Drum the Message Home

  'Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.”' John 6:29 (NLT) To some lost in their sins, Jesus just doesn't suit their tastes. His gospel of peace is too much for them to take. He demands the unthinkable. They may have followed Him for awhile but soon enough became bitter and walked away. They doubted what He said, they denied what He did, they did not believe for a second what their own eyes saw and their ears heard and their hearts felt.  So they turned and walked away in unbelief. They missed the opportunity of a lifetime and the only work that God wants from us. They refused to believe that Jesus was who He said He was. The Savior of the world! The very Son of God! In their unbelief they were forever undone.  The half-baked. The unsaved. The unbeliever is doomed to fail. Because of the sins of Adam, we know that the unbeliever is under the curse of the Law and will die in their sins. Eternal hell awa...

' Wake, awake, Deborah! ⎣Wake up the multitudes of the people.⎦ Wake, awake, sing a song. Rise up, Barak! ⎣Deborah, strengthen Barak.⎦ Lead away your captives, son of Abinoam.' Judges 5:12 (EHV) It's a sleepy place. It's a place of rest. Yes. During times of peace, but this is war! Get up! The lake. It's the place where I go to relax and to think. I find myself in thought so often there. I find myself thinking back to the days of my youth, back when I first received my own calling. Rise and write! Even while most sleep. Even while the moon is still visible in the early morning sky. Even then. Silver hair. Coming and going. Still. God speaks. We listen. Promises are made and promises are kept. Stay positive. There will be victory. In Deborah's case hers was to prophesy, to encourage and to lead a great army. After the battle there wasn't an enemy soldier left standing! Wow! Who could even imagine that? Who would fight another battle without taking direction f...

' God , investigate my life;      get all the facts firsthand. I’m an open book to you;      even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back;      I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say      before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there,      then up ahead and you’re there, too—      your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful—      I can’t take it all in!' Psalm 139:1-6 (MSG) 'This is God ’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. “When you call on me, when you com...

' Saul, also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he looked the sorcerer in the eye.   Then he said, “You son of the devil, full of every sort of deceit and fraud, and enemy of all that is good! Will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord?' Acts 13:9-10 (NLT) ' Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.   It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.' Ephesians 5:11-12 (NLT) ' Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves?' 1 Corinthians 6:2 (NLT) His name, His name is victory! There is victory in Jesus. When His Name is used there is power. His name means ' God is Salvation'.  Through Him, there is this 'Power in the Blood' over the enemy. Paul's name was changed from the Hebrew name Saul to the Gentile nam...

' But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.”' Luke 10:20 (NLT) ' Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.   Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”John 11:25-26 (NLT) Resist the temptation of pride for all the victories over the enemy. Pride goes before destruction. a haughty spirit before a fall. For doesn't God resist the proud and shows favor to the humble? In this, I am encouraged to find joy in what is proper, with fear and trembling, and that is the fact that my name is written in the Lamb's book of life and not that I have discovered the mighty power that I now possess in His name.  Rejoice. For a life well lived is God's Will. Rejoice. For a life not wasted, but rather, lived for God's Glory blesses God. Rejoice. For a life that blesses God lasts and it i...

'And when the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures saw the Lamb had taken the scroll, they fell facedown at the feet of the Lamb and worshiped him. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls brimming full of sweet fragrant incense—which are the prayers of God’s holy lovers.' Revelation 5:8 (TPT) This is such a powerful symbolic visual of heaven that every intercessor should know. Consider the scene around the Throne of the elders, creatures and the Lamb . This image is awe inspiring enough, but then you read the rest of John's vision and are encouraged by it. Everyone is holding a harp and is worshiping the Lamb. Facedown worship. Facedown worship in heaven to the Lamb that was found worthy. The worship that includes the harp and the golden bowls. The golden bowls of intercessory prayers are being offered up by God's holy lovers. The worship and the prayers go together. Just imagine that we are the worshiping intercessors, ascending to ...

'Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.' Philippians 4:9 (NLT) ' “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.' John 14:27 (NLT) 'Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you.   I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.' Isaiah 41:10 (NLT) ' “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.' John 3:16 (NLT) ' Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.' 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ((NLT) Source: 'Drummingthemessagehome', December 9, 2019 reposted.