Exercise*** Feast of Trumpets 2022 ***Exercise

 We are holding a readiness exercise in this year of our Lord 2022 to watch for His unexpected return.  Every year its serious to be watching and ready for His return, but every 7 years its even more serious.  This is an exercise that prepares us for the real event whenever that happens, could be any day.  The military runs drills and exercises on a routine basis in order to be ready for that time when what they are training for "goes live."  We can and should do the same thing.  The Lord established his appointed times/festivals/seasons to be observed so we would remember what He told us He was/is going to do.

He also told us to be praying, watching and ready always for His unexpected return.

Mark 13

Be Ready at Any Hour

(Genesis 6:1-7; Matthew 24:36-51; Luke 12:35-48)

32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

The Lord God told us to watch, man tells us don't bother.  Who are we going to listen to?  We should take this time and season seriously as the stage is set so at any moment the entire world could be turned on its head.  We have been given the Word and we have been given signs in the heavens as well as signs on earth that we should be paying attention, watching and ready.  7 or so years ago during the blood moon tetrad and solar eclipse cycle the mockers were out in full force dismissing it all.  Fast forward 7 years later and look at what has happened to this world.  Look at what the enemy tried to do (kill us all).  Anyone who is laughing now is either ignorant or a fool.

A Word on Readiness

The Lord impressed upon this servant some details relating to the unexpected coming we should pay attention to.  

Luke 21

34“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

When this event happens, whenever that might be our hearts need to be ready.  A clue for us was included in this passage above in verse 34 lest your hearts be weighed down.  Think of it as a balloon that is trying to rise but it cant because it has too many sandbags in the basket holding it firm to the earth.  We need to ask ourselves right now today is my heart unencumbered, cutoff enough from the things of this world that I am ready to turn my back on it and walk away without looking back?  Its an important question illustrated for us in the Word here:

Gen 19

14So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry ^a his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

15With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

16When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

18But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, ^b please! 19Your ^c servant has found favor in your ^d eyes, and you ^e have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

21He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar. ^f )

23By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

27Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

When it is time to go, it is time to go and not look back.  The time to get our hearts in a place with cords cut from this world is today.  We live in this world but we are not of this world.

John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

We need to prepare our hearts for the possible unexpected arrival of the Lord.  This world is completely clueless, He is not on their radar in any way.  Most of the church is completely clueless as well, half of them mock the unexpected return of the Lord as if it were an idea made up by men instead of the Word of the Lord.  The rest have their hearts weighed down with the numerous trials and tribulations in this world.  Some are looking to politics and "Mr. T" to save them.  Good luck with that he already abandoned the country once during the 2020 coup d'etat, he kept Fauci in his place of power to administratively punish the country and the list goes on.  

Let us be those few who remember what the Lord has said and respect it for what it is: the Word of the Lord.  "Watch and pray always" we were told.  To what end?  For what purpose are we watching and praying always?  Answered in Luke 21 as well:  "to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

What happens if by the end of the exercise the Lord has not unexpectedly return?  We continue to watch and pray for His return each and every day just like we were told to.

John 14

18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Those who love Him will keep His Words.  In other words 1. remember what He said and 2. do what He said.

The Lord has impressed it on this servants heart over the past weeks to write this one so here it is.

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

Feast of Trumpets 2022

 9/25/22-9/27/22 is Fest of Trumpets 2022

What makes this one special?  They are all special.  Why?  The Lord set Moedim or appointed times so we would remember both 1. what He has done and 2.  what He is going to do.  If we cant pay attention any other time of the year we should be paying attention around the "what He is going to do" season which is the fall.

The Lord told us He is going to come back for us at an unexpected time.  Does the feast of trumpets meet the criteria of an unexpected time?  Yes and no.  Yes it is unexpected beccause it falls over multiple days.  No it is not unexpected by virtue of the fact we know within a couple days when it could be.  Now with this said we were also told to be watching and ready every day, which is all the time:

Luke 21:

36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

 Watch and pray always means every single day.  This moedim comes around every year but there is a cycle that comes around every 7 years known as the shemitah.  According to brother Biltz (see the link) 2022 is a shemitah year.  So take the feast of trumpets, add the shemitah on top, then add the recent posts on the revealing/Revelation that has been taking place over the past 5-6 years or so, then add the 111,222,333 countdown/alignment phenomenon on top of that, then add in 7 years from the blood moon tetrad in 2014-2015 (2021-2022), then add on top of that the X over America that forms in 2024:

and a picture begins to emerge that maybe just maybe we should be paying attention.  The Lord set these appointed times so we would remember what He is going to do yet we have people running around every year about this time pointing the finger and snickering "haha haha we told you He wasn't coming back this year."  Kind of like this:

2 Peter 3:4

They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

In the military, police and fire departments drills are held constantly to be ready when "the big event" happens and sometimes people in these services can serve a career and never put to use what they prepared for and nobody bats an eyelash.  But when it comes to God Almighty telling us point blank "be ready for this big event" they fall all over themselves to mock and ridicule those who do what they were told to do (to their own destruction).

We need to be ready.  Why?  Because He told us to, period the end.  What if He doesnt come back this year?  So what, did the command change?  No it didnt so we keep watching, our entire lifetime if need be every.......single............day.  We do what we were told to do unlike the many who have gone their own way because "they know better than God."  Looks to me like these people are in serious trouble, they just dont know it yet.  Its amazing how well things make sense and how we can instantly disgard the doctoral dissertation length books on "why the Word of God doesnt really mean what it says it means" the moment we just do what we were told to do.  

We were told to be watching and ready for the Lord's unexpected return every single day.  Rapture debate solved.  A person cannot possibly miss the unexpected return of the Lord if they are always watching and ready:

Luke 21:

36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

We dont know exactly when things are going to happen but we have some pretty good clues of when to take our readiness from wherever it is up to 100.  That time would be roughly between now and 9/27/22.  What if the Lord does not come back by then?  We continue to watch and pray just like we were told to...

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

111, 222, 333 and The Unexpected Arrival of the Lord

 In addition to about half of the world that is completely clueless to the hour this world is living in, there are believers who preach/teach/argue that the Lord absolutely, positively cannot show up before "x,y, and z" happen first.  While we know there are some requirements that need to be met for the "second coming" to happen there are absolutely zero requirements for the unexpected arrival of the Lord to take place.  The fact that these people conflate one event with the other is to their own detriment.

The Lord can and will show up whenever He wants to with no preconditions.  Which "coming" of the Lord was it when our master appeared to the disciples almost immediately after He was resurrected from the dead?

Luke 24

36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate it in their presence.

44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

This servant has been asking the Lord for years what 11:11, 1:11, 2:22 and 3:33 mean.  Recently it was impressed on this servant that these numbers should be viewed both as a reminder and a countdown.  The reminder is the Lord is coming back on a day and hour He is not expected and it is going to be a very unpleasant surprise for most people.  We who believe and obey are not most people.  What does the Word say?

Luke 21:

34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Mark 13

32But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Watch, watch, watch and more watch.  Yet some people still try to tell us "yea but what He really meant was.." then proceed to write a doctoral dissertation on why the Lord really meant the exact opposite of what He clearly tells us in His Word.  The 111,222,333 that many of us have been seeing should be a reminder to snap out of the sleepy slumber that too many in this world are in.

35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 

The Lord impressed this servant to post previously on the fact that things in this world that have been hidden for generations are now being revealed.  Revelation is a revealing of things.  So we have been in this process of revealing of things and over the top of that we have this countdown ticking that many of us have been seeing 111,222,333.  Add to that the fact that the psycopathic globalists are actively trying "lower the carbon footprint" in this world.  Realize that your body is a carbon based wetsuit that your spirit/soul inhabits, think about what they are really saying...It all adds up to the clock is ticking on what the Lord our God already told us thousands of years ago would happen.

We do not have to guess or argue with the "other tribbers" about when the catching away of the Church will be because we were told to be watching and ready for the unexpected return of the Lord every single day.  Newsflash:  if you are watching and ready every day you cannot possibly miss it!  Which also happens to be exactly why He told us to do what He told us to do.  Its a God thing, being right all the time and such only He can do it.  Problem with too many people is they think they can figure it out better than the Almighty.  Good luck with that.  We just need to do what we were told to do.  We are approaching the Feast of Trumpets 2022 (theres part of that "countdown" in this year 222...) so its a good time to remind ourselves what we should be doing.

This world is in serious trouble because they think they know better than the Almighty how to run things down here.  Judging by the mess they have made of things it appears they were seriously mistaken and the Lord God was right again.  While they do their thing we need to be doing our thing which is doing what we were told to do.  The Feast of Trumpets and all the fall feasts are anniversary reminders to keep ourselves alerted so we will not be caught unaware and asleep when the Lord shows up to the dismay of the world around us.

We do not know the day our hour of His arrival but we know that the very nature of time itself and the clues the Lord has left for us to figure out we need to be watching and ready now more than ever.  We should continue to employ the gifts given to us to grow the Kingdom as the Spirit of the Lord leads us forward.  We should continue to watch, fast and pray that our Lords Kingdom come and His will be done here on earth just as it is in heaven.

Please remember brother Torben in your prayers as far as I know he is still in prison for the crime of serving the Lord our God.  This too tells us what time it is....

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

The Revealing

 What does "Revelation" mean?  Something is being revealed.  In this case, everything is being revealed.  One of the tell take signs that we are nearing the events in the book of Revelation is the revealing of all things.  Consider the past 4-5 years or so.  The corruption, lies, stealing, fraud, psycopath nature, the murder etc committed by our politicians and institutions that used to be respected has all been laid bare.  Now, with wickedness strutting around like a barnyard rooster we begin to see the grand design of it all.  An observer of this revelation of all things can see that this world has people who belong to it (the majority) and those who do not.  The people who belong to this world support its psycopath, lying, stealing, cheating, murdering "leaders" and their institutions.

We are seeing the beginning phases of the separating of wheat from chaff and goats from sheep.  Part of the purpose of the ongoing revealing of how rotten things are is to see who approves of it and who does not.  There are no "good" choices, only less bad choices.  In the end, the Lord God will be vindicated by the royal mess that mankind made of this world.  The Lord Himself will have to come back with a broom and a dust pan to clean up our mess.  In the meantime, His Word will be proven faithful and true.

If we get a (s)election this November, and in 2024 remember that although the party that starts with a "D" has volunteered to carry the standard for the adversary, the party with an "R" has helped them and is actively helping them along the way.  The poster child for the "R" party has all kinds of policies and positions that seem appealing at first until you realize the issue that the enemy is attempting to use to bring in satanic nirvana is the vakseen.  Who is the biggest cheerleader for the vaks?  Who enabled the enemies of humanity to introduce this weapon against humanity at "warpspeed."  Who refused to fire Dr. Mengel...uh, I mean Fauci?  Who not only did not drain the swamp but filled his trusted advisor positions with the swamp?  You know who....

They have all sold their soul and we must remember that the grand plan is in the process of working its way out.  We do not have to guess where all of this is headed.  We have a book that tells us what will happen and has a 100% success rate in doing so.  The stage is being set for the enemy's superman.  That man has not arrived yet and we know this by the Word that told us what to look for and what is Restraining him.

2 Thess 2

 9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 

2 Thess 2:7

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

So, their superman has not arrived but we are in the midst of historic levels of "revealing" of the powers that be as agents of the enemy.  Those who support the revealed wickedness have chosen a side and will be without excuse on the day we all stand to account for ourselves.  The revealing tells us that although "their" superman is not here yet he is likely not far off.

All this said ^^ we who belong to a kingdom that is not of this world are looking for our Lord Jesus Christ to show up at any time unannounced.  There is an unknown coming of the Lord and a known coming of the Lord (the second coming) that people love to conflate to their own detriment.  There is zero downside to watching for the arrival of the Lord each and every day.  Zero, none.  If we are living our lives as if the Lord could show up at our doorstep every day what are the implications of that kind of living?  All requirements will be met by someone living for their Lord day in and day out.  And oh yea, by the way it wasn't just a good idea we were commanded to do this:

Luke 21

34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

Mark 13

32“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Be on guard! Be alert ^e ! You do not know when that time will come. 34It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

35“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’ ”

Here we have clear commands that a 4th grader could understand and yet we have people who will argue with you till blue in the face that we shouldn't bother to watch because... (insert man made doctrine here).  If we do what we were told to do we dont have to figure out rapture timing.  We watch today and if it doesnt happen today we do it again tomorrow, rinse and repeat.  Wow, no doctoral dissertation needed, problem solved by simply doing what we were told to do!

This world is in serious trouble but we need to remember why they are in this trouble.  They rejected Him....they are at war with God and they are losing (go figure).  The details of this war and mankind getting its clock cleaned in the process is outlined in the book of Revelation.  Highly recommended reading!

Please remember brother Torben in your prayers, he is still in prison.

Glory to God

Grace and peace

Please Pray For Brother Torben

 This is how you know brother T is working for the Lord God and not for this world, persecution.  Update on brother T here.  Please fast and pray for this brother.  He has taken the fight to the enemy and the enemy is now hitting back.  This is absolutely a spiritual war we are in.  Lord help us all, we pray for your miracle working power on behalf of brother Torben.  

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

He Causes Them to Make Bad Decisions

It is interesting to note that in the Bible there is not a single instance of the Lord providing relief for His people through a. voting and/or b. elections.  While we are all hopeful that November will bring some relief that is not how the Lord has brought about His changes in the Word.  If that is true then how has the Lord "corrected" psychopath leaders and other problems in the past?

He causes them to make really bad decisions that cost them dearly.  Example:

Exodus 14

1Then the LORD said to Moses, 2“Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

So Pharaoh and his army pursued Israel into the sea and we know how that story ended.  Other more recent examples are the plandemic and what is taking place in Ukraine.  "They" were going to implement their new order through the plandemic but that got old for too many people too quickly and they were not able to succeed.  When they were not successful with that they moved onto plan b which was a full frontal assault on the people of the western world part of which included using Ukraine to weaken that big country that starts with an R.  They have thrown the kitchen sink at R and R continues to take more ground.  At this point defeat in Ukraine appears inevitable.  Bad decisions after bad decisions.

We have not reached the end of these more modern stories yet, however we do know this:  "they" want their new order now and they will not get it (not yet).  How do we know this?  We know by the presence of the Restrainer/and or the Church on planet earth while are simultaneously holding back the arrival of the man of sin who is "their" superman required to implement their new order.

2 Thess 2

6And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Until people see Satanic power on full display with false signs and wonders, we know with certainty that the Restrainer is still at work, the Church is still on this earth and the man of sin has not arrived.

Ps 37

14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose way is upright;
15their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.

As you can see from verse 15 above the unintended consequences of making really bad decisions while at war with God Almighty is their own bad decisions equate to their destruction.  These people did not plan to draw the sword and slay themselves with it, no they intended to wipe out everyone else.  Unfortunately for them thats not how their story ends. 

So regardless of how bad it looks in the world, be encouraged.  The people who are trying to do as much evil as possible on the earth today are at war with God Almighty, not a great position to be in.  The Restrainer and the Church are on the earth and at work.  Please do your part in prayer (and fasting if you can).  Pray about all things at all times without ceasing.  Our enemies are making some really bad decisions that suggest really bad outcomes (for them).

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

6/13/22-If We Want to Eat Then We Need to Pray

 We have another food plant going up in flames here.  One after the other after another and another.  Where are the congressional hearing on protecting our food supply?  We can send 80 billion dollars to Ukraine for their security needs but cant establish security for our own food plants?  This number of food processing plants up in flames in this amount of time is absolutely, positively sabotage.  

"They" have launched an all out assault on we the people.  The enemy and his servants are determined to "burn it all down" as soon as possible.  The November election is not going to save us or feed us.  The Republican party is not going to save us or feed us.  The Lord our God and Him alone is what we have to count on.  In fact that is likely the point of all of this.  The point is look at the world "they" have created without God.  Its a world of killing, stealing, destroying, fear, despair and hatred.  

We need to pray if we want to eat.  That is not hyperbole-its a fact.  They are literally burning down one food processing plant every couple days now.  According to the latest guidance from the Spirit of the Lord we are to remain in faith, hope and love.  And that we are.  While we do that and we see the enemy at work we can pray about it.  There is always something we can do about everything that happens under the sun.  We can pray.

The Word says pray without ceasing:

1 Thess

16Rejoice always, 17pray without ceasing, 18give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19Do not quench the Spirit. 20Do not despise prophecies, 21but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22Abstain from every form of evil.

This particular piece of scripture is enlightening as it ties in perfectly with the Lord's counsel to remain in faith, hope and love.  Notice verse 16 there "rejoice always."  You mean rejoice even when the enemy is burning down our food supply right in front of our face?  Yep, especially then.  Give thanks in ALL circumstances?  You mean give thanks even when you know "they" are trying to starve us to death?

Yep, especially then.  See, its easy to say.  Its easy to preach this stuff from the pulpit without actually doing it.  Thing is, these are not suggestions they are commands.  The Lord our God is telling us how to get things done and do it the right way.  Mankind has had time to show the world how "great" everything would be if the Creator was rejected and man with his spiritual "counsel" aka the enemy ran things.  Unfortunately that experiment has already turned south as this world is being quickly turned into a cesspool in every way possible.

So, back to the point.  We need to get on our knees and pray.  We need to fast and cry out to the Lord our God to save us from the evil that has come out of the shadows to work in full daylight to the applause of those who are perishing.  In addition we need to use faith hope and love as our "heads up display (HUD)" to use a little fighter pilot jargon.  We also need to remember to rejoice always and give thanks in all circumstances.  Always means today when they are trying to kill us.  In all circumstances means today when they are trying to kill us.

Nobody said it would be easy.  He told us what to do and we with the assistance of the Spirit of the Lord need to figure out "how" to get this implemented.  When we do what we were told to do, things find a way of working themselves out.  Why?  Because behind every command there is Divine wisdom that has our well being in mind.  

The best case scenario for us who believe is to follow the instructions that have been given to us to the letter.  We must do exactly what we were told to do.  This world is where it is today because men and women thought they were smarter than God.  They are about to find out-they were wrong.  The problems we are faced with are coming at us like a tsunami.  Everyone and their brother is there to tell us the bad news of what is going to fail next or what calamity waits for us around the next corner.  Where were these "prophets" a few years ago when everything was seemingly business as usual?

What we need is not more prophets of the obvious but solutions to problems.  We have an entire book of solutions called the Word of God.  The answers we need are in that book.  Our survival is in that book-the promises.  So, in this hour of trial let us do what we were called to do.  We are here for a reason in this hour.  Our God gave us an instruction manual for how things work.  People who choose to disregard the instruction manual get to live with the consequences.

Faith, hope, love, rejoice, give thanks and pray without ceasing about all things at all times.  Our prayers move mountains-thats a fact.  Keep your eyes on the solutions-the time for problem identification is 1000 miles in the rear view mirror.  The Lord will provide, He always has and He always will.  Keep the faith and keep your chin up :)  When you pray join me and all the other brothers and sisters in agreement that the Lord our God will continue to provide the things we need when we need them according to His riches and glory

Phil 4:19

And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

When Things Don't Go Your Way

 It has been some years since I asked the Lord for some piece of information/something to help when we pray for one thing and what ends up happening is not what we asked for but sometimes its the exact opposite.  The "feeling" after such experiences is like getting punched really hard in the gut or kicked between the legs.  At such times it is very difficult to do what we know we must do which is this:

PS 34

1I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

and more recently we have discussed this:

1 Cor 13:13

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

After years of waiting the Lord has provided an example from the Word of how this was dealt with successfully.  Here it is:

2 Sam 12

1The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

4“Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

5David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! 6He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

7Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

11“This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’ ”

13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for ^a the Lord, the son born to you will die.”

15After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth ^b on the ground. 17The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

18On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

19David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked.

“Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”

20Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.

21His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”

22He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’ 23But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

In this particular case the adverse event had to do with sin but it does not have to.  There are plenty of instances that have nothing to do with sin where we may ask for one thing and the immediate or apparent result is the opposite.  In David's case it was the life of one of his son's, admittedly a big deal.  How did David deal with it?  We see it above.

We are given a grace period to deal with that feeling of getting punched in the gut but then we have to be responsible, or should we say response-able, and respond the way we should.  Its not going to be easy but we were never told it would be easy.  We need to do the simple things that we know we should do with patience, persistence and faith.  Continue to do the right things over and over and over and watch what happens :).

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

If We Want to Eat Then We Need to Pray

 There is an ongoing coordinated attack on our food supply, data summed up here.  "They" have decided to wage war on humanity but this didnt just start yesterday it started in earnest with the virus/vaccine.  When that didn't "do its job" well enough now they have resorted to all sorts of other means including an attempt to start WW3 as well as a mutlipronged attack on both food supply (destroy storage and processing plants) and demand (destroy the economy so people cannot afford food.)  They also know the war on oil feeds into this war on humanity.  If they wanted to move to a greener economy there is a way to do that but that is not going to happen overnight without alot of killing, stealing and destroying taking place at the same time.  Just a coincidence that our enemies are in love with killing stealing and destroying so this is the method that has been chosen.

All we hear and see is bad news everywhere.  The Spirit of the Lord has counseled us that while this world goes through this pain we are to dwell in faith, hope and love.  This is not denying reality it is shaping reality.  What we believe matters.  What we focus on matters.  Matter (physical reality) can be molded, formed and fashioned through belief which is why we were told:

Mark 11:24

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

The enemy wants everyone in a state of fear, hopelessness and hate which is the opposite of where our Lord wants us.  Thus in addition to the attack on humanity from every side we also have the psycological operations (non-stop bad news).  Kill, steal and destroy through full court press using every means available to them, thats what they are doing.  We have been given the answers to these problems and they can all be found in the best selling book in world history.

The enemy has not been granted power to determine the end time timeline.  The Restrainer is at work on the earth today which means "they" do not get their "new world" today.  A praying, believing remnant Church is still alive on this earth today which is another major problem for the enemy hordes waging war against humanity.

The enemy and his servants are and have been trying to erase a majority of humanity from the face of the earth.  The Lord has a plan to do just that (details in Revelation) but that time has not arrived yet.  In addition to the presence of the Restrainer and the Church which work hand in hand, "they" do not have their superman yet (we know him as the anti-Christ).  The Restrainer prevents their superman arriving before his time.  Believers in the past have been unnecessarily flustered at suggestions the anti-Christ had arrived but the Lord told us what to look for to know when/whether or not this has happened yet:

2 Thess 2:

 9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

^^This has absolutely positively NOT happened yet, but it is coming.  When is the Lord God's domain not that of man or the enemy.  

For today we need to continue in faith, hope and love.  No, it will not be easy but this is the path forward and it is what we have been called to.  If you are on earth today you are here for a reason, it was no accident.  Each one of us has talents, skills and abilities that are to be used in accordance with our Master's please to do His will on earth.  In order to work, we need to eat.  This servant is not concerned per se as we have many promises like this one:

Ps 37

18The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will remain forever;
19they are not put to shame in evil times;
in the days of famine they have abundance.

 Not concerned but aware and what about those who are yet to enter our Father's kingdom who are not leaning on the promises today?  We pray for ourselves and for them.  This is war, the enemy knows it, we know it.  Now it is all out in the open.  Let us do our part to fight the good fight of faith.  Let us get down on our knees to make the enemy tremble.  We are headed in the opposite direction of this world.  Its ways are not our ways because our ways are His ways.  Faith, hope, love.  Fast, stay in the Word and hold onto the promises for dear life because the promises are our life:

PS 138

1I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart;
before the gods I sing your praise;
2I bow down toward your holy temple
and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,
for you have exalted above all things
your name and your word.^a

We pray the promises (the Word) back to our Lord in faith and we do so in His Name.  Thus we pray back to Him the two things He has lifted above all things.  Then we believe we have received what we have asked for in prayer sealing the circle of prayer.  We do this over and over again, praying constantly without ceasing.  Wartime calls for extra effort.  The enemy is very busy, let us be busier still.

Glory to God

Grace and Peace

Faith, Hope, Love

 This is counsel from the Spirit of the Lord that He has been on for some time now.  We need to stay in these lanes:  Faith, hope, love.  Consider the alternative lanes that the enemy wants us in:  Fear, despair and hate.  Here is the kicker, we get to choose which lanes we travel in regardless of what is happening in the world around us or to us personally.  Are we going to have trials and tribulations in this life?  Guaranteed but how do we respond.  Consider the word responsibility.  Response-ability, or ability to respond.  We get to choose how we respond to the world around us and what happens to us personally.

Next best question, is this easy to do?  Not by a long shot.  As with everything our Lord calls us to it is a higher path which requires more than the default path that leads to death and destruction.  This writer has had plenty of instances in the not so distant past where what was asked for/prayed for was one thing and what was received in the moment was sometimes the direct opposite and the net result was a feeling like getting punched in the gut or kicked between the legs or a combination thereof.  Easy?  No.  But after we get punched in the face and are down on the ground we get a short grace period to process what happened then we are expected to exercise our response-ability and steer ourselves into the faith, hope, love lanes.

There more you think about it the more it makes sense.  Where would you rather spend more time?  Even if everything seemingly goes wrong how does dwelling on fear, despair and hate help us?  It doesn't.  Right now the enemy and his servants are working hard to kill, steal and destroy on every front they can.  How does the Lord God want us to respond in this dark hour?  Forget your feelings they are traitors, make a decision, exercise your will to stay in 1. Faith 2. Hope and 3. Love.  When you find yourself out of these "lanes" to use a driving metaphor get back in your lane.

The Lord's thinking and acting are often contrary to man's thinking and acting.  The entire world is going in one direction, we who believe and belong to Him are going the opposite direction and because there are more of them than there are of us they look at us like we are ignorant:

Matt 7:13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Courage is not acting in the absence of fear it is taking action in the presence of fear:

PS 27:14 Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.

Joshua 1:7

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

Nobody said this would be easy but in the end our eyes will look in victory upon our foes and we get to walk hand in hand with the King of Kings and Lord or Lords.  

Glory to God.  Grace and peace.