Short Messages 2017

December 24, 2016
“One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5). Every day is a day a child is able to be born, a human to be appreciated for who they are, a heart may be healed, a relationship may be mended, or a life may be broken. Each of us have days we will not forget for one reason or another. The idea of a day is not more than the love we are able to share in that day.

November 25, 2016
“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me’” (Matthew 25:40). Helps ministries are not a distraction from the gospel, they are the gospel message in action. Remember, those who serve in helps ministries with integrity are ministers of the pure gospel.

November 13, 2016
Jesus did not create a new priesthood of men to stand between us and God – he removed one. We are all priests and kings with one King of kings and Lord of lords. It was mankind who asked for a man to hear the voice and convey the word to Israel, and man who asked for a king from among mankind. Jesus, the man, became the King from among mankind and the man to hear the voice and convey the word. Not a new priesthood or a new king, but what we had from the beginning – the light of the world.

November 4, 2016
One of the most common and noticeable attributes of humanity is to change the meanings of words and phrases to match what they already do. In that way they can talk about change without changing. Reconciliation is the restoring of a relationship and not a religious tradition. Humanity’s relationship with God has been reconciled, not by the acts of humanity but by the grace of God.

November 3, 2016
“For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:10). It sounds like Paul is saying reconciliation through the Sacrifice happened before salvation. Reconciliation happened once for all those at enmity with God. Jesus came that the world might be saved by His life, having reconciled mankind’s debt with His Sacrifice. Forgiveness is reconciliation and just the beginning of grace.

October 12, 2016
Jesus knew that believing in Him as the scriptures say would cause division and He still commanded us to love one another, including our enemy – He still said pray for those who use you – we are still to visit the sick and those in prison, feed the hungry, clothed the naked, and give drink to those who thirst. One person may not be able to all these things, but in unity (not in division) these all can be done. Our unity is in faith in the name of the Son of God’s love and our resolve to love one another as He has commanded.

October 9, 2016
When you realize you have done nothing to aid in your being forgiven, you will have a desire to forgive others. As long as you feel you have earned forgiveness, you will be looking for others to pay a price already paid and to do a work already done.

October 6, 2016
During my lifetime I have seen worship styles in music go from classical, to folk, to pop, to rock, to rap and grunge. Personally, I have enjoyed all different styles. Of course, I have my preference but that doesn’t make that style the only acceptable form of music. The same goes for preaching and teaching (also worship). You have the teacher preacher who repeats the three point message multiple times in a monotone voice, and at the other extreme there is the loud preacher who repeats bits of cheers that have nothing to do with the message – and a rainbow of styles in between. Those are styles just like music styles, and none of them are the only way.

October 5, 2016
No matter what you base your bias on, it is pride. I like this person so they are – I don’t like this person so they are not – I don’t agree with this person so they are not – I agree with this person so they are – they look like me so they are – they don’t so they are not. A bias is not love even if it is a preferential bias, because it is conditional on the attribute that grants the preference. Love one another!

October 3, 2016
Christ came at the appointed time, sent by God’s love for the world, so the world might be saved in Him. Not so the Pharisees would get a new name to call themselves and a new bias and a new set of rules to abuse and to use to continue to oppress. Without a sacrifice the observation of the law leads to death. You have set before you life and death – the law and the eternal sacrifice – choose. Faith is in the name of the eternal sacrifice. Obedience is love for one another, against which there has never been a law to observe.

October 2, 2016
If we could ever wrap our heart around the fact that God loves everyone, then we could start to see that grace born out of His love is for everyone. We have all sinned and fallen, so grace is the only way to holiness, purity, and perfection. Not perfect in form but perfectly loved! In a fallen state law only leads to death, grace leads to redemption, gives meaning to repentance, and shines light into darkness.

Sept 30, 2016
Of all that JESUS did in the EARTH mankind can do these things and GREATER because HE goes to the FATHER, save one. We cannot be the eternal once and for all blood sacrifice. HEAL the sick – RAISE the dead – perform great WONDERS – release SIGNS in the earth, we can do those and more, because GOD HEALS the sick and the dead and performs SIGNS and WONDERS through us by CHRIST dwelling in us. It was prudent that the SON go to the FATHER and the SPIRIT be poured out on all FLESH! This we can do also; FORGIVE one another as our FATHER FORGAVE our turning away and invited us to turn back – while we were still working on behalf of HIS enemy. LOVE ONE ANOTHER, speaking TRUTH (gospel) in LOVE!

Sept 26, 2016
Jesus kicked all the ideas of good and evil held by mankind to the curb. Don’t talk to that woman, don’t touch that man, don’t be kind to that group, don’t forgive those folks, don’t eat that, don’t drink that, don’t love them. His good is, lay hands on the sick, share the gospel with everyone, do not judge, the kingdom is not meat or drink, love your enemy as well as your neighbor. God is good.

Sept 25, 2016
When the earth was flooded it rained, but also water was released from the heart of the earth. When the baptism of the Holy Spirit moves in a fellowship He rains, but He also flows like a river out of the heart of the believer. Rain replenishes those who have poured out. The river does not release or control the flow – the river conducts the flow from the source to a sea of people whom God is adding. Living water is unpolluted water that is moving, flowing, going somewhere; even if it is a trickle flowing over the spillway, overflowing with fresh water from the source. But there is power in the uninhibited flow of rushing water.

Sept 23, 2016
It is difficult to practice forgiveness when you believe you are the one being misused and abused, and even more difficult when you are the one being misused and abused. Beaten and hanging on a tree after being misquoted and spit on, the Son of God’s love forgave the inhabitants of the earth. He did that as the Son of man – a physical human being. The only people rioting were the people asking for His death, and the only people jailed as a result of the death were the people who continued to follow Him. Forgiveness may be difficult, but it may be the only answer. And it may have to be done over and over and over.

Sept 16, 2016
No matter how much you do, it will never be enough! That is why we have the sacrifice of one man who was enough. With faith in His name you start with enough and move on from there. You start with the good cheer of an overcomer.

Sept 13, 2016
We have a mediator (one who helps two parties come to an agreement) between God and mankind. He has told mankind to love one another, including our enemy. He was sent because God so loves the inhabitants of the world – get the picture – get in agreement! Agreement is not meat, drink, clothes, days, or weeks; it is love one for another. Love God by loving one another!

Sept 9, 2016
Love is a road less traveled, but we spend a great deal of life looking for the way. We speak of love as if love is all around us, because love is all around us. It is like we are swimming in an ocean of love, but we are afraid to drink. It has been written, “whoever drinks of the water that I give them will never thirst.” But we fear seeing the water building up inside us to become life as love. We fear because of our knowledge of good and evil forbidden in paradise. We fear loving one another, but we also fear admitting we do not love one another.

Sept 8, 2016
Love is not earned, respect is not earned – they are given. Like is earned – you did something I like, so I like you. You did something like I would do, so I like you. You said something I agree with, so I like you. It is important not to confuse these things. Love one another, love your enemy. Even if you do not like what they do.

Sept. 5, 2016
What is will? The word has been mystified when it is really simple. Will is used to define a future event of something that is going to happen because someone or something is going to do it. You will finish a project. God will bless you. What about, “If it is in God’s will”? Same thing. God’s will is what God will do. Your will is what you will do. Will is not power – there is a word grouping “will power” that means focusing power on what you will do, or having the power to finish what you will do. Aligning your will means you will do what someone else is doing, or they will do what you are doing. Praying God’s will is praying what God will do. Normally people quote stories of past events to decide what God will do. But God does new things, so praying a new things can still be in God’s will. Don’t put God in a box or limit Him to a book!

August 28, 2016
“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Is it the mind of Christ to separate yourself from the ones Jesus came to rescue? Is it the mind of Christ to fill His house with only the self-righteous? Do you not know you are the temple? You are the house that is a house of prayer. You are the storehouse. The religious folk called Jesus a madman for saying He is a Son of God. Isn’t the mind of Christ, identity, love, forgiveness the truth, the life, the way.

August 24, 2016
The man sleeping in the pig pen eating slop was a son – the father waiting and watching for him was a father. In the pig pen and waiting down the road, they were still who they are as much as when they were wearing the robe, the ring, and the shoes and killing the fatted calf. Don’t fall for the identity lies – what you do is not who you are! That lie keeps many a son in the pig pen, and many a father without a reason to kill the fatted calf.

August 23, 2016
Be at peace when it is up to you. When others war, keep your peace. When war is sown, war will grow. You do not war with flesh and blood, but flesh and blood is what is sacrificed to those you do war with; when you choose to war in the flesh. You do love flesh and blood, the one another including your enemy. You say, “I love the sinner, but hate the sin.” There is another way, “Love the person and forgive.” Be at peace when it is up to you.

August 20, 2016
By their love. So we make up rules to prove that hate in a “good” way is love. Love your enemy. More rules about how accusing “them” is love – it is love to insult them and isolate them with social rejection. Forgive. New rules about how we get forgiveness cause we are perfect in keeping some of the rules and so our lack of love and unforgiveness is forgiven. There is no “we” and “them” and hate is not love – grace is forgiveness you haven’t worked for – Jesus came to restore the created state when mankind did not know good and evil. No law predates forgiveness and grace or the love of God!

August 17, 2016
God called out into the darkness and said, “LET LIGHT BE!” And the light was. And in that light God created all things that pertain to the earth, sun, moon, and stars. Before that first day God created a plan with a way. God called the way out of Himself and called the way light.

August 10, 2016
We serve a good God, but what are we showing the world about people who serve a good God! God gives grace to people so contrary to Himself – at enmity with Him – else He would not have given grace. Love one another is not an agreement with the one another, but an agreement with God.

August 9, 2016
“We have all sinned” is not a statement made to induce guilt or shame, but as an introduction to the complete application of the grace of God. We have all sinned, but grace returns us to the glory of God. Have faith!

July 20, 2016
Words have power. Words touch our emotion and our reasoning. We use them to describe our ethics, but they move our emotion and reason even when they do not describe them. Reason may be the traffic cop between our emotions and our ethics, but words are what the cop is directing. Preachers and politicians use words to manipulate our ethics using our emotions and try to make the argument sound like reason. Lies are made of words, but truth transcends words and is life and the way of life. Jargon is words with twisted or limited meaning to make the hearer misunderstand unless they are down with it and part of the misinformed; words used to imprison one using one of the basic needs of mankind, to belong. The lie is we don’t belong – the truth is we all belong. We all exist in the truth, but hear the lies.

July 18, 2016
I believe in the rainbow as a promise from God, and also as the colors of light. Jesus came to be our light like the rainbow – not all the colors forced into one, but all the colors brightly displayed. You are in Christ as yourself, your own light in your own color the way God shines through you. Love is not based on the way you reflect light, but is the light that shines from within – whatever the color may be. He was the light of the world while He was in the world as the Son of man, to open our eyes to the light in us all.

July 17, 2016
You have to choose. You cannot choose for anyone but yourself. You cannot dream up a rule based system where people choose by following your rules, life’s not a game. Love one another is a choice we were born to choose, but still a choice. We use the phase, “I was born to love you,” for specific people in our lives, but in reality we were born to love and born to be loved. It is not a feel good message. This world is a difficult place to love one another. It is also an impossible place to be without love.

July 14, 2016
It is written, “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.” And also, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good message.” Those who believe are not to be separated from the world, but in the world not conforming to the hate and greed of the world. God so loved the world that He sent believers to hate and deny grace to the world – I DON’T THINK SO!!!

July 11, 2016
When Adam and Eve fell, all of mankind was broken. In an attempt to hide from our own brokenness we refuse to recognize the brokenness in others. The fall was taking on the knowledge of good and evil, so instead of brokenness we see good or evil. What needs healed we see as needing rewarded or punished. Jesus came not to punish, but to heal – not to judge, but to give grace. The promise from God is that He will heal our lands. Praying for our lands to be healed is in the will of God. God took from the land and created mankind from the dust of the earth, and breathed life into mankind and we became a living being.

July 5, 2016
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” is a quote people like to use when they want to appear to know something you don’t that makes them a true believer. If we look closely we can see, “My people are destroyed because of the destruction of knowledge,” in other words because of lies or a lie. First, what is knowledge? Rightly dividing information into usable data. The quote above comes in the middle of charges against Israel because there is “no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.” That doesn’t refer to something unknown – it refers to something being corrupted and/or ignored. Jesus is the truth, a living example of the mercy of God, and His presentation in the form of a man to be perceived by mankind. Our knowing of God is faith in the name of the Son He sent, not just to lead us to salvation but, to be salvation for us.

June 29, 2016
When did saved by grace by faith in the Son of God’s love become, if you don’t want hell you will be saved? When did worshipping Jesus become unbeliever bashing? When did a prayer request become fifteen minutes of gossip? When did testifying become the story of everything the devil did last week? When did praying for our leaders become an attack on their every headache and heartache? The same devil that attached you all last week is on our leaders big time – the same God will get us through to the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. PRAY (battle) and serve (love one another)!

June 21, 2016
So what is your issue with love – real love, not lust or what’s in it for me – what is your issue? Someone might get love who doesn’t deserve love? By what standard? Don’t you like being loved when you don’t deserve it, or are you the prefect one who always deserves love? How about the imperfect one who still deserves love? Aren’t we all?

June 20, 2016
Was God not in your life yesterday? Isn’t the victories over the trials and troubles of yesterday the testimonies of today? Even when you ignored the presence of God, wasn’t He still sending the sun and the rain? Not everything already lived pulled you down – not everything already lived brings grief when remembered today. Yesterday is not a STOP sign on the road called today, but part of the path to today and today into tomorrow.

June 16, 2016
Sowing to the flesh and sowing to the Spirit to reap thereof. What do you mean? If you forgive you are forgiven – the act done in the flesh is forgiven the flesh; the weed planted in the flesh is uprooted and cast into the fire, left without root or branch. Forgiveness is not an act of the flesh, but of the Spirit – sown in the Spirit. Love is Spirit and not flesh and is sown in the Spirit. Forgiveness and love turn away from corruption to life. Unforgiveness and hatred are also spirit, but spirit that corrupts the flesh and are sown to the flesh. Hatred is anti-productive and destructive to life. Grace is the plan of God, encompassing love, forgiveness, the Spirit of God, renewed life; and grace began with God, in Jesus our Christ and is sowing to the Spirit.

June 14, 2016
Nothing can separate us from the love of God, so what is generating all the hate in the world? Has the world purposely turned from God’s love? His love is here, the world has full access to His love; but we love our own idea of what is right and wrong – our own knowledge. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, but our own knowledge blinds us to the presence of God. People perish because of the lack of knowledge, walking in the knowledge of good and evil – walking away from faith and grace, blind to love.

June 13, 2016
The presence of God is not something we have to work up or something based on our doing. The Son of God came into the earth as a man to be our help, then sent another Helper who dwells in the earth – poured out on all flesh without measure. First the BLOOD of JESUS then the SPIRIT of GOD. That and the fact that everything created is created in Him who is the light is the very presence of GOD with US, being US in HIM. Spiritual darkness is but a temporary shadow on the inhabitants of the earth, whose time is coming to an end. God has made those of faith who believe to be carriers of His light – HIS LOVE!

June 9, 2016
We were created in Christ in God’s image and likeness as children of God. That is our root identity that was forgotten when mankind took to our self the knowledge of good and evil. That identity is a being and not a doing. When we receive Him and believe in His name we are reborn (recreated) in the state of the original creation. The truth is our identity from creation is revealed to us who believe that our created state is our identity. There may be other identities revealed to us by doing, like one identifies a doctor, plummer, pastor, teacher, etc. by what they do; but doing cannot change being.

June 7, 2016
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand” (John 10:27-29). I am of a mind to believe nothing can pull me from the love of God – no angel or man, no power of darkness or lies among men, nothing past or future or now, nothing understood or misunderstood – nothing will ever separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus. His own hear His voice, faith by hearing and hearing by the WORD of GOD, and follow HIM!

June 6, 2016
We are not to judge. We are accountable for what we believe and what the Spirit has taught us. Siblings in the faith help us with our accountability to love, yes and respect, one another and God though our love, respect, and good works (faith with works) towards one another. We use one word to say many things, and sometimes too many words to say the same thing. We judge our self in that we hold our self accountable to the word. The same word judges us all, the righteous in faith now, and the unbeliever in the last day. If we of faith say we judge, when the savior asked us not to judge, what are we saying to unbelievers? ‪#‎berealaboutit2‬ He didn’t mean what He said!

June 3, 2016
What are the words God has spoken to you? What dream has He given you in the night and what vision in the light? Who has put a saddle on the word, the dream, and the vision to sit on them and bridle you? Who has asked you to make for them brick without straw and your midwife to put the fruit of your inheritance in the Nile? You are not an indentured servant, the price has been paid for your freedom. You are yoked together with the Son of God, and there is no saddle on His back or bit in His mouth.

May 25, 2016
We have authority to use Christ Jesus’ name – to preach the gospel – to make disciple in all nations – to baptize – to step on serpents (devils) – to pray for the sick, brokenhearted, and the captives. We have no authority to oppress the Church or the lost, or to suppress or control the good works of the believers. Paul wrote that our authority is “for edification and not for your destruction.” Our authority in the Church is to speak the gospel in love, the same as anywhere else we minister. There needs to be order in the service, but order is not an excuse to oppress. For freedom Christ has set us free!

May 24, 2016
If you have a problem loving one another, including your enemy, you need to talk to God seriously about the problem. He is the creator and the one in charge of your rebirth, your being reformed. Love is a product of the Holy Spirit, produced in us – God in us! As with wheat, love is seed producing a harvest of seed. God gives us His love, but love is not a gift of the Spirit. Love is produced, a product increased in us! As wonderful and abundant as God’s love is, His love is a seed. A seed of the Spirit that increases in us when we are prepared by God, attended to by His hands. A world of darkness and hate destroys, but God sends the light to shine and the rain to fall on the just and unjust alike.

May 23, 2016
Without love all the religious acts in the world are nothing. Without love all the things we like to talk about – signs and wonders – our giving – our knowledge – ministry gifts – spiritual gifts are nothing. Preaching without love is just noise. Here is a challenge for you; the next time you want to talk down someone or some group of people, gossip to God about them. Take the ones you have issue with to God in prayer, listening for His heart for the person or people. God does not desire that any should perish, so go gets God’s advice on how to handle the issue. God is love, so get His perspective. Don’t quote an Old Testament verse and say, “This is how God wants to handle it,” unless you want to lay down grace and mercy and be judged the same way. Love one another, love every one another.

May 22, 2016
Can I talk to you a little about my Jesus? He was so badly treated by His own creation that He could not carry His cross all the way to the top of the hill, so another man towed it up there. But He had the strength to look down on the ones who nailed Him to the wood and say, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!” What little I can do to tell His story means so much to me because of His glory and His grace. Jesus thank you, for you knew me when I did not know You and came for me anyway so I would not stay that way! If you do not know my Jesus please ask someone to tell you His story – His word is life and liberty and joy you cannot know without Him. His life is grace for grace, and family unending!

May 15, 2016
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8)? That question asked by Micah was answered by Jesus, “that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34b). How do you do justly (give a verdict, bring a sentence) – how do you act on the love you have for mercy – how do you walk humbly before God? Love God by loving one another, giving grace for grace – a love walked out, faith with goods works. Not judging the person in their walk, but loving the mercy God is lavishing on them.

May 14, 2016
During a time of sidewalk ministry last evening I heard one of the most misinterpreted doctrines of Jesus Christ possible. The teaching was that God the Father killed His Son. It came in the form of the question, “How can you trust a God who killed His own Son?” I don’t need to! God gave His Son to mankind as a redeemer, the inhumanity of mankind killed Jesus. The imperfection of mankind killed Jesus because of His perfection, because He thought it not a crime to come as a man in the likeness and image of God to be equal with God. Jesus was killed for confessing His created state (being born) and His life in God being in the form of God born as a man, to be the first of many recreated or reborn or resurrected. The fact that Jesus was killed is proof to the fact that mankind needs a Savior who gave of Himself and forgives; not desiring that any should perish.

May 13, 2016
Prophets and prophet kings wrote and sang of the goodness of God and of His plan of redemption. King David wrote some of the lasts words Jesus would speak on the cross, inspired by His admiration for the Lord and events in his own life. A great deal of the Psalms read like the blues, but no matter what was going on the light of the world always shined through. We have a hope and a future because He lived and He lives. His life and teachings are not a religion, just something to add on to your life. He is life! He predicates an abundant life. And all He asks us to do is believe and love God by loving one another.

May 12, 2016
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17). Both GRACE and RIGHTEOUSNESS are GIFTS, not good or any other kind of works. The GIFT of JESUS CHRIST is INCLUSIVE of everything required for ETERNAL LIFE. The GIFT includes sanctification, holiness, and purification. GIFTS of GOD! BELIEVE!

May 10, 2016
The enemy of God is not the person being attacked or the one in captivity being used to attack; they are the ones God sent Jesus to rescue. The Christian is not meant to get so high minded as to forget why God sent His Son into a world He so loved; not to condemn but to redeem. The kingdom of God is not clothes, food, or drink, or even days and new moons, but love for one another as the King has loved. Liberty should not ask what prison someone is in, nor freedom the charge laid against them. The price has been paid and the servant bears the news, but does not control the ransom. You have been ransomed and are redeemed! The Spirit of God is ready and willing to occupy the temple of God you were created to be. Believe!

May 9, 2016
If your faith is in your own works, it is just as dead as the faith without works – like wearing filthy rags to a kings wedding feast. The works that accompany our faith are not the target of our faith, for that faith is not of our works so mankind should boast. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).

May 8, 2016
Faith starts as seed that grows within the vessel God is remolding. I started some plants from seeds. Somethings I noticed about the process is God provided the dirt, God provided the rain and the sun, and God provided the carbon dioxide. One more thing, God provided the seeds. GOD provides the FAITHFULNESS that grows our faith when we believe, and HE has provided the seed. GOD IS OUR PROVIDER, and the harvest belongs to Him!

May 6, 2016
“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify” (1 Corinthians 10:23). To edify is to build up. What does not build up pulls down or is neutral? What is not helpful, is harmful or is neutral? Speak the truth in love to edify one another. Or are we given grace that we might have grace to condemn another? Is truth given for us to use to edify self and pull down another? Or is it God who is exalted and who exalts? If the works of God be for you, what are the works of mankind?

May 5, 2016
Too many times the cheers of the cheerleaders are putdowns in disguise – God could help, but because we don’t do He can’t. They sound holy, but have no merit. God had a plan before creation that included everything mankind needs, including the way, the truth, and the life. Salvation includes everything required for life – all the truth – all the way. Or salvation would not include a more abundant eternal life. God has blessed us first – grace is how we have life in the flesh before we believe and how we believe to walk by faith. CAN WE BELIEVE?!! Grace has merit because grace has a GIVER!

May 2, 2016
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). He became sin for us, but He did not become a sinner. The one who sins is the sinner. How did He become sin for us? Sin is the transgression or violation of the law. So, how did He become sin? The law is not of faith, but is doing or not doing. But it states, He who knew no sin. Jesus not only did not commit sin, He knew no sin – in the company of sinners. God made Him, in the created state of the creation, to be sin for us. Sin was not what He did or did not do, but a created state to redeem (take (gain or regain) possession of something in exchange for a price paid) creation. Creation was created very good, but took the knowledge of good and evil, so the God of creation was created as sin to pay the price to regain creation as very good for us. As a created state of being and not of doing or not doing.

May 1, 2016
Jesus said, “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (Luke 5:32). For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). A covenant is an agreement between two or more parties. To say someone is in disagreement with one of the parties is to say they have no covenant with that party. We have a blood covenant with God, through the blood of One who came to call sinners to repentance. How can identifying with the reason Jesus came cause us to forfeit our covenant with God? I tell you, it cannot! Our agreement with God is through faith, and that a gift of God. Our covenant belongs to God and is the finished work of victory, and confessing your covenant with God does not cause it to be invalidated. We are the righteousness of God in Him because the Him knew no sin but became sin for us and paid the price of death and endured the tomb.

April 28, 2016
In the beginning mankind was created as one, one man and woman. We were all one tribe known as human. Our rebirth, through Jesus Christ, is a rebirth into that single tribe – no Jew and no Gentile (other nations), but all the same. With Cain and Abel only one sacrifice was accepted, but we really all have the one sacrifice that God has accepted for us all so we might be saved. Grace was given and grace for grace that in forgiveness we may be one. We may be one with God (atonement) and one with each other (forgiveness).

April 26, 2016
WILL THE REAL BODY OF CHRIST PLEASE STAND UP! The body who loves one another, loves your enemy, prays for those who use you for spite. The body who seeks the lost with the gospel of grace spoken in love, and with a grace for grace that shows true. The body who is dressed in the wedding garment of salvation, who knows by faith their righteousness in Christ Jesus and their kinship as a created child of God; and knows by faith that is the lost identity of the lost. A body of individuals filled with the Holy Spirit, growing love in you that flows like a stream of living water. A body who speaks no curse over the lost, waiting to be saved, or the saved seeking the lost.

April 22, 2016
Jesus said, “My followers will be known by their love.” People known by their hate are not followers of Christ Jesus. “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight” (John 18:36a). Warmongers are not doing so as a service for Jesus the Anointed Savior, and they never were. Go into the world and preach the good news, not kill and pillage, is the commission of the followers of Jesus the Anointed Savior.

April 19, 2016
The blood of Jesus does not stop at the Mt. Sinai, the Red Sea, or in Egypt. To pay the price of death the blood has to flow to the place where the penalty was taken by mankind – in the Garden of Eden. That means there are no tricks of the enemy of God not put under the blood. To pay the price for sin before there was sin, Jesus is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. Grace predates mankind.

April 18, 2016
Everyone is running around like a chicken with their head chopped off looking for God’s will for their life; like it is something they have to do that God won’t tell them. God is not requiring something from you that He isn’t telling you. Salvation is a gift of God through faith in Jesus as the Son of God, and faith a gift also. God desires that none should perish. Love one another. Visit the sick and prisoners, feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, cloth the naked, and treat the stranger like a friend.‬ There is liberty in your giving and receiving. There is liberty in the will of God for your life.

April 17, 2016
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34). “If you love Me, keep My commandment” (John 14:15). “If someone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar” (1 John 4:20a). If you think you love God but do not love one another, you fool yourself – if you think you obey commandments to show God love, but do not love one another you are sadly mistaken. Love one another” is not just a nice suggestion! And love is not just for the people who you think believe like you.

April 14, 2016
GOD is working on your behalf! That is not PROPHETIC, that is who GOD is. From before the beginning of time, GOD has been WORKING on YOUR BEHALF. JESUS prepared the cross on OUR BEHALF! JESUS went into the TOMB on OUR BEHALF. And JESUS prepared these things before the earth had form on OUR BEHALF. JESUS rose from the dead on OUR BEHALF! JESUS did what HE saw the FATHER do, COMING to SERVE and not to be SERVED, on OUR BEHALF!

April 12 2016
The Church exists to encourage the world with the gospel spoken in love, including those who labor among you. We are not so one sided as to exist only for the lost, but to work with each other to be an example of God’s love to a hurting world. Christ’s own are known by their love for everyone!

April 9, 2016
As long as preachers talk about the church as the buildings with steeples and crosses on the roofs and coming to church as coming to see and hear them, the gospel is not being taught to the world. We are the church – we are the forgiven and the forgivers – we are the children of God and the righteousness of God in Him. We go into the world, we preach the gospel. If it is a one man show, the man is Jesus! The same Jesus that has asked us all to help spread the message of grace.

April 7, 20166
If God so loved us shouldn’t we love the same world. Other people’s opinion about our mission to preach the gospel to the whole earth is not our commission. Our commission is to go and speak the truth in love. We do not have a “get out of hell free message.” We have a more abundant life message of hope and love. The warmongers and preaches of hate are not followers of Jesus Christ – PERIOD! That doesn’t mean grace isn’t for them, but grace is for grace. The message is love one another.

March 21, 2016
“For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified (made holy)” (Hebrews 10:14). Made holy by whom? “By that will (determination, desire) we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). Through the offering of the body of Jesus we are made holy and perfected; by the work of God that no man should glory. For it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

March 17, 2016
We have freedom for freedom’s sake through Jesus the Christ. That freedom protects the freedom of others with as much zeal as it does for self. No one is free while holding someone else captive. No one is free who tries to control the thoughts and feelings of others. No one is free who sits on the gifts of God in others, or attempts to. The responsibility of those in leadership is to ensure freedom by empowering others. Not to use the idea of freedom to enslave others or enrich and/or empower themselves unequally. It all starts with love. No matter what your opinion is of someone else, suffer yourself to love them. Love as Jesus has loved, and is loving.

March 15, 2016
“These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:14). But how should they believe in Him if they have never heard, and how will they hear without a preacher?

March 11, 2016
“Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, ‘Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’” (Matthew 9:10-11). Who will be at the Lord’s table in the kingdom of heaven. There is no unclean thing on the highway to the kingdom, but everyone there has been cleansed by the Way. It is written that Jesus said, “The words I have spoken to you has cleansed you already.” Those who believe they need not be forgiven and cleansed do not need a Way that saves. He sent His servants saying, “Bring in the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. Go take a journey and compel all to come, so my house will be full.”

March 10, 2016
I saw a mountain and a flowing stream, of pure clean water, flowing from the house of God. Everyone contributed a drop, like the dew in the morning, until the stream was raging down the mountain. The stream is the stream of God’s love produced by the indwelling of the love of God in His own. On either side of the stream are those wanting to get into the flow, but they do not feel they belong. How is that the lost in Christ do not feel invited? Are we not compelling them to come?

March 9, 2016
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:26). God doesn’t leave your salvation in the hands of men, He has sent His own Spirit to teach you the word of God. The endowment of the Holy Spirit teaches you and comforts you. Unbelievers need a preacher to hear and believe unto salvation. It is good to have servants of God to expound on the word, but hear it and read it and dwell on it for yourself with the Spirit as your guide.

March 8, 2016
Today is a day the Lord has created. While you are important to Him, He didn’t create it just for you. He created the day to be another day to love our enemy. We have another day to welcome the people God is adding to the kingdom daily. We have another day to love one another. It is another day a child is born and someone will pass on. Another day to smile and another day to cry. Another day to get into life or sit and watch life go by. It is another day the Lord has made, be joyful and glad in it.

March 3, 2016
It takes going through something to understand that God’s love and forgiveness is our righteousness and holiness. Without the price paid for grace as example of God’s love, who would be our witness? It is real easy to pass blame, when what we should be passing is love. But first we need to return our thoughts to God (repent) and open up to the fact that we were created to be love, in His likeness and image. ‪ Let him who is perfect accuse the lost for their imperfections. All the rest of us, love one another as Jesus loves.

March 2, 2016
If you haven’t heard yet, a man named Jesus was born of a woman by the power of the Almighty. He walked the earth helping the unrighteous among mankind become the righteous of God in Him. He was beaten and put on a cross to pay the price for us to be one with God in right standing with Him. He rose from the tomb to be the assurance of our resurrection in Him. He came, sent by the love of God, to be love for us and to return us to the identity of love in our created state. He gives us liberty for liberties sake. Get free, love one another!

Feb. 29, 2016
What is to be believed? There is a piece of knowledge that saves, and if you don’t know it or get it you are not saved; or we have a God who sent His Son to complete the work of salvation for us. Adam and Eve did not eat good and evil, but the knowledge of good and evil. God created only good, but mankind’s knowledge of what is good and evil corrupted mankind. The serpent didn’t tell Adam and Eve they were naked, he just convinced them to do something that made them ashamed. Their shame and the knowledge of good and evil told them they were naked. God was always love and spirit. God always saved by grace. Good is what we are because it is how we were created, and saved is what we are because we have a Savior. Believing is the way we see our created state. Mankind’s falling is in our mind and our heart. Mankind’s salvation is in God by the renewing of our mind (removing the knowledge of good and evil) and God in our heart being love.

Feb. 26, 2016
Do you ever find yourself at a place where you feel like you can’t go on? You don’t seem to be moving forward and everything you dream or desire looks so far away and unobtainable. The world seems to be fixed against you, and the naysayers and the high handed seem to come out on top every time. That is the way it looks in the flesh, but remember Joseph in Egypt and Paul taking the gospel to the gentiles. Keep pushing toward your goal, keeping your eyes on Jesus. The Jews celebrated Passover and watched Him die the death of a Lamb. The Romans found nothing in Him worthy of death, but put Him on the cross anyway. He borrowed a tomb, and in three days was our resurrected Lord and King. If you don’t know the resurrected Jesus, it is time you get to know Him. ‪ If you do know Him, hold on the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Feb. 25, 2016 Evening
For all of you that have been told God is dead, I want to let you know He is alive and well and living inside of me. And I have it from a reliable source that I am not alone, He’s living inside of a lot of my friends! As you read this I pray you are one. If you are not, please get in contact with Him and invite Him in. It is written, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” It is also written, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”

Feb. 25, 2016
Surrender to God is not giving up on our identity and becoming just another Christian spouting Christian jargon. Surrendering to God is finding our true identity in Christ and the unique person we were created to be. Don’t get hooked up with cookie cutter Christianity, find you own special relationship with God through Jesus Christ. If God created snowflakes to all be unique individual flakes that exist for a little while and then are gone, think about how uniquely He created you. You are a unique special child of God created to be the house of God and part of His kingdom. Do you know Jesus as your Lord and king come to forgive and welcome you to the kingdom of God as a child of God? If not, He is waiting for you with open arms.

Feb. 24, 2016
I cannot say enough about the love of God. There are some people who tell me that I talk too much about love, but I don’t believe that is possible. Well it might be, if you are only talking and not allowing the love of God to flow through you to the lost in Christ. Showing your faith by your works is showing God’s love working in you and flowing from you. Not that love is a work, but good works accompany God’s love.

Feb. 23, 2016
God’s love is the power of forgiveness found in grace. Grace is more than just repentance and forgiveness. There is power in the Spirit of God, not by might and not by power of the multitudes or the weight of physical force, but by God’s love. God’s love sent to us a Savior and sent to us His own Spirit, the Spirit of love. God’s love is the power received in the upper room, and what released the Word of God to the world separate from the law (all the way back to the Garden of Eden). God’s love brings forth the chief capstone with a cry of grace, grace to it! The capstone is the finished work of the cross completing the temple of God made by His hands. Don’t you know we are the temple of God?

Feb. 19, 2016
Mankind was in such a rush to be what God created us to be that the serpent tricked Adam and Eve into trying it his way. Love, mercy, and grace is God’s way but humanity keeps trying other ways, to the point that the status quo is to deny that God exists. The part of creation created in His likeness and image is denying that the creator exists. Mankind denies our hope of a future, and is watching for the earth to be laid waste and the days of mankind to end. God has worked a work for mankind that leaves us no room to boast, but boastful men and women will not give up their boasting in themselves.

Feb. 16, 2016
Now there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus and He has become the end of the curse of the law to all who believe. If there is no condemnation in, then none can come from the believer; it has to be in to come out. So believers can no longer curse (condemn) anyone using the curse of the law. Jesus came to take away the deeds of the darkness. That covers everything all the way back to the first law broken by Adam and Eve, not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. All things spoken by God ever since He said, “Be light!” was created in the light. It is from that moment that grace came to the earth, before the formation of the earth and the creation of life upon the earth. For who the Son sets free is free in deed!

Feb. 15, 2016
To understand the inhumanity of man against man, the greed in one man destroying the lives of the many, and the broken hearts of the many leaking pain on the ones they love, you must first admit we do not struggle against flesh and blood. Our struggle is with dark spirits and their influence in high places. But we are armed with the gift of faith from God, the gift of salvation by grace from Light of the world, and the Sword of the spirit of the Word by the Holy Spirit. We are given power through the love of God to love one another and bless those who curse us. God’s love will not fail. It may not seem the best method of resisting evil, but God’s love is what sent Jesus into the world. Jesus was sent to be Savior of the world or we have no hope. Choose this day who you will believe.

Feb. 10, 2016
Jesus said, “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you” (John 15:3). What was the word Jesus had spoken to them and to us? A new commandment to love one another. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come and receive you. I am the way, the truth, and the life and the way to the Father. He who believes in Me will do greater works. I will send you a Comforter the world cannot receiver. The indwelling of God in the temples He created. A peace not like the world’s peace. If you bear fruit My Father will prune you to grow more fruit. What can atone for my sins? The spoken word of God Who bled for us.

Feb. 9, 2016
What I really cannot understand are people who believe we don’t have to love anyone who is not already saved, except maybe a few people they see as unsaved who somehow benefit them. Giving love to someone has nothing to do with how they treat you or what they believe, and everything to with who you are. Jesus said my own will be known by their love for one another. The key here being God loved us and sent His Son for us while we were unsaved. It is His love that gave us grace, and is still His love giving us grace.‬ You are a righteous child of God in Christ Jesus, a child of God’s love.

Feb. 8, 2016
When we make the choice to use our God given faith to believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world and see grace as complete in Him, we repent (turn our thoughts to God). Repentance, as part of grace, returns us to our created state of being in God’s image and likeness. The inward dwelling of the Holy Spirit producing love is also part of grace, part of the salvation bought by the blood of God. God is love. Love is part of the image and likeness of God. With the love God pours into us and the love the Spirit produces in us (seed producing like seed), we are able to love one another. And thinking no evil we are able to see good without the interruption of evil thoughts. God loved us while we were estranged from Him, and that is the love we are asked to love others with.

Feb. 7, 2016
When you pray a prayer of confession to be seen by people as fitting into the group with little or no change of mind or heart, you will see little or no results in your life. A prayer of confession pouring out of your heart by a eye opening experience with the Jesus who died for you will turn you eyes and mind back to God, and the healing can begin. Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.” He also said, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” It is a God thing. It is a great blessing to be a witness when the Father draws, the Son welcomes a new believer to the throne of God, and the Holy Spirit moves into the holy of holies in the new believer.

Feb. 6, 2016
The first thing I was taught about God from religion is punishment. The first thing I learned about God first hand is love. Religion will tell you not to talk so much about the love of God and focus more on escaping death. The Holy Spirit taught me to be mended by God’s love and escape death by the grace sent by His love. We can spend our time teaching on death, or we can focus on God’s love, blood, and grace and escape death. My calling is to teach the good news of the good news, or you could say to teach on the good news of the gospel. Love God by loving one another!

Feb. 5, 2016
Only God has the power to turn unbelievers into on fire, Spirit filled, gospel living believers. Our part is to share the gospel message by sharing the message of the blood of the Lamb and the testimony of our salvation by grace and of the goodness of God. That is done by the word of our testimony of the saving grace of God purchased by the blood of the Lamb; and by an example of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting those sick or in prison, and otherwise loving one another.

Feb. 4, 2016
We love to hear someone say, “God is good! We auto-respond, “All the time!” But do we stop to think upon His goodness. We breathe because God gives us breath. We would have no earth to dwell on, if not for God’s creative power. At an appointed time one who did not sin, became sin for us; one who could not die, became death for us. But death could not hold Jesus. Because He rose again, we need not fear to live; because He lives, we need not fear death. And these things are the beginning of blessings. He came to rescue the lost; starting first in Judea, then Sumaria, and then all the children of Adam and Eve. Asking of us one thing, “Love one another, as I have loved.” He came giving us His love and grace for grace.

Feb. 3, 2016
The enemy can use anything to separate people, and often does. With the help of humans and our need to define and compartmentalize everything along with a need to belong to something superior, the enemy creates division. To do battle with the enemy Jesus said, “Love one another.” He didn’t say love only those who look like you, think like you, talk like you, or even love you. He said, “as I have loved you.” There never spoke a man like that before.

Feb. 2, 2016
Church, we were called to speak the gospel message with love. We were called to encourage and equip one another with love. We were called to preach the gospel to all of the world, because God does not desire that any should perish. We are called to revival for God’s sake, and not to build our own kingdom on earth. God adds to the Church those to be saved. Saved by grace so no man can boast in his own works, giving the glory to God and not “Look At Me Ministry, Inc.” Let’s get over self and teach the gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ; the true gospel, and the full gospel (good news) of grace for grace.

Feb. 1, 2016
Church, we have a commission to deliver the gospel message of hope of a future to a hurting world. Our hope is in Jesus Christ, where we are the righteousness of God in Him. That is the hope we have, and the hope we can deliver to the world. Our security of a future is in the resurrection, of which Jesus is the first and our resurrection is in Him. Our faith is in His faithfulness, our life is in His life, and our assurance is in His promise and His Spirit.

Jan. 30, 2016
In the vision, a fire came in the night. It was not a house fire, brush fire, or forest fire, but a fire of the word in the heart. The angels of the Lord came to pull up the tares and throw them in the fire, so our hearts may have the pure gospel of grace. Too many believers are being feed the tares and too many believers are holding on to heartbreaks, because they were never told the true gospel of grace. Too many liars are claiming the right to steal, kill, and destroy using the name of Christ. The fire comes and the tares are being pulled up and burned in our hearts, so true believers will not be deceived. Carry the ID Jesus gave us, love one another as Jesus has loved us. Get into the stream of God’s love; don’t walk along the edge of the stream, either get in or walk away!

Jan. 29, 2016
I believe for every man and women ever born, Jesus bleed. I believe grace is why Adam and Eve didn’t die the day they ate fruit from the forbidden tree. I believe Jesus went to the cross with us on His mind and the Father in His heart. I believe the last thing Jesus did on the cross before dying is to feel how mankind suffers for turning away from God, so He suffered in all the ways mankind suffers. I believe humans become enlightened when we turn back to God, and that being at odds with God fills us with pride. I believe Jesus was, is, and always will be the Son of God, who died to return us to a life more abundant by taking the burden of the knowledge of evil off our backs. I believe Jesus meant what He said when He said, “Love one another as I have loved you.” I believe loving our enemy is possible when we give up our idea of evil, and truly think no evil about anyone.

Jan. 28, 2016
There is power in unity. To be joined as a whole does not mean we agree on everything, but in one or two things that pull us together. In Christianity that would be to believe in Jesus the Christ as the Son of God, and to love one another as He has loved us. Our seal is the Holy Spirit that seals us together with Himself with the love of God. Our identity is in our love for one another, including those at enmity with (being actively opposed to) God.

Jan. 27, 2016
Jesus is the Christ, and the head of the body of Christ, Lord and King, First and Last, Author and Finisher, and He is mine and I am His. Every thorn in the crown, He took for me. Every crack of the whip, He bore for me. Every nail nailed, He endured for me. Every drop of blood spilled, He spilled for me. His last breath He breathed, was His last because of me. The time in the tomb, was spent on me. The Spirit raised Him from the dead to lift me up into heavenly places with Him. Yea, I take that personally.

Jan. 25, 2016
Have you very heard one of those preaches who talk about the people in the meetings where he speaks as the only ones that have heard gospel being preached, and they are the only ones that will save the world? It would make me wonder what else they are lying about. The work of the Father is the job of every believer, because the work of the Father is to believe in the Son. The commission of the Son is a mission in common with every believer, not a few in the pulpit. The ministry gifts were given to the body for the work of the ministry. The ministry of the gospel belongs to every believer, a gift from Jesus along with grace and the Spirit of God. Jesus gave us ministering gifts to encourage each other, and to take the gospel everywhere we go. We should be encouraging and equipping one another, so Jesus be lifted up and all of mankind be drawn to Him.

Jan. 22, 2016
Why is a gospel that begins, “God so loved the world,” taught starting with, “You going to hell!” The good news is God so loved the world followed by, “that He sent His only begotten Son.” Why? To turn us around and head us back to Himself. To undo the deeds of the spiritual darkness in high places. To show us we have a King that is in the battle with us. To be our faithfulness and our righteousness, so we are the righteousness of God in Him. Love, grace, faithfulness, righteousness, holiness, and if there be any other thing good began with God and ends with God, the author and finisher.

Jan. 19, 2016 – Evening
As followers of the Way, we are called to spread the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ; while God remakes us (rebirth) into who we were created to be. During the rebuilding process (rebirth) God gives us gifts to use to perform the ministry He has called us into, namely ministry gifts. He has given us of His Spirit (His love) as a gift and additional gifts through the Holy Spirit. Our walk started with His love sending His Son to pay a price to purchase His creation, so He could begin the rework of making us in His likeness and image. God is love – the Spirit produces love in us. We were not called to wait until we were perfectly complete to begin the work born out of love. The ministry calling on us is accomplish by the righteousness of Jesus Christ (us in Him) and the love of God, His Holy Spirit, at work in us (Him in us). It is by faith in God and the faithfulness of God that we are called the reborn, being resurrected with Jesus Christ. Our calling is to tell all creatures about the Son of God sent because God so loves the world. God’s plan unfolds so no one can boast of their own strength.

Jan. 19, 2016
As followers of the Way, we need to understand that we are part of fallen mankind living in the grace of God bought by our Savior because God so loved the world. Grace has always been the plan of God. Grace has always covered mankind and granted us a period of time alive in the physical to believe and receive righteousness and life from God as a gift. Everyone is given a measure of faith and the freewill to use the faith to believe something. The work of the Father is that we believe in the Son. All the interaction between God and mankind is intended to result in belief in the Son, and the gift of grace purchased by the Son for mankind. Even the pouring out of the Holy Spirit is for that purpose. For the commandment of the Son is that we love one another, and that is the fruit of the Spirit. God has been faithful and has believed in mankind so we might believe in Him whom He sent and be saved, desiring that none should perish. Flesh and blood has not been working alone to sway mankind to believe in anything but Jesus Christ; but spirits of darkness in high places promises mankind what darkness cannot deliver, asking our freewill as the price. There is but one Deliverer born of God as the Son of mankind.

Jan. 16, 2016
As Christians we are instructed to know those who work among us. That goes for fellow Christians doing the Father’s work, but also those in our camps working to steal, kill, and destroy. Remember we don’t contend with flesh and blood. Teach the gospel to everyone without bias. Pray for those who spitefully uses you, and love the hell out of them.

Jan. 15, 2016
Christianity is a relationship with the Son of God, and not a fear based religion. There is no fear in love, and the followers of Jesus are known by their love for one another. So, Christianity is also a relationship with other people. Jesus said to love one another as He has loved us. If Christian identity is in the way they love, then the way people hate must be antichristian. So how did the antichristian get to be called Christian? By claiming the right to hate came from God. True Christians need to raise up the banner of the Lord and love one another, including those at enmity with God. We do not contend with flesh and blood. Love is not a work, love is a fruit of the Spirit.

Jan. 14, 2016
Why not talk about the goodness of God? The testimony of your word is sharing the goodness of God in your own life. If you have your ear too close to the ground today, you hear a lot of “the end of the world” talk. The banks are failing, stock markets are crashing, the earth is abnormally warming, literally the sky is falling, the sun is erupting, and wars are popping up everywhere. And yes, let’s not forget about the black hole machine so many are conCERNed about. The gospel is still the gospel and our commission is still our commission. People need to hear of the goodness of God, and the gift of grace as much now as they ever have. People need a Savior as much now as they ever have. The scriptures warn of a famine of the word of God. Don’t replace the gospel with fear. Fear not! I am not saying don’t be prepared, but be prepared by making sure your lamps are full and your wick is trimmed. Some of you know what I mean, and you need to share with the people who don’t know.

Jan. 13, 2016
Life is happening either way, so you might as well enjoy life. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:11-12). Enjoy the people around you, love them.

Jan. 12, 2016
The next time you are thinking about everything God has done for you, remember Jesus said, “Love one another, as I have loved you love one another.”

Jan. 11, 2016
It may not be a popular thing to say, but we are all lost in this fallen world and we are all found dwelling in the Son of God. I cannot say I found Jesus, because I do not believe He was ever lost. Maybe what I want to say is Jesus has always been my dwelling place, but I was blind and now I see – I was lost but now I have found that being lost is looking the other way. A turn of my heart and my head, a gift from God, and I am homeward bound.

Jan. 10, 2016
As we see the day approaching, and some of you know what I am talking about, the enemy of God has stepped up his destructive influence on his servants in the earth. God has also stepped up His deliveries of love, signs and wonders, and unaltered seeds of faith to his own. Signs and wonders of themselves are not proof of their origins but by their love they will be made known. This day we are asked to choose whom we will serve, and as for me and my house we will serve the Lord of all grace and mercies. To you I say grace, and grace for grace. Even when you walk in the valley of the destroyer may the Lord be your shield and your helmet and your sword of the Spirit. For those seeking salvation are often found in the valley of the destroyer. May the peace of the Lord of Peace, the Prince of Peace, risen from the valley to the heavens be upon you and yours.

Jan. 8, 2016
Did Jesus say, “My own will be known by their theological arguments”? Or did He command, “Browbeat everyone with the word, as I have done, do also”? Is the work of God to believe in hell fire and damnation? Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent” (John 6:29). And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment (1 John 3:23). “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). You cannot argue that you have tried Christ if you haven’t surrendered to love. Love is the work of the Holy Spirit working in you. The Father sent the Son because of His love for the world – the Son finished the work He was sent to do – the Son and the Father sent us the Holy Spirit to complete us, plant the Word (Jesus) in us and grow love. Seed producing like seed. What does love have to do with damnation – except to bring us grace and take away the reward of the serpent?

Jan. 4, 2016
The work of the Father is that we believe in the One He sent, and love one another, as the Son has commanded us. Salvation is by grace alone, and the catalyst of grace is belief in the Son of God as our Savior. The Holy Spirit is a gift from God as part of grace, part of believing. Our holiness is in Jesus the Christ, we are the righteousness of God in Him. God molds us and makes us in His likeness and image with His own hands, and nothing can take us from His hands. But He can cast us down if we do not produce fruit by the Spirit of God. Producing fruit is part of grace, part of believing, part of receiving the Holy Spirit. Salvation, all of salvation is by grace alone.

Jan. 3, 2016
There are so many hurting people, in this world so full of possibilities, who once had a dream of the way it could be and should be. The pursuit of happiness has so many rules and regulations that it is easier to stop the pursuit. For far too many the dream has turned into a never ending sleepless night of regrets. But God has sent His Son so we can be reconciled with the dreams of love and peace and a joy only He can give us. I know from my yesterdays that God uses the arms of His people to wrap around the brokenhearted. But in the deepest darkest hours of the early part of the day, He comes to wrap His own arms around His children who feel they have no foothold in life.

Jan. 1, 2016
This is not a New Year’s resolution, something we say on December 31 or January 1 that falls by the wayside by January 15. God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are the most important in my life; a personal relationship and not some unreachable mystic idea of a higher power. Through Jesus the Christ I am not the only one in a relationship with God. Our life through Jesus Christ is a journey, and everyone is not in the same place in the journey. God lights my path, He is my guide through the journey, and His Sprit is my mentor and helper in this journey. If you do not agree with the doctrine or the timing of God’s work in me, I am not the one to challenge or accuse. You have to take it up with the source. My salvation is by grace alone. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is an important part of God’s grace. Without the Spirit I could not love my enemy; on my own I had a hard time loving my friends and family. I will be tempted and make mistakes. I will fail some trials, but I have joy because Jesus overcame the temptations and trials. With that said I will say, I am going to continue preaching the gospel of grace because the grace Giver is the way of salvation.

Dec. 31, 2015
When someone has been held under a religious spirit and they discover grace, there can be a pendulum effect of release followed by a period of skepticism. The realization that what they had once believed as gospel is not a gospel causes a period of doubt for everything ever believed. The person can experience a type of separation anxiety from religion; leading to a dysfunctional prayer life, limited or no fellowship, the rejection of anything faith based, and a resentment of God and the Church. There can be a period of fight or flight causing one to offensively resist or defensively run from all things spiritual, leading to guilt, shame, and blame. But God can and does swing the pendulum back to Himself, because He does not leave or turn His back on a disheartened believer going through a period of skepticism. His mercy and grace has got that! Believers we need to be doing our part by providing a loving and safe place for the skeptic to recover. The last thing they need is condemnation and rejection. Love one another as Jesus has loved.

Dec. 29, 2015
The gospel is good news of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ! Even the people who have testified a gospel that is not a gospel can turn to God through Jesus and receive grace unto salvation. God loves you right where you are, and sent His Son to rescue you right where you are; then sent His Spirit so you do not have to remain where you are. That is good news! ‬

Dec. 28, 2015
There is an urgency to the message, “Love one another!” Mankind has the weapons to destroy the earth’s inhabitants more than once, but once is all it takes. We have read about a great trial that is to come upon the earth; this is because of mankind’s hatred of God and themselves. One of the traps of the enemy was to cause mankind to loath themselves and feel unworthy. Out of their feeling of unworthiness came self-righteousness, projected hatred of others, and the unbelief in a God who would save the unworthy. How could an all-powerful God love the unworthy? With their own works mankind attempted to be worthy by being a little better that the worst of the unworthy (self-righteousness). To be better than, mankind started judging and condemning others and covering sin with the sins of others. With the utter failure of self-righteousness, mankind argued that there is no God and in His absence there is no need for grace. God is worthy to save mankind separate from our ideology of unworthiness. Grace for grace from One who is worthy sent by God’s love.

Dec. 26, 2015
Love one another as Jesus has loved you. What does that look like? Jesus didn’t need salvation. He already had His place in the kingdom of God. Jesus worked for our salvation. Your works after salvation, born out of grace, are not for your salvation. All those people you have been hating on, all the people you think are unworthy of salvation without first being punished, and all the people you cross the street so you don’t have to be graceful to, your works are for their salvation. Love one another as Jesus has loved you.

Dec. 24, 2015
Jesus did not win my heart with a convincing story about love, He won my heart by being love in me towards others. He told me my Father loves me by saying, “I am sent from My Father out of His love for you.” Then He suffered under the whip and on the cross in my place. My Father sent the Prince of heaven to be my whipping boy, to not only take my beating but also my death. First there was a baby boy born in Bethlehem to be the Bread of Life, wrapped in strips of cloth, and placed in a feeding trough. Born to be a King, He came as a Servant to all. He was buried in a borrowed tomb, because One who could not die had no burial place on earth – He died for us and had to be laid to rest in one of our graves. But death and the grave could not hold captive the One sent to set us free. Praise God we celebrate a risen Lord and King!

Dec. 23, 2015
The angel announcing the birth of our Savior and a multitude of the heavenly host sang out, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” (Luke 2:14). They were in fact proclaiming the peace between mankind and God’s kingdom; and their objective, goodwill towards mankind. The blood of Jesus established a new covenant between mankind and God, a peace treaty. Jesus had stood in our place from before the earth had form, and now His blood washed away all that had separated us from God. While we were still enemies of God, Jesus came to make the peace. It is not a peace between man and man, but it could be if we believed and loved one another. The host did not declare the goodwill of man towards man, but of God towards mankind. The angel and the host had a reason to celebrate, for the Prince of Peace had been born into the creation.

Dec. 22, 2015
We are the Church of God, and the people have always been the Church as long as there has been a Church. We are siblings in Christ, children of the Most High God, and the righteousness of God in our Savior Jesus – who was anointed with the Holy Spirit to preach, heal, and restore (Jesus as God was already spirit, but as a man was given power, love, and a sound mind by the Holy Spirit). So, what does infighting gain us? Are we more the righteousness of God if we tell others they are not the house of God! Judge and you will be judged with the same measure. What do you gain when you judge another unworthy of salvation? Do you judge Jesus unworthy to give them the Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind? You answer, “I didn’t say they couldn’t be saved, but that they are not currently saved, because they do not believe what I believe.” You admit you do not believe what they believe, but do you think you are saved by your unbelief? No! But by what you do believe. If you must judge another, judge another in like manor. You say, “I don’t see the fruit.” Does the one you are judging see the fruit in you? I don’t see judging as a fruit of the Spirit. Love one another!!!

Dec. 21, 2015
All the world has a relationship with God. He is God even when we do not believe. It is because of His persistence and faithfulness that we find our self responding to Him and acknowledging our need and desire for a relationship with Him. For a love to be giving without respect to the response, a relationship must be able to exist when only one party is giving. God maintains our relationship with Him when we are not aware of or even deny His existence and His sacrifice. How important the relationship is to you determines the extreme you are willing to go to see it through. Jesus loved us and held up His part of the relationship while we were yet His enemy. You must be very important to God.

Dec. 17, 2015 Evening
If you want your children to pray, pray with them. Don’t leave it up to unbelievers to schedule your child’s prayer time! Or blame unbelievers for taking prayer time away from you child. “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days” (Daniel 6:10). Daniel didn’t start praying at the open window in opposition to king’s decree, it was already his custom to pray to God. Daniel didn’t let the governors and satraps stop the prayers at their customary time and place.

Dec. 17, 2015 Morning
Jesus is the truth, and the truth cannot be taught by the father of all lies or his children. The Holy Spirit brings us the word already spoken and being spoken by Jesus, and He will not lead you to lie. The Holy Spirit grows the love of God in us, and He will not lead you to hate. The Holy Spirit is a comforter and will not lead you to discourage people with trash talk and gossip. Believers are human and we are not perfect, but the word and love of God is perfecting us. Holy Spirit filled, bought by the blood believers have got to pray for truth walking the way to life, and let the love of God flow out of your inner most being. The fruit of the Spirit, a gift from God through grace, is our assurance of salvation in Christ Jesus. Believers, stop waiting for unbelievers to give you permission to pray, praise, love, and live; Jesus bought us liberty, unbelievers cannot give it to you.

Dec. 15, 2015
God didn’t start loving us when we got saved, baptized, and filled with the Holy Spirit. It is because of God’s love that we may be saved and filled with Holy Spirit, and baptism has meaning.

Dec. 14, 2015
Perfect love casts out all fear because love leaves no room for hate. The love of God leads to eternal life, and what then is left to fear? If God be for us . . .

Dec. 13, 2015
To go deeper in God is a deeper understanding of the grace that has saved you, sent because of His deep love for you. God’s love and grace is not just for unbelievers. The more you grow in God the more you realize that you need His grace and His perfecting love for an eternity. The more you mature the more you realize the need for God’s love and grace flowing from God through all His creation. The more you realize His grace and love flowing through you to others, the more you see His love and grace flowing through others to you. Maturing in God is not outgrowing your need for Him, but a deeper understanding of your need for Him. An outpouring of grace is an outflowing of the love God pours into and increases in you. This is not a just feel good message. It is the battle plan to expand the kingdom of light.

Dec 12, 2015 Evening
Unity, the state of being joined as a whole. True unity in the Church only comes with grace. Grace in the Church leads to a spiritual environment where love can grow beyond self-awareness, and we can truly love one another, including our enemy. The love required to love your enemy is not produced in the flesh. The flesh cannot even produce a love that can love the ones we love beyond self-awareness (beyond our own feelings, motives, and desires). A love that holds on and lasts is a love that is able to forgive when there is no personal advantage to forgiving. In other words, a love that forgives with the other person’s requirements the intended outcome – forgiveness to release the other person. The release that comes with that type of forgiveness does not come from a self-centered forgiveness. True love does not come from a self-centered relationship. That is why Jesus, beaten, bleeding, and hanging on the cross, could say, “Father forgive them!”

Dec. 12, 2015 Morning
You want to know more of God, but you don’t want to love your enemy. Jesus chased the money changers from the temple, but He also died so that they might be saved in Him. When He prayed, “Father forgive them” He prayed for the pagan Romans, the self-righteous Pharisees and Sadducees, and the unbelieving crowd that cried out to crucify Him; and for all the world no matter their belief system, then He died for them. Is there any greater love? He calls us friend whoever obeys His commands, and these things He commanded that we love one another. Then He sent the Holy Spirit to remind us of what He said, and to teach us all things, and to produce love and the attributes of love in us. Want to go in deeper, love your enemy and pray for those who spitefully use you believing your prayers will be answered. When God so loved the world that He send us a Savior, He knew the conditions of the world. He knows the conditions today.

Dec. 11, 2015
“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40). Salvation is not in the book. The book tells us about the Savior, but we go to the Savior for salvation. Knowledge of Jesus is not the same as knowing Jesus as your Savior. The true testimonies of faith in Jesus lifts our faith. The stories about those lost because of greed, hatred, and self-righteousness also encourage us to have our own relationship with Jesus. You don’t have a relationship with Jesus through someone else’s relationship. Not Matthew’s, Mark’s, Luke’s, John’s, Paul’s nor any other of the scripture writers, but with your own mind, body, and spirit. Being in Him and His being within is a personal relationship that guides all other relationships. Life is the question. Life is the answer. God is the reason. Love is the way. God is love and God through Jesus is the truth, the life, and the way.

12/10/2015 Evening
Guess I have to admit we were not called to tolerate people different from ourselves. Tolerate means to allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of people or beliefs different from your own without interference. We were not called to passively allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of people different from ourselves, we were called to love them. Love is not passive. We are called to be in the world, not of the world. We don’t join in the hate, greed, and lusts of the world, we follow God who so loved the world that He sent the world a Savior. We follow a Savior who said, “As I have loved you, love one another.” And so you wouldn’t love the ones in agreement with you only He said, “Love your enemy,” and “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Don’t just tolerate, show mercy and love.

12/10/2015 Morning
Everyone is searching for the more in Christ Jesus when God said seek first the kingdom of God. Why must there be more than grace and the Holy Spirit? God gave us His Son as our Savior and the Holy Spirit to remind, teach, and grow love up in us and said to believe and love. From a position of grace and love if one among you has a need and you have the provision, give. From a position of grace and love if one among you is sick, anoint them with oil and pray with them for healing. From a position of grace and love if someone has done you wrong, forgive them. Let your good works be born out of grace and love – from a position of salvation.

12/09/2015 Evening
Of myself, I would love to scream at the top of my lungs saying that we, the Church, have convinced the nations of the goodness of God by the teaching of and living the gospel. Jesus has been victorious and given us His victory! He has purchased salvation by grace for us all with the spilling of His own blood – One who could never die became flesh, and died for all flesh, so in Him the world might be saved. But mankind, not being able to resolve the holiness of mankind in Christ Jesus and mankind being the righteous of God in Him, has limited the grace and goodness of God towards mankind. Grace is the gospel message. Anything that limits grace waters down the gospel message. The law was not given to limit grace, but to show mankind the need for grace. We, mankind, having turned our back on God’s love have an option to choose to believe in the One sent by the love of God to rescue us, and turn back into His love. We have a chance to live the gospel by loving one another with the love poured through us from the Father by the sacrifice of the Son brought to us by the Holy Spirit.

12/09/2015 Morning
God is the giver of all good things, but that doesn’t excuse us from ignoring the needs of others. Our hands may be the hands God is using to bless another. If we judge another not worthy of good things, do we not receive the same judgement? If there is adversity in a city, will not Jehovah have performed it? What is adversity if it is not judgment given for judgment? The price has been paid not only for your undoing alone, but so the world might be saved in Him. What is forgiveness if it is not grace for grace? We showed Jesus no grace when He took our sins, so the Father removed our sins from Him who knew no sin in the tomb. What is grace if it is not forgiveness of the unworthy because God so loved? Grace is forgiveness when forgiveness is not owed given by one who owns the universe; and by those who know the depth and the length and height and width of His love. Grace is the Spirit of love given in return for the death of a Son. What manner of God do we serve who can bless us? A God who is love!

12/08/2015
My mind has streaming thoughts, one very loud and clear, “Why wouldn’t mankind want to get to know Jesus?” Then I remembered hearing someone say, “Believers may be the only Bible some people ever read.” Okay, I understand. We are not being a light to the world, salt to the earth, or love to a broken world. Since we have not love we are just noise makers. Another reason, not all the world has been added to the Church – God adds to the Church daily those being saved. All of our efforts to bible thump, browbeat, and damn to hell isn’t what calls people to the Church, God does. But there exists a lot of Church trying to make it without a fellowship of believers because of the absence of love in the Church. You are the Church, if it lacks love – follow the logic. God is love. If a fellowship lacks love – follow the logic. Maybe it isn’t Jesus they don’t want to get to know. You are the Church, if you have love – follow the logic. Love someone today!!!

12/07/2015
If it is true, as some want us to believe, that the only law Jesus fulfilled was the sacrificial then answer this. Why were the animals sacrificed?   As an offering to God for mankind’s breaking of the moral code (as some call it, trying to split the law and separate it into the moral, the sacrificial, and the ceremonial law).   When Jesus became our sacrifice once and for all, it was once and for all of mankind and once and for all breaches of the law. Now what about the feasts, each came with their own animal and meal sacrifices. When Jesus sacrificed His life once and for all it included all sacrifices commanded under the law, moral or ceremonial – there never was a sacrificial law free standing from the law. You cannot separate the law or ceremony from the commanded sacrifice, or the sacrifice from the commanded law or ceremony without changing the law or ceremony. If so then Jesus died to save animals and not humanity.  The animal sacrifices could never remove the guilt and shame and death, only our Savior could, does, and will.   Praise God we are saved by grace, separate from the law.

12/04/2015 Evening
God has not invited us to believe something so confusing that no one can grasp it, but God has asked us to believe something we cannot prove or disprove – it takes faith to believe and faith to not believe. We have all been given a measure of faith (a very small seed), and with that faith we can believe in the name of Jesus or not believe in the name of Jesus as the Son of God and our Savior. Either way the seed grows and (depending on the choice we made) moves us closer to God or further away from Him in our beliefs. More than once we face the question and have an opportunity to reverse our belief. Grace is offered to us all, and the question of life or death is in our belief and our confession of our belief in word and in deed. Jesus paid the price and we have a choice, to believe or not to believe. Over time deeds will follow belief.

12/04/2015 Morning
God’s concern with the lost is that they be reached with the good news of grace.   His message is “I love you. You are my children clothed in salvation. My grace is unending and My love is all consuming. Believe in the Son I sent to be your Savior, sent in the flesh to bring you back into the Spirit.”   Naming the lost after their sins is not God. Hating the lost for acts of their flesh is not God. God loving and forgiving the lost is how we were all saved who are saved, by grace alone. Jesus completed the works of the flesh for us. What has been started in the Spirit through faith will not be finished in the flesh by more works.   Good works do not finish your salvation, but are born out of grace because of the overwhelming love of God.   Start something, love God by loving one another!

12/02/2015
The law given to Moses is a mirror for us to see the sins of humanity, but was never the plan of salvation.   Salvation always came by faith in the name of Jesus the Christ (even before the name was known in Greek or English, the LORD had a name – Anointed Savior).   Knowledge of sin is not the first step; the first step is, was, and will be the sacrifice of the Word of God, the blood of One created flesh so He could bleed for us. Jesus the Christ, the Anointed, was anointed to free the prisoner from being frozen in the mirror and heal the broken heart broken by the reflection of our sins, and accusations from the enemy of God.  The Son of God is, was, and always will be God’s plan for revealing the sons of God to the earth.   God created His children in His likeness and image; and salvation by grace, because God is love, returns us to the likeness and image the serpent took from us in the garden. The law shows us our futile attempts of defining evil on our own, without God.   Jesus, created flesh in God’s image and likeness,  is the image of God for mankind and the Holy Spirit is the likeness, and it has always been so.

12/01/2015
Why do we believe we are less of a sinner because we believe something we cannot live? We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God!   By the grace of God we can have faith and be counted righteous. We are the children of God not because we have no sin, but because God gives us the gift of grace. Clothed in Christ Jesus we are the righteousness of God, of ourselves we are clothed in filthy rags.   God did not hate us until we were perfect and then give us His love. God’s love for us is why He gives us grace and His love perfects us while we are yet sinners.   We should not hate on the unbeliever. The very act of hate makes us unbelievers, and we judge ourselves so every time we judge someone unworthy of God’s love.   All are worthy or none are worthy save one, Jesus our Christ.   Jesus is worthy to be our Savior.   God is worthy to love whom He desires to love. It is not a lottery, your number came up so God loves you. God so loved the world . . .

11/30/2015 Evening
Some people might get offended and some people might get angry, but there exists no book that can be read and the reader understand the truths of life without the Holy Spirit.   The Holy Spirit didn’t come to help a few people write a book that would change people’s lives without God.   To live because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ requires a relationship with Jesus Christ, only delivered by the Holy Spirit.  To love one another, as He has commanded, requires the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the tomb. Without a real presence of God in our lives there is no life. Physical life is in the blood and spiritual life is in the Spirit. The Spirit of God is a gift and part of what Jesus died and was resurrected to give us under the name of grace.   Grace includes maturing to the point of innocence by producing the fruit of the Spirit, only produced by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

11/30/2015 Morning
In God’s eyes there exists no lay ministry and clergy as separate orders.   A minister is a servant. Jesus Christ came to serve and not to be served; and He is the head of the body – no man anointed Him – no man ordained Him – no group of men gave Him a regular paycheck.   If the head of the Church is a lay minister who are we? Because men ordain and men anoint and men pay some and not others, does not elevate or diminish the minister.   Preaching taking place in a building with a steeple does not make it more authorized or anointed than when it takes place at a gas station – a store – a parking lot – a street corner – a park – a vacant lot – a front or back porch – a front or back yard – a highway or a byway.   The Church is the Church everywhere.   People are the Church wherever we go.   People are the temple of God!

11/29/2015
God is tolerant (being willing to allow to exist opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with), or He would not have allowed mankind to live long enough to learn about grace and forgiveness.   That is not the same as saying He tolerates (be tolerant without interference) acts of sin, because Jesus definitely interferes with the outcome of sin.   Grace starts with forgiveness for those of us who have actually sinned and need a Savior. Grace continues with us as we learn about forgiving others and loving one another. Grace is for everyone and for an eternity.   You are never too mature or too innocent for grace or love. Love is the courier of grace and the message of the gospel is the prophecy of love.

11/26/2015
“Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 118:1). “You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You” (Psalm 118:28). My heart worships You for who You are; You are my dwelling place, You are the occupant of my inner most being, and You are the I am. My flesh praises You for Your wondrous works; You created the heavens and the earth, You hung the sun and moon, and there is not room to tell of all Your great works; but this must be expressed, You loved me first. While my faint heart could not love, You rescued me from all the works of the flesh and the works of the evil one. You are my God. Blessed is the land whose God is the Lord.

11/25/2015
The kingdom of God in our life time is a true statement always. The kingdom of God already exists. Everything God created is in the domain of His Kingdom. The world is in a state of rebellion against the kingdom, at enmity with God. The kingdom is within us who dwell on the earth. We are the temple of God, and the dwelling place of the Holy of Holies. Those who refuse God deny their very existence as a temple and as a child of God in the body of Christ Jesus. There is a deceiver and a destroyer who seeks to keep people in the dark about their true identity. Jesus came, on the first day of creation, as the word spoken and a light to the earth, but mankind loved the darkness. Jesus, the word, was born of a woman to be the light of the world, but still mankind loves the darkness. As long as Jesus is in the world He is the light of the world. As long as there is a believer in the world, the light is in the world. Let your light shine, love one another.

11/24/2015
So, I am another year older but it didn’t all happen in one day. Every day since my last birthday I have been moving towards that time when the number changes. It is that way with my walk with God. There was a day, an hour, even a minute when I made the decision to give into God’s love and grace and have the life of Jesus dwelling in me. Everyday there are new revelations of the unending grace of God, and small changes in my lifestyle. There is an illusion that everyone else gets it right away and somehow falls into living a perfect existence.

God’s love is our perfection – the life of Jesus is our perfection. Of myself I am not perfect and, as much as I love my siblings, they are not perfect by themselves either. In the perceived self-righteous illusion there exists so many disappointments and hurts; and so much room for the enemy of God to work. Jesus came to heal, not to cause, broken hearts. Brother “pious” and sister “look-down-my-nose” are not perfect; they need Jesus as much as anyone else, every moment of everyday. Love God by loving one another with the love of God, and give grace. That is the perfect plan of God in an imperfect world.

11/23/2015
My Father believes in you, even if you do not believe in Him. His love and faithfulness is the foundation for our faith and salvation by grace. We might have faith in something unseen by the flesh, but very real in the Spirit. God’s faithfulness is what makes our faith evidence of the things yet unseen. A faithful God sent His Son because He so loved the world, and He loves the world still. If you do not believe in Jesus Christ, God still loves you. If you are like Saul (who became Paul) and seek to destroy those who believe, God still loves you. If you turn to Him, He is faithful to answer you. If in your doubt you say, “If you are true show yourself to me,” get ready to see Him work in your life. God loves you even when you say, “There is no God,” because He believes in you.

11/22/2015
Love one another, you will surprised how many of the one another’s love you back. You would be surprised to know how many one another’s already love you, just for being you. In this world you will have trials, but be cheerful for the Lord overcame this world with love from the Father. The Spirit of God is offering you the same love to receive and pass on to the one another, including your enemy.

11/21/2015
There are two (2) reasons I hear from people for not moving into a ministry calling. One, “When I have enough money saved.” Two, “When the pastor tells me it is okay.” If you are waiting for money, you will never have enough. If you are waiting on the pastor, Jesus has already told you to go. Your calling doesn’t belong to anyone else. If there is no room in the inn, minister in the barn with the manger as a pulpit; or in the street without a pulpit. There are more ministries on the highways and byways without pulpits and pastors than there are with.

11/20/2015 Afternoon
The battle belongs to the LORD! Our, believers, part in all this is to pray for our lands and love one another as He has loved us. Our loving one another, including our enemy, is part of the battle plan. Stand and see the glory of our LORD! Let’s love the hell out of humanity.

11/20/2015 Morning
The USA is a nation of immigrants. I am not saying to be blind to the danger, I am saying show kindness to the strangers within your land. If we hate on the immigrants we will fulfil our own prophecy; fear and hatred will destroy America. What greed has not taken from us, fear and hatred will ruin. The signs are everywhere. If we, as a nation, do not end the reign of self-centered greed and blind hatred we will implode. If we who believe will turn from our ways, and love one another and our enemies, and quit pushing our inabilities to serve God on to the unbelievers in our path; God will hear us when we pray and heal our lands. STOP blaming the unbelievers! Do we believe Jesus put an end to shame and blame? If the answer is yes, STOP pushing the shame and blame onto others! Do unto others, if you want grace give grace!

11/19/2015 Afternoon
When I was young in the truth, I would debate my beliefs at the drop of a hat. Over and over again I would see other evangelist leading people to the Lord. It took me a while, but I noticed the other evangelist were not debating, they were speaking truth into people’s lives peacefully. When you become offensive with your message, even the truth, people get defensive. Grace has given me the connection with God to overcome. That is not an issue open for debate – so why debate it with unbelievers. The truth is God loves unbelievers as much as He does believers. That is not open for debate. Grace is for everyone. That is not open for debate. Why not teach God’s love and His grace? Why not start with the truth that the lost are lost children of God in Christ Jesus and forgiveness is theirs as a gift?

11/19/2015 Morning
Most of us have buttons that when they get pushed causes some type of mood change. Anger and irrational behavior are the reactions to a lot of our buttons. Unless we have self-control, we lash out at the person pushing the button (and if we know their button we push it) but do nothing to help the original issue behind our button. The issue behind our button is what is controlling our reaction, but was and is not being addressed. That is what created the button in the first place. And now the unresolved issue is creating new issues in us that we use to protect the button. It is like a wound we keep covered up but do nothing to allow it to heal. After a while it get infected and spreads to other areas. What can the answer be? Forgiveness, first of ourselves for the part we played or fear we played in the original injury. And then others that we blame and push away to cover our feeling of guilt. Guilt and shame destroys both spirit and flesh. Jesus came to heal, so apply some grace to the issue and give Him your button to protect and remove.

11/18/2015
Jesus is not my mojo, He is my Lord and Savior. The Bible is not a book of spells or incantation. Prayers to my God are not chants or magic spells. Jesus is a living God that doesn’t need conjured up. Following Jesus is not a fear based religion, or physical works based on a law of do and do not. My faith is in His sacrifice making a payment in full for all my shortcomings, and the harm I have done to others and myself. My life exists in Him and, because of His faithfulness, Him in me. He is exalted and enthroned in my praise and worship, because I see Him in the spirit when I am giving thanks. I love Him, because He loved me first! I am able to love others because His love flows through me like a living stream.

11/17/2015
Whatever is going on around you, love is a still a better way to live. God continued to love while we beat Jesus and hung Him on a tree to die. God’s love is what sent Jesus to rescue us from a lost and hurting world. Love is what drives us on to reach the same world for Jesus the Christ today. Really we are reaching out to the world with the same love who sent Jesus the Christ. Love is a gift of grace and grace is a gift of love, it is an endless circle. It has always been and will always be.

11/16/2015
God has a handle on what is going on that we cannot see. “Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed” (Revelation 6:10). It sounds messed up, but God knows what He is doing. The Christian that is killed as Stephen was, teaching the gospel and praising God while they killed him, is a witness to the world both in word and in actions. Not with a car bomb or strapping a bomb to their bodies and killing others, but being willing to die by the hand of others to share the gospel of grace – loving the ones who killed him as Jesus did. Love your enemy – give them the gospel and let Jesus have the last word.

11/15/2015
Prayer is a communication for worshiping, praising, and petitioning God with a thankful and hopeful heart. But sometimes our hearts are heavy and we find it hard to hope. During those times we go to God with the peace Jesus Christ left for us, a peace beyond human understanding, and worship Him until our heaviness is lifted and our faith rebuilt. For those times we cannot seem to lift our head in worship, God has given us His Spirit to utter our cries and build up our most holy faith.

11/14/2015 Evening
Liberty is not liberty if it interferes with the liberties of others. As long as anyone lives as a slave, no man is truly free. The worst enemy of liberty is fear, and second worst is a government that relies on fear to rule. Liberties are always lost when a government claims, “We are doing this to protect our freedom.” You can not fix liberty by trying to regulate past omissions. Omitting the status quo in an attempt to be free only creates more of the same. The fix for liberty is forgiveness and inclusion – where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, because the Lord came with a message of grace and inclusion. Dare to believe!!!

11/14/2015 Morning
With grace the unlovable are no longer unlovable, and the truth is they never were unlovable in God’s eyes. With grace everyone has the same value, because value is not based on earthly riches, earning potential, or physical strength or appearance; and the truth is nobody was ever unworthy in God’s eyes. The worth of every human being is God’s love; for God so loved the world that He sent us a Savior so the world might be saved in Him. God is worthy to give us salvation, Jesus is worthy to be our Savior, and every human being is worthy of being loved.

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