Never give up, Never give in

 
John Chapter 6 53-69

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down  from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.


On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.”For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.  He went on to say,“This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”


We are here to be ambassadors to the world, to show the light of Jesus Christ
in a dark world. We are not here to promote the world's idea of a perfect world
or their ideas of what a perfect civilization should be.

We need to believe in the person who saved us, Jesus Christ. We need to show
love and kindness to others, but most the most important thing that we need
to do is keep our loyalty to the Lord and to live according to God's word.

Whether in good times or bad, whether we have a lot of things or very little
in possessions, whether we are rich or poor, the only valuable thing that
is necessary to live this life is a close and intimate relationship with
the God who created us. Everything else is just an illusion.

Let us pray for the people of God, let us keep the hope of glory in our hearts.
Let us allow the Holy Spirit to comfort us in the the midst of darkness and confusion.
Let us pray for the people who are still living in the darkness that
they may be saved, for there is very little time left for redemption in Jesus Christ.

Keep praying for God's will to be done in this country, especially in Washington DC.
Regardless of what you see going on there right now, God is still in charge, and
whatever the outcome, His justice will be served.


Please pray for those whose lives have been upset because the world does not want
to hear what they have to say about the real state of affairs in this country. People
are being persecuted for their unpopular ideas, and just in case you do not know, that means
the christian point of view as well. Pray that they will keep the faith and call
on the Lord for help in these times of distress.


PRAY FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND THAT JUSTICE WILL REIGN IN THE EARTH!

It's Never Over When You Are In Jesus Christ

 2 Chronicles chapter 20 15-17

 He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.  Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel.  You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the Lord will be with you.’”

 

 

When does the Lord fight your battles on your behalf? Every single day, but sometimes we feel like we are in the battle by ourselves. We feel let down and depressed, and then we think the Lord doesn't see our struggles; we feel defeated. But that is the place the Lord needs us to be so that we would stop focusing on our problems and begin to focus upon Him as the perfect solution that we have been waiting for.

Many times it is not easy to wait for God's answer, but waiting is part of the solution. We don't know the right time for the answer to our prayers to manifest itself in our lives, but God does. If the answer to your prayer is yes, He will wait until the right time to make it happen, and it will be a complete victory for you and God will get all of the glory! 

God told me to write this at this time because He wants you to know that He is aware of what is happening in America right now, and that it is time for all of our prayers to be answered. You will be surprised how He will answer our needs  in this country, because Justice will be done, and justice is not always nice and neat or pretty, but it is fulfilling.

We have to believe that He knows what is best for us, and that ungodly political agendas will not be able to take over the world without His authority - keeping our focus upon Him is what will keep us calm and peaceful within our hearts as the rest of the world loses sight of what is really important . We are the children of the most High God, so we need to show what is special about the Kingdom of God by living according to His word, and then allow Him to work through us with our prayers and our faith. 

This is the time that we need to show the whole world why we believe in Him and how much we trust Him with our lives and with our circumstances.

Keep on praying to Him - Keep on praising Him - Keep up your worship and devotion time with Him, and Keep on showing the Love of God that resides in our hearts to those who are lost in the darkness, who are unable to the see the light of God except that they see it in our eyes and in our lives. 

KEEP HOPE ALIVE MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN CHRIST, BECAUSE  WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE THE LIVING GOD SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT IN THE LIVES OF EVERYONE ON THIS EARTH!

                                   HALLELUJAH!  -   PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!

 

It's The Fear That Hampers Our Victory

 2 Kings Chapter 13:14-20

 Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he did so. “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. “Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”

Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped.  The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.” Elisha died and was buried...

 

There are many verses in scriptures in the bible that I didn't fully understand, and thank God over the years my understanding has increased. This passage was one of that I did not fully understand. The prophet Elisha instructed the king to shoot arrows into the ground to demonstrate God's promise to the king of complete victory over his enemies. 

After the king shot the arrows, Elisha disapproved of his actions; in fact Elisha became angry and told the king that he would not totally defeat his enemy and would only defeat them three times.

 When the Lord tells you to do something and you do it, it should be because you have faith in Him and in what he wants you to do, but many times even though we do something that we are told to do by the Lord, we don't always have the faith to complete the task we we told to do. We allow our fears and doubts to cloud our judgement. Many times we don't want to believe that God can do what He says He will do.

It's just easier to believe the doctor's report. It is just easier to go along with what everyone else is doing. It makes us feel content to do nothing, when doing something will take us out of our comfort zone, but the Lord never said that we would not have to go through some trials and tribulations. We are transformed by using our spiritual muscles, and you cannot grow as a christian by playing it safe.

In the passage above, the king obeyed with his mind, but he may not have agreed with God's word in his heart. Elisha said if the king had shot more arrows, in other words if he had believed whole heartedly and shot more arrows of victory as he was instructed to do, he would have won completely over his enemies. The reason that the Lord asks us to worship and praise Him in our toughest times, the reason that we must declare the victory before it happens is because we are getting our hearts in tune with God's word and then the victory manifests because we believe it before we see it.

Remember, that just because you see certain people who are christians living the christian lifestyle that does not mean that they truly believe in Jesus Christ. You can talk the talk and walk the walk and still be lost. It is what we believe in our hearts about Jesus that makes the difference, and the way we live our lives reflects our love for Him. If you love Him, you will believe in Him and you will live out your life for Him.

 I suspect that fear and doubt made the king in this scripture to hold back and be hesitant about the true nature of God's power and authority. Please do not let your own fears and doubts prevent you from doing what God is asking you to do, Bring your fears and worries to the Lord and ask Him to help you overcome them and to give you the strength to do what He has asked you to do, and He will answer your prayer.

 

Why We Need His Saving Grace

 Ephesians 2:8   

 
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,,,

If you keep on learning in life, you keep on living - Why do we need the saving grace of Jesus Christ? Because we cannot do for ourselves what He can do for us in our lives...

We are struggling to survive, but the struggle doesn't seem so bad until we get to the point where the struggle becomes very real in our hearts, when we see the real effects of sin and hate in the world, when we can see the effects of sin in our hearts...


I had a realization while trying to improve my health recently. I began taking a new supplement, and I was surprised by how well it worked and how quickly it worked to help my body. Now, if a simple dietary aide can strengthen the functions of my natural body, just think what the awesome, perfect and glorious grace of Jesus Christ will do for your heart, mind, and soul!


what I learned from taking lifewave x39

I realized that before I started taking the supplement, that my body was in need. I didn't realize how much it was in need until then.

I and my body were struggling to live because I did not have everything that I needed to live a productive life. I was in want and in need. I tried to do everything on my own, but I could not get the results that I was looking for.

As the body ages, it doesn't have the capacity to do what it did before. It stops producing all the elements that it needs to be healthy. It ramps down on bodily functions that were keeping it young.

What my body needed was a dietary aide that would assist it to work more efficiently and to help it make the elements that it needed to function properly


That is what the gift of salvation does for your hearts and minds. Jesus's sacrificial gift allows us to heal the sickness of sin in our hearts. Sin is worse than an aging body, for an aging body can be helped, it can age gracefully, but an unrepentant heart cannot be fixed without the saving grace of Jesus's love. That heart will suffer and die and it will never be revived again.

When Jesus comes back for His church, He will revive us all; our bodies, our minds, our spirits will be in sync in a way that it cannot be while we live in this fallen world. They will be perfect and will live eternally in that state with the power and authority of the Blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ.


Without the Blood of Jesus applied to your heart, you cannot survive in this world. You will always be in need, you will spend the rest of your life hungering and thirsting for something that you will never be able to achieve without His love, mercy and grace. Be at peace all you who have become His own, because you will never be without peace, joy, and fulfillment if you call on His Name every day....

Thank God for His saving grace!


If you would like to dwell in the presence of the Almighty God in peace, joy, and fulfillment, please repeat this prayer of salvation:

Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be. Amen

Hallelujah! you are now a child of God and a citizen of the Kingdom of God!

Forgiveness Is A Decision That You Make To Manifest Jesus In Your Heart

Matthew 6:14-15

For if I forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], my heavenly Father will also forgive me. But if I do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will my Father forgive me my trespasses. [Forgiveness is a requirement. It is not an emotion or a feeling but a decision. It is not based on their deserving forgiveness any more than I deserved forgiveness. This does not mean I must trust the person. They must earn my trust. I choose to live in instant forgiveness!].

Forgiveness is a decision that we choose to do so that we can let go of our anger, pain, and resentment. We choose to let go so that we can be healed of our soul wounds and bitterness. Once we have chosen to forgive other people, our minds and hearts begin to clear as the Holy Spirit heals us.

We are able to have a close relationship with the Lord, and we are able to have relationships again with the people that have hurt us. We can guard our hearts from further hurt because we have given our hearts to God and His love and mercy brings peace and joy into our lives. We do not have to trust people with our hearts, but we can interact with them with the love of God as we are directed by the wisdom of God.

If they treat us better, then we can love them and interact with them more. If they hurt us again, we have the right to take that pain to God again for healing. We can limit our exposure to that person but still treat them with kindness and respect because we have the love of God in our hearts. We know that we cannot give them full access to our hearts again, but we handled the situation as Jesus Christ would have done, because Jesus loves all people, whether they be good or bad.

Remember to love God always, and to love yourself, for you are precious and valuable in His eyes and in the eyes of our precious Lord Jesus Christ, who gave His life as a living sacrifice to save you for himself. Jesus loves you, and we (the children of God) love you too...

If you wish to live in the love of Jesus Christ and be able to practice the gift of instant forgiveness in your  life, then please repeat this prayer of repentance and salvation:

Lord Jesus, I want to know your love and I want to come into the light of the kingdom of God. I accept you Lord Jesus into my heart and I repent of all of my sins. Help me now to be the person that you always wanted me to be. I forgive everyone who has ever hurt me or who did evil and selfish things against me. Lord show me how to live as a child of God and give me the power to instantly forgive those who transgress against me, and fill my heart right now with the Love of God. Thank you Lord for your mercy and grace, and I will live my life for you forever and ever....In Jesus Name.

Hallelujah! You are Saved!

What Jesus Wants From His Very Heart Is For Us To Stand Up For Life Everywhere

Hebrews Chapter 3:13

You must warn each other every day, while it is still 'today' , so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against god.

Philippians Chapter 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

What is at the very heart of Christ? 

His capacity to love and to love all of us.

What is the very thing that happens upon planet earth that breaks His heart?

Our capacity to be selfish and that we harden our hearts against the death and destruction that happens in our neighborhoods ever day.

There is a death cult in our world. We take unborn, and sometimes newly born infants, and we allow them to be murdered. We say it is for the mother's sake, for society's sake, for anyone other than the unborn child. We allow them to be taken from the world because it is more convenient to do so. As long as we allow this in our communities, the spirit of death will loom larger and larger in our lives, until there will no consideration at all for any life to exist.

Let me state right now that I understand why some women have abortions; it seems like the only option for them. Women have abortions for many reasons, but the truth is that most of those reasons could be handled if they were taken to Jesus, if they surrendered their lives to Him. Because the Lord hates death, and His heart is wounded by abortion. He is very motivated to help the mother and the child to survive in this world even if the rest of the world is trying very hard to pretend that abortion is the best and only solution available to them.

The Lord is holding back serious judgments in our land and in the world because He is waiting for His people to repent of their sins, their weaknesses, their indifference,  to stand up for God's standards in their communities. We are the only ones that can manifest real changes in the world with our prayers.

We are the ones that He as called for this purpose. The world has changed and will continue to change, and we cannot see it change for the better unless we are willing to surrender to God's will for our lives.

Jesus urges all of us to do our part in the place where He as placed us, to be light in a dark world, and to give our are time, or strength, and our resources to the things that are very close and intimate in the Lord's heart.

Please pray for all the unborn babies in the world, and seek a change of the laws in our land and in the world that has given the spirit of death it's power in the earth.

Thank God For The Prayers of His People, Whose Hearts Are Broken Just Like His Against The Systematic Killing Of His Little Ones, His Children!

Prayer of Repentance:

Dear Jesus,

We ask for your forgiveness for the indifference that we have had in the past for all of the babies that have been murdered in the name of selfishness and convenience. We never spoke out against this cult of death because of our fears and our own weaknesses.

We ask for your delivering power to change our hearts and minds, we ask that you will strengthen our resolve to speak up for you and for your standards of righteous living.

We care about what you care about, and so we pledge to focus our time and efforts to bringing light again to a very dark world, and we ask that you deliver us from the politics and strife of evil men and women who think that they know better than the God in heaven who created them.

Bless those who bless the world with their love, and we will give you all the glory, the honor, and the praise forever and ever

In Jesus Name, 

Amen

The Rapture Of The Church - Don't Get Left Behind

Matthew chapter 25:1-13

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’  Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.  And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 

But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

“Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’  But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

What many people do not understand about the rapture is that we who are the people of God are not destined to go through the tribulation period. There are some people who are consumed by this issue but do not truly understand the principles of end times prophecy.

The parable that Jesus told highlights the end times and the beginning of His millennial reign upon the earth. Those who believe in Jesus Christ now will experience hardships and trials, but those are just the problems that we are going through living in a fallen world that is now very quickly slipping towards the day of judgment.

We do not know the exact date that the rapture will occur, but the signs of the beginning of the end are everywhere in the world. We can no longer ignore the deterioration of civilization and the destructive effects of the devil and his demons in our environment. He is forcing the issue of love vs hate, and he knows that he has very little time left. He wants to take as many unbelievers with him into hell as possible because He knows that His adversary and my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is coming back soon to claim this world for His Father God and for His church.

The parable shows the bridegroom(Jesus) has tarried. The bridesmaids wait for His arrival. Five of the bridesmaids have oil (holy spirit) enough to light their lamps. The other five have no extra oil, so when the bridegroom comes, only the five that have enough oil for their lamps are allowed into the wedding feast. The five maids without the oil are told to go into the marketplace to purchase oil for themselves. 

They go to do so and when they come back to the wedding feast, they find out that they cannot enter because it is too late. That is what many who will be unprepared in the future will face on the day that Jesus comes to collect His bride (the church).

Now, you notice that the unwise bridesmaids were able to find oil somewhere in the middle of the night, yet when they came back to the wedding feast they were not able to enter because the feast had already begun. We all are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb and His bride, buy many will not heed the call to salvation.

Before the Rapture - Now is the time

Jesus Christ is calling out to everyone in this world to repent. His Holy Spirit is going everywhere knocking upon the hearts of men and women with the goal to enter into any heart who will receive the word of God and who will accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. He will not rest until every last child of God is found and brought home into the Kingdom of God.

This is the time of preparation, where we as believers fill our lamps(body) with oil(Holy Spirit) so that we may be counted as citizens in the kingdom of God and be proven on the day of His coming that we are ready to go back with Jesus to participate in the wedding feast of the Lamb and His Bride. When we accepted Jesus Christ into our hearts, we accepted the gift of salvation and the invitation to the wedding feast. By divine law, we have accepted a covenant between Jesus and ourselves, and we are already considered by Him to be His Bride and His beloved. The only thing left in our agenda is to remain loyal and faithful to our   husband(Jesus) and to persevere in the world, showing the love of Christ to others and to give our testimony so that unbelievers may come to know Jesus as well.

People hear the word, accept the word, believe in Jesus Christ, become His disciples and then prepare themselves to live according to God's standards with the help of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, so that they may grow spiritually. They make themselves ready for His second coming.

After the rapture - A time of judgment and the beginning of the end of fallen man's reign upon the earth

This is the time of tribulation for those who are left behind upon the earth: there will be the unbelievers, rebellious and unrepentant against God and His standards of living righteously in His presence . There will be the pretenders, the ones who went to church every Sunday and who believed in religious practices but who never truly believed in Jesus Christ in their hearts, and then there will be those who cannot be converted into the kingdom of God until the deep dark deceptions of life on planet earth are ripped from their eyes, and then they will begin to call on Jesus' name.

Death, dismay, and destruction awaits those who are left behind in this world. The devil and his demons take over the world for a short time and rule it with an iron fist. He crushes anyone who dares to believe in Jesus Christ. War and chaos will result. Disease will take away most of the people who are left. The remainder will live under the dictatorship of the antichrist. But there is some hope for those who find Him even in the worst of circumstances.

In the parable the unwise bridesmaids go out into the marketplace and find oil, and then go back to the wedding feast only to find out that they have missed their chance to be included. They have the oil, but it does not matter because they refused to prepare themselves for the day of the bridegrooms arrival into the feast.

Many will search for the truth, but will be unable to find it. They will believe the antichrist's deception and will take the mark of the beast upon their bodies. This will doom them to everlasting darkness forever. But, there will be some who will reject the authority of the antichrist and who will refuse to take the mark of the beast. Life for them will be terrible and completely unbearable if not for the assistance of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. Many of them will be martyred and many will die from the toxic environment in which they will have to live in, but if they remain faithful in their belief in Jesus Christ, their souls will be spared everlasting torment and judgment in hell.

The times that we live in are perilous and stressful if we continue to focus upon what the devil is doing to those who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Our focus must be upon the word of God and in Jesus Christ. We must strive to believe in Him and to be faithful to the word of God in our hearts. If we don't continue to pray and read the bible and to worship in His presence, then we may find ourselves left behind with few resources except the little word that we allowed to inhabit our hearts.

Don't live your live unprepared. Get into the word, and then get into His presence. You can worship God anywhere. The Church of God is everywhere and the people of God show their love for Him in tiny rooms, along the riverbank, or in big church buildings. We are His children and He will listen to us wherever we are!

This is the time of preparation; heed the promptings of the Holy Spirit and get yourself prepared for His coming, because He will come when we least expect Him to come, and we mush be ready for the wedding feast...