Sunday, January 14, 2007

Trusting with your whole being

I've posted this before, but I feel like I need to say it again. I learned this word from God through a sermon of James MacDonald.



When your upside goes downside, whatever's inside comes outside. ANYONE can trust in God when things are going good! But what happens when everything good goes bad? It isn't so easy anymore. When life itself seems to be going fine, it's easy to trust in God. But when life goes from 'fine and dandy' to 'totally stinks' these are the times we need to pay attention to our actions, because during the tough times is when your true heart's desire will ring out in front of you. Here are some examples of tough times... when you are struggling with finances, when a relative's or even your own health goes down the drain, when you can't find joy in anything, when you don't have anybody to confide in, any other tough thing you are or may go through!

God and, if you decide to pay attention, you will see your heart's true intent in the actions during tough times. If you react to these times in doubt - such as asking God "Why would you let this happen?!" Then obviously, you have some stuff to straighten out before bed tonight.

Forgiveness from sin is free. However, to live for God, we must serve. To serve, we must face trials & persecution. To face trials & persecution, we have to trust in God with our whole being. Now you may say 'I do trust God with all I got!' but it's alot easier said than understood, let alone done. Be sincere about trusting God, don't make light of this. Pay attention when God test's your trust in Him, or in other words (again) pay attention to your actions when life seems to go down the drain. Pray and Fast for a Godly heart - That you will be that much more useful to His master plan. If you truly seek this, God will see your heart's intension and will grant your request. I testify to that. So yes, pay attention to your actions! Look for signs of where you are spiritually, in your actions.

Wrapping this up now... I repeated myself a few times above, but I pray that any inconveniences are overlooked, that anyone who reads this would understand what point I meant to make.

There's coming a time when we'll face trials and persecution, wether or not we mean it in our hearts when we say "I am a Christian." There's coming a time where we're gonna suffer to so much as keep our Bibles. There's coming a time when churches will be burned, and we Christians will once again suffer for our faith! (It's closer than we think, look, prayer & Bibles are already banned from schools!) There's coming a time when satan will decieve mankind once again, but as for us whose trust is in the LORD and who's hope is the LORD, we wil stand firm through those last days.

Far greater than those things, there's coming a time when Christ Jesus Himself in all glory and power will return for those who He bought with His own blood, for those who recieved His free gift with thanksgiving in their hearts! He will return and will bring us home!!

Furthermore, the time will come when those who have persecuted us and those who made us suffer and die for our faith will experience something far greather than themselves (themselves....being the wrath of satan). They will experience the wrath of God.

Let's save as many as we can. We need to become great warriors of prayer and great warriors of faith. We need to strengthen the faith and devotion of the people of our churches, think of the potential we have here. And once again, do NOT make light of these things! It's soo easy to think lightly of something like this in an environment like ours currently. Don't be decieved, pray for this revolution, pray escpessially for those lost to sin!

Who is on the LORD's side?
Who's willing to fight?
Before you can fight, you must first learn well how to use a sword and shield; otherwise, you will fall!

I'm praying for you all.

It's Begun

If you read this, read on with an open heart to the LORD. I have so much on my heart! So much I need to say, so much I feel you need to hear. Bear with me, please.

Yesterday I posted a prayer I had in regards to a heavy heart toward those certain people who seek God's face. Today I have a heavy heart for the lost. If you haven't yet, read what's written on the top of my page.

I'm moved, I haven't merely been challenged lately, but I've been changed. I have a message from God and I can only imagine the potential we all have with the grace of God to carry out this dream. Two years ago, many of us came together in prayer for revolution, we learned much about the need of one and how it can becom reality through our lives.
The revolution has begun.If not in your heart as of yet, I can feel it in mine. America is deeply lost in darkness, terribly lost! I can't stand keeping this in any longer. There's a song by Phillips Craig and Dean that explains my feeling right now, the beginning is:

"You don't have the right to remain silent, if you've been arrested by God's grace. You've got to take the stand to tell the story - of how your guilty stains have been replaced. Everything you've done has been erased by the evidence of love. So you don't have the right."
Listen to me, Sodom and Gomorrah (spelling?) were both destroyed because they wouldn't repent. I can bet you that there were few who lives Holy lives before God. I see the same situation in America. There are many people who seem to be kind & loving, but they fail to be Holy before God. This nation needs to repent before America ends up like Sodom and Gomorrah, and don't think it won't! Television is full of impurities, movies are full of impurities, music is full of impurities! The devil is really working against God's army in these areas give/take 1 or 2 channels out of a minimum of 99.

Abraham didn't pray for the lost in Sodom & Gomorrah, he prayed for the righteous. It's good to pray for our brothers in Christ, for strength and for more souls to be won! But we need to be in desperate prayer for the lost souls. It's up to us, dude. If we don't pray - nobody will. If we don't change, though we're continually challenged, nobody will. If we don't start this revolution, this nation is going down in flames - out of Love. It would have been better for the people to roast then for God to allow them to rot in their own sin and then die - just like Sodom & Gomorrah.
God aint calling us to be challenged. God aint calling us to be moved. God doesn't want us to feel impacted or thought-provoked. He wants us to change, He wants to deliver us, He wants to deliver the lost. And if we stop at words, if we stop at sermons, then like Sodom and Gomorrah, we're going down in flames.

About changing, it's between you and God. Notice things in your everyday life that do not benefit this revolution that's taking place.....crush everything in the way. PS2 occupying your time? Get out a sledge hammer and smash is, don't get money for it - don't give it away - smash it. (Exodus 34:13, Deut. 7:1-10) Seek holiness, but do not be so occupied in saving yourself that you forget about the lost, or you would have lost the origional message that God planted in you.

Be with me in prayer for revolution. Be with me in prayer for holiness in this nation. Pray for the leaders, the followers, the blind, the lost. God's going to do something miraculously radical! So radical that those who truly live for God will be persecuted for their faith - pray for strength among God's Army, and weakness among evil. Peter 2:21 says "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps."



Be courageous. Do something out of the ordinary with the passion God's planted in your heart. Put in faithfulness for the LORD and make this revolution happen with those you come in contact with. I'm in this boat with you, and am in prayer for you all! LETS DO IT