No Spiritual Hospice

 

Ephesians 6:10-18 NKJV  10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints---19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

We see this as 12 commands for the Saints: to be strong in the Lord, be strong in His power, put on the whole armor of God ( not the world), STAND, having your loins girded about His TRUTH,  putting on the breastplate of righteousness, having feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, taking the helmet of salvation, using the the sword of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit and watching in prayer.

To be fully armored is to be heavily armed as a soldier. This armor of God gives us ability to stand against all enemies. Ability to withstand all attacks. It also gives ability to quench every fiery dart of Satan.

Now prayer is not the part of armor but is in addition to this full armor. If we choose not to do this, then we walk through this life with no soaring, and again I say no soaring with God in the heavenlies!  

Isaiah 40:30 Even youths shall faint & be weary, & [selected] young men shall feebly stumble & fall exhausted; 31 But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, & hope in Him] shall change & renew their strength & power; they shall lift up their wings & mount up [close to God], as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run & not be weary, they shall walk & not faint or become tired.  [Heb. 12:1-3]

Wait on the Lord, He Who is from everlasting: He who is above those little gods of idols, not pecking at the ground like chickens..…God, the Creator, the God who is not fatigued nor exhausted but continues daily in His mercy to extend life, love & peace to us! It is in Him we look for & expect…..to be the renewed….and rise toward the Son of God!  ( Three points from Isaiah 40: to abide in the Lord, to be active and …. to fly above the circumstances)

Without this prayer added, this verse is ineffective. We must power up with God to see Ephesains 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

What if people chose to just go so far with God and then reside in hospice care? You know it as the program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient’s home. In this hospice care one is only expected to live nor more than 6 months. So does the Christain decide to hide out, lay on the edge of active life and choose dying over living? Hospice is to be the “specialized medical care” focusing on comfort and support emphasizing quality of life and dignity during the very end of life. You choose not to seek God, give Jesus praise, but only choose to take from others, say like the leech!

Proverbs 30:15-16 NKJV 15 The leech has two daughters-----Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, “Enough!” 16  “The grave, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water-----and the fire never says, “Enough!”

The Leech is described as taking without contributing anything at anytime. How sad if we as a people do not contribute to the care of our family or those in need around us!

1.   Sheol and fire always try to destroy

2.   The womb and the soil strives to produce; just put posts in the ground when building a fence and the soil will try to make it produce

Those in their own glory and multitude with pomp and jubilant voices descend into it: Jeremiah 13:15-16 Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it a dense darkness. 

1.   These are headed for “hell” ….the shadow of death ; makes it dense darkness; Drunkenness robs one of the ability to act; their feet stumble while looking for light : Phil. 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame---who set their mind on earthly things.

2.   Their honors are in the “dust”….this is death & the grave Ps. 49: 17-20 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lives he blesses himself (for men will praise you when you do well for yourself) 19 He shall go to the generation of his father’s; they shall never see light. 20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

Death is the equalizer: the foolish rich can die like the wise poor can

With the armor of God on, we are to continue to sow God’s word into our lives. Not that we peck the ground but soar with eagles. 1.  Would be made perfect….1 John 2:1-5   Amp Bible  My little children, I write you these things so that you may not violate God’s law & sin. But if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (One Who will intercede for us) with the Father----[it is] Jesus Christ [the all] righteous [upright, just, Who conforms to the Father’s will in every purpose, thought & action]. 2 And he [ that same Jesus Himself] is the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins, and not for ours alone but also for [the sins of] the whole world.

3 And this how we may discern [daily, by experience] that we are coming to know Him [to perceive, recognize, understand & become better acquainted with Him]; if we keep (bear in mind, observe, practice) His teachings (precepts, commandments).  From the NW ..back to page 2

4 Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, & am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep & obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth is not in him. 5 But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of & for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize & be sure] that we are in Him. In this love of God,…..we pray…

a.         Pray 1st before doing anything!

b.         If someone has spoken evil of you as in gossip, pray.

c.         If someone in the workplace has fired you, pray!

d.         If someone has passed suddenly within your family or circle of friends, pray!

e.         If someone, who you do not know, suddenly writes something concerning you for others to see and read…pray.      Seek the God of love!

This best way is through prayer….to do the right thing, and the Lord will remind you of His word in you…

2. Established and far from Oppression: Isaiah 54:14-17 Amp. Bible  

14 You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God’s will & order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.  Established in God they are no longer tossed about or afflicted

15 Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you. 16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to destroy.

Anyone who troubles God’s people will themselves be troubled!

17 But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced  ,,,chickens for chicken city, chicken soup)]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord….many marching in unity for ruin…anything against God is for ruin…(unity is those who believe consistently and stand continually on His power words!)

Understand we are to be the secure in God…so..do we know Him as our justice..?    Justification comes through the heart: one which is  either…based in God and His teachings , those commands and the other is based in the ruins of the divisive of evil against God and His people.

What any one person thinks of you or me should not rule over us, only God’s rule,  His standard is to be raised against the tongues of judgment. Whether they wrote it, spoke it, tweeted it….God’s commands should be our standard for life…..WHY obey or answer a fool? A foolish person should not have dominion over us….Any malicious intent, God will take care of it and we must participate by faith knowing He will care for us and we are the secure in HIM!

Eyes on Jesus, Eyes on Him Who Renews our Strength….Psalm 27: 13-14 … NKJV 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD; be of good courage; and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say on the LORD!

That believe : is the  ‘aman…Strongs: 539….is to be firm, stable, established, also to be firmly persuaded.

Mounting up on Wings of Eagles:  Go from strength to strength: Psalm 84:4-7  Amp bible  4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied ) are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence: they shall be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah [pause and calmly think of that]! 5 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

1.         Whose heart: their thoughts and actions are on God

2.         They are always happy and to be envied!

6 Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.  Zion is God’s stronghold and a place of restoration…

No Fainting: Galatians 6:6-9  Amp Bible…6 Let him who receives instruction in the Word [of God] share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his support. 7 Do not be deceived & deluded, & misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside;) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.

God does NOT like those who wear masks and pretend to be godly!

8 For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin & destruction, he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in action nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we will reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

This sowing is spiritually done! Those who sow to the spirit will enjoy eternal life in the here and  now in way which other Christians do not. The harvest comes to the faithful who sow, not only the word of God into their lives but also in the finances, and in prayer!  There are churches who will not allow the Holy spirit to move within their service! Sown towards that power of God, then you operate in His power, praying in the Holy Spirit, loosing Him in your lives….( Understand all is God’s. You own nothing. God does. He provides. He is to guide and move you into His plan, not your plan!)

In closing: Ex.19: 1-6 Amp Bible    1 In the third month after the Israelites left  the land of  Egypt , the same day, they came into the Wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they had departed from Rephidim and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, they encamped there before the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, Say this to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle’s wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My covenant, then you shall be my own peculiar possession & treasure from among & above all peoples; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation [consecrated, set apart to the worship of God]. These are the words you shall speak to the Israelites. Those of unity…a kingdom of priests…                                                                                  

From this passage of Exodus 19, the people were to obey God. He would bless them. Their perfection, that completion was to be in God,  and through the teachings of the Gospel we know today! “Bore you on eagle’s wings, was the miraculous life of living in and through the Spirit of God!  Why would we not want to live that way always?

Jesus brought it all together in His Sermon on the mount:  Matthew 5 :6 Blessed, and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous ( in that state in which the born- again child of God enjoys His favor & salvation) are those who hunger & thirst for righteousness (uprightness & right standing with God, for they shall be completely satisfied.

It is a spiritual kingdom that is one which operates in having faith in God. It is trusting God no matter what! This is only one of many blessings that were listed in Matthew 5, but all of them were given by Jesus that the kingdom citizen would adhere to and become the ideal who acknowledged they are the poor spiritually, sense their inadequacies, and reach for that which is supplied by heaven through Jesus Himself. This kingdom is the dwelling where self-sufficiency is no virtue nor is self-exaltation practiced. The only strength we need is found in the Lord, and in that we go from strength to strength in Him….Amen!

No spiritual hospice, our soaring is seeing Him in the heavenly place where we are seated in Christ Jesus!

 

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Between the Moral and the Immoral Alternatives

 Was reflecting on a couple of passages in the Old Testament and I thought of Eve and son Cain. Like mother, like son in that they both added something not given by God, but their own choice in will and speaking. And what is the choice when these are facing a person: remembering a sinner to choose godliness or sinful indulgence? Yet, we have been given salvation by faith through Jesus. This grace whereby we have been saved, it is the gift of God to us found in Ephesians 2:8. In this undeserved kindness, we see in action, a love so wonderful and to be realized with great things coming in our future with God and His Son!

But like I mentioned in the beginning I was thinking of Eve and Cain. It those who keep talking when they should be listening!

Genesis 3: 1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

 Now God did not say “touch it” but He did say not eat that fruit! So Eve had a thought process already in movement. If you are intent on that fruit, you most certainly will have to touch it to eat it!

 Genesis 3:4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die.” 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

These two were made in God’s image! Still we have a woman set on self-rule and not on God dependency. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

 Genesis 3:6….so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, & a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit & ate. She also gave to her husband with her, & he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, & they knew that they were naked; & they sewed fig leaves together & made themselves coverings.

Adam knew she had eaten and was in the process of learning death and decay. So he ate with her so as to not allow her to go alone into that pitiful place! Man is to resemble God his maker: Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male & female, & blessed them & called them Mankind in the day they were created. ( Did not make them Adam and Steve, but Adam and Eve!)

And then in Revelation 1:8 Jesus tells us that He has the keys to death and hell…the very thing the devil caused in the first man & woman. Jeremiah 17:9 says, his heart is desperately wicked. Jesus reinforces this in Matthew 15:19-20: "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man. . . ."

 

If one were to present a truly converted person with the same options, he would choose the life of virtue, peace and love. He would know he is righteous in God, born again into the kingdom of God where there is much light and life!

Eve plunged into a deep spiral toward death and decay.

Then we find Cain in Genesis 4. In Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bore Cain and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.” 2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD. 4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat.

And the LORD respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6 So the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?” 7 “If you do well, will you not be accepted?” And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.

( Just adding a note here: Cain is trying to do what his parents were to do in the beginning. But they failed to do what God instructed. And the garden of Eden was closed to them. Now Cain pushes the envelope, but man sinned and required a sacrifice.)

 8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, : Where is Abel your brother? He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” 10 And He said, “What have you done?  The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. 11 So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.” 13 And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear!” 14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me. 15 And the LORD said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

Cain slew his brother Able in the field. He did not like what God spoke to him!

Cain’s heart was one of attitude and revenge. He was not a “happy camper” with God.  From verse 9 of Genesis 4, Cain tells God this: “ Am I my brother’s keeper? Evil shows itself most often in verbal violence. In fact, the Apostle Paul quotes Psalm 10:7 to show that everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike, are under the power of sin (Romans 3:14). And James says  " And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. "(James 3:6)

 And from a violent heart comes violent actions.

So he speaks out, probably yelling verse 14 : “ Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

Cain put a bounty on his head! All he had to do was repent. He added to what God had spoken and was determined to get revenge. But God protected Cain with this symbol, the ‘mark on Cain’. Anyone who tried to kill Cain would know they would be responsible to payback seven fold the wrath.

 Why did God spare the life of the world's first murderer instead of taking it? One reason is that he had not yet given man a command not to murder another human. Such a command will be given, however, right after Noah leaves the ark after the floodwaters subside (Genesis 9:6). An additional (and likely more important) reason he was allowed to live is so that other humans would be warned of God's view and judgment on sin. God would not allow it!

Seen in Genesis 4:15, God gives warning: “whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold.”  Wow, what a warning! Anyone attempting to further punish Cain by death would contradict his purpose of allowing him to be a living witness of his judgment.  It was God Himself who reserved punishment for the crime of murder on Abel. No one would override God’s wisdom and authority on this rebellion done.

The “mark of Cain” had nothing to do with changing his skin color or anything like that.  Man is made in God’s image. We are all one blood in the lineage from Adam and Eve. The mark of Cain revealed he did not worship God but worshiped himself instead.

Psalm 10: 3-11 NKJV For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart’s desire,

He blesses the greedy and renounces the LORD. 4 The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts. 5 His ways are always prospering; Your judgments are far above, out of his sight; As for all his enemies, he sneers at them. 6 He has said in his heart, “ I shall not be moved; I shall never be in adversity.” 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is trouble and iniquity. 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless. 9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catches the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net. 10 So he crouches, he lies low, that the helpless may fall by his strength. 11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see.”

 We are told in verse 3 of Psalm 10 that the wicked pursue the poor. They turn on them because they first turned against God. And this is what Cain did. These wicked boast and are proud in their desires. They desired and pursued even though it is the wrong thing in God’s eyes.

 Like Cain, he had a greed and it got him into some trouble.  The heart determines one's preferences and inclinations, and thus it determines one's choices, subjecting the will to it. Murder came in the package from Satan and his demons. They communicated that to man through the course of this world. YOU can see that in the Flood in Genesis 6. The world has shaped our pre-conversion heart, and thus it affects our relationship with God.

Yes, Cain was marked for he was a man of cursing and deceit. He had desires to hurt others like he did his brother Abel. God marked the man of murder. But God would not allow him to die in that way. He would live as a vagabond.

Between the moral and the immoral alternatives, outside of God is death and destruction. Within His boundaries is life and much light guiding us the way home! Eve could have had any tree in the garden, but the one God said “NO” to! Before her was the bounty of many trees with much fruit to be had for two people. But that lust of the eyes is deadly indeed! And Cain did not give the sacrifice that God delighted in, nor  had the respect for, so what Cain had done had not met the requirement needed to worship God.

 Lawlessness takes us out of the plan of God.  Lawlessness brings a haphazard kind of life, if you can call it that. OUR Confidence should be in God and the promises He has given us. His promises were given to be planted within our hearts and rely on the truth so that we shall see them come to pass in our lives. God has abundance. He has no lack in anything: He is GOD!

 We must submit to God and resist the devil. In that we set the standard of God in our lives. Without His standard and the haphazard lawless way of living, other catastrophes might occur to end’s one life. It will mark places like Sodom and Gomorrah. It will be something that is seen decades later or thousands of years later, a place where no man lives.

Cain would be a vagabond, not living long enough to really settle anywhere for his heart could not allow him to do that. Land was cursed so that any seed he put there would not produce for him. Repentance was the required antidote to hell. Surely we should desire to see God and His goodness and not turn away.

It is the testimony of faith that we speak of every good thing we have through Him: abundance not in things, but in God who desires to give us His kingdom. It is a life totally occupied with the kingdom of God that is free from attitudes, freedom in His love and mercy where a grateful heart and a joy in the heart abound in the grace of God!

God is not forgetful nor is He negligent. Instead God is patient and kind with sinners, giving them every opportunity to turn away from their sin and repent. The Scriptures warn us not to draw the wrong conclusion when God is patient with our sin.

And what is the choice when these are facing a person: remembering a sinner to choose godliness or sinful indulgence? What will we choose?

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A Smack-down

Psalm 24: 7 Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle, 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.

Psalms 22-24 represents the presentation of the Messiah on the Cross of Crucifixion, His leadership as the Shepherd who leads us His people and of Psalm 24 He talks of the gates of being lifted to let in the King of glory.


Who are the gates? They are people! Hearts are to be turned to God in seeing the suffering of the Messiah for mankind. Hearts are too see His face and understand that God has purpose for mankind. He is everlasting speaking to those who have eternity in their hearts. God placed eternity in us and God surely desires us to be with Him always.
But there are those who choose evil ways, to get the upper hand and to rule over man in every way they possibly can!

Matthew 16: 13-20 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" 14 So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

17 Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah, For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.

Jesus was not saying the He would build His church on Peter. I mean seriously we are talking about the Cornerstone: Jesus! Jesus was speaking of building the church on the the words that came from heaven revealed to Simon Peter' s heart!
Yet you see a church built on men's own thoughts and purposes and not on God's at all! And if you pay attention to those in leadership of those said churches, you find them finding more ways to wrong than right with God!

This region of Caesarea Philippi was north of Galilee near Mt. Hermon. This was a principle area where idol worship was highly regarded. It was also the area where early people worshiped Pan, the half man, half goat deity. Pan was the cult that was about the "wild". ( we will not go into what they were wild about) Their rituals involved nudity! Yikes!

So when Jesus spoke here in this region ....to Simon Peter and those with him, He also was speaking to that which existed in the forms of idolatry that were against God! And what Simon who spoke revealed to him by God in heaven was that which would prevail. It is those in Jesus Christ who speak the same as Christ Jesus speaks as He did when He spoke of His Father and heaven. 

Again from Psalm 24, the gates who lift their heads and allow the king of Glory are you and me who stand and speak about salvation, the glory of the Lord in Jesus Christ. We speak to declare the life that came to us abundantly through Him. And those who stand at the gate of hell who speak for hell are those who can look like you and me but speak only by lies, human nature, and that which is death. Their hearts are ruled by the devil.

We lift our gates to become those who say this is the way, the truth and the life in Jesus Christ. To walk as He did and prevail by the words given to us from heaven. For all that was presented of His kingdom to us, the greatest is the smack-down of hell that we stand in faith. We understand by daily reading and praying we are connecting with Jesus face to face. And as He opposed the enemy that once for all by the shedding of His blood, so too we have that victory now at our disposal through His sacrifice. Anything that is opposing God & His will is the lie. We regard the truth of God's word and we speak it in warfare of the mind, a warfare against arrogance & those rebellious thoughts, & ideas, those arguments against God. And we know that our God is to be prized.  We are to stand against any un-scriptural idea or personal confused belief that we might hold as true. What you fear, you will find a lie behind it & behind that fear is an idol!

 We are to be intentional to rid anything that is contrary to God & His thoughts. The only truth is that which is given to us by God. May He find us being the faithful stewards in what He left to us to be in charge. 

From Matthew 16:19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.
We are gathered to Him. He plundered the strong man and we have that victory. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you and to speak those words Jesus spoke: Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus ( and He is seated on our hearts). We abide in Him and His words abide in us,  and we speak what is glorifying to the Father. His peace He has left to us; not as the word gives did He give to us. We let not our hearts be troubled, neither will we be afraid. (John 14:25-27)
 Jesus did a smackdown on the devil and we have the victory! We love the Lord, keep His word and the Father loves us. They have made their home with us! (John 14:23-24)

If we truly know God our Father to be the Creator and Jesus the manifested Word, then the Holy Spirit will speak to us what the Father has told Him from that appointment from the Cross on Calvary.  

Many things are on the airwaves, on videos and in news reports, still our faith is to be in God and Him alone. So what about those viruses with those wild names, and those things that seem to capture headline news day and night for months on end?  What if you get a cough? What if you do not get a cough? Still whatever the list of other maladies may be, still we understand of the end-time prophecies for disease and epidemics. God is still here, and has not left us as orphans. He planned His best for us through His Son and I am not missing this great opportunity to be a witness of His great love in this end-time harvest! How about you? Let's have a smack-down!

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Diffusing the Fragrance

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The Spiritual Recognition

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That Penthouse Suite or Subteranean Lake of Fire

Heaven or Hell?

In planning for a trip, many people will set out their families goals for that trip. Like if they have chosen Disneyland, they will figure the cost for each family member, the amount of the time there and back home and the cost for food, plane ride or car travel plus the extras that can come into play while taking the trip.

In viewing a winter time business trip, some prepare to have new snow tires put on and have the vehicle serviced at that time, plus they make sure of carrying the chains for tires in case of travel over mountain passes, and the extra things a vehicle requires during those colder times of the year. Others, as maybe the older person may look at their need of medications on a daily basis and if they will need or require the extra meds for their time away from home.

People will create their portfolios in planning their retirements, spend hours of looking through doctor information for that face procedure to take years off their face or inches off the other places. They spend hours figuring what they will do for Black Friday, and which stores suit them for that which their heart has desires for. Yet I wonder how many think of where they will spend eternity? Many already believe they will be in heaven. YOU, some believe all roads lead there. WRONG! But some think they are going there.

Told in the Word of God that Jesus is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE….then there is no other way to get to that place of safety. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

In the very life of God truth is found. Rejecting God and His truth is rejecting life that is only available through Him. Jesus said, “ If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:7) That is by knowing Jesus! Jesus had prayed in John 17 that His desire is for us to all be ONE in God. Not a one world with one way as of the world, but ONE in God who is life to us and for us. If you and I do not tell people that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to avoid, then we miss the opportunity to give God glory as His Son did. Jesus’ life glorified the Father and  was displayed for all the earth to see! He glorified the Father and He finished what the Father gave Him to do. In that truth was the display of the Son in obedience to the Father.

What will we reveal to others? Will we let them know that they most likely do not have a Penthouse waiting for them in heaven? Those who have rejected God and His son will ultimately behold a subterranean lake of fire. If scripture is really known, then we will know that the earth was “made for you and for me” and together with Jesus will see His kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.

If we are rooted in the world, will we receive any “new word” coming down the pike which today is regarded as fake news, but in God we will know that the devil’s time is short! You and I will know that we have the Holy Spirit in us, that we are to revere God and to know Him and His word of truth. In that relationship people should have the conviction within them by meeting you or me knowing that need life through Jesus. May people see and know us in truth that our own lives are transformed for His glory!

New teaching at: Voice of Prayer  

The Holy Spirit Motivation 

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New teaching at: Life Giving Wells

Fault-Finding and True Criticism

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