He made it for us to live out to His Glory.  God breathed life into dirt and called him man.  A simple thing yet more complex than all the science, known or unknown, in the universe.  And in this man God imparted spirit and likeness, goodness, kindness, mercy and love.  Making man a custodian of creation, having grand responsibility for growth, life and charm.  God, loving this man so much, custom designed a helper from one of the man’s ribs, someone who was part of him yet had the power to rescue him from his simplicity.  Ever wonder how someone in paradise, perfectly paired, carrying on direct conversations with God could be susceptible to discontent?

Our dependence cannot be upon self or we open ourselves up the same “Garden” susceptibility.  Our free will is a gift that does not shield us from the opportunity to make disastrous choices.  We may either exercise that gift in pursuit of God and all that is holy or we may choose the things of self and man’s manufactured reality.  God permits this out of a love I still cannot fathom.  What is more He tells us in advance exactly the cost of such decision.

I do not wish to leave the Garden, I would be happy tending creation.  I do not wish to be God or rise above my perceived “station”.  Happiness in my simplicity.  That is not to say that I do not see the machinations within my own spirit yearning to express their independence.  I just choose to find shelter in God and be protected from those disastrous choices that men call “freedom”.  There is no freedom away from God only slavery to thought, lust and hunger for more.

I am happy serving God.  To many this also appears a depth to far to measure.  My freedom is perfectly exercised within the shelter of God’s sovereignty and dominion.  This is a statement that rocks reality, for they perceive surrender to God as loss of personal liberty.  The opposite is truth.  God withholds no good thing from those who walk with Him in righteousness.  It is easy to make good choices when all choices lead to goodness and righteous deed.

We have been framed by this world and its false sense of emancipation.  My lust for more will never fulfill my spirit.  Thankfully, God has provided a door, a single door, set in place to provide transliteration to a new dimension free from the mistakes and temptations which man entered by leaving God’s protection.  This door, this path, this shepherd is in the person of the Lord, Jesus Christ, who gave His life to buy back our vended future.  Again, this is the day and what lay before us another free will choice.  He lays before us this choice, out of complete love, allowing us to decide between freedom and life under the shelter of Almighty God or slavery and suffering under the fool’s gold of humanity and darkness.  Choose well, choose life and freedom.  Choose Jesus Christ the King.  Amen.

Oh wretched man as I look up to the Cross and see the pain I’ve caused Him as He shouldered my wickedness.  Something broke inside of me, cracked, irreparable by worldly surgery.  Then I was forced to look again and realized My God was no longer there, on that tree, that statue raised in remembrance of His sacrifice, His Kingship, Glory and Love.  He had born the sins of the world and taken back our future, purchasing us with His cleansing blood.  You see it is the blood that we cannot withstand, for it represents the gift of life to us and to those who cannot see it is foolishness.

My God is not there on that cross, He has gone home to prepare a place for us so that we may be with Him throughout eternity.  And while we wait we see the brutal misgivings of a world that will not accept the gift of His grace.  A world that refuses purification through repentance, belief and faith.  He is seated bearing witness to the Father, silencing the accuser about those for whom He made an impossible sacrifice.  My name has come up in that Holy place.  To think that I am known to the Maker of this and every universe shatters whatever resolve remained.  I am no longer broken, I have been made anew, built of the stuff that only gets better with age.  He is waiting up there until we are ready and have fulfilled our responsibility so that no one is left without the opportunity to hear and accept the truth.  For that is How much He loves all of us.

On the cross He paid the price, now He waits for all to come to Him.  These gifts are beyond my comprehension.  Creation, abundance, life, sacrifice and the greatest for me to understand, patience.  He waits so that eyes may be opened and hearts made free and alive.  Lord let me love them and have patience for them as You have.  Give me a vision of Your Love for us that would cause You to go to such lengths to preserve each and every one of us.  Let the healing You have done in me give me compassion and understanding for all the other broken souls I encounter on my march to that faithful day.  That faithful day when I get to fall at Your feet and tell You how much I love You.  Glory to You.  King Jesus.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/prophecy-scholar-america-at-crossroads/ At the least this requires a short read and a long thought.

How can I help Father?  What particular situation is custom designed for my testimony, my talents, my hand as it is directed by your Spirit?  Is there something that I do particularly well, that I have always been gifted through Spirit to be specifically effective in its accomplishment?  Or am I to guided to a circumstance where you will ask me to take a leap of faith to demonstrate my willingness to serve when it costs the totality of self?  I see that it is less about knowing your will then being watchful and ready to act when your plan confronts me.  Teach me to have greater discernment about your prompting.

What then shall I do in the meantime Father?  Shall I mark time marching in place wearing a path or rut beneath my feet as I wait to be deployed for action?  Shall I ponder my worth until the enemy sponsors thoughts of inadequacy leading to darkness, self-loathing and depression?  Are there actions that I may take now that would put me in a place of preparedness, readiness and position to be especially useful at a time of calling?  I see that there are always people to be fed, loved, clothed, sheltered, taught and encouraged, even when it is not the time of my greatest testing, I must remember that I am not the only saint intertwined with your Will.  Perhaps there is one person I may meet today who has either never heard of Jesus, needs a deeper understanding or is ready to make a decision for eternity.  Teach me to see that one person who may need a kind word.

Why then do we wait so long Father?  Is it so that this travesty may play itself out, consuming, losing its energy through entropy until the entire mechanism teeters to standstill?  Why does evil prevail, and how can deception have so much authority over the minds of men that they are willing to kill and die for foolishness?  How can so many defy reason to torture others in the name of some political or urban campaign?  What hope is there in such faith place in evolution and the survival of the fittest?  I see now that this is the perfect environment for people to realize that the only hope in this world is Jesus.  We have been chosen to lead them to the truth by showing them the light of the world through our own eyes, hearts, love and testimony for You Father.  Teach me shine your light in dark places.

When I begin my critique of our current representatives there is so much valid  information regarding their shortcomings that it is easy for me to justify offering them poor regard.  Then the lump in my throat fights back my words of reprimand as I recall who and how I have represented the Lord as ambassador.  I have no ground upon which to stand and chastise others for their poor service to citizen, flag, country or queen as I have repeatedly failed in a far more important duty to Christ.

Perhaps, my security may be found in statements or justifications that we have both failed therefore it is within my burden that I also point our the frailty of others.  Nope, that doesn’t fly, because the beam in my own eye still remains as I inspect the splinter or fleck in that of my Brother.  Momentarily I perceive freedom from my mental burden and shame as I see the good intent of my own heart, feeling that somehow what makes our leaders wrong is because they are filled with malcontent.  Then of course my remorse increases as I remember that it is not my place to judge the motivations of men but to love them.  And in this instance I must paste myself delinquent in telling them of coming judgment and how to find solace in the Lord.

Is there an excuse which may relieve me of this personally ascribed burden of sin matching?  Unfortunately there is, in that same forgiveness offered to all of mankind, called “grace”.  I myself may avail myself of grace, especially now that I have believed and placed my faith in Christ Jesus.  But I must face facts, whatever I do whether for self or through salvation are both in the Lord’s hands for neither may I rebuke myself for inaction or poor action nor may I reward myself for bringing glory to God through works, word and deed.  It is for Him alone to judge this world and all that is in it, including moi.  Though I think I will give my representatives a bit of a break now that I have seen my own wretched hypocrisy.  The Lord told me to love them and tell them the Gospel truth, beyond that it just isn’t in my area of authority or responsibility.  The burden of working out my own salvation with fear and trembling is more than enough for me.

Praise God in all His Glory, declaring the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Recalling, focusing and remembering where the Lord found me when I cried out.  There is no turning back regardless of mishap or mistake.  I am his for the duration and my faith, security, strength, hope and destiny lay in the Lord’s hands.  The only difference between me and the guy we refer to as lost is that I realize those simple facts.  I serve a sovereign God, who is free to change me, shape me or sit me on the bench if I refuse to follow the game plan.  I am only disposable if I make myself so by kicking against the goads of God’s harvesting.  I have embarrassed him, ignored him, forgotten him and begged his forgiveness more times than are measurable in one conversation, but still he looks at me with those loving eyes of a proud Father.  Especially when I’ve lost the game and figure he will give me nothing but shame, he lifts me up, dusts me off and puts me back in the game reminding me who I am and who I call my Father.

There is no other place for me.  I’ve been excluded, overlooked, mistreated, taken for granted, used up and called by so many pejorative phrases that I ran out of places to attempt acceptance.  I don’t fit in anywhere but in the shadow of God’s wings.  Sure there will be a group of people filled with the spirit who see me for what I am and love me regardless.  Those I call my Brothers and they don’t belong here either.  I refuse to be upset by my lack of popularity, because my sharp edges counter the slick, sultry, spineless tactics of the world.  I will never be able to impress them, nor hide from them, his light shines through my eyes.  So, I have to figure when things get hot and they start looking for sacrifices I will probably be offered up quickly.  Lord knows half of my blood family would sell me to the Ismaelites for a good bowl of porridge.  But thanks be to the Almighty God that whatever they plan for evil he will turn to good.  Not to serve my good pleasure or to somehow make fun of them for my edification, but because he loves them so much whatever he’s got planned will win their hearts for righteousness.  You see I cannot lose.  I get to play an important role as an unknown guy, representing a God that most would give everything to know and from which others run and hide.

But days like today make me think and I know that is what he wants.  That I should encounter circumstances, pain and opportunities which make me turn to him and say, “Lord I really messed this up, and there is no visible path to recovery”.  All the time I know that after the pain, shame and abandonment subsides he will show me something tomorrow I was incapable of seeing today.  This world provides the stimuli and the Holy Spirit guides and teaches based upon the roles we must play.  Sometimes I wish that I were easier to teach though, because it appears that he has to consistently develop new methods and levels of agony to get my limited attention.  Forgive me Father for being such a poor study.  I really am getting tired of my apparent inability to get even the slightest bit smarter/wiser.  He still believes in me which causes me to get up and try again, but this time, perhaps this time I will do it under his power, his strength, his patience and authority, so that something will be done right.  Lord let me succeed in doing what you need done, once.  Praise the name of the Almighty God, the Father of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.  The creator, sustainer and lover or all.  In Jesus name.

Father I am humbled, encouraged and alarmed at all the same time.  The artillery you have sent across the bow of our Christian vehicle has seemingly created rekindling of emotion.  It is all well and good that people “feel” something when they are in a church worshiping your name, but that emotion lacks the requisite Spirit sponsored action following such encounter.  When will we stop being impotent as the Body of Christ?  Have we kept your Holy Spirit at bay for so long that he no longer lives within our vessels?  God help us if this is the case for few shall see eternity through rapture if this stands.

I pray for fire Father, Holy Fire, coming down from on High so that none can doubt your sovereignty.  I don’t want to do great things if the end result of those things fails to bring hearts to you.  I do not want to serve myself and sit back at the end of the day tabulating my accomplishments.  When this life ends I want it to have accounted for something, the only thing worth doing is bringing people to the cross where they may experience relationship with you.  There is no other success.  Father how have we quenched the Spirit in such a way as to effectively eradicate him from the church?  Please show me how to rectify this misgiving.  Without your spirit we are simply flesh.

Father don’t leave us to the non existent mercy of the flesh and some from fallen creation.  Give us Your Holy Spirit so that we may live in abundance, truth and acts of faith that free the lost, heal the sick and banish the fallen.  Father, give us back our hearts of allegiance and commitment to your word and will.  This life is a waste without my purpose and seeing the church in such a weakened state makes me shiver.  Give us hearts of obedience and surrender and let it begin with me Father.  This is the fourth watch when times are cold and dark, let your light shine in our hearts and our eyes so that this forlorn world might find shelter from the pitch of night.  In your precious name we pray Lord Jesus.

Inertia is palpable.  The calm has disappeared replaced by a noticeable race toward crescendo.  Not global warming per-say, but a measurable increase in the impact, severity and rhythm of events.  Passions cluster to prepare for collective efforts against this or that principle, policy or politic.  The warnings came, they were avoided and ignored, now perfectly selected power brokers, indwelt by the powers that would see the world tumble have been placed in positions where they seek to change the course of history.

Some have been monitoring and for their research, observation and factual recount they have been received demagoguery as prize.  Where the line of demarcation from acceptable intelligence have found single points of data socially acceptable but recognizing any trend as paranoia.  Look for yourself.  The earthquake patterns have steadily increased for the last several years both in severity and frequency.  Now they are prevalent and regular along volcanic hotspots and tectonic seams.  Egypt, Syria and Lebanon are now in crisis and the conspicuous power broker is the “Russians”.  Saudi Arabia just announced an alliance with whom, the “Russians”, decidedly backing away from a relationship with the United States.  Ferocious fires rage out of control and man’s ability to lead nations has eroded to the point where a multitude of countries, states and cities are facing financial ruin.  When will it become acceptable and evident that these occurrences all match Bible Prophecy regarding the last days, right down to the recent moves by the Catholic and Southern Baptist leadership to “tone” down the rhetoric.  Which is actually a move away from Biblical Truth as guide replaced by what, politically correct tolerance of what God called abomination.

I feel the heat that accompanies friction as two points in opposition begin to rub against each other.  The world is lining up onto two sides, those who believe and those who refuse to believe.  The Lord is beginning the warnings, birth pangs, to notify us of His intentional intervention in to worldly affairs.  Ignoring them is only a short term option for over time each of us will be involved at some level in the coming events.  The action will begin in Jerusalem, so watch the horizon for news of an assault by Israel on Iran or perhaps an attempted incursion by Israel’s neighbors to capture Jerusalem.  The field is ripe and the tipping point of ignition is coming.  Will you be standing next to the fire or in it.  Your call, come to Jesus and find rest.  Praise Almighty God for His grace, mercy and righteous judgment.

For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to the teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.  Ezra 7:10

Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for the occasion.  Beside him on his right stood Mattihiah, Shema, Ananiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; and on his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.  Nehemiah 8:4

Glorify a moment by remembering and understanding its unique importance as a smidgen of time.  Returning home with diamond tears blurring vision, a vision of their once destroyed capitol rapidly reconstructed by the flesh of their own hands.  An instant where each knew God, not only understanding the lore about him, but actually seeing his masterful hand bring them back again from slavery.  And in this priceless instant you would guess that none would miss a single glimpse, utterance or passing breeze.  Yet we have demonstrated weak observation skills.  For who is it that stands to his right and left but men who shared in the captivities of Babylon and Persia.

Numbered among them is one so conspicuously anonymous.  Again we seem perplexed, nonplussed and unaffected.  This man is one of three who were thrown into the raging furnace for refusal to bow to a certain bronze statue.  Now it dawns, oh Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego, which were their pagan names forced upon them, covering their true Jewish names of Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.  Mishael had made it home through the entire ordeal, even when Daniel remained to die and be buried in Persia.  This is the nature of God’s promise, that we will all make it home someday, some sooner and others following after a time, but none shall be lost for we serve the Good Shepherd.

And on that day, not unlike this fine day of return to rebuilt Jerusalem we will worship the Lord with our faces on the cobbles thankful to call him our King.  Whomever says that they have read the Bible through and thus are fully prepared, let them be reminded of this piece of hidden manna.  Mysteries remain in this Living Word given by God.  It is the nature of God to conceal a thing it is the nature of kings to find them out, proverbs.

Will you stumble across new revelation when reading God’s Word?  Absolutely thus is the reward to walking with the Spirit of God through the garden of His direction.  These men were taken into captivity for forgetting to remember God’s Will.  Now the first thing they could think to do upon being returned to the city of grace was to read and reflect upon His Word for days upon end.  It is the true food made for fulfilling our spiritual hunger.  Praising God for His Word and His Promise should take our first ten thousand years or so in heaven.  I look forward to what comes after that.  I love you Lord and I love you my Brothers and Sisters.  Be well in Christ Jesus the King.  May He fill your heart with mystery and abundance through His riches and glory.  Amen.

Will you hear the Spirit that guides me to implore you, come to safety?  You see I know what is coming and according the Revelation 6 and passages further on, a time is quickly approaching where the Lord will unleash His wrath upon the Earth.  The four horsemen will be unleashed and a quarter of the worldly population will perish as God exerts His will upon humanity in an attempt to bring us to Righteousness.  And this is only one of the rounds of planned punishment meant to turn hearts to God’s Sovereign authority.  What He could not accomplish through simply offering mankind salvation, Love and Freedom, he will complete by creating such devastation, destruction and travesty that all those who will turn to Him in crisis will be given ample incentive to do so.

You see I may not be the only man that has ever told you about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The story when God came to Earth to live a perfect life, die and resurrect Himself in order to take away the sins of the world, but then again I may be the one guy who tells you about Jesus, at a time you are ready to listen.  satan’s rule on this planet is nearing its end.  There will shortly come a time when the Righteous King of the Universe will return as the Lion of Judah and take back what is rightfully His, Dominion and Authority.  There will be no “choice” left to those who have yet to make a decision, your ballot will have been left un-submitted, the time for casting your vote having past for all eternity. Rejecting Jesus is each man’s prerogative, but telling every person that I meet about Him is one duty/joy in which every Christian shares.  You see I know what is coming and I know how to escape the Wrath of the Lamb.  I cannot stand bye and watch as members of your family and mine face judgment when I can do something to help them avoid it.  I love you too much.

Soon the signs of Christ’s imminent return will be unavoidable even to the skeptic.  Blood moons, asteroids, giant hailstones, man’s sword turned against his brother, pestilence, war and ruin.  All will be ensconced in the darkness of man’s day of turmoil as God increases the pressure on the whole of humanity.  Fire, water, earthquakes, sickness, poverty, starvation and savagery will force each person beyond the point of brokenness.  Humbled by the God who asks us now come to Him freely and find rest.

When you see the believing Church leave the planet, know this, there will still be time left for you to make a decision for Christ.  However, at that time the cost of making that decision will be severe and most will choose to accept a fate away from God, fearing death worse than God.  I ask you now to come to wisdom, she is calling you to understand what it means to revere the Sovereign God and humbly ask for succor from His Righteous Judgment.  All it takes is to believe on the Work of Jesus Christ upon the rugged cross of Calvary, where He gave His life so that all men may be redeemed to God and have their sin life covered by His perfect gift.  Repent (Turn Away) from your sin, Trust in Jesus, find hope and forgiveness beyond the eroding sense of security that this world attempts to provide.  Join us with God for everlasting life or go to judgment for an eternity separated from Righteousness and peace.  For now the choice remains, but soon invitation will be rescinded.  I pray that you choose “Life” while the offer only costs humility, surrender and belief.

If the information exists, which it does, to prepare for just about any event why then do very few people open up the books, magazines and websites telling folks how to avoid catastrophe?  Why do people readily engage in philosophical repartee drawing the light to their words or wisdom, pride or foolishness, yet they will not take the necessary time to truly investigate all perspectives?  Have we truly become that lazy that we will not even lift the spoon to our own mouths, accepting our fates as sluggards?  Shall we be spoon fed the biases of those who would slant our views to their own committed doctrines?  Did the Lord command us to be Bereans or am I mistaken in thinking that He ordered ALL Christians to be searchers, reviewers and verifiers of the Truth?  Lethargy has profited from our willingness to pursue the path of least resistance.

We have been told what would occur before it comes to pass in order to establish God’s sovereignty in the mind of men and the provide fuel for faith among believers.  The Lord is outside of time and thus provided us the testimony of future occurrence called the Bible.  It portrays a future that will be openly hostile to Christians, yet we walk as if none of this information is real or worth the read or action.  It commands us to spread the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to love the unlovable out of obedient and grateful hearts for the salvation we have ourselves been freely given.  Yet “MOST” Americans churches lay fallow, planting nothing but their own buts in well worn seats, chatting about the world and its pleasantries.  We have brought our unholy thoughts, bodies and behaviors before the throne of the Righteous King, oblivious to how HE said that HE views these transgressions.  We have developed rituals, pageantry and programs that mimic true faith but simply and tragically couple us with a world full of pagans who practice the same filthy false displays of phantasmal faith.

The Lord provided all the information necessary to escaping the Judgment to Come.  Will we read it and be educated enough to make the right decisions, choices and actions for the Kingdom?  The Bible states that the Lord provides for “ALL” of our needs according to His Riches and Glory in Christ Jesus.  Will we accept Him as our savior, provider and King or will we continue to pursue the world’s riches and provision as our false security, even when each disaster demonstrates that the proud and rich suffer alongside the poor?  Will We READ Holy Spirit inspired words, so that we may make educated decisions or will we remain inclined to have the seeds of satan’s deception and falsehood planted where verdant seeds of God’s Victory should be growing a grand harvest?

Do you want to know or don’t you?  Your actions are a greater measure of your heart than your words and God sees them both.  Demonstrate that you stand for Christ Jesus by making your life a symbol for those around you to follow.  Tell them about Jesus, even if it gains you persecution, for your loss will be heaven’s gain.  If you will not become educated about Jesus, and stand up for Jesus or do work for Jesus, then how is it that you say that you know Him?  Isn’t Christianity’s greatest reward that we get to have a personal relationship with the Lord Himself, in this world and the next?  How then can we believe and call ourselves part of the Kingdom if we do not cherish and nurture one of its greatest gifts.  How can you know Jesus if you don’t get to know Jesus?  Would He say that He knows you when the time comes to enter eternity?