The War is Coming - The War is Here

 

To my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus may this letter find you in good health and willingness to fight and to serve our heavenly Commander in Chief, the LORD Jesus of Nazareth. To rise up in body and spirit and to push forward in the great and grand battle which has begun and which will continue leading up to the final war to end all wars both in heaven and on earth. My brothers and sisters this war, this battle is unlike any which we have seen or heard about in either American history or in the history of humanity as we know it. Not since the days of old during Noah’s time has there been such utter and complete disregard for the LORD and for His ways. Burning bibles has gone far from view and now rationalization and discrediting have taken its place and now in many churches both nondenominational and mainline denominations God’s precious word is either discounted or just flat out tossed out with a sentence such as, “ well, that was way back when, I mean, those people lived in huts and plowed fields and thought they could only achieve success by praying real hard. But now we ‘know’ that we can achieve great things by technology and we don’t have to rely on praying and waiting when we can have it now. We don’t have to wait three years for a steer to be ready for slaughter, we will just substitute plants for meat and add flavoring and wha-lah. We don’t need to wait and go to school to learn how to invest our money after we’ve worked really hard, we can just invest in cryptocurrency and wait for our big ship to come in as they say and we will be set for life and so on and so on. You get the picture that the generations below us are looking for microwave existence. We want God and His benefits “hot and now” as the donut shop sign says, they want God’s promises but could He please hurry it up the end of the year is coming and I’d like to take the tax hit in this current taxable year because I don’t want to think what next year’s tax table might look like.” Am I hitting the mark yet? Am I getting anyone’s attention yet?

My brothers and sisters I awoke just a bit ago, at 2:00 AM on December 09, 2022 with thoughts in my head of what I was to write in this letter. I need to make this more than just a sound bite, this must be a weighty message and something that a few of you might print out and keep for some time because you may need to refer back to it from time to time. Not because I am such a good writer but because what I have to say is necessary to take with you going forward into what lies before the body of Christ. My brothers and sisters I have been listening, waiting, watching and praying over the past four years and I have seen and heard much and as Saint Paul says I have tested what I have heard and I have listened to the speakers and their messages to find inconsistencies and I have kept much to myself because I wanted to be as certain as I could before speaking out as I am doing now. I never want or desire to mislead people so I whole heatedly encourage any who read this and give it credence to pray about what I say, pray about it and see if your spirit resonates with what I say. Some of you will feel and discern this is not for you, it is not what you see is for your path, that the Lord has given you another path and that is good, that is fine, we must all do the same, we must call out to our heavenly Father and ask for His guidance always.

My friends it has been rising up in me to sound the alarm and if you have not felt the same in your spirit, if the LORD has not been waking you at odd times and giving you thoughts and messages similar to this one then that is okay because we must all hear from Him, He is our heavenly Commander in Chief. My friends we are in a battle of spirit and of life, we are being called to serve in a mission to wage war against the enemy of darkness and I don’t want to say his name over and over because he doesn’t deserve that kind of recognition but I believe all who read this know as to whom I refer, it is satan.

My brothers and sisters I have been hearing from prophets of today through Elijah Streams, a program dedicated to giving today’s prophets a platform to speak and be heard. Their messages come from time spent with God through personal prayer, thanksgiving and obedience. I have been also listening to the far fringe, the shows and speakers who are not mainline Christians but yet they are hearing things and speaking their messages. I have been compiling years of prayer time along with what I hear and see and I feel and He feels it is the right time to speak. My friends, my fellow believers the Christ calls us, beacons us to come to Him. To come to Him in prayer and with humble heart and take heed to read His words spoken to us in the opening chapters of the book of Revelation; to hear the words of our Savior, Jesus the Christ as He both praises and chastises His church, His body of believers and followers. His one complaint that threads through all of it is that those who became distracted came away from the fight. When Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane to the intensity level of drops of blood running down from His brow He later found the three disciples asleep and chastised them saying, “could you not stay awake? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.” Luke chapter 22: 44-46

Can you see what I am saying? It’s not that they left His side for He was to be alone to pray but it was much more about them and their need to pray and to war in the spirit against falling to the temptations and misleading of the evil one.

My brothers and sisters going forward into this next year (2023) and beyond we may only have a short reprieve say possibly 10 years as one profit let slip during an interview and we could have as much as 100 years or 1000 years; but only the Father knows for sure. If you have noticed as I have noticed things are speeding up at a great rate and there are events taking place in our government and country and around the world that are certainly life changing for the better. Peace and prosperity are just around the corner and some in this life will attain much wealth because God is taking back that which was stolen through corrupt laws; and He is distributing it all back and more to the people. This age my friends is what is being referred to as the kingdom age; a time of God pouring out His great glory upon all the world. God is leading His body in spreading the good news that His one and only son came to earth and through that mission, His passion, resurrection and outpouring of the holy spirit mankind has an opportunity to inherit eternal life. My friends God our Father wants as many of His children to be with Him in heaven as possible and while we all learn scripture and learn how to bring others to deliverance and to pray for the sick and to baptize, He is now doing His part and imparting His glory upon the earth. You see my friends God is doing the one thing we could not, He is opening hearts and minds to hear His holy word, to see Him as He truly is and to want and desire to be at His side for eternity. My brothers and sisters this is the beginning of the harvest of souls and we are at the forefront of this event. God our Father has been preparing for this time in that He chose you and I to be alive during this time, that whatever perspective we can bring to the harvest is needed in His vineyard and we have the blessed opportunity to say “yes, I will follow, I will do as you ask.”

My brothers and sisters we who are awake and aware to what has been happening in our world all these years it is no mistake that we are awake for it is His desire through His spirit who lives inside of us to not be mislead, not to fall into deception by the deceiver but to be aware of the battle. My friends whoever resonates with this message, we must now adjust our tactics and turn our motivation toward embracing and welcoming into Christ’s body all who the holy spirit will bring. We must learn about deliverance, deliverance is what Jesus did everywhere He traveled. A person can profess Christ as their king but at times it can prove it is not enough. People will be coming from far and wide with all types of spirits clinging to them which only seek to tear down what God has so patiently been waiting for.

We cannot force this upon people but when evil manifests in the person of others we should know what to do and not do for the sake of the body of believers and for the person.

I will begin to close this letter by saying that those of you who will pray about what position in the harvest the Father has for you, please pray and ask if He wants you to know and understand about deliverance. Who among you will learn about growing food or giving medical first aid? Many will be needed to teach the word, to break open the scriptures and to proclaim His good works to the body and to perform baptisms and to lead others in singing and praise for it is in praise to Him that we find our greatest and deepest connection to Him. We will also need people who can help with the day to day goings on in the background. Lastly let me stress that any unforgiveness which has been packed away in the recesses of your heart and mind will require flushing out and be brought to the surface so that it can be given over to God and allow His healing to begin in your soul and spirit. Unforgiveness on any level is a detriment and a blockage to you achieving all that the Father has for you in His kingdom. You have vital tasks in God’s kingdom that He has prepared for you and you can do those things feeling and knowing you are set free from earthly bondage. This is how Jesus could say that He had overcome the world in that He had achieved a place and level of forgiveness and inner peace that no man could steal and no amount of deception would distract Him from His place on that cross upon that hilltop, doing what He came to earth to do, to take our place and offer Himself as final sacrifice in our place. Jesus spoke while dying and said, “it is finished.” What was finished?

Everything! Everything that might ever be required so that all humanity from the past, present and the future could enter and have a place in heaven with the Father for eternity. Just imagine or try to imagine what goodness and holiness resides within His heart and soul and spirit to be able to pay for all the sins of mankind from the time of Adam and Eve to the very day the last person who would be born on earth before the coming of the new heaven and the new earth. God is so GREAT! God is so GOOD!

We are entering into the kingdom age and we who have been denied wealth and opportunity to build up God’s kingdom on earth will now be given those items and opportunity through things like the return of Donald J. Trump to his rightful place as our duly elected president of these united states. Money will change in appearance and we will use digital money more and more and it’s purpose in God’s kingdom is to assure that it will not be stolen by the enemy and it would be used where and when it is needed. This is not about limiting our liberty but rather limiting our enemy’s ability. Yes a time will come when even that will be turned against us but until that time we are to occupy and build, build up the body to be the most formidable praying fighting force the deceiver has ever known or seen. His battle in the heavens with the angels will have been only a foreshadowing of the great battle that awaits him in the near future. Saints we have but a short time and we must get to work, start by filling your spare time with reading God’s word and spending time with Him because He loves you and wants to impart His heart and teaching to you. If there are areas that you feel the holy spirit drawing you toward to increase your heavenly skill set then talk to your pastor, get involved and learn from those who have already been doing such things. We must arise to the time of our Master calling us, the time is now, you have been kept here for this time and yes, some of us may fall during this kingdom time and will go on to wait for us in heaven but we keep pushing forward, we keep moving forward, advancing and taking back all that the enemy has stolen from the body of Christ. Lastly my friends pray for me that God will use me more where He sees fit. To all I bid my fondest affections and deepest confidence in God’s ability to bring us all home.

Spiritual Warfare - Begin the day

 In the name of Jesus Christ I decree and declare super abundant grace for today.

I have the victory in Jesus' name against any form of attack and I have the favor of God that goes before me that opens up doors that no man can shut. I will not quit. I will not be defeated. The battle is the Lord's and He has conquered the enemy before me. These are my days to thrive Not just survive. These are my days to live in perfect health and supernatural youth. Yes these are the days of supernatural and I believe I receive the glory of God without measure. 

I put all curses spoken against me, my wife/husband and my family under the blood of Jesus; and in the name of Jesus I break these curses. I bind all demon spirits sent to implement these curses and command you to leave now and I send you to the abyss in the name of Jesus and in the name of Jesus I reverse every curse on our lives. I loose the blessings of health, prosperity, success, completing our destiny (insert and just pray any blessings). Father, I bless those who have hurt me. 

In the name of Jesus, I render all demons on everyone I come in contact with (and insert names of specific people if necessary) deaf, dumb, blind and paralyzed. None of you can manifest! I declare only the Holy Spirit can manifest. 

Prayer to give all pain to the Father:
I picture Jesus on the cross and then I pray; Father I surrender all my pain that (name of whomever hurt you and how they wounded your heart) caused me. I unite my pain with your pain Jesus that you suffered on the cross for him/her. Please use my pain, united with yours, to deliver and help him/her. I forgive him/her and ask you to bless him/her. 

Who are real prophets and should we give them our time?

“We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive – something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of Liberty. That is a false conception. God does not contradict Himself. He did not create us and then, as an afterthought, impose upon us a set of arbitrary, irritating, restrictive rules. He made us free – and then gave us the Ten Commandments to keep us free. The greatest threat to Liberty is lawlessness. And, the greatest assurance of Liberty is respect for law. ‘Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy Liberty in law.’”

…Acclaimed filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille

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Please read the above quote and come back here and ponder on my observation please.

After reading the words and sentiment above a Christian of today may say to themselves, he must have been Christian look how he mentions God and how he points out how man was created to be free and so on. Well maybe he was and maybe not 🤷‍♂️

I will agree that the quote holds merit and it does contain some truth but  the fact remains that a major movie mogul and originator of the modern film industry said this and all of us today see the cesspool  that Hollywood is now and has been for decades so my point to all of this is.....

Saint Paul tells us to seek out truth and wherever it is found that we should question it, probe it and test it and keep what is right and true and let go of the rest.(1Thes chap5 vv 21-22) Scripture states that God allows the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust alike. (Matt 5: 45) Prophecy and gifts of the spirit also anoint a person in life but does the person walk toward those gifts and toward the originator and giver of these gifts or does the person decide to use the gifts to put themselves under the spotlight of life and to collect from the world all that it desires to give them in return for using and sharing those gifts upon the world and its unsaved masses? Let not the body of Christ only assume a person's identity in Christ and their heart merely on good words but allow God to show us who is a true follower of the risen Lord. Ask God our Father to show us whom we can incline our spiritual ear to and who not to entertain with our time, spirit and treasure. Are there false prophets, yes, but there are also true prophets who utilize their God given gifts only for self promotion and once in a while they allow a few bits of heavenly truth to fall off of their table so that even the dogs could have something to eat.(Matt 15: 27) You take offense to that? You want to scold me? First notice how you coil up and are ready to strike because one of your mentors comes to mind and you want to defend them because deep inside you see how you sit by their table hoping for a new revelation, a new insight that will brighten your day and allow you to go on your way and feel relieved that heaven is watching over you. Notice that! Notice how your outlook of this day hangs in the balance until you have that word of conformation and hear me now;

You have the word of Almighty God at your fingertips on your smart phone, in your Bible and hopefully engraved upon your heart. Mr. DeMille spoke of freedom and now I say exercise Your freedom!! Pray to your heavenly Father for insight, truth, revelation and open your Bible app, open your Bible on your night stand and read!!! Your outlook of today will begin when you engage with Him, amen? True freedom is always being in connection with our heavenly Father, with that connection we will understand all He intends for us to know on that given day and maybe more the next day but our Father understands us so well that He paces out our exposure to His truth so that it will soak in like water onto fertile soil and not roll off like water poured onto sand. Go and be filled today with all that the Father wishes for you to have and let that be enough. God bless.

I am calling for war!

 I am calling for war!

This morning I posted a quote from an early church saint who encapsulated the role of each of the holy trinity. He stated that as it is said in scripture that if we knock the door shall be opened. After posting this I went into my prayer closet (the living room) and I spoke with God. I felt it heavy on my heart that I make some declarations and some announcements of forgiveness to people of my past. There was not a long list but it was a start, to say their names and to voice that I do not hold them responsible for things they did and said. I said that only God knows what was in their hearts and minds at the time they did what they did and said what they said. There were a couple that in fact I know were tortured souls and they did not live in this life as God intended and so I released my unforgiveness and hurt and I released my feelings of anger and resentment. The more I spoke the more came to my mind and after quite a long while I felt it necessary to release something else. I called upon the heavenly host and I said, it is time for war. Two months ago I called upon the heavenly host and I told them it is time to release the grace of God and grace we have been receiving in the forms of a stripping away of the falsities and the disguises of not only legal government figures but also of figures in the church. Some people see only the crumbling of trusted pillars of faith, hope and truth but not any further. The grace is in that we who have been given eyes to see, we see past the ribbons and fanfare which fame and society has placed upon these people and we see that somewhere, somehow they lost their way in the truth or never had the truth to begin with.

God is granting us grace and His glory which is His love to have all the fakes and falsehoods torn down in front of us because He knows we have either been denied truth (which is Him) or we have been told lies. Lies about who we truly are and who God truly is, we have been make to think that what we see on television is always truth, that when the history channel or PBS does a documentary that we can take it as gospel but funny how it is they never speak about the real truth. About the amazing son of God, they don't like to speak about Jesus the Christ from Nazareth except in a slight historical sense and only then the truth is dissected and "translated" by professors but not by a freshly renewed soul who has been saved by Christ Himself. Never do they give the microphone to a person filled with the Holy Spirit fire who thanks God with one breath and with the next they invite any and all to join in the banquet that Jesus provides.

Today I felt it deep in me that it is time for the battle to begin and this is a war that cannot be fought with guns and bullets. God says in His word, not by my might, not by my strength but by my spirit says the LORD. When the man brought his son to Jesus and asked him to heal his son, the man stated that some disciples had tried but to no avail. The disciples asked Jesus why they could not exercise the demon from the boy and Jesus said to them, this kind of demon can only be cast off by much prayer and fasting. Prayer and fasting, what else did Jesus commonly do? He spent time "up on the mountain." Which was their way of saying he spent time in prayer with the Father. Now comes the time in our history where humans have a chance, a calling to join in the battle that John wrote about but what wasn't explained is that it is fought in God's realm not ours. Yes John saw images and saw blood up to the horses bridles but consider this, has God ever in the history of the bible asked for or said that man must offer blood sacrifice? Think hard.

Things happen in the spiritual realm first and then flesh themselves out in the physical. The sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross was determined long before the earth was formed. Gospel of John chapter 1, vv 1-5. Nothing came into being without Him and without Him nothing came into being. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac and instead God provided the ram. God states that He does not desire blood sacrifice but rather the humble and contrite heart of a repentant sinner. We should all have to pay for our sins with our life for nothing unclean shall stand before the throne of a holy God but..God in His mercy through the sacrifice of His only begotten son reconciled Himself to the whole world.
2 Corinthians 5:18

No my friends, God intends us to fight not with our fists because that is man's way and only man would attain the glory of the victory, no, this war is being won and will be won by our faith and our perseverance. I know what many tribulation teachers have said and I have heard them too but it doesn't line up with the true character of God. God in my opinion would not have the battle of good vs. evil be fought in man's way because we cannot truly vanquish evil and dispatch it to be gone forever. Only the heavenly host have that job, they are not angels but heavenly beings God created to fight spiritual battles. Got a spiritual battle raging in your house? Your mind? Call upon your heavenly host to fight the fight for you that is what they are created for. First you must repent of your sins to God the Father and ask for His glory and righteousness to be placed upon you and then with authority of heaven call upon your heavenly host to tear down strongholds and to capture and bind up the princes and principalities and cast them back into hell. Tear down spiritually evil strongholds and turn them to shreds and never to be rebuilt and you, you must work hard to cleanse your heart, soul and mind of things that are not of God. Music, movies, articles you read, magazines that speak of evil acts and you let your mind wander. All these things must be driven out of your heart and home by your wanten act of will and to denounce any further interference from such things coming between you and your relationship with your heavenly Father.

I am far from being where I should be but I am striving and it is important that all of us who are believers of God's word and followers of Christ Jesus to also strive. The battle of good vs. evil will not be won with swords but with praying hands. This war that humanity is in will have an outcome and it will be victory for God and His kingdom and His people but we cannot sit back and be spiritually lazy, we are being asked to read God's word and spend more time with it in a day than we do with idle time and thoughts. We are asked to speak with God and let Him speak to us in return. We are asked to put on the armor of God, think about that! We are to wear God's armor, He wants us protected and safe and victorious!!! We are asked to consecrate our home, our food, our cars and all things in our possession to Him that nothing will be touched or used for anything not having to do with God's kingdom.
Lastly my friends give your minds and heart to Him because He will keep them safe and victorious also. Now is the time for war.

LET'S GOOOO!!!

Why I don't write for God much anymore

 Good morning and hello my Father

I have been avoiding writing to you like the plague. 

I haven't written because it hurts to speak to you, because I pour out my heart to you and I feel and see very little come back. I feel like I always have, left on the sidelines with no clear direction other than to "be" and to live. So many around me who are protestant evangelicals are always speaking of how God has a plan for "your" life and to know it is to simply ask Him! I find that so very humorous since I have been asking for thirty years and nothing is spoken but instead I experience. I experience life. I wake up, I work, I love my wife and I go to sleep, nothing special or specific there. I walk through my days and some are simple such as cleaning my house or mowing the yard or making dinner but there is no bulletin board from heaven showing the way to God's special plan for Me. Protestants make such a big deal of finding your calling, understanding your purpose in God's master plan, well, what if there ISN'T any???

Will I get kicked out because I'm still benched? Will they take away my Follower of Christ card? (no such thing) I feel like they are expecting something to break any day now and the light from above will shine down and a voice will speak and everyone around me will hear and know God is my Father and He has a special plan for me and then all of them will back off and leave me alone because Then and only then will they believe that I am "part of the club". What if I have already lived my special purpose? What if that part of God's intricate plan for my life already came and went and now all I have is to live until I die from old age? Only God knows what else lays ahead in my life and He doesn't seem to be sharing and I am getting tired and exhausted with asking and looking and listening. I give up, I put up the white flag of surrender and I quit! Do you hear me God? Do you see what I have written and do you get that I am done chasing after my purpose? It never was such a major point in my life until I met these type A Christians and all of a sudden it's like "if you are really filled with the Holy Spirit then you have a special job on earth." Well I am sorry but there are a world of people around me and I am sure many are filled with the Holy Spirit and very few of them actually stand out and I may very well turn out like them.

I'm tired and I am fed up with disappointment, disappointment that God has been so silent. My mom loved me but didn't get involved with special things that happened in my life. That left me feeling as though I don't know, I'm an interruption or an inconvenience. My earthly dad was an angry and unhealthy man and bellowed at my mother for almost everything until I was 9 and then he died of a heart attack and life became very peaceful and very smooth. My dad had been the greatest source of fear and dread in my house and my mom and me walked on eggshells until he was gone, God granted us peace through that.  So mom was the only parent to be present for me and the couple of times something was going on, she wasn't there. Don't know why but she never showed and I didn't get to see any look of pride or praise on her face, it would have helped make me feel as though I wasn't an inconvenience or as my older brother put it, "an oops baby." Like I was an biological accident not intended for and not planned for....like I said an inconvenience. All through grade school from my first day I was a magnet for any other kid who wanted to find a punching bag. I was the butt of many jokes and other kids called me fatso, slow, never wanted me on their dodgeball team....you get the picture and now I feel in a way God is doing the same thing. Yes He loves me and created me and yes His son Jesus chose to die for me and save me from my sins but He did that for all of humanity at the same time, those who had lived and died, those who were present with Him and those for centuries to come until His return and He begins the new heaven and the new earth. All that stuff about Jesus doing that just for me if I were the only one sounds nice and all and it gets people teared up but the fact remains it was for any and all who believe in Him, not just for me.

I can do some things, I can sing okay and carry a tune and I like singing in church or anywhere praise and worship music is being played. I can fix things like cars and some mechanical things around the home. My mind works like an engineer and I am always pondering on how I would make it work better, how I would build it better or some things are just stupid and a waste of money. I love my wife and she loves me and we are the most in love couple I know even after 36 years. If it wasn't for her I would have no one because we never had children, not by choice but it just never happened. Not that we didn't try but after two years we saw the handwriting on the wall and stopped. We thought about adoption but both of us were afraid of making a mistake and we would have felt horrible to have to give the child back not because of the child but because of us. If we couldn't cut the mustard as parents. She had okay examples of parenting and I came from a father who beat my older brother and possibly sexaully assaulted my older sister so I felt I had the makings of a disaster waiting to happen in some poor child's life and I just couldn't do that so we moved on with life. 

So maybe, I guess some things in life maybe she and I could have pushed through, some things maybe we could have stepped out in faith and tried in order to give some child a decent home and some love but instead we shut the door in fear and doubt and maybe we missed part of a plan God had for our life and we let that chapter pass us by and now we face going into our elder years with no one to look out for us. I have a nephew from my sister but with his bad health he may beat me to the pearly gates. There are many other points in my life where I feel I should have turned and gone another way. Are they regrets? Oh yes, I have many, none of them having to do with my wife but rather my work career. If I had taken a job that was offered to me I could have eventually run my own business but instead I chose to stay with safe and secure with benefits and my old boss took it out of my flesh pound for pound over a 17 year period. Eventually he retired and put me in for his job which I felt was a huge accomplishment and a gift from God though it was just another hard leg of my career there and yes I did get to retire with a lifetime retirement benefit which I enjoy today but it cost me very much. My job caused problems and arguments at home, fear and stress plagued me for years because my old boss was So much like my dad and lost control and threw tantrums at the drop of a hat. Want to talk about damaged goods, this guy was like a crate of turnips that had fallen off a truck and was broken to almost splitting open. Working for him kept me on pins and needles for years. His old saying was, "shit flows down hill." Many of us who worked for him understood We were at the catch basin and we were the turds because we caught it all the time. Getting promoted under him in his department was no small feat and I considered it a miracle seeing as his level of feelings of inadequacy were off the charts and he considered threats to his job coming from any direction was a cause for vehement retribution. 

I made other mistakes and one was really big and though I repented and begged for God to get me through it and to please correct the possible pain that I could have inflicted on others it was still a hard row to hoe and it involved personal and marriage counseling, deep spiritual searching inside myself and a severing of a relationship that spanned over two decades. More of a friendship that went wrong and only in my mind not in the real world. My life has turned out how I chose it so far, I do not believe I have walked a path of God's plan for my life because it would not have led through possibly breaking up of two marriages and children that were involved. I had many times said to God to please lead me where He wanted me and there were months and even weeks, days sometimes where I was looking on the horizon line for something to break, something to open up for me to get out of where I worked and away from that constant fear of being fired and for Nothing! I would have had no recourse to fight for my job because that boss of mine had others twisted around his finger so tight that they feared him too. I longed for a place to work where I could just do my job with peace and no fear but it never came even after he left and I took over the department then I got harassment from those who were once fellow workers and now were under my direction and authority. I chose to stay and tough it out for another 11 years and when the time came to walk out the door and not look back I did it with sorrow and a broken heart because I did have friends that I wasn't going to see on Monday, the daily jokes and the friendship that coworkers develop over time that wouldn't be there for me anymore because I retired but I went away knowing I left the place and the people in much better condition than before. 

It's been almost ten years since that time and I have floated with no clear direction other than to stay away from jobs like my old one and sometimes I feel as though God has chosen to bless me with early retirement for the years of suffering I endured and suffering it surely was and I wasn't the only one that suffered there were many others. Where is God's plan in all of that? Isn't it supposed to look like a neat orderly plan where we move from step A to step B and C and all along the way we obtain graces and gifts and we become part of some great revival of the faith? Some people Have lived that kind of life and have served God directly and have brought faith and hope to others who were impoverished and felt abandoned but that wasn't everyone's reality. 

I woke up with so many thoughts and they are not mine alone

 I woke up with so many thoughts and all of them fell in place

The Father has been giving me these thoughts over the past two weeks and I know that they are assembling themselves to speak a profound truth that must be pronounced very soon. He does things with me that have a timeline of not as much the immediate as they are about the future as in the next few months to a year from now. Believe me when I tell you I believe these things can be bared out in scripture and I plan to mark them all down here and then work to fill it all in as I can. For the time being I believe it important to collect these thoughts and place them here for safe keeping so that I can refer back to this document and pray over it and ask Father for confirmation on my efforts and to see if what I am doing meets with His needs and time line. 

2nd Chronicles 7: 12 - 22

 12Then one night the LORD appeared to Solomon and said,

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. 13At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. 15My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. 16For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

17“As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, 18then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, ‘One of your descendants will always rule over Israel.’

19“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 20then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. 21And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

22“And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.’”

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To now view the temple through the eyes of the Lord Jesus which as He stated to the religious who questioned Him, He referred to the temple not as the building anymore but to His self, His corporeal body and stated that if they were to tear down this temple that He would raise it after 3 days. Jesus also tells us in John chapters 14 to 17 of how He and the Father are one and in His prayer to Father He states openly that as He and Father are one that He prayed that we would be one with Him and then we would abide in Him and in the Father simultaneously and we would dwell together. Can you begin to see the rope of three cords? Does not the word imagery not point to the binding of three cords and how they are stronger together? We are to dwell in Jesus and He dwells in God our Father and our body, namely our heart becomes our temple as it is the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. Take a look at the scripture here above and see how God our Father states that He now dwells in our temple (our heart) and that as long as we abide with Him and follow after His ways and abide by His statutes and commandments that He will dwell within our temple. If His people who are us, will humble ourselves and not become fixated on our sinfulness but rather fix our eyes upon the victory of His son, our Lord Jesus Christ and confess our sins to Him and accept His grace which He stated to Paul that it was sufficient and receive His cleansing just as Isaiah received cleansing from the angel with the use of the white hot coal to his lips, that He will continue to dwell in our temple (our heart) and He will heal our land (our life). For as He already states, we are to be as David, a person after God's own heart. Not to be like the heart of God but instead chase after God's own heart. To pursue God's heart in the same way a lover pursues after the one who has won his heart. To woo God, to court God, to be spiritually intimate with God to the point where nothing is kept hidden from God and all is laid bare. We are to cultivate and nurture our place of spiritual indwelling where the spirit of God resides. As demons spend every minute we are awake speaking to our spirit and encouraging destruction of our relationship with the Holy Spirit, we in our waking hours and minutes must counter act this continual bombardment and intense sabotage of our joy in the Lord with words and thoughts and deeds of affirmation not only to our own spirit but also to our fellow brethren who also attempt to walk in the light of God's love. By physically and mentally taking time to grow our spirit in the light and presence of God's holy word and to speak and proclaim any and all words from the holy book over our own person, we then administer the antidote of the noxious and ultimately deadly virus of hatred and loathing of goodness and light and love. We cure our soul's lack of justice and righteousness by injecting our spirit with words. The devil uses words to bring down our temple and we then are weakened and we feel as though we are losing the good fight and we feel shame and failure and we invite God to go elsewhere, that our heart is so wicked and there is nothing in there but filth in light of God's pure love. But God....but God! But God gives us the out, He provides the way to lessen and lighten our soul's burden and to raise ourselves up out of the grave of despair and spiritual decay (just as we are told that there is nothing that we cannot bear in this life because God will always provide the way out) similar in concept of when Christ Jesus raised Himself out of the grave. It is with words, Jesus tells us the sword of the spirit is the word of God, so says it in Ephesians as Paul tells us how to prepare for spiritual battle every day. 

My friends allow me to bring this to a conclusion; I awoke with the spirit of God assembling these thoughts and it is for me to distribute them to you. A time is coming and woe it is almost at hand that we must be ready as with the warriors of Gideon's army to wage a great spiritual battle in the name and service of our LORD. It is nearing the time when humanity is about to blow the final trumpet and the beautiful and righteous king Jesus will call up the dead in Christ first and they will assemble at His side to come back and meet the demonic in the air and a great battle will ensue. On the earth also a great battle will ensue with those who curse God and spit when speaking His name will call upon their dark lords and false gods to wage war upon the remnant church on the earth and to overturn and overthrow the kingdom upon the earth. We have no way of attempting this battle on our own because by ourselves we are desolate and destitute of any and all goodness but God....but for God! When we call upon His name and seek His face and turn once again, at every turn, after every point in time of our choosing lust of the eyes and the flesh over the loving ways of His heart then we become valiant again, we become radiant again and He infills us and clothes us in the marvelous light. We are once again filled with His mercy and forgiveness and we are again able to exhibit and extend with grace the same level and depth of mercy and forgiveness offered to us. Jesus reminds us using the parable of the unforgiving servant and his king, that the servant was shown a great kindness and forgiveness by the king and a huge debt was written out of the king's ledger regarding this servant but when opportunity came for this same servant to extend the same for another who owed him a great debt that forgiven servant instead exacted merciless punishment upon that man and chose to hold him in suffering in darkness until the last penny was extracted from his flesh. You see we cannot go through our life like this thankless and self invested worthless lot, we are to be like our good Father and repeat and extend the grace and mercy which has been extended toward us each and every time we cried out for it from the One who truly loves us. We can only apply the helmet of salvation when we know how and by whom we are saved, we are saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves but from which was given to us by God Himself so that we may know and believe in His only begotten son, our Lord Christ Jesus. Ephesians Chapter 2, vv 4 - 10. 

My brothers and sisters let us not fall for the ploy of satan the deceiver and allow ourselves to fixate upon our own sin but instead turn your gaze upon the cross of Christ, the one who when was raised upon that cross drew all men unto Himself. Do not be caught up in your own scrupulous disposition (to show reluctance on grounds of conscience : HESITATE) do not hesitate to reach out for the hand and grace of Christ Jesus to accept more grace and more grace because He is sufficient to enable us to carry out our assignments and to achieve victory according to the master plan of God our Father. Do not wait, do not terry but instead bathe in His enormous and compassionate light and be cleansed as Isaiah was cleansed and went on to carry out the Lord's will. Call out, cry out and be washed again, over and over and refresh your spirit in Him, amen. 

You Are Worthy of It All

 Hello my Father how are you ? 

MY Son, it is good to hear from you again it has been a while

I apologize for my absence, I have allowed myself to become distracted. I have missed you too. My Father I have been long in doing this because of so many reasons but the biggest is the one you know about. It is from my time at that other church and how my family was split in two. It hurt so much. They were my family...

I know my son and they are my family too, they are all my family, my sons and daughters and it hurts me so to see them not get along, to not behave and to not Hear each other. This is why I want to speak with you, it is about your healing. Has it been enough time that has passed that we can look at this together? 

Yes please my Father I would like that and I need you in this.

Tell me about what still hurts you, tell me about the open wound and how is it to be healed? 

Now my Father the pain of separation has been traded with pain of years gone by and pain of those who have passed on into your kingdom. The friends and their families whom I will not see until we are together in your house. I miss them so and I miss that period in my life when it felt as though you were opening up a door for me and making room for me at your table. So much growth went on there and so much revelation and I was in awe of it all. I was being accepted for who I was and what I could offer. The separation was like a closing of a door in heaven and I couldn't bear the hardest rejection of all. To possibly have the door of heaven, the blessings you poured out on me, stop and I be told I was too much this or too much that or not enough. Rejection Father from you is the deepest cut my heart could receive and I hurt for years and I cried for years and I cry now as I write this post. I know now that you did not and have not rejected me and that your tender heart is still soft for my love as your son. Dear Father I know time cannot be replaced and nor should it be because what lies behind is gone and in the dust but it is about what lies in front of me now is what I should be fixed upon. Father I feel as though I am starting all over again and I look at John and he has had to start over so many times and he just sees it for what it is, a time period gone and what is it that You have put before him? Such a loyal and loving son you have in John. 

Yes, John is one of my favorites but you are all my favorites 😄            

My Father I will end here but only for this letter, I will need to do this slow but I will do it. I want to be back where you had me (my mind still wants what was) but I see now I am to leave what was and embrace You in what lies before me. Father make me new again please? Father, what should I do and what should I say? Thank you Father for not closing that door on my heart. I love you.