A Bunch of Stuff

 This servants hopes to remember it all:

1.  idea impressed number 1 is we have to die to ourselves to work with the Lord the way we are supposed to:

Galatians 2:20 — “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me...”

Luke 9:23 — “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

Romans 6:6-11 — Our old self crucified... consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:24 — Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh...

Colossians 3:3 — You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

John 12:24 — Unless a grain of wheat dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

2 Corinthians 5:17 — If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away...

John 3:30 — He must increase, but I must decrease.

Imagine an oil lamp, the oil, the light, emanate from the center.  We are like the glass that the light shines through.  If we touch the glass, if we imprint on the glass, if we get embedded in the glass what happens to the person or people who were supposed to receive light from the lamp?  They get less light and some shadow or less than optimal, less than the best and not what we want.  Thats the idea.  We work with Him, the lamp, the oil work together to shine light and life into this world.  We have to yield to Him, die to self, offer ourselves as living sacrifices, step out of the way so He can do what He does.  We contribute by working in Him, with Him, through Him.  We do it together.

2026 is the year of spiritual awakening, repentance and revival in the Church.  This is what we are praying for.  It is the year of faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.  The message here was tied to Ephesians 6 and we war not with flesh and blood but with spiritual wickedness.  It helps us to love our fellow humans, our enemies even when we recognize that many if not most are at a minimum under the influence of spiritual wickedness if not outright demonic evil possession in some cases.  Spirits can hop from person to person like "agents" in the movie "the Matrix" in order to rattle you, disturb you, wage war on you, etc.  Realizing this helps us to love our fellow human a little bit more when we recognize they are "under the influence" of satanic power that is directed against us.  Nobody gets into Heaven without love-we must get this right.  See 1 Cor 13 and 1 John 4 for details.  Love is not a side note, or something "nice to have."  Works go straight into the garbage can, absolutely worthless without love.  Figure it out soon if you havent already...

The next 8 months or so are going to be challenging as we can already see leading into the mid-terms.  There is alot going on, A LOT.  sorry for the caps but the entire kitchen sink is being thrown at this world right now.  As there is war on earth, there is war in the heavens.  This praying we are doing over 2026, the spiritual awakening, and repentance and revival in the Church, the binding of the satanic blindness that keeps the masses headed for hell, all of it has hell stirred up.  We are here to do our job and we do not do this alone.  We stand united, hand in hand, in agreement and alignment with our Lord first, then with each other to push back the satanic forces of anti-Christ as the Restrainer should do.  The gates of hell do not prevail against the Church.

Matt 16

and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ^c will not overcome it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be ^d bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be ^e loosed in heaven.”

The enemy would love to have us believe we have not been given the keys to the Kingdom.  "They" are very happy with the masses believing they are powerless Nicolaitan "layman" who play Church once or twice a week, have great potlucks and are 99.99% ineffective in restraining the satanic power that wars against humanity.  Revelation is a revealing of things.  There are ZERO "layman" in the Church of Jesus Christ.  Show me one single "layman" in the Bible and I will gladly apologize but you are not going to find one.  We are to walk as Jesus did, doing GREATER THINGS than He did.  Sorry again for the caps but this is important:

John 14:12

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

^^^Not your "pastor" not your priest and not your rabbi, whoever believes...

Compare this ^^^ to the doctrine of the Nicolaitans "layman" who leaves all the heavy lifting to the spiritual hirelings or "experts" that have led the Church and this world to the edge of the abyss.  We, all of us, that means you, are to walk like Jesus did, doing greater things, because He Wills it and wants it that way.  Teamwork makes the dream work.  We do it together with Him and with each other.  We are not going to have a spiritual awakening or repentance and revival in the Church if it was left up to the wolves who fleece the flock for a living and care not for the sheep nor the Kingdom:

John 10:12-13 “But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.”

Thankfully its not up to them:

Acts 2:17

“’In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Its coming whether "they" want it or not-Glory to God.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

The Age of Grace

 We can do some top down analysis today in order to determine where we are on the Lord's timeline.  The fact that the Church remains on the face of the earth tells you alot.  It tells us we remain in the age of Grace and mercy.  It also tells us the Restrainer remains fully empowered to push back the enemy to the gates of hell.  It also tells us we have a job to do and are to be doing it.  Sitting around all day asking what the attack on Iran means while our job remains languishing on the sidelines collecting dust-is the wrong approach.  The Lord knows what the attack on Iran means, He's got those bases covered.  But what about the job we are supposed to be doing?  What about the people in and around us, right in front of our face every day?  These are the people we have been sent to.  Yes, the people around us at work, the people at the gym and the grocery store, they are our "mission field."

Each one of us has a job to do.  The Lord God has been preparing us to upgrade, rise up, level up into the best version of ourselves which revolved around the talents, skills and abilities He has given us.  And all of that stuff operates in the very center of His Will.  That is agreement and alignment.  We agree with Him and align with Him first, then with each other.

The Lord is at work saving souls in this Age of Grace and Mercy.  We are part of that.  He operates with, in and through us because that's the way He chose to do business on this earth.  We are to walk with Him first.  Our relationship with Him comes first above and beyond all other things.  The only way we can do our job which includes by the way loving our enemies is in Him, with Him and through Him.  This kind of ask "loving an enemy" can only be done hand in hand, side by side with our Creator.  Its impossible on our own which is also by design.  He never asked us to go do everything on our own without Him.  The whole purpose is we do all this stuff together with Him.  The things we are doing on this earth are basic training for eternity with Him.

We continue to pray over all the prayer requests as well as for the great awakening of 2026, with repentance and revival in the Church.  We have alot to do and all of it or most of it is right in front of our face.  Take your cares, questions and concerns to the Lord.  He does answer, in His time.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Back in the Saddle

 Thanks be to the Lord to rescued your servant from the "common cold."  Since the last post, Trump has renewed attacks on Iran but that's not really a new thing-it's a continuation of an old thing.  What has the Lord said over the past few weeks?  The same exact message as before:  level up, center in His Will, pray for the 2026 spiritual awakening, as well as repentance and revival in the Church.

The Lord provided a few mental images to help illustrate what we are doing here.  We are the lamp, the Spirit is the oil that powers that lamp.  But what happens when that lamps glass becomes cloudy, or not clear?  The light cannot pass through into the world as it should.  We must get out of the way.  We become less, He becomes more.  Our "glass" must be almost invisible or crystal clear so you don't really see the glass, all you see is the light coming through it.

We are standing in alignment and agreement with Him and then with each other.  We are living 2026 as a year of faith, hope and love.  And love is the greatest.  Read 1 Cor 13 and 1 John 4.  Nobody gets into Heaven without love.  Hate is at the vanguard of the enemy's army, Love is at the vanguard of ours.  In order to practice the kind of love we need, like loving our enemies we must die to ourselves and live in, with, and through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We can only do what we need to do in Him, with Him and through Him.  This was never supposed to be the Lone Ranger show.

This year we up our game.  Will the Lord come back this year?  Maybe, maybe not.  He never told us to predict, He told us over and over to prepare.  The wise virgins came prepared with extra oil for their lamps.  When the Lord arrives, we will be ready for Him not because we predicted the day or hour or season but because we live in a state of perpetual preparedness.  

There is a lot going on in the world right now and between now and the end of this year it's only going to increase.  The midterms are coming up, there is war and moving chess pieces everywhere we look.  What do we do about all this?  We do our job.  What did the Lord God put us here to do?  Do that.  And while we do that, we remember to do it all wrapped in love because without love everything comes to a screaming, epic halt.  People can do all the "works" they want to, without love it's all worth nothing.  If we look at how the Lord has prepared us over the past few years and how He now has us on the capstone issue of love tieing everything together, we could guess that our Lord's unexpected arrival is not far off.

Maybe getting things right at the end buys this world some more time.  Who knows, regardless of which it is-we do our job.  We work, and pray and love as thought the Lord is coming back today and we cannot possibly miss the unexpected day He arrives for us.

So, in summary this servant has heard nothing new from the Lord.  What this servant hears and sees is staying the exact same course He has had us on for months and years.  Continue to do your job while we remember that our first "ministry" or duty is to Him personally.  We are to love Him, spend time with Him, walk with Him, talk with Him-you know, stuff people do in a real relationship.  Everything else will take care of itself.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Sick For a Couple Weeks

 Feeling better now please pray for brother D.  The "common cold" really hit hard this year.  Feeling better day by day will resume posting soon.  Please continue the prayer campaign:

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace