When it says, “he that sat upon the thrown” it is talking about our savior king, our Sheppard, our redeemer, and our Lord, Jesus Christ himself! After he was crucified and gave his life for us, redeemed us with is blood and gave us access to all the blessings and fullness of joy that is in heaven he was resurrected by the power of the God’s Holy Spirit. He came back from the dead and went to heaven in full glory and splendor and sat down on the thrown as King of Kings once and for all. These words were spoken to Saint John the beloved of Christ through a vision he was having. God gave him a vision of the end days and allowed him to see things no one has ever seen. John was able to see everything that was going to happen when Christ returned for us. John was allowed to see secret things and was given a glimpse of things to come.
In this part of the Vision Jesus Christ speaks to John and gives him this ultimate truth, he says something to him that goes against our very human nature. Jesus says, ‘Behold I make all things new!” For our entire lives, and by the way I’m sure it was the same back in his time, in fact in John’s time there were far more philosophers and speakers and basically people that like today thought they had things figured out, they thought they knew how to dissect human nature and our behavior and believed they could explain why we do what we do and act like we act and live how we live. Key word there is “thought.” Then and now the world wants us to think that we are who we are and we simply stay that way. They cram down our throats that if we are born a certain way, well then no matter what, even if we have a propensity to steal or have an over anxious libido (in other words nymphomaniac) or just any tendency that begins to be evident in our growing up and general way of living even if it takes us places we don’t want to go, or makes us do things we don’t want to do we just have to deal with it because that’s who we are.

We are taught that instead of changing the situation (because in the world’s mind people don’t change) we are to adapt to our short coming and figure out ways to “deal with it!” The world gives countless strategies on self help, replacements for our addictions like nicotine gum or hobbies to distract us from what we really want to do, conditioning of the mind which is a way to almost trick yourself into doing something or not doing something unconsciously. We are bombarded with diet plans and surgeries we can have, medications we can take to bring us down if we are to high and bring us up if we are too low. The world spends more effort and money on treating erectile dysfunction then supporting churches or world hunger and things of that nature. Basically the world is in a constant search for ways to deal with our issues and problems and psychological hang ups, expending countless hours of manpower and effort and not to mention millions upon millions of dollars.
The world does all this and Jesus said one phrase, “behold I make all things new!” It is one of the single most important statements Jesus ever made and at the same time it is the single most difficult statement for people to take hold of and believe. My brothers and sisters from the bottom of my heart, I honestly challenge you today to take God’s word and run with, take to the bank and cash it, bet on red (no pun intended) just believe it for you and your life. When Jesus said all things he meant ALL things. He didn’t say I make some things new or I only make what annoys you the most new, he said ALL THINGS! The world tells us we can’t change; Jesus says I make all things new. The world tells you to deal with your problem and Jesus says give it to me I will make it disappear. The world says you are bound to your addictions and you are shackled to the bad habits that keep you down but Jesus says give me all your burdens, let me take all your issues, give me your life and take off your heavy yoke of bondage and take up my yoke for it is light easy. Jesus is God, he created you, and he formed you in your mother’s womb. He is the only on that can fix you or re create you.
This morning God is telling you to allow him control, hand over the wheel of your car, put down the remote of your life and let him take control. He wants to renew you, reconstruct you and redesign you. He wants to make all things new in your life and make you the exceptional person he meant you to be not who the world wants you to be or who society thinks you should be. Remember God’s design is perfect but the situations that we are born in or the environment that we are raised in is something we can’t control. If the people before us, our parents, family and friends made the wrong decisions and chose not to follow Jesus or allow him to come into their lives to change all things, then these things affect us, there actions take their tole on us and we become victims to situations that we never even asked for.

This is what generational curses are all about. The sins or actions of our fore fathers carry on to us and dictate the lives we live. If we don’t take a stand and allow God to change things, allow him to make all things new then these life styles, burdens, addictions, bad choices, mental issues, will continue in our lives and carry on to our children and their children’s children. We must break these chains of bondage, we must free ourselves from the circumstances we are in because of our own actions and the ones we are in because of other’s actions. The only way is to allow Jesus to make the change and only he can break those change and only he can make you free and “Whom the son sets free, is free indeed!” Remember that what happens in your life not only affects you but also others. People are watching you, looking up to you, expecting things from you and even hating you and whatever happens in your life can either serve as a blessing for others or condemn them. If people see a change in your life then they see that Jesus is real and what he says does happen. We cannot go around representing something that we are not fully a member of. If I say I’m a believe in Christ and my life continues in bondage I am always struggling and never prosper because I don’t allow God to make the change in my life then not only am I lost but others are seeing a bad representation of a member of the body of Christ and can make the wrong decision based on a wrong example. Your bad example can lead people the wrong way.
If you allow yourself to be changed then of course you will be blessed because God will make all things new in your life and allow you to live a life of prosperity and Joy and the understanding that you are saved and redeemed to live a free life and expect and hope for the day you go to heaven but the ultimate blessing is that your life will serve as a testimony and blessing for others who are stuck in places that you used to be.
When God blesses his blessings always overflow on to others and not just the person being blessed. God’s blessings are not self centered they are everyone centered. And the same holds true to the negative, the devil makes sure certain people are watching and waiting to see what happens in your life because he knows if they see the wrong thing in your life they will be lead astray also. I challenge you this morning to take up God word and believe! God is the God of today, today is the day the Lord has made! Today is just as good a day to make the decision to Give Jesus your entire life and full control, today put him to the test, let Jesus prove to you how much he wants you to live of complete and total “SHALOM” witch means peace, the peace that surpasses all understanding. The literal meaning of this is nothing missing, nothing broken, a total completeness of body, mind and spirit. Real prosperity, not just monetary wealth but wealth in all aspects of life, mental health, physical health, material possessions and most importantly the spiritual enlightenment of who Jesus is and what he can do in your life. I didn’t say let him prove to you how much he loves you because he already did when he gave his life on the cross for you! Now he wants to take the life he redeemed and make it all it was meant to be.

John 8:3-11

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

So this woman is caught in adultery I know we all know what that is right. The scribes and Pharisees bring her to Jesus. These scribes and Pharisees although claim to know all the law and the bible and are very religious still bring her to Jesus. On one count they want to test him and see what he does, because they are looking for any excuse to defame him or prove him wrong. Remember Jesus is gaining a following and they want to bring him down whenever they can. They bring her to him and ask him what they should do. First they recite to him the Law that came through Moses.

Now the first thing Jesus does is kneel down and write on the ground. We know that Jesus is God and the only other instance when we see the finger of God writing is with the 10 commandments. God wrote them in stone with his finger. Jesus stoops down and writes on stone. How do you know he writes on stone you ask, well they were in a temple and in those days the temple floor was made of stone. The first time he stoops down it is a picture of Jesus saying “I wrote the law” and when he stands up he says “he that is without sin cast the first stone” It is so wonderful that he stoops down again. In the Hebrew the word stoop means to lower in rank to make one self lower than another. When Jesus said that who ever is without sin through the first stone, he would have had to have thrown the first stone because he was the only one there without sin, but he loved her so much he “stooped” lowered his rank made himself lower then her and stepped down from a perfect God for an instant in order to save her. He wrote on the stone or floor a second time, this is a picture of him re-writing the law under grace. Jesus fulfills the law for us and we no longer are bound to the law but we are saved by his mercy and grace. In Jeremiah God says he will make a new covenant and write it in our hearts. So Jesus wrote the law the first time under the old covenant of the Law and then when he stooped down wrote the law again under the new covenant of Grace.

By the time Jesus finished writing he looked up and there was no one left. They all left. You see they failed to believe in him and failed to accept grace, they chose to still live under the law and were condemned by their law and were convicted of their sins and were forces to leave. The women on the other hand fell under to God’s grace. Jesus looks up at her and asks her where her accusers are? There is no one left and Jesus says these most wonderful words to here; “neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.” The key here is that he did not say if you go and sin no more then I won’t condemn you. No he gave his grace first and then commanded her. With those few words he let her know that he did not care about what she had done, he let her know that he did not care what she was doing or even what she was going to do. He confirmed the fact that even while she was still a sinner the plan of his death for her life was already in place. It was through this face to face encounter, through this one on one revelation that she was able to finally understand that God, Jesus, did not care about anything she had done or is doing or will do in her life, she realized that he loved her no matter what. She realized that his love for her was unfailing and that there was nothing she could to do make him stop loving her.

It was only when she realized that no matter what she did or what she had done Jesus would never condemn her and always lover, her that she was able to be truly free and truly be liberated from her life and “go and sin no more” in other words live a life without sin. It is impossible to live a life without sin for we sin the moment we wake up, our flesh is sinful so we can’t help it but if we have Jesus in our hearts we die to the flesh and live in the spirit. Our whole life we are on the quest of trying to better ourselves so we can come to Jesus. Or we figure that what we have done or thought or said is too terrible for him to still love you. Jesus says “come as you are” he says “take my burden for it is light” he says “I am the bread of life, eat me and you shall never be hungry” “I am the truth the way and the life!”

Many of us are Christians and we have been born again and even go to church every Sunday but still cannot breakthrough. Many of us want to live with Jesus and want to live a good life but our sin does not let us. The problem is not sin. Some people think that God is this God who sits on his thrown waiting for you to fail or sin or do something wrong just so he can punish you or come down on you, nothing could be further from the truth. Jesus doesn’t have to wait for you to commit a sin; he knows what you will do before you do it, and he knows what you did even the things that you didn’t even realize you did. This means that he has the ability to pre judge you for your entire life before you even live it. Jesus does not do that though. He loves you so much he gave you forgiveness before you even make a single change in your life. Before this woman left his presence and continued on with her life he forgave her and gave her grace. He told her she was not condemned. Once she realized that sin was not the problem, once she realized that she was forgiven for everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, she realized that it was herself that was the problem.

We must learn to accept God’s forgiveness, we must learn to believe it and realize it to be true for our lives and not just a teaching in the bible. Until you know in your heart that you are free from guilt and condemnation, you will not be able to live the life God wants you to live. How do I do that you ask. Well in order to know the truth in your heart then you must have the truth in your heart. Who is the truth? Jesus! You also must have the way to follow the truth in your heart, who is the way? Jesus! And you also must have a new life to be free, who is the life? Jesus! The bible says that the mouth speaks from what the heart is filled with. If your heart is filled with Jesus that that’s what you will produce and it will be evident. If your heart is filled with anything else then that’s what you will bare fruit of. You might say well I’m born again or I go to church, or my family is Christian but that’s not what saves you. Jesus Christ must be first and foremost in your life. He must take precedence before anything and anyone else. You have to have a one on one face to face encounter with Jesus and allow him full control of your life and He will do all the hard stuff. I can safely say that no one who has truly had a real encounter with Jesus and come face to face with his love and grace like the adulteress women has ever been the same again.

I once told some people that there are only two directions that we are even going in life. We are either going towards God or away from God. We are never going up or down or to the right or left or anywhere else, it’s only towards him or away from him. That’s why Jesus says you must repent because repent literally means to turn. He wants you to turn around, to change your focus, to leave what you are doing to face him and start moving towards him. The truth is that moving towards God is impossible! WHAT? Yup it’s impossible, by yourself you will never get there, you will always get turned around but with Jesus in your heart and in your life you can go towards the father. In fact when you let Jesus take over he picks you up and carries you there, because the path is humanly impossible only he can take you there. You begin to see just how important Jesus is. It’s not about religion, or churches or temples or life styles or anything, it’s about Jesus. I know it’s hard to leave a life of sin, like I said it’s impossible without Jesus. It’s not about what your friends might think or what your family might say or what religion you have been or anything like that. Remember that we are talking about your eternity here, would you really be willing to give up eternal life with God because of someone’s opinion or because of tradition, or religion? I wouldn’t! If you truly allow him control, authentically put him first and whole heartedly turn and meet him face to face, your life will change in an instant. He will do everything for you and he will make all things new.

Remember that Jesus loves you, he yerns to be with you, he literally is waiting for you to return to him like the father waited for the prodigal son. He is not waiting to punish you for where you have been or what you have done. He is waiting for you to give you his most warm embrace, to kiss you on the cheek and rub your head and say “welcome home my daughter, welcome home my son, I know it’s been hard, I know your hurt and bruised and I know that your heart is broken but you’re here now, I will fix everything I will cloth you and feed you and love you and give you everything in my kingdom. Just put me first and everything else will fall into place.”

Good morning everyone!  As always I pray that you are walking in God’s favor and blessings always and that your spirit is being renewed from glory to glory through striving for the goal that is Christ.  God spoke to me again about the coming times and season that we are entering.  Do you guys remember in the “Lord of the Rings” the third movie, when Gandalf says, “the final battle for middle earth has begun!”  Well my brothers and sisters I believe in my spirit and according to what God is showing me and what the word says about these days, that the final battle for the salvation of mankind has begun!  As we know the number 7 is the number of completion and I believe this year will complete the transition process from the wilderness and leadership by Moses or the law, in other words traditional or conservative ways of preaching the gospel to walking into the Promised Land with Joshua by following the Ark of the Covenant.  Stay with me I will explain.

If you remember that in my previous writing about the message in Ezekiel 9, God spoke about how he has begun the purification process.  Now of course God has a reason for purification.  The reason for this process is so that nothing from the old way of thinking and old doctrines and even false doctrines and sin will pass over to this new movement.  Only the righteous and pure in heart that truly “lament and cry about the abominations of the children of Israel” will have the honor of carrying the Ark and leading us towards the Promised Land.  We are being called to sanctify ourselves and keep our eye on the ark which is Jesus.  The reason this is such an important time is because the move that is beginning is completely brand new.  We are entering a phase that has never been seen before.  If we do not keep our eyes on Jesus and our focus on him we can get easily lost because no one knows this new way.  So if no one knows this new way, then if someone gets lost and you are following them, you will be lost also.  The only way to stay with this coming move and not get lost in false doctrines, antichrist spirits, false prophets, and all sorts of things that are going to be dressed like a sheep but are truly wolfs, is to keep your eyes on the ark and those carrying it.  The ark as we all know is a representation of Jesus.  In him is the law (the Ten Commandments), in him is the bread of life (the mana from heaven) and in him is the resurrection of life (Aaron’s rod that bud again)!

So I know your wondering where all this is in the scriptures, well here it is.  Turn with me to Joshua Chapter 3.  First off I need to explain something else.  Moses or “Mosheh” means to draw out or pull out in Hebrew.  During our time in the wilderness with Moses, we had to go through a process of drawing out.  Not only literally being drawn out of Egypt or “the world” but spiritually having everything that is not pleasing to God’s eyes pulled out and drawn out from us.  He also needed to show us examples of faith and miracles and feed us and keep us and guide us.  Through this he drew out our faith and drew out anointing that was in us to begin with but we never knew was there.  Through this period we have had our faith strengthened and the anointing on our lives expanded.  Through our walk in the wilderness God had to kill certain things in us, he had to rid you of things that he knew would hinder your walk with him.  Like all the people that God punished and/or killed during the exodus for different sins.  The Golden Calf , the sin of Nadab and Abihu, the murmuring of Merium, the evil report, the plagues, the gainsaying of Korah, even the sin of Moses and Aaron all these things were certain issues God had to rid the people of Israel. 

He does the same thing in us.  He pulls out everything he does not want in you and kills it.  It may not feel good at the time, we may not like the trials he puts us through but they are working a far greater weight of glory in us.  Ok so Moses is also the mediator of the Law.  He was the mediator between God and his people.  Law or God’s word (the bible) is our guide and mediator between God and us during these periods of drawing out and purifying.  We depend on the law because the law reveals sin and shows us what we need to change in our lives.  These are just the steps that one must go through in our spiritual growth.  We are entering another time where we no longer need a mediator between us and God but we have a direct link to Jesus and only Jesus.  I am in no way saying that we do not need the word in our lives, that would be crazy!  I am saying that the word stops being a revealer of sin and stops being the only thing that guards us and guides but now it switches to be our weapon and our instrument of faith and our source of salvation.  Joshua means “YAHWEH is salvation.”  So the law has done its work in our life it has shown us our sins, it has shown us our shortcomings, it has shown us that without Jesus we are doomed.  It now begins to be a source of grace; it transforms into Jesus and through him comes grace and truth.  The law (Moses) has brought us far enough and now (Joshua) God’s Salvation or “JESUS” will guide us the rest of the way.  I know this is a lot but, I’m trying to do my best in putting it in order. 

In Joshua 1:2 God tells Joshua that Moses is dead.  The Moses phase in our lives is over and it is time for Joshua’s phase.  Not just in our lives but for the whole body of Christ.  Now I will tie in what I was saying in the beginning.  In Joshua 3:2-5;

 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp; and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.  Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”  And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

It says the officers commanded the people.  The officers are all the preachers and teachers and leaders.  They were commended that when they saw the Ark of the Covenant and the Priests and Levites and all of them carrying it, they were to follow it.  This means that when you see Jesus moving, you are to follow him.  The Ark being carried by priests and Levites is the Gospel being preached by our leaders.  It’s the message that is coming to the body of Christ, it’s the move in the new direction that we are about to take.  It says that they should leave a space between them and the Ark, why is this?  You have to realize that it was roughly about 2 million Israelites that where traveling together.  If they where close to the ark it would be easy to drift off because you cant see it in front of you and many would be lost, but if they kept it a good distance before them and focused on it then they would never lose sight.  It says do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.  The way we are going is brand new completely different to anything we have seen or experienced before in our lives.  Not just us but the priests and leaders also.  The key is to follow the Ark, Jesus!  This path or this new generation is so new and so different that it will be easy to get lost in many different things that the devil will put out there to confuse and to disrupt.  If you are focused on Jesus and only Jesus then you cannot get lost.  There are so many of us and if we put our eyes on a person or a ministry and lose focus on Jesus, we can be lead astray.  It’s a hole new generation, a hole new move with a whole new anointing.  It is imperative that you keep your focus on Jesus and not just on a person or leader or ministry because these coming days are brand new for everyone and I mean everyone.  Even those who are in high positions and are in charge of many souls have never seen this before and if they do not stay focused on Jesus they will lead many the wrong way and not even know it. 

The following thing that Joshua says is “sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you!”  Hallelujah the Lord is going to do things that will amaze the world.  We are going to witness a move of the Holy Spirit like never before.  With so much power and so much influence it will be tremendous.  We must prepare ourselves, we must sanctify, we must focus on Jesus, we must train our spiritual muscles and sharpen our sword (our knowledge of the word) and yield our shield of faith, put on your helmet of salvation, dawn your breast plate of righteousness and gird yourself with the belt buckle of truth and the boots of peace.  Prepare for war my brothers and sisters.  You have to understand that when two apposing armies are under the understanding that this is the final battle, that this is their last chance for control, that there will be one winner and one loser at the end of this, they will come at each other will full force.  They will bring out all the weapons and all the tactics and everything in their arsenal to win.  How many know that Stronger is he who is in us then he who is in the world!  Praise the Lord!  I’m not worried about who is going to win the war, we know that the battle has already been won but I am worried for all the casualties of war.  It is our job to fight in the front lines, we are to protect and rescue the weak and lost, it is our job to set up Emergency clinics and to care for the wounded, it is our commandment to love one and other as Jesus loved us but more importantly to love Jesus first before anything or anyone else.

Brothers and sisters we are in the front lines and we have the knowledge and understanding that we have nothing to fear and nothing that can stop us but we have to train others in the same understanding and knowledge.  We have to rescue the lost help them get clean and turn their faces towards Jesus.  He is our strength he is our source of life and he will never leave us nor forsake us.  Rejoice my brothers, praise the Lord my sisters for our King is coming, our King is returning for us and we shall soon be eating together with Him at the biggest feast you have ever imagined.  Stay focused on the Ark do not lose faith, be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.  I am trembling with Excitement as I imagine the things that God has in store for us. 

 God bless you and keep you!

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great day!  I just wanted to share with you something that happened this morning in my car.  I feel like my car is a church on wheels LOL.  First I’ll share some background so you have a good perspective.  This is going to be long so if you don’t have the time now, wait until you do.  Over the weekend I had the pleasure of hanging out with a very dear friend to me.  He is practically like my brother.  He got married last year so his life has been very busy and so has mine, we very rarely get a chance to just hang out you know.  Just relax and watch the game or something and talk about life and you know, the usual.  Since I decided (well Jesus really made the decision) to make God number 1 in my life, He has asked me to let go of a lot of things.  The first thing I had to do was leave the relationship I was in.  Some of you might be thinking “well, why would he do that?”  Let me flip your lid even more, I was with that person for 8 years!  I was never truly happy though and to be totally honest I was living in sin and the devil had me right were he wanted me.  I was getting ready to just give up and get married and just live a mediocre life and never achieve what Jesus had for my life.  She wasn’t Christian and although I felt at one point I loved her, I really didn’t and I was bound by sex and conformity.  So it is safe to say that God rescued me and I see now that he did what he did because he had something else for me.  He has a woman who not only truly loves me but also loves him first and I know that is the person that I am meant to be with.  Not only does she have to love the Lord but she has to make a commitment (just like I do) to the Lord to serve him and help me serve him to the best of our abilities.  This my friends cannot be taught, it cannot be forced and it certainly won’t happen by my efforts.  God has to make this person and bring her to me.  I believe the Lord already has this person prepared and just like I am waiting for her, she is waiting for me!  That’s not even what I’m writing about, I don’t know why I wrote all that but I’m sure it will help someone out there. 

Ok so where I was going was here!  The Lord has changed a lot of things in my life since I gave myself 100% to him.  He took almost everyone out of my life and also made me give up my construction business I was trying to build.  We don’t see why sometimes but his purpose is far greater than anything we can imagine.  Basically God put me in a position where I have to start from scratch in all aspects of my life but this time he will provide all and everything will be under his will and every connection will be a divine connection.  There are only two friends from my past in my life.  I am beginning to see the reasons why and I understand that God has a plan for their lives too.  One of which is my best friend I was talking about in the beginning.  He is Jewish and was born in Israel.  He is a blood born descendant of Israel.  I know the Lord will work tremendously through him once the veil is lifted.  Anyway He married into a very very wealthy family.  Many will say that he did it for the money but I know that he truly fell deeply in love with his wife and it was never about that.  When I say insanely I mean INSANELY rich.  His father in law is building a house for his family in the richest part of Long Island that would put any house on MTV cribs to shame. 

Now the Lord has made sure to remove me from all that lust of the flesh.  My group of friends were very well off.  Most owned their own business or their family’s did and they reaped the benefits.  My whole life I would struggle to keep up with the life style.  I see now how much of a trap that was from the devil because I was constantly broke.  I had a good job but I was always competing with people who made much more money then I did.  I was always comparing myself and I always felt not good enough.  When you are surrounded by wealth you start to think like they do and your ambitions are purely money and materialistic things.  Big houses, nice cars, expensive nights out and that kind of life style.  For a long time all I thought about was making money, and a lot of it.  I wanted a huge mansion a Ferrari and, well I wanted to live like Daddy Yankee ok.  I thank God for taking me out of that life style and showing me what is really worth something.  He has shown me what real wealth is and I understand now.  Ok I know this getting long but bare with me here.   We hung out over the weekend and he took me over to his father in-law’s house to show me the progress.  I can’t even tell you how amazing this house is.  Ok just imagine he has a pool in the back with a grado, a hot tub and a wet bar.  Enough said right.  My eyes lit up and I felt something in me that I haven’t felt in a long time.  My ambition for the material was switched on and for the rest of the day my mind began to think and second guess myself about everything that I have been feeling and thinking.  All the plans that God has for me are not plans that make sense to the flesh.  And my flesh began to attack those plans and try to make them seem wrong.  We all know that the flesh will take any chance it has to war against you and do as much damage as it can.  I left his house and the whole way home I’m thinking about how maybe I should start my company back up again and I too could have a house like that if I build up my company.  I could have things like that if I truly put all my efforts in my dream of being a developer and so on and so forth.  Did you notice something about my train of thought?  It was all about me! I can do, I can get, and I can build.  All of a sudden my flesh takes over and becomes self centered and materialistic again.  All of this from five minutes in an extravagant house.  I am reminded how without Christ we fall victim to the flesh and have no power against it.

Finally after hours of wasted time, I snapped out of it.  I’m sure it was God who helped me and just smacked my spirit in the face and said “WAKE UP!”  Sunday night I was praying and I was able to give all those feeling up to the Lord.  I love the fact that he comforts us when we need it most.  He shows us the true meaning of prosperity and allows us to make mistakes without condemning us.  Today I’m driving to work.  I’m worshiping God but for some reason I just don’t feel “spiritual” like I do in the morning when I sing to the Lord.  How many know that’s it’s not about what you feel?  It’s about what we believe!  I thought all these feelings were gone but I was wrong.  On my way to work I have to drive through a very rich neighborhood.  I never really notice the houses but of course now I notice the biggest one on the block right.  Before my mind can start to drift again I hear the still small voice of the Lord.  “Yes they do have big houses and money, but they don’t have me!  My son you may not have certain things right now but you have me!”  Instantly my heart was broken and I began to cry.  I felt the presence of the Lord so strong I just plain broke down.  I felt his love and I felt like nothing was missing.  I felt 100% complete and everything I was thinking about vanished.

I’m not sure why God has lead me to write this, or even why I wrote so much to get to this point but I know Jesus always has a plan.  God asks a lot from us.  When we make up our mind to put him first in our life and make the decision to obey him and serve him, we have to go through a process where God has to strip us naked.  He has to take away everything that we have attained from the world or through the world.  He does this so he can make our live brand new and start us from scratch but fully dependant on him.  He does this so that no matter what, there is no way that you will not give him the glory.  IF you feel that your work got you your car, you will not glorify him for your car and he does not want that.  He wants to make sure that you know and I mean KNOW that everything you have came from Him and only HIM!  The devil does a great Job of showing us how successful other people are or how other people’s lives are so full of what we want.  What we don’t see is just how empty they are inside, just how lost their spirit is and just how much more they need what we have inside then how much we need what they have outside.  Believe me what you are going through right now is only for a moment.  Even though it seems like everyone else is better off then you, it’s a lie.  As long as you have Christ in your heart then you are better off then any person that doesn’t.  It doesn’t matter what they may have in the bank, or what women or man they have by their side, or even what car they are driving.  Ask yourself one question, “how is their soul?” 

Even though you feel vulnerable and awkward, this process is for your own good.  This is the faith building process.  Keep pushing towards the goal; we are in a season where we know that Jesus is a few moments away from coming back to get us.  Even if you don’t achieve things here on earth, it is very close to the moment we go up to heaven and dwell with the king.  We will live in mansions with foundations of diamonds and streets of gold.  There is wealth and prosperity there beyond your imagination.  There is no need, no lack, nothing missing, nothing broken.  There is no death, no pain, no sorrow, and no sadness.  We will be in God’s presence forever.  We will be able to walk with Jesus in the cool of the day and just love him and fellowship with him.  That is what we need to strive for.  Everything here on earth is temporary but in the kingdom of God everything is eternal.  I’m not saying we should not have nice things or live in nice houses, but we should not make those things our gods.  With or without those things, if we do not have Jesus all we have is eternal damnation.  Jesus is the answer, Jesus is the key!  Today lets reflect on what we do have, Jesus Christ!  That is more then enough.  Through him we will attain everything else.  Stay faithful, stay loyal and stay grounded in the Holy spirit.  If you are anchored on the rock, no storm can move you. 

God Bless You!

Walk in Victory Today!  Jesus Loves you! 

I was driving to work this morning and praising the Lord like I usually do, I was at a stop light and something I saw reminded me of this very special person in my life right now. I began to pray for her and just speak to the Lord about her situation. She is going through some trials and struggles like many of us are currently going through or have gone through in the past. We had just spoken the night before and she asked how long it would be until things turn around and why certain trials come about. As I took off from the light I felt the Holy Spirit speak into my heart and begin to answer these questions.

Matthew 13:11-17 (King James Version)He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them

He led me to the scripture above. I have read it many times and never got what was given today. Isn’t it funny how many times that happens in our walk with Jesus. There have been so many scriptures I have read over and over again and really not gotten much more then what is written but when God wants to talk to you it seems like if those very scriptures you past over take on a life of their own and just smack you in the face! The Lord says there are two types of trials and tribulations. One set happens when you truly put Jesus first in your life and you begin to walk in his path of righteousness. The other is when you don’t put him first in your life and you try to live your life with God as a suit you only wear on Sundays or whenever you want to impress someone with how spiritual you are or like a life jacket you only use when you are drowning.

The first type or set of trials and tribulations come from total submittal and obedience to the Lord. The word says “for whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance.” First off how could you give someone more abundance? If you have abundance then you don’t need more right? Well with God abundance is not enough, he wants to give you more abundance or Over abundance, over flowing! Exceedingly, abundantly and beyond all that you can ever ask or think right! If you put God first and your focus is on Jesus above all that is in your life including your own life then God will give you more. See God says to whosoever has, but what is it that he has? What is God referring to? He is referring to Jesus in your heart as a real Lord and savior, not just a tag on your chest that says Christian, but a real relationship with Jesus were he is in fact Lord and King over all of your life! This is having, and to him shall be given more abundance. You see when you have Jesus in you heart like that you already have in abundance because he is all you need but God will reward you for having him in your heart and give you more abundance! First he must prove you! He must test you and make sure that you will be able to handle what he has for you. He must make sure that you will remain faithful no matter how much he prospers you and that all the wealth and material things in the world will mean nothing to you but a means to bless others and the fact that these blessings flow through you so that you can take advantage of this is just an added benefit. This is the refining process that the bible speaks about. You are a peace of gold and before he puts you on display on his neck as a precious jewel he must purify you through fire and remove the dross to make you shine. You see it is easy to praise God and preach him when you are in total abundance and not going through something but if you can praise him and worship him when you are at your worst and have absolutely nothing that’s when your real supernatural faith is activated and God sees your heart and who it beats for. These are the trials that one goes through so that he can give us more abundance. It might not seem like it now but if you continue to hold on, your latter days will be greater then your former. The word says, “But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.” When we are walking with him he speaks to us through our storms, he shows up when we need him the most and we see his hand in our life when he provides everything when there is nothing. We are truly blessed because we see and hear and go through things during these tests that some prophets only wished to see.

On the other hand the second type or set of trials and tribulations come from disobedience and the wrong walk an attitude towards God. “Whosoever hath not, even what he has will be taken away.” Not having Jesus in your heart as a true and real Lord and King of your life comes with a heavy price. Even what you have you will lose. You will work, work and work some more and still never have enough. You will try and over extend yourself and achieve nothing. Whatever you have you will lose. You will go from relationship to relationship and God’s hand will not be on it. Your entire life will be a futile struggle to maintain. You say, “well how come so many unbelievers out there are so prosperous?” That’s exactly why, they are unbelievers, they are not walking around saying they are something and doing something completely different to what they proclaim to be. It is better to be totally cold then lukewarm, Of course we must be boiling hot and that is our goal but I think God has more respect for you if you are just straight up and honest with him and yourself. What God speaks is a parable to you because although you see with your eyes, your spirit is blinded with religion or hypocrisy. You hear with your ears but your spiritual ears are filled with lies and false doctrines. You heart beats and your mind takes in but your spirit is not discerning and your spiritual heart is in cardiac arrest.

God is so loving though, he says “lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and convert and I shall heal them!” The word convert means turn or repent. If you turn from your ways and give your heart 110% to the Lord he will heal you. This healing is complete and not just physical or pertaining to infirmities but also economic and mental and spiritual and total! He will dwell in your temple with you and will give you his “SHALOM” or peace. Shalom means nothing missing, nothing broken. This is the peace that surpasses all human understanding. Today is just as good a day as any to do a reality check in your life. Today is a great day to look inside your self and see who is really calling the shots in your life. Today will be the day you realize what type of trials you are going through. Are you being setup to be given more abundance, or to lose whatever little you have? I tell you if you call on the name of the Lord, the name that is above all name, the name of Jesus the Christ, he will rescue you, he will change you and He will make all things new. Today get on your knees and ask the Lord for forgiveness and pray that he opens your eyes and opens your ears and gives you understanding or spiritual discernment. We serve a God who is faithful enough to forgive all you sins, simply if you repent. God bless you and remember

The Best is Yet to Come!

I was praying the night of Yom Kippur and the Lord spoke to me very strongly.  He stopped me from worshiping him and made me turn to Ezekiel 9.  I’m sure you know it but I will include it in this letter.  It goes as follows;

1 Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand.” 2 And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar. 3 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple.[a] And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; 4 and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” 5 To the others He said in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. 6 Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple. 7 Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city. 8 So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?” 9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!’ 10 And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”
11 Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.”

As the Lord led me through this scripture he began to explain what this meant.  The Lord was telling me that the time is coming and the time is now when He will begin to purify his church.  We are entering a season where he is beginning to prepare his bride for the return of his son Jesus Christ.  The man with the inkhorn is the Holy Spirit and he is to go and mark or anoint all those who truly lament and who truly are appalled with the abomination that is going on in the body of Christ today.  All those who are honestly connected to God through his son Jesus and the Holy Spirit will be marked and separated from the judgment to come.  The saints that remain loyal to the true gospel of Jesus Christ and who will not compromise the word of God for the acceptance and or praise of others will remain untouched.  The other men were instructed to go out and kill and do not let their eyes spare or have pity.  He not only told them that but he said “and begin at my sanctuary!”  The word says they started with the elders and moved forward.  God explained how He is starting this purifying process with the elders and people in charge of spreading the gospel closest to him.  Large ministries and people who God at one point allowed to be in positions of influence, to be stewards of his people and to represent the kingdom of heaven here on earth that have lost the focus and have allowed themselves to be mastered by other Gods other then the one true God YAHWEH the great I AM, will be brought down and there positions of stewardship will be taken away.  I thought to myself Lord this is a hard word, and then of course the enemy tried to make me think I was making this up.  God then continued talking to me and lead me to Luke 16.  It states;

1 He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
3 “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
5 “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures[a] of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures[b] of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,[c] they may receive you into an everlasting home. 10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

There are many different meanings we can pull from this scripture but the Lord was specific with what he wanted to tell the people.  The steward is the big ministries and pastors and people who I spoke about above.  They were appointed as stewards and God is now asking for an account of their actions because he has seen that they have lost focus and have not been good managers in his eyes.  The word says the steward said I cannot dig and I am ashamed to beg.  This means they have forgotten the labor that got them to where they are, the forgot the price they paid or even how to continue paying it but more importantly they forgot the ultimate price that was paid for them.  They have become proud and the people who once where not ashamed to suffer for his cause now are filled with arrogance and zeal for things that are not inline with the word of God.  They are puffed up because of what God has given them and have lost focus on the true goal and gospel.  The steward tried to gain the acceptance and friendship of the people in dept to the master by giving them a discount.  By not charging them the full price that they owed.  This means they have not preached the full gospel.  They have changed the gospel to fit the people and have preached a message that is pleasing to the church instead of the truth.  All of this just to gain fame and acknowledgement in the body of Christ.  They have put aside the true gospel of Jesus and focused on worldly riches and things that take God’s place in our lives.  In the amplified version it says he changed their contractual obligations to please them.  There are certain things us as children of the light have to do and have to abide by that have been put aside in these last days just so people fill churches and bank accounts instead of preaching the truth that sets people free.

These people have put in danger the very souls God placed in their care to protect.  God then reminded me of how when Joshua went to the Promised Land, the generation that entered with him was completely different to the one who was with Moses.  God had totally purified his people before he let them in.  There was not a single person who had the sins of their fathers with them when they crossed over.  The same way in these days a new generation is coming forth.  This generation is coming forth to usher in the coming of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.  The baton is being passed and there can be no sins and false doctrines transferred over to this generation from the last.  God is making sure that his bride is ready for the return of our Messiah.  The Lord told me to call this generation the “John the Baptist” generation.  God took me even further and lead me to Matthew 13:37-43;

37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

This is Jesus explaining the parable of the weeds.  It shook my very spirit to hear God say that these are the times we are in.  The bible is very clear in saying that the harvest is the end days and that’s when he will begin to pull the weeds out from among the wheat.  It has to happen now.  This is 2007 the year of completion.  Well the time of this old generation is complete.  It is now time for the new generation to take hold of this planet and usher in the coming of our king with a movement of the Holy Spirit like we have never seen before.  God is sending his angels or like in Ezekiel, his men to kill or pull the weeds out from among the wheat.  The time of harvest is at hand and the Lord is coming soon.  God is starting the purging with the people closest to him and in his sanctuary.  It won’t stop there, the hole field must be cleansed.  Brothers and sisters I urge you to be a  true follower of Christ.  Remember that there is only one way to the Father and that is through the son Jesus Christ.  Please know that there is a heaven and there most certainly is a hell.  The time is coming and the time is now when weeds will be pulled and gathered to be burned.  Don’t be one of those weeds but be a child of the light, a child of the most high God.  Cling to Jesus, focus on him and nothing else and you will be gathered to his barn.  We have only but a few seconds and He will be here to take us up to our mansions, we must endure but for a moment.  Hold on to Jesus, persevere and you will be rewarded.  Lets be a part of this generation, lets make a stand for whats right and usher in the coming of our Savior King!

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2The same was in the beginning with God.

In these first verses we see evidence of the trinity and also about God’s sovereign Reign over all.  The Greek word for Beginning is “archomai” which speaks about time, in other words the obvious; when time began.  “Archomai” is derived from “Archo” which is more along the lines of Government and rule, it means; to be first in line (in political order or rank) also reign or rule.  SO not only does it exclaim that God is the beginning of time but also the first being or entity or deity if you will, to be in rank or on political office on other words the first to rule over, the first to reign.  These means there could be no other before him or higher then him.  He established rule and reign and government over us all.  The bible says “in the beginning WAS the Word” I was curious as to what the Greek for “was” was (tongue twister) and I found it it’s “En” which is derived from the root word “Eimi” it means “I exist” and it’s used only when being emphatic or proclaiming.  As in “I am or “It is I” So in essence you can read verse 1 and 2 as follows; “In the beginning ‘I existed or I am” the word, and the word or “I existed or I am” with God, and the Word or “I exist or I am” God.  So when first read it sounds like John speaking about God but the truth is that it is in fact Jesus speaking through him.  Now we know that the bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit, but we can see it literal in the Greek and it just further confirms what we believe.  What amazed me even further was how the Holy Spirit is also mentioned here.  Verse 2 says: “The same was in the beginning with God”  If you look up the Greek for “same” you find the word “Autos” from the root “Au” remarkably this means to breath or air, an inanimate breeze from the idea of a baffling wind.  When you look up the Hebrew for Holy Spirit you find “Ruach Hakodesh” which literally means holy breath or breath of God.  We can safely make the connection and understand that he is referring to the Holy Spirit.  So verse 2 can be read as; “The “breath or breeze” in other words Holy Spirit was in the beginning with God” notice it says “was in the beginning” That is the same was that means “I exist or I am.” God’s language is amazing in the same time as he is saying the Holy Spirit was in the beginning with God he is saying the Holy Spirit “I am or I exist” in the beginning with God.  Wow let me put it this way.  Even though he speaks about events that took place in the beginning or the actually beginning of time and order and all that stuff, Jesus (God) still refers to himself in the present tense.  Not in past tense or future tense but present as in eternal always, never past and never ending.  At the same time he is speaking about God and the Holy Spirit, he is still saying “I am” in other words like this; The Word “which I am and still exist as and always will exist as” was with God “which I am and currently exist as and will always exist as” and with “The holy spirit “which I am and I currently exist as and will always exist as”  I know it’s difficult to express it on paper and I’m sure my excitement is messing up my typing but this is truly wonderful.  In the original King James and in the Greek you are able to see in the first 2 verses of the gospel of John; the existence of the holy trinity and its existent before time even began.  Truly powerful.  Just to throw a bigger wrench into your theology (LOL) if you look up the Hebrew for God you get “Elohiym” which is plural meaning literally “Gods.”  As in more then one.  Most Jews can’t even answer why when they refer to God they use a plural noun.  The trinity brothers and sisters, the powerful and everlasting tri-fold existence of our Lord and Savior. 

Hallelujah !!!

            Many of us forget that as Christians we are in the public eye simply because we have confessed to be different and have a closer relationship with Jesus then the non believers or even new Christians.  The enemy is always looking at what he can use against you to discredit you in public.  I cannot put myself in the position of a leader or call myself a representative (ambassador) of the Kingdom of God and not set the right example.  We should all have the mentality when it comes to the Kingdom! Paul writes in 1^st Corinthians chapter 8 verses 9-13

 9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, won’t he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? 11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.”   

The entire chapter 8 is wonderful for this situation.

            I spoke on another topic about religious people who think that by their actions and by their zealous attending of church and judging others they are making God happy and guaranteeing their salvation!  On the other hand we also have those who like to practice legalism, which is another form of religion to me, it’s just the opposite.  Legalism says “I am forgiven so it does not matter what I do!”  It says “well God loves me so I don’t care what you think about me and I don’t care if what I do is a stumbling block for you!”  Legalism proclaims “I am free to do and be a part of anything I want and if I do something wrong I can always confess and be forgiven and all is well!”  Legalists think that God’s mercy and grace are a get out of jail free ticket.  Basically these people take the “liberty” that we have in Christ and pervert it to fit their life styles.  They do not want to give certain things up or make certain changes in their lives and so they try to generate loop holes and excuses and ways to get around things.  Not realizing the effect they have on the rest of the body, especially new believers!  The truth of the matter is that most of them do not truly LOVE Jesus.  You see when you experience the true love of Christ, when you have a real authentic meeting with Jesus; your life is forever changed!  You no longer do or not do things because of consequence; you make the choices out of love and admiration for Jesus.  If you love someone you will not do things that hurt them right?  If you love someone you will try your hardest not to disappoint them!  When you are totally in Love with someone you live to please them and make them happy because that makes you feel the same way in return.  But when you are forced to do something you do it out of anger, you do it to get it over with, or you find ways around doing it and try to cover things up.  You begin to do things out of fear of what is going to happen if you don’t.  When you think there might be a chance to skip something and not get in trouble you take the opportunity.  Love is the key factor here.  You see you can bring someone to Christianity and not bring them to Christ.  You say how?  Well I can witness to anyone and warn them about hell and what it’s about and tell them that if they pray a prayer with me and except Jesus into your heart you will be allowed into heaven and you won’t go to hell.  God bless you, um …… find a good church and go every Sunday!  Ok cool I have my ticket out of hell and now I can call myself a Christian and people will think I’m spiritual and all is dandy.  They where never instructed to seek Jesus the one who gave them the salvation or even told about how important he is.  Others just grew up in Church, their parents might be living the life but they just grew up in church because mom and dad made me come with them all the time and well I grew up Christian so I guess I’m a Christian.  I know who Jesus is and I know he died on the cross but that’s about it.  They Join groups because everyone in there youth group is a member or they are just compelled to do so.  The one common denominator is the lack of knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ.  You can have all the religion you want and still not know Jesus.  You can go to all the youth events, retreats, seminars, baptisms, and all the wonderful church events and still never know Jesus.  He is the one who changes lives, he is the one who opens eyes to what is wrong, he is the one who makes all things new, he is the one that makes your spirit grow.  He is everything! He is the truth the way and the Life!  Without him we can do nothing, he is the vine and we are the branches, away from him we are dead!  So to all these examples, the religious, the legalist, the ignorant, the just plain clueless, it is all from a lack of relationship with the one true Christ!  Church is a biblical place for us to come together and congregate, commune with one another.  We come to fellowship and praise the Lord together and receive fresh manna from those chosen to serve it.  It does help our walk with Jesus but the “relationship” the intimacy between you and Jesus us up to you personally.  You must seek him in private; you must seek him in the morning and worship him in the night hour.  That communion, that relationship is what changes you and brings you from being carnally minded to spiritually minded.  That is what introduces you to his love and totally and utterly changes you in that love.  Remember that the number on commandment for us: Luke 10:27 He answered:

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” 

Jesus told us that because he knew that it would make all the difference in the world.

So how do we deal with these brothers and sisters who are in the wrong?  With Love.  I know the bible says that we should stay away from those people who call themselves brother and sisters, yet still practice these evil things (see 1 Cor 5:11-13).  There are many more passages that tell us to say away from worthless deeds of evil and darkness (see Ephesians 5:11) but the word also tells us to correct our brothers in sisters in love, Matthew 18:15-17 says:

15“If your brother sins against you, ^[a] go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’^[b] 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.” 

So we are to follow what the bible says and attempt to bring that brother or sister closer to Jesus by speaking to them with the love of Christ.  Nothing is solved with guilt and condemnation.  James says in chapter 5 verse 19-20

19My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, 20remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins.”

 Even Jesus said in revelations chapter 3 verses 19-20

19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” 

It’s all about love.  If you have done all of this and it seems like they are just not changing then do as the word says,  Do not even sit at the same table with these people. God will take over and he will do with them as he wishes.  Please I ask that you do not forget that it is all about love, if you choose to let the person go and no longer associate with them, do it in love do not chastise them as you turn your back, remember just because you are no longer dealing with them it does not mean that God is finished!  Many might see this as just another blog on the net but I do not!  I see this as the church that God has allowed me to have.

 I don’t have the money yet for a real building so I will do what I can with what I have.  I love you guys with the love of Christ and the last thing I want is for you to dislike or worse hate one and other.  I want to setup a chain of command here just like a church.  I want to setup a system that will help the body of Christ that is on this website.  I want to truly make a difference in this place and not just be another blog and only worry about how many members I have.  Join me in Loving Jesus for all that he is.  Join me in loving the body of Christ like he loves the body.  Join me in spreading the gospel in love and understanding.  Most importantly join me in winning souls for Jesus.  Together we can start to make a difference and start to teach people the right way to be a Christian, the only way to be a Christian; to be totally and completely in Love with Jesus! 

Jeremiah 31:31-3731Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.35Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.37Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.            

This, my brothers and sisters is the moment when God the father let his people know that he would be sending Jesus to the world.  Like the entire bible; Jesus is in everything that is written.  God speaks about making a new pact with Israel, one not like the covenant of the Law that he made with our fathers through Moses, but a new covenant where instead of never forgetting our sin, now he will never remember our sins.  This is the covenant of Grace and truth that came through Jesus Christ!

 In John 1:14-17; And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 

God speaks about how he will put the law in our inward parts and write it on our hearts.  The Hebrew word for inward parts is “Qarab” it is a primitive root that means; to join, to draw near, to present, to make ready, or to produce.  This is wonderful, God is telling us that under the new covenant of Grace, he will do it all and it is no longer up to us.  God says I will draw near to you, I will present myself to you, I will join the law of the new covenant to you, I will make you ready and I will produce the law of the new covenant through you.  God says “I will write it on your hearts,” the only time we see God writing, and I mean God not an angel or anything else but God himself writing is in two places in the bible.  And only in those two places is the word used to mean engraving or etching in, not just simple writing.  One is when he wrote the law on stone or the “Ten Commandments” and the other was in a synagogue when the people were going to stone the prostitute.  Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground, now they were in a temple not outside.  In those days the temple floor was made of stone.  After he bent down he said “he that is without sin cast the first stone!”  Here is the connection; When God writes he engraves, whether it is in stone or in eternity he engraves.  He says he is going to engrave the law of the new covenant of Grace and Truth in our hearts in other words make it part of us, never to be removed.  Jesus demonstrated the changing of the old covenant to the new covenant when he stooped down in that temple.  After he stooped down to write the first time, He was writing the law of the old covenant and kept it by stating “he that is without sin cast the first stone” when he bent down a second time and wrote on the stone, he was showing that He was writing the law (fulfilling)under a new covenant.  When he looked up the accusers where gone.  He said; “Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more (John 8:10-11).  Grace!  “Neither do I condemn thee” or “I will remember your sins no more!”  Amazing Grace!

After that in Jeremiah 31:34 he says that no longer will men have to teach each others about God but we will all know God ourselves.  He will be our God and we will be His people.  In this new covenant God will stop being a far away Judging God but he will be a freely available graceful God.  No longer will people depend on men and prophets alone to hear the voice of God but we will be able to have God live in us and communicate with us in intimacy and worship.  This, this very key is the key to our success.  Understanding this grace that has been freely given to us, knowing that he has already forgiven us all our sins through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and excepting that he will never again remember the sins we have committed and will commit is monumental.  It is revealed that sin is no longer the problem in our walk with Christ, but our lack of faith.  If we have been forgiven for our sins and they have been erased then they cannot be a problem anymore.  The problem is our lack of faith in believing that we are forgiven or in other words, forgiving ourselves.  How does faith come?  By hearing, and hearing what?  The word of God!

Romans 10:17; “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”The word is the key to your success and to your understanding, accepting and living in the Grace of God.  Not just the written word but the Word that became Flesh; Jesus Christ!  I want you to understand that you are a new being, born again through Jesus Christ.  That you are dead to sin and alive to the spirit through the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior.  Death, my friends, no longer has dominion over you!  You can walk in victory and walk in Grace with the knowledge of the truth.  What is the truth?  The truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Romans 1:16;” For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

And who is the truth? Jesus declares in John 14:6; “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”  There is no way around it; He is the answer to all our questions!  You want freedom from sin; Jesus Christ.  You want healing; Jesus Christ.  You want bondage to be broken; Jesus Christ.  You want financial success; Jesus Christ.  You want a family, health and prosperity? JESUS CHRIST!!!  He is The Lord who heals Jehovah Rophe, He is the Lord our righteousness Jehovah Tsidkenu, He is the Lord our banner Jehovah Nissi, He is the lord is present Jehovah Shammah, He is the Lord will provide Jehovah Jireh, He is the Lord is my sheppard Jehovah Rohi, He is the Lord our peace Jehovah Shalom, He is our SHALOM, which doesn’t just mean peace, it means nothing broken, nothing missing, a total completeness of body mind and soul.

And finally, all of this, this wonderful Mercy and Grace, the sacrifice on the cross, your salvation and eternal life can never be taken away!  Amen Hallelujah!  The is the best feeling, to know that we are redeemed and that no one or no thing can pluck us from his hands.  John 10:28-30; “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.  I and my Father are one.”God exclaims in Jeremiah 31:35-37; “Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.  Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.  You tell me who can measure heaven?  Who can measure the foundations of the earth or count the stars in the sky?  Who can make the sun, moon and stars disappear?  No one!  Unless all this is done, God’s new covenant with us is intact and eternal! 

I challenge you to put away condemnation, to drop the clothing of iniquity and sin and take up the robe of righteousness that is a free gift to you from Jesus Christ.  Put your trust in God!  Die completely to the flesh and sin and live in the fullness of the spirit of God within us.  The Word says in Romans 8:1-4; “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”Forget your sins, forgive yourself and put away the worries of the flesh.  Accept God’s love and mercy and grace in your life.  Pray that God strengthen your faith and allow it to grow.  Feed your faith with the word and spend time with the author and lover of your soul; Jesus Christ!  Walk in the spirit and live by the spirit.  Renew your mind to be sensitive to the spirit and to ignore the flesh.  This renewing only comes from glory to glory with Jesus Christ.  In other words, every moment you spend with him alone and give yourself to him 100%, his presence changes you, his touch re-constructs you, his loving kindness renews your mind and makes you into the “REAL” you!  Remember God loves you and wants you to prosper, he wants you to be happy and he delights in giving you the petitions of your heart.  We all read the scriptures that promise blessings and prosperity and all these things but we don’t pay attention to the end of the verse or chapter.  In most the word ends the promise with “to those who seek him, to those who love him, to those who obey him, to those who walk in righteousness, to those who walk in the spirit, to those believe!”  Its one thing to read the promise but it’s another to actually do what needs to be done to obtain the promise.  Put Jesus first, love Him, seek Him, walk with Him, obey Him, but most importantly accept Him into your heart and allow him full and total control.  Everything else will be added unto you!  Remember that your latter days will be greater then your former days. 

Jesus makes all things new and that means YOU!

This is a subject that bothers me very much.  It bothers me because there are so many souls out there that are in dire need of God’s love and favor but they will not come to Christ because of the members of the church themselves.  I am not saying that it is the only reason and I am not saying that it is every single person in the body of Christ but I am saying that every time I ask someone why they won’t go to church or why they haven’t taken that step yet it’s because of something or someone that left them with a bad taste in there mouths at church.  We all know that many people make up any excuse to tell you why they won’t give there lives to Jesus but I’m talking about the people who truly are hurt or mislead and you can see that anger in there eyes when they tell you what happened to them.  You can see the disappointment as they explain that they where judged and by there feelings were forced to leave.  I want to make it clear that I know and understand that there are cases when the person is just making up excuses or simply refuses to submit to certain things that are basically not even socially acceptable let alone at the church.  Although even then I say that shouldn’t be any issue because Jesus came for the outcasts, for the lowest of the low! 

I want to first say that no where in the bible does it say that you have to be a Christian or a Jew or any other religion to enter in the kingdom of heaven.  Actually the only religion mentioned in the bible is Judaism or “Jews” or the nation of Israel.  Anyone outside of that group was called a gentile.  God only gave a name to a certain people; he only called “His people” a certain people, the Jews the blood descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob (Israel).  I say that so that you know and understand that everything else was made by man!  Simple!  Everything else was not from God and God did not recognize it.  Christianity or “Christian” only means that we believe in Christ or that our faith is based on Christ, Jesus Christ!  All the other denominations under “Christianity” are all man made religions, with man made doctrines and rituals.  Yes I am sure that a number of things they practice and do are biblical but for the most part the rituals they do or practice are derived from man made practices that have been done throughout the ages by the founders of the religions and the believers.  It was not until Jesus that the rest of the world was even allowed into this wonderful place called heaven.  It was not until his sacrifice that there was a door opened to the Kingdom of heaven.  The action of denial by his people, the “Jews” caused His grace and mercy to be extended to us, “the rest of the world!”  His people who where governed by a covenant of Law rejected His son and therefore the new Covenant of grace that was meant for them was offered to us.  Wonderful isn’t it?

 Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God is at hand and then also the Kingdom of God is here!  He never said Christianity is here!” or “Catholicism is here” or “Muslimism is here” or any other religion.  Jesus said that he was the door, the truth and the life!  He said that no one could go to the father unless through him!  He said that you must be born again to enter the kingdom of God or “heaven”.  Being born again is the only step that he asks “you” to take, the act of accepting him into your heart as Lord and Savior and believing with your heart and confessing with your mouth is the only thing that he asks you to do to be allowed into the Kingdom.  Everything else Jesus says he will do for you!  He will provide for you, he will exalt you, he will heal you, and he will do it all as long as you give him a chance.  Jesus never said you must be a Christian and then be born again and then you can have everlasting life!  He never said you must change your clothes and cut your hair and then be born again……. And then you can have eternal life and entrance into heaven.  He never said that you must stop drinking and smoking and going to clubs and then you can be born again and then you can have my blessings and love!  There is not one verse that says that you must first change your entire life to conform to what that religious person at church wants or to what the “elders” think should be the representation of a Christian to be born again.  I cannot find one book in the bible that says that because of what you have done in the past you cannot be born again, or because you got pregnant out of wed lock, or you had an abortion or you even killed someone you cannot come to Christ and ask him into your heart!  So if God himself, creator of heaven and earth, Alpha and Omega, the great I AM! If even HE himself does not ask you to do these things who are these church people or friends or family members to ask these things of you?!  Who are they to give you dirty looks at church or to judge you and gossip with others?  NOBODY!  You do not have to “DO” anything or be any religion to come to Christ! 

You do not have to change anything or stop anything to except him as Lord.  He loves you so much he says “come as you are!”  The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever!  Not for a week, not for a few minutes, not even for 1000 years, FOREVER!  His mercy endures forever.  No matter what you did or when you did it Jesus wants to forgive you of it, he actually already did!  He paid the price for what you did 2000 years ago!  Not just for what you did in the past but everything you are going to do before you do it!  All he asks is that you love him with all of your heart and all of your mind and all of your strength and all of your might!  Who on this planet could give his life for you, pay for all your sins, suffer everything you where supposed to for you and only ask in return that you love him and obey him?  No one only Jesus.  On top of dieing for you, he defeated the devil so that he would no longer have dominion over you and you would not have to put up with him and his attacks.  The greatest part about all this is that he did not stay dead, oh glory to God he did not stay dead, he rose from the dead, he defeated death and was raised by the Power of the holy spirit of God and he is alive and well sitting on the thrown on the right hand side of God the father. 

He is there constantly watching over you, protecting you, defending you, and most importantly loving you!  I urge you today brother or sister if you have experienced this or have felt judged or pressured by anyone or anything, just know that it is a lie!  The devil will try anything from stopping you from attaining salvation and eternal life.  Accepting Jesus into your life is the best thing you could ever do and I plead with you to not let anyone stand in the way of you and your salvation.  Don’t worry about what you have done or what you are doing; Jesus will take care of making you a new person and helping you become what he wants you to be.  All you have to do is believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord and confess with your mouth and you will be born again.  If the church you went to is the one you do not want to go back to I’m sure you will be able to find another, as long as you ask God he will give you a home.  And if you can’t find one in the mean time you can find guidance here!  We will be more then glad to help you and guide you in your walk with Jesus.  If you are reading this and you felt Jesus’ love touch your heart and you want to accept him into your life, go to the main page and there is a prayer on the first announcement that you can say and he will come into your life and make his home in you!  Remember Jesus loves you, he died for you and he is waiting for you to let him in!

To all my believing brothers and sisters, pray that God always uses you to bless the lost and that you never become a stumbling block for others.  Pray that your relationship with Jesus grows and that the spirit help you discern between what is from God and what is religion and not from God.  Remember that they will know us by our Love!  The love of Christ! The love the covers a multitude of sins!  The bible tells us to stay away from certain people that steel, kill, commit adultery, lie and so on and so forth.  Paul meant that we should stay away from people who call themselves brothers and sisters and still do these things, not from the lost that do these things.  He even says or else you would have to leave this world, meaning that if you where to stay away from everyone that is like that you would have to leave earth because it is impossible to not be around people like that.  The only way to win over the lost is with love!  Not with condemnation and judgment but with love and kindness.  Remember Jesus did not come to sit with the priests and Pharisees, he sat with the poor, the sinners, the tax collectors and he did not care what the others said about him.  We have to bring them in not push them out, this is not some exclusive club that only certain people that “you” think should be testified to should be.  The kingdom of God is for everyone in need, I mean everyone!  Let’s stand up for the kingdom, let proclaim the good news and let’s let our lights shine bright!  So bright that we reveal and cast out the darkness in this world!  Praise the Lord for he is good and his mercy endures for ever!

God Bless!