​WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LOVE?
 
THE WORLD CANNOT LOVE. THE LOVE OF MANY HAS WAXED COLD. MANY HAVE FALLEN BY THE WAYSIDE. WE MUST CONTINUE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. THERE ARE SOME WHO WILL NOT STAND SOUND DOCTRINE OR SOUND COUNSEL. THEY HAVE HEAPED TO THEMSELVES THEIR OWN TEACHERS. THEY HAVE FORMED THEIR ALLIANCES. THEY HAVE COVERED AND CONTINUE TO COVER WITH COVERING THAT ARE NOT HIS SPIRIT. MANY HAVE WILLINGLY GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO THE ADVERSARY, EVEN THOSE WE THOUGHT WERE SO FIRM ON THE FOUNDATION OF JESUS CHIRST. THEY HAVE BUILT UP THEIR HIGH PLACES. THEY HAVE TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THEIR SAVIOR, WITH THEIR ACTIONS THEY HAVE DONE THESE THINGS. THE LOVE THEY SHOW IS TEMPORARY FOR THE PURPOSES OR OBTAINING WHAT THEY DESIRE OF THE FLESH. THE TRUE BELIEVERS MUS TCONTINUE TO STAND. BE NOT WEARY IN WELL DOING. DO THE WILL AND PURPOSE OF CHRIST. THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS AVAILETH MUCH. BE NOT WEARY IN WELL DOING, YOU SHALL REAP IF OYU FAINT NOT. STAY THE COURSE. THE RACE IS NOT GIVEN TO THE SWIFT NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG BUT TO THEM WHO ENDURE UNTIL THE END. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK WITH HIS COMING OR HIS PROMISES. HIS WORD WILL SURELY COME TO FRUITION IN DUE SEASON. PRAISE HIM. SEEK HIM. LOVE HIM WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART. HE IS THE RISEN SAVIOR HE WILL NEVER LEAVE NOR FORSAKE YOU.  HE IS THE SAME, YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND EVER MORE. GLORIFY HIM FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE BY HIS NAME EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS. THROUGH HIM THE VICTORY IS ALREADY WON. HE IS JUST. HE IS MERCIFUL. HE IS HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LAMB OF GOD! 

​EZEKIEL 1-5 GET TO THE RIVER
Th Lord uses the prophet Ezekiel mightily and confidently while sending him among the children of Israel. While the Lord used Jeremiah to prophesy in his youth to the children the warning of captivity, the children refused to take heed the warning of the Most High. They are carried into captivity.
The Lord God reveals Himself by His Spirit to Ezekiel by the river while, he too, was in the midst of the captives. Though those children have gone into captivity because of sin and abomination, he uses Ezekiel to continue to prophesy of the judgment of the children while also providing a way of escape through the savior and by trusting and depending on the Lord with their whole heart through repentance and with obedience.
While commissioning Ezekiel for a mission in Him, the Lord reveals His Spirit to the prophet how those having his spirit would move by His spirit and hear His voice. He showed this demonstration with the living creature. Then the Lord commanded Ezekiel to go to the rebellious house. They were already in captivity, but their heart still was hardened toward the Lord. God commanded the prophet to eat the scroll. He obeyed the spirit of God which commanded him to “eat what I give thee.” The Lord took Ezekiel in the heat of His Spirit, and he went again to the river and sat among the captives and was astonished at what he saw for seven days. It’s interesting how you can be at the river and not at the river at the same time.
There’s a saying “you can take them to the water, but you can’t make them drink.” However, He went where the Spirit led him and the Lord ordained him a watchman of the house. Then the Lord prophesied to that house that had already been taken captive. He told Ezekiel that house would be under siege and He would use Ezekiel to do it. The Lord proclaims judgment to house of Israel of the sword, famine, and pestilence. However, he assures that there will be a remnant. The remnant shall escape by His Spirit.
Ezekiel 7:25-27
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour. Then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel form the ancients.
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hand of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
To those who still need to be sought, I say get to the river while you yet have a chance. Though you see a awfully rebellious house in judgment around you, you can escape the wrath of God by seeking His Holy Spirit to complete you and lead you. He will hide you in the time of trouble.  #fight #overcome #endure

​A TESTIMONY OF A MIRACLE
 
I sat down in my room one afternoon after spending most of the day cleaning and I saw that I had a ton of notebooks stacked full of writing that I had done by the Spirit of God. Ever since the Lord poured His Spirit upon me I just began to write about all of the things he had done and was going to do. I had allowed the enemy to convince me that I had no life and that I really had no purpose. My heart was so filled with passion for the Lord and desperately wanted the privilege to be used to work, signs, miracles, and wonders to compel man and women to give their lives to the true and living God. The zeal had started to eat me up. The Lord had me write so much about the operations of the Spirit. He said miracles were faith builders. He shared with me about Moses and How he led the children day by day, miracle by miracle, to weed out the unbelief. The accounts that I read revealed the end result of their testimony. Nonetheless, as I wrestled with the enemy about my purpose, the Lord had to me to look back on my own life and the miracles he had already shown within me.
He showed me a car accident I was in at the age of sixteen. I was heavy laden in sin. I had a selfish prayer life and I really didn’t have a goal driven or purpose driven life. I lived to please others. On the way to a job interview I drove through a power pole and slammed right into a neighbor’s tree. Live power wires fell onto the car with me in it. I got out, walked to the neighbor’s door and asked to use the phone. When the emergency response team showed up, they asked the same question over and over again, “how did you make it out?” They said I shouldn’t have live through it because of the live wires jumping on the car. I know that it was Jesus Christ giving me another chance at life and showing me that though other people couldn’t care less If I lived or died, Jesus was my Father and He cared.
Most of my sin was because of self-loathing. I would drink, smoke, and do anything to feed the spirits of depression that lurked around me. I hated myself for not being loveable. I fed right into the enemy’s chess match with my mind. I don’t know what went wrong with the car that day. Though it seemed like it was a deadly situation, that tree is symbolic of the tree of life. Jesus Christ moved in my life that day to stop me in my tracks and to put the old sinful, unbelieving man to death and to walk in a new life with His leadership and guidance.
The scripture was fulfilled in Psalm 27:10:
When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
I couldn’t grasp the concept that day because I was on the potter’s wheel.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered the heart of man the things that the Lord have prepared for them that love him (1 Cor 2:9).
I couldn’t see what work the Lord had begun with me on that wheel. Sometimes we see miracles of healing and deliverance manifest immediately by His Spirit. While other times miracles are a work in progress while the Lord is shaping and molding someone’s heart for repentance. Sometimes the miracle is getting someone to surrender their life completely to Jesus who never thought it possible that they could be saved by grace in the first place. That’s the miracle of life.
So, while remembering that testimony and wrestling with the enemy about my purpose and listening to him tell me I didn’t have a life, the bread of life came forward with a scripture to speak to that situation that to Live is Christ and to die is gain. We must decrease and Christ by His Spirit must increase. Therefore, it was no longer I but Christ that lived within me. I had been redeemed by the blood of the lamb. Therein is the power of God unveiled.
We must remember our testimony established by Jesus Christ to overcome and endure those these perilous times. It is time to let the weak say that they are strong, and let the poor say that they are rich. Be not weary in well doing, for you shall reap if you faint not.

​SPIRITUAL WARFARE WHISPER
 
WHY DO WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT?
There is an order to the way that the Lord Jesus Christ operates and this is simply a friendly reminder and a quick word of encouragement for the believers who need the Holy Spirit and need to understand how the Lord moves. Often, He has commanded us t move by His Spirit to not fulfill the lust of the flesh and the desires thereof. He asked the question, Are you moving by His Spirit? How can we move by His Spirit if you do not have His Spirit? So, you need to receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit while He yet may be found so that you can be complete in Him and be where the Lord is at all times instead of where He has been. The pre-requisite to receiving the Holy Spirit is simply believe and surrender to the will and purpose of Christ. You know what it is be saved. Simply confess with your mouth and believe with you heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God and He died and rose for your sins. The Lord may move upon your heart to fast for a period of time to break down the spiritual flesh so that your Spirit man is in proper position to receive all that the Holy Spirit has for you to receive.
The Lord is not slack with His coming. Most people are not in the proper position spiritually to understand and know what the will of the Lord is. The is true. He will be real to you if you desire Him to reign in your life completely. This is a faith walk and requires endurance. This is not a sprint. In order to know the things of the Spirit you must possess the Spirit and it is then by His Spirit that the Lord communicates with His chosen and He also distributes gifts for you to be effective in the Kingdom of God. The Spirit is what leads us and guides us in the path of all truths and righteousness. So, it is needful to ask the question again, “Are you moving by His Spirit?” If not, then seek Him for His Holy spirit to complete you so that you receive all that the Lord has for you to receive before He comes. He desires that we prosper and be in good health. He also stated that He is the bread of life and that His life is eternal and full of abundance and joy. However, these things come by His Spirit.
The enemy is warring with the saints of God and those chosen to do the will and purpose of Christ. We know what the enemy desires to do; kill, steal, and destroy. He wants to completely annihilate the Spirit of God and sift us like wheat. However, the Lord Jesus has given us weapons of warfare and He personally has said that He prays for us that our faith will not fail. We must walk by faith and not by sight. Put on the whole armor of God and a major part of the armor is His Spirit. We must put on righteousness. Put on holiness. Do not waver. Do not take down. Do not fear what man can do. Jesus has the final say on your life and every situation and circumstance concerning you. Trust in the Lord with your whole heart and having done all to stand, stand and see the glory of God. Do it all by His Spirit that we may contend and fight a good fight.