As Sons Go Out for Life Experience

Well as many of you who have or who are raising sons of God may appreciate this brief word. I am seeing all my sons (3) go out from the nest area and engage in adventures to make their mark on their generation. My prayer is for their decisions and travels to be enriched with  the  sovereign  God and His Blessings for them. I hope this is your will for your sons and that they know this of you.

In the words of a poet and dedicated to these young men.

If you can keep your head when all about

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowances for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And you don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master,

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you”ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build’em up with worn out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them: “Hold On”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run-

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And-which is more-you’ll be a man, my Son         Rudyard Kipling

Happy 4th of July

With respect, this year seems to draw special attention to our national heritage. It has been a decade of culture revisions and political correctness. By uprooting the traditions that have made the United States of America strong and resilient we stand at a crossroads. If the leaders of yesterday were here how would they rate the modern state of this republic they fought to formalize and leave for the generations to come. What would their testimony be to the courts of the world. Who would they accuse and who would they defend? What would you think Father George Washington or Honest Abraham Lincoln  tell the media about their observations of this generation? How do you imagine John Kennedy or Ronald Reagon would testify to the courts of legal justice of the decisions  facing Congesss now? Even so, what would you Answer if you were called to testify in the court of Eternal Justice? Let’s look at the early documents. Our Magna Charter, the Declatation of Independance and the Constitution. Where are we now? Happy birthday to the fifty states that make of the United States of America. Happy Birthday America!

A Homegoing

Recently I attended the services for a friend who went home to their final resting place. It was a celebration of a life that had touched so many in many ways. She has been a youthful inspiration and married conpanion over the 49 years here on earth. In the Bible God promises 120 years of life to man so I ask you to do the math.

We live and watch and listen to the stories of people who come into this world, make an inpression and are cut off in youth, mid life or what some call old age at 70 or 80. Is this the answer to the promise tyhat was given in the Book of Genisis? It has been watched how a person gave of their changed life to the call of ministry and was stricken with sickness and after so much suffering that God took them Home. Can this be the story of a true witness of the work,word and will of God-that they suffered at the end and God took them? Does the believer die as the unbeliever? Will we end our lives weacked by sickness and pain after a surandance to the will of the Soverign God? Does the end of this journey mean we are cut off by some menace that we defeated time and time again in prayer for another?

I kid you not. there is a message that is not preached in the house of God and the sheep are the victims of lack for they have not been taught the full counsel of the Kingdom of our Sovernign Lord. Somewhere we have become successful to articulate the needs of building structures for the demonstration of the existance of a body of believers however it appears that we have not become efficiant to demostrate t0o building of the sheep who love not their lives onto death. We are losing a witness to the world that would embrace our way of believing due to neglect to the basic message of the Word. I believe that word is in the writings of the King of Isreal reveard as King David. We embraced him because God testifies that he was a man after the Lord’s heart. He told us we could live 70 years or 80. He also said,” The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want.” I believe that our wantoness has overtaken our calling and left us not discerning the Lord’s body and some are sick and others are asleep.

Dreams and Visions

While sitting at a meeting and the facilitator shared a troubling dream and asked all to pray about it, I was moved with these thoughts. A dream is information to the individual or to a group of individuals. It can be concerning a relationship or developments far beyond the current knowledge or experience. A dream is given to notifly of a posture or stance or it can convey political or national occurances. A dream can be of a future event ( history,not yet taken place) to the person for understanding or for intercession.) Dreams can be distinguished as  1)Abstract- for groups of people or regions or world events. 2)Concrete- for an individual or family or friend. Dreams can be broken down in other ways, however this will be explored later. the point here is to began to look at the gifts to the body and not disallow them any longer. We have this ministry, the net to share and communicate the secrets of the day. Deut.29:29 states, “The secert things belong to the Lord our God, but those things thta are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever that we may do all of the words of this law.” I am convinced that the Bride of Christ will set the Wedding date to the King of Kings because she has prepared herself. This preparation will be a Church that has been Covered in blood, with a testimony on patience and surrendered life unto death. I am convinced that this is the choice we have in the world. The Lord asked a question in the Book of Luke, “And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes will he find faith on the earth?” (18:7-8) In the Book of John chaptures 14 and 15 the Lord continues a discussion on abiding in Him. However he starts in the 16th chapture saying, “that you should not be offended.” All dreams are not pleasant nor can it be concluided that all dreams are real. however it is safe to say that all dreams are spiritual. Now I will be glad to recieve your feedback. This is a day the Lord has made. Arise church and move the Gates of hell.

Spring is in the air.

As with spring, the Book of Genesis in the holy Bible or the Torah is the beganning of the story of creation and man. In its pages are the history of a people being directed to present The Sovergn God to the solutions of all interactions of His creation. We’re told this history because we were not there (However we were in the mind of his  pleasure). Rev. 4:11. As one studies this spring of creation and mankind a cast is set that gives the reader a basis knowledge of the challenges we may face. It is imperiative for believers to become aquaintive with their history. History reveals the habits of the created and can be a map to limitations or expectation of mankind. Considering our likeness to the Creator, we have been given the task to bring focus of the creation back to the Creator (Our Sovergn God). So the Book of Genesis presents the path and and places us on the path. The question remaining is, “What are we going to Do?” As with springtime, we look at the new growth in the earth. We watch and feel the climate changing and experience the  freshness of the atmosphere and make decision in our lives to compliment the season. Let me encourage you to meet new neighbors and broaden your circle of influence for the Lord will come. And when He comes he will look for a people who have made themselves ready for his appearing.

Springtime is about new beginnings and expectation. As believers we are looking for a new beginning with the creator of all the earth. If so we must remember the words of him who was in the beginning. Jesus said, the Son of man shall come in the glory of his father  with his angels and than he shall reward everyman according to his works.” (Matt. 16:27)  Oh! What a day that will be.

Missions

As our Lord commanded, our work should start at home and than spread to the outer perimeters. (Acts of Apostles 1) It is our intent to mentor individuals and fellowships into reaching their peers, community and world for Jesus. We want to be an active witness daily for our Lord.

In Little Rock, I finished attending a leader’s conference when I felt disappointed that we had not won anyone to the Lord. We decided to go out to dinner before returning to out homes. In the serving line, I was prompted to ask the cashier if he loved Jesus. His answer was yes and that he began to attend a local church recently. With that I asked him if he was born again and he answered that was why he was going to church to get himself together.

I asked him to look down the serving line before he answered the next question I was going to ask. I told him that those in line had come in with me so my question was not going to disturb them (seeing they were chatting and enjoying themselves already). After he noticed, I asked, “Do you want to be born again that day”. He answered, “Yes.” I asked him to hold my hand and repeat this prayer. “I believe in my heart that Jesus died and rose again for me. I ask him to forgive me of my sin and I confess him to be Lord of my life. I thank him for coming into my heart”. He repeated that prayer and smiled.

At that point I knew a snapshot was taken in heaven. He was accepted into the family of God. This is our first mission field. We are to reach into all the world; however we start as close to home as we can. Update: The whole mission of the Church (Every Believer) is to carry the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (The Son of God) into the whole wide world. (Acts of the Apostles 1:8)

Faith and Health

In this first decade of the 21st century it would be amiss to think all the sicknesses and diseases have been contained. Medical science teaches the masses to manage their ills and sufferings with pharmacuetials. In our day this has come to be a grave illusion. Man continues and will continue to face these attacks on earth by Satan that bought about suffering disease and death.(St.John 10:10)

Does man believe the root cause of this suffering and disease is due to the introduction of sin in the earth? Will man bow to accept Christ as his answer and healer is the big question? Society has done everything to discredit and disassociate with the sovereign God of creation. There has been many other gods. None of these are solution bearers. JESUS made it clear that we have a Father(the GOD of all living) He is such a one that we will have to give an answer to one day. The institution of medical science reminds us that we are helpless on our own. We must come to terms of submission. God demonstrates His position about our health through JESUS ushering us to the throne. We are expected to live out full lives in health and wealth as ambassadors of His Kingdom.

Our environment has changed through the manipulation of man. We are bombarded with pollutants in the air, water and soil. Today our modern way is infested with pesticides, toxins and radicals. Our bodies were designed to ward off diseases. However we have forsaken the LORD’s voice who promised “I will put None of these diseases upon you.” (Exodus 15:26) Due to His mercy we are not consumed.(Lamentations 3:22).And Each time a disease is confronted in our bodies our immune system goes into action! Much of the medicine has manipulated responses to the symptoms instead of resolving the root cause of the attack. JESUS came healing the sick! Jesus set at ease those that were bruised! Be healed! Believe his prophets and prosper (IIChronicles 20:20). Believe in him and let the rivers of life flow out of your own belly! (St.John 7:38).

Where are we going, Church? Ressurrection Week

I was aroused past midnight as I was about to go to sleep.  Suddenly, a thought came to mind.  Nothing out of the ordinary had occured to me or any of my acquiantances. A thought surfaced in my mine that I could not shake.  It was a question  as clear as if a voice was speaking. “Are you ashamed of Me?”
Why this? It was bedtime. What’s going on here? My wife lay asleep at my side and i am being troubled by this thought.  So I got out of bed and put on my pants and went downstairs to my computer. I was compelled to find out what was going on in my head. I sat there a moment and a thought came to me out of the scriptures. It was the from the readings of Isaiah 53rd. I got out my Bible and began to read.

 ” …He was despised and rejected of men: a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”( Isa.53:3-6 KJV)

 Again, are you ashamed of Jesus? If ashamed of him will he not be ashamed of me before his father and the holy angels? (I had recently committed to a series of trips to my hometown to gather a group of churches to celebrate Jesus. I had already began to get some feedback and support.) If I were ashamed than what  was the attention for these trips. If I am ashamed of him than also would i not be guilty of the blood that was shed to make me free?  I am sitting in my chair and my attention is here. There is a reason that this question has been directed to me. So I open up my consciousness and what the Lord to speak to me. My request is to be shown the iniquity in my heart that I may direct my way before Him? I am directed to another passage of scripture.

its in  Old Testiment where the Lord God was speaking to King Solomon I read, “If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if Isend pesilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal the land.” IIChronicles 7:13-14 KJV)

Here are verses that reflex calamity and attacks and distresses on mankind in the earth. Even so the Lord promises to deliver when man humbles himself to God. this message is preached regularly in churches.

My attention was redirected to an occasion in the New Testament where the Lord Jesus was with the disciples and I began reading. 27 “And Jesus went on with his disciples into the villiages of Caesarea Philippi:  and on the way He asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am? 28  And they answered [Him], John the Baptist; and others [say] Elijah; but others, one of the prophets. 29 And He asked them, But who do you yourselves say that I am? Peter replied to him, you are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 30 And he charged them sharply to tell no one about Him. 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must of necessity suffer many things and be tested and disapproved and rejected by the elders, and the chief priest and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again [from death]. 32 And he said this freely (frankly, plainly, and explicitly, making it unmistakable). And Peter took Him by the hand and led Him aside and then [facing Him] began to rebuke Him. 33 But turning around [His back to Peter] and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying , get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have a mind intent on promoting what God wills, but what pleases men [you are not on God’s side, but that of men]. 34 And Jesus called [to Him] the throng with his disciples and said to them, if anyone intends to come after me, let him deny himself [forget, ignor, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow with me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me]. 35 For whosoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the gospel’s will save it [his higher, spiritual, life in the kingdom of God]. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfiet his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]? 37 For what can a man give as an exchange ( a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his [blessed] life[ in the eternal kingdom of God]? 38 For whosoever is  ashamed [here and now] of me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be asHAMED WHEN HE COMES IN THE GLORY  (splendor and majesty) OF HIS FATHER WITH THE HOLY ANGELS.  9:1 And Jesus said to them, truly and solemnly I say to you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death before they see the kingdom of God come in [its] power.(Mark 8:27-9:1 AMP)  

I am sitting there in my chair at the computer and I feel the holy presence engulf me. I began to experience leaves of years of tradition fall off. My mind is racing and my body feels so useless as I realize something is happening in the spirit that irritates Sovereign God. I decide i what to be a part of what ever is happening. i have seen the masses as sheep without a shepherd but pressing their way to the large churches to here form the one who is being exhausted as a voice for the hour. I have watched them gather from far countries to our conventions, and to attend our bible schools, and go out powerless but with a plan.I see the afflicted come and go away sick and yet believing that some day God will fix them.  I sat there in my seat and the spirit is speaking to me and asking, “ARE YOU ASHAMED OF ME”? 

. When this stirring came the Lord must have known that the tempter was coming. So I am examining myself and I ask you this same question.? Are you ashamed of Jesus? I what to tell you what he told me later. Are you interested?       Happy Easter!

Part I  (To be continued)

The Wealth of Good Health

I had the priviledge to travel with a group to a meeting on a new technology for wellness. We visited the University of Oklahoma Childrens Hospital in Olahoma City. The speaker had flown in from Japan and was enroute to a Canadian visit the next day. He represented a company on the cutting edge of wellness in the western hemispere, located in the Dallas area. What actually caught my attention was a woman who turned around in her seat immediately after the lecture and introduced herself to our group. She was beaming with excitement as she shared her health story with us.  I was sorting out what the speaker had talked about so at first paid little attention to this woman. She looked as well and normal as the others. When I heard her say she was beganing to lose her muscle control I wondered what was she telling us. I asked, WHAT WAS YOUR DIAGNOSIS? Her answer was Althimers Disease. Again i asked, What? trying to be sure I had not misunderstood her answer.She had my full attention. For the last six years i had been working the Geripsych units of the area hospitals and had not seen one patient recover from Altheimers’ Disease. this woman looked asthough she had not spent a day in the hospital.
I took over the conversation with a volley of questions. She answered each one with enthusium and was beeming that someone had seemed interested. I asked her what hee age was when i felt she was comfortable with my courisity? She answered, 74. I also asked what her occupation had been? She responded, A Retired RN. I thanked her as we left the auditorium. She accepted and added. And I am driving again. this was almost to good to be ture. I gave her my address and email to told her i would invite her to Tulsa at sometime to share her Story. She accepted and we parted. This is what I have seen over and over. I would not believe this existed if i was not witnessing it myself. The sick are recovering their health. It is all about a technology that the MIT (Feburay 2003) magazine says will change the way we approach medicine. I am hearing and now seeing people who are getting phyically better. It is amazing.What is so wonderful about all this is that is is being done outside of the medical field and out of the doctors office. I am attending meetings that doctors are attending to get the scoop on this technology. You can go to a web site and get some more infomation. .www.exploremannatech.com. Let me know what you think. Have a good day.

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