Thoughts ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZONPRTOFF dateof comment Look Inside Data Conditions:Order: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13| Dateof Comment 04/20/2024 I don't know if you've ever had one of these discussions with God where you say, “Lord things are just not working out. I am getting tired of struggling with finances. I am going to have to stop what I am doing until circumstances improve.” What do I mean by this? It seems like Malachi 3:10 effect just seems to die off. Malachi 3:10 NLT 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! When I first started doing things it seemed to work out. There was money to buy silver, spend on families and gangs. Even though I could not splurge on anything there was always excess money in reserve which I always acknowledged as the Malachi 3:10 effect. Now we have high inflation and lows prices which lowers my income coming in. The cash reserves are dwindling, and it's looks like it is becoming impossible to continue to support God's ministries. God had a humorous way of answering what was going through my mind. I like to listen to Kent Christmas because he talks about the things that God's doing in our corrupt and evil government to expose what's going on. I began to realize that his message would be more for me. Just like me, he started out at a certain place before experiencing Malachi 3:10. At first, he was working with a $40,000 in the checking account. God turned this into $5 million without asking for donations. The next thing he brought up is God is now looking for people with exemplary faith in what he is about to do. Kent’s goal is to affect Nashville Tennessee for Jesus Christ. To do this God is having him put up a bigger building for the people to come. He is planning on during construction phase that there will be times when the checking account will be empty. Like he said God is looking for people with exemplary faith. This requires us trusting in what God is going to do. The sad part about all of this is if our faith is not strong enough, we're ready to abandon ship even before that moment occurs. We all know that God is never late but very seldom is early either. But he always comes at the right time. So, we need to give God the time he needs to do what he wants. And we need to prove to him that we are willing to wait on him. Kent believes that God is going to provide all the financing through his people and the ungodly. God has revealed that this is coming: Proverbs 13:22 NLT 22 Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly. We serve the God of the impossible. When it comes to our finances continue to put him to the test. Unless we gamble or spend our money foolishly, we will see Malachi 3:10 occur in our lives again. Even knowing what is going on it still is not fun to go through this. This is what God is looking for: Romans 5:4 NLT And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. 04/18/2024 Our constitution guarantees us to have the freedom of religion. The only problem with the freedom of religion it also allows foreign gods to be accessed into our country. It should have said the freedom to worship "Yahweh". If you read Exodus 20 you'll find out that that the current form of our constitution is not acceptable to our King Exodus 20:3-6 NLT 3 “You must not have any other god but me. 4 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. 6 But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands. When you read the Old Testament you can see how many times Israel was destroyed worshiping demonic gods. America is in danger of seeing the same kind of judgement. Well, what can we do about this? We know that if we go out and persecute other religions we are no better than they are. Our God is a God of love. Jesus would try to bring the message of God to the people first and convert them to the Kingdom of God. If we would live like Jesus Christ people will see what it's like to serve Christ and will want what we have. But we should do everything in our power including prayer to discourage foreign gods from entering our country because the curse of the Old Testament is on every nation who worships foreign gods. Our money, homes and cars all have a purpose but they too can replace "Yahweh" as our God. Jesus also knew this and that is why he said: Matthew 6:33 NIV 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Jesus wanted to make sure we have our priorities "right". You notice I did not say "left". 04/17/2024 There is not a lot that is said in the bible about debt. These are the only two verses that I could really find that related to debt. Proverbs 22:7 Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender. Romans 13:8 (New Living Translation) Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law. There is a lot to be said to not owing anything to anyone. Since there are no payments coming up there is nothing to spend your money on but on future things that may come up. The ministry I have in the ghetto would be really tough or next to impossible if I had payments that I would have to make on things. The next best thing to not owing money to anybody is the ability to say "no". It is amazing how fast your money builds up when you say "no" to almost everything. Time will prove that you did not need or really want that. Why else do we have garage sales. Eventually there are things that you can justify buying and have fun with it. I will spend money on those things, but I am never going to be pushed into getting anything because someone else has it. Contentment is one of the greatest gifts that God can give us. Contentment can bring peace. Never be so content that you become lazy. It is good to earn money to bless others and have a drive to keep the things operating that our God blessed us with. America is one blessed nation. Our poor people are wealthier than 80% of the world. The covenant that our founding fathers made with God and the fact we give more than any other nation is why we are so blessed. Malechi 3:10 works for nations too. 04/15/2024 This is definitely one of the most powerful verses in the bible. If you are living in the world you will struggle with this because of your fear of what others may think of you. But if your heart is truly in God's Kingdom you will be excited to do everything it says: Romans 10:9-10 (New Living Translation) If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. Yep, you will be wanting to bring up the goodness of Jesus Christ in every conversation you have so people will know where you stand. And you will not care what others may think. Make sure you never take love out of the equation. This is what makes us different from other religions that bore hatred if you are not one of them. Pay attention to the word "openly". Paul used it twice. 04/13/2024 Why God are you letting me get screwed like this? Have you ever asked this question to yourself before? This sums things up in one paragraph: Faith doesn't always take you out of the problem, Faith takes you through the problem. Faith doesn't always take away the pain, Faith gives you the ability to handle the pain. Faith doesn't always take you out of the storm, Faith calms you in the midst of the storm. Ask the Holy Spirit for greater faith: 1 Corinthians 12:9 The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. Continue to let Love live: 1 Corinthians 13:7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Paul wants everyone to encourage each other to finish their own battle: 2 Corinthians 1:24 But that does not mean we want to dominate you by telling you how to put your faith into practice. We want to work together with you so you will be full of joy, for it is by your own faith that you stand firm. Make sure your faith is God based: James 1:6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. When we go through storms: 1 Peter 1:7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. Pay special attention to this part of the verse: "So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." You are not alone ever: 1 Peter 5:9 Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are. There are even supplements you can take for faith: 2 Peter 1:5-7 NLT 5 In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. For others who are in extreme difficulty: Jude 1:22 And you must show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. The purpose of faith: Hebrews 11:6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. 04/08/2024 God actually created us to do good works, but our good works cannot cover the screw ups we make. Paul reminds of this many times: Romans 3:23 NLT For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. This one confirms that we were created to do good works. Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT 8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. James also confirms Paul: James 2:26 Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works. It looks like sitting on the couch and watching movies all day is not in God's plan. We need to be where the people are reflecting and talking about Jesus Christ. That brings Glory to his Son. One of the most dangerous things we can do is to be thinking about all the good things we have done in our life. This takes focus off our King and exalts our personal life to the point that we believe we have earned that spot into the Kingdom of heaven. One thing I like about Paul is his life that he led under Jesus Christ. It shows me that we are nothing without Jesus. When he was counselling Timothy in his second letter, Paul knew his time was up on this earth. Only Jesus Christ can deliver a peace that his letters reflected to Timothy. Jesus came for all of us. He wants all of us to have that peace Paul had while we do good things for our King. 04/06/2024 I always like this verse because it looks like John 3:16 Part II. I really believe if we are developing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that we will also develop a love for our brothers and sisters. John asks that we should want to lay our lives down for them: 1 John 3:16 NLT 16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If our relationship with Jesus Christ is weak, it will probably prevent us from even wanting to make a sacrifice for someone else. This verse confirms this: 1 John 4:19 We love each other because he loved us first. 04/05/2024 We all know that this is the plan that the Old Testament talked about: Ephesians 1:7 (New International Version) In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace. This may surprise you, but I believe God envisioned this when he created Adam: This is Laminin. The molecule Laminin is the protein that holds all human beings together. Did you notice its shape? It’s a cross! Isn't it amazing that God knew we would need the cross when He created us. He knew when He created us that we would sin. He knew we would need a Savior. He knew His only Son Jesus would have to die on the cross to save us, and so He made the very molecule that holds our entire bodies together in the shape of a cross. Molecular biologists call Laminin “the glue of the body,” because without it, our bodies would fall apart. The truth is, without Jesus and what He did for us on the cross, our whole lives would fall apart. Colossians 1:17 says that Jesus “is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” Jesus is the one who holds our lives together, just like Laminin holds our bodies together. Without Jesus, our lives are a mess. We are nothing without the cross of Jesus Christ! 04/03/2024 Why is it when God tell us things that we have to butcher, add or twist things around. The tree of knowledge is a good One: Genesis 2:15 NLT 15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” Genesis 3:2 NLT 2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’” Eve said we will die if we touch it. That is not what God said and if it was true he would not have left that tip out. This is one they like to take the word "love" out of: 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. This is one they always drop verse 2 so they do not have to stand against evil. Judgement is required in order to determine if someone is sinning: Matthew 7:1 NLT Do Not Judge Others “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Matthew 7:2 NLT For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged. This will definitely blow the bubble on the anti-judgers: 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 NLT 12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. 13 God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.” It is your responsibility to judge people in the church. Even though our constitution is not God's word, but I do know that a lot of praying went on when the document was being produced. This means the document is inspired by God. "Separation of church and state" is not actual written in the document as quoted but it says that government has no control or say in what occurs in the church. This was created by weak people who wanted no conflict in their life and created this crutch. If these people would read the OLD TESTEMANT they would understand that godly leaders bring blessing to the country. Demonic leaders bring curses to the country. It is an insult to God to accuse him of writing a provision in the constitution to keep the church apart from our leaders who also need Jesus Christ. Just remember this: if every man, woman and child become Christians and we continue putting demonic people in place to run our nation, we will be cursed. The key is getting godly people running the country. The rest will follow. On the final note, learn what things say in God's word and prevent the modifications. 04/02/2024 You and I are very fortunate to not know the entire plan that God has for us. Here is more proof on how much Jesus loved us because he on the other hand knew everything: Matthew 20: 17-19 (New Living Translation) As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him. “Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die. Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.” Did Jesus know this from his great understanding of the Old Testament or was it revealed to him by the Father? I am not sure what I would do if I knew what Jesus did about his life was to unfold. Jesus told his disciples how everything was to unfold when he made this last trip to Jerusalem. When Jesus did rise from the dead everyone really did not believe it happened. It was like what Jesus said went in one ear and out the other. The spiritual world is entirely different than what this world says. The world can cloud our judgement of spiritual things. Gods Kingdom is spiritual, and it requires a different kind of thinking to understand the things of God. Other than what is in God's word, the rest has to be explained to our brains by the Holy Spirit himself. He wants to reveal everything to us if we just ask him. 03/31/2024 There is an island country south of the United States that consists of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. To the naked eye, the people seem to be the same no matter which side you are on. But you will find out that one country speaks predominantly French, and the other is predominantly Spanish. Now why is that? It is because what each country was exposed to. They were ruled by governments that was their native language. Their cultures were formed around their environments. The spiritual world is no different than what goes on in this nation. In the spirit world there is God's kingdom and there is Satan's kingdom. If you spend all your time in God's kingdom your views and what you think will be based upon God's Kingdom principles. On the other hand, if you spend all your time in Satan's kingdom you will begin to think and act like he does. One thing that people like about Satan's kingdom is the darkness. It is easy to hide our sins from others. We are given the illusion that we are actually getting away with it. There is a curse for trying it: Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! Now on the other hand God's Kingdom represents light and: Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. It is extremely difficult to get away with things while the light is shining because we are so visible to everybody. I had one pastor who once said to me when he fell in love with his wife Vicki, he made a commitment to each other that they would only do things together out in public to alleviate the temptation. Another thing about God's Kingdom is the light itself. Because Jesus has asked us to bring his message to all the world. Our light that we are accustomed to will shine into Satan's kingdom: John 12:46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. We will expose all the sin that is going under the cover of darkness. They will probably hate us for that: John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. God is fed up with us trying to live in both kingdoms. Some pretty stupid things occur when we live in both Kingdoms. Some of the ideas I have witnessed in the church is living together outside of marriage, homosexual pastors, Christians voting for demonic platforms, and too many other things to list. God is ready to burn the fence (which belongs to Satan). We better pick our side: Acts 17:30 New Living Translation 30 “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. The enemy tries to convince us his side is the best because God is boring. I have witnessed a beautiful relationship of gangs, homeless, hungry people in the ghetto, and law enforcement. All these people are better off today because my King asked me to do this. I love to increase people's relationship with God with the comments and humor videos. One thing you need to know about boring is that I hate writing with a passion. Only God can take something that is boring and make it into something enjoyable. By the power of the Holy Spirit, he has made something boring like writing into something that is exciting. He will do this for you also. There is no excuse for not enjoying God's side of the fence. 03/27/2024 In society we have those who are considered to be on the right and those who are considered to be on the left. What it should be said is that there are those on the right and then the rest are wrong. This is not everything but look at how many times that God talks about the right hand. Psalm 16:8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 17:7 Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes. Psalm 18:35 You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great. Psalm 20:6 Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. Psalm 110 Of David. A psalm. The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” Psalm 110:5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. Isaiah 41:10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Matthew 26:64 “You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven. The only time the left is mentioned when you need a place to put goats. Matthew 25:31-33 NIV The Sheep and the Goats 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. In my opinion God is not fond of what the left believes in at all. I am surprised on how much they are trying to push abortion legislation this coming election. Even more shocking is that old people are trying to get signatures for this mockery. When they ask me, I just say, "I serve a pro-life God. No way I would want to anger him by having this on the ballot." I hope this would make them think about what they are doing. You know if people would look for what God wants, they would not be doing all this dumb stuff. His word defines most everything you need to know. The Holy Spirit gives discernment on the rest. 03/24/2024 The sheiks of Saudi Arabia are interesting people. They have so much money that there is nothing that they cannot buy. They have the fanciest cars money can buy. They also can pay to have people build buildings that no one in any other part of the world can afford to have built. What I really liked is when the PGA extremists were going to not allow President Trumps golf courses to be part of it. Because the Saudi's, who love President Trump, had more money than they did, were going to destroy the PGA. The extremists stopped their nonsense immediately. This is one time I liked people who have lots of money and power. What would it be like though if the Saudis would put all that money and power aside and work and live with the people in their country. I know that you are saying that would never happen in a million years. But think about this, Jesus Christ actually did that for us. He gave all that up just because he loved us enough that he did not want any of us to go to hell. Paul talked about this in Colossians: Colossians 1:15-20 NIV The Supremacy of the Son of God 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Verse 16 says, "all things have been created through him and for him". Satan is like the party in our government that taxes us to death then gives it back to us if we "worship" no scratch that "Vote" for them. He tried to give Jesus what he already owned: Matthew 4:8-10 NIV 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ I liked how Jesus said, "it is written". That was like telling Satan you need to pay attention to what God declares and only a fool would challenge God's written word. Even though the word fool was not directed at Satan, he knew exactly what Jesus was talking about. Like the description says, "The Son is the image of the invisible God", it was like Satan asking God to worship him. I am sure that made him feel real stupid and even more mad. Wow! There is a lot to be said in the rest of the verse: "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." It looks like our existence is in our Lords hands. "And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy." - After Jesus ascended to the father he set a whole bunch of things in motion. Even though he is with the Father he can easily be the head of the church. This means he is always nearby too. "For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross." - This what the Old Testament was talking about, and Jesus finished it. Just think about the phrase "making peace through his blood." This peace could never have been matched by animal sacrifices. For a final note: Romans 6:23 (New Living Translation) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. 03/18/2024 Paul was called to be a servant of many churches: Colossians 1:25 GNT 25 And I have been made a servant of the church by God, who gave me this task to perform for your good. It is the task of fully proclaiming his message, Paul said he was happy about his sufferings: Colossians 1:24 Good News Translation 24 And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ's sufferings on behalf of his body, the church. I said to myself that he would have to be a lunatic to like suffering. Even Jesus did not want it: Matthew 26:39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” God then told me to dig deeper into the life of Paul. I do know that even Peter was amazed on how much Paul knew about the things of God and he had an awesome understanding of Jesus Christ. He learned to love people at a high level, and he also understood that whenever he would do what his King asked of him that the enemy would oppose him at every turn. The enemy will not mess with you if you are outside of the will of God. But look out for what he will try to do to you if you are doing his will. Suffering is the greatest tool the enemy uses to discourage us and make us quit. They say that persecution makes strong Christians because the weak ones will abandon ship. Paul saw how his suffering was growing the various churches he wrote letters to. He also knew how you handle suffering also strengthens the body. He was joyous about the results his suffering was having on the churches. We should all love people like Paul did in a way that we would use our suffering to grow the faith of our brother and sisters. I may be wrong on this, but Paul was a great part of this: Colossians 1:26-27 Good News Translation proclaiming his message, 26 which is the secret he hid through all past ages from all human beings but has now revealed to his people. 27 God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God. Up to this time there is only the Old Testament. I think all this he is talking about is revealed in the yet to be created New Testament that will be added to God's Word. We definitely need this if we are going to be servants like Paul was: Colossians 3:12 (New International Version) Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 03/15/2024 Developing our relationship with Jesus Christ is a lot like playing baseball. In God's baseball we are given the opportunity to hit the ball and run if we are willing to pick up the bat. He does not force us to do anything because he is giving us free will. When we hit that ball, it is like giving are heart to Jesus Christ for the first time. We are excited to be running to first base: 2 Timothy 1:9 (New Living Translation) For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. Unlike real baseball many of us choose to stay at first base. When we see the enemy out there in the outfield and know the fact that first base is safe, we decide we don't want to take a chance to continue developing that relationship. God calls taking a chance "faith" and he wants us to complete the journey that he sets us on. As we begin to trust in our King, we are ready to try for second base. Oh, do not forget that we can bind the enemy. God will tie the enemy's feet together to make it difficult for him the mess up your journey. You have arrived at second base: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (New Living Translation) All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. We are now beginning to learn that God is there in our troubles. He is also preparing us to do the same for our brothers and sisters in Christ. Second base is even more spooky. Now there is a demon between second and third. The enemy is even stronger now. We are making the enemy more uncomfortable as we get closer to the end of our journey. Continue to bind the enemy as you continue your journey. The enemy also knows that we're growing stronger and hates it. But continue to take a risk of faith and we eventually will get to third base. Living for other people helps us get to third base quicker: 1 Peter 3:15 (New International Version) But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, God is looking for people to speak the truth of his word and want to share what Jesus is doing in your life today. Be careful what attitude you have when you speak to people because it may just turn them off. The enemy is really nervous now because it is beginning to look like you are going to score. He is going to try anyway possible to get us out. As we totally let go and let God run our lives, we are heading where God wants us to go: 2 Peter 1:5-8 (New Living Translation) In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we get this far, we score a victory for the church of Jesus Christ. This is what they mean by discovering the abundant life. One of the reasons things have gotten so bad today is that the church has spent too much time on first base. Even bound, the enemy will eventually catch enough balls that we hit. He will tag us while we are distracted. Now our team is out, and the score is zero. God will replace us with a team who wants to score and win the prize. Who knows he may even use the Jonah effect to wake the current team up. Three days in the belly of anything would sure do that. 03/13/2024 Have you ever asked yourself the question, "What does God think of what I'm doing." Especially after reading verses like this: Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. This verse was written more to prevent us from getting cocky and thinking that we're something special when we're not. It is designed to keep us humble. Jesus came because he knew we would never get it right. I like to listen to what the prophets have to say. Amos tells us that God does not do anything without talking to his prophets first. Amos 3:7 Indeed, the Sovereign Lord never does anything until he reveals his plans to his servants the prophets. Kent Christmas tries to run his church like the church in Acts. He asked the same question. God physically told him, "I am well pleased with what is going on in this church." Kent's reaction to what God said was in reverence to our King. His church is a house of prayer there strictly to glorify God and bring healing and the word to people. What God said also applies to the people that work in ministries that they are called into and are run the way God designed them to work. God calls all of us to do a ministry for him. Using God's gang and street ministry as an example, people are giving up their time, talents and money to ensure that we can continue to bring souls of the gangs and people on the street to Jesus Christ. Others are using their time and talents that God has given them too and are doing the same thing with the college students. If you are tithing like you should, God is also well pleased with you. This is encouraging knowing that God is pleased with us. Let's keep this going by continually living our lives for Jesus Christ and devoting our time and talents to what he wants. Another encouraging thing I heard from another prophet Hank Kuneman was relating to all the evil that is going on in America right now. In fact, it is going on across the whole world right now. Evil is being exposed but I feel they are like a child who is told not to do something, but they're not disciplined. They continue doing evil because they know they can get away with. Hank Kuneman had this dream that God told him to read 2 Samuel 5:20. He repeated this request seven times: 2 Samuel 5:20 New Living Translation 20 So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The Lord did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”). We know that 7 is the number that means completion. I think God is about to take all these people out and destroy him like they like he did for David. Instead of David, God is using Trump, who was also called by God to be where he is today. I firmly believe that he is the leader that is going to accomplish this with the help of the Holy Spirit. I think the time frame is imminent. If God was going write this verse today, it would go like this: 2 Samuel 5:20 20 So Trump went to Washington DC and defeated the elites there. “The Lord did it!” Trump exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place MAGA (which means “the Lord who bursts through and makes America great again”). 03/11/2024 Look what happens when we continue to honor and love our King. Deuteronomy 7:9 (New International Version) Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. God has never forgotten the covenant the pilgrims made back with him way back in the 1600's. That covenant is influencing what is happening in America today. I am just thankful there are many people in America who still serve God even though we're in a minority. God did not spare Sodom for Abraham. Without their covenant it would possibly be all over for us. God's word never expires. If I would come back a 1000 years from now, God would still honor what he spoke Isaiah confirms that: Isaiah 55:11 KJV So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Just watch what God is about to do in America. I was created just at the right time to be part of all of this. 03/09/2024 When you read scriptures, it is interesting how God has references to special numbers. The ones that we see in our ministry are three, seven and seventeen. Three is the coolest number because it represents the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We should call them the Magnificent 3. There was an old Western that I liked to watch that was called the Magnificent 7. Even back then the number seven refers to completion. That was enough to get the job done back then. But we all know that the magnificent three will do much more for us than those guys ever did in that movie. The magnificent three are eternal and stick around even after the job is done. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit definitely have a significant meaning in our ministry. What I thought of being cool is much more to our King then just cool. This is something our King always wanted to do. When we started the ghetto ministry, I was giving $140 per family. Nothing real special about fourteen. As inflation kept going, I stepped it up to a $150. I said to myself, 'You know 17 is one of God's cool numbers. Of course, $17 didn't buy many groceries so the decimal was moved one place. This is where I envisioned the three $50's to represent the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, but I had $20 left over. It did not take long to define the $20. So, it became "Here is another $20 for inflation." The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as you lay the fifties down bring tears of joy and the laying of the twenty brings laughter. I am beginning to realize the power of "in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" over the money. If you do a search the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are mentioned only in: Matthew 28:19 NLT Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. This goes for all of us. It is not on a wish list but a command. One thing that happened right after we started anointing the money and laying it in their hands "in name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" is family worship. The blessed families came together for the first time at the King Sooper to worship and glorify the name of our King. They continue to do that today. I know that John 14 talks a lot about the Holy Spirit. Read slowly verse 17 and especially 18: John 14:17-18 New Living Translation 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. The God's children in the ghetto know and understand the Holy Spirit. Even though it looks like you are coming close to be thrown out in the street, verse 18 says, "No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you." God knows what we are thinking when we are in financial hardship that is beyond our control. That is why he starts out by saying "No". This is to remove that thought from your head. The rest is the plan he has for your life. Now this is encouraging, and it definitely will build your faith as it does those in the ghetto. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is going to change this community to the point where the enemy will want to go somewhere else where the Holy Spirit is less prevalent. As for me I am going to honor the Magnificent 3 until the ghetto is a community who only serves Jesus Christ. There are beautiful people who live there who only want to serve Jesus Christ. God also sees beautiful people there who want to serve him and that is why he sent me to help build his children's faith. Let the Magnificent 3 work power in your life! 03/07/2024 This is the man I want God to see: Isaiah 25:1 (New Living Translation) O Lord, I will honor and praise your name, for you are my God. You do such wonderful things! You planned them long ago, and now you have accomplished them. This is the man God sees: Psalm 139:23-24 (New International Version) Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. My prayer is to remove anything in my life that is offensive to my King. If I truly trust in God I will not be anxious in anything. If I have any bad habits not pleasing to you, we ask you to give us the strength to remove them. Our goal is to walk in such a manner that we are pleasing our Lord Jesus Christ. Even if I sidestep our Lord Jesus Christ, he is not wanting to abandon me in any way. Now, this is what love is all about. 03/06/2024 Have you ever thought about how amazing our brains are. If God gave us all photographic brains, we would remember everything that includes things like how many times I took a dump in 2023 and all the atrocities anybody did to me while I was growing up. I am glad that our brains do not retain everything. This can also have a small downside. For example, all of us probably know what a smartphone is and probably use one a lot. I still think android phones are better than the iPhone. I could not find anything in scriptures to prove me wrong. I use my smartphone to get research material from social media apps for my videos that I store on my phone. I then use an app to rename the files to identify a period of time. Then I upload them to Dropbox so that way they're on my computer when I go home. I'm getting so good at that I can almost do it my sleep now. But using that same smartphone, my wife wanted to get a video off of her phone and put it on mine, so that I can move it over to my Dropbox folder. Since I only did it one time in the past, it made me think of how I did it last time. I did remember that I did it through Bluetooth. I know that there are network options that would accomplish this, but I tried this first. After I had the phones connected, then I asked myself "Now what?" I normally would use a file manager to do that. Google said to use "share". I did that but the options presented did not make any sense. I looked closer and saw "see more options". After I clicked the link, there was the Bluetooth share option. Now I can download a movie on my wife's phone without any problems, because I've done it more than once. But as time passes will I forget this again. God knows this is a problem. That is the reason why he wrote this: Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 (New International Version) These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. God put this verse here because he knew that we always lose information that we do not access very often. That void in our brain will be replaced by whatever we deem as important. Just like a smartphone, it takes practice to be able to master God's word. So, we have to continually use it and tell other people about it. If you teach your kid about the things of God, it's also going to help you retain the information that you learned from the time you gave your heart to Jesus. The sad part is if this information was never placed in our brain in the first place. How can we speak the truth of Jesus Christ to others if we don't know what that truth is. Watch and you will see that those who understand and love God the most are constantly in his word and learn from others. They will test what others tell them to make sure it is not contrary to God's written word. If you could give 10 minutes a day to each sentence in Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 which translates into 50 minutes a day for God. Try it and see how much more you will know and retain about our King.
