For the Christian this has got to be the MOST GLORIOUS DAY of all. IT is a commemoration of HIS RESURRECTION, without the RESURRECTION, the PAYMENT FOR OUR PENALTY that lead to our condemnation would not have been PROVEN SATISFIED. LET us commemorate this DAY with JOY and FESTIVITY!!! An ADDED BONUS TODAY: I would like to offer you an inspection of TED MONTGOMERY'S BLOG for a study of the "SPRING FEAST" and how JESUS CHRIST FULFILLED THEM... AMEN THANK YOU MR MONTGOMERY for allowing me to post your to your blog..
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Happy Resurrection Day. This is the day that Yeshua/Jesus rose from the dead, fulfilling the Feast of Firstfruits. Following His resurrection, Jesus showed Himself to many people for forty days, after which He was taken up into heaven (Acts 1:3-11).
Many, throughout the centuries, have contested the resurrection of Jesus from death. This short article gives a summary of a few good reasons to believe in the resurrection:
Ten days after His ascension, on day fifty, the Holy Spirit = Spirit of Messiah came upon many and poured out His power upon them (Acts 2:1-4). This fulfilled the Feast of Weeks = Shavuot or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15,16). Thus, Jesus fulfilled all four Spring Hebraic feasts and holy days at His first coming and will fulfill all three Fall feasts and holy days at His second coming—see How is it that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jewish Spring and Fall feasts and holy days?
HOW JESUS FULFILLED THE SPRING FEAST (Within this link there are other links available to study each FEAST individually)
According to our calculations; PASSOVER begins tonight at 6pm, MARCH 26th, JERUSALEM TIME and The FEAST of UNLEAVEN BREAD BEGINS TOMORROW. DO you have any plans??
I don't often think of the story of deliverance from EGYPT when I think of PASSOVER. Thought it is a WORTHY STORY to share. But what I do meditate and focus on is the REDEMPTION STORY of PASSOVER. The fulfillment of the PASSOVER LAMB, IN JESUS CHRIST. For me that doesn't consist of a passover meal, but a message of a DEBT that I OWED, that was paid, by the BLOOD OF THE TRUE LAMB OF GOD. Today my plans are to PUT a CROSS in my yard in remembrance and commemoration of what MY SAVIOR DID FOR ME.
Even if we don't understand it.
The TRUTH IS, you and I were granted salvation according to the fulfillmentof GOD'S prophetic PLAN, according to the HOLY DAYS and FEAST Days of the LORD.
My life IN JESUS CHRIST will also be "FULFILLED" according to the prophetic plan of the FALL FEAST DAYS of the LORD, AT HIS RETURN.
To me, that makes these HOLY DAYS and FEAST DAYS IMPORTANT in my life.
What a great time to share a store about ACCOUNTABILITY and FORGIVENESS with our families.
I heard this story on the radio the other day and I decided
to share it.
Sometimes it is difficult to relate to the story of the Passover and
the sacrifice that was made for us. It is difficult to keep it ALIVE in our lives and the lives of our family.
I thought this story
was a GREAT EXAMPLE of a practical experience in a teenagers life that truly
EXPRESSED the “DEBT we owned, that we couldn't afforded to pay, the great burdened we
carried, and the HIGH COST of our redemption.
My hope is that you will find it useful in sharing with your
children.
THE DEBT WAS TOO HIGH, YOU CAN
AFFORD IT!!!
Teenagers, bless their hearts are often under a great deal
of peer pressure. PERSONALLY I feel a great deal of pain for teenagers, they are RIGHT in the middle of making some MAJOR decisions in their lives.
I think most of us have been there. This is a TRUE story of a
young teen boy who fell under peer pressure. And the cost of his SIN was too
high for him to pay.
Let’s us call him BOBBY.
Bobby really wasn’t your typical teen. He had a great deal
of respect for his parents and under normal conditions he obeyed them thoroughly.
However just like most teens, at some point they begin to
suffer from loneliness and at some point or another fall under peer pressure. Fellowship
can be very persuasive at times.
Unfortunately Bobby wasn't much an exception on this day. It was a snowy day in
his little town.
Bobby had been a good child and mom offered him her trust, she decided to let Bobby drive her
brand new SUV to school.
HOWEVER, He was told to come straight home from school, park the car
in the garage and stay there until his mother returned.
Bless Bobby’s heart, he
decided to give a FEW associates a ride home that day, and these boys, as most
boys are at that age, were a bit on the
ROWDY side. Easy to be rowdy when the price of that rowdiness is on someone
else’s head…
As they were leaving the school one of the boys happen to
notice a hill of snow just off the side of the parking lot and thought it would
be SO MUCH FUN to just go plowing into it.
Can’t you hear it now, boy I can!!
“ANDWHY NOT, ISN’T that why
they make SUV’S anyway, so you can do OFF ROAD things”
Bobby was under a great deal of peer pressure to perform for
his new acquaintances. His efforts at resistance to not take such chances, became a “mocking array” of accusations of being a chicken and
no fun.
“Oh it will only take a minute of our time, and it would be
such fun, no harm in it”.
Bobby rationalized in his mind that no one would ever know,
mom would never find out, and it would
please these new POTENTIAL friends of his, perhaps he would even manage to FIT
IN for once in his life.
SADDLY BOBBY was mistaken the SUV didn’t take the hill as
well as he expected and he SLID across the pavement right into the wall of the
school. Crushing his mother’s SUV into the wall, crushing both doors and breaking
the windows of the side of the car. Over $3000.00 dollars worth of damage.
FEAR, PANIC, GUILT, and SHAME came crashing down on Bobby.
What was he going to tell his mother.
Bobby at least had a conscience. He had great REMORSE for
what he had done. He knew he had done
wrong in disobeying his mother. The car did not belong to Bobby. He was only
given the privilege of driving it for convenience. Bobby, being the exceptional
child that he was, he felt the heavy load of responsibility and accountability for
what he had done. He decided after a long talk with is father that he should
take responsibility for his actions.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?? HOW would you
respond to this problem?
Well Dad felt it was appropriate for Bobby to pay for the
repairs on the car. Again they amounted to over $3000.oo dollars.
What does a high school boy do to seek to earn so much money?
Bobby raked yards, mowed, took every available job he could to pay for his
mistake.
This YOKE around his neck was such a burden for a young
adult. It left him very little time in his high school years to enjoy being a
teen like most teens. And his NEW ASSOCIATES left him high and dry to pay for
the repairs. GREAT FRIENDS wouldn’t you
say??
After a time his parents began to notice that Bobby was a
very sad child, depressed, and often very tired. He had manage through his hard labor to earn approximately
$1700.oo dollars.
For a teenager that was a great deal of money. Especially
when you consider the HARD LABOR he must have had to endure.
Bobby’s birthday was coming up and to seek to offer their
son some simply pleasure in life. His request
for his birthday was to go out to dinner with his family. Since he spent some
many hours alone, He also decided he wanted a guitar.
As dinner was moving along with his family, Bobby became
very sullen and quite. He hadn’t seen his guitar yet, and began to wonder if
perhaps his family had truly forgotten his one request. Life had been very
tough for Bobby over the last six months, certainly loneliness and hard work
was beginning to take a real toll on his life.
BOBBY’S PARENTS, the LOVING parents
that they were did have a GREAT PLAN for BOBBY. They had not forgotten him, but
truly sought to EMBRACE HIM.
The waitress was on her way to the table with the cake,
planned ahead of time by his parents.
The candles were lite, everything was in place for BOBBY’S
NEW surprise.
As the cake was place in front of BOBBY, BOBBY FACES LITE UP AT WHAT was before him.
The cake didn’t say
your traditional “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” instead there was a simple message scrolled
across the cake.
“DEBT FORGIVEN”
Bobby jumped up from the table in excitement. Rushing around
thanking his parents.
And suddenly a moment of true inspiration came to him, which
he shared with his family.
NOW I KNOW what JESUS CHRIST DID
FOR ME. I understand what it truly means to have MY DEBT paid by someone else. Wow... Bobby totally understood, that even though he was responsible for the damage done to the car, HIS parents were LOVINGLY willing to PAY the PRICE of HIS REDEMPTION, so that he could be set free from his burden... what an exceptional child.
AMEN and AMEN.
CONCLUSION:
What a great lesson of “ACCOUNTABILITY” and “FORGIVENESS”
from a child’s story.
THIS STORY truly revealed some very important things to me.
“THE IMPORTANCE of ACCOUNTABILITY”
It did remind me of the “DEBT”
that I could not afford to pay.
A “DEBT” that unless SOMEONE jumped in to RESCUE me, I would be left with NO
HOPE, years of REAPING the high cost of my sins, with no possibilities of ever
being able to pay.
I also pondered how many times as a PARENT, I DIDN'T take
the opportunity to use a “life experiences” to share the “ ACCOUNTABILITY and the OFFERING OF FORGIVENESS according to the LOVE of CHRIST in the life of
my own children.
Sometimes we are SO QUICK forgive that the COST of the DAMAGE
that has been done has very little meaning in our lives. Especially where I
children are concerned.
“ACCOUNTABILITY” and “ REAPING what we sow is a very VALUABLE LESSON to be learned”
It is that very LACK of this teaching, in the lives of our CHILDREN and our SOCIETY that has done a great deal of damage to the message of JESUS CHRIST.. The message of GRACE and MERCY appear to be very CHEAP because of it.
We do not REVERENCE GOD or HIS COMMANDS, and then simply
EXPECT FORGIVENESS and HIS BLESSINGS when times get tough.
GOD’S WORD tells a very different story.
According to HIS PRECEPTS and PRINCIPLES:
We are HELD ACCOUNTABLE for
our actions before GOD and MAN.
THE STORY of JESUS CHRIST and HIS SACRIFICE has become so
FAMILIAR in our lives we take it for GRANTED and we share it with very
little conviction in our own lives how in the world do we EXPECT our loved ones
and the world to take us serious.
GOD FORBID:
GRACE and MERCY are not
CHEAP.
SOMEBODY had to STAND IN OUR PLACE as the “KINSMAN REDEEMER” taking our GUILT and SHAME away. Pay
a penalty that we could not afford to pay.
WE truly fell to understand that the FATHER, IN HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS, though HE did not HAVE TO PAY, HE PAID the PENALTY that was
REQUIRED for “REDEMPTION”.
SOMEONE HAD TO HEAD ACCOUNTABLE. Through HIS payment we were set free of a debt we owed.
MAKING HIM “JUST and RIGHTEOUS”
according to HIS OWN LAWS.
If GOD ALMIGHTY makes HIMSELF ACCOUNTABLE to HIS OWN LAW and COMMANDS,
why do we not understand that HE has ever RIGHT to l HOLD us “ACCOUNTABLE” according to our
own “DISOBEDIENCE” ?
It “COST” our SAVIOR and LORD HIS PRECIOUS LIFE.
The Pain and Agony that HE SUFFERED for our “LIBERTY and FREEDOM to go
to the FATHER” was more than we could afford.
A LAMB without blemish, one of complete INNOCENT.. HE suffered that we
would NOT BE CONDEMNED and so WE could be RESTORED to NEW LIFE.
ARE YOU and I TAKING THAT FOR GRANTED?
Do we mourn over our own sin?
IS there GRATITUDE in our HEARTS
that WE have been WASHED CLEAN of “all” past sins.
TODAY is a GREAT DAY TO REFRESH THE STORY OF CHRIST IN OUR LIVES and the LIFE OF YOUR CHILDREN and LOVED ONES.
Tonight is PASSOVER.
The FATHER told the ISRAELITE to “commemorate” these days
and tell them to their children so that THEY can LEARN of HIS ABIDING LOVE towards them.
I hope that you will spend some time today discovering the various
ways you can share the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST with your family and loved ones
today.
LET US COMMEMORATE what HE has done for us, and not take it
for granted.
PERHAPS you can find IDEAS in which you could commemorate??
HERE is an IDEA, Consider in PRAYER, to give an offering of FORGIVENESS to someone through JESUS CHRIST towards someone today.
OFFERING them the example of CHRIST, standing in HIS PLACE.Offering forgiveness of a debt that that they TRULY oweto you (materially or personally).
TELL them it is IN THENAME OF JESUS CHRISTand what HE has done for you, in commemoration ofthis day.
I think we should seriously
consider these 4 scriptures closely this morning.
Notice in Mark 12: 28, that
it was one of the SCRIBE'S that came to JESUS and asked
“WHAT IS THE FIRST
COMMANDMENT OF ALL?”
ANSWER: TO LOVE GOD
with all your heart, mind and soul
What is a “SCRIBE:
“in the Bible, a man learned in the Mosaic law and
in the sacred writings, an interpreter, teacher. Scribes examined the more
difficult and subtle questions of the law;”
Obviously a “SCRIBE” is a
very Learned and Studied man of scripture. Surely he knew of Deut 6.
JESUS CHRIST RESPONDED to the
Scribe…. THE COMMANDS can be “SUMMED UP” with
LOVE THE LORD GOD with all
your HEART, MIND and SOUL, Which obviously came DIRECTLY out of DEUT 6.
So I think we can be fairly
comfortable with the “DESCRIPTION of the BEHAVIORISM and ACTIONS” in DEUT 6: 5-18, by the
ONE that PROFESS’S TO TRULY LOVE GOD
can be said to be accurate.
LOVE simply has a higher STANDARD attached to it, than LAW!!!
UNLESS of COURSE
you no longer believe “GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD”. Maybe I should take a moment and DEFINE my understanding of : "GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD" HE is jealous/particular/Partial to HIS OWN WAYS, HIS CHARACTER, HIS BEHAVIORISM. etc. IT is for this purpose that we are REBORN and are being "CONFORMED and TRANSFORMED into the IMAGE OF CHRIST. Sorry folks you can't have the CAKE/BREAD and just eat the icing off the top!!!! PSALMS 4: 2 O ye sons of men, how long
[will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek
after leasing? Selah PSALMS 4: 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
DEUT 6: 5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
MARK 12: 28
And one of the scribes came, and having
heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well,
asked him,
“ Which is the first commandment of
all?”
MARK 12: 30
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength: this [is] the first commandment.
DEUT 6: 15
(For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you)
lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee
from off the face of the earth.
DEUT 6: 5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
DEUT 6: 6 And these words,
which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart
DEUT 6: 7
1. And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children,
2. and shalt talk of
them when thou sittest in thine house
3.and when thou walkest by the
way,
4. and when thou liest down,
5. and when thou risest up.
DEUT 6; 8 And thou shalt bind
them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes.
Deut 6: 10 And thou shalt
write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates
DEUT 6: 13 Thou shalt fear
the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
DEUT 6: 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods
of the people which [are] round about you;
DEUT 6: 15 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye
tempted [him] in Massah.
DEUT 6: 17 Ye shall
diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and
his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
DEUT 6: 18 And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the
sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest
go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
CONCLUSION:
OH how often we put the SECOND COMMAND before the FIRST COMMAND to LOVE the LORD with all our heart, mind and soul. We are truly MISGUIDED. What truly could be more important that HIS HOLINESS, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS MERCY, HIS GRACE???
OUR ACTIONS, hands, feet, and mouth are a RESPONSE to what our HEART believes to be TRUTH.
OUR GOD is still a "JEALOUS GOD".
Have you truly considered HIS JEALOUS?
HE is JEALOUS of HIS OWN HOLINESS, CHARACTER and ACTIONS.
HE is GOD, the CREATOR, HE doesn't HAVE to be any other way. Are you and I a TRULY WITNESS of HIS CHARACTER?
It has only been through HIS MERCY and GRACE that we have walked in ANY GOODNESS or PLEASURE in this LIFE.
THOUGH you will NEVER be able to pay the COST OF YOUR SALVATION.
JESUS CHRIST was the TRUE "KINSMEN REDEEMER" the ONE that STOOD in OUR PLACE. HE WILL BE REVERENCED!!!
THE LORD WILL BE HONORED and REVEREND because HE IS a JEALOUS GOD, and SHALL NOT be MOCKED.
Amen and Amen. Are you Mocking HIS CHARACTER, by your behavior? Are you putting the 2nd command above the first? Are you teaching them the TRUTH? Are you teaching them to chase the dragon rather than PURSUING the LORD with all their MIGHT? STOP LIEING to the PEOPLE, with your CHEAP GRACE, for the LIARS and WHOREMONGERS will "NOT RECEIVE GRACE AND MERCY" they will go to the "LAKE OF FIRE". TEACH THEM to LEARN OF HIM, to ABIDE IN HIM. TO seek to HEAR HIS VOICE, to be OBEDIENT to HIS COMMANDS. TO pursue HIM WITH ALL THEIR HEART MIND AND SOUL
Those that DO NOT these things will be the LEAST among us. For HIS CHARACTER IS HOLY, and HE IS A "JEALOUS GOD".
HE IS JEALOUS Of HIS OWN HOLINESS and JEALOUS for those that LOVE HIM and OBEY HIM. REV 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, andmurderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death
IN TRUTH, I did not want to name this post the way I did, but I REALLY desired to get your attention:
What I really wanted to Name it was:
"MAKE the DECISION to COMMIT"
“DO WHAT is RIGHT BEFORE THE
LORD, and HE will bless your efforts!!!
But I can SEE the COUNTER of what post are looked at, and It is obvious, more people are interested in the DRAGONS work, more than the LORD'S work??
That is so very sad.
ARE YOU AMONG THEM?? THEN THIS POST IF FOR YOU!!
ARE YOU CONSISTENTLY CHASING THE TAIL OF
THE DRAGON? "One of these days he is going to turn around and devour you, you are going to find yourself right in the middle of his work"
INSTEAD of being LEAD and GUIDED by the ONE TRUE
HEAD/ The VOICE of JESUS CHRIST?
ARE you RUNNING TO AND FRO seeking information on the
enemies plans so that you might somehow be able to prepare, hide, or seek
refuge?
Some questions you might consider:
1. DO YOU KNOW THE LORD? CAN YOU HEAR HIS VOICE? Do you TRUST HIM?
IF you do not KNOW the LORD or CAN NOT hear HIS VOICE,
or have FAILED to TRUST HIM, then THAT
absolutely needs to be your FIRST PLAN of ACTION.
2.ARE you
somehow convinced that the DRAGON is going to catch the LORD UNAWARES?
3.Do you
really think you can OUTRUN THE LORD?
The LORD KNOWS every hair on your head. You can not escape judgment. You can only determine in your HEART to follow the LORD.
IS 24: 17 Fear,
and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
IS 24: 18 And it
shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall
into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken
in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do shake.
I am reminded this morning in particular of some verses I read in recently in Psalms
78:
WHICH WILL IT BE FOR YOU????
SHALL you live in the PLEASURE Of the LORD or shall you be Chastised. slain or plagued until you fall to your knees??
PSALMS 78: 8 And (that
they) might not be as their
fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was notstedfast with God.
PSALMS 78: 22 Because they believed not in
God, and trusted not in his salvation.
PSALMS 78: 3 When HE slew them,
then they sought HIM:
and they returned and inquired early after GOD.
The real questions for the BODY OF CHRIST right now is:
ARE YOU going to be STEDFAST IN THE LORD?
OR
Are you going to wait until TRIBULATION comes to your life to turn
to the LORD, for you directions, counsel, peace, comfort, joy, transformation and conformity to JESUS CHRIST?
WHEN it comes down to it; THOSE
are your TWO main options.
We
will not stop the yoke of the New World Order
from succeeding. IT maybe tomorrow or it maybe 100 years from now. IT has been PREDETERMINED to occur.
I
am not telling you to put your head in the sand. I am just seeking to encouraging you to
be “STEDFAST” in the LORD, especially now. COMMIT
your life to HIM.
BETTER TO BE FOUND WORKING IN THE LORD'S WORK than be caught unawares. IF you are ABIDING IN HIM, you can be sure to HEAR THE CALL.
Now
is the time to SEEK HIS FACE, WALK the WALK and share the TALK!!!
Why
are you waiting for TROUBLE to come?
I simply can't figure it out?
Do you like being motivated by FEAR?? MAYBE you like being tormented or sick? Are you so REBELLIOUS, and thick headed that you simply can't submit??
Do
you really think you can HIDE from it, RUN from it, or STORE enough food to
prepare for it?
CAN YOU HIDE FROM THE FACE OF GOD??
GET "IN HIM" "JESUS CHRIST", and your STEPS/THOUGHTS shall be ESTABLISHED!!!
ALLOW
JESUS CHRIST to guide and direct you on such matters of HIS WILL!!
COMMIT and TRUST:
PSALMS 37: 3 Trust in the LORD,
and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou
shalt be fed.
PSALMS 4: 5 Offer the sacrifices
of righteousness, and put your trust in the
LORD.
PSALMS 37: 5 Commit thy way
unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
bring [it] to pass
PROVERBS 16: 3 Commit thy works unto the LORD,
and thy thoughts shall be established.
CONCLUSION:
THE LORD IS CALLING to a DEVOTED PEOPLE, to be a light unto the WORD, hands of healing and deliverance!!!
WILL YOU BE AMONG THEM??
The LORD will not be
mocked, especially by HIS OWN PEOPLE. Why wait until the tribulation comes upon
your life, COMMIT your life today, Trust and obey. For those that DO NOT, they can expect tribulation,
for their purifying, for HE has chosen a “PURE BRIDE”.
Better
to be where the LORD would have you be, individually than WORRYING yourself to
death daily about chasing the tail of the dragon.
The
dragon is going to have many plans that he WILL NOT be able to carry out. For it is ONLY ACCORDING TO THE LORD'S DIVINE WILL that he is able to succeed.
So
you are WASTING a great deal of your precious time and the LORD'S precious time. Time that you could be
spending; DRAWING near to the LORD, OBEYING the CALL and WALKING in FAITH.
If
the DRAGON, can keep you preoccupied, in a state of worry and fear, then he has
accomplished half of his mission.
THE LORD IS CALLING HIS PEOPLE to DEVOTION, for HIS GOOD USE.
WILL YOU DEVOTE YOUR LIFE TO HIM TODAY??
OPEN UP YOUR HEART and allow HIM to bring HEALING to your life!!! AMEN
Confessto the LORD: that you have spent far too much time
being occupied by the enemies work. WALK away from that TV, internet for a time
etc.
Repent/TURN and begin
finding PRIVATE time that you can SPEND in that intimate relationship with the
LORD.
ASK HIM for instruction
and guidance as to what HE would have you do during these times.
(This
will certainly vary from person to person, some may need to spend quite time in
the wilderness with HIM, others may be moved to go boldly before the world, LET
THE LORD DIRECT YOUR PATH)
COMMIT your life to HIM
as a VESSEL of HIS GOOD USE. TRUST HIM, HE has a plan for your life, you just need to WALK in it.
LISTEN for HIS voice of
direction and counsel.
OBEY/WALK in FAITH as
HE calls you to walk. BE HANDS OF HEALING and DELIVERANCE before the WORLD.
WORSHIP and PRAISE HIM.
Meditate
on the things HE has already done in your life.
Study
HIS WORD, explore HIS miraculous acts in the WORD of GOD, that your FAITH can be encouraged. BE encouraged by HOW HE protected and supplied for the DEVOTED ONE.
Have
a heart of GRATITUDE for what HE has done and is going to do in YOUR LIFE.
APPEAL to HIS MERCY and GRACE!!
SEEK
to find the ‘JOY OF YOUR SALVATION”.
LET your “LIGHT” shine before a the lost world and your lost LOVE
ones.
So when they ask..
“WHAT HOPE DO YOU HAVE?”
WE can say:
“MY HOPE IS IN JESUS CHRIST, forever and forever in death or in life”
MAY the LORD bless you with a measure of PEACE, COMFORT and JOY
today. AMEN.
I REFUSE, be among those that have HIS DESIRE!!!
YOU LEAD, I follow GREAT NEW SONG
"YOU LEAD LYRICS" (for those that can't hear the video)
"You Lead"
I've got waves that are
tossin' me,
Crashin' all over my beliefs,
And in all sincerity, Lord,
I wanna be yours,
So pull me out of this mess I'm in,
Cause I know I'm wanderin'
Lead my soul back home again,
I've always been yours,
And this world may push, may pull,
But your love it never fails,
You lead, I'll follow, Your hands hold my tomorrow,
Your grip, Your grace, You know the way,
You guide me tenderly,
When you lead, I'll follow,
Just light the way and I'll go,
Cause I know what you got for me is more than I can see,
So lead me on, on, on and on,
Just lead me on, on, on and on,
As a child I heard your voice,
But as a girl I made my choice,
There is no other way for me,
I'm devoted to you,
You're my peace on the heavy days,
You're the warmth of an autumn blaze,
Your love carries me away,
And it's never too soon, no...
And this world may push, may pull,
But your mercy never fails,
You lead, I'll follow, Your hands hold my tomorrow,
Your grip, Your grace, You know the way,
You guide me tenderly, yeah,
When you lead, I'll follow,
Just light the way and I'll go,
Cause I know what you got for me is more than I can see,
So lead me on, on, on and on,
Just lead me on, on, on and on,
Sometimes when I wake up, I don't wanna rise up, Out of my bed, too many
thoughts in my head,
Don't wanna be who I used to be,
Gonna take the back seat and let you lead,
And I...
Need to stop, need to stop,
Cause I'm going too fast,
And I...
Know my God is still God, And you got my back,
You lead, I'll follow, Your hands hold my tomorrow,
Your grip, Your grace, You know the way,
You guide me tenderly, yeah,
When you lead, I'll follow,
Just light the way and I'll go,
Cause I know what you got for me is more then I can see,
So lead me on...
Lead me on...
And I...
Need to stop, need to stop,
Cause I'm going too fast,
And I...
Know my God is still God, And you got my back,
You got my back,
I know ya got me, I know ya got me,
I know ya got me, Lead me on...
A bit of a break in post for HEALING for TWO FAMILIES:
You know there are people that you run across in your life,
that will forever have an impact on it. There are quite a few of those in my life.
These Two woman are among those. And I just really want to
reach out to them today and let them know they are loved and that I do truly
pray for the BEST for THEM IN JESUS CHRIST. I hope you will join me in prayers for them,
for they TRULY are among the great warriors of CHRIST in our time.
In my travels yesterday a new song came on the radio and
I BELIEVE the HOLY SPIRIT brought them to remembrance.The memories of the LOVE, FAITHFULNESS,and DEDICATION of TWO very
special sisters in my life is something to be encouraged and admired.
You might ask, "how do you know it was a move of the HOLY SPIRIT?"
Though is difficult for us to accept, I know that through our own "FLESHLY hearts" there is no way we are moved with such compassion and love for others.. It is a "GRIEVING that only comes from the HOLY SPIRIT."
THROUGH this song "WORN:, my own heart was found frail and worn, and I was overwhelmed with a NEED to CRY OUT TO HIM, LORD LET US KNOW of YOUR LOVE, by YOUR MIGHTY HAND of GRACE and POWER that "REDEMPTION WINS!!!"
PUTZICAF and HEISFAITHFUL, are warriors among us.
(without permission I could not put their real names up, but the LORD knows who they are)
THEY have been so very FAITHFUL over the YEARS even through their
struggles and their trials are many they just continue to get up and dust themselves off and move forward. They are true EXAMPLES of dedication and determination in the LORD.
When many would have turned away by now, they WALK the WALK as though 'there is no where else to go, but to the LORD'.
I truly PRAY the LORD will give them an EXTRA MEASURE of HIS
LOVE, HEALING and PRESENCES TODAY:
PART of the LYRICS of this new song “WORN” that truly moved me to tears, for these two ladies
ENCOURAGEMENT: LADIES continue to cry out to HIM, for HE IS ABLE to restore what the locust has taken from you!!!
WORN:
“HEAVEN come and flood my hearts.
LET ME SEE REDEMPTION WINS, Let me know the struggle ends. That you can mend a
heart that is frail and torn. I wanna know a song can rise From the ashes of a
broken life And all that's dead inside can be reborn”
Many of you do not know Putzicat
(obviously a nametag)
She is one of my dearest sisters IN THE LORD. She is also
one of the most humble, meekest persons that I know. She really is a warrior for
CHRIST, and at times she is so very war- torn. For many years now she has struggled with
sickness that has kept her restricted to a bed.
Being a single mother of a teenage, though I have not walked in her shoes
I can only imagine how difficult her life must be.
I cherish her deeply within my heart.
LOVE YOU SISTER: KEEP up the GOOD FIGHT, may the LORD give you a BLESSING today.
To my dear sister HeisFaithful. What an amazing lady.
Many of you do not know HeisFAITHFUL.
She and her son are also ones that the LORD put on my heart
yesterday.
She has struggled so long with
the illnesses and disability of her son.
OH my I so weep even now, when I think of how I would endure the
PAIN and AGONY of having to watch one of my own struggle with such devastating pain as he has.
THE WARRIOR INSIDE HER, HEisFAITHFUL is just as her name says, she has never
swayed nor stumbled, ALWAYS confessing and testifying "HE IS FAITHFUL" no matter where she or her
son are in life.
WHAT WARRIORS they are in the LORD.!!!!
HOW do they do it, I could only wish I were so strong.
These TWO woman are amazing to me. And in my opinion they
are MIGHTY WARRIORS in the LORD. IN the midst of ALL their pain and agony they
have remained FAITHFUL and TRUE. Always holding on tight to the LORD, continuously
looking to HIM and remaining faithful.. I desire to give honor and praise to their FAITHFULNESS and their strength..
I love them and admire them greatly, as
sisters in the LORD.
I hope that you will join me in this
prayer for this morning for both these families.
AND perhaps you would be moved by this song for other body members.. FOR we are a BODY!!!
PRAYER:
LORD JESUS, I seek you today with a heart filled with a desperate
need and desire. YOU moved me, now I only ask that YOU MOVE, as the AUTHOR and FINISHER of OUR FAITH, in YOUR AMPLE SUPPLY of GLORY and POWER!!!
I CALL upon YOU oh LORD, DESIRING YOUR TOUCH for these two
families. LORD would you move through
YOUR compassion and mercy, and through YOUR MIGHTY HAND of POWER, give these precious
families a PRECIOUS TOUCH of your hand and presence today. Would you give them
a measure of healing that only YOU can.
Fill them, and consume most of all with your LOVING
presences, that they may have JOY,PEACE and be encouraged by YOU.
Would you encourage their FAITH in YOU even more, let them
know that they are LOVED by YOU, in whatever WAY that YOU know is best for
their lives.
LORD I humble come before you and acknowledge that YOU CAN, if
YOU DON’T,
YOU are LORD of LORD’S and KING of KINGS, In JESUS NAME AMEN.
A SPECIAL SONG FOR MY SISTERS: (OH LET US CRY OUT WITH ALL WE HAVE LEFT… I
CRY OUT FOR REDEMPTION)
WORN: THE STRUGGLE.. I HOPE this song brings you both encouragement and hope, AMEN
LYRICS for those that can't play the audio:
I'm tired, I'm worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing
I've made mistakes
I've let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed
By the weight of this world
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I'm tired, I'm worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing
I've made mistakes
I've let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed
By the weight of this world
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
‘Cause I'm worn
I know I need
To lift my eyes up
But I'm too weak
Life just won't let up
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I'm tired, I'm worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing
I've made mistakes
I've let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed
By the weight of this world
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
[From: http://www.elyrics.net ]
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
‘Cause I'm worn
I'm tired, I'm worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing
I've made mistakes
I've let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed
By the weight of this world
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
‘Cause I'm worn
I know I need
To lift my eyes up
But I'm too weak
Life just won't let up
And I know that You can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left
My prayers are wearing thin
I'm worn
Even before the day begins
I'm worn
I've lost my will to fight
I'm worn
So Heaven come and flood my eyes
Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
‘Cause I'm worn
Yes, all that's dead inside will be reborn
Though, I'm worn
I'm worn
MATT 5: 16 Think not that I am come to destroy
the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
MATT 5: 17 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
It is my opinion that many
people confuse these scriptures to mean something other than WHAT JESUS CHRIST was confessing.
EX 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
To take the LORD’S WORDS and
use them for our CONVENIENCES is “VANITY”.
Let us have a discussion on
these two scriptures this morning.
1. What
did JESUS CHRIST actually say in these two scriptures?
Did HE actually say that HE came to ‘PUT and END”
to the word, commands, precepts, principles of the FATHER, as so MANY seem
to encourage that HE did?
SOME or testifying
and propagating that there are no
commands for us to have our LIVES directed or guided by MAY THE LORD HAVE MERCY UPON THEM...
SO what did HE mean when HE
said:……… “BUT TO FULFIL”.
If you look at the VERY NEXT VERSE, you can see EXACTLY what HE DID NOT INTEND
to be understood by HIS WORDS. IE: that there was an END to the LAW/COMMANDS
or the PROPHETS.
The WORD FULFILLED in this
VERSE, basically means..
HE ACCOMPLISHED/ FULFILLED the “VOICE/words
of the PROPHETS and ACCOMPLISHED/fulfilled a PORTION of the LAW that HE was
MEANT to accomplish at HIS “FIRST VISITATION”.
THERE HAS been NOTHING UNDONE in the SPIRIT, yet there is EARTHLY MANIFESTATIONS YET to be fulfilled BY JESUS CHRIST!!!
HIS FIRST VISITATION:
HE was the APPOINTED MESSIAH/
HIGH PRIEST to come.
HE was the “BLOOD SACRIFICE”. THROUGH HIS OBEDIENCE, RIPPING the VEIL between the FATHER and HIS CREATION. What ADAM didn't do, JESUS did....
TROUGH HIS OBEDIENCE, HE was found WORTHY TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!
JESUS CHRIST, FULFILLED
meaning HE ACCOMPLISHED the TASK the
ORDINATION, the PROPHECIES in which HE WAS SENT TO DO.
WE see HIM at HIS FIRST
VISITATION, in HIS HUMBLE POSITION
HIS SON OF MAN POSITION/FLESH.
HIS HUMILITY
HIS OBEDIENCE, even
through HIS suffering. Etc.
HE KEPT the COMMANDS of GOD,
Was FAITHFUL to DEATH, FAITHFUL to the COMMANDS of GOD.
HE did not mean that in HIS FULFILLMENT, so you nor I could have the FREEDOM
or LIBERITY to NOT “OBEY” the ordinances,
precepts and principles of GOD.
What JESUS CHRIST DID at HIS
FIRST VISITATION:
“THE LAW”
ACCORDING to the
LAW, a HIGH PRIEST was needed, and a sacrifice of BLOOD was needed for the
FORGIVENESS of SINS:
AT the “FIRST
VISITATION” of JESUS CHRIST, HE accomplished these TWO commands/laws:
HIGH PRIEST and
BECAME the SACRIFICE:
HE became the HIGH PRIEST, HE BECAME the
SACRIFICE, fulfilling the ‘requirement of a BLOOD SACRIFICE, needed to be
“REDEEMED”, BOUGHT, CLEANSED, FORGIVEN to be RETURNED to the FATHER. There is NO MORE NEED for a YEARLY SACRIFICE.
THUS HE became OUR
SALVATION/REDEEMER/ KINSMAN REDEEMER/SALVATION, while IN THE FLESH as HIGH PRIEST and SACRIFICE
HEB 5: 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
WHY did HE
SPEAK of the PROPHETS?
MATT 5: 17 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
JESUS CHRIST has “FULFILED” a portion
of the PROPHECIES of the PROPHETS, through “the SPRING
FEAST” and as “ the HIGH PRIEST and SACRIFICE” as they SPOKE of HIM,
HE fulfilled them JUST as HE WAS ORDAINED to.
NOTE; In the SPIRITUAL WORLD
HE is our KING, but in the PHYSICAL WORLD, these things are YET TO COME into “MANIFESTATION”.
AMOS 3: 7 Surely the
Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
MATT 2: 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
You might do well searching
out the PROPHECIES about JESUS CHRIST from the OLD TESTAMENT to confirm this
message. They are simply too many of them for me to put in this one study.
AT THE 2nd
VISITATION: HE will FULFILL the FINAL 3 FEAST:
LORD OF LORD'S and KING OF KINGS:
JESUS CHRIST will FULFILL the
REMAINING PROPHECIES made by the PROPHETS and according to the LAW and according
to the FALL FEAST.
“THE 3 FALL FEAST”.
THERE IS a REST
YET TO COME:
(note this is why we still “acknowledge
the Sabbath day)
HEB 4: 9 There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God.
MELCHISDEDEC is the example
used, according to scripture in the “ORDER/SEQUENCE” in which JESUS CHRIST will
be MANIFESTED upon the EARTH:
JESUS CHRIST makes 2
VISITATIONS upon the EARTH:
FIRST: AS a HIGH PRIEST, as the sacrifice
SECOND: As the EARTHLY KING, LORD of LORD’S and KING
of KINGS
IN
the ORDER of Melchisedec,
HEB 5: 6 As he saith also in another [place], Thou
[art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
HEB 5: 5 So also
Christ glorified not himself to be made an high
priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I
begotten thee.
AS SACRIFICE and HIGHPRIEST:
Therefore
there Is no NEED for the SACRIFICE of lambs and goats. There is no other
“WORK” to be done for SALVATION, for we are “REBORN” into the SON, through
the SACRIFICE of HIS BLOOD we have REDEMPTION.
HE is
now the MEDIATOR, HIGH PRIEST between GOD and MAN.
Therefore
we have “REST” and at are at PEACE through RECONCILIATION with our CREATOR
through JESUS CHRIST as the author and example of our FAITH towards
SALVATION.
HEB 5: 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
IN THE ORDER OF Melchisedec as A KING:
At HIS SECOND VISITATION, HE will be crowned KING Of KING and
LORD of LORD’S of the EARTH.
REVELATION 19: 16And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name
written,KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS
HEB 4: 9 There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God.
This verse represents a PROPHETIC EVENT
that is yet to come of an EARTHLY REST.
**When all things are returned under the FATHER, as GOD of
all in all.
1 Cor 15: 24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have
delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down
all rule and all authority and power.
1 Cor 15: 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto
him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things
under him, that God may be all in all.
CONCLUSION:
When JESUS SAID:
MATT 5: 17 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
HE MEANT “ALL things WILL be fulfilled and ACCOMPLISHED according to the
WORD of the FATHER, by the END of TIME, and not before.
IE: the LAW, and what the PROPHETS have prophesied
WILL be fulfilled.
***YET NOT ONE TITTLE or JOT of the commands of GOD will pass
away until the END OF TIME..
SO NEXT time YOU try to HANG
your HAT on your LIBERTY and FREEDOM to do what you WANT.
THEN PERHAPS
YOU might consider the HUMILITY and OBEDIENCE of JESUS CHRIST, who “FULFILLED/accomplished”
the LAW/ commands of GOD and the WORD of the PROPHETS, even
to HIS DEATH. AND has committed to you and VOWED TO YOU, that NOT ONE JOT or TITTLE of the
FATHERS commands will pass away until the END OF TIME. HE IS GOD the CREATOR, HE does have to ASK for your obedience, HE CAN EXPECT IT.
YET HE IS JUST, knowing the WEAKNESS of MAN, and it is only through HIS MERCY and GRACE that we can APPEAL to HIM for HELP.
HE did NOT compromise the WORDS of the FATHER,
and NEITHER is HE encouraging us to do so.. AMEN.
On these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets.
LOVE is far more RESTRICTING than a LAW, for you are not judge according to WHAT you do, but according to HOW you feel about what you are doing it...
LIP SERVICE vs..a HEART FELT COMMITMENT!!!
MATT 22: 37 Jesus said unto
him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind.
LOVE HAS a PRETTY HIGH STANDARD:
LOVE ME with "ALL" your .. mind, heart and soul....
JOHN 14: 15
If ye love me, keepmy commandments.
JOHN 15: 10 If ye keepmy commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
EZE 20: 19 I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keepmy judgments, and do them;
Pro 8: 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keepmy ways.
MATT 22: 38 This
is the first and great commandment.
