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