LET’S TALK ABOUT JUDGMENT…
WHO IS WORTHY?

AND I SAW IN THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE A BOOK WRITTEN WITHIN AND ON THE BACKSIDE, SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS.
AND I SAW A STRONG ANGEL PROCLAIMING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WHO IS WORTHY TO OPEN THE BOOK, AND TO LOOSE THE SEVEN SEALS THEREOF?
AND NO MAN ON HEAVEN, NOT IN EARTH, NEITHER UNDER THE EARTH, WAS ABLE TO OPEN THE BOOK, NEITHER TO LOOK THEREON.
AND I WEPT MUCH BECAUSE NO MAN WAS FOUND WORHTY TO OPEN AND TO READ THE BOOK, NEITH TO LOOK THEREON.
AND ONE OF THE ELDERS SAITH UNTO ME, WEEP NOT: BEHOLD, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDA, THE ROOT OF DAVID, HAVE PREVAILED TO OPEN THE BOOK, AND TO LOOSE THE SEVEN SEALS THEREOF.
ON THE RIGHT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STRENGTH, POWER, MIGHT, HEALING, AND DELIVERANCE.
DAVID PENNED THAT THE LORD IS ON HIS RIGHT HAND THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE MOVED.
THEREIS A BOOK IN THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD WHO IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUST JUDGE. SEVEN IS SYMBOLIC OF THE KINGDOM OF THE LIVING GOD, HIS SEVEN CHURCHES, AND HIS SEVEN SPIRITS OF JUDGMENT (ISAIAH 11). IT ALSO REPRESENTS AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY.
WHEN YOU HAVE A BOOK, ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS ONE IS ASKED IS, “WHO WROTE THE BOOK?” THERE WAS A NEED FOR RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT AND THEREFORE THERE WAS A NEED FOR THE AUTHOR BECAUSE EVEN BEFORE WE WERE FORMED IN THE WOMB, THE LORD KNEW US.
MEANING, HE DESIGNED US AND CONSTRUCTED US ACCORDING TO HIS WILL AND PURPOSE.
“FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED” (REV. 4:11)
EVEN THE STRONG ANGEL COULD ONLY PROCLAIM WE ARE ALL A LUMP OF CLAY ORDAINED BY THE MASTER POTTER ALL HAVE BEEN GIVEN A MEASURE OF FAITH. WITHIN THAT MEASURE OF FAITH ARE THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT AND THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. THE FIRST IS LOVE WHICH COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS. THERE WAS NO ONE FOUND (QUALIFIED) TO EVEN LOOK THEREON TO DETERMINE THE LOVE, LONG SUFFERING, PATIENCE, MERCY, GRACE, FORGIVENESS, GENTLENESS, OR ANY OTHER PORTION OF THE MEASURE BY WHICH  THE LORD IS USING TO JUDGE YOUR LIFE ON EARTH.
JOHN WAS INSRUCTED TO BEAR RECORD OF WHAT HE SAW. HE WAS A SEER PROPHET. WHEN HE SAW WHAT HE SAW HE WEPT BECAUSE WITHIN HIS SPIRIT NO ONE WAS WORTHY. THE LORD DESIGNED HIS CREATIONS TO DESIRE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE SAID SEEK THE KINGDOM. HE SAID SEEK THE KINGDOM AD ALL OF ITS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL OTHER THINGS SHALL BE ADDED. OUR SPIRIT DESIRES TO KNOW RIGHTEOUSNESS. DAVID CRIED TO THE LORD, TEACH ME TO KNOW MINE END AND TO NUMBER MY DAYS. TEACH ME THY PRECEPTS. HIS SPIRIT KNEW THAT WITHIN WAS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. TO BE ABLE TO PREVAIL, OVERCOME, AND TO OBTAIN RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT, THERE WAS A FIGHT ON OUR BEHALF.

EPHESIANS 3:17-19

THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH; THAT YE, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE, MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH, AND LENGTH, AND DEPTH, AND HEIGHT; AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, THAT YE MIGHT BE FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.

The elder said weep not because the lamb of God hath prevailed. Often times we weep because of situations that require a Savior. We need our Potter to shape and mold us. Our Spirit weeps with desire to comprehend the length, breadth, depth, and the height of the Love of Christ, and what he is willing to do to maintain his righteousness and be glorified in our life. 

The Lord Jesus Christ was given to us by the Father. In the Book of Hebrews God said prepare me a body because He desired to give the Son unto us, wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. He prevailed for us on the cross. He prevailed having seven horns (authorities, powers) which are the seven Spirits of God. 

Isaiah 11:1-5

AND THERE SHALL COME FORTH A ROD OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE, AND A BRANCH SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL REST UPON HIM, THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, THE SPIRIT OF COUNSEL AND MIGHT, THE SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD. AND SHALL MAKE HIM OF QUICK UNDERSTANDING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD: AND HE SHALL NOT JUDGE AFTER THE SIGHT OF HIS EYES, NEITHER REPROVE AFTER THE HEARING OF HIS EARS: BUT WIT RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL HE JUDGE THE POOR, AND REPROVE WITH EQULTY. FOR THE MEEK OF THE EARTH: AND HE SHLL SMITE THE EARTH WITH THE ROD OF HIS MOUTH, AND WITH THE BREADTH OF HIS LIPS SHALL HE SLAY THE WICKED. AND RIGHTEOUSNES SHALL BE THE GIRDLE OF HIS LOINS, AND FAITHFULNESS THE GIRDLE OF HIS REIGNS. 

AND HE CAME AND TOOK THE BOOK OUT OF THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE. 

Jesus Christ is the risen Savior. He is the one slain and the only one worthy to open the book of our lives. He is risen to sit on the right hand of God until his enemies are made his footstool.

AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE BOOK, THE FOUR BEASTS AND FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FEEL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB, HAVING EVERY ONE OF THEM HARPS, AND GOLDEN VIALS FULL OF ODOURS, WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS.

We must rejoice because the account of our works of righteousness and faith is in the hands of the Son of God. Our life is in his hands.

John 10:27-30

MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME:AND I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH, NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND. MY FATHR, WHICH GAVE THEM ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL; AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM OUR OF MY FATHER’S HANDS. I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.

Luke 10:19-20

BEHOLD, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENT AND SCORPIONS, AND OVERALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: NOTWITHSTANDING IN THIS REJOICE NOT, THAT THE SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT UNTO YOU; BUT RATHER, BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.

​#SEEK #FIGHT #OVERCOME

​IT’S TIME TO OVERCOME    ECC 3:1-8
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEAON, AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN:
A TIME TO BE BORN, AND A TIME TO DIE; A TIME TO PLANT, AND A TIME TO PLUCK UP THAT WHICH IS PLANTED; A TIME TO KILL, AND A TIME TO HEAL; A TIME TO BREAK DOWN, AND A TIME TO BUILD UP.
A TIME TO WEEP, AND A TIME TO LAUGH; A TIME TO MOURN, AND A TIME TO DANCE;
A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES, AND A TIME TO GATHER STONES TOGETHER, A TIME TO EMBRACE, AND A TIME TO REFRAIN FROM EMBRACING;
A TIME TO GET, AND A TIME TO LOSE; A TIME TO KEEP, AND A TIME TO CAST AWAY;
A TIME TO REND, AND A TIME TO SEW; A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE, AND A TIME TO SPEAK;
A TIME TO LOVE, AND A TIME TO HATE; A TIME TO WAR, AND A TIME OF PEACE.
It’s a time to encourage one another in the faith. It’s also time to encourage yourself to stand tall and do the Lord’s will. We do what’s not popular. We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood. So, we must handle the spiritual things spiritually. As the natural season s began to transition, let’s recognize what time it is spiritually. It’s time to discern the righteousness of Christ and to do the Lord’s will. Continue to let your light shine even in the midst of adversity. It’s a time to “kill it on contact” the things that the enemy has attempted to use as threats against the chosen men and women of the Most High.
It’s time to pick up your weapons of righteousness and contend for the faith of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Stand, and see the salvation of the Lord. It’s time to surrender completely. Its time to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. It’s time to seek him for His Spirit. It’s time to praise Him like it’s our last time. It’s time to repent and lay aside every weight and sin that easily besets us. It’s time to call upon the Lord while He may be found. It’s time to allow the Lord to reign by His spirit. Try the spirits by the Spirit of the most high. The fruits will show. We shall know them by their fruits. Trust in the Lord. Lean not to your own understanding. Trust not in the confidences of man. Abide in Him and He will abide in you. It’s a time to put all fear aside and get right with the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s time to lose yourself completely in Him and be saturated with the Holy Spirit completely. Judgment starts at the household of faith. Allow his Spirit to lead and guide you in the path of all truths. Compare spiritual with spiritual. See things with the spiritual eye. Know your role as a child of the most high so you’re in position to do the will and purpose of the living God. Signs will follow the believer. #seek #fight #overcome

BEWARE OF DECEPTION
I JOHN 4:1&4-6
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
They are of the world: therefore, speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
We are of God: He that knoweth God heareth us; He that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Prophets that are not holy have gone out to conquer the chosen man and women of the Most High. They ask the question, “Do you accept my love?” This question they ask is not on behalf of the living God. This is a trick from the pit of hell wanting you to trade the love of Jesus Christ for falsehood.
The Holy Spirit speaks those things that He sees and hears. He doesn’t speak of himself. We bear record of the testimony of the truth as led by His Holy Spirit.
My testimony concerning receiving the love of Christ is simply that the Lord won’t ask such a question. The Spirit searches the deep things, the very deep things of God. He knows the reigns of the heart. He asks us to walk in the Spirit, so we won’t fulfil the lusts of the flesh. He asked on occasion if I desired righteousness and this question, He asked to reassure me that I was doing the righteousness of Christ and that He was with me. Jesus is the light and there is no darkness in Him at all. Love is an action word and the lord has often said concerning those who love him that their fruits will show. You shall know them by their fruits.
So, we must know them that labor among us and as the lord Jesus instructed Jeremiah that we cannot look upon their faces, but we must discern the spirit behind the faces. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. These spirits and rulers that wrestle against the chosen ones of God are attempting to do whatever they can do destroy what the lord has established for His children in the Spirit. Everything is done in the Spirit and by His Spirit so if the enemy can destroy what God has established spiritually within you then he is effectively destroying the kingdom within you. Eternity is spiritual. There is nothing natural about the everlasting kingdom of God. We are the Kingdom; and this is why the lord Jesus stated to seek ye first the kingdom of God and all of His righteousness and everything else will be added. We are seeking each other, the chosen men and women of God. We cannot be deceived by false brethren that have crept in unawares because the spirit within them wants you to forfeit your inheritance. Stand, stand, and stand again among the found. Do not take down for the enemy.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper. It won’t work. The Lord won’t allow it. So, be aware of the tactics of the adversary and overcome by the blood of the lamb and the Word of His testimony. Those who endure to the end shall be saved. #PICKUPYOURWEAPONSANDFIGHT #SEEK #LOVE

​RELATIONSHIPS UNDER SIEGE?
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is needful that we continue to write unto you with a friendly reminder that we continue to put on the whole armor of God that we may withstand the whiles of the enemy. The enemy is coming against relationships and particularly those that have been established in Christ and on a firm foundation of faith. Do not look at things as they occur with sudden astonishment or bewilderment. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and ever more. So when the enemy begins to throw fiery darts at your friendships, and even marriages, you must stand tall and so not allow the enemy to get you out of your character and have your good evil spoken of. He’s hoping to ruin your testimony. You must step out on your most Holy faith, even when it seems like you’re the only one. You are not the only one being persecuted for righteousness’ sake. What God has joined together no man can put asunder. Your acquaintances haven’t changed. Your wife or your husband’s character hasn’t all of a sudden changed. If you’re seeking the face of God and desiring the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, then you know what time it is. You know that you must fight to contend against powers and principalities that are attempting to get you take down. The enemy is a liar and a thief and has been from the beginning. He wont attempt to come through the front or back door. He comes in fashions, forms, and dimensions that we are not always privileged to know of. However, Jesus knows. He is our Sheppard. He is known of His. Don’t stop loving. Don’t stop believing that all things are possible through Christ that strengthens us. Jesus will never leave you nor forsake you. He will not put more on you than what you can bear. He will not allow his children to be provoked to wrath. He will perform His Word. Remember, a soft answer turneth away wrath. Agree with your adversary quickly, meaning do not take down or give in to foolishness. Resist the devil and he will flee. No matter the situation or circumstance stand in the purified love of Christ. God Is love. Love hopes for all things. Love bears all things and believes for all things. So having done all to stand, we stand and see the salvation of the Lord. The word tells us that there is a time for all things. There is a time to fight and contend for righteousness. We do that with fervent prayer and praise that goes leaps and bounds spiritually more than we can fathom. #staythecourse #finishtherace

​Word of Encouragement
 
To the believers in Jesus Christ with desire to do the will and purpose of Christ, to see Him glorified through your works of righteousness. He is with you.
Put on your whole armor and stand on your most holy faith. I am reminded of the perplexities and troubles that Paul endured. I, too, a disciple of the Most High have been in life threatening situations, car accidents, miscarriages, homeless, jobless, child custody situations, wrestled with witches, warlocks, sorcerers, workers of iniquity, powers of darkness, devils desiring to put upon mind binding spirits, doctrines of devils, and false brethren who with confidence and boldness have told me I was not called or chosen to fulfill the will of God as a pastor. I have seen my enemies spread as a green olive bay tree. Mine own acquaintances have ridiculed and mocked me. Those that I have loved with all of my heart and very being have reproached me and have taken back the hope that they have had toward me. They test my speech to determine if I am one whom you have abandoned. With mine own eyes have I seen you glorified Lord Jesus. Who is like unto the Lord who knows our beginning from the end? I had fainted unless I had seen the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. My tears have been my comfort as I have hoped for the power of living God to triumph over his enemies. They cover with covering of falsehood and look at me in disgust as if I’m a fool for loving righteousness. Teach me to know my end and to number my days. My character has not changed. I have been unshakeable and unmovable ever abounding in the love of Christ. Reveal my sin unto me that I may know of the displeasure that you have toward my wretchedness. Chasten me. Lead me in a righteous path. What can I know besides what the Holy Spirit has taught me? How can I know the ways of the flesh, I cannot. You have taught me according to thy Holy Spirit. Let not these fleshly ordinances of man be a snare unto me O’ Lord. Hear my petition for righteousness. You are my heart’s desire and my exceedingly great reward.  Receive my praise with pleasure O’ Lord. Teach me thy ways of humility. Teach me to lay aside myself. Teach me O’ Lord how to be a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable in thy sight. Teach me how to love wisely. Teach me how to endure to the end while remaining faithful to your will and not my own. It is you O’ lord Jesus who paid the ultimate price with you blood. It is in your holy name that I will put my trust. No matter the corruption. No matter the circumstance. The Lord’s faithfulness to His children is the reason why I’m still here. I’m still living to testify that His purified love has kept me even when my mother and father have forsaken me. There is power in love. There is power in true surrender. There is power is obedience. There is power in Praise. There is power in prayer. By His Holy Spirit, He will do the work that He said He would do.
He is the first, the last, the beginning, and the end. He is the Amen. He is the everlasting and His Word endures forever.

​CAN THESE BONES LIVE?
 
 
EZEKIEL 37
THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME, AND CARRIED ME OUT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, AND SET ME DOWN IN THE MIDST OF THE VALLEY WHICH WAS FULL OF BONES, AND CAUSED ME TO PASS BY THEM ROUND ABOUT: AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE VERY MANY IN THE OPEN VALLEY; AND, LO, THEY WERE VERY DRY.
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE? AND I ANSWERED, O LORD GOD, THOU KNOWEST.
Ezekiel was a young Holy Prophet sent to prophesy the will and purpose of God unto the children of Israel even during a time of captivity because of their disobedience and iniquity. The Spirit of God came upon Ezekiel with the weight of His glory. Ezekiel knew it was the hand of God upon him. He was carried in the spirit realm and placed in a valley of bones.
Sometimes we see all sorts of spiritual situations around us. The situations can seem so dead. Financial situations, job loss, an unpleasant report from the doctor. When we behold with our natural eyes, situations can seem to be hopeless. The natural seems to be an impossible situation.
The Lord wanted Ezekiel to look around him. In the valley there were many people that had died; not a few. They were slaughtered. These things he saw spiritually. They had died and their bones had been very dry. Meaning there was no spirit.
The Lord communicated with his prophet. He seeks advice and counsel from His chosen ones. He desires fellowship with his children after asking Ezekiel to consider the situation, the Lord plainly asked him if he believed the bones could live. Ezekiel answered the Lord saying, thou knowest.
The prophets are the mouth of God, and they speak what thus saith the Lord. They do not speak on their own will or authority. They must speak what thus saith the Lord. By His Holy Spirit we speak those things that be not as though they were.
The Lord desires for us to be in unity with Him by His Spirit. He is willing to know what we think about things because He calls us friends. He considers our opinion when we trust him and desire to walk after His Spirit.
The prophet put the situation in the Lord’s hands and the Lord then instructed the prophet to prophesy to the dry bones, and say unto them, O’ ye dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord.
He commanded the prophet to speak to the situation/circumstance. He commanded the bones, first to hear. Hear what thus saith the Lord. There comes a point in time when we must stop giving heed to what the enemy is telling us about situations and hear what the Lord has to say. Let His Word reign in authority over our lives. He restored the hearing first and then restored life in Him.
We must lay aside every weight and sin and place it at the feet of Jesus Christ. He has the final say with situations and circumstances. He is the author and finisher of our faith. He is the first and the last. He is the originator of all things. He who began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus. All things have been created for Him and by Him. Trust the Lord with our whole heart and stand tall on our most Holy faith.