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LISTEN to the Voice and Teachings of the Holy Spirit!

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I did not expect this post to be this long when I initially was sharing this video, but when the Holy Spirit has something to say–I don’t hinder Him from “speaking” through me via these posts, so here you go…

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As the late great Dr. Michael Heiser stated, the early Church fathers knew the truth and TAUGHT it, yet somehow down through the centuries the traditions took over = the church leaders got sloppy with no longer properly exegeting biblical texts, in order to interpret them correctly according to CONTEXT.

FOR EXAMPLE, what is being spoken about in this very short video–
The erroneous notion of fallen angels being the demons is widely known, taught, and accepted within many Christian sects of the Body of Christ.

BUT–it is WRONG. Just because they taught it to you, doesn’t mean you blindly accept it. YES–the church leaders (whatever title they fall under–rabbi, priest, pastor, bishop, etc.) ARE and WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for NOT properly teaching the Word 📖of God–the WHOLE✡️📖✝️WORD of God–from GENESIS through REVELATION!!

BUT we who PROFESS to be Christians, are ALSO held equally responsible for reading and studying God’s Word on our OWN! Some church leasers down through the millennia, have discouraged reading the Bible because of how one may wrongly interpret the passages; other leaders used it to control their congregations (let’s be honest!), and only taught them what they wanted them to know!

📖If one looks at such verses as Luke 12:12, John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13, and pretty much all of the book of ACTS, one will see just how much the HOLY 🕊️SPIRIT was saying, teaching, and doing WITHIN the BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS of the Church after Christ’s resurrection and ascension into Heaven. It was and IS, HE that continues to teach and guide the person who confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior (Rom. 3:10,23; 10:9-10, 13), became a child of God (Jn. 1:12) and who received the Holy Spirit (Jn 20:22; Acts 1:8; 2:4, 33,38) in order to become BORN AGAIN (Jn. 3:3,5,7) SPIRIT-FILLED believers of God.

OH–and as far as “interpretations” and “versions” of the Bible that many people use as excuses to either NOT read or study, or say it all lends to confusion and division of the Body of Christ–you’re partially correct–the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41), along with those demonic entities that “roam about, seeking whom they may devour” (1 Peter 5:8) know that if you do NOT resist him in your FAITH (1 Peter 5:9), wearing the armor of God daily (Eph. 6:10-18), and USE the authority given to you the believer by the Lord Jesus Christ to tread on those demonic serpents (like the one in Genesis 3!) and scorpions (see Luke 10:19), you WILL be deceived into thinking that there are errors and contradictions in Scripture, and will end up NOT taking God’s 📖Word as TRUTH (Jn. 17:17; see also Ps. 119:9-11, 105). REMEMBER–God’s Word is “firmly fixed in the heavens” (Ps. 119:89).

SO– humbly learn His Word via HIS HOLY🕊️ SPIRIT (even if there was no one to teach you, as I had no one in my family or anyone good enough in my parishes as a child–so 1 John 2:27 came into play for me, until I sat under good biblical teaching many years later), learning to “rightly divide the Word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15), because as the Apostle Paul wrote, “All Scripture is breathed out (pneuma/ruach) by God and profitable for teaching, for REPROOF, for correction, and for TRAINING in RIGHTEOUSNESS, that the man/woman of God may be COMPLETE (perfect), equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

BECAUSE–IF one is NOT fully surrendered and wholeheartedly following the Lord Jesus Christ, confessing Him as Savior AND Lord of their lives, living that faith life out, and filled with the HOLY 🕊️SPIRIT–it is guaranteed and confirmed via SCRIPTURE that OTHER evil spirits (which are 👿DEMONS who NEED a human BODY in order to carry out their evil works!) ARE or WILL be in a human being–whether that person is a baby, child, teenager, or adult. To the demons, IT DOESN’T MATTER who they are in–as long as they can “steal, kill, and DESTROY” (Jn. 10:10) human beings in order to spite the LORD GOD and what He allowed His Son to do for us on the Cross–which IS the ONLY WAY back to the Father (Jn. 14:6).

Don’t believe me? LOOK 📖up what the LORD JESUS said when referring to evil spirits needing a “home” (= host human body) in Matthew 12:43-45 and Luke 11:24-26. The FACT that both MATTHEW and LUKE recorded it in their Gospels should make you realize how serious this is. It’s also interesting how the Lord Jesus says at the end of that passage, “SO ALSO WILL IT BE WITH THIS EVIL GENERATION” (Matt. 12:45). OH how true that is TODAY!! But much is covered up by calling such demonic infestations, vexations, oppression, obsessions, and possessions, “mental or behavioural health” issues…🙄😣🙁 Thank God for the few good exorcists and deliverance workers that are out there, recognizing the demonic workings in people, and are hard at work setting these people free from their 👿strongholds!🙏❤️✝️

📖IF one looks closely at Genesis 6:1-4, and with proper reading of the ancient languages (Hebrew, in this case, and Greek in the Septuagint), studying each word and putting the pieces of the Scriptural 📖🧩puzzle together along with other passages that speak of the rebellious angels and their OFFSPRING, the Nephilim, and also the Rephaim (just to name a few: Num 13:32-33; Deut. 1:4; Genesis 11 paired with Deut. 32:8 and Daniel 10; 2Peter 2:4 along with Jude 1:6 and 1 Corinthians 10:20-22), AND coupled with reading the ENTIRE Bible–WITH the help and guidance of the Holy🕊️Spirit, a diligent Bible student can and WILL start to see a very SPIRITUAL picture form within what initially can seem and feel like, a very shocking and unnerving discovery of what REALLY is, and always has been, in God’s Word that has NOT been taught by most modern Judeo-Christian synagogue/church leaders.

Some churches ignore the majority of the Old Testament, and only preach what is in the New Testament. By doing that, the lay church member has NO CLUE on the HISTORY of ISRAEL, for example, and how the LORD God commanded Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to lead their people to the Promised Land that GOD HIMSELF gave them! That’s like telling God that half of what He had His people share with us down through the ages was JUNK!😱🫢

Many church leaders think that books like 1 and 2 Maccabees and 1 Enoch have no spiritual weight to them, and discourage their congregations from reading or studying such books.
But if one were to go ahead and read those books, they would find a plethora of information on not only Israel’s history and leadership, especially dealing with the 400 years of “silence” between Malachi and Matthew, but also when it comes to the book of 1Enoch (NOTICE how I am mentioning 1 ENOCH–NOT 2nd or3rd), one would find passages in there VERBATIM to what was in Genesis 6!

And YET–the ignorance and shunning of such books continues throughout today’s modern, Western-thinking church services. Traditions of some churches have as the Lord Jesus put it, “You leave the commandments of God and hold to the TRADITIONS of men” (Mark 7:8). Elsewhere, answering the Pharisees again, Jesus stated, “…thus making VOID the Word📖of God by your tradition that YOU HANDED DOWN…”(Mk. 7:13).

Not all tradition is bad; some of it is very good. Paul tells us in such passages as 2 Thessalonians 3:6 to “keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and NOT IN ACCORD WITH THE TRADITION that you received from us.” What tradition is Paul talking about? The testimony he gave in 1 Corinthians 15, for example, how “Christ died for our sins IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES…” (1 Cor. 15:3).

KEEP asking the Holy 🕊️Spirit to OPEN your spiritual EYES, EARS, HEART and MIND, to learn and UNDERSTAND “what the Spirit is saying” (Rev. 2:7), by having “ears to hear” (Matthew 11:15) HIS VOICE over what man may be teaching or preaching in error. ASK for DISCERNMENT so that you can know the TRUTH, and avoid following the ERRORS that have been handed down to us.

THAT way, the Scriptures that seem like a daunting, billion-piece🧩🧩🧩 puzzle😖may then start to be put together piece by piece for you, with the help of the Holy Spirit leading and guiding you (Jn. 16:13) as you read and study God’s 📖Word–ALL of God’s Word.

THEN–one day, the Scriptures that seemed to be an enormous 🧩puzzle, no longer will be so confusing and intimidating to you, as you begin to RECOGNIZE the PICTURE😉that God painted on the tapestry of His Biblical LOVE Story that He longed to share with us. BUT–you MUST read ALL of it–OT and NT; you must learn to seek out WHICH apocryphal (like 1 and 2 Maccabees) and pseudepigraphal books (like 1Enoch) to read IN ADDITION to (and NOT substituting for) the entire Word ✡️📖✝️of God.

NOW go get your 📖Bible, pray up and ask the Holy 🕊️Spirit to lead and guide you in what you are about to read, and PUT more pieces of that🧩PUZZLE together! 😊🧩✡️📖✝️🕊️

Part Two of YT Video Uploaded!

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Here is the second part of the Scripture verses that I was sharing, relating to taking God at His Word.

Please take time out to watch it, and I hope you will subscribe to my channel if you have not already. Please also “like” and share the video if you feel led to.

Thank you so much in advance for watching, and joining me on my journey as I walk in the dark with FAITH!

Taking God At His Word Video, Part Two

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Here is the second video from my YT channel, discussing more Scripture verses that deal with how serious it is for us to learn to take God at His Word.

Please watch, like, subscribe and share!

There will be many more videos coming up that will help the viewer understand what God is saying in His Word, because they have learned to take it more seriously than in the past.

Believe me, you’ll need to trust Him and His Word now more than ever, in order to get through all of what is going on in this world today!

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CHOOSE, and CHOOSE WISELY, for the TIME is SHORT!

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These disgusting, vile evil 👿ones have but ONE job – to steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10) ANY human beings as possible, BEFORE the Time of the ⚖️Judgement.

They will deceive you 💥any which 💥way they can. They know you better than you know yourself. They know what “buttons” to push, they know what to put in 🫣front of you (😈Eyegates;😈EARgates) in order for you to get locked on and pulled in.

AS His Servant who is commissioned to INFORM and WARN as my brothers and sisters before me have done, I am not at liberty to tell you the entire reason why the Lord has allowed a certain “few” of these fallen angels and their offspring – the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, otherwise known as the demons— to remain here on earth until the time of His ⚡️☄️💥🔥Wrath and ⚖️JUDGMENT(nor do I know all of those reasons); most of it you would not even want to believe; but I can tell you this much:

✨❤️We humans who were created out of PURE ✨❤️LOVE by Adonai Elohim Tseva’ot 📖(Gen. 1:26-27) have been caught up in the middle of a ✨spiritual 🛡️⚔️war 🗡️that began several millennia ago.

The ones who were (and still are) mainly involved, were the LORD God Most High and his FIRST set of creative beings, which were the ANGELS (also called “sons of God” and “morning stars” (Gen. 6:1-4; Job 38:7), who not only watched Him create everything and rejoiced over it, but were ALSO to be the “ministers of righteousness (2Cor. 11:15)” and “ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation “( Heb. 1:14).

THOSE SONS OF THE MOST HIGH WHO REBELLED, ARE (some of) THE ONES WHO already have been CHAINED UP in darkness UNTIL ⚖️the JUDGEMENT (2Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6), and again, SOME by the LORD’S wisdom and HIS purposes, have REMAINED HERE 🌎on EARTH, for our TESTING, to see just WHO HUMANITY would ✨CHOOSE ✨and follow after—

1). Either The MOST HIGH ✡️GOD-El Elyon, El Gibbor, HIS ✝️SON, the Lord Jesus Christ -Yeshua HaMashiach-Who would be their LORD, ✝️SAVIOR, MASTER, and 👑KING, and His ETERNAL 📖WORD, having the Ruach 🕊️HaKodesh DWELL✨ WITHIN ✨them, as adopted sons of the Most High (Jn. 1:12; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 3:26; Eph. 1:5;), giving them power, strength, wisdom, discernment and authority over ALL the evil (Lk. 10:19; Eph. 6:10-18); as it is written 📖, “FOR as many as are LEAD by the 🕊️SPIRIT 🕊️OF ✡️GOD✝️, they are the SONS of God”(Rom. 8:14).

Once we truly and WHOLEHEARTEDLY become ✡️the LORD God’s sons and daughters, and ✨live ✨daily by His 📖Word, being protected by the BLOOD 🩸 of the Lord ✝️Jesus, and having the Holy 🕊️Spirit dwell within us, the devil and his angels can try to still tempt us, but they can NEVER AGAIN steal, kill, or destroy our eternal souls!🙏❤️📖🕊️

OR—-

2). Those sons of God who rebelled, and turned themselves into ALL (and I do mean ALL!!) of the different gods of this 🌎world —to ENTICE those humans to fall and worship THEM,

Just like they tried to do to THE ✝️Son of God when even HE HIMSELF was tempted in the wilderness (Matt. 4:1-11);

🙏The LORD God the Father, hoping that those humans would follow in the footsteps of His Son, telling those evil ones, “Away from me, Satan! For it is 📖written, Worship the LORD your God and SERVE HIM ONLY”(Matt. 4:10).

📋The main rules of this ONGOING SPIRITUAL 🛡️⚔️WAR which humans should basically be made aware of, ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1). If one is enticed by the evil, any way that the evil ones can trap them, and can convince them to STAY that way, no matter how much or little they agree to do of the evil—even if it’s just “dabbling” in it, and/or celebrating certain pagan festivals such as Samhain/Halloween, WITHOUT REPENTING for it before the end of their days on Earth—

the recompense of God will be that they lose their eternal soul at the end of their lives for CHOOSING TO REMAIN SINFUL AND NOT REPENTING of their sins, and at the ⚖️Judgment (Rev. 20:11-15), they will be placed into the same 🔥eternal 🔥fires that the ✡️MOST ✝️HIGH 🕊️GOD has prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41).

2). IF the person truly DOES WANT OUT OF THAT LIFESTYLE, no matter how much or how little they got themselves involved,

AND —that individual 😭🙏REPENTS for ALL that they said or did while engaging in those pagan and demonic practices that are clearly written in📖God’s Word to be an abomination to Him (Deut. 12:2-4, 29-32; 18:9-12; 22:5; Ex20:2-5; 1Ki. 11:10; Lev. 18:24-30; Rom. 1; 1 Cor.; Eph. 4:17-19; 1Pet. 4:3)

IF they REPENT and RECANT their allegiance to the satan and all other gods they have followed and/r paid homage to by celebrating such pagan and godless practices;

AND that individual CALLS UPON THE NE OF THE LORD TO BE SAVED (Joel 2:32;Rom. 10:9-10, 13), and DECLARES the Lord Jesus Christ to be their SAVIOR AND LORD of their lives, forsaking ALL OTHER GODS—

THEN, and ONLY then, will the HOLY 🕊️SPIRIT, Who is the THIRD PERSON of the ✡️Triune 📖✝️Godhead🕊️, come INTO THEM and DWELL with them (Jn. 3:3,5,7; 1Cor. 3:16; 6:19), to lead and guide that individual, and make them into a “holy temple” , conforming them “into the image of His Son” (Roman. 8:29), so that they WILL BE ABLE TO enter into the Celestial Kingdom of the MOST HIGH GOD and HIS SON, at the Time of the End of Days(Rev.20-22).

That person will THEN hear those words, “Well done” (Matt. 25:21,23; Lk. 19:17), instead of hearing those 😖awful words NO human 😭ever wants to hear—

“DEPART FROM ME, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41).

BUT—and this is a MUST!!!—-

💥The ✨CHOICE ✨MUST ✨BE UP TO THE HUMANS THEMSELVES. 💥

NO EVIL SPIRIT, FALLEN ANGEL, or DEMON can FORCE THEM to STAY;

NEITHER CAN THE LORD GOD HIMSELF FORCE ANYONE TO LOVE HIM AND HIS SON.

💥The individual MUST come WILLINGLY to EITHER SIDE—💥

And at the ✨End of 📖Days✨, the individual’s CHOICES 💥WILL DETERMINE💥 where they end up, as it is 📖written,

“BY YOUR WORDS you willl be JUSTIFIED, and BY YOUR WORDS you will be CONDEMNED” (Matt.12:37).

The LORD GOD MOST HIGH does NOT “put” anyone into those 🔥eternal 🔥fires;

THE HUMAN BEING CHOOSES TO GO TO 🌈EITHER ✨❤️ETERNAL ✨✝️DESTINATION 🔥THEMSELVES🔥—BY THE CHOICES THEY MAKE IN THIS LIFE.

🙏Once again, beloved—I BEG YOU, please, CHOOSE WISELY ✝️who 👿you SERVE in THIS life here 🌎on Earth, for it WILL determine WHERE you spend your ✝️✨🌈ETERNAL ☄️💥🔥LIFE.

Does Not the LORD GOD desire for ALL To Be Saved, and None to Perish? YES!

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Sometimes I feel like the Apostle Paul, with how long these posts are getting–like I am writing a letter, begging the people to listen and consider to have the Lord in their lives, as he did to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Galatians, etc.

I apologize that it is so long, but when the Holy Spirit SPEAKS through me, I cannot limit Him to a certain amount of words. I let Him speak, because I too, realize more and more, how SHORT our Time here on Earth is, and where the increasing evil is taking us to–the time of the Anti-Christ, and the horrible times that the Word of God speaks about in Daniel, the Gospels, Joel, and especially, Revelation, just to name a few books about the Great Tribulation period at the end of Days. So here it is…

What I can I say, that I have not yet said, when it comes to looking at ourselves, and being RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE for our own words and actions?

I included several verses from Chapter 18 of Ezekiel in the pictures that this devotional speaks on today, besides verse 31.

I am also going to try and help EXPLAIN what it means to go from a heart of STONE (sin) to a heart of FLESH = pliable, having ears that are WILLING to “hear what the Spirit has to say” (Ez. 3:27; Matt. 11:15; Mk. 4:9, Lk 8:8; Rev. 13:9).

It is imperative that we as created beings who are sinners, realize that we must REPENT (Ps. 7:12; Jer. 5:3; Ez. 14:6; 18:30; Matt. 3:2; 4:17; 11:20; Mk. 1:15; Lu. 13:3; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30; Rev. 2:16; 2:21) for those sins; and IF we do, the LORD God WILL forgive us. He did not allow His Son to suffer through so much pain and go to the Cross, taking upon Himself OUR sins, for nothing.

But humans must ACKNOWLEDGE their sins, and RID themselves of them–“cast away from you ALL the transgressions that YOU have committed…” (vs 31) What will happen IF and WHEN we REPENT of those sins? Will the LORD truly forgive us? Will He seriously save us from those eternal Fires?

YES–because His Word is true (Ps. 18:30) and just–LOOK at what it says at the last part of that same verse (31):

“…and make for yourselves a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT…”–
🤔Gee, where did we see similar verses like that before?

Ezekiel 36:26 states (and the LORD GOD is speaking here), “And I WILL GIVE YOU a NEW HEART, and a NEW SPIRIT I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of STONE (unforgiveness, resentment, bitterness, anger, hatred = sin) from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU…(vs 27)”

Let’s jump over to the NT in the Gospel of John, when the Lord Jesus was speaking with Nicodemus about the new birth, in verses 3-8, concentrating on verses 3,5, and 7-I’ll put those three verses here:

“Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, UNLESS one is BORN AGAIN he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (vs. 3).

“Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of WATER (baptism) and the SPIRIT (confession of sins = REPENTENCE, calling upon the name of the LORD to be SAVED -Joel 2:32, Rom. 10:13), he CANNOT ENTER the Kingdom of God” (vs. 5).

“Do NOT marvel that I said to you, ‘You MUST be BORN AGAIN’ “(vs. 7).

It is the SPIRIT OF MAN that was “connected” to the LORD GOD when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, BEFORE they sinned, and could have COMMUNION with the Most High–seeing Him, speaking to Him, etc. There was NO SIN separating man from God at that point. Mankind is MADE IN THE IMAGE of GOD (Gen. 1:26-27); we are essentially (and in THIS ORDER!) SPIRIT (an eternal being that NEVER DIES), SOUL (our minds, will, and intellect), and FLESH (the covering that encases our spirit and souls, and meshes with and protects the vital organs, muscles, nerves, bones, etc.).

The problem is, ONCE Adam and Eve SINNED, that broke that SPIRITUAL “connection” and “fellowship” with the LORD GOD (who I will TELL YOU–whether you believe it or not, that’s up to you), who was JESUS HIMSELF as a CHRISTOPHANY (because they could see Him, and speak with Him), while they were IN the Garden of Eden with Him. The Lord had no choice but to drive them out of the Garden of Eden because of their sins, breaking that spiritual bond with Him, and also–He did NOT want them to take of the Tree of LIFE, eat that fruit, and then eternally have no opportunity for redemption and salvation (which Genesis 3:15 hints to us that the LORD God already had a plan in the works for that).

The Lord Jesus provided a WAY for us to have that “spiritual connection” “repaired” or “re-established” in us humans, by allowing US to have FREE WILL CHOICE (just like the sons of God and Adam and Eve had) to either ACCEPT or REJECT Him and His Word (remember–the Lord ✝️Jesus IS THE LITERAL WORD 📖OF GOD!). Hence the term in John 3:3, 7 where the Lord Jesus states, “born AGAIN”. The “connection” to the Spirit of God that was no longer there in us humans due TO the sins mankind committed at the Fall, COULD BE “reconnected” or BORN AGAIN within a person BECAUSE that person CHOOSES LIFE in the Lord Jesus = GOD=that selfsame SPIRIT of GOD (see 1 Cor. 12; 2Cor. 3:18), Who then LIVES WITHIN the human spirit, soul, and body, and LEADS and GUIDES them, as LONG as they WHOLEHEARTEDLY accept the Lord as both SAVIOR and LORD of their lives. The Holy Spirit will then RULE over THEIR human spirit, and teach, lead, correct, chastise, rebuke (lovingly!), comfort, encourage, etc. them for the rest of their days here on Earth.

You are not part of a certain “church group” with that term–EVERY PERSON WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD AND HIS SON FOR SALVATION, REDEMPTION, AND DELIVERANCE (also very important–to get rid of any and all demonic interference and infestations the person allowed IN their lives!) THEN WILL HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT DWELLING IN THEM!!! GET IT OUT OF YOUR SKULLS, PEOPLE–YOUR DENOMINATIONS WILL NOT SAVE YOU–ONLY THE LORD GOD AND HIS SON WILL!! I WILL NOT HAVE JUST ONE “DENOMINATION” OVER ANOTHER–I HAVE NO DENOMINATIONS IN HEAVEN–THERE IS BUT THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, WITH ALL THE HOLY ANGELS, CREATURES, AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB ON THEM, WHO ARE PART OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND WHO HAVE BEEN GRAFTED INTO THE COVENANT I MADE WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB!

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️OH–IF YOU HATE MY PEOPLE, YOU HATE ME, AND I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. YOU WILL FIND YOURSELVES IN THE ETERNAL FIRES, WAILING AND GNASHING YOUR TEETH, FOR YOU WERE NOT PART OF THE TRUE INHERITANCE THAT I CHOSE FOR MYSELF, WHICH IS ISRAEL! MY DELIVERER–YESHUA–WHO IS ONE WITH ME (see Jn. 17:21,23; Eph. 4:4-6) CAME OUT OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, WHO HAD ISAAC, WHICH PRODUCED JACOB–WHO IS ISRAEL!! 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

🙏📖For ALL that would say something like, “Lord Jesus, I am a sinner; I know that I have said and done things that I am ashamed of. I ask You and the Father, and the Holy Spirit, to please FORGIVE ME of ALL my sins, and I ask You to CLEANSE and WASH me clean, with the water of Your Word, which I promise that I will learn to read, study, trust and OBEY, with Your help. PLEASE ALLOW the HOLY🕊️ SPIRIT to come INTO me, as it says in Your Word that He will (Jn. 3:5, 14:26, 16:13), and let Him LEAD, GUIDE, and TEACH me all that You want me to know. Bring to my remembrance ALL those things in Your 📖WORD, that I should be doing, so that I NO LONGER CHOOSE TO SIN. If I do make a mistake and sin, I know that I can come to YOU, and the Word says that “If we CONFESS our sins (as true children of God), He is FAITHFUL and JUST to FORGIVE us our sins, and to CLEANSE us (with again, the water of His WORD) from ALL unrighteousness” (1 Jn. 1:9). I know Lord, that even though man has many ways of trying to teach who YOU are, YOU ALONE can do the job (1Jn. 2:27) if I cannot find worthy Spirit-filled, Bible-believing teachers and pastors–YOU ALONE can teach me as You taught Ezekiel, Elijah, Jeremiah, and even Abraham, David, Moses, etc. I have NO EXCUSE but to come to YOU, and allow YOU to lead and guide me in my daily FAITH walk here on Earth, until the Day You call me Home to be with You. I ask You to please accept me as not only Your child, but Your servant, to do the work that YOU, LORD God my Father, Lord Jesus-my Lord, Savior, Master, and KING-and Holy Spirit, Who is ONE with the Father and the Son–allow me to live the rest of my days out WHOLEHEARTEDLY SERVING YOU, in whatever capacity You desire me to. I thank You for SAVING MY ETERNAL LIFE–for without You, and what You done on the Cross for me, Lord Jesus, I would not have any chance for Eternal life in Your Presence; I would deserve to be with all those who have rejected You, and will find themselves unfortunately, in the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:11-15), for that is their just judgment that THEY CHOSE for themselves, by rejecting their God and King. I ask You to SAVE ME, and bring me into Your eternal family of God, and I THANK YOU for the MERCY and GRACE You already have shown me. I pray all of this in YOUR NAME, Lord Jesus–Amen.”

Beloved, CAST AWAY THOSE TRANSGRESSIONS AND SINS–NOW, while the “wood is (still) green” (Lk. 23:31), and the MERCY and GRACE of God is still WITH us, during this Time and Dispensation of His Grace–CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS TODAY.

This day may not even END, because He can call us children HOME at any moment, for “No one knows the Day or the Hour” (Matt. 24:36). For those who DO NOT choose the Lord God, or His Son Jesus in their lives–they DO NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT in them; but they have ANOTHER SPIRIT–the spirit of ANTICHRIST, which “already has come into this world” (1John 4:3).

****Those who are NOT HIS–the Lord’s–are RULED BY THE EVIL SPIRITS–the REBELLIOUS sons of God and their offspring–demons, disembodied spirits. They have NO ETERNAL LIFE in them, but ONLY ETERNAL DEATH. They have LEGAL GROUND to be in a human being who REJECTS CHRIST. Once a person’s breath is NO LONGER in them, and if they were NOT the Lord’s, they IMMEDIATELY are transported to the PIT of Sheol–the section which is overflowing with all those who have REJECTED the LORD God and His Son. They will be judged accordingly, at the White Throne Judgment (Rev. 20:11-15). Hebrews 9:27 tells us plainly: “And just as it is appointed for man to die ONCE (no reincarnation!!), and AFTER that comes JUDGMENT…”

If YOU know that you need to CONFESS your sins, do it NOW–TODAY. We are NOT promised yet another MINUTE here. ALL those who have decided to transgress themselves, and CHOOSE to NOT have the Triune Godhead in their lives, nor have His HOLY SPIRIT DWELL within them, The LORD God will allow them to choose for THEMSELVES, their ETERNAL destination, and He WILL recompense back on THEIR heads, ALL the evil that they have done, as they wail and gnash their teeth (Matt. 8:12; 13:50; 24:51; Luke 13:28).

🙏Beloved, I beg you, CHOOSE THE ✡️LORD GOD, His ✝️Son, and His 📖Word, and then you will have chosen ETERNAL LIFE with Him, and receive the HOLY 🕊️SPIRIT Who will guide you to that Eternal life with Him, when That Day comes.
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From today’s Days of Praise devotionals:
February 8, 2024
Cast Away Your Transgressions
“Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” (Ezekiel 18:31)

Ezekiel likely penned this call to repentance in 592 BC, six years before the fall of Jerusalem (please get that–he was INFORMING and WARNING “before” the fall!). He hoped that Israel would turn from their transgressions and seek God. Chapter 19 begins with “Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel” and references the past and future fates of evil kings of Judah—Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin, and the present king, Zedekiah. What are the implications of Ezekiel’s call to action and warning for today?

🌟One, we are responsible for our own sins, and the consequence of sin is death (Romans 5:12). But “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” and become a new creature (Romans 10:13; 2 Corinthians 5:17). God is faithful and just to forgive believers if we confess and repent of our sins (1 John 1:9).

🌟Two, leaders are responsible for where and how they lead their followers. The kings of Judah led their people into rebellion, and they suffered God’s judgment. Believers must not let themselves become victims of “grievous wolves” who would lead them into sin (James 3:1-2; Acts 20:29). Paul warns, “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them” (Ephesians 5:6-7).

🌟Three, if we “cast away” our transgressions, God offers hope and salvation. This is available not only to the house of Israel but to everyone through Jesus Christ. Through Him, we can be “born again” (John 3:3) and be given “a new heart and a new spirit.” How will you heed Ezekiel’s sober but encouraging plea? CCM

Walk Worthy of the Calling by Being Obedient

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During one of my courses this past year while obtaining my Master’s degree, I had to choose a passage to write a paper on, and I was led by the Spirit to choose Ephesians 4:1-6.

I had to take it apart, line by line, and exegete it, explaining what Paul was truly saying in the original Greek language.

The first three verses seem to tell a message of how we are to grow in Christ, within the calling that the Lord placed on us (myself, it is in the office of a Prophet and to fight against the demonic in Spiritual Warfare), letting those virtues take hold of us, as we “let go” of ourselves more and more, to be conformed to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:29-30).

The next three verses, 4-6, is the KEY to allowing the Lord to do is work within each of us—Paul reminding us that there is ONE (εις) Spirit, that is, the HOLY SPIRIT of God, which enters into each “born again” believer of Christ (Jn. 3:3,5,7), once they truly become His child through faith in Him (Jn. 1:12).

We have that ONE HOPE that keeps us moving forward in our faith (vs. 4),

Along with knowing there is ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, and ONE BAPTISM—not several thousand splinters of beliefs that they enemy of our souls managed to deceive us to do within the Church Body;

Because there is only ONE GOD and FATHER of us ALL (vs. 6), who is the Father of Spirits (Heb. 12:9), to Whom One Day, we ALL must appear before and give an account of ourselves (2 Cor. 5:10) at the Judgment, and how we used the gifts, talents, skills and abilities that He gave unto each of us.

If we choose to HONOR the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in this short time here on Earth, He faithfully promises to reward us at the End of Days, as long as we serve Him with the right heart and mindset (Col. 3:23-34), and by not losing heart and growing weary (Gal. 6:9), while striving to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2:3).

Remember, the Lord CALLED us to be HIS servants. Servants OBEY the Master.

The LORD is the Captain of the Host—we are part of His Holy Army, as are the angels that serve Him.

He IS the ONE God and Father of us ALL—both the angelic and the human spirits—Who is OVER all and THROUGH all and-don’t forget this child of God-IN all (vs. 6).

HANG ON—He WILL Return!

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DO NOT give up!!

The Lord WILL fulfill all His promises!!

STAY the COURSE!!

FIGHT the good fight of FAITH!

PRAY and LIVE OUT His Word daily!

SHARE this HOPE with others!

Mankind Has Ceased to Do Good, Thinking God Will Not See The Sins They Commit

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As I am going through the “Lauds” section of prayer today, I was reading this and it sounds just like mankind of today (and pretty much of what Psalm 14:1 echos as well).

It is amazing how BLIND humans are, even those who profess to know God and His Son (Luke 7:21) ; how much evil we allow into our lives, and just ignore it, or think those little vices and sins mean nothing to the LORD…

If sin was not an issue to the LORD God, mankind can live whatever way he would please to, and the LORD would not convict and sentence man to an eternal damnation. Why also then, would He have sent His Son Jesus (Yeshua), to the Earth, taken away from the eternal glory He already had with His Father from the Beginning (Jn. 1:1-4, 14; Colossians 1:13-20) only to be disrespected, rejected, and treated like dirt, even being MURDERED by mankind, if sin wasn’t something that stood in the way of having a relationship with the LORD Most High?

Even the angels who sinned, would have “gotten away” with all of what they have done–Lucifer (Is. 14:12), Samjaza, Artaqifa, Armen, Kokabel, Turael, Azazel, and all the others who rebelled against the Most High (see 1Enoch Chapters 6-8; 15; 66 and also Gen. 3 and 6:1-5), and did abominable acts like deceiving and lying to Adam and Eve, but also procreating with human women, making to themselves offspring who end up being even worse than they were, being half-breeds and beasts who some still now roam the earth (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6); to get themselves not only removed from the Divine Council (Ps. 82:1; Deut. 32:8-9), but forever sentenced to the eternal flames come the Time of Judgment (Ps. 82:6-7; Rev. 20:10-15.

The LORD GOD has a way of allowing man the gift of “free will”–to CHOOSE who he will serve–either those evil ones who have “gifted” to mankind things those rebellious sons of God never should have shared with them, in exchange for their souls, making war, spilling blood, doing more abominable acts than ever before-only to lead to both the angels and the humans’ entrance into the eternal fires–
OR–

Choosing to humble themselves before Him, repenting of their sins and transgressions, accepting the free GIFT of ETERNAL LIFE through His Son Yeshua HaMaschiach, Who suffered, died and rose again, in fulfillment of the Scriptures, in order THAT mankind would have a way back to the Father, and a spiritual REBIRTH (Jn. 3:3, 5, 7) that was lost at the Fall of mankind.

WHICH one will YOU choose?

Will you be like those sons of God who had EVERYTHING — they not only were created like we were, but SAW the Most High, LIVED in GLORY with Him, felt the LOVE and JOY of being with the Triune Godhead–and then gave it all up, and for what? To SIN, only to end up in the eternal flames??🔥🔥🔥🔥

WE have that opportunity to live in ETERNAL GLORY with the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, IF we choose wisely to TRUST and OBEY in His WORD–ALL of it, even if we do not understand it al right now. ALL He wants from us, is to TRUST and OBEY, and LIVE out the life He chose for each one of us.

🙏I pray that you think long and hard on this, because SOON, and VERY soon, That Day WILL come, when the LORD God will have to FINISH what He started here (Is. 24:21-22; Jer. 30:7-8; 46:10; Ez. 30:3-4; Joel 1:15; 3:12-14; Zephaniah 3: 11-13; Rom. 2:16; Matt. 7:22-23; 24:30-31; Jn. 12:48; Rev. 20:8-9). PLEASE do not give in to the desires of the flesh, the world, and the lies that the angels who sinned, and their offspring–the demons–deceive the whole world with!! You WILL end up in the same fires as they, for they ALSO will be judged(2Pet.2:4)!!

CHOOSE LIFE, by choosing to be a child of the ✡MOST HIGH GOD-Adonai Elohim Tz’vaot, and ✝YESHUA, His Son, and by accepting Him into your life, you will then have 🕊RUACH HaKODESH-the HOLY SPIRIT–🔥📖LIVE within you, leading and guiding you TO eternal life, as long as you TRUST Him with ALL your heart, and lean NOT to your OWN understanding (Prov. 3:5-6), as those rebellious sons of the Most High did, and transgressed before the LORD God, and lost all their positions in glory with Him, and are sentenced to an eternal Hellfire.

I put the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin here along with the English, so that you can clearly see it is written in the ancient languages. I use Blue Letter Bible to study these languages, and you would do well to utilize them or Logos for your Bible and ancient biblical language word studies.

📖Psalm 31:1
Susúrrat iníquitas ad ímpium in médio cordis eius;*
non est timor Dei ante óculos eius.

N’oom pesha larasha bekerev libi eyn pachad Elohim leneged eynav.

εἰς τὸ τέλος τῷ δούλῳ κυρίου τῷ Δαυιδ (35:2) φησὶν ὁ παράνομος τοῦ ἁμαρτάνειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν φόβος θεοῦ ἀπέναντι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ

Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart;
there is no fear of God before his eyes.

📖Vs. 2:
Quóniam blandítur ipsi in conspéctu eius,*
ut non invéniat iniquitátem suam et óderit.

Ki hechelik elav be’eyanav limtzo avono lisno.

ὅτι ἐδόλωσεν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ τοῦ εὑρεῖν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ μισῆσαι

For he flatters himself in his own eyes
that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

📖Vs. 3:
Verba oris eius iníquitas et dolus*
désiit intellégere, ut bene ágeret.

Divreyfiv aven oomirma chadal lehaskil leheytiv.

τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἀνομία καὶ δόλος οὐκ ἐβουλήθη συνιέναι τοῦ ἀγαθῦναι

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit;
he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Wretched Sinner Called Holy by the LORD

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I was up sometime after 12:45am, and could not go back to sleep. So I did what I normally do–talk to Abba about anything and everything.

One of the obvious subjects was family–how especially after the events of the past week, I felt more ostracized than ever, not even getting a phone call to let me be part of birthday celebrations and to see my grandson. I’ve asked the LORD to forgive me countless times, just in case there was something I missed. It has been almost a year that this estrangement has been going on without any improvement, and yes, although I know it is also the work of the unseen evil ones, us humans have a lot to answer for at the Judgment of how we treated one another.

So as I sat there crying, the Spirit said to me, “Do you not realize that the more holy and obedient you have become, the further people have distanced themselves from you? It is a natural occurrence, especially in the light of your improved faith walk.”

😳Holy?? I immediately said, “LORD, I am not that holy of a person, especially 🙄with my mouth–not that it’s bad, but I know you don’t like certain words I say. I do not consider myself to be “holy”, but a wretched sinner who is saved by Yeshua HaMaschiach, my Lord and my King.”

The Spirit said, “The light that has emanated from you since your improved faith walk with Me, has gotten brighter; to a point where now that when your light shines, it makes them look away, because they do not like the brightness that ends up exposing their own sins. Hence their distancing themselves from you, to the point where they would rather be walking around in utter darkness rather than having the Light on them.”

“Also, you remember what was said about this time–about the coldness of men’s hearts and how they would be.”

“Yes–Matthew 24:12–“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” “That’s exactly what has happened, and I know not only to myself, but to so many others of my brothers and sisters. It’s just a horrible feeling of loss.”

“What is funny is that you, Daughter, consider others holy (like St. John Vianney, the prophets, other Christians down the centuries, etc.), yet do you not think they struggled in their sins as well? They sure did. I said in My Word, “Be holy as I am holy”–you are doing so by following Me and My Word. That is all I ask.”

“So then, LORD, I hope that our lights shine even brighter, as the world gets darker and darker with this evil. Just like I see more stars, the darker the night becomes.”

As sinful as we all are, the LORD God sees us as He called us to be–a holy people, yet having to discipline ourselves constantly (although it does get a little easier 😊 as time goes on) to make sure we stay on that Path He called us to, because after all, isn’t He worth it? After all He has done for us–even to the point of sacrificing His Son for us–should we not make a concerted effort to live out holy lives for Him, to “let your lights shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father Who is in Heaven”? (Matt. 5:16) He most certainly IS worth it.

I may still feel weird (even by the LORD calling me “holy”) being called “holy”, but I understand that’s just because I still see myself as I was years ago. One of the last things He said to me very early this morning was, “That is the way you WERE; you are no longer that person.”🥰 He sees me for who I am NOW in Christ. A sinner, yes, yet one who recognized the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Someone who I could never want to live without. 💖✡📖✝🕊💖

Let The HOLY SPIRT Lead and Guide You Each and Every Day Through HIS WORD

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This has been on my heart for some time. When I saw today’s “Daily Verse” on The Catholic Company’s devotional today (of all places!) the Spirit inside of me decided today was the day to speak about a certain issue that I noticed in the Church, specifically, the Roman Catholic Church, and the more specifically, the Latin (Extraordinary) form of the Mass.

Now, before you start raising eyebrows and want to silence me (because 🙄that’s what normally happens), HEAR what the HOLY SPIRIT has to say about this part of worship in HIS Holy Scriptures.

Yes—this is a “Holy Spirit” rant within me, and I am going to let Him say whatever He wants to say, because honestly, the TIME is SHORT, and God’s people are in such a mess spiritually and Scripturally, that only the grace and mercy of God is keeping us ALL (and I do mean ALL!) from eternal perdition at this point (“as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one…”—Rom. 3:10; see also Rom. 3:20,23)

The ONE main problem I have encountered as a Catholic growing up, and now again as a revert, is how most of the the faithful church goers do NOT read their Bibles. Church history teaches that the laity were not taught to read and study the Word of God. Hence they do not know the very verses I just copied from Scripture on the image (notice the man’s outstretched😉hands?😏)I purposely chose.

So certain authoritarian figures of the Church down through the millennia, made decisions on what the celebrant can do, and what the laity can and cannot do, without paying mind to what the LORD GOD said WE can do, in His Word.

This has been the crux of the problem with the hierarchy of the Church almost since the beginning.

“Man’s interpretation”—I’ve 🙄heard that until my ears have almost bled, yet the very ones that say that, know very little themselves what is IN the Holy Scriptures!

It🤔seems like every human being that desired to follow the LORD God, accepted Jesus Christ as (or at least😕should have)BOTH Savior AND Lord of their lives, FORGOT what the Lord Jesus said was to happen when a person truly becomes a child of the Most High, the LIVING God: the Holy Spirit (Jn. 3:3,5,7) comes INTO that person, ONLY because that person made a DECISION (if it was a true and certain one!) to accept the Lord Jesus, and then the Holy Spirit DWELLS IN that person (Jn. 14:16-17; 16:13-14; Rom. 8:9;
1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Tim. 1:14).

There’s no hard saying here enough to confuse anyone—it’s simple enough to understand that because of Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension, and then sending the Holy Spirit on Pentecost to the disciples (Acts 1:5, 8; 2:1-4), that was appointed time HE was to LIVE IN us! The Lord Jesus not only made it so, but He told us BEFORE He even did it(Jn. 14:16-17; 15:26; 16:7-11).

And if there is one thing that has irritated me more than most other things pertaining to the faithful—that I, even I as a wretched sinner saved by the grace and mercy of God, yet I must “occupy” (Lk 19:13) until the Lord Jesus comes back, and “endure to the end” (Matt. 24:13) in order to be saved and counted as one of the righteous—is that many who profess faith in the Lord Jesus, have forgotten that it is the HOLY SPIRIT Who (notice the capital “W”??) is to LEAD and GUIDE us, teaching us these very things that are in Scripture, bringing them to our MEMORY (Jn. 14:26), so that we would not end up making all these exegetical and hermeneutical errors in Scripture?? But it is like no one even BELIEVES that the Holy Spirit, the THIRD PERSON in the TRIUNE GODHEAD, even DWELLS in them!!

From the top down when it comes to ecclesiastical hierarchy, from whatever “branch” of Christianity one hails from (there never was supposed to be all these splits in the Church!), EVERY person, no matter what title they took for themselves, or someone gave them, WILL be held responsible and accountable for NOT teaching the faithful the REAL hermeneutical and exegetical Holy Spirit-inspired teachings of Holy Scripture!! The LORD God never meant for man to just “figure it out” on his own—THAT is exactly why the Holy Spirit was to LIVE IN each and every true child of the LIVING God who “called upon the name of the Lord to be saved (Rom. 10:13; Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21)”. The problem is, most human spirits, even those who call themselves believers of God, do not HUMBLE themselves enough to even trust the LORD God that He WOULD carry out His Word, and dwell with them 24/7.

If a person who professes to know the LORD God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit, thought about that enough each and every day, that they actually HAVE the LIVING HOLY GOD dwelling INSIDE of them, they (we!) would all most likely watch more what we would think, do, and say. Maybe, just maybe, IF we “had ears to hear” what the Spirit said to us (Rev. 2:11,17; 3:6,13, 22), and actually paid ATTENTION to HIS interpretation of Scripture, instead of what we all “think” it means, we would not have split up thousands of times, and had so many different Christian sects out there in the world, to further confuse those who know not the LORD, and also drive them farther away from ever wanting to have a relationship with Him. 🤨😣😞

So what did this all have to do with my pointing out the earlier verses about “lifting holy hands” and “singing” and “dancing” -especially within the temple of the LORD?

WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD (1 Cor. 3:16-17,19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21). WE are commanded to PRAISE Him, WORSHIP Him, give Him thanks and LIFT UP our holy hands to Him in both worship and when we pray. The early church, and even those worshippers in the Old Testament did not seem to have issues like we have now—who’s raising their hands in church, who’s folding their hands a certain way, who’s singing louder or who’s NOT singing, who’s dancing in the aisles, who’s praying in a certain ecclesiastical language (Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, Greek) in church—or not; who’s better than who because they go to a certain church and sing certain songs, whether an organ is playing, or someone plays a guitar, or NO instruments are “allowed” to be played (like some of the Amish, for example), but only singing is permitted, etc. WHO made up all these extra “rules”?? WHERE are they in Scripture?? And WHO (hint-I know it is demonic-a fiery dart🤨) started all the arguments about NOT reading the Bible because we may not be able to understand it all, so it was better for only CERTAIN people of the clergy to read it TO us, and explain it??

THIS is the reason why man’s so-called “Christian witness” to the unsaved and unregenerate looks so hypocritical! Because almost ALL believers in Christ were not trained by their clergymen (who they themselves NO longer were LISTENING!) to HEAR what the Spirit says—so how can anyone who is under the authority of such men of God, ever possibly KNOW such things in Scripture, if they are not taught them? And how is a person of God to GROW and MATURE in their spirit man, ALSO knowing how to fight the very enemy of our souls—the one who desires to see mankind FAIL miserably, and end up in the same eternal fire as they are destined to be in? HOW does one solve all these problems, and many more (individual, marital, family, church, social, global)? One who truly has the Spirit of the LIVING God inside of them would not get all flustered about people lifting up their hands in church to pray or praise God, because they would already know that Scripturally, it is permitted, and God is pleased with such that praise Him, whether they desire to lift their hands in the sanctuary, or not. The important point of it is—they ARE to pray to Him, and also praise and glorify Him!

DO what the WORD OF GOD tells you to do. “How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD. With my WHOLE HEART I seek You; let me not wander from YOUR (not man’s!) commandments! I have stored up YOUR WORD in my heart, that I might not sin against You. Blessed are You, O LORD; TEACH me Your statutes! With my lips I declare all the rules of Your mouth…I will meditate on YOUR precepts and fix my eyes on YOUR ways…I will delight in Your statutes; I will NOT forget Your Word”(Psalm 119:9-13, 15-16).

ALLOW the HOLY SPIRIT to be that ONE Spirit that Paul the Apostle spoke of in Ephesians 4:4-6, to lead and guide you. There was only supposed to be ONE BODY of CHRIST—as it is written in Ephesians 4-6, “There is ONE body and ONE Spirit—just as you were called to the ONE Hope that belongs to your call—ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE baptism, ONE God and Father of all, Who is over all and THROUGH all and IN all.”

But, is He really “IN” all professing Christians? LOOK at their “fruit”—see if it is good, or rotten. That is what the Lord Jesus told us to do, is it not? Are those who are in leadership within the BODY of Christ (no matter what sect they are in, or hail from—they will ALL be held accountable—James 3:1; 1 Peter 4:5; Heb. 13:17). ALL of us will be held accountable for what we learned not only from those leaders, but also ON OUR OWN, and have to stand before the Lord Jesus at the Day of Judgment (Matt. 12:35-37)—none of us will escape that.

If this post has been something that has made you think about where you stand with the Lord Jesus, and whether or not you fully have the Holy Spirit leading and guiding you, then spend time reading all these verses I put in this post, including these here: Ps. 143:10; Ez. 37:1; Rom. 8:4; Matt. 4:1; Acts 8:29; 10:19-20; 13:4; 16:7; 20:22; Gal. 4:6; 5:22; 1 John 3:24; Rev. 4:2, 17:3. SPEND TIME in prayer to the LORD God, and ASK (as the Lord Jesus told us to do in Matt. 7:7) the Holy Spirit to TEACH, GUIDE, CORRECT, INSTRUCT, CHASTISE (where necessary), ENCOURAGE, and COMFORT you, each and every waking day henceforth. Ask Him to REMIND you of His Word, by also READING and STUDYING and MEDITATING (Joshua 1:8-9) on it, so that it will embolden and empower you to speak that very Word of God out, when the Spirit INSIDE you, desires for it to be SHARED with others, as you have seen me do (because He leads me to do it!).

I lovingly CHALLENGE all of you who call yourselves children of God, and followers of Christ, to make sure you have the ONE Holy Spirit leading and guiding you daily. Also, have Him point out anything that is NOT to be in you, and ask the Holy Spirit to deliver you from any and all evil spirits that have managed to influence you in whatever way, making you stray from His Word, and causing confusion and contention with it. Allow the Spirit of God to “sanctify” you, “cleansing” you “by the washing with water through the Word”, so that He can “present you to Himself as a glorious Church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless” (Eph. 5:26).