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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He fixed breakfast; scrambled eggs, grits, and bacon. He served it to me and went to get my little brother ready for the day. He was about a year old. When he came to check on me and see if I was finished he discovered that I had ate everything but the eggs.

“Ambe eat your eggs so we can leave.”

“I don’t like scrambled eggs, they look funny.”

“Ambe, I’m not playing with you, we don’t have all day for this. Eat them eggs or I’m gonna whip you.’

This was the first power struggle, and I won. Yeah, I had to take a whipping but I didn’t eat those eggs. Ambe don’t eat scrambled eggs. Yes, I tasted them and I had made the complex mind decision that, Ambe don’t eat scrambled eggs.

I eat them boiled, fried hard with the yoke broke, or you can even mix it in bowl with salt and pepper. But once they hit’s the hot pan leave it alone, don’t go messing with until it is finished cooking on the one side. Flip it and make an omelet out of it. But let it be made known far and wide, Ambe don’t eat scrambled eggs.

My wife made breakfast for us one morning when we first got together, she was my girlfriend then. She made sausage, cheese and egg sandwiches. I took the eggs off because they were scrambled; she took it as an insult.

“Oh, you don’t like the way I make eggs?”

“No, that’s not it. I don’t eat scrambled eggs. Not in a box with a fox.” She didn’t think it funny.

“Was that suppose to be funny? Are you calling me some little fox? I’m not a fox and you ain’t J.J. from ’Goodtimes’.

After I explained that I don’t eat scrambled eggs and the Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs & Ham pun. She understood that her boyfriend was strange.

“You eat omelets. You eat the eggs on a breakfast sandwich from the fast food places and they’re scrambled.”

“No, they are scrambled prior to cooking and served as fried eggs.”

Ten years later, she still thinks I’m strange but she knows, “Ambe don’t eat scrambled eggs.”

When our son was about 15 months we went back to Virginia to visit family, but we stopped in South Carolina to see my Grandmother. In the morning she made us a real big breakfast: grits, real bacon, sausage, fried green tomatoes, and scrambled eggs. I ate everything, yes the eggs too. My wife just smiled because she knew I wasn’t gonna say anything to my Grandma about what I don’t eat. Because there is a higher power in play; Grandma don’t care what you don‘t eat.

Here lies the meat of my presentation. One of the main reasons why the world would accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour is because they won’t eat scrambled Jesus. Can we blame them? We have more division than a Math Book. The Lord laid this on my heart, “If you all come out of your dark denominations they will come in the Light of the Gospel.”

Psalms 34: 8, “O taste and see that the LORD is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!” (NASB) Let’s look and see what this one verse is telling us.

The first thing we have to see in this verse is that it’s a narrative, the Holy Spirit through David is telling us to do something. From what I remember about sentence structure when you start with a verb the noun is ’you’. The exclamation ’O’ wants to get your attention. Now let’s go to the two main verbs: taste and see.

Taste is the Webster Dictionary means to experience, to undergo, to try and determine by taking a small bit, or to sample. See is defined as to understand, to make sure, to be hold, to take note or to discern. Now that we are armed with this knowledge we have a little clarity of the intent of what the Holy Spirit is starting to tell us.

“Hey you, take a sample bite and try to get a notable understanding of the LORD and His Goodness.” Wait a minute before we go to the next part of the verse let’s make sure we have good understanding of the Biblical meaning of good. The Hebrew word for good carries the thought of something or someone that is pleasant, beautiful, lovely, delight, convenient, fruitful, precious, and expensive. The only way you can see if something is good is to put it through a battery of tests and then you can determine if it’s good.

When we go to the next verse we see that the Spirit has a planned reason He want us to taste and see about Him. How blessed is the man in the Hebrew means look how happy the warrior or mighty man or woman is. What the man is doing should be paid close attention to; taking refuge. You only need to take refuge when you are under attack by forces that are more powerful then you. The world is full of obstacle. This verse is encouraging us to get inside of God’s goodness where there is safety.

If we, Christians, would stop with all the warring that we do between the denominations, then maybe we can witness to the world about the Goodness of God in the Christ Jesus. To take it back to my egg story, we, Christians, need to give the world Jesus uncooked. Let them cook Him their way because the world don’t eat scrambled Jesus.

The problem with Christianity is Christians. We make a beautiful and simple message of salvation so complex. How simple is this, the LORD God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree, they did and now all their children (mankind) will die, God loved us so much He said I will sent My Son to die for them that believe, if they believe that Jesus died for their sins, when they die (in this life) will be with God forever and ever, but if they don’t believe they will go to Hell, the hot and smokey place where they will be tortured day and night forever and ever.

We need to give them Jesus not some crazy man-made idea that’s on the New York Times Best-Sellers List. Jesus said He is the Truth, the Way, and the Life no man or woman come to the Father but through Him. That seems simple, because it is. Give them the egg let them cook it for themselves, give Jesus let them find how to ‘cook’ His Will for themselves. That’s why it’s called a Personal Relationship.

This is not a call for a New Year’s Resolution it’s time to for a Lifetime Renewing. We are going to come out of your little denomination in the big Body of Christ and start doing what Jesus said, Go into the world and teach them about Me. World, if you don’t know how good God is taste and see because He is good, He is good, He is good. Homework: Find out why those nine works are a pun.

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Some people have taken the verse out of context to show that the Law makes us not sin. But if you read if in the context of the whole 26 verses like the Holy Spirit meant you will that the Legalistic avenue is not in the neighborhood.

If you take this chapter after the LORD God has given Israel the Ten Commandments you find the people scared out of their mind. Think of it like this: Three million people are standing at the foot of Mount Sinai and the Voice the Lord is followed by thunder, lighting, and the sound of a trumpet and the mountain is smoking. The last time they saw this was in Egypt and the Lord was dealing with Pharaoh about letting them go free. Therefore, natural Israel was afraid of God. Now let us good back to Genesis 3: 8- 10.

Adam & Eve had just sinned by eating of the Tree and they heard the Sound of the Lord walking in the cool of the day, so they hid themselves from the One that loves them unconditionally. God sees our hiding from Him as sin. Why? The only time we hide is when we have done something wrong.

Picture this: the Children of Israel are about three million and while the Lord is talking to them, ’Thou (thunder) shall (lighting) not (trumpet sounding)…” and this is for every word from the Mouth of the LORD. So with all that and a mountain smoking they took one giant step back and tried to hide themselves behind each other. And the Children of Israel ’elected’ Moses as their Mediator, verse 19.

Now verse 20 makes sense, “Children of Israel don’t be afraid of your God He is showing you Who He is so you would forget Him. The LORD your God wants your reverence and love, don’t hid from Him in your Sin Nature.”

See, just like Adam in the Garden, Israel’s be afraid would cause them to sin by running from the LORD, but we need to run to God because He has the Cure for they Dis-Ease, His Love. As Children of God through Christ Jesus need not to be afraid of God but we do need to have Fear (reverence, adore) of the Lord. As a parent would, you want your child to be afraid of you or love & trust you enough to obey you?

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No, though we do say that the Law will not justify us, yet we do not therefore say that it was given in vain, or is of no use; no, we establish the right use of the Law, and secure its standing, by fixing it on the right basis. The Law is still of use to convince us of what is past, and to direct us for the future; though we cannot be saved by it as a covenant, yet we own it, and submit to it, as a rule in the Hand of the Mediator, subordinate to the Law of Grace; and so are so far from overthrowing that we establish the Law. (Henry)

The Law was given to show us that we need a Saviour, seeing that we are under-develop, unequipped and horribly unable to save ourselves. This is why the Jesus’ death on Calvary in called the Finished Work of the Cross, He did it all. All we have to do is exhibit child like faith.

The Lord Jesus completed the Law by living up to the strictness and bondage of it, Galatians 4: 4, 6. This is how we established the Law by exhibiting faith in Christ and Him Crucified. This is the only way a Just and Righteous God can justify sinful mankind and still be Just and Right. He laid down a plan, and we follow that plan. In the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Sin Offering, our Passover Lamb, as our Sin Substitution He stood in front of the Wrath of God and took the full brute of God‘s Holy and Righteous Judgment. This is why it is called Grace; God’s Riches At Christ Expense.

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Look at all the people that are waiting to be ministered to.

Listen for the Word from the Lord to tell you what to say to their hurting heart.

I have gone to many social network sites and read a few post and blogs about ‘What Christmas Ain’t’ and ‘How We Christians Need to Stop Celebrating Christmas’ because blah blah blah blah blah blah.

How about if we do something radical and just out there this year? Why don’t we start reflecting the Light of the world and not slapping folk upside the head with our little denominational issues? Wouldn’t that be fun?

If I were still in the world, I would tell my children about a fat white man that has gifts for them because they have good. Instead of all the crazy religious yack-yack that Christians throw out this time of year.

I am a simply truck driver. I delivery pallet and pick up scrap pallets and wood. Every business I go to I wish them a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. Oh yeah I forgot and a smile. See I show the world what God showed me, LOVE.

I don’t break out my Bible that I have in my bag for when I’m waiting to get loaded or unloaded. I don’t tell them the story about the First Christmas. I just give them love. Now if the Spirit tells me to say something to them I do, and then I listen to them pour their heart out and give them Who healed my heart. Not a sermon but a short and to the point word. I give their hurting soul a band-aid, and allow the Great Physician to do His Work.

I am soldier in the Army of the Lord and at this time of year I’m in the medical corps. When I got the orders that somebody is hurt on the battlefield; I go in, put a press band-aid on the wound, and get them to the Field Hospital so the real Doctors can do think job. (Yeah I watch way too much M.A.S.H.)

So why don’t we try and be the Christmas Cheer we talk about?

Merry Christmas and Have Blessed New Year.

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If I could understand and produce hatred, I would say that word about Ahab. He fell weak over a woman and she wasn’t even all that to look at, kind of plain. But I guess her wealth made her look good.

Isaiah was the only prophet that could see the Messiah so clearly. The Spirit of the LORD told him the name of the Messiah, and after that you couldn’t tell Isaiah that the LORD God was not Awesome and Mighty. But he also saw the Son’s Suffering. He stayed up for many a nights praying that the world would show Him the proper praise for His Suffering. Other times the prophet would pray to God to take the images out of his mind because they were so horrifying.

While on vacation I saw IT. No I can’t explain what I saw, but John said it best, “The Word was made flesh.” Gabriel was assigned to tell Zacharias the priest and another Messenger was assigned to tell Mary. When the Messenger came to Mary, she was so shocked because she was just peasant and could not understand how the LORD had found favor in her. She was chosen by the Father of men at the foundation of the world. After the Messenger calmed her nerves, he then told her what was about to happen and because she knew about the prophecies, she believed and conceived.

From the moment when the LORD told the serpent in the garden his days were number because he had deceived man into falling to Mary conception of the Holy Child it all seemed like a blink of the eye compared to the nine months Mary was with Child. Those nine months seemed like an eternality. The labor that blessed little girl went through was so loud, not because of her pains of labor or the animals that were around her. It was because every Heavenly host was praising and glorifying God in the Highest and every low satanic creature knew their best effecters had felled.

When the Messenger of the LORD came to the shepherd in the field, they were so scared. That’s the main reason why we have to say, “Fear not.” because it not man won’t hear a word we’re saying. The Messenger did not get the word ‘manger’ out before some of us started praising the LORD by flying around those shepherds . See we have been waiting for man to come back into the Presence of the LORD since he fell in the Garden of Eden. The LORD has missed you all so much; you name me one good father that doesn’t want to be with his children everyday. Sometimes while I was on my vacation, in the middle of Praise and Worship I would see The God-Head looking at Earth and weeping because it was time to go down and redeem mankind to Himself.

For what it’s worth, we love you too. See anything or anybody that makes the LORD of host happy, makes us happy. We were created to service, you were created to praise. And we all were created to worship and adore HIM.

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