​Obedience goes a long way even when the enemy comes along and attempts to make you think you’re a fool for serving Christ. He mocks you. He wants you to look at yourself, your pitiful self instead of looking at the solution, the prize, the answer. The Word says to look to hills from which cometh your help! Know that Christ is not mocked! Are you a friend? The Lord says that no longer will he call us servants but friends because he shares his will with his friends. The Lord has poured his love and He has sent his prophets to warn us of the days that we are in. Why be bewildered as if he didn’t speak these things in advance? He warned us to fight a good fight. He told us that the enemy comes to stiff us like wheat and that he was relentless. Who wants to fight for righteousness sake? You want more faith but you don’t want to go through the refining process? Did you count the cost? Seems like the greatest thing you could do is follow Christ when the preacher is preaching and the spirit is high and praise is making you feel good in the flesh, feeling like you can do no wrong. Yet what happens when you get stripped down and broken and to others who don’t know your heart, you look like you ought to be thrown away. Who originates life? Who is the originator of all glory? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Endure hardness as a good soldier. Seek your own salvation with fear and much trembling. Surrender, surrender, surrender, completely to the will of Christ and you will see the manifestation of righteousness in due season. #STAYTHECOURSE #SEEITTHROUGHTOTHEEND #PAYYOURVOWS #TRUST PRAISELIKENEVERBEFORE

​Word of encouragement
 
Many people were on life support and those who were sent to help them did not give them the truth. They did not go forth in complete obedience to the word of the Lord. Partial obedience is still disobedience. Many who were chosen have been slaughtered. Spiritual warfare is real. The Lord has given us weapons of warfare and has commanded us to put on the whole armor. We must keep fighting the good fight of faith. Don’t take down. Much of what the Lord has sent us to do is not popular. It will seem as if you are a cast away sometimes, but remember Jesus paid the ransom. We cannot take our commitment lightly. He paid for all of you not just a piece. The Lord has designed all of us for a testimony, but there can only be a testimony if you overcome. Sometimes the Lord is allowing us to be tested for elevation purposes but then folks run to man to deliver you out of a situation rather than give the glory completely to Christ. Christ wants to be your only source especially in times of trouble. Why run to friends and family or whomever for a temporary fix when Christ is everlasting? Worry is for the unbeliever. If you can see the end result then its no longer faith. The just shall live by faith, not by sight. You must overcome…there is no other option. Stand by the word, having done all…stand. The overcomers shall see God.
Revelation 3:19-22
As many as I Love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

​WORD OF PROPHESY
THIS IS THE MESSAGE TO THE CHURCH TODAY. THEY DOUBT MY PRESENCE THEY DOUBT THE ABILITIES THAT I HAVE. THEY FEAR NOTHING WHEN IT COMES TO ME. THEY FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING IS FINE. THEY BECOME, WHAT DO I SAY IN TERMS THAT BOTH YOU UNDERSTAND? THEY HAVE BECOME LIKE VOMIT TO ME. THEY THINK THEY ARE SERVING ME. THEY THINK THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING THEY ARE DOING BY THE ABILITIES OF ME BUT WHAT THEY DO WILL RETURN TO THEM VOID. EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO WILL BE VOID AND I WILL VOID IT IN THEIR LIFE. THEY THINK THAT THEY HAVE BECOME SUPERIOR AND I HAVE BECOME INFERIOR. THEY STAND TALL THINKING THAT THEY HAVE SET FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT THEY SET FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH. THEY POUND THEIR CHEST. THEY DANCE IN A DANCE THAT THEY CALL THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEY SHOUT WITH A SHOUT LIKE THEY ARE SHOUTING TOWARD HEAVEN’S SKY, BUT I AM FAR FROM THEM. I AM FAR FROM THEIR THOUGHTS. I AM FAR FROM THE PROCESS THAT THEY GO THROUGH DAILY. A DAILY WALK, NOT WITH ME. A DAILY WALK WITH THE ENEMY AND THE ADVERSARY THAT THEY DO. PASTOR, YOU SEE THIS FRONT AND CENTER IT FRUSTRATES YOU SO BECAUSE YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ARE GETTING SO FAR WHY IT SEEMS LIKE YOU’RE COMING UP SHORT, BUT ARE YOU REALLY COMING UP SHORT? BUT I WILL TELL YOU TODAY YOU ARE NOT COMING UP SHORT. DO MY WILL. DO MY PURPOSE. DO NOT DOUBT ME. DO NOT FEAR. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU’RE NOT DOING ANYTHING. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ON YOUR OWN. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO TO EXPEDITE ANY PROCESS I HAVE FOR YOU THAT IS TIME SENSITIVE, TIME SENSITIVITY IS SENSITIVITY OF THE TIME IF I DELAY MY COMING. BE STRONG. BE STRONG IN ME AND WHAT YOU SEE YOU’RE GONNA SEE. DO NOT COWARD DOWN TO THE ENEMY. NO MATTER HOW MANY CHANGES YOU SEE. DO NOT COWARD DOWN. SPEAK MY WORD WITH GRACE WITH MERCY, PATIENCE, FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, BUT STILL SPEAK MY WORD.

​1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Wherefore let him that think he stand, take heed lest he fall.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye able; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 

Cling hold to that which is good and abstain from all appearance of evil. Seems like everywhere you go someone is watching you. Most folks even if you never spoke to them know that you're after God's own heart. How? The spirit in them knows and they sometimes try to present you with situation simply to reason within themselves to to try and get you to stumble. Nevertheless, God is faithful and he will hold you for people who hate you without a cause. It's not you they despise. It's the spirit of God in you that cleanses, that heals, that delivers and sets free. Your righteousness is in Christ and let your confidence rest in that. There are some that may think of you as useless or they may be under the impression that you are not called. The temptation is to get you to stoop to their level and to speak words out of your mouth that do not edify. However, with the fruits of the spirit and temperance we overcome evil with good. Thoughts are thoughts but we do not have to allow the thoughts to penetrate the heart. Guard your heart and elevate through the problems and situations with praise. Maintain your integrity as a good soldier and speak the word out of your mouth in season and in faith and the word will not return void.

1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
In your well-doing the word tells us you will put to silence their foolishness. When you do a self evaluation and recognize that you're on shaky ground remember that the Word is standing in you, you're not standing on your own authority. The flesh decreases and the spirit of God must increase, your steps shall be ordered of the Lord.

James 1:1-5
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James first introduces himself in the letter that he is the servant of the Most high and that he is sent with a word to address the chosen men and women of God. He specified that his letter is the tribes in particular that have been scattered.
Matthew 26:31
Then saith Jesus unto them, all ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepperd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Therefore, this is at a point when Jesus Christ had been crucified and people had been scattered soon after. However, the Lord still says regardless of circumstances and situations he is still there as a guide to his people by His Spirit. When warfare comes, the adversary comes with his fiery darts and wiles of temptation. Yet the Apostle James is an encouragement to say stay the course and count it all joy when we encounter diversities of temptations. Many of the temptations didn’t come while Jesus was walking with his disciples during his ministry in the fleshly body. The disciples often questioned him during that time, asking questions concerning miracles, signs, and wonders. However, the true test of persecution didn’t take place until after Jesus had ascended and he said wait for the promise and he also said to watch and pray the ye enter not into temptation. The spirit is willing indeed but the flesh is weak. Yet the Lord has allowed such trials and test to build us on our most holy faith so that we may lay hold on eternal life.
Then James mentions that patience may have a perfect work. That perfection works for the edification of the body to present us as a perfect man unto the measure and stature of the fulness of Christ. This patience established is to get us to our expected end that we may overcome the care of this life and have a right to the tree of life.

So, then how does patience have its perfect work? When we are tried, we must not just be hearers of the word but doers also. Therefore, James says that if any man desire wisdom, let him petition the Lord Jesus who will give freely all things. The wisdom is the application of the word. Praise the Lord Jesus. Seek him for His Holy Spirit that distributes the gifts that we are able to stand in the last and evil day. Pray without ceasing. Do not lean to your own understanding of things when you cannot see the finish line. Trust the Lord that He who began a good work will perform it. In due season, we shall reap if we faint not.

DANIEL 11:32
AND SUCH AS DO WICKEDLY AGAINST THE COVENANT SHALL HE CORRUPT WITH FLATTERIES: BUT THE PEOPLE THAT DO KNOW THEIR GOD SHALL BE STRONG, AND DO EXPLOITS.
 
The adversary thrives on stiffing the saints of God. For this purpose, the Lord came to Peter and said Peter the enemy desires to have you, to stiff you as wheat. Luke 22:32 But I have prayed that your faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thou brethren. The Lord knows where we are strong spiritually and where we are weak. Ke knew Peter had a confidence because he had walked with him and hadn’t had many trials of faith since Jesus came on the scene. Peter didn’t know his own weakness, but the adversary was ever present setting snares and traps. The Lord Jesus stated he was the advocate with the Father and that He (being the author and the finisher of our faith) prayed that the faith fail not. When you are converted, meaning surrender completely, then you can be in position to strengthen the brethren with your testimony of faith. The adversary is lurking attempting to get you to take down your standards and deny the foundation of faith that you have been established upon from the beginning…wanting you to exchange for money, power, and respect which is all together vanity. However, the word states that in Revelation they overcame the adversary by the blood of the lamb, the word of the testimony, and they loved not their lives until the death. The Lord said that in these last and evil days will be like unto the days of Noah and like unto the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, the true saints that know him will do exploits. Meaning, they are going to trust the living God and spew the adversary with the power of the Holy Ghost. The devil will be put to flight and will be exposed in every corner and avenue and the true saints will pick up their weapons and contend for the faith for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but powerful and mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. We must not take down or give in. We must stand for our Most Holy faith. Be not weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. The reward is in the finish. He who begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. #seek #fight #trust

​ WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
 
DANIEL 8:23-25
AND IN THE LATTER OF THEIR KINGDOM, WHEN THE TRANSGRESSORS ARE COME TO THE FULL, A KING OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE, AND UNDERSTANDING DARK SENTENCES, SHALL STAND UP.
AND HIS POWER SHALL BE MIGHTY BUT NOT BY HIS OWN AND HE SHALL DESTROY WONDERFUL, AND SHALL PROSPER, AND PRACTICE, AND SHALL DESTROY THE MIGHTY AND THE HOLY PEOPLE AND THROUGH HIS POLICY ALSI HE SHALL CAUSE CRAFT TO PROSPER IN HIS HAND; AND HE SHALL MAGNIFY HIMSELF IN HIS HEART AND BY PEACE SHALL DESTROY MANY: HE SHALL ALSO STAND UP AGAINST THE PRINCE OF PRINCES; BUT SHALL BE BROKEN WITHOUT HAND.
                The Lord Jesus has told us not to look at the outward appearance. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. The adversary is an anti-christ. There are many who have already gone out into the world and the Lord tells us that this particular king will be fierce and can understand dark sentences. Today as I write, I must admit that I have experienced this on several occasions. I have encountered people of this kingdom who speak great swelling words, blaspheme, and operate in the character of man. They deposit foolishness corrupting the mind of the saints but think they are helping themselves. I could have a regular conversation as I always have, but these folks interpret it as meaning something else. They dwell in spiritual darkness instead of walking in the light of Christ. These people are brute beasts and their mission is to steal, kill, and destroy.
This adversary is practicing and prospering against the chosen people through craft and is demonic. He has been crafty from the beginning. The holy people are being destroyed through witchcraft and by flatteries. The adversary has crept in through dimensions such as television programs and advertisements, and even the internet. The world continues to spin and get more wicked as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and the adversary is magnifying himself boldly and fiercely against the chosen people of God and flattering them with false peace. There is no peace without the prince of peace. Many have received increased wages, economic relief, food benefit, which gave a false sense that everything is fine because their needs have been temporarily met. People have been dependent on the government instead of trusting in the true and living God. Churches been dependent on government funding for monetary relief and support when we are supposed to be the storehouse and the pillars of the community. Meanwhile, they are going spiritually bankrupt. A people that were once hoy are forsaking their savior. Remember the end shall not come until there be a falling away. Therefore, they continue to go after strange Gods, give into seducing spirits and other doctrines instead of trusting the truth. No one is bringing their tithes to the storehouse all while knowing that disaster and sudden destruction shall come. They feed the powers of darkness and willing give themselves over to the adversary. However, He shall be broken without hand and all those who side with the adversary shall go to the pit and the second death shall be the lake of fire. We must recognize that all powers are ordained of God and therefore, the Lord will handle this adversary himself. Though the Lord has allowed these things to occur, his hand is stretched out still. He loves His children with an everlasting love and will be a fortress and a refuge to them, he is the good Sheppard and his sheep hear his voice. D not be deceived. He is not slack with his coming, not does he take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked. He desires our repentance. Seek him and live. Harden not your heart when the Lord pulls upon your conscience to surrender. Do not allow the adversary to convince you that you’re lost and that you have to stay that way. Receive the love of Jesus Christ while he may be found of you. His Spirit will lead and guide you in the path all truths if you allow Him to. Pick up your weapons and fight to contend for the faith. #SeekHIsSpirit #Love #Trust