be assured if the enemy is getting to you with salvo’s then the Lord is allowing it, the question of that day, is Why Lord, what have you sent this one to provoke me to learn? May you prepare for the attacks that are going to come if not already pouring over your battlements.  May the Lord bless you with like minded Christians of strong faith, in prayer, priesthood and armoring to watch out for you and you for them.  May the Lord Jesus Christ be seen clearly in the armor that you wear as you dawn the characteristics of His Holy and Righteously Powerful Spirit.  May you have great courage and endurance to run this race to the end, through all things in joy, peace and love with Christ.  In Jesus’ Name.

What do I own if it must all be left behind in this life. Rather borrowed, rented, utilized for what, the purpose of catering to comfort or self image?  Must I really be that simple to determine my worth by those material and fiat things to which I lay claim? What about reason, experience, friendship or family? How might any of these components rise to the level of importance as to be compared equally with those things of self worth or wealth? There is not enough material in the world to measure up to the love given from one simple child who respects, cares for and adores her Father, Grandpa or Uncle. The frail in this life seek comfort, for in that comfort they meet complacency and complicity, the twin succubi, perpetually drafting all capacity for human fulfillment or preparedness to defend righteousness.

A friend held for even a moment is great success. That another human being would find comfort, belief or support in a relationship with any of us is a priceless gift. Even when let go the memory of friendship is a prize worth defending and something that truly may never be stolen except by the cruelest of masters.  Praise God that this life is short for if it were longer many would lose their faculties and memories or be left in difficult circumstance for far too long. Joy is found in the trials shared and the moments carried around by two, in memory of life lived together. Nothing compares.

Then the dream or reality of having produced the next generation to carry on to places not yet reachable by our own hand. And in that moment, realizing the possibility of extended life in this dimension when gone.  For somehow in the DNA is found the method by which each of us partially steals from death in the moment that we’ve left behind someone to carry forward. Yet, all of it leads to the next life where death and hell have been made bereft of power over the living and the dead. Now the prize is to prepare those who are to go beyond us in this life to be ready for the next. For when it comes we all shall once again share the true joy of being together and this time for good. I am grateful for what I have been given, but it really doesn’t matter because soon it will all be gone and only those people and experiences I have found will carry on past the point from whence none return.  In Jesus’ Name.  Memories of time spent with you is all that I will ever truly own.

Unfortunately it’s supposed to heart that way.  I know they told you just a sting but the that is the unfortunate thing about lying.  Falsely adding your own spin, when it means someone else has to absorb the responsibility for your wicked craft, it’s the same sin, doesn’t matter if a good hearted person does it.  Injuries from the back or within the group always hurt worse and penetrate deeper than those coming from the enemy.  But that is okay, they mean well and they will come around, besides what they meant to hurt will be used for the good of God’s Plan.  The idea is to be calm, saunter on and enjoy victory, clean and bandage any wounds and take the pain to the Lord for tempering.

I am not your savior, your rescuer, your Priest or Padre.  I am a man who has been telling you what the Bible says we are supposed to do.  Please do not internalize that to mean that I am telling You, what to do by recounting what the Bible says we all should do.  Yes, I must acknowledge that if God told all of us to do something and you are not doing that something then you will naturally feel a tug of the Holy Spirit’s conviction upon your heart, but that may not, cannot and is not coming from me. You do what God is telling you to do and mention that I have directed otherwise is an unfortunate prevarication or projection designed to cast your guilt, blame, excuse or reasoning upon me as messenger.  I love you but don’t make me the scapegoat because they are not necessary in the era of Grace.  Any judgment of any of us is the Lord’s Prerogative and I will leave all that to him.  If you don’t do what he has been telling you to do then you will deal with him on that.  If you are doing exactly what he is telling you to do then good for you but it is also not my job to judge your efficacy or compliance, only to love and encourage you.

These are the days when these things really matter, because as the Bible indicates we may be in the days of dwindling minutes left upon the opportunity clock.  The Bible says we must work in the day because the night is coming when the work may not be done.  Therefore, it is incumbent upon me and every disciple to get about the work and encourage others to get about the work that the Lord has directed for each of us.  What that work is, how you do it or how completely or incompletely you perform his tasking is your affair.  I love you and will encourage, support and hold you accountable for getting to the work in a timely manner, beyond that I have no nor want no further authority.  Thank God that I am not God, but simply a servant of the same. In Jesus’ Name