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

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  That has been replaced by deceptive bargaining leverage and perceptive marketing.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those days, where you don’t have to even try and everything seems to flow toward rightness.  Had one of those and it was delightful.  Not that I would seek to capture that moment, bottle and repeat it each and every day, but it sure is nice when things work out.  Don’t want to be facetious so I’ll just say that today was excellent because I was working His plan not my own.  The joy in consequence of such activity is that my cup ran over.  I saw three young men of their own volition attend bible study, solid, scriptural-expository preaching, food, fellowship and family fun without compulsion, bribery, only prayer.  Thank You Lord for such things do not happen these days without Your intervention.  I am overjoyed to have been selected as Your ambassador to offer invitation.  May Your Word strike a harmonious chord within their hearts, mind and spirit.  May they surrender to the call of Your grace and find salvation, purpose and remain in the light throughout their days.

On something which may seem totally unrelated, but in fact is perfectly aligned, I have several words of inquiry.  Why must every causality in the world of politics, war, weather and economics be devoid of God’s will as explanation?  For example the Republican party lost this past election and pundits volley every possible genesis for such a failure except that of the most obvious, that the Republican message requires that every member eventually have a discussion about absolute truth, ethics and morality.  And let us face the facts people do not want to talk about GOD.

As God’s Word predicted there has arisen a generation of Americans who do not know the Father, nor do they want to.  Besides, having that conversation with them requires that they have to face the fact of personal accountability for their actions and that God will personally judge those actions.  This is something that the now majority of Americans desperately do not wish to face and they have proven that they will demagogue, insult, threaten, avoid and eventually persecute anyone who suggests that there is an absolute moral code or that there is an enforceable requirement of behavior established, promised and adjudicated by an Almighty, Sovereign authority.

Any person who says keep your hands off my right to have an abortion, cannot know the Father.  Any person who says that it is their God given right to marry someone of their own gender does not know the Father.  Any person who believes that it is okay to have extramarital or premarital sexual intercourse with any and all partners of their choosing does not know the Father.  Any person who pursues money at the cost of the poor, the disenfranchised, orphaned, widowed, foreign or handicapped does not know the Father.  They form churches who warp God’s Word so that they may justify every wickedness.  They form clubs who demagogue believers as intolerant or unloving.  They castigate  Christians who faithfully proclaim God’s commands.  They avoid at all costs or demonize any discussion which rightfully points out that there is only one way to the Father and that is through belief in the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as propitiation for the sins of mankind.

Yes what I saw today is an anomaly.  Young men, with sharp minds and free will make a choice that not only seemed right to them, but arrived as logical conclusion based on their analysis of the truth of God’s Word and the evidence of this fallen world.  You may proclaim them foolish, but that does not make it so.  You may question their judgment but that does not make it unwise.  You may mock them and castigate them as hypnotized by folly, but that does not diminish their decision.  The truth may be mercilessly bludgeoned, pursued by horrifying enemy and twisted by vile tongues in an attempt to lessen its potential, but in the end the truth prevails in its purity.  This country is suffering so because we will not face the truth of our rebellion to the requirements of our maker.  We are going down the wrong path, because we have asserted our selves as gods or worship false demonic idols.  We continue to practice immorality with abandon and that is the shift in our cultural behavior which has brought loose men into dominion.  We have gotten what we have pursued and we will enjoy or suffer the effects of our pursuits.

God be praised, His Truth is unavoidable, unalterable and eternal.  Not a yot or tittle will pass away though all things fall into the sea.  Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and the closer we get to tribulation the louder it will be proclaimed.  in days to come the conviction of many courageous young men will become as impenetrable as the armor of God.  I pray that God reinforce their courage, resilience and steadfast pursuit of righteousness and truth.  For there are only two sides.

Is it you that knows all the answers?  If the mind is given rein it will ponder unending.  What sponsors your restraint of thinking or are you perhaps delighted in the process of constant query?  Why does God conceal wisdom, hiding the marrow of logic deeply inside conundrum, puzzle and riddle?  Is it really that hard to gain relief to the pestering questions frustrating the contemplative?  Perhaps it is God’s greatest irony and a masterful reward for those who will not just hear but listen and respond to His direction.  That the answer to life’s seemingly most difficult questions is freely given for the asking.

Proverbs 2 is a specific path to wisdom and understanding.  This simple road map is a step by step recipe for discovering answers and comes with neither ambiguity nor deception.  I often hear people exclaim that do not seek the Word of God because it is so difficult to understand or that there are so many interpretations.  I think these arguments are “smoke-screen” for the true root of the problem which is that we are at our nature, rebellious.  If you seek answers the following is a direct path to answer, but comes with a caution and that is at the end of the path you will find a Loving Father that you have barely if ever really known.  If you follow this visibly illuminated path you will come to knowledge and then you will have the fortunate choice of converting that information into power by applying it to make solid decisions about past missteps and future direction.

My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
² turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—
³ indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
⁴ and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
⁵ then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
⁷ He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
⁸ for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.

The time has arrived for the real change.  Not the version of renewed prosperity for which most are wagering, but a reckoning.  Should we be fearful as the surge passes fulcrum, no longer balanced but teetering toward correction?  I don’t know.  Do you have the subdued unpleasantness in your core, because past this point there is no return?  Quite exciting isn’t it to think of something new, even if it displays tragedy at its foundation?   Man holds too much faith in the realm of possibility, deploying the same old rhetoric, ambition and resources to get up the same, previously unconquered hill.  This is the point at which our nation became something different.  Want is the new logic, desire the new morality, platitude the new currency.  What once was held sacrosanct will now be foolishness.  The foundation has been forgotten for a parcel full of loam.  The path is now salted for open persecution.  We are the last foothold of restraint, we cannot be left untrammeled.

Soon, what once was seemingly idle mockery will shortly become open contempt, followed by slander and pointing fingers.  For that which seeks the darkness cannot tolerate the light.  The time has come for national accounting, we will not voluntarily be humble it will be thrust upon us as reward for our disregard, self service and collective unconscious.  Our dessert has arrived and eat we shall,  though it will be bitter to the taste and sour to our stomachs.  What we’ve asked for has come in recompense for our lack of care in asking.  There is hope for all mankind, even now that we have become the prodigal nation and that hope resides in humility, repentance, prayer and forgiveness.  I suspect we will not accept the hand of mercy until it is the only method of avoiding the precipice so evident.  Lord grant us mercy in this our greatest hour of need.  Bring hearts to You so that they may be circumcised and saved.  Save this nation if it be Your Will to do so.  All praise, and glory and honor to You Father God in the mighty Name of Jesus Christ the king. Amen.

Where were we?  Arm in arm, heart to heart, sealed in common thought and a bond that surpasses this lifetime?  Are we waiting rhythmically to join the dance, joy spilling out our pores at the chance to spend time with our family?  Carrying our children who have never been so peaceful, content and yes happy.  Are we in harmony or dissonance, agreement or discord, speaking solidarity or dissent?  Who have we not forgiven, even for the things that were deserving?  What have we put above that love which calls us care and defend each other?  Where did our paths diverge?

He would have me love you.  Not out of spite, I told you so or I can be bigger than you, but because you are filled with the breath of God.  It shouldn’t be that hard, you are amazing, even in those moments when you get my goat by knowing me too well.  I have no ammunition in magazine, no more powder in the keg, no more reason for my unyielding resolution.  I surrender to His love for me and lay at the mercy of His commanded grace and forgiveness.  We cannot alone become the victor as the body must be one.

Soften us Lord.  Give us tears followed by stout hearts and merciful hands for the suffering or forgotten.  Let us take to heart this charge proclaimed before the ages to rise above mere image.  Let us stand against all challenge whether formidable or false knowing that our outcome is deliverance.  Give us strength in weakness, temper our emotional response, give us the collective peace in the knowledge that our path is right and true.  Let this be Your victory in which we are familial participants.  May we rise above and find the meaning of love through shared sacrifice, faith and work.  Make us strong to the plow and tender to those entrusted to our care.  Show us Your face at the dusk and in the morning.  Let us be truly together in Your Hope.  Praise You Merciful Father, Your judgments are correct.  Lord Jesus we love You.

What is achieved if I allow the enemy or any discouraging voice to convince me that I am unworthy?  Does it mean that I have to stop my good works and sit on the sidelines until I once again am convinced by external or internal forces of my qualifications for the job set before me?  The Lord is the only one who can take me out of the game without my approval.  Sure I can let comments, recommendations, ridicule, spite, attacks and of course my own actions temporarily remove me from the field of honor and efficacy, but again the control of this falls in my own hands not that of another.  The largest damage I can do to myself is to distance myself from the Father, His Blessing and His guidance through my own sin.  This is the way to hamstring myself within my ministry.  I do not hate myself for sin, so I do not hate any other sinner but I sure do wish that we could live more holy lives.

I hope and pray that on just one day I will look back in review upon my actions and see that I didn’t do anything that could be found offensive to God.  I have to tell you I cannot remember such a day, but this consistent failure does not stop my perpetual attempt.  I have to assume that since Christ has chosen me that at some point the Spirit will overcome this wretched flesh.  And for that day I strive.  For that day I ask your forgiveness for this another day of humanness.  Lord Jesus, please come when the Plan of the Father wills it, but please forgive me for asking that it be soon.  I hope that all mankind would have a collective consciousness moment of revelation of the need to respect Your Sovereignty, repent of their sin and seek to glorify Your Name.  It is a Holy, Righteous and Glorious Name that should grace the lips of all created things as they cry out to You in humility and reverence.  Oh that all would come to you and accept the gift of eternity forsaking all false treasure, faith and idol.  You alone are God, You alone are Truth, You alone are deserving of my praise.  I love you God the Father, Son and Spirit.  Praise Your name King Jesus.