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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.

We all search for meaning

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Life, what is to be done with it?  There is a spectrum of possibilities on this issue, ranging from life’s insignificance to the opposite where each human was specifically crafted for larger purpose.  On one end chance, over billions of years via shear opportunity, a chemical reaction created a specific chain of events resulting in human life.  I shall not argue these differences for sake of staying clear of argument about the existence of God, for I believe that review of the significance of life accepts His existence as precedent for further discussion.

On the other end, life has a specific purpose to train us for our eternal participation in God’s created universe.  If it is chance to which you subscribe then each interaction of this life is simply orchestrated by luck, coincidence and chemical interaction, leaving its meaning solely up to how each individual reacts to those chance environments and occurrence.

Here is where the “survival of the fittest” mentality is born, for in this ideology the strong will eat the weak and those of low constitution shall never prevail when subjected to ravages of time and chance.  This has never panned out as weak humans remain even after the tens or hundreds of millions of chance and evolutionary impact.  Certainly there have been evil men, Hitler one of the most atrocious, who believed that evolution needed a bit of assistance to eradicate the weak.  This just demonstrates the desperation involved in this life ideology, for if life were simply about the strong surviving, then we would never have thought Hitler evil in the first place, for he would have just been fulfilling the evolutionist’s mandate.  If I truly believed that evolution is the guiding power and authority governing man’s finite existence, then it would need no assistance from me.  Rather I would be struggling against its ominous impacts, chance near death experiences and inevitability.

Praise be to God that this is not the True meaning of life.  Thanks to Almighty God that this mediocre experience, called life may be transformed into abundant blessing through organized relationship with our creator in realization of His designed purpose for mankind.  Jesus Christ put it succinctly in John 10:9-10 when He said, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Living this life as if it is all that man can ever have breeds the contempt inherent to evolutionary ideology.  Praise God that this is not the end and that He may instructively utilize my weakness for His Glory and the good of mankind.  We are all precious, each of us.  Some of the noblest gestures and campaigns in mankind’s history were when the strong stepped in to defend, help or help to strengthen the weakest of our brethren.  Evolutionism preaches a desperation inherent to the “thief” Christ mentioned in the previous passage.  For satan would have us invest all of our eternal opportunity in the finite moments of this existence, incorrectly believing that your lot in this life is all that we may achieve.  He would have us give in to the desperation of our circumstances instead of concentrating on God’s promises of abundant life “in this lifetime”.  Yes Christ promised that His coming made it so that we “may have life and have it abundantly”.  That abundance only comes with a belief in something beyond “ourselves”.  It only comes with faith in God’s capacity to transform our circumstances or transform us within our circumstances so that abundant living is possible.  Those confining themselves to the finite, fickle and marginally powerless religion of evolutionism have determined that they will leave their access to abundance entirely up to chance.  They have had the possibility of abundance stolen by the thief, we also know as the roaming lion, who has effectively deceived them into giving up their birthright into the citizenship of heaven.

Look, I do not know what stimuli prompted those who subscribe to the religion of evolutionism to seek that limited path.  I just know that I cannot adhere to such desperation when the choice of abundant life beckons me follow.  Why narrow your vision focusing on the limitations of this lifetime when a full scan of the universe demonstrates the Glory of possibility and purpose?  I know that God made me for a specific purpose to His Glory.  I believe that the living of this life is its own purpose, that I can never be separated from that purpose and that eternity awaits my completion of this segment of infinity.  This is not all that I have and that makes me a powerful man even in the face of my obvious worldly weakness.  I am acquainted with eternity, His name is Jesus Christ the King of God’s creation.  My kinship to Him transcends any impacts that this life has in store, for I shall be with God, forever and forever, servant to a Righteous King who deserves my everything and promises me abundant, Life.

The oil of gladness

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Let your heart be filled with overflowing joy, let fear dissolve, your countenance chastened and restored.  Have you had the grand opportunity to sit down and read the Word of God.  Not just studying it or using it as an attempt to secure some understanding, but honestly sitting down and relaxing into its grandeur.  For example, the book of Hebrews, such a short book it simply astounds.  I can read it over and over and be edified each time, delving into God’s love for Jesus and how that love became the greatest gift from a loving Father to all the Earth.  It is a Holy Spirit inspired road map of how God’s grace frees believers from the prisons of law, sin and death.  Hebrews is a reassuring manual on what to expect as a believer, resolving misunderstanding, building appropriate expectation and securing hope.  This book is the quintessential guide to Divine and Christian relationship, explaining the need and benefits of enduring relationship, even explaining the positive effects of chastisement and testing.

There is great joy of maintenance in the Word of God.  Just as in Hebrews, the other epistles provide sufficient detailed explanation on church life, family, kingdom works, reputation, gifts, healing, protection, preparedness and warnings against enemies, complacency and backsliding.  Reading them builds confidence, courage, faith, strength and thorough understanding and logical reliance upon the Truth of Christian Hope.  We are of the same family, sharing in the riches of righteousness and glory, not due to worldly qualifiers of fitness, survival or class but because we believed.  That is something which cannot be taken from us, even by death.  Did you hear that, even through death we cannot be stripped of our heritage, or lineage or kinship to Christ Jesus?  What a gift, but lest we fall prey to worldly weakness, remember to heed this word not just read it.  Obedience is love for God, verified in faith.

Be glad, be of good courage and know that the Lord is our God for now and forever, Amen.  Jesus, may I make full use of the gifts I have been given to Your greatest Glory.