Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Sons of God!! 5/20/13
Heb 12:7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
The word discipline carries so many different connotations. Today I want to talk about discipline as in getting your priorities in line with the way Christ does things. In life we have many long times where we feel like we are in the dessert. I think this time is for God to trim things off of us and get us focused on exactly what we are to be doing. The time of discipline is many times a pruning that we hate and it hurts us so much. Our emotions run the gambit of why is it happening, I found that the season is going to last until we get quiet before the Lord and ask Him what He is trying to tell us.That doesn't mean the season is over it just means that we now know why we are going through it.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Faith pleases God
Hebrews 11:6 And 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 seek Him.
Faith and grace have always gone together. They coexist in the same area of time and space. Why you may ask, because we have to have faith that the blood of Christ and His grace upon us allows us to go before the Throne of God in prayer. The law has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, it has done it's part pointing to the only one who can save us. But we many times place the law upon ourselves and others to why we have not received something from God. We hold up the reasons that God cannot reward our faith because we have unaccomplished things and un submitted areas before God. We look harder at those areas than at the rewarder of those who seek Him. I am doing that right now in my life, not looking to God to help me but going through all the reasons in my heart why He should not. That is not a good place to be because it causes us to worry away our prayers. I am making a decision to seek God and believe that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. No one is perfect and God doesn't reward us for doing everything right. Grace fills that gap and opens the way for us to receive a reward from the Father. That doesn't give us the right to make grace cheap and just do whatever we want, but it does free those who are walking with God to live this thing out.
Faith and grace have always gone together. They coexist in the same area of time and space. Why you may ask, because we have to have faith that the blood of Christ and His grace upon us allows us to go before the Throne of God in prayer. The law has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus, it has done it's part pointing to the only one who can save us. But we many times place the law upon ourselves and others to why we have not received something from God. We hold up the reasons that God cannot reward our faith because we have unaccomplished things and un submitted areas before God. We look harder at those areas than at the rewarder of those who seek Him. I am doing that right now in my life, not looking to God to help me but going through all the reasons in my heart why He should not. That is not a good place to be because it causes us to worry away our prayers. I am making a decision to seek God and believe that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. No one is perfect and God doesn't reward us for doing everything right. Grace fills that gap and opens the way for us to receive a reward from the Father. That doesn't give us the right to make grace cheap and just do whatever we want, but it does free those who are walking with God to live this thing out.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Ephesians 6 18-19
Eph 6:18-19 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
It has been a couple of months since I have blogged and the frequency is about to change.
When you hear about the amour of God the teaching usually stops at the sword of the Spirit. I wonder what would happen if we went a little deeper and grabbed a hold of the next two verses. To pray without stopping in the Spirit not for yourself but for all of the saints. That they would be protected and preserver. Not for ourselves but others this is warfare ie. battle armor. Then we are to pray that each other has boldness to preach the gospel to those who do not know Him. You see we need to remove the enemies powerbase by taking those he controls away from Him. Jesus says seek ye first my Kingdom and righteousness and then all of the things will be added unto you. We need to be prayers and proclaimers to really effect the world for Christ.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Plower for Christ: Word for the Church 2-21-2013
Plower for Christ: Word for the Church 2-21-2013: Yesterday was my daughters 6 th birthday and the ten year anniversary of the Warwick, RI night club fire. This is significant because I w...
Word for the Church 2-21-2013
Yesterday was my daughters 6th birthday and the
ten year anniversary of the Warwick, RI night club fire. This is significant
because I was there for the concert not serving God. I could have been among
the 100 who died if I had not listened to what then I called my gut, now I know
it was the Holy Spirit leaving at 7:30. Thank you Lord for your grace in all
things!
On Monday the Lord directed me to Nehemiah 5, here it talks
about the Jews were putting each other in financial slavery. It also has a
section where Nehemiah asks the Lord to remember that he did not use the money
the king provided to him as governor for himself. This stipend would have come
from the people to pay and they were already taxed to the extreme. In Nehemiah 5:15-16 we see why he did not
take it.
15 But
the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people
and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their
assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did
not act like that. 16 Instead, I devoted myself to the work on
this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we did not acquire any
land.[1]
I hear the Lord saying
to you. Get ready I am about to provide for you and deliver you. The rains come
on the just and the unjust and so should not droughts come also on the just and
the unjust. I am a righteous overseer and your lack has pushed you closer to me
and destroyed so many things between us. Many of you have felt My power
starting to surge in you again and it is going to grow. In times of drought things
perish and it has nothing to do with what you have or have not done. BUT as my
children I feed you and take care of you, My love is great and I am about to
deliver and bless you greatly. Stand firm in that.
The season of blessing
that is coming comes for a purpose and I want you to be ready and prepared. DO
not spend it frivolously. Spend it on my kingdom pursuits. Keep my missionaries
in the field and honor your pledges to them. Do not spend it on comforts or
like an empty barrel you go to for water that has a hole and lets the water
out, comforts are the whole in your barrel. Entertainment has become an idol to
so many, be very careful because at night you sit on your couches watching TV
and believe you are resting, you are not. Real rest comes in sitting in my
presence doing My Will. The enemy of
your soul works to destroy you and is prowling around you. In this next season
there is a prayer wall that needs to go up and I need you to work on it. I am
calling the church to a place of separation from the things of this world that
entertains and comforts you and for you to push into my kingdom taking your
place on the wall. There is an economic collapse coming to America and many
parts of the world and you need to prepare yourselves spiritually and
naturally. Store up grain as my servant Joseph did to have ready. It is not for
you but for those who will come in begging to have some. Just like the kingdoms
around Egypt came and begged for grain so will the world come to the church for
help and answers. It will be the greatest harvest of souls the American church
has ever seen, and the workers who are there now need to be prepared. Stockpile
food and water, find ways to grow your own vegetables and can them. This
generation has lost the importance of saving the harvest for the winter months.
And this time of economic collapse will be just like a long cold hard winter.
Will your storage areas be full and will you be prepared to help so many who
will be in need. You must rise up and be generous in that hour for it will be
the greatest hour the American church has ever seen. My Spirit will be drawing
people to myself. After this time I will
then send those who have been raised up to be a great army to spread My word
around the world in preparation for My return. I come quickly are you ready? Are
your lamps full of oil and do you have extra? Do the things you do have a
eternal value if not cut them from your lives and only focus on those things
with eternal value.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Prayer Colossians 1:9-12
During the last few years I have found great fruit in praying the scripture over people and situations. In this season of my life it is becoming a major part of my life. So many times as pastors praying over our congrgations can be so daunting. In scripture you can find a well of help overflowing if you look and drink deeply from it. This section of verses are apart of that they really speak the power of Christ over every situation that any one of us can have. Take the time to read them and start to pray them over those in your life and circle of influence.
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously
12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Prepare Yourself
The Lord has been speaking to me about stepping out and blogging prophetic words at times so here we go.
Word from the Lord:
It has been a long hard season where you have not seen a lot of deliverance. But you have been faithful to keep going ahead. Prepare yourselves for the Lord's deliverance. HE is moving His sovereign hand . You will see with your natural eyes what HE has been preparing for you in the supernatural. Prepare yourself and pray that you spend the provision He gives you on what it is sent for.
It has been a long hard season where you have not seen a lot of deliverance. But you have been faithful to keep going ahead. Prepare yourselves for the Lord's deliverance. HE is moving His sovereign hand . You will see with your natural eyes what HE has been preparing for you in the supernatural. Prepare yourself and pray that you spend the provision He gives you on what it is sent for.
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