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    <title>The Revolution Church</title>
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	In the dictionary the word revolution is defined as such: 1. an overthrow and a thorough replacement of an established government or a political system by the people governed.  2. a sudden, complete or marked change in something.  3. a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point.  4. a moving in a circular or curving course, as about a central point.  

All the definitions revolve around one thing and that is Jesus Christ!  Revolution Church was established on the principle that we are not going to confirm to the standards that this world has set upon the people to consider normal.  The influence and hold that the enemy has had on the people and youth of today is going to be broken by the love and worship of Jesus Christ.  Revolution church will stand for the over throwing of today's worldly ideologies, customs and strong grip of the enemy on the people and thoroughly replace it with Christ centered thinking and a new church revolved around worship and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ.  This change will be a sudden an unstoppable one!  We are the chosen generation to usher in the coming of the Lord and nothing will stop us from proclaiming freedom and love in Jesus name across the land!  

Revolution church is about making a complete revolution back to our starting point!  Throughout the years the reason for our existence and salvation has been lost and replaced with acts and organized religion.  True worship in spirit and in truth has been long lost from the church.  The Holy Spirit is moving people and churches to bring them back to worship!  The key between our relationship and intimacy with God is worship.  The bible declares the Jesus abides in the praises of his people!  It is time to go back to a praise and worship centered atmosphere at church.  Above all else our movement, influence and ministry will pivot on one central focal point, our church will revolve around one thing; Jesus Christ!  

For too many years the church has been quite!  For too many years churches have settled for religion and man made rules to feel like they are doing something for God.  It's time that we embrace the free love and grace that God offered us and just begin to accept who we are in Christ and just how much he truly loves us just for loving and worshiping him and loving others!  Revolution church is a place where you can come as you are and feel loved and accepted simply for being you!  God loves you for who you are and accepts you for who you are.  All he asks is that we believe in his son and receive him in your heart and worship him!  This is a place were you can come together with people from all nations and join together in worship and praise and be filled with the spirit of God, the spirit of love and understanding!  Not only for ourselves but so that our lights may shine bright across the land and bring change and revolution to the darkness that covers the world today!  

More amazingly is that we are a church who has no home yet.  For now we are base online but God has placed a vision in my heart and along with that vision He has instructed me to move to North Carolina.  That is where Revolution Church will birth it's home.  That is where the church will have a physical dwelling.  My hope and faith is that we reach every corner of this earth and win the lost for Jesus Christ.  Please join me in prayer for God to make His purpose come to life.  ]]></description>
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      <title>It's Time!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's Time!

My brothers and sisters I give God the glory this morning and thank Him for His amazing and wonderful ways.  The Lord almighty the great I Am the beginning and the end.  It's truly amazing majestic and glorious and holy He truly is.  I woke up this morning and felt a little tired and lazy to be honest with you.  I went downstairs and had my breakfast and turned on the TV to the discovery channel.  I'm not a big TV person so when it is on it's either on the Christian networks or the discovery channel lol.  I felt like I was wasting time.  As I sat down I realized just how truly precious time is.  Not that I haven't made that realization before but there is something different about myself today.  

	Actually I have been noticing this change for a few days now.  Wow I feel His presence right now as I type this.  Anyway I recently attended a Benny Hinn training for ministry conference here in NY and let me tell you the anointing that man has on his ministry is real and powerful.  My family has been long time partners with his ministry and we have followed him since the 80's when he was not well known.  My whole life I grew up listening to his sermons and reaching on the Holy Spirit and the anointing of God.  I have been to his crusades and to other conferences he has held but this time was different, just like this morning is different.  

I can safely say that I had not given my life to the Lord until about a year and half ago.  Even though I grew up in a Christian family and my father is a minister and so is my mother and I was given to the Lord since I was a young baby, I never knew Jesus for myself and my relationship with Him was non-existent. To make a long story short I gave my life and my heart to Jesus 2 years ago all over again and my life has never been the same.  The Lord has called me to preach His word and to reach the 4 corners of the earth.  To be honest with you it is so hard for me to see the reality behind the statement I just made.  Physically it looks impossible to accomplish what the Lord wants me to but spiritually I am beginning to see just how truly possible it is.  I'm 27 years old and I'll be 28 in July.  This generation has been chosen to prepare the way for our Lord Jesus Christ to return.  I don't know how to put it in words just how important this is for all of us.  We have been chosen as the last runners in this relay race of salvation.  We are the chosen ones to fight against the biggest devils and the largest opposition that the body of Christ has ever seen in all of its existence.  Now I don't say that to scare you or to give any glory to the devil but so that you understand that if the devil is going to place that much force behind his last stand (and we all know how his story ends) then just how much more power will be given to the end time church to defeat it (Praise the Lord we all know how our story ends!)

I spoke earlier about how I recently attended a Benny Hinn conference.  The only reason I want to share that is not to give glory to the man but to what the Lord Jesus Christ has done and is doing through the man.  Actually it's more so that I can get my point across.  I have been getting closer and more intimate with Jesus ever since I surrendered my life to Him but I haven't experienced a hunger for the word and His presence like I have in the past few days after the conference.  To be honest with you I barely even attended the conference, I volunteered to help out the staff and usher and all that stuff.   I was more wrapped up in the task at hand and helping out the staff that I wasn't 100% paying attention to the teachings and sermons.  Just the fact of being there is enough.  Why am I saying all of this?  Simple the anointing on this man's life, the success he has had in the body of Christ and the work he has been able to do for Jesus Christ is do only to one thing.  His love for our king Jesus.  When you love Jesus with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your soul, something happens to you.  When you are overcome by authentic love for your creator it changes your way of thinking and living.  You no longer live for yourself, you no longer care about your needs but your focus turns to Jesus.  You begin to allow His will to take over yours, your desire changes to wanting nothing more to be in His presence and do what is pleasing to Him.  

I can attest to that because this same transformation has been going on my life.  I don't say this to give myself any glory or to speak vainly about myself but because I know there are many of you out there who are feeling the same way.  I don't know if you have ever felt every cell in your body?  There are times when I am praying that I can literally feel every cell in my body cry out to the Lord.  I feel like my very spirit is trying to rip itself from my flesh just for an instant of pure and undefiled presence of God.  There is nothing on this planet like His love!  There is nothing on this earth that can replace the feeling you get when Jesus Christ the son of God steps inside your room and tells you He loves you.  Nothing and I mean nothing can compare to the feeling of His warm embrace.  Brothers, sisters if you ever take anything I say seriously, if you believe at least one thing that I ever s say let it be this; Jesus Christ is real, His presence alone is enough to totally change your life.  One instant in His holy presence can totally and completely cleanse you and purify you and make all things new.  One second in His presence is enough to renew you and give your life purpose and meaning.  His presence will show you just how important you are to Him and to the body of Christ.  His holy spirit will open your eyes to just how little time we have left and just how crucial your existence is to the salvation of many.

As I watched TV this morning and realized just how much time I was wasting my heart was opened and the Lord lead me to reach out to you.  The Lord is coming back!  Jesus is coming for His bride and the time is short.  I rejoice when I think about it but when I realize just how many people do not know who Jesus Christ is, just how many people have no clue that they are living a sinful life and that they are head to eternal damnation my heart skips a beat.  Think about your loved ones, think about your closest friends, think about all the people in your life that you have never spoken to about Jesus Christ and salvation.  My precious brothers and sisters it is in your hands, the gospel of Jesus Christ has been entrusted to us.  Angels cannot spread the gospel, Jesus Himself cannot appear to someone and say "I was lost and now I'm found!"  Angels cannot witness to a person and tell them, "I was once addicted but now I am free!"  We are the only ones who can sit someone down and say, "You know what, my life was a mess, my family was apart but Jesus Christ gave it all back to me!  He saved me and cleansed me, He made me knew and reunited my parents and we are the happiest family ever!"  Only you can tell someone else that you were once def and now you hear or that you were once blind and now you see.  Today if you believe that Jesus Christ is real and that He is the son of God then get on your knees and ask God to show you His love, ask Jesus to reveal himself to you as the unfailing love that the word talks about and I promise you nothing will ever be the same again.  Ask God for boldness and strength to speak.  Ask the Lord to give you the words and provide the time for you to speak to those people who you know you have to speak to.  Not just family and loved ones but anyone who you know is lost or anyone who the Lord leads you to speak to.

In these last days God is multiplying His strength and power in this generation.  If you love Jesus Christ with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength you will see things that no one in the past ever saw.  You will see miracles and signs and wonders that your great great great, Pentecostal, Baptist grandparents never saw LOL.  Believe me the Lord is telling His body that they are equipped with the strongest anointing the body of Christ has ever had.  I know many of you out there feel like, "How can the Lord use me? Or how can I do anything?"  Well there is nothing impossible for God but it's even deeper then that.  I too felt that way and sometimes I still do but the only way to be sure is to understand the Lord in the spirit.  There is nothing anyone can say to me to convince me of my calling or to convince that God can do what He has said He will do.  No words can make me understand and no person can show me just how special it is.  If you get on your knees though, if you pray and seek the Lord diligently, if you ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you no one will be able to stop you and no devil on the earth will be able to convince you otherwise.  

Remember that doubt is not from the Lord.  Fear is not from the Lord.  In fact doubt and fear are the exact opposite of faith.  Doubt and fear are faith in the devil and we certainly do not have that.  We have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of his resurrection, which is the Holy Spirit.  No matter what people tell you, no matter what the devil tells you, YOU ARE CALLED TO SERVE THE LORD!  YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO JESUS AND THE BODY OF CHRIST! AND WHAT YOU CAN DO IS ENOUGH TO HELP!  Never be ashamed of the name of Jesus Christ.  It is the name that is above all name, it is the name that at the mention of it every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess and it is the only name by which we are saved.  Most importantly is the name that we pray by and the name that grants us the ability to do even more then Jesus did while He was on earth.  The bible says that whatever we ask, if we ask in Jesus name it shall be done.  

James 5:16 says, "Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."  Your prayer does work and your prayer will change things and your prayer is received by the Lord.  The bible says in revelations that our prayers are not just offered up to God but the prayers of the saints are offered up with incense, which is a pleasing aroma to the Lord.  It's time we go back to a life of prayer and worship to the Lord.  How can we touch the heart of God if we don't speak to Him?  How can we move the Heart of God if do not offer sacrifices of praise and worship to the Lord.  The bible tells us in Genesis that Noah offered up sacrifices to the Lord the moment he stepped outside of the arch.  He was not instructed to, he wasn't following a law or a commandment.  There was no bible then and there was no law or commandments.  Noah did it because he loved God and he was thankful for the salvation God had provide through the arch (a representation of Jesus).  The moment the aroma of Noah's sacrifice reached God, it was pleasing to Him and it touched His heart.  It was then that He made the promise to never destroy the earth through water again.  It is when we selflessly and lovingly worship and praise the Lord that His heart is touched and moved and we are able to ask and receive.  It is then when the Lord is willing to do anything to help us and the entire body of Christ.

	The Lord is on His way and we are to role out the read carpet.  Lets help each other role out this giant carpet.  Lets Help each other set the table for the most amazing wedding we will ever see, attend and be a part of.  Lets Join together and invite as many guests and we can possibly fit into this holy banquet hall in heaven.  Together we can touch the heart of God and we can bring on a harvest that has never been seen in the world.  Through this selfless obedience to God we can bring change in our own lives, we can bring favor on our own lives and we can live a life of heaven here on earth.  When Jesus sees that you are willing to worry about His kingdom and His work and His life, He begins to take care of your kingdom and your work and your life.  Trust me the moment you change your focus from yourself to Jesus everything will change in your life.




The LORD bless you and keep you;

The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;

The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace."'


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      <title>Standing Out</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Well I know it has been a while now since I have posted anything but it has been quite a busy few weeks.  The reality is that my family and I entered into the 21 day Daniel fast that Pastor Jentezen Franklin and his church "Free Chapel" in Gainesville Georgia do every January of every year.  So I have been really trying to not do anything but fast and pray.  I will be honest though it's tough to seek the Lord "ALL" daylong.  It's amazing how many distractions show up when you truly set yourself to worship the Lord all day.  Anyway before I go off on a tangent, the Lord gave me a message during this fast regarding the book of Daniel that blessed my heart very much.  I want to share it with you all and I pray that you are blessed as much as the Holy Spirit has blessed me through it.

	In Daniel chapter 6 we find the account of when King Darius assigned his kingdom to 120 satraps and over them 3 governors, one of which was Daniel.  In the beginning of the chapter the bible declares in verse 3, "Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm."  Firstly the name Daniel in Hebrew comes from uniting two Hebrew words, the first word is DIYN which means a straight course or to sail direct.  The second word is EL, which means God.  If you take Daniel's name and translate it literally and direct with the words together you get Judge of God.  So we see that even in his name Daniel was set to follow a straight course, he was meant to sail direct or in other words to live a righteous life in right standing with the Lord, straight and not crooked.  The reason he could live this way was not simply because of his name, in this sense was prophetic because it was given to him before he lived the way he did.  So the name in itself has no power.  The power comes from what the bible refers to as "the spirit within him."

	The bible says that Daniel distinguished himself because of the excellent spirit that was inside of him.  He was not different from the rest because of what he looked like or what he did or even how he spoke or acted, he was distinguished by the spirit that was in him.  The bible does not say the spirit that came upon him or that spirit that he spoke to or prayed to, it says the spirit that was in him.  This means the spirit dwells inside of him and lived with him always.  The Hebrew word for the word excellent is Yattiyr, which comes from Yathar.  Not only does it mean to exceed or be excellent, it also means to remain, be left, to leave or remain as in when you separate the good from the bad like in the threshing floor when the grain is separated from the straw.  This spirit is the spirit that is not of this world it is the spirit of God that separates us, it threshes us from the rest and once God is done threshing our lives all that is left is holy and all that is left will walk straight and will sail direct.  

The spirit of God or the Holy Spirit is what was in Daniel and alive in him causing him to be distinguished from the rest.  When you allow the Holy Spirit to take action in your life it begins to cause you to be threshed from the rest of the world.  All the garbage in your life is thrown away.  It's a little harsh to call people garbage but in essence the garbage is not the people in your life but what they bring and represent in your life.  So God will even get rid of the people garbage in your life and you might even find yourself physically alone but always remember that God is with you every step of the way.  Whatever He removed He removed for your protection and what ever He took from you He will replace it with something far more precious and valuable then anything you could ever ask or think of.  The King is always watching over you and always interested in what is going on in your life.

The bible said an excellent spirit, we already know what excellent means so we must now move on to the word spirit.  As I said before we are referring to the Holy Spirit of God.  In Daniels case the Holy Spirit caused Daniel to stand out from the rest to be different and even to stand alone.  This is what happens even in our lives if we allow the Holy Spirit to take control.  Now many of us know that the Hebrew word for spirit is Ruach, which means breath, or wind of God but it also means something very interesting and important.  It means MIND of God.  So the excellent spirit that was in Daniel not only caused him to be able to walk straight or be in right standing with the Lord but it also gave him the mind of God.  Please do not misunderstand me, I'm not saying that Daniel was able to read the thoughts of God or even know how God thinks but what I am saying is that through the Holy Spirit we are able to be wise and think and act like God in the sense that we do what He wants us to do and act like He wants us to act and think like He wants us to think.  

It was this very state of mind that allowed Daniel to make the wise decisions in his life that lead him to find favor in king Darius' eyes.  It was this state of mind and spirit that allowed him to be righteous in God's eyes and allowed him to live a powerful life of faith and action.  This is why he could and did overcome all the obstacles that were set before him.  Because Daniel thought like God he know that God would never fail him, Daniel know God's almighty power and Daniel know that God would never forsake him.  Because the spirit of God was living and dwelling in him he had the ability to have enough supernatural faith walk into a burning furnace and a den of lions and not be afraid.  This very state of mind and spirit allowed Daniel to worship God when he knew it was against the law to do so.  He knew the law but he also know that God was above the law and that God was faithful enough to complete the good work that he had begun in his life.  Do you see it yet?  

Allowing God full and total control of your life puts you in a place were your faith is un movable and unbreakable.  The devil hates this because if your faith is that strong he cannot use fear against you.  Fear is the devils main weapon against faith, actually fear is the opposite of faith, and fear is faith in the devil.  When your relationship with God is so intimate and so powerful, the Holy Spirit causes you to have unbreakable and supernatural faith in your creator.  It is God who gives us that faith, without Him our faith isn't even the size of a mustard seed.  If not the Jesus would not have said, "IF you have faith the size of a mustard seed" Key word here is IF.  Jesus meant if we could even get our faith to grow to the size of a mustard seed we can move the mountains, so our natural faith must be way smaller then a mustard seed.  Think about it when we were in the world or even now if your relationship with God is not at the level were it is supposed to be, you truly don't believe that anything good is going to happen.  This is why we have so much motivational books in the world and why people all have confidence problems.  Most of the time we are just waiting for the next thing to go wrong.  Always trying to be ready for the next big issue that will hit our lives and always living with an expectation that something will eventually go wrong and will force us to deal with it.  In essence we live in constant fear.  So I believe me if it was up to us alone, our faith could do nothing.  When you allow God to do His work in your life, the first thing He does is give you hope for the future, faith in that fact that He will pull you through, faith that He will carry you to higher place and will mend all your brokenness.  

Ok we see that is was nothing that Daniel did that made him distinguished but it was the excellent spirit in him that caused him to stand out from the rest and succeed in everything that he did.  This spirit caused him to live the life that God wants us to live.  Now anytime you stand out from the crowd you will be noticed, especially if the reason you stand out is because Jesus Christ lives in you and has transformed you.  When you allow Jesus to transform you, you no longer do what people say, think or want you to do.  You do what Jesus guides you to do.  You know longer do what people think is right, you do what God tells you is right.  Jesus Christ makes you sail straight, He makes you exceed.  At first you might not exceed economically, physically or materialistically but you will exceed morally and spiritually.  Exceeding morally and spiritually brings success in all the other areas.  It's the same principle of putting God first.  If you seek Him first then everything else will fall into place.  If you put Him first, Jesus makes you succeed were it is important to Him first which is spiritually and morally and everything else will fall into place.  When you exceed spiritually and morally you tend to make some people happy and proud but most people angry and envious.

Why you ask?  We live in a world were the moral and spiritual fiber that used to wrap around the world is now only holding it together by a few strands.  People do not care about morals and spirituality anymore.  The longing for a more spiritual and intimate connection with our creator is almost no existent.  They don't care about doing the right thing and standing for what is right and just.  I mean this for the church also, not just the world.  Sometimes it seems as if the people at church are worse than those in the world.  Many church people, so called "Christians" talk more behind your back then your coworkers at work who don't know Jesus.  People at church or more envious of those doing the right things and living the right life then people who have never even set foot in a church.  When other people see you actually obeying the word of God and actually putting it to action I your life rather then just reading it every Sunday and they begin to see results, they get envious, they start to find ways to discredit your success.  

In Daniel Chapter 6 verse the word declares, "So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him." The governors and satraps were also servants of the king.  They were fellow members of the same house that Daniel was in.  Because Daniel was exceeding and standing out they were envious and set out to find something wrong, they set out to find something to accuse Daniel of because it was eating them up inside that he was doing so well and finding so much favor in the king's eyes.  Like many church members they did not realize that if they did what Daniel did and allowed God to have full control of their lives and put Him first in their lives, they would have the same success and favor that Daniel had.  Sometimes it is easier to point fingers and accuse and slander then to obey the word of God.  Unfortunately people choose the former of the two.

When you give Jesus 100% control of your life and allow Him full access to your emotions, thoughts, desires and character He begins the change.  When you begin to let Jesus Christ transform you, He turns your spirit into His spirit, your mind into His mind, your will into His will and your character into His.  Our savior king Jesus Christ does not stand for injustice.  Jesus will not do the wrong thing.  Jesus will put aside religion for truth and revelation.  Jesus will never be selfish or self-centered.  These characteristics, this way of life, this attitude is completely contrary to what people of the world think, feel or do.  Not just the world but sadly many in the church as well.  When Jesus lives with you, when you have this excellent spirit inside of you, you have no choice but to live and act in the way Jesus does.  That spiritually and moral excellence is what brings success in all the other aspects of your life from the smallest to the largest.

So when you are living the Jesus life, as I like to call it, you make some people happy and a lot of people angry.  In the case of Daniel the people who were upset about his favor conspired against him, to bring him down.  This is always the case; people who are envious of the favor and blessings living the Jesus life brings will always try to bring you down from your elevated position.  Not that you are better or higher then the others but spiritually you are in an elevated position.  When Jesus has full and total control of your life, you have crucified the flesh on the cross.   You have literally placed yourself on the cross high on a hill for all to see.  Not for vain purposes but in obedience to the Lord almighty.  When Jesus was crucified the people mocked Him and tried to make Him come down on the cross.  In other words they tried to bring Him down.  

In Matthew chapter 27 verses 39-43 the word says, "And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross." Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, "He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.  He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God."  Not realizing that Jesus being on the cross was the very reason they were offered salvation and everlasting life.  If they did the same and crucify their flesh they would find life everlasting and blessings and favor beyond their expectations.  In the same manner people and the enemy will try to bring you down from your cross.  Can you imagine if Jesus would have come down from the cross and not completed His assignment?  God forbid, we would still be lost without a hope and a God, strangers to the promise and foreigners to the citizenship of Israel.  The same goes for you, Jesus will be glorified through your crucifixion and lives will be saved through you.  What will happen if you come down off of your cross and you don't fulfill the plans that Jesus has for your life?  That is truly an amazing question and I for one want to find out what happens if I stay on this cross!  In Matthew 4:5-7 the devil tempts Jesus.  They are on a high place, the pinnacle of the temple meaning the very top of this building.  The devil tells Jesus to throw himself down to the ground.  Again he is trying to bring Jesus down, the devil even uses scripture and says that the bible declares the Lord will protect Him and He will send angels to rescue Him.  People will try to bring you down even using the scriptures and even trying to convince you that if you come down the Lord will protect you and nothing will happen.  Jesus answered the devil with scripture and told him that we are not to tempt the Lord.  Jesus knew that His father would protect Him as long as his motives were pure and He continued to obey God.  If you deliberately go against what God has told you or even do the wrong thing because you feel that God will protect you, you could not be further from the truth.  God is willing to be with you every step of the way as long as you obey Him and put Him first.  If you decide to make your own decisions without Him or go against His words your basically on your own at that point.  The world wants to get you to that point.  That's why it is so important to endure the cross and to latch on to it and cling on to it for dear life.  It is at the cross and only at the cross where you will grow and attain all that the Lord has for your life.

Wow ok, I went a little off course there but I'm sure God was talking to someone.  When the satraps and governors set to bring Daniel down they looked to find something wrong in his Kingdom, meaning what he was in charge to care for.  The thing is that they could find nothing wrong in his kingdom, they couldn't find anything to throw in his face and show the king.  The satraps couldn't find any dirt on Daniel, no offshore accounts no tax evasions or sex tapes on the internet or past jail records you know the regular stuff.  The same goes in your life, the first thing others will come after is your personal life, what the king has placed you in charge of.  In the Daniels case and for all those who truly love the Lord and always put Him first, they will never be able to find anything.  When Jesus has transformed you, your life is clean like your spirit.  It is when they can find nothing wrong with your kingdom that they will attack your beliefs in God and your faith.

In Daniel chapter 6 verse 5 the bible says, "Then these men said, "We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God." See the enemy knew how dedicated Daniel was to the Lord, they knew that the only way to get Daniel in trouble was to outlaw the worship of his God.  Brothers and sisters when you are experiencing this type of persecution it is because you are starting to make a mark, it is because the devil knows what you are doing and he knows how close you are to God.  In fact it's actually a good sign that you are on the right track and close to God.  The devil knew he could not do anything to Daniel and his kingdom but he knew that if he made it illegal to worship the Lord, Daniel would get in trouble and be convicted.  The foolish devil though that the sentence of being put to death would be enough to scare Daniel to stop worshiping.  Daniel knew though that stronger was He who was in him than he who was in the world.  Hallelujah!  Daniel knew that no matter what the outcome was that God was going to protect him for putting Him first.  Daniel's faith in God out weighed the fear the devil was trying to put in his heart.  

When the Lord starting working in my life I began to hand out daily scriptures to my employees.  The daily scriptures began to have an amazing effect on my staff and God began to work wonders.  The daily scriptures lead to daily talks about God and those talks lead me to preach to them daily at a set time.  Of course the devil could not find anything to attack me personally with but he would make my boss find out about what we were doing and try to stop it.  They had a meeting and told everyone that is was against company policy to speak about God in the work place.  They said that was ground for instant termination.  Now I'm not saying that you should all go out and lose your jobs because of preaching at work but in my case God had plans for many of my employees and the devil was just trying to stop them.  The truth is I got to a place were I no longer cared about my job and all I wanted to do was preach the gospel and I knew the Lord had a plan for a select few and I just refused to stop.  Later we found out that one of the people in my department was telling administration everything that was going on.  I continued to preach and I just asked the Lord to remove that person and guess what?  He did.  The Lord saved many employees and many of them will never be the same again. 

Ok sorry back to Daniel.  So the satraps and governors basically forced the king to sign into effect a law that stated no one can worship anything or anyone else other then King Darius.  The bible says in Daniel 6 verse 8 that once this law was signed by the king it could not be changed according to the law of the Medes and the Persians.  When the bible refers to Persia it is a symbol of the world, the dominion of the devil.  So what they did was establish a law that said you cannot worship anyone else or anything else other the king of the land or the ruler of the world and this law can never change.  The devil was trying to outlaw the worship of God by instilling fear in the hearts of men with the consequences of breaking this law.  If you look at the world today this law is still in effect.  People will not worship the Lord in fear of what people will say about them, do to them or think about them.  The devil has managed to hold hostage the people with fear.  When you worship the Lord in spirit and in truth you are violating the law of this world and you are going against everything the devil has tried to place against this practice.  The devil sends his people, circumstances, issues, problems and persecutions in hope that he will make you afraid enough to stop.  People who are bound by this law will attack you because you are freed from it.  People who are bound by religion will attack you because you are not tied to it.  Those who are bound by the world and its desires will despise you because you are not.  

Daniel though continued worshiping God even though he knew that he would be convicted of wrong doing in the eyes of the others.  You see the King loved Daniel and was reluctant to send him into the lion's den.  So much so that the satraps had to pressured the king continually to say the words so they could throw him into the den.  Jesus Christ the King, our God is a just God and although he loves you and wants nothing but the best for you, reluctantly has to allow the devil to move in your life sometimes.  If God was to just plain stop them from throwing Daniel into the den it would be like God cheating at His own game.  He holds everything in perfect balance and He is just to make everything work the way it is suppose to.  The same way he sustains our life and this planet he also sustains the devil and his world.  That is how honorable and just our God is.  As much as it hurts him he will not even cheat the devil and bully him.  He also gives the devil free will.  Although God might not like what he is putting you through God has already set laws and boundaries up for this world and He is to upright and just to break them.  What God does though is provide a way out of a situation.  God performs a miracle and allows you to survive and through this process God uses what the devil meant for bad and turns it for good and your faith grows and you grow as a person.  Your spirit is strengthened and you grow from glory to glory learning just how amazing and loving God is.  

In Daniel chapter 6 verse 14 the word says, "And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him." Later on it says the king did not sleep.  The King of Glory, Jesus Christ never rests.  He never stops thinking about you.  He never stops protecting you, He is always watching you.  You see in this verse that since the King heard what was going to happen to Daniel he set his heart on delivering him.  That is exactly what happens.  As soon as God sees the devil coming to attack you He sets His heart to deliver you from the attack.  Remember when I told you that when you stand out because of Jesus you make a few people happy and proud and a lot of people angry?  Well among those few who are happy and proud is the most important one and that is the King.  As long as you keep Jesus Christ Happy and keep Him first in your life, you have nothing to fear and nothing to worry about.  The word says in Daniel 6 verse 16, "Your God whom you serve continually, He will deliver you!"

What a wonderful and powerful statement.  I don't know what your going through right now but if you chose to put God first, if you chose to follow Him and obey Him no matter what the outcome may look like He will deliver you!  He will save you and He will pick you up and help you.  If you are going through some trials and persecutions because you are obeying Jesus and worshiping Him, God will deliver you and you have nothing to fear and no one to fear.  God may not be able to change the situation but He can change the outcome.  Again it is not because He does not have the capability to change it but He is to just to interfere with free will.  He did not stop Daniel from going into the den with lions and by the way we are not talking Hanna Barbera cartoon lions either here folks, we are talking real life fully grown national geographic, discovery channel will bite your head off lions.  So God may not have stopped Daniel from entering the den but God was able to send an angel to shut the lion's mouths.  Now it does not go into detail on how the lion's mouths were shut.  It could have been as simple as the Lord made the lions not hungry and sleepy.  The point is no harm came to Daniel and once again the Lord delivered him from the enemy because of his love and dedication to the Lord.

When morning came the King went out to see if Daniel was still alive and he cried out to Daniel. "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?" and Daniel replied, "O king, live forever!  My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him" Daniel was able to praise the Lord and say "O King live forever!"  Notice that the reason Daniel gives for his breakthrough is that he was found innocent before HIM, who is HIM?  The Lord God almighty.  Daniel did not care what anyone else though or what the world declared him guilty of.  What brought Daniel through the trial and to his breakthrough was the fact that he was found innocent before the Lord.  If you endure and if you put Jesus first, your breakthrough will come.  You might be going through the darkness of the night right now in the lion's den but the morning will come and you will be able to praise the Lord.  The Lord whom you serve continually will deliver you!

But what is this all for?  What purpose is behind all of this?  Never forget that the ultimate purpose is to bring glory and praise to the Lord.  Our number one goal in all we do and in all we endure is to glorify our savior King Jesus Christ.  Daniel 6 verses 25 to 28 shows how everything that Daniel went through not only brought him more prosperity but more importantly brought Glory to God in all the land.

Then King Darius wrote:

   To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth:

   Peace be multiplied to you.

 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel.

      For He is the living God,
      And steadfast forever;
      His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,
      And His dominion shall endure to the end.
      He delivers and rescues,
      And He works signs and wonders
      In heaven and on earth,
      Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Remember that if you put Christ first in your life and if you commit to obeying God and His word in every aspect of your life you will encounter trials and tribulations and you will suffer for persecution for His namesake but you will be delivered.  You will be prospered and you will see the hand of the Lord your God in your life in amazing and marvelous ways.  If you allow Jesus to transform you and make you the reflection of His image, He will give you faith that not only can move mountains but faith that can defy the spirit of death himself.  It is only through total surrender that we can achieve anything with Christ and in this world.  Remember the more you hold on too the harder it is for your and the more you hold on to the slower the process happens in your life.  Take this moment, this day to give your self completely to the Lord.  Allow Him total and complete access to every aspect of your life and see the amazing change that only He can make.  Never forget that He will deliver you and He will never forsake you and never leave you.  Seek God and His kingdom first and everything else will fall into place.  I pray that God has blessed you through this message and has brought some light and salt to your life.  If you are reading this and do not know Jesus and have never been born again but you want to experience this awesome life changing power, all you have to do is pray this prayer and truly allow Him to take control of you from the inside out.  Ok pray this prayer:

Lord Jesus I recognize that I am a sinner
Father I recognize that I need to change and that I need you in my life
Forgive me of my sins, cleanse my soul and renew my mind
I give you my life, my heart and my mind
I hold nothing back from you
I open my heart to you and I ask you to come inside my heart and live with me
Change me from the inside out
Today I give you everything that is in me and I ask you to give me a fresh start
I receive your forgiveness and love
I receive your mercy and grace
And I thank you for coming into my life.

If you prayed this prayer for the first time and need someone to talk to please email me or send me a comment and I will be more then happy to assist you on your new walk in Christ.  Right now the most important thing is that you find a church that will nurture you and feed you and help you to grow this newly restored life that Jesus has just given you.  Yes it is that simple, if you believe and trust in the Lord.  


May God bless you and Keep You always!
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:27:42 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Word for the New Year</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/403536</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello and God bless you all!  I would like to first wish you all a happy and blessed New Year in the Lord.  As many of you heard 2007 was the year of completion and for many of us, we truly felt the Lord's hand in our life changing and re arranging us so that we would reach a level of complete dependence and focus on Him and Him alone.  I know in my life, Jesus literally grabbed my legs, turned me upside down and shook as hard as hard as He could so that nothing of my own was left.  As if that wasn't enough Jesus even rung me out like a wet towel after that LOL.  I mean He made sure that anything from the old Juan was completely and totally removed.  In my life that was the completion that I experienced in 2007, well along with an addition of another family member into the Kingdom of heaven, who actually is joining our ministry to serve the Lord.  For some of you the experience of completion may have come in different ways, maybe you finally got the Job you wanted or maybe you finally married the person you loved or just plainly you were finally able to reach the goals you wanted in this year.  

What's crazy is that for some people I have spoken to who are not believers but have been called by Jesus or have run away from the call or backsliden, they experienced the worst year in their lives.  I think it's funny because I know God does that for a reason.  Maybe some of you are reading this now and are thinking to yourselves, "Yeah why was this year to terrible for me?!"  When you make a pact with Jesus, when you receive Him into your heart as savior, there is now were you can run were He wont find you and call you to Him.  When you have experienced His love and His presence, there is nothing you can ever find or substitute in its place.  God's hand will be on your life and He will push and push and take you to the point were you have nothing so that you finally say "I GIVE UP!" and allow Him to help you and love you.  You have to understand that Jesus loves you so much that he would rather make you go through some tough times to wake you up then allow you to continue on in your life of sin and lose you completely in the long run.  So even for non believers and people who have walked away God completed the cycle in their life by getting them to the point were they just cant take it anymore.  And just when things were at the lowest point, or at a stand still or right on the edge of a breakthrough ..........BOOM! 2008 the year of new beginnings!

2008 has been declared the year of new beginnings.  Everything that God did in your life last year, was all in preparation for the doors He was going to open this year.  Believe me when I tell you, it's not a coincidence that you are moving this year, or are starting a new job this year or maybe have a new relationship or changed churches and are going to a new church this year.  God has strategically moved and repositioned His people in a manner that this year they would be entering new things in their lives.  He has made it possible this year (for those who believe) to start a new in every aspect of your life that was not at the level that you wanted it to be.  I myself am moving from new York to North Carolina.  This move is all in obedience to God's command.  I know in my heart that many of you have a word from God in your heart that seemed almost impossible but this year Jesus will make the impossible possible.  Many of you are wondering why you are at the point you are at, why you are in the position you are, you feel like you were almost pushed all the way to were you are right now, economically, physically, mentally, spiritually and even emotionally.  The reason is because God was just preparing you for this new year.  Some of you, like myself even cut ties with friends and people that you don't even know why you did.  Remember if we are to follow Jesus 100% and hole heartedly what cannot be tied down to any place or thing.  If you are feeling all of a sudden like your not as in love with your town or state or location as you always were then maybe God is getting you ready for a move and that goes for your Job your relationships and everything else.
Many of you have heard me refer to this generation as the "John the Baptist" generation and I know many others have said the same.  The Lord gave me a word for this year and I see now that it is also meant for this generation.  Isaiah 43:18-19; "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."  This year God has given us a green light to forget that past and begin to focus on the future.  God says behold I am making a new thing, Haleluyah that makes me so excited and joyful.  To hear the Lord our God declare that this year will be one of new beginnings and that our past no longer matters fills me with comfort and love.  "Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?"  This is very key, I honestly feel something shifting, I truly feel like the atmosphere itself has changed.  I was speaking on New years Eve about how this year will bring change not only in us but in the world itself, meaning the planet.  I was amazed to see that only a few days after New Years day it was snowing on the west coast in places were it has never snowed and it was 58 degrees warm here in NY in January!  

We are living in amazing times brothers and sisters, we are living in a time where the world as a hole is getting worse and worse.  The truth is that for all of the people who have not realized it yet, it's time to wake up because things aren't getting any better and if you read the bible, there is only one direction were it is heading and we all know were that is.  In Christ Jesus though, we have hope of a better today and even better tomorrow.  With Jesus in our lives we have the promise to be blessed, we have the promise of salvation and we have the promise that if we seek Him first He will give us everything we ever wanted.  God has opened a door for us this year which leads to new blessings and new prosperity and more importantly new and fresh anointing.  Like everything else in God though we must walk through the door ourselves.  Jesus is a gentlemen and He will never force you through the door.  
I urge you to see this year as your chance for a brand new life, a chance for a fresh start and a chance for total redemption of the mistakes we have made in the past.  The Lord is saying forget about that past because I have, do not dwell on the past but focus on the future because that's where God's hand is right now.  Your latter days will be greater then your former, the Lord is getting ready to open up the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing that you will not have room enough to contain.  The best is yet to come brothers and sisters but do not forget that all this is promised and given to him that believes and diligently seeks.  Believes In who?  Jesus Christ!  Seeks who?  Jesus Christ!  What I love the most about God is that He is a TODAY God!  Today you can make the change, today, right now you can reconcile yourself with Him and today at this very moment can be the first day of the rest of your life!

The LORD bless you 
and keep you;
 
The LORD make his face shine upon you 
and be gracious to you;
 
The LORD turn his face toward you 
and give you peace. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:28:55 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Like God</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/387091</link>
      <description><![CDATA[You see for many of us the problem is not what we don't have or what we are not but the lack of knowledge or revelation of what we do have and who we truly are.  In the case of Adam and Eve we find that the devil was able to use their lack of knowledge to trick them into sin.  The devil did not even have to lie.  He was cunning enough to use their own lack of knowledge to take to a place were they would parish.  The devils words enchanted Eve.  He basically confused her into acting on her own.  I'll explain what I mean.  In Genesis Chapter 1:26 the word says; "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"

 	The bible uses the word "image" which in Hebrew is "Tselem" which means to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, image.  It's interesting that the word shade is used.  When a tree gives shade, it gives shade with what?  It's shadow!  The shadow of a tree is exactly like the tree.  When you walk and you cast a shadow, your shadow is an outline or an image of what you look like.  Your shadow is cast in your likeness.  If you take an object and cast it's shadow on a wall the light will cause the shadow to be exactly like the object.  You will be able to see every imperfection in the outline on the wall that is on the object.  The bible further cements our likeness to God with these words; resemblance, a representative figure, or image.  

In Genesis Chapter 1:27 the word says "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."  So not only was man created in the image of God or like God but we see that woman was as well.  It seems like I'm stating the obvious but stay with me here. Let me just give you some more scriptures that confirm that just like Adam and Eve, we are all created in the likeness of God and in His image.

1st Corinthians 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

Ephesians 4:24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Colossions 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him

James 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

The truth is that the number one example that we are created in the likeness of God is Jesus the Christ.  When we say that we are created in the image of God or in His likeness it means basically that if God were to take human form He would look just like us.  This is why Jesus was not this Giant or some extraterrestrial looking creature or even some kind of animal or walk on four limbs or anything like that.  Jesus is the physical representation of what God is.  So are we.  God does not look like us, we look like God.  Jesus was not only His physical representation but was also spiritually, mentally and entirely like God.  He was able to heal the sick, set people free, cast out demons, have authority over this earth and His surroundings and resist the devil.  

Jesus also depended on the power of the Holy Spirit because He is the power with which Jesus performed His miracles.  Jesus was "lead" or influenced by the Holy Spirit into the desert for 40 days but returned with the "power" of the Holy Spirit and started His ministry from there.  Before Jesus was empowered by the Holy Ghost, no miracle would have taken place, in fact none did.  What kept Jesus connected to the Holy Spirit here on earth was His constant prayer and His holy life.  He knew no sin, the second our sins were cast on Him, God the father turned His sight away from Jesus and disconnected Him for those brief moments while Jesus paid the price.  God is too holy to behold sin or be connected to it.  This is why Jesus cried out "My God My God why have you forsaken me?"

I have kind of drifted but it is still very relevant to what I am trying to get across.  The same way that Jesus was like God, so are we and so were Adam and Eve.  I'm trying to drive home to you the simple fact that Adam and Eve were always "LIKE GOD!" In Genesis 3:4-5 the bible says; "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."  In Hebrew the word for serpent is "Nachash" which means: to hiss, whisper a (magic) spell, to prognosticate certainly, divine, enchanter, enchantment, learn by experience, indeed, diligently observe.

Prognosticate: to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.

Enchanter: a person who enchants or delights, a magician; sorcerer, One that delights or fascinates, 

Enchant: To attract and delight; entrance, attract; cause to be enamored

In fact they also knew no sin and were in constant connection with God and in His presence always.  They already were "as gods" or in other words like God.  Notice that when this all took place they heard God coming from another direction meaning they were not next to Him or around Him in other words in His presence.  It is when we leave God's presence that we are in trouble and are liable to attack and to fall.  Because they were not in His presence the devil was able to play with Eve's mind.  The devil was able to convince her that through the actions the serpent was urging her to commit she would attain something she already had.  He enchanted her with words and was able to convince her to obey him instead of God with promises that she would receive something she was already in possession of.  
  
The Bible further explains in Genesis 3:6; "And when the woman saw."  The Hebrew for saw is "ra'ah" which means: advise self.  That's where we get in trouble.  We advise our self.  Instead of taking this newly discovered information to God and asking for His knowledge and what to do with it, Eve took it upon herself and figured things out on her own.  The serpent (Devil) was able to enchant her with words.  He was able to make her lose focus on everything else around her, including her husband and herself and have her concentrate on what he was saying to her.  The key part here is that He told her that if she did eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would be "Like gods" The devil didn't even lie, he used the truth but he twisted his words.  They were already like God.

We begin to see just how important it is to know who you are and what you have in the Lord.  If you don't know what you got then you don't know when you lose it.  If you don't know what you have then someone can use that lack of knowledge against you.  Again "My people parish for lack of knowledge!" I urge you brothers and sisters to get on your knees and begin to work on your personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Make sure your connection to the Lord is always intact and make sure that you are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is the life containing breath of God, without it we have no life.  Most of all make sure that you are fully aware of what you have been given and what you are entitled to as a child of God.  

There is nothing worse then a believer who is perishing because of lack of knowledge.  Many of us like to blame the devil, other people or even God for some of the current situations in our lives but what we don't do is look inward.  Look inside and see if you are connected to God, are you spending enough time with His son?  Have you received the power of the Holy Spirit to fight the devil and take what is yours.  The bible says "the violent take it by force," you cannot take anything unless you have been empowered by the Holy Spirit.  How do we know what we are entitled to and what we have in Christ you ask?  The living word of God contains all your rights, all your promises and all your weapons in Jesus Christ.  I challenge you to be like God today.  Be like God taking time to pray with Him alone, be like God by walking a holy life, be like God by walking in the power of the Holy Spirit and changing your life and other's lives through that power.  Do not be like Eve and be distracted by words and compelling arguments, do not take it upon yourself to figure things out but do what Jesus did, obey the father in everything, put Him first in all, in every aspect of your life.  Give him priority, consult Him in everything and I mean everything.  If you do this I garauntee that your life will change and you will begin to live on earth as it is in heaven.  

I leave you with this brothers and sisters

Matthew 6:33-34: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:21:56 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>New Temple</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/376350</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentelmen God has placed a wonderfull vision in my heart and i know that many of you are feeling and seeing the same thing.  This is a long one so i warn you, if you only have a few seconds maybe you should read it when you have time, atleast 3 or 5 minutes.  

In Psalms 45:16 the word declares the following:

"Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons, whom You shall make princes in all the earth.  I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever."

Instead of your fathers shall be your sons.  This is such a special and awesome prophecy in the book of Psalms.  I'm sure you have all seen this giant move towards the youth in the past few years, more so this last year and right now.  The youth of today is the next generation, they will (at least in my heart) see the rapture.  I truly believe that our time is even more limited than we think.  I feel in my heart that if the people who are my age (27) do not see the coming of Jesus Christ our children will.  I really think we are that close.  

This message is not even about this psalm but psalm 45:16 is linked to what I will speak about in Ezra.  By the way this is going to be a long one so please make time or don't start it if you are going to be busy LOL.  You see in Ezra they began to build the temple back up again.  They started by rebuilding the alter and so on and so forth began to rebuild the entire thing.  Before they began to build they had to move back to Jerusalem.  Before the major build there was a major move.  If you remember my other writings, God has given me a message about a major move of God that is happening in this generation.  This move will be so powerful and so new that if we are not focused on the Head of all this, who is Jesus Christ, we can get lost following others instead of the Christ.  In that last writing I also wrote about how God will only let those who survived the purification process to take part of this move and new beginning.  In Chapter 2 of Ezra the word provide us with a list of the survivors of the children of Israel who the King was going to allow to go back to Jerusalem.  The King will only allow a certain number of us to take part in this move and those will be the ones who rebuild the temple.

You see this generation has been chosen to rebuild the church (temple) and make it the way it was originally meant to be.  There will be no religion and favoritism, there will be no denominations and false doctrines, there will be only worship to the king, sacrifices of praise the Lord almighty, people who live holy and follow the word and live the word.  This is the church that will be found spotless and without blame when Jesus returns for His bride.  God is making sure that the people in charge of this major task are not corrupted with the sins of the fathers and that the New temple is built on the right foundation.  Praise the Lord I get so excited just thinking about what this coming year has in store for the body of Christ.

Ok I have said so much and still no scripture right LOL, ok here goes:

Ezra 3:1-6
"When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem. Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.  Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD, both the morning and evening sacrifices.  Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.  After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the LORD.  On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, though the foundation of the LORD's temple had not yet been laid."

First, the word says the people settled as one man.  This is key for the growth of the body of Christ.  We must be united in one mind and one spirit as one man.  There cannot be anymore division among churches.  There can no longer exist contradiction between pastors and leaders.  There has to be ONE MAN, this means one mind, one plan and one purpose.  No one looking after their own interest but everyone in constant perseverance towards the goal of winning souls for the kingdom of heaven.  This is what the gospel is about, this was the entire purpose of Jesus giving His life for us.  Not for money, or success or material things here on earth, not for business prosperity or fame or fortune but for eternal salvation and entrance into heaven through Jesus Christ our savior King.  Like the bible says, everything else will come along after that.  Our Lord Jesus Christ and our salvation must come first and then everything else will fall into place.  The body of Christ must be united in order to change this world.  Those who refuse to unite to the purpose that Jesus is setting forth right now, will be left behind and wonder why.  Not realizing that it was there selfish ambition and pride and appetite for large crowds and pact churches that kept them from the true gospel of Jesus Christ.  This one man, this one body will be a holy body of Christ.  The leaders in the body must preach the true gospel and preach holiness again.  For far too long has the church been fed watered down sermons designed to preach you into this fake sense of acceptance not allowing you to see the truth of what your life really is.  The body of Christ has been kept in this lala land that makes people think that 50% is good enough for God or that even 98 % is good enough for God.  Remember that God said a blameless and spotless bride.  Blameless and spotless is not 65% or 99% it's 100%.  Ok let me continue, I could preach just on that part alone for a few hours.

	The following verse says this, "Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God."   Do you see how both men are the sons of?  Instead of the fathers shall be the sons!"  It was the sons who began to rebuild, it is the youth, this generation that has been chosen at this most important of times to start the reconstruction of the bride of Christ and will make her the image that Jesus saw as he offered up His life on the cross.  The verse also says they began to offer burnt offerings and sacrifices in accordance to the written Law of Moses.  In accordance to the written law, what does this mean to you?  For far too long has the body of Christ done "their own thing."  The church has split into so many denominations and has taught so many doctrines and has gotten so lost that you can't even keep up with it all.  It's time we start offering sacrifices and burnt offerings in accordance to the written law.  This means it's time we start having church how the BIBLE says to do it.  It's time we worship the Lord he way he instructed us to.  It's time we preach the gospel he entrusted us with in His living word.  There have been far too many preachers, teachers, ministers and leaders that have preached and taught so many different things that when you research them, they have absolutely nothing to do with the bible.  There are people out there teaching you 12 steps to riches and 5 steps to healing and 45 steps to losing weight.  Come on!  The word says seek my kingdom and its righteousness first!  Not seek wealth, or health or real estate or anything else but "MY KINGDOM AND IT"S RIGHTEOUSNESS" and everything else will be added unto you.  The body if Christ that will usher in the return of our King will only have one step and that will be to praise and worship Jesus!  You have people in positions of influence on Christian TV using their time and influence for a talk show?!  Hello?  Others have fitness experts on their show and justify the gigantic waste of time by saying that the trainers are Christian and put God first in their training!  Do you see what I am saying here?  What's more important to handle in the half our God has given you to speak to the world, how to lose weight?  How to be better in investing?  Or how to attain salvation and have eternal life in heaven?  I don't know about you but I chose the latter.  

	The scripture says that despite the fear that was around them they proceeded to build the alter on its foundation and offer sacrifices.  We all know that the sacrifices we are to offer now are those of praise and worship.  I'm not telling you to go out to your local farms and stock up on livestock now.  Please I don't want the news to do stories about how local farms are all sold out of goats and young bulls and chickens lol.  This is why the youth is so important.  It's because of their vigor and energy and fearlessness that God will use them.  Despite the fear that was around them, despite the persecution that we will face, despite all the oppression we will have to conquer this generation will ignore everything and everyone and keep focused on the task at hand, in one mind and one spirit as one man.  It goes on to describe all the different types of offerings and feasts that they began to celebrate in accordance to the written law.  This is just further confirmation that even on the alter without the temple being built yet, we must begin the work in faith.  We might not see yet what we are working, fighting and striving for but if we continue in unity we will see the end.
	
In verses 7 the word says this: "Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia."  

	You see God will bless us in these coming years.  Because we have placed God first in our lives, because Jesus has been the focal point of our existence, God will cause us to be blessed and we will be able to pay for the construction of these new works God will be lifting up for such a time as this.  We will be blessed not just for construction and expansion but to bless others.  Whenever the word talks about food and drink and oil it is talking about sustenance and anointing.  We will see such a tremendous move towards the true and undefiled religion James talks about, James 1:27: "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." There are way too few ministries out there truly looking after the poor and feeding the hungry and clothing the naked like the bible instructs us.  There is too much money being spent on the wrong things in the body of Christ.  The majority of the money that is in the hands of the body of the body of Christ should be going number one to preaching the Gospel in all the world and second to those in need in places like Africa, India, Central America, even in the real bad places in the US.

 Ezra 3:8-9 

In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work, appointing Levites twenty years of age and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.  Jeshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah [a] ) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers--all Levites--joined together in supervising those working on the house of God. 

	This is were you can really see how focused on the youth this prophetic message in the bible truly is.  First off throughout these few verses all you see is the "sons of."  Second the word actually signals out a certain age group.  I'm not saying that we are limited to that age or anything like that but we see that it truly is pointing out the youth in this situation.  This one scripture keeps repeating itself in my head, "instead of the fathers shall be the sons!"   I pray that God is opening your eyes and showing you how truly special this coming time is to all of us.  Those of us lucky enough to be called to take part in these last days should be constantly thanking God for such an honor.

10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel. 11 With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD : 
       "He is good; 
       his love to Israel endures forever." 
      And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

	This might be the most important part of this message.  The foundation of this new temple is a foundation of praise and worship.  I know that many of you have felt this move towards worship and music and singing to the Lord.  I know that many of you have witness groups like Hillsong revolutionize the way the church worships the Lord.  When the foundation was laid the priest and all the Levites or in other words the body of Christ praised the Lord with singing and instruments.  The foundation was that of Praise and worship.  We must build our lives firstly on the rock which is Jesus Christ but in order to do that we must praise and worship Him.  He is our foundation but not just that but the worship of Jesus and His blood is where the power is.  We all know the verse that says I abide in the praises of my people but do we truly know it?  Far too long that church has just hurried by the praise and worship to get to the message in time to get home to watch the game.  People cast the praise and worship aside as a boring hymnal recital.  What we need to understand and know deep inside our souls is that it is only through praise and worship that the true Glory of Jesus Christ descends down on us.  We have to understand that although Church is biblical and we attend in obedience and because we love each other, our true growth (spiritually) comes from our personal and intimate worship time with Jesus Christ Himself.  Many wonder why they feel the presence of God at church but as soon as they leave it all goes away.  Are you worshiping God constantly?  Are you always Praising Him for your life and salvation?  There is a psalm that says "praise Him, everyone on earth praise Him, praise Him all you animals all you beasts on the ground and birds of the air, praise him all the snow and rain and mountains, praise him."  That is what we were created to do you know!  We were created because God wanted someone to love and so that we could praise Him for that unfailing, never ending love.  Do you realize that in all of God's creation we are the only species that has diverted from our purpose and because of that we suffer the perversions of life that we do.  You do not see a lion trying to be a duck do you?  Have you ever seen a monkey trying to fly like an eagle?  Have you ever seen a tree trying to act like a rock, or snow going up into the clouds instead of falling down?  You see they worship God by achieving their purpose.  They worship their creator just by simply being who God made them to be and carrying out the tasks that God placed on their lives.  How does snow praise God?  Simply just by falling and being cold.  How does a lion praise and worship his creator?  By ruling his pride and by killing and eating.  In nature anything that does not due what it's suppose to or breaks the mold gets killed.  Any animal not holding up it's end or not meeting expectation ends up eaten or killed by it's own kind.  It's called survival of the fittest.  What it truly is, is that the animal Kingdom is very strict on obeying God and what he has mandated them to do.  It might be a hard example but I think you know what I'm talking about.

But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.  No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.



	The final shout when the people saw only the foundation of the temple was so loud it could be heard from afar.  Just think about the joy they felt when they had accomplished the task in unity and as one man.  The interesting thing is that the older priests or the older generation who had seen the old temple wept aloud when they saw the foundation.  They wept so loud that you could not distinguish the difference between the shouting and the weeping.  You see the old generation will see just how much more splendor the new temple has.  They will see the difference between the way the bride is now and the way the bride will be after this reconstruction.  They have only seen the foundation and it was so spectacular.  You see wonderful amazing things happen when a people unites in one mind and one spirit as one man.  Things no man has seen nor ear has heard can be accomplished by God through us.  When the old generation sees just how wrong certain things were they will weep because of what has happened.  They will realize the mistakes they made and hopefully come to their senses.  I pray that we all are there when Jesus returns and gases His eyes upon this spotless bride that is without blame.  I hope we are all there to shout for joy and worship the Lord for the rest of our eternal lives. 

	My brothers I urge you to join together, to come in unity with one another and fall under one mind and one spirit as one man.  Together with the power of salvation which is the gospel of Jesus Christ we can change things.  We can bring in more souls then ever imagined and rip the lost from the very hands of the devil.  We must stand up as a great force, we must unite and gallop towards the goal.  The word declares the violent take it by force, we have to be violent in our conquest of souls for Jesus.  Not violent like as in with violence like the world knows it to be but with aggression and passion and vigor for the things of God.  I hope God has blessed you with this message and has inspired you to start uniting for His purpose.


God Bless
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      <title>Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was asked a question od what the Word ment in Eccl 11:1-6  Where Solomon speaks about casting thy bread dupon the waters.  Here is the short version of what Holy Spirit spoke to me about this verse.

I totally agree with your understanding of these verses. I also think that it is a little more directed towards the giving part, what I mean as in offerings to the ministry you belong to or other ministries that are around you in the monetary sense. Even to any work that is of God that you feel in your heart to bless. 

I believe God is telling us in verse 1 that if we give offerings, sow money into His works, we will always find blessings in our lives. Bread is a type of substance like money is. In proverbs 3:9 the word tells us to honor the Lord with our possessions and some translations use the word substance. The word tells us to cast it upon the waters. We know that water signifies anointing, it signifies the flowing of the Holy Spirit or in other words living waters right. So we are casting our substance into a place where the Holy Spirit is moving continually and the anointing of God can be seen and is making a difference or in other words good and fertile soil. We see now God telling us what to sow and where to sow it. Just like in the word when it speaks about the seed that falls on bad soil and the many different ways that the seed can get stolen or pulled up, but we also see what happens to a seed when it falls on good ground and yields a good crop many times over.

Now God begins to tell us how much to sow. The word says give a portion to 7 and give a portion to 8. God is instructing us to give more then once or give to more then one ministry or church. Why? The crop on your seeds, or what you reap is not always going to be in money, it could be in protection. Once you bless one ministry you can see returns in money, in another ministry you can see returns in salvation of family members or favor at work and yet with another ministry you can see returns in protection from evil and the horrors to come. 

The final instruction is when to sow. The word starts talking about what happens when a cloud gets full of rain and how when a tree falls in a place that's where it will stay. Basically God says that just like the water cycle follows protocol and just like if a tree falls it cannot get back up and walk away, your seed has to follow the protocol or law that God has set for it. If you try to figure out when the best time for sowing seed is according to weather, surroundings or current life situations you will never sow. God is saying do not focus on when to sow, are what the right circumstances are to sow. God says that just like we do not know how a person grows inside a mother's womb or how the sprit moves and works or how God works and thinks, we do not know when it will be the best time to sow. He says God causes all things, this means that it doesn't matter what season it is or what your current situation is, it is He who causes the seed to produce fruit. So He finishes by saying "in the morning sow thy seed and in the evening do not hold back thy hand!" God is telling us to sow constantly and whenever we can. We must do this because we do not know which of the seeds will grow first or when. If we maintain a steady stream of seeds in fertile ground we will stay in a steady and everlasting stream of blessings and favor in our life.

God made us to be worshippers and givers. God doesn't need our money or our worship and affection, it's not like he is sitting somewhere all sad and depressed because every one is not worshiping Him and waiting for this months check to come in from all the offerings, LOL. He made us that way and instructs us to do so because he knows what blessings they will cause in our lives. Everything God tells us to do is for our own good. 

I challenge you today to stop thinking about how well dressed and nicely adorned the person who represents the ministry is. Look at what the ministry is doing in your community or around the nation and around the world. Don't let the devil fill you with envy about giving and steal your chance for growth. God called us all to be blessed and to bless. We were not called to be some poor starving and decrepit church with no power. 

We are called to rise to victory and to live a life of blessing and favor on earth as it is in heaven. The Church has been this week non influential martyr for too long. We have to rise up and show this world the power of Jesus Christ, we must show the world that there is another way to blessings and a good life besides lying, cheating and stealing or sex drugs and alcohol. Granted there are people in the body of Christ who abuse of the churches money, and you should know that God will deal with them accordingly. Just like there are bad examples there are good ones that are very successful and the public criticized them for the way they dress and what they drive but what they don't know is that they gave their way into the top. These ministers and leaders have put into action the very thing that might be holding you back from success. 

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:03:59 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>True Fasting</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This was a responce to a post regarding fasting on migente.com.  I hope it will bless many here too!

Siervo I am filled with such joy to hear your experience and what God is doing in your life. Here is something the Lord put in my heart as i read your post. It will be split in 2 sections cause as we all already know, I talk alot (LOL)
Here is the scripture i will be talkin about

1 "Shout it aloud, do not hold back. 
Raise your voice like a trumpet. 
Declare to my people their rebellion 
and to the house of Jacob their sins. 
2 For day after day they seek me out; 
they seem eager to know my ways, 
as if they were a nation that does what is right 
and has not forsaken the commands of its God. 
They ask me for just decisions 
and seem eager for God to come near them. 
3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 
'and you have not seen it? 
Why have we humbled ourselves, 
and you have not noticed?' 
"Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please 
and exploit all your workers. 
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, 
and in striking each other with wicked fists. 
You cannot fast as you do today 
and expect your voice to be heard on high. 
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, 
only a day for a man to humble himself? 
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed 
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? 
Is that what you call a fast, 
a day acceptable to the LORD? 
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: 
to loose the chains of injustice 
and untie the cords of the yoke, 
to set the oppressed free 
and break every yoke? 
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry 
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-- 
when you see the naked, to clothe him, 
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? 
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, 
and your healing will quickly appear; 
then your righteousness [a] will go before you, 
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. 
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; 
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. 
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, 
with the pointing finger and malicious talk, 
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry 
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, 
then your light will rise in the darkness, 
and your night will become like the noonday. 
11 The LORD will guide you always; 
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land 
and will strengthen your frame. 
You will be like a well-watered garden, 
like a spring whose waters never fail. 
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins 
and will raise up the age-old foundations; 
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, 
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings. 
13 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath 
and from doing as you please on my holy day, 
if you call the Sabbath a delight 
and the LORD's holy day honorable, 
and if you honor it by not going your own way 
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, 
14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, 
and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land 
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." 
The mouth of the LORD has spoken. 

I believe that many of us know this very famous verse in the bible about fasting. When I read your post I was lead here to this Chapter in Isaiah. I believe that you have experienced the true fast that God has said to be an acceptable day to the Lord. The Chapter starts off by starting something that you yourself actually did when you arrived to Church on Sunday. You began to shout and to blow your trumpet and you declared to the people their rebellion and their sin. Now it may not have been a declaration of crazy sins like fornication and stuff like that but you began to speak about true and undefiled dedication to the Lord. Coming to church just to warm the seats and to fulfill some human feeling of debt is a sin. You come to the house of the Lord because you love Him and you want to seek Him and be in His presence. Like you said, you have not denied yourself of many things for nothing. The word says they seek me and want answers and call on me as if they were a nation that does what is right. Please brother do not think that I am singling your church out or anything but I believe God is trying to tell you and us something right now. 

The scripture also speaks about how the people ask God, "We have fasted and nothing is happening, we have humbled ourselves and got no answers!" In today's terms that would be like, "we have stopped drinking and I get no blessings, we have stopped listening to secular music and partying yet we do not go further in our walk with God, we go to church on Sunday and still do not see the true and awesome power of Jesus in our lives!" We feel as if we leave the "big" sins in our life that God will magically fix everything and our lives will change. We feel that if we deny ourselves whenever "WE" feel like it, it will impress the Lord and He will work in our lives. On the day of fasting, when the day comes that God himself asks you to do something, when the Lord almighty calls on you to turn from your sin, When the Holy Spirit speaks to you directly and asks you to change, you do not listen and continue doing what you want. When God authentically wants something from you and when it will actually count we continue to do the wrong thing and we end up in the same place.

The scripture says that this kind of self denial or "fasting," this kind of self sacrifice only ends up and fighting and discourse. You see that kind of fast is what religion brings. When religion gets involved, competition takes over and judgment starts to take action between the brothers. People ask the Lord, go to church and expect answers but get nothing because their hearts are not in it. They are "fasting" by leaving the drink or smoking, or music or sex or what ever it is that people think they are pleasing God by leaving but their heart is not authentically Christ's and all that work is for nothing. The scripture puts it plainly, "Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high." 

God asks, "Do you think that doing all that is the kind of fast that I want? Do you think that simply denying yourself from eating to sacrifice your self makes me happy? Do you think that giving up all these worldly things without giving me your heart is going to accomplish anything? Do you think that coming to my house every Sunday will save you or change your life? Do you think this is an acceptable day for me? These are my words but God puts it like this, "Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?"

That kind of fasting only brings fighting and strife but the Lords fasting, fasting that is lead by God brings all kinds of blessing and brings liberty and release from bondage. "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice 
and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?" You felt that freedom Siervo, you put it in your heart to please the Lord by fasting, not just to deny yourself, but to deny yourself to give to others and to please the Lord not for your own reasons or because you feel that fasting itself will give you anything. You said it yourself it was in your heart and that is what matters to God. When he sees what's in your heart God will peel back the flesh and allow your spirit to take control and He will show himself in you in a very powerful way. When we fast we deny ourselves but it does not stop there, we deny ourselves so we can give to others. Be it food, money, prayer or love, we fast so that God can pour out from us to others and through that action and through the dedication of your heart, God will do the work in you.

I think we are all beginning to see just how much God is calling His children back to His temple and to a life of holiness. The rest of the scripture tells you everything that will happen if you fast the right way if you fast in your heart first, like you did brother. Your light will shine bright, your trumpet will sound loud and that will bring the Spirit of the Lord to your congregation in such a way that you will bring revival. I encourage you to continue to run not walk but run down the path you are heading because God is calling you brother, He is leading you down the right way and in the right manner. I know there are people in your life that you are praying God saves and you are hoping that salvation comes to their life. Let your light shine as bright and as hot as God is making it, that fire will change others, when people see the flame in your life they will want what you have. It's time we stop walking around with dimly lit candles and run and gallop towards the goal a blaze and with a fire so big and so bright that it blinds those in our way. Wow I feel His presence as I type this and I know that God is beginning to pour out His spirit with so much intensity right now. All you have to do is be willing in your heart first and God will turn up the gas for your fire!

God Bless you siervo and everyone in this group. 


I leave you with this; 

God said in 2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 

We must unite, not physically but in spirit, we must come under one spirit and one mind and seek His face, we must humble ourselves and turn from ALL!!! Sin, we must forget about religion and about man made doctrines that do not lead anywhere but to arguments and discourse and just humble ourselves before God and become a body that prays and fasts the way God wants us to fast. Through these actions, together we can usher in the coming of the Lord with such a revival that the world has never seen before! 

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      <title>New to Christ or Non Christian</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hey everybody, hello and God Bless!  I wanted to write a little something regarding new members or more like new people in Christ.  Also those who might not be Christian and are thinking or just curious about accepting Christ in your heart!  When you come to the page you will see many posts and they will probably be about many different topics.  To some the things written might seem very direct and to the point or maybe extreme in your opinion.  The reason I say this is because some of us and I hope it becomes all of us have developed a Love for the Lord that cannot be described or measured, so what we say and write is done with a great deal of passion and love and admiration!  I just don't want you to jump to conclusions or feel judged by something you read on this page, especially if it is biblical truth.  Simply stated not everything is meant for everyone, we are all in different levels with out relationship with God and what applies for others will not always apply to you.  When you come to this blog I wish that you would come with an open mind and an open heart!  I created this blog because God has placed a message in my heart and a burden for the lost (specifically the youth of our generation) and this is the only means that I have right now to get the message out.  Not only because of the message but also because Jesus has made a tremendous change in my life and has given me a new start.  His influence in my life has brought light to my darkness and has made me whole!  My life has totally changed and I Love him deeply for it.  I want to express that love to others and I want to be able to offer them the same chance that Jesus offered me!  I know that the people that read this blog and are active in discussion did so because of the same reason or reasons.  I want you to feel comfortable and loved in this atmosphere.  You should feel at home here and do not forget that you can ask any question and satisfy any of your curiosities about Christ!  We are here to love and help you and lead you to the path of redemption.  I cannot speak for everyone because I do not know everyone's personal relationship with God but I can speak for myself and say that I have been able to know God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit on a personal level, an intimate level!  Most people have God on this unreachable untouchable pedestal; nothing could be farther from the truth!  I want you also to be able to experience this relationship and this fellowship with our Creator and King Jesus Christ.  Remember Jesus is real no matter what others tell you or no matter what you see on TV or what you have read in books.  He is the son of God and he is our creator.  He loves you more then anyone or anything on this planet!  So much that he gave his life on the cross for you, he sacrificed his life so that you wouldn't have to, and he fought the devil so that you wouldn't have to!  He did this so that if you would believe in him you would have entrance into the kingdom of God and be able to freely receive his love, mercy and grace.  We are all born with the knowledge of divinity or a consciousness that there is a God; it's the force that drives us.  That God shaped void in your life that leads you to search for answers, happiness, explanations of the who, what, where, when and why of our existence.  That question, that drive, that curiosity is your spirit longing to be re-united with its creator.  The world and society has been very successful in trying to make you think that the answer to this question or the solution to this conundrum can be found in money, sex, drugs, material things, man made religions, the opposite sex, the same sex or any other of the indulgences that we can partake in.  I was once in that position, I was once on that never ending search for the next good experience the next happy moment or the one thing that would finally make me happy and give my life meaning.  I looked everywhere and could not find it.  I found it in Christ.  Not only did I find Life in Christ but I found it in abundance, overflowing and running over.  God is capable of doing things in your life exceedingly, abundantly and beyond all you can ever ask or think.  All you have to do is be honest with yourself and the holy spirit of God will take over and help you believe and understand.  If anything I have said here or you have read on this page has touched your heart and you want to give your heart to Jesus just pray this prayer out loud and do it with an open heart and he will come into your life:

Lord Jesus I am a sinner, forgive me of my sins, cleanse me with your blood!

I repent of all my sins, and I renounce all pacts I might have made with the enemy physically or spiritually 

I receive your forgiveness and accept your Mercy and grace

Come into my heart and live in me as Lord and savior,  

I thank you for the blood you shed on the cross for me  

I recognize you as my Lord and King

I give you my life from now until forever

Amen!

  

If you prayed this prayer I would really love it if you would email me or leave a comment so I could send you some info to help you out on your new walk with Christ and I also suggest that you find a local church and attend the next service and confess publicly with your mouth that you gave your life to Jesus, it's just an action that shows that you mean what you did and it is also an act of faith, the word says in Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."  Believe me it's the best things you have ever done in your life and I thank God that you have found salvation!  Praise the Lord
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:51:24 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Never Lose Focus</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/376322</link>
      <description><![CDATA[1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.  6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. 7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day--and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 

It is amazing that Paul could write this in the condition that he found himself.  When he was writing this he found himself imprisoned in Rome and not like the first time he was imprisoned, he was chained up like a prisoner.  Not only that but most if not all the people that were with him had deserted him.  Some even spoke against him.  To top it all of Paul new his death was near!  Yet through all this he still found the confidence in Jesus to exhort his pupil Timothy and pass his ministry and mantel to him.  His faith could not be shaken, even in the face of adversity he was fulfilling his call.  He knew that he had run the race, he knew his efforts did not go wasted, most importantly he knew he had served Jesus with all of his heart and with all of his strength and with all of his mind.  Verse 6 says: "for I am already being poured out like a drink offering and the time has come for my departure.  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."  How was he able to fight the good fight? How was he able to finish the race?  By keeping the "FAITH!"  He was so sure of his salvation that he didn't even think about it twice, he did not worry, he did not fret, in fact he used his surety as inspiration; "Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award me on that day and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."  That fills me with expectation, comfort and peace!  That final verse makes me want to finish the race, it mikes me want to fight the good fight, it gives me courage to keep the faith!"  The love of Christ for others also shows in this statement when he doesn't just say that he will be rewarded but he makes sure he says you will also be rewarded if you love Jesus with all your heart.

Through all this Paul speaking prophecy to Timothy and preparing him for what is to come.  From verse 3 to verse 5 he speaks of this very time that we are living.  We are seeing the rise of people who call themselves Christians and religious and spiritual and are twisting and turning the scriptures and teaching to fit the life styles they want to live.  Certain pastors are preaching sermons of motivation and prosperity just to please the congregation.  The same congregation who when they leave church on Sunday go right back to their evil living and fornication and adultery and gambling and all of the other things that our world has brain washed society to think is normal and excepted.  Pastors and leaders who should be helping the body to walk the right path by correction, rebuking and encouraging, are just letting souls fall by the hundreds of thousands because they feel they are doing the right thing by not "breaking tradition" or not "shaking things up" more importantly not telling the "TRUTH!"  Don't get me wrong, the body of Christ should be prospered and motivated but when leaders start compromising the focus and salvation of the church for speeches about how "important" you are and about thinking "positive" or about the (fill in the blank) _____ steps to financial prosperity or _____ steps to becoming a millionaire; it not only changes what the gospel is truly about but creates situations where people get confused and loose sight of what is truly important in your life.  

That's why we have so many people who are confused and angry about the fact that their "faith" or "belief" is not working for them.  They complain about how they are tithing regularly and how they go to church on everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.  They are members of the clean up crew and serve in the greeting ministry at church and they still aren't seeing any spiritual or financial or any kind of growth.  They are being fed word about how to tithe and how to serve others and how congregating is biblical and we should be members and support our local church but where is the Love for Christ?  Where is the relationship between you and your creator?  Where is the intimacy?  It sounds like "wow Juan you are attacking these people." If I'm attacking then Paul was attacking them thousands of years before they even existed.  This is precisely what he meant in these verses.  These people, like Paul said, turn their ears away from the truth.  Who is the truth?  Jesus!  If you turn from Jesus you are turning away from the only way to the father, the only way to salvation and the only way to attain real prosperity and real blessings and real favor.  You can attain fortune in the world and according to the eyes of the world be prosperous but at what cost?  Jesus says in Matthew 6:25-34: 

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?  "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;  and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."  

Do I really need to say anything else after that?  It cannot be any clearer.  The problem is reading it but not putting it into practice in our lives.  Jesus also says; 

"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?  Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.  But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell.  And the ruin of that house was great. (Luke 6:46-49)" 

I'm sitting here and I just cant type anything else.  It's just too clear.  You might be saying "I don't have the faith to think of it that literally!"  The closer you are to God, the more you further your relationship with Jesus through prayer and the word; the more your faith will grow.  The bible covers this too, Romans 10:17 

"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."

In the verse 1 through 2 Paul says: "In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction."  Be prepared in season and out of season, what does that mean?  All the time!  Not just in season but out of it, so there is no time when you should not be prepared.  The second we cut off the connection between us and Jesus, the second we stop dwelling in the word, the second we lose focus on the goal, we become unprepared.  Our connection to the Lord through Jesus and his word is what keeps us alive and what makes us prepared.  In chapter 3 verse 16 Paul says this about the scriptures;

 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."  

"THOROUGHLY" equipped for "EVERY" good work.  Lets be a generation that says "YES" to Jesus.  Lets be a generation that puts God first and has faith the he will give us everything else that we desire.  Lets be a church the truly, honestly, deeply recognizes that Jesus is in fact the "ONLY" way, the he "IS" the truth and that he "IS" the life!  Lets be a people who acknowledge that "HE" is the root and we are the branches and that without "HIM" we cannot do "ANYTHING." Lets let out a cry out for Jesus that will shake the very walls of hell.  Lets exclaim to the world and the prince of this world that "we are more than conquerors through him who loved us,(Romans 8:37)" that "nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37)."  Lets scream at the top of our voice that "If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:37)" Lets lift up a banner that proclaims; 

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38)"  

We are the watchmen, we must sound the trumpet, sound the alarm and prepare the way for the Lords return.  I leave you with this, 

  "No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.  This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me," declares the LORD!

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Fruitful through Grace</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/376321</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many people get hung up on how we know if one's self or others are truly saved or born again.  If I look at an apple tree, what will grow from it?  No not lemons or oranges but apples!  If an egg hatches and a duck comes out of it, where did it come from?  No not a chicken but a duck.  If we are of God we show resemblance to him.  If we are of Jesus we show his fruits.  Galatians 5:22-24 speaks of the fruits of the spirit.  The word says we shall know the tree by it's fruits.  If you are in the tree of life, which is Jesus Christ then you shall bear it's fruit.  These are the fruits of the spirit of Christ;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.   And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

It says against such there is no law.  What does this mean?  It means that there is no law needed to full fill these fruits.  These fruits come from the spirit and are freely given to you through GRACE by God.  These fruits allow us to fulfill the law, the trying to fulfill the law in no way allows you to attain or achieve these fruits.  Thank God for that because without the spirit or GRACE we would never be able to fulfill the law, therefore never be able to receive this fruits.  God designed the hole thing in our favor!  One more thing to add to the fruits of the spirit as evidence of true resurrection in Christ is found in 1st John 2:3-11; 

 

 "Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.  He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.  Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.  Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.  He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.  He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.  But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes." 

 

And yet another scripture in 1st John 4:22-5:5;

 

 "If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?  And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.   Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.  For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.  Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?" 

 

Our faith is what allows us to love him.  Our belief in our heats that he is the son of God is the force that allows us to Love him and our faith in his GRACE is what makes following his commandments not burdensome.  We are able to overcome the world through our faith in the power of Jesus the Christ!  It's a sequential process; it's not until we believe in him that we can love him and it's not until we love him that we can accept his GRACE and it's not until we have fully accepted his GRACE that we can follow his commandments without it being a burden on us!  The commandment is Love!  This unconditional love for Jesus first and then towards others gives us the key to overcome any situation and survive all adversity! 

 

"My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.  And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.  For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 1 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.  And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.  And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment" 

 

Who is the truth?  Jesus is the Truth!  So in order for us to show evidence or prove that we are of him, we must do it in deed and in truth.  Now i'm not talking about works of the flesh or religious rituals that lead us to believe that through these actions we can get closer to God or be righteous in his eyes.  I am talking about deeds of the heart, deeds that stem from the fruits of the spirit, or "works of the spirit."  God says if your heart condemns you then he is still greater then our hearts and knows all things, but if you can get to the point where your heart no longer condemns you, (Romans 8:1) 

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."

or the full understanding and acceptance of his AMAZING GRACE then you have confidence toward God or in other words you have fullness of "FAITH!"  This fullness of faith allows you to walk in his commandments under reverence, respect and more importantly Love.  This love for Jesus first and then everyone else allows you to put forth these fruits of the spirit and deeds in truth!  Notice that only after all this does the promise of whatever we ask we will receive from Him come into the picture, but he ends with "BECAUSE" we keep his commandments and do things that are pleasing in His sight.  It is not as simple as getting on your knees and asking.  The commandment here is to Love!  If you love Jesus first and then love everyone else as he loved us, then we can follow any of his commandments, even the 10 commandments with no problem.  When love is your foundation everything else will stand firm!  Love allows you to do things that please God not because of fear of his judgment or for fear of hell but you do these things because you love and respect Him, it would break your heart to break His!  The same with others, if you love them enough it will honestly hurt your more to hurt them then it would actually hurt them. 

 

So in closing if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and was raised from the dead then you are BORN AGAIN.  When you are born again you die to the flesh and are RESUURECTED in the spirit (through baptism also, that is a whole other subject) once you walk in the spirit you are able to LOVE HIM and understand his AMAZING GRACE.  This understanding gives you FULLNESS of FAITH and allows you to obey and walk in his commandments for the pure fact that you love him to much to do anything that is not pleasing to his sight.  This love for him then spills over unto others in your life and therefore makes it easy for you to follow all the other commandments God has for you!  This obedience gives you the keys to the flood gates of heaven and anything you ask you will receive because you are following his commandments and doing things that are pleasing in his sight! 

 

God Bless you and I hope you have a great day in the love and passion of the Lord Jesus Christ

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:48:11 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>In Times of Trouble</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/376320</link>
      <description><![CDATA[2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (Amplified Bible)Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.  For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!, Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting. 

The previous verse to this is when Paul says that we are hard pressed and not crushed and it is a very famous verse.  This second part I feel is the most important part, although we should not take away from the entire chapter, the meaning of what he has said is all in verse 16-18.  Although we face many adversities and trials and tribulations, we are told to not be discouraged!  Even though our outer man is diminishing, this means that our suffering and life itself is aiding in the progressive decaying and wasting away of our bodies. Yet our inner self is meaning the spirit, is being renewed everyday.  Because even though It seems that this problem is taking it's toll on you physically or emotionally in a negative manner, it is working a far great work in you spiritually!  The word says "light affliction" because even though things might seem like it is the end of the world to us, to God it is nothing and he will see you through.  That's why he says it is abundantly preparing and producing an everlasting weight of glory.  Everlasting! Never ending! Glory that will always be with you and never leave you!  Verse 18 is basically saying do not focus on our situation; in other words what is going on in our lives, problems trials and tribulations, but focus on revelation!  Focus on what is being revealed to you in the spirit and focus on the renewing of your spirit during these problems.  The things you can see with your eyes, your current issues and problems or "situation" is brief and fleeting, hear today gone tomorrow but the unseen or spiritual growth that your receiving, the revelation that is renewing your spirit, body and soul is eternal and deathless and will be with you forever from Glory to Glory!

1 Corinthians 10:13 (Amplified Bible)
13For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not [a]adjusted and [b]adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to [c]a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently

No matter what you go through God will never allow it to be too much for you.  He will never allow you to go through something he knows you cannot over come with Him.  Most importantly he will always give you the way out of the trial he may put you through or the temptation you might be enduring.  It's a process, a training process, a refining process.  In order to get all the dross and impurities out of the gold is to burn it and pass it through a burning flame.  The end result is far more beautiful then how it started.  A potter has to fold and kneed and pound the clay until it's soft enough to work with and then he can begin to mold it.  That old ugly and stagnant clump of clay must be molded and put into movement or revolved for the potter to form something out of it.  The final stage to make sure the pot holds it's now new form is to "fire" it!  Just know that the hotter it gets, you know you are closer to becoming what God has molded you to be!  

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:47:21 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>John the Baptist Generation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the Gospel of Mark chapter 1 verse 2 and 3  Mark quotes the prophets malachi, and Isaias.  He says:  

 "Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way. He is a voice shouting in the wilderness, Prepare the way for the Lord's coming! Clear the road for him!" 

He is referring to John the Baptist but if you look deeper into the scriptures you will find that in Malachi he is talking about Jesus.  So both scriptures are prophesying about the coming first of John the Baptist who will prepare the way and second the coming of Jesus who will restore and redeem!  It does not stop there!  Revelation is wonderful isn't it!  I'm going to concentrate on the Malachi portion of the prophecy.  I believe they are also talking about our generation!  The coming of the Messiah is closer then we all believe.  Things are already in motion to usher in the greatest movement of salvation that the world has ever seen before.  That is why you see so many people turning to God now!  Not only that but the Holy spirit is leading the Church back to it's roots and back to what we were made to do!  Love, Praise and Worship the Lord!  Through that we can accomplish all things!  What I am trying to say is that I feel in my spirit that our generation is called to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.  We have been chosen, called and empowered to things for Jesus no other generations has seen or heard!  Wow I get excited just typing these words, I can't even imagine what is to come.  Let me get back to what I was saying.  In Malachi we are clearly given instruction on what our focus should be and how we will prepare the way for the Lord.  

 Malachi 3:1-5 Look! I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming," says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. 2 "But who will be able to endure it when he comes? Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes. 3 He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord. 4 Then once more the Lord will accept the offerings brought to him by the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as he did in the past. 5 "At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the Lord of Heaven's Armies    The statement "For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes."  We understand that it speaks of purification and of cleaning what is dirty.  Then he says "He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord"     This also speaks of cleaning and purification but now it speaks of Fire, praise the Lord the holy fire of the Lord that is burning deep inside us to proclaim the gospel, to take it to the nations, to praise and worship the Lord not caring who and what gets in the way!  It's that fire that is ignited when you fall in love with him and are willing to give your life for him under any circumstance.  This very fire will cause purification across the land!  Your conviction and love and passion for the Lord will mend broken hearts and change lives and win souls for the Kingdom.  When he speaks about purifying the Levites he is talking about the priests, pastors, ministers, bishops, elders and deacons who have lost there way and have changed there focus and began to follow man made laws and doctrines and have drifted away from the gospel of grace!  The very men that won't step into the kingdom and won't allow others to enter.  All these people with churches who judge and convict people of things that Jesus has totally forgiven and cleansed you of or simply for being different and not fitting the mold that they personally think you should fit. This fire will cast out these evil religious spirits that have infected many churches today.  This fire will get to hot and they will have to get out of the kitchen!  These "Levites" will once again return to there roots and understand that they have veered off course and will once again be brought back to the Love and Grace of Jesus and will be able to offer up acceptable sacrifices again.  The acceptable offerings are a broken heart and a contrite spirit and religious sacrifices or like the word refers to them as burned offerings which he does not desire.  He then says: "I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me"   People who have been oppressed, held down, lied to and beaten will be restored.  There is time coming when all the evil the Devil has done to God's people will be avenged by the holy spirit of God.  He will restore all that was lost and return everything that was stolen.  Remember this is 2007 the year of completion!  I believe this is already starting to happen for people all across the world.  God's children will be blessed and put in hi places by God himself, but not for them but for the glory of God and so that they might be a blessing to others.  Bondage will be broken, demons will be cast out and sick shall be healed, all in numbers never seen before!  More importantly all this blessing and resources will allow us to reach nations never reached before!  The fields are ripe for the picking and we will be equipped with the tools to harvest the souls.  It is all connected and we are all a part of this great plan!  So put on your armor pick up your swords and lets march forward to this battle because with God before us who can be against us!  Raise your head hi and be proud to be a chosen child of the Light, one who will prepare the way for the Lord and make the path straight for him to be welcomed back!  Our king is coming and we must prepare the way!  Hallelujah our King is coming!

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:45:25 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>For the Weekend</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello and God bless everybody!  As we go into the weekend I know that for many of us it has been hard or a little difficult to live with the choice we have made.  Especially if we used to go out allot and hang out with friends every weekend and basically do things that the world finds fulfilling!  I know that in your new life in Christ you have been enlightened on what is the true joy of our lives and were lead by the holy spirit to make changes in our life's that are not always easy.  I'm right there with you brothers and sisters and I know how it feels.  Sometimes we have to say no to certain things even though we see others do it or worse we se other fellow Christians take certain liberties and we feel deep down inside that God has told you that "as for you" you are not to partake.  Remember God has a purpose and a plan, what he asks you to give up is nothing compared to what he is getting to pour out on you.  Although you might not see the reason why you have to sacrifice certain things or you just don't feel that it has anything to so with your spiritual life, remember that your ways are not his ways and your thoughts are not his thoughts.  I will provide 2 versions so you can really see the meaning of this scripture.  In Jeremiah 29:11 God tells us:

 King James Version:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." New Living Translation:11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." 

You see he uses the words "plans" and "thoughts" God is always thinking about his plans for you.  He has a future "and expected end" for you in mind and all the things you are going through are the process by which you must be purified in order for you to be able to live in that plan.  Keep your eyes on him and your focus on him and although it might not make sense right now or even feel comfortable or good but "he knows the plans that he has for you" There is a reason for all of this.  The word also says in 2nd Corinthians 4:8-10:

 8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 10 Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies." 

We all come close to the final straw, it always feels like it's too much or it's too hard or we won't survive it, or we won't make it but God never leaves us.  He will never leave you or never abandon you.  What we go through is for the glory of God the father and if we glorify him in our troubles and through our troubles he will reward you in the end.  My brothers and sisters I know that God will help you through things even if they are as small as turning down a drink Saturday night or as large as believing Christ to bring your family back together.  Remember he is capable of doing exceedingly, abundantly and above all we could ever ask or think I will leave you with this final scripture:

  7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.[a] For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!  12 I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,[b] but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us God Bless!

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:44:24 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Why I wont become a Christian</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/therevolutionchurch/posts/text/376317</link>
      <description><![CDATA[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!

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:43:19 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>A New Covenent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:42:11 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Be Examples</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This was originally ment for the people on migente.com but i beleive everyone should read this, i know it will touch your hearts

  Hello all and God Bless!  It was recently asked a question about what the bible says over a certain subject.  You know as I was going through page after page after page of people I know, members of my group, members of other groups and just other people in general that said to be Christian on there page I came across many different things.  Some touched my heart and others made me wonder.  Wonder about what you say?  Wonder about the person's personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  I thought about it and I said to myself and God, "I know that there will be a chance to speak about this but for now I will focus on other things!"  Well I received a question in my notes this morning witch to me sounded like a fellow brother who was upset, well brother or sister I'm not sure the gender.  They asked how someone could be or "call" themselves a Christian but when you go to there page you see things that are sexual in nature or music from secular or "worldly" artists, basically things that in their opinion and also in mine do not glorify God.  There are many different ways to answer this question!  There are many different explanations or even "excuses" you can come up with but we all know that there is one TRUE answer!  Now the truth although sometimes tough to understand or tough to swallow, WILL SET YOU FREE!  

            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 1st 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!  

Unfortunately it is hard to express emotion and expression when you are typing something.  Without the use of tone of voice, gestures and body language; sometimes points won't come across as they should or things can be misunderstood.  I just want to make sure that you understand that in no way am I saying that we should not warn our fellow brothers and sister.  In no way am I saying that we are to tolerate things that people do because we are afraid to warn.  There is a difference between Judge and warn!  We are instructed not to judge for our judgment is not righteous but his judgment is righteous!  What I want to get across to you is the reason why some people do what they do and what the main key is in maintaining a clean and pure Christian life.  Again I repeat that Loving God with all your heart and with all your strength and with all you mind is what will allow making changes in your life and living the life we are supposed to live. Loving him will make you want to read his word and spend time with him and learn from him and of him.  His love will renew your mind and transform you into the person who you were always meant to be.  I want to also make clear that in my writing I also said that we are to follow what the scripture says about warning the members of the body of Christ and bringing their sins to light.  We cannot go wrong if we follow what God says.  The main tone in my writing though is "LOVE!"  Jesus died that we might be forgiven and that we might be able to experience his everlasting and unfailing love.  He gave his life so that you might be reconciled to God the father and get back what we lost when Adam sinned.  Yes we are to warn our fellow brothers and sisters when they are falling into sin and if they do not listen and we follow what the word says to do then we have done all we can and you can turn them over to their sins.  That still does not give you the write to judge them or even treat them differently.  Yes the word says we should not deal with them or have anything to do with them and it's fine if you do so but my point is that some people use the fact that the person won't turn from their ways to talk about them or chastise them.  God will do what he chooses to with those people, his thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways.  God is always ready to forgive his mercy endures forever!  Jesus will always have his arms extended towards you when you truly repent of what you have done and chose to come home to your father.  This is a very sensitive subject; some people love to come down on brothers because they use the bible as a whip lash and justify it by the scriptures!  Others won't say anything because they also justify themselves through the scriptures!  That's why we must obey the scripture according to what the spirit leads us to do.  When your relationship with Jesus is strong you know the sound of his voice!  You know the sound of the holy spirits voice and you know how to handle the situation and how to apply the word to what is going on.  I m very strict though on those who proclaim adamantly to be Christians and exemplify something completely different.  That is not correct and as I come across it I will speak to who ever I need to and so should you.  The truth is the truth and there is no time to play anymore.  Our time clock is ticking and we need to be guided by the spirit so that the time is not wasted.  Remember the letter without the spirit kills!  Read my previous posts on this matter.  We must learn to discern the voice of the spirit in regards to the scriptures when we deal with these sensitive matters.  This is not a competition about who knows more about what the word says or who is holier then the next.  This is about loving one and other and helping the body of Christ go forward not backward with wisdom, love and understanding and above all else the guidance of the holy spirit of God!

 

Take care and God Bless!


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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:41:12 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Trinity Talk</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 !!!

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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:37:30 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>The Time of Purification</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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!
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:36:14 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>To him that has more shall be given</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 person I know. 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! 

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      <description><![CDATA[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!  

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