Who is this God, the living God, who is able to transform a thistle into a great Pine?
The Living God who takes away so that He can give me what is mine.
What wind will appear to drive me down as long as His blessing remains?
It is He who has blessed and transported my frame, for the sake of His Holy Name.
No longer a thorn to pierce His soft skin, to be counted as enemy prime.
His Grace spent on me has produced shade and food, according to His Great Design.
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A man lived, in the years when men died quicker. It was there, a certain place in eternity, where God took His stand among men. “I will cause you to be the father of many nations. I will bless those who bless you. And I will curse those who curse you.” And the man submitted.
All things belong to God. You who hold so tightly to what you think you own, I have a message for you. You who think you can control your own destiny. You who think the world is simply a place where profit lay hidden, waiting for your greedy fingers to uncover as a child would look for eggs on Easter. You are full of pride in the accomplishments of your mind. And your heart is cold to anyone who would compete with you to gain. The way you are living is not the intent of God for man.
All things belong to God. But many take as they please. No thanks is given for the air they breathe unless it is a thankful heart that they can continue to plunder. You will deny that your god is greed. But your actions speak far louder than you know.
All things belong to God. The man who lived when men died quicker was not like you. He was a righteous man. And his son was a righteous son. What is it to us if we are asked to lay down our desire? Who are we that we should compare ourselves to such a man? “Sacrifice your son.” This was not spoken to such a man as I. Yet this man who lived when men died quicker was willing. Greed was not his god. Even to the dispatching of his lovely son, this man was willing to give all he had. He reasoned that God was able to raise the dead. And it was credited to him as righteousness from God’s Holy Throne.
Consider what you think you own. Consider the way of your fingers to gain what you should not. Consider how hard your heart has become since you were an innocent child. For now, you believe that who you have become is who you must be. I tell you that such thinking is a direct lie. You need not live like that. God will provide for you. But you will be asked to suffer loss for His sake. I tell you, it is worth everything you think you own to gain what God offers all men.
Consider: All things belong to God. Get yourself away from greed. Enter into the presence of the One who owns all things yet is generous beyond our understanding. Sacrifice what you have. Though you are not as the man who lived when men died quicker, you still present yourself unwillingly before the eyes of He who sees even into the darkest night. All your ways are counted. Yet He offers you what is Good. Let go of what is not yours. All things belong to God.
In the days when this place of testimony was being dug out of eternity, men came to me to say I spoke too harshly. Did they not do the same to all God’s prophets, teachers, and servants? So I stuck to what I heard and relayed it as accurately as I could muster. It has become a bit tamer but not as a response to their urgings. I have come to realize certain understandings and have written them here for all to read. So there is no need to speak them again. Ask me and I will testify the good things of God to man. And I will not hold back.
Some would desire to return to peace among men; a peace which is absent of the word of God’s judgment. I will not go back. I cannot go back. And He will guard my way with a rock strewn path behind me. Briars have grown over the place where I once slept. No one has come to clear them away for the sake of the peace of man. I have been blessed to taste that the Lord is Good. And I will, in no wise, go back to that of man. Instead, I urge all to reach to the place where I now stand. Reach this place and run beyond me. Become my elders, all of you. Come, take from what God extends to all men and gain what is above me. Become my teachers.
You who would desire the word of God remain closed up in His people are acting foolishly. For if you will not listen to His words from us how will you stand when you appear before Him and hear His own words spoken to you directly? I ask you to reconsider where you stand as you mock His people. There is an accounting to be made. And, regardless how you believe it, God will gather all people in a place where they will testify individually before Him.
While you consider these words (all these words) I will continue to walk toward the fulness of His will for me. Billions are greater than I. Yet there are billions who have yet to bow to their knees before Him. I can make no accounting of where I stand between them. So I will walk at a mended pace. Catch me and pass beyond. I will gladly spur you on. I speak the things I do because I am compelled to testify for Him. And I will NEVER go back to what I was. Once a fire is built there are various reasons not to quench it.
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I know that others will have their own testimony. But I am so filled this morning that I find it necessary to dump some words. Rather than leave them clinging to the walls, dripping from the ceiling, or hidden in the carpet, I thought it good to place them here.
I am consumed with the things of God. And I find it so beautiful that this causes me absolutely no shame. In fact, I would rather that the consuming become a raging fire within me that will never quench.
As I said, I know that my brothers and sisters have the same testimony. But I just couldn’t leave those words unspoken.
I looked to the right of the screen to see what tags I would connect to this post. I smile as I look at them. I say to myself, “Fine! All of you are welcome to support what I say here. Come take your place, that this message might be available to every possible search a man might make. Isn’t that the purpose of this message?
May God be Glorified by His servant. Though I may well be least among His people, yet I rise a million miles from where He found me groveling in my own putrid mess. Glory to He who is the Living God! Amen.
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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.
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