For God's Glory
My Personal Testimony
TRUST IN THE LORD
I ASKED THE LORD TO GIVE ME SOMETHING TO MINISTER AND I WAITED AND WAITED AND DIDN'T RECEIVE ANYTHING. I STARTED LITERALLY STRESSING OVER WHAT THE LORD WOULD GIVE ME TO MINISTER TONIGHT AND I STARTED TO EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL AILMENTS LIKE A POUNDING MIGRAINE AND TENSION. I HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAK TO ME IN A QUIET WHISPER "TRUST IN THE
LORD" AND NOTHING ELSE.
WE TEND TO LOOK AT OUR ABILITIES, OUR GIFTS AND WE SOMETIMES COMPARE THEM WITH THOSE OF OTHER BELIEVER'S. WE MAKE EXCUSES LIKE MOSES DID WHEN HE SAID THAT HE WAS NOT A GOOD SPEAKER. FROM MY HEART I TELL
THE LORD, LIKE I DO EVERY WEEK THAT I CAN'T DO THIS, THIS IS TOO HARD FOR ME AND EVEN WENT ON TO TELL HIM THAT IN CHURCHES EVEN THE PASTOR DOESN'T PREACH EVERY WEEK, SO WHY DO I HAVE TO STRUGGLE OVER GIVING A MESSAGE EVERY WEEK. I STARTED TELLING THE LORD OF MY SHORTCOMINGS, AND ALL MY INABILITIES.......YOU KNOW HOW IT IS, WHEN YOU'RE MAKING EXCUSES TO GET OUT OF THIS OR THAT INSTEAD OF TRUSTING THE LORD AND ALLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HAVE HIS WAY, SO MY MESSAGE IS TITLED
"TRUST IN THE LORD".
I TURNED IT OVER IN MY MIND AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT MANY OF US IN THE BODY OF CHRIST CONSISTENTLY CONFESS THAT WE DO, BUT WHEN WE ARE CORNERED OR BURDENED WITH CIRCUMSTANCES IN OUR LIVES......THOSE FOUR WORDS "TRUST IN THE LORD"ARE PUT TO THE TEST. WE ARE A NATION THAT WAS
FOUNDED UPON THE WORD OF GOD, WE ARE A NATION THAT HAS INSCRIBED THESE FOUR WORDS "IN GOD WE TRUST" ON OUR U.S. CURRENCY ....BUT DO WE REALLY TRUST GOD WITH OUR WHOLE HEART, ALLOWING GOD FULL CONTROL OF EVERY SITUATION OR AREA OF OUR LIVES, OR DO WE JUST TRUST HIM WITH CERTAIN THINGS AND TAKE OTHER MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS, DOUBTING THAT HE IS WHO HE SAID HE IS AND CAN DO ALL THAT HE SAID HE CAN AND WILL DO IN HIS WORD.
WE CONFESS SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH OUR MOUTHS BUT IN OUR HEARTS WE
HAVE ALREADY PURPOSED A PLAN OF ACTION, NOT SEEKING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD IN THE MATTER AND OUR ACTIONS HAVE ALREADY SAID I CAN DO THIS ON MY OWN. I DON'T NEED GOD'S HELP IN THIS, I CAN DO IT WITHOUT HIM, CAUSING WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING SO EASY FOR GOD TO FIX; TO SNOWBALL INTO A MONSTER OF A DIASTER BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LET GO OF IT, WE DIDN'T SEEK HIS COUNSEL AND THEREFORE NOT COMPLETELY TRUSTING GOD AS WE CONFESSED WE DID. TO TRUST IN THE LORD IS TO WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM TO ACT NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES. WE AS BELIEVER'S HAVE BEEN INDWELLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. IF WE ARE FOLLOWING AFTER CHRIST IT IS BECAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS POSESSED US AND WE TRUST HIM TO LEAD
US, GUIDE US AND DIRECT OUR PATHS WHICH LEADS US DOWN THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE SURRENDER OUR WILL FOR THE WILL OF GOD IN OUR LIVES, ALLOWING THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD TO POSSESS US, OVERTAKE US, NO LONGER DOING THINGS IN OUR OWN STRENGTH BUT TRUSTING THE LORD AND OPERATING IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT.
THE WORD "TRUST" MEANS:
ASSURED RELIANCE ON THE CHARACTER, ABILITY, STRENGTH, OR TRUTH OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING; TO HAVE HOPE IN. TO PLACE CONFIDENCE IN OR
DEPEND ON, TO COMMIT OR PLACE IN ONE'S CARE OR KEEPING; TO RELY ON THE TRUTHFULNESS OR ACCURANCY OF.
GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD LIE, IF HE SAID IT, HE WILL SURELY BRING IT TO PASS. SO WHEN TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS COME, WHY ARE WE SO EASILYWORRIED, BURDENED, DISCOURAGED OR IN DESPAIR OVER THE MATTERS. IS OUR HOPE REALLY IN GOD. ARE WE FULLY PERSUADED THAT GOD IS WHO HE
SAID HE IS OR DO WE DOUBT THAT HE IS ALL POWERFUL AND FAIL
TO TRUST IN HIS CHARACTER, HIS ABILITY AND HIS STRENGTH.
GOD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT WE HAVE NEED OF BEFORE WE EVEN ASK OF IT. GOD ALREADY KNOWS WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES AND SITUATIONS WE ARE GOING TO BE FACED WITH BEFORE THEY EVEN COME UPON US AND HE HAS ALREADY PROVIDED PROVISION OR MADE A WAY OUT. ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS "TRUST IN THE LORD" AND WAIT UPON HIM TO BRING IT TO PASS. GOD'S TIMING IS NOT
OUR TIMING AND HE IS NEVER LATE AND NEVER TOO SOON BUT HE'S ALWAYS RIGHT ON TIME. THERE'S A SONG THAT SAYS "JESUS CAN FIX IT IF YOU LET HIM, I TURNED IT OVER TO THE LORD AND HE WORKED IT OUT."
IN THE BIBLE WITH THE STORY CONCERNING THE CENTURION SOLDIER WHO HAD A SERVANT WHO WAS SICK. IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE OUT, LET'S TURN TO
MATTHEW 8:VERSES 5-8 IT READS 5)
AND WHEN JESUS ENTERED INTO CAPERNAUM, THERE CAME UNTO HIM A CENTURION, BESEECHING HIM, 6) AND SAYING, LORD, MY SERVANT LIETH AT HOME SICK OF THE PALSY, GRIEVOUSLY TORMENTED. 7) AND JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, I WILL COME AND HEAL HIM. 8) THE CENTURION ANSWERED AND SAID, LORD, I AM NOT WORTHY THAT THOU SHOULDEST COME UNDER MY ROOF: BUT
SPEAK THE WORD ONLY, AND MY SERVANT SHALL BE HEALED.
NOW I'M GOING TO PARAPHRASE THIS AND TELL YOU WHAT I HEAR IN THIS AND WHAT HIS WORDS WERE REALLY SAYING.
IN THE STATEMENT "JUST SPEAK THE WORD", HE WAS SAYING I TRUST YOU LORD, I AM ASSURED AND CONFIDENT IN YOUR CHARACTER AS LORD, TRUSTING IN YOUR AUTHORITY AND STRENGTH, BELIEVING YOU ARE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE. I AM FULLY PERSUADED, TRUSTING, STANDING ON YOUR WORD ALONE THAT YOU CAN AND WILL DO ALL THAT YOU SAY YOU WILL. IT'S NOT EVEN NECESSARY FOR YOU TO COME TO MY HOME, AND BECAUSE I TRUST YOU JESUS "TRUST IN THE LORD"....JUST SPEAK THE WORD AND IN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE, AND WHAT YOU SAY YOU CAN AND WILL DO; I
COMPLETELY TRUST IN YOU LORD. IT SHALL BE DONE JUST AS YOU
SAY AND MY SERVANT SHALL BE HEALED.
HOW MANY OF US TODAY AS BELIEVER'S HAVE THAT TYPE OF TRUST IN THE LORD? NOT ONCE DID HE SAY HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE, OR HOW LONG WILL I HAVE TO WAIT FOR IT TO BE DONE. HE SAID "JUST SPEAK THE WORD ONLY" AND MY SERVANT SHALL BE HEALED!!!
WE HAVE THE WRITTEN WORD, WE HAVE THE COMPLETE WORD, IT IS ALL WRITTEN IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK....THE HOLY BIBLE. HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN. 2 CORINTHIANS 1;20 SAYS: FOR ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM ARE YEA, AND IN HIM AMEN, UNTO THE GLORY OF GOD BY US.
(ALL OF GOD'S PROMISES HAVE BEEN FULFILLED IN CHRIST AND THROUGH CHRIST OUR AMEN ASCENDS TO GOD FOR HIS GLORY.)
ISAIAH 55:11 SAYS; SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH FORTH OUT OF MY MOUTH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT.
IN ORDER TO HAVE SUCH GREAT FAITH IN JESUS, THE CENTURION SOLDIER HAD TO FIRST COMPLETELY TRUST JESUS. YOU MUST FIRST COMPLETELY TRUST IN ORDER TO HAVE FAITH IN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE. THE CENTURIONS TRUST WAS NOT ONLY IN JESUS BUT IN HIS WORD. W HAVE THE SPOKEN WORD THROUGH
THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK.......IN "IT IS WRITTEN" AND YET WE DOUBT, WE WAIVER, AND WE REFUSE TO TRUST IN THE LORD WITH OUR WHOLE HEARTS, TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS AND LOOKING FOR QUICK FIXES WHICH ARE USUALLY JUST TEMPORAL.
PSALM 37:3 SAYS: TRUST IN THE LORD, AND DO GOOD; SO SHALT THOU DWELL IN THE LAND, AND VERILY THOU SHALT BE FED. (THAT YOU WILL LIVE SAFELY IN THE LAND AND PROSPER)
WHEN WE TRUST IN THE LORD, WE CAN STAND ON HIS WORD NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION LOOKS LIKE OR FEELS LIKE. FOR THOSE WHO ARE WEAK IN THE FAITH YOU CAN LEARN TO TRUST IN THE LORD BECAUSE OF WHAT HE HAS ALREADY DONE IN YOUR LIFE. LOOK BACK OVER YOUR LIFE, REMEMBER HOW HE MIGHT HAVE DELIVERED YOU FROM DANGER, WHEN YOU PRAYED AND CRIED OUT FOR HIS HELP, HE PROVIDED THAT RIDE, THAT JOB, THAT APARTMENT, HE KEPT THAT CHILD FROM DYING, DELIVERED THAT BELOVED PARENT FROM THEIR BED OF AFFLICTION, GAVE YOU PEACE IN THE MIDST OF THAT STORM AND KEPT YOU FROM COMMITING SUICIDE WHEN YOU GREW WEARY, WANTING TO JUST GIVE UP ON LIFE, AND HE DIDN'T ALLOW IT TO BE SO. I'M SURE IF YOU TOOK THE TIME, YOU COULD SEE THE HAND OF THE LORD ALL THROUGH YOUR LIFE. IF HE BROUGHT YOU THROUGH THEN, SURELY HE CAN AND WILL DO IT AGAIN........YES, YOU CAN TRUST IN THE LORD. WE TRUST IN HIS STRENGTH, WE TRUST IN HIS AUTHORITY, WE TRUST AND STAND ON HIS WORD AND OUR HOPE
IS IN CHRIST JESUS. WE RELY ON HIM BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT HE IS TRUTH AND THEREFORE HIS WORD IS TRUTH. WE CAN TRUST IN HIM BECAUSE WE BELIEVE HE IS LORD OF LORD'S AND KING OF KING'S; AND THAT BECAUSE HE HAS ALL POWER AND ALL AUTHORITY, WE CAN ENTRUST HIM WITH OUR LIVES, STANDING
STEADFATST ON HIS WORD, TRUSTING AND KNOWING THAT HE IS A KEEPER.
ISAIAH 57:13 SAYS: (BOTTOM HALF OF THE SCRIPTURE)
BUT HE THA PUTTETH HIS TRUST IN ME SHALL POSSESS THE LAND, AND SHALL INHERIT MY HOLY MOUNTAIN.
NOW ALLOW ME TO SHOW YOU THE RESULTS OF NOT TRUSTING IN THE LORD. THE ISRAELITES HAD NO IDEA JUST HOW BLESSED THEY REALLY WERE. GOD HIMSELF LED THEM BY A CLOUD DURING THE DAY AND BY A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT. HE FED THEM MANNA FROM HEAVEN WHICH WAS ANGEL FOOD AND QUAIL TO SUPPLY THEIR DESIRE FOR MEAT. HE QUENCHED THEIR THIRST AND GAVE THEM WATER IN GREAT ABUNDANCE FROM A ROCK. HE PROVIDED THEIR EVERY NEED BECAUSE THEY WERE HIS PEOPLE AND HE LOVED THEM. BUT THEY WERE UNGREATFUL AND UNTHANKFUL. HOW QUICKLY THEY FORGOT THE MIRACLES AND ALL OF HIS BLESSINGS; VERY MUCH LIKE MANY OF US TODAY.
THEY LOOKED BACK, TAKING THEIR EYES OFF THE LORD, NOT TRUSTING HIM FOR WHAT HE HAD ALREADY DONE. COMPLAINING, MURMURING. THE WORD SAYS THAT THE PEOPLE BECAME TIRED AND ANGRY OVER THEIR LONG JOURNEY AND THE BEGAN TO SPEAK AGAINST NOT ONLY MOSES BUT GOD AS WELL. THEIR
COMPLAINING AND MURMURING GREATLY KINDLED THE ANGER OF GOD AND HE SENT POISONOUS SNAKES AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND MANY WERE BITTEN AND DIED. THE PEOPLE CRIED OUT AND REPENTED, MOSES PRAYED FOR THEM, GOD HAD MOSES TO MAKE A REPLICA OF A BRONZE SNAKE AND PUT IT ON A POLE AND AS THEY LOOKED UPON IT THEY WERE HEALED. SOME OF US ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE WE TOO HAVE COMPLAINED AND MURMED. THE WORLD HAS BECAME OUR GOD. WE FULFILL THE LUST OF THE FLESH WHENEVER WE DESIRE TO, AND WE ARE REAPING THE RESULTS OF OUR SINS, SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR SINS, AND THE BAD CHOICES WE HAVE MADE.
WE HAVE STOPPED TRUSTING IN THE LORD BECAUSE HE DIDN'T MOVE OR ACT AS FAST AS WE WANTED HIM TO. WE HAVE REPLACED GOD WITH OUR FINANCES, OUR JOBS, OUR MATERIAL BLESSINGS AND OUR TRUST REMAINS IN THOSE THINGS.DO YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU ASK GOD TO REVEAL TO YOU WHY YOU MIGHT BE GOING THROUGH, HE WILL IN FACT SHOW YOU, GIVING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT. WHEN WE DON'T TRUST GOD, OUR LIVES REFLECT IT. WE CAN'T SLEEP, WE WORRY, LOSE OUR APPPETITES, DEVELOP SICKNESSES THAT ARE STRESS RELATED: ULCERS, SKIN CONDITIONS, NERVE PROBLEMS. OUR LIVES ARE FULL OF FRUSTRATIONAND CHAOS. WE BECOME ANGRY BITTER, WE SPEAK NEGATIVITY. A PERSON WHO COMPLETELY TRUST IN THE LORD WILL BE IN PERFECT PEACE NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE THANKS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE TRIALS, REJOICING BECAUSE THEIR TRUST IS IN THE LORD AND IN GOD THEY DO TRUST. THE WORD SAYS THAT IF YOU KEEP YOUR MIND STAYED ON THE LORD HE WILL KEEP YOU IN PERFECT PEACE AND WHEN YOU LAY DOWN AT NIGHT YOUR SLEEP WILL BE SWEET.
IN MARK 10:14, 15 WHEN JESUS SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, HE WAS ANGRY WITH THE DISCIPLES. HE SAID TO THEM , LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME. DON'T STOP THEM FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE LIKE THESE CHILDREN. I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, ANYONE WHO DOESN'T RECEIVE THE
KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE A CHILD WILL NEVER ENTER IT.
(A CHILD BELIEVES WITH THEIR WHOLE HEART BECAUSE THEY TRUST YOU AND WE ARE TO BELIEVE AND TRUST IN THE LORD THE SAME WAY. WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING AND GOD CERTAINLY KNOWS THAT I DON'T
COMPREHEND MANY THINGS BUT I TRUST HIM. I MAY GET SIDETRACKED SOMETIMES AND DISCOURAGEMENT COMES IN, BUT FOR THE MOST PART IF HE SAID IT I BELIEVE HIM. HE'S MY DAD, MY ABBA AND I KNOW THAT HE LOVE FOR ME IS EVERLASTING, THAT NOTHING CAN SEPARATE ME FROM HIS LOVE AND MY BEST INTEREST IS ALWAYS HIS CONCERN. I KNOW THAT AS HIS DAUGHTER, HE IS ALWAYS GOING TO GIVE ME THE VERY BEST, AND IF HE DOESNT GIVE ME WHAT I ASK FOR IT IS ONLY BECAUSE IT WILL HARM ME OR CAUSE ME TO HARM MYSELF.
IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY UP ALL NIGHT AND MOST OF THE DAY THEN SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG. SOMETIMES GOD DOES KEEP YOU UP WHEN HE WANTS TO MINISTER TO YOU OR REVEAL TO YOU, OR EVEN POSSIBLY TO INTERCEDE IN PRAYER FOR OTHERS. BUT FOR THE MOST PART GOD GIVES US REST, SPIRITUAL
AND PHYSICAL. TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ONYOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING.
AMEN AND AMEN!!
WILL YOU BE READY?
by Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Monday, April 11, 2011 at 7:51pm
I’M FEELING HEAVINESS IN MY SPIRIT, ALMOST LIKE THE SOUNDING OF AN ALARM GOING OFF. THERE IS A WARNING THAT DANGER AND DESTRUCTION IS SOON TO COME UPON US LIKE WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE. I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT I FEEL THAT GOD IS GOING TO DO THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT TONIGHT. I BELIEVE THAT THE LORD IS SHOWING ME THAT I AM SUPPOSE TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURES SO YOU CAN GO TO THE WORD AND SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES. I FEEL URGENCY IN MY SPIRIT TONIGHT CONCERNING THIS MESSAGE WILL YOU BE READY. THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME OF YOU WHO WILL HEAR SUCH A MESSAGE FOR THE VERY LAST TIME BEFORE YOUR SOUL WILL BE REQUIRED OF YOU. GOD ALWAYS GIVES US MANY CHANCES BEFORE HE ALLOWS US TO EXPERIENCE CERTAIN THINGS. NONE OF US KNOW WHEN OUR TIME WILL BE UP, WHAT WILL HAPPEN, HOW WILL IT HAPPEN OR EVEN WHERE IT WILL HAPPEN.
GOD WANTS YOU TO MEDITATE UPON, TO CHEW THIS WORD OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU BEGIN TO QUESTION IN YOUR OWN HEARTS “LORD IF YOU WERE TO RETURN TONIGHT, EVEN THE VERY NEXT MINUTE, WILL I BE READY?" TONIGHT I BELIEVE HE’S GIVING YOU ANOTHER CHANCE, ASKING YOU, WITH A SORROWFUL HEART THROUGH THIS MESSAGE THAT HE HAS GIVEN ME “WILL YOU BE READY?”
I THINK MANY PEOPLE HAVE HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT GOD IS SOON TO RETURN, AND HE HASN’T COME. I THINK MANY PEOPLE HAVE BECOME COMPLACENT AND SETTLED IT IN THEIR HEARTS THAT I HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO COME TO JESUS. AND IN THE MEANTIME I’M GOING TO LIVE MY LIFE LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW. PARTYING, SEXING IT UP, TAKING DRUGS, LIVING WICKEDLY. EXPERIENCING AND DELIGHTING THEMSELVES IN ALL THE SENSUOUS AND WICKED PLEASURES OF THE EYES AND THE FLESH. THEIR EYES AND EARS HAVE BECOMED CLOSED TO ALL THE SOUNDINGS OF THE ALARMS, THE WARNINGS, THE CRIES TO REPENT, THAT JESUS IS SOON TO COME THAT ARE GOING FORTH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EVEN NOW.
IN GENESIS 6:5-8 AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. 6)AND IT REPENTETH THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART. 7) AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THEFACE OF THE EARTH; BOTH MAN AND BEAST, AND THE CREEPING THING, AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR; FOR IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE MADE THEM. 8) BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OFTHE LORD.
IT BEEN SAID THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AND JUST LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WE SEE EVEN TODAY THAT
THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH EVIL, WICKEDNESS AND VIOLENCE. MEN RAPING BABIES, PEOPLE KILLING AND MUTILATING, FULL OF REVELERY AND PARTYING, RAMPANT SEXUAL IMMORALITY. IT WAS AND STILL IS GOD’S DESIRE THAT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
2 PETER 3:9 SAYS THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; BUT IS LONG SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
GOD PURPOSED IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAD DONE OR HOW HEINOUS THEIR ACTS WERE TO REPENT AND TURN AWAY FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS. IN THE DAYS OF NOAH THE ENTIRE EARTH WAS CORRUPT AND FILLED WITH VIOLENCE AND ONLY NOAH REMAINED ALIVE, AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, HIS SONS, WIFE AND DAUGHTERS IN LAWS. THEY WERE THE ONLY RIGHTEOUS ONES. EVERYONE ELSE WAS FILLED WITH EVIL AND WICKEDNESS, SUCH TO THE POINT THAT GOD SAID HE HAD TO DESTROY THEM ALL TO GET RID OF IT. I’M SURE THAT AS NOAH WAS BUILDING THE ARK THAT THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHY HE WAS BUILDING IT AND THAT THE FLOOD WATERS WERE SOON TO COME. NONE OF THEM SEARCHED THEMSELVES OR TOOK INTO TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME TRUTH TO THIS OR EVEN ASKED THEMSELVES WHAT CAN I DO TO PREPARE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT I DON’T GET DESTROYED WHEN THE WATERS COME. NO INSTEAD THEY LAUGHED AT THE SOUNDING OF THE ALARM AND CONTINUED ON IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES OF VIOLENCE, WICKEDNESS, EATING, DRINKING, PARTYING AND BEING MERRY, LIVING FOR TODAY WITH NO THOUGHT OF WHAT TOMORROW WOULD BRING JUST AS MANY OF US ARE TODAY.
MATTHEW 24: 35-39 READS:
35) HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. 36) BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY. 37) BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. 38) FOR AS IN THE DAYS THAT WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK. 39) AND KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.
WHEN GOD STEPPED OUT OF HIS GLORY, CAME TO EARTH IN THE FLESH AS JESUS; HE SUFFERED, WAS SCORNED AND REJECTED, BRUISED AND BEATEN, CRUCIFIED ON THAT CROSS FOR ALL OF OUR SINS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. TOOK ALL OF OUR INFIRMITIES, SICKNESS AND DISEASES UPON HIMSELF, HE MADE A WAY OUT FOR US; GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE A LIFE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS BEFORE HIM. HE GAVE US HIS HOLY WORD WHICH INSTRUCTS US HOW TO LIVE, TEACHES US HOW TO AVOID SINFUL MATTERS.
THE WORD SAYS IN JAMES 4:7 IT SAYS TO SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
THE WORD TELLS US HOW TO LIVE, PRAY, WORSHIP, SPEAK, ACT, HOW TO TREAT OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THE LORD. EVERYTHING THAT WE NEEDED, HE PROVIDED FOR US BEFORE WE WERE EVEN BORN, AND BEFORE WE WERE EVEN THOUGHT OF. BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS WORLD WERE EVEN CREATED GOD HAD A PLAN FOR US. HE KNEW THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE BEFORE WE WERE CONCEIVED, ALL THE EXPERIENCES WE WOULD HAVE, THE CHOICES THAT WE WOULD MAKE, WHETHER THEY WERE GOOD OR BAD. GOD ALREADY
KNEW ALL OF THAT ABOUT US AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR US WAS AND STILL IS SO GREAT THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THAT HE ALREADY KNEW ABOUT US….HE STILL ALLOWED US TO COME FORTH, TO COME INTO BEING. IN SPITE OF WHAT OUR LIVES ARE LIKE, GOD DOESN’T GIVE UP ON US AND HE GIVES US CHANCES OVER AND OVER AGAIN ALLOWING US TO ALLIGN OUR LIVES TO THE WORD OF GOD. ITS ALL IN HIS HOLY WORD WHAT WE NEED
TO DO, AND HOW WE NEED TO LIVE IN ORDER TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR HIS RETURN AND TO ENSURE THAT WHEN HE DESCENDS, COMING IN THAT CLOUD WITH GREAT POWER AND GLORY, THAT WE HIS SAINTS, HIS CHURCH, HIS BRIDE WILL BE ABLE TO ASCEND WITH HIM WHEN HE RETURNS TO THE EARTH FOR THE SECOND TIME.
GOD SAID IN HIS WORD IN GENESIS 6:3 AND THE LORD SAID, MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN.
IN LUKE 17:26-30 AND AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. 27) THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK, AND THE FLOOD CAME, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. 28) LIKEWISE ALSO AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT; THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD, THEY PLANTED THEY BUILDED. 29) BUT THE SAME DAY THAT LOT WENT OUT OF SODOM IT RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FROM HEAVEN, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. 30) EVEN THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED.
IN THE STORY OF SODOM AND GORMORROH, THE TWO ANGELS CAME TO ABRAHAM AND TOLD HIM THAT BECAUSE THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORROH WAS SO EVIL AND FULL OF WICKEDNESS THAT HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE CITY. ABRAHAM HAD GREAT CONCERN BECAUSE HIS NEPHEW LOT LIVED IN THAT CITY WITH HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS. AND THE LORD SAID BECAUSE THE CRY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS GREAT, AND BECAUSE THEIR SIN IS VERY GRIEVOUS; I WILL GO DOWN NOW, AND SEE WHETHER THEY HAVE DONE ALTOGETHER ACCORDING TO THE CRY OF IT, WHICH IS COME UNTO ME, AND IF NOT I WILL KNOW. AND ABRAHAM PLEADED AND ASKED IF HE WOULD DESTROY THE RIGHTEOUS ALONG WITH THE WICKED AND HE ASKED IF THEY WERE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS IN THE CITY WOULD HE NOT DESTROY IT. HE WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 10 AND THE LORD SAID IF
THERE WERE 10 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE IN THE CITY, HE WOULD NOT DESTROY IT. GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD LIE AND WHEN HE SPEAKS A WORD IT STANDS. THERE WERE NOT EVEN 10 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND AS WE KNOW THE CITY WAS DESTROYED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE DESTROYED HAD EVERY OPPORTUNITY JUST LIKE GOD IS GIVING US TODAY TO BE READY BUT WERE NOT, AND LOST THEIR FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE AS A RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE ON IN YOUR SINS, SUCH AS SEXUAL SINS, WORSHIPPING IDOLS, WHETHER ITS MONEY, MATERIAL THINGS, WHATEVER YOU HAVE PUT BEFORE GOD, COMMITING ADULTERY, ARE A MALE PROSTITUTE, PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY, LESBIANISM, ARE A THIEF, ARE FULL OF GREED, A DRUNKARD, AN ABUSER, OR EVEN CHEAT PEOPLE, THEN YOU ARE CHOOSING TO FOLLOW AFTER THE DEVIL. YOU ARE WILLINGLY CHOOSING TO LIVE A LIFE OF SIN AND WICKEDNESS. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN THESE EVIL AND WICKED PRACTICES THEN YOU ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT A CHILD OF THE DEVIL.
YOU TOO WILL BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD AND NOT READY JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, LIKE THE PEOPLE IN SODOM AND GOMORROH. I MUST INCLUDE THE PEOPLE IN JAPAN IN THIS AS WELL. MANY CITIES IN JAPAN WERE FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO TOOK PRIDE IN THEIR GREAT KNOWLEDGE, THEIR GREAT ECONOMIC WEALTH AND THEY WORSHIPPED FALSE GODS. THEY HAD EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD AND TO SEEK HIS FACE. GOD GIVES US ALL CHOICES. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS MASS DESTRUCTION IN JAPAN, THERE WAS ONE PARTICULAR CITY THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. NOT A HOUSE WAS LEFT ON ITS FOUNDATION, ALL THE PEOPLE WERE WASHED AWAY AND WHEN THEY SHOWED THE CITY, ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS WHAT WAS ONCE THERE. THROUGH THE WATER ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS WHERE THE FOUNDATIONS WERE AND NOTHING ELSE. JUST LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND IN THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORROH, THEY WERE EATING, DRINKING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE. THEY WERE BUILDING AND PLANTING AND THE WATERS, THE DESTRUCTION CAME AND I’M SURE THAT MANY OF THEM THAT WERE DESTROYED WERE NOT READY.
I ASK TONIGHT WITH SUCH HEAVINESS OF HEART….WILL YOU BE READY?
GENESIS 13:13 SAYS BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED AND SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY.
PROVERBS 4:17-19
17) FOR THEY EAT THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS AND DRINK THE WINE OF VIOLENCE. 18) BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS AS THE SHINNING LIGHT, THAT SHINETH MORE AND MORE. 19) THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AS DARKNESS; THEY KNOW NOT AT WHAT THEY STUMBLE.
PSALMS 11:5
THE LORD TRIETH THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE WICKED AND HIM THAT LOVETH VIOLENCE HIS SOUL HATETH.
JEREMIAH 18:12 AND THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE; BUT WE WILL WALK AFTER OUR OWN DEVICES, AND WE WILL EVERY ONE DO THE STUBBORNESS OF HIS EVIL HEART.
JEREMIAH 29:13 AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND FIND ME, WHEN YE SHALL SEARCH
FOR ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.
MATTHEW 5:6 SAYS. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
ISAIAH 55:1-7 SAYS: HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTETH, COME YE TO THE WATERS, AND HE THAT HATH NO MONEY, COME YE, BUY, AND EAT, YEA, COME, BUY WINE AND MILK WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
2) WHEREFORE DO YE SPEND MONEY FOR THAT WHICH IS NOT BREAD? AND YOUR LABOR FOR THAT WHICH SATISFIETH NOT? HEARKEN DILIGENTLY UNTO ME, AND EAT YE THAT WHICH IS GOOD, AND LET YOUR SOUL DELIGHT ITSELF IN FATNESS. 3) INCLINE YOUR EAR, AND COME UNTO ME: HEAR, AND YOUR
SOUL SHALL LIVE, AND I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU.
6) SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR 7) LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
PSALMS 2: 1-4
1) WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE, AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE A VAIN THING? 2) THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED, SAYING, 3) LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS ASUNDER, AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US. 4) HE THAT SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH: THE LORD SHALL HAVE THEM IN DERISON.
I ASK YOU AGAIN TONIGHT, MAYBE FOR THE FINAL TIME. WILL YOU BE READY? NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR. NONE OF US KNOW WHEN OUR SOULS WILL BE REQUIRED OF US. WILL YOU BE READY????
GOD WANTS YOU TO MEDITATE UPON, TO CHEW THIS WORD OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU BEGIN TO QUESTION IN YOUR OWN HEARTS “LORD IF YOU WERE TO RETURN TONIGHT, EVEN THE VERY NEXT MINUTE, WILL I BE READY?" TONIGHT I BELIEVE HE’S GIVING YOU ANOTHER CHANCE, ASKING YOU, WITH A SORROWFUL HEART THROUGH THIS MESSAGE THAT HE HAS GIVEN ME “WILL YOU BE READY?”
I THINK MANY PEOPLE HAVE HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT GOD IS SOON TO RETURN, AND HE HASN’T COME. I THINK MANY PEOPLE HAVE BECOME COMPLACENT AND SETTLED IT IN THEIR HEARTS THAT I HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO COME TO JESUS. AND IN THE MEANTIME I’M GOING TO LIVE MY LIFE LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW. PARTYING, SEXING IT UP, TAKING DRUGS, LIVING WICKEDLY. EXPERIENCING AND DELIGHTING THEMSELVES IN ALL THE SENSUOUS AND WICKED PLEASURES OF THE EYES AND THE FLESH. THEIR EYES AND EARS HAVE BECOMED CLOSED TO ALL THE SOUNDINGS OF THE ALARMS, THE WARNINGS, THE CRIES TO REPENT, THAT JESUS IS SOON TO COME THAT ARE GOING FORTH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EVEN NOW.
IN GENESIS 6:5-8 AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. 6)AND IT REPENTETH THE LORD THAT HE HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND IT GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART. 7) AND THE LORD SAID, I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED FROM THEFACE OF THE EARTH; BOTH MAN AND BEAST, AND THE CREEPING THING, AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR; FOR IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE MADE THEM. 8) BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OFTHE LORD.
IT BEEN SAID THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AND JUST LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, WE SEE EVEN TODAY THAT
THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH EVIL, WICKEDNESS AND VIOLENCE. MEN RAPING BABIES, PEOPLE KILLING AND MUTILATING, FULL OF REVELERY AND PARTYING, RAMPANT SEXUAL IMMORALITY. IT WAS AND STILL IS GOD’S DESIRE THAT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
2 PETER 3:9 SAYS THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; BUT IS LONG SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.
GOD PURPOSED IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAD DONE OR HOW HEINOUS THEIR ACTS WERE TO REPENT AND TURN AWAY FROM THEIR EVIL WAYS. IN THE DAYS OF NOAH THE ENTIRE EARTH WAS CORRUPT AND FILLED WITH VIOLENCE AND ONLY NOAH REMAINED ALIVE, AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, HIS SONS, WIFE AND DAUGHTERS IN LAWS. THEY WERE THE ONLY RIGHTEOUS ONES. EVERYONE ELSE WAS FILLED WITH EVIL AND WICKEDNESS, SUCH TO THE POINT THAT GOD SAID HE HAD TO DESTROY THEM ALL TO GET RID OF IT. I’M SURE THAT AS NOAH WAS BUILDING THE ARK THAT THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHY HE WAS BUILDING IT AND THAT THE FLOOD WATERS WERE SOON TO COME. NONE OF THEM SEARCHED THEMSELVES OR TOOK INTO TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME TRUTH TO THIS OR EVEN ASKED THEMSELVES WHAT CAN I DO TO PREPARE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT I DON’T GET DESTROYED WHEN THE WATERS COME. NO INSTEAD THEY LAUGHED AT THE SOUNDING OF THE ALARM AND CONTINUED ON IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES OF VIOLENCE, WICKEDNESS, EATING, DRINKING, PARTYING AND BEING MERRY, LIVING FOR TODAY WITH NO THOUGHT OF WHAT TOMORROW WOULD BRING JUST AS MANY OF US ARE TODAY.
MATTHEW 24: 35-39 READS:
35) HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. 36) BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY. 37) BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE. 38) FOR AS IN THE DAYS THAT WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK. 39) AND KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.
WHEN GOD STEPPED OUT OF HIS GLORY, CAME TO EARTH IN THE FLESH AS JESUS; HE SUFFERED, WAS SCORNED AND REJECTED, BRUISED AND BEATEN, CRUCIFIED ON THAT CROSS FOR ALL OF OUR SINS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. TOOK ALL OF OUR INFIRMITIES, SICKNESS AND DISEASES UPON HIMSELF, HE MADE A WAY OUT FOR US; GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE A LIFE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS BEFORE HIM. HE GAVE US HIS HOLY WORD WHICH INSTRUCTS US HOW TO LIVE, TEACHES US HOW TO AVOID SINFUL MATTERS.
THE WORD SAYS IN JAMES 4:7 IT SAYS TO SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
THE WORD TELLS US HOW TO LIVE, PRAY, WORSHIP, SPEAK, ACT, HOW TO TREAT OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THE LORD. EVERYTHING THAT WE NEEDED, HE PROVIDED FOR US BEFORE WE WERE EVEN BORN, AND BEFORE WE WERE EVEN THOUGHT OF. BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS WORLD WERE EVEN CREATED GOD HAD A PLAN FOR US. HE KNEW THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE BEFORE WE WERE CONCEIVED, ALL THE EXPERIENCES WE WOULD HAVE, THE CHOICES THAT WE WOULD MAKE, WHETHER THEY WERE GOOD OR BAD. GOD ALREADY
KNEW ALL OF THAT ABOUT US AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR US WAS AND STILL IS SO GREAT THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THAT HE ALREADY KNEW ABOUT US….HE STILL ALLOWED US TO COME FORTH, TO COME INTO BEING. IN SPITE OF WHAT OUR LIVES ARE LIKE, GOD DOESN’T GIVE UP ON US AND HE GIVES US CHANCES OVER AND OVER AGAIN ALLOWING US TO ALLIGN OUR LIVES TO THE WORD OF GOD. ITS ALL IN HIS HOLY WORD WHAT WE NEED
TO DO, AND HOW WE NEED TO LIVE IN ORDER TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR HIS RETURN AND TO ENSURE THAT WHEN HE DESCENDS, COMING IN THAT CLOUD WITH GREAT POWER AND GLORY, THAT WE HIS SAINTS, HIS CHURCH, HIS BRIDE WILL BE ABLE TO ASCEND WITH HIM WHEN HE RETURNS TO THE EARTH FOR THE SECOND TIME.
GOD SAID IN HIS WORD IN GENESIS 6:3 AND THE LORD SAID, MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN.
IN LUKE 17:26-30 AND AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, SO SHALL IT BE ALSO IN THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. 27) THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY MARRIED WIVES, THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK, AND THE FLOOD CAME, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. 28) LIKEWISE ALSO AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT; THEY DID EAT, THEY DRANK, THEY BOUGHT, THEY SOLD, THEY PLANTED THEY BUILDED. 29) BUT THE SAME DAY THAT LOT WENT OUT OF SODOM IT RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FROM HEAVEN, AND DESTROYED THEM ALL. 30) EVEN THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED.
IN THE STORY OF SODOM AND GORMORROH, THE TWO ANGELS CAME TO ABRAHAM AND TOLD HIM THAT BECAUSE THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORROH WAS SO EVIL AND FULL OF WICKEDNESS THAT HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE CITY. ABRAHAM HAD GREAT CONCERN BECAUSE HIS NEPHEW LOT LIVED IN THAT CITY WITH HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS. AND THE LORD SAID BECAUSE THE CRY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS GREAT, AND BECAUSE THEIR SIN IS VERY GRIEVOUS; I WILL GO DOWN NOW, AND SEE WHETHER THEY HAVE DONE ALTOGETHER ACCORDING TO THE CRY OF IT, WHICH IS COME UNTO ME, AND IF NOT I WILL KNOW. AND ABRAHAM PLEADED AND ASKED IF HE WOULD DESTROY THE RIGHTEOUS ALONG WITH THE WICKED AND HE ASKED IF THEY WERE FIFTY RIGHTEOUS IN THE CITY WOULD HE NOT DESTROY IT. HE WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 10 AND THE LORD SAID IF
THERE WERE 10 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE IN THE CITY, HE WOULD NOT DESTROY IT. GOD IS NOT A MAN THAT HE SHOULD LIE AND WHEN HE SPEAKS A WORD IT STANDS. THERE WERE NOT EVEN 10 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, AND AS WE KNOW THE CITY WAS DESTROYED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE DESTROYED HAD EVERY OPPORTUNITY JUST LIKE GOD IS GIVING US TODAY TO BE READY BUT WERE NOT, AND LOST THEIR FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE AS A RESULT OF THEIR WICKEDNESS. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE ON IN YOUR SINS, SUCH AS SEXUAL SINS, WORSHIPPING IDOLS, WHETHER ITS MONEY, MATERIAL THINGS, WHATEVER YOU HAVE PUT BEFORE GOD, COMMITING ADULTERY, ARE A MALE PROSTITUTE, PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY, LESBIANISM, ARE A THIEF, ARE FULL OF GREED, A DRUNKARD, AN ABUSER, OR EVEN CHEAT PEOPLE, THEN YOU ARE CHOOSING TO FOLLOW AFTER THE DEVIL. YOU ARE WILLINGLY CHOOSING TO LIVE A LIFE OF SIN AND WICKEDNESS. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN THESE EVIL AND WICKED PRACTICES THEN YOU ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT A CHILD OF THE DEVIL.
YOU TOO WILL BE CAUGHT OFF GUARD AND NOT READY JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, LIKE THE PEOPLE IN SODOM AND GOMORROH. I MUST INCLUDE THE PEOPLE IN JAPAN IN THIS AS WELL. MANY CITIES IN JAPAN WERE FILLED WITH PEOPLE WHO TOOK PRIDE IN THEIR GREAT KNOWLEDGE, THEIR GREAT ECONOMIC WEALTH AND THEY WORSHIPPED FALSE GODS. THEY HAD EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD AND TO SEEK HIS FACE. GOD GIVES US ALL CHOICES. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS MASS DESTRUCTION IN JAPAN, THERE WAS ONE PARTICULAR CITY THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. NOT A HOUSE WAS LEFT ON ITS FOUNDATION, ALL THE PEOPLE WERE WASHED AWAY AND WHEN THEY SHOWED THE CITY, ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS WHAT WAS ONCE THERE. THROUGH THE WATER ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS WHERE THE FOUNDATIONS WERE AND NOTHING ELSE. JUST LIKE IN THE DAYS OF NOAH AND IN THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORROH, THEY WERE EATING, DRINKING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE. THEY WERE BUILDING AND PLANTING AND THE WATERS, THE DESTRUCTION CAME AND I’M SURE THAT MANY OF THEM THAT WERE DESTROYED WERE NOT READY.
I ASK TONIGHT WITH SUCH HEAVINESS OF HEART….WILL YOU BE READY?
GENESIS 13:13 SAYS BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED AND SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY.
PROVERBS 4:17-19
17) FOR THEY EAT THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS AND DRINK THE WINE OF VIOLENCE. 18) BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS AS THE SHINNING LIGHT, THAT SHINETH MORE AND MORE. 19) THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AS DARKNESS; THEY KNOW NOT AT WHAT THEY STUMBLE.
PSALMS 11:5
THE LORD TRIETH THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE WICKED AND HIM THAT LOVETH VIOLENCE HIS SOUL HATETH.
JEREMIAH 18:12 AND THEY SAID, THERE IS NO HOPE; BUT WE WILL WALK AFTER OUR OWN DEVICES, AND WE WILL EVERY ONE DO THE STUBBORNESS OF HIS EVIL HEART.
JEREMIAH 29:13 AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND FIND ME, WHEN YE SHALL SEARCH
FOR ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.
MATTHEW 5:6 SAYS. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
ISAIAH 55:1-7 SAYS: HO, EVERYONE THAT THIRSTETH, COME YE TO THE WATERS, AND HE THAT HATH NO MONEY, COME YE, BUY, AND EAT, YEA, COME, BUY WINE AND MILK WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
2) WHEREFORE DO YE SPEND MONEY FOR THAT WHICH IS NOT BREAD? AND YOUR LABOR FOR THAT WHICH SATISFIETH NOT? HEARKEN DILIGENTLY UNTO ME, AND EAT YE THAT WHICH IS GOOD, AND LET YOUR SOUL DELIGHT ITSELF IN FATNESS. 3) INCLINE YOUR EAR, AND COME UNTO ME: HEAR, AND YOUR
SOUL SHALL LIVE, AND I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU.
6) SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND, CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR 7) LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
PSALMS 2: 1-4
1) WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE, AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE A VAIN THING? 2) THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED, SAYING, 3) LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS ASUNDER, AND CAST AWAY THEIR CORDS FROM US. 4) HE THAT SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH: THE LORD SHALL HAVE THEM IN DERISON.
I ASK YOU AGAIN TONIGHT, MAYBE FOR THE FINAL TIME. WILL YOU BE READY? NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR. NONE OF US KNOW WHEN OUR SOULS WILL BE REQUIRED OF US. WILL YOU BE READY????
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS TO DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER OF EACH ANIMAL. LET’S BEGIN WITH THE SHEEP. TO START OFF WITH, THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED TO BE VERY BRIGHT ANIMALS, AND MUST GREATLY DEPEND ON THE SHEPHERD IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. THEIR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON A SHEPHERD THEY CAN TRUST WHO WILL LEAD THEM THIS WAY OR THAT AND GUIDE THEM. SHEEP ARE IN NEED OF GREAT CARE. THEY ARE FEARFUL, PANICK EASILY. THEY ARE VULNERABLE AND CAN’T DEFEND THEMSELVES. WHEN THEY DON’T FOLLOW THE LEADING OF THE SHEPHERD, THEY WILL SOMETIMES GET SEPARATED, WANDER OFF, GETTING LOST. SHEEP CAN BECOME VERY DISSTRESSED WHEN SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE FLOCK. THEY ARE QUICK TO RUN OFF AND FLEE WHEN THERE PEACE HAS BEEN DISTURBED AND THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THEIR COMFORT ZONE. THEY MUST ALWAYS BE UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE SHEPHERD, WATCHING AND PROTECTING THEM FROM THE RAVENOUS WOLVES AND PREDATORS WHO WATCH AND LYE IN WAIT. HOPING, WATCHING AND WAITING FOR THAT ONE TO GET WEAK, TO LOSE FOCUS AND WANDER OFF ALONE BY THEMSELVES SO THEY CAN BE PREYED ON AND ATTACKED; CAUSING THEM INJURY, POUNCING UPON THEM, WEARING THEM DOWN, BREAKING THEM AND DEVOURING THEM ALMOST TO THE POINT OF DEATH. SHEEP NEED TO BE IN HERDS AND CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, NEEDING TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER SHEEP. THEY CAN’T SURVIVE ALONE. SHEEP KNOW THE VOICE OF THEIR SHEPHERD AND WILL FOLLOW THE VOICE OF THE SHEPHERD WHEREEVER HE LEADS. SHEEP THRIVE IN GREEN PASTURES. THEY MUST DRINK OF THE CLEAN AND FRESH WATERS. THE FILTYH, DARK, AND MURKY WATERS THEY WILL NOT DRINK OF.
THE GOAT
THE GOAT IS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT AND VERY CURIOUS. GOATS LIKE TO TEST THINGS, GOING OVER AND INTENTIONALLY WANDERING INTO THE FORBIDDEN ZONES. A GOAT WILL CONSUME AND EAT ALMOST ANYTHING. THEY WILL EASILY CHARGE AT AND TRY TO ATTACK YOU. GOATS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO TRY AND HANDLE. GOATS CANNOT TOLERATE RESTRICTIONS AND WILL CLIMB OVER AND TEAR DOWN BORDERS TO ATTAIN WHAT THEY WANT. THEY CAN GET AGGRESSIVE IF THEY ARE BORED, OR EVEN SENSE THAT YOU ARE AFRAID. THEY ARE STUBBORN AND WILL FIGHT EACH OTHER VIOLENTLY FOR DOMINANCE. GOATS WILL PUSH AND RAM OTHER GOATS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW THEIR PLACE. QUICK TO FIGHT AND WILL EVEN TAKE THE SIDE OF THE GOAT WHO IS STRONGER AND WINNING.
GOATS ARE VERY UNPREDICTABLE AND WHEN YOU ARE AROUND THEM YOU MUST ALWAYS KEEP YOUR GUARD UP FOR FEAR THAT THEY WILL HARM OR ATTACK YOU IN SOME WAY. A GOAT IS NEVER CONTENT, HE WANTS MORE AND MORE AND HE WILL TEAR DOWN, AND DESTROYS TO GET WHAT EVER IT HAS ITS MIND SET ON AND WANTS. A GOAT WILL NOT FOLLOW BUT INSTEAD CHOOSE TO GO OFF ON ITS OWN, DOING WHAT EVER IT WANTS AND ITS OWN THING. GOATS LIVE IN CONSTANT DISUNITY, ALWAYS FIGHTING AND BUTTING, AND IN CONSTANT OPPOSITION OF EACH OTHER.
AND SO I ASK YOU THIS NIGHT, ARE YOU A SHEEP OR A GOAT? IN THE BIBLE WE KNOW OF ONE WHO WAS IN OPPOSITION, A GREAT OPPOSER. HIS NAME WAS SATAN, THE DEVIL WHICH MEANS OPPOSER. THE DEVIL WAN AN OPPONENT AND IN OPPOSITION TO GOD. IN THE CHURCH OF SATAN THE GOATS HEAD IS USED TO SYMBOLIZE SATAN.
IN MATTHEW 25:32, 33, 34, 41, 46- IT SPEAKS OF THE NATIONS COMING BEFORE GOD AND HIM SEPARATING THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS. IT READS: MATTHEW 25: 32 AND BEFORE HIM SHALL BE GATHERED ALL NATIONS: AND HE SHALL SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER, AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDETH HIS SHEEP FROM THE GOATS: 33) AND HE SHALL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS ON THE LEFT. 34) THEN SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM ON HIS RIGHT HAND, COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: 41) THEN SHALL HE SAY ALSO UNTO THEM ON THE LEFT HAND, DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS: 46) AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO LIFE ETERNAL.
LET’S LOOK AT WHAT IT WAS THAT GAVE THE SHEEP ON THE RIGHT SUCH BLESSING AND FAVOR WITH GOD THAT ALLOWED THEM TO INHERIT THE KINGDOM? AND THE GOATS ON THE LEFT TO BE CURSED AND SENT INTO THE EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL WHICH MEANS OPPOSER AND HIS ANGELS.
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE THAT GOD CALLED SHEEP AND THE PEOPLE THAT GOD CALLED GOATS AND THE LIVES THAT THEY LIVED? ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 25: VERSES 35 TO 40 IT SAYS THAT THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERED TO BE SHEEP FED, GAVE DRINK TO, TOOK IN, CLOTHED, CARED FOR, AND VISITED THOSE WHO WERE IMPRISONED. GOD GOES ON TO SAY THAT IN AS MUCH AS THEY DID IT FOR THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YEHAVE DONE IT UNTO ME. IN VERSES 41-45 THOSE WHO ARE CALLED GOATS DIDN’T DO ANY OF THESE THINGS AND THEREFORE DID NOT DO THEM UNTO THE LORD, AND AS A RESULT OF THAT ARE ORDERED INTO EVERLASTING FIRE AND PUNISHMENT.
MATTHEW 7:18-23 SAYS
A GOOD TREE CANNOT BRING FORTH EVIL FRUIT, NEITHER CAN A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT. 19) EVERY TREE THAT BRINGETH NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT IS CUT DOWN AND CAST INTO THE FIRE. 20) WHEREFORE BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. 21) NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
JOHN10:11 JESUS SAID I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD; THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.
JOHN 10:27 SAYS THAT MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME.
UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE THE SHEEP LOVE THE LORD, THEY WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW AFTER HIM AND OBEY HIS VOICE, HIS TEACHING, AND THE WORD OF GOD. THE WORD SAYS THAT IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS. THOSE WHO ARE CALLED SHEEP, THEIR WALK IS UPRIGHT BEFORE THE LORD AND THEY DESIRE ONLY TO PLEASE THE FATHER AND TO DO HIS WILL AND HIS WILL ONLY. THOSE WHO ARE CALLED GOATS, OPPOSERS, DO THE WILL OF THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL WHO IS AN OPPONENT AND OPPOSER OF GOD. IF YOU ARE NOT LIVING FOR THE LORD AND NOT IN HIS WILL, THEN YOU ARE A GOAT.
JOHN 8:44 SAYS THAT: YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND THE LUSTS, THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER YOU WILL DO. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHEN HE SPEAKETH A LIE, HE SPEAKETH OF HIS OWN, FOR HE IS A LIAR, AND THE FATHER OF IT. EITHER YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, A SHEEP OR YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE DEVIL, A GOAT AN OPPOSER AND LIVING IN WICKEDNESS AND OPPOSITION. YOU ARE EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER. THERE IS NO STRADDLING THE LINE AND NO IN BETWEEN.
JOHN 10:10 SAYS THAT THE THIEF COMETH NOT, BUT FOR TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY.
NONE OF US ARE PERFECT OR EVEN WITHOUT SIN.
ROMANS 3:23 SAYS: FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
NONE OF US ARE PERFECT. GOD LOOKS AT THE HEART. BUT WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE ON IN YOUR SINS, SUCH AS SEXUAL SINS, WORSHIPPING IDOLS, WHETHER ITS MONEY, MATERIAL THINGS, WHATEVER YOU HAVE PUT BEFORE GOD, COMMITING ADULTERY, ARE A MALE PROSTITUTE, PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY, LESBIANISM, ARE A THIEF, ARE FULL OF GREED, A DRUNKARD, AN ABUSER, OR EVEN CHEAT PEOPLE, THEN YOU ARE CHOOSING TO FOLLOW AFTER THE DEVIL, THE GOAT, THE OPPOSER AND LIVE A LIFE OF SIN AND WICKEDNESS. AGAIN, WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN THESE EVIL AND WICKED PRACTICES THEN YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE DEVIL, A GOAT, AN OPPOSER, AN OPPONENT OF GOD.
THOSE WHO ARE SHEEP ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. GOD SAYS TO BE YE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY. THE SHEEP ARE HIDDEN AND SAFE UNDER THE WATCHFUL CARE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE SHEEP DESIRES TO LIVE A LIFE THAT IS PLEASING TO GOD, DIEING TO SELF DAILY. THE SHEEP DEPEND ON THE CARE OF THE SHEPHERD, THEY KNOW THAT WITHOUT HIM, THEY ARE NOTHING AND CAN DO NOTHING ON THEIR OWN. HE SAYS GO THIS WAY AND THEY FOLLOW, THEY REST SAFELY IN HIS ARMS, RECEIVING HIS BLESSINGS BECAUSE THEY WALK IN OBEDIENCE. THEY RECEIVE HIS BLESSINGS BECAUSE HE ABIDES IN THEM AND THEY ABIDE IN HIM. WE ARE REWARDED WITH THE PROMISES OF HOPE, PEACE, WELL BEING, ABUNDANT LIFE. THE SHEEP KNOW THAT THEY CAN TALK TO HIM AND HE WILL HEAR THEM. THEY HAVE THE ASSURANCE THAT GOD WILL HEAR AND ANSWER THEIR PRAYERS, AS WELL AS MEET OUR NEEDS, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. WE HAVE FORGIVENESS, HIS HOLY SPIRIT THAT TEACHES, AND GUIDES AND LEAD US.
THE GOATS DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES, FULFILLING ALL THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND ALWAYS PUTTING SELF FIRST, FULL OF DISCORD AND DIVISION; FIGHTING, ARGUING, NOT WILLING TO FOLLOW LEADERSHIP, BACK-BITING, WANTING TO BE FIRST AND FOREMOST IN ALL THINGS. TEARING DOWN AND DESTROYING EVERY GOOD THING LIKE THEIR FATHER THE DEVIL. PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TO RECEIVE CHRIST OR THE FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS. THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN JUST BE GOOD PEOPLE AND IF THEY ARE KIND AND TREAT PEOPLE DESCENT THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE.
THAT’S A LIE STRAIGHT FROM THE PIT OF HELL AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE LIVING A LIE AND WALKING IN DECEPTION. THE DEVIL HAS SET A TRAP FOR YOU AND YOU HAVE FALLEN INTO IT. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT NO ONE IS GOOD BUT GOD THE FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
AGAIN, I ASK, ARE YOU A SHEEP OR A GOAT? WHATEVER POSSESSES YOU DETERMINES WHICH YOU ARE. ARE YOU A SHEEP, POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD OR ARE YOU A GOAT, A CHILD OF THE DEVIL, AN OPPOSER, AND AN OPPONENT OF GOD? CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YOU SHALL SERVE. THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.
YOU MURDERER, CHILD MOLESTER, RAPIST, PROSTITUTE, CHEATER, DRUNK, ADDICT, MENTALLY UNSTABLE, ROBBER, HOMOSEXUAL, LESBIAN, AND THUG!!
By Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 5:00am
GOD LOVES YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH: IN JEREMIAH 31:3 IT SAYS THAT: GOD LOVES YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE!!!!
HOW DOES GOD SEE YOU, ME, AND US?
I'm sure many of you have said to yourselves at one time or another or even feel way down in the depths of your soul that you have committed such horrific heinous acts that God would never love or forgive you. You've done too much, there's no hope for you and you think you're unworthy. You might be asking yourself, how could GOD possibly ever love me? You've been hiding and holding on to your past, allowing the enemy to heap shame and guilt upon you. You've been chained and bound by these strongholds for so long that they have dictated the direction of your life because you have believed and received them. Because of your past actions, horrible hurtful things that have been said to you which are nothing more but lies and deceptions, tricks from the satan to keep you bound, allowing him to control your thoughts and actions as a result of the way others and even we see ourselves, you have chosen to believe the lies. The devil doesn't care about you! He's doing his job and he's doing it well. He knows that he doesn't have very much time left. The devil is here to kill, steal and destroy your vision and your purpose, to rob you of your gift of Salvation, your God given destiny, to destroy all your hopes and dreams and to take as many as he can to the pit of hell before his time runs out.
1 PETER 5:8 SAYS TO BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL, AS A ROARING LION, WALKETH ABOUT, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.
ROMANS 6:23 SAYS: FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.
1 JOHN 1:9 SAYS: IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, GOD IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
ISAIAH 43:25 SAYS: "I, EVEN I, AM HE THAT BLOTTETH OUT THY TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MINE OWN SAKE, AND WILL NOT REMEMBER THY SINS."
ISAIAH 55:7 SAYS: LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
God is a loving and kind Father whose arms are wide open for the return of that prodigal Son or Daughter and whose heart is filled with Love, Mercy, Forgiveness and Compassion for you. When you hurt, he hurts, when you rejoice, He rejoices. God wants only the best for you and desires to give you his best.
Psalm 138:8 THE LORD WILL PERFECT THAT WHICH CONCERNS ME; YOUR MERCY O LORD, ENDURES FOREVER; DO NOT FORSAKE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.
PHILIPPIANS 1:6 SAYS: BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS VERY THING, THAT HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL COMPLETE IT UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST.
GENESIS 1:27 SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM; MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM.
If you only knew how GOD really sees you! You are so very special to GOD. When he created you, you were created in his image and in his likeness. How awesome is that!!! Regardless of what you have done or even may be doing, no matter how heinous or horrific, GOD already knows who you really are and created you for a specific purpose. You are not and never were an accident. No matter how you came to be, MY GOD doesn't make mistakes.
PSALMS 139:14 SAYS: I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: MARVELOUS ARE THY WORKS; AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWETH RIGHT WELL."
PSALMS 139:17 SAYS: HOW PRECIOUS ALSO ARE THE THOUGHTS UNTO ME, O GOD! HOW GREAT IS THE SUM OF THEM!
JEREMIAH 1:5 SAYS: BEFORE I FORMED THEE IN THE BELLY I KNEW THEE.
Before you were even thought of GOD had a plan for your life and knew all about you. He knew of all the sinful and ungodly things that you would chose to do or even that would be imposed upon you. He knew that many of you would experiences horrible things that would be imposed upon you and that some of you might even choose to MURDER, ABUSE THAT CHILD, RAPE, PROSTITUTE, BE A DRUNK, AN ADDICT, BE MENTALLY UNSTABLE, A CHEATER, ROBBER, HOMOSEXUAL, LESBIAN, THUG, and yet his love was so great for you that he still allowed you to be, to come into existence.
JESUS SAID IN JOHN 6:37 ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVETH ME SHALL COME TO ME; AND HIM THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT.
It doesn't matter how other people see you, or what they have to say and have already said about you. Other people’s opinions don't matter. All that matters is "How does GOD see You, Me, And Us?" GOD loved and loves us so much that he made a way out for us through the shed blood of JESUS on the cross. When JESUS willingly surrendered his life for us, every shame, every hurt, every sickness, every sin that we would commit was nailed on that cross. JESUS gave his life for you as a ransom, the price was already paid.
JEREMIAH 29:11 SAYS: “FOR I KNOW THE THOUGHTS THAT I THINK TOWARD YOU, SAITH THE LORD, THOUGHTS OF PEACE, AND NOT OF EVIL, TO GIVE YOU AN EXPECTED END."
If you read, study and continue in God's word (the Holy Bible) you will know the truth about How God sees You, Me, Us and the Truth, The Holy Bible, The Word will set you free.
THIS DAY TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION. CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YOU SHALL SERVE. GOD IS WAITING FOR YOU TO GO TO A QUIET PLACE, THAT SECRET PLACE WITHIN YOU AND CRY OUT TO HIM. HE'S WAITING...HE WANTS TO BLESS YOU....HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR YOU....YOU.....AND YOU FOR SUCH A LONG TIME. COME HOME!!!!
IN MATTHEW 11:28-30 JESUS SAYS: COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. 29) TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS. 30) FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.
SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE!
By Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 4:28pm
I’M GOING TO TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO ROMANS 4:17 IT READS: AS IT IS WRITTEN, I HAVE MADE THEE A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS. BEFORE HIM WHOM HE BELIEVED, EVEN GOD, WHO QUICKENETH THE DEAD, (AND CALLED THOSE THINGS WHICH BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE.
IN VERSE 20 IT SAYS THAT ABRAHAM WAVERED NOT AT THE PROMISE OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF, BUT WAS STRONG IN FAITH, GIVING GLORY TO GOD.NOW THIS NEXT VERSE,
ROMANS 4:21 IS THE VERY KEY TO BEING ABLE TO SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE.
VERSE 21: AND BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT, WHAT GOD HAD PROMISED, HE WAS ABLE TO PERFORM.
(YOU SEE IN ABRAHAMS MIND IT WAS A DONE DEAL. HE KNEW THAT GOD IS GOD AND WHATEVER HE SAID HE WOULD DO, HE BELIEVED STRONGLY THAT IT WAS ALREADY DONE BECAUSE GOD CAN AND WILL DO WHAT HE SAID HE WILL DO.) ABRAHAM BELIEVED THAT GOD WAS ABLE. HE AND HE ALONE IS GOD AND GOD IS ABLE BECAUSE OF ABRAHAM’S FAITH IN GOD, BELIEVING HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS, AND CAN DO ALL THAT HE SAYS HE CAN DO, HE BELIEVED ON THE PROMISES OF GOD.
IN GENESIS 18:14 WHEN GOD ASKED ABRAHAM: IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? THE LORD SAID TO ABRAHAM THAT AT THE TIME APPOINTED I WILL RETURN UNTO THEE ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE (AROUND THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE A SON.
VERSE 22: AND THEREFORE IT WAS IMPUTED (ACCREDITED) TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
VERSE 23: NOW IT WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR HIS SAKE ALONE, THAT IT WAS IMPUTED (ACCREDITED) TO HIM.
VERSE 24: BUT FOR US ALSO, TO WHOM IT SHALL BE ACCREDITED,
AND NOW THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO BEING ABLE TO SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE.
THE LAST PART OF ROMANS 4:24 SAYS: IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD:
WHO IS HIM? GOD! GOD RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD.WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE:
IN ACTS 2:32 IT SAYS THAT THIS JESUS HATH GOD RAISED UP, WHERE OF WE ALL ARE WITNESSES
ACTS 13:29 AND 30 AND WHEN THEY HAD FULFILLED ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN OF HIM, THEY TOOK HIM DOWN FROM THE TREE, AND LAID HIM IN A TOMB, VERSE 30, BUT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH IS ACCREDITED TO US IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM, AND AGAIN, WHO IS HIM? GOD! GOD WHICH RAISED JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD.
LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING HERE. NOW WHEN YOU COME TO GOD AND YOU PRAY AND ASK HIM TO HEAL YOU, TO DELIVER YOU, TO PROVIDE FOR YOU, WHATEVER IT MAY BE. HE TAKES YOU TO HIS WORD AND SHOWS YOU WHAT HIS WORD ALREADY SAYS ABOUT THOSE SITUATIONS. GOD GIVES YOU A SCRIPTURE OR SCRIPTURES TO APPLY TO THOSE SITUATIONS AND ENABLES YOU TO BE ABLE TO TRUST HIM, TAKING HIM AT HIS WORD, STANDING ON THAT SCRIPTURE BELIEVING HIS PROMISE AND THAT HE IS ABLE TO DO THAT WHICH HE SAID HE HAS ALREADY DONE THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS ON CALVARY. BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT EVERY PROMISE IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD SPOKE TO US, HE IS ABLE TO PERFORM.
YOU SEE ABRAHAM WAS CALLED RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE HE SIMPLY TRUSTED AND BELIEVED GOD. HE WAS STRONG IN FAITH, THANKING AND GIVING GLORY TO GOD. HE HAD NOT YET SEEN THAT CHILD OF PROMISE MANIFESTED YET, BUT HE BELIEVED GOD AND WAS ALREADY GLORIFYING AND THANKING GOD SIMPLY FOR WHAT GOD SAID HE WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULD BE EVEN BEFORE IT CAME TO PASS. ABRAHAM BELIEVED ON THE ONE WHO SAID IT. HE DIDN’T DOUBT THAT GOD WAS WHO HE SAID HE WAS AND THAT HE WAS MORE THAN ABLE TO DO ALL THAT HE SAID HE WOULD. YOU CAN SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE WHEN YOU BELIEVE AND TRUST GOD WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART.OUR WORDS OF FAITH HAVE POWER AND WHEN WE BELIEVE AND STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD, BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT GOD IS ABLE TO PERFORM IT BECAUSE IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF JESUS ON CALVARY, YOU BRING THE PROMISES OF GOD’S WORD FROM THE SPIRITUAL REALM INTO THE NATURAL REALM TO BLESS YOU. YOU MUST HAVE THE FAITH TO BELIEVE IN ORDER TO SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE.
FAITH, WHAT EXACTLY IS FAITH? FAITH IS SIMPLY UNQUESTIONING BELIEF, ANYTHING BELIEVED, COMPLETE TRUST OR CONFIDENCE. FAITH IS A BELIEF THAT DOES NOT REST ON LOGICAL PROOF OR MATERIAL EVIDENCE. LORD YOU SAID IT, I BELIEVE IT, I TRUST IT, I STAND ON IT, AND BECAUSE I DO, I AM ABLE TO SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE, SPEAKING IT INTO EXISTENCE.
FAITH IS AN ACT AND YOU MUST SPEAK FAITH, SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WAS AND THEN YOU MUST ACT UPON IT. START THANKING, PRAISING AND GLORIFYING GOD FOR WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM. BY SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE YOU PULL DOWN WHAT IS ALREADY IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM INTO THE PHYSICAL REALM AND YOU HAVE WHAT YOU ASK GOD FOR OR WHAT YOU DECREE AND DECLARE BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD AND THAT YOU ARE FULLY PERSUADED, NOT DOUBTING OR WAVERING THAT GOD CAN PERFORM ALL THAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO AND ALREADY DID THROUGH THAT FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS.
WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE LITTLE I TAUGHT THEM ABOUT FAITH AND WHAT BELIEVING IN AND STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD CAN ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU. I TAUGHT THEM ABOUT SPEAKING THINGS AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE AND THAT IF YOU HAD FAITH THAT GOD WOULD DO THAT WHICH YOU ASKED OF HIM, ASKING IN JESUS NAME, BELIEVING THAT BECAUSE HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY HE CAN DO WHAT THE WORD SAYS THAT HE CAN DO. SO THEY WANTED TO ENTER AN ART CONTEST AND THE COVETED PRIZE WAS A BICYCLE. I HAD FIVE CHILDREN, WAS STRUGGLING AS A SINGLE PARENT AND BECAUSE I COULDN’T AFFORD TO PURCHASE THEM, NONE OF MY CHILDREN HAD BICYCLES. SO, I SAW THIS CONTEST AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH THEM AND SHOW THEM THE REALITY OF SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE. I TOLD THEM THAT THEY WERE GOING TO WIN IN EVERY DIVISION OFTHE ART CONTEST, AND THAT WE WOULD WIN THE GRAND PRIZE AS WELL WHICH WAS THE BICYCLE. THEY WOULD NOW HAVE A BIKE TO SHARE.
WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE LITTLE I TAUGHT THEM ABOUT FAITH AND WHAT BELIEVING IN AND STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD CAN ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU. I TAUGHT THEM ABOUT SPEAKING THINGS AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE AND THAT IF YOU HAD FAITH THAT GOD WOULD DO THAT WHICH YOU ASKED OF HIM, ASKING IN JESUS NAME, BELIEVING THAT BECAUSE HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY HE CAN DO WHAT THE WORD SAYS THAT HE CAN DO. SO THEY WANTED TO ENTER AN ART CONTEST AND THE COVETED PRIZE WAS A BICYCLE. I HAD FIVE CHILDREN, WAS STRUGGLING AS A SINGLE PARENT AND BECAUSE I COULDN’T AFFORD TO PURCHASE THEM, NONE OF MY CHILDREN HAD BICYCLES. SO, I SAW THIS CONTEST AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH THEM AND SHOW THEM THE REALITY OF SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE. I TOLD THEM THAT THEY WERE GOING TO WIN IN EVERY DIVISION OFTHE ART CONTEST, AND THAT WE WOULD WIN THE GRAND PRIZE AS WELL WHICH WAS THE BICYCLE. THEY WOULD NOW HAVE A BIKE TO SHARE.
WE ACTED ON THAT SPOKEN WORD OF WINNING THIS BICYCLE BY CONSTANTLY THANKING GOD OUTLOUD FOR THIS WONDERFUL GIFT AND HOW THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE TURNS RIDING IT AND HAVING A GREAT TIME WITH THEIR BRAND NEW BICYCLE. THEY CREATED LITTLE SCULPTURES OUT OF CLAY, AND TOOK THEM TO THE CONTEST THE NEXT DAY. I TOLD THEM TO WATCH AND SEE THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND BECAUSE WE HAD SPOKEN IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE THAT GOD WAS GOING TO BLESS OUR FAMILY WITH THAT BIKE AND MANY OTHER PRIZES. WELL, HOW AMAZING TO SEE THE GLOW AND EXCITEMENT ON THEIR FACES WHEN EACH OF THEIR NAMES EXCEPT FOR MY OLDEST SON GOT CALLED FOR A PRIZE IN EACH OF THE CATEGORIES. THEN……WE WAITED WITH MUCH EXPECTATION KNOWING IN OUR HEARTS THAT WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER THAT IT WOULD BE THE ONLY CHILD WHO’S NAME DIDN’T GET CALLED. WHAT A JOY TO WATCH THEM STANDING HUDDLED TOGETHER WITH GREAT EXPECTATION WHISPERING THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS AS THEY AWAITED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEIR BROTHER’S NAME. FINALLY……..THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER WAS ANNOUNCED AND THEY BURSTED OUT WITH GREAT EXALTATION OF THANK YOU JESUS AS THE BIKE WAS ROLLED OVER TO MY OLDEST SON. WE HAD SO MANY PRIZES THAT DAY, THAT WE COULD HARDLY CARRY THEM HOME FROM THE WEIGHT OF THEM ALL.
LAST WEK MY MESSAGE WAS TITLED “IT IS FINISHED”. THAT STATEMENT “IT IS FINISHED” ACTUALLY TIES INTO THE CONCEPT OF “SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE”. WE HAVE KINGDOM AUTHORITY IN IT IS FINISHED. IT’S A DONE DEAL, THE WORK HAS BEEN COMPLETED. AS A RESULT OF THAT FINISHEDWORK WE HAVE WHOLENESS. WE ARE COMPLETE WITH NOTHING WANTING. IT IS FINISHED.
THE WORD SAYS IN MATTHEW 8:17 THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY ISAIAS THE PROPHET, SAYING, HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES, AND BARE OUR SICKNESSES.
HE TOOK IT ALL UPON HIMSELF AND IT WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS. BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY NAILED TO THE CROSS, WE DON’T HAVE TO ACCEPT IT OR DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE IT’S OVER AND DONE WITH. IT IS FINISHED. IT IS TO BE NO MORE. IT SAYS THAT HE TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND BARE OUR SICKNESS.WE KNOW THAT SICKNESS IS DISEASE AND ILLNESS, BUT LETS DEFINE WHAT INFIRMITIES ARE. INFIRMITIES ARE OUR WEAKNESSES, WHICH ARE OUR FAULTS, OUR FLAWS, OUR DEFECTS, OUR MISDEEDS, OUR OFFENSES, OUR DECEPTIONS, OUR HABITS, OUR ADDICTIONS, OUR SHAME, OUR GUILT. GOD SAID IN HIS WORD THAT HE HAS GIVEN US ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY. YOU HAVE THE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO TALK TO THAT SITUATION, STANDING ON, DECREEING AND DECLARING THE PROMISES OF GOD OVER THAT SITUATION AND STAND ON WHAT THE WORD ALREADY SAYS ABOUT IT. YOU BELIEVE THE WORD AND THEREFORE YOU STAND ON IT. YOU BELIEVE THE WORD AND THEREFORE YOU SPEAK IT. WE MUST BELIEVE IN OUR HEARTS AND CONFESS WITH OUR MOUTHS, BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT GOD IS ABLE TO PERFORM IT. WHEN YOU SPEAK IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE, YOU ARE SPEAKING AND BRINGING THE AUTHORITY OF GOD, THAT KINGDOM AUTHORITY THROUGH THAT FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS IN “IT IS FINISHED” INTO THE SITUATION. YOU HAVE WHAT YOU ASK FOR, YOU HAVE WHAT YOU DECREE AND DECLARE BECAUSE OF YOUR KINGDOM AUTHORITY IN IT IS FINISHED. THERE IS POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD AND BECAUSE OF THAT POWER; IT CAUSES WHAT IT SAYS TO COME TO PASS. HE TOOK MY INFIRMITIES AND BORE MY SICKNESS AND WITH HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED. YOU WERE HEALED BY JESUS STRIPES AND SO YOU ARE NOW HEALED. YOU ARE NOW DELIVERED, SET FREE AND YOU ARE FORGIVEN.
YOU MUST PRAY FOR THE FAITH TO BECOME FULLY PERSUADED AS ABRAHAM WAS, COMPLETELY TRUSTING IN GOD, BELIEVING WHAT GOD PROMISED, HE IS ABLE TO PERFORM, AND THEN SPEAKING IT AS THOUGH IT ALREADY WERE WILL BECOME NATURAL FOR YOU…….AMEN!!
IT IS FINISHED
By Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 4:12pm
(THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT I DID A FEW WEEKS AGO THROUGH BEYOND THE VEIL PROPHETIC MINISTRIES LIVE VOICE CONFERENCE) BE BLESSED!!
AS ALWAYS MY MESSAGE IS JUST REAL AND SIMPLE TALK. AND I’M GOING TO PRESENT IT TO YOU THE BEST THAT I CAN AS GOD GAVE IT TO ME…..AMEN! THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS LISTENING TO A MESSAGE AND AS I WAS WATCHING THE LISTENERS POST THEIR PRAYER REQUEST I HEARD THE WORDS “IT IS FINISHED” AND THE HOLY SPIRIT TOLD ME TO POST IT: “IT IS FINISHED” BEGIN TO RISE UP IN MY SPIRIT IN SUCH A POWERFUL WAY. OVER AND OVER AGAIN IT ECHOED WITH SUCH AUTHORITY ALL THROUGH MY SPIRIT EVEN AFTER THE PROGRAM WAS OVER AND I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP, IT JUST CONTINUED TO RING OUT IN MY SPIRIT. “IT IS FINISHED”THEN I BEGAN TO THINK UPON THAT STATEMENT, TURNING IT OVER IN MY SPIRIT WHAT “IT IS FINISHED“ REALLY MEANT.
THE WORD FINISHED MEANS TO: TO COME TO THE END OF, TO COMPLETE, TO ACCOMPLISH, PERFECTED, OVER, ACHIEVED, THROUGH, CLOSED, FINAL, AND IT CAN ALSO MEAN DOOMED THROUGH DEATH OR DESTRUCTION.“IT IS FINISHED” IS A STATEMENT THAT WE NEED TO PERMEATE IN TO OUR SPIRITS, AND EVERYTIME THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS ATTACK WHETHER IT BE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL OR SPIRITUAL THAT WE STAND UPON THAT STATEMENT DECLARING AND DECREEING IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH AND HIS SHED BLOOD ON THECROSS THAT “IT IS FINISHED” IT’S A DONE DEAL, IT’S BEEN SEALED, NAILED TO THE CROSS ON CALVARY.
JOHN 17:4 JESUS SAID TO THE FATHER THAT I HAVE GLORIFIED THEE ON THE EARTH; I HAVE FINISHED THE WORK WHICH THOU GAVEST ME TO DO.
WHAT WAS THE WORK THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM TO DO?
JOHN 4:34 SAYS: MY MEAT IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, AND TO FINISH HIS WORK.
TO TAKE CARE OF MAN’S DEBT, FREELY GIVING HIS OWN LIFE AS A RANSOM FOR SIN’TO SEEK AND SAVE THOSE WHO WERE LOST
JOHN 6:38-40, 38) FOR I CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, NOT TO DO MINE OWN WILL, BUT THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME. 39) AND THIS IS THE FATHER’S WILL WHICH HATH SENT ME, THAT OF ALL WHICH HE HATH GIVEN ME I SHOULD LOSE NOTHING, BUT SHOULD RAISE IT UP AGAIN AT THE LAST DAY.40) AND THIS IS THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME, THAT EVERYONE WHO SEETH THE SON, AND BELIEVE ON HIM, MAY HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE: AND I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY.
HE CAME PREACHING THE GOSPEL, THE KINGDOM OF GOD SO IT WOULD BE TAUGHT FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION AND NONE WOULD BE LOST. HE SUFFERED, WAS REJECTED, HE WAS PERSECUTED, NAILED TO THE CROSS AND HIS BLOOD WAS SHED FOR US AND THROUGH ALL OF THAT MAN WAS REDEEMED AND BROUGHT BACK TO GOD. EVERY WORD THAT HAD BEEN SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS CONCERNING JESUS HAD NOW BEEN FULFILLED. AFTER THE ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, MAN HAD FINALLY BEEN REDEEMED AND RESTORED TO THE FATHER. “IT IS FINISHED” JESUS WAS TRIUMPHANT AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, VICTORY IS MINE, VICTORY IS YOURS!
IF YOU DIE AND GO TO HELL, IT IS ONLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO. WHEN YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE FREE GIFT OF SALVATION AND THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE, WHAT ELSE IS THERE BUT DESTRUCTION? “IT IS FINISHED: WE WRE NO LONGER GUILTY BUT FREE FROM THE CURSE. WE HAVE BEEN SET FREE AND DELIVERED FROM THE WRATH TO COME.
WHAT JESUS HAD COME TO DO HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, HIS MINISTRY HAS BEEN FULFILLED. HE TOOK BACK THE KEYS (THE AUTHORITY) THAT THE FIRST ADAM HAD TURNED OVER AND SURRENDERED WHEN HE AND EVE DISOBEYED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. YOU SEE ADAM TURNED OVER TO THE DEVIL THROUGH THE ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAD GIVEN TO HIM. NOW MIND YOU, ADAM STILL HAD AUTHORITY BUT HE HAD GIVEN UP THE KEYS AND THOSE KEYS REPRESENTED KINGDOM AUTHORITY. WE NO LONGER HAD DIRECT ACCESS TO THE FATHER. THAT SIN,THAT ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE HAD CREATED A GAP. ADAM LOST THAT KINGDOM AUTHORITY THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE, BECOMING SERVANTS TO SATAN AND BECAUSE WE WERE IN ADAM, WE ALSO BECAME SERVANTS OF SIN AND SATAN.
I CORINTHIANS 15:22 SAYS: FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE.
WHEN YOU HAVE KINGDOM AUTHORITY YOU CAN WALK IN VICTORY. WHEN YOU HAVE KINGDOM AUTHORITY YOU ARE LIVING YOUR LIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO AND UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF GOD. YOU CAN PREACH THROUGH HIS AUTHORITY, YOU CAN TEACH THROUGH THAT AUTHORITY, YOU CAN WITNESS AND SPREAD THE GOSPEL THROUGH THAT KINGDOM AUTHORITY “IT IS FINISHED”.
MATTHEW 28:18-20 SAYS: AND JESUS CAME AND SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. 19) GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST. 20) TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU: AND. LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.
YOU CAN’T HAVE KINGDOM AUTHORITY IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE OR EVEN TRUST IN “IT IS FINISHED” AND THAT THROUGH JESUS SHED BLOOD ON THE CROSS THAT EVERY PROMISE WAS SEALED. THE FAITH TO BELIEVE, THE FAITH TO PERFORM (BINDING AND LOOSING), TO CALL FORTH, DECREEING AND DECLARING, THE FAITH THAT GOD IS ABLE AND CAN DO ALL THAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO ALL GOES BACK TO “IT IS FINISHED”. THE FAITH TO STAND ON THE WORD AND ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD COMES FROM THAT KINGDOM AUTHORITY IN “IT IS FINISHED”. EVERYTHING WE NEED IS IN “IT IS FINISHED”. WE DON’T HAVE TO BEG OR PLEAD. WE DON’T HAVE TO ASK HIM IF HE WANTS TO HEAL, BLESS, OR DELIVER US. WE DON’T HAVE TO BE DEPRESSED OR OPPRESSED; WE DON’T HAVE TO ACCEPT SICKNESS OR DISEASE. WE DON’T HAVE TO ACCEPT POVERTY; WE DON’T HAVE TO WALK IN SHAME OR GUILT. EVERY SIN, WE HAVE COMMITTED OR WILL COMMIT IS ALREADY UNDER THE BLOOD. EVERY ACCUSATION THAT THE DEVIL WILL TRY TO BRING AGAINST US IS UNDER THE BLOOD.WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED, WE HAVE BEEN SET FREE AND HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER WHENEVER WE WANT THROUGH JESUS AND HIS FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS. WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. IT IS FINISHED. WE NO LONGER HAVE TO BE SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE OF OUR SIN. CHRIST BECAME THE SINLESS SACRIFICE, HE PAID THE PENALTY AND BECAUSE OF HIS WILLINGNESS TO GIVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM “IT IS FINISHED”BECAUSE OF THE FINISHED WORK OF JESUS, IT IS FINISHED!
WHEN JESUS SAID IT IS FINISHED HE WAS SAYING TO US: WE ARE REDEEMED, WE ARE RECONCILED, WE AREFORGIVEN, WE ARE REGENERATE, WE ARE JUSTIFIED, WE BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS, WE HAVE BEEN MADE PERFECT, WE HAVE BEEN MADE SANCTIFIED, WE HAVE BEEN MADE HOLY, WE ARE ACCEPTED IN CHRIST, WE ARE PARTAKERS, WE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT CLOSER TO GOD, WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN CITIZENSHIP TO HEAVEN, WE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AS SONS BY GOD, WE HAVE BEEN DECLARED MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF GOD, WE HAVE BEEN MADE NEW, WE HAVE BEEN DELIVERED AND TRANSLATED, WE HAVE BEEN MADE TO POSSESS EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING, WE HAVE BEEN INDWELT, WE HAVE BEENSEALED, WE ARE SECURED, WE HAVE FULL ACCESS TO THE THRONE OF GOD, WE ARE BAPTIZED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE ARE PLACED IN CHRIST, WE ARE MADE LIKE JESUS, WE HAVE OUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE, WE ARE GIVEN NEW TITLES, NO LONGER BEING CALLED SINNERS BUT SAINTS....... AMEN!
MY BROTHERS KEEPER!!
By Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 5:01pm
WHEN JESUS OR EVEN HIS DISCIPLES TALKED TO THE PEOPLE, THEY SPOKE TO THEM ON THE MOUNTAIN SIDES, IN BOATS ON THE WATER, AT THE WELL, IN OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES. IT WAS JUST REAL AND SIMPLE TALK, UNLESS OF COURSE WHEN JESUS WAS USING PARABLES AND THEN HE HAD TO BREAK IT DOWN. BUT FOR THE MOST PART MUCH OF THE MINISTERING WAS JUST REAL TALK. THE NAME OF MY PROGRAM IS “MY BROTHER’S KEEPER” AND IT’S JUST REAL TALK. AMEN
WHEN THE BIBLE USES THE TERM MAN, BROTHER OR EVEN BRETHERN, IT’S TALKING ABOUT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. YOU MIGHT HAVE ASKED AT SOME POINT, WELL WHO IS MY BROTHER? AND WHAT DOES THE WORD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT WHO OUR BROTHERS ARE?
ACCORDING TO MATTHEW 12:50 JESUS HIMSELF SAID: FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, THE SAME IS MY BROTHER, AND SISTER, AND MOTHER.
SO OUR BROTHERS ARE THOSE WHO ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST AND DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER; THOSE WHO ARE DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER ARE LED OF THE LORD, GUIDED BY THE LORD, THOSE WHO HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD AND DO IT. MIND YOU, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO STRAY BUT WE ARE TO LOVINGLY DRAW THEM BACK AND GET THEM ON THE RIGHT TRACK AGAIN, RESTORING THEM. EVEN WHEN THAT ONE BROTHER STRAYS, WE ARE TO GO AFTER HIM AND BRING BACK THAT ONE LOST SHEEP AND RESTORE HIM TO THE FLOCK.
IN GENESIS 4:9
WHEN CAIN MURDERED ABLE AND JESUS ASKED HIM “WHERE IS ABEL THY BROTHER? AND CAIN REPLIED “I KNOW NOT: AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A KEEPER? IN THE DICTIONARY THE WORD KEEPER WHEN PERTAINING TO PEOPLE IS DESCRIBED AS: A PERSON WHO GUARDS OR WATCHES, A GUARDIAN, SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF OTHER PEOPLE OR TO BE IN CARE OF OR CUSTODY OF, ONE WHO LOOKS AFTER SOMEONE, TO CARE AND BE CONCERNED OVER.
HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE THAT WE CAN BE OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER?
JESUS SAID IN JOHN 13:34 A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
ARE OUR BROTHER’S OUR RESPONSIBILITY? YES THEY ARE!! IN 1ST JOHN 3:17 IT SAYS: BUT WHOSO HATH THIS WORLD’S GOOD, AND SEETH HIS BROTHER HAVE NEED, AND SHUTTETH UP HIS BOWELS (HIS HEART) OF COMPASSION FROM HIM, HOW DWELLETH THE LOVE OF GOD IN HIM.
WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER, IT’S EASY FOR YOU TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY AND UNSELFISHLY, WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER, YOU CAN CARRY THEIR BURDENS WITHOUT COMPLAINING OR MURMURING, WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER YOU CAN SIGN OVER THAT EXTRA VEHICLE TO SOMEONE WHO COMES TO WORK LATE EVERYDAY BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WALK OR HITCH HIKES TO WORK IN THE SUN, RAIN OR SNOW BECAUSE YOU KNOW ALL GOOD GIFTS COME FROM ABOVE AND IT BELONGS TO THE LORD ANYWAY….HE GAVE IT TO YOU! WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER, YOU DESIRE TO SERVE OTHERS AND ESTEM THEM HIGHER THAN YOURSELF. WE CAN’T OUTGIVE GOD. DO YOU REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING GOD BLESSES US WITH; WE ARE TO SHARE WITH OUR BROTHERS IF THEY HAVE NEED. OUR TIME, OUR FOOD, OUR MONEY, OUR WORLDLY POSESSIONS. YOU CAN’T SAY THAT YOU LOVE YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER IN CHRIST AND KNOW THAT THEY ARE SITTING IN THE DARK BECAUSE THEIR LIGHTS HAVE BEEN SHUT OFF AND YOU WALK AWAY, YOU TELL ME THAT I’M PRAYING FOR YOU, DON’T WORRY, GOD WILL MAKE A WAY. YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH IN YOUR POCKET TO TAKE CARE OF THAT NEED. YET YOU WALK AWAY FORGETTING ALL ABOUT THEIR STRUGGLES. AS THE OLD SAYING GOES; OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.
JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW IT, GOD WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE. HE SAID THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES BY YOUR LOVE; THE LOVE THAT YOU HAVE ONE FOR ANOTHER. HOW OFTEN WE TURN OUR BACKS ON OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND WALK AWAY KNOWING THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SIMPLE THING TO TAKE CARE OF THAT NEED. TO TURN THOSE LIGHTS BACK ON, TO OFFER THAT RIDE TO WORK OR EVEN BACK HOME AGAIN FOR AS LONG AS THEY NEED IT. WE’RE TOO CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING TO GO OUT OF OUR WAY TO EXTEND A HAND TO OUR SISTER OR BROTHER IN CHRIST. IF WE CAN’T AND REFUSE TO DO IT FOR OUR OWN, HOW CAN WE DO IT FOR THOSE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE HURTING AND LOST; THOSE WHO NEED TO SEE THE LOVE AND LIGHT OF CHRIST JESUS EMULATING FROM US.
FOR SOME WE ARE THE CLOSEST THING TO CHRIST THAT SOME WILL EVER SEE, AND YET WE TURN AND WALK AWAY….SAYING GOD BLESS YOU. LEAVING THEM HUNGRY, DESTITUTE, DESPONDENT, WOUNDED, FORGOTTEN, FEELING UNLOVED AND NOT CARED ABOUT. SINGLE MOTHERS FEELING THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS TO GO ON THE STREET CORNER TURNING TRICKS SO THEY CAN FEED THEIR BABIES. OUR YOUNG MEN ARE ROBBING PEOPLE AND BECOMING CRIMINALS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T FIND WORK AND YOU OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS OR ARE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN PLACE THEM IN JOBS AND WON’T EVEN HIRE THAT UNWANTED THUG, GIVING THEM THE CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE BECAUSE YOU’RE TOO CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR IMAGE OR IT’S JUST NOT YOUR PROBLEM.
JOHN 3:16 SAYS: FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER AND WE CAN’T MAKE IT WITHOUT EACH OTHER. WE ALL HAVE A PART TO PLAY, A FUNCTION TO PERFORM. WHEN WE ARE OUR BROTHERS KEEPER WE BECOME ONE IN LOVE, WORSHIP, CARING AND SHARING. THERE IS UNTIY IN THE BODY. IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE NOT YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER THAN YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY BE IN A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD WHO THAT BROTHER WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF. GOD SAID THAT WHEN YOU DID IT FOR THEM, YOU DID IT FOR ME, WHEN YOU DIDN’T DO IT FOR THEM; YOU DIDN’T DO IT FOR ME.
THERE USE TO BE A SONG OUT THAT HAD THESE LYRICS. “HIS WELFARE IS MY CONCERN, HE AIN’T HEAVY. HE’S MY BROTHER” WE ARE OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER!!
IN MATTHEW 25: I’M GOING TO BEGIN WITH VERSE 33: IT SAYS: AND HE SHALL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS ON THE LEFT 34) THEN SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM ON HIS RIGH THAND, COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. 35) FOR I WAS AN HUNGERED, AND YE GAVE ME MEAT, I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME DRINK, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN:
36) NAKED AND YE CLOTHED ME, I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME, I WAS IN PRISON AND YE CAME UNTO ME. 37) THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE A HUNGERED AND FED THEE? OR THIRSTY AND GAVE THEE DRINK? 38) WHEN WE SAW THEE A STRANGER AND TOOK THE IN, OR NAKED AND CLOTHED THEE? 39) OR WHEN SAW WE THEE SICK, OR IN PRISON AND CAME UNTO THEE? 40) AND THE KING SHALL ANSWER AND SAY UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE ITUNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME.
36) NAKED AND YE CLOTHED ME, I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME, I WAS IN PRISON AND YE CAME UNTO ME. 37) THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING LORD, WHEN SAW WE THEE A HUNGERED AND FED THEE? OR THIRSTY AND GAVE THEE DRINK? 38) WHEN WE SAW THEE A STRANGER AND TOOK THE IN, OR NAKED AND CLOTHED THEE? 39) OR WHEN SAW WE THEE SICK, OR IN PRISON AND CAME UNTO THEE? 40) AND THE KING SHALL ANSWER AND SAY UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE ITUNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME.
WHEN ONE PART OF THE BODY IS HURTING OR SUFFERING IT AFFECTS US AS WELL. WHEN OUR BROTHERS ARE LACKING WHETHER IT BE SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY OR EMOTIONALLY, IT SHOULD AFFECT US BECAUSE WE ARE ONE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. WHEN WE ARE TRULY OUR BROTHERS KEEPER, THERE WILL BE NO POOR PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH. WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH THAT ARE EXTREMELY RICH AND THEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH WHO ARE EXTREMELY POOR AND DON’T KNOW WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM……SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG.
ARE YOU OR ARE YOU NOT YOUR BROTHERS KEEPER!! WHEN THEY DON’T COME TO CHURCH, DO YOU CALL THEM TO SEE HOW THEY ARE OR WHAT IS GOING ON? WHEN THEY ARE DISCOURAGED, DEPRESSED OR OPPRESSED, DO YOU GO AND PRAY WITH THEM AND OVER THEM? OR DO YOU CAST THEM TO THE WAYSIDE AND SAY THEY ALWAYS GOT DRAMA OR SOMETHING GOING ON WITH THEM AND I CAN’T BE BOTHERED. IN PSALM 34:19 IT READS: MANY ARE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS: BUT THE LORD DELIVERETH HIM OUT OF THEM ALL. WHEN THEY COME TO YOU OVER AND OVER BECAUSE OF THE LACK IN THEIR LIFE, DO YOU TURN AND RUN THE OTHER WAY SAYING IN YOUR HEART, HERE THEY COME AGAIN, THEY ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING. THE WORD SAYS TO GIVE TO THEM THAT ASK OF YOU AND IF YOU HAVE IT GIVE IT TO THEM IMMEDIATELY AND DON’T SEND THEM AWAY, OR TELL THEM TO COME BACK TOMORROW. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR BROTHER’S. WHEN YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER YOU WILL LABOR WITH THEM IN LOVE, NOT BEING GRIEVIOUS OR IMPATIENT WITH THEM, BUT KEEPING THEM LIFTED UP BEFORE THE LORD NOT WILLING TO LET THEM GO OR FALL AWAY; CARRYING THEM FOR AS LONG AS THEY NEED YOU TO.I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS SCRIPTURE AGAIN IN JOHN 13:34 AND 35, A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YE ARE MY DISCIPLES, IF YE HAVE LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.
YES……… YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER’S KEEPER…
EVIL APPLICATIONS: HOROSCOPES, FORTUNE COOKIES, TEA CUP READINGS, PSYCHICS, SOUL PATH JOURNEY'S, ETC.!!!!!
By Sharon Franklin-Martinez on Friday, November 5, 2010 at 1:18pm
I SAY UNTO YOU, COME OUT OF BABYLON WHILE THERE IS STILL YET TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BABYLON IS FAMOUS FOR WEALTH, LUXURY AND WICKEDNESS AND CALLED THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, A MYSTICAL CITY. BABYLON BECAME A SYMBOL FOR ANY POWERFUL, SINFUL CITY THAT IS AGAINST GOD.
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY (HOSTILITY) WITH GOD? WHOSOEVER THEREFORE WILL BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD. JAMES 4:4
TO MY SAVED AND UNSAVED FRIENDS AND FAMILY, ALTHOUGH YOU MAY HATE ME AND THROW DAGGERS I DON'T CARE BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T GIVE ME THIS CALLING SO I WOULD BE LIKED BY YOU, OR TO TICKLE YOUR EARS WITH SWEET AND PLEASING WORDS! BECAUSE OF MY LOVE FOR ALL OF YOU AND MY OBEDIENCE TO JEHOVAH GOD I MUST SPEAK THIS!! MANY OF YOU, EVEN THOSE WHO ARE PROFESSING CHRIST JESUS ARE PLAYING DEVILS ADVOCATE AND PROMOTING THE DEVIL'S WORK. HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT YOU LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR MIND, HEART AND SOUL AND THEN POST AND PROMOTE THE THINGS OF SATAN?: TEA CUP READINGS, FORTUNE COOKIE READINGS, SOUL PATH JOURNEYS, HOROSCOPE, PHYSIC BALL AND PHYSIC READINGS,ETC. YOU ARE WALKING IN DECEPTION AND YOU ARE LIVING A LIE!!! THIS IS DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT AND ALL AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD. AN ABOMINATION IS A DETESTABLE THING AND VERY HATEFUL TO THE LORD!! THE DEVIL AND ALL OF HIS DEMONS ARE ON THE FLOOR ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER BECAUSE OF THE MOCKERY THEY HAVE MADE OUT OF YOU. YOU MAY BE SAYING IT'S JUST AN APPLICATION, IT'S NOT THAT SERIOUS, IT'S ALL IN FUN, YOU'RE JUST CURIOUS AND DON'T SEE ANY HARM IN IT. BUT WHAT YOU DON'T REALIZE IS THAT WHEN YOU DABBLE IN THE OCCULT YOU ARE OPENING YOURSELF UP TO DEMONIC REALMS AND THEN YOU WONDER WHY THERE IS CHAOS IN YOUR HOUSHOLD, YOUR SPOUSES ARE CHEATING, BEATING YOU, YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL. WHEN YOU DABBLE IN THE OCCULT IT DOESN'T JUST AFFECT YOU, IT AFFECTS AND ATTACKS YOUR WHOLE HOUSEHOLD. I'M TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT!! I KNOW THE EFFECT IT HAS ON YOUR LOVED ONES!! MANY YEARS AGO WHEN THIS WHOLE PHYSIC THING FIRST CAME OUT I TOO WAS IN THE CHURCH AND SAID I'M A CHRISTIAN I DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS STUFF, IT'S JUST FUN, WHAT WILL IT HURT. I'LL JUST MAKE ONE CALL AND NO ONE WILL KNOW. I'M A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD AND I'LL BE PROTECTED! WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST OF ALL, ONLY GOD KNOWS OUR FUTURE AND WHEN YOU TRY TO TAP INTO DARKNESS TO GET WHAT ONLY THE LORD CAN REVEAL TO YOU, YOU WILL ULTIMATELY PAY A PRICE FOR THAT EVIL AND WICKED KNOWLEDGE. DO YOU REALLY THINK THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SATAN GIVES YOU IS FOR FREE? YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY A PRICE FOR IT AND IN THE END, SATAN WANTS YOUR SOUL, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR SPOUSES, AND ALL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS!!!! WHEN I ACTED UPON MY CURIOUSITY I STARTED SEEING DEMONS MANIFEST IN MY HOME, THEY WERE ATTACKING AND TORMENTING MY CHILDREN. YOU SAY YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR FAMILIES, IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FOR THEM? MY CHILDREN STARTED SEEING DEMONS, SCREAMING AND CRYING OUT IN THEIR SLEEP AT NIGHT, OUT OF CONTROL AND VIOLENTLY FIGHTING EACH OTHER, DISRESPECTFUL AND IN REBELLION. THIS IS WHAT WE HEAP UPON OUR LOVED ONES WHEN WE STEP INTO THESE EVIL WATERS OUT OF FUN AND CURIOUSITY. GOD IS GOD ALMIGHTY......HE DOESN'T NEED YOU TO LOOK IN A TEA CUP OR PULL A PAPER OUT OF A COOKIE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR DAY, MONTH OR YEAR WILL BE LIKE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO HIM, HE CREATED YOU, KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU AND WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU. HE WILL GUIDE AND DIRECT YOUR STEPS. THIS IS WHY OUR WORLD IS THE WAY IT IS NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO GET CAUGHT UP IN EVIL, SENSUAL WICKEDNESS! CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM YE SHALL SERVE! YOU CAN'T SERVE TWO GODS...EITHER YOU WILL SERVE JEHOVAH GOD OR YOU WILL SERVE SATAN. WHEN YOU STAND BEFORE A RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY GOD DO YOU WANT HIM TO TELL YOU TO STAND TO THE RIGHT OR TO THE LEFT?
MATTHEW 25: 31, 32, 33,34,41,46
31) WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM, THEN SHALL HE SIT UPON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY: 32) AND BEFORE HIM SHALL BE GATHERED ALL NATIONS: AND HE SHALL SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER, AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDETH HIS SHEEP FROM THE GOATS: 33) AND HE SHALL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS ON THE LEFT. 34) THEN SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM ON HIS RIGHT HAND, COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: 41) THEN SHALL HE SAY ALSO UNTO THEM ON THE LEFT HAND, DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 46) AND THESE (THE GOATS ON THE LEFT SIDE) SHALL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS (ON THE RIGHT SIDE) INTO LIFE ETERNAL.
HAVEN'T YOU EVER WONDERED WHY IN SATAN WORSHIPPING, THAT THE SYMBOL FOR SATAN IS A GOAT'S HEAD? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!! SAINTS OF GOD, TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY ALL OF THESE THINGS WILL CAUSE YOU TO END UP IN THE LAKE OF FIRE IF YOU DON'T REPENT AND TURN FROM YOUR EVIL WICKED WAYS!!
DIVINATION: PREDICTION, THE ACT OR PRACTICE OF TRYING TO FORETELL THE FUTURE OF THE UNKNOWN BY OCCULT MEANS
AUGURY: THE RITE OF DIVINATION
AUGUR: A PRIEST OF RITUALS OF FERTILITY WHO FORETOLD EVENTS BY INTERPRETING OMENS, A FORTUNE TELLER; SOOTHSAYER
WITCHCRAFT: THE POWER OR PRACTICES OF WITCHES; SORCERY
SORCERY: THE SUPPOSED USE OF AN EVIL SUPERNATURAL POWER OVER PEOPLE AND THEIR AFFAIRS
FORTUNE TELLER: A PERSON WHO PROFESSES TO FORTELL EVENTS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES (TEA CUP, PALM READING, PSYCHICS, CRYSTAL BALLS, OUIJA BOARDS, TARROT CARDS, ANGEL CARDS, ETC.)
PALMISTRY: THE PRETENDED ART OF TELLING A PERSON'S FORTUNE BY THE LINES, ETC. ON THE PALM OF HIS HAND.
WITCH: A WOMAN SUPPOSEDLY HAVING SUPERNATURAL POWER BY AN AGREEMENT WITH EVIL SPIRITS
WIZARDY: MAGIC, SORCERY,
WIZARD: MAGICIAN
MAGIC: THE PRETENDED ART OF PRODUCING EFFECTS BY CHARMS, SPELLS, AND RITUALS; SORCERY
MAGICIAN: AN EXPERT IN MAGIC; A SORCERER; WIZARD; A PERFORMER SKILLED IN MAGIC
CHANNELING: ALLOWING ONESELF TO BE WICKEDLY USED AS A MEANS OF PASSAGE FOR DEMONIC SPIRITS TO SPEAK THROUGH YOU WHO QUITE OFTEN PRETEND TO BE LOVED ONES OR GIVING YOU SOME MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRITUAL REALM
NECROMANCY: DIVINATION BY ALLEGED COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD; BLACK MAGIC
BLACK MAGIC: MAGIC WITH AN EVIL PURPOSE; SORCERY
MEDIUM: ONE THROUGH WHOM COMMUNICATIONS WITH TH DEAD ARE SUPPOSEDLY SENT FROM THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
DEUTERONOMY 18:10-14 10) THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES ( ASTROLOGY), OR AN ENCHANTER (SORCERY), OR A WITCH, 11) OR A CHARMER, OR A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, OR A WIZARD, OR A NECROMANCER. 12) FOR ALL THAT DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD: AND BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE. 13) THOU SHALT BE PERFECT (ENTIRELY OBEDIENT) WITH THE LORD THY GOD. 14) FOR THESE NATIONS, WHICH THOU SHALT POSSESS, HEARKENED UNTO OBSERVERS OF TIMES, AND UNTO DIVINERS: BUT AS FOR THEE, THE LORD THY GOD HATH NOT SUFFERED THEE SO TO DO.
LEVITICUS 18: 26, 27, 30 26) YE SHALL THEREFORE KEEP (OBEY) MY STATUES AND MY JUDGMENTS, AND SHALL NOT COMMIT ANY OF THESE ABOMINATIONS; NEITHER ANY OF YOUR OWN NATION, NOR ANY STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG YOU. 27)( FOR ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS HAVE THE MEN OF THE LAND DONE, WHICH WERE BEFORE YOU, AND THE LAND IS DEFILED;) 30) THEREFORE SHALL YE KEEP MINE ORDINANCE, THAT YE COMMIT NOT ANY ONE OF THESE ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS, WHICH WERE COMMITTED BEFORE YOU, AND THAT YE DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES THEREIN: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
LEVITICUS 20: 28, 31 28) YE SHALL NOT MAKE ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH FOR THE DEAD, NOR PRINT (TATTOO) ANY MARKS UPON YOU: I AM THE LORD. 31) REGARD NOT THEM THAT HAVE FAMILIAR SPIRITS, NEITHER SEEKS AFTER WIZARDS, TO BE DEFILED BY THEM: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
REVELATIONS 21:8 BUT THE FEARFUL, AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS, AND SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH.
PLEASE REMOVE AND DON'T USE ANY OF THOSE EVIL FORTUNE TELLING APPLICATIONS! I LOVE YOU ALL IN CHRIST JESUS, AM PRAYING THAT YOU WILL HEED, COME OUT OF BABYLON WHILE THERE IS STILL YET TIME AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!
PHILIPPIANS 3:14 I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.!!
