Aug, 8, 2014

MY FRIENDS, ASKING GOD”S SPIRIT TO CONTINUALLY AND ABUNDANTLY TO BE BESTOWED?

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:13 (NIV)

We ask ourselves, when will this GREAT ABUNDANCE of God’s grace and Spirit be bestowed upon us. Why is God holding back, my heart is ready to receive what He has to give. Or are we? what are we actually asking for When we say we are seeking the Spirit of God and His power?

So today let’s focus on, what we are asking. Remember “the work that God has begun in the human heart in giving His light and knowledge must be CONTINUALLY moving forward”. Lets take Daniel for instance who went into captivity as a teenager.

In addition, from the beginning he CONTINUALLY “let [his] light so shine before men, so that they would see his good works and in so doing they would recognize this light and Glorify God also.” Matt. 5:16 (PSV) So he and his three companions would not eat of the kings meats and wines and it paid off eternally.

He is now an old man in his nineties still serving God “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.” Job 13:15 (NKJV) kingdoms and rulers has changed but Daniel knows His God is changeless.

Daniel is now a president under the new rulership of the Medes. for “It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first:” Daniel 6:1-2 (KJV)

But of course the god of this world still did not understand Daniels faith and endurance and his dedication to Jehovah after more than 70 years, no he did not understand that Daniel was still crucified with Christ and [he] no longer lived, but Christ lived in [him].

[In addition], The life [he had been living from his youth he still] lived…..by faith in the Son of God, who [he knew] loved him and gave himself for [him] Gal 2:20 (PSV) So Satan and the forces of evil devised a plan to get Daniel to recant on the God he served or die and then God’s dedicated worker “for such a time as this” would go down in defeat.

Will Satan ever learn when it comes to God’s faithful? Oh that we had such faith. Verse 7 tells us “All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.”

Now let’s see how God’s faithful handles man’s mandate. Verse 9 and 10 tells us “Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, [he did not hide his faith under a bushel but] he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he knelled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed [CONTINUALLY], and gave thanks before his God, as he [had always done]”

My friends such faith and endurance, THAT IS HOW YOU GET GOD”S SPIRIT ABUNDANTLY BESTOWED UPON YOU, but where I need you to focus today, Daniel’s faith never wavers and he is thrown into the lions den and spends a night in the company of some hungry lions.

Verse 20 thru 22 tells us “and when [the king] came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou SERVEST CONTINUALLY, able to deliver thee from the lions?

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me…” My friends our Savior will soon be here. The question we all must ask ourselves is, will I personally be a leading vessel for Christ CONTINUALLY SERVING HIM during this time while GOD HIMSELF CONTINUALLY AND ABUNDANTLY BESTOWS UPON US HIS SPIRIT.

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

MY FRIENDS, “HE WILL REPAY ACCORDING TO OUR DEEDS!!!”

My friends the weekend is about to come to a close, after today our high filled church experience on Saturday, or Sunday, will now end. Such a Spirit filled weekend!! So now we feel comfortable enough to remove some of our armor, which of course will then leave us completely vulnerable to Satan.

Or, to use Jesus analogy from Luke 11, we cleaned our house for the weekend, but have not taken the time to fill it with the character of God no farther then our weekend’s spiritual high, so that tells me life as a part time Christian is complicated because during the week “we, never seem too let our light so shine before men, [and women] that they may see our good works, as we glorify our Father which is in heaven.” Matt 5:1`6 (KJV) So the question we must now ask our self, do we represent Christ in every situation and circumstances of our life?

Also are our lives centered around Christ 24/7? In addition, is there limits in what we will do for Christ? If you have answered no too the first two questions, and yes to the last, then this journey Christ has placed us on has become problematic, because “if any man [or woman] be in Christ, he, or she [must be] a new creature [in every situation of their life and living for Christ only becomes one’s aim and motto for] old things are passed away”

As a Christian the battle rages daily so self must die daily, Paul tells us every time we try to do good, evil is always present! No matter what we want to do for the Lord, especially in spreading the good news of the gospel, for Satan will always present an alternative plan.

But thanks to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, if we are sincere, His word and Spirit will be securely anchored in our life and lifestyle. My friends again, the road to the Kingdom is a narrow road, that few will succeed in finding the way if Christ is not the foundation and focal point of  our lives.

So today we must stay focused, and endure, For Christ is coming soon, and He will bring His reward with HIM TO REPAY EACH OF US ACCORDING TO OUR DEEDS, that we have accumulated on our journey in helping Christ finish up what is left to be done here on earth.

Also our faith can never cease to be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord our labor is not in vain.” 1 Cor. 15:58 (NKJV) FOR WE MUST ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE TO DO GOD”S WILL, because once you tell the Master that you ARE AVAILABLE TO HIM, Then it is at that moment you have decided to…..“lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares you, (so that you may) run with endurance the race that is set before you. Heb 12:1(NKJV)

Running with ankle weights is “detrimental to everything that allows perfect movement in one’s hip, thigh and ankle ligaments.” Also the same with the weight and the sin of this world that takes us down a path that is detrimental to our relationship with God, and doing His will Because serving Christ while at the same time carrying a cross on this treacherous journey we travel is what this journey is all about.

But the reward my friends, BEING PAID ACCORDING TO OUR DEEDS that is what we seek, that is what the plan of Salvation was all about. Christ a living example that lived among us and demonstrated that it can be done, Satan can be defeated.

In addition, “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” 1 Cor. 10:13 (NIV)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are yet he did not sin.” Hebrews 4:15 (NIV) And now He has been PAID ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS, He now sits at the right hand of our Father.

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

“MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!”

“O LORD, OUR LORD, HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME IN ALL THE EARTH! WHO HAST SET THY GLORY ABOVE THE HEAVENS”

“What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,” Psalm 8:4-6 (NKJV)

When Christ shall come, With shouts of acclamation And take His faithful Children home What joy shall fill my heart Then I shall bow, in humble adoration And there proclaim, “MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!”

My friends, today let’s make it personal, as we focus on what Jesus Christ means to us and believe with all of our heart, that Calvary was all about, just you and your salvation, as we come into His Presence.

In addition, let nothing penetrate our thoughts except the presence of God, as we tell our friend, our Savior, the love of our life “HOW GREAT THOU ART!” And it is at this moment that we don’t think of how far we are from Christ, but how close we are to him in spite of how hard this journey has gotten.

We no longer base our victories of this world on just the promises of God, but on the penetration of God’s Spirit that has each of us trembling at the awesomeness of a God who would love someone like us. And all I can say is “Thank you Father.”

Thank you, “despite awareness of my own sinfulness and humanity today, as I look at the Cross, [and recognize what it means to me] I’m just in awe of the fact that You see me just as perfectly righteous as Jesus, because though He knew no sin.

Consistent with this, He permitted Himself to be made sin on my behalf and to suffer the death that I deserve. Thank you Father” 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 2:9 (B. Liversidge) Philippians 2:9-11(NKJV) tells us “Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.

That at the name of Jesus [one day my friends]every knee shall bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

My friends, that text says one day all, even the god of this world and his forces, will have to bow to Christ but today, and forever more until I can see him face to face and here Him say “Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful… [now] Enter into the joy of your lord.” Matt. 25:21(NKJV)

Until that day, I will still bow and give him praises because of this Journey and what it took so that I like Christ, may conquer death. So my friends, every single day let all who seek His kingdom, consciously and unconsciously realize that we all walk through the “valley of the shadow of death.”

Simply because this is where the god of this world attempts to take us, under the submission of his forces and the sentence of death and the consequences that a decision to follow him entails. But my friends as we praise God and the plan that the Trinity has laid out for our Salvation, we can never “fear evil.”

“For the Lord our God, He is the One who goes with [His children and]. He will not leave [us] nor forsake [us].” Deu. 31:6 (NKJV) “MY GOD, HOW GREAT THOU ART!” But as we get up off our knees still in awe of HOW GREAT GOD IS, we still must realized that after the rest and comfort we have experience in the loving arms of our Savior, that we still have a way to go on this journey.

But first we must move out of our comfort zone and then we will begin to see the world as it is, not as Satan wants us to see it. So continue to praise God day and night as you allow your faith to guide, as you endure while knowing OUR GOD IS GREAT AND HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER.

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

Sep. 5, 2014

MY FRIENDS, IS IT TOO MUCH, TOO ASK FOR MORE TERRITORY?

“Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.” Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and ENLARGE MY TERRITORY! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.” 1 Chr. 4:9-10

As we study God’s word very little is known of Jabez. We do know that he is a descendant of Judah, he was more honorable then his brothers, sort of like David “a man after God’s own heart who God chose over his other seven brothers and made Him king over Israel. We also know his mother named him “Jabez” (meaning “sorrowful” or “sorrow-maker”) because she had such a painful birth.

In Jabez prayer, he also cries out to God for protection and blessings sort of like Solomon David’s son who became king of Israel who ask God to “give him wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before God’s people,” instead of riches and fame. But where I need each of you to focus on today is the part of His prayer where he ask God to “ENLARGE HIS TERRITORY”

God’s Word is a road map for our salvation, this small insert in His word about one man’s prayer seems so insignificant, but every word of the “Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” that the man [or woman] of God may be complete.”

And as God’s children we must recognize that every word in God Word is preparing us for a righteous life that we will live with, throughout the ceaseless ages eternity. So today if our desire is for life eternal, then our mandate is to take the good news of the gospel “into all the world” and as we move closer to Christ second coming we must get out of our comfort zone and attack the enemy in his TERRITORY.

So today we must ask our self what are we doing to INCREASE OUR TERRITORY, and where will our spiritual compass take us each day as we allow God to lead. In addition, If we call our self  children of the most high, then we must recognize WHAT IS OUR TERRITORY, AND WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO GET THERE.

And where will God allow us to have the most influence through His name and Spirit here on earth. But self must first die as God plans our ETERNAL FUTURE, Because God’s perspective for each of us is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, as we bring Christ jurisdiction from heaven to our INCREASED TERRITORY far beyond our boundaries to a place where we can make extraordinary things happen for the one who gave it all for our salvation.

In addition, it will extend first through our home then it will extends to friends, family, love ones, co-workers, neighbors and then to a world that looks for hope where there is none. Proverbs 16:3 (KJV) tells us to “Commit thy works unto the LORD, as we pray and ask God to allow new doors of opportunity in our lives to open, and then, we will not ask God what is His plan for our life, but where do we go ONE TERRITORY AT A TIME .

My friends we must feel a passion for where God is leading  as we move from destination to destination spreading  the good news of the gospel. But God I now ask for more of you, more of what you are willing to give, MORE OF YOUR TERRITORY, and most of all more of your Spirit, for I recognize these are the last days for“ In the last days, you say, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 (KJV) “ÄND OUR TERRITORY WILL INCREASE”

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

MY FRIENDS “REJOICE ALWAYS,  PRAY WITHOUT CEASING, AND IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS”

“And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. THE EFFECTIVE, FERVENT PRAYER of a righteous man [or woman] avails much.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” James 5:15-18 (NKJV) EFFECTIVE, FERVENT PRAYER; those three words tell us that a Child of God must have a passion about what we are petitioning God for.

There must be a passion of hope that a family member or friend will be healed when we lay prostrate before the great physician and say Lord not my will but thou will be done. A passion of faith that your son or daughter will find the Lord one day as the tears runs down our cheeks and we say, oh the Great I Am, it was your promises, not the child psychiatrists that I believed when you said. “Train up a child in the way of the Lord and He will not depart,” Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

My God it was your promises, not the banker that I believed, if “I “Bring the whole tithe into [your] storehouse, that there [will] be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”Mal. 3:10 (KJV)

It was you God, not the pastor who I believed when you said “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chr.7:14 (KJV) My God it was you, not the marriage counselor that promised me “Love never gives up, never loses faith, it is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” 1 Corinthians 13:7

My friends, is God listening as you tell Him, my FERVENT PRAYERS are just not EFFECTIVE. But, as we each seek our partitions from God their must be a personal relationship and a passion of understanding in each situation and circumstances of our life, weather good or bad. In addition, we must still “REJOICE ALWAYS,  PRAY WITHOUT CEASING, [AND] IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS; FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS” James 5:16-16 (NKJV)

As you study the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation, and you cry out to the Rabbi All Scripture breathed out by you God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man [or woman]of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 2Tim 3:16-17(JKV)

My friends, that text tells us Our God is preparing [us] for something [we] cannot handle right now He’s making [us] ready [and competent] Just because He cares He’s providing [us] with what [we] need  To carry out the next matter in [our] life (Daryl Coley)

For “the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

As we look at the world today and the love of the world is growing cold” nothing can be about us anymore, we must cry out to God daily, please, give me the  passion as a vessel “ïn such a time as this,” as that passion gives each of us the will, and the desire, to spread the good news of the gospel to all as we cry out once again “Lord Jesus, come quickly, please come soon.” while magnifing His name.

In addition, all we do in God’s name, will bring glory and honor to our Saviors, as we pray, I know I was “bought with a price: So every day of my life I will glorify You in my body, and in my spirit, which are Yours” 1 Corinthians 6:20 (NKJV)

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

Sep. 3, 2014

MY FRIENDS, “SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD!!!

There is a story told of a gentleman, we will call Him Mr. BLESSEDLESS, whose trials and tribulations of this life seems to be more then he can bear. In addition, he is at the point of just given up, even to the point of believing that God does not really exist. He lays down one day falling asleep, he begins to dream that He is in heaven, instead of a world where he seems to have lost all hope in achieving anything.

As the pearly Gates are swung open he is now “in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was  like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne in appearance like an emerald. And before the throne, there is a sea of glass, like crystal.

As he witnesses the splendor and  beauty of it all, he walks the streets of gold in awe of the radiance, splendor and beauty of heaven as he watches the animals of all types, kids running and playing, others along the way are just as amazed and in awe at what no “eye has seen, [or] ear has heard, [and no] human mind could conceived” [all] the things God has prepared for those who loved him and [endured till the end] 1 Cor. 2:9 (NIV)

the angelic voices are ringing throughout Holy, holy, holy,Lord God Almighty, and then right before Mr. BLESSEDLESS eyes, Christ is standing, he knows it’s Christ because he has had that same feeling on earth whenever he would seek the presence of the Lord. Oh that special feeling the awe and admonition of it all. And then Christ speaks as God and also as one who understood humanity and had conquered through the cross.

May I show you all that has been prepared for the redeemed? Mr. Blessedless is speechless, then they walk along this long road of mansions and gardens, and then Mr. Blesseless sees a building like a warehouse in the middle of no where, he ask to see inside, Christ hesitates “you really don’t want to see what is in there Mr. blessedless. He thinks why would there be any secrets in heaven?

So he ask again, please let me see inside, finally Christ relents. As Christ opens the door Mr. Blessedless almost knocks Christ over to get inside. It turns out the enormous building is filled with row after row of shelves from top to bottom with white boxes tied in red ribbons, these boxes all have names in alphabetical order on them, Mr. Blessedless then ask, do I have one?

Yes you do, Christ tries to guide him back outside as He says “frankly if I were you, by then Mr. Blessedless dashes in search for the B’s, he finds his box, Christ catches up to him as he is ripping the ribbon as he opens his box, then in a moment of recognition he lets out a deep sigh like the one’s Christ has heard so many times before,

Because there in Mr. Blessedless box, is all the blessings that God wanted to give him while he was on earth, but he never asked in My name glory and honor. And then he awakes!! My friends “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matt 7:11 (NIV)

But “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” James 4:3 (NIV) When we seek God’s presence through His Spirit and ask for blessings it must become all about Him. Self is secondary. “BUT SEEK YOU FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matt. 6:33 (KJV)

So my friends “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. But it must be all about the one who gave His only begotten Son and a son who gave it all for our salvation

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

MY FRIENDS, THE CLOSEST WORDS THAT EXPLAINS IT; SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL, AND UNCONDITIONAL!!

My friends, our life has been laid out before God, He see’s every maze in our life that has no, exit or we just have not been able to find it, every valley, the rough terrains and torrential storms, the intersections we get to, only to end up making bad and unwise decisions in what direction to go. And then the question we must ask ourselves IS GOD STILL THERE AND IF HE IS WHY? Since the love of God is so infinite I as a human could never try to define that level of love and make you understand.

It has to be a feeling, that as humans, we feel after being in God’s presence. As a child growing up I look back over my on life and wonder why did’t my parents just shoot me, that would have eliminated years of grief from a son who embraced and feed off the love of the world and what I though it had to offer, but not the love of the one’s who gave it all to me and for me, my parents.

Parents who never gave up hope of seeing there son in the kingdom one day and did all they could to try and make that happen. Why did they never cease praying for a son who would not pray for himself. My friends There is no greater love, except God,  I know this, I experienced this, I felt it in their presence,  in their smiles and encouragements. I would see it on there faces when they knew I was trying to walk in the right direction.

As a Child of God those are the attributes we must use when we speak of the one who loves greater than my parents, for Paul tells us “hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:5-8 (ESV)

I now go to God’s word and let the one who gave it all for our salvation speak for Himself  “What father [or mother] among you, if his son [or daughter] asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Luke 11:11-14 (ESV)

Christ also tells us “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant[b] does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:12-15 (ESV)

I have now tried to explain God’s love towards us, in a limited capacity as I spoke of my parents, as I quoted the great bible scholar the Apostle Paul. I have also allowed the words of the one who defines that word that our finite minds cannot comprehend speak.

Now I ask that you seek your own definition of love through the presence of God because as long as our focus stays on the Journey Christ  “will never leave or forsake us“ ”for [He is] the light of the world, And whoever follows [Christ will never] walk in darkness,” My friends light has always been a symbol of the presence of God and his love for us so what I have been trying to explain you must feel by seeking and being in His Presence each day and like my parents only three words can explains this type of love SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL, AND UNCONDITIONAL.

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

Sep. 1 2014

MY FRIENDS, A TOTAL MAKEOVER; REVIVAL, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION!!!

“Come and quench this thirsting of my soul. Bread of Heaven, fill me up, and make me whole.” Yes my friends let your hunger and thirst be made whole,” because All roads to the kingdom and eternal life goes through God’s word and Spirit as the process of REVIVAL, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION takes place.

Key word is CHANGE, which can only occur in our life if we develop a passion like we have never had before, a passion that drives us all the way to Calvary as we take up the Cross and follow Christ wherever He leads. Oh what a challenge to be “crucified with Christ; because once this happens it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us; and the life which we now live in the flesh we live by faith in the THE BREAD OF LIFE who is the Son of God, who loves [each of us] and gave Himself for all who believes.

Christ also tells us in John 6:51 (KJV) I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”and through this life a REVIVAL, begins that leads to a complete RENOVATION AND RESTORATION from within.

Now my friends what will we give in return for a total makeover, remember we were on the auction block going to the highest bidder, until Christ paid the ultimate price to RESTORE us into His character. And now because of what Christ has done for each of us we should be willing to give Him our all. Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 15:10 (KJV) But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.

No, I worked harder than all of them yet not I, but the grace of God that was within me. yes my friends we must be willing to work harder than anyone else, we must challenge and push our self to serve God as we begin to make extraordinary things happen for the glory of God as we take the good news of the gospel to everyone.

For Christ tells us “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” John 6:32 (KJV)

My friends we were given life as God brought about a change that RESTORED us into His image and now we must  tell the world that God RENOVATES AND RESTORES as He allows a REVIVAL to take place in our life and through that REVIVAL we will begin to let our light so shine that all may see Christ within us and what He has done to prepare us for His kingdom.

So today, as we move through all of life’s challenges, and as the world views us, they must only see the BEAUTY and Character of Christ And if that is not the picture we portray to others,  then we must ask our self what must we do to bring about a CHANGE in our life so only the BEAUTY OF THE SON WILL SHINE through us.

Webster’s definition of Change is “something different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone:” And friends if  we seek the kingdom of God our character must exemplify who Christ is and what He means to us personally. Most of us seeks change but in most cases we are incapable to make it happen, because it would involved a “Spiritual transformation, or restructuring of our lives around the three R’S REVIVAL, RENOVATION AND RESTORATION.

So as we travel on this Journey to the promise land  we must admit not to ourselves but to God that a CHANGE must take place in our lives 2 Cor. 5:17 tells us Therefore, if anyone is IN CHRIST, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

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

Aug. 31, 2014

MY FRIENDS, HOW MUCH TIME IS NEEDED TO PERSUADE A CHILD OF GOD?

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do believe.”Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”And Paul said, “I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today Acts 26:27 (NKJV) My friends it is The Spirit of God who convicts each of us to make changes in our life, but Agrippa was not willing or just not able to because the god of this world had convince him, I am all you will ever need.

But one day Agrippa will have to face God and explain his actions, because one day “God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, either good, or evil.”Ecc. 12:14 (ESV) My friends very few truly comprehend all that Christ is doing and continues to do for our salvation, if  we would just have faith and stay focused on the transforming power of our Savior and not what this world has to offer.

“One among the two who were crucified with Jesus was hurling abuses at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!” But the other answered while rebuking him, said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”

And he then asked, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!” And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:39-43 (NASV) both thieves are in the PRESENCEof Christ but only one recognizes and believed Christ as being the savior of the world.

A moment that is all it took for one thief to believe and repent from within and He received the ultimate reward eternal life, another like Agrippa, “You almost persuadeth me” and he will also get his just reward one day, perdition. Salvation is seldom a deathbed experience or like the thief on the cross, in a moment, for most children of the King we have to continue to endure the trials of this life while allowing God’s Spirit to transform us.

But whatever way God chooses for our destiny, He desires all men”[and women] to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Tim 2:4 (NKJV) the parable of the wheat and tares in Matt 13 24:30 (KJV) tells us they both look the same like the too thieves on the cross the only difference is Wheat is a marketable crop, or “Safe to save”, and tares are just weeds with no redeeming value.

But to keep from pulling up the good wheat with the tares they are allowed to grow together until harvest time. So it is with everyone who calls himself a child of God some will never become completely convicted by Gods Spirit “having a form of godliness but denying its power. ……always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2Tim 3:5-7 (KJV)

They look like A Christian who has died to self and given it all to the Master until they reach the threshing floor….which is the place where the seeds are separated from the vine. Today Christ is at the threshing floor and we are all being separated as judgment goes on daily in the courts of Heaven. One day “He will render to each one according to his works.

“The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we SUFFER WITH HIM in order that we may also be glorified with him.” Romans 8:16-17 (KJV) my friends key words SUFFER WITH HIM meaning “he that endures to the end shall be saved.”

We are at the threshold, the promise land is right over the horizon HOLD ON my friends Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Ps. 30:4-5 (ESV) and sunrise is almost here.

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

Aug. 30, 2014

“IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, YOU WILL PROBABLY END UP SOMEWHERE ELSE”

“Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelite’s set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. After three days the officers went throughout the camp, giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it, THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO, ….” Joshua 3:1-4 (KJV)

This was the directions from Israel’s new leader Joshua, who replaced Moses in leading the Children of Israel to the promise land. He was Chosen, because he had been this way before and HE KNEW WHERE HE WAS GOING.

So today my friends as God’s Chosen, the journey we are now traveling to the promise land stands on the other side of our trials that we must encounter as this controversy continues between Good and evil.

In addition, It is unchartered territory to us, but our savior HAS BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE. He knows the rough terrain. He knows the temptations and hardships one must encounter daily from the forces of evil, yes He knows the exhaustion of the constant battles with Satan we will encounter along the way BUT MY FRIENDS WE MUST STAY FOCUSED for “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” Luke 10:2 (NIV)

Let’s go to John 4:4-41 (ESV) Christ is at Jacob’s well waiting on his disciples to get back with food, He is weary from his journey, so He sits beside the well and rest. That gives us some indication of Christ humanity for the text tells us He was weary. But our Savior never loses His focus. “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? Matt. 18:11-12 (KJV) So His divinity told Him a lost sheep would come along that day, a Samaritan, a outcast to the Israelites, but a child of God who needed salvation.

And once the good news of the gospel was presented to her, she left to be a witness to others. Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”…… Meanwhile the disciples had returned and were urging Christ to eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about…..“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work…..

Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps…… Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.” And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

My friends His love for us never wavered For He knew our fragile framework, because he was our Creator; “He remembered that we are made from the dust of the ground. And what delicate steps we must take to follow Him to Calvary,” and at times we would NOT KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING because of the god of this world, the father of confusion and we would, probably end up somewhere other then the course Christ has placed us on towards our Salvation and life eternal.

My friends only the One, The Omniscience, The All Knowing  can guide us along this journey because  HE HAS BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE, HE ENDURED AND STAYED FOCUSED, and finished the course, and now sits on the right hand of OUR FATHER waiting for Him to say go get my Children.

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