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Blood of Christians is Seed

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' Today I focus my morning prayer on the oppressed and the persecuted Church. This blog has had 54,823 views to date and for that I am grateful. I do not take that amount of support for granted. I cannot ignore my brothers and sisters that find themselves living in hostile countries. Based on my own research I have found that many of my readers live in the most dangerous places on earth. So this day, I pray for God's peace and protection to surround them. I pray that God guide and direct them through their own storms. I pray that God give them power to overcome their abusers and enemies. I pray that God covers them with His feathers and comforts them with His Word. I pray that God reveals Himself to them in a personal way today. I pray that seeds of righteousness be planted in these regions. I pray that workers be sent to plant the seeds of goodness and truth. I pray that workers be sent to harvest the fields of souls. I pray for a huge harvest to be gathered f...
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You Must Be One of Them

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' But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.' 1 John 4:3 (NLT) The war between heaven and hell is real. Adam and Eve lived with God in Paradise. The devil is in the details. He is here.  Where he tries to take me is nothing short of hell. He will not acknowledge the truth and tries to suppress it for his own gain. He is not from God for he exhibits the spirit of fear, envy and jealousy. He is deceptive and He is evil. He is darkness and there is nothing good in him. The spirit of the Antichrist is out to kill, steal and destroy. He is headed to hell for eternity and would like to take as many of us with him as possible. Therein lies the rub. Listen and do what my flesh tells me to do, for a moment of pleasure. Listen and do what the Spirit tells me to do for a moment of denia...
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Raising the Roof

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' And again their voices rang out:       “Praise the Lord !        The smoke from that city ascends forever and ever!”   Then the twenty-four elders and the four living beings fell down and worshiped God, who was sitting on the throne. They cried out, “Amen! Praise the Lord !”   And from the throne came a voice that said,      “Praise our God,        all his servants,     all who fear him,        from the least to the greatest.”   Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder:      “Praise the Lord !        For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.' Revelation 19:3-6 (NLT) Sitting behind the drum set at church one Sunday I was encouraged by the number of people that were joining in to sing during the praise and worship part of ...
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No Clothes' Culture

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' So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth, for we are all parts of the same body.' Ephesians 4:25 (NLT) I am beginning to see cracks in the armor of this wicked culture. I am beginning to get tired of the lies. Can't you feel it too? So many people in this culture are beginning to get bored with the media and the academy and big business and big pharma and religion and the government officials that are pushing so hard to support that which we know is not true. Why are they all lying to us? Many of us in this culture are beginning to see where those that set out to deceive and are the liar-pushers of the day are trying to take us. The lie. It sounds so good at first. A little lie. A bit of truth perhaps. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably isn't!  It's not that easy to live in a culture that is all about deception. No one likes to be deceived. You can't build a culture on a foundation of lies. Lies take us down the ...
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Hold Fast

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' Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.' Acts 7:33 (NLT) Nowhere. No place can I go. Absolutely! Nowhere can I hide. Nowhere can I go that I am out of His reach. Nowhere can I go that I am out of His Holy presence. Nowhere can I go that I am out of the presence of God. Take your shoes off! Put off your shoes in an act of reverence. It's a custom in the East. It's a Holy place. It's the place of Divinity. It's a place, or a sanctuary. It's a place to have Hope and to Believe. It's where He manifests His presence. God is everywhere. Hold fast! He is there, in the burning bush. He is there, at the foot of the Cross. He is there sitting on the Throne of God, among the heavenly host and choir of angels. He is there, at the foot of the hospital bed where another is lying sick. He is there at the altar where we see one finding Him and the salvation that He brings. The Father, the Son and th...
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Spirit Walk

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'S o I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.   The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.   But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.' Galatians 5:16-18 (NLT) Stay on the right path. Walk with the Spirit. Stay on the Spirit path or the Spirit sidewalk, so to speak. As long as we breathe we live in the flesh, but through the Holy Spirit we are encouraged to deny those sinful cravings that the flesh brings. Spirit vs flesh living is in opposition to one another. The flesh keeps us in bondage and under obligation to the laws of Moses.   So then, when I follow the desires of my sinful nature, the results are ver...
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The Great Exchange

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' For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.' 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT) And today is such a great day! Christmas Day! The best day of gift giving. The day that we Love! The Spirit is upon us!  And then there is tomorrow. The day that we hate. The day of long lines and the not so great day that gift exchanges begin. The day we exchange the not quite so perfect gift for something else. If you got something that doesn't fit, and you don't get the spiritual connection to this most natural of occurrences, then, please don't miss this. No one is perfect except the Perfect One. His name is Jesus. Know that Jesus was born for a reason. He is the reason for this season. He fits perfectly. This season of giving is tied to the fact that God is the best gift giver ever. He gave us His very own Son. Isaiah declares that the Government will be on His shoulders!  God knows us al...
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