Friday, July 7, 2023, 01:52
i apologize for not been on, posting to the Take a Read / Blog page for over a month please forgive me,
i have been staying away do to unfounded fears,
not of what people may say or the criticism i have i have already recived,
not because of anything to do with the evil in the world,
but because i do not want to let Father GOD, the Lord Jesus nor the Holy Spirit down.
But now see by doing nothing i have been doing just that, doing nothing is the samw as agreeing with the evil.
i know i can not read well, i know i can not spell well, i know i am a sinner.
But i also know i have been and am, saved by the grace of Christ Jesus, my Lord and savior.
i just finished listening to a speech give on 07/July/2023
through the speaker the Holy Spirit showed me all i need to do is show up and do what He says,
post the things He has set before me,
move forward as He says move forward and set still when He says to set still.
Put my piece of the puzzle on the table and allow the Lord to use this piece as He sees fit.
the Holy Spirit asked “are you willing to show up?” My answer was “yes i will show up”
This is something i have been praying about for many many months and tonight was given the answer.
Be willing to show up, then show up, and allow the Holy Spirit to lead and direct my path.
Please take the time to listen to the speech by going to the link above it is very encouraging and may change your life.
May the Lord bless you with His greatest gift, His love forgivnes and redemption for you.
These are some things i had forgotten over the years 1. The Lord is my sheared, i shall not want.
2. The Lord will never leave me nor forsake me.
3. There are but three things in this life that i need and they are
a. the air that i breath
b. the love of my Lord and savior Christ Jesus
c. and to allow my teacher the Holy Spirit to teach me, to guide and direct me down the path the Lord has set before me.
i give my life to You Lord to use as You may, for You are my provider and my provision,
in all truth i need nothing of this world,
all i need is Christ Jesus and His love.
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 06:20
Saw this yesterday and reminded me of a verse that has been hanging on my wall now for over 50 years as a reminder to look up.
some hype but yet a reminder to look up.
Luke 21:25-36
25 Then there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexity: the sea and the waters shall roar.
26 And men’s hearts shall file them for fear, and for looking after those things which shall come on the world: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man come in a cloud, with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to passe, then look up, and lift up your heads: for your redemption draws near.
29 And he spoke to them a parable, Behold, the fig tree, and all trees,
30 When they now shoot forth, you seeing them, know of your own selves, that summer is then nearby.
31 So likewise you, when you see these things come to passe, you know that the Kingdome of God is nearby.
32 Verily I say unto you, This age shall not passe, till all these things be done:
33 Heaven and earth shall passe away, but my words shall not passe away.
34 Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch therefore, and pray continually, that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and that you may stand before the Son of man.
Question: Are you looking for the Lord’s appearance in the clouds?
Are you ready for Him to come back for you?
This world is not my home,
i have nothing to pack,
i have not one worldly position to declare,
i am looking for Your return,
even death has not a grip on my soul,
it belongs to you O Lord.
Come quickly Lord Jesus, Come,
i am ready to go home.
Friday, April 7, 2023, 09:06
John 11:38-44
Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
“I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
[[ The love the Lord shown for Lazarus is the same love He has for us you,
Allowing Himself to be crucified on a cross He has freed us you from death. Yes our human body will die but our soul will live forever if we are willing to repent of our sins (repent is to confess our sins to Christ and turn away from the sins and then follow and obey the commandments of the Lord) ask Him to forgive you, putting your faith and trust in Him by doing so when this body dies you are with Him in Heaven that very instant.
God loves you
John 3:15-18
“so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.”
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Jesus came to earth in the form of a man, to save us from death hell and the grave. He has shown great love for me and you. In return should we not return that love with love.
John 14:15-18
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
Jesus has told us if we love Him we will keep His commandments.
And what is the first and foremost commandments
Matthew 22:37-39
And Jesus said to him,
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’
This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Do you truly love the Father God?
Do you truly love the Lord Jesus?
If so, then show it obey these two commandments.
If you can obey these two, the other commandments will be much simpler to obey.
Jesus loves you so much He was willing to hang on a cross for you.
What are you willing to do for Him?
Thursday, April 6, 2023, 08:39
A few things we have gone over the last few months,
And have hopefully learned
Jesus is the one who holds the Church and the Spirit of the Church in His right hand.
Jesus is the first and the last the one who was dead, and has come to life.
Jesus is the one with the two-edged sward
Jesus is the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze.
Jesus holds the seven Spirits of God.
Jesus is holy, He is true, He has the key of David, He is the one who opens and no one will shut, and He is the one who shuts and no one opens.
Jesus is The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God.
From Revelation:
There are things that GOD does not like (holds aginst us)
1. After becoming a Christian, you drift away;
Revelation 2:4 “But I Have this against you, that you have left your first love.”
And in Revelation 3:5 we are told “Therefore, remember from where you have fallen” (from where we have been saved) “and repent and do the deeds you did at the first.”
2. When the church (followers of Christ) allows and listen to those of the world who spread the teaching of Balaam and Balak in the church
Revelation 2:14 “But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.”
3. That we listen to the teachings and ways of this world and the evil of it, just because someone is supposedly a good teacher or profit
Revelation 2:20 “But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.”
4. Jesus knows you He knows your name and your deeds; He knows your walk through this life. He knows the things you have learned have been taught, you have allowed to become week in your life,
Revelation 3:2-3 “Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. So, remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore, if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.”
5. Jesus desires that we would ether be on fir when it come to Him and His Commandments, Or cold and just walk away from His commandments. That we would make the choice to totally follow Him and His teachings or turn or backs and walk away.
Revelation 3:15-17 “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”
Jesus tells us if we will repent and overcome, we will be rewarded by Him. He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.
We are to be in the word of God and adapting our lives to His word, Follow, (obey) the commandments of GOD.
We have heard and hopefully learned that God is love and that we are to reflect that love to others so that they may see and except that love from Jesus the Son of God.
Back later with more Have a bless day and remember, no mater what you do, do it as un to the Lord. Do your best and ask the Holy Spirit to guide your day.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:24
We had another member of our community go home; it was a head on accident Sunday morning.
When told about it my first though was, they got to go home before the country falls apart.
About an hour later it came to me that that is right no mater who we are what we have dune when we have taken our last breath we go home.
To which ever home we have lived our lives to attain. And through the thought proses; Yes once this body is dune our true being goes home, and there are only two choices.
1. An eternal life in the Kingdome of God. Or
2. An eternal life in Hell.
That choice is ours to make.
Through the though proses and reading the words of the Lord i see it does not mater if you go to church every time the doors are open, it does not mater how much money you give, it does not mater if you and everyone ells thinks you’re a good person, there will be a lot of so called good people in Hell.
What makes the difference as to where you will spend eternity is your heart and how you live your life when no one ells is around, what do you think, what do you look at, what do you listen to, what are your motives, what are you dedicated to.
Is your life lived for gain? Gain of finances? Gain of expectance? Gain of glory and fame? Are your thoughts of good or of evil? Are the things you watch and listen to edifying to or degrading to the Spirit Father GOD has placed in you?
For it is not our outward appearance or deeds that make us sons and daughters of Father GOD, it is our inner lives.
And it is true once we take our last breath here on earth we go home. We go to the home we have chosen during the time we lived on this earth.
This home we chose with our hearts, In the Old Testament starting in Deuteronomy 4:29 we are told several times to search for the Lord GOD with all our heart with all our soul and all our might.
And to serve Him with the same.
Deuteronomy 4:29
“But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.”
Deuteronomy 6:5
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
Deuteronomy 10:12, 11:13, 13:3, 26:116, 30:2, 30:6, 30:10
Joshua 22:5
“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
First Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the LORD with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
First Samuel 12:20, 21:24
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
Jeramiah 29:13
‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Joel 2:12
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning;
Zephaniah 2:12
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning;
Matthew 22:37
And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.”
Mark 12:30
“AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.”
Luke 10:27
And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Matthew 22:35-39
One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
Do you love the Lord your GOD with all your heart mind and soul?
Do you search Him out daily with your heart mind and soul?
Do you follow His commandments moment by moment with your heart mind and soul?
OR
Is your time spent thinking of worldly things, who you are, what you can do to benefit yourself, what gain you can achieve in this world?
Do you spend time gripping, grumbling, complaining?
Do you hold bitterness in your heart?
Do you hold unforgiveness in your heart?
Do you speak slander against others?
These are the thing that will determine where your eternal home will be, with the lord GOD or without Him.
You chose your eternal home by your thoughts and who or what you are committed to in this life.
Your will your choice.
Personally i chose to obey the words of Christ Jesus and Father God, to do my best to follow His Commandments living a life on the narrow path leading to the small gate, to some day hear His say welcome in My good and faithful friend.
Well aging we come to
It is your choice Christ stands at the door and knocks will you open your heart to Him or not.
Will you choose to have your eternal home in Heaven, or will you choose hell.
Remember this you do not know when you will take your last breath, this could be your last chance to except the Lord Jesus as your Lord, your last breath could be just seconds away. What will you choose?
To have a right relationship with Him or to continue to play church and act holly?
Choose.