The Lord showed me a bit of the future about six months ago and it is good to be aware of what is going to take place. First Europe, China, Russia and the rest of the world are going to begin falling to financial crisis before America falls to it as well. When you see these things begin to happen make sure you get some cash to keep with you because some regulations will come to the banks as far as how much of your money you can withdraw. Second a tidal wave of perversion is going to expand and increase around the world. Not just sexual perversion. Religious doctrines are going to be perverted and redefined. Schools are going to pervert history as well as expose our children to perverted sexual ideas. What used to be taboo is going to enter into mainline thinking. This perversion is taking place to get this world ready for the anti-christ to take over. As this begins to take place over the next decade many of the conservatives around the world are going to over react. What do I mean by over react? They are going to over react to this tidal wave of perversion around the world with hatred that is released through killing and violence. Anyone that is truly from God relies on the Holy Spirit to reveal truth to others as they speak the truth in love. But there is going to be a large segment of conservatives around the world that are going to resort to violent speech and behavior in response to this perversion. If you think perversion is bad in the world today, you will think that 2015 is mild compared to what 2020 is going to be. If you think violence, division, racism, and hatred are bad in the world today, you will think today is peaceful compared to what it will be in 2018.
This world is on a march to Armageddon. I believe that what people chose to do can speed up that march, or it can slow it down. We must speak out the truth in love, but violence and hatred has never healed a nation or benefited a people in the long term. We must take up arms and fight for our freedoms sometimes, but we must be sure we know our enemy. Our enemy is not the neighbor next door that may be pushing for pedophile rights, for our warfare is not against flesh and blood, but against principalites and powers and wicked beings in high places.
What the Lord has shown me about America is I saw her on fire, she was burning, and people were fighting in the streets. Is this really the future we want? What the Lord showed me about the church is the next wave of attack is going to come on the Bible belt areas of America. As many conservatives over react and turn to real hate speech and violence the tide of America's youth are going to turn against us. The decline in our churches over the next two decades is the design of the enemy to tear the Bible belt apart and make us look like hateful, angry, violent people.
I ask you can we speak the truth in love without using all caps, calling people names, showing disrespect for others or resorting to name calling or violence. It is my prayer that we can show some restraint and not react out of fear and anger but to react by the Holy Spirit in love speaking the truth so that some might be saved.
God is going to use all of this to make a shift in his churches, not a shift towards perversion but towards prayer, fasting, holiness, true heart felt service where we lay down our lives and walk in the power and love of God. This is God's will. Sadly many churches will miss the will of God and they will shift towards perversion and sin. Either way the church has been lukewarm for decades and that era is over. Over the next decade God will be separating that churches between those that are hot and those that are cold. It's time to live the Word of God and get on fire for God. Do not chose to depart from the faith and become cold by rejecting the Word of God and changing the truth of it for a lie. We are going to see a division within the churches between those who become hot for God and those who grow cold and more worldly. For the Lord says that he has allowed these events to take place in America because He would have us cold or hot, He can no longer tolerate the lukewarm service that so many have come to call righteousness.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
What Happens if We Pray and Pray and Get No Where?
Hebrews 11 is the hall of fame for the faith. This chapter mentions Abraham, Sarah, Noah, Enoch and many others. There are two verses in the middle of Hebrews 11 that sticks out:
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
They all died in FAITH, not having received the promises.
Faith is more than just receiving what you are believing for in God through Christ Jesus, faith is the character of God inside of you that provokes you to serve God in the face of incredible odds without waver. I was really sick one time and the enemy came to me and said, "You have several small children and you are going to die here in this bed and leave them behind." I replied. "Well, IF I DO DIE, at least I will DIE IN MY FAITH!" I was letting the enemy know that even the threat of death would not waver my faith. In just a few day the Lord touched my body and I was miraculously recovered from my illness, but my faith was going to stand to the end no matter the result of that end.
I played sports in high school, and our team was ranked number 3 in the state. Needless to say we seldom got beat, usually when we played we beat the other team by a double digit spread. All the years that I grew up playing sports from the 3rd grade to the 12th our team was seldom beat. We were used to winning and winning big. We were in the state tournament and facing an a team that had a player that was ranked the best player in the nation. Needless to say we could not hang with this player. By half time we were double digits behind. Our team was not used to being behind like this and my teammates gave up. At half time we came out of the locker room, the band struck up and I ran out in front of our team to go out onto the court to warm up and I heard someone yell from the crowd, "Come on! Don't give up." I looked back and the rest of my team had their heads hung down and they were slowly walking back onto the court. I ran back to them and began to give them a pump talk. But, they had given up...they just quit in the middle of the game.
I see this all the time in the elderly and in people who are against terrible odds. They just lay down and quit and start asking God to take them home. You have to understand that there is something worse than losing, there is quitting. You see if I am in the fourth quarter in life, and things are going well and I am behind by double digits I still give it 110 percent. Why would I do that? Someone said to me, "Why would you do that? You are going to lose anyway. What is the use?" You see losing adds character to your life, humility, patience, learning. Thomas Edison failed many times in his attempt to make a light bulb, but he didn't quit, he kept going, and finally he won. Losing with the class and character and fighting all the way to the end contending for the faith is reward worthy, this is what Hebrews 11 is saying of those who walked in faith but still didn't receive the promises. But, giving up destroys your character, it destroys your hope, it destroys you child like faith. I might lose, but I won't give up. It's OK to play to win and then for things to go wrong and somehow things don't work out like you planned, but it is never OK to just give up and that is what makes the difference between the righteous and the unrighteous. The righteous man may fall seven times, but each time He gets right back up. You see I might not get what I want out of life, but the enemy knows that they only way he can destroy us is if he can get us to give up. I might lose a time or two, but I will never give up, I will always give 110 percent.
Some of my teammates gave up when we were playing a team with an outstanding player. Literally we could not stop this player from making points and we did lose the game. We lost, but I never gave up and really that was a huge win in the long run, because what you do when you are losing and not getting what you want out of life says more about you than when you are scoring and winning the game. How you lose says more about you than how you win. Don't give up, it isn't about winning and losing in life, is about how you played the game.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
They all died in FAITH, not having received the promises.
Faith is more than just receiving what you are believing for in God through Christ Jesus, faith is the character of God inside of you that provokes you to serve God in the face of incredible odds without waver. I was really sick one time and the enemy came to me and said, "You have several small children and you are going to die here in this bed and leave them behind." I replied. "Well, IF I DO DIE, at least I will DIE IN MY FAITH!" I was letting the enemy know that even the threat of death would not waver my faith. In just a few day the Lord touched my body and I was miraculously recovered from my illness, but my faith was going to stand to the end no matter the result of that end.
I played sports in high school, and our team was ranked number 3 in the state. Needless to say we seldom got beat, usually when we played we beat the other team by a double digit spread. All the years that I grew up playing sports from the 3rd grade to the 12th our team was seldom beat. We were used to winning and winning big. We were in the state tournament and facing an a team that had a player that was ranked the best player in the nation. Needless to say we could not hang with this player. By half time we were double digits behind. Our team was not used to being behind like this and my teammates gave up. At half time we came out of the locker room, the band struck up and I ran out in front of our team to go out onto the court to warm up and I heard someone yell from the crowd, "Come on! Don't give up." I looked back and the rest of my team had their heads hung down and they were slowly walking back onto the court. I ran back to them and began to give them a pump talk. But, they had given up...they just quit in the middle of the game.
I see this all the time in the elderly and in people who are against terrible odds. They just lay down and quit and start asking God to take them home. You have to understand that there is something worse than losing, there is quitting. You see if I am in the fourth quarter in life, and things are going well and I am behind by double digits I still give it 110 percent. Why would I do that? Someone said to me, "Why would you do that? You are going to lose anyway. What is the use?" You see losing adds character to your life, humility, patience, learning. Thomas Edison failed many times in his attempt to make a light bulb, but he didn't quit, he kept going, and finally he won. Losing with the class and character and fighting all the way to the end contending for the faith is reward worthy, this is what Hebrews 11 is saying of those who walked in faith but still didn't receive the promises. But, giving up destroys your character, it destroys your hope, it destroys you child like faith. I might lose, but I won't give up. It's OK to play to win and then for things to go wrong and somehow things don't work out like you planned, but it is never OK to just give up and that is what makes the difference between the righteous and the unrighteous. The righteous man may fall seven times, but each time He gets right back up. You see I might not get what I want out of life, but the enemy knows that they only way he can destroy us is if he can get us to give up. I might lose a time or two, but I will never give up, I will always give 110 percent.
Some of my teammates gave up when we were playing a team with an outstanding player. Literally we could not stop this player from making points and we did lose the game. We lost, but I never gave up and really that was a huge win in the long run, because what you do when you are losing and not getting what you want out of life says more about you than when you are scoring and winning the game. How you lose says more about you than how you win. Don't give up, it isn't about winning and losing in life, is about how you played the game.
Friday, June 26, 2015
The Key To Your Deliverance
Please someone hear me today because this message is key to your deliverance.
6 Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.
God had sent his army to secure Jericho. This is what happens when you are on the brink of a miracle the enemy tries to lock it down and shut it out. Here they were on the brink of one of the greatest miracles in history and they were not closer to acquiring the city they were farther away than ever.
Have you ever had a dream only for the enemy to try to move and shut it down?
Have you ever wanted to get up and do more only to have the enemy to move to shut you out?
This is what happens before your miracle the enemy tries to shut you down, move you off and shut you out.
Just a few weeks before the scouts had went into the city, and came back out again. And now that they were ready to take the city as God had promises not even one person can go in or go out of the city gates.
Did you take a step forward in obedience to God and then suddenly everything seemed to shut you out and shut you down? Hold on, keep marching onward, lift up those shouts of praise, raise that banner high. What the enemy means to keep you from achieving is the very thing that God is going to give into your hands!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
What Do You Do When Prayer Is Not Enough?
Have you prayed and prayed and prayed and yet seem to get no where. Prayer changes things, but often the greatest changes come when we get up and do something after we have prayed. What is that something we need to do? Obey what God says. If you have money issues and you are not tithing and giving offerings those money issues are going to be there until you change. If you have relationship issues and you are living with people and having relationships that go against the Word of God those issues are going to remain until you change. If the cops are following you all over town and you keep getting arrested this is going to continue until you change. If you can't get a good job and can't hold on to the ones you get this is going to continue until you change I hear from people daily who have prayed and prayed and prayed and yet their circumstances do not change Prayer changes things but often the thing that needs changed is me.
Moses went through this at one of the worst crisis moments of his life. The Red Sea was in front of him, Pharaoh and his armies were behind him and he was pinned in with no where to go. So what did they do? They did what anyone of us would do, they fell on their faces before God and began to pray. Doesn't that seem the logical thing to do? Isn't that what most people would do in the same circumstance? After all a miracle was their only prayer. What was God's response to their prayers? We find this in Exodus 14:15-16 15 And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
The Lord asked Moses why do you cry to Me? Go forward into the sea. Wow. That's a plan. Why didn't Moses already think of that? Because it is impossible. When faced with impossibilities most often all we can think of to do is to cry out to God. But the miracle doesn't come until we move forward. Someone is thinking, "But that is impossible, how can I do that?" By your faith. They could have stayed on their faces crying out to God day and night and that sea was not going to move out of their way until they started moving forward into it.
Some of you have been crying out to God because of your circumstances. In spite of all the may REASONS you can't move forward in obedience to God just get up and do it anyway. You are waiting on God to move, but actually God is waiting on YOU to move. Just do it. Obey God and move forward, it is the only way to get through it.
Moses went through this at one of the worst crisis moments of his life. The Red Sea was in front of him, Pharaoh and his armies were behind him and he was pinned in with no where to go. So what did they do? They did what anyone of us would do, they fell on their faces before God and began to pray. Doesn't that seem the logical thing to do? Isn't that what most people would do in the same circumstance? After all a miracle was their only prayer. What was God's response to their prayers? We find this in Exodus 14:15-16 15 And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
The Lord asked Moses why do you cry to Me? Go forward into the sea. Wow. That's a plan. Why didn't Moses already think of that? Because it is impossible. When faced with impossibilities most often all we can think of to do is to cry out to God. But the miracle doesn't come until we move forward. Someone is thinking, "But that is impossible, how can I do that?" By your faith. They could have stayed on their faces crying out to God day and night and that sea was not going to move out of their way until they started moving forward into it.
Some of you have been crying out to God because of your circumstances. In spite of all the may REASONS you can't move forward in obedience to God just get up and do it anyway. You are waiting on God to move, but actually God is waiting on YOU to move. Just do it. Obey God and move forward, it is the only way to get through it.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
What Is Following In Your Wake?
Psalm 23
23 The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell[a] in the house of the Lord
Forever.
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell[a] in the house of the Lord
Forever.
Verse six: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life...When a boat moves through the water it leaves a wake behind it. There are certain places in the lake that you cannot drive full throttle because of the wake. Wakes make an impact. It is the same way with our lives. As we move through life our actions and reactions make a wake, ripples that touch the lives of others. When you pass through what wake are you leaving behind you. David said in Psalm 23 goodness and mercy was following him. What wake are you leaving behind you? Is your community better because you are there? Is your place of employment better because you are there? Is your family better because you are there. What is following in your wake?
Monday, June 22, 2015
Finding Sleep Through Peace and Rest
Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Jesus is talking about a yoke here in these verses. A yoke is used to tie two things together to pull a burden. By definition a yoke is a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull. Each of us have a weight to pull in life. The circumstances we face and the things we go through help to make us the burden that we have to carry. When Jesus says, "MY yoke is easy, and my burden light", he is saying that he is willing to come along side of you and to be yoked with you. That you carry his burdens and he also helps carry your burdens. Jesus said if you love me you will obey my commands, and also that we must do the will of the Father. But his yoke is easy and his burdens light. When we yoke ourselves to Jesus we are required to do the will of the Father, but, He also himself bares our burdens. He will carry us through.
The enemy on the other hand is not willing to be yoked to you at all. He does not wish to help you carry anything. On the contrary. The enemy will weigh you down. The pressures of making ends meet and taking care of responsibilities and relationships is a weight we all must carry. The enemy comes along and throws some gossip on top of it all. Some confusion on top, some stress on top, panic and fear on top of it all. The enemy comes and weighs us down further and further until we don't even have the strength left to do the things we need to get done.
The enemy will deceive you into thinking that you don't have time to be yoked to Jesus. That his will is cumbersome and hard. That you don't have time to do the Father's will. Yet, being yoked to Jesus will actually lift your burdens, lessen your stress and heal your wounds. If you are not yoked to the Will of the Father than you are subject to the weight of the enemy that drags us through the mud and back again.
Jesus said, "Come to me and I will give you rest." How do we accomplish this? By taking his yoke upon us. In you mind see two oxen yoked together. They are harnessed. They are not free to wander here there and yonder, but they are pulling together to do a purpose. What purpose is that? They are pulling together to accomplish the will of the one hold the reigns. When you yoke yourself to Jesus, you are pulling together with Him to do the will of the Father, and Jesus said in doing so you will find rest. There is no drama in Jesus. He is gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your soul. So many people cannot find rest when they lay down at night. It is almost like as soon as they lay down it all starts up and won't shut down. That is the enemy trying to put his weight upon your life to kill, steal and destroy. When you lay down begin praying and asking Jesus to put his yoke upon you. To surrender your life to his will, to do what he ask, to live as he ask, to be what he ask you to be. Ask him to put his yoke upon you, to learn from him, so that you can find peace and rest.
The enemy on the other hand is not willing to be yoked to you at all. He does not wish to help you carry anything. On the contrary. The enemy will weigh you down. The pressures of making ends meet and taking care of responsibilities and relationships is a weight we all must carry. The enemy comes along and throws some gossip on top of it all. Some confusion on top, some stress on top, panic and fear on top of it all. The enemy comes and weighs us down further and further until we don't even have the strength left to do the things we need to get done.
The enemy will deceive you into thinking that you don't have time to be yoked to Jesus. That his will is cumbersome and hard. That you don't have time to do the Father's will. Yet, being yoked to Jesus will actually lift your burdens, lessen your stress and heal your wounds. If you are not yoked to the Will of the Father than you are subject to the weight of the enemy that drags us through the mud and back again.
Jesus said, "Come to me and I will give you rest." How do we accomplish this? By taking his yoke upon us. In you mind see two oxen yoked together. They are harnessed. They are not free to wander here there and yonder, but they are pulling together to do a purpose. What purpose is that? They are pulling together to accomplish the will of the one hold the reigns. When you yoke yourself to Jesus, you are pulling together with Him to do the will of the Father, and Jesus said in doing so you will find rest. There is no drama in Jesus. He is gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your soul. So many people cannot find rest when they lay down at night. It is almost like as soon as they lay down it all starts up and won't shut down. That is the enemy trying to put his weight upon your life to kill, steal and destroy. When you lay down begin praying and asking Jesus to put his yoke upon you. To surrender your life to his will, to do what he ask, to live as he ask, to be what he ask you to be. Ask him to put his yoke upon you, to learn from him, so that you can find peace and rest.
Friday, June 19, 2015
What Is The Spirit of The Anti Christ?
The spirit of anti-Christ has gone out into the world, and anyone pushing for a New World order, a one world government or one world religion has the spirit of the Anti-Christ. What is the spirit of the anti-Christ? The spirit of the anti-Christ is the spirit that goes out to mankind to deceive them to prepare the way for the anti-Christ and the false prophet. How far back does this go? All the way back to the tower of Babel. What we must understand is that the devil has a plan that he has been trying to work for Centuries to try to defeat God. He wants to do what God has never accomplished and that is to unite the world as one under his leader, the anti-Christ in defiance to God. Why does mankind fall for it? There are two main reasons.
1. The enemy convinces man that he will be superior to all others, even God himself, if they will join his team. Think of Eve in the Garden, Nazi Germany
The snake said to Eve, For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Hitler repeated this with building the Superior race. The appeal to be superior is the hook that the enemy uses to deceive us to take on the spirit of the Anti-Christ. It sounds so good that it is hard to think of it as evil. Wouldn't more knowledge, more revelation, a better human race sound like a good thing? Yes. It sounds like a good thing so the enemy himself has been described as being disguised as an angel of light. This is the old bait and switch. The devil promises us superiority but killing and death and treachery is the only way to achieve that goal. It is evil at it's root. The anti-Christ will promises us a Superior advanced world where we can be our own gods, but eventually he will convince us that killing and death and treachery is the only way to achieve that goal.
2. The enemy convinces man that he holds the keys to unity and peace. It is a false peace. Think of the tower of Babel and the New World Order. Every time we have tried to untie the world in peace, sudden destruction has hit us. Thessalonians says 2For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;… Mankind will be deceived into following the antichrist because they are going to be promised peace and safety. Just like in the tower of Babel. Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth." There are going to be many who want to make a name of themselves trying to unite the world through peace and unity, but sudden destruction will hit them.
The quest of superiority and the quest for unity and peace will be the deception of the antichrist and the downfall of all humanity. The Bible says even the very elect would be deceived if that were possible. The antichrist spirit is already in the world today. How can you recognize that spirit?
1. The enemy convinces man that he will be superior to all others, even God himself, if they will join his team. Think of Eve in the Garden, Nazi Germany
The snake said to Eve, For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Hitler repeated this with building the Superior race. The appeal to be superior is the hook that the enemy uses to deceive us to take on the spirit of the Anti-Christ. It sounds so good that it is hard to think of it as evil. Wouldn't more knowledge, more revelation, a better human race sound like a good thing? Yes. It sounds like a good thing so the enemy himself has been described as being disguised as an angel of light. This is the old bait and switch. The devil promises us superiority but killing and death and treachery is the only way to achieve that goal. It is evil at it's root. The anti-Christ will promises us a Superior advanced world where we can be our own gods, but eventually he will convince us that killing and death and treachery is the only way to achieve that goal.
2. The enemy convinces man that he holds the keys to unity and peace. It is a false peace. Think of the tower of Babel and the New World Order. Every time we have tried to untie the world in peace, sudden destruction has hit us. Thessalonians says 2For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;… Mankind will be deceived into following the antichrist because they are going to be promised peace and safety. Just like in the tower of Babel. Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth." There are going to be many who want to make a name of themselves trying to unite the world through peace and unity, but sudden destruction will hit them.
The quest of superiority and the quest for unity and peace will be the deception of the antichrist and the downfall of all humanity. The Bible says even the very elect would be deceived if that were possible. The antichrist spirit is already in the world today. How can you recognize that spirit?
2 John 1:7 - For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 2:22 - Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:3 - And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
We must keep watch and pray and ask God for a pure heart and a discerning spirit. If you are told to deny Christ or to lower him to the status of the 'prophets' of the other religions of this world this is the spirit of antichrist. It will not being superiority or peace in the end it will bring complete and total destruction.
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