Tag Archives: Holy Spirit

A canvas for My God, Jesus

by

0


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.

The Living Language of God

by

0


Diagram of basic procedure to determine whethe...

Diagram of basic procedure to determine whether two sounds are allophones (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My God, I thank You.  You have given us words to communicate with our brothers.  And among men we speak and are understood.  But there is a language You have used for eternity.  And it is these words You purpose to teach us to use.  When You speak, You do not use sounds.  You speak in living words.  All Your words are true, thus alive.  And I thank You that this can be understood by a people who are used to only speaking sounds.  These sounds are heard, remembered for a time, then fade away.  But Your words last forever.

There are times, my God, when I think of what You are giving Your servant and marvel.  There are times when this seems but a dream. For we are taught to doubt from the moment we are born.  Yet You continually prove Your love to my soul.  This is true of all who know You.  And we rise in one accord to give You praise for Your loving hand among us.  We say, “There is a faith which becomes a ‘knowing’.  There is a God, invisible to man, who makes Himself known.  He is the Living God.  He speaks to us with Living Words.  And we will believe because You have touched us.  We believe because You have Spoken to us by granting us Life.  Those who went out from among us did not belong to us.  For if they had belonged to us they would have remained.  For to know Your touch and instruction is to gain life itself!  And no living creature desires to die.  Rather we move nearer that we might learn to truly live.”

There are words a man might speak which require no sounds from his lips.  These “words” are deeds of love to one another; a service rendered back to He who gives freely.  They speak louder than a man can scream.  And they last through time eternal.  This is the language of my God.  It is Your purpose to create a people for Yourself who understand these things.  And You willingly teach all who will submit to You about these things.

Holy are Your ways!  Marvelously Holy, pure, powerful, and complete are Your ways!  Glory adorns You forever.  And what astounds me is this:  Though nothing impure will ever enter Your Holy presence, You dress Your servants with Your own Righteous Light.  You have provided a manner, way, power, and path, by which we have hope to enter Your Holy presence.  Your Holy Son is this means.  And it is Your own Hand which has done this.

Praise to the Father through the Son!  For He has created a people for Himself from that which was not, and now is.  Glory is the Father in Heaven!  Eternal Glory!  Great is He who purposed to collect a people for His Son from this “Place of testing”.  Glory, Glory, and Glory to He who IS!  Amen.

By Your Grace.

What is Coming, Our Response.

by

0


Rising or setting sun - NARA - 557629

Rising or setting sun – NARA – 557629 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Shadows, Against the Setting Sun

You perceive and are concerned at the approach of what is coming.  What is appearing is new to the earth’s people.  No one has ever seen what is about to unfold.  Yet all of God’s people sense a new and darker night.

All around you is terror, the blackness of sin. The whispers of troubles are like the buzzing of flies around a carcass; though you are not near enough to see them you hear them.  The smell of blood is so pungent, it is even heard in your ears; thick and palpable.

Steady and unceasing they come.  One by one the stolid are crushed by the laws of lawless men.

Wickedness assails your walls and laughs, that they enter what is sacred.  They rip at what has been respected.  And they mock at what has been plainly understood as Holy in ages past.  With gleaming eyes of joy they marvel at the ease of conquest.  It has become their day to shine in darkness.

It was spoken of them by all the true prophets of God centuries ago.  And now they appear on the horizon as shadows, in the brightness of the setting sun.  As shadows they advance, mute before God, all the while screaming wickedly vile words to men.  They appear before us now.  As the sound of an approaching army’s feet can be heard before they crest the hill.  So these men are but a precursor of the lawless one.  He must come, for our God has given him his proper place at the proper time.  The shadow of the lawless one now fills the land.

Your children huddle against you and cry with bone felt terror.  The mother of your children quakes and trembles.  And the father looks about anxious at the advancing horde.  With perplexity; they pester like gnats, with perplexity.

God’s people stand unsure of what is coming.  For no one of us have seen this before.  The weak capitulate, for they did not gain strength. Blind in their way, they give in to wicked words.  But the strong will see the hand of God redeem them!  With wisdom and understanding He will redeem them.

By command of law they order the end of sacrifice to the Living God, through Jesus.  But they will not prevail.  Those whom He has loved will not leave His side.  These are blessed to endure.

Fear not!  Our God has eyes to see.  Do not be amazed at their bold folly.  Though they tear you apart, they simply render what is God’s to God.  He will take care of you forever.  And He will soon enough respond to the wicked who have sent you to Him.

Stand with strength at the onslaught of wicked men.  Lies are their gods, and they worship them with a fever.  They will not stand before the God who will take you as His very own.  He has promised salvation to all who call upon His Holy name, with a holy faith in His Son Jesus.  He does not lie.  And He is not powerless.

Strength my brothers!  Flex your tired limbs.  Prepare yourself for the sake of your children (either by blood or by Spirit).  Cause them to know what “The Faith” really is.  Increase yourself in “The Way” for the sake of His Holy Name.  Honor His gift of salvation before men.

Prepare, for the day is approaching with speed and certainty.  If you wait too long there will be no time to prepare.  And you will be caught in the whirlwind of the wicked many, who even now, are plotting your ruin.

At the sound of a trumpet they will break their amassing.  And they will be sent out to deliver evil in every possible form.  Death goes with them.  Prepare.

As it always was, it will be forever.  Those who put their trust in the Living God will flourish under trial.  They will rise up as victors at the sound of His voice!

You who are not prepared and have not taken understanding from the Lord, now is the time to rectify what is lacking.  When it appears in full bloom it will be far too late to fortify your faith.  You will become paralyzed with the fear they have come to inflict.

Do not mistake their ability, they do their duty to their master, the liar, exceedingly well.

Do not think to yourself that you can hide behind the word “Jesus” as men who stand before advancing lava with a cross.  It is that very string of letters the wicked are coming to destroy.  They will seek to wipe out His Holy name from this earth.  But all they perceive is a word.  Of the Spirit, they know nothing.  And when they are finished with that task they will turn their blood thirst on one another.

They have come to perplex.  But they have been born from that same weapon.  They command all to lie, for they are liars themselves.   A confession of faith without the resulting actions of the proof of a holy life, is but waste into idolatry.

Rise up and serve the Living God in truth, wisdom, and the Spirit of God.  This is the proof He is looking for.  This is the Spirit within His people.  This is the saving religion of Christianity.

With their lies comes a fake (ungodly) sincerity.  They work the works of their own imagination, perceiving themselves to be godly.  Do not be fooled.  He who serves the Living God does the works of the Living God.  He who does not, stands against Him.

Stand the ground He has given you to retain.  And do not be swayed by their apparent “righteousness”.  They are liars who promote the welfare of man, while they have no regard for the Living God.

Do not be fooled by the sweetness of the incense they carry.  It is a foul smelling incense created at the imagination of man’s desire to rebel against the will of God.  They seek their own glory; an abomination before the Most High God.  It is folly they burn as if to a god.

They repel at the mention of His Holy Name.  His name sickens their heart.  For they consider their ways far more entrancingly beautiful.  They are like men who saw their way through the fortress wall, thinking a window, with a breath taking view of their gore, is better than the “perceived safety” of “The Way”.  All the while they hire the enemy to do the work for them, and how glad he is to help for a price.

“Peace.  Peace”, they say.  But they will not promote true peace of God, nor allow others to obtain it so as to live by it.  Peace is found in obeying the will of the Father in heaven through Jesus, the very thing they detest.

Do not stand with them, nor welcome their words.  We live by a far greater Word.  They will be shown and known by the message they bear.  Prison, public rebukes, out-casting, and even death are their weapons of choice.  And they will retain the power to carry them through for a season.  Do not be fooled, nor allow yourself to continue sleeping.

Remember the true word spoken to us:  “For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.”  (Mark 13:22)  The Lord Jesus has told us ahead of time what will come.  And now we are seeing it unfold.

Fear belongs to the wicked.  Strength remains in those who put their trust in the Living God’s Son, Jesus.  There is a peace which passes all understanding.  This peace is received from He who is Eternal Peace.

Though the wicked call on His name, they use only their lips, for their hearts are as hard as stone.  They do not receive what they desire so they contrive their own methods of “peace”.  It will not satisfy their thirst for the wickedness of self glorification however.  And they will grow restless to the point of riot.

This word is sent out to encourage, strengthen, warn, and define limits.  God divides what is His and what is not.  If you read this and are unsure of where you stand with Him, I encourage you to make every effort to enter in now.  There is a day coming when the door will be shut.

24 “Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him, ‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out. 29 Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God. 30 But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”  (Luke 13)

Beware.  Identifying yourself with the religion of man (even if it comes dressed as Christianity) does not identify you as belonging to the Lord Jesus.  There is a distinct difference between traditions of man and the Spirit of the Living God.

I can do no more than post this message.  I ask that it be passed to those who might benefit.  Or at least the summation of this message would do well in the hands of those blessed with understanding.  May God grant that it is a cool drink of pure water to a parched people.

Night is falling upon the world.  And what a dense black night it will be!  And may He grant wisdom to understanding for those who lack knowledge in the Spirit of God.  Amen.

Trophies and Icons of Prayer

by

0


1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise. 3 When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them. 4 But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. 5 When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ 9 ‘No,’ they replied. ‘There won’t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut. 11 Later, the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’ 12 But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’ 13 Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.  (Matt. 25)

It is too my shame that I have not understood the meaning of the lamp and the oil.  In years past I have understood a message of urgency and a teaching of truth about how we ought to prepare ourselves for His coming.  But I confess that I did not understand exactly what the lamp or the oil was.  Oh, I knew about the fire of the Holy Spirit.  But because of those who promote speaking in tongues, I was confused as to what that power accomplished.

The Lord showed me clearly this morning what this means.  And I present this here for those who are like I have been; not understand the full meaning of the picture He has painted here.  The lamp is us.  The fire within the lamp is the Holy Spirit.  And the oil is the effect wrought by an habitual appearing before the Lord in prayer.

Many walk their entire lives by simple belief that God will do all things for us on the day when we appear before Him.  I have spoken often about the necessity to “do” something in response to the Gospel.  While I am also at fault, in my days former, for not making prayer a vital part of my daily life.  It has been shown and proven to me that any day without formal personal prayer is a day spent without the filling of oil.  I consider that error and am in awe at my ignorance.  It makes me more grateful to God for His mercy and grace.

Now, may God quicken my mind when I meet a Christian who declares that prayer is not that important in their life.  They might declare that they depend on God to rescue them from troubles.  They might consider spiritual duty as if it were a distasteful task.  Bible reading might well have passed into that which is given to children, yet has no place in the real world of adults.  May He bless me to remember the vital message of the parable.  May He quicken my mind to remember what He has just taught me so that I will do it and not forget!

We all eat to sustain our body.  We know when we are hungry.  I ask myself, “How did you not perceive that you were empty before the Lord of Majesty?”  How is it that I walked as a man who tried to walk across a newly plowed field in the dark, and did not perceive that I stumbled so horribly because I did not obey His Holy call to prayer?

I have lived decades as a fool.  But every encounter with His Holy Truth leaves me even more aware of just how deep that folly is.  And how deep now is the desire to help my brothers and sisters come to the same conclusion.  How I desire to share what is true.  I consider the troubles the Church is embroiled in today.  And see clearly that it is because of this very item that we have faltered so horribly.  We have forgotten the Lord in our wealth.  We have all fattened ourselves on the ways of the world and turned our faces away from the ways of God which matter so very much.

Men attend a service to be counted as those who worship God.  Yet their own lamps are dry and sparkless.  They are even listening to the word of God being spoken by men who are supposed to be FILLED to over flowing with the fire of God.  Yet the message is like a flame which has been submerged in the ocean.  Empty words come out.  The wick sways with the currents of water.  But there is no FIRE upon it and no oil remains to renew it.   Good words of God float to men’s ears without power.  How can it be a surprise when we find those who call themselves Christians living a life void of distinguishing from those of the world?

Oh dear!  Please, let us renew our strength to endure that place of prayer.  The flesh will hate our knees as we bow to Jesus.  But without that bowing we are nothing.  This is what the solid men of God found out and warned us to do.  We revere them for what was accomplished by God through them.  But they are like trophies on our wall, icons of “good” which we happily show all our guests.  All the while, we should become living trophies of God’s work today.  Take down the trophies of others; those icons you hold so dear.  Revere them by becoming like them!  What else needs be said here?

A War of Reason Against Righteousness

by

9


Atheist symbol

Atheist symbol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A man came to me to fight a war of reason.  He came to do war with the Gospel of peace in Christ Jesus.  He presented an argument which, at the surface, appears to be a valid questioning.  He asked, “How is it that your God will consign millions of people to hell simply because they worship Him under different names and ways of worship?”  In his question he assumes that those people worship the Living God.  And he assumes that his answer has a perfect right to be asked.  There is a difference between ignorant worship of what is false, and worship filled with understanding by the Holy Spirit of God in Christ Jesus.  And he assumes that their earnest ignorance is equal with innocence.  And he assumes that his lips have a right to be heard, and his ears deserve to hear the answer.

While we talked I found the only answer I could give him was that he was being arrogant, full of pride and pomp.  He did not approach me to understand but to tear down and destroy.   But now with reflection, prayer, and a searching out of the matter, I have come to understand the answer with clarity.

We read Abraham’s words: “Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”  When God judges a man fit for the kingdom of heaven He does so by His eternal wisdom and understanding. With humility, we leave such judgments of ignorant men to the wisdom and understanding of God.  Who are we to know the answer to a question that should never be asked without humility?  Regardless the answer God might give for any one man of ignorance, we can be sure that there is an innocent ignorance.  And there is also a proud ignorance; that which a man holds dearer than the wisdom of God (arrogance).  Which do you determine will find favor with the Lord of Life?

It is folly which judges the Most High God in His Holy ways.  It is rebellion, hatred, envy, greed, lust, and an unholy madness to call the Lord of Life to judgment by our own limited understanding.  Who are we to know what is right?  God saw fit to present His Son with Greatness.  Man is part of that Glorification for God’s Son, in that God allowed us to kill Jesus.  And should we then judge His decision?

The one who asks such things, for the sake of self-justification, is not looking for what is good or right.  That one is looking to find fault in the God of eternity, and to do harm to God’s people.
Had he been looking for righteousness the question would not have been spoken.  There would have been humility and a willingness to understand what has been given to man to know.  There would have appeared a desire to know the basic things of Jesus.  He would have earnestly desired to know if worshiping Jesus produced that “something better” that the worshipers of false gods could not find.

Had there been a sincere concern for the state of those who do not know the Lord Jesus, he would have been asking for help to come to know the God we serve, so that he too could help them avoid certain death.  Instead, he used the hapless unbelievers to make an accusation toward Jesus.  His folly was perceived, and is now made plain.

He had not grasped the basic concept of The Holy God.  That man did not consider that God has always been active in the affairs of man.  He assumed that invisible is equal to ineffective.  How then would he grasp what follows?  All men are without excuse and steeped in wickedness.  If they did not know this there would be no religions on the face of the earth.  But there is a great variety of religions.  So we see that men know they are full of fault and we see them attempt to right their plight.  The one who accuses is a religion and a god in his own mind.  And he will be shown for what he has allowed himself to become and continue becoming.

All men come from various backgrounds and traditions.  And they are quite able to see the “fruit” of what they are being taught.  And every one of them, if they were honest, could point to a meager harvest from their labors.  It is they who allow themselves to be fooled into a sleep of false religion.  For every man perceives his own short comings.  Even in society and among the things of this world, every man can see the destruction he brings by virtue of what is within him.  There is, bottom line, an awareness is present, that we have not attained a clear conscience.  We perceive that a clean conscience will produce a radically different man.  Yet they continue in their way without considering the end result of false religion.  All their life they cry out to things that do not produce what they are looking for.  But for fear of rejection and comfort they continue in their way.  This is a testing of the heart for all men.  And, rest assured, God is watching to see who will admit their folly and lift their hands in despair.  This is true of every false way, and it is true even of Christians.  It is not just the false religions which will end in utter destruction.  We are told, and it is plain to see, that many who consider themselves Christians walk through their lives as enemies of the Cross of Christ.

You who judge the validity of Jesus’ claims are in a false religion of your own making.  It belongs to you and it is false.  You accuse without knowledge.  You lift up your voice to condemn the God who made you.  And you will certainly answer for your self-made plight of folly.  There is an emptiness of humility in the accuser’s words.  There is a lack of wisdom in his way.  Instead of asking, “What must I do to be saved?”  He accuses Righteousness because he himself is full to over flowing with wicked thoughts and desires.   No accuser will not stand on the day when The Righteous One calls men to account for their lives and words.  For you turn away from every possible help today.  You scoff at God.  You deny His right to judge.  And He will judge all men regardless of their recognition of His Holy Court

I will add this final point.  Today has been given to man to prove his heart to the Living God.  Men have been saying that the coming judgment will divide those who have done “mostly right” from those who have done little or no righteous things.  How absolutely false this is.  None of man’s righteous acts, those things done without the leading of the Spirit of God, will enter into the pleasure of the Most High God.  The pride of man will be crushed.  And only faith in Jesus, born in humility, will be rendered a favorable decision.

If you want to secure a knowledge of safety, do so now by accepting the message of the Gospel of God in Jesus.  He will come to you and show you how to please His Father.  There is no other way to prepare for the coming judgment of all men.  God has spoken it on an oath He took by His own Glory.

Apparently, I am Stupid (scientific proof arrives)

by

0


hippocampus. Images are from Anatomography mai...

hippocampus. Images are from Anatomography maintained by Life Science Databases(LSDB). 日本語: 海馬。 画像はLife Science Databases(LSDB)のAnatomographyというサイトより。 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Behold!  Another finding presented by those who measure a man’s “IQ” by examining his ability to recognize what is called social norms.

“Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.”

Two declarations I will respond.

1. The size of the hippocampus is related to the things of the flesh.  Those who worship the Living God have a marked decrease in a desire for the things of this world.  Why should it be surprising that the study finds a physical sign of this God born desire?  If, indeed, the study is faultless.

2. “. . . critical to learning and memory . . .”  These “IQ” designers measure by what is seen.  What we learn of, in the Holy Spirit, is not measurable by man’s standards.  And the memory is less valuable when we commit even the words of our prayers to the Most High (leaving them at the foot of His Holy Throne, lest we remember that we are something when we are nothing.)

Once again, man measures what can not be measured with the instruments at his disposal.  And he summarizes what can not be summed with the words of man.  Had those who created this “study” sought the Living God themselves, the “study” would have provided a finding that would obviously escaped words of definition by man.  But then where would be fame, money, and power?