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Should?

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Yes, the positive presumption is that as the recipients of Grace we should always succeed. However, we must reconcile the statement Jesus made that we would be assured of troubles in this World? They are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, perhaps the readiness and endurance we are to express is found in facing those trials, troubles and even tribulation in joy fully dependent upon the promises that build our faith? Are you ready to face the trials ahead of you or are in assumption of never meeting them? These passed several years and decades I have been readying myself for increased difficulties of path and portent. I eat less, pray more and seek a reflection equivalent with Fruits born of someone slowly and surely bearing resemblance to Christ Jesus. If not why not?

When I seek comfort I am leaning toward my fleshly desire to seek self-accommodation. It is not that I seek difficulty, discomfort and trial but would that practice be inconsistent with let’s say, John the Baptist wearing sack cloth and eating grasshoppers and honey? Have we become so soft that we abhor the sharpening or abrasive stones set before us for honing? Are we spiritually resolved to be the sole person who experiences no persecution though Christ promised it to all? How do you see the last days working out for you in this oddly, Biblically inconsistent review and understanding? Are you pursuing treasures here and yet expect that there will be resounding applause and welcome for you as you arrive in God’s Presence, having done nothing deterministically to secure His good pleasure through Faith?

There are wars and rumors of coming wars. There are earthquakes and natural disasters abounding, whether by accident or man’s recent ability to manipulate their creation and impact. There is pestilence created to capture, harm and control creation in a way that is consistent with the times of Noah as we approached God’s wrath upon this Earth. We see seen rampant, lust an acceptable cultural norm and a greed that rivals or exceeds the history of Man’s satanic empires. When do we confidently acknowledge and align with our expectations/actions to mirror the recognition of God’s direction and commands for humanity? And if not, will we let go of our false expectation of observing His rest, being adopted into His Heavenly family or hearing those faithful words? These are clearly the times for which we were made and it is irrational for someone who neither shows fruitful evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Presence nor the conviction of the Spirit’s chastisement for wrong action or sanctification to expect an outcome consistent with living, set apart, Holy Righteous and True as God bids us live? We ought not be fooled by our own inconsistent behaviors or deceived by enemy promises of heavenly rest when nothing but separation, weeping and gnashing of teeth awaits. The Beginning of Wisdom is fear of the Lord. Without it should we counsel ourselves ready?

LAST DAY

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Hear the Word of God. Salvation is not a toy, a label, a clique, a cult or a dream. It is ending the War between you and God. It is forgiveness for all that you’ve done and will do. It is not a doctrine of doing some great deeds to earn God’s Love. It is done by God not by you. Your responsibility is to believe, truly believe and walk as if you truly believe that you could never and can never save yourself from death, hell and the things to come. It is a total belief even in moments of doubt that God is the only way to escape the chains of this life found in our sin against Him. God sent His Son to live the life we must suffer through and do it perfectly then sacrifice Himself, voluntarily to pay the debt incurred by our sins. This gift is the only thing that separates one man from the next. When we choose to accept that gift we are now protected, changed, born again of Heavenly seed to withstand all the assaults of evil with courage and a certain understanding of our everlasting life to come.

Now the hard part. We cannot clean ourselves of the poisons and filth of this world. It is something once again that may only be accomplished by God, through His indwelling Spirit and the Constant/Continual relationship between Him and each believer. We are here to suffer the tests of this fallen world and in so doing see the remaining defects of sin within our Earthly bodies to offer them daily before the King to have them removed as dross from purifying metals. Yes, some day, that wonderful day we will be cleansed completely and receive our Heavenly Bodies in glorification, the moment Christ removes us from this world to be with Him forever. Many believe that this represents rapture and the Bible is very clear just as the Old Testament was very clear that the Messiah would come to Earth Twice. There is no other currently known and understood way for the obedient church to be removed before the dispensation of Wrath and judgment upon the wickedness of Earth’s Dwellers. There is no other way to present an environment so dangerous and desperate to force all who remain conscious to make a decision for or against Christ.

Why do we always push things to the point where we are forced to consciousness? Well, in my words it is my own propensity towards pride and disobedience. Somehow though it is a foolish position with no supporting evidence I believe that I know better than the scripture and the Word God placed upon my heart. For some reason I crave the sinful realization of the momentary sensory fulfillment found in adoration of my sin. I want what I want when I want it how I want it disregarding the logic and inescapable import of God’s Will upon me. What is coming is inevitable. What is coming is coming soon. Believers and unbelievers alike must face the same fact in the absolute primacy and imminence of Christ’s return. We must either decide to obey and follow the direction of His indwelling Spirit or choose to go another route. As a believer the joy found in obedience is righteousness and certainty in the dispensation of God’s Power found only in the Holy Spirit. It is a seal against the wiles of the enemy and a sureness found in the understanding, knowledge, love and faith in Jesus Christ and a protection against the dangers of false doctrine or deception. For those who do not believe or choose to disobey and backslide it is an inclusion in the reward of the Earth Dwellers and those predetermined for everlasting separation from God in the Lake of Fire.

The choice is yours, the days are upon us whether you see, don’t see, heed of don’t obey. This naturally then is nearing the end of the time of preparedness offered all men. The days of decision and action based on belief or the days of self-service and idol worship to fulfill the quests of the fallen heart within our mortal man. It is a time that most will never even consider using wisely, sparingly and urgently to get right with God. That is why God’s prophetic word says the before He returns the Spirit of Elijah will come calling us to a righteous walk and returning our hearts to the Father. The time of the Covenant fulfillment of the Jews is nearing where they will find Grace in the Holy Spirit. For that time to arrive the time of the Gentiles must he completed. We are in that time. Therefore this is the last call for all men to make a decision for or against Christ or remain indifferent which will accomplish the same as an adverse choice of Grace. There is no escape but God through Christ in the Holy Spirit’s Power. There is no other decision as important. There is no other time to make that choice and find yourself prepared for Christ’s retrieval and return for rule and reign. There is no other message more important or worthy of action. This is the day for which each of us was made. How will you spend your last days?

Only One

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Looking to my love for you, compared to the one God first showed me I am ashamed at how poorly I’ve loved this world. There is no justice in the peace you preach, no safety in the coverage you offer the vulnerable, no pride in the law you dispense calling for order. You embrace chaos as if it were solace or tranquility. Embellishing every lie with truth to somehow sell this abomination to the simple. What then is the prediction of your objective? Relative destruction, absolute tranquility in lifelessness, hope in all things unbelievable.

The rub is none of that is my duty, but the love I am meant to show you despite your indwelling demons. Friend of the dark that you are, the time limit is not my own, but the countdown Almighty has ordered. You will find your end in shame, regret and the maddened fires of pitch and satin black, but none of that is my prerogative or passion. Where you go will be determined by your failure or success in acknowledging God’s offer, not by how I feel you’ve erred or come to reason. My only wish is to let you know how much you are truly loved.

There is no margin where my purpose concerned. No dawn to the fog within my thinking. I have no excuse to offer but only the apologies for failure or self-aggrandizement. There can be no failure in loving. For when it is offered something perfect ensues. Even when denied or forsaken love changes hearts, minds and matter. There is no end with love only beginning. No forgotten repose no faltered fealty only sacrifices or self-concern. Just as in life one may not choose separate or competing passions for in love sacrifice is natural, normal and will always prevail. Those who know not the purpose or have never known the truth in love forever, claim they’ve found it only to see at solemn conclusion that they never knew God’s Love.

Yet, I kneel before His Throne. Broken in my spirit, by the lack of interest when judgment is first found. For to look upon a man in worth or unloving candor I am stricken by my own equation to God in presuming that any man beyond the depth of His eternal Hand. This is not my world; I did not eat of the fruit desiring equality or superiority to Creator. Why then would I continue to fail as such perfect works, loving every child, every man or woman for the creation God devised for His Good Glory. Their fate is not my dilemma but the aspirations of Jonah in disobedience to deliver the Hope eternal to all who would listen, leaving their repentance before them and their salvation to the only one who May, Jesus Christ the King.

Embrace

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Clinging to the neck of Mother Bird feels so right and fine. Yet, as she is forced to move to live her life each child is acquainted with the inevitability of the broken connection which may or may not be restored. What is relationship? Is it the constant yearning for the connection or is it the confidence that at some points we will feel the brief/sustained embrace, warmth, comfort and love of that union with the person of our origin? What is the personal responsibility in establishing, maintaining, protecting and honoring the moments and the period between those times of shared interaction?

What changes? Is it everything or is there something in our universe that is outside the effects or periods of broken connection? Obviously, all of creation continues to change, entropy, decay and eventually die. This is the same with knowledge for it may be adjusted to reflect the acquisition of new updates adding to or reshaping the realm of experience. The power and authority of information is to know how to rapidly benefit from or adjust to those inevitable changes in order to somehow become personally improved or edified. However, this ability to change depends fully upon a choice. Knowing, believing and honoring that within the realm/reality of constant flux there is one thing that Never Changes. GOD.

Can you embrace God too much that He breaks the connection for purposes of health? NO. Therefore, the embrace and relationship with God is the only sustainable connection available to each child to become adult to find our way back to Him at ending. Why then in stark contrast to our yearning for connection do we seek to do it on our own, struggling, fidgeting, yearning to break free from the embrace of the one that that never changes? It makes no sense and yet it makes sense for purposes eternal and temporary. However, recognizing these facts begs the question: What would happen if I never sought disconnection from the connection, relationship and embrace of God?

What then is the process by which, through which a man or woman may both establish a consistent connection with the source of stability while venturing and experiencing the trials, education and shaping necessary to achieve relative perfection in each human experiment? Do I personally benefit exponentially from being in constant connection with Almighty? What is the precise or best determined, sweet spot so to say, where God and I are tethered, yet I remain free to master the toolset and freedoms that make a robust man? That is the wonder that astounds the angels, the tether of Spirit, a bond never upset, never disengaged, never interrupted based upon the promises of the One Person who does not change, Almighty Father God.

Contrary to worldly dissolution, the Trinity provides an unchanging relationship between Creator and little C, creation that answers the states unavailable in the realms of constant decay or change. Basically, this relationship by nature is defined by its freedom from the hands of Time and thus may remain constant and absolutely free in the same instant. For just as sustaining any relationship is defined by moments of unbroken connection, Time. Maintaining the relationship/connection is also defined with the same hand or parameters of constancy in, Time. Thus, to have a relationship outside the parameters, boundaries and definitions of time we must have relationship outside of time itself. And God being the only Being outside those constructs or constraints the constancy of Prayer, Gratefulness and Spirit found only in the connection with God, IS the only exception.

So, what is the nature of ETERNITY that exceeds the controlling or excluding clenches of time upon all men? Well, you must be REBORN of something eternal, something heavenly, something outside the original limitations of the man/woman born by the waters of human birth. The only way to achieve a CONSTANT relationship, an embrace that may never be interrupted is through the introduction of a seed of that REBIRTH, the baptism of fire birth, the HOLY SPIRIT’s indwelling with the heart of man. Living with the Holy Spirit’s seed, seal, power and absolute unchanging connection with God Almighty, because He IS who He IS, IS the only path to unceasing embrace.

To be totally loved, provisioned, protected, purposed, promised and portended that eternal connection must be wanted, chosen, yearned for, maintained and honored by each person who seeks everlasting life and growth beyond/outside the constraints of mortal existence. Yes, arguably there will be charlatans of false hope extolling the avenues of PURE KNOWLEDGE as pathways to everlasting, but they never existed outside time and therefore do not have the keys or access to provide its unceasing elements to the buyer. ENLIGHTENMENT or the promised fruits of the tree of the knowledge of GOOD AND EVIL are shiny objects trapping one in a Mobius loop. There is no way from here to there for there is no connection from here to there but through the Spirit, Son and Father who created and sustains all Time, Space and Matter.

First

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Without promise there is no belief, without belief there is no faith, without faith it is impossible to please God. This all stems from the Sovereignty and Reliability of God. For it is upon His act of creation and promises of active participation and prophetic future intercession that even made belief/trust possible. This entire lifestyle of reliance upon God was started by His action and will be ended by His Promised action. Upon that we Trust, everything else is suspect. Therefore, it is my trust in God that is the only Truth within me.

Why then do I read His Word. Is it the story? Is it the flowery language that gives me an electric shock up my legs and back? Is it to be a member of some fellowship or aspiration group? Is it to find out why so many strive to stand with Him when none of them can see Him? Is it to find a way out of my circumstances? Is it because nothing else seems real or discernably true? Is it to give myself strength to tackle the objects and obstacles before me? Is it to find my Creator and understand why He made me and what His promises mean measured against my will and desire? Or is it so that I may stand against Him in my vain imagination, pointing out how simple, uneducated and foolish all Christians have always been? Whose imagination do I hope to support in robust argument, mine or His?

This day, tomorrow we celebrate the day of which the hymn was written. When those of Jerusalem welcomed Him with cries and tears of Hosannah in the Highest. They laid palm fronds before the colt’s feet as they welcomed the realization of promised deliverance in the Messiah’s arrival to fulfill ALL prophecy. Yet, deception and argument offered by religious/military/political leaders led them to within the same week demand His death upon the cross, hung on a tree as cursed prisoners always were. Their reliance was clearly not upon God’s Promise but on man’s offering of protection, palace and prosperity.

Since when have we demanded a shift in the meanings of these feast days, the HOLYDAYS, that we have transliterated to holidays? What are we observing when seeding our children with a quest for the fertility of rabbits and the mystery for painted, golden eggs, gifts, money or the laps of men/women in costumes of the same? What are we pursuing in our own imagination or the stories we have been sold of those who worship air, tree and water? Do we truly understand the Promise that represented in observance and remembrance of the terrifying joy of Christ’s punishment for mankind’s sin? He took our place on that cross, taking willingly the death that we owed for our disobedience in sinful pursuit against God’s command. Why are we so intent on allowing the enemy’s prostitution of first intent, always ready to accept the revisions to the Promise. The small deviation from what God said which eventually leaves the ship astray, the compass untended, True North absent in our travels?

The joy of mistakes made is the time to focus upon their correction. I find myself in the unavoidable countdown to God’s intervention in America and this world. Knowing the only Truth is what He has given me combined with this sense impending urgency of His return I am self-counseled and spoken clearly to by God’s Spirit to do those things commensurate and consistent with a man who in faith, believes and in belief acknowledges the TRUTH that is God’s Sovereignty. These are the days of our participation and validation/declaration of that Truth. God holds accountability for my alignment or departure from His direction. My choices that are consistent with that accountability are the only power I personally possess to deny or confirm the blessings of this life and the next. I choose Truth. I choose God through Christ. I am Christian and I follow Him, am changed by Him and loved by Him to eventually resemble Him in the Family of those who first Trusted and Believed His Promises.

What kind of miracle?

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Faith.  A belief that does not require proof, having accepted something as truth without demanding existing evidence.  How did I know that my earthly Father loved me?  I cannot prove it but I seldom questioned that fact.  I just knew.  It is the same way with God, though He has given much less reason to doubt His love than my earthly Dad.  I trust, hope, believe in and “know” that God will show up in my life.  Sure the first few times I trusted took all the faith that I could muster, but now I have “empirical evidence” based upon the thousands of times which God has shown up in my life.  My faith is based on His trustworthiness not my own capacity to accept facts.  I have faith in His Faithfulness, His Word, His Grace, His reliability and Consistency.  My faith is increased each time that His Word washes over me as it is fortified, perfected and encouraged by Truth.

Mustard Seed.  One to two millimeters in diameter, yet capable of producing one of the largest plantings in the garden, a tree in fact.  This demonstrates the potency of even a smidgen of faith, that from the smallest spore a vast sustainable set of branches will eventually ensue.  God had faith enough in me to offer His Life upon a cross with the hope/knowledge that I would someday accept that gift in humility and be filled by life eternal.  I may not know that much about God, but I know Him, and what I do know of Him surrounds great “love”.  A love that would never leave me alone to flounder, incapable, incapacitated, threatened by enemies who hate me for His sake.  I have “faith” in that love to catch me when I jump, fall, stumble or reach for the everlasting in hope and trust.  That seed that He chose to place in the soil of my spirit has grown, watered and fed by His Word and kept safe by the demonstration of His faithfulness.  I wonder what can be done with a pumpkin seed of faith?

Trust.  I don’t always know what God is up to in our lives, but I do know that it feels good to know that we are in relationship.  I know that I am not always going to understand or appreciate the “goodness” of His disciplining Hand in my life,  but I always eventually see that it was meant for the best.  I have zero comprehension why He chose to offer me salvation , but I am overjoyed that He chose to do so.  I trust that His Word is Truth and that His plan is the perfection of mankind, saving us from the self-evoked chaos to which we are otherwise committed.  I simply accept His righteousness on “faith” and wait for the knowledge, justification and belief to show up at a later date.  Trust in God is not chance but opportunity to sustain hope in something more dependable than the universe itself.

I love You Lord.  Can I explain Love, certainly not, but I know that I love You.  How is it that I am fortunate enough to accept factors with faith that I cannot explain or prove, accept and give Love, something I cannot explain or understand and share Hope with those around me with nothing but words/life actions to demonstrate its probability?  He has made me another creature, a man who believes in things that he cannot explain, evidence or demonstrate.  A man who walks a path that he cannot see yet maintains, with absolute surety that it leads to eternity.  A man who weeps at the plight of humanity when by all means he should be disaffected, simply because God loves them so much.  A man who believed in little else but self gratification now accepts the Truth that is God without question.  What kind of miracle is that?

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This very day

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Retirement savings, leisure street, vacation to warm settings and rest.  Planning for the welfare of my grand kids, such that every waking day is spent in performance, limiting prayer.  What have I become that all the priorities, plans and initiatives of my home, church and personal time surround the bullet points, time lines and plateaus organized in my own strategic focus?  What then of God’s Will, can I orchestrate service to the Lord into my list of priorities, when these must get done now in order to achieve our economic and social goals?  How do I juggle the increasingly diminished moments I am given as the world becomes more complex and picks up speed?  Can I slow it down or do I simply step back and forgo those plans of personal prosperity derived from my own toil?  What would the result be if I gave it all to God and let the chips fall where they may, even forsaking the fear of growing old and having no fall back position?  Do I believe.

Today I spent money on welfare for the homeless and it felt right, given from a joyous heart, yet it was money we did not have to give.  Everyone around is pressuring to pull back on tithe and pennies freely given for the bills they must come first.  Really?  That isn’t the Gospel as I remember it.  I have always been a bit envious of the widow and her two last mites.  Do I believe this day that the Lord is Faithful, True, Reliable and Honest?  Did He say that He would provide for “all” my needs according to His riches and Glory in Christ Jesus?  What then should happen to me if I gave all my money for the Kingdom and my fears were proved out, leaving me destitute, my family disenfranchised, my security shattered?  How should I then change my view of God, having walked in faith, counting sight unworthy?  See folks, I have been there, homeless, worried, harried and alone.  God never failed to show up, providing me exactly what I needed when I needed it, whether, food or friend or Shelter in His Word.

How then can I convince those around me that it is never solely upon me which they depend, for if that were so, they should certainly be left dissatisfied?  I can provide a reasonable living but God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.  I can love, comfort and encourage, but God knows every hair upon your head and knew your name in the womb.  What then of my pride at failing those around me?  I am sorry, but I am insufficient to your expectations.  I will love you and do my darndest to assist, provide, prepare and follow through, but it is God who invariably brings the blessing.  Even if it is by my hand that the work is done, providing coin, it is God who gave me breath, hand, talent and endurance.  Without His provision we would certainly be lost and our collectives fear realized.  But that is not the case, for even this day, I am surrounded by God’s Blessings of hope, heart and safety.  I am thankful and happy to depend upon the Lord, for me, He is enough.  If He does not provide for my needs then there certainly is a reason and an eventual blessing following that lesson.

Even this day, I will love Him for that is all that I have to give you is the love He first gave me.  Jesus be praised.

Feelings, facts and faith

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Teach me your way, O Lord, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.  Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.  I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.  Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say on the Lord!  Psalm 27:11-14

Determining direction requires analysis of facts and feelings, unless you are driven specifically by animal instinct.  Making decisions based solely on “fight or flight” results in grievous error often representing greater danger than the initial stimuli.  So, as we mature we either rely heavily upon fact or choose to trust our “gut” feelings or emotions.  This presents a particular view of the world based upon our specifically chosen or learned filters.  What then happens to humans who, out of response to circumstantial experience are forced to one side of this decision spectrum?

If the facts may be in dispute or my editor/analysis tools are skewed then I am subject to the often gushing guidance of my feelings.  What then shall I do if I find myself continually driven by whimsy or emotional demand?  Especially, when based upon shocking or lasting experiences my “emotions” are out of sync with reality.  Shall I, as many do, resolve to making decisions solely based on data analysis and fact, determining to remain stationary until facts indicate otherwise?  Or is there an optimal or linear function that prescribes the appropriate mixture of the two, so that I am neither dragged here nor affixed there?  How then does this dichotomous relationship integrate into discernment and dependance upon God’s direction?  Is there an override clause that causes me as a believer to make decisions in faith even when the facts and my emotions tell me otherwise?  How can we achieve this “faithful” practice without surrender to God’s Will over our own?  We cannot.

Determining that we shall adhere to God’s Word as our guide when our emotions and the facts tell us differently, demands choice and practice.  God tells believers to “walk by faith not by sight”.  This process is not possible under doctrines of self-reliance.  We must be changed, renewed, transformed to a point where we trust in God dismissing alternate stimuli or relegating them to secondary or tertiary reliance.  If what my senses and the facts tell me leads me away from God’s inerrant truth or guidance then I “must” be able to dismiss them.  Without that understanding I will always be driven to making decisions based on the tools of worldly feelings and facts.

Praise you Father that you have given me the opportunity to learn from and be counseled by Your Holy Spirit.  Give me a reliance upon that righteous and faithful direction even when the facts and my feelings contradict Spirit’s Word.  At that point I will fully understand the Words of Isaiah and others which tell me to “Wait upon the Lord; Being of Good Courage”.  For this is the position of faith to which believers commit their hearts and lives.  Thank You so much, In Jesus’ Holy Name.

Expect

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Remember the delight associated with realizing you had entered and followed through with your first Divine Opportunity? Do you recall that awesome moment, when the blinds came off, the veil removed and you saw God’s guiding hand specifically intervening through your life.  Do you remember the end of your belief in coincidence, when God for whatever inestimable reason chose to act through you to assist in rectifying a dilemma for a total stranger?  That memory allowed you for the first time to feel true fulfillment in a world where we all pursue it from one angle or another.  Today, I was blessed to have one of those days, where a sequence of events, seemingly incongruous or unrelated led to a series of introductions, conversations, encouragement, prayers and intercession for which the outcomes will only be discernible in Heaven.  Remember my last entry and behold, Our God responds to prayer.  He directed me to the right people to use my specific gifts in a Godly manner to assist some people who had briefly forgotten encouragement, hope and real loving kindness.  God reminded me that I do know how to love like a Prince when I allow Him to guide my thoughts, heart and words.

What dreams do you dream?  Are they of escape, fantasizing of “coming out” from your humdrum/unbearable worldly existence or are your dreams filled with things which have not yet been seen?  Do you remain in memory of the momentary gratification of your sin or does God show you the things that happened and how He must transform you to free you from the pain of your history?  Do you ponder the accumulation of gold, prestige, position or power?  Are you haunted by the hunger for the gratification of all the temporary splendors of this world or are you enhanced by momentary views into eternity?  What is the desired outcome of your requests to God?  Do you offer prayer to Him at all?  Do you trust the Lord enough to express to Him the desires of your heart, which He already knows but is waiting for you to share in faithful petition?  Are you full of big dreams or do you fear and avoid them for the decisions and change they represent?  “Be of good courage and know that I am the Lord your God” said the Lord to Joshua.

Please expect God to show up because He always will and watch for Him with a keen eye and a willing, responsive Spirit.  That is the magic as an unbeliever shall never comprehend, that magical joy which reminds you of your relationship to the King of All Universes.  The joy which overcomes even the most gruesome, unbearable ugliness that this world may present.  For we must be prepared to exceed those trials we shall undertake and this success is accomplished through relationship.  Remember and savor each time that the Lord actively guides, direct, listens, intervenes and shapes our experiences and interactions, for this is the treasure of our lifetime, which shall surpass the veil of death.  Remember the moments spent on Kingdom work and the people as they first heard the Gospel, bask in their excitement, for these people are likely among the treasures you are storing up for yourself in heaven.  Put on the full armor of God, His faith, righteousness, truth, salvation, peace and Infinitely Sharp Word so that you never wander or forget His presence.  Live in joy now so that others may see and wonder how you got there.  Praise God for His faithfulness, even when my fails His shall remain.  Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Fear, the sign of imminent Hope

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Father the time of fear has arrived.  I see the bulk of humanity embracing negativity tortured by the burden of predictive circumstance.  Lord, this must be calm before the storm, a perfect time for people to cry out to God and receive forgiveness, hope and peace.  Pestilence is frightening, but we who take stock in the inerrant Word of the Gospel find peace in the foreknowledge of what must come.  War is devastating, even the rumor of clashes possibly involving nuclear armed nations rocks the stability of every global member.  We who hold to the Truth that is Jesus Christ take faith and peace in that we know these to be signs of God’s imminent return.  Financial loss raises the specter of homelessness or scrounging.  The four horsemen are being announced, the signs posted for all who have eyes and ears to hear to prepare, the time of choice is nearing completion.

Soon only those who walk by faith will have cause for hope and security, the rest will look to a charlatan for their sustenance.  Do not be caught by the greatest deception to be perpetrated in the history of mankind.  Place your hope, trust and faith in the Lord God Almighty, by accepting Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind.

Lord let us walk in joy, mindful of those who mourn, fight hysteria and worry.  Give us a Power in Spirit not just Word, such that Your Light is visible to all.  Let us walk into the hysteria, bringing peace and calm to the roiling seas.  Let us be of good courage, Knowing emphatically that Your Word is the only Truth.  Let us separate soul from Spirit with Your Powerful Word, forcing principalities to flee before Your Sovereign Command.  Give us a special understanding of hope, kindness and love so that we point them to Your Word as source of all abundance, blessing, hope and protection.  May they find peace in Your Shadow.  Praise Jesus Christ, King of Kings, every tongue confess and every knee shall bow in realization of His Name.