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.