God is in control

God is in control. Even if it seems no one is in control.      

2 X 4 version of "The Harvest"

2 X 4 Version: (You know the piece of wood)

       Hey! The end is near, the harvest is at our door. It's time to stop selling the bill of goods that life is easier if you pray a prayer and accept Jesus in your heart.
       If you've been a Christian for very long you know that's crap. If its not crap you're not doing it right and you may not be a christian.
       Jesus is coming back for a really really good looking bride and we are not there yet! Stuff will happen to get us there.
       So, the plan of salvation is still the same. But lets present the wedding vows instead so people know what they are getting into. The better for worse, richer for poorer, sickness and health is here.                  
                                     But, the bridegroom is to die for!!!!!!

The more tactful version will be out soon.

Jackie Proverb 1:1

Woe to the fool who rips-off the righteous man

who trusts the Lord with his finances.

For GOD ALMIGHTY

is his advisor, accountant, enforcer and collector.

And truely, the fool rips-off

GOD.

ON CALL

     Ever have a job where you were on call? You have the day off, but know that at any moment you can be called out to work. Well, It doesn't take to many calls, on your day off, to learn a few lessons.
      If you're really good and responsible you answer the phone. You respect the position, the responsibility, the job, your authority. The little voice inside you tells you, it's just the right thing to do. Answer the Call.
     Next, is that you don't hold tight to plans. You know up front, that whatever the plans, they may not happen the way you want. And you let everyone involved know that things could change at any moment.
      Then, you don't put things off. You know your suppose to be off all day or even all weekend. You learn if there is something you really want to do or have done, you do it ASAP. Why? Because you're not guaranteed tomorrow or today even. So you make sure you use the time you have right now.
      Then finally, You prepare for anything. You prepare to be off, you prepare to go in. But you are ready for anything. Your plans are made if you stay. Your stuff is ready if you have to leave in a moments notice. You are prepared.
     That's how it is to be in our christian walk. We are on call, 24/7. Step up and answer the call. We hold to this life and it's stuff loosely and we take advantage of the NOW time we are given. All of this life will be shaken. And we are not promised tomorrow, but only today. Whatever needs to be done here, do it today. Prepare for anything.

To Sin or Not to Sin

Nothing WE can do

can make God love us more

or less

 

 

But it does effect

*Our fellowship with God

*The way God can use us

*Our position in the Kingdom

AND

*Our Rewards

 

 

 

For those of us who weigh out the pleasures with the consequences...

Is it really worth it?

 

 



Getting rid of the Darkness

Don't stare into the darkness
expecting Light to originate from it.

Light must be taken into the darkness
 to dispel it.

 

Let Your Light so Shine 

 

...be strong and courageous!

Do not be afraid or discouraged.

For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9

Preach, Teach, Speak - PRAY

 

 

 

  

Preach, Teach, Speak

 

as one who will release your  hearers

into the hands of the enemy - to fight to the death.

 

Pray they return

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRANSITIONS OF GOD

 

          All through Gods history there are, what I call, "transitions". We too, are about to face a transition of God. The spiritual atmosphere in the world is about to change. God is about to do supernatural things. Many, who have God in a box, will say "this is not God" and they will fight God and they will lead others to fight God. There will be a “Great falling away”. Preachers will still preach to tickle the ears of the listener, only saying that which will make them comfortable. I am saying to you it is time to think for yourself, chose for yourself – not comfort – but a relationship with God. Where ever He leads. Be ready, be vigilant, for the time is at hand - The voice of one crying in the wilderness - Prepare ye the way of the Lord!!

My whole thought in this matter rests mostly on these two verses.

Transitions of God –
For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways my ways,
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are my ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Is. 55:9)

 Arrogance of man –

...do not lean on your own understanding… (Prov. 3:5)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and do not lean on your own understanding,

in all your ways acknowledge Him

and He will direct your paths. (Prov. 5-6)

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 Transition I– The big one- In the beginning

                            Spiritual and physical rules established

 Transition II – Out of Eden– Man disobeys

                           Spiritual and physical rules change 

Transition III– Noah –

                           Physical rules change 

Transition IV – The Old Covenant –

                         “The law of the spirit” 

Transition V– The New Covenant-

                             “The spirit of the law”  

Transition VI – The Tribulation – 

Transition VII- The Thousand Year Reign – 

Transition VIII- Eternity- Heaven & Hell

 

(There are many other singular moments when God has moved and temporarily changed some spiritual or physical law. The transitions above are some of the bigger, more permanent transitions.)

What are they?

            God has a plan to bring man into relationship with Him. He has chosen to implement His plan in stages. Transitions happen when God moves from one stage of His plan to another stage. To make these transitions, spiritual and physical rules that were in place no longer apply or are changed in some way. In the process of the transition the rules usually change quickly but can change more slowly. The things that are now, become void, different, or unrecognizable. The old is thrown out and replaced with the new. God does supernatural things during a transition.

            We must always be aware of God and His timing. What He is doing right now and how we must represent Him in the present stage of His plan. It would not have been good for John the Baptist to say of Jesus, “Behold the King.” Even though Jesus is king that was not the time to be recognized as king. The people first needed a savior. He was in step with the transition of God, God’s plan, God’s voice and His roll in it all. John then correctly proclaimed, “Behold the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world.” 

            An easy example was when transition IV was taking place God set up the Old Testament Law and the sacrificial system. This meant men must sacrifice a lamb (or some other animal) to have a relationship with God. The blood was shed, but animal blood didn’t take away sin, it only covered it for one year.

            When the Spirit and the New Covenant (Transition V) was made through Jesus, Men could no longer kill a lamb through the sacrificial system to have a relationship with God, now they must accept the blood of Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice for them. This is a superior system. The blood of Jesus does not cover sin, but removes it completely. And to seal the deal the gift of the Holy Spirit is given as the believers guide through life.

 The problem with every transition is the arrogance of man.

Arrogance of man

  Arrogance of man is when man relies on their own ways, thoughts and understanding and he is not sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit. God has given us mysteries, clues, and information about events to come. It is arrogance when we take that information and make assumptions into what we think God is doing or what He is going to do or when we try to give answers where God has not given all the information. We try to fill in the gaps, connect the dots, or make the puzzle pieces fit together, even if they don’t fit just right. All people do this. Let’s say God gives us a clear fact at point A and a clear fact at point C. We, by nature, want to know point B. We want to know what it will look like, taste like, and feel like. It is human nature. When Jesus came the first time many people, were fighting against the very God they said they were serving. They weren’t ready for God’s transition. They had taught and heard all about the coming of the messiah. How He would come and what He would do. But they could never even imagine the way, the thoughts or plans of God. The POINT A they was given was He is coming. The POINT C was He would be King. They could never have imagined that Gods plan would take them on a rollercoaster journey of 2,000+ years. (I do realize I am over simplifying this, but that is what I wish to accomplish in making it clear.) They thought Messiah would come (Point A) and immediately establish His Kingdom (Thinking that this was it, Point B). But Gods plan was much more gracious and clearly above our clearance and pay grade. He desired to include the whole world in His plan, even the gentiles. Because they formulated POINT B in their minds they found themselves on the wrong side of God and what his plan was AT THE MOMENT. Paul and the Pharisees are a few who thought they knew God, knew His ways, His thoughts, His plans. Even the disciples missed it, for the most part, until the Holy Spirit came.

God purposefully doesn’t give us point B.

Point B is the relationship maker.

From point A to C, God wants us to trust Him, look to Him, and walk with Him. He does not want us to trust on ourselves, our intellect, or our logic.

In my searching for the rapture time table, my concern stopped being when the rapture would occur, but more towards what will happen to the church if they expected the rapture to occur and yet found themselves in the middle of the most terrible time the earth has ever known. What will they feel and think? Will they blame God or turn away from Him? Could this be…The Great falling away? There are many opinions on when the rapture will occur. How we handle these (Point B) ways and thoughts of God, could result in huge consequences.

I heard a sermon on the end times yesterday. This pastor was telling of all the events that would come during the tribulation. He ended his sermon with, “I do not need to fear, because I do not plan on being here.” That is the problem I have. Our people plan on everything. We have insurance on all the things we own, our house, cars, boats ect. In all of this we pray we won’t need it, but just in case, we are ready.  In our attempts to bring comfort to the church or for whatever reasons we teach these theories, it may be the very reason many will fall from the faith. If we still teach and preach, refusing to even share the other possibilities to our people, we may be the stumbling block keeping them from Point B, the relationship maker. Tell me what harm they would receive if they prepared to go through the tribulation? They would make themselves stronger in the Lord. Learn to overcome the fear of the future. They will learn to listen to the Spirit and become more Godly. Otherwise, they may find themselves enrolled in the crash course. We should allow the church to hear for themselves on the facts of points A and C. They will then walk out point B by listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit. They must be told that they might not be raptured out of the tribulation. This way they can prepare to follow Jesus wherever he leads, even death, and to count the cost.

We know the end is upon us. We must teach the sheep to go on with only the "Good Shepherd", trusting in His thoughts and ways and not arrogantly marching to the intellect of men. Teaching them to allow the question marks of Point B. Why? Because God thought it was good and that this is His way to a relationship. I believe, the not knowing, the listening, the searching, the trusting, the obeying, the following, is the way to walk this journey with God. I don’t know where He will lead me or what the circumstances I might find myself.  As long as He and I go there together nothing else really matters.

To be like God without God

 

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:9

 The lie that started in the garden, was that we can be like God without God. (The Harvest: Rick Joyner)

"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death." Proverbs 14:12  

When Satan tempted Eve it was an offer she couldn't refuse. It sounded good and religious, "to be like God." But that is the way of Satan. He takes some thread of truth and twists it with a lie. It is a present full of distruction wrapped in a pretty bow of truth. Certainly we want to be like God. But the way to God and Godliness is never through the ways of the enemy. The way to be "like God" is only found through the ways of God. 

In the last days men will be holding to a "form of godliness"  - 2 Timothy 3:5