“WHILE WE WALK THE PILGRAM PATHWAY”

Feb. 22, 2014

“WHILE WE WALK THE PILGRAM PATHWAY”

“When we all get to Heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be When we all see Jesus We’ll sing and shout the victory. WHILE WE WALK THE PILGRAM PATHWAY Clouds will over spread the sky… Onward to the prize before us, Soon His beauty we’ll behold, Soon the Pearly Gates will open and we shall tread the streets of gold.”

lostsheepSometimes my friends “when I get weary and my burdens get me down, and I just can’t see my way. He gives me PEACE wonderful Peace down from the father.” Yes my friends He is THE JOY OF MY LIFE. He also allows me to look back when life was simple.

He allows me to remember the innocent days being a youth when most of us had our parents to help the Good Shepherd guard His sheep along the way. And then one day we become grown and wandered away from the flock.

But the Mercies, Grace, and the love of God. How far did His hand reach to bring us back into His fold. So that is why my PASSION to SERVE will continues until “WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, AND OH WHAT A DAY OF REJOICING THAT WILL BE.”

This journey God has placed His Children own will finally be over, and soon WE WILL WALK THE PILGRAM PATHWAY. Webster tells us a PILGRAM is a; TRAVELER OR WANDERER, ESPECIALLY IN A FOREIGN PLACE, one who has journeyed, some distance, and for most of us it has been a VERY LONG JOURNEY.

Oh the trials and tribulation that we have encountered along the way. But God’s Spirit continues to Guide us that is why as His children we “fear no evil: for God will always be with us;” “And my friends soon, His beauty we’ll behold, soon the Pearly Gates will open and soon we shall tread the streets of gold.” And we can finally sit down and REST.

And then we will realize never again will we have to rush, for we HAVE AN ETERNITY TO GET THERE. My friends we will This_Side_of_Heaven_Background_by_mysticmorningalso no longer be a PILGRAM in a foreign land for we will FINALLY BE HOME where we BELONG.

“And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of God and of Christ. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character.

As Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the ransomed thrill with more fervent devotion, and with more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of gold; and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of voices unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise.

“And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!” Revelation 5:13 (E.G. White) My friends I can’t stop talking about the PASSION we will have to have to make heaven our home a reality.

IMG_1255Peter tells us “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as STRANGER AND PILGRIMS…..” 1 Peter 2:9-11 (KJV)

IN A FOREIGN PLACE FRIENDS we now wait. But as Christians we must still make our stay here relevant even though we “desire a better country” We still have a lot of work to do for the Master. That is why the Cross must for every be before us as we continue to carry it while spreading the good news of the gospel, and SERVE.

That my FRIENDS is our only duty IN THIS FOREIGN LAND THAT WE ARE PIRGRIMS IN, AND THAT IS TO SERVE as Christ served “….But whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” Matt. 20:26 (ESV)

 

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

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PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, SEVEN TIMES, COMPLETE!!!!

Eeb. 21, 2014

PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, PASSION, SEVEN TIMES, COMPLETE!!!!

Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” “Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, FOLLOW Me.” Matt. 19:16, 19:21 (NKJV)  My friends THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS THE MINIMUM STANDARD OF OBEDIENCE.

romans-12TRANSFORMATION, GIVE IT ALL TO THE MASTER, take up your CROSS AND FOLLOW CHRIST. My friends “Spiritual deficiencies, cannot be overlooked nor minimized for the mission of Jesus is sacred. Compromise cannot be tolerated every selfish indulgence must be surrendered.

How many have come to Christ, ready to cast their interests in with his, and, like the rich young ruler, earnestly desiring to inherit eternal life! But when the cost is presented to them-when they are told that they must forsake all, houses and lands, wife and children, and count not their lives dear unto themselves-they go away sorrowful.

They want the treasures of heaven, and the life that measures with the life of God, but they are not willing to give up their earthly treasures. They are not willing to surrender all to obtain the crown of life.” (E. G. White)

My friends if it was only about God’s Precepts the TEN COMMANDMENTS, The GATE to God’s kingdom would become imagesVERY WIDE and the road very BROAD, and  many would be able to enter THROUGH. BUT, TRANSFORMATION, GIVE IT ALL TO THE MASTER, take up your CROSS AND FOLLOW CHRIST, there can be no compromise.

So there must be a PASSION that inspires you through God’s Spirit that gives you “confidence that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ“ Phil. 1:6 (NKJV)

So friends there is only one way and that is you must travel the narrow road for “Wide is the gate and BROAD is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But SMALL is the GATE and NARROW the ROAD THAT LEADS TO LIFE, and ONLY A FEW find it. Matt. 7:13-14 (NKJV)

My friends if your PASSION to serve Christ is not rooted, and grounded in the word of God and His Spirit. Your Faith will be like “A sower who went out to sow his seed, the seed being the word of God. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.” Luke 8:5-14 (ESV)

תשוקה, Leidenschaft, կիրք, vášeň, ვნება, silakbo, ng damdamin, פוליטיקה, 열정, 情熱, страсть, ความชอบ, לייַדנשאַפט, tutku, pasja,  شور,  ghairah,  לייַדנשאַפט, Ï€Î¬Î¸Î¿Ï‚ passion,  paixón, intohimo, silakbo ng damdamin. PASSION, it means the same in all languages.

scriptures_id10736432_size0[1]I attempted to use the word PASSION in as many languages as I could find with the HOPE, and PRAYER, that you will somehow center your Focus on where you are going to have to be MENTALLY in order, to ENDURE what lies in front of a child of God whose DETERMINATION it is to finish  this JOURNEY God has placed us on to the promise land.

Because without PASSION, you have no WILL, no DESIRE, no HOPE, and without that, you can never picture TRANSFORMATION, GIVE IT ALL TO THE MASTER, and take up your CROSS AND FOLLOW CHRIST, or SALVATION, or RIGHTEOUS by FAITH, or HOPE, or SANCTIFICATION, or JUSTIFICATION, or REDEEMED by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB and most of all ETERNAL LIFE.

Yes my friends those words will never seem like a reachable goal without the PASSION to achieve them, they will always remain only words with no meaning. Mycarrying-the-cross friends everyone will have their own ending to this controversy between GOOD and EVIL one day, but through God’s GRACE, MERCY and LOVE you are allowed to write your own.

But it must be written in your heart, and WITH PASSION, and MEANING before you will hear the words that Christ will say with PASSION “WELL DONE, good and faithful servant! 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. 25:21(NIV)

 

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

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“FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE AS I FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST” 1Cor. 11:1(NIV)

Feb. 20, 2014

“FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE AS I FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST” 1Cor. 11:1(NIV)

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to LIVE IS CHRIST and to DIE IS GAIN. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; Philippians 1:20-23 (NIV)

carrying-the-crossMy friends I can truly say Paul is the ultimate example of someone who Satan had somehow created a path into their life. But by God’s GRACE, LOVE and MERCY through the power of His Spirit had been transformed into the likeness and character of Christ.

And once that happen Paul’s life was completely saturated with one thought, and that was for each of us to “FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE AS HE FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.”1Cor. 11:1(NIV)  And from that point on he had only one PASSION; to SERVE GOD, CARRY HIS CROSS, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL.

His life exemplified the POWER OF LOVE that could only come from CHRIST. Oh the PASSION of PAUL, what we all as Children of God should strive for as we try to understand the PASSION OF CHRIST.

The DAMASCUS ROAD EXPERIENCE  the experience of  TRANSFORMATION through Christ, and His Spirit was the imagesMission Statement that Paul exemplified to the world “FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE AS I FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.”

“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor. 5:20-21 (NIV)

My friends oh what FAITH in what God had done in his life, and had continued to do each day. He was “CONFIDENT that He who began a good work in him would carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil. 1:6 (NIV) So His life was forever centered on Christ, and Christ desire for him.

My friends the question you must ask, deep within is when do I, as God’s CHOSEN, become so close in MY walk with God, that I can look at MY friends, family, love-one’s, co-workers, neighbors and anyone who will listen and say “FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE AS I FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.”

imagesPaul also tells us that “TO DIE IS GAIN”, he knew death meant the next face He would see would be Christ, and then his reward, the Eternal Kingdom, but he also knew that there was still work to be done for Christ here on earth so his only alternative was to make sure self-died Daily

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal 2:20 (NIV) My friends we have to make some life changing decisions now if our desire is to make heaven our home.

Because the closer we get to Christ second coming, the harder it will be to make those decisions which is to give it all to the Master. Satan knows His days are numbered. Soon we will face trials of many kinds like we have never seen before. My friends are you PREPARED, is your FAITH “STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE always ABOUNDING in the LORD.”

Because you know that the testing of your faith produces PERSEVERANCE. So let PERSEVERANCE finish its work so thatimgres you may be mature and complete, not LACKING ANYTHING.” James 1:3-4 (NIV)

Once again MY FRIENDS “When you reach that FINAL SUNSET and you look into HIS EYES, will the tears you shed be tears of joy or would they be your last goodbye.” It will be a tragedy to get to that day that you waited for all your life, and realize that all you had accumulated and accomplished on this earth “COULD NOT COMPARE TO ETERNAL LIFE” THAT YOU HAVE NOW LOST.

 

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

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OUR FAITH, AND THE GRACE, AND MERCY OF GOD, AS WE FINISH THIS RACE!!!

Feb 19, 2014

OUR FAITH, AND THE GRACE, AND MERCY OF GOD, AS WE FINISH THIS RACE!!!

“Knowing that the testing of your FAITH produces PATIENCE. But let PATIENCE have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, LACKING NOTHING. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all LIBERALLY and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in FAITH……” James 1:3-6 (NKJV)

imagesMy friends Today let’s FOCUS on our FAITH, and the GRACE, and MERCY of God who gave His only Begotten Son for our Salvation, and a Son who laid down His life for our transgressions. First let’s go to 1 Peter 2:21-25 (NKJV)

“For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, LEAVING YOU AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS, who committed no sin…He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were CONTINUALLY STRAYING LIKE SHEEP, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.”

My friends COUNTDOWN started at CALVARY and I think after 2,000 years it is safe to say it’s been a MARATHON. But if your sight is constantly on the prize even though you were CONTINUALLY STRAYING LIKE SHEEP off the course.

Satan has made this race absolutely grueling, as we now approach the final lap, Athlete Running Through Finish Lineand if you are a Child of God you should be visualizing in HOPE of  finishing soon, and receiving your reward.

And not to the first place finisher or to the one who ran the fastest, but to whoever ENDURES through FAITH with the WEIGHT of only the CROSS on their shoulders.

And of course to all who are moving with the same PASSION, and determination, with the guidance of the Spirit of God in this final lap as you did when you first started this race as you continue to spread the good news of Christ saving grace to friends, family, love one’s, co-workers, and a world that has lost sight of the SAVING GRACE AND MERCY of our savior.

imagesWhile never ceasing to ask the question; what else God? I’m still AVAILABLE. There is still more of me left, because there is still breath in my body. Friends VICTORY is hard, the course is narrow, few will finish, but if  through our Faith, and God’s Spirit HOLD ON to the promises in God’s Word. “GOD will never leave nor forsake us.”

Imagine the Storms of this life that has allowed, despair, heartache’s, pain, misery and death, will no longer exist in God’s kingdom. But today our FOCUS must be on the fact that TIME, GRACE, and the Mercies of God has taken its TOIL.

God has allowed your STORM, whatever it may be, to become a constant measure of your faith and righteousness as you wrestled against the principalities, and the rulers of the darkness of this world. Oh but my God promises are sure and complete “…not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.. 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

1 John 4:4 (ASV) tells us “Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is in you roadthan he that is in the world.” My friends In other words the Destiny that my God has set for His Children, as He transforms our character to be like His. Is greater than any storm that Satan may create in our life to discourage us from finishing this race, and entering God’s pure and holy kingdom.

Friends GOD will get us to the promise land if we only BELIEVE, as He allows His FAITHFUL to understand, and focus on the fact that He is the PERFECT STORM of our LIFE. Ps. 16:8-11(NKJV) tells us “I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will rest in hope. For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me the path of life; In Your PRESENCE is fullness of JOY; At Your right hand are PLEASURES FOREVERMORE.” OH MY FRIENDS THE GRACE AND MERCIES OF GOD.

 

 

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

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I HAVE A WISH LIST, AND WHAT I DESIRE MOST OF ALL FROM GOD IS?

Feb. 18, 2014

I HAVE A WISH LIST, AND WHAT I DESIRE MOST OF ALL FROM GOD IS?

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.” Ephesians 3:20 

Luke tells us in Luke 11:9-10…… “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

Luke-11.9-10But my friends we must also base those text on our PASSION to KNOW GOD AND TO GROW IN GOD SPIRITUALLY. God enters the soul of each child of His, through His Spirit. So if we listen very careful to what God’s Spirit is telling us once we have allowed him to transform our lives.

Then what we seek, and ask our Savior for will have nothing to do with what we may want as far as the things of this world is concerned.

Paul says in Phil. 3:8 (KJV) “and I count all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but DUNG, that I may win Christ.”

So what Paul is telling us is, what the god of this world has allowed us to place before our Savior who shed His blood on Calvary so that we may have ETERNAL LIFE, We can put in the same category as ANIMAL MANURE.

As we continue to seek Christ PRESENCE daily, John 15:7 tells us “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask fear_the_lord1whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”  But my friends our asking must be all about bringing Christ to the forefront of our life in that “ONCE WE WERE LOST but now WE ARE FOUND, Was blind, but now WE SEE.”

Ask my friends, and receive the blessings that God the Father ordained specifically for you since the foundation of our world. But James states it best in James 4:3 “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with WRONG MOTIVES, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”

So whatever you ask, you must make it all about GOD and GOD only. So today have faith in your asking, and start living a life saturated in overwhelming blessings that focuses on Gods needs and not yours. Each faithful follower of Christ “….who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God John 1:12

And as His CHILDREN “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto Matthew7_11your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matt. 7:11

But As we move around in this sinful world and we become more attached to earthly things, that connection to Christ weakens, and is sometimes broken. That is why our focus must be forever on Christ, His word, and Him Crucified.

So each day remind yourself that Salvation IF ACCEPTED, is a GIFT if we CHOOSE. And along with that free gift is God’s blessings. Some large, some small, or sometimes it may just be a deepening knowledge of yourself and learning that you are stronger than you thought because you gave it all to the Master.

Or it could be that through your blessings, God is teaching you grace in a way you never expected. My friends each day god-over-everythingyou wake up you must realize the price paid for your salvation. And your heartfelt gratitude will be to serve Him each day of your life as you give Him all the glory and honor.

And now, let your prayers always be “LORD I’M AVAILABLE TO YOU.” So my friends today as GOD’S CHOSEN GENERATION let’s make SERVING CHRIST and taking the good news of the Gospel to our friends, family, love one’s, co-workers neighbors, and a world who seeks hope among the turmoil of our world, our number one priority.

And my friends if we allow that to happen God will “throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” and of course the ultimate BLESSING, ETERNAL LIFE.

 

 

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

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GOD UNDERSTANDS, HE KNOWS MY HEART, I AM TRYING.

Feb. 17, 2014

GOD UNDERSTANDS, HE KNOWS MY HEART, I AM TRYING.

“And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. Ex 7:10-12

imgres“SO AARON’S ROD, SWALLOWED UP THE MAGICIANS ROD’S. And if I read that right, it tells me God REIGNS. My friends as we move closer to Christ second coming. We continue to CLING to those sins that “so easily BESETS us.” As we continue to tell ourselves, WELL GOD UNDERSTANDS, HE KNOWS MY HEART, I AM TRYING.

So friends what you are saying is, Satan has the greater power over what we have through Christ. Well one of God’s promises to us says “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith.” 1 John 5:4

My friends this is where I need you to focus today, and that is Satan only has power over us if we give him that power. “For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and it became lice on man and beast….” Now the magicians so worked with their enchantments to bring forth lice, BUT THEY COULD NOT.

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “THIS IS THE FINGER OF GOD” But Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them.” Ex. 8:18-19 So Pharaoh’s magicians recognized the PRESENCE OF God but Pharaoh couldn’t, or it seems he just refused to.

So this tells me as Children of God we are also brought into the PRESENCE of God each day, but we must seek with a imagesDESIRED PASSION to recognize Him, and then through God’s Spirit and our FAITH we then will turn off that TV and study God’s WORD, and of course all of our “SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE SINS” “which doth so easily beset us.” we will give to the Master and then “He will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea..” Micah 7:19

My friends as we die daily and give it all to the Master and “run with patience the race that is set before us”  we will then have self-control over all sins as we allow God’s Spirit to take full Control “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” Prov. 25:28

But No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.1 Cor. 10:13

dreamstime_4732909My friends, God is preparing His Faithful “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Eph. 2:10 I especially like what Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 9:17 “But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should BE DISQUALIFIED.”

My Friends We are God’s chosen generation, He has selected us to finish His work here on earth as we spread the good news of the gospel. That is what God requires of us as we enter the threshold of the promise land. SO LET’S NOT DISQUALIFY OURSELVES from doing God’s will because we cannot overcome.

The things God does NOT UNDERSTAND is why we are not finishing up his mandate that He has laid out before us. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW CREATIONS; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Cor. 5:17

 

My friends nothing in that verse tells me God gives us permission to sin because HE UNDERSTANDS. But what it does tell us, If anyone is in Christ HE IS A NEW CREATION so our Faith must tell me “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” SAYS THE LORD. Is. 54:17 but my friends you must STAY FOCUSED, remain FAITHFUL, and ENDURE till the end.

 

 

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

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“I’M GONNA PUT ON MY ROBE, AND TELL THE STORY, HOW I MADE IT OVER, SOON AS I GET HOME”

Feb. 16, 2014

“I’M GONNA PUT ON MY ROBE, AND TELL THE STORY, HOW I MADE IT OVER, SOON AS I GET HOME”

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. Rev.7:9

urlMy friends the HOME we seek, at this particular time in our lives, God’s chosen can only dream about for “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor. 2:9

But today, I need you to feel the same PASSION, and EXCITEMENT that keeps me FOCUSED, because IT WON’T BE LONG MY FRIENDS BEFORE WE PUT ON OUR ROBES, AND TELL THE STORY OF HOW WE MADE IT OVER.”

And every day it gets that much closer to it becoming a reality, and the Children of God, seeing THE CLOUDS OPEN UP, ANDblessed-hope-jesus-return-4_n1 THE ONE who gave it all so that we may live throughout the ceaseless ages of ETERNITY, coming to TAKE US HOME.

For His promise TO HIS FAITHFUL is sure “We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thess. 4:15-17

ALWAYS my friends meaning INFINITE, FOREVER, WITH NO ENDING. After I see the face of my Savior, as I sit at the BANQUET TABLE of the redeemed “I then lift my hands in total admiration” as I PROCLAIM my personal JOURNEY OF HOW I MADE IT OVER.

darksky197wordsAnd  as I FOCUS it won’t be hard for me to remember. “IT WAS ALWAYS DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN” but now I will forever see the light of the SON, for the VISION of hope in His Word sustained me along with my FAITH and GOD’S SPIRIT, because there were times in my life that became blurred by the god of this world who would captivate my attention.

But no greater love then my God for his promises kept reminding me “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU. Isaiah 42:16

So many times I turned my back on God as I would move away from His PRESENCE, but GOD’S LOVE ABOUND over everything and here I am. I sit among the redeemed at the banquet in each of our honor. His promises were true. His word was sure.

Now eternity awaits and at that moment “I will lift my hands in total adoration once again, for I just can’t stop praising HIS NAME, because I always knew my “REDEEMER LIVETH.” because He would “never put more on me then I could bear.” He was always my “SHELTER THROUGH the STORM.” “He would always lead me in the paths of righteousness, For His name’s sake.”

“Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God. In the Bible the inheritance of the saved is called a country. Hebrews 11:14-16. There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living waters.

Just-Passing-ThroughGod’s people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home. My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. There is the New Jerusalem, the metropolis of the glorified new earth, a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of our God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.” (E.G. White)

soon my friends WE WILL BE HOME, SOON AND THROUGHOUT ETERNITY WE CAN PRAISE GOD’S NAME, AND AS WE LOOK AT THE SCARES IN HIS HAND, WE WILL ALWAYS BE REMINDED OF “HOW WE MADE IT OVER.”

 

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

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I AM TRANSFORMED, AND CONSUMED BY HIS SPIRIT, AND WORD

Feb. 15, 2014

I AM TRANSFORMED, AND CONSUMED BY HIS SPIRIT, AND WORD

sf_outpouring_01My friends “What the disciples did not accomplish spiritually in 3-1/2 years with Christ. It happen through His Spirit in one day at Pentecost” “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.” John 16:7

In His humanity Christ had planted the seed “All by itself the soil produces grain first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.” Mark 4:28-29

As we allow the transforming power of God’s spirit to take control, it is when we are in His PRESENCE  that the Sanctification process begins to produce Disciples for Christ. And as soon as we are ripe, Christ Love and grace mobilizes His FAITHFUL because the harvest has come, we are NOW READY to SERVE.

For you have “…..put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the SPIRIT of your minds, and to put on the NEW SELF, created after the LIKENESS of God in true RIGHTEOUSNESS and HOLINESS.” Eph. 4:20-24

My friends have you allowed God’s Spirit to Start the renewal process in your life, if not, why do you wait. God is looking prayer-pic-11for faithful workers today. As a Child of God we have the ability of discernment, so there should be no doubt in our minds that we’re living in the prophetic days of “Daniel and the Revelations”

There are millions headed towards PERDITION who have no clue of the times and season we are living in. “So we’re faced with a challenge and a profound, multi-faceted responsibility: to acknowledge the significance of our times, to awaken others to this reality, to rightly discern true from false prophecy, and to know what to do about the things we rightly discern.”

My friends what a great Responsibility as God’s chosen generation the Good Shepherd has given us. In Luke 24:32 when the two Disciples of Christ on the road to Emmaus, realizing it was Christ they had spoken too. Said to one another

“DID NOT OUR HEART BURN WITHIN US WHILE HE TALKED WITH US ON THE ROAD, AND WHILE HE OPENED THE SCRIPTURES TO US?” That word Burn, meaning to be set, or CONSUMED on FIRE. “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being TRANSFORMED into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Cor. 3:18

6213314_sThis is the PASSION Christ asked of his Children, first to be TRANSFORMED and then CONSUMED with a BURNING PASSION and once this occurs everyone we talk to, or witness to, will also feel an exhilarating BURN from within their hearts, a Spiritual reaction that will move like an out of control wildfire, with the fire being the Spirit of the living God.

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 But my friends God’s mandate requires a lot of STUDY and heartfelt PRAYERS and supplications as we digest the scriptures daily.

Jeremiah tells us in Jeremiah 15:16 “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY”. Also Romans 10:17 tells us so then “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

So this TRANSFORMATION and all CONSUMING fire of the Holy Spirit all starts with the Word of God. My friends we haveimgres a lot of work to do, so PLEASE don’t allow the things of this world to hinder you any longer. Where I need you to focus your attention, are the following words that I end my devotion with today.

“When you reach that FINAL SUNSET and you look into HIS EYES, will the tears you shed be tears of joy or would they be your last goodbye.” My friends it will be a tragedy to get to that day that you waited for all your life, and realize that all you had accumulated and accomplished on this earth “COULD NOT COMPARE TO ETERNAL LIFE” THAT YOU HAVE NOW LOST.

 

 

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

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YOU ARE “WITHIN REACH” SO WHAT DO YOU OWE THE god OF THIS WORLD, WHO ONLY OFFERS PERDITION?

Feb. 14, 2014

YOU ARE “WITHIN REACH” SO WHAT DO YOU OWE THE god OF THIS WORLD, WHO ONLY OFFERS PERDITION?

Feb. 14, 2014

“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. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.” 1 John 2:15-16

tumblr_lf6btymqnG1qfg3voo1_400“And now the Lord of glory was dying, a ransom for the race. In yielding up His precious life, Christ was not upheld by triumphant joy. All was oppressive gloom. It was not the dread of death that weighed upon Him.

It was not the pain and ignominy of the cross that caused His inexpressible agony. Christ was the prince of sufferers; but His suffering was from a sense of the malignity of sin, a knowledge that through familiarity with evil, man had become blinded to its enormity.

Christ saw how deep is the hold of sin upon the human heart, how few would be willing to break from its power. He knew that without help from God, humanity must perish, and He saw multitudes perishing WITHIN REACH of abundant help.”(E. G. White)

My friends, WE ARE “WITHIN REACH”. So now “I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate ( ME, MY FRIENDS, AND I WILL TELL EVERYONE THAT WILL LISTEN ) from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”. (Romans 8:38)

My friends Satan never realized what lengths Christ would go through to demonstrate so passionately his burning belief in34938_1370818272903_1305143972_30826738_6037334_n his own ability and love for us, for “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:7-8)

And it was all done my friends so that we could have LIFE ETERNAL. So if Christ was so willing to fight this battle on our behalf, what should our responsibility today be to show our love for Him? And how do we repay the one who did it all for us.

Maybe we can show our gratitude by our WORKS, but salvation is free. “While the one who lives by faith is not saved by his works, his works show that he lives by faith. His faith is revealed in his works, and thus he is promised life eternal.”

Gods work here on earth can only be finished by dedicated Christians who are willing to give it all for the Master. We don’t have any time to squander it away on what this world has to offer because what this world has to offer will surely pass away but Salvation is Eternal.

ETERNAL MY FRIENDS, I now need you to close your eyes and take your imagination as far into the future as it possible can, and THEN GO BEYOND THAT, and you still will never reach ETERNITY. So why do you hesitate today to give it all to the Master.

sunWHAT DO YOU OWE THE god OF THIS WORLD that you would give up ETERNITY for. WHAT DOES HE OFFER YOU EXCEPT PERDITION? When Christ died so that you may have LIFE ETERNAL.

“The thief cometh not, but for to STEAL, and to KILL, and to DESTROY: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more ABUNDANTLY.” John 10:10 LIFE, DEATH it’s a no BRAINER my friends. A NO BRAINER.

I continue to ask “If angels could pull back the curtain” and you could see that we20120122-161855 are right on the threshold of Christ second coming, with wars and rumors of wars. Nation rising against nation, and kingdoms against kingdoms, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

False prophets have begun to rise up and deceive many. Lawlessness abounds throughout the world, as the love of many have begun to grow cold.” Matt. 24 So friends “If your PASSION IS SALVATION, AND LIFE ETERNAL, then “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” So now ask yourself I AM WITHIN REACH SO WHAT DO I OWE THE  god OF THIS WORLD, WHO ONLY OFFERS PREDICTION?

 

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

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PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES, AND MORE PROMISES!!!

Feb. 13, 2014

PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES, AND MORE PROMISES!!!

imgres“Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, to your descendants I will give this land.”  Genesis 12:7 “For all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.………”Genesis 13:15-16 “To your descendants I have given this land….” Genesis 15:18  ”

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant………” Genesis 17:7-9

“Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre,….And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son…..Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing……

And Sarah laughed within herself…… Then The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ IS ANYTHING TO HARD FOR THE LORD? Gen 18:1-14

Finally after 25 years when the Lord first appeared to Abraham to tell him of His PROMISE about the good news OF THE GOSPEL IN HIS GENERATION. I have a feeling a lot of us would have laughed as Sarah. It had been years since God had first appeared to Abraham establishing a covenant that would lead to the birth of  the PROMISED Savior.

Finally IT’S TIME, but way beyond the years of childbearing for a women. IS THIS POSSIBLE. My friends God’s Word says it is, SO I BELIEVE IT. like every PROMISE in God’s Word that His Spirit reveals to us. FAITH, PATIENCE, ENDURANCE are the main ingredients needed for any of God’s children in all situations and circumstances in our lives to finish this journey God has put us on.

MY FRIENDS IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? No not if we imagesfollow the example of Abraham, and stand on GOD’S WORD and Spirit, and remain FAITHFUL. Every PROMISE will be fulfilled but on GOD’S TIME, not ours.

And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. Gen 21:1-2 “my friends “do not forget this one thing.

“That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promises” As we look at our world today the first thing that should be on our agenda is to SHOW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO THROUGH HIS GRACE AND MERCY SAVED HIS CHILDREN FROM THE ROAD TO PERDITION THAT each of us were on.

Remember you are a “Chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; God hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; because of that there is a covenant between God and His Chosen. Our life must be all about Him.

imagesPaul tells us in Colossians 3:2 – Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” When we as Christians remain Focused, that is when we surrender our all to the Master. And once that happens it all becomes about trusting and having faith in God, and His Spirit who has done it all for our Salvation.

Yes my friends totally surrendering, if we are to make heaven our home. Because nothing else matters as a Christians, all other pathways only lead to resentment, defeat and in the end destruction.

My friends the good news of the gospel is for all the world who seeks hope where there is none. And it is also for his children, because it is a reminder of his promise of Salvation, and eternal life if we believe. It has been 2000 years since the defeat of Satan at Calvary when Christ said IT IS FINISHED.

We are now on the threshold of Christ return, and the reward He brings with Him for the redeemed. “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And for His Chosen “He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.” Romans 2:6-8

 

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

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