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Bling Bling or God’s Perfection?

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Bling bling armband

Bling bling armband (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the flesh, all men and women analyze their value.  Do I make enough money?  Am I popular enough?  Am I as attractive as I can be?  What do people think of what I do?  The focus of the flesh is always placed on what others think about us.

Now I ask myself, “What value has all that been to me?”  If I were to present myself as beautifully as possible to man, there would still be many who would find plenty to criticize.  And I would be forced to either hate them or go back to make a better try.  In the end, I will get old and of no value to those who set the trends of society.  So I quit trying to please man in that manner.

As is our nature, when we can’t find acceptance in one place we look for it in another.  So I turned to God.  I read that He is willing to accept us through the work of His Son.  And I embraced it well enough.  As I became clean, however, I found myself thinking I would again present myself to man.  “Surely they will accept me now that I don’t do the things that are ugly.”

A rather large surprise greeted me at the door to humanity.  I realized that they hated God and all His ways.  And if I now embraced God and His ways, they were more than willing to hate me too.  So, with perplexity in hand, I left man and all his ways.  Now I serve the Living God with vigor.  He is far more comfort than anything man has to offer.

I make this post to testify that God is better than the world in every way.  A tiny few will believe what I have written.  But the Living God has told of this from ages past.  What’s the summation?  Look to man and you will die a very slow death of competition, greed, pride, and every form of wickedness.  Look to God and He will show you every good thing.  Satisfaction belongs to those who place themselves completely in the hands of the Lord Jesus.

My What You Are Missing!

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You who do not believe there is a God, my what you are missing!  You who worship greed, my what you are missing!  You who follow empty religions made by the imagination of man, my what you are missing!  You who worship the Lord Jesus in vain, my what you are missing!

All of you are so busy falling short of what could be within you.  With first grade math you calculate the sum of God.  From 0 to 4 you add up value.  And you could be counting countless blessings.

This Jesus we serve is the exact and blazing representation of the Living God.  Endless in mercy, love, wisdom, knowledge, and judgment, He remains forever.  And this comes to live in the soul of every man who will empty himself of his own will, presenting himself and all he has to be used by this Jesus.  Accepting poverty of self, we receive from Him what is endless and resistant to the calculations of man.

Join us!  Come away from what you hold dear and embrace what the Living God offers in His Holy Son.  Come and live!CAPTION

A canvas for My God, Jesus

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Thousands listen to President Barack Obama's r...

Thousands listen to President Barack Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This canvas belongs to the Lord Most High.  What will You write today My God?

“I am that I am.  And all that I speak is true.  What I have spoken for salvation is bound in a book of love.  Men will use, to their advantage, the things I have written.  But My people learn the difference between what is Holy and what is common.

I have purposed to draw a people to Myself who will worship Me in Spirit and in truth.  To My people I say this:  I have sought to be with you.  I have sought to build you up into a holy people for My Glory’s sake.  I have granted you life.  But you will not take what I offer.  What I hold in My hand is beyond your ability to comprehend.  Yet you do not ask.  See how ineffective and powerless you have become.  Yet My arms are open.

Come to Me and ask.  Come to Me.  Confess your weakness.  Ask and I will grant you the life you seek.  The door remains open for a season.  But I caution you.  There is a time coming when that door will shut.  I have warned you in that book of love, that there is a time approaching which will have many standing outside without hope.  Now is the day.  Today is eternity.  Seek Me while I may be found.

Strength to those who enter.  Poverty eternal to those who do not.  What will you give, on the day I call you to account, to have more opportunity to gain from Me?  I warn you afresh.”

My brothers and sisters:

The national day of prayer has come and gone.  The Lord has heard from His people.  And what is to come from that day is yet to be seen by us.  He will respond as He will respond.  And we will receive from the wisdom of our God.  I do not say this to frighten my family in Christ Jesus.  But I desire to draw our attention to the things which ARE.  Take note now.  Look about you.  For the hand of God is moving among us.  Watch with me and respond accordingly.  And if you have insight from Him, I encourage you to share with us.

We serve the Living God of all life.  This Jesus is the radiance of the Most High God.  What will be is in His Glorious hand.  And we know He who is love.  We also know He who is justice.  We will see what He has purposed for our sake.  May His perfect will be done forever.  Amen.

Al, the Christian

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I met a man.  Praise to God!  I met a man of God!  He is not as you would expect.  There is nothing about him that would draw us to him. (doesn’t that sound familiar?)  I mean nothing.  He is not politically, socially, physically, or approachable beauty.  He is not like those the nations clamor after.  Cameras would not do him justice, for they cannot capture the Spirit of God within him.

He is not intelligent as the world counts intelligence.  He is humble, yet he is very sure of himself.  He holds on to absolutely nothing that would appear valuable to those who desire all “new” things.  He is simply a man of God.  And you wanna know something astounding?  He didn’t know it!

I love that man because God is powerfully in him.  He is a brother in every aspect but blood.  I am extremely pleased to have met him and danced that dance of conversation which men of God have together.  He does, thinks, and holds tight to the things we are commanded to accomplish and know in Jesus.

Now, ya wanna know why he doesn’t know he’s a Christian?  You will be astounded at this as was I.  He simply wanted to hear the voice of God.  He has read that scripture, a long time ago, which says that “My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”  He said to me that he was not a professing Christian.  But everything he said was absolutely correct.  When I asked him why he thought he was not a Christian, I was amazed at the answer.

In truth he spoke.  And in utter humility before God, he professed that he was not of Jesus’ sheep because he did not hear the voice of God.  I beg to differ, my friend!  You have heard him very clearly for a very long time!  You just didn’t recognize that the voice of God causes a man to do the will of God!  But it is a small thing he asks, such a very small thing.  I remember when I had asked the same thing from the Lord.  And He granted my request.  So, at the end of our meeting, I prayed for him that the Lord would have mercy to allow Al to hear His voice.  Though we cannot force God to do anything, He is more than willing to grant what has been promised.

We parted.  And, for a season, this will be a sad departure.  I will see him again, for he is my brother in Christ.  But I will miss his blazing Christianity!   I went on my way to earn a living so I can support the life God has given me.  And Al went on his way to gain more highway.   Al has no house, car, job, or loved ones to go home to.  Al is quite homeless, and has been so for a great many years.   Al had a very important appointment to keep.   There was a bridge he had to claim before someone else claimed it.  GAD!  I love that man!

Father, please be with my brother with a love that marks his heart with GREAT joy.  In Jesus name I ask this.  And I am absolutely sure You will honor this prayer, for the glory of Your Holy Love Filled NAME!  Praise to God!  All, All, All, praise to God who grows beautiful flowers in a rot infested land.  Amen!

Fasting?

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827): Fast Day

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827): Fast Day (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Make every effort possible to enter into the pleasure of God through Jesus.  This is not the place for fulfilling all your dreams and desires.  It is a place of testing where God judges the actions, attitudes, thoughts and words of man.

I spoke to a man regarding fasting a while ago.  His immediate response, without hearing what I had to say, was that he was not “into” that fasting stuff.  What will be said then?  If the Lord saw fit to fast for 40 days before He entered His ministry, what reason will we give that we could not suffer loss for a short time?  God is Glory.  And He has presented His perfect example for us in Jesus.  If you see Jesus doing something to please His Father, why not endure the same as you are able?

Fasting is a rejection of food, drink, pleasure, desires, dreams, and hopes.  Pick your proper fast and do it.  Do it so that no one will see but God.  Present yourself before Him as one who desires His will over all the things of this world.  See if He won’t extend a hand of help and grace to you.  But if you never taste these things, you will never know the glory God desires to give you.

Responsible

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Father Ford in the fire truck

Father Ford in the fire truck (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A dead body cannot be responsible.  Neither can a fool be responsible.  It is even hard for a righteous man to be responsible.  Why?  In answer, let me take responsible apart:  Response Able.

God has given gifts to men for the sake of His Holy name.  He has given forgiveness for sins.   What is our response?   Do we dress ourselves with ability to respond?  Or do we take His Glorious gift for granted.  He has spoken in the gathering of wickedness.  He has danced a Holy dance in a body for all to see.  He endured this place of testing without sin.  And God has granted Him, (Jesus) Glory, Joy, Eternal Life as the Ruler of all.

I look at the ability of Jesus to respond to His Father as He walked in this utter black world of decayed souls.  And I am amazed that He performed perfectly!  He did not cave to the words and actions of man.  He desired only to be available to the will of His Father.  And He shunned all proposals to capitulate with the enemies of His Father.  He made Himself able to respond to the will of God.  He is perfectly Responsible to God, the Father of all Life and Righteousness.

With that in mind, I ask again, are we individually able to respond to the Grace given us?  Are we responsible Christians?  I write this with a severe anger at the sinful nature within me.  I remember what was spoken, and will not be taken out of the way, “Hate what is evil and cling to what is good.”  This is what is asked of us.  And it is not an unjust request.  For He gives us the power to over come.  What will be our response?  Are we able to be willing to work?

We retain men who have learned to put out fires.  If they are not responsible, what is the possibility that they can carry out the charge that has been laid upon them?  God has retained us through the sacrifice of His Holy Son.  Are we responsible?