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Word
First thing is to read
and study Revelation; it is the only book in the Bible that gets
you a blessing, just for reading it. Revelation 1:3
Blessed
is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written in it; for the time
is near.
Revelation is a Prophesy of the Last Days, along with a warning.
Recently God has told
me to read Revelation again, I have read Revelation many times
and there is always something new God revels to me. My journey
with God and with the Book of Revelation started when I was a
teenager, in the sixties.
My Sunday school teacher spent a year on the study of
revelation. This is
the first time I heard about the Last Days or End Times, and to
my surprise it did not scare me, I knew I was saved and knew
where I would spend eternity.
The thought of all of this; God’s Judgment and how could
this be possible was beyond my understanding.
How could the Anti-Christ track everybody in the world
with those that have the “Mark of the Beast” and all the events
that would take place and be viewed by the world at the same
time? Remember during this time I was still in my teens there
was no cell phone, satellite phones, personal computers,
internet or powerful computers that we have today.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had not formed their companies
yet, not until years later.
How was this possible, great question?
Today there is an answer, today all this is
technologically possible!
But that was not the
real question, the real question is what do we do we do about it
(Revelation)? The
book of Revelation in not to scare anyone, it is to warn and
prepare others for the season we are in and when Jesus will
return. When??? We
do not know; those that study Bible prophecy believe the time is
close!
1 Corinthians 15:52,
In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and
the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
At that very moment (twinkling of an eye) ALL the saints (saved
by the blood of Jesus) will be taken up (Raptured) to be with
Christ forever. At that same time there WILL NOT be a single
person on this earth that knows Jesus Christ as their Savior,
which means there will not be a saved person in the entire
world! The earth as
we know it will be a very dark world to live in.
Everyone you know that does not know Jesus as their personal
Savior; family, friends, co-workers will be left behind, which
is the bad news; good news… during the Tribulation period (7
Years) those left behind will have an opportunity to accept
Jesus as their Savior. However,
the really good and better news is there is still time to tell
them about Jesus now and avoid the Tribulation, which are our
job and our responsibility as Jesus’ Saints.
That is one of the
purposes of the Book of Revelation is to warn everyone that
means; your family, friends, co-workers, those you love and even
those you do not know!
Revelation 22:7
“Behold,
I am coming quickly! Blessed
is he who keeps
the words of the prophecy of this book.”
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies to these things says,
“Surely I am coming quickly.”
Some believe the book
of Revelation to be a hard message to understand or even to
believe, that may be true for some, however in Psalm 119:105 The
LORD says that His Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light to
our path.
John 8:32 Jesus
says;
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will
set you
free."
And 2nd
Timothy 3:16-17; “All
Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that
the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”
Please feel free to
pass this message to all you know that are not sure where they
will spend eternity, also here is a link to a
Sinners Prayer.
5/15/10
Core Values: What are they?
What are yours?
Core Value: What is
it, what does this mean?
Breaking it down can help… “Core” is the center, central,
most important part of something and “Value” is worth,
importance, a standard or standards lived by.
So “Core Value” is the central, most important ideal or
standard you live by.
It is what keeps your feet steady on the road you travel,
the journey you take.
It is what is most important to you in life.
It helps guide your thoughts and decisions.
It can be a number of things and it is different for each
and every individual.
One may choose career while another may choose family.
A small list of core values can be for example:
Adventure, Control, Education, Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom,
Fun, God, Happiness, Health, Honor, Independence, Integrity,
Intimacy, Marriage, People, Power, Security, Self-reliance,
Success, Wisdom…anything that is most important to you.
Core Values and knowing yours is vitally significant. As
mentioned above, it or they will help you keep steady in your
walk of life and as long as your core values are good, so your
decisions will be.
Core Values can and will most likely change from time to time as
you mature or go through different steps in your life.
As for me, these days my core values are God, the fruit of the
Spirit- mainly love, family, friends, and people.
I think as a child it was probably centered on family and
wanting and needing to please them, as a teenager it probably
changed to self-reliance, self-gratification and fun.
In my twenties and thirties it went back to family with
friends added and in the mix security.
Now I have learned and am still learning to trust in God
for all other things (security, health, wisdom, fun….); setting
Him as the central value of my life.
With God all things are possible…Matthew 19:26.
And with God being number one, love follows Him.
God is love and love covers everything!
1 John 4:16, 4:18; Proverbs 10:12; Romans 5:5, 8:28,
13:8. In loving
others you want to do what is best for them; therefore you walk
in integrity and honor; showing respect and building upon the
relationship in trust and understanding. The fruit if the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness
gentleness and self-control…the WORD goes on to say that against
such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22,23)
With such things, we cannot help but touch the lives of
others in a positive way.
I believe “Love” being the root of it all.
If we love then all these follow; could be why it was
listed first.
Love is followed by family, friends, and people.
If God and love are the foremost important core values
then my family, friends and the people I encounter/meet will be
recipients of both God and His love.
For with love, God’s love flowing through, they will
receive from Him all they are looking for and longing for.
With God and love I can instill into their lives faith,
hope, joy and peace.
Faith to help them persevere and trust; hope brings confidence
and optimistic expectations of seeing God’s goodness allowing
joy to set in and peace which helps them find rest in the midst
of all things. It is
necessary; it is what I owe others, an encounter with God.
With God and His love I want to help motivate people to
be all they were destined to be.
I want to encourage them, inspire them, and walk with
them. I want the
best for them in all things.
1 Corinthians 13 is a whole chapter on love.
“Love is patient, love is kind and is
not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not
act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in
unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love
never fails…But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
If I keep this as my center focus, my core values, then all
decisions I make with God, family, friends and other people will
be made in love, in the fruit of the Spirit and for their good.
All conversations with them should bring life and
blessings and grace.
It should build them up not tear them down.
Even when it is to bring correction or redirection; this
is done with love, mercy and grace. 1 John 3:18 says…”let us not
love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.”
There is a time for words of love in affirmation or
correction and as I wrote above and the Word of God says…words
we speak can bring life or death, blessings or curses but the
love we show in deed and truth has such a lasting impact.
And all these should lead them closer to the Lord which
is the ultimate purpose…seeing that not one should perish but
have everlasting life so that we remain in unity with one
another and the God-head for eternity.
Core Value….Matthew 22L36-40; Mark 12:30-33
“Love the LORD our GOD
with all our heart, all our soul and all our mind and with all
our body (strength).
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it…Love our neighbor as ourself.”
4/8/10
We are made for Greatness
Greatness, described
in the English Dictionary … very large; large numbers; with
much; impressive; more important than others; very significant;
exceptional talents or achievements; powerful; influential; an
expert; extreme or more than usual; lasting a long time or
covering a long distance; emphasizing how much of a quality
somebody or something has.
These are not bad definitions and all true definitions.
The Bible tells us in
Matthew 23:11 & 12 “The greatest among you will be your servant.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever
humbles himself with be exalted.”
And then in Mark 10:42-45 “Jesus called them together and
said, ‘You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the
Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise
authority over them.
Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be
your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of
all. For even the
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many.”
Truly there is only
one who exemplifies greatness; one who fulfills all definition
by the earth and the heavens and that alone is our LORD God
Almighty, the Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ who is
God. Yet, this
is what His Word says about each of us whom He created:
Genesis 1:27 “God created
us in His own image, in the image of God He created us; male and
female, He created each one”
and Psalm
139:14 “we are fearfully and wonderfully made”.
We are made for “greatness” and we are made to do great
things. Jesus says
in John 14:12 that all the works that He did, those who believe
in Him will do even greater works.
We are great; God does nothing less than create master
pieces!
The thing is, most of
us do not know this and if we cannot see or believe that there
is greatness in us then it makes it hard to see the greatness in
others. So the first
thing we must do to walk in this greatness is to hear the Word
of God and believe.
We must recognize whose DNA we carry within us.
We must believe that we are fearfully and wonderfully
made. We must
believe that His plans for us are to prosper us and not harm us
but to give us hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)
His plan is not for us to
live in our sin or the guilt of it.
His plan is for us to live a life of freedom from sin and
to help others do the same.
We do this by believing and having faith in God that He
will complete the good works He has started in us.
(Phil 1:6)
We notice that this is an on-going process.
Then we can begin helping others see the greatness in
themselves.
Finding the dirt in
others, all the sins of their past, is not very hard to do.
And as long as that is what we focus on, that is what we
cause that person to walk in.
We help keep them prisoners of their past.
When we do this we are siding with Satan.
We must speak out what God has created them for.
We must ask the LORD, “How do You see this person?”
And then we must share that with him or her.
If opportunity allows, we must share it with them until
they see it themselves.
Let them know they are strong or that they have exemplary
integrity. Maybe God
shows you they are creative or they have teaching abilities.
It could be any number of things for God’s talents are
not exhaustive and He shares all that He is with us.
I merely told a man who was living on the streets that
God created him for greatness.
This impacted the man so much that from that night
forward he dove into the word of God and then hit the streets
with a new attitude and one that he shared with others.
He began telling others that they were created for
greatness and as he heard more and more from the LORD, he was
able to tell others what God has to say about them.
Remember, our words can bring life or death.
Speaking out who they are, how God sees them, how we see
them, can bring them life and help them to live the life Jesus
came to give them…a life abundant.
It is not to make
people arrogant or to cause them to become prideful; that is a
fear of some who cannot see the whole picture of a people
walking as God created them.
It is to shift the works of the enemy which is one of the
things we are called to do; destroy the works of Satan here on
earth. If Satan can
keep us believing we are worthless and good for nothing, then he
keeps us from doing all God has planned for our lives, those
thoughts and beliefs keep us from the abundant life Jesus talked
about. We must
show them they are filled with many gifts to use and to give to
others. We must help
them discover these gifts, if not by a specific word from the
Lord then by searching out what is in their heart.
It may be hidden deep if they have believed the lies
about themselves for a while.
Read 1 Corinthians 12 and 13.
These chapters in the Bible speak of the gifts God has to
share with us and through us to others.
God has put within each us desires and longings and
dreams…they, we, must be able to find these and then start
moving in them. With
this growth, this re-birth as this new creation which we are; we
find a confidence that was missing, we find a strength that was
always supposed to be there.
And we do this recognizing it is by the love and grace of
God that we are great, that we have something to offer others;
that we have something within us that is needed in this world to
make it the place the LORD always intended it to be.
We begin to love to serve God and people as we were
called to do without it seeming to be a chore or just another
task. We must help
others to hold their heads high and be proud of whom God
established them to be.
What are some of the
ways to help them find this greatness?
Start speaking the fruit of the Spirit into their lives;
Love, peace, joy, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control.
Let them know they are the apple of His eye.
Let them know they are justified, they are God’s
workmanship; they are complete in Christ. They are seated with
Jesus in heavenly places, they are unique, they are ministers of
reconciliation, they are chosen and chosen to bear good fruit,
they are a child of God’s and a friend of Jesus.
They are wonderful!!! Love
on them, love them, love them.
The Word of God says keep faith, hope and love; love
being the greatest to share …. Remind them that with God ALL
things are possible.
And as they become more confident in this they become witnesses
for the LORD as to His goodness and His greatness.
Our lives, all lives should be a living example of Him
and His glory.
(John 17:22)
Do we ignore sin?
No, sin should be dealt with but in love, respect, honor,
and always forgiveness.
Then simply pull from heaven the very opposite of their
action or deed and release it to them in a spoken declaration.
Declaring the greatness in a person, those spoken words
help break the hold the enemy might have on them and help them
dispel the wrong belief they may have of themselves.
Speak it out!!!
We all are created for greatness!!!! 3/8/10
What is a Prophet?
In dictionaries
the word “prophet” is described as someone who interprets divine
will; one who interprets and /or transmits the commands of a
deity; one who predicts the future; one who advocates a cause or
idea; one who may be considered to be an inspired leader or
teacher or preacher. In
Christianity, a prophet is considered one who announces,
pronounces and denounces as the LORD God commands.
He or she releases, declares the Word of the LORD and
also releases judgment as the LORD chooses. They are ones who
study the Word of God to grow in maturity in order to awaken and
cultivate people and territories.
They are gifts of Jesus Christ to the body of Christ to
equip the body.
Prophets have been around since the beginning of time as
stated in Luke 1:70. “70
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been
since the world began: 71 that we should be
saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us;”
(KJV) Abraham
and Moses were called prophets by God, Himself and their sister,
Miriam, a prophetess. (Genesis 20:7; Exodus 15:20; Deut. 18:15;
34:10) They
had direct contact with Him; as the LORD said of Moses in
Numbers 12:6-8; most prophets received dreams and visions from
the LORD; hence were called “Seers”, but with Abraham and Moses,
He spoke to directly to them and with Moses it is said in the
Word, “mouth to mouth”, “face to face”.
Today we hear of seeing prophets, hearing prophets,
prophets who receive open visions, others dreams and
interpretation of dreams, other are artistic prophets in music
and art. God speaks
to His prophets in various ways.
Prophets are created for God and appointed by God to be
His spokes persons to and for the people.
Some are appointed from
birth, like the prophet Jeremiah whom God tells that he was
chosen before he was in his mother’s womb and John the Baptist
whom the LORD told Zechariah, his father, that he would bring
many back to God and he would have the spirit and power of
Elijah. (Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:11-17)
Others like Samuel whom God called from early childhood
under the mentorship of Eli may not have the forewarning as John
the Baptist did. 1st
Samuel 3:19-21
I believe God creates all those He chooses to be prophets and
knows them before they are in their mothers’ wombs.
It is often the choices that are made by them whether or
not they walk in the office of a prophet.
Those who purpose to be faithful servants of the LORD
love the LORD God with all their hearts, souls and mind and are
obedient to Him.
They are sent to bring things into alignment, to set things
right and to guide the people and their leaders because God
trust them. As the
people walked with God, the prophet would help keep them focused
on the LORD and would share with them the things coming that the
LORD would reveal to him or her.
But when the people were in danger of falling away from
God or actually turned away from God, the prophet brought often
strong words from the LORD revealing their sin(s) and rebuking
them for their sin or sins.
This type of Word brought much dislike and rejection to the
prophet. The prophets are people of no compromise; they cannot
or should not be able to be bought off.
They are passionate towards God and His Word and they
have great compassion for the people and the land which could
cause the prophet much grief at times.
They often oppose what the people see as popular either
morally (immoral) or spiritually.
He calls their attention to what God says is right which
is often different from the way the world is acting and walking
when he has to bring it up.
He or she brings forth the truth in hopes of bringing the
people to repentance which then releases new hope prayerfully
turning them back to God and ultimately pointing them to Jesus
Christ.
When they, the people, choose to continue in their own way, the
prophet released as God commanded the judgment that would be
imminent. This was
not always pleasant for the prophet because not only did he love
the LORD God, but he loved those God sent him to.
The prophet has a close relationship with God and often
needs quiet and solitude time away from everyone else to
continue to cultivate this relationship.
He spends time in the
supernatural unlike most others.
He spends time before the Father’s throne seeking His
voice, His direction, even His favor for the people.
The prophet is special to Him.
He, the LORD God, says in His Word that He protects His
prophets. 1st
Chronicle 16:22 The
prophet will first consult with God before anyone else just as
the LORD reveals nothing until He has revealed it to His
prophets. Amos 3:7
I see it as a covenant relationship with God. The LORD
shares His heart and will with the prophet and they share theirs
with Him. And though
this is a heart to heart relationship, the prophet never forgets
the Sovereignty and Holiness of the LORD God.
Jesus is the perfect example of a prophet.
He only did what He saw the Father do and He only said
what He heard the Father say.
He was considered and called a prophet throughout the New
Testament…Matthew 21:11; Luke 13:33; John 4:44 and others.
He was rejected in His own home town.
He declares He did not come to rid the world of prophets
but to fulfill their purpose and words.
Matthew 5:17-18 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the
Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I
say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest
letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is
accomplished.”
Prophets are still around and it is time for their rising
to the surface. The
body of Christ needs them.
Though the Spirit of the LORD is quite evident today in
the lives of so many as prophecy is becoming more widespread
still Ephesians 4: 11-13 states that He gave some as apostles,
and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as
pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the
work of service, to the building up of the body of
Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of
the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure
of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
Today the prophet is still called to the office to
declare God’s goodness and authority over nations, perform acts
of righteousness with signs, wonders, and miracles; to help
direct God’s people, to obtain the promises of God for His
people; to spread the fire of Holy Spirit and to shut the mouth
of our enemy by following the commands and voice of the LORD.
2/12/2010 I am Israel-- (This message came from a fellow believer in Jesus Christ) I am Israel-- I was born millennia before I was renamed Palestine by the conquering Romans, before Muhammad took his first breath, and before the U.N. decided to split me in half and turn my Eastern lands into Jordan. My people, the Jews, maintained communities here for three thousand years- that is until the Arabs decided to massacre those Jews without reason in 1920 and 1929. Hundreds of civilians were murdered, most of them women and children. Meanwhile, their brother Arab states massacred and exiled 1 million Arabic Jews from their lands-- erasing their history. I am Israel-- I have been attacked four times by Arab armies since I declared independence in 1948. I told the Arabs who lived on my land that they were welcome to stay, but they were told by the neighboring states to leave temporarily while the Jews were "taken care of". I have been offering a message of peace since the day I was born, but my enemies answered only in bullets. I am a survivor--I won every war. Realizing they could not defeat me with arms, my enemies have turned to lies. I am Israel-- Time and time again my name is smeared. Though each of these lies is eventually disproven, my enemies continue to claim I am committing genocide. Is giving educational opportunities to Palestinian Arabs "genocide"? 20% of the students in Haifa University are Arabs. If I am an aggressor who exiled all the Arabs in 1948, why are 20% of my citizens Arabs with full rights? Where did they magically appear from? Why did I give up the entire Sinai and the Gaza strip, uprooting my own people from their homes, only for the hope of peace? I am Israel-- In combat, I risk the lives of my teenage sons and daughters in order to minimize civilian Palestinian casualties. I make every attempt to target only fighters, often putting my own soldiers in harms way. In wartime, I drop leaflets on areas to be attacked, warning civilians to evacuate. Has any other army in the history of mankind done this for its enemy? I waited 8 years to stop Hamas from its daily rocket attacks on my kindergartens and my hospitals. I am patient, but my patience is not infinite. I am Israel-- I have created Intel and cell phone technology, medicine for devastating diseases, and I lead the world in scientific publications per capita. I send humanitarian missions to developing countries, including Muslim countries. I have absorbed hundreds of Muslim refugees who faced genocide in Darfur-- refugees no Muslim state would take. I am Israel-- I am one of the smallest countries in the world, and probably the most stubborn-I refuse to give up hope for peace. My friends support me not because of any lobby, but because they see the truth-- I am the heart of the Middle East, and the hope for its future. My prophet said, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation," and I will try, and try, and TRY until those words are true. Because I am Israel.
01/17/2010
Pray for Haiti
We Declare Pease in
Haiti
We Declare every
orphan will have a home
We Bind the spirit of
death; declare life and no more death
We Declare no more
sickness or disease
We Declare that Haiti
will be Christian nation Pray for the Nation of Haiti, for their leaders, their land, their people and for all the Nations have compassionately come to their rescue.
1/8/2010 God Loves you and He likes you as well
Just a few days before Christmas I went to Wal-Mart to do little
last minute shopping; I got the items needed; paid for them and
went home. A couple
of hours later I decided to pick up lunch; I had my niece with
me and when we got to restaurant I reached for my wallet and
realized it was not there.
I
told my niece we
had do back home and get my wallet (thinking I had left it
there). When we got
home I could not find my wallet.
We called Wal-Mart to see if anyone had turned in a
wallet, after checking they came back and said that no wallets
had been turned in.
I decided to go Wal-Mart and retrace my steps to see if I could
find it. After
retracing my steps I decided to check inside to see if anyone
had turned it in yet.
At the customer service desk I spoke to the person whom
we spoke to over the phone, she reconfirmed that my wallet was
not in the lost and found drawer.
After that she spoke to her supervisor and asked him to
come and check if my wallet was in the safe, he looked in the
safe and even looked in the drawer again; there was no wallet.
I thanked both of them and went back home. When I got home I looked again and called my
bank and put a hold on Credit Cards until it was found or
confirmed lost.
We started praying for my wallet to be found, I had a
similar incident in Bangkok where my Passport was stolen, we
prayed and we asked God for my passport to be returned, here is
a link to that story
Passport.
We decided to pray and ask God for my wallet as we did
for the passport and commanded the thief (if there was one) to
turn my wallet in it. I
told God I wanted my wallet back. Later that day I was out again, I stopped by
Wal-Mart (third trip of the day) to see if my wallet had been
turned in. I went
to the customer service desk; this time there was a different
person behind the deck. I
described my wallet and asked if it had been returned.
She looked in the lost and found drawer and there were no
wallets there. She
volunteered to call a supervisor to see if there was anything in
the safe. There was
a different supervisor working now and I explained what I was
looking for and described it to her.
She went to her office checked, came back and said there
were no wallets in the safe. She asked the other lady behind the
desk if she had looked in the L&F drawer, the lady told the
supervisor that she had looked and there were no wallets at all
in the drawer.
The supervisor decided to check herself; she opened the
drawer and pulled out my wallet.
The looked of surprise of the lady behind the desk was
incredible. Three
different people including two supervisors looked in the same
drawer and had not found any wallets. Because we are God’s children’s, when we cry to Him He listens and acts. God loves us and likes to do things for us even as simple as getting our wallet back. That is the God we serve, remember He calls us friends and friends do stuff like that!
1/1/2009
Happy New Year From Spirit of Gory
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