Is my concern for you unfounded?  Am I wrong in my observation, as I see you hell-bent on fulfilling your desires, no matter the repercussion?  Have you been avoiding me because I offended your sensibilities or because I reminded you to stay on the path, serving God in truth?  I have struggled with what to do for you and the Lord would have me let you go with prayer that this world will turn you back to Him.  I do ask for you to forgive me if I have wronged you.  I have searched my heart and find only positive prayers for your growth, health and guidance by the Lord of Hosts.

I am of the United States of America.  This country, founded on principles in which I truly believe, has gone astray.  We collectively, are unwilling to humble ourselves and turn away from our individual driving desires in order to seek God’s face so that He may heal our land.  So, we will reap what we have sown.  It is no different for a nation than for a man with regard to reward for our folly.  However, there are voices beckoning us away from the precipice.  Will we heed, the Bible seems to indicate that we will not?  What does this mean for those who see that the handful of potential outcomes for the U.S. are all within the palm of God.  We have become individually powerless, except in prayer, beseeching the Lord to forgive us for separation and forgetfulness.  Our leadership cannot solve our dilemma because they are using insufficient tools, failed philosophies and reliance upon self, all things which deny God as our only answer.  Test your own hearts on this.  Do you act each day as if God is the only answer, or are you certain that if you work harder, smarter or faster somehow these problems will all go away.  We are about to meet our Maker.  Don’t you want to meet Him on His terms so that He welcomes you with open arms.

I am finding that I am having to let go of my frustration over the problems facing this country.  There is little that I can do as a citizen to effect change.  However, I am not powerless, far from it.  My prayer is heard by God and He knows what must be set straight.  I will let go of my grasp upon the outcome and trust in the Lord’s Plan for His creation.  For He alone is Righteous and True.  His outcome will be the best that can be achieved.  In Christ’s Name I pray.  Amen.

So, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.  This is why I was angry with that generation and they have not known my ways.  So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful unbelieving, heart that turns away from the living God.  But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.  As has just been said:  “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”

Who were they who heard and rebelled?  Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?  And with whom was he angry for forty years?  Was it not with those who sinned< whose bodies fell in the desert?  And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?  So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.  Hebrews 3 7-19

Lord let me be gentle in my delivery yet forceful in my message.  Unbelief, what is it?  Am I guilty of it and do passages like these although targeted to the Jews have anything whatsoever to do with Christian’s who fall into sin and unbelief?  Revered Holy Spirit let me take note of the direction from your statements.

God’s anger is targeted toward those whose hearts go astray in time of trial.  It appears to be generational and comes along with a lack of knowledge of God’s ways which leads to a hardening of hearts and subsequent rebellion.  The Holy Spirit beseeches those who “hear His voice” to not harden their hearts.  And unfortunately for these wayward believers there is always a harsh price to pay that precludes them from entering rest.

I cannot emphatically say that we who have been saved by grace will suffer the same loss that these unbelieving Jews would have to face.  However I cannot say that there will not be some type of loss for Christians that fall in to unbelief.  Could that price be the loss of inclusion in the Rapture?  I would ask you to reflect upon Hebrews 6 where it is stated that it is impossible for an believer be recovered after falling away.  Pretty clear isn’t it.  All I know is that these warnings were included in the New Testament for a reason, because those who harden their hearts, fall away and forget the knowledge of God’s ways are in a precarious position at best and a potentially eternal situation at worst.

This I do know.  We in the United States are seeing first hand the effects of turning our hearts from God’s Word and His Ways.  We live among a generation of youth who do not know God, itself a punishment for the lack of real fulfillment and peace.  However the lasting effects are far worse, the loss of God’s Blessing, His anger and the exclusion from entry into rest.  These are drastic times where so many are in danger of eternal separation from Almighty God, a time calling for us to accept the challenges which face us as the ambassadors to an unbelieving nation.  I know it seems impossible, but that is a great thing, “For I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”  Does that statement sound familiar.  Rejoice for it is times just as this that God raises up the few to demonstrate His capacity to overcome the impossible.  I suspect that this nation will shortly be facing a tremendous calamity from which it will be collectively determined there is no escape.  At which time the Lord of Glory will show His face to those who will surrender to His mercy and grace to save the elect.  Do you see it differently?  Perhaps the Holy Spirit is telling you something that I’ve missed.  Let me know.

In Christ we found salvation, together we find the missing parts of the complete body.  Without you my sisters and brothers I am incomplete.  Love God with all your heart.  In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray for you this day that He has given us.  May He grant you entry in to His Peace.  Amen.

Come with me, it’s not far.  Just a place up on the hill where we can chat beyond the noise of the city.  While we walk tell me about your heart.  Does your pulse race each day trying to keep up with the requirements of this world?  Or do you find that you have all the time you need, peaceful time to sit, read, and discuss with friends and family the things that are important?  How is your mentor?  Is she or he pleased with the steps you have taken to mature and present yourself an asset to your family, community, church or nation?  Do you have quality time with God, so that He can answer those questions that fill all our minds and upset all of our hearts?

You see the story of Jesus is not about control, ownership, strictness or remorse.  It is about the God who made us.  It is an opportunity to know from where we’ve come and to where we are headed.  A story of love so grand that Our Father knowing that we were in trouble beyond our own fixing provided us the means to find our way back into relationship with Him.  This tale is one that raises all the possibilities of imagination while providing all the real solutions for each day, each trial, every trespass and betrayal that we face.  It is about a LOVE so grand that even a man a wretched as I had become was not beyond forgiveness, grace, mercy and change.  Change that wiped clean the slate of my iniquities as if I had never been scarred, dirtied, sullied or septic.  A Love that waited there for me to reach that breaking point where I had enough of my own foolishness and pride.  A God named to us Jesus who came to us to remind us that He had been listening, watching, praying and waiting for us to reach out in belief.  Giving us the free will to fall or to ask forgiveness and be “re”-created in His image, for His purpose and truth.  Jesus a door left open to the rich and poor alike.  A Mercy Seat upon which Sits the King of Kings ready to forgive and accept us into our true citizenship in the Kingdom of Grace and Glory.

This world has been fun, but its laws of nature are caught in the process of evolutionary entropy.  Those who wager all that they have on the ability of man to overcome the global problems to which we find ourselves wed will grasp to that philosophy until the moment Christ comes to set things right.  Evolution will not provide the enlightenment, the scientific resolution, the golden dream or the prayer directed to trees, stars, mars or eight headed idol.  There is Peace found in Jesus.  There is strength in the Hands of the Holy Lord, not the kind of strength that preaches domination, but the strength to forgive, to let go of past catastrophe.  It is against human nature to surrender and that is where a relationship with the Lord begins, where man’s ability to overcome fails.  But there is comfort, joy and peace in surrender to the Lord for He is Love.  He made each of us and knows the answers to our most difficult dilemma.  Those who are caught up in this world view this surrender as weakness, but those who have tasted of the well of the Living Water know how sweet and satisfying this relationship becomes.  Cast your cares upon Jesus, drop your burden at the foot of the Cross, forgive yourself and others who have wronged you.  Depend upon the ROCK for He will not be moved and His Word shall never dissolve, though this world be destroyed or remade a thousand times.  Let’s just sit here for a while and have a silent conversation with Him.

You Lord, are beyond my understanding, but I will still seek to know all that there is know about you.  Forgive me the things I have done to displease You and let me extend that same grace to all that I meet.  Never leave me Lord, especially in those moments when I have been deceived into believing that I can handle it on my own, for we both know the disaster that thinking produces.  Guide me to all that is Good in this life as I am being prepared to serve Your Glory in the next.  Let me extend real Love to those in need and forgiveness to those, like me, who do not deserve it but drastically need it none-the-less.  Let us make the best use of this quiet time with You and allow us to carry that Peace back to those we encounter this day and the next.  Thank you Father.  Amen

When will these encroachments provide enough heat to thaw us from our frozen trance?  God’s Law clearly states that there are certain things that He views as abomination and that we are to hate what He hates.  The deception is that in order to hate sin we must hold contempt for the individual, this is simply logical fallacy, perpetrated by the father of lies.  Do you have to hate me if I steal, no?  Do you have to hate me if I am unfaithful, no?  Must you dislike me if I serve myself and serve false idols made of wood, stone or metal?  Of course not.  And conversely must you agree with my sin if you are to love me?  Absurd.  What is truly at stake is the future of this nation as we “have” known it.  Gone are the old days our only hope is that we plot a course towards reinstatement of some modicum of sensibility rather then remaining on our current course toward anarchy.  Our nationalism is nearly void, we have made it criminal to worship the God who made this country the admired nation it once was, and now we will erode even the sacred bond of marriage.

I will not apologize for speaking up about an issue when the citizens of California exercised their Constitutionally protected right to vote against. Those rights not given to Federal Government shall be retained by the people.  When did we turn into a constitutional monarchy?  These people voted and to have the Executive Branch of this government decide to take a stance to nullify the will of the people should shock us out of our seats.

This is an issue for which there are numerous indications in the Bible as to the cost for any nation choosing to follow this path.  If we go down it we most certainly should do so kicking and screaming.  I will pray for my leaders as that is what the Lord commands me to do, but no where in the Bible is it even minutely recognized that we are to saunter silently along to the drum beat of their mad rush to destructive abandon.  This nation and the God fearing principles that it was founded upon matter to me.  I swore an oath to protect and defend this nation against all enemies foreign and domestic, so help me God.  This my fellow citizens, just like its sister abomination, abortion is an enemy of the United States.  If we stand for them we certainly do not stand on God’s side.  You can risk a fight with God by adding to, subtracting from or twisting the Lord’s Word, but as for me I will not follow you in that which brought about the fall of humanity.

Pride leads to rebellion which leads to judgment.  The type of sin matters not, but there are certain sins which the Lord refuses to suffer for any duration of time.  What do you think?  If all fifty states adopt a policy of abortion on demand, legalization of drugs and prostitution and allow men and woman to marry members of their own gender,  how long do you think this once proud nation will last?  I doubt that we will make it to 2020.  The Lord’s retribution for this type of behavior has always been swift and final, for us it will be no different.  It has become painstakingly clear that this administration is intent on the dismantling of America, its tested ideals, its economic prowess and our desire to remain free.  We are under assault America, you don’t want to believe it but the truth it remains.  The ship is swirling the edge of the whirlpool and at some point we will be captured by the imposing spiral.  Your choice abandon ship, fight for the helm or ride her down to oblivion.  Which will it be, take the high ground that we have been promised by the Almighty or crawl on our bellies, banished from the garden by our own machinations.  We must collectively choose.

I understand the stakes.  We have officially departed from the philosophies that guided us out of mediocrity.  I am not saying that this nation has always done the right thing, because we have not, and we paid a price for each bad decision.  However there are decisions from which we can recover.  The abandonment of our national mental faculties by falling wholeheartedly in love with those things that God prohibits is insanity.  Enough is enough.  They will do this until we demand they stop, until then we march with our heads down, voices silenced toward a destiny we never wanted any part of.  Complicity is a sad mistress and ambivalence no excuse when the gavel falls.

Praise God in all His Glory.  This will be sorted out, I pray that we all end up on the right side of eternity.  In Jesus’ Precious Name

I will love until that love is accepted or denied, but I will still love, just from my knees.  I will encourage until they have become strong in the Lord and willing to accept the fullness of Spirit promised them.  And as they go on the road to fulfilling the Lord’s Will I will encourage from my prayer closet interceding with the power and authority delegated to me as an heir with the Lord Jesus Christ.  I will rebuke, not my brothers or the lost but the parasitic enemy in the unseen realm who slowly ebbs away their joy, strength, peace, witness and blessing.  The Lord Jesus Christ rebuke them and have them go where He would wish them to be until their final judgment.  I will beg, plead, counsel and pursue those in whose eyes I see Christ’s calling.  I will be relentless in my quest to remind them of an alternative to serving the god of this world and spending eternity separated from the Almighty.  I will speak truth, even to those who have justified their behavior through manipulating the Word, for this is my design.  I will not expect your road to match mine but I will not allow you to coax me from the path to righteousness to which HE bids me.  Sorry if I applaud too loud at your successes, I do not seek to embarrass but to demonstrate my joy at your fulfillment.  Forgive me if I have said anything that may have been incorrect, too harsh or not well thought, this is my frailty, and the Lord is removing it slowly, even now.  I will keep my back to this plow for I love His yoke and guidance.  They are life to me, will you join me in the harvest.  Praise God through Christ the King.

Praise God, Here is a sampling of the recent visiting countries to Awrkhakhaya.  The Lord has provided the internet as a way for Christians to gather as saints even when they are world’s apart.  We love you Jesus, thank you for this opportunity to serve the Kingdom.  Amen.

“I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,”  “I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea.  The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord. 

“I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem.  I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the pagan and the idolatrous priests—those who bow down and swear by the Lord and who also swear by Molech, those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him.  Be silent before the Sovereign Lord for the day of the Lord is near.  The Lord has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited.  On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice I will punish the princes and the king’s sons and all those clad in foreign clothes.  On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold, who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.  Zephaniah 1 1-9

How do you know which are the Words spoken by God?  Are you counted among the many who see these written by the Prophet Zephaniah and say that he both quoted the Lord and spoke in the first person?  Is that the position you are sticking to that Zephaniah stated he would punish people for being clad in “foreign” clothing or worshiping false gods?  Do you side with the unbelievers who feel that it is a matter of interpretation, and that I must just have a “different” perspective?  Or do you perhaps count yourself among the Catholics who have forgotten what is in the Bible or have simply inserted books of alternate reference?

I did not say that the great day of the Lord is coming, the Prophets did.  I did not say that it was near, I merely reminded you that they said it.  I did not say that the wicked would be punished along with those who both swear by the Lord and by the false god of iron who required the lives of our children as sacrifice.  I merely told you what was between the quotes.  Read and be enlightened.  Ask and be answered.  Seek and find.  Do not simply take the convenient road of blaming, slandering or condemning me.  I will not give you that easy road for it is the broad road traveled by the damned.  You will have to silence me, but the Word will remain echoing in your ears beyond my ending.  For it is not me that the Prophets quoted, it was the Lord God Almighty and He will be heard regardless of my outcome.  Praise Him because it is the right thing to do.  He gave us everything, even His Words to guide us to Him.  Amen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes Interesting side note from our Catholic Brothers who claim that the next Pope will usher in the tribulation.

http://resources.khouse.org/products/bk179/ A new book on the subject entitled “Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here” By Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam

Unprepared, I wet my lips hoping that the right words, the just words, will somehow force themselves past the roadblocks in the labyrinth of my paralyzed thinking.  One of those unique moments that come so infrequently where you should say something lasting.  That instant when your Son asks you about God or what it feels like to be truly loved.  You may have spent years, decades avoiding this opportunity.  Perhaps you have been praying that when such a moment confronts you the exact, appropriate combination of phrases will magically present themselves to a captive and waiting audience.  I stand before such a crowd, listening intently, waiting for me to project august wisdom or fathomless insight.  All I get is dust and a vacuum, threatening to asphyxiate me.  Then He speaks through me.

My finger points in a general direction but each person at the end of its accusing tip feels the ominous pressure of the Holy Spirit, as if I had poked them in the heart from a distance.  “What would you have me say”?, I declare into the dimly lit auditorium.  There is something in your heart, on your mind, nattering at your senses.  Some penitentiary from which you wish release, some cause you wish to venture, some wrong you wish to right.  Silence meets me as for a moment humility presents the King to His people through the vessel of an ill-equipped herald.  “You want me to tell you what is going to happen for you”.  You want the whole story.  The entire book of this world has been laid out for all to review, but none believe without feeling those spike pierced hands or feeling the spear shaped wound of His side.  “Where would you have me send you, when this place has run out of safe passage”?, I say, as the tears begin to flow down my saddened visage.  “I have no miracles to prove my witness, only the truth that is unavoidable from which all men hope to flee”.  “I cannot give you more time to ponder your position, to consider what you believe, for there is none left to give you”.

Come to Christ in faith or come to Him in judgment, it is a choice for you alone.  Every other decision that you will face in this life, is rooted in this single determination.  I can tell you that I love you and know that you are capable of extraordinary bravery.  Yes many of you when given the chance will extol His name and magnify His glory at your passing.  What would you have me tell you?  I may not know, but this I do.  I love you and pray that His hand guide you, protect, equip you and comfort you throughout whatever it is you must face in this life.  Don’t search the tabloids, the airwaves, academia or the dark looking for the answers you seek, Ask Him.  For He alone knows the secrets of your making.  Praise God, in all His glory.

Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf be unstopped.  Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.  Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.  The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs.  In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. 

And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.  The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.  No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will not be found there.  But only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return.  They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.  Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.  Isaiah 35 3-10

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.  Let the redeemed of the Lord say this-those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.

Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.  They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.  They they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.  Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies the hungry with good things.  Psalm 107 1-9

Lord my words are but wooden arrows to a speeding locomotive and I am no giant slayer.  Though I paint myself the warrior, I sometimes peer from safest perch while others stand against the throng.  Turning with eyes closed to stem the tears, my hands wringing finger holes in my shirt and all I can muster is prayer for the dying.  I hope that you can make something of me, this lumpish clay, destined to conform to whatever pressures it most.

I hide my colors, for they reveal the truth internal, telling of my tin shield and store-bought  safety.  While they should be raised to honor God, I seek stealth of assassin, burglar or snake.  Show me to be of the fiber which called the universe to be and it could do not but answer.  Let me command, not just myself but the wicked to retreat.  Give me a story that depends on You for its entirety, where I am a recipient to joy not my own, but jubilant none-the-less.  Let me pass the first veil with a smile and Your name upon my lips and heart at my passing.  Let me be a man who become a son to God.  Praise Your Glory for time immemorial.  Amen.

Take a look back at this new life.  One year, five years, ten, it is almost indescribable the distance the Lord has brought me.  Whether being carried, cajoled, prodded, assisted or chased, He has delivered on His promises to make me a new creature and conform me to His likeness.  There is no doubt.  I also have the grace-filled benefit of having watched hundreds of other babes in Christianity, become Spirit filled believers and subsequently become completely different people in Christ.  Family members, friends, business colleagues, people I have been blessed to minister to have over a relatively short period of time have become joyous, active participants in the Kingdom, their families and communities.  I do not deserve such a gift but once again God showers me with undeserved benefits.  What a loving Father.

There is no where else I could contemplate going but forward in this new life.  It is like watching new babies being born, which I could imagine must be the coolest of medical professions.  Their is something about watching things grow that prohibits the denial of God in the process.  Being witness to the life changing effect that the Lord Jesus Christ has on the lives of once dead people is all the testimony that we need to evidence the truth of the Gospel.  I will take this truth to all who will hear, for He loves them so much He wants that all should come to Him.  Praise You Lord for this awesome gift.  Let me use it wisely for Your Kingdom and Glory.  Amen.

What is the truth to you?  Can you effectively describe it, recognize it and do you actively seek it, even though it makes you unpopular?  Where does honesty rank on your list of most-important characteristics found in a healthy marriage, friendship or business alliance?  There is an all out assault on the truth these days and if you perhaps stand on the side of its resounding importance in the construct of human interaction you better prepare to be assaulted.

I really dislike quoting him, so I won’t, but I an going to refer to a psychology ideology practiced by hitler to demonstrate how those who are evil, view and manipulate the truth.  Germany’s strategy, designed to justify their extermination of “all Jews” involved a propaganda scheme called the “Big Lie”.  hitler believed, and was justified in doing so that if you say a big lie long enough and loud enough that people will eventually believe you.  He also believed that a large lie was easier to believe than a small one and used the technique when attacking enemies through the media to discredit them by a message that was outrageous yet eventually assimilated by the general public as truth.

Evil must discredit, warp, avoid or rewrite historic truth in order to have their ways made generally acceptable, otherwise the truth defines them clearly as “wicked”.  God help us this seems to have been adopted by our current administration.  Those who propogate untruth serve the father of lies, satan himself, may the Lord Jesus rebuke him.  I pray that they will turn from their unrighteous rule and embrace the truth so that we may quickly turn our faces back to the Lord and heal this once blessed land.

Your consistent discernment is essential to victory in your household.  The Lord warns that even the elect would be deceived by the anti-Christ’s upcoming worldwide illusion.  We must gird our loins with the belt of truth and protect our hearts and minds with the full armor of God.  We will not prevail in and of ourselves.  We must rely on the Holy Spirit of God to seal us and guard us from the coming climate of deception.  Pray for truth, the eyes to see and the mouth to speak it.  Do not cower from the ominous assault upon what is right, just and true.  We will overcome through the power of the Blood, our testimony and our Love for Christ Jesus.  God be praised.