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How do we move forward when we are stuck…

Moving forward and obtaining different results in our life, requires different actions on our part…

If things are not changing in your life; if you’re not advancing and find yourself in a rut, then you can be certain that it is because you’re not spending enough time praying and in God’s Word…

Proverbs 3:5

“Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart (not your intellect) and lean NOT on your own understanding”

So many times, before we can move forward, we have to change that stinking thinking that happens between our ears.

We have spent years being enculturated and programmed by the world around us, being pressed into the world’s way of thinking, acting and reacting.

As the man said, “Insanity is doing the same things over and over again, the same way, and yet each time expecting different results.”

As Christians, if we want something different in our life, then we’re going to have to start working on doing things differently; and the first thing that every Christian must do is to repent.

This means that we literally must change the way we think; that we allow the Holy Spirit and God’s Word to rewrite the code, and the corrupt programming of the world.

The process by which this happens begins as we meditate in God’s Word and pray in the Spirit.

Studying and meditating in God’s word:

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Psalms 1:1-3

1 God’s blessings follow you and await you at every turn:
    when you don’t follow the advice of those who delight in wicked schemes,

When you avoid sin’s highway,
    when judgment and sarcasm beckon you, but you refuse.

2 For you, the Eternal’s Word is your happiness.

    It is your focus (you meditate within its pages)—from dusk to dawn.

3 Then you are like a tree,
    planted by flowing, cool streams of water that never run dry.

Your fruit ripens in its time;
    your leaves never fade or curl in the summer sun.

No matter what you do, then you will prosper.

Praying in the Spirit:

Ephesians 6:18a

“praying always with all prayer and supplications in the Spirit”.

Jude 1:20

“But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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As we pray in the Spirit then, “Deep calls unto Deep,” as we are praying in the perfect will of God (Rom 8:26-27; 1 Cor 2:11-13)

There are three spirits that exists in the world.

1) The Holy Spirit

2) The human spirit

3) The unholy spirit or the demonic spirit.

It is important for us to understand that there is a battle for the control of our minds by each of these three spirits.

Depending on which one of these three spirits controls our minds, that spirit will also control our prayer life.

It had has been said that the flesh and the Spirit are like two mad dogs, who are constantly fighting one another; and the one that wins will be the one that you feed.

Praying with our human spirit (or mind) will only say to God what the flesh wants said, and it will only result in what the mind can achieve.

James 4:2-3 indicates that we can pray in the flesh:

“You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures (of the flesh).”

The unholy or demonic spirit will work overtime to distract, detour, disinterest and to defeat the believer from spending time in prayer with God.

In order for us to pray in the Spirit we first have to overcome the temptations, resistance, and unholy influences of our human spirit (our mind), and the unholy spirits (demons).

At the point that our prayers are no longer being influenced or controlled by our human spirit, or by unholy spirit(s), then that’s when we begin to see our breakthroughs, as we are praying in God’s perfect will, by praying in the Spirit.

You can do it, or not, it’s your choice; but that’s what the Bible instructs us to do, if we want to see breakthroughs in our life .

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Who is your sure foundation and tower that you run to in your time of need…

What happens when push comes to shove in your life…

Listen to Rod Parsley’s testimony, having just faced his battle with cancer:

This was the Apostle Paul’s testimony, when the poop hit the fan in his life:

It started out with God telling Him,

“My grace is enough for you: for where there is weakness, my power is shown the more completely.”

Therefore, I have cheerfully made up my mind to be proud of my weaknesses, because they mean a deeper experience of the power of Christ.

I can even enjoy weaknesses, suffering, privations, persecutions and difficulties for Christ’s sake.

For my very weakness makes me strong in Him! (2 Cor 12:9-10)

So when your back is against the wall, and all the doctor’s reports, all the evidence and all the circumstances in your life are negative, what do you do?

Who or what do you turn to in your time of need; and who or what provides the foundation in your life to get you through these tough times?

Point in fact, this is where the rubber meets the road for everyone at one time or another in their life.

When that time happens in your life and you are faced with your own mortality, or your inability to cope with this problem or circumstance, this is when you learn exactly what your foundation in life is.

Listen to God’s promise, because this is exactly what He said He would do in the last days:

“See that you do not refuse him who is speaking.

For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

His voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”

This phrase, ‘Yet once more,’ indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.”

(Hebrews12:25-29)

God doesn’t promise to keep you out of the fire; but He does promise to be with you through the fire; to NEVER leave you, nor forsake you; and to complete the work that He has begun in your life!

So the messages is, bad things do happen to God’s children, just like they do to people in the world; but Jesus’ message to the Christian is as follows:

John 16:31-33
J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

31-33 “So you believe in me now?” replied Jesus.

“The time is coming, indeed, it has already come, when you will be scattered, every one of you going home and leaving me alone.

Yet I am not really alone for the Father is with me.

I have told you all this so that you may find your peace in me.

You will find trouble in the world—but, never lose heart, because I have already conquered (overcome) the world!”

25-30 “That is why I say to you, don’t worry about living—wondering what you are going to eat or drink, or what you are going to wear.

Surely life is more important than food, and the body more important than the clothes you wear.

Look at the birds in the sky. They never sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.

Aren’t you much more valuable to him than they are?

Can any of you, however much he worries, make himself an inch taller?

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the wild flowers grow. They neither work nor weave, but I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was never arrayed like one of these!

Now if God so clothes the flowers of the field, which are alive today and burnt in the stove tomorrow, is he not much more likely to clothe you, you of ‘little-faith’?

Matthew 6:31-34

31-33 “So don’t worry and don’t keep saying, ‘What shall we eat, what shall we drink or what shall we wear?!

That is what pagans (the unbelievers) are always looking for; your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Set your heart on the kingdom and his goodness (God’s righteousness and his way of doing things – put on the mind of Christ), and all these things will come to you as a matter of course.

34 “Don’t worry at all then about tomorrow. Tomorrow can take care of itself! One day’s trouble is enough for one day.”

So if you are a believer, a covenant child of God, then God has your back; you have His word on it!

The caveat though in all of this is that you MUST believe; you must walk by faith; this means that you must be willing to cast the WHOLE of your body and ALL of your life circumstances upon the reliability and trustworthiness of both God and His Word.

And the reason is, God’s ultimate plan for everyone of us is that we be conformed into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ!

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Stop the Islamization of America…

Stop the Islamization of America…

Let us heed the call of others around the world, who are trying to give us a heads up warning.

What follows is a clarion secular warning, given by a political leader from Holland.

It must be said of us here in America, that on this issue of Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and liberties, of necessity, we ALL, as Americans, must stand on common ground to defend these liberties, regardless of religion, creed or ethnicity.

However here in the United States, as a government, pursuant to our Declaration of Independence and our organic U.S. Constitution, we stand out above all other governments of the world, because according to our founding documents, we view these rights as unalienable!

It is important for us, as Americans, to understand what this word “unalienable” means.

What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he wrote the phrase “unalienable rights,” and what rights are “unalienable”?

Jefferson understood “unalienable rights” as fixed rights given to us by our Creator, rather than by government.

The emphasis on our Creator is crucial, because it shows that the rights are permanent just as the Creator is permanent.

Jefferson’s thought on the source of these rights was impacted by Oxford’s William Blackstone, who described “unalienable rights” as “absolute” rights–showing that they were absolute because they came from him who is absolute, and that they were, are, and always will be, because the Giver of those rights–Jefferson’s “Creator”–was, and is, and always be.

Moreover, because we are “endowed” with them, the rights are inseparable from us: they are part of our humanity.

In a word, the government did not give them and therefore cannot take them away, but the government still strains at ways to suppress them.

To protect fundamental, individual rights, James Madison helped include the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. The intent was to remove them from government’s reach.

The “unalienable rights” explicitly protected by the Bill of Rights include, but are not limited to,

The rights of free speech and religion,

The right to keep and bear arms,

The right to self-determination with regard to one’s own property,

The right to be secure in one’s own property,

The right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers,

The right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment, and so forth.

And these “Unalienable rights” are ours to keep, by virtue of our Creator…

The larger question for us, here in America, in this whole Islamization issue is:

Will we leave our children the values of our founding fathers, taken out of the Bible, or the values of Mecca, Teheran and Gaza, which come straight from the pit of hell?

There are only two nations in the history of the world who have formed their government, based on a covenant relationship with God, and have actually structured it around the truth of His word!

Those two nations are, the nation of Israel and the Republic for the united states of America, founded in 1776, which by the way is NOT the same government that presides over us today.

[For those of you who do not know this history, you need to educate yourselves: http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm%5D

What I am about to say is very important for us ALL to understand, because as Christians, it is our abdication of that covenant, made by our founding fathers, that most threatens our existence and our continuation as a nation!

As we read in the first couple of chapters of the Book of Romans, we find the apostle Paul analyzing the civilization of the 1st century Roman Empire.

He is describing the moral life of great cities of old, like Ephesus and Corinth and Rome; but as we read about the condition of those societies, we find that he is also describing our condition, in what happened last night in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Detroit, Chicago and New York.

The truth is the moral climate of today, in our time, is the same as the moral climate of the 1st century that Paul wrote about.

That gives rise to the question, “Just how much progress have we made in twenty centuries of human existence?”

The apostle says there were two characteristics of the civilization he lived in, and those characteristics also describes our society today as well.

The first characteristic is godlessness, and the second is wickedness.

Our Godlessness is evident by our disrespect and our out right rebellion again God; and more than anything, it is this rebellious attitude that results in the wickedness that we see all around us, in our society today — the violence, the injury and all the hurt done, one to another, as human beings.

The fundamental message upon which this epistle to the Romans is built, is that in every generation there is godlessness, which results in wickedness.

The apostle is tracing for us how this godlessness came about.

He begins with the self-disclosure of God in nature; how God has spoken to this world and has shown himself in the natural world, of what can plainly be seen in His creation.

This also includes mankind, because we are also a part of His creation as well.

Paul tells us that God has made Himself visible in every age and place; and we are told that the truth about God is pouring out towards us, from every direction, if only we had the eyes to see.

This truth, which God has made known to us ALL, the apostle says, has been met with an unspoken agreement, among the godless men of this world, to suppress it; and isn’t this exactly what we see going on today?

There is a conspiracy of silence everywhere to ignore the Truth that is everywhere present; we find it in our government, our secular society at large, in our public schools systems, it’s everywhere.

In fact if there’s any one message that is given by our public education system today, to our young people, it is that faith and belief in “God is absolutely irrelevant to anything that is of any important or consequence in your life!”

In the first part of Romans, Paul explains that mankind follows a three-fold process in suppressing the truth:

First, he ignores God,

He does not glorify him, nor

Give thanks to him.

This is certainly a characteristic of our day, especially in the way the media ignores God.

We act as though he does not exist and has nothing to do with our world.

The second step in the process of suppressing truth is that men imitate God.

They claim to be wise; they claim that they are able to handle all the problems of life and that they understand all that has happened in human affairs.

Some of you have followed the rather remarkable presentation by Jacob Bronowski and the Public Broadcasting System, called The Ascent of Man.

Here is a very clear example of man’s attempt to trace all that has happened to mankind without a single reference to God.

The third process by which man suppresses truth is to choose substitute gods and to make God appear to be much less than he really is.

By these means, men suppress the truth of God and have become godless.

In Verses 24-32 of Chapter 1, the apostle traces the effects of this godlessness in human society — the wickedness which inevitably follows.

When men lose God, they always lose themselves.

They do not understand what is happening in human affairs and are not able to diagnose the sicknesses and problems that break out in society because we have lost God.

In his book, The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis says hell is made up of people who live at an infinite distance from each other.

That is the result of the loss of God in our life.

This wickedness at work among human beings also follows a three-step process which is identified for us in this passage by the thrice-repeated phrase,

“God gave them over!”

Paul repeats this phrase in Verses 24, 26, and 28, and this phrase identifies what is going on in our culture…

If what we are reading about here does not describe the culture and the times in which we are living today, then I don’t know what does!

Has God given us over to our base nature, and is He letting us have it with both barrels?

He is basically saying, in all of this, if this is the world you want that does not acknowledge Me and does not want to abide by my laws, then you will also experience ALL the anarchy and pain that results from such a world.

However it is in this sort of atmosphere, that we are now living in today, that I believe prepares the way for the next revival; because as this pendulum of evil swings to its extreme, even the ungodly, the atheist and the agnostic are looking to God, in repentance, for answers.

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Let God recycle your life and make all things new…

GOD and God alone is the ONLY one who has the power to recycle men and women’s lives…

And can make all things new!

Listen to Brian “Head” Welsh, former hard rock guitarist from Korn, tell of his journey out of darkness into the Kingdom of Light:

Jesus said:

“Come to me, ALL you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

(Matthew 11:28-30)

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This is a fact for ALL of us that,

“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.”

And it is for this very reason that Jesus came to earth:

Luke 4:18-19

Jesus speaking: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,

Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,

To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

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I personally have seen this story played out over and over again, through the lives of many people, having myself worked in Christian broadcasting for over 18 years.

The power of God is so real!

Spread the word and pass this testimony along, from this brother, so that others might know how much Jesus loves them!

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The reason for the season…

Unto us a Child is given…

Isaiah 9:6 foretold of Messiah’s coming:

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

According to Luke’s gospel, we read that the angelic annunciation of the birth of the Savior of the world came not to important dignitaries or kings, but to shepherds tending their flocks in the middle of the night.

Luke 2:8-20

Glory in the Highest
8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

14 “Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.”

16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.

17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. 18 And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

Do you really want to know the REAL reason for the season?

It’s all about our learning to put first things first!

It’s about our learning to reconnect with the Source of our life.

We have to learn to:

TRUST IN GOD
– not people

DEPEND ON GOD
– not yourself

LIVE FOR GOD
– not the world

Because you see, God is the Creator and Author of ALL things, in both heaven and earth; and it is because of that fact, as our Creator, that He comes before all things and is above EVERYTHING!

We must remember and understand that because He is God, then He gets to make those decisions, He make the rules and He calls the shots.

And so the Christmas message is all about God forgiving and reconciling His lost children back into His family; but before that could happen, there had to be a price paid.

A Saviour who would come, and offer His life in our stead, and pay a debt we owed, but could not pay.

And so the message of Christmas is that God loved you enough that He redeemed you; and He did that by sending His only begotten Son to die a cruel death and pour out His life’s blood on Calvary’s cross, all in order to pay our penalty and to seal the deal and guarantee our place with Him in eternity.

As Christians, we also need to know and understand why God created us, why He gave us our life and placed us on the earth?

It’s so that we could learn that God ALONE is our Source, our True North – our Abba-Father, in ALL things; and this faith walk, in this pilgrimage journey called our life on this earth, is all about our learning to trust Him as such!

Hebrews 10:38

God speaking: “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”

His name is Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, aka Jesus the Christ-Messiah; accept no substitutes!

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The importance of disciplining our children while they are still young…

We only have a certain amount of time, early on in our children’s upbringing, while they are young, to instill in them the discipline and respect for authority that will be invaluable to them later on in life.

The biggest problem that we have today in America, is directly related to the breakdown of the family unit within our country.

Over several generations now, I would say going all the way back to the 60s, we can see today the results of what happens to a nation who rebels totally against the God of the Bible.

Let us remember that those wayword and rebellious teenagers, those hippies of which some of us were a party to in our younger years, that today they are the political leaders and businessman, who are directing our nation’s future!
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Proverbs 13:24 tells us that:

“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”

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What does it mean to “spare the rod, spoil the child”?

The phrase “spare the rod, spoil the child” is a modern-day proverb that means if a parent refuses to discipline an unruly child, that child will grow accustomed to getting his own way.

He will become, in the common vernacular, a spoiled brat.

The saying comes from Proverbs 13:24, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

The Lord uses discipline to reveal our sin to us. This is also how parents reveal the truth of our need for a Savior to their children.

When a child does not feel the consequence of his sin, he will not understand that sin requires punishment.

The Lord provides a way to salvation and forgiveness through Jesus, but that means little to those who do not see their sin.

Furthermore, correction shows us that we are not above reproach and that we are accountable for our actions.

Our natural pride blinds us to our need for a Savior, and discipline reveals the truth of our wretchedness (Revelation 3:17).

Since salvation is the most important choice the child will ever make, it is imperative that parents are leading him to Christ, and discipline is critical to this process.

Proverbs 23:13 says, “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.”

In the context of verses 13–14, die means “experience spiritual death in hell.”

Children who respect authority and feel sorrow for their sin are much more likely to ask Jesus to forgive them and be saved.

All children are born sinful (Romans 5:12–19).

Their natural self is destructive and unrighteous.

That does not mean they aren’t valuable and worthy of love (Psalm 127:3). It means that they are not born with any natural “goodness” in them.

That is why all children need discipline. Proverbs 22:15 says, “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.”

Discipline is critical for wisdom (Proverbs 29:15), and a child who obeys his parents will be wise (Proverbs 13:1).

And even adults who do not heed correction will feel the consequences of their foolishness (Proverbs 10:13).

Some people believe in discipline, but not in physical discipline, such as spanking.

However, the Bible is the final word on what is truth; and it is not mere opinion or theory.

The word rod indicates a thin stick or switch that can be used to give a small amount of physical pain with no lasting physical injury.

A child should never be bruised, injured, or cut by a physical correction.

The Bible warns that parents should never abuse the power and authority they have over their children while they are young because it provokes the children to righteous anger (Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21).

Physical discipline is always done in love, never as a vent to the parent’s frustration. It is also just one part of discipline and should be used when the child shows defiance to a clear limit, not in the heat of the moment.

God instructs parents to parent their children the way He parents His children.

Hebrews 12:5–11 tells us that God disciplines those whom He loves to perfect their righteousness.

God only disciplines His own, which proves that Christians are His beloved children.

Notice that David says that the Lord’s rod comforts him in his time of trouble (Psalm 23:4).

Finally, we know that no discipline feels good while it is happening, but afterwards the rewards are rich (Hebrews 12:11).

Godly character, fruit of the Spirit, and peace are rewards of God’s discipline.

The same is true for our human children. Children who have learned how to take responsibility for their actions are much happier people (Proverbs 3:11–18).

The importance of the rod of correction is that it steers the heart of a child toward Jesus and the forgiveness of sin He offers.

When parents trust God’s methods over their own, they will see the blessings for their children and themselves.

Recommended Resources:
Parenting Is Heart Work by Dr. Scott Turansky & Joanne Miller and Logos Bible Software.

[http://www.gotquestions.org/spare-rod-spoil-child.html]
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The individual family unit and the importance of having one mother and one father under one roof, raising their children in a loving, nurturing and godly environment, is the most important building block of every society; for as the family unit goes within that society, so eventually will the nation!

We know in the Bible that this is the most important thing, from God’s perspective, that we pass the baton of our relationship with God, and our teaching and passing the knowledge of His ways onto the next generation.

This is even the reason why God tells us that He chose Abraham, to be the progenitor of the Hebrew nation (Gen 18:19), because he said Abraham would bring up his children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.

This scripture, in Luke, is speaking of the forerunner of Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, and it also impresses upon us, even today, the importance, from God’s perspective, of our maintaining the family unit within our society.

Luke 1:17

“He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are upon us…

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are upon us…

Both scripturally and from every eschatological point of view, for anyone, with spiritual eyesight to see and ears to hear; for anyone who has any kind of crasp of what the holy writ of scripture warns us about in the last days, I think it is beyond clear that today we truly are watching these events unfold before our very eyes.

What follows is my perspective of what I see happening today and where I believe we are headed as a nation.

We have a national group today, made up of mostly Christians, who are actively pursuing impeachment, and as much as I would like that to happen, I don’t believe that it will.

The problem with impeachment is the Bankster oligarchy has, over the years, gained an extremely strong grip and control over both houses of the legislature, in both parties, not to mention the White House, and most of our judicial system.

This Banister Oligarchy also controls all the gold, meaning that our entire banking system and the printing of our money are under the control of a private international banking cartel, which literally has autonomous control over all the central banks of the world.

It is because of this fact that they control everything else, including public opinion, through their control of 90+ percent of the media, here in America.

These people and the corrupt system they rule over, meaning the entire Washington D.C. Corporation, is under their absolute control, and they have no oversight whatsoever from any elected official, within this de facto government.

They are the “pink elephant” in the room that nobody EVER talks about in the mainstream media, nor within the halls of Congress.

These politicians, like former Senator Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and so many others, even on the Republican side, including the Bush family, as much as they may look like it, these people aren’t dummies; and they know exactly what’s going on!

Not only do they know what’s going on and what the ultimate endgame is, but they and the entire Washington D.C. power structure, that backs them up and is calling the shots from the shadows, under the mantle of this de facto and unconstitutional D.C. Corporation, including politicians on both the left and the right – Republican and Democrat alike – are being used, after having already long ago been bought and paid for, in order to bring this “New World Order” agenda about.

If they are not actively working for this evil system, then they at least know about it and are too afraid to do anything to stop it.

Satan certainly has not kept his agenda secret, and he is getting more and more embolden as the time of the end approaches.

These same Banksters are the very ones who throughout history and until this present day have actually murdered or assassinated, including three presidents, anyone that represents a serious threat to their system!

This includes the strongest voices, among any would-be whistleblowers, who would expose their evildoings; and I believe that would probably include Donald Trump, and so to that end, I believe Christians need to be praying for his protection and safety.

When you are talking about these people, in who they are and what they do, you’re talking about pure evil, among those who sit at the very top of the world’s power structure, and they are connected directly to Satan.

The same deal that Satan once offered to Jesus, I believe he later offered to others, who accepted his deal.

He is the one pushing this whole New World Order agenda, and these International Banksters literally have all the money, influence and the power in the world to do it.

This includes the Vatican Bank, and just about all of your major corporations and individuals, including politicians in our government and members of any number of secret organizations, such as the CFR, Trilateral Commission and others.

It is a stacked deck and they hold all the cards, except for the most important one!

It has even gotten to the point where the powers that be are daring anybody to stop them, because in their dimwitted perverted thinking they think that they are indestructible; but we know better, don’t we?!

As Christians and students of biblical prophecy, we already know how all of this is going to end; we just don’t know the timing.

Howbeit, we do know the season, as the Bible tells us what to look for.

We all know that the power of God, in His sovereignty, can literally change our situation overnight.

We can read about it happening many times in biblical history.

Normally, as we review the precedents of Scripture, God will generally use a good size 2 x 4 upside the head of His people, in order to get our attention!

That is where I believe we are now, as a nation.

We’re told also in the Bible that judgment ALWAYS begins at the household of God; and God has already told us, in Hebrews 12, starting at verse 27 and on to the end of the chapter, that God will shake not only the heavens, but also the earth, in the last days, so that ONLY those who truly have their faith centered in Jesus Christ will be left standing.

I believe that we are now in that season of which Jesus warned us about, which He called “the beginning of sorrows” (Mat 24:8).

We can learn from the Bible that nations invariably reach a point, which the Bible calls “the fullness of sin,” where God says enough is enough and that’s when the serious chastisement and correction begins.

I believe that America is now at that point and probably has surpassed it.

Our strongest trump card in all of this will be played only when we Christians get serious about obeying 2 Chronicles 7:14.

The only time we read in the Bible, where God’s judgment was abated and totally turned away from a nation, at the last hour, is when Jonah preached in Nineveh.

And you will note that the ENTIRE nation, starting with the king on down, repented in sackcloth and ashes.

Certainly that has not happened here in our country, not even close!

Most anybody, with any kind of military background, knows what it means to occupy.

Well we are told in the Bible that, as Christians, we are to occupy until Jesus returns; meaning that we seek God’s wisdom and guidance, and having done that, as God’s occupational force in the earth, we take every opportunity to resist the “Turkey” and block whatever he is doing.

Also as intercessors, we are God’s “Watchmen on the Wall,” and it’s our job to, not only watch and pray, but we are to warn the people of what’s coming; and believe me our nation and the nations of the world are about to be shook very severely in the very near future.

Jesus described it as being the worst time this world has ever seen, or ever will see again.

We are talking here about people, who are the actual puppet masters of this Washington D.C. Corporation, who are already in control of just about every aspect of our daily lives, here in America, who also financed the Bolshevik Revolution and also finance Hitler’s rise to power, of which by the way Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather, had direct involvement.

These Banksters also financed World War one and two, and they profited on both sides in each!

What they have in mind for our country will be far worse than anything Hitler ever did.

I believe we are about to see George Washington’s prophecy come to pass, where he said that he saw our nation at a time where we came under attack by foreign enemies; and we lost our liberty for a time, but he said the “Sons of Liberty” would rise up out of the smoke and ashes, and that we would once again regain control of our country.

I also am a firm believer that Satan’s original plan was to have the European Union be the instigator that spawns the Antichrist’s rise to power; but I believe that God has already said no to that plan.

There are just way too many Christians and patriotic people, who love this country, people like you and me, who are just too ornery and stubborn to ever let this evil antichrist agenda succeed in our country.

For one thing the Bible says that the whole world is not going to be controlled by the antichrist, but there will be nations that will be resisting and fighting against him in the last days.

The Bible also says that when Jesus returns, there will be both sheep nations and goat nations; and I have to believe that there’s still enough Christian influence in our nation and in the Western European nations, even as bad as some of them have fallen, that when push really comes to shove that these nations will rise up again in force, against this wickedness that is trying to dominate our world.

I totally believe that in the end, our de jure united states Republic, along with certain other nations, are going to be the “sheep nations” that the Bible speaks of.

I believe also that the Antichrists will ultimately have his base of operations centered in the Middle East, with Israel, and more specifically Jerusalem, being the center of this end of days conflict.

The Middle East is where everything in the Bible began, and I believe that’s where everything is going to culminate in the end!

This certainly is the time for all you fence sitters to get off the fence and choose what side you are on, because our days are few.

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There is ONLY one mediator between God and man…

1 Timothy 2:5-6

Aramaic Bible in Plain English

For God is One, and The Mediator of God and the sons of men is One: The Son of Man, Yeshua The Messiah,

Who gave himself a ransom (on Calvary’s cross) in the place of every person, a testimony that has come in its time.

Ephesians 4:1-10
Living Bible (TLB)

Paul speaking to ALL Christians
4 I beg you—I, a prisoner here in jail for serving the Lord—to live and act in a way worthy of those who have been chosen for such wonderful blessings as these.

2 Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

3 Try always to be led along together by the Holy Spirit and so be at peace with one another.

4 We are all parts of one body, we have the same Spirit, and we have all been called to the same glorious future.

5 For us there is only one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 and we ALL have the same God and Father who is over us all and in us all, and living through every part of us.

7 However, Christ has given each of us special abilities—whatever he wants us to have out of his rich storehouse of gifts.

8 The psalmist tells about this, for he says that when Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after his resurrection and victory over Satan, he gave generous gifts to men.

9 Notice that it says he returned to heaven. This means that he had first come down from the heights of heaven, far down to the lowest parts of the earth.

10 The same one who came down is the one who went back up, that he might fill all things everywhere with himself, from the very lowest to the very highest.

Acts 4:12

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

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His name in Hebrew is Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (a.k.a. Jesus the Christ–Messiah)!

He’s our Creator, our God, our Saviour, our Lord and our soon coming King!

He is the one who has made our salvation and our redemption possible, and has paid for both though His poured out blood and life on Calvary’s cross.

The whole story, and all the instructions, including the road map showing us the way back home, can all be read in the Bible; however whether you believe it, accept it and obey it, that is entirely up to you?

It is your eternal soul that’s at stake here, and I seriously recommend that you not put this decision off another day, because this Gospel message and this offer of reconciliation both expires on the date of your death.

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The bondslave, as it relates to Jesus being nailed to the cross as a substitutionary death for us…

The process for becoming a bondslave, as it relates to Jesus being nailed to the cross as a substitutionary death for us…

The instructions for making a regular slave into a bondslave are laid out twice in the Torah: in Exodus 21, and in Deuteronomy 15.

It is highly interesting that right after the Ten Commandments are given, when God gives us His law, the very next thing He covers is the process for becoming a bondslave.

All of this “bondservant” business does seem slightly strange, but as often happens in the Bible, if you scratch a little beneath the surface, there are all manner of truth treasures to be found. It’s a matter of asking the right questions and steady observation.

Take the principal ideas to start with:

Nails driven through flesh?

Blood on doorframes?

Permanent piercing, with holes and scars forever?

Does this sound at all familiar?

Paul in the Bible talks about scars, marks, and stigmas in his own body that mark him out as a bondslave to Jesus.

But Jesus also has permanent scars, and His scars also came about from having his flesh pierced on wood, as a result of love, and a willing submission to serve.

“Not my will, but yours”, is what He said in the garden of Gethsemane.

“The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve” (Mark 10:45).

Jesus is the ultimate “servant,” whose glorious scars, which He took in His body, over shadow all other scars; and they were the price for our salvation!

“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.” (John 20:19-20)

He still has those scars on His hands, His feet and His side, even to this day, and forever – and they each represent a permanent mark on His body, as an eternal testimony of His great love and willingness to serve us, His beloved creation, and His sacrifice goes far beyond any conceivable call of duty.

This whole concept of bringing your servant to a door, in order to carry out the whole operation of becoming a bondslave, is quite interesting.

The New Testament word for door appears 39 times, and is a fascinating study in itself.

Jesus says twice, “I am the door”…

John 10:9

“Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep”, and ag ain, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.”

[Note: A door is a passageway; a portal. It presents an opportunity to move from one environment to another.

Isn’t that exactly what all of this is about? As a metaphor, a door can used to signify opportunity, and

“The door of the kingdom of heaven” is said to denote the conditions which must be complied with in order to be received into the kingdom of God.]
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What are the essentials of the gospel message, and what must I do to be saved?

Answer: The word gospel means “good news,” which is the message of forgiveness for sin through the atoning work of Jesus Christ.

It is essentially God’s rescue plan of redemption for those who will trust in His divine Son in order to be reconciled to a just and holy God.

The essential content of this saving message is clearly laid out for us in the Bible.

In the apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he lays out the content of the gospel message,

“Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.

By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.

Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor 15:1–4).

In this passage, we see three essential elements of the gospel message.

First, the phrase “died for our sins” is very important. As Romans 3:23 tells us, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

The reality of sin needs to be acknowledged by all who approach the throne of God for salvation.

A sinner must acknowledge the hopelessness of his guilt before God in order for forgiveness to take place, and he must understand that the “wages of sin is death” (Ro 6:23).

Without this foundational truth, no gospel presentation is complete.

Second, the person and work of Christ are indispensable components of the gospel.

Jesus is both God (Colossians 2:9) and man (John 1:14).

Jesus lived the sinless life that we could never live (1 Peter 2:22), and, because of that, He is the only one who could die a substitutionary death for the sinner.

Sin against an infinite God requires an infinite sacrifice. Therefore, either man, who is finite, must pay the penalty for an infinite length of time in hell, or the infinite Christ must pay for it once.

Jesus went to the cross to pay the debt we owe to God for our sin, and those who are covered by His sacrifice will inherit the kingdom of God as sons of the king (John 1:12).

Third, the resurrection of Christ is an essential element of the gospel.

The resurrection is the proof of the power of God.

Only He who created life can resurrect it after death, only He can reverse the hideousness that is death itself, and only He can remove the sting that is death and the victory that is the grave’s (1 Corinthians 15:54–55).

Further, unlike all other religions, Christianity alone possesses a Founder who transcends death and who promises that His followers will do the same.

All other religions were founded by men and prophets whose end was the grave.

Finally, Christ offers His salvation as a free gift (Ro 5:15; 6:23), that can only be received by faith, apart from any works or merit on our part (Eph 2:8–9).

As the apostle Paul tells us, the gospel is “the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile” (Ro 1:16). The same inspired author tells us,

“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Ro 10:9).

These, then, are the essential elements of the gospel:

The sin of all men,

The death of Christ on the cross to pay for those sins,

The resurrection of Christ to provide life everlasting for those who follow Him, and

The offer of the free gift of salvation to all.

[http://www.gotquestions.org/gospel-message.html]
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Let us not violate heaven’s hierarchy of authority…

Faith is not foolishness and the sin of presumption will never take you where God wants you to go…

Let us rightly divide the Word of Truth (the Bible) so that we not enter into error (2 Tim 3:16).

We enter into deception and give the enemy a stronghold in our life when we believe that something is right, when it is wrong and is not supported in Scripture!

One example of this, found in the Bible, is when Paul warned the Christians at Ephesus not to let the sun go down on their anger, least they give a foothold (stronghold) to the enemy in their lives (Eph 4:26).

We must ALWAYS maintain a balance between the Spirit and the Word because Jesus Christ is our ONLY true North, and His written Word is the ONLY means by which we are able to constantly monitor our spiritual course and heading.

We must always keep in mind that God NEVER contradicts Himself!

Let us not then find ourselves giving too much attention to and focusing upon the lesser powers of darkness that exists in the world – those principalities and powers of darkness, who rule over this world, by controlling spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph 6:12).

Rather let us keep our focus centered ALWAYS upon Jesus Christ and let us follow the biblical chain of authority and rules for engagement in spiritual warfare, as it is outlined in the Bible and as it was exemplified and demonstrated through the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, here on the earth!

In ALL things Jesus Christ, whom the Bible calls the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45) is our model, our Chief Rabbi and our example of how we, as God’s covenant children, are to live and minister in the earth (1 John 2:6).

In this video, recorded back in 2013 – on the Jim Bakker TV program – John Paul Jackson talked about the “Needless Casualties of War;” where he explains how we as Christians sometime get ourselves into trouble, when we step outside of our lawful position and authority in Christ.

I believe this to be an important teaching and a proper warning for us ALL to be mindful of, least we get ourselves into trouble; but with that said I have one correction I would like to make.

At the beginning of John Paul Jackson’s message and then later on again he makes reference to:

Psalms 8:4-5

“What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?

For You have made him (man) a little lower than the angels, and you have crowned him with glory and honor.”

Let us look very closely at both of these passages.

We read here that, “God has made man a little lower than the angels,” and David proceeds in the next verses to show that man has received dominion over the animal world (verses 7-8).

However in the margin of the New King James Bible, it is stated that in the word translated as “ANGELS” is “Elohim,” which means “God.”

(Compare the footnote in the Elberfelder Bible and the Schlachter Bible.)

While translations such as the New International Version and the Living Bible render it, “angels,” the Revised Standard Version, the English Revised Version and the American Standard Version say, “little lower than God.”

[So it is also in the revised Luther Bible (“Gott”) and the Menge Bible (“Gottheit”)]

The truth is the ONLY time in the entire Bible where the word “Elohim” is translated as Angels is here in this verse; but the correct rendering is that God has made MAN a little lower than himself.

However with that said, our problem and where we often can get ourselves into trouble is when we presume to take authority, without God’s leave or allowance, in areas that have not been granted to us in His Word, and therefore were not exemplified and demonstrated in the life of Jesus, in His earthly ministry.

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Let us remember ALWAYS that the Written Word, the Holy Bible, is our ONLY plumbline that keeps us from error; and faith is always action that we take based on God’s Word, and NOT on our feelings and/or natural impulses!

Jesus, who is our example and model for ALL things in life and in ministry, said that He only did the things He saw the Father do; and that he ONLY even spoke the words He heard the Father speak.

In another words Jesus, in His earthly ministry, never took any rabbit trails, and He was always operating under God the Father’s authority and direction, through the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

And then Jesus tells us in another place, that as the Father has called Him, so is He calling us.

So come join the Adventure!

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