RaptureOrwrath

A Letter from Hell

2012-01-27T14:24:00.000-06:00

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

2012-01-12T11:28:00.000-06:00

Pre-Rapture Commentary: Who Is This Man?

2012-01-09T15:56:00.000-06:00

Pre-Rapture Commentary: Who Is This Man?: The authenticity of Christianity depends on one thing and one thing only. Who is Jesus

My Own Little World (A Christ Church of the Heartland Production with a ...

2012-01-09T14:00:00.000-06:00

2012 - A Year to "Pray"

2012-01-06T11:20:00.000-06:00

II Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Any doubt or question that passage describes the times we are living in?

Las Vegas is known as "Sin City" because at one time it was a place where things that didn't happen anywhere else happened there, but sadly it can't hold to that claim anymore as all that "what happened in vegas didn't stay in vegas" as sin has become so vile and in your face everywhere that we can surely all testify that it's a sinfilled world. People don't just lock their doors anymore, 2011 saw a tremendous increase in the purchase of fire arms because of the recognition of the growing violence in men's hearts.

Turning on your tv is now sure to expose you to numerous images that would have been thought shameful a few decades ago, but now we've become so accustomed to it, we tolerate it without complaint so much so that the FCC continues to allow more and more images to penetrate the lives of what use to be considered "family viewing" times.

An all out assault is coming at the heart and soul of every person in a last ditch grab to damn all, and to render the redeemed useless and trapped in some form of bondage as our enemy plunders on.

But.....

Our Lord and Savior has stated that as long as there are His "called out ones" the gates of Hell would Not prevail against them. He has told us that we have weapons and that they are mighty and they would pull down strong holds and would avail much! He said His House was to be called "A House of Prayer" why? because the people would be "praying"

Paul warned Timothy that there would be a people who would have a form of godliness but no power. Could it be that they consider going to a building as a weekly routine some form of godliness? Could it be that they go and sing songs and hear sermons but don't PRAY??? Unless our gathering together is based solely on our communicating to and with "Our Father" then it's void of the intended purpose of which Jesus Came!!! He came to reconcile us to The Father. He Came to bring those who are living lives independently of God into a life that "in all their ways they are acknowledging Him"

Atonement is to be made "one with"

Are our lives "one with" Him? Are our Church Services centered around Him saying what He wants to say Pastor? Is He really welcome to take center stage or has he been programmed out? Do we treat Him as He's welcome to watch our show? Or is He invited to run it?

These are perilous time and it's time to "get real" and quit playing Church and start being "called out" to HIM!!

In the words of a song ....IF we are His body, why aren't His hand reaching? Is it because we are living for ourselves and not allowing Him to be himself in us and through us?

Paul said it best, "it is no longer I who live but Christ in Me"

that is the heart beat of He who came to save us. He wants to live in us and through us to reach our worlds, it's His Sovereign plan. That's why He chose us. Not for us to live "godlessly" God is not sitting on a throne exclusively far away, He lives in our hearts but is He being allowed to Rule and Reign there?

If so then why is the divorce percentage just as high in the church as it is in the secular world? why does porn rentals explode in hotels during "bible conferences?" Why are our altars barren and best selling Christian titles are "your best life now" Why is sin rampant but hardly talked about as sin? Tolerance has replaced repentance ..that's why!

Jesus is going to Call His People Out of this vile place with a victorious shout, but I believe He's wanting to "call us out" right now to come out from amongst this place in our hearts ...being raptured in devotion and love and passion for our Father's Presence in our lives and in our gatherings with a growing fervor that propels us to our knees in prayer. Seriously, If our prayer lives are shallow then that's what we are. Shallow! But Deep is calling unto Deep and "it's time to pray"

This message is not a legalistic call to perform to earn but a cry from a heart to be what we are saved to be..."Salt and Light" "more than conquerors" "city's on a hill" "avaling much" "violently taking by force" "children of God"

May it be said that 2012 is the Year Jesus Called us Out! Yet remember what He said to be doing when He did, Luke 21:36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Is that just "cliche" in our hearing? Why would He say it if He didn't mean for it be fruitful in our lives and in our gatherings? "talking to Him that we might Know Him and Make Him Known" is our highest calling..that is what we are saved to ....To HIM!!

In 2012 ...Turn to Him in all our ways that He might direct our paths

In Jesus Name

Desperate Times Nothing but the Blood

2011-12-21T13:38:00.000-06:00

A bitter cold breeze blast away upon the worried brow of a mother of three as she desperately trudges through snow ...her strength is only the sheer resolve to do whatever it takes to "be there" for her girls. The symptoms started slow but the coughing grew deeper and the fever higher...she knew she had to get them to "hope".

"It's the worst case scenario, this is spreading like wild fire, thousands will be infected ... it's hopeless" "How did it happen, Doctor?" "I'm not sure but if we don't get it quarantined, we won't need to worry about hospital beds, we are going to be filling the morgues"

"Mommy, my feet are so cold" the little girl cried, "I know honey but we got to get to a Doctor so He can make us all better" Trying to be strong but scared to death, the mother cries "Oh God please Help"
"How's it coming with the vaccines?" "Nothing is working; it breaks everything down and strengthens"
"Governor's Office" the voice on the other end said, “Dr. Jones, yes sir, the Governor has been awaiting your call." "Dr. Jones what is the latest?" "It's not good, nothing is working and it has spread faster and further than we originally believed possible" "All resources are in place and tests are being run round the clock, but I'd recommend you begin to shut down access to all towns and cities immediately and begin to quarantine this before it becomes unstoppable." "The death tolls will rise soon; fear and panic will spread just as fast. If we don’t find a cure, it will be a Hopeless situation."

Another town but an even more desperate situation eternity at stake

"Would you just shut up, I can't take this anymore, your nagging, the bills, the pressure"
"Mommy, Daddy" "please stop fighting" a little girl begs, but she hears her mom reply "I WANT A DIVORCE!!"

"Pastor; attendance is down; giving is down, what are we going to do?" The Board member continues, "Families are hurting, we've have two families that are about to lose their homes, another three families on the verge of divorce, changes need to be made, but where do we start?"

Across town, a desperate father....

His eyes glazed over, gun in one hand a stiff drink in the other....holding a picture up of his kids, tears streaming down his cheeks, "Every other weekend; are your stinking kidding me?" Hopelessness invading his thoughts, "it will never be the same" raising the gun to his forehead he cries out "OH GOD, PLEASE FORGIVE ME"

Divorce, drugs, layoffs, crime, selfish lives all going astray ...spreading like wildfire with no end in sight.

Kneeling at the altar, a faithful servant of God begins to cry, "Father, Your word promises that if we ask, seek and knock; that You will open the door, Lord, before you call me home, I'm here asking for this one thing that You have laid upon my heart...Will You pour out your Spirit upon this area and all these people that I know and Love. Will you arise and cause all your enemies to scatter? Father, Your Word says No one comes to You unless You draw them and Father that is what I'm asking ....will you please begin to draw all men unto Yourself right here in this town, right here in this Church?"

"Doctor, Doctor” a nurse shouted, “Something amazing is happening!" "What?” The Doctor replied
“There's a man… who has come into our Emergency Room" "What is wrong with Him?”
"Nothing, he said he's is here to help" "HELP…Help how?" "He wanted to donate blood, and get this...He said he had heard of the virus that was spreading and that he believed his blood was immune. We tested his Blood and he was right, there is something about his Blood that is overcoming the virus. Just one drop is all it takes, it will help thousands"

Walking into town, now having to carry her youngest daughter....the desperate mom see's the lights from Hope Hospital up ahead. Strengthened by the sight...she hurries her pace, "Come along girls, we are almost there!" Arriving at the foyer of the ER, The mom cries out for "HELP"... Running to her aid and gathering her kids...they rush the family in. "My girls please help my girls"

Putting the Gun down back at his side and lifting back up the picture...God began to answer this desperate Father's plea.....a knock at the door sobered him alert.."Herb, it's me Jim Kabell...I know you’re in there? Can I come in?"

As the door opened, "Herb, God has laid you on my heart and I just had to come over and share...I've got some great news... My wife and I have been talking with your wife and she has agreed to counseling...she has agreed to postpone the divorce"
Sitting in his study at Home, a Pastor puts down his pad of notes...getting on his knees, he starts to pray, "Dear God, what is it that you want to say?" The floodgates of tears poured down his cheek as He heard these Words "What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus"
Word soon spread all across the County, "They have found a cure"...people for miles around drove to Hope Hospital....That mom and her three daughter's got their shots and the Blood began to work....They were home in no time, everyone was so in awe at such an amazing change that was taking place...when it seemed all was hopeless.. A Miracle took place...but what was it they all had to ask? Curiosity spread faster than the disease itself.

Hope Hospital called a press conference to explain the turn of events, telling the story of the Man and His Blood ...his name announced. "There is no other person with this blood type and it’s a total miracle that he came when he did, we are happy to announce that the spread of this deadly virus has been defeated and all the necessary work "Is Finished." Please tell all your friends and family, neighbors and co-workers who are sick to hurry and get their shots, the only ones who can't be helped are those who haven't heard or who refuse to be treated."

Sunday morning was just like any other Sunday, until…
A husband, wife and daughter walked in, "in total desperation, they went to the altar and cried out for help" forsaking the fears and cares of man, they had been married in this Church but had backslid for years and now their marriage is on the rocks...the glue was the little girl who had cried out for her parents to "please stop fighting" her crocodile tears and "Help me Jesus prayers" had provoked them to Church...

When they got to the altar, there was a faithful servant of God, kneeling in prayer, who was fervently asking, seeking and knocking for God's Presence to show up.
The Pastor recognizing that something was happening, heard that still small voice; "What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus." A spark from yester year began to arise, he'd seen this before. Revival has come knocking; Jesus was asking to take His rightful place..."If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself"
Looking out over the congregation the Pastor declares, "Today, if you are here and you are hungry and thirsty for God's Presence but feel as though He is miles away, the Bible tells us to Turn to Him that times of refreshing may come. His Word tells us that He is NOT far away but that He is right here. We don't need another program, another sermon series, we just need Jesus. So as the choir sings that familiar song "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus", I would like anyone who like me is in need of His presence revealed in your life, to come and join me as we do nothing but seek His face"
In great joy ....The Spirit of Almighty God moved through the hearts of those who cried out to Him, Word spread like fire that something was happening ...marriages were being restored, lives were being changed, and souls were being saved daily. Prayer meetings began to pop up in neighborhood homes, prison ministries began to flourish, youth groups were visiting nursing homes....
The Question began to be asked, what had happened to this town? "There was this man who had come, whose blood had been shed; He said “He had come to help" and we have found out that…

There is power in that blood"

Many today are facing desperate situations of all kinds. If your one who is facing such a time I have great news for you. Jesus Christ has promised no matter what your situation is, no matter how bad it looks or how lost you are, whosoever believes upon Him shall not perish but have everlasting life!! That is how powerful His blood is!

It's too heavy Dad

2011-12-20T11:23:00.000-06:00

"Son, can you grab Meesha's dog food?" "Sure dad"...I go stand and hold the door open and watch as my son struggle's to grab the big bag out of the back of the truck...

I watch impatiently ... "hurry up son"... so he struggles more and more trying to show he can handle it...but finally he cries out "it's too heavy dad"

So many times we struggle for WAY too long, striving and stressing ...when all we need to do is cry out..."it's too heavy Dad"

SEE, the thing is...we try to live for God, but He doesn't want us to live for Him, He wants to Live Through Us!!!
Where we strive and strive and butt heads and seemingly hit one brick wall after another is when we TRY to do what He's NEVER asked us to do... Live Independently From Him for Him

In God's Kingdom, He doesn't want me to pick up the dog food, he wants to pick up the dog food through me...Paul said It's NOT I who live but Christ in Me.

However, our enemy works on our thoughts, and the one thought he wants to lie to us about is that God is AFAR OFF ... that He's too busy or He's not willing or He's not able. But that's why it's so very important to Hide God's Word in our Hearts, that we might not "miss his mark" You see, one of the most quoted verses of so many ...Says SO Much, yet I fear we apply it so little

Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct[a] your paths.
We are commanded to acknowledge Him in ALL OUR WAYS! Why??? Why would he want to devote so much time to me? David asked the same question...What is man that your mind FULL of him?
1 Peter 5:7
gives us an answer

7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

We also have been given this Promise, "I will never leave you and Never Forsake You"

NEVER means what? lol
Stop and think about that! Right now, as you are reading this... GOD IS NOT AFAR OFF, in fact His Very Own Word says He is right there with us.

The Bible also says He's a "Jealous God"

In what way???? If you have had kids and you watch them near the road... "You are on pins and needles hoping they heed your warning and KNOW to say out of harms way." You jealously watch over them...
Not to berate them or hurt them but because you love them.

The same way our Heavenly Father has issued his laws and commands and warnings because He loves Us.
That is why Paul instructed Timothy...Pray without ceasing... (In all your ways acknowledge Him)...talk to Dad (non stop) Why? He knows better, He knows more, He got the answers. We are not our own, We are HIS! Bought and Paid for with His Precious Blood. He has a plan for our lives and its not to be walked out or lived out independently of His Lordship!
In Isaiah chapter thirty, God becomes upset and angry with Israel because they have stopped turning to Him and it's led to great harm to the nation He has loved so much.
Yet even in the midst of his Anger and Frustration He tells them He will not be angry for long and that they will turn back to Him and when they do...He Promises He will be there to instruct them, saying

21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
This is the way, walk in it, Whenever you turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.

Right now there's a weariness and heaviness upon so many people, but we have a weapon against such oppression. "Put on The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; For God Inhabits the praises of His People!!! And Where God's Presence is ... THERE IS FULLNESS OF JOY, The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength!

Yet sometime we can be convinced that God is somewhere far away from our daily task. We think we have to live in a prayer closet to find Him, but that's NOT so, He's there 24/7 ... watching over You Jealously as a Parent watches over a child at play.

"Daughter, I've seen you stress...I've watched you tremble with all that anxiety over that co-worker" "Son, I see the heaviness, the fear the worry over your recent lay off"...DO NOT FEAR ANYMORE

But Rather
Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!(A)
5Let all men know and perceive and recognize your unselfishness (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit). The Lord is near [He is [a]coming soon].
6Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.
7And God's peace [shall be yours, that [c]tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall [d]garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

If your going through something right now that's “way too heavy” Quit going through it "alone"... that's a LIE...a thought that you have taken and acted and lived upon.

God's Word says to "take every thought captive" so take those thoughts of being alone captive and awaken and realize Your Heavenly Father is standing there ...his arms are wide open waiting for you to cry out..."it's too heavy Dad"

"OUT CRY"

2011-12-08T09:09:00.000-06:00

Genesis 18:16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way. 17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, 18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.” 20 And the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

"A Cry Out"

Genesis 18:22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD. 23 And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? 25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

26 So the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”

27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: 28 Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?”So He said, “If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.”
29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there should be forty found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it for the sake of forty.”
30 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose thirty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 And he said, “Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.”
32 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”
And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.” 33 So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place

In this hour there is an outcry against this place we have called home "because sin is very grave" and once again Our God is on the verge of coming down in His Wrath and dealing with man in a promised event known as the Great Tribulation (The Day of the Lord), and warned it would be Luke 17:28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Thankfully for Lot, God was talking with Abraham

The Lord had come knocking on Abraham's tent, Abraham recognized who it was and invited Him In ...then while Abraham was spending Time in God's Presence and due to His reverence for God and the favor He had found, Our God decided to reveal a secret to Abraham about what was On God's Heart!!
God shared this information with Abraham and then we read further along it sounds like a negotiation between Abraham and God.
But what had Abraham just heard? He had heard that God was about to destroy a place where Abraham had family! Please stop and think right now if that was you.
I don't believe Abraham was cool, calm and collected in his plea, I believe he was urgent and broken..."God, I have family there ..PLEASE" "Lot ..His wife, their kids" "that's my family PLEASE GOD"

Right Now if You were to be told that a neighboring town a few miles down the road from where you live ....was about to come under the Wrath of Almighty God, and He is sitting in your front room sharing this information, what would be your response to hearing such information?
What if your son, or daughter lived in that town, your grandchildren, your parents or grandparents or cousins or dear friends?? Would you just discuss it as you would the weather? OR would you with great passion and desperation "CRY OUT" ...."Lord on behalf of my family ...would you have MERCY?" "what if God had told you to warn them of what was coming and to share His plan of salvation from that event in time?"

Well, I want you to know there is now a very similar outcry going up ....and we His People have been chosen for such a time as this and He has chosen to call us friends and has given us His Word that states what will happen and what should be happening by us in the times proceeding the Day of the Lord! Because of the wicknedness of this time Here is what He has promised WILL Come!

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

and eventually Hell itself and all those who have neglected such a great salvation will be thrown into The Lake of Fire! People we KNOW at place we have friends and family!

What is our job in this time...what has Jesus told us to do?

Luke 21:34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Please take note of just a couple of thigs to come....that 1/3 of all mankind will be destroyed in a singular event, that there will be a hail stones falling upon this earth weighing between 90-100lbs?? "Stop and think" about that for a moment, just stop and see your neighborhood! see your schools, or your local grocery store, see the chaos the devestation the hopeless despair. By Faith can you see it? Who are you willing to "leave behind" to suffer such a time? In our hearing and reading of God's Word is it hitting home? Do we care? Really?

God is the one who gave Abraham a heart that when he heard about the "out cry" that he in turn began to "cry out" and I believe that is the Heart of Our Lord and Savior now, He is wanting to share this heavy burden upon those who have ears to hear and a heart to respond..

Respond how?? by getting on our faces and "crying out" on behalf of those God will lay upon our hearts and then going into our worlds by faith and sharing the Saving Message of Jesus Christ ...while their is still time
I live in the Ozarks, In my hearing, I hear that God is saying "wake up" and see your neighbors and friends...Are they prepared? Are they On the Ark of God's Safety? (Jesus)
If you hear this message and it doesn't produce a heavy burden is it because you "scoff" at the message of Jesus return? Peter warned by divine inspiration that "mockers and scoffers" would arise in the last days saying "where is the promise of His Coming?"

I'm telling you ...this is no time to be brushing aside as just "normal time"

Why am I so adamant? ISRAEL was reborn in 1948 as God's Word has promised it would spring forth. Jerusalem is becoming a burdensome stone and the nations of this world are aligning in passionate purpose to see Israel NO MORE!! The Great Tribulation is also known as "Jacob's Trouble" a time that Israel's only ally will be GOD Himself, God also warned that in the times of "the last days" 2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

Hence "The OutCry"
King David prayed in Psalms 9 regarding such a time

Psalms 9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.16 The LORD is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men.

That sounds like an "outcry" to me of what must be ascending unto our God even now!! But as He Tarries, He is desiring that we his people in desperate love for our friends, family and neighbors will love them as we love ourselves and will begin to stand in the gap and then "knowing the terror of the Lord" begin to persuade all who will listen to ..."flee the wrath to come" by believing this incredibly good news, Jesus Christ came and took upon Him all Your Sins , willfully went to a cross and took the wrath You have coming upon Him and was crucified and then ...just as HE Promised, 3 days later He arose from the Grave and whoever believes in Him and calls upon His Name shall not perish but have everlasting Life!!!!
In the words of an old song, "we've got a job to do, running out of time to do it" I pray we "wake up" to the time at hand and prepare the way of our Lord. The Day of the Lord is at hand and we have friends, family and neighbors lost and asleep at a time God is about to visit in His Wrath. "Lord, here we are use us to stand in the gap on behalf of those you will lay on our hearts while their is still time" In Jesus Name....AMEN

Maranatha,

Thirsty, Got Prayer?

2011-12-01T14:39:00.000-06:00

I want you to see a picture with me, picture a very dry and dusty land. And I mean dry to the bone. A place where a lake once was in full glory replaced by dead fish bones.... Take a good look at the cracks in the ground, the dust blowing, people coughing for thirst. See old bushes withering, the remnants of a once plentiful garden, now hardened, see the weariness of an old farmer as he surveys a hopeless situation....
Can you see it?

Now I want you to see upstream ....and see a huge dam that has been put in place to stop the flow of water into that area.....a structure put in the way of blessing. See the misery, the dryness...the despair. What is the ONLY hope of such a situation? RAIN!!

And what would God tell that farmer to do to prepare?

Hosea Chapter 10 gives us that answer
12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the LORD,
Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
13 You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped iniquity.
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
Because you trusted in your own way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.

There is a cry in this hour for RAIN sent from Heaven....God's Refreshing Presence to replace the dry same ole same ole of dead bone religiosity! People don't need hype or false hope...they NEED REAL HOPE that is only found in Jesus Christ! Too many are looking at the dam and complaining and understandably so, but that dam is a man made structure (sin) and is no match for what God has already done to defeat man made obstacles...

He has put in place a supernatural promise of His RAIN for those who hunger and thirst for Him, but it can only be obtained through grace provided obedience.

He first will require you to plow. A plow signifies a prophetic call to repent! .Peter said "repent that times of refreshing may come"

If Your truly thirsty for a real move of God's Spirit in Your Life and the Life of Your Church, you are going to stop and think and admit where you are at? Are you in the midst of a time of a great moving of God's Spirit or is it DRY?

If your honest and admit that we have fallen and a dam has been built then here's what you must do...You must call a time (Sound an alarm) of fasting and praying...and You must go and begin pray even if no one else does, you take the initiative to stand in the gap for others ...pleading your case for rain.

As You come You must Believe God is and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him, trusting His word that says Ask, and you shall receive, Seek and you shall find, Knock and the door will be opened

But here's the deal, this isn't a superficial ...one minute "bless us Lord" type of inquiry, it must be accompanied by much passion, desire and sacrifice

Jacob was in a dry place and weary of who he was....He grabbed a hold of God's Presence and cried "I am NOT going to let go of You God until you Change Me"

God responded and changed Jacob into ISRAEL

Hannah was barren for children...she knew it ...and was honest and came before God desperately for fruit.....so passionate in her praying ...that the Priest thought she was drunk....but no, she was just desperate for God to rain down upon her womb and cause fruit to come...He answered, Samuel was born and later dedicated unto God and became God's Prophet to Israel!

Now many are able to withstand the dryness ...they just want the familiarity of that place, sure they wish it was full of living water but we aren't going to leave this place because it's where we have always been, this is "home" "we'll make do" and besides every once in while some what comes down stream, or someone brings fresh water into the area. We have to pay a high price, buying their cd's/dvd's but it sustains us "in the mean time"

But God hasn't called us to that He has said out of our belly’s shall flow rivers of living water, that Only comes when He Rains downs righteousness upon us (Himself, His Presence)

God has said to His Churches "Behold I stand at the door knocking and to him who opens I will come in and fellowship with them and they with me"

Amazingly, there are Churches that Jesus has to knock to get in! Think on that a minute? Is that your Church? Is He the Center of Attention? Is He really The Main Attraction? Or is it hype, or a great sermon series title or this social event or the latest fad, or is it just your Sunday tradition same ole same ole, (religious experience)

Jesus PROMISED If He is Lifted Up, He would draw all people to Himself. No Hype required

In Order for Jesus to show up, an altar has to be created, that can be a place in your heart where you are sincerely pursuing His Presence. He has said if two or three are gathered together in My Name I am there....that is all it takes

But in Reality HE NEVER LEAVES so what is He saying when He says that? He is saying that people must unite in agreement that HE is to be lifted up in the midst and if that takes place He will inhabit the Praises of His People.
Again this all starts with someone willing to repent (plow) by standing in the gap PRAYING ....breaking up the fallow ground, preparing for rain.
Want to See Broken Lives made whole? Want to see the drug dealer's turned disciples? Do you want to see crime decrease and bible study increase, want to see a corrupt lawyer, turned Sunday school teacher? Want to see divorce drop and marriages restored? Want to see your lost family members coming to Christ? Want to see unity instead of division...Like on the Day of Pentecost? Then we have to be like they were united in one accord and purpose to pray for rain......THEN HE HAS TO BE INVITED TO SHOW UP!! And not just show up, but asked to "take control" and again this comes at a place called an altar where we yield/decrease asking Him to Increase and make Himself Known to us, in us and through us

I don't know what the dam is in your life or church ....is it a secret habit? a burned out Pastor ..dissension, divisive spirit I don't know, but I do know this, get a picture of God almighty responding to the hearts cry for RAIN and seeing a flood of His presence being unleashed upon that area and seeing every dam and stronghold come tumbling down ...see multitudes and multitudes in the valley of decision running to altars crying out "thank You Jesus"

Jesus said "in the last days His Glory shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea's" that will be some kind of RAIN!!! Almost makes you want to pray!!!

I believe Jesus Coming is even at the door, but as He Tarries He has told me to “faithfully occupy until He comes” but His designed occupation is through selflessly “watching and praying” “Let Thy Kingdom Come and Thy Will be done” “Let it Rain”

Christmas Presence

2011-11-30T10:34:00.006-06:00

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

In this very dark hour, even during this great Christmas season, people will be striving and running to and fro to buy and hopefully receive "great presents"

But to the Church I remind, we have already been given everything pertaining to Life and Godliness! In a recent family devotion I read the verse in Hebrews 13:5 to my wife and three kids "I will never leave you, nor forsake you" and after having them read aloud a verse that is recited a lot around our house, I asked them this question. "What does that mean? My oldest replied ..."well that God never leaves us" "and what does that mean to you?" I could see my son's thoughts kicking in.

I then went on to explain, how every night we come together to make a special invocation to Our Heavenly Father but that He is already there, BECAUSE HE NEVER LEAVES US, but that after we spend that time ...one son runs to X-Box and another to a laptop probably feels as though God has "gone away" to some other destination.

We have been told that King David was a man after God's own heart, and one of the great examples of that testimony was his reaction to the fact that Israel had lost the ark of God's Covenant Presence. He immediately sought out to recapture God's Ark and Presence.

And that I believe is the urgent call of His People even now, to realize that we have been given an incredibly amazing Gift that has been lost....we have lost the awareness of something Jesus came to reconcile and restore. The Very Near Presence of Almighty God as Abba Father!

Right now, in this fast pace telecommunicating world, we are bombarded non stop with news, and that news is like a mighty storm announcing its soon arrival. Impending Wars, Nuclear capability, murderous sprees of the most heinous of criminals, pedophilia being perpetrated by those thought above the law in name and stature, days of rage, riots, occupying this town and that city! Where is Hope?

Isaiah 9: 6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

This famous passage is telling us some great news, that is seemingly blinded by ceremony and tradition, Jesus was sent to destroy the Works of the Devil. What was the accomplishment of that work?? Adam and Eve walked with God, but when temptation came ...they sinned and were sent out away from a place that they had come to know as "home" where they lived with God. It wasn't that God had left them...He is Omni Present after all. It was that they had lost the awareness of His presence.

Right Now I have a huge burden to tell everyone who will listen, that it's "time to seek the Lord" It's time to "Turn to Him" This Christmas Season I believe is Like No Other Christmas since the first one, darkness is covering this earth and gross darkness the people. Just watch the News! Our God is desiring a Great Light to be seen in the midst of all this darkness. His "called out ones" Lifting Up His Son Jesus with total abandon to all this world has to offer in exchange for its silence. But here's the kicker ...we weren't created to do that without Him and that's a Good thing, because we can't! "It's not by might, nor by power but by MY Spirit says the Lord"

We truly do not realize how needy we are of His Presence! We are just as needy as Israel was when they had Him show up as a Fire by Night and a Cloud by Day....think not? When you are driving an interstate at 70 + mph and someone is driving next to you higher than a kite or so drunk they can't remember what they had just done an hour ago? Or what about the drug dealer's carrying that cargo with high powered ammunitions insured to protect the cargo...and one wrong look and they decide to use that ammo to deal with that look? So YES, We need God's Protective Presence in our lives

You Parents who have kids walking those war zones called public school hall ways, don't you want to know God's Glory is shielding them 24/7? I live in the bible belt but I'm not counting on that ....not in this hour. (Psalms 91 Lord)

You walk into your kitchen you open the "fridge" door and are glad to see that you have food, your favorite soda or chips are in the cupboard, aren't you thankful You have His Providing Presence in your life?? It's 20 degrees outside and you can see your breath when you walk outside but "thankfully" the heat is on and you have a good winter coat and clothing too! "Thank You God for Your Provision"

Your burdened with the cares of this life, bills are mounting, one of your kids are sick, your car needs new tires...aren't You glad you can call upon Almighty God in prayer for His Help during times of trouble?

But what I am burdened right now is with this, God is calling us to not just visit but live in His Abiding Presence by crossing over to the other side on a permanent basis....I explain this to my children by asking them if they remember the movie Chronicles of Narnia? And of course they do, since they make me watch it with them a lot.

Well during each movie, there is a special place where they can go to "cross over" into a new Higher World and place...where Angels Dwell and More Importantly where Jesus Dwells...and as I tell my daughter Ciera, I say "sis, that is what our prayer closet it suppose to be like, a place where we "Go to God" and ask Him to show us things which we do not know (Jeremiah 33:3) His ways are higher than our ways!! And we can abide in that place by praying without ceasing.

This Christmas, Our Father who art in Heaven is urgently desiring that we make like a kid at Christmas seeking HIM as our main present this year...again URGENTLY!

Why? Because He wants to pour out His heavy heart upon us His children to make like santa's elves, distributing His Good News!!!

What are our greatest commandments? "To Love the Lord Your God with all your Heart, soul and Strength" “and to love our neighbor as our self” I've heard it asked..."how is love spelled? TIME"
Right now if your reading this I'm asking You to give God a Present this Christmas, Present Yourselves as living Sacrifices, Holy and acceptable for His service. HOW?

Surrender TIME, sacrifice Time by getting alone and have no other agenda than to seek His Face....Not what he has to offer. those are a given that He has assured. "Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God and all these things will be taken care of" Trust that and instead of taking a lot of baggage into prayer, just take yourself and desperately make like King David and seek after the awareness of How Very Close He really is to your life and I pray that You like David will be able to testify in very short manner

Psalms 139: 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[a] on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

The Great I AM, the One who has given us "everything pertaining to life and godliness" is wanting us to realize ...He Never Leaves us, and "behold I stand at the door of Your Life Knocking, and to them that Open I will come in and dine and fellowship and them with Me" Is there any greater PRESENT than that??

In His Presence is fullness of Joy, and that Joy is our Life's Strength....and that strength is dynamite power propelling us to joyfully go into all our worlds sharing that Christmas Presence with others...but we need to be Urgent ....for the hour grows late...and there is coming an hour where no man can work....

For Now is the appointed Time! "It is TIME to Seek the Lord"

****just reeling it off from the heart, I absolutely believe the heaviest thing on our Lord's Heart is for His People to PRAY!!! I'm sure you have heard it said that B.U.S.Y is short for Busy Under Satan's Yoke...and this world's on a busy busy pace, but God has said "Be Still and Know that I am God" His peace that passes understanding is found when our mind is stayed or focused upon Him....TIME in His Presence will lead to eternal change ...and in light of eternity we need His Abiding Presence Now more than ever. There are so many people I know that don't know Him and I'm praying for God to raise up a time of revival and a great awakening (boldness upon His people) and I know that it won't come unless we his people are kneeling (it flat out won't happen) but the flip side of that is "the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much" "If My People Pray" is not just a easy quoted "cliche" The call to prayer is so easily blown off as a churchy term, but this is a time to "hear what the Spirit is saying to His Church".....PRAY!! When the Church starts meeting corporately just to PRAY will not mean that revival is coming, it will mean that has arrived, the fruit of that praying will be our lost family and friends being saved as Lot and His family were from Gomorrah" "it will produce a divine GO in our hearts for an assigned mission, it always has and always will"

Luke 21:34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Romans 13:11 11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Heed the warning before it's too late!

2011-11-21T15:36:00.000-06:00

That's My King Dr. S.M. Lockridge - [OFFICIAL]

2011-11-18T13:40:00.000-06:00

Paul Washer, The Gospel. The most terrifying truth of Scripture...

2011-11-16T14:13:00.000-06:00

In the MEAN Time

2011-11-03T14:07:00.007-05:00

A daily news ticker reads….

"10 kids bully and brutally beat a fellow student" Protest continue across the globe chants of "DESTROY ISRAEL" "Death to Jews" fill the air, "Man stabs his wife and four children" "Gold continues to sky rocket" "Investors keep a watchful eye" "Greece in Crisis, fears mount" "Weekly Jobless rates stay over 400k" "The Pope calls for a Global Government"

And we were Created for a such a time as this! Why? For what purpose?

To be Salt and Light "In the Mean Time" ...we have been told to Redeem Time.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine;

For your light has come!

And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,

And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you,

And His glory will be seen upon you.

All across this globe, a mad push is in the works to demand "ascension" and its basis comes from none other than he who has said "I will ascend" Evil is springing up like grass and YET God's Word has promised that through Christ, He would build His Church and that the Gates of Hell would not Prevail against it!

Right Now in a lot of ways it seems that the opposite is happening! Apostasy is rampant, "Emerging" into the rank in file on every side and front! Unholy "mixtures" accepted in the name of "cultural relevance" are taking place of Pure and Undefiled Religion. If it's "hip and speaks of Jesus, well then hey it must be Jesus." Complacent, lukewarm living has replaced passionate surrendered lives.

"In the Mean Time" Churches are going Cross-less, Tolerance preached instead of Repentance, the gospel veiled to those who are perishing is not what Jesus spoke of when He spoke of His Church!

His Hallmark description of His Church, (Of His House) was that it was to be called a "House of Prayer" notice He didn't say "a house of sermons, or pulpits or a house of praise or house of even worship, but rather PRAYER"

Why did Jesus come? To destroy the Work of the Devil, what was that work? Separating lives from God through sin. Jesus came to reconcile us not into a form of godliness, but back into one on one (atonement) relationship with The Father!!!

That is why He answered when asked about prayer, "When You Pray, pray like this "Our Father who art in Heaven" He came to reconcile us who were lost and now found, back to 24/7 covenant/adopted relationship with Almighty God as Our Father!

Why is this so imperative now? Now, “In the MEAN time as The Lord Tarries, we were created for such a time as this to know Him and make Him Known!! Redeeming the Time!

The Hour grows late and darkness is covering the earth and gross darkness the people! It is our time to Arise and Shine!! But Unlike our enemy, this arising is by our decreasing and Our Lord Increasing...

Churches are looking for the latest and greatest trendy thing to inspire attendance! Pastor's want numbers to look successful of course! You need numbers to help insure a budget and help keep up with salaries and mortgage payments. This has become THE VISION of Church of so many, but in the simplest of terms we were told to Seek First the Kingdom of God and all that would be taken care of. We weren't chosen to build a Church, we were chosen to go and bear fruit! And yet there is no offspring without intimacy! Forgive me, but you can't make a baby without having sex and You can't share a true vision of our Father's Heart and bear His Fruit without spending intimate times in prayer hearing what it is He wants to do in You and through You!!

In this hour where the gates of Hell are screaming all around us, it is time to fall on our faces and answer our Father's call ...."Where are you?"

Are we hiding in churchianity, hiding in a form of Godliness and no power? In the assembling of ourselves together, are bound people being set free, are new souls being added or is your increase just through migration and not transformation? Is it THE GOSPEL that’s being Proclaimed? For it is the only power unto Salvation.

You can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven without being "born again" I don't care how it's spun, You must Repent of believing or trusting in any other thing for salvation than Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and Resurrected, and in that repentance it directs that person to an Eternal Secure, day to day, hour by hour, minute by minute covenant relationship with Almighty God as Abba Father! If it's not through that WAY, then it's just a religious experience and will be rendered null and void. I don't care how "cool or hip or culturally relevant" it seems! Christ and Him Crucified Reconciling lost man/woman back to God.

For the Backslidden Church

Repentance is returning back to that Secure relationship, God has never left, but through the deceitfulness of sin, condemnation and guilt starts screaming from the accuser of us all, and yet the Holy Spirit is working, trying to lead us to confessing we've gone astray and for us to pray for The Joy of Your Salvation to be restored. David didn't pray for his salvation to be restored but His Joy.

In the Mean time, we need JOY Unspeakable for that is our strength!!! The Joy of the Lord is His Resurrection Power working in us and through us causing us to "arise and shine"

The call of "in the mean time" is to lay aside every weight, all the guilt and all the messages that say you have to "be good enough" and realize you can't but that You are Loved anyway and that we would all run to our prayer closets at this hour with great JOY knowing it is He that desires our attention and time ....not out of religious duty but out of Eternal Purpose! John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

We have been chosen for "such a time as this." It is no accident that we are alive at this time!! In this hour where darkness is covering the earth and deep darkness the people, but no matter how dark it is, as the Lord Tarries, the Gates of Hell will not prevail against a people who know Their God! The Effectual fervent prayer of the righteous avails much and there is no greater call in this hour than for His People to PRAY!! True Fruit is born only out of such times. Light still expels darkness and Salt still flavors and the Church should be Boldy Proclaiming our Saviour!! But we can't do that without Him.

All Sin is born out the Godlessness. Living life without Him is a matter of pride. To say you can do anything without Him is error. That is why we are told "In All Your Ways acknowledge Me and I will direct your paths"

What has happened and is happening all over is we have many believer's/Churches trying to live for Him without Him....We go do stuff having not spent anytime in prayer about what it is we are doing for Him. We build buildings, have bible studies, devotional series, sermon series, this pop up outreach or that woman's conference, all good stuff, but If it's NOT Born of Him, it's all a labor in vain. Unless The Lord Builds the House they that labor, labor in vain!!

Thousands of events and services are conducted with very little fruit or true conversion YET, Peter spent time in prayer and repentance and then Preached ONE Message and over 3,000 people were converted in PUBLIC (Non Churchy) setting. He was not going in his own name, or might or intellect, He Just preached Jesus Christ and Him Crucified

Right Now, at this very dark hour, A Light needs to be revealed and Put On a Hill (THE GOSPEL) Needs to be trumpeted to our friends and family and co-workers and neighbors an golf buddies, cycling class, to all our world's with a great urgency!! And The Heart and Power that is required to do that comes not in your will but from His and that comes from spending TIME in His Presence Praying!!! I have heard it said this way "purity in private produces power in public" We need to run, not walk right now to a place of turning back to our First Love, spending time with Him, allowing Him to SPEAK into our lives. You Know He is the Living Word!!! What is it He really wanting to say to us right now???

Mathew 10:27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

...Breaking News every hour on the hour "In the Mean Time" is the kind of bad news you'd use to just see in a movie, BUT we are carriers of GOOD NEWS ...This is not our Home, We have been bought and purchased and Our Master has told us in John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Maranatha,

Sounding the alarm, its time to seek The Lord!!! Romans 13:11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here

Please Take Shelter!

2011-10-26T11:13:00.000-05:00

I live in Tornado Alley, and those nights when the tornado warnings are popping up everywhere in every corner of my world, you can feel great anxiety, IT MAKES YOU RUN FOR SHELTER, but once you take cover...there's this great feeling and serenity and almost giddyness that takes place...KNOWING YOUR SAFE....but then You start to think ...what about those who don't have the same safe place to run too...and so I always start praying for People to find shelter from the coming storm

Then I take my cell phone out and call other's and warn them, seeing if they had been paying attention, do you realize what's coming??? Are you safe? Your just going to ride the storm out?? Please come on over ..there's plenty of room!

RIGHT NOW, there are things headed towards you, things you can't see YET, but THEY ARE COMING...

The Storm Clouds are brewing and they are getting darker by the day and this Storm is OFF the Charts, IN FACT...the Bible says UNLESS the days were shortened..NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE

when I turn on my tv...and the Storm Warning has been Issued, there will be a scrolling message that tells me what to expect...

Strong Winds in excess of 100mph, golf ball sized hail, dangerous lightning

What can you expect?...what should be scrolling at the bottom of your monitor right now??

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

These are NOT great things to look forward too, and you can mock and scoff and say Like they did to NOAH when he warned of The Flood, OR you can TAKE SHELTER, You can acknowledge that you are in DANGER, that You are lost and far from home, that You have sinned against God, Your Creator, ....THEN WHAT??

realize that Jesus Christ, came to this earth, Died a gruesome and Cruel Death ...He took Your Place...He took the Wrath that You had coming...BUT then NOT ONLY DID HE DO THAT.....after his body sat lifeless for three days in a borrowed tomb, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE...PROVING that HE IS THE WAY ...HE IS THE TRUTH and HE IS THE LIFE!!!! HE is the Ark of Safety for what's coming...PLEASE BELIEVE UPON HIM and Put On the Lord Jesus Christ....Call Upon Him and Cry "JESUS FORGIVE ME AND SAVE ME"

Once you do that you too can KNOW the Peace of having found safety in the storm shelter..

Left Behind, Can You Still be Saved? (Joseph Chambers)

2011-10-17T15:57:00.001-05:00

(Seven Things To Remember!!)

THE SADDEST DAY IN HUMAN HISTORY WILL BE THE DAY FOLLOWING THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS OF GOD! Once it sinks into the minds of a multiplied number of “Left Behind” individuals that Jesus has literally come to get the prepared saints and gone back to Heaven, it will be a traumatic moment of heartbreak and regrets. Some will commit suicide; some will go and kill preachers that did not preach the truth, while many will fall on their faces in sad and soul-searching repentance.

The idea of an Antichrist and the number 666 is understood by millions of people. Most ot these do not live a surrendered life to Jesus Christ. Many people are religious, but show no evidence of being truly “born again.” Even among the religious of our day, the “fear of God” is almost totally absent. There is a kind of religious facade that has come to characterize this present generation. Preaching the words of God, like Billy Sunday and D. L. Moody, etc., is utterly rejected by the church world. Many people literally hate old-fashioned ministers.

Suddenly, without warning, the Lord will descend into the clouds and the harvest of the earth will occur in a split second. The dead will rise and the saints that are still alive will be caught up with the resurrected and ascend to meet Him in the air. It will be over in less time than the benediction on Sunday morning. As the truth sinks in, the empty open graves are reported, and the missing ones are identified; an unexplainable fear will grip the hearts of millions. It will not be ordinary fear, but a kind of paralyzing fear that leaves the mind frozen in regrets. Many people who knew all about this event, but made no preparation, will be overtaken with insanity.
Preachers that bought into the liberal versions of Scripture or that did not preach the straightforward Gospel of the transformed life and holiness will be some of the saddest lost souls. Not only are they left, but also, many others are now left because of their compromise. The responsibility of misleading souls will drive some of these ministers to total despair. Liberal professors in church-related colleges and universities will be at the top of the hate list.

But No Escape! The most overwhelming of emotions that will slowly come to grip the “Left Behind” will be the hopelessness of their state. It is impossible to fully explain the kind of world that the “Left Behind” will suddenly discover. We can usually find a light at the end of our tunnels, but the world of that day will offer no such hope. No one who has any understanding of Bible prophesy will have any doubt that it is going to be hell on earth. It will never get any better from the moment the Rapture occurs until the Antichrist is defeated at the end of this future period. Satan will make his best effort to turn God’s creation into a wilderness beyond recovery. Only mercy can save the world from total destruction. The “Left Behind” crowd will find themselves in a world totally different from anything they ever dreamed possible. Let’s try to imagine some of the possible effects of the Rapture of the Saints.

1. The Church Will Be Gone! Nothing will be so overwhelming as the fact that the church will be gone. Whatever is left of church related activities or ministries will be out of business. Just like the Jewish Temple was “out of business” when the veil was rent and Jesus had died on the cross, so the New Testament church will be “out of business” when the church age ends at the Rapture. Whatever activity left in churches will be the false church that will promote the new false messiah or Antichrist. There will be no church revival or anointed evangelist. Religious television will be even more deceiving than at this present time because all restraints will be lifted and utter deception will have a free reign.

2. The Tribulation Church will be a “One World Church” that is already developing between the Catholics, hyper-Charismatics, liberal Protestants, and the pagans of the world. They will produce a religious excitement and fanfare so overwhelming that the whole earth will worship Satan actually believing that he is God. The Antichrist and the false anointing will be so spectacular that miracles, signs, and wonders will flood mankind. It will be paranormal activity that looks so real that only Bible lovers can discern the difference. Anyone who experiences the Blood-cleansing of Jesus Christ and becomes a testimony for Biblical truth will immediately be subject to being martyred for his/her faith.

Those that refuse the One Word Church will be an enemy of the government and every principle the New World Order loves. The hatred for the multitude that will be converted after they realize they have been “Left Behind” will cause the false church and the unholy trinity to go mad with anger. Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace will be light stuff compared to the evil designs used to martyr the young saints almost as quick as they are converted. The Bible gives a breathtaking picture of those quickly killed following the very beginning of the “Great Tribulation.”

Listen to the results of the fifth seal of Revelation six, “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” (Revelation 6:9-11). Remember, every true saint of God was raptured at the beginning of chapter four. Those saints are around the throne of God in Heaven; therefore, all of these new saints have been washed in the blood during the early days after the Rapture. They “were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.” There will be no wimpy believers in the hotbed of evil during this period. It is all or nothing. Their deaths will be so vicious and evil that even “saints” will call on God to satisfy the injustice manifest against them.

These saints do not yet have their glorified bodies, but are awaiting their special resurrection and their crowns of martyrdom. The Lord’s word is “until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.” In other words it had just begun, it was still at the early days of the seven years and many more martyrs were to follow. Anybody who misses the Rapture and decides to surrender to Christ must be prepared to die the kind of horrendous death reserved for the darkest period of wrath and tribulation ever experienced.

3. The Restrainer Is God! The Spirit-filled life will not exist during the seven years of Great Tribulation. The Holy Ghost, as the “Believer’s Baptism,” will have ended that office and period of church history. This office of the Holy Ghost was to birth the church and prepare a Bride for the Bridegroom. While the Holy Spirit is omnipresent and in that sense is present in the world, His central focus during this seven years is to

present the Bride to Christ at the Wedding Supper in Heaven. John sees the Holy Spirit before the Throne as the “Seven Lamps Of Fire”. His life giving presence will still be universal and at least open the hearts of repentant sinners to be washed in the Blood.

The absence of the Holy Ghost as the Restrainer will unleash evil to a level never known by mankind. >From creation to this dark period, the Holy Ghost has always restrained the devil and his legion of spirits. Satan’s ability to act unchecked and to exert his dark will on the earth will make for an environment so vile that no man can save another, even those of his own household. Listen as the Holy Ghost actually warned of this day in plain words to Ezekiel the prophet. “The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.” (Ezekiel 14:12-14). Hell is now almost ready to visit planet earth in its darkest acts of vileness known to humankind.

4. Those to be saved must be fully prepared to give their life. While much of the world will be under Satan’s delusion, any person that understands his lies will know the truth of what is happening. There will be a multitude that know they have missed the world’s greatest hope, to be part of Christ’s Bride, and they will see the devil for who he is: a liar, a deceiver, and an imposter of the true God. This multitude will also quickly understand that to own Jesus Christ as Lord is to incur the absolute vengeance of Lucifer. There will be no middle ground. The gray areas will have totally vanished.
It is Jesus Christ or Antichrist. It is God the Father or god the imposter. Suddenly, the will to die for Him (Jesus Christ) will become the only hope of the honest hearts that have escaped the deceiver.

The ones “Left Behind” now begin to wash themselves in the Blood of Jesus Christ. John describes the love of God that will be manifest in the very jaws of Satan’s fury. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Revelation 12:11). Three things are clearly described. They are washed in the Blood of the Lamb, they are bold before the fury of the devil, and they love not their life even unto death. Nothing is so bold as a faith that is manifest when men see the devil for what he really represents. Our present society has lost the Biblical vision of how sadistic and sinister Satan and all of his horde can be. When the “Left Behind” sees the true picture, somehow the best of human action will be on display.

5. This “Left Behind” multitude will fall in love with the Word of God. John indeed calls it a “multitude.” “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” (Revelation 7:9). When John saw this crowd, he was perplexed and one of the elders asked him, “What are these . . . whence came they?” (Revelation 7:13). Apostle John was wise and said to the elder saint, “Sir, thou knowest.” The elder answered his own question, ” And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” (Revelation 7:14-17).

Their love for truth, developed in the heat of the Great Tribulation, will earn them a place “in His temple” and the Lamb Himself will dwell in the midst of them to provide them Heavenly fulfillment.They are not called Elders as the saints that are His Bride; they have no thrones or crowns of the bridal position. These will probably be guests of the Bride at the Marriage Supper. Surely, they will wear crowns of martyrdom. It appears that they are the third order of the “First Resurrection,” which are “Caught Up” near the middle of the Seven Year Tribulation.

6. The Blood of the Lamb! The one factor that unites every victory over Satan and the wickedness on the earth is the “Blood of the Lamb.” Jesus Christ is identified from Revelation chapter four to the very end of this prophetic period (chapter 22) as the Lamb of God.” Twenty-six times in that period He is called the “Lamb of God.” These Tribulation Saints are never called elders; they are not a part of the church for there is no longer a true church. They are not identified in any action that suggest a church. No baptism in water, no opportunity to serve the Lord’s Supper, or any other great acts of His church before the Rapture. Individually, they have surrendered to the Word of God and washed themselves in the Blood of the Lamb.

There will be a fresh understanding of the power of the Blood that these Tribulation Saints will discover. The Bible emphasizes this because our generation has mostly forgotten the incredible power of faith in His shed blood. It’s faith in faith today or some strange kind of impartation that the false prophets have promoted. In the heat of the Great Tribulation, faith will return to its pure form and men will seek for simplicity of truth, not some titillation of flesh. These saints are certainly a robust multitude and must be reasoned in our understanding of redemption.

7. Left Behind: Can You Be Saved? Nobody in his/her right mind will dare take this article as an encouragement to wait for salvation after the Rapture. In fact, if you are unsaved or unprepared for His glorious appearing to Rapture the Saints and

you ignore this warning, that in itself is very dangerous. There is a multitude of disobedient people that have rejected the truth. They have loved the world more than the Word of God and the Bible warned of a false delusion to follow such action. The Holy Ghost gave us plain words. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (II Thessalonians 2:10-12). Please do not take this warning lightly. Only God knows when a man/woman passes this point of “no return.”
There will be a multitude of religious people in the Seven Years of Great Tribulation that are worshippers of the Antichrist, deceived to believe that he is the true christ. They will be damned forever. To be a part of this deceived crowd is to be the greatest of foolish souls.
Conclusion! There is a “lawlessness” that prevades the very atmosphere. Never has it been easier to put off serving the Lord or to reject Him outright. Jesus said, “And because iniquity (lawlessness) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” (Matthew 24:12). There appears to be such a resistance in the world against anything that is narrow or straight-laced. Everything is broad and most people now believe that even Christianity has no sharp standards of right and wrong.

All of this is an evil delusion that Satan is masterminding. It is the last days and the way seems so broad and wide. It is hard to find people that will admit they are lost. Do not be fooled. Jesus gave a breathtaking warning as recorded in the Book of Luke. The Son of God stated,“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting (gluttoning on the world), and drunkenness (not just alcohol, but any state of undisciplined living), and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:34-36).

Titanic Mistake (Revised)

2011-10-04T10:00:00.005-05:00

With all the upheaval, all the riot's and protest arising in the hearts of men and women everywhere, people demanding death to Israel and death to the U.S.A aligning in goal and purpose to achieve world dominion through Sharia Law and Islamic Revolution ...causes me to pause and remember

Remember that The Quran Burning Pastor?

... I must confess reflected a carnal side of me, I have Loved My Country, I've loved being an American, small town born an raised, right in the heart of America ..Grew up going to church, Sunday morning (Sunday school and service), Sunday night, Wednesday night an choir practice night cause my mom was the church pianoist

Grew up when you actually "hauled hay" ...The American flag wasn't something you burned but Held in highest esteem!

Sitting in a lawn chair, eating homemade Ice cream and listening to God Bless America during the 4th of July is a vivid childhood memory!

Playing pool at the local dairy queen with a man who had two hooks for hands lost in WWII and hearing his heart of passion for this country!

You'd go the friday night football game and everyone, Everyone Placed their hand over their heart... because we were "Proud to Be An American"
"God's Country" ...is a phrase I've heard mentioned many times in my 43 years
But as an American, I've watched things tear at the very heart and soul of this place I've called home, Abortion on demand, Same Sex Marriage, Adult entertainment becoming a leader in industry, People use to leave the doors unlocked, ADT signs are now everywhere, we've shot our own schools up, we've entertained ourselves til nothing shocks or moves, we let kids play video games that they habitually practice killing others...girls wear less clothes on beaches than what use to be called "adult" and all of that has come from within...and because of that, we've sinned our way to a state where Like in the Days of Jeremiah, Enemies of our very existence, have come to and inside our borders, some have bought us, and enslaved us with debt!! (The Debtor is Enslaved to the Lender nearly 15 Trillion Dollars)

What infuriates me and causes my flesh to rise is what I have witnessed through the last two decades, is We have been forced to accept in the name of tolerance, the liberties given to the very enemy of this nation...they are allowed to come here and preach their Indignation Against us and cry out for our destruction ...and yet we are scolded no to speak against it or we are accused of "hate speech"
On 9-11-2001, I sat in horror and watched it unfold right before my eyes, I cried and prayed and was hoping beyond hope that God would take that awful day and turn it into a time of a great awakening!

Churches were filled all across the nation, as memorial's and vigils were held, but those given charge over the masses, had NOT a Word from God but rather, self help, humanistic, self centered sooth-saying messages..Instead of calling men and women everywhere to repent, they chose to extend the outreach of "tolerance" even further.
Now a decade later, we have a sympathizer as commander and chief, wolves are truly guarding the the hen house and enemies who flew planes into our hearts are now building a momument of victory right there at ground zero???? SERIOUSLY??? "Woe unto that Generation" rings in my spirit.

These People that desire the death of Jews, Christians and Infidels of all kinds, demand freedom to worship the god of this world, who has come to steal, to kill and destroy, and we are not only allowing it, we are cozying right upside, appeasing their every wish..there is talk even now of riots brewing in the USA demanding Sharia Law.

again, Seriously??

Yet at the same time, those very same people will not allow Anyone outside their Islamic Family to enter into a mosque, they won't allow you near their Mecca, they will kill you for carrying a bible, they will cut your head off and you tube the scene...
so Yes, I can relate to that Pastor In Florida when I allow my carnal selfish nature to arise and to think on such things.

But That could be a "Titanic Mistake", if I allow that to blind me from God's greater truth, This is "not my home"..I'm looking for a city who's Maker and Builder is the Lord!

and all those who have come to kill, to steal and destroy in allah's name are not my enemy, for I wrestle not against flesh n blood (I say that in faith with my teeth gritting "ok Lord") and In fact
I'm to love those who spitefully use me, to bless those who persecute me and none of that is possible unless we the remnant Church arise in this hour by bowing on our knees in prayer and repentance!!

The Reason our nation's home were once unlocked, Was Because we Loved and Served a God who sent His Angels Charge over us. The Reason, school violence consisted of a fight here or there and guns were on gunracks in pick up trucks was because "we prayed in school" and one better than that ...We Prayed in Church! The Reason neighbors helped neighbor's "put up hay" or help fix their car, was because they prayed beside their neighbor in a pew on Sunday, but The Bible makes it clear, this world isn't going to be getting any better... Love will wax cold, wars and rumors of war, people will be lovers of selves more than lover's of God....it's clear we are living in such a time! But we've been given a charge to "Redeem the Times for the days are evil"

I liken that charge as one surely given during the sinking of The Titanic.
I'm sure at some point the people were having a great time, so in love with the comfort and surroundings of The Titanic...but once that great and mighty ship had struck the iceberg, and the reality of the destruction that was and had taken place, they didn't have time to mourn the loss of the Titanic... they had to find "a life boat" I'm sure there were some at work trying to save The Titanic, but I'm sure there came a point where it was "just time to save Lives"

Should the Lord tarry, I will be crying and praying for God to revive this nation!

However, I believe their's a greater urgency, our enemy would love us to fight for the here and now and forget what's most important, Sometimes Good can be the enemy of God!!
... ask yourself this question
Am I as passionate in my speech for Christ as I am for this Country? Am I longing more for this place than a City who's builder and maker is the Lord? (remember Lot's Wife)
again I'm not saying I'm not going to Vote and be passionately rooting for a conservative victory's in future elections (should the Lord tarry)

but I'm talking about Our Perspective

During the sinking of The Titanic, there was a story told of a very rich woman who had brought great amounts of money and jewelry with her on her journey, this same woman, upon realizing the ship was going down, headed for one of the life boats, but in haste forgot something that was Now extremely valuable and turned and ran back to her room, she bypassed the safe which held her precious jewelry and money... .she reached for "oranges" that sat in a bowl in her room, something that might now save her life....Her Perspective had greatly changed from just hours before ...as did all those on board that "unsinkable ship"

During this very perilous time, ... as everyone is busy running to and fro trying to fight for the life of This Ship, by screaming for another bailout or that last ditch bill in congress (debt ceiling), instead of placing your hope and faith in what man can do to save the here and now, be pointing them to a more sure salvation!!!! Jesus, Our Lord and King!!

Instead of Burning Quran's, and burning with anger for what we seem to be losing... may we Burn with Passion and renewed urgency and passion to See Jesus lifted High, that He might draw all men unto Himself, while their is still time.....and remember God's Word says In Psalms 9 that the nation that forgets God should be turned into Hell (Let us Know Him and Make Him Known) the Bible says in Psalms 92, that when we see the wicked spring up like grass, it is that they maybe destroyed forever

Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.

The Charge of our Lord and Savior of this hour is nothing less than "laying down our lives for our friends" HOW? by Spending Time praying/interceding, and then being willing to reach out by any means necessary to those Our Lord puts on our hearts. Write Letters, send emails, hand out tracts, being willing to look a fool (Like Noah) believing by Faith in God's forewarned Time that is at hand (The Day of the Lord), all being birthed out of spending time with Our Father!!!

"Lord if their be the righteous will you spare?" "Righteousness exalts a Nation" As long as we are still here, we are the salt and the light...Pointing the Way
trusting that "effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much"

And when we pray, we will hear from God and realize that God has said....

Mathew 10:27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Until we hear that trumpet "Cry Loud and Spare Not" Jesus Christ and Him Crucified for it is the Power of God unto salvation!!!

Maranatha!!!!

180 The Movie

2011-09-25T17:02:00.002-05:00

I highly recommend that you watch http://180movie.com/?vm=r It's sure to make you "stop and think" Hard Hitting eye opening message, that I pray that will hit us all right where we need to be need to be hit! Our Conscience awakened and eyes opened to the importance of being part of the Pro Life "Good Fight" that is of eternal importantance. If you can watch this video and not be stirred to pray and obey, you might want to check your spiritual pulse.

Please forward it out to all that you know unashamedly In Christ!

TAKE SHELTER!

2011-09-22T10:18:00.000-05:00

I live in Tornado Alley, and those nights when the tornado warnings are popping up everywhere in every corner of my world, you can feel great anxiety, IT MAKES YOU RUN FOR SHELTER, but once you take cover...there's this great feeling and serenity and almost giddyness that takes place...KNOWING YOUR SAFE....but then You start to think ...what about those who don't have the same safe place to run too...and so I always start praying for People to find shelter from the coming storm.

Then I take my cell phone out and call other's and warn them, seeing if they had been paying attention, do you realize what's coming??? Are you safe? Your just going to ride the storm out?? Please come on over ..there's plenty of room

RIGHT NOW, there are things headed towards you, things you can't see YET, but THEY ARE COMING...
The Storm Clouds are brewing and they are getting darker by the day and this Storm is OFF the Charts, IN FACT...the Bible says UNLESS the days were shortened..NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE

when I turn on my tv...and the Storm Warning has been Issued, there will be a scrolling message that tells me what to expect...

Strong Winds in excess of 100mph, golf ball sized hail, dangerous lightning
What can you expect?...what should be scrolling at the bottom of your monitor right now??
100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

These are NOT great things to look forward too, and you can mock and scoff and say Like they did to NOAH when he warned of The Flood, OR you can TAKE SHELTER, You can acknowledge that you are in DANGER, that You are lost and far from home, that You have sinned against God, Your Creator, ....THEN WHAT??

realize that Jesus Christ, came to this earth, Died a gruesome and Cruel Death ...He took Your Place...He took the Wrath that You had coming...BUT then NOT ONLY DID HE DO THAT.....after his body sat lifeless for three days in a borrowed tomb, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE...PROVING that HE IS THE WAY ...HE IS THE TRUTH and HE IS THE LIFE!!!! HE is the Ark of Safety for what's coming...PLEASE BELIEVE UPON HIM and Put On the Lord Jesus Christ....Call Upon Him and Cry "JESUS FORGIVE ME AND SAVE ME"

Once you do that you too can KNOW the Peace of having found safety in the storm shelter..

About Our Father's Business (A Prelude to the Rapture)

2011-09-07T10:30:00.001-05:00

The Jones Family crushed with the weight of debt, a haunting pile of bills are stacked on the grocery table, The Husband and Father of 3 laid off for months, ..nervously run his hands through his hair, His wife silently prays" "Dear God please Help"

Across town, a husband and wife .....sit on their deck talking, "I really have this heaviness for the Jones Family ....I think we need to do something" "I've felt the same thing, what do you think we should do?"reaching for his wife's hand, let's pray
two days later, Mrs Jones opening her mailbox to see another pile of bills ...carries them back to the kitchen table, doctor's bills for their son's recent illness, credit card bills mounting higher and higher but then she see's a Card from a family they barely know

Opening the Card, "Dear Jones Family, The Lord has laid your family on our heart to bless...really hope this helps and if there is anything more we can do please let us know" Looking at the check, Mrs Jones falls to her knees and begins to sob, walking into the house Mr Jones...see's his wife in tears runs to her side....."Honey it'll be ok, you'll see"....Mrs Jones looks up to her husband and smiles through her tears, "Honey it is ok, LOOK WHAT JESUS HAS DONE" taking the card and check from his wife's hand ...Mr Jones is overwhelmed....kneeling down next to his wife, hugging her so ever so tightly...."thank You Father, thank you, thank You"

A teenage girl, closes the blinds to her room and locks the door! Her Iphone is buzzing ..."they posted that pic of you" "lol, you ho, everyone is laughing at you, you should see the comments" ...she rocks back and forth..tormented with guilt and shame...takes out a bottle of pills

Alice sits needling a scarf for her grandaughter, not that she will ever wear it but it keeps busy and feeling useful, widowed but not alone....Alice talks alot to Her Heavenly Father, especially about her grandaughter and today she really feels the burden, putting the needle and yarn down ..."Father, PLEASE arise within my Jennie and set her free....set her free in Jesus Name"

Jennie sat fidgeting with the bottle in hand, tears streaming, the pain crushing down..... looking over toward her night stand ..she see's her "grammie's picture" and the scripture reference etched into the picture frame....Jeremiah 29:11 "For I Know the plans I have for you" ....Jennie feels a calm fall upon her as she looks for her bible to read what more it has to say ....it was the bible her "grammie" gave her..finding it under her bed, Jennie rushes through the pages to find the passage ...finding Jeremiah and then chapter 29 ...she is shocked to see the passage underlined with a note out to the side, "Jennie this is my prayer for you, love grammie"

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me

Alice was rocking away in her ole rocking chair ..praying her heart out...when the phone rang .."who in the world?" ..."don't they know I'm praying"...making her way to the phone "Hello?" "GRAMMIE, It's Jennie" "Jennie!! it's so good to hear your voice" "Grammie, I just gotta tell you ...I gave my life to Jesus...He saved My life Grammie, Jesus saved My life today" Grammie looking up toward Heaven ..whispered "thank You Father"..."Now Jennie I want to hear all about it"

It's 9pm on a routine weeknight, life is flying by, ballgames, school, work, tv's, cell phones "OFF, Kid's turn everything OFF, it's time ....the family gather's for their nightly routine...."who's got anything heavy on your heart?" "Dad, their this kid in my class, can we pray for him?" "Sure son, anyone else? "Sis? 7 year old "sis" pipes up, can we pray for all the stray dog's to find a home?" "sure sis, we can do that" "anyone else?" the list begins to grow, "this kid, that co-worker, that family" The Dad opens up the bible and reads a Psalms.....The Family then bows their heads and prays.."as for me and my house we shall serve you Lord"

A City Bus Driver, cruising through his early morningy route, meditating on a passage from Sunday's Service..."I will never leave you, nor forsake you" ..."that is amazing Lord, I almost can't comprehend that" "YOU NEVER LEAVE ME" .."wow" Joy radiating from his face, each passenger an opportunity to speak into a life...Carl drives that Bus as Unto the Lord and lives each day as if it's his last, each passenger exits with a tract in hand, Carl takes delight in trying to discern which tracts to hand out to each one......

Candy had been up all night, her body aches....standing on the corner awaiting the bus, she see's the scowls and knows the scorn, it comes with the job, the bus arrives and the door opens..looking up at the driver, Carl smiling wide "goodmorning...welcome aboard, your chariot awaits" Candy skeptically says "goodmorning, with a slight chuckle" and takes her seat

Carl begins to pray "which one Lord?" Candy sits looking out to the city but not seeing a thing, her mind ridden with the cares of this life..notices the driver's lips are moving "who's he talking too?" she wonder's ...he doesn't have an ear piece, so it's not a cell phone

"Father, thank You for each one of these passengers, thank You that I have this job ..please use me for your glory"

Candy stands up to leave the bus, "miss, I want to give you this" "what is it?" "It's a special message just for you" "will you promise to read it?" Candy looked at the little booklet "You are Worth a Great Price" nod's her head and exits the bus ...

Carl, like so many times before hands out a tract that he "hopes" is doing some good ...

Candy opens the door to her appartment and is greeted by her cat...pours a strong drink preparing to drown out all of life's cares...stares at the gift from the driver and begins to read about a woman caught in adultery ..."woman where are thou accuser's? Go and Sin No More" "Dear One, if you are reading this and you are dealing with guilt and shame, do you not realize that before You were even born, Jesus had came and gave His Life, having thought You a great price?" If you want to know this Jesus ...please call upon Him today and then come and tell us this Sunday at "New Hope Church" Candy's life was never the same

....all across this Globe people were being about their Father's Business...When a Shout rang out "Come Up Here"

Sept 11th ..A Prelude to the Rapture

2011-08-30T09:43:00.000-05:00

In Honor of 9/11 and those who were Ready

The Elevator stopping at Betsy's floor...as the doors opened and she made her way to her cubicle inside the law firm...she paused to look outside to take in another breath taking view of the city.
This was just another typical weekday ...just like anyother EXCEPT Betsy couldn't shake something from her mind.
"Dad" "Dad" "Dad" ... boy I sure hope he's alright she kept thinking. Wondering why he was so heavy on her heart
As her custom...Betsy turned on her monitor and signed in and first things first ..clicked the icon to a christian website to fill her area with music ..next she would open her email and then proceed to pull up all necessary desktop programs she would be needing and last but not least she opened her Bible program and read the verse for the day

2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation

Being burdened more than ever...Besty felt a tear trickle down her cheek as she lifted up a quick prayer.."Heavenly Father ..Please save my dad"

...Betsy clicked her email to open and hit the compose button and began

"Dear Dad" typing a letter that had been years in the making...she poured out her heart and pleaded with everything in her for Her Dad to please hear her heart and ask Jesus to come into his life... .after finishing her closing plea..Betsy resolutely hit send

then pausing for a moment ..Betsy bowed her head again to pray

SUDDENLY.... FLASHING INTO HER OFFICE AREA... "BETSY LOOK" "That Plane..IT'S HEADED RIGHT FOR US"

Harold finished his morning coffee and went to sit down at the computer...pulling up his homepage, he noticed HE ACTUALLY HAD MAIL..."oh my ...it's from Betsy"...looking for his glasses to help him read, a jarring interruption comes from the TV

THIS IS CNN ...BREAKING NEWS... AN AIRLINER HAS JUST CRASHED INTO ONE OF THE TWIN TOWER'S

Harold froze as he watched the horrifying scene unfold ...glued to every word and every camera angle...His heart in his throat...began to breath anxiously..."OH BETSY"...Please God if your out there ...OH PLEASE PROTECT MY BETSY

racing to the wall and picking up the phone...he looked at his old scrabble scratch writing and began to dial her work number ...but there was no answer..just her voice mail "You have reached Betsy at the Law Firm...please leave a detailed message and I will get back to you at my earliest opportunity"
Over and over Harold repeated the process..he would listen to the news and then a deeper panic would set in and frantically he dialed and listened...all he could do was listen, Helplessness and despair ...becoming more and more his companion

Over the next few hours and into the early morning ...as emergency calls overwhelmed the phone lines and frustration was mounting to it's highest ... Harold got the news he'd never ever ever would have wanted to hear. Betsy hadn't made it out!!!!

dropping the phone onto the counter refusing to hang it up...He fell to his knees in the deepest anguish and cried out of all that was in him ...Harold in his late fifties laid prostrate as a little kid ..moving not an inch for what must have been hours as Betsy's whole life flashed across Harold's thoughts. Her first birthday..her first day at kindergarten...seeing her off to prom...to college...her first car, her first date, the day she begged him to come watch her get baptized even though he said he'd never step foot into a church... .hundreds and thousands of thoughts raced in his mind as he just laid there

but then one thought screamed him back to the present...MY EMAIL!!!!!

racing to his feet and back over to where this horrific nightmare had began...he slowly sat back down into his chair and clicked his computer back on... There it was "Hey Dad", Harold sat shaking but just had to know

"Dear Dad,

Bet your surprised to hear from me huh?... Sorry things have been so busy and we have been so distant... I've been meaning to drop by ..but after our last visit I've got to confess I have been afraid to. But Dad, just to get to the point ..I was walking to work today and all I could think about was You!!! I know you asked me to not preach at you anymore..BUT DAD ..PLEASE ...I LOVE YOU and I LOVE JESUS and I know you'd love Him too IF YOU would just lay down your pride and listen to what He's done for You
Not only did God create you Dad..He created me through you..He gave us both life and gave us each other...
I know you said you'd never step foot in a church and that's NOT what I'm asking...all I'm asking for you to give me a chance to share with you what Jesus is all about and How He has changed my life.
continuing to pour out her heart and pleading with her dad...every ounce of Betsy's heart and emotions came through the letter begging her dad to stop and think and give His life to Jesus
Please Dad, Let's get together real soon and talk ..Please Dad?

Love ya Betsy

Harold sat staring at the monitor ...his initial reaction was that of a familiar reflex ..."SHUT UP" ..all his life..he could shut out THIS message...stop it at it's tracks..."don't you preach that crap to me" "don't believe it ..don't need it...don't want it..just get out of my face"

but here, now..today..he sits reading the very last will and testament of his very own flesh and blood. His daughter's final words come SCREAMING at him at a moment and time that every part of him wants to leash out and pounce on the very ONE his most precious daughter was proclaiming

Harold took the key pad to his computer and violently pulled it from it's place and proceeded to throw it as hard as he could against the nearest wall... .NO GOD...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY? HOW COULD YOU? ..FORGET YOU!!!!!

Harold began to pace hurredly back and forth..his mind racing faster than his steps...the noise of this world racing louder and louder in his mind... "THIS IS CNN ..JUST MOMENTS AGO AN AIRLINER CRASHED INTO THE TWIN TOWERS"... "NO" "NO" "NO"

falling to his knees ... clutching his chest...his heart racing... Harold screams out without hindrance... .NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Harold had spent the next night in deepest anguish. His eyes swollen from tears, his voice raw from the deeps wails ...outside distant sirens rang constant reminder's that this was not a nightmare...this was his reality. New York City was in mourning, the Nation was in mourning and most parts of the world too, but inside this small apartment, seemingly left all alone..a man is haunted by his own daughter's seemingly ghostly letter. A cry from the grave spelled out in no uncertain terms a harsh and crushing blow of ideology...begging Harold to ask this question ... Where is my daughter now?

Just two days ago, he would be confident if asked..."my daughter lives by the park , ya know the one down by the station?" "or she's assuredly at the gym doing her bike class" "or she's at work at such and such law firm" ...but where is she now?
reading and re-reading her letter..."Dad, I know I'm saved..I know that Jesus died for me and know that someday I'll spend eternity with Him" "but it will crush me if your not there" "Please Dad, please give your life to Jesus"
Harold opened and closed the letter nervously over and over and over as if trying to silence those words, BUT could she really be? with JESUS?

It had been a long long time but Harold responding to that thought...got down on his knees... every part of his being shaking as he knelt.
Dear God, I haven't talked to you in years and there's a big part of me that doesn't want to talk to you right now, (fighting back tears and raw emotion) Harold continued I want to blame You for all this...I mean I'm a dad and I would have done anything to protect her God, why couldn't You? HUH? Please tell me that God... why couldn't You? or better yet...WHY DIDN'T YOU?
Harold quieted for a second, reminded that His daughter might just be with whom he was talking... Clutching the letter, he opened his hand and looked up as if acknowledging how profoundly it was speaking
God, is she right? is she ok? Is she with you? Please ...I have to know...I just gotta know
Harold sat there waiting for a response but none was given, a numbness swept over him, struggling back up onto his feet then crashing down on to his sofa, He hit the power button on his tv, flipping through the channels ...every stop a constant reminder
but one such channel caused him to pause.."Pastor what would you say to those who are trying to cope?" The Pastor with great compassion looked into the camera and spoke "To those who lost loved ones who loved Jesus, I have goodnews...Jesus said "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also!!!"

Instantly upon Hearing those words...Harold fell face down and wept aloud and cried out..."JESUS, Please Have Mercy upon Me" "Please save Me, Please come into my life and heal my heart"... .flooded with emotion once again..Harold poured out his heart, but this time he wasn't left empty... as Jesus heard his cry and responded in Spirit, embracing this desperate man ...filling his mind and his emotions with thoughts of hope, joy and healing. He would see his daughter again, this life had new meaning and his heart though broken from loss was softened with love... and if Jesus was to shout today... "Come Up Here" Harold too would "be ready"

In Honor of the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11 Please Stop and Think!

2011-08-25T11:06:00.001-05:00

Can you imagine life downtown New York right after 9-11-2001?? Please, take a moment and think back..... Well imagine that on a global scale. The violence..the rioting...the looting...the hatred..the thirst for revenge..the cries for hope...the mourning..the brutality..the FEAR! If you or your loved ones choose to reject the last hour call to repent...if you refuse to live for Christ now..while the Grace of God is pouring out His message of repentance ...if you can't live for him now..you will have no other choice than to die for him during this real soon coming period called THE TRIBULATION.

It will be a time we can call "the perfect storm". A combination of satan's fury and God's wrath coming at you and your loved ones with such ferocious intensity that the bible says men's hearts will fail them for fear. The bible also says that people will be so lacking of hope there will come a time they will actually seek death but find it not!
You say "man, you're fear mongering" ...'Your trying to scare people to accept Jesus Christ"

Repentance means to "stop and think" ....I'm just trying to get you to "stop and think"...life is moving so fast, it blinds us from what we need to "stop and think" about

biblical "stopping an thinking" will lead to acknowledgement that You OR someone your assigned to warn is in dire danger of "the wrath to come"
and STOP and think about that....

There is coming a TIME that a God who IS Love will be pushed to a brink or point in time that He makes a conscious and intentional choice to POUR OUT HIS WRATH

Do YOU want to be ONE who is responsible for that? Do You want to be ONE who is found worthy to receive His wrath???

Please, "STOP and THINK"

Jesus the Lamb of God, came to this earth and took the Wrath of God upon Himself ...He was nailed to a Cross, FOR YOU, Because of You!!! He was wounded For OUR transgressions, He Was Bruised for Our Iniquities...He had Nails driven into His Feet and Hands.....WHY???? Because of Our Sins, our rebellious disobedience to the One who gave us Life....But If your reading this, IF YOU haven't realized your a criminal in God's World, that you've broken every law..that You are worthy of the Wrath of God ......You are in dire dire danger of facing all eternity seperated from all that is Good and Right...you will never again see anyone you love, you will never again Know Love, you will never again experience hope, you will never again know joy or happiness, you will never again have a choice....a choice that I now beg you to consider......Please Stop and think

You are headed for Your Day in Court....
The Judge is none other than the One of whom you committed all your crimes....

Stop and think about that, can you imagine standing in front of a Judge of Whom You were guilty of murdering His son???? Of trashing His House?? Well You are about to have that opportunity ..."it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgement"

I ask you now to consider ....what will you say? do you have a plan? have you even thought about it??

The Charges wrought against you...."for every idle word You will give an account"
You will see your life pass before your eyes and "all hidden things will be revealed"
all those things you didn't want "anyone to know"

Where is Hope? Let's go back to the Cross.....When Jesus was beaten and bruised, when those crown of Thorns was placed upon his head...when he was scourged ...39 lashes ...extracting flesh and bone.....He was doing that for YOU!!! He was Taking Your Place and He wants to take Your Place on Judgement Day too!!!!

He wants to Plead Your Case to Almighty God, HIS DAD!!!

He's Never Lost a case....in fact It was His Father who sent Him to die, "For God so loved this world (You and I) that He sent His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him shall NEVER perish but have everlasting Life, For God did Not send His Son into this world to Condemn but to Save"

Stop and Think, Time for YOU is running Out.....Your Trial Date is already on the docket....Have You secured Your defense??

Call upon Jesus Christ this very day..."whoever Calls upon the Name of Jesus SHALL BE SAVED"
tell Him "thank You" by living a life of surrendered discipleship ..following Him ...all the days of Your Life

In Christ,

"Church" The Golden Calf of Today?

2011-08-22T11:55:00.000-05:00

***Please withhold your initial reaction to what I'm about to share, because I'm NOT advocating we shouldn't go to Church in the least UNLESS going to Church is absent of the heart of this message***

In addressing the Church of Ephesus ..Our Lord called out in Revelation 2:4 “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.

Our Lord was holding up a mirror to His People to show them their current state and It's my prayer that IF you are reading this, that You will allow God to reveal His desire that we too would look "at how far we have fallen" as The Church as a whole in this time we now find ourselves, because we are running out of time to be what we were created be and do the job we were saved to do ...I don't know about you but I want to hear "well done thou Good and Faithful Servant"

"Church" The Golden Calf of Today?

In the Book of Exodus we read of a time when God was moving on behalf of His people Israel in a mighty way, having delivered them out of Egypt through incredible acts of His might (Splitting the Red Sea, allowing them to cross on dry land) saving them from the most powerful of armies...showing Himself strong and having "been there" for Israel you would have thought they would want to "know this God"

During this incredible time in history, God was working through Moses on behalf of His People and had come to a time He specifically instructed Moses to gather the People to HIMSELF near Mount Sinai, that they might hear Him speak to Moses....but due to fear and their lack of knowledge ...the Children of Israel refused to go near the mountain and sent Moses alone.....they were rejecting an opportunity to draw close to The Lord who had called them out and instead were asking for a man to "go and hear and come an tell" them what God was saying.

During one such visit we find Moses is gone unto the Mountain of the Lord for forty days and nights and while he was away the people assembled and were disgruntled and asked Aaron to "make us some gods" and it was there that the Golden Calf was created IN PLACE of Worshipping Almighty God, they decided to worship in a way of their own doing (SELF).

Almighty God Himself had sent out and invitation through Moses to bring the people near,but instead of taking that invitation to go near to GOD Himself, they chose to stay far away and worship "in their own style and will" erecting a form of worship absent of God.
What about us and what is going on now in so many churches?

Jesus said "If two or three are gathered in my name" I am there, we are also told that God never leaves us ...that He is Omni Present ...we have been told we now have free access to boldly go behind the veil and approach God's very own throne of Grace to obtain Mercy in the times of need and in fact we have been taught when we pray, We can call Him "Our Father"

Yet Sadly, this great gift of God's VERY NEAR PRESENCE has been shunned and exchanged for "CHURCH"
In Church services all across this nation ...people gather and go through rituals and traditions and sing songs and listen to sermons....trusting that those "sermon's" are seasoned from God ...but sadly many of those sermon's are googled or regurgitated copies of the "in thing" of christendom.

NOT messages ..."hot off the altar" ...ya know hearing what God wants to say??? I mean He is a Living God and does have things He wants to say....you might say well He's given us His Word already....YES but what is He saying from His Word today?? That takes discernment and hearing and only comes from spending time with Him!

People get up and "go to church" and do this sunday after sunday ...believing THIS is the high calling of Christianity (hearing a sermon) and that they have fulfilled their duty but this is soooo far from what is on the heart of our God for us.

We weren't created and called to traditions and rituals and services, we were reconciled into Covenant Relationship with Almighty God and told we are without restriction and that we can KNOW HIM ..in fact we are told He is to be our First Love. The Greatest Commandment given unto us is....Mathew 22:37 "You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart, Soul and Strength"
God has told us to "gather in His name" ...why? So He can show up ...The Holy Spirit was sent to Point Us to Him ..Jesus Came to reconcile us back to the Father...they are all working to get us to awake to His very near presence in our lives and that we would awake to the fact that it's no longer us that lives but Christ in us, the Hope of Glory and even ask "know you not that You are the temple of the Holy Spirit?"
The Reason we are such a powerless Church in this day and hour is we have LOST our First Love and We have NOT Lost His Presence but we have Lost the Awareness of it.

Peter at the Gate beautiful in the book of Acts Knew what He had,....when a lame beggar ...asked for money, "Silver and Gold have I not, but what I do have I give to you , In the Name of Jesus Rise and Walk" ...what did Peter Have? He Had God's Presence...it wasn't Him, It was Christ.

Our Lord would say "repent Church and do the first works" ...Fall back in Love with Me and seek My Presence!!! Realize what I have given you, "everything pertaining to Life and Godliness"....MYSELF

I have gone to many churches where there is no knowledge of His Presence, God is treated as someone you are talking about in a far and distant country or yonder year..."in the sweet by and by" or "back in a revival in 1970 something or back when I was pastoring this church God did this"

Or if it's not talking about God as If he's far away then it's the over hyped "super star" stealing the show promoting their latest and greatest revelation...marketing/selling and merchandising "the gospel" for self gain...Preaching and proclaiming God's Presence when in fact it's not Him but the Anti Him, working to deceive through false manifestations and experiences that do NOT line up with Scripture...
Very much like what happened while Moses was up on Mount Sinai actually spending time with God ...the people of Israel were erecting something they would act as if it were God, doing things in the name of God....but was really what it was, a Golden Calf which was a form of adultery ...cheating on God, cheating themselves of experiencing the REAL THING.

God had given a call unto Himself and they forsook it for something else...And that is what has happened all across this nation we have forsaken The Real Thing for something else....we "Go to Church" but are we "Going to God"?? Many churches are full of people but absent of the main attraction ....Ichabod should be written on the door post because God's True Glory has been exchanged for "Church" "having Church" "going through the motions of what that entails, exercising a process over and over ..sunday after sunday absent of the awareness of the Presence of God, THAT IS NOT WHAT WE WERE CREATED FOR, Nor what we were "saved to" or called to, rather we were created to Know and Fall in Love with an Almighty God as Our Everlasting Father through Covenant Relationship provided through the Shedding of His Son's Blood
We have all been called to God's Mountain to live in (Not just visit) His Omni Presence as Fish to Water....but instead many live outside the gate of His Presence ..being destroyed for lack of knowledge (living carnal sinful lives) instead of flowing with rivers of living water (abundant life)
God has taught us all through out scripture of how we are to approach Him and even gave us a pattern of approaching Him to the Point of Him coming and revealing Himself to Man through the revelation of the Tabernacle

Psalms 24: Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
4 Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,who do not worship idols and never tell lies.
5 They will receive the Lord’s blessing and have a right relationship with God their savior.
6 Such people may seek you and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob.

we are told to enter His Presence with Thanksgiving in our hearts, and enter His Courts with Praise, He has told us that He inhabits the praises of His People, that No One comes unto Him Unless He draws them, ..we see in Jesus addressing the 7 Churches in Revelation that He knocks on the door's of our lives and "he that opens I will come in an fellowship and they will fellowship with me"
We are told through Isaiah 55:6 "Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near."

1 Chronicles 16:11 11 Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore!
Again everything that Our Creator, Almighty God is about is that people would be "turned to Him (repent)" ....It's His Goodness that desires that ...and IF He is allowed to Show Up and Be Himself....what will happen??

Jesus PROMISED, "If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto myself" and what happens when He's lifted up..

Luke 4:18 “ The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,[j]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD

It's His Heart to be Himself through Us, to Make Himself known in our lives and through our lives and when we come together He wants to show up and work through the giftings of His Body to exhort, and encourage and edify us to grow in knowledge and grace IN HIM...to grow closer to Him

John 5:39,40 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life
It's all about Him, He Himself is who we should seek when we come together, we should do whatever it takes to make sure He is there in our knowing ..Because He is There!!

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him

In Jeremiah the 23rd, God speaks out in anger of the shepherds and prophets because they weren't turning the people to Him and away from Sin...(Repentance) ..instead they were promoting "tolerance" with soothsaying/feel good messages ....

9 My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words. 10 For the land is full of adulterers;
For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right.
11 “ For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.

16 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“ Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me, ‘ The LORD has said, “You shall have peace”’;
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, ‘ No evil shall come upon you.’” 18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it? In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 “ I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings. 23 “ Am I a God near at hand,” says the LORD, “ And not a God afar off?

What is he saying? that His People had forgotten the Presence of God and because of it they had turned to very sinful lifestyles and had invoked his Anger

Judgement Begins in the House of God, It's time to quit "playing Church" and realize that God has said "my House shall be called a House of Prayer"

Prayer is not a religious exercise ...it's communion with Almighty God Himself!! That's what Jesus came to do remember? to Reconcile lost Man back to the Father! That's what He gave His Life for....restoring relationship!

And IF when we meet on sunday morning's or at anytime ...if He Himself is not the main and central part of the meeting then it's just religious dead work/total waste of time It's Just a Golden Calf event, absent of God ...why even bother? God desires Truth on the Inward parts of our lives...He searches our motives, why do we do what we do? Is it to be seen by men? is it to appease our conscience or is it to really seek to Know and Pursue and Love Our God? If we spend time in His Presence He is going to share His Heart and we will become full of passion and vision for why He made us .....

The reason there is so little power in our Churches is because we have a form of godliness but No Presence, The reason we see so little true conversions is because instead of praying, we are too busy doing church stuff, we aren't called to do stuff for God, we are called to seek Him and then obey Him...obedience is better than sacrifice, IF we spend time with Him we will know His voice and hear it ...saying this is the way ..walk ye in it
It is my prayer that the lukewarm, backslidden and sleeping Church would Return to First Love, that this will be an alarm awaking and stirring us to our Highest Calling to Know Him and Make Him Known!!!
In Christ,

PS.....How can you know if your going to a Golden Calf Church instead of a place of meeting with God?

1. IF you go to church and Your Church never acts like God Himself is there, your Church is a golden Calf
2. If you never have serious points of prayer and intercession ..Your Church is a Golden Calf
3. If you never feel convicted about sin in your life, Your Church is a Golden Calf
4. If there is never any new birth (souls being saved) Your Church is a Golden Calf
5. If you never feel like falling on your face in awe because of the awareness of the very near presence of Almighty God ...your church is a golden calf
6. If there is no urgency to be about Your Father's Business, Your Church is a Golden Calf
7. If you have zero confidence that if you bring a lost friend to Church that they would see Jesus and be convicted of sin, righteousness and judgement ...your Church is a Golden Calf
8. If you doubt Jesus goes to your Church, Your Church is a Golden Calf
9. If there is no reverance or Godly Fear ...Your Church is a Golden Calf
10. If there is no passion for His Presence, Your Church is a Golden Calf
11. If your Church has no vision to see your area turned upside down, Your Church is a Golden Calf
12. If you can know the exact routine of the service and have no expectation of God moving, it's not a relationship your in, It's a ritual...get out ..cause that place is a Golden Calf

A Titanic Mistake

2011-08-02T20:27:00.001-05:00

With all the upheaval, all the riot's and protest arising in the heart's of men and women everywhere, people demanding death to Israel and death to the U.S.A aligning in goal and purpose to achieve world dominion through Sharia Law and Islamic Revolution ...causes me to pause and remember

Remember that The Quran Burning Pastor?

... I must confess reflected a carnal side of me, I have Loved My Country, I've loved being an American, small town born an raised, right in the heart of America ..Grew up going to church, sunday morning (sunday school and service), sunday night, wednesday night an choir practice night cause my mom was the church pianoist
Grew up when you actually "hauled hay" ...The American flag wasn't something you burned but Held in highest esteem

Sitting in a lawn chair, eating homemade Ice cream and listening to God Bless America during the 4th of July is a vivid childhood memory

playing pool at the local dairy queen with a man who had two hooks for hands lost in WWII and hearing his heart of passion for this country

You'd go the friday night football game and everyone, Everyone Placed their hand over their heart... because we were "Proud to Be An American"

"God's Country" ...is a phrase I've heard mentioned many times in my 43 years

But as an American, I've watched things tear at the very heart and soul of this place I've called home, Abortion on demand, Same Sex Marriage, Adult entertainment becoming a leader in industry, People use to leave the doors unlocked, ADT signs are now everywhere, we've shot our own schools up, we've entertained ourselves til nothing shocks or moves, we let kids play video games that they habitually pracitce killing others...girls wear less clothes on beaches than what use to be called "adult" and all of that has come from within...and because of that, we've sinned our way to a state where Like in the Days of Jeremiah, Enemies of our very existence, have come to and inside our borders, some have bought us, and enslaved us with debt

what infuriates me and causes my flesh to rise is what I have witnessed through the last two decades, is We have been forced to accept in the name of tolerance, the liberties given to the very enemy of this nation...they are allowed to come here and preach their Indignation Against us and cry out for our destruction ...and yet we are scolded no to speak against it or we are accused of "hate speech"

On 9-11-2001, I sat in horror and watched it unfold right before my eyes, I cried and prayed and was hoping beyond hope that God would take that awful day and turn it into a time of a great awakening

Churches were filled all across the nation, as memorial's and vigils were held, but those given charge over the masses, had NOT a Word from God but rather, self help, humanistic, self centered sooth-saying messages..Instead of calling men and women everywhere to repent, they chose to extend the outreach of "tolerance" even further

Now a decade later, we have a sympathizer as commander and chief, wolves are truly guarding the the hen house and enemies who flew planes into our hearts are now building a momument of victory right there at ground zero???? SERIOUSLY??? "Woe unto that Generation" rings in my spirit

These People that desire the death of Jews, Christians and Infidels of all kinds, demand freedom to worship the god of this world, who has come to steal, to kill and destroy, and we are not only allowing it, we are cozying right upside, appeasing their every wish..there is talk even now of riots brewing in the USA demanding Sharia Law

again, Seriously??

Yet at the same time, those very same people will not allow Anyone outside their Islamic Family to enter into a mosque, they won't allow you near their Mecca, they will kill you for carrying a bible, they will cut your head off and you tube the scene...

so Yes, I can relate to that Pastor In Florida when I allow my carnal selfish nature to arise and to think on such things

But That could be a "Titanic Mistake", if I allow that to blind me from God's greater truth, This is "not my home"..I'm looking for a city who's Maker and Builder is the Lord!

and all those who have come to kill, to steal and destroy in allah's name are not my enemy, for I wrestle not against flesh n blood (I say that in faith with my teeth gritting "ok Lord") and In fact

I'm to love those who spitefully use me, to bless those who persecute me and none of that is possible unless we the remnant Church arise in this hour by bowing on our knees in prayer and repentance

The Reason our nation's home were once unlocked, Was Because we Loved and Served a God who sent His Angels Charge over us

The Reason, school violence consisted of a fight here or there and guns were on gunracks in pick up trucks was because "we prayed in school" and one better than that ...We Prayed in Church

The Reason neighbors helped neighbor's "put up hay" or help fix their car, was because they prayed beside their neighbor in a pew on Sunday, but The Bible makes it clear, this world isn't going to be getting any better... Love will wax cold, wars and rumors of war, people will be lovers of selves more than lover's of God....it's clear we are living in such a time

But we've been given a charge to "Redeem the Times for the days are evil"

I liken that charge as one surely given during the sinking of The Titanic

I'm sure at some point the people were having a great time, so in love with the comfort and surroundings of The Titanic...

but once that great and mighty ship had struck the iceberg, and the reality of the destruction that was and had taken place, they didn't have time to mourn the loss of the Titanic... they had to find "a life boat" I'm sure there were some at work trying to save The Titanic, but I'm sure there came a point where it was "just time to save Lives"

Should the Lord tarry, I will be crying and praying for God to revive this nation

However, I believe their's a greater urgency, our enemy would love us to fight for the here and now and forget what's most important, Sometimes Good can be the enemy of God!!

... ask yourself this question

Am I as passionate in my speech for Christ as I am for this Country? Am I longing more for this place than a City who's builder and maker is the Lord? (remember Lot's Wife)

again I'm not saying I'm not going to Vote and be passionately rooting for a conservative victory's in future elections

but I'm talking about Our Perspective

During the sinking of The Titanic, there was a story told of a very rich woman who had brought great amounts of money and jewelry with her on her journey, this same woman, upon realizing the ship was going down... .headed for one of the life boats, but in haste forgot something that was Now extremely valuable and turned and ran back to her room, she bypassed the safe which held her precious jewelry and money... .she reached for "oranges" that sat in a bowl in her room, something that might now save her life....Her Perspective had greatly changed from just hours before ...as did all those on board that "unsinkable ship"

During this very perilous time, ... as everyone is busy running to and fro trying to fight for the life of This Ship, by screaming for another bailout or that last ditch bill in congress (debt ceiling), instead of placing your hope and faith in what man can do to save the here and now, be pointing them to a more sure salvation!!!! Jesus, Our Lord and King!!!

Instead of Burning Quran's, and burning with anger for what we seem to be losing... may we Burn with Passion and renewed urgency and passion to See Jesus lifted High, that He might draw all men unto Himself

Maranatha!!!!

THE VERDICT IS IN!!

2011-07-06T09:48:00.002-05:00

Yesterday, the entire nation it seems....watched a young mother stand in wait before a JUDGE for what seemed an eternity for a verdict that would announce her fate

In the eyes of most, this woman was guilty, guilty, guilty and most likely she is and was!!

But what stuck out to me is "that moment" of waiting for an answer of which she had no idea........what was going through her mind?....."what is My Verdict?" "will I die?" "am I guilty?" "what will I be doing one week from today?" "I'm not a bad person?" "It was an accident?" "I've got away with murder?" "I don't deserve this?" "It was my childhood's fault"

It was to be Her moment of reckoning

and man was the world tuned and glued in!!

Couldn't Help but to think of how it's a picture of what is to come for sooooo many lives, having to WAIT for a verdict has got to be excrutiating, I just can't imagine. But I did get to thinking and wondering If People realize that someday they too will have a Verdict Read, that they too will stand before an accuser and a Judge? And this accuser will have had all his ducks in a row, in fact he's master planned their demise and has insured their length of stay ....The Judge will have every idle word on record and even the hidden secret things will be made public. You see, the Bible Says all people who have been given life, are appointed a time to die...so YOU ...

You will have died, You will then be summoned to appear before the Most Supreme of All Courts, You will be called by name and ushered in ....You, Like Casey Anthony ...will be standing before a Judge awaiting an ETERNAL VERDICT.........a Verdict determined by what you did with the Life given you? Did you live for self and sin and pleasure?...Did you Break God's Law's? You've heard of The Ten Commandments Right?....IF Found Guilty there is absolutely only thing that will happen, you will be quickly and resolutely thrown into an eternal holding place of which there is no escape and the Bible says that people there wail and gnash their teeth...wallowing in guilt and shame and torment....and it won't get any better because at some point you will be thrown into a Lake of Fire of which it will never be quenched and you will find no relief, wishing for all eternity to just exist no more, but sadly...you were created to live somewhere eternally and unfortunately IF you have been found Guilty ....Your fate is forever sealed and HELL is Your Reward

However, there will be those who when they die...they too will be brought before the same accuser and the same Judge.....

They will be ushered in....but standing in front of the Accuser will be one we will call THE ADVOCATE and He's the Greatest Public Defender of All Time ...They will be excused from all Court Proceedings...their case has already been closed!!! "SETTLED OUT OF COURT" A PLEA DEAL WAS WROUGHT

...The Accuser will try and protest...BUT before He can even speak...the Public Advocate will say "Hey Dad (remember the Judge?..that's His Dad)...."Hey Dad, I've brought before You another one of my faithful servants".....The Father will look at His Son, The Accuser will scream "FAITHFUL?" "BUT ...BUT.....I SAW HIM ...I SAW HER...SHE WAS GUILTY of this crime in 1998 or 2007...she was an adulterer, he was a cheat".....but He will be drowned out....The Father will Only see the Advocate standing in the way....The Judge...will say "well, Well Done...thy good and faithful servant...enter in" The One who will have been Pardoned ...was actually pardoned 2,000 years ago, before they were even born Christ Had already died for them and that person will run with all their might and begin to bow and worship at the feet of Him who's hands and feet were pierced, they will cry great tears and He will dry their tears and stand them to their feet and say "Welcome Home" They will have "no waiting period" for their verdict was handled by THE CROSS....and your verdict can be too

You see, You can go to that courtroom guilty as you are and take your chances...

I'm sure on every account there would be many who could justifiably accuse like they have with Casey..."she's a murderer!" And they would be absolutely right!!! Have you ever lied even Once? "then your a liar", Have you ever lusted at another? Then Your an Adulterer!! Have You ever hated? Then Jesus say's your a MURDERER!!! ...You will be guilty as charged and will DESERVE what you have coming!!! The Wrath of Almighty God

but Here's where I come to You ....Your Guilty...You have no hope in that Courtroom ...but there's someone I'd love to refer you too!!! He's The One who Already Paid Your Fine....2,000 Years ago, He came to this earth because of YOU!!!! He knew you'd need Him, He knew You'd broken the Law. So He came and willfully took what You have coming, He went and was bruised and beaten and scarred and battered, all this before He was then laid upon a Cross, nailed with spikes into His feet and Hands and then Raised Up Publicly for every eye to see him hang in shame FOR YOU!!!

Then 3 days later, after having been laid to rest ....this Man Called Jesus rose from the grave....proving He is The Son of Almighty God, The Way, The Truth and the Life and He told us IF we will believe that ..If we will Confess that ...If we will call upon Him ...He will stand in our place before the accuser and Judge giving us not what we deserve but rather Eternal Life!!!! What is He asking that you would do now? Turn from the Lies, turn from the deceit, turn from sin and turn to Him and be saved!!

Yesterday Casey Anthony Stood before an imperfect Court and an Imperfect Judge and may have temporarily gotten away with murder......but this life is but a vapor and someday she will have another court appointment!! I pray she hears this news of Jesus Christ or she will have no hope this time....will you?

The Verdict is Already In!!

With Little Or NO WARNING!!

2011-06-28T15:39:00.000-05:00

In the Last few years, we all have witnessed events of human tragedy and devestation that have come with little or no warning

On Sept 11, 2001...

People went about their daily lives just like any other day, but then suddenly "without warning" The First Jet Crashed into one of the Twin Towers
shockwaves were sent across the globe as we watched in horror as thousands died and our nation grieved....

Then came an event that many had never even heard of "a Tsunami?" "what's that ...a type of Pizza?" But in 2004 ....With Little or No Warning an earthquake occured in the Indian Ocean With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismo ... triggered a Tsunami that ended up killing over 230,000 people in 14 countries

Then not near as large in it's scope came the Hurricanes of the Gulf, most notable...Hurricane Katrina
Though there were warnings blared preceeding this event..there were thousands who decided to "take on the storm" and found themselves at loss

then came...The People of Haiti ..dealing with the daily human struggle ...found themselves in one of the worst earthquakes in modern history...With Little or NO WARNING!! (The January 12th earthquake in Haiti is the most lethal natural disaster of the past 20 years. On February 12th, the Associated Press reported that official Haitian government estimates of the dead had been revised upwards, now reaching 230,000 dead.)

and then came Chile
Seismologists estimate that the Chilean earthquake was so powerful that it may have shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds and moved the Earth's figure axis by 8 cm or 2.7 milliarcseconds.

Again this happened With Little or No Warning!

Then there was Japan,.....an Earthquake + Tsunami + Nuclear Disaster, ...thousands died, again with "with little or No Warning"

Alabama Tornado's, hundreds of people died "with little or no warning" ...."Joplin Missouri" "One of the deadliest tornado's in US HISTORY ....With Little or No Warning!!

The Word of God says "it's appointed unto man once to die and THEN Judgement"

In just a few examples listed above... hundreds of thousands of people were going through their daily routines...when suddenly "their appointed TIME" came ...again... most with little or NO warning and every single one of those people who died with out Christ, were taken immediately to an eternal courtroom and stood before Almighty God as Judge of the life that they lived that had rejected every opportunity given to accept a Free Gift (eternal life), but instead now face eternal punishment with no hope for escape.....will you please stop and think for real? I mean IF that was YOU, IF tonight a tornado fires up and heads toward your house, If an earthquake rumbles, if a car crosses a median....

You might be here reading and have this mindset THAT YOU are immune...that you are invincible...But YOU ARE NOT!!!

You might say, I'm a fear mongerer ...trying to manipulate you by fear...

Our Lord told us to REPENT OR Perish, Repentance begins with a change of mind that leads to a change in direction in one's life

in other words...to "Stop and Think" and then react to what You hear by believing the message and it's NOT just the thought that counts...

the Heart of this message is simply to make sure that when Your "appointed time" comes...It hasn't been "without warning" and that you would "stop and think"

My God, has put on my heart to warn you to "Flee the Wrath" to come, He's not willing that any should perish, He's offering You a way of escape... Before you were even born, while You have Yet been living as if there is No God and there is No Judgement Day... He has already sent His Son Jesus Christ to Die in Your Place ....2,000 years ago Jesus Died because of You and the laws that You have personally broken, He was taking your place because He created You in Love and for a purpose of which was and is ..for you to Know Him by entering into an eternal covenant relationship ...graced to You by The Heart of Almighty God.

Please Hear, Please Stop and think and Please Believe their is an EMPTY TOMB that Shouts to the Whole World That Jesus Christ Is the Way, The Truth and the Life and He's Your Only REAL Hope for today, and for all eternity

Call Upon Jesus while You still have TIME!!

An Ominous Storm Front

2011-06-02T13:02:00.003-05:00

On May 22nd, I stood outside getting ready to go to My Pastor's House for dinner and said "I better call" the parents and ask if it's ok for the kids to stay at their house "just in case"

My Parents have a storm shelter

The reason was obvious, the sky to the west of us looked VERY OMINOUS. It was 4:30 in the afternoon when I dropped off our three kids and headed to our Pastor's House

We were all eating and talking and I looked at the radar on my phone and my Pastor saw my countenance..."something wrong?" You should see the radar, It looks TERRIBLE to the west (in Joplin) and it's headed right towards our town...the Pastor's Wife went and turned on the Tv in the other room, and all our phones were getting "text's" "The Lowe's in Joplin got hit" "Walmart too" ...it was very sobering and all of our "watching and praying" eye's were lifted up....our Pastor prayed and then and and my wife made a mad dash towards my parent's house to be near our kids

In the next few hours after having watched the storm lift and pass over our area.. we would learn that one of the deadliest storms in American History had just taken place and many many lives were lost and countless other's will NEVER be the same

Many stories are coming out of those who heard the warnings and believed them and ran for shelter ...but at the same time there are those stories of those who turned a deaf ear "heard em all my life....just kept grilling burger's" "I heard the sirens, but they go off alot around here this time of year"

and of course we are hearing the devestating stories of those who even heard the warnings but were not in a "safe place" to weather this storm and lost their lives...some even snatched out of "loved one's arms"
it's gut wrenching and devestating and I PRAY a major wake up call to those who have been blinded to something even MORE Ominous

You see, many many people died but there were some who were Prepared to Die, they had taken shelter from An Eternal Storm by placing their faith in Jesus Christ and even though there outter man/person perished, they did NOT truly die...for in an instant, the moment they're body was struck by that devestating EF-5 Tornado, because of Who's they were....the very second there body was destroyed, their soul was transported into the very Presence of Almighty God to an eternal home and destiny of which they would NOW no way would want to come back

On the other hand, there are those who were NOT prepared, neither for that Tornado or more importantly for that which was instantly after. The Bible says it's appointed unto all people to die and then stand before God as Judge

During this horrendous Tornado, a Local Doctor reported hearing people "wail and scream" inside the Twister..and how it haunts him

But what is even MORE haunting is that there are those who are even now wailing and screaming and this storm will never stop....because after being propelled through that Tornado, out of a Home Depot or Walmart into an Eternal Courtroom, they stood before a God they had refused to believe in had refused to take shelter in ....and Now have had heard a terrible terrible decree "Depart from Me I know You Not"

and they have NO HOPE nor Chance to escape an Eternal Storm that has no end
but if You are reading this ....You still do..Have Hope that is
YET.... here's the deal, An Ominous Storm Front is rapidly approaching
and you have to have eye's to see and You have to have ears to hear
The Radar is Screaming for You to take Shelter......

In God's Word He foretold of a time such as this, and said when You see certain things to "take shelter" ...what are those certain things? Israel being pressured on every side to "divide their land", when Love Waxes Cold, When the Love of Pleasure is Greater than Love For God, When Children are rebellious to Parents, When Global Economies Shake, When Knowledge Increases and People travel rapidly "to and fro" (For thousands of Years, we traveled by horse) but in the last Century we've seen travel go to where you can ship anything world wide in three days (Fed Ex)...You can talk instantaneously to anywhere via text, instant messenger, email ...just as Daniel had forewarned....when you see these things, It's Like an Ominous Storm Front Announcing something very terrifying....."The Day of the Lord"

Jeremiah 23:19 Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm,
a whirlwind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.
20 The anger of the Lord will not diminish
until it has finished all he has planned.
In the days to come
you will understand all this very clearly.

We are approaching a time of God's Undeniable Wrath being poured out upon this place we've called Home and He in Mercy is warning all who will listen

PLEASE TAKE SHELTER!!!

In Alabama and now Joplin, The Warning's went out and many heard and Believed and went and ran and hid in a safe place
and that is what I'm about to ask you to do

You see, You can scoff at what I'm saying and say "I've heard it all my life" as one lady testified in Joplin, "I've heard tornado warning's all my life"
They Mocked Noah...thousands of people mocked Noah to their very end

and You can too!! You can mock the Warnings of this time, You can say "ahh the government will fix it" Or "we've seen this before" .......OR you can take a serious and sober look at all the many things that have taken place in recent days, months and years and say "Maybe I need to wake up" to what is happening and TAKE SHELTER

did you know what a Tsunami was 7,8 or even ten years ago?? Do you not pay attention to those who are planning YOUR VERY OWN DESTRUCTION, (Jihadist, Muslim Brotherhood) "American's MUST Die" and are even now working round the clock to see that it's accomplished through "Day's of Rage" demanding Sharia Law? Hate has replaced Love, Self has replaced God..."whatever makes you feel good" "Just do it" "run up credit cards" "who care's the debtor is enslaved to the Lender?" Even now Our Nation in America is selling it's individual citizen's into debt slavery by destroying our national sovereignty through spending not billion's but trillions and talk of "the next greatest, great depression" is on the lips of economist

We have a President who has told Israel to give up Land (Professing Himself a Christian) but refusing to Read God's Word that says "DO NOT DIVIDE MY LAND" "I will bless those who bless Israel, but curse those who curse Israel"

The Storm Clouds are Ominous I tell You, are you prepared? Have You Taken Shelter??
What must You do to be safe from The Wrath to Come??? What is the Wrath to come?
when I turn on my tv...and the Storm Warning has been Issued, there will be a scrolling message that tells me what to expect...

Strong Winds in excess of 100mph, golf ball sized hail, dangerous lightning
What can you expect?...what should be scrolling at the bottom of your monitor right now??

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9
and even worse ...is that which will never end, ...a lake of Fire

Stop and Think....PLEASE

Right Now, believe this Storm Warning and then get on your Knees and Confess Your Faith In the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Believe that He is Your Only Hope, That He is Your Lord and Savior and Confess that Publicly and Follow Him ...Trusting that He is Your Storm Shelter, He is Your Refuge

If You will do that, I have great News, You will NOT Die but Have Everlasting Life....

Will You Hurry Up and "Take Shelter" .....The Siren's Are already going off

Dear Unbeliever!

2011-05-20T11:04:00.002-05:00

HOW CAN YOU KNOW JESUS REALLY IS GOD???

there have been many people who have claimed to be a god and many who claimed they were this or they were that but there Has ONLY BEEN ONE ...that has ever PROVED He was and Is GOD

let's start with this

Ya get up in the middle of night...You walk into Your Living Room....there is brand new furniture ...Tv, love seat, couch, end tables, carpet, paint ...all stylishly set in place..way beyond your skills

would it not be logical to ask "Who did this?" Did all that EVOLVE in the room? So you start to inquire...Who Put this here?

And so should it be that each and every day as you wake up and see this world, the sunrise, the grass the trees ..the many many gazillion things that are lined up shouting to You that SOMEONE put all those things Here AND shouts for You to ask this following question

who Put You and I here? If you honestly ask that question? It will lead to want to Know The Answer

Jesus came to this earth ...born of a virgin...lived a sinless life ....peformed many many documented miracles....and testified to all who would Listen that He was and Is and Is to come..that He is The Way, The Truth and the Life and said listen to this...to prove or authenticate my message to You Unbeliever and all the World...

I will take the Sins of all mankind upon Me...You will kill me BUT three days later I will be Alive Again and He that Believes upon Me will NEVER Perish but live eternally

And that's exactly what happened...2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was Hung on a Cross for the Sins of the Whole World, It was a brutal event and one of great documentation, But NOT Only did Jesus Christ die, He did something ELSE...

While an armed guard stood watch over his gravesite...Jesus walked out of that guarded area three days later, JUST AS HE SAID HE WOULD and that empty tomb shouts a message for the whole world to hear...JESUS IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF ALL KINGS AND HE IS YOUR CREATOR

So there you have it Unbeliever...a very simple message..I could sit here and debate for hours but It all boils down to this....You are Alive!!! and Your life is a gift that was given to You by a Loving Creator...Who made you to wake up and ask "who put me Here? then through seeking to find the Answer You would realize that His Name is JESUS....all of Creation and an Empty Tomb Testify He is GOD"

Unbeliever, I pray you Hear these words and Believe them and I pray you take the next step....the Bible says If You believe in Your Heart that Jesus Christ died and then three days later rose from the Grave and You confess that Faith out loud to someone ..anyone ...You will be SAVED....WILL YOU????!"
with greater urgency than ever, I PRAY for those who visit and have NOT yet answered this divine call

Believe Upon Him, who through YOUR sin, was beaten, tortured, and crucified FOR YOUR SAKE....Believe Upon Him who three days later ROSE from the grave and is ALIVE

Believe upon Him with such Passion and Abandon that You forsake the life you now live to PURSUE an Eternal Relationship with the One who Gave His All to redeem You ....

Jesus is even now sending His Holy Spirit to convince you ...but You must choose THIS DAY ....Who will You Serve?

Today is a divine appointment, it's your day of decision.....
Life or Death, Blessing or Cursed....Eternal life or everlasting torment....

Dear Unbeliever BELIEVE and CHOOSE Life....because Jesus Christ has thought you were of a great price!!!!

Will You Lay it down?

2011-04-29T11:40:00.000-05:00

John 15:13 There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

In Genesis 18, The Lord comes to Abraham's House and Abraham immediately opens up His home and fellowships with Our Lord, while there ...Our Lord deliberates "should I hide what I am doing from Abraham?" (Amazing) and then proceeds to share His heart with Abraham, telling him of the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and the justice it demands

but it's here I want to stop and expound...

think of what Abraham is hearing... He is hearing of a "neighboring" place where he has family, that it's about to be destroyed... stop and think for a moment please, if that was Now and that was You hearing that From Your Lord, ...that there is an "outcry" against your neighbor (ing) town and you have family there, what would you do with that news?

Abraham heard the news and instantly began to lay down everything else upon his mind and began to pray ..to intercede to share a burden for his family!! What was he praying for? ...I'm sure a state of panic hit him..."I HAVE FAMILY THERE!!!!" He prayed, He cried out...

Right Now if God was to tell you there was an outcry and Justice was demanding wrath be poured out ...would or should we do no less, than to lay down our lives and lay down time for our friends and family?

You see, we live at a very similar time, in fact Jesus said in the last days it would be "as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah" ..we are in those days and there is an outcry...many are crying out against "injustice and violence and murder and greed and lawlessness and sin in all it's vilest of forms" and Our Lord has stated there is coming a time He will be moved to visit this earth in Wrath and even told us what was coming

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

reading this and knowing God's Word says that unless the days were shortened "no flesh would survive" ... and realizing that he was talking about a place where "we have family and friends"... should we not be moved with the greatest of urgency to stand in the gap, praying with all our hearts "Lord will you have Mercy, will you spare?" It's His Heart to do so, but He has chosen to work in us and through us at a time such as this...

God did NOT spare Sodom, He will NOT spare this earth, but He will rescue those He will lay upon our hearts..He answered Abraham's prayer's, because He had put it on Abraham's heart to pray...

There are people who our God wants to put on our hearts

He stands at the door and knocks...to him who opens up ...He will Come in and fellowship and "share His Heart" ...will you?

Perilous Times, Hold On Loosely!

2011-04-15T13:08:00.003-05:00

Psalms 92

7 When the wicked spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be destroyed forever.

Right Now, we are all witnessing a time unlike we have never seen. It's becoming more and more common to call evil good and good evil.We watched in horror almost 10 years ago as two planes carrying an ideology of hate and destruction plowed in to those twin tower's ...piercing the hearts and lives of so many.

Now today, we sit and watch "Day's of Rage" , acts of violence and terror being perpertrated across the globe in the name of this so called religion of peace, demanding Sharia Law and declaring Jihad, all the while in honor of "political correctness", so many make haste to be Islamic Apologist on so many accounts, all the while taking every opportunity to bash Israel and Christians with hot button talking points.

There is Goodnews

As much as I love this country, as much as I love my house, and my neighborhood, "This is Not Our Home!" And good thing because this place call earth is shaking and groaning because...
"the wicked are springing up like grass"

man has it...this is a time a time your neighbor, might dress in drag, or be a child sex predator and have it be common place.ya think not? just google sex offender's in relation to your address and be "shocked" to see the map light up like a christmas tree.
Jesus said As it was in the Days of Sodom...As it was in the days of Noah.We are in those days and God's dealing with the hearts of man, are you looking for a city who's builder and maker is the Lord? Does your heart beat to be with the One who Created You, and bought and redeemed You with the Shed Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ ..OR, do you share a heart like Lot's Wife? Lot's Wife's heart held on, she didn't want what her eye's couldn't see despite the sin...the gross sin and godlessness, she was willing to "look back, or try to hold on to" what God was asking of her to let go of.

James spoke of a similar heart

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously ?6 But He gives more grace.

Therefore He says: God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

We are NOT at home here... we are just pilgrims, Yet we are called to be Salt and Light...

and exhorted to:

1 Arise, shine;For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.

As Our Lord Tarrie's in longsuffering, not willing that any should perish, I will occupy and pray like crazy on behalf of my country and neighbors... I'm going to cry out while I'm still here, fighting to redeem the times...

But My hearts being stirred to look for a City's Who's builder an maker is The Lord, clinging to His Faithful Exhortation

Let Not Your Heart be Troubled, In My Father's House are many mansion's ... If it were Not so, I would have not told you, I go to prepare a place for you that where I AM , there You may be also

The Hour is late, Titanic has struck an iceberg...but knowing the End from the Beginning

"When We've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the Sun, we've no less days to sing God's Praise than when we've first begun"

Til Then, don't get down, don't get discouraged if it looks like things we've held dear are going the way of the Titanic...

"Look Up, Your Redeemer Draws Near"

Fear Not! By Grant Phillips

2011-04-13T16:51:00.000-05:00

I just read that sales for doomsday bunkers have increase 1,000% since the Japan quake. A 137,000 square foot bunker is being built in Nebraska and is designed to house 950 people for a year. The cost is $25,000 to secure a place, including a $5,000 deposit. The California-based company, Vivos, that is building the bunker, stands to rake in $23,750,000 in gross sales (after doing the math).

It is obvious that fear is beginning to creep into the hearts of mankind, but countless times in Scripture we read the words, in one form or another, “fear not” or “trust in the Lord”.
We live in very troubling times. I personally feel that these are the most troubling times in all of history … so far. Political turmoil reigns in every country on earth. Diseases with no known cures are sweeping across the globe. (A new strain of AIDS has purportedly been announced in a very large country just today.) The world’s economy is teetering toward a sudden collapse. Crime is at an all time high. Immorality is taking over the land like an ugly beast. Nature, (whether hurricanes, tsunamis, quakes, floods, tornadoes, etcetera) is getting very nasty. Corruption is all around us; in the political sphere, the entertainment industry, the religious sector, the class rooms, even families. Greed, distrust, fear and other human frailties are consuming people. Even those who do not know Jesus Christ fear that something terrible is about to happen, and that it is. This world is obviously on the brink of collapsing upon itself. Where can anyone go to find peace, and rid their hearts from the fear within?
The one true God, Who created this world and its inhabitants says, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” (Psalm 118:8) “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5)

The Scriptures tell us that just prior to our Lord’s second coming, “Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” (Luke 21:26) The Rapture has not yet happened, but is imminent. Therefore, the world is not even in the Tribulation period which follows the Rapture, and already people are beginning to fear. The curtain has not risen on the judgments that will soon befall this world, and earth’s dwellers are already beginning to fear.

Even Godless “Hollywood” has taken advantage of this fear to sell movies. One of the latest is “2012”. Our scientists are warning us of meteors from space that will eventually strike this earth and bring it to its knees.
Do we really have anything to fear? If you do not know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you absolutely have much to fear. What we are seeing today is nothing to what is ahead, and it very well may be sooner than we think. The fear factor today is a mere hiccup to what is ahead. The calamities ahead are just clearing their throat for the main performance. Everything I have mentioned, and much I have not, is going to get a thousand fold worse before Jesus sets His feet on the Mount of Olives at the end of the Tribulation.

Some of you may be angry at me, claiming that I am using scare tactics. Folks, the only thing you are hearing is the truth. Would you rather I lie to you, and tell you that everything is just going to get better and better? Maybe I should tell you that our “fearless leaders” are going to fix everything. (If you believe that, you’re really in trouble.) I haven’t even touched the surface of just how bad it's going to get … for everyone … world wide … as the world advances toward center stage of the Tribulation. Are you afraid? Do you fear? GOOD! Let that fear bring you to your knees before your only Source of true peace, Jesus Christ. Confess to Him your unworthiness, that you deserve Hell, then sincerely call upon Him for forgiveness, asking Him to shower you in His grace by saving your soul. Then you can have true peace that removes fear.

All true believers in Jesus Christ will not be here for the Tribulation. We will be in Heaven with our Bridegroom during that time. But even if everything gets much, much worse before He takes us to His Father’s house first, we (true Christians) have nothing to fear because, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4) Can you say that?

Fear is one of Satan’s best tools, but it is no match for the power of God. It really should not matter to a child of God what takes place around them, as far as fear goes. Though we suffer the worse the world can throw at us, we can rest in the comfort our Lord provides. Jesus said, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28)

If you are afraid and without Christ, then come to Him in true repentance, and He will save your soul.
If you are afraid and a child of God, just remember one thing, i.e. our God is always in control. If He can hold all the galaxies, planets, stars, and moons in place, don’t you think He can handle our fears? Don’t let Satan make a spiritual wimp out of you. Fear not, and put your trust in the Lord.

Psalm 46:1-3 says, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.” The “Selah” at the end of these verses is a musical term which we would call a rest note in our music today, meaning that while the orchestra continues playing, the soloist rests at this point. Let us rest in the Lord and not fear.

Grant Phillips
grantphillips@windstream.net

Drowning? by Tim Cameron

2011-04-12T09:54:00.002-05:00

John 3:17 (New King James Version)

17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

How could a loving God create a hell? If a loving God created mankind with a free will and choice....He also gave them the choice between life and death ..heaven or hell.

I have a son...I love him more than anything. I would NEVER want him to die...that's NOT my choice and I have rules set forth for his protection..he's not old enough to drive yet...but when the day does come that he can drive ..I will set forth boundaries ...and one most certainly would be to not drive around a hair pin curve at a high speed. Now if I ..the loving dad...buy my son a car...give him the keys and allow him the gift of driving a car but he disobeys.....driving his car 100 mph around a curve and dies.....is it my fault?

God didn't create man for hell...He created man for LIFE and that more abundantly....satan ...followed by man's rebellion created the need for hell. Man's choices created cemetaries....God created Adam and Eve to never die..but gave them the choice....eternal life or forbidden fruit...."the soul that sins shall die" ...but if you sin not ...you will live and never die...you know the rest of the story right? How we can we blame God for a destiny we choose?

Individual sins do NOT send us to Hell they lead us to death..."the soul that sins shall die" but REJECTION of Jesus Christ is what leads us to eternal damnation''

It's like this.......you are drowning in a huge body of water (your sins) and a helicopter comes out to where you are...a man jumps down and lifts you up into the helicopter....yet you choose to jump back into the water.

"While we all were yet lost in our sins (drowning) Christ had already died for us" to go to hell you have to "neglect such a great a salvation" You have to Reject Jesus Christ...BUT WHY WOULD YOU?
Right Now...someone is reading this who is drowning in sin and shame...your bound in addictions...alcohol, meth, coke, porn, lust or whatever it may be and those things are tearing your life apart...
I once heard a story of a young man who was surfing and fell off his surfboard and was overcome with the waves crashing down and began to drown

His mother was there as were his friends and began to scream for the lifeguards on duty....to please help save the young man, quickly a lifeguard ran to the edge of the shore and then stopped....watching the young man fight for his life...The mom became livid and screamed "PLEASE" "HELP" "PLEASE" ...but still the lifeguard just stood there...watching UNTIL...the young man's strength was gone.. and with one last gasp he screamed for HELP .and he began to go under

The Lifeguard dove into the water and rescued the young man, bringing him back to safety and saving his life
However the Mother, though Relieved, sternly asked the lifeguard...WHY Did you take so long to save my son's life??

The Lifeguard replied, mam I had to wait til he stopped trying to save himself and lost all strength because If I didn't he would have drowned us both

....This World and it's vices have grabbed ahold of you and are sucking you under.....And your reaching and striving ...for anything to save you....but you've reached out for Meth, or "Bliss" or Jack Daniels...and now you've gotten to a point where you're having to lie and steal to get another fix,...take another drink.....and nothing will stop you........but YOUR DROWNING...The Flood waters are rising .....
Man, I've been there.....I know what it's like to "have to have something" take that edge off....you start with 6 pack a night or this pill or that pill ..."just to sleep" you say to justify, but then ..."it's not enough" ....so you bump up to something stronger....and it's stronger for sure...you can't remember how you made it to the bed the night before..."what did I do? ..your world spins....your soooo tired ..how can I make through work....."take this" it'll get ya through.....but it's sucking you under instead....cause you'll need more and something stronger ...and it cost you more than you can pay,how can I get to another high, how can I get to another drink?

Waves are crashing...your marriage is falling apart, your about to lose your job if you haven't already...you've alienated everyone who'd be there to help...you've betrayed their trust and lied to their face...FOR A HIGH...but have really hit an all time low, your anxiety level is off the charts..your heart races, your head pounds....your lost and dying and unable to save yourself.....

Where is HOPE?????

There's a lifeguard....He's standing on the shore...watching and waiting...other's On your behalf have beckoned him (a mom or grandma's prayers)
But You Have to Cry out ..."JESUS Save ME" ...

right now...as you read this, if this person is you....and you hear this and say "yeah but for real....what can I really do?"

Get off this computer...get onto your knees and humble yourself and acknowledge you need SAVING
Don't be proud, don't lie to yourself no more....Get Real.....Admit that You are that person drowning in the lake (of sin) and Jesus has come to You and is reaching down to where you are at...Take Hold of His Hand and NEVER LET GO and I promise you this He WILL NEVER LET GO OF YOU!!!!!

Are We Ready?? (Urgent)

2011-03-11T14:27:00.001-06:00

I know alot of us have heard ALL our lives that Jesus is Coming soon

but for the most part, that News... that Truth... has been akin to hearing Tornado's happen in Spring and it snows in the winter
But Peter warned that "In the Last Days mocker's would arise and the very thing they would be mocking is the message of Jesus Return"

2 Peter 3
knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming?

I have a friend and He studied Meteorology/Storm Chasing at the University of Oklahoma ...in Norman
I remember one particular day we were hanging out and that particular day was RIPE for a "Big one" and he was soooo ALERT, we were sitting "watch" ... then, suddenly ... while we were talking his countenance changed and He got all serious and said ..."LOOK, LOOK" and I was like "WHAT??" ..."what do you see, that I don't?" I mean it did look stormy ...but he saw something in the clouds that he recognized that caused his demeanor and voice to grow much more urgent... .."He saw the Wall Cloud and it's circulation..and then it happened... ..a Tornado dropped from the sky" He picked up a phone and reported it to a local weather station and then called friends in the path... URGENTLY

MY POINT??

Many Many Watchman are taking a serious and sober tone....WHY??? Something/Someone is getting ready to Drop from the Sky, Because Conditions are RIPE!!!!! "Wars and Rumor's of More War's, Men's Heart's failing them for Fear (terror), Earthquakes in Diverse Places (over 700 in Arkansas in the last 6 months alone), now today Japan 8.8, ...last year over 250,000 lost their lives in Haiti... Israel pressured on all sides to give up land settlements (Push for a temporary agreement)...Iran, Syria, Russia aligning, Global Economies on the Brink of economic collapse, gross darkness covering the earth (child pornography a billion dollar industry) Global Upheaval..."Day's of Rage" Riots across the globe, People demanding "answer's".... Jesus said "when You see all these things "LOOK LOOK" for Your redemption draws near"

WE are at a time in HIS-story, that is unlike any other... we are seeing soooo much come to pass at such an alarming rate... it should produce three things...REPENTANCE, INTERCESSION and AN URGENCY TO WARN

If you have things in your life that are distracting you from "watching and praying"...please take note

Luke 21

34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man

I believe Our Father is challenging us ...begging us, RIGHT NOW, lay aside every weight and hindrance"
and then "begin to cry out to the Lord on behalf of those He WILL Lay on our Heart"
and then realize He has assigned "us to warn" ... Don't pass the buck... If there's a tornado warning or a hurricane warning ...do we Trust the whole job Just to the weatherman?? Or the instant you hear news of a deadly storm, do you make sure your loved ones KNOW????

We can decide to be like the servant Jesus warned about...

Luke 12

45 But what if the servant thinks (says in his heart), My master wont be back for a while, and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? 46 The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful.

We might say I'm not getting drunking or beating anybody, BUT ARE We SAYING In our Heart, "My Master won't be back for awhile?" And just doing our own thing? Are we mocking the message by the way we live? No Urgency, no burden for our family or friends?
It seems clear our God is "shaking everything that can be shaking" trying to warn us...... Conditions are RIPE!! "Cry Loud and Spare Not!!" Write family member's and co-worker's and friend's a letter, send a tract, but be urgent ..

Romans 13:11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here.

In Christ

Michael Jordan, Miley Cyrus, People Mag and Jesus??

2011-02-16T12:00:00.000-06:00

Matthew 7:21-23

I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!

’It's so easy to be a "fan", I was a total "jock" and loved the Chicago Bulls during MJ's era ... I knew soooo much ABOUT Him, I could tell you his height, his college, his hometown, his birthdate, his stat's, bought his bumper sticker, his jersey

BUT, IF, I had walked up to him "in person" at anytime and said "hey mike, I'm your biggest "fan" ... He would have looked at me and said "hey, who are you?"

why? because I had never met Him in Person

there are many many people who are big big fan's of Jesus, they know alot ABOUT HIM, even use His name to make $$$$$$, sell books, t shirts, own website's In His Name

but IF they walked upto Him and said "Jesus I'm a big fan" ... He'd say "who are You?" we've never met

"stop, think" ... in this text, an ALL KNOWING" God says to someone "I never knew You"

are you sure He isn't talking about YOU!!!! are You a fan OR are you a follower? someone who has met Him, and intentionally chose to pick up your own cross and follow Him???

that is Jesus's altar call "Follow Me"

It's one thing to be a "broker" of His name and message, obviously Mathew 7 speaks of many who will have "brokered" his message but never really knew HIM

that is a scary thought

whether it's Michael Jordan to You or Miley Cyrus or some Celeb in People Mag, ... .you might know alot ABOUT them but do you REALLY Know them???

Jesus said this in John 17.."this is eternal Life that You may Know the Father and Jesus Christ ...His Son whom He sent"

but go back to Mathew 7, there will be many who will say to Him, "Lord, Lord, I did sooooooo much In your name"

WOW, think on that

and His answer to all that they had done???? "depart, I NEVER KNEW YOU"

It's not about position, title or name, it's about Who You are in HIM

"Stop and think and then TURN TO JESUS" and "cry out" Jesus ...here I am...KNOW ME...Search my heart and Know ME"

Right Now, you might be asking, How can I Know For sure that I have been born again, that I am saved? Can I have assurance?

GREAT NEWS, if You will "Call Upon Jesus, Believe in Your Heart That He is your Only Hope, admit that You are absolutely incapable of saving Yourself, and therefore turn completely to Him in Faith, Believing He is who He said He is...The Way, The Truth and the Life...IF You do that. You can Know that He has "Graced" You With Eternal Life

and earlier we saw that Eternal Life is "that they may Know the Father and Jesus Christ whom He sent" You can start from this moment in pursuing an growing that eternal relationship with the One Who Made You and Redeemed You and Has made You Brand New even Now

Follow Him, by reading His Word (The Bible), Seek Him ...in dedicated times Prayer, and Worship Him by living a life of obedience

In Christ,

SoundingtheAlarm

"Say it Louder Dad!"

2011-02-03T18:44:00.001-06:00

Last Night I was watching the news from Egypt and they were showing video of the throngs of people shouting in the streets and so I hit pause on my dvr and told my oldest son to come look

I then opened up my Bible to Isaiah 19 and had him read

Isaiah 19

1 A prophecy against Egypt:
See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,
and I will bring their plans to nothing;

My son's reaction shook me, he looked at me and said "Dad, are you warning enough?" I said "I'm trying son"....

He said "Dad, You gotta say it louder"

....Yesterday we had Winter STORM Warnings blaring and people heard and raced to the grocery store URGENTLY.....they were acting...responding to the message, buying up everything Because they had heard warnings of a coming storm

BUT THIS IS JUST A BLIZZARD, This is NOTHING compared to the The Storm that the Bible Warns that is Coming

We in America were devestated at the loss of over 3,000 people on 9-11-2001 but were apathetic at best that 230,000 people died in The Asian Pacific Tsunami or the 200,000 plus that died in the Earthquake in Haiti? IS that why so many seem deaf to the warnings the Bible trumpet?

Why are we not shocked AWAKE at hearing and knowing that someday

Evil angels will be released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15

that there will be a day when a hail storm begins to unleash boulders of ice upon neighbor's/friends/family

90-100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20

Stop and Think about that...PLEASE....take a moment to think of that scene just in your town or neighborhood!!!

we hear of earthquakes shaking nations and we watch Fox or CNN and are amazed at the damage but do we REALLY believe that THERE will be The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21

In the last few days ....Weatherman have been delivering Warnings all across America and Australia too

Storms are coming and People hear and choose to prepare OR many scoff and say "ahhh it aint going to be nothing"

those same naysayer's are the one's running to the store today, but the shelves are bare, the ice melt's gone...the shovels aren't on sale ...

many people procrastinated and are now stuck in circumstances they weren't prepared for....

But again those are just circumstances of dealing with a Blizzard

when it comes to the Storms of the Lord that are coming...YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO Procrastinate.....You can't afford to say..."ahhhh it aint going to be nothing"

You need to have the same urgent reaction as those who heard the weathermen and rushed to the store BEFORE...who bought up the Ice Melt ..who cabinets and fridges are full......

You Need to "Wake UP" Now and Believe all the Warnings that are blaring to "Make Ready"

Israel Reborn 1948, started the "Final Countdown" ....The Great Tribulation is known as Jacob's Trouble, a time when Israel will be surrounded on all sides by enemies seeking it's destruction, Global Economies on the brink of Collapse, Iran one Year away from Nuclear Capability, North Korea vs South Korea, India vs Pakistan...(rumors of War) ...Earthquakes ....Terrorism....Famine....."Yet Once More I will Shake Everything that Can be Shaken Our Lord Has Warned" "In the Last Days PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME"

Just as my son said to Me....."Say it Louder Dad"

In Psalms 9 we see a Prayer of a Righteous man asking the same thing

16 The LORD is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD, (SAY IT LOUDER DAD)
That the nations may know themselves to be but men.

I pray if your reading this message and your sensing a stirring in your heart...that "somethings Up".....that You need to "stop and think" and then ....Turn to Jesus Christ....He is Your ONLY Hope..Believe in Your Heart that He did die on a Cross, that He did it because of YOUR Sin, that three days later He Rose from the Dead proving He is who He said ...The King of All Kings and He's asking You to "Follow Him" all the days of Your Life in Unyielded Allegiance and He will Come and Receive You unto Himself ...... Escaping that which is coming to try the whole earth....THE STORM OF THE LORD

PLEASE PLEASE, Flee the Wrath (Storm) To Come!!!

Romans 13:11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here.

Stop and Think ....Some More

2011-01-26T11:33:00.003-06:00

Jesus the Lamb of God, came to this earth and took the Wrath of God upon Himself ...He was nailed to a Cross, FOR YOU, Because of You!!! He was wounded For OUR transgressions, He Was Bruised for Our Iniquities...He had Nails driven into His Feet and Hands.....WHY???? Because of Our Sins, our rebellious disobedience to the One who gave us Life....But If your reading this, IF YOU haven't realized your a criminal in God's World, that you've broken every law..that You are worthy of the Wrath of God ......You are in dire dire danger of facing all eternity seperated from all that is Good and Right...you will never again see anyone you love, you will never again Know Love, you will never again experience hope, you will never again know joy or happiness, you will never again have a choice....a choice that I now beg you to consider......Please Stop and think

You are headed for Your Day in Court....

The Judge is none other than the One of whom you committed all your crimes....

Stop and think about that, can you imagine standing in front of a Judge of Whom You were guilty of murdering His son???? Of trashing His House?? Well You are about to have that opportunity ..."it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgement"

I ask you now to consider ....what will you say? do you have a plan? have you even thought about it??

The Charges wrought against you...."for every idle word You will give an account"

You will see your life pass before your eyes and "all hidden things will be revealed"

all those things you didn't want "anyone to know"

Where is Hope? Let's go back to the Cross.....When Jesus was beaten and bruised, when those crown of Thorns was placed upon his head...when he was scourged ...39 lashes ...extracting flesh and bone.....He was doing that for YOU!!! He was Taking Your Place and He wants to take Your Place on Judgement Day too!!!!

He wants to Plead Your Case to Almighty God, HIS DAD!!!

He's Never Lost a case....in fact It was His Father who sent Him to die, "For God so loved this world (You and I) that He sent His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him shall NEVER perish but have everlasting Life, For God did Not send His Son into this world to Condemn but to Save"

Stop and Think, Time for YOU is running Out.....Your Trial Date is already on the docket....Have You secured Your defense??

Call upon Jesus Christ this very day..."whoever Calls upon the Name of Jesus SHALL BE SAVED"

tell Him "thank You" by living a life of surrendered discipleship ..following Him ...all the days of Your Life

In Christ,

Soundingthealarm

Take Shelter!

2011-01-13T20:16:00.001-06:00

I live in Tornado Alley, and those nights when the tornado warnings are popping up everywhere in every corner of my world, you can feel great anxiety, IT MAKES YOU RUN FOR SHELTER, but once you take cover...there's this great feeling and serenity and almost giddyness that takes place...KNOWING YOUR SAFE....but then You start to think ...what about those who don't have the same safe place to run too...and so I always start praying for People to find shelter from the coming storm

Then I take my cell phone out and call other's and warn them, seeing if they had been paying attention, do you realize what's coming??? Are you safe? Your just going to ride the storm out?? Please come on over ..there's plenty of room

RIGHT NOW, there are things headed towards you, things you can't see YET, but THEY ARE COMING...

The Storm Clouds are brewing and they are getting darker by the day and this Storm is OFF the Charts, IN FACT...the Bible says UNLESS the days were shortened..NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE

when I turn on my tv...and the Storm Warning has been Issued, there will be a scrolling message that tells me what to expect...

Strong Winds in excess of 100mph, golf ball sized hail, dangerous lightning

What can you expect?...what should be scrolling at the bottom of your monitor right now??

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

These are NOT great things to look forward too, and you can mock and scoff and say Like they did to NOAH when he warned of The Flood, OR you can TAKE SHELTER, You can acknowledge that you are in DANGER, that You are lost and far from home, that You have sinned against God, Your Creator, ....THEN WHAT??

realize that Jesus Christ, came to this earth, Died a gruesome and Cruel Death ...He took Your Place...He took the Wrath that You had coming...BUT then NOT ONLY DID HE DO THAT.....after his body sat lifeless for three days in a borrowed tomb, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE...PROVING that HE IS THE WAY ...HE IS THE TRUTH and HE IS THE LIFE!!!! HE is the Ark of Safety for what's coming...PLEASE BELIEVE UPON HIM and Put On the Lord Jesus Christ....Call Upon Him and Cry "JESUS FORGIVE ME AND SAVE ME"

Once you do that you too can KNOW the Peace of having found safety in the storm shelter..

Stop and Think....PLEASE

2010-12-29T00:17:00.000-06:00

Can you imagine life downtown New York right after 9-11-2001?? Well imagine that on a global scale. The violence..the rioting...the looting...the hatred..the thirst for revenge..the cries for hope...the mourning..the brutality..the FEAR! If you or your loved ones choose to reject the last hour call to repent...if you refuse to live for Christ now..while the Grace of God is pouring out His message of repentance ...if you can't live for him now..you will have no other choice than to die for him during this real soon coming period called THE TRIBULATION.

It will be a time we can call "the perfect storm". A combination of satan's fury and God's wrath coming at you and your loved ones with such ferocious intensity that the bible says men's hearts will fail them for fear. The bible also says that people will be so lacking of hope there will come a time they will actually seek death but find it not!

You say "man, you're fear mongering" ...'Your trying to scare people to accept Jesus Christ"

Repentance means to "stop and think" ....I'm just trying to get you to "stop and think"...life is moving so fast, it blinds us from what we need to "stop and think" about

biblical "stopping an thinking" will lead to acknowledgement that You OR someone your assigned to warn is in dire danger of "the wrath to come"

and STOP and think about that....

There is coming a TIME that a God who IS Love will be pushed to a brink or point in time that He makes a conscious and intentional choice to POUR OUT HIS WRATH

Do YOU want to be ONE who is responsible for that? Do You want to be ONE who is found worthy to receive His wrath???

Please, "STOP and THINK"

URGENT-WARNING!!!

2010-11-30T19:22:00.003-06:00

URGENT----WARNING!!!!

.....I know alot of us have heard ALL our lives that Jesus is Coming soon

But for the most part, that NEWS....that Truth... has been akin to hearing Tornado's happen in Spring and it snows in the winter

I have a friend and He studied Meteorology/Storm Chasing at the University of Oklahoma ...in Norman

I remember one particular day we were hanging out and that particular day was RIPE for a "Big one" and he was soooo ALERT

we were sitting "watch" ....then, suddenly ... while we were talking his countenance changed and He got all serious and said ..."LOOK, LOOK" and I was like "WHAT??" ..."what do you see, that I don't?" I mean it did look stormy ...but he saw something in the clouds that he recognized that caused his demeanor and voice to grow much more urgent......"He saw the Wall Cloud and it's circulation..and then it happened......a Tornado dropped from the sky" He picked up a phone and reported it to a local weather station and then called friends in the path....URGENTLY

MY POINT??

Many Many Watchman are taking a serious and sober tone.....WHY??? Something/Someone is getting ready to Drop from the Sky

Because Conditions are RIPE!!!!! "Wars and Rumor's of More War's, Men's Heart's failing them for Fear (terror), Earthquakes in Diverse Places (Tulsa,OK)..Israel pressure to give up land settlements (Push for a temporary agreement)...Iran, Syria, Russia aligning, Global Economies on the Brink, gross darkness covering the earth (child pornography a billion dollar industry)... Jesus said "when You see all these things "LOOK LOOK" for Your redemption draws near"

WE are at a time in HIS-story, that is unlike any other.....we are seeing soooo much come to pass at such an alarming rate....it should produce three things...REPENTANCE, INTERCESSION and AN URGENCY TO WARN

If you have things in your life that are distracting you from "watching and praying"....
Luke 21

34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

I challenge you, RIGHT NOW, lay aside every weight and hindrance"

and then "begin to cry out to the Lord on behalf of those He WILL Lay on Your Heart"

and then realize He has assigned YOU TO WARN ....Don't pass the buck....If there's a tornado warning or a hurricane warning ...do YOU Trust the whole job Just to the weatherman?? Or the instant you hear news of a deadly storm, DO YOU MAKE SURE your loved ones KNOW????

Or You can decide to be like the servant Jesus warned about...Luke 12

45 But what if the servant thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? 46 The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful.
You might say I'm not getting drunking or beating anybody, BUT ARE YOU SAYING In Your Heart, "My Master won't be back for awhile?"

THIS IS A WARNING....Conditions are RIPE!! "Cry Loud and Spare Not!!"

Romans 13:11

11 This is all the more urgent, for you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living. 13 Because we belong to the day, we must live decent lives for all to see. Don’t participate in the darkness of wild parties and drunkenness, or in sexual promiscuity and immoral living, or in quarreling and jealousy. 14 Instead, clothe yourself with the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t let yourself think about ways to indulge your evil desires.

In Christ,

Where are You God??

2010-10-29T09:42:00.000-05:00

A single mom looks at the bills stacked high and cries "Where are You God?" the weight of the world crushing down upon her

An abused "loner" teenager walks the school halls, the disgusted looks of his peers taunt him ...suicide beckons, but his heart cries "Where are You God?"

Three kids sit huddled on a living room floor, listening intently as their parents explain..."we love you kids, but mommy and daddy have decided to live in seperate places...we are getting divorced but we aren't divorcing you kids".....tears fall, hearts cry "Where are You God?"

The doctor walks in ....his countenance somber "the cancer's spread, it's in operable" upon hearing the news, a woman's heart begin's to break...."Oh God, Please Where are YOU?"

sitting at his desk, his instant messenger pops up ..."Please come to the boardroom"...closing the message out, his heart sink's......He's heard the rumor's...he's watched other's make the same walk

opening the door to the boardroom, his heart in his throat...."Harry, sit down.....we've taken every step we know to take ....but our budget's demanding cuts and as for right now, we are going to have to lay you off indefinitely"......Harry's whole life has been turned upside down...a 30 year employee....steps to the door of the building and walks outside...looks toward heaven...."NO GOD, NO...How can I ever make it....GOD WHERE ARE YOU?"

The Answer to this question is He's RIGHT THERE....He stands at the door of Your Life and so desperately wants You to Learn to Know He's going to see You through every step of the way of the current battle and storm. Don't Let the Storms blind You from the Promise that He gave us, THAT HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US NOR FORSAKE US!!!

If your that single mom and the bills are stacked high, You are NOT Drowning, it's an opportunity for You to come to know God as El Shaddi the God who is Your Sufficiency...He will show Up..He is Jehovah Jireh YOUR PROVIDER....He's heard Your Cries.....don't lose heart

If your that loner kid, walking the halls of your school and you are "feeling" that God's FAR AWAY....I've got some great great news,

The King of all Kings, has spoken of You ....He was speaking of You when You were being formed in Your Mother's womb .....that loneliness you are feeling is Him calling You to Himself, You see ...a "loner" is someone who has an awesome opportunity to take "time" and spend it with the Very One who Made it All. God is a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and He never betrays or backbites or forsakes....and He never grows weary in His Hearing.....TURN TO HIM....He's right there right Now...He's knocking on Your Heart ....Open up and pourt our all that hurt, all that rejection and be made whole in Jesus Name.....Life's Not about You, It's about something so much greater....it's About HIM!!! Seek the One who gave you Life, He has Not rejected You

If your the One who's crying out..."where are You God?" Because You've just received a bad bad "doctor's report"....I ask You like Isaiah ..."who's report are you going to believe?" Psalms says "many are the afflictions of the righteous, but He hears our cry and deliver's us from all our fears"

He's waiting to hear from You ..to Hear Your Cry...He will send His comforting Presence ....He's Right There....Seek HIM who is Able to Heal

You've just lost your job, the devil taunts ...pride screams.."I'm a failure, I'm going down, my life's over" but Jesus would say...."Oh Ye of little faith" not to belittle you but to remind You ..He's in the boat with You..."are you going to Trust me?" He ask "Have You forgot that I'm able to feed thousands with a few fish and bread?" "are you not of more value than a sparrow?" "do not worry" "FEAR NOT"

the family's dealing with brokenness and divorce, "God is calling YOU, to lay down your selfish stances ....Husband or Wife....forget the old girlfriend or boyfriend on facebook.... he or she's not worth it...see your kids hurt...see the pain that will come...see the devestation....Cry out to God...He's not wanting to give you an old somebody, He's wanting to Renew and Restore....Repent of your wandering eyes and divided hearts and Turn back to the One who Makes all things NEW!!!!"

Where is GOD???? He's knocking at the door of Your Life.....Open Up ...come out of hiding and answer Lord, "here I am" "heal me"..."heal my life, fogive Me...make all things New"

He is Able!!!!! And He's Willing, CRY OUT TO HIM and be ready and willing to obey

"Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face and things of earth will grow strangely dim in Light of His Glory and Grace"

"Tick, Tock"

2010-10-24T00:28:00.000-05:00

Each beat of the heart is like a clock counting down, it's beating for you but what's "the count?" could it be 1,000,000,000,000? or could it be alot lower for you than you currently think?

a good friend of mine just told me a story of how his friend's wife came to visit because her husband was going "bow hunting" or so he thought

his wife got a horrible horrible phone call, "mam, your husband's been in a wreck and has passed away"

he was driving out to the place he had so many "bow seasons"....but this time.....

a car rear ended him at a high rate of speed never hitting the breaks and pushed the man off a deep hill

I'm SURE that morning as he was getting ready his thoughts were not even that this was his last day

instead I reckon he was dreaming of the 10 point buck he hoped to see, in his mind he would have told you he had millions of heart beat's left, or at least hoped.... but in reality it was more like 10, 9, 8....

right now your heart's beating ...."what do you think your countdown number is?" "you know you have one right??"

If it were to hit ZERO .....Are You ready for what's NEXT?

what is next??? .....The Bible says we all have an appointment at the Judgement seat of Our Creator, "it's appointed unto man once to die then face judgement"

do you know what you will say?? have you even given it much thought?

The Number one selling book of all time tells us "today is the day of salvation" "now is the time for you to "stop and think".....

"but I don't believe in a god" you say

are you sure about that?? or are you lying to yourself? God's word says "a fool says in his heart that .."there is no god".....meaning it takes "lying to yourself" or working really hard to live like their is no god

BUT THERE IS A GOD!!!

Ya get up in the middle of night...You walk into Your Living Room....there is brand new furniture ...Tv, love seat, couch, end tables, carpet, paint ...all stylishly set in place..way beyond your skills

would it not be logical to ask "Who did this?" Did all that EVOLVE in the room?

So you start to inquire...Who Put this here?

And so should it be that each and every day as you wake up and see this world, the sunrise, the grass the trees ..the many many gazillion things that are lined up shouting to You that SOMEONE put all those things Here AND shouts for You to ask this following question

who Put You and I here?

2,000 years ago that questioned was answered LOUDLY......He came to this earth, He performed many many documented miracles.....He proclaimed that He would be killed and that He would prove that His message was authentic by rising from the grave

true to His word, He was arrested, sentenced to death.....Crucified.....put into a tomb, an armed guard stood graveside wanting to prevent what had been promised

YET, three days after His Crucifixion ......He Rose from the Grave

He was seen by over 500 witnesses ....most of whom gave their lives for their testimony of witnessing Him alive

now 2,000 years after that fact ...His Name is trumpeted throughout the earth as God Almighty and He is knocking on your heart this night......"tick, tock"....."tick tock"....the clock's ticking ....

as the commercial ask "what's your number?"

The God of all Creation ...who made heaven and earth and EVEN took "time" to make You .....is waiting for You to recognize Your Need for Him

Ya see, each and every beat of your heart is a gift.....Your Life is in His Hands.......

right now your heart's beating but again I ask you...."what do you think your countdown number is?" Don't assume any longer that you have more time than you might think....

I ask You to "stop and think" and then take another step....."BELIEVE" Upon the One who Died and Rose again and Cry Out to Him and ask for Him to "Save You" and "give You Eternal Life"

If your sincere, You will confess Your Faith Publicly and You will "turn from the path your on and turn toward a Life that Follows Jesus Christ and His commands and promises for You"

I pray You do so quickly .....cause the clock is ticking

Deadlier than West Nile, Swine Flu and Superbug Combined

2010-09-20T09:57:00.001-05:00

In Fact its the deadliest disease on record, the death rate is 100% and studies show, that all those alive have been infected, INCLUDING YOU....making it the most contagious plague in the history of the world
Scientist of the highest order have studied it in all it's forms, Pastor's, Priest, Psychologist too...all striving to undo it's terror.....but it's all been in vain
human efforts have failed and have rendered the whole world defenseless.....catastrophic consequences await

symptoms include

rage, lust (of the eyes and flesh), pathological lying, debt, over indulgence of all kinds, rebellion, drunkenness, gossip, slander, envy, jealousy, gluttony, selfishness, pride, covetousness, greed, .....

side affects

suicide, divorce, abortion, wars, murder, rape, incest, child abuse, school shootings, drive by shootings, car jackings, godless leaders, pornography, child pornography, kidnapping, drug abuse, dwi's, deadly car crashes, families destroyed, son's without father's, mother's without daughter's, runaways, sex traffic, hopelessness,despair

Where is HOPE from this deadliest of all plagues?

Good News!!!

Before You were even born, Jesus Christ ....came and took the rages and wages of this deadly sin upon Him,...he took it ALL and Died in our place....so we could have Eternal Life

He took our sin, and all it's deadly effects and exchanged His Beauty for Our Ashes

He Is the Great Physician, He is the Great Anti-biotic......He was Heaven Sent

"For God so Loved this world that He sent His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever Believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life"

Many will line up this "flu season".....trusting in a vaccine that's man-made. Hoping it will keep them from getting sick

I'm here asking you to please line up, and get your eternal vaccination while their is still time

Acknowlege You are In Need of this Vaccine, that your already sick, you show many many of the symptoms and have experienced the side effects.....Believe in your heart..that Jesus came, died on a cross and rose from the grave....and then confess that Belief with Your Mouth and YOU SHALL BE SAVED!!!!!

If You will call upon Him, He has promised to SAVE and RESCUE You from this horrible horrible disease that has infected the whole world
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Drowning?

2010-07-21T14:03:00.000-05:00

John 3:17 (New King James Version)
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

How could a loving God create a hell? If a loving God created mankind with a free will and choice....He also gave them the choice between life and death ..heaven or hell.

I have a son...I love him more than anything. I would NEVER want him to die...that's NOT my choice and I have rules set forth for his protection..he's not old enough to drive yet...but when the day does come that he can drive ..I will set forth boundaries ...and one most certainly would be to not drive around a hair pin curve at a high speed. Now if I ..the loving dad...buy my son a car...give him the keys and allow him the gift of driving a car but he disobeys.....driving his car 100 mph around a curve and dies.....is it my fault?

God didn't create man for hell...He created man for LIFE and that more abundantly....satan ...followed by man's rebellion created the need for hell. Man's choices created cemetaries....God created Adam and Eve to never die..but gave them the choice....eternal life or forbidden fruit...."the soul that sins shall die" ...but if you sin not ...you will live and never die...you know the rest of the story right? How we can we blame God for a destiny we choose?

Individual sins do NOT send us to Hell they lead us to death..."the soul that sins shall die" but REJECTION of Jesus Christ is what leads us to eternal damnation''

It's like this.......you are drowning in a huge body of water (your sins) and a helicopter comes out to where you are...a man jumps down and lifts you up into the helicopter....yet you choose to jump back into the water.

"While we all were yet lost in our sins (drowning) Christ had already died for us" to go to hell you have to "neglect such a great a salvation" You have to Reject Jesus Christ...BUT WHY WOULD YOU?

RIGHT NOW...someone is reading this who is drowning in sin and shame...your bound in addictions...alcohol, meth, coke, porn, lust or whatever it may be and those things are tearing your life apart...

I once heard a story of a young man who was surfing and fell off his surfboard and was overcome with the waves crashing down and began to drown

His mother was there as were his friends and began to scream for the lifeguards on duty....to please help save the young man

quickly a lifeguard ran to the edge of the shore and then stopped....watching the young man fight for his life...

The mom became livid and screamed "PLEASE" "HELP" "PLEASE" ...but still the lifeguard just stood there...watching UNTIL

...the young man's strength was gone.. and with one last gasp he screamed for HELP .and he began to go under

The Lifeguard dove into the water and rescued the young man

bringing him back to safety and saving his life

However the Mother, though Relieved, sternly asked the lifeguard...WHY Did you take so long to save my son's life??

The Lifeguard replied, mam I had to wait til he stopped trying to save himself and lost all strength because If I didn't he would have drowned us both

....This World and it's vices have grabbed ahold of you and are sucking you under.....And your reaching and striving ...for anything to save you....but you've reached out for Meth, or "Bliss" or Jack Daniels...and now you've gotten to a point where you're having to lie and steal to get another fix,...take another drink.....and nothing will stop you........but YOUR DROWNING...The Flood waters are rising .....

Man, I've been there.....I know what it's like to "have to have something" take that edge off....you start with 6 pack a night or this pill or that pill ..."just to sleep" you say to justify

but then ..."it's not enough" ....so you bump up to something stronger....and it's stronger for sure...

you can't remember how you made it to the bed the night before..."what did I do? ..your world spins....your soooo tired ..how can I make through work....."take this" it'll get ya through.....but it's sucking you under instead....cause you'll need more and something stronger ...and it cost you more than you can pay

how can I get to another high, how can I get to another drink?

Waves are crashing...your marriage is falling apart, your about to lose your job if you haven't already...you've alienated everyone who'd be there to help...you've betrayed their trust and lied to their face...FOR A HIGH...but have really hit an all time low

your anxiety level is off the charts..your heart races, your head pounds....your lost and dying and unable to save yourself.....

Where is HOPE?????

There's a lifeguard....He's standing on the shore...watching and waiting...other's ON YOUR BEHALF have beckoned him (a mom or grandma's prayers)

But YOU Have to Cry out ..."JESUS Save ME" ...

right now...as you read this, if this person is you....and you hear this and say "yeah but for real....what can I really do?"

Get off this computer...get onto your knees and humble yourself and acknowledge you need SAVING

Don't be proud, don't lie to yourself no more....Get Real.....ADMIT THAT YOU

you are that person drowning in the lake (of sin) and Jesus has come to You and is reaching down to where you are at...Take Hold of His Hand and NEVER LET GO and I promise you this He WILL NEVER LET GO OF YOU!!!!!

Death Row

2010-05-19T21:52:00.000-05:00

Did you know that you are on Death Row?

In Prison systems all across the globe, there are people who have been sentenced to DIE for the crimes they have committed and they have been stationed in an area called DEATH ROW

It's sure to be a very haunting place. Fellow criminals all having to count down their final years, months, days, weeks, hours and minutes..KNOWING there time is UP and they are going to be PUT TO DEATH

The Bible (The Word of God) tells us that "the person (the soul) that sins, MUST DIE"

but here's the kicker....sin's like a very deadly and contageous disease...it's genetic and has been passed down from generation to generation and before you were even born you were sure to catch it

and catch it YOU DID....from a very early age you showed the signs....the first few times your parents told you "not to do this or that" you "naturally" rebelled and "naturally" lied and tried to cover it up ..."shaking your head NO" when questioned if you had eaten the cookie or broke the light..it was natural to do wrong
no one had to teach you how to lie, but you did have to be taught to do right

The Fact is you were born into Sin and had already been SENTENCED to Death Row. Your life NOW shows all the symptoms...."broken hearted, perverse, corrupt, selfish, hateful, prideful, obese (glutton), drunkard, druggie, promiscous, liar, adulterer, thief, gossip, greed, envy, lust of all kinds...your messed up "BUT HEY, I'm no worse than anybody else"

But your no better either

Your on Death Row!!!

No matter what you try to do to stop it....DEATH is coming after you...It's already set an appointment for you!!!!

Again, The Bible tells us that it's APPOINTED unto all men to die

That's the Truth and That's Your Reality

However....there is some really great news ya gotta hear

You've got the deadliest disease ever known to man AND You are on Death ROW...BUT

There's this Man...He's the Greatest Physician/Scientiest and Person to Ever Live and Not ONLY has he Got the cure to the Disease you have...but He's also went to the Highest Court...The Supreme of All Supreme Courts and Has talked to the Judge and Has Already Made Arrangements to TAKE YOUR PLACE on DEATH ROW!!! In Fact...HE DID THIS BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN

JESUS CHRIST...The Great Physician has taken your SIN upon Himself and DIED in Your place....and then three days after being Pronounced Dead....He Rose from the Grave...rendering Your Death Sentence VOID

But You have to be WILLing to do something to make this apply to YOU.... You Must Believe that Jesus died, and rose from the Grave...You must ask Jesus to Forgive You for your crimes and You must Confess this publicly and pledge Your Allegiance to Follow Him

If you do that, You have been made WHOLE and RIGHT with THE SUPREME COURT and You are FREE TO GO into all the World and tell anyone and everyone what Jesus has done...and when you are done with THAT....When Death comes calling (your appointment remember?)...well guess what.....

For God so Loved the World that He sent His Only Begotten Son, that whoever Believes upon Him shall NOT Perish but will have ETERNAL LIFE!!!

Call Upon Jesus...and You will Be Saved!!!!

TAKE SHELTER

2010-03-24T15:12:00.000-05:00

I live in Tornado Alley, and those nights when the tornado warnings are popping up everywhere in every corner of my world, you can feel great anxiety, IT MAKES YOU RUN FOR SHELTER, but once you take cover...there's this great feeling and serenity and almost giddyness that takes place...KNOWING YOUR SAFE....but then You start to think ...what about those who don't have the same safe place to run too...and so I always start praying for People to find shelter from the coming storm

Then I take my cell phone out and call other's and warn them, seeing if they had been paying attention, do you realize what's coming??? Are you safe? Your just going to ride the storm out?? Please come on over ..there's plenty of room

RIGHT NOW, there are things headed towards you, things you can't see YET, but THEY ARE COMING...

The Storm Clouds are brewing and they are getting darker by the day and this Storm is OFF the Charts, IN FACT...the Bible says UNLESS the days were shortened..NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE

when I turn on my tv...and the Storm Warning has been Issued, there will be a scrolling message that tells me what to expect...

Strong Winds in excess of 100mph, golf ball sized hail, dangerous lightning

What can you expect?...what should be scrolling at the bottom of your monitor right now??

100 lb Hailstones Rev 16:16-20
The Great Earthquake leaving NO ISLANDS on earth
also, taking down every mountain on earth. Rev 16:17-21
1/3 of the Earth is burned up, 1/3 of trees, and all the grass Rev.8:7
1/3 of the Sea is turned into Blood Rev 8:8-9
The Abyss (bottomless pit) opens and locust-like scorpion creatures arise Rev 9:2-3
Evil angels released to kill 1/3 of mankind Rev 9:13-15
Painful sores break out on people that have taken the Mark of the Beast Rev16:2
The sun will scorch people with fire Rev 16:8-9

These are NOT great things to look forward too, and you can mock and scoff and say Like they did to NOAH when he warned of The Flood, OR you can TAKE SHELTER, You can acknowledge that you are in DANGER, that You are lost and far from home, that You have sinned against God, Your Creator, ....THEN WHAT??

realize that Jesus Christ, came to this earth, Died a gruesome and Cruel Death ...He took Your Place...He took the Wrath that You had coming...BUT then NOT ONLY DID HE DO THAT.....after his body sat lifeless for three days in a borrowed tomb, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE...PROVING that HE IS THE WAY ...HE IS THE TRUTH and HE IS THE LIFE!!!! HE is the Ark of Safety for what's coming...PLEASE BELIEVE UPON HIM and Put On the Lord Jesus Christ....Call Upon Him and Cry "JESUS FORGIVE ME AND SAVE ME"

Once you do that you too can KNOW the Peace of having found safety in the storm shelter..

As it was in the Days of Noah

2010-03-16T22:29:00.002-05:00

Mathew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

The people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah and his family entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all who rejected God's Mercy and did NOT get on the Ark...The Flood (God's Wrath) destroyed them all.

Noah sat quiety putting the finishing touches upon the ark...in just a short time he would be all done. He thought back to when the Lord told him to start this project so long ago. All day long everyday ..friends and neighbors would pass by and ask "Noah what is that thing?" ...each time Noah would stop everything he was doing and look them straight in the eye and reply "it's your salvation!" "Oh Noah...salvation from what?" "From yourselves and the wrath of God that your sins are bringing" They would mock and ridicule and leave Noah to his lunacy they would think...but Noah... day after day would turn all his attention to God's work...with each strike of the hammer or each layer of tar...he was "sealing" his neighbors fate. Noah would feel the desert wind dry the tears that were constantly falling down his cheeks. As he would intercede for his neighbors.

One morning the sky had a look Noah had never seen....a darkness in the distance was ominous ...an urgency hit Noah's soul...."good morning Noah" "Goodmorning....Please my friend...all these years you have been passing by not once have I ever begged you like this...but I am begging now..please please ...be prepared to come get on this boat" "Noah...you sure are passionate..I will give you that" "but I am busy" .....Noah franticly cries "oh God...what can I say?" "Noah ...your project looks done" "It IS..please ..come it is time...gather all your family and please come" "Noah I see no wheels? where is it that you think we will go once we were to get on your ship?" "Too Safety!" "Please hurry...go ..get your family and bring them so they might be saved" "maybe another day Noah..I'm busy"

"NOAH" ...."yes My Lord" "it's time...take your family and enter the ark" "but Lord won't there be others?" "I understand ...ok Lord".....Noah calls his family into the ark and the door begins to close. Noah knowing the terror of the Lord that awaits makes one LAST DESPERATE CALL "Please I BEG YOU...everybody...anybody...please come" but the noise of the world drowns him out....eating...drinking and being merry!

INSTANTLY ....Lightning flashes from the sky ......a sound not yet heard....THUNDER shakes the earth....."what is that?...what is coming from the sky? a man who passed Noah's work every single day of his life...LOOKS OVER AT HIS FINISHED ARK..... "TAKE COVER" OVER THERE........"NOAH ....PLEASE ...NOAH" thump thump thump "it's me your neighbor....nails scratching the door...mother's plea....SIR...my little girl..please.....Noah open the door. HELP US..PLEASE SAVE US NOAH.....Rain pelts the earth....Noah's tears soak his beard..."Oh Lord, I failed ..he cries....I preached so many years ..and they wouldn't hear"

NOAH ...please Noah ..."mommy I'm scared" "daddy save us" cries heard in desperation outside! Noah wasn't celebrating his own safety...he was mourning his neighbors outside....there were no "told you so" thoughts racing in his head....NO! his friends and neighbors ...were perishing without God!

****interjection for us believer's...let's camp out here....PLEASE take a moment and try and see that moment in time, Noah was no different than us...his neighbors were like our neighbors, his friends, like our friends...

Noah, sat in that ark and heard FAMILIAR voices Crying, You know he did, He heard them knocking and pleading NOAH LET ME IN!!!!! Think right now of that friend or neighbor who you know that you know ...that doesn't Know JESUS....see them in the midst of the most trying time ever...see them huddled around the tv ..when THE GREAT TRIBULATION has started...see them crying out....WHY DIDN'T I LISTEN

I pray anyone who visits this website and you think you have time to repent..remember the days of Noah! Think how each soul must have felt standing outside looking at a door that they had passed by and taken for granted so many times...NEVER BELIEVING it would Close! Think of those people who passed by each day a structure that represented their very salvation to only turn a blind eye and a deaf ear....can you see them...."He's a right wing nut...has he every preached at you?" "oh yea...everytime I pass by he tells me to prepare to get on the ark...besides I think he's a hypocrite..I saw him drinking a glass of wine once or twice".."well It might be ok for him..but that would never be my thing..besides if God is such a loving God he wouldn't do what Noah says he is going to do...I could never serve a god like that!" "there is alots of ways to god..who says you need to be on that thing anyway?" "that's narrow minded don't you think? judgemental huh! Holier than thou for sure!"

"Now get a picture of ALL those people who passed Noah by...can you imagine their cry at the first drop of rain?...The Panic...the desperation...children crying and screaming "SAVE US...Oh please save us...BUT IT WAS TOO Late!....This website is dedicated to warning all who will listen ...GET ON THE END TIME ARK....CRY OUT TO JESUS CHRIST THAT YOU SHALL BE SAVED!

You parents who neglect to teach your children about salvation .....think of those parents who had to watch their children drown......you might be saying ...Aren't you being a little Melodramatic......sir or mam...I can't be melodramatic enough to warn you of the Wrath that is to come....Please ...NOW is the time..Today is the Day of Salvation.....Get on our Ark! Put On the Lord Jesus Christ ...while there is still time!

Thousands of lives, ended in The Flood, why????? They Had Heard Noah's message but.......when the rain came (God's Wrath)
They were NOT READY!!!

****For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. Our Father is NOT willing that any should Perish, He's waiting for You to Put On the Lord Jesus Christ and Be Saved.....Please Flee the Wrath to Come!!!

Storm Warning and a Picnic??

2010-03-03T10:23:00.000-06:00

Last night I was getting ready to hit the hay and had prayed and was more than ready to crash but flipped on the tv to catch the news

flipping the channel Hal Lindsey was on

and as he was going through the litany of warning signs ...it hit me and not to criticize his ministry in the least (thank God for him) but....

How can He and WE be hearing and seeing the signs that are BLARING loud and clear to "Look Up Your Redeemer draws Near"

not be desperate in brokenness to reach those who are perilously close to facing a time of STORMS that will make Haiti look common place, that will render The Asian Tsunam that killed 230,000 people, i a distant memory, that will forever erase 9/11 and Katrina from our focus....a time that unless God shortened the days NO FLESH WILL SURVIVE

Plagues that will wipe out 1/4 of mankind, Nuclear Holocaust, Human cruelty that will defy description, Hail stones stated to weigh a 100lb pounds crashing upon the homes and lives of neighbors, co-worker's, FAMILY MEMBERS who have NOT HEARD the Warnings!!!

So many pulpits are tickling ears at a time Pastor's should be in the deepest travail ...crying out for people to "make ready"

to me it would be like someone watching the News and hearing an F5 Tornado or Hurricane or Volcano or Earthquake was getting ready to happen but instead of crying out ..they are planning a picnic

Seriously ...get a picture of that..You are sitting in your house, The TV Blares...SEVERE WEATHER REPORT....A TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR YOUR COUNTY.....but at the same time your getting a call from a local pastor or church member who's getting ready to have a picnic

Please hear the heart of this message...it's NOT to condemn or point fingers!!!! but to stir an Urgeny to sound the alarm to your friends and family while their is still TIME

in 2 Peter 3....Peter said through divine inspiration that in the last days.."Scoffer's would arise saying "Where is the promise of His coming?"

If we are not preparing with the greatest of Urgency ...are we not saying in our own hearts..."where is the promise of His coming?"

Are we living today "in light of Eternity" or in our hearts are we "scoffing?"

I'm praying myself for God to season me with His brokenness...and you too!

it's hard on me because my nature is to never offend anyone ..I want to be liked but I'm having to crucify that and the URGENCY I feel makes me ashamed that I allow my fear of men to keep me from sharing what I feel is laid on my heart to share

I pray that as God opened the eyes of the Prophet to see their were MORE for them than against them...He would open our eyes to the Urgency of this hour...KNOWING His coming is even at the door

Noah was mocked and ridiculed ..YOU KNOW HE WAS

and as it was in the Days of Noah so shall it be

People were eating and drinking (picnics) and giving in marriage..but Noah was GIVING THEM AN F5 Flood Warning...They Listened NOT ...TIL IT STARTED TO RAIN ...but then it was too late!!!

God Have Mercy..."help us to see and understand"

How Can You Know Jesus Really is God?

2010-02-16T21:25:00.000-06:00

HOW CAN YOU KNOW JESUS REALLY IS GOD???

Unbeliever..

there have been many people who have claimed to be a god and many who claimed they were this or they were that but there Has ONLY BEEN ONE ...that has ever PROVED He was and Is GOD

and of course...That would be Jesus

but let's start with this

Ya get up in the middle of night...You walk into Your Living Room....there is brand new furniture ...Tv, love seat, couch, end tables, carpet, paint ...all stylishly set in place..way beyond your skills

would it not be logical to ask "Who did this?" Did all that EVOLVE in the room?

So you start to inquire...Who Put this here?

And so should it be that each and every day as you wake up and see this world, the sunrise, the grass the trees ..the many many gazillion things that are lined up shouting to You that SOMEONE put all those things Here AND shouts for You to ask this following question

who Put You and I here?

If you honestly ask that question? It will lead to want to Know The Answer

Jesus came to this earth ...born of a virgin...lived a sinless life ....peformed many many documented miracles....and testified to all who would Listen that He was and Is and Is to come..that He is The Way, The Truth and the Life and said listen to this...to prove or authenticate my message to You Unbeliever and all the World...

I will take the Sins of all mankind upon Me...You will kill me BUT three days later I will be Alive Again and He that Believes upon Me will NEVER Perish but live eternally

And that's exactly what happened...2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ was Hung on a Cross for the Sins of the Whole World, It was a brutal event and one of great documentation, But NOT Only did Jesus Christ die, He did something ELSE...

While an armed guard stood watch over his gravesite...Jesus walked out of that guarded area three days later, JUST AS HE SAID HE WOULD and that empty tomb shouts a message for the whole world to hear...JESUS IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF ALL KINGS AND HE IS YOUR CREATOR

So there you have it Unbeliever...a very simple message..I could sit here and debate for hours but It all boils down to this....You are Alive!!! and Your life is a gift that was given to You by a Loving Creator...Who made you to wake up and ask "who put me Here? then through seeking to find the Answer You would realize that His Name is JESUS....all of Creation and an Empty Tomb Testify He is GOD"

Unbeliever, I pray you Hear these words and Believe them and I pray you take the next step....the Bible says If You believe in Your Heart that Jesus Christ died and then three days later rose from the Grave and You confess that Faith out loud to someone ..anyone ...You will be SAVED!" WILL YOU????

Without Warning!

2010-02-09T20:57:00.000-06:00

In the Last few years, we all have witnessed events of human tragedy and devestation that have come with little or no warning

On Sept 11, 2001....

People went about their daily lives just like any other day, but then suddenly "without warning" The First Jet Crashed into one of the Twin Towers

shockwaves were sent across the globe as we watched in horror as thousands died

Then came an event that many had never even heard of "a TSunami?" "what's that ...a type of Pizza?"

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.[3][4] The resulting tsunami itself is given various names, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Asian Tsunami, Indonesian Tsunami, and Boxing Day Tsunami.

The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean,[b] killing nearly 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were the hardest hit.

With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.4 inches)[5] and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.[6]

The plight of the many affected people and countries prompted a widespread humanitarian response. In all, the worldwide community donated more than $7 billion (2004 U.S. dollars) in humanitarian aid.

Then not near as large in it's scope came the Hurricanes of the Gulf, most notable...Hurricane Katrina

Though there was warnings blared preceeding this event..there were thousands who decided to "take on the storm" and found themselves at loss

most recently...The People of Haiti ..dealing with the daily human struggle ...found themselves in one of the worst earthquakes in modern history...WITHOUT WARNING!!!

The Word of God says "it's appointed unto man once to die and THEN Judgement"

In just four examples listed above....hundreds of thousands of people were going through their daily routines...when suddenly "their appointed TIME" came ....most with little or NO warning

You might be here reading and have this mindset THAT YOU are immune...that you are invincible...But YOU ARE NOT!!!

You might say, I'm a fear mongerer ...trying to manipulate you by fear.....

Nah, I'm just trying to make sure that when Your "appointed time" comes...It hasn't been "without warning"

My God, has put on my heart to warn you to "Flee the Wrath" to come, He's not willing that any should perish, He's offering You a way of escape....Before you were even born, while You have Yet been living as if there is No God and there is No Judgement Day....He has already sent His Son Jesus Christ to Die in Your Place

Please Hear, Please Believe....their is an EMPTY TOMB that Shouts to the Whole World That HE IS ALIVE!!!!

Call Upon Jesus while You still have TIME!!!

2010-02-08T20:30:00.001-06:00

Flee the Wrath to Come

2010-02-08T20:16:00.001-06:00

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LAKE OF FIRE YOUR FUTURE HOME?

2010-02-08T20:05:00.000-06:00