Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, Peace, Decisions and WIllpower

 Ps 34

1I will extol the Lord at all times;

his praise will always be on my lips.

2I will glory in the Lord;

let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

Ps 9

1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and rejoice in you;

I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

I will, I will, I will, and I will.  Regardless of the trials, tribulations, and storms of life, I will praise, glorify, give thanks, be glad and rejoice in the Lord....

We steer our lives through storms and tribulations the way a pilot flies a plane through heavy weather. Clear skies require almost no effort—the plane almost flies itself. But when the turbulence hits, the air turns chaotic, the instruments jump, and the body is thrown around. The worse the weather, the more frequent and deliberate the inputs must become.

Feelings scatter in every direction. They rise and fall, shout and whisper, push and pull. Yet in the end our feelings do not determine the course. What keeps the plane true is the series of decisions and the willpower that executes them. Every correction is an act of the will returning us to the heading.

In the cockpit sit the true instruments: faith, hope, love, joy, and peace. When the weather outside and the feelings inside are saying here, there, and everywhere, these instruments give the accurate picture. They do not move with the turbulence. They keep reporting the real heading—the road called love—so the pilot can keep making the right inputs even when everything else is lying.

In the middle of that noise something steady stands watch. The peace of Christ acts as the umpire in the heart. While fear, frustration, and confusion all shout at once, peace makes the call—this thought is in bounds, that reaction is out; this decision keeps us on course, that one pulls us off. We still have to move the controls. Willpower is still required. But the umpire, working with the true instruments, keeps the inputs true. We do not wait for the weather to clear before we listen; we let peace speak in the middle of the storm.

And here is the deeper truth that holds it all together: the weather is not our reality, just as the map is not the terrain. The storm is real in the moment—it presses and demands attention—but it is temporary conditions, not the ground we stand on, not the identity we carry, and not the destination written over our lives. We fly through it. We do not become it.

So we keep our hands on the controls. We keep our eyes on the instruments. We keep letting peace make the calls. We keep returning, again and again, to the road of love—not because the feelings have settled, but because the decisions and the willpower refuse to surrender the heading the instruments still show. The plane does not have to wait for calm air to stay on course. It only has to stay true to the instruments while the weather does what weather does.

 Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, Peace

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

Glory to God

grace and peace

What Were You Born To Do

 What is the Lord saying to the Churches today?  The message this nobody hears is the same:  do your job.  The enemy tried to conduct a global coup during the scamdemic, and they almost succeeded.  It was just before this the Spirit of the Lord began impressing the need for each of us to "level up" into the best version of ourselves.  We are to find out what we were born to do on this earth, then do it.  Each one of us was/is born with a mission.  We have been equipped to do that mission and the Lord God Creator expects us to do it (Matt 25, parable of the "talents.")  We have been given stuff by our Creator (not just money) and we are expected to produce a return on investment.

What were you born to do?  What talents, gifts, abilities, have you been given to serve?  The gifts cross the entire spectrum from seemingly out of this world to seemingly mundane.  All are important, all are necessary.  Each one of us plays an important part in the Lord God's end time plan.  Instead of spending all our time dooming out on what the enemy plans for humanity we need to be focused on what our God's plan is.  There will be a time for this world to "head to the bunkers" but that day is not today.  The Lord has placed before us a prophetic pathway, a road, a map with possibilities of a hope and a future for us that goes beyond President Trump.

This servant believes our best days can still be ahead of us, not behind us.  Some of the greatest victories can still be ahead of us, not behind us.  Yes, we know how the book of Revelation reads.  Yes, we know this world is in for some pain, at some point in the future.  But that day, those days are not today.  Today we are to play the cards we have in our hands.  We are to press forward with relentless perseverance and do our job.  Our future lies upon a road, with bridges where each brick in that road has inscribed on it "faith" or "hope" or "love" or "Joy in the Holy Spirit" or "Peace that transcends all understanding."

We have alot of work to do and the way we do that work is His Way.  We are to be walking, talking, living broadcast stations of faith, hope, love, joy and peace.  We do all these things together.  "Me" no longer exists.  Now there is only "We."  There is us and the Lord and us with each other, all one big unified family.  We are growing toward unity.  All things will be united in, with and through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We work toward this even today.

The Lord knows the plans He has for us.  Forget about what the enemy wants to do, we already know what that is: kill, steal and destroy.  How about "no?"  How about we fight the good fight of faith and strain and strive, and labor and love toward a life full of light, love and hope?  Yes, that sounds much better.  The media wars against us 24/7.  This world wars against us as does the prince of the power of the air and his servants.  Thats fine.  Its a war, we get it.  Let us use the weapons of our warfare thoughtfully.  The way we war against darkness is not with more darkness.  Light drives out darkness.  Love drives out hate.  We need to get this right.

The final chapters of our story on earth are to be bound up, and woven together with faith, hope and love.  And the greatest of these is love.  Read, and re-read 1 Cor 13, 1 John (all of it) and take particular note of everywhere else in your Bible reading the Word "Love" is used.  Why?  Because at the highest level what we are living through is a Love story.  Not that we loved God but that He loved us, and now we reciprocate, and align and agree with that Love.  The narrow road of Matthew 7, this servant believes it is the road of love.  We love our God, our brothers and sisters, and even our enemies with His Love.  With agape love that is decision based not feelings based love.  We decide, de (away from) cide (cut off all other possibilities).  We engage our willpower.  "I will" love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul and mind.  "I will" love my neighbor as myself.  "I will" love even my enemies, in Christ, with Christ, through Christ.  We can and will do all these things together.

We need to ask and pray that the Lord of the Harvest will send out more workers into the fields.  We change this world by changing spirits.  People dont vote their mind, they vote their spirit-who they are.  Its really hard for a person who is filled with the Spirit of God to vote for murder, mutilation, and sexual perversions of every type.  We will love our enemies into the Kingdom (to the best of our ability).  When they scream at us with demonic hatred, we respond with "Jesus loves you" and "I love you."  We "do business" His way, not our way.  The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they are mighty for the pulling down of strongholds.  Which is great because we war not against flesh and blood.

This is getting long, but you get the message.  Do your job.  Strive and labor to be the best version of yourself, centered in His Will.  Fight the good faith.  Stay on the narrow road that is bricked and mortared with faith, hope and love, paving the way forward for every step you take in Christ.  We have a hope and a future set before us.  Something really really good, not just doom armageddon and the end.  Do your job, and get down on your knees before the Lord God Creator to find out the specifics for your life.

Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, Peace

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

Glory to God

grace and peace

Erasing Communism

 The Lord has put it on this servant's heart to put on your heart and anyone else who prays and is listening that we should pray, believe and receive the end of communism across the face of the earth.  This is part of the "our best days are ahead of us" prophetic pathway that lies before us.  Yes, there are multiple ways this world can move forward right now and not all of them are straight into the anti-Christ and tribulation.  Anyone who tells us "doom is the only path forward" is not hearing from the Lord.  Is the rapture, anti-Chrsit reveal and tribulation "a" path forward?  Absolutely, but it is not the only one.

Imagine a world without communism, the anti-Christian, anti-human ideology responsible for millions more deaths than the nazis:  Communist regimes are estimated to be responsible for roughly 4–7 times more deaths than the Nazi regime, according to major scholarly compilations.

Thats 400%-700% more deaths.  Communism is the ideology of death, destruction, poverty, lack, despair, etc, etc.  Who has been funding the extreme left wing politics in our country?  The communists.  Who funds @ntif@ and other left wing fanatics who burn our cities, attack our law enforcement and despise our freedom and prosperity?  The communists.

You get the point.  Erasing communism is only one vector of the full scale assault being waged by Heaven on our behalf to push back the agendas, narratives, plans, etc of the demonic hordes.  For what purpose?  A great spiritual awakening, and repentance/revival in the Church.

What is the Spirit saying to the Churches today?

1 Cor 13

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Lets focus on one of the "big three" for a moment: Hope.

We can see above and throughout the Bible the importance of hope:

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

In direct contrast, yet supporting this ^^^ idea, what does the world and the enemy say about hope?

The Hunger Games (2012).

President Snow (Donald Sutherland, the main antagonist/bad guy) is speaking privately with Seneca Crane (the Head Gamemaker). He's explaining the purpose of having a winner in the Games:

President Snow: Seneca... why do you think we have a winner? Seneca Crane: [confused] What do you mean? President Snow: I mean, why do we have a winner? If we just wanted to intimidate the districts, why not round up twenty-four of them at random and execute them all at once? Be a lot faster. Seneca Crane: [still confused] President Snow: Hope. Seneca Crane: Hope? President Snow: Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. Seneca Crane: So...? President Snow: So, contain it.

And what is the primary weapon of the enemy?  Fear.  

This is a message of encouragement to you, to all believers, to those behind enemy lines living under leftist totalitarian tyrants (like in Europe/UK).  There is a hope and a future ahead, a possibility of a near term future not rules by totalitarian leftists like those who desperately cling to power today.  There is a hope that the agendas of the enemy, all their plots, plans etc are pushed back to the gates of hell where they came from.  Pray that the Lord will send workers out into the harvest for it is ripe.  Pray that the Restrainer which currently holds back the anti-Christ will be empowered to push the entire satanic horde back to the gates of hell.  This is possible.  We know the path forward:

2 Chronicles 7:14

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, Peace

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Glory to God

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Leveling Up: Agape Love

 

Comparison to Other Greek Words for Love

Type	Meaning	Example
Agape	Unconditional, sacrificial	God's love, committed love
Philia	Brotherly/friendship love	Deep friendship
Storge	Family/affectionate love	Parental or familial bonds
Eros	Romantic/passionate love	Physical attraction

Agape Love vs. Feelings

• Agape is a choice and an action, not an emotion. It is a deliberate decision to seek the highest good for another person, even when you don’t feel like it.
• Feelings (romantic, warm, affectionate, etc.) are usually tied to eros or philia — those can fluctuate with circumstances, mood, or how the other person behaves.
• Agape remains steady even when feelings are absent or negative. Example: God’s agape love sent Jesus to die for us while we were still sinners and enemies of God (Romans 5:8, 5:10). There was no warm fuzzy feeling driving that — it was pure, committed love.

Ps 9

1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2I will be glad and rejoice in you;

I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

Those words "I will" imply the use of willpower and decision making.  It has nothing, zero to do with feelings.  We make a decision to "God Love" with, in and through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We do it together.  We are called to walk like He did.  He walked in Love because He IS Love.  We are to be just like Him, especially when it comes to this.

Matthew 22:37-40 : Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

This ^^^ combined with 1 Cor 13 and just about all of 1 John pack an overwhelming message that we must get Love right.  This should be shouted from every "church" rooftop and at least mentioned in every "sermon."  Its that important.  All the law and the prophets wrapped up in those two commandments?  Think about it....

There is a difference between God's Love and other types of love.  See the comparison at the top.  We are to love as He did.  We want to win souls?  We need to love.  We want to fight the hate and negativity poured out over this world like sewage into a drain?  We are going to have to Love.  The answer to the hate and evil is not more hatred and evil, its Love and Light.  God is Love and He is Light.  He is the answer this world is looking for.

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

Glory to God

grace and peace

What if I'm Not Done Yet?

 There are many who insist the end is nigh.  They just cant wait for the end to come.  There might be one problem with that.  The Lord rang this through the servant who writes to you today like a bell rings in a tower:  "What if I'm not done yet?"  

2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

→ God’s patience/delays judgment so people have time to be saved.

What else has the Lord impressed lately?  A "vision" or impression of a set of knitting needles and yarn out on the horizon, with our hands (the hands of mankind) working with His Hands to co-create the future.  We, the Church are an active participant in the future by His design.  What does that mean?  It means the prophets of doom may have to wait to get their doom.  It means our best days may still be ahead of us, not behind us.  It means that the Church gets a say, a vote in what happens next.

The Lord also impressed a "vision" of an infinite possibility future, where mankind has not even scratched the surface (today) of what is possible.  We think things are so advanced now with computers and AI but around us, there is an expanding universe of limitless discovery and possibility.  We have'nt even nicked the surface of it.

AI as of today has trouble even reporting the correct date with clear instructions to do so, which means it is not ready as of today to take over the world.  That said, this world is in an advanced stage and quite possibly the Lord could arrive unexpected at any moment.  So which is it?  We do not know and we are not going to know until He arrives which is why He told us over and over again to be watching and ready for His unexpected return at all times.  We must be fully ready to leave with Him at a moments notice and at the same exact time we must be fully prepared to wait however long it takes for Him to do all He is pleased to do on this earth until He is finished.  These two realities have existed and will continue to exist together.

Why write about the stuff at the beginning of this post?  Because the Lord provided it, and because it provides a counter to the doom only "prophets."  The Lord can extend this timeline as long as He wants to.  He can throw any number of monkey wrenches into the globalist establishments machine to cause it to stumble, thus extending the time to do what He wants to do on this earth.

Speaking of what He wants to do on this earth, we His children have been called to level up, the advance all of our talents, skills and abilities to become the very best versions of ourselves-all centered in His good, pleasing and perfect Will.  His Will is that we Love Him with all our heart, soul and mind, and we love each other with His Love not the "love" of this world.  He works in us and through us to accomplish His Will.  

Philippians 2:13

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (KJV)

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Yes, the book of Revelation, and the tribulation will be dark days for this world, however....This does not exclude the possibility of some of the brightest days of the Church arriving beforehand.  The servant who writes to you today believes the Lord God has extended to us a HOPE in our future here on earth.  As opposed to the prophets of doom who tell us to start digging our bunkers now and topping off our preps.  That is not what this servant is hearing from the Spirit of the Lord.

Our best days ahead ties in directly with our obedience to level up into the best versions of ourselves-centered in His Will.  Notice all the "bests" in the recent discussion.  The possibility of the best days being ahead is not so we can all kick our feet up on the table and return to worldly living.  The purpose of all of this is to finish strong.  There is a direct tie in to the parable of the talents, and the parable of the wise virgins here.  He gave us "talents" skills and abilities.  He expects us to put them to profitable use.  Anyone who thinks the parable of the talents was just about money missed the whole point of the parable.

This is about alignment and agreement with our Lord, and His Will.  Nowhere in the Bible will you find the Church appointed to wrath, in fact its just the opposite:

1 Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV)

“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”

• 1 Thessalonians 1:10 — “…and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”
• Romans 5:9 — “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
• Revelation 3:10 (to the church in Philadelphia) — “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world…”

Bottom line here:

Yes, the Lord could come back today-pull His Church out and begin the tribulation.  We must be ready for that possibility.  However......we must also be ready for the possibility that the Lord pushes the timeline back further to save every soul possible before the hell on earth of the tribulation begins.  We must also open the eyes of our heart, mind and spirit to see the possibility of a hope filled future from now through whenever the end comes.

The story of Noah gives us a clear pattern for the end times:

1. Normal Life Continued Right Up to the End People were eating, drinking, marrying, building, buying, selling — everyday human activity. From their perspective, it looked like “business as usual” or even good days. → This mirrors the sense that we can have relatively “good or best days” for believers (open doors, gospel advance, fruitfulness) even as the world continues normally.
2. Noah Had an Open Door of Grace While the world carried on, Noah was building the ark and preaching righteousness (2 Peter 2:5). God gave him time, protection, and an open door to complete his assignment. The door of the ark stood open until the very day Noah and his family entered. Then God shut it (Genesis 7:16).
3. Sudden Transition from Normal to Judgment The flood came the same day Noah entered the ark. There was no long warning period after the door closed. → This supports the idea of a period of relative normalcy / opportunity for the righteous, followed by sudden judgment.

Revelation 3:8 (Philadelphia church) “I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.” → Even a weak church can finish strong with an open door of opportunity.

Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” → God Himself commits to finishing what He started in us.

Hebrews 12:1-2 “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.” → The Christian life (and the church age) is a marathon — we are called to finish strong.

2 Timothy 4:7-8 (Paul’s testimony) “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness…” → A model for how believers and the church can end well.

Matthew 24:13 “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” → Endurance until the end is rewarded.

Revelation 2:26 (to the church in Thyatira) “To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations.” → Finishing strong brings greater reward and authority.

Daniel 11:32 (prophetic of end times) “The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” → In dark days, those who know God can still do great things.

2 Chronicles 7:14

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (KJV)

-We are at a cross-roads right now similar to the cross roads, solar eclipses that passed over America in recent history.  The push back of darkness and the advance of what is good, and right does not have to stop with Trump in 2028.  Trump is not a perfect man, neither was Cyrus the Great of Persia when he set Israel free from Babylonian captivity in antiquity.  Trump and Cyrus are shadows or types of each other.  Cyrus set Israel free from Babylon back then, and Trump has setback the current end time Babylonian spirit in the same way.  Cyrus setting Israel free from ancient Babylon paved the way for the building of the second temple.  Trump setting at least part of the world free from the current Babylonian system will pave the way for building the third temple.  There is nothing new under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 1:9

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (KJV)

If the Lord comes back soon-great.  If the Lord tarries and gives us time to develop and center in His Will-great.  Either way, its time for us to do our job.  As we do our job we must remember we do it with and through Love.  Without love, nobody gets into the Kingdom:

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (the clearest on this idea)

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

This shows that without love, even the greatest spiritual works are worthless.

1 John 4:7-8, 20

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

Matthew 22:36-40 (The Greatest Commandments) Jesus said the whole law hangs on loving God fully and loving your neighbor as yourself. Without love, you are not fulfilling what God requires.

Galatians 5:14 & 22

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” “But the fruit of the Spirit is love…” (Love is listed first — the evidence of true spiritual life.)

The Bible teaches that love is not optional for entering or inheriting the Kingdom of God. Without love (especially love for God and others), all other religious activity is empty. True saving faith produces love.

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Thats it for today.  Hopefully you are encouraged by the possibility of our best days still being ahead of us not behind us.  The Lord has prepared a hope and a future for us both on this earth and beyond it.  

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

Glory to God

grace and peace