Holiness

Seeking to be holy should be every Christians aim. Being obedient to the Lords voice, commands and leadings helps to carry us into the closeness of God.

It is commanded of us to seek holiness.

Hebrews 12:14

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

But, how ready are Christians to look deep within, for that matter, look on the surface, of their lives. At times, I can not tell the difference between a secular person and one whom calls themselves a Christian.

Pride, judgement, disrespect all flourish in the Christian community. My heart is saddened by the state of our churches and its people. Holiness is not found through a church nor through continued sinful behavior. Do we not know the toll for throwing our deliberate sin in the face of an almighty God. Then, as if we are free of sin, we judge, correct or disrespect others.

1 Corinthians 10:9-13

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Time is short. I, in obedience, will soon be leaving the city and doing what I see my Father do. My husband and I have brought our land into covenant with Israel, we will, no matter what, not turn our hearts from Israel. In this new place, away from the darkness of the city, I hope to grow in my holiness with the Lord.

Dear reader, I am weary from watching the walk of deliberate sin, pride and judgement. I pray that you will find those things in your life that would keep you from the threshold of Heaven and find a holy walk.

Weird

As Christians, we all know that "everything is possible through God".

Mark 10:27 Looking at them, Jesus said, " With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God".

I have seen and heard a lot of strange things through Christ. I am no longer surprise nor bewildered by the unveiling of the unknown by God. And yet, last night, I became a bit surprised and bewildered.

My home church met last night. We have been watching a film of prophets speaking over our city. One of them is Dutch Sheets, a remarkable man of God, whom I respect and love to hear speak.

First, I was taken into a vision during our worship time. In the vision, I was running away from people and into an unknown place. I was not running from people out of fear, it was just the way I was headed.

While running, I turned back towards the people I was running away from and waved goodbye. My face was full of joy. But, in the natural, while watching this vision, I felt alone, depressed and sad.

Then I heard the voice of God. He said, "You will come to me alone."..

I have no idea what this means nor the importance of it. I assume that all will be revealed in God's timing.

Then during the film....weird happened.

Dutch Sheets began to speak in tongues. I recognized the tongue has my own. Now, I have communicated spirit to spirit in the past. "Spirit to Spirit Communication" This communication between myself and another, was spoke in tongues, but in our own tongue. Neither myself nor the other participant, knew what one another was saying.

When I hear Dutch Sheets it was not only the same language I speak in, but I understood everything he said. While listening I would have a feeling well up in mean and an understanding come over me. I was awed.

The first words that came from his mouth were the same words I start with and in the natural they are...Glorious Yahweh. Praise be to God the almighty one.

He spoke...Yours ears, I feel your ears.
Rain of blood has fallen, but you be restored.

Then there was another praise....I have found you God my strength. You cradle my head and breathe on me then I feel life. A light that I have followed now is deep within me, nourishing my spirit. Giving me sustenance and power with authority.

Dutch Sheets sang a bit in tongues and I heard....

In the darkness of my mine
you give me mercy.
In many ways, be glorified
Be kind to me Holy Father
I lay bare before you
longing for your truth.

Come to me Lord
Come to me
You are love, love.

A Dutiful Alarm is Sounding

Please read articles I received from "Christians United for Israel"


A War between Iran and the West Is Imminent

Israel Unveils New Drone Fleet That Can Reach Iran

Will of God

We pray because prayer is crucial in determining God's will.

I have said many times, I try to only do what I see my Father doing. So, it is in prayer.

I offer no prayer for healing, unless my Father says, healing is what He wants. It is not always, as many think, that healing is His will.

Ecclesiastes 3

¹ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: ² a time to be born and a time to die


But, do we always pray God's will or do we pray a selfish prayer.

To pray for something to happen is to say to God that you know better than Him! It is to say that you do not agree with the course of events that God has laid out. It is ignorant, misguided, confused but most of all arrogant. Asking God to act at a time when God knows it is not the right time to act is praying against His will. If it is right, God will have already planned to do it. If it is wrong, God won't do it. Your prayer will not change these facts. To pray like this is to oppose God, to harass Him, to make a statement that you think you know better! It is insolent and arrogant.

Jesus said "Get thee behind me, Satan!" to an apostle who thought he knew better than God's plan (even though the apostle was bemoaning suffering!)... by trying to sway God's mind through prayer, YOU are behaving in the same way as that apostle! No matter how good your intentions are, your own master , would call you Satanic for it! Think about what it means to pray hope or wish for things, you might find you're not doing what your God wants you to be doing! Prayer should be, first, to find out the will of God.

Of course if a desire goes against Scripture, or if God has said no to it in a clear and resolute way, praying for it is disrespectful to God. I should merely pray that God will give me a heart to accept the situation and persist in that prayer until my heart changes. But when God hasn't plainly said no, I should feel not only freedom but a mandate to continue raising my request to him until he gives an explicit answer.


Isaiah 59:2 (New International Version)

2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 1 John 5:14-15 (New Century Version) 14 And this is the boldness we have in God's presence: that if we ask God for anything that agrees with what he wants, he hears us.15 If we know he hears us every time we ask him, we know we have what we ask from him

Admittedly, when no answer seems to be forthcoming, we can feel uneasy continuing to raise a request to God. We worry that we're pestering God and praying against his will. We should remember, though, that prayer not only has an effect upon God but upon us. Any prayer that I make--even one for a purely personal desire--has the effect of putting me in communication with God. A channel is established through which he can influence my thoughts and feelings.

Listen for the will of God. Be cautious of your own desires.

Proverbs 3:5 (New International Version)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding.

Because our understanding is flawed, selfish and finite .

Question????

I have been pondering...If Jesus Christ was a radical Jew, then is Christianity radical Judaism?

A word from David Wilkerson

I LOOK AT THE WHOLE RELIGIOUS SCENE TODAY AND ALL I SEE ARE INVENTIONS AND MINISTRIES OF MAN AND FLESH. IT'S MOSTLY POWERLESS, IT HAS NO IMPACT ON THE WORLD. AND I SEE MORE OF THE WORLD COMING INTO THE CHURCH AND IMPACTING THE CHURCH RATHER THAN THE CHURCH IMPACTING THE WORLD.

I SEE THE MUSIC TAKING OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD. I SEE ENTERTAINMENT TAKING OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD. OBSESSION WITH ENTERTAINMENT IN GOD'S HOUSE.

A HATRED OF CORRECTION AND A HATRED OF REPROOF, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT ANYMORE. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ANGUISH IN THE HOUSE OF GOD? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ANGUISH IN THE MINISTRY? IT'S A WORD YOU DON'T HEAR IN THIS PAMPERED AGE. YOU DON'T HEAR IT.

ANGUISH MEANS EXTREME PAIN AND DISTRESS. THE EMOTIONS SO STIRRED THAT IT BECOMES PAINFUL. ACUTE DEEPLY FELT INNER PAIN BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS ABOUT YOU, IN YOU, OR AROUND YOU. ANGUISH. DEEP PAIN. DEEP SORROW. AGONY OF GOD'S HEART.

WE'VE HELD ON TO OUR RELIGIOUS RHETORIC AND OUR REVIVAL TALK, BUT WE'VE BECOME SO PASSIVE. ALL TRUE PASSION IS BORN OUT OF ANGUISH. ALL TRUE PASSION FOR CHRIST COMES OUT OF A BAPTISIM OF ANGUISH. YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURE, AND YOU'LL FIND THAT WHEN GOD DETERMINED TO RECOVER A RUINED SITUATION....HE WOULD SHARE HIS OWN ANGUISH FOR WHAT GOD SAW HAPPENING TO HIS CHURCH AND TO HIS PEOPLE.

AND HE WOULD FIND A PRAYING MAN AND HE WOULD TAKE THAT MAN AND LITERALLY BAPTIZE HIM IN ANGUISH. YOU FIND IT IN THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH.

JERUSALEM IS IN RUINS. HOW IS GOD GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS? HOW IS GOD GOING TO RESTORE THE RUIN? FOLKS, LOOK AT ME....NEHEMIAH WAS NOT A PREACHER, HE WAS A CAREER MAN. THIS WAS A PRAYING MAN. GOD FOUND A MAN WHO WOULD NOT JUST HAVE A FLASH OF EMOTION. NOT JUST SOME GREAT SUDDEN BURST OF CONCERN AND THEN LET IT DIE. HE SAID "NO. I BROKE DOWN AND WEPT AND I MORNED AND I FASTED. THEN I BEGIN TO PRAY NIGHT AND DAY."

WHY DIDN'T THESE OTHER MEN, WHY DIDN'T THEY HAVE AN ANSWER? WHY DIDN'T GOD USE THEM IN RESTORATION? WHY DIDN'T THEY HAVE A WORD?

BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANGUISH! NO WEEPING! NOT A WORD OF PRAYER! IT'S ALL RUIN! DOES IT MATTER TO YOU TODAY....DOES IT MATTER TO YOU AT ALL THAT GOD'S SPIRITUAL JERUSALEM, THE CHURCH, IS NOW MARRIED TO THE WORLD? THAT THERE IS SUCH A COLDNESS SWEEPING THE LAND? CLOSER THAN THAT....DOES IT MATTER ABOUT THE JERUSALEM THAT IS IN OUR OWN HEARTS?

THE SIGN OF RUIN THAT IS SLOWLY DRAINING SPIRITUAL POWER AND PASSION. BLIND TO LUKE WARMNESS, BLIND TO THE MIXTURE THAT IS CREEPING IN. THAT'S ALL THE DEVIL WANTS TO DO IS GET THE FIGHT OUT OF YOU. AND KILL IT. SO YOU WON'T LABOR IN PRAYER ANYMORE. YOU WON'T WEEP BEFORE GOD ANYMORE. YOU CAN SIT AND WATCH TELEVISION AND YOUR FAMILY GO TO HELL.

LET ME ASK YOU. IS WHAT I JUST SAID CONVICTED YOU AT ALL? THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGUISH AND CONCERN. CONCERN IS SOMETHING THAT BEGINS TO INTEREST YOU, YOU TAKE AN INTEREST IN A PROJECT OR A CAUSE OR A CONCERN OR A NEED. I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING I'VE LEARNED OVER ALL MY YEARS, OF 50 YEARS OF PREACHING....IF IT IS NOT BORN IN ANGUISH, IF IT HAD NOT BEEN BORN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHERE WHAT YOU SAY AND HEARD OF THE RUIN THAT DROVE YOU TO YOUR KNEES, TOOK YOU DOWN INTO A BAPTISIM OF ANGUISH WHERE YOU BEGAN TO PRAY AND SEEK GOD. I KNOW NOW, OH MY GOD DO I KNOW IT, UNTIL I AM IN AGONY, UNTIL I HAVE BEEN ANGUISHED OVER IT, AND ALL OUR PROJECTS, ALL OUR MINISTRIES, EVERYTHING WE DO....WHERE ARE THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS THAT WEEP OVER KIDS THEY KNOW ARE NOT HEARING AND GOING TO HELL?

YOU SEE, A TRUE PRAYER LIFE BEGINS AT THE PLACE OF ANGUISH. YOU SEE, IF YOU SET YOUR HEART TO PRAY, GOD'S GOING TO COME AND START SHARING HIS HEART WITH YOU. YOUR HEART BEGINS TO CRY OUT- OH GOD YOUR NAME IS BEING BLASPHEMED. HOLY SPIRIT IS BEING MOCKED. THE ENEMY IS OUT TRYING TO DESTROY THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD'S FAITHFULNESS, AND SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE. THERE IS GOING TO BE NO RENEWAL, NO REVIVAL, NO AWAKENING UNTIL WE ARE WILLING TO LET HIM ONCE AGAIN BREAK US. FOLKS, IT'S GETTING LATE AND IT'S GETTING SERIOUS. PLEASE DON'T TELL ME, DON'T TELL ME YOUR CONCERNED....WHEN YOUR SPENDING HOURS IN FRONT OF THE INTERNET OR TELEVISION.

COME ON. LORD, THERE ARE SOME THAT NEED TO GET TO THE ALTER AND CONFESS I AM NOT WHAT I WAS, I AM NOT WHERE I AM SUPPOSED TO BE. GOD I DON'T HAVE YOUR HEART OR YOUR BURDEN, I'VE WANTED IT EASY. I JUST WANTED TO BE HAPPY.

BUT LORD, TRUE JOY COMES, TRUE JOY COMES OUT OF ANGUISH. THERE IS NOTHING OF THE FLESH WILL GIVE YOU JOY. I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH MONEY, I DON'T CARE WHAT KIND OF NEW HOUSE, THERE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING PHYSICAL THAT CAN GIVE YOU JOY. IT IS ONLY WHAT IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU OBEY HIM AND TAKE ON HIS HEART. BUILD THE WALLS AROUND YOUR FAMILY. BUILD THE WALLS AROUND YOUR OWN HEART. MAKE YOU STRONG AND IMPREGNABLE AGAINST THE ENEMY. GOD, THAT'S WHAT WE DESIRE.

COMPLAINING

YOU'D BE FAT AND CRANKY TOO, IF YOU HAD LUPUS AND A BROKEN RIB

Enjoy

Change

Because we are coming into a new season we must change.

Over the last year or so , I have said multiple times that we need to prepare spiritually for the battle ahead. Now, I will go further.

We are coming into a new season. This season will be full of contradictions. You will see miracles from God and then you will see evil from hell. You will see, as I am sure you already have, the good in people wither away into consumption of evil.

God will and is doing new things and if His people will respond to this new thing they will see His glory. He does these new things because we are a new people. Different from our past generations. More skeptical. More resolute to the negative. More leaning toward the state of mind "show me" rather than a faith state of mind. So, He will bring a new thing into this new season.

The Lord is hovering over cities and people. He is hovering to bring a new birth. Just as He hovered over Mary and a child was born, He is again hovering and birthing. But, do we see the followers of this day running to see this new birth or are they cuddled in their warm homes, complacent and content with the status quo.

Being prepared spiritually means being ready to get out of our box. To be able to except a new thing from God, and to do this we must change.

We must look into our selves and look for those things in us that God finds repulsive. Not those things that we see ourselves doing every day, although, they also, need to be taken care of, but look deep. There are roots, generational roots, that need to be taken care of.

The old saying, something about a bad apple spoiling the whole bunch. This is true of our root. A bad root can and will ruin the rest of our growth. So, we either take care of that root by getting rid of it or and this is what we see most people doing, we just take care of the rest of the growth trying to stay ahead of the rot catching up we us.

Best to cut out that piece that leads us into hell. Then instead of us taking care to not let the rot catch us, we can relax and let God nourish our growth.

God sees that root and wants us to fix the problem. We ignore the root and will suffer the consequence.

When this new things comes and the glory of God is within this new thing, will you be able to enjoy or will you feel dirty and unworthy. Do. you have a root that needs to be taken care of. Then , dear reader, go into your prayer closet and turn it into an operating room. Give God the scalpel and let Him cut that thing out of you. Then you will enjoy the new thing and know that God is doing this new thing, just for you.