A simple teaching, and to be considered greatly, is that God is found wherever we repent from our ways. This is often not church as it is thought of, by most who would call themselves "Christian".
Church tends to slip into Religion. Faith in God often is not palatable to church folks. They tend to like the ways they walk in better then the "Turned around repentant life" and walk. Hope in man is shifting sand.
Hope in Christ.
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Some church is good, some bad, some life, some death. Identify with the Christ first. It is good to simply be called: "Christian".
Friday, May 21, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
But so Am I
This morning I'm thinking about dealings with people. We are no doubt all blind in some areas. But our hope is "the mind of Christ". Maturity is not always the out come of trial, but I think without trials, we will never be fully mature.
First, I think of a man who watches religious TV, Religiously. He wouldn't miss Chuck Stanley. But he finds it no problem to skate all of Chuck's teaching and abuse his wife, both physically and verbally.
Secondly, I think of a friend who speaks a good confession in Christ, but constantly disobeys truth. She is quick to point out my times of wavering faith, while not seeing her own bondage.
Thirdly, I think of a friend who almost always shifts blame, on others for his lack of integrity.
These three people are all in life crises, either financially or spiritually or both. When I am around them I usually feel evil. Yet, each one confesses Christ as Lord. Faith is the key ingredient we all struggle with.
For so am I, in struggle with consistency of faith. So do I, fall short of the Glory. So do I, sin.
I am happy to have a friend called Jesus. I am happy for them as well. For He is our hope and victory over every fallen part of our life!
2Cr 2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
First, I think of a man who watches religious TV, Religiously. He wouldn't miss Chuck Stanley. But he finds it no problem to skate all of Chuck's teaching and abuse his wife, both physically and verbally.
Secondly, I think of a friend who speaks a good confession in Christ, but constantly disobeys truth. She is quick to point out my times of wavering faith, while not seeing her own bondage.
Thirdly, I think of a friend who almost always shifts blame, on others for his lack of integrity.
These three people are all in life crises, either financially or spiritually or both. When I am around them I usually feel evil. Yet, each one confesses Christ as Lord. Faith is the key ingredient we all struggle with.
For so am I, in struggle with consistency of faith. So do I, fall short of the Glory. So do I, sin.
I am happy to have a friend called Jesus. I am happy for them as well. For He is our hope and victory over every fallen part of our life!
2Cr 2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Wilderness Test:
You have been in a test. When you take a course, in school there is a final exam. When you go through a wilderness there is a test that must be passed to fulfill the course and leave that place.
Recompense:
Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Hbr 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
When people rise up against righteous authority, they first must believe themselves more wise then that authority.
People who do not make themselves vulnerable to leadership will not receive deliverance.
People fear bad leadership and have set themselves up as judges of the ministry. If they take that one step further they will try to punish leaders for sins of perceived offenses.
Recompense:
1. to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
2. to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for (damage, injury, or the like).
For the Lord to recompense us is for him to even accounts. He said we could not out give him. To lose a ministry a building and a paycheck in one fell swoop was an awful thing. To be betrayed by most of the people in your life is awful.
To lose seven more years of not being heard is worse.
The opportunity of ministry always contains offers of a way of compromise. The devil always wants to pervert every ministry. To be wanted is a basic need we all have. To let that desire rule us is foolish. We are not to be worshiped. We are to be honored when that honor is due.
To stand strong against temptation is a test that will determine future.
When God is ready to create something, it is always done in a void, a lack, in a dark place which is brought to the light of his creative word. -God cannot be removed from what he creates. It is His creative energy that brings things to life.
When there has been an injustice, God’s justice desires to overturn that evil.
Yet he himself withdraws is manifest presence from situations for a purpose of testing. This is not to say that he left us or forsook us. It is a perception we have that he is not communicating and manifesting in usual ways. He actually hides himself deeper in our spirits so that we must come to know those places and surrender them unto His spirit. Every promotion is proceeded by a test. The test is to draw us to a deeper revelation of Him.
We pattern what we do after a pattern that was created in heaven before. The Lord is high and lifted up, so must our worship times be patterned. Also the heavens are consistently, and tirelessly praising him. Any part of my soul that has not yielded to worship him must surrender.
-When Father was to bring forth son, there was a time of silence for four hundred years. There was a vacuum of pertinent revelation for establishing His rule in the earth. This is a type of the Father seeming to withdraw Himself outwardly from our plight for a season.
-When the children of Israel left the world’s provision; they were taken to a place of bare sufficiency for forty years.
In that wilderness, he instructed Moses how to make a Holy Place for Him to dwell.
The people judged Moses as being unfit for leadership, and enticed Arron to make them an idol.
IN that rebellion Moses was seeking God with his full being. He was on the mount being overwhelmed in Glory, but His people we committing high treason.
The vacuums that are created by God, cause a hunger in the righteous. They will seek him apart form the maddening crowds of religion.
Change is the one sure element of God’s work. If you resist change you resist Him. Change for His purpose is manditory.
When the Spirit of God hovered over the waters in the Genesis account, he was brooding over a vacuum. Something that was without form and void or empty.
When we ponder God’s ways or methods, we are creating a vacuum to be filled by his truth. God always works with a word, and then gives explanation and we act on it as instruction. The hunger for that one word is key to every deliverance.
When we come to a place where we feel empty inside it is because God or we have created a vacuum that must be filled. The Holy Spirit will bring dissatisfaction with our place or purpose to develop a greater work with in us and through us.
Do not despise the days of small beginnings.
When you feel the holy dissatisfaction, you are about ready to conceive a new holy thing.
THE THING THE CHURCH DOES BEST IS THE THING IT WOULD LEAST WANT TO DO.
It falls short of the glory, and thereby creates a hunger a vacuum for the Holy Spirit to fill. Church cannot fill a lack of God’s presence by implementing new dead works. If it is an Oxcart it is an Oxcart. Don’t matter if it is new or old.
The Lord takes people out of safe places to bring them to new vision. A safe church is not a great platform for miracles. Making New Wine is a messy process.
If you don’t have messes (conflicts) you are not moving into greater power.
Church men try to regulate everything. They try to control what God is doing and make it palatable for the masses. Only the truly Spiritual will be joyful in a Holy Ghost New Wine time. Those who have made church a religious club will fear, judge, and control.
There is a time that we have come to which is the time of recompense. Many prophets have been disdained by the ministries that they interceded for, and spoken to. The last seven years starting with 2003, have been sifting times.
We are in a time of great transition. In this time it would be wise to heed the words of Peter who said: “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”
It is time for refreshing in the Spirit. When we repent we create a place that God can work through. To repent is to change your mind, and to leave self plans behind. Whatever has seemed impossible is now possible in this day of change. Do you believe? Do you believe for His thing?
A womb of expectancy is the thing we must have to see the days of restoration of all things. His deliverance is at hand. It is His kingdom manifest in this land. God leads us to void places to fill us.
When Jesus was in the wilderness he was tempted with spiritual, soulical, and body temptations. It is no different in this day. We will be tested in wilderness places to qualify for the power that is at hand.
Can you identify the tests in your life? Is your present wilderness, a path to deliverance into something new?
The Lord will reward us for every test we have passed in this wilderness season. It is His recompense and reward.
Recompense:
Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Hbr 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
When people rise up against righteous authority, they first must believe themselves more wise then that authority.
People who do not make themselves vulnerable to leadership will not receive deliverance.
People fear bad leadership and have set themselves up as judges of the ministry. If they take that one step further they will try to punish leaders for sins of perceived offenses.
Recompense:
1. to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
2. to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for (damage, injury, or the like).
For the Lord to recompense us is for him to even accounts. He said we could not out give him. To lose a ministry a building and a paycheck in one fell swoop was an awful thing. To be betrayed by most of the people in your life is awful.
To lose seven more years of not being heard is worse.
The opportunity of ministry always contains offers of a way of compromise. The devil always wants to pervert every ministry. To be wanted is a basic need we all have. To let that desire rule us is foolish. We are not to be worshiped. We are to be honored when that honor is due.
To stand strong against temptation is a test that will determine future.
When God is ready to create something, it is always done in a void, a lack, in a dark place which is brought to the light of his creative word. -God cannot be removed from what he creates. It is His creative energy that brings things to life.
When there has been an injustice, God’s justice desires to overturn that evil.
Yet he himself withdraws is manifest presence from situations for a purpose of testing. This is not to say that he left us or forsook us. It is a perception we have that he is not communicating and manifesting in usual ways. He actually hides himself deeper in our spirits so that we must come to know those places and surrender them unto His spirit. Every promotion is proceeded by a test. The test is to draw us to a deeper revelation of Him.
We pattern what we do after a pattern that was created in heaven before. The Lord is high and lifted up, so must our worship times be patterned. Also the heavens are consistently, and tirelessly praising him. Any part of my soul that has not yielded to worship him must surrender.
-When Father was to bring forth son, there was a time of silence for four hundred years. There was a vacuum of pertinent revelation for establishing His rule in the earth. This is a type of the Father seeming to withdraw Himself outwardly from our plight for a season.
-When the children of Israel left the world’s provision; they were taken to a place of bare sufficiency for forty years.
In that wilderness, he instructed Moses how to make a Holy Place for Him to dwell.
The people judged Moses as being unfit for leadership, and enticed Arron to make them an idol.
IN that rebellion Moses was seeking God with his full being. He was on the mount being overwhelmed in Glory, but His people we committing high treason.
The vacuums that are created by God, cause a hunger in the righteous. They will seek him apart form the maddening crowds of religion.
Change is the one sure element of God’s work. If you resist change you resist Him. Change for His purpose is manditory.
When the Spirit of God hovered over the waters in the Genesis account, he was brooding over a vacuum. Something that was without form and void or empty.
When we ponder God’s ways or methods, we are creating a vacuum to be filled by his truth. God always works with a word, and then gives explanation and we act on it as instruction. The hunger for that one word is key to every deliverance.
When we come to a place where we feel empty inside it is because God or we have created a vacuum that must be filled. The Holy Spirit will bring dissatisfaction with our place or purpose to develop a greater work with in us and through us.
Do not despise the days of small beginnings.
When you feel the holy dissatisfaction, you are about ready to conceive a new holy thing.
THE THING THE CHURCH DOES BEST IS THE THING IT WOULD LEAST WANT TO DO.
It falls short of the glory, and thereby creates a hunger a vacuum for the Holy Spirit to fill. Church cannot fill a lack of God’s presence by implementing new dead works. If it is an Oxcart it is an Oxcart. Don’t matter if it is new or old.
The Lord takes people out of safe places to bring them to new vision. A safe church is not a great platform for miracles. Making New Wine is a messy process.
If you don’t have messes (conflicts) you are not moving into greater power.
Church men try to regulate everything. They try to control what God is doing and make it palatable for the masses. Only the truly Spiritual will be joyful in a Holy Ghost New Wine time. Those who have made church a religious club will fear, judge, and control.
There is a time that we have come to which is the time of recompense. Many prophets have been disdained by the ministries that they interceded for, and spoken to. The last seven years starting with 2003, have been sifting times.
We are in a time of great transition. In this time it would be wise to heed the words of Peter who said: “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”
It is time for refreshing in the Spirit. When we repent we create a place that God can work through. To repent is to change your mind, and to leave self plans behind. Whatever has seemed impossible is now possible in this day of change. Do you believe? Do you believe for His thing?
A womb of expectancy is the thing we must have to see the days of restoration of all things. His deliverance is at hand. It is His kingdom manifest in this land. God leads us to void places to fill us.
When Jesus was in the wilderness he was tempted with spiritual, soulical, and body temptations. It is no different in this day. We will be tested in wilderness places to qualify for the power that is at hand.
Can you identify the tests in your life? Is your present wilderness, a path to deliverance into something new?
The Lord will reward us for every test we have passed in this wilderness season. It is His recompense and reward.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
The Almond Tree is Budding
A budding almond tree represents a resurrection. We are coming to a resurrection hour!
Original source for the teaching in quotations:
http://www.inspiredwoods.com/bible_wood_almond.php#more
"The Almond has been common to India, Persia and Palestine for thousands of years. The Israelites must have been very familiar with the Almond and its flowers because they used them as a model for ornamenting the cups of the golden lampstands (Exodus 25:33-34) while they were in the barren desert of Sinai where no Almonds grow. To this day the rock crystals used for decorating branched candlesticks are called "almonds" by English craftsmen.
Almonds are mentioned a total of six times in the Scriptures and only in the Old Testament. The first reference is in Genesis 43 where Jacob, in an apparent attempt to gain favor with the ruler of Egypt, orders his sons to take some of the "best products of the land" including almonds.
The almond motif was part of the divine design for the lampstand in the tabernacle (Exodus 25:33-34). Moses was instructed to make the bowls of the lampstand in the shape of the almond flower.
Probably the best-known reference to Almond is Aaron's rod (Numbers 17:8). It budded, flowered and produced fruit overnight! The Almond is therefore symbolic of the resurrection because it is the first tree to flower. A sign of new life and God’s promise."
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Beginning today (this evening being the beginning of a new day) for the next SEVEN DAYS pray and declare Psalms 24:7-10 and praise the name of Jesus,
Psa 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psa 24:8 Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psa 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King of glory. Selah.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
No King But Jesus
In 1 Samuel 8 the word describes the time when Samuel was told by the Lord to harken to the peoples voice to give them a king.
He said they have rejected Me/the Lord.
But Samuel warned Israel of what would happen. That the man would rule over them. He would appoint a police state to rule over them. He will take your fields and vineyards and give them to His servants.
Now we have seen this very reality in both our Government, and in the church. Evil men take what is not theirs and give it to their “boys”.
I know the Lord teaches us to humble ourselves and we will be lifted up. I found out something very interesting about men. The Lord has shown me to bow myself before men with vision who proclaim him. Now we all know that every vision is not pure. We also believe, that most visions have mixture. But if you bow before a called “Brother’s” vision, it will bring about a response.
To make this clear let me give you two examples.
The First Response:
I was a pastor and went to a church fellowship to seek out connection and help. When I participated in one of their home fellowship meetings, one of the brothers, fell at me feet and washed them. I was truly speechless as I was humbled before the Lord.
The Second Response:
A man who claimed Apostolic Authority, was with me in a service and I felt lead to bow my knee to Him for his call before God. It was not long that that man’s heart was revealed as being agenda driven, and for his own glory. Had I not bowed to him, I imagine I would have been fooled and followed him instead of following God’s true path for my life.
I have no desire to be someone’s boy. I already have a father. He is God.
Another false:
Another thing that happened to me much later was along the same lines. I was in a new fellowship for a time, and was committing to that fellowship and pastor, but in the very act of humbling myself before that ministry, its agenda was revealed and I found that control and pride was the driving force of that ministry.
That pastor told us not to take up the chairs in the worship center if we were not going to work for her.
In humbling myself I was lifted up, but not with the proud. For pride goes before the fall.
We really have no king but Jesus in this Kingdom thing!
He said they have rejected Me/the Lord.
But Samuel warned Israel of what would happen. That the man would rule over them. He would appoint a police state to rule over them. He will take your fields and vineyards and give them to His servants.
Now we have seen this very reality in both our Government, and in the church. Evil men take what is not theirs and give it to their “boys”.
I know the Lord teaches us to humble ourselves and we will be lifted up. I found out something very interesting about men. The Lord has shown me to bow myself before men with vision who proclaim him. Now we all know that every vision is not pure. We also believe, that most visions have mixture. But if you bow before a called “Brother’s” vision, it will bring about a response.
To make this clear let me give you two examples.
The First Response:
I was a pastor and went to a church fellowship to seek out connection and help. When I participated in one of their home fellowship meetings, one of the brothers, fell at me feet and washed them. I was truly speechless as I was humbled before the Lord.
The Second Response:
A man who claimed Apostolic Authority, was with me in a service and I felt lead to bow my knee to Him for his call before God. It was not long that that man’s heart was revealed as being agenda driven, and for his own glory. Had I not bowed to him, I imagine I would have been fooled and followed him instead of following God’s true path for my life.
I have no desire to be someone’s boy. I already have a father. He is God.
Another false:
Another thing that happened to me much later was along the same lines. I was in a new fellowship for a time, and was committing to that fellowship and pastor, but in the very act of humbling myself before that ministry, its agenda was revealed and I found that control and pride was the driving force of that ministry.
That pastor told us not to take up the chairs in the worship center if we were not going to work for her.
In humbling myself I was lifted up, but not with the proud. For pride goes before the fall.
We really have no king but Jesus in this Kingdom thing!
Temptation
RESISTING TEMPTATION
"SO LONG as we live in this world we cannot escape suffering and temptation. Whence it is written in Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare."[3] Everyone, therefore, must guard against temptation and must watch in prayer lest the devil, who never sleeps but goes about seeking whom he may devour, find occasion to deceive him. No one is so perfect or so holy but he is sometimes tempted; man cannot be altogether free from temptation."
Thomas Akempis, from: "An Imitation of Life" in Chapter 13
"SO LONG as we live in this world we cannot escape suffering and temptation. Whence it is written in Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare."[3] Everyone, therefore, must guard against temptation and must watch in prayer lest the devil, who never sleeps but goes about seeking whom he may devour, find occasion to deceive him. No one is so perfect or so holy but he is sometimes tempted; man cannot be altogether free from temptation."
Thomas Akempis, from: "An Imitation of Life" in Chapter 13
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