As odd as this may sound, this is a true story. In the November of 1996 I was not a good dude because I am telling the truth I was gun toting hooligan in the Lake Edward section of Virginia Beach, Va. In was living at one of my lowest time and the leader of a band of lives. We were known for a lot of things but our spiritual connection to the Most High was diffidently not one of the lines on our resume. There is one night that stands out in my mind for the reason that will be obvious to you after the tale has been spun.

Because I have respect for the guys that where with me in regards to the fact that they might not want me telling about their past sins, I’ll just say that on this night there were about four to six of my cohorts in attendance with me on this night. While the brothers and I were on the corner of West Hasting Arch and Red Horse passing around the blunt and the usually convocation of what we going to be when we get the chances to…, I observed one the only brothers in Lake Ed that didn’t have toe in dirt.

He was the father of a family of girls, three including his wife. We always in an unconscious way don’t bothering them. If we saw his daughters wondering too far from their front door, we would tell the little angels that they Mommy might be looking for them. Even though his wife was thick as duck butter, we never approached her in disrespect. And when we say him we just gave him the brother man head nod and one finger, Sup?

This night was not different for the others brother but it was different for this brother, me. I was tried. Not so much physical but emotionality. See I was living with a woman that was on my last nervous and I was giving her gas money to get there. I was just out of jail for driving on suspended license, yeah they can lock you up for that. I had more enemies then friend and had no friends. The brothers that I was out with weren’t friends but temporary allies in a war that had no sides or purpose. We were only together to keep on eye on one another; the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Our attire was identical down to the hardware that we were carrying; leather jackets, fashion hoodies, dark skull caps, dark jeans, assorted styles of boots, and fully loaded hand-guns, 9mm’s and .40 calibers. Our convocations were laced with profanity and lies.

During this time in my life I was claiming to be Five Percent Muslim on the teachings of the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan. And if he would have came up to us, he would told us that in all of his teachings he told us that this was what he was telling in the strictest words not to do. But I digress.

As we were literally chilling in the November frigid air, I caught glimpse of the square brother in the his daughter’s room. He was playing airplane for bed time. Now here’s where you might not believe me but please do. Time slowed down, I was actually starring into his home. Wondering what that life was like. What it like to hear your seeds giggle and laugh? What did sound to your seeds tell you that they loved you? And the big question; what was it like to have woman that you could trust?

I dripped my head and did something that we all know today as a prayer but then it was just a fantasy thought, “I want to be like the dude, someday.” I had no really concept on faith talk; Name It & Claim It, Blab It & Grab It or what every I say in faith God has to get behind. But what I really doing was putting into play a spirituality law found in 2 Corinthians 12: 10. I didn’t necessarily want to be like him but I didn’t want to be like me anymore.

Now this would be a pretty dull story if you didn’t know what happen in the years from there to here. And if you have been reading my articles for a while then you know the best way I can teach you about the Love of GOD is to show you through my eyes. June 20, 2010 is the date of this article and my fourth Father’s Day. To keep it real, my son is running from the front door to the back door with his Thomas the Train blanket as his cape, Hallelujah. Abram walked around the wilderness with one Word from God. I never told God that I would do anything if He give me a life worth living, He just did it so that my life would be worth living and now I live it it for HIM. To the best the of my ability.

I walked around the wilderness of America with one Word. “Wait a minute Brother Ambe, God didn’t tell you that He would give a family. You just said it was a just a thought.” See the mere fact the I got tried of living a devilish lifestyle and want to be better, was enough for God to move in my life to get me to the point where I could ask properly.

Quick History: June 24, 1998 I met my wife. June 26, 2000 we got married and for seven years we went through Pride and Praise. God broke our pride so we could praise HIM. May 15, 2007 we came face to face with the person that need us to grow up so we could raise him up right in the Lord. And with a big smile I can say that I am that square dude. Hallelujah.

Father’s Day is not one day on the calendar for me, it’s everyday since May 15, 2007 until we are called up by Christ to be with our Heavenly Father.

Dear Heavenly Father thank You for loving me enough to die horrible death on the Cross just to me access to come the Throne of Grace and Mercy to say thank You. Lord that I don’t deserve this beautiful life You have Blessed me with but I just know that in all my ways I will acknowledge You. Lord I thank You giving me a Word for Your Church ad heart of repentance. Lord I just want to the father that You would have me to be from within Your Will. Lord GOD You are so good because I know I could not give my only begotten son to a world that would not just hate Him but turn His Words into money for their pockets. But at the same time Dear Master I can’t understand why You pulled me out of the pit of my own destroy. But there is Your Amazing Grace at work. I thank You in the name of Jesus for my father who is such good man and a good example of Godly manhood. And for all the father that our playing their positions in their children’s lives and for ones that aren’t softness their heart towards You, Lord. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

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Call me odd but as I have read in my Bible the patriarchs didn’t have smart phones, day planner, e-mail reminders or even the Bible all they had was a Word from God. Can we get back to those days, just give me a Word and confirm it by the stars in the sky and the sand on the beach. But wait, we do have a Word, we have a book with sixty-six books full of Word. Just in case you didn’t notice I’m getting a Word right now, you are just getting the benefits.

Now here comes the hard part, turning from our wicked ways. I know, I know you aren’t like one of these monsters on the Internet trolling for kids, you don’t search for a free minute and go to the porn sites, you probably have never smoked, drank, popped a pill, said a curse word, or everything like that. But scripture say all have sinned, and since you are a part of all welcome to the world of wickedness. Wicked is the Hebrew means to break something to pieces so that it can’t be used for anything. So we replace wicked and call it just plain broken. Put your mind in this frame, when Adam and Eve sinned to the Garden they broke their connection to God. And in their broken state they developed wicked ways.

The first thing Adam and Eve lost was their light, this was them loosing their spiritual life. Next they lost their way, they ran from God when they heard Him walking in the cool of the day. Finally, they started lying to covering their wicked ways. Only broken people do these things, wouldn’t you agree? And that is in man to this day and time. Sometime we have to get broken down to nothingness before we allow God a whack at our brokenness. Try this, the next time you make a ‘little mistake’ run directly to the foot of the Cross, the altar; ask for true forgiveness and know that God is faithfully to forgive, then ask for the strength not do it again. Yeah, power not to sin. Read and Study Romans 6, 7, & 8; Paul went through a lot so why don’t we reap the benefits of his life, which is actually the Benefits of the Lord Jesus’ finished work on the Cross.

I know that I don’t have to explain the promises because some of us have heard the sermons about how sweet the life of a Christian is. But not to many preachers talk about the condition of that sweet life. From what I have found in my four years under the Message of the Cross teaching I have seen that once you start leaving the mess of the world alone the Message of the Cross became easy to absorb.

In closing, God desires to heals His people from their wound, even the self inflicted ones, but we have to start acting like His people and His people aren’t puffed up in their own arrogance. Christians should and need prays in the name Jesus, look for the Move and Presence of the Holy Spirit. And most importantly, we are ambassadors of the Kingdom not billboards for the world.

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Here are four steps of true Bible Repentance: Humbling of Oneself, Praying, Seeking God’s Face, and Turning from ones evil ways. We can get deep as the ocean and high as the heavens with each one of these but they are so simple and that’s where we are going to go.

Here is where I know that God is the author of Bible because no man who start off with, ‘humble themselves’. Man original sin was pride, Genesis 3: 5, “God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall BE AS GODS, knowing good and evil.” This is pride in the raw. The devil throw a piece of bait that was already in man’s heart, to like God. The devil saw the same spirit in man that he had in himself. We can go all over the Bible and see where God brings down the prideful, God even thinks it’s an abomination to have a haughty and prideful look, Proverbs 6: 16, 17 and 16: 18.

No matter how you slice it humbling yourself means to bring yourself under someone else’s authority. When we humble ourselves under God’s Sovereignty we are telling Him that His Will is best for us. One definition for humble is to be vanquished, this means to overcome in a battle or to come under mastery. This is our will being overcome and mastered by God, the Lord and Master of all.

Pray, without getting to deep; How can you know the Will of God if you don’t talk to Him? As I write article the Lord is convicting me about my Prayer Life. I have some good excuses about why my Prayer Life has been lacking but for the same reasons why are the reasons why I should be doubling up on my prayers. I have been asking God what’s going on but going back to get an answer. Not because I don’t want to know the answer but just plain laziness. I have gone to the Throne of Grace is some help in times of need and have thanked Him for His unmerited divine assistance but that’s about it. I have hit the altar at church but for someone in my position that is just not enough.

Lord, forgive me for not using the Way you gave me to commune with you. You stepped out of eternity into sinful flesh and allow us to nail you that old rugged cross for redemption sake. Lord you called me out of darkness into Your Light to give Your Word and because of some trifling little trials that You had Your Righteous Hand all over I have allowed them to hang my head in defeat. Lord, You are the Overcomer, Victory is in You, the Move of the Holy Spirit is in Christ. Lord, I use these time to reconnect my faith in You, in Christ. I give You, LORD God, all the Glory and all the Praise, in the name Jesus, my Lord, my Saviour, Lover of my soul. Amen.

To be Continued

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In the answering of Solomon’s prayer the LORD God gave the king a Word that is not to be taken lightly. We know that 2 Chronicles 7: 14 in one the Bible’s notable quotable, but we must not say it on the fly nor whim and think it makes us look more Christ-like because we can say it with some authority. Let us remember these are not just the Word of God but the Words from the mouth of the LORD God.

We must start off with King Solomon being pleased after he dedicated the temple and his palace to the LORD with much Praise & Worship and offering up burnt offerings to the God of Israel, verses 1- 11. From verse 12- 22 we have the LORD God giving a promise with a warning and if you will allow me to expound upon certain verses I think we can pull this Word into our lives today.

“I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.” says the LORD in verse 12, if you are Blood Bought Christian than you know this is speaking directing to us. We know that God is faithful in hearing our prayers when we pray in the name of Jesus. When the God said that ‘He has heard your prayer…’, in the Hebrew the prayer is the same as entreaty, supplication and hymn. We must know that our prayers are heard by God in the form of meditation in our prayer closet and singing a hymn of praise.

We have God saying that He has chosen the temple as house of sacrifice, which means that when Israel makes offering to the LORD this is where their God will meet them and hear them. To be chosen in the Hebrew means that you have looked at it from all angles and found it to be acceptable for your purposes. What a wonderful thing for the Creator of all to look at your handy work and think that He finds it acceptable for His Purpose. Now if that ain’t a time to say ‘Hallelujah’ I don’t know of one.

I want us to look at the New Testament for a second to show how we are accepted in the Eye of the God through Christ Jesus. 1 Peter 2: 9, “But you are a CHOSEN race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who CALLED you out of the darkness in the marvelous light;”, the two word of importance are; chosen and called. These two words in the Greek give us a deeper understanding of just who we are in Christ; chosen carries the mind state that we were preferred and picked out of many and called gives the impression of a divine invitation to participate in the blessings of redemption. Don’ miss another time to shout, if we are chosen and called this means that God the Righteous Judge saw us in our sin-filled condition and still said, “There enough desire for Me in this one to redeem for Myself because out of their life I will get Glory.”

Now I want to start at verse 14 but I still want to take my time and let the Word of God’s Mouth minister to our heart. God starts off with another sect of condition that we can’t miss. “If My people, which are called by My name,…” stop. Are you a son of God? Have you been adopted into the Beloved? Are you a Christian: at home, at work, at the bar, catting around with your little side thing, rolling up a fatty? Let’s dip into the Hebrew to get a better look at the phase ‘which are called by My name’. If you have done a little bit of study in the Old Testament you will see that all the nation that were around the Children of Israel knew that their God wasn’t a god to be played with. Everybody knew that the God of Israel brought them out of Egypt with a high hand, held back the waters of the Red Sea, and went to war for them. The problem was Israel had a bad case of amnesia.

To Be Continued

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Okay let’s get this straight from Jump Street, since we are in the very likeness of Christ’s death and in the likeness of His resurrection then we are free from the Law. If you are in the Law you are dead, remember all the Law can do is say that you are guilty or innocent. And since we ALL come horrible short of the Glory of the LORD, then we are all worthy of death. Get it down plain and straight, stop thinking that you can do something that God will look at and say okay to. Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me.” The way is the Cross, the truth is you got to die, and the life is He resurrected life, period. Galatians 3: 11, is clear, ‘no one is justified by the Law before God for the Just shall live by Faith.’ Not Law but Faith, you want God to say that you are justified then live in the Liberty of Christ.

All this talk about circumcision, if you thinking cut the foreskin of your Jimmy off makes you Holy, then cut the whole ’thing’ off and be real Holy, Galatians 5: 12. The custom of circumcision was for the Children of Israel to mark themselves for the rest of the mankind. And it WAS a shadow of Christ where as in He will cut off the part of all man that is not useful and from where dirt and disease, from the Flesh, can kill what is useful to make our future. Was that plain enough?

Before you go around telling people that we need the Law understand that the Law shows us how far we fall short of God’s Glory. But Christ, Who is the Glory of the Lord, shows us the way to God.

Hebrews 10: 1-18, spells out in beautiful language in which all can understand. Or if you are really dense; Christ Jesus on the Cross summed up 4000 years of the Levitical System of Worship. There are only two lines at the end of this existence we call life; you will be the line of the LAMB for your reward(Crown of Glory) or you the line of the White Throne of Judgment. Please for the love of God read Revelation 20: 11-15.

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The Law can not justify anyone, it wasn’t meant to, it was meant to show us that we can not live up to God’s Righteousness . Jesus Christ is the only man, born of a woman, that always and at every point followed the Law. The Lord Jesus is the Righteousness of God. That’s the main reason why GOD gave the Law, to show us that we can’t live up it. Think about it like this: thou shall not lie is one of the Ten Commandments that we break constantly but all we had to do is to break it once. One time breaking the law makes you a law breaker. Which make us forever out of the Presence of GOD. We see that Grace is more than just unmerited favor from God. It is God’s way of helping us to do what He has called us to do for Him and His Will.

John 8: 1- 11 is a perfect showing of God’s perfect love in this little woman that the Pharisees brought into the square after catching her in the act of adultery. By them bring her to Jesus they were trying to show how Jesus was against the enforcement of the Law. But Jesus showed them and all of us what grace really is. Okay you did it, no doubt about, but when you stand in front of the Master and your heart has true repentance in it, He will give you Grace. Not the full existent of the Law which we deserve but mercy from the Lord GOD who wrote the Law which we broke.

You can live by the Law or by Grace but you can’t live by both. You can not live by some laws that you have made for yourself because just like the Law that GOD made, we can’t live up to those. But all we have to do is live in the Light of Christ and let His Grace shine on us. The next time you say grace over your food, you might think about it a little differently.

God is great and God is good…

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Reading Philemon has put a whole new perceptive on my approaching to the Throne of God. Paul makes the same request but in varies voices. Between verses 8 through 22 he goes from being an old man in jail, the one that brought the Gospel to Philemon and a father of this little lost slave boy. Paul could have very easily said, “Take Onesimus back, don’t do anything to him I have already handled him Myself. He is now a Christians so treat him accordingly, or you will have Me; The Great Apostle Paul, to answer to. And you know you don’t want to answer to Me, do you?” But like a concern parent and friend in Christ he calls on the Christian Love that Philemon has, which he, Paul, has heard of all the way in Rome.

Can any of us forgive those who have wronged us? We denied the Sovereignty of the LORD GOD with our living outside of His Perfect Will but Jesus on the cross of Calvary said, “Forget them, for they know not what they do.” Can we forgive the driver that cut us off in traffic, an associates for talking a little rough to us, our love ones for being ‘themselves’, or ourselves for not being more Christ-like as we are still growing into the Knowledge of Godliness?

Now here’s the part that you probably weren’t expecting. We are Onesimus, Paul is Christ, and Philemon is GOD. We are the run-away slaves that did the hurt to the Master and we ran smack into the arms of Jesus, who tells us to take this Blood-soaked letter to the Master of all, and tells the Master to treat us like one of the Family because we have been made whole and fit for eternal perfect service.

This is Justification by Faith in the raw. All Onesimus had to do was to take the letter to Philemon because the work had been done by Paul. But if Onesimus would have tried to work this out himself he would have been severely punished for his disobedience and treachery. This is why we can not even think about trying to work out our salvation, especially when it has already been done for us all we have to do is have the faith to take the letter to God, which He is waiting for and the only thing that He accept as Righteousness.

Now will we humble ourselves enough to take to this Letter to the Master or will you keep living like run away slaves with the hounds on your heels?

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When Abram got to Canaan a grievous famine gripped the land, this was the test to see how faithful Abram will be. GOD does not have a need to see how faithful we are, He is just showing us how faithful we are and the areas where we need to build are Faith in. When we are in lack, we get weak, this is the perfect time for the devil to try and convince us how much God ain’t got it all, “Look at ya’ tired and hunger with no end in sight. God must be getting old and forgot about you. Or doesn’t He see you crying? I see you crying. All you need to do is ‘this, this, & this’ and it’s gonna be alright.” But the Holy Spirit whispers in your ear and touches your heart to wait on the Lord, He sees and cares for you, “Cast your cares on Jesus because He cares for you.”

I have found that God’s best advertisement is us. He has been relying on word of mouth forever. Right now the U.S. is in a famine and believe it or not the world is watching the Church. The world is wondering, “Are they gonna keep calling on the name of the LORD and their Jesus or are they gonna just buckle under the pressure like the others?” A famine will bring out the best and the worst in folks. But see our source is not of this world nor is it depended upon this present age. To make it through this famine and all others, we MUST be connected to the River of Living Water. And He will never let us go thirsty, hunger, naked, jobless, homeless, or whatever kind of less the world got. Because this River has a BRANCH in it that produces fruit that waits to be tasted by all that are in want. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not be in want.

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His Promise is His Will, they are separate but one. The Will and Promise are what GOD has giving to us, but we must have faith in the Promise because He will reveal His Glory in the process of time. GOD is not a man that He should lie.

Understand this, GOD can not lie. There is so much power in Him that His words will come to pass. The Birth of Christ is the Promise Revealed. Christ and Him Crucified is the object of our Faith. When GOD says He will, He did. When GOD says He promises, He revealed.

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On Genesis 315 we are going to go deep into Salvation, Redemption, & Justification by Faith which are the work of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There are other doctrines and they all fall into what is called the Finished Work of the Cross. It is call the Finished Work because Jesus is seated at the Right Hand of God the Father and when you are finish your job/work you ‘SIT DOWN’.

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