Archives for October 2014

Sep. 21, 2014

MY FRIENDS, WITH THE LORD HELPING,HAVE WE ALLOWED HIM TO FIGHT OUR BATTLES?

We first meet Caleb, a young man forty years old, a leader of the tribe of Judah. The Lord gives Moses this directive: “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites…..” Numbers 13:2 (KJV)

So Caleb, Joshua, and ten other leaders from each tribe are sent on a “reconnaissance mission into Canaan.” But my friends this was only a formality, God had already given them the land, through a covenant with Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

But neither saw it fulfilled but through their faith is what allowed Moses and the generation of the Exodus to know God as the One who would fulfilled it. But only Caleb and Joshua out of the 12 spies knew their God and had studied his word and believed when He told Abraham.

“Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation…….” Genesis 12:1-3(NKJV) Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.

”But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report..,…” Num. 13:30-33 (NKJV)

And the people believed the bad report and God told Moses they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers,…….BUT MY SERVANT CALEB because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, 14:23-24 (NKJV)

Forty years later Joshua the other faithful spy is now leader of Israel. Caleb tells him “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people sink.

I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly. So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance….because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’…So here I am today, eighty-five years old!

I AM STILL AS STRONG TODAY AS THE DAY MOSES SENT ME OUT; I’M JUST AS VIGOROUS TO GO OUT TO BATTLE NOW AS I WAS THEN. Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. THE LORD HELPING ME, I WILL DRIVE THEM OUT JUST AS HE SAID.”

My friends, after 40 years wondering in the wilderness because of someone else’s unbelief Caleb’s faith never wavered, he knew his God, he knew what he would do, he saw what the plagues did to the Egyptians, but not God’s Children.

He saw the red sea part as the Israelite crossed over and the Egyptian drowned as they attempted to follow. He ate the food that fell from heaven each day. He heard the voice of God at mount Sinai when his 10 precepts were given.

He witness God bring down the walls of Jericho that should have been done 40 years earlier, if Israel had believed. Caleb had faith in his God he had endured through it all. “But he also knew the battle was not His but the lord’s”

In addition, he tells Joshua  “BUT, THE LORD HELPING ME, I WILL DRIVE THEM OUT JUST AS HE SAID.” like Caleb our Faith must not waver God tells us “if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”

But we must hold on, forever looking above and forgetting about what this world and the god of this world has to offer as we seek the presence of God while allowing self to die daily. Because our God will “come quickly; and [His] reward [will be with Him], to render to each man, [and woman] according as their work is.” Rev. 22:12 (NIV)

My friends are you ready for Christ return, “WITH THE LORD HELPING,HAVE YOU ALLOWED HIM TO FIGHT YOUR BATTLES?” “For He knocks. If anyone hears please open the door of your heart and let Him in”.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct. 20, 2014

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO STRENGTHEN OUR FAITH IN GOD, AS WE PREPARE FOR THE GREAT TRIBULATION/TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE?

My Friends, As a Child of God, what does THE GREAT TRIBULATION mean to you? Or As a soldier in God’s army what will it take to succeed as a Christian in the last days of this life’s history as we move closer to Christ soon return.

To be conquerors in God’s army, we must first allow God to control our minds, through His Spirit., and then as God’s faithful, “we [are then] crucified with Christ and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us……” Gal 2:20 (NIV)

That is why we are the “best of the best.” And as God’s chosen, with a passion, we spend time in God’s word as we seek His presence daily, while allowing our faith and endurance to keep us focus on our goal, life eternal.

In addition,we pray without ceasing, 24/7. We are also an elite group of PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY strong men and woman who’s commitment is to serve and to recruit other’s worldwide to serve as well.

As faithful warriors, we possess the single main trait to succeed in the rigorous training session for the final conflict, which is “denying self and taken up our cross daily and following Christ as His disciples,” Luke 9:23 (NIV)

The final words, to a warrior for God simply says “Do you have what it takes to give it all to the Master before this “GREAT TRIBULATION” starts? Because “you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.” Mark 13:13 (KJV)

“Those who have not yet shared in the trying experiences that attend the work in these last days will soon have to pass through scenes that will severely test their confidence in God.

It is at the time His people see no way to advance, when the Red Sea is before them and the pursuing army behind, that God bids them: “Go forward.” Thus He is working to test their faith. When such experiences come to you, go forward, trusting in Christ.

Walk step by step in the path He marks out. Trials will come, but go forward. This will give you an experience that will strengthen your faith in God and fit you for truest service. (E. G. White Testimonies for the Church 9:273.)

So my friends it comes down to our faith and “TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OUR HEART and do not lean on our own understanding. In all our ways [we must] acknowledge Him, And He will make our paths straight” Prov. 3:5-6 (NASB)

But, we can only trust, what we have become accustomed to placing our faith and trust on for “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Romans 10:17 (NKJV) Christ Himself tells us.

“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day: For then shall be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matt. 24:20-22 (NKJV)

My friends, let’s now focus on the “Two titles which are related to the coming Day of the Lord, the TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE” “For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of JACOB’S TROUBLE, But he, [or she] shall be saved out of it.” Jer. 30:7 (NKJV) “AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION.

1. Notice that each one involves the concept of an unparalleled time of trouble. Unparalleled implies two things concerning the time periods involved: Since there cannot be more than one unparalleled time of trouble, their time periods must overlap.

2. These events have not transpired in the past. and 3. Regarding the timing of the “GREAT TRIBULATION”  “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.Matt 24:36 (NIV) (Bible Study Tools)

My friends are we READY FOR THE GREAT TRIBULATION/TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE, IF NOT, ARE WE GETTING READY BY KEEPING OUR MINDS FOCUS ON THINGS ABOVE AND NOT OF THIS WORLD, WHILE ALLOWING OUR FAITH IN GOD TO PREPARE US FOR WHAT IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE?

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Sep. 18, 2014

MY FRIENDS, TO LOVE AS GOD LOVES, WHERE DO WE START?

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him….” 1 John 4:7-11 (NKJV)

So we have an all knowing, all powerful God, who resides or exist in every situation or circumstances of our lives if we believe. In addition, a God who understands the very essence of the words, selfless, sacrificial and unconditional as it relates to life and how we as humans relates to one another.

A God who gave his only begotten son  simply because of a passion that transcends far beyond our finite way of thinking. My friends, I can see why Abraham was ask to sacrifice His only son. Because to truly understand the meaning of love  you must try and feel in our finite minds what God feels when He has to make a sacrifice of love.

So He tells Abraham to “Take now your son, your only son, WHOM YOU LOVE, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.'”(Gen. 22:1-2)

“WHOM YOU LOVE.” Such power and passion in those three words, words that He wanted to instill into what Abraham was about to do, so that man and woman could in some limited capacity understand that the true meaning of LOVE is a passion and a feeling.

In addition, a feeling that tells a child of God from deep within that if we have faith and believe that God has made our life to be as that of a “man or woman after His own heart;” and if we have established such A relationship, then we do understand from a  human standpoint what love is, some-what.

John words in 1 John 4:8 (KJV) tells us “Whoever does not LOVE , does not know God, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.” And then when we receive the mind of Christ we are now measured by the life of Christ, as we become candidates for God’s pure and holy kingdom.

And this pure and genuine LOVE  can only be given to us through our faith that God’s presence controls our lives each day, as God’s love through a transformation process, refines, restores and replaces what the world deems as LOVE  with a genuine unadulterated LOVE, from who God is.

And if I go one day without this LOVE  that God instills into me without allowing self to Die then I begin to revert back to how the world defines LOVE. So with the mind of Christ we begin to realize through His word and spirit how far sin has taken us from understanding God’s genuine LOVE, whose knowledge and wisdom comes to all who are solid learners of his ways and works.

And as we begin to obtain a personal relationship with God, the spirit begins to implant a sanctification process that converts Gods nature and love into ours. for it is not possible for the heart where God abides, not to love as God loves, a God who gave his only son so that all humanity may have eternal life.

So my friends we now with God’s love within us, we walk like Christ, we talk like Christ, we treat others, using Christ as our example and Each Day of our lives is now spent with The one who now lives in us, and we no longer conform to the god of this world’s definition of LOVE.

So now Christ LOVE  lives in this finite mind and body, because He and His LOVE  is infinite which is now preparing our mind and bodies to live infinitely with Him. So today WHERE DO WE START TO LOVE AS GOD LOVES?

WELL MY FRIENDS, WE START NO WHERE ELSE BUT AT CALVARY, AND JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED, who through our faith lives in each of us today, tomorrow, and soon to be, throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct 17, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “I DON’T FEEL TIRED, I’VE COME TO FAR, GOD HAS NOT BROUGHT ME THIS FAR TO LEAVE ME”!!

As much as I try an inspire each of my readers to not look back, but to keep your focus at what lies ahead, I seem too always wonder back myself to a time and place, where I had no relationship with God and sin abound on every level of my life.

My friends, this journey, I should be tired, worn out and ready to say I quit, because of the dedication and endurance it takes to finish and where Satan seems to forever triumph. “But I DON’T FEEL NO WAYS TIRED, I’ve come too far from where I started from.

Nobody told me that the road would be easy, but I DON’T BELIEVE HE BROUGHT ME THIS FAR TO LEAVE ME.” Because I’ve been friendless and ridiculed, but God has brought me, I’ve been scared and lonely, but God has brought me.

In addition, I’ve been through the Storm, rain, trials, tribulation and the ups and downs of  a life that I created with the help of the god of this world, but God has brought me.

And that is why I love God selfless and unconditionally, and today I GIVE HIM MY ALL, and I hope you will do the same. For our Savior tells us “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:26 (NKJV)

So if the presence of God is forever apart of us how can we ever get tired of serving Christ. Today my friends, let’s focus on 1 Kings 18 and19 “Soon the Lord’s angel woke him again and said, “Get up and eat, or else you’ll get too tired to travel.”

So Elijah sat up and ate and drank. The food and water made him strong enough to walk forty more days. At last, he reached Mount Sinai, the mountain of God, and he spent the night there in a cave.

Before all of this happens, is the biblical account in 1 Kings 18,  where Elijah through the power of God stopped the rain for 3-1/2 years. On Mount Carmel brought down fire, when the Baal prophets could not. And then he kills the 450 Baal prophets on that same mountain.

Then through the power of God makes it rain. Then “Ahab the king, told his wife Jezebel what Elijah had done, so she sends a message to Elijah: “You killed my prophets. Now I’m going to kill you! I pray that the gods will punish me even more severely if I don’t do it by this time tomorrow.”

Elijah is terrified, even after what He has accomplished through Jehovah. So He runs, and this is the part of the story where we are now, he is being feed the food of heaven by the angels of God. Food with the power to sustain him on a 40 day journey on foot.

My friends when we allow the Spirit of God to feed us from the word of God we WANT FEEL NO WAYS TIRED on our Journey either, for God’s word “is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Heb. 4:12 (NKJV)

Consistent with this, once we allow the power of what God’s Word does through our faith, then like Elijah, we stand by our mountains as the strong winds, earthquakes, fire, rain and fear of our past, pass before us.

But then through our faith and endurance the gentle breeze of the Spirit of God tells us, “DON’T BE TIRED, WE NEVER TOLD YOU THAT THE ROAD WOULD BE EASY”, Because “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life [eternal], and there are few who [will] find it.” Matt 7:13-14 (NKJV)

In addition, “WE DID NOT BRING YOU THIS FAR TO LEAVE YOU.” My friends “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,….but share… in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, ”For He who has begun a good work in [His Children] will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” 2Tim. 1:7-8, Phil. 1:6 (NKJV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct 16, 2014

MY FRIENDS, WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE WORTH RUNNING?

Just the idea and willingness to subject our small and insignificant Mind, body and passions, to the greater goal of following Christ and telling others of the good news of Christ soon return, as we approach the end of this great controversy. Has the god of this world, told us, it’s just not worth it?

In addition, what gave Paul such a passion to serve God, and give it all for the glory of Christ. Paul states in Acts 20:24 (KKV) “But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may FINISH MY COURSE and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.”

Paul is now on his missionary journey as he feels the presence of God calling him to go to Jerusalem. But at every step on this journey he is being warned not to go. “On the next day we who were Paul’s companions departed and came to Caesarea, and……. a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.”

Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 21:7-13 (NKJV)

My friends, Paul at this point ON HIS COURSE had been crucified with Christ and [he] no longer lived, but Christ lived in [him]. The life [he now] lived in the body, [he totally] lived by faith in the Son of God, who [he knew] loved [him, because he had been] delivered over to death for [each of our] sins and was raised to life for our justification.” Gal. 2:20 (NKJV paraphrased) Romans 4:25(NIV)

So Paul knows he probably will be killed, but He also knows that Jerusalem is where God is sending him. A conscientious, and complete death to self. what man can do to the body is insufficient. Paul is no longer concerned with his life, because he gave everything to Christ long ago on the road to Damascus.

Consistent with this, Christ gave it back to him on Calvary. He is now following Gods mandate If it is Paul’s time to die then that is God’s will. Paul says, “MY LIFE IS OF NO VALUE TO ME”, Paul was focused and he endured. His whole life was centered on God and what his will for him was.

My friends, Success comes from FINISHING THE COURSE Christ sets for us. It must be all about Him and his will. I am dead in CHRIST, must forever be our response on this journey Christ has placed us on to the promise land.

Remember, It must be all about Him and his will. I am dead in CHRIST Paul says. you must tell yourself daily, the god of this world cannot hurt a dead man, or woman.

In addition, if you die in Christ, like Paul the life which [each of His children] now lives in the flesh [we now] live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us so much that He gave His life for us.” But I go back to the original question. WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE WORTH RUNNING.

Well my friends, as one created in the image of God as you, what I may tell you may not be conducive to what you want to hear. So I suggest If you seek God’s presence with a passion, then lay prostrate before God in heartfelt prayer and meditation.

And as long as it takes, stay where you are, and don’t get up, until you have heard that still small voice of God’s Spirit. and once you have heard it, tell him thank you, then get up, and don’t look back, until you see Christ appearing from the clouds above to take you to your new home in His kingdom and life eternal.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct. 15, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “LET’S PRESS ON TOWARD THE GOAL FOR THE PRIZE OF THE UPWARD CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS!!!”

“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  Indeed, I COUNT EVERYTHING AS LOSS BECAUSE OF THE SURPASSING WORTH OF KNOWING CHRIST JESUS MY LORD.

For his sake I HAVE SUFFERED THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS AND COUNT THEM AS RUBBISH, IN ORDER THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.

THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, AND MAY SHARE HIS SUFFERINGS, BECOMING LIKE HIM IN HIS DEATH, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, BUT I PRESS ON TO MAKE IT MY OWN, BECAUSE CHRIST JESUS HAS MADE ME HIS OWN. Brothers [ans sisters], I do not consider that I have made it my own.

But one thing I do: FORGETTING WHAT LIES BEHIND AND STRAINING FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD, I PRESS ON TOWARD THE GOAL FOR THE PRIZE OF THE UPWARD CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.

Let those of us who are mature think this way, AND IF IN ANYTHING YOU THINK OTHERWISE, GOD WILL REVEAL THAT ALSO TO YOU. ONLY LET US HOLD TRUE TO WHAT WE HAVE ATTAINED.” Philippians 3:7-17 (ESV)

So today My friends, let’s make it personal. So I look back, I go over my entire life, the bad times and the best of times, when I had nothing and when my cupboards were overflowing with all I wanted, or ever thought I would want.

But I COUNT EVERYTHING AS LOSS BECAUSE OF THE SURPASSING WORTH OF KNOWING CHRIST JESUS MY LORD. Yes, the god of this world has made me an offer. “All this I will give you,” he [tells me], if you will [only] bow down and worship me.” Matt 4:9 (NIV)

But I have decided to SUFFER THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS AND COUNT THEM AS RUBBISH, IN ORDER THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST, not because of any set precepts that tells me to go this way or that way, but only because of my unadulterated faith that comes by knowing the One who gave it all up even His life.

In addition, He did  this so THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND KNOW THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION. So I consider it a honor to SHARE IN HIS SUFFERINGS, and also BECOMING LIKE HIM IN HIS DEATH.

Oh How I lone to make this all a reality, but as I look at my life and compare it to the life of Christ, I do understand how far my imperfect life is from obtaining those ambitions. BUT I PRESS ON TO MAKE IT [ALL A REALITY].

Consistent with this, [He has made me His child], [and] heirs, heirs of God and co-heirs with [Himself], [so now I am willing to] share in his sufferings in order that [I] may also share in his glory.” Romans 8:17 (NIV)

So I will FORGET WHAT LIES BEHIND, and what the god of this world has offered in exchange for my soul, I only LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD and PRESS ON TOWARD THE GOAL FOR THE PRIZE OF THE UPWARD CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.

And even though I have made this personal today, I also realize that I must take this mission statement of the good news of the Gospel to a world that has lost it’s spiritual compass and keep them and you also my friends in prayer until the day of God’s appearing when Christ will also make it personal as He says

‘Well done, Michael! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” Matt 25:23 (NIV) AND IF IN ANYTHING [ELSE WE MAY] THINK OTHERWISE, GOD WILL REVEAL THAT ALSO TO [US].

But until then, LET US HOLD TRUE TO WHAT WE HAVE ATTAINED. In addition, My friends [we] must work the works of him that [knocks at the door of our hearts], while it is day:[for] the night cometh, when no man can work.” John 9:4 (KJV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct. 13, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”

“Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.” And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good.

So the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’

And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness……For MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.” Matt. 22:9-14 (ESV)

Such an insignificant matter, why would the King be so adamant about one’s attire, maybe they Just didn’t have the funds to buy what was required. My friends one day God would have heard our last excuse.

In addition, His faithful knows, the garment of righteousness is free. so the saddest words those who are clothe improperly will ever here is “I KNOW YOU NOT” Isaiah 61:10 (NKJV) tells us “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God;

For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels” My friends, God loves us more then we can ever imagine, so He pleads.

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9 (ESV) He has made every effort humanly and Godly when He died on the cross, to provide us with the proper attire of His righteousness, My friends remember.

“What we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him” 1 John 3:2 (NKJV) fully clothe in the attire of His righteousness. And one Day He will be able to say about His faithful children.

These are the one’s “who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Rev. 7:14 (NIV) and they loved me enough to keep my commandments. “The man who came to the feast without a wedding garment represents the condition of many in our world today.

They profess to be Christians, and lay claim to the blessings and privileges of the gospel; yet they feel no need of a transformation of character. They have never felt true repentance for sin. They do not realize their need of Christ or exercise faith in Him.

They have not overcome their hereditary or cultivated tendencies to wrongdoing. Yet they think that they are good enough in themselves, and they rest upon their own merits instead of trusting in Christ. Hearers of the word, they come to the banquet, but they have not put on the robe of Christ’s righteousness.

The heavenly principles that distinguish those who are one with Christ from those who are one with the world have become almost indistinguishable. The professed followers of Christ are no longer a separate and peculiar people. The line of demarcation is indistinct.

The people are subordinating themselves to the world, to its practices, its customs, its selfishness.” (E. G. White Christ objects Lessons “Without a Wedding Garment”) My friends time and grace is running out, Probation will be over soon.

Revelation 21:6-7 (NKJV) John tells us  God will say one day “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.”

My friends, The call has gone out will you continue to allow the god of this world to be your tailor and fit you into his attire. MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN to wear the robe of Christ righteousness and one day soon, you will not have time to change.

Consistent with this, our God will “come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays AWAKE AND REMAINS CLOTHED [IN THE RIGHT ATIRE,] so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.” Rev 16:15 (ESV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

Oct. 12, 2014

MY FRIENDS, THE LORD ALMIGHTY SAY’S “RETURN TO ME, AND I WILL RETURN TO YOU!!”

”My friends, have you ever felt like you have strayed so far from God that you just don’t know where to start in returning to the one who gave it all for our salvation. Back to the one who waits patiently, as He tells us “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

No matter how far we have strayed, our God‘s hand will reach just that far to save us. Author Dallas Willard tells us, returning home gives us “a means to reconsider and reconfigure our strategy for living.

It is the element that calls for each of us to change directions”, like the Prodigal Son who “When he came to his senses, said, I will go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants. So he got up and went back HOME to his father.” Luke 15:17-20 (NKJV) The common element we have with sheep is the propensity to get lost and stray away from the path once we leave HOME.

The Devil then by circumstances that he created begins to steal away our joy and happiness thus, causing us to lose our balance and focus, which then causes us to wonder aimlessly into self-destruction until Satan has us believing we can’t go back HOME.

He tells us, Christ will not accept you, you have gone too far to go back HOME. Then your hope fades with each day that you stay away. But we must remember what Paul says in Rom 6:1-2 (NKJV) “as it is written, what shall we say? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be!”

My friends, It will be a difficult journey going back home. But set your mark on the prize which is eternal life in God’s pure and holy kingdom. And then on that day we make it back HOME, He will repeat His words of love to us “He who was lost is now found and there is celebration in my household!”

In addition,we must make it personal it has to be all about us right now for God tells us to “RETURN TO ME, DECLARES THE LORD ALMIGHTY, AND I WILL RETURN TO YOU.” Zech. 1:3 (NIV)

And once we have made it personal, the image we must never lose sight of no matter how far we have gone is the image of our father, who loved us so much that He gave his only Begotten Son so that we may never feel that we can’t go back to our Savior.

A Savior who was willing to leave His home in the royal domain of heaven just for our Salvation, as we allow our lives to become transformed into His image until we are completely back into the protection and love of the Master’s presence.

Remember my friends, Home is always a place where we fill accepted and loved. But now, only a distance memory when life was simple and good. But the good news is that when we cannot find our way back HOME, God will find a way to lead us back HOME to him.

A Shepherd will search for a lamb even in inclement weather that has strayed from the flock. If the lamb constantly strays, the Shepherd will search for that lamb, and then upon finding him will break its foreleg.

The Good Shepherd then put’s the lamb over his shoulder and carries it to safety and there nurture’s it back to health as He continues to love and protect it from outside evil elements that wants to harm him until its leg heals.

And when the lamb’s foreleg has healed it will stay close to the Shepherd realizing that the Shepherd is his provider and protector. It’s harsh, but the Shepherd’s correction of the lamb is out of His love and protection for his well-being.

In addition, in our own lives God allows situations and circumstances to break us. So that we may draw near to Him as the transforming power of His touch guides us on the right path back HOME to Him and LIFE ETERNAL

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY