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Myths and experience

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http://www.jpost.com/International/Exclusive-Cornered-but-unbound-by-nuclear-pact-Israel-reconsiders-military-action-against-Iran-382541  Is there Biblical context to this portended strike by Israel upon Iran?  What does the Word of God say about this potential issue?

My prayers are made manifest by footfalls of my walk with Jesus.  This is crunch-time, the fourth quarter the denouement, the period where mystic, meets magic meets miracles of God.  The prevalence and increased occurrence of coincidence in my life is validating my theory regarding the preciousness of our remaining moments in service to Christ Jesus.  Each day, I am led into relationship with the exact people who by thought, meditation and prayer have been seeking the assets to evoke their perceived purpose for the Kingdom and their legacy.  Kindred spirits are being gathered for the purpose of Harvest and if this is ignored, simply regarded as coincidence, then perhaps the value of Divine introductions will be lost in opportunity.  Look around you, the birds have comfortably nested within the mustard tree, relegating most believers to powerless personal ministry.  For those believers who have been aware, obedient and watchful, the opposite is obvious.  Individual ministries are beginning to take shape.  The fire of one ember, put to bellows and kindled by the fuel of Brothers is beginning to produce an inferno that will soon be beyond dismissal.  Even this day there are millions who have never bent a knee to Baal.  On that comfort and the hope in God’s inerrant Word I will build my house to warn all of the coming storm in the Earth’s tribulation, The GREAT DAY of OUR LORD and the time of Jacob’s trouble.

God Bless Israel, for her moment of testing approaches.  God does not mince Words when speaking of His beloved.  They are held to a standard that few of us, if any may understand.  They will not be left in their moment of trial, but surrounded by the might, power and love of Almighty God.  They must suffer for their wandering, but in the end they will be with God, as He promised.  To those nations who threaten the Nation of Israel, I pray you heed God’s Warning.  Bring no harm to her for you have poked your finger into the Eye of God.  Regardless of your thinking, your correctness in pointing out her failures, for even though you speak some truth, God has proclaimed that those who bless her shall be blessed and those who curse her shall be cursed.  It is not Israel that we should fear but God, for He has spoken of His undying faithfulness to His beloved nation, even in their adultery, God shall not abandon her even for a moment.  Be advised, be educated, be warned.  The nation of Israel shall only be judged by God, not by man’s quarrels.

I serve the Lord our God, I do not serve the adulteress actions of nations and men.  The time of action is upon us and that action requires a Love for Humanity that surpasses our own capacity for forgiveness, hope and understanding.  We must be fully dependent upon the Holy Spirit of God if we are ever to achieve that love for which we have been created, redeemed and filled by the indwelling of God’s Spirit.  If you want purpose then it is known to all  Christian’s, for Christ has defined and commanded each of as to His purpose.  Go and make disciples of men, teaching them the Gospel so that all may come to the knowledge of God through Christ.  That is a paraphrase of God’s Word on this issue, Lord please forgive me if I have indicated anything that is not consistent with Your intention.  Let us be set aflame by the indwelling of Your Baptismal Spirit.  Let us demonstrate the power of God through Christ to this world that is flooded in impotence.  Bring us a healing hand, kind hearts and the courage to stand in the face of overwhelming odds, amassed enemy forces and storms.  The time of trial approaches, let each of us look internally and make our hearts right with God for that moment when it will become paramount is assured.

Praise You Almighty Father, the one God of Heaven and Earth.  Jesus forgive and deliver us from the evil that seemingly prevails, but which must be dispelled at Your return.  Let Your return begin today in the hearts, words and walks of every Christian, let the enemy be scattered at the proclamation of our righteous and hopeful faith in YOU.

Driving passion

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If passions rule my actions then whose passion?  Is it God’s eternal passion for the lost of this world to find their way home to salvation and relationship?  Is it passion for this or that movement to create prosperity for this group or remove power for that group?  Is it for gain, monetary or treasured artifacts to include ourselves in the select few capable of chasing their dreams indefinitely?  Is it to fill the houses of power with people who look and act like me, men and women who will further my agenda or national intentions?  Or are my passions synonymous with God’s Will?

Do I look to feed the hungry, not only their bellies but that empty hole within their spirits that may only be filled by Christ?  Do I seek to Father the orphaned, showing them love of God so that they too may find their way home to our Eternal Father God?  Do I seek to prop up, protect and look after the elderly, especially the widowed, so that they may find the honorable way to share their wisdom, gifts and love with those who may tremendously benefit?  Do I look to protect the innocence of the young and those who cannot avoid corruption?  Do I scream at the coming night in the Name of Jesus Christ, shining the light of His righteousness in to dark places, forcing principalities to scurry?  Do I stand for God’s passion for the lost world, proclaiming His love and forgiveness to those who would repent and be saved?  What passions drive my heart, my song, my walk?  Do I follow reason, justice, mercy and overwhelming kindness overall or in truth do I serve the call of my passionate flesh?

The enemy is easy to combat when you look to the transparency of his passions.  Wherever deception exists it is made to cloud evidence of ungodly passion.  The truth needs no protective shield, deceptive veil or misty mechanisms.  The truth is spoken freely without regard for political position or passion.  It is wrong to watch my fellow humans go hungry, be poor, but it is worse yet to leave them without the HOPE OF CHRIST and eternity.  Follow the passions of man and you will see what drives each initiative.  Follow the passions of false teachers and the treasured tale of chasing gold will become painfully evident beyond the deception of their public words.  Follow the passion of warriors who would kill the innocent for the completion of their cause and you will find naught but wickedness.  Speak truth and consider passions dangerous, for many have been killed or made poor in the name of manly passions when God would see them set free and prospered.  Lord Jesus guide the passions of my heart to serve Your desire for mankind’s salvation.

The day!

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Am I preparing for Christ’s return for His Church, tonight?  If not then I fail to comprehend, accept or contemplate the principle of imminence.  I also have become determined to overlook or ignore that Jesus continued to offer preparedness parables to the faithful.  Jesus, although He continually expressed the need to spread the Gospel, so that the lost would find salvation, He repeatedly offered teaching regarding, “being ready” to the saints.  Being ready for what, you ask?  Thank you for asking.  Being ready for His return for the Church.

Jesus’ second coming will be nothing if but spectacular, coming down from the clouds, the faithful behind, to speak into existence the level judgment of the disobedient and salvation to the Jews.  Why then did He continually remind the saints that “He would come like a thief in the night”?  Clearly He referred to two differing events, one a return to snatch the Church from the judgment to come, which they were not designated to suffer, the next a dynamic entrance to take back the deed to the Earth and pass judgment on the wicked.

The Lord will at some point come to remove the faithful.  I prefer to understand and obey His repeated calls to “readiness” as a Christian.  Current evidence in the powerlessness of the Church unfortunately cries out to the absence of the Holy Spirit within those who believe they are within the Body of Christ.  Since the Lord continually called us to have “oil in our lamps”, being filled, so that we might be found “ready” when the Master comes, then the answer to this questioned readiness resides in the filling of the Holy Spirit.  This was one of the Lord’s most frequent topics when teaching to believers.  It is essential that we seek to understand this teaching and take adequate steps in faith to making our hearts, minds and spirits ready for His coming.

I look forward to the Day of the Lord.  Not because wickedness will finally be dealt a resounding blow by the Creator, but because this world will finally accept that there is one Creator, who is the rightful ruler of all universes, to include mankind.  I weep the deception ever present in today’s discussion, I mourn those lost to pursue magic potions, divination and escapism, I crave a day when the truth is no longer argued and we can get about the business of doing the work without question.  I want to serve.  I don’t want to be king.  I don’t want to be God or be honored for how well I’ve worshiped His Glory.  That is where satan’s travesty began, probably accepting glory for how well he worshiped God.  My pride is just as dangerous.  May I lead you to the Cross where you may understand God’s eternal Glory and bask in His righteousness.  May I only exist to encourage you and love you in your travails.

I am sorry that the terrorist’s quest for peace with God has left them destitute, angry and misshapen.  I pray that the Lord our God, touches their hearts in such a way that the veil of hate is removed from their eyes and they may finally see their sin, so that they may be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus Christ the King.  I am sorry that God’s enemies had to suffer death at the hand of our soldiers, I only wish that they had found Jesus reflected in our hearts, words and faces before they found it necessary to enter in war against us.  May the fire of heaven rain down upon the enemies of God and may we find it in our hearts to forgive those who have brought misfortune, pain and death to our families.  Heal us Father, take from us the bitterness that leads to rage and separation from Your Everlasting Love.  Grant this Earth Peace.  Lord rebuke Your enemies if it is in Your Will to do so, and let us love them enough to forgive them and change their hearts forever through the Power of Your Love for mankind.  In Jesus’ Name.

No shows for battle

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Atheists or agnostics will by nature leave God as a possibility for man’s history out of any documentary, training or teaching program.  Scientists, will review any experiment, purposely excluding God as a catalyst/answer, in order to produce their singly blind results.  History cannot be told in its entirety without reflection and incorporation of what the Bible says about the periods, times, motivations and influences God had upon humanity.  Yet we as Christians have determined, in our complacency, to turn over the schools and universities to atheists, agnostics and believers in scientific evolutionism, totally expecting them to include God as a possibility in the list of options for our origins.  Who will fight for the truth, or even smaller the inclusion of God as an option for man’s origin, if not Christians?  The answer is no one.  If God sent us as His ambassadors to humanity and we decline to do our job, what results shall follow?

Do we truly expect our children and young adults to learn critical thinking without telling them all the possibilities?  This is akin to telling young minds that red is by far the most beautiful color, while never showing them green, or yellow or blue.  Atheists, just as our current administration do not trust other humans to make up their own minds.  They, as with all tyrants throughout history, believe that they know the best way for people to live.  This type of arrogance requires that any alternate explanations, plans or ideas be eradicated.  They must at all costs eliminate God from the list of possibilities, for His truth threatens to rip, topple or dissolve their illusion of perfection through ideology.  If you don’t believe me, look to history.

This is a deceptive sham perpetrated by the enemies of God, subjecting millions of people to exposure to a damnation that was never meant for any of us.  God is absolutely correct and true in Romans 1, where he tells us that everyone knows the truth of God and that when they reject that truth they are turned over to the decadence of their own thinking.  Furthermore, they must then convert everyone around them to their skewed view, even one, remaining contrariety threatens to topple the entire, precariously enabled apple cart and must be stopped, diminished, ostracized and eventually destroyed at all cost.  Isn’t this the only explanation for the passion intrinsic to their Need to remove God from the list of options we are teaching children?

Why else would they care if children were taught about God as an option unless it is in simple expression an absolute antidote to reconstructive history, big bang theories and evolutionary chance as the genesis of mankind.  In their overwhelming desire to control or suppress thought they have shown their fear of God.  They seek to escape God’s judgment, therefore they must deny that God even exists, thinking themselves free of His sovereign authority.  Yet humanists, atheist, agnostics and scientist will openly parade around in acceptance of satan’s existence as fact.  How can satan exist without God first having created him?  This is why they cannot allow our children the opportunity at a rational discussion about God, for in this discussion the only logical conclusion becomes, God is the only rational explanation.

Lord God, Father, Your Word clearly states that hell was designed for satan and his disobedient angels.  Father, I pray that those who will see the tragedy of their thinking will turn to You in faith and trust, being saved from that destiny intended for others.  Father protect our children, armor up Christians prepared to stand in the face of adversity and share the Truth of Your Gospel, so that many might be saved.  Let young minds openly investigate, discuss and voluntarily come to rational conclusion about a relationship with You.  Let people see that it is not Christianity that desperately wishes to control the conversation but those who MUST disprove your existence to free themselves of accountability for sin and disbelief.  We humbly await Your return Lord Jesus and hope to be found as faithful servants, having obeyed your direction and done the Kingdom Works You have prepared for each of us.  Lord rebuke the deceiver if it is Your Will to do so.

Quiet Voice

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Does God show up in your life?  Do you generally see Him only in actions, answered prayer or do you feel His guidance in the those quiet, truthful, loving or rebuking moments?  How has your faith grown, looking for a measure, empirical response, perhaps miracles or have you gone seeking God’s Will in His word.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord.  Does that line from the Bible resonate within you?  If the Bible says that your faith will be increased by being washed in His word, why then would you be looking for evidence of God’s Will through manna, birds, finances or floods?  Isn’t obedience about following the direction of an authority to whom you have willfully surrendered?

I love when God shows up in song, circumstances and situational salvation, but I crave those moments when I hear and positively respond to His quiet leading within my heart.  Think on that for a moment.  When the Jews had been oppressed for four hundred years and were set free into the desert to find the promise land they shook their fists at God demanding miracles.  Why were they in the desert, because of the miracles of God.  We must not, like the unbelievers be reliant upon signs and wonders for proof that God is there.

Faith in God is what it requires to please God and grow.  We must therefore counsel our own hearts to listen to sermons, read the Word, go to Bible studies and spend time with the Lord in prayer, for this is the road to faith and relationship with God.  Above all I must agree to be honest with myself regarding my own misgivings, expectations and demands upon God before I can righteously align my heart with His quiet urgings.  If I am simply looking for Him to show up when I rub the lamp, repeat mantras like incantation or roll the dice in life looking for Him to step in our defense, then we have designed a graven image that is certainly not God.  So though you are tired, bored, ill equipped or not “feeling” it, God wants us to gather together to share fellowship, worship and hear the Word, so, just doing it applies.  If you want to hear the voice of God then take the time to get to know His voice, so it is recognizable above the din of the world.  And we all agree this world and its many screaming voices vie actively for our attention as Christians.  We must learn to self-control our focus and apply it to listening, looking, searching and praying for God’s verbal and active participation in our lives.  He is inviting us, will we accept and show up for the event?  I pray that we have hungry hearts for God’s Word and a lasting relationship found only through the door of Jesus Christ.  Amen

Self Measure

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Why is it imperative that each of us find an identity to fulfill our individual or corporate objectives?  What is the foundation upon which that identity is formed?  Does it take crisis to shake us from an individual or group identity that may have been ill developed or conceived?  These are my questions for You, My Lord, Almighty God, Father of Heaven and Earth.  Lord, I fear it is essential that we either find our identities in Your Word, Your Perspective, Your Will or we will eventually be ushered toward an individual/group identity that is contrary to Your Principles.  Father, why does it, so much matter what I believe about myself?

Since my self perception is this important to my adequacy and effectiveness, could perhaps, my chosen identity be a reflection of my heart and soul.  If my self identity is misaligned with Your Will must I suffer a particular level of chaos to be shaken from this affiliation, indoctrination or influence?  Is my identity, and the discovery of that identity essential to my created purpose?  If I align myself with an identity that is alternate or contrary to Your perspective, do I simply become a tool for Your unfolding plan for humanity?  Is it as simple and as complicated as submitting to Your identity over my own, is this the key to efficacy in good measure?  Father, is what I believe about myself a clue toward the importance of knowing You?  Show me the importance of image Lord.

If I think that I will never measure up to God’s Grace then I most assuredly am mistaken in my Christian understanding.  It is established that none of deserve redemption, for the Bible elaborates that the wages of sin is death and that the works of even a righteous man are as filthy rags to the Lord.  So, if I continue to look at myself and “judge” that I am unworthy, then I continue to view the world through my worldly/fleshly prism.  You have been forgiven, that means “you”.  There is no further condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  Often it is wonderful to repeat God’s Word, but do we take it a step further and begin to walk in the belief turning what we’ve heard into faith?  It is a wonderful thing to approach the Lord, in the quiet moments within our prayer closet, humbly and contritely acknowledging to God that we continuously fail, but that should free us from carrying that judgment back into our daily walk.

Taking that condemnation or superimposing over your life is assisting the enemy in his efforts to make you feel inadequate.  Can we all come to an agreement, that we will accept God’s opinion of us over our own?  I think that will allow each of us to remain consistent within our range of self-image, never to hard never to lenient, humbly deferring to God’s Holy Word regarding our own righteousness or guilt.  We must inevitably arrive a point where we look at this world, including our own reflection, through God’s framework.  We have been forgiven, we have been made whole, we have been redeemed to God, the war between us is over, when He looks upon each of us He sees His perfect son.  That is all the perspective that I need. I must find myself hidden in God through Christ, my image protected by God’s eyes set upon me for eternity.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/developing-a-positive-self-image-431948.html The late Pastor Adrian Rogers on healthy self image.