DON’T GET IT TWISTED
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, How long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.
The Lord had gone into a mountain and God spoke with a voice commanding the disciples to hear the Son. Soon after the encounter Jesus was approached by a man who had a son who was plagued with a devil. The disciples could not fix the situation.
Jesus, while responding addressed the spiritual situation of the whole generation by calling it faithless and perverse. They were without belief and they didn’t walk the straight and narrow path. The way they went forth concerning the word was somewhat crooked. Because of this Jesus addressed the length of time that He should long suffer and walk with them while being in that spiritual state. However, after He delivered and showed mercy toward the man’s son, He got to the root of the problem, the unbelief then he edified his disciples and perfected some of what was lacking in the faith. He shared that to overcome doubt and unbelief there is more that is required from you. You must fast and pray.
God spoke on behalf of the Son, and said that He was well pleased with him and that they should hear him. He confirmed the faith of the disciples regarding Jesus being His son so that their heart would be strengthened more to receive the Word mingled with faith. Oftentimes, when you live amongst people who have diversities of spiritual conditions it is easy to see with a natural eye as everyone else does. However, Jesus gave power to his disciples to overcome the powers of the enemy, to heal, and cast out devils. He wanted them to look at situations with eyes of faith so that with the spiritual eye they could see the possibility of righteousness being established in a situation for the sake of His glory. He doesn’t want us to be dependent/complacent with fleshly knowledge, but in the faith backed by the power of God that says that all things are possible through Christ that strengthens us. If our thinking and reactions to situations are not according to the faith as we have been taught, then it is not righteous and the Lord considers it perverted. It’s crooked and it’s of the enemy. Jesus wants you to be healed, delivered, and set free. He wants you to have life and have it more abundantly.
Philippians 2:13-15
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the Sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I may not run in vain neither labor in vain.
The Lord expressed that work He does through us is for His own good pleasure. We must do His will with faith and trust that His plan is just. He planted us in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation to show forth His glory, not to give in to our surroundings or take down our standard of righteousness. Jesus is the truth, He is the way, He is the life. We must hold to the hand of the Lord so that our works and labors that we have done in His name are not in vain. We do these things that we may be found without spot or blemish when the day of Christ comes.
Remember that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers, rulers, and spiritual principalities. These spirits of darkness that we fight against come and present a perverted version of the gospel. You must walk the straight and narrow path. Jesus is the truth. We must eat the whole load and not bits and pieces. Man shall not live by bread along but by the words that have come forth out of the mouth of God. Stand on your most Holy faith. #PICKUPYOURWEAPONSANDFIGHT

- A God Chaser

YOU’RE NOT READY/QUALIFIED....THEY SAY
 
FEAR AND INTIMIDATION SERIES CONTINUED
We all have tests and trials for the increasing of our faith. Some trials seem greater than others, sometimes seeming like our breakthrough is farther than we can fathom. Yet, we grow leaps and bounds and overcome.
One appointed time in my life when I was weaker in the faith, I was a pastor in my youth and I started walking in my calling, praying for the sick and teaching the gospel. I had no clue the opposition I would face because of my obedience to do the will and purpose of Christ. I just went forth and did what the Spirit of God led me to do. People were healed, delivered, and set free. Lives were changed for the good. While these works of faith continued to manifest, the adversary used people who were of the Christian sector to intimidate us into quitting.
When I received an unction from the Lord to do a work, I didn’t come out of a church organization. I hadn’t been a deaconess for ten years or an assistant pastor who served up the ranks under some bishop. There wasn’t this great ordination service. I simply answered the voice of God. So, the form of intimidation that other pastors, apostles, and lay persons used was to say that I was out of order. They I was operating without a covering. They said God does things in decency and in order and I needed an apostle and a church building. They even went so far as to say that women weren’t pastors and that I was outside of the will of God. Meanwhile, I just knew that I loved the Lord and I wanted to please Him. I didn’t often guard my heart in those situations and because of it I often cried out to the Lord. I couldn’t grasp the concept of how so many people could say that they loved the Lord God and those same people could put so many restrictions on that love and the power of God that accompanied such a love. During those times the Lord would minister to my Spirit and let me know that He was with me no matter the circumstance or the situation. I didn’t have very many acquaintances and opportunities to fellowship, but the signs, miracles, and wonders that He used me to do went beyond the walls of the church just as the days of old. However, the work and his will was still accomplished. There were oftentimes of discouragement and even moments of full-blown anger, but I didn’t give up, we kept trusting, seeking, and persevered through it.
Colossians 3:19-20
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which are all to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
We must overcome man made laws and the restrictions that they attempt to use to control the Power of God. He cannot be manipulated and controlled. We must obedient to the voice of the true and living God. We cannot put limitations on what the Spirit of God can do. He calls you…you answered, then you’re ready. It’s that simple! #Pickupyourwepaonsandfight

​-A GODCHASER

​There was a time I couldn’t cry. I’m always crying out to the Lord. He’s my best friend, the only one who will listen. The doubts, the fears, the anger, the frustrations….I run to Jesus. I’ve been designed to pour the love of Christ and to do His will and purpose. The work of a servant is a dirty job. The rejection hurts. Sometimes the Lord reveals his prophetic concerning those He has given me charge over. Sometimes it’s a warning and the end result is dependent on their obedience to surrender to His will or not. To see the operations of the Spirit of God when He’s not so glorious is devastating. Nevertheless, the warfare doesn’t pause itself. It seems that no one understands the mission. It seems like sometimes your comforter has hidden himself and left you to figure things out on your own. The lives, the souls, the spiritual warfare…so many don’t want to fight…some don’t know there is a fight. Many have surrendered already…to the wrong side. They’ve gone their own way. I want to cry out to the Lord, “why, why, why.” As I have done so many times. Yet today I heard, “get off your knees, you’re not their savior.” There is a time to cry. There is a time to weep. This is not the time for sorrows. Pick up your whole armor including the one in particular, “truth”. The truth is we are not in control of our lives or the lives of others, Jesus is. The plan is His, not our own. He is the originator of all things for His own pleasure. So when you look around and see what the Lord has for you to see in the spiritual realm and it seems that things are not going the way you wanted it, remember that we are simply the role players. We have choices, but the plan, the mission, the purpose has been designed by the Most High.
Psalm 26
When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the South.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He that goeth forth and weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
 

FEAR AND INTIMIDATION

The Lord Jesus Christ has revealed many things thus far regarding spiritual warfare and His overcoming power. We know the mission and why we are fighting. Jesus has also shared the need to be spiritual minded and disciplined to be victorious. However, one of the subjects that we have not explored in depth is the tactics of fear and intimidation used by the adversary to get us as soldiers to retreat, or waive that flag of surrender. We cannot fathom the power that comes with being in unity with Jesus Christ by His Spirit. The enemy trembles when were in line with the word of god in confidence. He must flea! Because of the power and authority we carry with faith and the Holy Spirit, our enemies will not approach through the front or side door, figuratively speaking. The enemy will attempt to use fear and intimidation, common methods of deception to put you on the run or back you in a corner. The Lord Jesus has given us an aresenal full of weapons to fight a good fight and walk in victory over our enemies and over sin. They don’t want us to use our weapons to defeat them. So they use deception to get you to take down or compromise. Don’t take down your standards of righteousness. Do not compromise with the adversary.

​- A GOD CHASER

​KILL IT ON CONTACT

THERE IS NO SEPARATION


ISAIAH 59:1-2

BEHOLD, THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT HE CANNOT SAVE; NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY , THAT IT CANNOT HEAR:
BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD, AND YOUR SINS HAVE HID HIS FACE FROM YOU THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR.

There is no separation in Christ. Meaning when in repentance. Jesus paid the ransom with His blood so we can boldly come to the throne of grace and be washed clean of our sins and transgressions. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. The adversary come to bring sin and separation. He wants you to lose your promise and inheritance. That’s what it means to destroy. But Lord pleaded even by the mouth of His prophets to say that His hand is not shortened, that it cannot save. He is there waiting to answer the true prayer of repentance. He will hear. He will deliver. So, “kill it on contact” anything that is contrary to the Word of God. Jesus is about forgiveness and unity. That’s the purified love of Christ. Trust in Lord with your whole heart. When in doubt walk in the purified love of  Christ. Where love abounds, grace abounds that much the more.
​#PICKUPYOURWEAPONSANDFIGHT

 
KILL IT ON CONTACT

A HOUSE DIVIDED…

AND JESUS KNEW THEIR THOUGHTS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, EVERY KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IS BROUGHT TO DESOLATION; AND EVERY CITY OR HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF SHALL NOT STAND: AND IF SATAN CAST OUT SATAN, HE IS DIVIDED AGAINST HIMSELF; HOW SHALL THEN HIS KINGDOM STAND?
AND IF BY BEELZEBUB CAST OUT DEVILS, BY WHOM DO YOUR CHILDREN CAST THEM OUT? THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE YOUR JUDGES.
BUT IF I CAST OUT DEVILS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME UNTO YOU.
OR ELSE HOW CAN ONE ENTER INTO A STRONG MAN’S HOUSE, AND SPOIL HIS GOODS, EXCEPT HE FIRST BIND THE STRONG MAN?  AND THEN HE WILL SPOIL HIS HOUSE.
HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME; AND HE THAT GATHERETH NOT WITH ME SCATTERETH ABROAD.

Wisdom builds the house. Wisdom states that where there is unity there is strength. If the Lord desires the unity in the faith, then surely the enemy will attempt to divide and conquer.
While Jesus Christ ministered with His disciples, there were some that cam and challenged the way that he did things. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivered him out of them all. Where you’re walking in righteousness, there will be adversaries wanting to weaken the hands of the saints. They know a house divided will fall. However, to divide a house, one must weaken the strength of the bond of unity. With the situation with Jesus Christ the adversary attempted to bring controversy and discord among those in the midst that had seen the signs, miracles, and wonders that were intended to strengthen and perfect that which was lacking in the faith. By His spirit all things are possible. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
In verse 29, Jesus asks, “or else how can one enter a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?”
We must receive the Holy Spirit so that we can walk in the unity of faith in Jesus Christ. Setting captives free is warfare. People aren’t set free without some king of wrestle. Yet, by His Spirit the captives are set free. However, the adversary comes to attempt to bind the strong man in attempt to bring down the house and scatter the flock. The strong man is the Spirit of God. He must reign completely. He shouldn’t be grieved or quenched. We must “Kill on contact” the issues that the adversary uses to bring chaos, confusion, turmoil, and discord. We know that God is not the author of  such things and by entertaining these forces can lead you into division and ultimately destruction, if the Lord doesn’t intervene. Yield to the Holy Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
#PICKUPYOURWEAPONSANDFIGHT
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​A GOD CHASER

NO ENEMY LEFT BEHIND

JUDGES 2:2-4

AND YE SHALL MAKE NO LEAGUE WITH THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND; YE SHALL THROW DOWN THEIR ALTERS: BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE: WHY HAVE YE DONE THIS?
WHEREFORE I ALSO SAID, I WILL NOT DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU; BUT THEY SHALL BE AS THORNS IN YOUR SIDES, AND THEIR GODS SHALL BE A SNARE UNTO YOU.
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPAKE THESE WORDS UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THE PEOPLE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE, AND WEPT.

There was an instruction given by the Lord to His children before they went up to the battle. They were told to slew the inhabitants of the land and to utterly destroy them and drive them out from among them. They were not to make a league with them, or to dwell among them. It was said that if they were allowed to remain that they would be thorns in their side and their gods would be a snare. 

Your enemies are among you and desire an entrance. They desire to take part in your inheritance. Remember, this is your inheritance and no one else’s. What God has for you it is for you. If you don’t utterly drive out and destroy them, they will continue to frustrate and sabotage your purpose.
We are not speaking of natural people, for you know that we wrestle not against flesh and blood. The adversary has sent demonic forces to dwell among you and inhabit with you. You must be obedient and lift up a standard of praise just as the children of Israel did when they were told to encompass the city of Jericho. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard (Isaiah 59:19). Bind the enemy with the Word of God. Lay aside every weight and sin and contend for the faith. Be an effective gatekeeper so that we are keeping in what’s supposed to be in, and keeping out what’s supposed to outside of the gate. Holy Ghost in…righteousness in…obedience in…love in…mercy in…joy in…depression out….turmoil out…discord out…distraction out….bitterness out…frustration out…aggitation out…anxiety out…Do not take down any of your armor! Kill it on contact every issue and care that the enemy send to get you to give and throw in the towel or even try to get the Lord to be not pleased because you have not walked in complete obedience to do His will. Remember it’s all or nothing with the Lord Jesus, no half-stepping. Obey the Lord’s voice completely. Some people cannot go with you where the Lord is taking you. They cannot go! Do your job in the Spirit realm to go forth and overcome! Do not let falsehood, fear, or intimidation be a snare at the entrance of the gate to your inheritance. #PICKUPYOURWEAPONS

​-A GOD CHASER