GOD HAS SPOKEN

"IN THE PAST GOD SPOKE TO OUR FOREFATHERS THROUGH THE PROPHETS AT MANT TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS, BUT IN THESE LAST DAYS HE HAS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, AND THROUGH WHOM HE MADE THE UNIVERSE!"   "Hebrews 1:1-2

God has spoken to us in our day THROUGH JESUS in the CLOSED CANON of Scripture, NOT in "NEW" revelations from FALSE TEACHERS that have come into the flock as "wolves dressed in sheeps clothing" as He warned us they would, but most self-professed "Christians" aren't paying attention! And sadly, most of them are Biblically illiterate and will believe just about everything they hear if it's worded "just right" which it always is! And they are ESPECIALLY drawn by the EXPERIENCE-based churches and messages! "NEW" revelations from these self-proclaimed "prophets" and "apostles" don't have ANYTHING to do with Scripture! If Scripture IS used, it is used OUT OF CONTEXT and twisted to meet their desired end! Signs and wonders can be accomplished without ANY presense of God or any of HIS POWER! WE are living in a hightened time of signs and wonders that ARE NOT coming from God, they are SATANIC people! It's time to wake up! Check what you are SEEING and HEARING against Scripture! If you CANNOT find it there, DON"T sit there and ACCEPT it as FACT when it's NOT! STAND FOR THE TRUTH IN GOD"S WORD! STAND FOR CHRIST!

CHRISTMAS

You know what Christmas is to me more than ANYTHING this year? And NOT because I'm some BIG hero or some "self-proclaimed" martyr;

Christmas to me this year is ALL about doing God's work for God's people who need SO much- and WE, more or less, have it to give! Wouldn't ki be cool if we decided that ALL the money being funneled in to give US presents would be funneled in to give to God's SUFFERING children who have little or nothing, or the ministries that are suffering? THAT"S my goal this year! To spread the Gospel instead od making a Christmas list. Doesn't that sound like absolute joy and fun??? J

AUTIFUL"

by Apostle Jay Ikwan Snr on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 11:28am

"He has made everything beautiful In Its Time..." (Ecclesiastes 3:11 New International Version) 

Not long ago, a Pastor friend and his family went on a guided tour of a large cave. He said, “You walk through these winding and really narrow, passageways admiring the wonders that God has created from stalagmites, stalactites, and underground rivers. We entered this one large chamber, and the guide turned on the light and directed our eyes to this high vaulted ceiling. You can probably guess what animals we saw hanging out up there - Bats, lots of Bats! The guide told us that the early explorers of this cave had found large quantities of what she called Bat Guano. If you don't know what that is, never mind. It's gross, that's what it is! But they made lots of money selling that stuff! I thought, "What good could Bat Dung possibly be?" Surprise! They make Gunpowder out of it! And even more surprisingly, they said that they can turn that gross stuff into Makeup like Mascara and Lipstick! Makes me think twice about kissing my wife. The pastor said. LOL !!! 

As I listened to that comical story, I thought, it's amazing how people can turn something Seemingly Useless and Ugly into something Useful and even Beautiful. What's more amazing is how God does that with Our Lives! In fact, He's wanting to do that very thing for you Today - to make something Beautiful and Useful out of the Ugliest things that have happened in Your Life! The truth of the matter is, He’s the only One Who Can!" HE Has Made everything beautiful in its time..."  

One way He does that is described in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. "The Father of compassion and the God of all comfort ... comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." I don't know what kind of "troubles" you've been through in life; it could be anything from sickness, to abuse, to addiction, to grief. But whatever the “trouble”, I know that it's made you Need the Lord more than ever before. And so you experienced His Compassion, His Comfort, His Strength, and His Support in some deeply personal ways. Now, in a sense, God wants you to be for other hurting people What He Has Been For You. That's how He takes the Worst things that ever happened to you and makes them into something Beautiful.  Your “Ugly” situations produce “Beautiful” compassion and comfort for the “troubles” of others sitting where you once sat! 

For example: Sean was at a workshop I taught on mentoring youth one day when he was desperately lonely and hurting. He was desperate, lonely and hurting enough to want to end his young life. But instead, he gave his life to Christ that day when the workshop had ended and I had already left the church. Later, he contacted me and shared his testimony and asked if I could mentor him on how to start a youth peer mentoring program, for young people like himself. Why? Because he found out how to help lonely, hurting and desperate people, and it all happened because he had once been lonely, hurting and desperate. Sean has a membership of 56 teens in his program to date and it’s still growing! Imagine if he didn’t allow God to make his Ugly—Beautiful, In Its Time.

JaNell was sexually abused by two different family members before she reached sweet 16. When she brought that awful garbage to Jesus, He began to give her a ministry to abused girls and she has helped a lot of them! Her history of abuse became the validation of her strange credentials for caring for abused victims. She shared with me the day God spoke it to her, it was simple, He told her to look at the word “abuse”, in it He highlighted the hidden word “use”. In that still quiet moment, God told her “use” your “abuse” to help others. JaNell now works with me on the Transforming Beauty Ministry launched in January 2010, that now mentors 42 girls and women.

Derrick has had a tremendous ministry to young people that others would call rejects. He's so tender and compassionate toward them. You know why? He says it's because he remembers the hurt he experienced as an illegitimate child in a terribly dysfunctional home. God has recycled his wounds into a life-changing ministry of compassion. 

God wants to do that for you if you'll only bring Him all that pain, all those wounds, all those memories. He wants to take all that Ugly stuff—stuff that Looks Like it’s useless, and He wants to turn into something Very Beautiful - a tender, compassionate, helping heart in you. Because of what Christ can do with the Waste of our lives, the ones who have been hurt the most turn out to be some of the Greatest Healers In the World. 

So don’t lose faith, Your Ugly Will Produce Something Beautiful—In Its Time!

Do not forget, We are in the Refiner's Hands !!! Grow STRONGER!!!! 

I love you

Apostle Jay Ikwan Snr

Coals of Fire Ministries Intl - The Refiner's Church

P.O.Box 4906 Aba, Nigeria

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Jason Upton, Lou Engle and Company: The Heresies They Teach And Why We Christians Are So Royally Screwed | The Habitation of Justice

Jason Upton, Lou Engle and Company: The Heresies They Teach And Why We Christians Are So Royally Screwed | The Habitation of Justice

BY YOUR GREAT NAME

BY YOUR GREAT NAME

8/3/2011

MICHELLE Y SECORD

My path is Yours my Lord, my Love,

Lead me to Your cross

I lay my life down, help me die to self

And find my dreams in You!

For Your name brings life untold

You are everlasting beauty to behold

I find myself in You,

But my greatest longing is to see You face to face

My souls’ greatest yearning is to worship You for all eternity

Refine me as silver and remove ALL the dross

All I have I now count as loss

For the surpassing greatness of knowing You, my Lord, my heart

May we never be apart

You are The King of glory

You have come to finish the story

We stand before You, singing Your praise!

May Your name be lifted high and raised!

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah to the Lamb! The Great I AM!

Before You we stand, surrounded by Your glory!

May we go forth to tell the nations’ Your redemptive story!

That the lost may truly be set free,

Oh dear Lord, let it be!

By Your Great Name!

Let it be! Set the captives free!

LIVING FOR GOD'S GLORY

It is my intention with this blog to glorify God the best way that I can. Right now there is a battle going on in the church like we've never seen before. We have self-professing "Christians" who are deserting the major doctrines of the Christian faith as if they mean nothing; pastors denying the virgin birth, the incarnation of Christ, the fact that Christ actually died on the cross, His resurrection from the dead, the miracles of Christ, the existence of Heaven and Hell, you name it, it's under attack. But the fact that core doctrines such as the virgin birth, the resurrection,and Christ's death on the cross are SUCH a betrayal of Christ Himself, that those of us who REALLY do love Him MUST fight back, fight for the truth, so I do that. If an organization or a church or a person is teaching a false gospel, I'm going to take a stand FOR TRUTH, if they teach man's doctrine as God's word, I'm going to challenge that with the Biblical TRUTH. So a lot of people won't like that. But Christ is my Savior and Lord and He made it clear that if we are ashamed of Him here, He will be ashamed of us in front of His father. So you see, My life is His and being God, He doesn't NEED our help, but He CHOOSES to use us, and actually, it's an honor. So I will stand for the truth no matter who is doing the lying, and trust me, there's plenty of them out there. The persecution WILL come from the ones doing the lying, because when you hit a nerve, well, you know how that goes.


But that's not ALL my blog is for. I have a chronic illness called Fibromyalgia and I also have had a stroke back in 2007. So I'm pretty much homebound with chronic debilitating pain and fatigue but out of that the Lord birthed a ministry. I write poems, and I share them with others who are suffering or in pain. It is an honor to share a small part of my life with so many wonderful people that the Lord has brought into my life. And I use my blog to post some of my poems to share with you guys who happen upon my blog here. So I'm not ALL fiesty and fight, but I DO fight for the truth. If you happen to go to a church that I challenge, I'm sorry, it's not against you. You need to know with me that if it's NOT backed up somewhere in Scripture, then I won't be ok with it, and if you're a Christian, you shouldn't be either. If someone is teaching something thought up by MAN as if it came from GOD then it is a FALSE TEACHING. Seems pretty simple to me. So that's my story and this is my blog. God bless.
Michelle

“They Have Forsaken the LORD” | thebereancall.org

“They Have Forsaken the LORD” | thebereancall.org

What once was sin is now just accepted behavior in our amoral culture!

How Did the Catholic Church Begin? | thebereancall.org

How Did the Catholic Church Begin? | thebereancall.org

It sure didn't begin with Peter and the Apostles, of this we're sure. You see, the Bible is God's inerrant word and His word doesn't say a word about the ridiculous goings on in Rome, because they came along with EMP Constantiine in around 313 AD and declared "Christianity" the "official" religion of the Roman Empire. The end of the Bible ends with Armageddon and Jesus' triumphant return to earth to reign and rule, followe by Christ's Millenial reign on earth. If the Roman Catholic Church carried that much weight with God, or was as important as they seem to think they are, I THINK He would have included their birth SOMEWHERE in Scripture, but no, NOTHING, not one word. Jesus built His church on Peter's confession of Christ being the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, NOT on Peter, as Rome has ALWAYS falsely claimed! Peter did not start some unbroken line of "Infallible" popes. Thats blasphemy and folly my friends. JESUS is the FOUNDATION of His church, not a mere, fallen man with sinful tendencies! That is why, again and again, the Bible tells us we have a Firm foundation in Christ Jesus, a faithful High Priest who intercedes on our behalf night and day.And we don't go back to the "early church fathers' for our answers either! They're just men! We go back to the Bible and the FACT that, in these last days, God has chosen to speak to us THROUGH HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, and NO OTHER! He does NOT speak to us through ANY pope! THe Bible clearly states that we are to go to the Word to hear God speak to us! God speaks to us through His word! But the Catholic Church wants such control over their flock that Catholics are mostly a Biblically illiterate group, so they don't know how to listen to God's voice through Scripture! Jesus came to set us free from ALL bondage and the RCC id certainly guilty of holding their flock hostage as they await to be told what to believe by the RCCleaders and priests, and if they went to their Bibles and checked what they were hearing against what they were hearing, they would know they are being fed lies!

If ANY of you out there read this and are Catholics, I am NOT bashing you, but I do stand firmly against your leaders for continuing to lead you down a dead end road.They are not teaching you what is in the Bible, the Lord's commands, His ways, His words, and how to find salvation in Christ so you can spend eternity in Heaven with Jesus Christ! And they teach you that what Jesus DID on the cross wasn't ENOUGH to fully pay for our sins! This is the grossest sin of unbelief I have ever heard! What pride of man! Saying Christ needs a Co-Redemtrix in Mary? That's a doctrine of demons! Not only does it ADD to Scripture, which we're forbidden to do, it STEALS glory FROM CHRIST, the LORD OF LORDS, King of Kings, SAVIOR, LAMB OF GOD! For those of you who do not know your Bibles, it has been Satan's bent from the beginning of the Christian Faith to draw people's eyes OFF of JESUS and on to ANYTHING ELSE he can think of! Mary is indeed important, but we should not offer her anything more than Scripture itself does, or even Christ Himself. There has never been a HINT that she was or IS anything other than a very blessed woman, but still a sinner in need of grace as stated in her own magnificat in the Gospel of Luke. Salvation can be found ONLY in Christ, we are saved by grace, through Faith, and this a Gift of God, not by works, that no man may boast! Eph 2-8-9 And we can ONLY come to GOD through CHRIST-period. ALL Paths DO NOT lead to God. And there is ONLY ONE GOD-OURS! The others are of the imaginations of men as all IDOLS have been down through the ages. Jesus Himself said: "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life, No One comes to the Father BUT BY ME." Jesus has more than proved Himself to be who He claims to be- God. PLEASE READ THE SCRIPTURES FOR YOURSELVES! It is ONLY there that you can find God's truth! God Bless You!
Standing for truth!
Michelle Secord

Seduction: A Primer for Persecution? | thebereancall.org

Seduction: A Primer for Persecution? | thebereancall.org

RELIGION OR RELATIONSHIP?

If I could correct one of the BIGGEST mistakes that people make when they think of Christianity is that it is just another 'RELIGION!" NO IT IS NOT!!!

not, not, not, Jesus made this SO clear when He was here the First time.

Let me explain the difference:

Religion= Man trying to reach UP to God through good works, penance, passing through a firery purgatory ( sorry folks, this one's out, can't be backed up by SCRIPTURE ANYWHERE and the last pope admitted it was a scam to get parisheners money) ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD WORK THIS WAY, MAN REACHING HOPELESSLY TOWARDS GOD WITH A WORKS SALVATION DOCTRINE. This includes the Cathilic Church, which is NOT an attack on individual Catholics, PLEASE understand that! However, countless doctrines that they follow as being "Thus saith the Lord" are NO MORE than man-made traditions and rules that the Catholic "Leadership" claims as divine. HM. It's interesting and even more so, troubling, that NONE of them can be found in the Holy Scripture! The sacraments they require their flock to follow are NOT biblical people! You cannot find these rules and regulations in the Bible, which is the ONLY book that is divine or holy! Any other book that man calls "holy" is an outright lie. Only the Bible is God-breathed, period! If someone is trying to sell you something as coming from God and you can't find it backed up in the Bible? Then it's a safe bet that it's not true! Be aware! Be informed!

CHRISTIANITY is SO NOT about religion! Christianity is about having a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. As religion is man trying to reach UP to God through man's devised schemes, Christianity is ALL about God reaching DOWN to mankind out of sheer, overwhelming love. Jesus Christ, the Messiah, long awaited Savior, left the glories of Heaven to come to earth.He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, preached the message of the saving Gospel beginning with repentance. He was the God/Man, fully God, fully man. He chose to lay down His life on a Roman cross to pay for OUR sin, then He took His life back up again, rose from the grave which showed all creation that God the Father had accepted Christs death as FULL payment for mans sin. When we accept the free gift of salvation by grace through faith, we are born again into the Kingdom of God, and we become God's child. Salvation is found ONLY in CHRIST; "I am The Way, The Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but by Me." John 14:6 Jesus, the very Son of God, paid such a GREAT cost to save us, that He gets to choose the Way! When we reject the narrow road of grace, it's because of man's pride and love of self and sin. Because NOT to choose the eternal love of Christ and eternity in a very real Heaven is just CRAZY! How can you NOT want Him? And if people end up in Hell? It's because THEY made that choice and they cannot blame it on anyone else!

NOTE ON LOVE SO TRUE

If we could just accept Jesus' promise that He loved us SO much that He died a nost horrible, cruel, degrading way that a man could die in his day, we wOuld HAVE that Christian peace that Jesus and thr Apostles talked so mucg about! We would'd waste SO much tume and energy trying to find out where this pastor got SO screwed up as to actually BELIEVE that GOD is actually DONE with His chosen People, Israel right now, perhaps, cap the PERHAPS, God will arrive to finish what He started. In that vein, has He ever...REALLY? The covenant God made with Abraham regarding Abrahams descendants inhabitating the land FOREVER?...Yes, THAT unconditional promise has NEVER been fulfilled. But I would bet you EVERYTHINH that the battle described in Ezek. 38-39 is now only in its ver infantile changes, by making yet ANOTHER empty promised word, but one that MUST be taken seriously,
The focus of the church these days  as it appears, is "healing" ALL the sick; and the result that I have witnessed up close and personal is a lot of pain and guilt being dished out on those who have enough on their plate to begin with,
without the church piling it on them with their WILLFULL disbelief. Their next line of attack is just as personal, Well, when someone with Fibro gets ready to go out, some of us (though not all) still want to look half alive, and put on a little make-up, so to the world out there, "Why you look just fine to me!
If you do ANY serious research on the scriptures, Jesus' MAIN purpose in coming here was the forgiveness of sins and a true turning of our hearts towards God! And that remained the Apostle's first priority as well in his ministry, though some dead are raised, but we must remember, they were going to have to die again! Jesus came to set the captives free, and He'sstill in that busuness today. It's just such a shame that "ignorant, unsuspecting women , and more and more men, are living out "another" gospel


Now, more than ever, we need to have heads up and eyes that see, ears to hear.There are many who are heading off of the narrow path to follow doctrines  'of demons" and beieving what" mere men" tell us when it DOES NOT LINE UP WITH SCRIPTURE!  We are not to follow anyone but  Christ, pray to anyone besides Christ, or worship anyone besides nee York!

A LOVE SO TRUE

LOVE SO TRUE

MICHELLE Y SECORD

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

IF I COULD REACH THROUGH THE HEAVENS

AND HOLD YOUR HANDS…

I WOULD LOOK AT THE ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS;

IF I COULD DANCE ON THE WAVES,

I COULD MEET THE KING WHO SAVES;

IF I COULD SOAR ON WINGS SO FREE,

I WOULD SEE THE ONE WHO LOVES ME;

IF I COULD FLY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE,

I WOULD GAZE INTO YOUR LOVING FACE,

IF I HAD THE SOFTNESS OF A DOVE,

I WOULD SEE YOUR TENDER LOVE;

IF I COULD SPLIT THE SKY,

I COULD SEE YOUR LOVING EYES;

IF I WERE THE CROSS OF RUGGED WOOD,

WOULD I HAVE UNDERSTOOD?

WHEN YOU COME TO TAKE ME HOME,

NO MORE WILL I ROAM…

A LOVE SO TRUE THAT IT GOES

BEYOND ALL KNOWING…

A LOVE SO STRONG THAT IT WILL

ALWAYS KEEP ON GROWING…

PSALM 131

"O nLord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child from it's mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me." - Psalm 131, A Song of Ascents, of David.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

ABOVE THE CLOUDS

MICHELLE SECORD

AUGUST 21, 2005

I LET GO OF EARTHLY TREASURES,

BECAUSE NOTHING COULD MEASURE…

UP TO YOU;

YOU ARE THE MISSING CLUE

I COME READY FOR YOU MY LORD,

JUST SAY THE WORD…

I WANT ALL TO BE FOR YOU,

I WILL STAY CLOSE BY YOUR SIDE,

NO MORE SECRETS TO HIDE.

FREEDOM FINALLY FOUND IN YOU;

YOUR WORD IS TEACHING ME YOUR TRUTHS…

I SAY TO YOU, “YES, YES!”

CARRY ME THROUGH THE HEAVENS

TO SEE YOUR PRECIOUS FACE,

MAY THE WORLD BE ERACED!

SHILO, PRINCE OF PEACE, LIFTER OF MY HEAD

LOVER OF MY SOUL, KING ABOVE ALL KINGS,

MY LIFE CANNOT EVER BE THE SAME,

NOW THAT I KNOW YOUR PRECIOUS NAME…

LIFT ME ABOVE THE CLOUDS AND

LET ME SHOUT YOUR NAME OUT LOUD!

CALL ME HOME TO STAY,

DO NOT EVER LET ME STRAY…

COME ALIVE

COME ALIVE

3/5/2006

MICHELLE Y SECORD

You are not strong enough to carry your burden

So give it to the Lord to carry

Let Him take your hand and help you stand

See the smile in His eyes and finally come alive!

His love can help you mend;

You will become like a tree that’s able to bend

He treasures every tear you’ve ever cried

You can never measure God’s love, no matter how you try

You are so precious to Him; it’s always been His plan for you to win!

No matter how dark the day, pain isn’t here to stay…

Even when you can’t find words to say,

The Lord loves you fully anyway

You have given up so many dreams

But it’s His kiss that you breathe

You have given all you can

Rest in His arms, rest in His plan

Let His healing rain wash over you…

Hold to His truth…

So many prayers you bring in shaking hands…

You can barely stand…

Lose yourself in His love; He has come from above

He understands…He understands

Come into His light and let it shine…

Let it shine…

MEETING JESUS

MEETING JESUS

BY MICHELLE SECORD

AUGUST 2, 2002

DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING JESUS?

TO LOOK UPON THE FACE OF THE ONE WHO FREED US?

DOES THE THOUGHT OF HIS RETURN FILL YOU WITH HOPE

AND DOES IT SET YOUR HEART ON FIRE?

IS HE YOUR HEART’S DESIRE?

ARE YOU READY TO SEE YOUR KING,? IN YOUR HANDS

WHAT WILL YOU BRING?

HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN LIVED FOR YOUR OWN PLEASURe?

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THE ONE WHO GAVE BEYOND MEASURE?

THINGS DONE FOR THE NAME OF JESUS ARE ALL

THAT WILL SURVIVE HEAVEN’S TESTING FIRE.

HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN LIVED IN GOSPEL TRUTH OR HAS IT BEEN A LIE!

IF YOUR FAITH IS DEAD THEN YOUR HOPE WILL TURN TO DREAD!

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO TURN YOUR HEART TO JESUS, THE LIVING BREAD!

DO YOU PONDER THE DAY WHEN YOU WILL MEET HIM?

THE DAY WILL SURELY COME!

WILL YOUR LIFE BE A WASTELAND FILLED WITH SIN OR

HAVE YOU LET YOUR HEART AND LIFE BE TOUCHED BY THE ONE?

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT DOESN’T CHANGE THE TRUTH!

HE WILL RETURN TO BE SURE, BUT WILL HE COME FOR YOU?

YOU MUST KNOW HIM AND HE MUST KNOW YOU!

SAVIOR AND LORD , HE MUST BE AND TO BE

“BORN AGAIN” IS THE ONLY KEY!

SEARCH THE WORD AND SEE THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELF,

GOD SENDS NO ONE TO HELL!

FOR ALL ETERNITY JESUS IS THE GIFT, HE IS THE KEY,

AND THE GIFT IS FREE!

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND HE LOVES YOU WITH ALL OF HIS HEART!

SO CAME THE CROSS—THAT WE MAY NEVER BE APART!

THERE IS ONE GOD AND JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY.

HE IS THE ONE AND IT’S HIS WORD WE MUST OBEY!

THE CROSS IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN US AND GOD.

THAT IS THE TRUTH EVEN IF YOU THINK IT ODD!

JESUS HOLDS THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN

HIS NAIL-SCARRED HANDS….

WILL YOU TURN AND REJECT HIM, OR WITH HIM WILL YOU  STAND?

THE MEASURE OF GOD'S LOVE

THE MEASURE OF GOD’S LOVE

10/5/2011

MICHELLE Y SECORD

The measure of God’s love is NEVER measured by our

Health, wealth, or life of ease, as told by those

 Who preach such lies as these.

It is not about our selfish desires or doing what WE please.

We have a poor appreciation of God’s love.

It is so far above…our ability to understand…

God must take us by the hand and lead us, like the

Wayward, stubborn sheep that we are…

So far removed by God’s plan…

So consumed by what lies in our own hands…

We twist, disregard and disobey His holy commands!

God’s love is NOT His sparing us from all suffering, sickness and death, and He NEVER promised that!

Man twisted His words to suit their own doctrine and ways!

Again and again, man disobeys!

God’s love is in giving us SO much of Himself that He takes our breath away and then surrounds us with His glory!

But that’s just the beginning of His purpose in our lives!

Just the beginning of the story!

He has just begun! For He has given us His most precious gift!

He has given us His only Son!

Measure His love for you not on what He can give!

That’s no way for a true child of God to live!

Measure His love instead by how much of Himself

He pours out on you, how He holds to His truth!

Through the struggles, through the pain…

God’s deep waters are infinite and are entered by few

Sadly, most refuse, too much to sacrifice

Too high a price to be paid

There is SO much to learn sitting silent at His feet

Each need He will meet, but in a whole new way

Sometimes a bed of pain is the best classroom that

God can use…to draw you closer to Him than you ever

Dreamed was possible, to surround you so much with His presence

That two become one; that the Bible comes alive in your heart

And you finally believe and understand that every word is true

And promises are meant for you…

And God’s arm is not too short to save…

And that God’s greatest blessings don’t necessarily

Come from being healed and that eternal life

Is not about self, self, self

But is ALL about “knowing the True God and Jesus Christ

That He sent.”(John 17:3)

It’s eternal CHRIST and NOT eternal SELF-PLEASURE

And SELFISH DESIRES

And to doubt these central truths is to call God a liar!

When we doubt the love and the motives of Christ

When we struggle or are in pain,

We bring shame on His most Holy name!

And His heart fills with grief and with righteous rebuke!

And with just cause!

With such arrogance we approach the King of Kings!

As if we have the right to demand ANYTHING?

But we do it anyway! Everyday!

We demand wealth and we demand blessing

Along with a pain-free life

Have we forgotten that we’re being fit for Heaven

And to be Christ’s Bride?

To be pure and spotless, worthy of linen white…

That only comes by a sacrifice,

And a surrendered life!

He layed down His life for us, His wayward, thankless sheep;

We must be willing to pay the cost!

No matter what He asks, no matter how steep!

Stand up for the King, the day has come!

The time is now! Stand for the suffering!

Cleanse your heart and seek your Lord.

He holds His double-edged sword…

Make way for the King, give Him everything!

We must, we must stand for His truth!

Though it cost us everything!

To live is Christ and to die is gain,

Though we lose everything in this temporal life

But God Himself and Jesus Christ whom He sent!

He is our purpose! He is our bent!

NOTE ON POEM:

SO MANY IN OUR DAY, "SELF-PROFESSING CHRISTIANS", HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY THE FALSE gOSPEL OF "HEALTH, WEALTH, AND PROSPERITY" PREACHED BY WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING, MIS-LEADING GOD'S CHILDREN IN THE WORST WAY, SO THAT THE WORLD LOOKS LIKE THE CHURCH AND THE CHURCH LOOKS LIKE THE WORLD AND THESE DAYS IT'S HARD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE! OUR CULTURE IS ALL ABOUT PLEASURE-SEEKING, SELF-FULFILLMENT, HAVING ALL OF OUR "NEEDS" INSTANTLY MET, SUFFERING NO LOSS OR PAIN, HAVING ALL THE BLESSINGS OF THE KINGDOM NOW WHILE ON EARTH? THIS IS THE HEALTH, WEALTH AND PROSPERITY GOSPEL, A MAN-MADE gospel THAT HAS NO LIKENESS AT ALL TO THE DIE TO SELF, PICK UP YOUR CROSS, SACRIFICIAL LOVE TRUE GOSPEL THAT CHRIST CLEARLY PREACHED AND THE APOSTLES VALIANTLY CARRIED TO THE WORLD. AND THAT GOSPEL, THE TRUE GOSPEL, STILL EXISTS. IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS THAT SEEK TO TREASURE CHRIST AND HAVING MORE OF HIM THEIR TOP PRIORITY AND IN THE PERSECUTED CHURCH THAT IS RAPIDLY GROWING. THE PERSECUTION THAT IS COMING IN AMERICA WILL COME FROM THE "SELF-PROFESSING CHRISTIANS" WHO ARE CHRISTIANS IN NAME ONLY AGAINST THOSE WHO HOLD TO THE TRUE UNADULTERATED GOSPEL THAT CHRIST TAUGHT HIS FOLLOWERS TO FOLLOW OVER 2000 YEARS AGO AND THAT STILL STANDS AS A BEACON OF LIGHT AMIDST ALL THE DARKNESS THAT IS GROWING OUT THERE.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH OF CHRIST, NO MATTER WHAT!

Celebrity Pastors and Multi-site Limitations

Celebrity Pastors and Multi-site Limitations

IRRESISTABLE GRACE

IRRESSISTABLE GRACE

9/11/2011

MICHELLE Y SECORD

My dearest Savior

Please forgive the anger, bitterness and hate

That I’m ashamed to say fills my heart of late

I only know that it’s all bound up inside, tearing me apart

Eating away at any peace I might have

Always hiding all that is sad, or mad, or in between

Feeling ill at ease or mean…

Things from the past…where I’ve been

How do you let go of all that stuff?

How do you heal?

Jesus, will You be “enough”?

Do I just bring it to You?

What do I do?

I feel completely lost Lord, walking in the fog;

Years of chronic illness taking its toll…

Maybe I just can’t roll…anymore

Once again my face is on the floor…

If it weren’t for Your irresistible grace I would have no hope

You called me Yours before time even began,

You extended Your merciful hand…

Please Lord; help me have a heart like Yours

To let go of bitterness and hate, start over with a clean plate

That can only happen by Your grace, by Your amazing gift of faith…

YOU do ALL that it takes; I’m incapable of change on my own

So I humbly bow before Your throne and beg for Your graceful help

To change my life, change my heart

I cast myself upon Your mercy Lord; I’m lost without You

For there is no other besides You

No one who holds the words of eternal truth

Impart them to my soul, I place myself in Your control sovereign God

Make me ever mindful of man’s total depravity and rebellion against You

Apart from Your saving irresistible grace;

There is no one who is good; no one who seeks God

Together, we have ALL turned away to follow our own way

For ALL have fallen short of the glory of God and sinned;

We refuse to bow before You; every one

Please find us with Your irresistible grace and draw us to Your Son

For that is the ONLY WAY we come to

Jesus Christ, who died, that all who would believe would be set free

Set free of all the chains that otherwise hold us bound

So that we can be with the Abba Father and Yeshua, for ALL eternity.

Ami. Amen.

Some Thoughts followed By "I CAME TO LOVE YOU LATE/POEM BY MICHELLE SECORD

Sorry guys that I'm so BAD about posting to my blog, although I'm not sure anybody really reads it, but my health has been HORRIBLE this summer, and with my post-stroke brain, I actually forget about it! haha Anyway, here's a new poem for you guys, there is some history here. I grew up Catholic, but you know how that usually turns out, so I wasn't a born-again Christian until 1998, when I was around 38, and I wasn't walking consistantly with the Lord until early 2000-2001, then Jesus really got hold of my heart and my life. I've never looked back and I have no regrets. He's worth every insult, every pain, all suffering, because at the end of this ridiculously short life on earth, a tiny blip on eterniy's trail, HE will be waiting with open arms to welcome me home? You may question how I'm so sure about this? Well, His Spirit lives within me and He promised He would always be with me, and God is not aman, so He cannot lie! The Scriptures back up His promises on top of that, more every day it seems lately! sO yes, He's VERY real, and we will ALL bow before Him, either as Savior or Judge, and that's OUR choice!

I CAME TO LOVE YOU LATE
6/21/2011
MICHELLE Y SECORD

When I was young, I didn’t know You,
Nor did I care to know,
Religion was the LAST place I wanted to go!
But I didn’t know..that it’s not about religion,
It’s all about loving You,
And believing Your eternal truth
That You are indeed the ONLY Way,
It doesn’t matter what mere man has to say
And that I came to love You late…
You hold the ONLY words of Absolute Truth
And You proved it by revealing proof upon proof
All creation points to You!
All things were created by You and through You,
Without You nothing was made
The very Word of God became man
Decided before all life or creation…The Plan
That You would die for our sins
And then rise again as proof
Providing the bridge between God and man
The plan…The rugged cross
Your blood spilled instead of ours
Because of who You are
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
The Author of our faith,
The Truth, The Life, The Way.
I’m so thankful that You came for me on that day,
Even though I came to love You late.