Archives for March 2015

March 30, 2015

MY FRIENDS, THE UPPER ROOM EXPERIENCE, LET’S MAKE IT PERSONAL!

Today, let’s make it real personal as we take a journey into the upper room on the day of Pentecost where you have according to Acts 1:12-15 (NKJV) some 120 men and women who has gathered as Christ had commanded them before His ascension, do “not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father, which we now know was the Holy Spirit.

This is where the Christian church begin and today since it is personal, we are going to add our names to that list which will make it 121 believers in the upper room who has come to Jerusalem along with pilgrims from all over the world to celebrate the day of Pentecost.

121 believers of the body of Christ together which is a “ratio of approximately 1 Christian to every 500,000 to 580,000 from that point The Christian church exploded in growth. Tens of thousands were converted” (Mark Finley) This shows each of God’s chosen who are committed to serving God, the power of God and His Spirit, when we as Christian’s come together as one and have an upper room experience.

And this is where we recognize on one accord, the hope, grace, mercy and the assurance from the Good Shepherd that states in His Word “the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones Ps. 37:28 (KJV) “And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house…”

Oh my God, that mighty rushing wind, which was the outpouring of God’ Spirit, is what we all must seek with a passion as we re-live an upper room experience each today. In addition, our lives will never be transformed if somehow we are only consumed by the atmosphere of fellowship in a beautiful worship service at church, or if time permits we may be compelled to feed the homeless, or visited the sick.

No my friends, only an upper room experience can transform us which is a personal and heartfelt experience with Christ and His Holy Spirit that takes us on a Journey that leads to a total commitment to Christ and His will for what He wants to accomplished through us as His chosen vessel.

And only in that upper room can we “stay always within the boundaries where God’s love can reach and bless [us as we], wait patiently for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give [His faithful].” Jude 1:21 (KJV) as we seek His presence in an upper room experience.

And today, we all must seek such an experience for our “Lord, has searched each of us and  He knows each of us personally! “He knows when we sit down and when we rise up; He discerns our thoughts from afar… He searches out our path He is acquainted with all of our ways.” Psalm 139:3 (KJV)

So as a Child of God let’s also search out our Saviors path, and get acquainted with all of His ways Today in the upper room for he is more than just our Savior He is also our friend. “Oh what a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer in the upper room as Christ becomes a personal Savior as we allow our lives to be transforms into His likeness in preparation for His kingdom.

In addition, this experience is never about location, but about the experience, one receives just being in the presence of Christ. it could be as we drive in our car down the street, or at work, or in the “hiding places on the mountainside,” or in the solitude of a room at Home, what’s important is an experience and relationship with Christ that can be as simple as laying across our bed as we take our countenance to a place that only an upper room experience with Jesus can take us.

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

March 28, 2015

MY FRIENDS, HAS THE ONE IN THE COCKPIT STARTED THE DESCENT IN OUR LIFE?

“Transponder data shows that the autopilot was reprogrammed during the flight by someone inside the cockpit to change the plane’s altitude from 38,000 feet to 100 feet, according to Flightradar24, a website that tracks aviation data. The plane’s cockpit audio recorder captured horrific sounds.

The captain, somehow locked out of the cockpit, can be heard banging on the door, Robin said. And screaming can be heard on the audio recording for the final few minutes of the flight. For those on board when the plane plunged into the mountains, Robin said, death was instantaneous.” (CNN News)

My friends can you imagine what was going on in the minds of the crew and passengers who saw their fate with no chance of changing the course. The captain seeing the descent of the plane, beating desperately in utter desperation to no avail. Is that our reactions to the daily beating of Christ at the door of our hearts asking to come in, getting no response from us, only a lack of concern for who is doing the knocking.

Today, let’s focus on the time of Noah in comparison to the 21^st century “Many at first appeared to receive the warning; yet they did not turn to God with true repentance. They were unwilling to renounce their sins. During the time that elapsed before the coming of the Flood, their faith was tested, and they failed to endure the trial.

Overcome by the prevailing unbelief, they finally joined their former associates in rejecting the solemn message. Mercy had ceased its pleadings for the guilty race. Noah and his household were within the ark, “and the Lord shut him in.” A flash of dazzling light was seen, and a cloud of glory more vivid than the lightning descended from heaven and hovered before the entrance of the ark.

The massive door, which it was impossible for those within to close, was slowly swung to its place by unseen hands. Noah was shut in, and the rejecters of God’s mercy were shut out. The seal of Heaven was on that door; God had shut it, and God alone could open it.

So when God’s judgments shall fall upon the earth before its deluge by fire, the impenitent will know just where and what their sin is, the despising of His holy law. Yet they will have no more true repentance than did the old-world sinners.” (E. G. White Patriarchs and Prophets Chapter 7: The Flood)

My friends Prophecy is before us and this world is “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” that we have been in descent for the last 2000 years since Christ shed His blood on our behalf on Calvary and now Satan is about to take all who feel safe with him in the cockpit and controlling the flight to perdition.

In addition, soon God will tell His Son to go get His Children and “the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer, but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets. Revelation 10:6-8 (NKJV)

My friends, today we can change the course of our life before it plunges to destruction due to our desire for what we are accustomed too in this world. But today we must give it all to Christ, the only one that can save us with the blood that He shed, so that we who believe can be saved. But we must endure and have faith before grace ceases to be, so let’s all keep our focus on;

“The Lord [who] is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with [all of His children], not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. [and receive life eternal] 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

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

March 26, 2015

MY FRIENDS, GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE FOR HIS BODY OF BELIEVERS!!

Today, I would like each of you to focus on God’s purpose for His body of believers as it relates to each of us and how both unite together in Holy matrimony for our salvation.

In addition my friends, only a passion from within to fulfill God’s purpose in our lives fits into God’s overall vision, along with our faith and endurance as we follow Christ to the cross and finally to His pure and holy kingdom.

First Christ establishes His Church, Matt.6:18 (KJV) tells us “…. and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Christ being the Rock for in 1 Cor. 10:4 (KJV) it tells us “and all drank the same spiritual drink.

For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” So Christ Himself will establish His body of believers, and neither principalities or powers can prevail against it because it was established to last throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.

Consistent with this, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, But a body you have prepared for Me.” God’s original purpose for Adam and Eve after there fall, and then Israel and now His chosen generation, was to reflect Christ image to a world and to the principalities and powers in heavenly places” both good and evil.

And like Job, our character “for such a time as this” should be one that God can say “Have you considered [my chosen of the 21^st century], that there is none like them on the earth, a blameless and upright generation, one who fears God and shuns evil?” Job 1:8 (NKJV)

They have established my law of love, and this was the purpose of the cross, to unify a never ending love between the Father, Son, Spirit and all who has a passion to be “crucified with Christ and who has died to self and  has allowed Christ to live in them.”

And this my friends is God’s eternal purpose for all who believe in His transforming power. We must also remember, the controversy between good and evil ended at the cross when Christ said it is finished. Oh what a demonstration of love.

God sending His only Son to bear the penalty of man’s mistakes, an eternal spotless Being, uniting with mankind and taking upon himself the sins of the world, nailing them to the cross, where his blood washes away the penalty which was death and given life to everyone who believes.

And as His believers and God unite, Christ becomes our mediator and substitute. Oh the mercy and grace of god’s eternal purpose for all of his believers regardless of race, creed, color and social background, for we are all one body in Christ.

Remember, each of us who make up God’s church has been commissioned by God, to be a navigator for the reconciliation of Eden to a world that was lost in sin.

Ephesians 1:9-10 (KJV) tells us he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.”

What a privilege as God’s chosen, we are a part of the unity of god’s eternal purpose for His church and as we look at our world and all that is happening in the Middle East and throughout the world we do not have time to finish watching Empire, Scandal, or dancing with the stars, or to waste God’s precious time in any capacity.

My friends, Christ Calls today, He needs workers to finish His mandate and I pray we all take up the mantle as grace still abounds, as we finish our course set before us on our way to the promise land.

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

March 24, 2015

MY FRIENDS, DO WE HAVE A PASSION FOR THE JOURNEY AND HIS APPEARING?

Today, let’s go to a place that many have attempted but few have succeeded, a place that may take a moment for some, or a lifetime for others, a place, if we seek God’s kingdom must all get too, for it is a requirement for entry into the promise land.

And that place my friends, is in the very presence of God and the heavenly host and all the angels singing holy, holy, holy oh God almighty! and as you develop through your faith and endurance this passion, I need you to also develop this same passion for the journey ahead.

Remember, it is God who will choose those who are “safe to save,” it is God who will look at the entire journey and determined that our faith was that of a mustard seed, able to say unto any mountain, “Move from here to there,’ and it will move; [because] nothing was impossible [for God’s faithful on this journey]” Matt 17:20 (NKJV)

In addition, all who have been willing participants in the controversy between good and evil. My friends our battle scares that we acquire throughout our lives must produce a passion for the battle, along with a feeling, and a determination which can only be defined by our actions to serve a risen Savior.

A passion to serve Christ in the good times and the bad, when the sun is shining bright or when it can scarcely be seen over the horizon. Paul tells us in Gal. 5:24 (NASB) “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

Paul, in that text is speaking of another type of passion that we crave through the influence of the god of this world, and with that type of passion our mind is not focused on the things above, but on the things that are on this earth.

So until we desire the passion of God’s spirit to transform our lives as we die to self each day, we will continue to live with the passion that only leads to perdition. “I do not understand my own actions. for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate…

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do…..” Romans 7:15-20 (KJV) My friends doesn’t that text give us some indication of the battle we face on this Journey.

Paul “fought the good fight, [he did] finished the race, [he did keep] the faith. [and now] Finally, there is laid up for [him] the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to [him] on that Day, and not to [him] only but also to all who have loved His appearing. 2 Tim 4:7-8 (NKJV)

My friends we must have a passion like Paul for this fight to the finish line and “His appearing” So our goal today must be to die to the passion that Satan offers, and too be alive in the passion of God’s presence a process that we can’t obtain overnight but a process of continuous faith, endurance, and the study of God’s word.

The world is deteriorating before our very eyes. The battle is now over our Character, but only you can decide the outcome for your soul, because the war is won, Christ will soon come to take those with the passion to serve and to carry our cross on this journey to the promise land.

So “choose you this day whom you will have a passion for; whether the gods in whose land ye now dwell that one day will be destroyed:” or will you have the passion for the true God that stretches beyond the boundaries of human intelligence all the way to His kingdom, and will continue throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity!!

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

March 22, 2015

MY FRIENDS, YOUR MISSION SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, IS TO SERVE!!

It’s so amazing!! We live in a world that was created in seven days, a world where seas part and millions traveled across on dry ground, a world where one man is able to kill a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, a world where a teenager kills a giant with a slingshot and a stone.

But, the most awesome and miraculous story ever told, is the one about a king who rules this universe we live in. Who reincarnates His Son into a woman’s body. The kings son is then born in a manger where cattle are fed.

He also lives a sinless life for 33 years and doing this time He performs many miracles as He proclaims the good news of the gospel to His ancestry, the Jews, who then kills Him by Crucifixion on a hill called Calvary and then after three days He raises Himself from the grave.

In addition, He does all of this so that mankind will receive Salvation, if we believe this awe inspiring story, and if we believe, one day soon we will go to live with him in a faraway place in the sky called heaven.

A Place “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man or woman, the things prepared for us” a place where sin will no longer exist. My friends, I just repeated to you, the good news of the gospel, but it is not for the saved Christian.

We are beneficiaries of it, my friends, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to tell this story to a generation lost in sin, an adulterous, lying, stealing, gossiping, murdereous, covertness, greedy generation.

Yes my friends, this mission should you choose to accept it requires us to tell the world a story about a half man, half God that saves anyone if they give him their all, from the penalty of sin and death.

Matthew 12:39 (KJV) tells us “an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. But my friends it is not our responsibility to reform, restore, or convict, that is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit. It is only our responsibility to serve Christ wherever He sends as we let our lights so shine that others may see Christ in us as we spread the good news of Christ soon return.

History tells us millions of martyrs died for the gospel of Christ that some are ashamed to proclaim. And most of them were not some skilled competent, proficient orator.

But the good news of the gospel was mostly proclaimed by the common, humble man or woman like you and I who experienced the transforming power of the holy Spirit in their lives and just wanted to proclaim this good news of what Christ had done, and was doing for them.

Oh what a wonderful message to proclaim to our friends, family, love one’s, neighbor, co-workers and the world as we tell how our loving Savior lifted us up, and brought each of us to Safety in His loving, caring and merciful arms.

Friends, if you are willing to give it all too the Master the Bible will speak for itself through Gods Spirit. But your mission should you choose to accept it is to just follow Christ lead and never be ashamed of the gospel that sent Him to Calvary.

Romans 5:5 (KJV) tells us “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 10:11 (KJV) also tells us “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

So today, if you love the Lord with all your Heart and soul, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to serve Him every day of your life, as you tell the world of His love, mercy and grace and what He has done for you.

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