BUT, realize when you do all these things, it IS for certain that you will: Lose friends like Jesus did. Lose family members like Jesus did. Have people ignore you like they did to Jesus. Have those who were the closest to you, as best friends, even, no longer want to talk to you or see you anymore, like what they did to Jesus (that actually happened to Joseph and Mary, His parents, as well). Have people hate you for no reason at all, like they hated Jesus. Have people ostracize you, like they did Jesus. Have people tell lies about you, like they did to Jesus. Have some want to even harm you or kill you, like how they wanted to do to Jesus. Have some put curses on you, like they did with Jesus. Have people not include you in family gatherings anymore, because your love for Jesus. Have people try to silence you because of your love for Jesus.
The devil moves people to see you as their enemy, because you put God and His Word first in your life, as Jesus did. They will persecute you, because they persecuted Jesus.
No matter how many times you reach out, No matter how many times you try to let them know you still love them, No matter how many times you tell them you miss them and want to stay in touch with them, No matter how successful and accomplished you can be-if you love Jesus, most will have hardly anything to do with you.
But did not Jesus tell us that would all happen? He did. Is it still worth following Him, then, to lose all those who would rather not have anything to do with you, because of your love for the Lord Jesus, His Father, and the Holy Spirit? Is it REALLY all worth it?
YES, IT IS.
I do not like it; it breaks my heart that loved ones have nothing to do with me anymore. And if you are a follower of Christ, it WILL happen to you too.
BUT I will STILL go on, loving, caring, praying, forgiving, being patient with and serving others, even if while I’m here on this Earth, I do not see the “fruit” of my labors. I will see them fulfilled One Day, when my Lord soon calls me Home, and honestly, that is really all that matters.
Jesus IS all that matters to me.
Because as HE hung on that Cross, I was ALL that MATTERED to HIM.
Hello, everyone! I hope your summer is going well. I wanted to reach out to you all with a couple of updates: First, to let you know that I am having a sale on the first book of the series until this Friday; it is selling for $4.99 on Amazon, regularly $11.99!
It is a great time to purchase this book, because now that my grad classes are finally done for the summer (thank God!), hopefully I will be finishing the second book of the series and get that up and running on Amazon by September.
You may purchase the book either in paperback, Kindle, or now even in a hardcover edition! I have no other income right now because of the heavy school load, so every dollar that I make helps me continue to pay my bills.
Thanks to all of you who have either purchased one or both books (see pic below re: devotional I have up on Amazon as well), or will purchase one or more of them in the future. It has meant the world to me, and I have enjoyed hearing from quite a few of you about how much you can either relate to some of the life situations and /or how the books have encouraged you in some way. It is such a blessing to me to know that!
I am also working on a book about the Holy Spirit, His role in the Triune Godhead, and how He should be working in believers’ lives, but many in the Body of Christ unfortunately do not pay Him any mind. It will be called, “Inform and Warn”—exactly what the Lord had instructed me to do these past five plus years since I have been on this faith journey with Him. I pray that I will be finished with this book prior to the end of the year.
And last but not least, I have always wanted to put out a pictorial book of some inspirational devotions /short prayers that I posted over the past few years on social media. Many people have commented on how the posts were very encouraging to them; other posts being very straightforward with Scripture, reminding the reader to take a stand with their faith, honor God, and not back down. I hope to have that one up on Amazon within a couple of weeks!
I hope you will take time out to check out the books, take advantage of the sale price (only till this Friday, 7/8/2022!) and also to look forward to my future publications! Thank you all so much, and may God bless you and your families as you too, continue on your own personal journeys, “Walking in the Dark with FAITH”!
Quote taken from The Catholic Company, “Your Morning Offering”
This is short and sweet, but as soon as I read today’s quote from the daily devotional I received in my inbox this morning, I knew I had to share it with everyone.
We, the Body of Christ = Church—NEED to have this fire kindled in our lives each and every day!
The days are coming, and actually are already here, that the people will long to hear the Word of the Lord. The enemy will do ANYTHING to keep us from hearing it by distracting us as much as possible, and also will keep us from having that relationship with the LORD God, and learning His Word.
Be a holy rebel—be the ONE that the devil hates, and allow God’s consuming fire to burn all that keeps you from getting closer to Him. Then allow Him to grow and mature you into the strong servant warrior of Christ you were meant to be!
Great White Throne Judgment Revelation 20:10-Satan bound
I normally do not use my site to speak about anything else but spiritual and Biblical things, but then again this is MY blog site, and I can write about what I want, right?
So if the world wants to celebrate something as vile as men having vile sex with each other, women doing the same, and companies want to “join in” by showing their support, well I guess I have the right to say that I DO NOT stand with them, because my God, Who happens to be my FATHER, does NOT allow such evils to be practiced, or worse yet, celebrated!
So WHY NOT celebrate the BIBLICAL things, like all the Judeo-Christian holidays and such? WHY NOT give praise and honor to the LORD GOD and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who CREATED the very EARTH these humans live on? Why has the world pushed Him aside? Because what they stand for—evil—is dead set against Him and His Word. Heavy on the “dead” part, but I will get to that in a bit. Good and evil cannot live with one another; one of them has to be destroyed—that is the invisible war presently going on behind the scenes that most humans have no clue about.
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people say to me, “I do not want any Christianity or Bible passages shoved down my throat—if I do not believe, you have to respect my rights!” Ok, so WHY THEN, can they not respect OUR rights to not see or hear about it either? Every time I turn around now, I see drag queens putting on shows with CHILDREN in the audience, or reading to them in libraries? OR, worse yet, allowing their children to LIVE OUT that lifestyle as well! And there are parents out there that think this is all great and just part of the “evolution” of the human! Oh yea, the human is DEVOLVING into the very demonic creatures they knowingly or unknowingly, are serving!
WHY is THAT ok? Since when does THAT not cross the “line”, like us Christians sharing the Bible with others?? How can a human being be fine with what actually IS an abomination as per Scripture, but God forbid if I or another Christian start speaking about the Lord Jesus—they’ll say, “Run for the hills, people, these ultra right-wing, 2A, God-loving, Bible-thumping Jesus freaks (oh, and most of like Trump also, so that makes them hate us even more) are at it again—thinking they can force us to become holy! We want nothing to do with them!”
Well guess what? I want NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR VILE, DISGUSTING, DEMONIC, evil ways, either!! Sodom and Gomorrah did not get destroyed by some angry hateful God who had nothing else better to do that day; He destroyed it because ALL of them were so vile, the demonic infestation ran from the adults straight into the children (Gen. 18:17-19:28)! There was no one left that was worth saving, because even Abraham asked the LORD to save them all if there even were only 10 righteous (Gen. 18:32) left in that place, and the LORD said that IF there were 10, He would not destroy those cities.
But, as most people know, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed (see Gen. 19, esp. vs. 28). The disgusting demonic sins of the people had to be dealt with. And even though it has been several thousand years since then, these same sins still exist today, BUT the difference is, the world has been living in what is called “the Age” or “Dispensation” of Grace.
Because of Christ’s work on the Cross, and through His death and resurrection, the world’s inhabitants have had an opportunity all this time to get their life right with the LORD God. Until they take their last breath, a human spirit has the opportunity to come to the LORD God, ask for forgiveness for whatever it was they have done (except for the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit (Mk. 3:29, Luke 12:10, Matt. 12:31). That is as per the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
So except for that, if one were a murderer (like Moses), an adulterer (like David), a thief (like Jacob), a pagan/unbeliever (like Rahab, Ruth, Abraham, the Canaanite woman, or the Roman centurion-just a few examples), the Lord Jesus would lovingly accept their humble plea for forgiveness, cleansing, and deliverance.
THAT is what is missing—people needing to get exorcised and delivered FROM the demonic vexations, infestations, obsessions, and worst of all, POSSESSIONS. Most people, even some Christians (especially clergy these days) do not even believe in the spiritual realm, whether it is angelic or demonic. Hence the reason why Satan and his crew of minions have been able to run around, “seeking whom they may devour” (1 Peter 5:8), because most humans have NO IDEA where the evil is coming from.
Demonic infestation of a human being happens mostly through sexual intercourse = transference of demons from one human to another. Any good exorcist (like the late Fr. Gabriel Amorth) would tell you that is true. But again, most people do not believe in such things, so the evil has “free reign” to grow, fester, and “populate”, if you will, in others who live certain lifestyles that desire to be very sexually “liberal” with themselves and others (see Leviticus 18-21, 1 Cor. 6:9-10, and also Romans 1:18-32). They will have “inherited” many demons, some more stronger than the others, and unless that person is serious about leaving that lifestyle, humbly seeks forgiveness and sincerely desires help from an exorcist or deliverance worker, just giving their lives over to the Lord Jesus will not solve their problems of all the demonic strongholds they have within their spirit, soul, and body.
There are multiple other ways of demonic infestation beside sexual transmission—drugs, alcohol consumption when it becomes an addiction, pornography (basically any type of sexual sin outside the confines of marriage), witchcraft and dealing with any other pagan/false idols, gods, demons, etc. opens up a WIDE path (and a “legal” one for Satan!) for those demons who are in charge and controlling such strongholds in humans, to “set up residence” and create havoc in a human spirit’s life. AND, they will NEVER LEAVE, unless the person gives themselves over completely and wholeheartedly-SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY—to the Lord Jesus Christ. THAT is the truth. The longer the demons reside in the person, the worse mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually the person gets, until they either end up destroying themselves and most of the time, taking others’ lives in the process.
In closing, I did not write this out of “hatred” for any human spirit being; I wrote it out of LOVE and concern for this human race that has been deceived by those demons and Satan himself, who actually was clever enough to deceive 1/3 of the angelic population WHILE STILL IN GLORY with God Almighty!! Lucifer made an awful free-will choice that day, and has since been sentenced (but NOT YET confined!) to the Pit (Rev. 20:3), and then the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:10).
So what makes a person think they are smarter than him, that they will not “fall” for such demonic traps? Think again, because every single person has been deceived one way or another in their life. “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). We’ve all “fallen short of the glory of God“ (Rom. 3:23).
Every precious human spirit has the opportunity to go to God NOW, while there is still breath in their lungs, and ask for Him to forgive them, even of the most heinous deeds one could even imagine. Yes, Christ died for that human being as well. In the End (which is soon to come), the Judge of all the living(Ps.50:6; 75:7; Is. 33:22), the Lord Jesus Christ, will sit on His Throne, and separate those who loved Him and His Word, and served Him from those who mocked and reviled Him, His Word and His people, and blatantly and purposefully went against all His Word, to serve Satan and other false gods/demons (Matt. 25:31-46).
A final few verses of loving warning to those who think this was all about “hatred” for those living in that vile lifestyle, and other ungodly living that will bring them into perdition:
“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
“And I saw a great White Throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the (spiritually) dead were judged out of those things where were written in the books, according to their works.
“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and Death and Hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged EVERY MAN according to their works.
“And Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. THIS is the SECOND death (the first was the death of the body of the human).
“And WHOSOEVER was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire” (Revelation 20:10-15).
All that is happening, NEEDS to happen. Please read not only this, but what is also written in the picture post, and look up the Scriptures for further understanding. If you shut God out, it will be an eternal consequence that cannot be reversed. You have questions—well, the Lord has the answers-many of them. He does not tell us everything, but enough to get us to recognize the “season” of the times. And from being with Him all these decades, I can assure you from what I am seeing and hearing (mind you, I do not post most of the ugly vile events I see happening-FB and IG would black them out anyway), it is VERY NEAR “that time”. Here is another verse the Spirit is leading me to tell you: “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, you will know that HE is NEAR, right at the door” (Matthew 24:32-33). Do you have eyes to see, and ears to hear? Then see and hear what is really going on. Go to the Lord Jesus, and tell Him you are scared. He already knows it; He just wants YOU to humbly come to HIM, and He WILL get you, and I, and all the others who have heeded His Word, through this, in the way He wills it to be. He is waiting for you—for all of us—to trust in Him, and allow Him to do what needs to be done, in order to finally One Day, rid this world of its evil. The evil one is, OUT OF SPITE, taking as many humans with him and the other evil spirits, into Hell and the Lake of Fire as he can. He knows his “time” is very short. BUT, even he is only allowed to do what the Lord allows. For those who still do not understand— Satan and the demons, evil spirits, etc. are NOT in Hell. There are only certain ones either in the Pit, or, they are chained up in Tartarus. Satan (for reasons only 🙄God Himself knows) and the other evil spirits have been “allowed” to roam about, “seeking whom he may devour”(1 Peter 5:8). BUT, as verse 9 says, we are to “Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood(body of Christ) throughout the world.”
I felt the sense of the Spirit to gather some Scriptures together about JOY, because there is so much pain and suffering in the world now, and unfortunately, it is only going to get worse.
But that is why the LORD God gave us His SON, Jesus Christ—for He IS THE WORD OF GOD. And when we spend time IN His Word, we ARE spending time with Jesus.
The Word of God is like a balm unto a wound. Let these Scripture verses remind you that “Though you have not SEEN Him, you love Him. Though you do not NOW see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with JOY that is inexpressible and filled with glory.” 1 Peter 8-9
I pray that these verses remind you of the JOY that comes from knowing Christ as our Savior and Lord.
If you do not have the Lord Jesus in your life as yet, and desire to experience true JOY and PEACE amidst the ever worsening evils in this world, allow Him to come into your life. Invite Him in, so that He CAN show you what He has shown the rest of us—how to have PEACE, LOVE, and JOY in the midst of such trials and tribulations.
If you put your FAITH and TRUST in Him and His Word, I GUARANTEE from all that is written, that you WILL have true JOY that will overflow in your heart; only though, by having the Holy Spirit dwell IN you, and that happens by a total wholehearted surrender of yourself, to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Trust God to allow the Holy Spirit to “instruct thee and teach thee in the way which you should go” (Ps. 32:8). He’ll take care of the rest.
“Likewise, I say unto you, there is JOY in the presence of the Angels of God over ONE sinner that repenteth.” Luke 15:10
“These things have I spoken unto you, that my JOY might remain in you, and [that] your JOY might be full.” Jn. 15:11
“And ye now therefor have sorrow: But I WILL see you again, and your heart SHALL rejoice, and your JOY no man shall taketh from you.” Jn. 16:22
“Now the God of HOPE fill you with all JOY and PEACE in believing, that ye may abound in HOPE, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Rom. 15:13
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding JOY.” 1 Peter 4:13
“For we have not here a lasting city but we seek one that is to come” (Hebrews 13:14-16).
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philip. 3:20).
“I have given them Your Word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world”(John 17:15).
“I have said these things to you that in Me you may have peace. In the world you WILL have tribulation. But take heart—I HAVE overcome the world” (John 16:33).
Remember this quote from St. Augustine, as you look around and see all that is going on in this world. This world IS to be judged:
“Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out” (Jn 12:31). “Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world (Satan and all evil spirits and those who follow after him) is judged” (John 16:11).
Continue to “set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth” (Col. 3:2).
“But according to His promise we ARE waiting for new heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13).
YOU that know this are HIS!
“Little children, you are from God and have overcome them (the evil spirits in the world), for He Who is in you is greater than he (the world, the flesh and the devil) who is in the world” (1John 4:4).
Keep looking up, beloved, for our Redemption is very near!
Because that truly, is all you need to know and remember—HIS Word IS truth. HE IS the Truth (Jn. 14:6). And the the Lord Jesus asked the Father to “sanctify” = set apart” us through His truth.
When we allow that “setting apart” to happen by being one in the Spirit with the Lord Jesus and the Father, we learn to live holy lives we never thought possible before, and only because His righteousness is being allowed to work in us (Titus 3:5).
If we have the truth of God’s Word living and being acted out in our every day lives through faith, hope, humility, obedience, love and trust in Him, we are in an excellent place.
Keep trusting in Him and His Word, for He is forever faithful, and He WILL finish all He started here, for He Himself said it (Isaiah 55:10-11).
It seems like there is no one left to put your trust in, even those who say they are of God, and by their fruit, you can tell they serve the rebellious one instead.
Others keep trusting in their wealth, power, prestige, elite status, etc. It will eventually get them in the same place Satan and his horde will end up.
Humans let humans down; it’s because of the sin nature that has been within us since the time of the Fall of man. No matter how much we may have tried to do good, we end up hurting those we love sometimes, and they do the same to us. Sometimes, it is not on purpose; more often than not, it is.
Sin is a choice we all make; and when one decides to make the choice to purposely hurt another by lying, stealing, cheating, gossiping, cursing out, deceiving, abusing, committing adultery or even murdering another, all trust is lost in that person.
It’s the consequence of sin that TRUST is one of the main things that is lost between humans.
But the ONE Person who can always be trusted, no matter what WE humans have done, even against Him, is the Eternal Godhead.
The Lord Jesus never once said or did anything harmful to me, that would prompt me to say I cannot trust Him. In fact, He has always kept His promises, and even when I have betrayed Him, and should have lost His trust in me, nevertheless, He continues to be at my side.
Why? Because He IS God (Deut. 32:39; 2Sam. 722; Is. 45:5). Because He IS trustworthy(Ps. 118:8). Because He IS faithful(2 Tim. 2:3; 2 Thess. 3:3). Because He IS forgiving (Num. 14:18; Ps. 99:8; 103:10-14; Matt. 6:14-15). Because He knows how weak and sinful mankind is, and how the enemy of our souls has used and abused us to fight against God AND each other, just to spite Him, all out of hatred.
I had to learn to trust again, even after I have not only been let down by others, but also myself. The Lord Jesus helped me to do that, to trust again- first and most importantly, in Him.
If you cannot seem to put your trust in anyone else for whatever reason, but also have not taken the time out to put your trust in the Lord God, do it now. “God is not a man that He should lie” (Num. 23:19); He truly IS the only One that can be fully trusted.
Be bold. Step out in FAITH and learn to finally put your TRUST in God.
Did not the Triune Godhead say He created the Heavens and the Earth(Gen. 1:1-31)?
Did He not repeat that again, that He made the Earth and created man upon it(Isaiah 42:12)?
In fact, were not ALL things created by the Eternal Triune Godhead, that is in Heaven, on Earth, and even those things which are INVISIBLE to the human eye (for now)(Col. 1:16)?
If the GOD Who created the vast universe that we see just a tiny portion of it at night, that the heavens itself, declare His glory (Ps. 19:1),
HE Who sits on the circle of the Earth (Is. 40:22), and HE Who is the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person (Heb. 1:3),
And Who put everything not only into order (1 Cor. 14:33), but lined it all up and measured it all out perfectly (Isaiah 40:12);
And Who also created the very human body and all that is associated with it (think of the DNA for a while—that itself will blow your mind),
Do you not think that He cannot take care of all that is going on in our world today? Do you honestly believe that He has forgotten us, as many have been crying and complaining about?
He has NOT forgotten about you, inhabitants of the Earth that He has called by name (Isaiah 44:21; 43:1)!
HE knows who are His (2 Tim. 2:19; Jn. 10:14).
Remember what His Word says; BELIEVE it and MEDITATE upon it—
“For the LORD will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance” (Ps. 94:14). “For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not His saints; they are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked SHALL BE CUT OFF” (Ps. 37:28).
Remember what the Lord Jesus said— “Have faith in God”(Mk. 11:22); He knows the Day and the Hour (Matt. 24:36) He needs to return.
We just have to be willing to wait patiently and be ready for His return, and do not give up, grow weary, or lose faith (Luke 18:1; Gal. 6:9).
“…Yes, I am coming soon…” (Rev. 22:20).
NOTHING is too hard for Him. NOTHING and NO ONE can stop what God has ordained (Is. 14:27). “Even from Eternity I AM He; And there is none who can deliver out of My Hand; I act and who can reverse it (Is. 43:13)?”
Walking in the Dark with Faith 