TRUSTING GOD WITH OUR FINANCES/EXERCISING OUR FAITH

TRUSTING GOD WITH WHAT IS HIS TO BEGIN WITH: GOD EXPECTS US TO EXERCISE OUR FAITH, THEN HE WILL MOVE ON OUR BEHALF
by Waves Of Grace Ministries on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 6:54pm ·

DON'T BE CHEAP WITH GOD'S MONEY OUT OF THE UNBELIEF AND THE FEAR THAT THE ENEMY PLANTS IN OUR HEADS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT SPEAK YOUR FEAR AND NEGATIVE CRAP OUT...THEN SATAN WILL USE IT AGAINST US AND HE HAS ONE GOAL: STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY. GOD WANTS US TO TURN TO HIM FOR STRENGTH, WE CANNOT TRUST IN MAN OR OUR OWN FLAWED ATTEMPTS TO LIVE WITHOUT GOD OR EVEN SHOW A MODICUM OF INTEREST IN READING, MUCH LESS OBEYING HIS WORD, THEN WE POUT AND PITCH A FIT BECAUSE GOD "ISN'T BLESSING US! WELL DUH! GET A CLUE PEOPLE! JESUS SAID "WHY DO YOU CALL ME LORD AND NOT DO WHAT I SAY?" NO "PROFESSING CHRISTIAN" HAS A COMEBACK FOR THAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN THEIR HYPOCRISY!WAKE UP CHURCH OF AMERICA! IF YOU DESIRE A CLOSE WALK WITH THE LORD AND HIS BLESSING ON YOUR LIFE (I'm NOT PREACHING THE "HEALTH WEALTH AND PROSPERITY" CRAP, JUST GOD'S FAVOR IN OUR LIVES, WE MUST LIVE AS HE WILLS, NOT BY OUR SELFISH CHOICE.

Living on OUR terms and OUR way is truthfully saying to the God that created you and holds your very life in HIS HANDS that you don't want Him to rule over your life, that you know better than HE what the plan for your life should be and it's rebellion and unbelief, neither of which God will answer or respond to in any kind of personal way. So He has given us free will because He never wanted a bunch of pre-programmed beings already wired to "love Him" but human beings who would CHOOSE to follow and believe and with that, trust NO GROWTH, spiritually, in your life, He may use hardship, and CONTINUE to use it until you GET what He wants you to do, which is turn to Christ, accept His offer if forgiveness, be willing to call your sin what God calls it...sin...PERIOD, and then be willing to repent (to turn and walk in another direction-towards God, and REALLY trust Jesus as your PERSONAL Lord and Savior If you REALLY love Jesus, the Bible says there is NO WAY you can do that AND continue to "practice"( no real desire to turn away from) sinful behavior that's been warned against in Scripture will actually keep people OUT of Heaven.

 Now, as Christians, until we get our resurrection bodies, we will continue to sin, but we hear the Holy Spirit's conviction, repent and get back up and keep aiming for the finish line, and by grace, we try to get sin OUT of our lives through a continuous learning process of reading and meditating on Scripture, getting to really Know Jesus in a very personal and powerful way, not just through His word, but through prayer, and worship; both private and corporate. The Bible says the fellowship with other believers will become more and More crucial as the "day" approaches, meaning as Christ's return grows closer, and by watching world events, unless you're blind, you can see that we are, as most who get it believe, very close and getting closer every day. So now is NOT the BEST time to pull AWAY from your relationship with the Lord; indeed, I would interject that it's crucial for us to stay as close to Him as possible right now AND going forward. And the giving thing? That proves to God that yes, you REALLY do believe His word, and the promises in in it, but it also shows that you care for the 'least of these," a mandate Christ gave us before He left. And He has PROMISED that if we seek first God and His Kingdom, then "all these things shall be added unto you. So, there are a lot of "Christians" out there these days living just like the unbelieving world does, so much so,  that a recent poll asked self-professing "Christians" why they didn't share their faith with friends, relatives, etc, and the most common answer was because THEY DON'T LIVE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN THEIR UNSAVED FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS! Realize that if they DO KNOW you are supposed to be a "Christian" but you live just like the world, this gives unbelievers cause to blaspheme the precious name of Jesus Christ, and in eternity, YOU may hear from Christ, "I NEVER  KNEW you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness." These people figured they would get saved by being Christians on the outside, and doing "stuff" in Christ's name, but they NEVER had a true conversion or heart change. They never sought God or drew near to know Him, though God promises to ALWAYS respond to those who genuinely seek Him. For those who are only "Christian" in name only, They never really LOVE Christ nor do they know Him, never having spent any time to do so. The agape love Jesus calls us to can't  be conjured up by human efforts, but when we ask Jesus to get us to that point of truly loving Him with that fullness, He's ALWAYS happy to answer that prayer in the affirmative!

 Remember, ASK, SEEK and KNOCK, ALL with POSITIVE results. And there is NOTHING in this fallen world worth hanging on to so tightly that it could cost you your place in Heaven. Jesus replaces ANYTHING that He asks us to give up with Himself,  which brings your heart incredible joy and you just fall in love with Him and then you WANT to do those good works that have been planned beforehand for us to do after being born again into the family of God. Jesus makes it very clear that He is no mere "prophet." Indeed, He is God, the very Word of God come to earth in flesh to lay His life down and die a horrible death on a Roman cross to be the propitiation, or full payment for man's sin; ONCE and for all, God's plan of redemption finished and proven to be accepted by the Father by His resurrection that Sunday morning 2,000+ years ago. Jesus said in John 10:30 "I and the Father are one" an obvious claim of deity, plus all of the " I AM" statements. The "I AM" statements hearken back to when Moses was called by God to deliver God's people from Egypt. Moses wanted to know who He should say was sending him because they wouldn't accept him on his own. So Jehovah God shares His name with Moses and tells Moses to tell the Hebrews to say "I AM" has sent you. I AM, The Lord God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. The Word become flesh; walking among us, healing, teaching, feeding and loving people then doing the MOST LOVING ACTION EVER IN HISTORY: God in flesh died upon the cross on OUR behalf to save us the wrath of God due to us for our utter depravity and sinfulness. He who knew no sin became sin FOR US, IN OUR PLACE, to spare US God's WRATH. And His suffering was absolute and absolutely incredible!


The Video I've posted is a beautiful anthem to our ever-faithful God. I know that fear keeps many of us from giving because Satan convinces us there just won't be enough, especially when things are tight. But I think that that is when God wants to see our faith more than ever. And I want to be brave and see what happens.






+Hillsong Live; "This is our God"

IN THE BEGINNING...

The Word
9/12/2012
Michelle Y Secord

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word WAS GOD:
He was in the beginning with God. ALL things were made through Him, and without Him,
And without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness HAS NOT overcome it.
(The Gospel of John 1:1-5) What an Awesome God to so succinctly tie the old and the New
together as only YOU could do!  You are the same God; yesterday, today, and forever!(HEB 13:8)
You are the Living Word; stretching out the Heavens and ever-expanding universe with just Your spoken Word, so much of it with just a breathe! Ah Lord-was it hard to decide what to decide to do first and did You have the most fun ever?
When You placed EACH STAR, and named each one, was it just one word spoken?
Do they REALLY die or is that just man’s notion?
And the “Star of Bethlehem,” now proved true…why of course it ALL points to You
My eyes are heavy Lord, but could I ask for one special thing?
Could You tell me about what to do about missing You So much
In a REAL, SPECIAL dream?
To help sustain me in these battle-weary days, a special grace?
I know it’s a child’s request, but that’s EXACTLY what I am, your baby lamb.
I love You SO much Lord, every day apart is a knife to my heart.
I long for Your tender touch and just seeing You so awfully much!
Come my beloved! Please, Please come soon.
And the Word has declared, "I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and The LIFE<
NO ONE comes to the Father except for ME!
In God's absolute love for rebellious man; He had made this plan before the dawn of time, and through that GREAT suffering, He indeed gets to write the story! God has reached down through time and space, to save a sinful race, most of them who choose to ignore Him, The Creator of the Heavens and the earth,
and most give Him no more thought unless they need help, only then do they acknowledge You, for instant help, as if YOU were at our beck and call, and we blame Him for ALL tragedy!AWAKE you who call yourselves "Christians"; search your hearts, for most you are NO CHRISTIAN! Mere words without conviction or fruit to show to back you up.Time is short and we only get one chance to bow under grace; after we die, if we have no real relationship with Jesus, we will bow, but Christ will face you as judge. The Bible says it is unto man to die once and then judgment! You cannot choose AFTER you die, and if some man or man's tradition tells you there is, it is a lie, because God makes it CHRYSTAL CLEAR!

And we are ALL under the SAME judgment for "ALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned`-every one- to his own way; and the Lord has LAID ON HIM the iniquity of us all." And again,"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands;no one seeks God. ALL have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." (Romans 3:11,12) "For ALL have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift,through the redemption that i as in Christ, whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over former sins. (Romans 3:23-25).
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who, for the joy set
before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
(Hebrews 12:2
"

Third Day Call My Name

ISRAEL AND BEYOND: GOD'S FAITHFULNESS DESPITE OUR FAITHLESSNESS

http://epicenterconference.com/media/videoPlayer/epicenter_2012_qa_session_1
Epiicenter Conference
SHORT Q&A
Differences in theology caused by misunderstanding God's Nature?
IF we ALL truly GOT God's Full faithfulness, both to Himself, and BOTH to His people the JEWS and His CHURCH, the foolish debates would STOP! I seriously believe that. Take ONLY Hebrews 6:13-20 where it not only reiterates God's faithfulness to Abraham and the OATH God swore to Abraham (thus re-confirming the Abrahamic Covenant by inference and hermeneutics, God's eternal faithfulness to Himself and thus to ALL His promises is made in verse 17, " So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of THE PROMISE (Abrahamic Covenant), the UNCHANGEABLE character of His purpose, He guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two UNCHANGEABLE things, in which it is IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us (our salvation promises). We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor (that God, and therefore Jesus, cannot lie, being one and the same), of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain (as Jesus did, tearing it down forever by His sacrificial death as our High Priest),where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf having become a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.(Thus destroying forever our need for "priests", etc. to act on our behalf.

So to finish, saying that God's promise to the Jews is now null and void is badly mistaken, a mis-interpretation not only of God's high and holy character (though not intentional), and a HUGE mis-interpretation of God's Word. Again, if the literal sense makes plain sense, seek no other sense, so as not to end up with nonsense! Sounds easy to me! So why don't we all agree and quit confusing SO MANY young believers hmmm? :)

BEAUTY UNTOLD

BEAUTY UNTOLD
7/7/12
MICHELLE Y SECORD

I have looked upon your sweet, sweet face
Sweeter than honey was the taste
I can feel You inside of me
Your voice calming my anxious heart
Your very breath is mine
Your words define…me
You are…what is and what is to be
Come and dance with me beloved
Hold me close to You…
Lion and Lamb
The Great I AM’
Beauty untold…just let me hold…You
I know I am so deeply loved
I fall before You on my face
All shame and fear forever erased
It’s as if I have strayed into a dream
Where the beauty of Eden has been restored…
Only it’s not a dream and there’s so much more
For I stand with You surrounded by a love song coming from Your lips…
Like a sweet soft kiss…pure bliss
My beloved King…for You I will sing
Because You took me by the hand and You have chosen me
To be Yours alone…
And I sing because I am home with You
Joy fills my soul when I look at You, into Your eyes of love
Precious One with eternal scars; so that we never forget what You did
On our behalf and just who You are
Your grace pours over me like new wine
And I dance because I am Yours and You are mine…Savior so divine
Oh yeah…I am Yours and You are mine…

There is a story behind every poem. This follows along my own spiritual joiurney as I GROW in my faith,and in so doing, come to know my Jesus better, to treasure time spent with Him, not as some spiritual "duty" to be checked off of my "Todo" list, but as a time and moments to be treasured above all, looking forward to the great marriage supper and to really LOOK at my Jesus, my bridegroom; will He REALLY have room to sit and talk with only me? Will ALL the dreams I have for me and Jesus REALLY come true? Or will He be too busy, No, NO, away from me Satan's lies! The LORD rebuke you! Be off to the lake of fire, your awaited doom! I've only room for my beloved!And that He is to me!

ISRAEL AND BEYOND: THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS GETTING THROUGH DESPITE THE ODDS/PART 3

Epicenter Conference



Dr Michael Rydelink takes us through the New Testament, showing us what the Bible (NOT MAN), has to say about the Bible

ISRAEL AND BEYOND: THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS GOING OUT DESPITE !/PART1

Epicenter Conference(CLICK HERE TO GO TO VIDEO)
please watch, listen and pray. This video shows the personal testimonies of 4 very different men who once were enemies and enemies of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Each one will hold your heart. The Middle East is bleeding, yet Jesus Christ is moving there in incredible, miraculous ways. So the current teachings sweeping America that the church has TOTALLY replaced Israel, and the lie of "Replacement theology" are shown to be the false teachings that they are, unfortunately due to a hugely popular sweep of Reformed Theology across the United States and beyond. Only in one sense are they correct, God HAS Spiritually hardened the hearts of the Jewish people SPECIFICALLY so that we, the Gentile's could be brought in.We are though still named "wild olive branches" which have been "grafted in" to the Natural Olive Tree, which represents Israel. (Rom 11:17-21). Also, noted in Romans 11:17, it makes it very clear that SOME, not ALL the natural branches were removed, God ALWAYS preserves a faithful remnant!
Also, this hardening of Israel's heart has ALWAYS been partial and with a limit, "until the times of the gentiles has been fulfilled, which, if you're paying even the remotest attention to world events, the Middle East is "bleeding" throughout, And even R.C.Sproul said that when he looks at the Middle East in general, but Israel specifically, even he believes we could very well be on the cusp of witnessing the end of the times of the gentiles!

 I respect the stand they are taking for the Gospel, but they, are in truth, only telling part of the story and trying to "Spiritualize" the rest, to the detriment of their hearers. WE seem to have forgotten in America the individual responsibility to "rightly divide the truth" and take up the word for ourselves. The Holy Spirit still leads us to ALL truth, but our "spiritual" ears must be open to hear him. Because of the arrogance of a few, many are being mis-led into believing that things like prophecy, Israel, and anything to do with the end-times are ALL "open-handed" issues.

From years studying His word, I've NEVER gotten the impression that God the Father, and especially Jesus, consider ONE of those things as "open-handed". And when you go back to the rule regarding our study of Scripture, we would not be throwing Israel under the proverbial bus: When interpreting Scripture, if the literal sense makes plain sense, then seek no other sense to avoid making nonsense. Sounds pretty clear to me. And please don't misread me, I love ALL of my reformed brothers and sisters, but here, they are just plain wrong, which happens to all of us. And I'm also NOT saying that I'M right. I'm saying God is right, His word is right, because He never changes, not His character, not His mind, and definitely NOT His word. And HE NEVER SAYS OOPS. OH-if something goes wrong, you never know with computers, you can find the video at joelrosenberg.com, click on his blog, scroll down the page about 3/4 and you will see where the link is given for the four testimonies. They're too important to miss. Thank you to ALL my brothers and sisters, I love you ALL! Understand God has called me, don't know why, to declare the truth about His people and ALL the people in the Epicenter; Jews, Palestinians, Muslims; Shea, Sunni, AND jihadist; Iranians. He's moving EVERYWHERE and He's calling for OUR prayers, ESPECIALLY for His children, the Jewish people. He's not done, in fact, I'm pretty sureHe's just getting warmed up! And if the rest of us want to be involved in the INCREDIBLE ways GOD IS MOVING throughout the Middle East, we need to know what He's doing. So, as I said, I'm only the messenger, and I will be posting ALL the videos from the 2012 EPICENTER Conference that just took place. The material is free and they want OUR HELP getting the truth out in this critical hour. I ask ALL TRUE BELIEVERS who love Israel OR NEED TO TO PLEASE JOIN THE EFFORT! PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO EDUCATE YOURSELF WITH THESE VIDEOS, IT'S WORTH IT BECAUSE YOU ARE DOING IT FOR ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF! HE IS CALLING, NOT ME-OH, PLEASE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND AND GET THAT; IT'S NOT ABOUT ME; THIS IS ABOUT OUR GOD AND HIS CALLING TO HIS CHILDREN!WILL WE LISTEN OR TURN AWAY???

ISRAEL AND BEYOND: THE GOSPEL MESSAG IS GOING OUT DESPITE A LL ODDS!/PART 2

Epicenter(Conferencehttp://epicenterconference.com/media/videoPlayer/epicenter_2012_dr._norm_geisler(CLICK HERE TO GO TO VIDEO)
Dr. Norm Geisler, again up there "scholarly with the best BUT with eye-witness life knowledge.
He will entertain and hold you captive in "God's School Room". Be ready to hit the pause button unless you know shorthand! Wonderful, anointed (to be sure) lecture. Won't waste one minute of your time!

Christ's call in now; "come out, come out, and LISTEN to MY word about MY people and beyond...

PLEASE! Heed your Lord's Call at such a time as this!