I Signed Up to Die...Or Maybe Not?

For almost 300 hundred years, to be a Christian meant persecution, suffering, and often death. But now we get saved because we want our lives to be better. We think salvation means a new car, a new house, a husband, friends, or that all our troubles will end.

Almost 300 hundred years ago people signed up to die for Christ. The promise for their salvation was their head cut off, or them being stoned or hung.

I was thinking about this and I thought "Lord what did I sign up for?" Why do I call you my Lord and Savior? Is it because I want you do "great" things for me? Will I only stand for you and speak truth when everyone around me agrees with me?

In the times to come the "wheat" will be separated from the "tare". It will be evident who stands for Jesus and his ways and who stands for the enemy. (the lukewarm will be spit out)

Right now many Christians in America are comfortable with God because their needs are being supplied and no one is "head hunting" them. But times are approaching that the world will kill us for what we believe in. Our businesses will be shut down for what we believe. Pastors will be arrested and charged for preaching against homosexuality. We will be placed in jail and be on trial for the things we believe.

Who will stand during this time or who will back down.

Who will go to jail for standing against abortion and the homosexual agenda. Who will look in the face of real opposition and STAND for HOLINESS AND TRUTH.

Only time will tell why you Signed up to be a Christian.

Col 1: 10-14
10) so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11) May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12) giving thanks[a] to the Father, who has qualified you[b] to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13) He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Calling the youth to start a PURITY RIOT!

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December 3rd, 2011
Calling a youth to Stand Out and start a Purity Riot!

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Garner, NC 27529

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Time the gap in Eternity...

Time is just a measuring tool and it has a expiration date. Are you living your time here in the earth for temporary pleasures or are you living for eternity.

Live is but a vapor... Here today and gone tomorrow. what are you living for?

What profits a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul?

The Parable of the Rich Fool
Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

Time is just a gap in eternity.... Are you living for the gap or are you living for eternity. When we focus on the gap we place our trust in temporary things. We focus on "me and mine". We fit God into our schedule whenever it's convenient. Our praise is determined by how much stuff we have.

Do not live foolishly! Live for ETERNITY!

TRUST

Real trust is when you realize that you have no control!

We say that we trust God but when have we really released everything to God and left it there with Him to take care of it? Without faith it is impossible to please God!

Do you Trust GOD? How much did you try to control today?....




Matthew 6: 25-34
Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Who will arise & take their place?

In Romans 8:19 it says "The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed."

The Earth is waiting for the sons and daughters of the Lord to arise and take their place.

We are in the beginning of the end time birth pains. Mark 13:7-8. "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains."

It is important that we understand the hour that we are in. It is the last days and we as the body of Christ must stand and take our place in the earth. We are called to be salt and the light of the world.

It's time for the church to arise and get on the wall. We must watch and pray in this hour. Luke 12:35-37 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them."

It's time that we interpret the times. We are the servants and God is our master. He is returning to judge the way we handled all that he has entrusted us with!

It's a NOW TIME! Do not put off for tomorrow what you need to do today! "Therefore I urge you, brothers, in the view of God's mercy, to offer your body as living sacrifices, holy pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship."

Who will arise & take their place on the wall?

Simply the words of Jesus

Over the next weeks I will not be posting my words or my opinion on any matter. I will be simply posting the words of Jesus and I ask you to take a journey with me. Have we really embraced what Jesus said? After it's all said and done I want to line up with his words and his words alone.....

Luke 12 (The Message)

Can't Hide Behind a Religious Mask 1-3By this time the crowd, unwieldy and stepping on each other's toes, numbered into the thousands. But Jesus' primary concern was his disciples. He said to them, "Watch yourselves carefully so you don't get contaminated with Pharisee yeast, Pharisee phoniness. You can't keep your true self hidden forever; before long you'll be exposed. You can't hide behind a religious mask forever; sooner or later the mask will slip and your true face will be known. You can't whisper one thing in private and preach the opposite in public; the day's coming when those whispers will be repeated all over town.
4-5"I'm speaking to you as dear friends. Don't be bluffed into silence or insincerity by the threats of religious bullies. True, they can kill you, but then what can they do? There's nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands.

6-7"What's the price of two or three pet canaries? Some loose change, right? But God never overlooks a single one. And he pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the hairs on your head! So don't be intimidated by all this bully talk. You're worth more than a million canaries.

8-9"Stand up for me among the people you meet and the Son of Man will stand up for you before all God's angels. But if you pretend you don't know me, do you think I'll defend you before God's angels?

10"If you bad-mouth the Son of Man out of misunderstanding or ignorance, that can be overlooked. But if you're knowingly attacking God himself, taking aim at the Holy Spirit, that won't be overlooked.

11-12"When they drag you into their meeting places, or into police courts and before judges, don't worry about defending yourselves—what you'll say or how you'll say it. The right words will be there. The Holy Spirit will give you the right words when the time comes."

We have trusted SELF too LONG!

We sing the song I give myself away but it really has not manifested in our life.
I was listening to the message from John Mulinde at IHOP. It crazy because I am sitting here thinking I am not saved!

(Rev 3:1-3)These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits[b] of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, BUT YOU ARE DEAD. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

It is time for us to WAKE UP! It is time for us to BEAR FRUIT! It is time for us to really LET GO OF SELF.

If we are honest many in the body of Christ are living this life for the praises of man and we give God just enough to maintain our own comfortable life.
God is searching the HEART! Not your actions and you deeds. He wants your heart.

I am writing you from the place of no reputation right now! I am jacked up! I am telling you because when I look back over my walk and even right now my heart is wicked and my thoughts and imaginations are wicked. God is crying out for us to rid our hearts and not our garments.

Joel 12-13: “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” 13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

God is dealing with our ways and our human nature not just your actions. Many of our actions are because of the way that we think. It’s because we have convinced ourselves that God is just going to judge our actions but he knows our thoughts and our actions!

We are in a Saul moment. God is about to rip away our kingdom. That means the area of influence that we have. He is exposing the motives of the heart! We are more concerned about the people and not about the fear of the Lord. We are concerned about how the people see us. Our sin is not against man it is against God. We are doing things and ministering in human effort with self exaltation. It has nothing to do with God’s heart and God’s desire for us.

Jer 6:14: “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.”

We are bleeding. We are wounded with iniquity, strife, bitterness, jealously, doubt, compromise, unbelief, anger, hatred, fear, un-forgiveness, lust and perversion. We are wounded in our minds and because we may not be acting these things out we think that it is okay but our hearts are wicked.

While our deeds are appearing holy, our hearts are wicked. I cannot tell myself enough and I can say it enough. God is really not concerned with your works as much as he is concerned with your heart.

I do not know about you but I’m tired of playing the role. I tired of doing this within myself. My human efforts will not work anymore. I want to see God and I want to go to heaven. It’s not about the temporary pleasure of sin or temporary praise of man. It’s about God seeing holiness and righteousness in us.

It’s time for us all to WAKE UP! It’s time for us TO RID ourselves of SELF! Lord Help us!