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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Scorched and Burned

 

Can you imagine a time with no water anywhere or any that is found is undrinkable? Can you imagine being scorched by the very sun to keep you warm in winter? Can you imagine your yard and the town you live in, to be so dry, no rain falls and you feel like the sun is scorching your skin? How does this happen? And it will, for the word of God is true and never fails!

Jesus said He was life unto men. Right from the beginning of His ministry, Jesus linked the kingdom and the Spirit together.   John 3:3 No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. Jesus redeemed us through His shed blood at Calvary. He was and is freshness of water to the face. He fills our well with His goodness.

John 4:14 “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 7:37 “If anyone thirst, let him come to Me and drink.   38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

1 John 2:15-17 nkjv15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world ---the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, & the pride of life---is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 & the world is passing away, & the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Here God commands the final judgment on man! Verse 1 of Revelation 16: Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth."

In Revelation 16:12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

To dry up a region, the angel pours a bowl on a great river.

Revelation 8: 8-10 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and one the springs of water.  11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

What is given here, a group will point a massive rocket toward an oil field. It will bring destruction to those oil wells. As the oil spills into sea, the sea will appear as blood. It will move inland through any cavity or open door for oil spills. These are channels like the Mississippi River and all its tributaries. As the underground water is spilled, it dries up like a sponge. It hardens and no “fresh water” is seen or drank anywhere occurs! Bad enough indeed for the 1/3 of the sea contaminated, sea life killed, and ships destroyed but that going inland will be catastrophic. Whatever river this contamination can connect with, disaster is not far off!

Revelation 16:3-4 Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died. 4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

No percentages listed here. Every living  soul  died  in the sea.  Here it mentions the blood as of a dead man. When man dies, it is within few hours, his blood coagulates within him. It turns hard and purple in color. So again, we have a situation of oil in the waterways. Flying overhead one would see the oil cover the ocean as that of blood.

Revelation 16:5-6 and I heard the angel of the waters saying: “You are righteous, O Lord, The One who is and who was and who is to be, because You have judged these things. 6 For they have shed the blood of the saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. For it their just due.”

Here you have men drinking this yucky stuff. They have killed the saints and the prophets. And the Lord has seen to it, that they drink this oil riddled mess!

Revelation 16:7-10 And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”  8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.  9 And men were scorched with great heat and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.  10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

Scorch men with GREAT Heat. When there is an elimination  of water (fresh) then all that is left is the thick crud left by oil spills. These great spills set off by most likely an atomic bomb will cause fire to erupt in that region. Elimination of the water of the ocean and rivers will cause most plants to die. The trees would follow in some weeks after.  This heat build-up would bring about a thick atmosphere where skies are darkened.  NO sun to shine as it once had on earth!

From Revelation 16:10 tongue is gnawed. In this when in a desert place, the tongue can swell. Even  people with cancer of the neck area experience a swelling of the tongue at night while they sleep. ( They as the patient must spray their tongue with moist water to bring back to normal.) 

This desert or now arid region is the place of no water, so any amount of walking through there would cause one to gnaw their tongue because of thirst for fresh water!

The future looks dark and bleak for those who refuse God! They can look forward to those seals being opened by Christ Himself!     Revelation 6: 1 NKJV  Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “come and see.”  2 And I looked and behold, a white horse.  He who sat on it had a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer. 3 When opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “come and see.” 4 another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another, and there was given to him a great sword.

5 When He opened the third seal. I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked and behold a black horse and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius and three quarts of barley for denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” 7 when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked and behold a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death and Hades followed with him. and power was given them over a fourth  of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death and by the beasts of the earth.  9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “how long O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the dearth?” 11 Then white robes was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

Revelation 6:12-17  NKJV  12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. (13) And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. (14) Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. (15) And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, (16) and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! (17) For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

The beginning of sorrows, the Great Tribulation, whether 3 months or longer still a time of events when the first trumpet sounds. Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give us light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will b shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.

No future bright for unbelievers, but those who seek the glory of the Lord will know His return is soon. We await, not deceived by bogus deliverers, but by expecting Him in all His glory to appear as the radiant light of life before us. Amen.



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Friday, April 11, 2025

The Mud Runner or Walking on Water

 


In preparing this the last few days, I spent reading Jesus' prayer in John 17. He prayed for those who would believe. And is our belief in Him or the stock market? Is our faith in Jesus or the world's songs, world's people, idols that carry no life nor breath in them, and do we follow that which is wrong indeed.

So today we choose: to be a believer and be mud runner or believe and walk on water. Thought of Moses and  Aaron who were sent.  Moses sent to speak to Pharaoh. But he felt he was no speaker and asked if Aaron could go with him to be the "speaker". . After they led Israel out from the Pharaoh of Egypt, they faced the Red Sea.  Fear striking on every nerve of each person, they are the consumed in anxiety!  Pharaoh's military was coming quickly from behind them. God told Moses to lift his staff and tell the people to cross. The waters divided and they walked over on dry land!

Later in the Old Testament,  Abram appeared. Told to leave his family behind and take his wife to the place God called them to live. And he went but he took some family members with him. Ultimately Abram's belief became the trust in God. He had to believe that God could change his name, he would have an heir and it would be God's design and not the flesh of man. Abram now called Abraham was known for His faith. He would be the "father" of many. But the idols had to be removed from him.

Reading on him, we find this in Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many plans in a man's heart nevertheless the Lord's counsel that will stand.

In the New Testament, Jesus and John the Baptist came. John announced the coming of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Jesus, the Man of prayer, gave us the example for our lives to be lived out.


Father to the Son, the Son to the Father….1.       Abiding:

John 15:5. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. NKJV

John 17:20-23……………..20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me 23  I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. NIV

 2.       As Children to abide:Matthew 18:1-5

18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 2 Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.   NKJV

After Jesus, the Apostle Paul wrote 2/3 of New Testament and it was faith that was sent out to those who hear! He taught others to know Jesus by faith.

So we have examples of Abraham and Apostle Paul.  Like what Martin Luther King spoke in a speech in 1963: His desire was for his children to live by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. So many today get his message wrong. They want things their way. Some want God's people removed entirely so they can do away with the book of Revelation. Then prove God wrong and His book null. 

Paul the Apostle brought greetings saying in verse 2 (Philippians) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. in Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

In each of these people, they had to live by their faith in God! They showed us their real lives with real situations which can only be lived in His peace when relating in prayer and worship to Him our God. Without prayer we flounder. We should choose the treasure of His counsel rather the trash of world's way of drugs and more drugs.

Here prayer brings us to see spiritually things God has for us. It could be a new position in a job, getting a study in nursing when we never thought of it. We could be an inventor and invent things for God's glory!

Now let's look at the mud runner Elijah!1 Kings 18:41-46.......................41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain." 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked, and said, "There is nothing." And seven times he said, "Go again." 44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "There is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.' " 45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. 46 Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. NKJV


Elijah prayed for rain to begin. He kept watch and prayed......and the rain came. It came quickly and with the new moisture on the ground, mud appeared. It was everywhere!  The sky turned dark with clouds. The wind blew and heavy rain appeared.  So warned. King Ahab drove away riding in his chariot with two horses.  The hand of the Lord came upon Elijah and he girded his loins....he was ready to run.
A distance of 25 miles, Elijah ran in the mud! Hand of the Lord is Holy Spirit....revelation and light! Born again we have Holy Spirit.  We pray for rain but mud will appear. If we pray God's will, we can expect His ways!
By Faith he prayed and believed: "There is the sound of an abundance of rain."   Spiritually we know by revelation knowledge.

THE God of Love, who gave His only Son, gifted us to become the sons of God. It was by grace that we are saved. That has given us opportunity to express gratitude, to spend time with Him and to know the Creator of all things. He who gives such a life should be feared.

Jesus was ruled not by His flesh but by His spirit man. He gained strength in staying connected to His Father through the Word that brings truth and life to our mortal being. He chose the treasure of God and the assignment to the Cross.

You and I will not take the Cross Jesus did, but we will face situations especially in prayer, that knowing God is for us, rain will fall and mud will appear.   We can run through that rain and mud. We can run fast through any thing that tries to stop us.  Or we can choose to walk on the water of His word and see His kingdom come.

The sky is certainly getting darker and men's heart match this very thing too.  Jesus died and the ground shook. The curtain in the temple was split from the top to the bottom. Prayer works!

Who do people say that you are: for Jesus.....the Son of God, for Paul who trusted Jesus to his death, he was an apostle and not Pharisee as before, for Elijah, he went up in a fiery chariot up into the sky, Abraham is known today by his faith in God, his prayer for Lot and family when Sodom and Gomorrah would be destroyed. Moses place of burial is only known by God. John the Baptist had a rough end. But truth was found on his lips to the end!

We are those who have chosen the treasure of God, light and revelation in Jesus and power by Holy Spirit. We see His plan, abide in His glory and are seated in heavenly places with Jesus.

Hey, ask me I know the way to get there...........Amen!


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Sunday, January 5, 2020

Circumstance, Emotions and Spiritual Awareness

Peace, be still!
Mark 4:33-41 NKJV 33 And with many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it. 34 But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples.
35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” 36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. 38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” 39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

From this passage of Scripture, Jesus and His disciples have had a day of ministry, as Jesus taught on the parables of the kingdom, He taught those who followed Him! In this they are on to the next place of ministry. Ultimately they  went where He commanded, and He gave the command to go to the other side.

But as is in this journey of life, we find sometimes that doing something Jesus commands, you and I can see a storm appear. On this evening a windstorm arose  and those waves of water beat into the boat. It is a serious matter when the water is joining you in the boat you are riding in to get to dry land. Then when these men saw those things, and they heard the sound of them as they grew in size to make a splash within the dry boat. And the wind made that sound when it is bearing down over the land and sea. Then, because they are moved by their emotions, they consider the prospect of their sudden death they might likely experience since this stormy circumstance has appeared to them!

Aware of their likely end in the sea of Galilee and being ruled by their emotions,  they call on Jesus and not only that they call on the Teacher loudly to proclaim, “Do You not care that we are perishing?”
It was then that Jesus arose and addressed the wind by rebuking it and in His speaking to the sea His authority ruled by that  “Peace, be still!” Then the wind ceased and there was a great calm. Then Jesus who spoke to them as He did the wind, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”
Yes, there appeared on this journey of life a storm. It was a described circumstance and it vividly declared their emotions in their speaking: “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” 
Do we have emotions that declare they rule us from our heart?


In those hours before this storm, Jesus had prepared them, not only on that day but all the previous days they had followed Him. He had exhorted them this day to hear in Mark 4:23 “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. 24 …….”take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25 “For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
Jesus was appealing to their spiritual perception. For those who receive His teachings and assimilate truth, will have their capacity for understanding enlarged, and their knowledge will be increased.

We are the converted, not living by our emotions anymore, but living by the spiritual in Christ Jesus. We are alive in Christ and we are heirs of salvation. We are free from spiritual bondage. We are responsible for what we have been given.

We find Nicodemus who came to see Jesus in the night hours and spoke with Him. Of course he was moved by the signs and they are assuredly those who added to the life of the human receiving them. It shows the goodness of God to those living in the shadow of death.

John 3:1-8  NKJV  There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him." 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, "You must be born again." 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus thought on the physical level and not the spiritual aspect of life in God. Upon our repentance of the old man, we become the believer in Jesus, the manifested word of God. Through Him we have the relationship in the spiritual and it is our beginning into the kingdom of God. Jesus spoke: “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

So if we are headed down that journey of life with Jesus enthroned on our hearts, will we sound like the disciples in this event of a storm that takes one by surprise, that causes emotions to rise like a flood over us and then be overwhelmed to the point of the fear of “death”?

Ephesians 3:17-21 NKJV 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.  


Christ must dwell in our hearts and through faith, we are daily rooted and grounded in His love. In that walk we understand the width, length, depth and height of that love that we would be filled with all the fullness of God. No circumstance should overtake us, nor should emotions master us for our spiritual awareness is a faith in God who gave us His Best. Knowing His love is anchoring us in a hope that Jesus came and will come again to be at home with Him. It also marked us in a life that is long in the goodness of God for His glory and we cannot glorify Him if we live with no faith in Him!

Yes, most likely some kind of storm will pass by your pathway, but be rooted and grounded in Jesus. Know what is possible to you when all other things and people  speak the impossible against you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. (Proverbs 18:21) Do not let your emotions rule your future. Even Satan can quote scriptures, but it is the Holy Spirit that makes God’s Word relevant in love to you the receiver. You are born again. Born again to know the Father through Jesus and by the Holy Spirit you rise to the position God destined you to be in. You were always meant to know truth, not a watered-down message but truth that always makes a point to the born again man and how he operates in the kingdom of God! Walking firmly in His commands, we dwell in His doctrine, the word manifested that comprises peace. Today we allow the Holy Spirit to rule in our hearts which we were called in one body and to be thankful and within that, whatever storms occur, we hold on in faith to Christ’s thoughts. And that which is within us will rule our emotions that are harnessed into the truth of God that keeps us safe. We continue to grow into the matured man or woman of God exercising authority on the earth speaking: “Peace, be still!”


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