My prayer every day, numerous times a day, especially when my ego wants to judge, criticize, condemn--all of which God calls SIN--is basically this, though the wording may vary but the request is consistent:
Friday, January 8, 2021
A PRAYER FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
INVISIBLE NO MORE
Eyes, dark and unused to sunlight, squinted past filthy, tattered strips of cloth that covered his face ravaged by time and affliction. Fabric stiffened with grime scraped against the raw skin of his hands tucked inside his robes as he shuffled bare feet across dusty ground. He inched forward, desperate to keep as much of his presence unnoticed as possible, knowing, however, that he was obvious in his attempt at anonymity. And then, the one he was moving toward, both in trepidation and inexplicable hope, turned and looked at him, as people do when they feel someone watching them.
All these long years of staying mostly in caves, waiting for someone to place food and water where he could reach them, once the kindhearted person had left... all the years of no one looking directly at him.... And here was this man he'd heard so much about, gazing directly into his eyes. Seeing him. After all these years. Looked at, not with repulsion but with -- not pity -- but with something he couldn't yet assign a word to. It was that unfamiliar a feeling.
He moved forward faster, unused to approaching anyone, but desperate to not miss this opportunity--the man was always on the move, always had some place he had to go next, or so the rumors went. And though it made no sense, the man seemed to be waiting for him.
He picked up his pace, no longer mindful of his calloused feet or gnarled hands causing others to recoil. All he could think was that he had to hurry, that time was growing short. Shorter than what, though, he couldn't fathom. After all, a man in his circumstances wore time like a weighted burden. Silently, he berated himself for not practicing what he'd say.
One yard away from the man whose gaze had remained fixed on him, he stopped, heart beating hard against his ribs. Through cracked lips and dry tongue, he said, "If you are willing, you can make me clean."
Had he spoken too boldly? Because some flicker of another thought altered the man's countenance. Only briefly though, and evident solely to him because of how intently he watched and waited for the man's reply. The man moved toward him. Habit born of instinct urged him to move back, to move away, as he was accustomed to doing, but he remained in place. Stayed motionless as the man reached out and lowered the coverings from his leprosy-ravaged face.
The man wore an expression of resolve and something deeper as he said, "I am willing! Be cleansed!"
Life instantly returned to his skin and body. He fell to his knees, grabbed the right hand of the man. Gratitude too large and too deep for words sought the only path of expression possible in that moment: tears streamed down his face and onto the man's hand as he kissed it over and over.
"Tell no one," the man said.
So overcome by this immediate healing, he heard little else of what the man said. He stood in silence as he watched the man join those who always traveled with him, now thronged by others, as they walked toward the center of town.
Someone to his left said, "Who was that man? By what authority did he do such a thing?"
"His name is Yeshua." He sucked in a breath. How many times in all his years had he heard that word read from the texts each Sabbath and holy day--yeshua.
Yeshua. Translated in Hebrew as Salvation.
Image: www.bridgemanart.com
The above is a story based on what I felt as I read Mark 1 this morning. Imagine that man with leprosy--the most physically unclean a human could be--saying to Jesus, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." I imagine that Jesus did pause for but a moment as the weight of that request permeated His entire reason for being here at that time. The man wanted his skin and body clean again. Jesus wanted the man's soul clean for eternity, and there was only one supernaturally legal way to do that: It was imperative He take every next step that brought Him to the Victory of the Cross. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13 KJV
It wasn't nails that kept the Word of God--Salvation--on the cross: It was love.
Image: Prince of Peace by Akiane
Monday, November 30, 2020
GOD CHOOSES ALL KINGS AND LEADERS
I realize there are those who don't want to believe that God chooses all kings and leaders for His own purposes, but it's true. And this includes appointing the leaders we deserve. Oy.
The other morning I was reading Nehemiah 9 and came to a full stop when I read verse 37, and felt the burden of the truth of it:
Sadly, that's more true today than we might have imagined.
Here's the link to the exact text I read, which I invite you to read (this version is much easier and also more accurate than the KJV, as this version was translated by the scholar renowned for his expertise in not only the language but the culture):
https://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/nehemiah/9.html
This verse 39 brought to mind how our treatment of abortion has led to God making sure that if the right to shed the blood of the innocent is what we want (or will allow), and which He considers an abomination worthy of eternity in Hell, then He'll give us leaders to ensure it. As one Scripture says, He'll let us get spiritually drunk on the blood we're so willing to shed, as this 1:09-minute video proves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMuZv9k_x0
Two origins of abortion in our land are intriguing. First, the woman who founded Planned Parenthood did so in order to rid society of undesirables (that is, undesirable in her opinion, an opinion shared by other elites). The predominant so-said undesirables were Blacks. Only now, after all this time, has this fact caused Planned Parent to attempt to disassociate themselves from her--because of how it looks, now that more people know the truth. Second, the woman Roe v. Wade was about, never actually had an abortion.
Let's consider some of the results of what was supposed to be a "safe and rare" procedure for limited causes.
In a number of states, we can now kill healthy babies in the womb at any time for any reason (though, we've been doing this by the millions each year for decades). We can vacuum them out of existence, dismember them, scald them for hours or days while their tender skin cracks and blackens--and that's only the external effects.... We're very creative in how abortion gets done. [No apologies for using the word "kill." Deliberately ending a life is killing. Ending an innocent life is murder.] To continue...
We now have female Satanists, who get pregnant easily, admitting they do so often and willingly. They and whomever then perform satanic rites as they kill the baby in the womb (or outside of it), because Satan prefers the fresh blood of the innocent (I didn't make this up; there are articles about this on the Internet, at least for now).
We have people saying a "fetus" isn't a baby until the mother or parents bring it home and say it is. I heard one man in a video say he firmly believes people should have up to two years, after bringing the baby home, to decide whether to abort the child or not. He's in favor of taking offspring home "on approval." If the child doesn't measure up for some reason.... He didn't clarify, nor did the interviewer ask, what that method of "abortion" would entail.
Some abortionists now prefer to wait until the fourth month or later to then dilate the uterus (dangerous for the woman) so the live baby is aborted intact ... because they need to be able to remove the still-beating heart for whomever it is who's in the market for these hearts as well as the other organs and body parts. Four months or older are preferable organ sizes. And, as reported, some don't use anesthetics on the baby before removing the tiny, beating heart. Take a half a second to let that sink in.
We have some who are adamant that should a baby survive an abortion, and can still live if given needed medical treatment, nothing should be done for it other than make it comfortable until it dies. Obviously, these are the babies whose body parts haven't been claimed or paid for or aren't to be involved in satanic rituals.
Some abortionists have been known to save the remains in jars on shelves, or in their walls (as the Pagans saved their ritually aborted babies in the walls of Jericho).
Then there are the other "advantages" of abortions provided at any time for any reason: Aborted fetal cells in foods, beverages, and vaccines; victims of sex-trafficking and incest get "taken care of" while their perpetrators aren't reported or arrested so can continue doing what they do. There's more, of course, but that's enough for now.
The information is out there about each of the above, despite naysayers.
We wanted to call abortion a woman's right to have for any reason and at any time, including full-term. We even called it health care, even when neither the mother's health or the baby's is in jeopardy. So God is giving us leaders who make sure we get what we asked for or have allowed by commission or omission.
Here's my admission: Until Jesus called me to repent and receive Him as Savior and Lord, I never gave abortion much thought. I have friends who've had them--I didn't condemn them then and still don't (that's not my right as a follower of Jesus, though He's charged His followers to call sin a sin).
Deception perpetrated by the Adversary has caused all of us to stumble or fall at least once, if we're willing to be honest. At one point, I was all in on the New Age deception that eternal souls were incarnating and changing their minds or knew they'd be aborted and that's all of physical life they wanted. Whatever the deception, no longer can I look at a precious newborn or infant (or photo of one) without, first, a "reality reel" running at high speed in my mind.
Is what's written here offensive to you? More offensive than what is being done to healthy babies in the womb, and even once outside the womb? For any who don't agree with God's commandments about this, Isaiah 44:18 comes to mind:
We did this to ourselves. God forgive us. And, if you want God's forgiveness, HE'S ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU. [See the ABC's of Salvation under this next image.]
Psalm 8:3-4 CJB says
(3) When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place —
5 (4) what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them;
humans, that you watch over them with such care?
Monday, November 23, 2020
GOD NOT ONLY LOVES YOU, HE LIKES YOU!
Exalted as they are, however, the highest ranking angel hovering over the throne of the Most High is outranked--wonder of wonders--by the most insignificant human being who has been born again, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
- Paul E. Billheimer, Destined for the Throne
Sunday, November 8, 2020
CALLING FORTH THE ARMY OF YESHUA/JESUS, COMMANDER OF GOD'S ARMY: THIS ELECTION ISN'T OVER
These are Daniel days, specifically Chapter 10 in the book of Daniel.
Saturday, November 7, 2020, after I recovered (somewhat) from learning that a news organization had (erroneously) called the presidential election in order to set that Ghost Train in motion, I felt urged to consider Daniel. Remember: He, as had others, had been captured and forced to live and serve the king of a God-less kingdom. Despite all that was going on in that Pagan realm, Daniel and his three companions stayed true to their obedience to God's words, commandments, laws, and statutes.... even to the point of being thrown into the lions' den and into a roaring fire -- only to survive without a scratch and without so much as their garments smelling of smoke.
Point 1: No matter what transpires from this moment on, we must be faithful representatives of Almighty God in everything we do and say. Reread all of the book of Daniel and ask our Father to put that kind of trust in Him and loving obedience to Him and His righteous Kingdom ways into our hearts, minds, and mouths (and social site comments and memes).
The other thing about Daniel 10 is this: He'd realized that the end to the 70-year captivity was about to happen. He wanted to make sure this happened without a hitch (as opposed to the software "glitch" we're dealing with at this time), so he set about interceding with God about this. He waited upon the Lord for an answer... waited 21 days, mostly fasting and praying on his face in total submission to God, until an angel of the Lord came to him to let him know his prayers had been answered the first time he'd uttered them, but that a spiritual battle had prevented the angel from reaching him to let him know.
Point 2: We are to be as faithful as Daniel in this matter...because you can bet there is a huge spiritual battle happening right this moment in the second heaven. Why?
BECAUSE WE ARE THE ARMY OF GOD
AND WE ARE ENGAGED,
FULFILLING,
AND RAMPING UP OUR ROLES AS INTERCESSORS
WHO TRUST IN ALMIGHTY GOD AND THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT....
BECAUSE AS HIS ARMY, WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.
And then there's this (FYI: This is a Messianic Bible, so don't panic):
Isaiah 40 Complete Jewish Bible
“Comfort and keep comforting my people,” says your God.
2 “Tell Yerushalayim to take heart; proclaim to herthat she has completed her time of service,
that her guilt has been paid off,
that she has received at the hand of Adonai
double for all her sins.”
3 A voice cries out:
“Clear a road through the desert for Adonai!
Level a highway in the ‘Aravah for our God!
4 Let every valley be filled in,
every mountain and hill lowered,
the bumpy places made level
and the crags become a plain.
5 Then the glory of Adonai will be revealed;
all humankind together will see it,
for the mouth of Adonai has spoken.”
6 A voice says, “Proclaim!”
And I answer, “What should I proclaim?”
“All humanity is merely grass,
all its kindness like wildflowers:
7 the grass dries up, the flower fades,
when a wind from Adonai blows on it.
Surely the people are grass!
8 The grass dries up, the flower fades;
but the word of our God will stand forever.”
9 You who bring good news to Tziyon,
get yourself up on a high mountain;
you who bring good news to Yerushalayim,
cry out at the top of your voice!
Don’t be afraid to shout out loud!
Say to the cities of Y’hudah,
“Here is your God!
10 Here comes Adonai Elohim with power,
and his arm will rule for him.
Look! His reward is with him,
and his recompense is before him.
11 He is like a shepherd feeding his flock,
gathering his lambs with his arm,
carrying them against his chest,
gently leading the mother sheep.”
12 Who has counted the handfuls of water in the sea,
measured off the sky with a ruler,
gauged how much dust there is on the earth,
weighed the mountains on scales, or the hills in a balance?
13 Who has measured the Spirit of Adonai?
Who has been his counselor, instructing him?
14 Whom did he consult, to gain understanding?
Who taught him how to judge,
taught him what he needed to know,
showed him how to discern?
15 The nations are like a drop in a bucket,
they count like a grain of dust on the scales.
The islands weigh as little as specks of dust.
16 The L’vanon would not suffice for fuel
or its animals be enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations are like nothing.
He regards them as less than nothing.
18 With whom, then, will you compare God?
By what standard will you evaluate him?
19 An image made by a craftsman,
which a goldsmith overlays with gold,
for which he then casts silver chains?
20 A man too poor to afford an offering
chooses a piece of wood that won’t rot,
then seeks out a skilled artisan
to prepare an image that won’t fall over.
21 Don’t you know? Don’t you hear?
Haven’t you been told from the start?
Don’t you understand how the earth is set up?
22 He who sits above the circle of the earth —
for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers —
stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He reduces princes to nothing,
the rulers of the earth to emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely their stem taken root in the ground,
when he blows on them, they dry up,
and the whirlwind carries them off like straw.
25 “With whom, then, will you compare me?
With whom am I equal?” asks the Holy One.
26 Turn your eyes to the heavens!
See who created these?
He brings out the army of them in sequence,
summoning each by name.
Through his great might and his massive strength,
not one of them is missing.
27 Why do you complain, Ya‘akov;
why do you say, Isra’el,
“My way is hidden from Adonai,
my rights are ignored by my God”?
28 Haven’t you known, haven’t you heard
that the everlasting God, Adonai,
the Creator of the ends of the earth,
does not grow tired or weary?
His understanding cannot be fathomed.
29 He invigorates the exhausted,
he gives strength to the powerless.
30 Young men may grow tired and weary,
even the fittest may stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in Adonai will renew their strength,
they will soar aloft as with eagles’ wings;
when they are running they won’t grow weary,
when they are walking they won’t get tired.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2040&version=CJB
ARMY OF GOD, REMEMBER THIS:
GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN US
than he who is in the world.
Friday, October 30, 2020
Has Your Brain (and Life) Been Hijacked?
During these covid-driven, quality-of-life-affecting months (it’s mid-October 2020 as I write this), those with eyes to see and ears to hear have observed how many of our idols and addictions are junk food, a false substitute for what genuinely nourishes us. Some fell deeper into that deceptive miasma, and desperately need our prayers. Some, once their attention was diverted, sat up and took notice of what they’d given too much of themselves to that wasn’t worth it. They saw what could be lost if they didn’t shift their attention to who and what is important. They realized that while too many have spent hours out of touch with God, the Adversary got serious about taking up squatters rights in our country, our families, and our lives.
Continue reading the full article here:
https://putoldonholdjournal.com/has-your-brain-and-life-been-hijacked/
Thursday, October 29, 2020
What Blocks Prayers Being Answered?
During my morning time with God, and while reading Matthew 20 and 21, this realization entered my mind and heart:
Absolute faith (trust) in God requires absolute humility before and to God.
And then I opened Paul E. Billheimer's book, Destined for the Throne, to pick up reading where I'd left off, which happened to be about Paul's "thorn in his side," which he asked three times for God to remove, and each time, God refused for a specific reason: For Paul's protection. The following two paragraphs are found in that section on page 86.
"... The sands of time are strewn with the wrecks of the broken lives of many who were once mightily used of God, but who suffered shipwreck upon the rocks of spiritual pride. This explains why Watchman Nee says that God's great work is to reduce us, that is, our ego. For until God has wrought a work of true humility and brokenness in His servants, He cannot answer some of their prayers without undue risk of producing the pride that goes before a fall. If God could trust the petitioner to keep lowly, who knows how many more answers to prayer He would readily give.
"This principle may also explain why answers to prayer for healing sometimes are not received. If the answer to prayer for healing in Paul's case was hazardous to him, how much more so may it be in many others. Although no one since Paul has ever had as much reason to be exalted because of the abundance of revelations, very few have his ability to keep humble. Is it possible that one reason why some are not healed is that God sees they too might be lifted up with spiritual pride and 'fall into the condemnation of the devil'? If God felt it advisable to withhold the answer to Paul's prayer for healing to keep him humble, may this not explain the failure of some other prayers for healing?"
This pride-factor is something each of us, who call ourselves Christians, needs to be aware of. It's far too easy for any of us, and most especially those with a more public standing as representatives of His Church, to forget it's always, always, always about Yeshua/Jesus. The micro-second it becomes about us, we're falling out of humility and into Satan's camp. I know--I know! It's all to easy to do so, especially because ....
That "dead-on-accurate" meme that "puts them in their place," or the one we create or share that degrades "those people who deserve it," and on and on, wherever our Satan-directed pride takes us, takes us further from where we need to be as representatives of our Father and His Kingdom, as well as obedient to His commands about such matters.
Pride. It's the greatest and trickiest stumbling block Satan has in order to capture us and lock us into a prison with bars invisible to our spiritual awareness. He's an expert in pride--it's what got him cast out of Heaven and made him an eternal spiritual orphan (something he works very hard at making all of us; after all, what better way to hurt a Father than to destroy His sons and daughters made in His image).
Pride causes us to make fun of others, or degrade or criticize them, or do all sorts of things other than what God commanded: Pray for them. I do this a little differently: I ask Him to forgive me, starting with the sin of pride and where it leads me far too often. I ask Him to forgive all of us who are saved and those who still can be, to cover all our sins with the blood of Yeshua/Jesus -- not one of us can claim to be free of sin. Not one. I ask Him to continue to open all our eyes, ears, hearts, and minds to HIS TRUTH.
Our world, our country (USA), our lives have been turned upside-down, relatively overnight. For His Remnant, part of our prayers is that His Kingdom come, His will be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven. To us, those are more than a line of words of a prayer recited too often by rote, rather than meant with full heart-and-soul reverence for our Father God and how they relate to what He has promised us. These upside-down times require trust in the Lord. And, I offer that this needs to be absolute trust that needs to grow exponentially, sooner than later.
We cannot do this on our own. This is the work of Holy Spirit in us: We must ask the Father for His help with this. Just know that the cleaner and clearer we are as temples of God, the more uncluttered space we provide for Holy Spirit to abide in us. If you wouldn't say it or do it with Yeshua/Jesus standing next to you, it probably doesn't belong in your temple.
Absolute faith (trust) in God requires absolute humility before and to God.
What is the full measure of absolute humility before and to our Father God?
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Love of the Word
You know how much I love words used well, Lord, so how could I do anything other than love You most of all--Divine Poet, Word of God?
Image: Prince of Peace by Akiane
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Seek the Lord Now, While You Still Cam
You see what's happening in the world. You see where some intend--are determined--to take us and this world. It's just as our Lord forewarned us. So...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
THE BEST BOOK ON PRAYER and A Christian’s Duty to Intercede I’ve Ever Read
Monday, October 19, 2020
Who God Is
The first time I read these, I wept as I read them aloud.
He is our Abba Father
He is our Advocate
He is the Almighty
He is our All in All
He is the Alpha and Omega
He is the Ancient of Days
He is the Anointed One
He is the Author and Finisher of Our Faith
He is the Beginning and the End
He is the Bread of Life
He is our Bridegroom
He is the Bright Morning Star
He is the Captain of the Lord’s Host
He is the Chosen One
He is the Christ
He is the Son of the Living God
He is our Comforter
He is an All Consuming Fire
He is our Counselor
He is our Creator
He is our Deliverer
He is our Dwelling Place
He is Emmanuel
He is the Everlasting God
His Name is Faithful and True
He is our Foundation
He is a Fountain of Living Water
He is our Friend
He is a Gift of God
He is God Over All
He is the Head of the Body
He is the Head of the Church
He is the Holy One
He is our Blessed Hope
He is the Great I AM
He is Jehovah
He is Jesus
He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
He is the Lamb of God
He is Life
He is the Light of the World
He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah
He is the Living God
He is Living Water
He is the Lord of All
He is the Lord of Glory
He is Love
He is your Maker
He is our Merciful God
He is Messiah
He is the Mighty God
He is the Only Begotten Son
He is our Passover Lamb
He is our Peace
He is the Great Physician
He is the Prince of Peace
He is our Redeemer
He is our Refuge and our Strength
He is the Righteous One
He is the Rock of our Salvation
He is our Savior
He is the Son of God
He is the Son of Man
He is the Son of the Most High
He is our Source
He is our Strength
He is our Stronghold
He is our Strong Tower
He is our Teacher
He is True Light
He is the Vine
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
His name is Wonderful
He is the Word of God
Excerpted in part from Jesus: The Premise of the Promise
by Stephen Quayle (minus the Scripture notations)
Here's the link to Steve's books, etc.
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