The good shepherd will leave the ninety and nine behind and go after the one...that is lost.

Monday, February 28, 2005

Only One God...

Qur’an 5:73 “They are surely disbelievers who blaspheme and say: ‘God is one of three in the Trinity for there is no AIlah (God) except One, Allah. If they desist not from saying this (blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall them—the disbelievers will suffer a painful doom.”

It is as obvious as the air I breath that the Lord can have as many personalities as he wishes. The Islamists say Allah (satan) is one god. They are correct about Allah. Our God is one God with three personalities, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Islamists claim that we worship three gods thus spreading lies and confusion among millions of Muslims worldwide.

How can a molecule of water become vapor, liquid and solid and remain a molecule of water. If the Islamists had a molecule of sense they would see the inconsistencies in their book and be free of the yoke they carry.

We can only pray for their souls, our own safety from their hatred and that the God of Truth calls out to the lost in these end times.

The times they are a changing in the Middle East. Here is a great editorial cartoon that sums up the tsunami of freedom that is coming to the land that David conquered.

Sunday, February 27, 2005

They're just like us...

New York Daily News: The New York man who sparked fears of a powerful new strain of HIV had drug-fueled, unprotected sex with more than 100 men in the months before his diagnosis, a top researcher said yesterday. The victim, who's in his mid-40s, participated in wild orgies fueled by crystal meth before becoming sick, Mr. Ho said.

Homosexuality is driven by men who get introduced to a lifestyle not by their own desires. The overwhelming majority have been sexually abused and follow the pattern of abuse by desiring to dominate another man in order to restore a sense of self. This lust can not be satiated or the fire extinguished. It is the same demon that attracts fornicators to the opposite sex.

It is a sad commentary on America that the debate isn't about reconciliation with God, but a renunciation of Him. There is no greater enemy to mankind than the self. The constant chanting that homosexuals are just like you...

Well, I sure haven't had one hundred sexual partners in my life much less in one month. While Homosexual and Heterosexual fornicators are to be prayed for...

My children are not to be preyed upon.

here is a link to a site that dispels the myths of this unholy union :
the truth about homosexuality

Saturday, February 26, 2005

'Who is for me?'

Ge 42:36 : Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me."

Turmoil inside Jacob's house led him to despair. The surface issues are never what is really in play. Current circunstances never speak of future promise. Joseph was dead, Simeon was hostage, and now Benjamin was the ransom.

Has your dream died? Is your flesh hostage? Will your current circumstances ramson your promise? It all depends on what your dreams were in the first place. Joseph was quite alive, his vision had come true, no one knew it because he was in a far country. Simeon wasn't hostage, he was the vehicle that would get Jacob reunited with his son.

Do your current circumstances speak to you and yearn for a change? Does your helpmate tell you to move and leave the land that God gave you as an inheritance? Does your house speaks against you kicking at the pricks, unable to see the progress? Will you fight doubt and frustration as the gatekeepers look down on your flesh?

We do not walk in flesh and blood, but in spirit and truth. Let your house remain, keep your vision spiritually clear, let your resolve not falter. Brides must be covered, that is why they were formed from man's side. Your house is your greatest asset.
The obstacles to the promised land must be conquered. The giants must be ignored. We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.
Sometimes standing firm is the way to...

Go forth and conquer.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

The Poor Wise Man

Ec 9:15 : But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

What do you do when you know the answer but are cut off politically or financially from solving the problem? What do you do when you know that a certain tactic must be employed or serious consequences will occur that will lead to ruin? Do you sit on your hands or do you move to save that which you love.

There is a principle that was shown to me called the keyhole. Every Christian has a keyhole given to them and it gives them a view into the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. Funny thing about keyholes is that they are on the very doors that the Lord would have you walk through. Others may have keyholes that peer into the same vision and see it from different angles. Unless Christians unite and become transparent in their lives and share the vision with other like-minded souls, the vision is just a vicarious expression of God's will for you.

Vision is not seen, it is given. The dreams that you have for your life are so limited in scope compared to God's dreams for your soul. When the vision hits you, embrace it, act on it and drive towards it. Most Christians today are busy in motion, yet there is little movement, and even less inertia.

You will face many obstacles, overcome many hurdles. Remember that through connections with other bond-servants, you will be remembered. You will never be poor, and you will achieve your destiny in Yeshua ha Messiach.(Christ Jesus)

Only God can open the door for you, but everyone can certainly be a hinge.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Upstream or Downstream?

If you're alive you have the ability to swim upstream. To go against the current is to exhaust yourself to get to a place that few visit due to the exertion necessary. The world is full of people that have given up, let life carry them wherever it takes them, a feather in the breeze or a spot in the stream. There are few that fight the currents and try to change the world we live in. Those that do usually reap fantastic rewards if they were planned how to handle success

G.K. Chesterton said: "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - Orthodoxy, 1908 The world is constantly trying to change us and beat us into submission. It is for the strong spirit that stays the course, dodges the feathers and the dark spots in the murky currents.

I choose to fight forward looking to change the world, my nation, my state, my city, in big and small ways. The merry go round is delightful. The rollercoaster is heartpounding.

Which one lets you know you're alive?

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Boundaries of Heaven

Ps 74:17 : You have established all the boundaries of the earth; You have made summer and winter.

When the Lord gives vision to man it comes with much weight. The Lord's vision is unable to create with the simple tools of the created. It takes supernatural provision to meet God's vision for your life. The testing of faith brings endurance. Every time you feel as if you are slipping in faith or the ability to hold on the plan for your life, remember that you were created in His image and that becomes manifest when you take on the robes of His righteousness. If God is for us, who can be against us?

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. Those weapons of war are going to be needed as we wrestle not against flesh and blood...but wickedness in high places. It is in the high places that the war is fought. This war is fought at the footstool of our Creator. Our potential and destiny has been placed on a tabernacle for all to see. The enemy knows the marching orders of your life and is diametrically opposed to you carrying out that destiny.

The boundaries are set, acceptance is the last obstacle to fulfilling His plan for your life. If you've ever wondered what the difference between fate and destiny are, it's simple: fate is what you can accomplish according to your own free will. Destiny is what you receive when you take on His dreams for your life.

A destiny limiited only by the boundaries of heaven.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Untermench, is still a German word

The Europeans are at it again, in fact they never stopped. They have funded a Islamic movie about the current terrorism gripping Israel called: Paradise Now It was funded by European agencies and is currently playing in a Berlin Film Festival. Where is the outrage? Where is the shame? Where is public outcry over the glorification of suicide murderers and the dehumanizing of the Jewish victims? What moral argument could these propagandists possibly hope to gain if their cause is holy and the Jews are... 'untermench? Will they base their values on the fact that Jewish life has no value? If you want to know more about where these thought patterns come from I suggest you read the following article. It is a wonderful look at what we are facing in the Middle East. The coming storm....Islam for today

Friday, February 18, 2005

CBS at again...uh, no this time its the BBC

They just can't seem to hide their contempt to anything that is holy or decent. The media is on a wholesale distortion campaign to malign anything that has to do with God, His children or His Promise. Here is the link: IDF shooting a lie

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Traditionalism, Socialism and Secularism, the anti-Gods

How do we transform this country?

In the kingdom of Israel there was no seperation of church and state. That was never in the dialog of the country. State was synonymous with God as it was given to them by God. The tithe was give for the Levitical priesthood and what was left over funded the improvements to the community. There were no taxes as everything was provided by the tithe. The Synagogue or Temple issued all licenses and all transactions were done in the Temple. It was illegal to sell land as it was owned by God and not the inhabitants. Add 619 laws and 2500 years of tradition and the nation of Israel becomes a different country.

Land is sold and traded, the tithe is held back and the fields are not laid fallow in the seventh year. Turmoil and occupation besiege the land flowing with milk and honey. Jesus came into this period of Jewish history and taught against the prevailing sins of the age...the sins of tradition.

When tradition becomes the norm, it becomes religion and religion is man's attempt of controlling God. You must not do anything on the Sabbath. No healing, No good deed, no deed at all, tradition is to be worshiped, not the Lord. In our country we have this rediculous notion that the State is somehow independent of the moral makeup of it's citizens. The State is nothing but a mirror of the prevailing attitudes and permissiveness of that particular generation. Traditionalists are not conservatives. Traditionalists worship a method, conservatives have a fundamental belief. To conservatives there is no method as there is nothing between them and the God they worship, it is personal.

Post Modernism replaced the worship of God with a liberal secular-humanist view that statism was the answer to man's dilemma. The state was to be worshiped as it was able to meet the needs and provide the services that the church was previously responsible for. The secular humanist replaced moral compassion with misplaced compassion.

Misplaced compassion feeds a man instead of teaching him how to farm. Misplaced compassion tells women that abortion is a viable choice without telling them the emotional and physical consequences of their decision. Misplaced compassion tells us that all lifestyles are viable and equal. The married man and woman, the married woman and woman, and the married man and twelve year old boy. It's all love, and love is beautiful, right? Misplaced compassion focuses on diversity and not character. Misplaced compassion calls moral judgement hate, and fiscal responsibility greed.

Tradition replaced obedience. Socialism replaced morality. Secularism replaced God.

There are powers and principalities that have powerful friends in the State. Anyone who dares declare God's sovereignty is castigated and mocked as a simpleton. Then enemy has no intention of replacing his system with ours and he has won and will win many battles. fortunately there are many more to be fought and there is no middle ground, only Holy Ground. We will not surrender, we will not be swayed, we will not be distracted.

If Christ is our nation, Yeshua our King and our Spirit is Holy...

Our war is won.


Ageless Wisdom

Patience takes patience

This is what the Holy Spirit castigated me for when I was complaining about the timing in my life. I want it and I want it now. The blessings of God are created in spirit before they manifest in the flesh and the march of time is not our friend when it comes to the faithfulness of God. Time is not in His vocabulary.

I am not alone in wanting instant gratification. I am not alone when time seems to stand still for me while the world marches on. I see so many people lead their lives full of motion lost to the fact that there is no movement. They flail in desperation convincing themselves that they are busy, engaged and on the go...when in fact life as life is described is passing them by.

SO, today I will excercise patience in order to build more patience. I will trust that He is faithful to the sheep that hear his voice. I will seek true peace in the knowledge that all things work for good to those that rest in Yeshua ha Messiach.

Baaaaah... are we there yet?

Try, try again.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Seawolf attack sub named after...you gotta be kidding right?

Just sit right back and enjoy a tale...

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will commission its newest nuclear-powered attack submarine Jimmy Carter on Saturday, Feb. 19, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Conn.

The attack submarine Jimmy Carter honors the 39th president of the United States. On hand to launch the ship will be a representative from the Iranian Navy, Admiral Ayatollah Mufasa Tibriki was quoted as saying: "this is one ship we know will never act in an agressive manner towards Iran, for that I am grateful.

In another twist, North Korea's news agency issued this release: "it is time that a man of such peace and virtue be awareded a nuke of his own, in fact we've built six since the last time we saw him."

Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and other Democratic Party leaders will be on hand for the three hour cruise. Afterwards the ship will be stationed in the Persian Gulf where it may or may not defend the citizens of the United States.


Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

Holiness of an Inconstant Son

When you ask for deliverance from a particular issue or for God to move mightily on your behalf do you understand that the process may take on a route that is completely different than the one you expected? The chosen wanted to be freed from bondage however they wanted it on their terms. Does God have a say in the way He delivers you from your predicament? Is He entitled to our respect and understanding that maybe Father knows best? When the Chosen had survived the plagues of Egypt, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds and the blessing of the Law that was given to them by Moshe, they did what every normal child would do...they complained, wanted more and wanted it...RIGHT NOW!

The Lord led them to a place called Kadesh Barnea, where springs were sufficient to supply two million on their journey. Moshe called out for spies to go and travel throughout the land that the Lord had prepared for them. When the spies returned only two gave indication that Israel would indeed conquer the land and call it their own.

Because of their lack of faith they were led to spend the next thirty eight years wandering the wilderness while the faithless generation perished in frustration.

When the Lord seems to be taking his time or sets expectations beyond what seems possible, do you respond with hope or doubt? Do you rebel and demand instant gratification or do you accept the manner and path that He laid out?

The visions that I have received for my life are so big as to be impossible without the intervention of the Lord. Those locks can't be opened by the turn of any keys that I posess. I am at Kadesh Barnea and I have spied out the land. It is good, it is just as He promised. I will work diligently to stay focused on the promise and not the cost.

I will not doubt His faithfulness.

I will praise His belief in the holiness of an inconstant son.


The Expectant Destiny

Monday, February 14, 2005

True love on St. Valentines day

In John 15:13 : Yeshua tells his apostles and disciples: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." He tells us that the ultimate love is one of sacrifice, the antithesis of selfishness. The self makes you look to self-improve, self-control, self-indulge, it is what makes you do all manner of actions before asking whether or not it is right or appropriate. The self takes offense, the self takes over and the ability to love on God's terms is no longer available. Why would the greatest love die for friends and not for family, or country, or ideals?

Luke 12:53 states: "Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Why will this happen? because when a person loses his/her self and takes on the characteristics of righteousness that is only found in the Trinity, they risk losing those relationships that have not taken on that yoke. The closest relationships remember the soul they grew up with, nurtured and loved, only to wake up one day and find a stranger in that place. The recognition of Yeshua ha Messiach becomes so complete that it transforms the deepest understandings into dust. That transforming knowledge of our Messiah makes every other relationship secondary, and in some unfortunate cases, lost to history. The brother will not understand why you will no longer pursue fornication, the father will not understand why his language is now offensive or how actions that were formerly acceptible are no longer permissible.

Some will lose everything in the pursuit of His yoke. They will lose family, friends and lovers. Yeshua knew this all too well, his own brothers and sisters did not understand Him, how will your family understand you?
Family becomes those that love the Lord the way you do. Those that cherish the growing knowledge and the sharpening of each other's blades.

I have many acquaintences but few true friends. To give one's life for family, or country, or ideals in an unselfish, spontaneous manner is heroic. To give one's life in a planned manner for the salvation of your friends is holy.

So on this date when we celebrate love I offer love as I have come to know it:

He heard the voice of God, left his loved ones behind and went into a far country, one that was promised to him and his seed.
James 2:23 : "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God."

To all my friends who have left so much behind,

I love you.


Abraham crossing the Jordan

Sunday, February 13, 2005

In the beginning...

This is the first entry into my blog. My beautiful wife and I figured out how to place a custom header and reconfigure the site but there are some artifacts still hanging around. We'll have to get professional help and then get someone to help us with the blog. It took creation 7 days to get up and running, we did it in less than that...but then again we aren't finished, and well when you think about it neither is He. May the Lord bless each and every person that happens to stumble onto the site of my ramblings, my outcry and my firm belief that life is only found in those things that outlast life.


Wm. Adolphe Bouguereau, 1825-1905

 

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