TRUMP NATION....
......Acts 18:9-10).......And Jesus said to Paul, fear not to preach and teach the gospel here Paul, for no one shall harm you. For I am with you and have MANY BELIEVERS in this city..
......Thank God for America where MANY BELIEVERS live...Lets pray for the number of Christians to INCREASE in our towns, cities, and nations...America is a safe haven for believers as long as our Constitution reigns and is defended and upheld...The spirit of AntiChrist is trying to take this liberty from this nation to force a submission to his desire...BELIEVERS WE MUST STAND TALL AND STRONG AS NEVER BEFORE FOR JESUS..
........AMERICA, FOUNDED BY BELIEVERS FOR BELIEVERS.....deno.
.......Jesus had an inner circle. In that inner circle of disciples he had a few really close ones that he confided in like on the Mount of Transfiguration. The bible says all his disciples were with him at the base of the mount. But then it says that Jesus chose 3 to go a little further with him than the rest. Those three got to see the REAL JESUS that was hidden behind the fleshes veil when He began to shine so brightly on the Mt. of transfiguration. They got to see the real Jesus that was from Everlasting to Everlasting..
......When we are specially chosen, get yourself willing and ready...Who knows how far up the grace ladder God plans to take us...Be ready and willing to go.....deno.
I want to tell you a story.
......In a certain church there were these women who took pride in not ever cutting their hair. Their hair on the bun was their sanctification trade mark and they took great pride in the hair bun pile up..Each Sunday they stacked their hair up upon their heads as high as they could as if in competition with the other sisters to see who would have their hair bun piled up the highest. Best friends they were and hair sanctification was their common ground.
......One day a woman of the world came into their church. She was very worldly in her tight fitting pants and attire and her face was all painted to allure. She was one of those that had been around in the sinful ways of the world. Yet this same woman was torn in her heart. Her sins had become heavy on her mind and her soul had become vexed from sins pleasures, sins deceit and abuse. She had no real peace. She was miserable within. She wanted freedom. Her heart was craving to be set free from her bondage of guilt and shame.
......During that church service her hungry heart heard the love of God preached in Christ. She heard the preacher preaching about the woman caught in adultery and how Jesus loved her and forgave her. She heard about the woman called Mary Magdalene who was a whorish woman whom Jesus forgave and saved. The words of that preacher became like a fire of light and love in her heart and soul. Jesus knew she was going to be in that service that day and he prepared that preacher of his to deliver his love message to that woman's longing heart. The lady was so touched in the warmth of Christ and His Love she began to cry and cry.
......It came time for the altar call. That wild looking woman took off running for the altar of God for she was running for the presence of the Lord. Jesus had SEEN HER FAITH and as soon as she got to the altar she fell down on the floor even speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave her utterance. For 30 minutes this lady was in Gods other world called abounding grace.
.......After she came to from being filled with Christ and his love, those women of hair sanctification pride began to gossip about how she looked without and failed to see how she was now clothed with Christ within. She was now born of God and a NEW CREATURE in Christ Jesus. But those fair haired ladies did not seem to care about that. They judged everything by the external and nothing by the internal.
.......Well days turned into weeks and weeks into months and none of those fair haired ladies of hair sanctification pride still would not welcome that woman into their circle. They kept their distance from her all though Christ Himself had come and made his home in her heart to fellowship with her daily in grace and in love.
........Well this new believing woman became disturbed, bothered, and hurt by these ladies because she always felt them shunning her. What can i do she said to win their love? She went home crying. When she got home she looked at herself in the mirror and she saw her short glaring back at her and it dawned on her. I know what I will do. I will go buy a wig that looks like their hair does on Sunday and then they will accept me. She did just that. She went and bought a wig that looked like the Empire State Building all piled up upon her head.
......On the next Sunday she put that wig on and headed to church so excited to fit in with those sisterhood of hair sanctification. When she walked into the church sanctuary she noticed the hair sisterhood ladies looked at her with a quick glance and then quickly looked away. She was crushed. What am i doing wrong she said?. Then she looked down and noticed she was still wearing pants but they never did. So the next Sunday she came to church with the wig and in a dress and when she walked in those ladies of the sisterhood of hair sanctification all got up and highly complimented her and told her, now you can come sit with us. Your sanctified now unto salvation
.....Friends isn't it strange how we can be so filled with Christ Spirit into our hearts and so accepted by Jesus by faith but many religious people live by other rules and demand those rules and ways be upheld or they say we want be accepted or saved.
......I stand strong in the glorious liberty that we have in Christ and I refuse to be entangled with a yoke of religious looking bondage...Since Jesus the greatest of all accepted that woman and filled her heart with himself by her faith, who are we to undo that by the enforcement of a yoke that leads to a religious type bondage..?..Justified by grace thru faith we preach. We do not exalt any form of physical circumcision or hair pile up above Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead....Paul said, You that began in the spirit are you now only justified by the flesh?.
.....Note....Faith is made powerless and none effective by the guilt that comes from the religious bondage of carnal human rules enforced..Such rules do not increase faith nor faith confidence, and such rules rob us of peace and assurance..But those carnal ordinances and rules do increase doubt, unbelief, and an unhealthy unworthiness that robs faith and crushes blessed peace and assurance that yields forth JOY, the joy and peace that is in believing.....deno.
Someone today needs to read these words.
.......If all you do in your relationship with your wife, with your children, and with your friends is to accuse and to nit pic them all day long about their faults and failures and imperfections, you would have a bitterly tasting ugly very oppressing relationship. The atmosphere of your fellowship gatherings would be loveless, merciless, and depressing, never a joy.
........Well friends the bible tells us to love and accept each other and understand we all have faults, and to be kind and merciful to one another with the love of Christ. Be ye tenderhearted towards one another the scripture says and forgive one another as God for Christ sake has forgiven you.
........If you think that all God your Father cares to do is to nit pic you to death about your faults and failures and imperfections all day long and that's it, there is another spirit sitting upon the throne of your idea about God. Did not Jesus each day love, and fellowship with, and talk to his disciples each day in His joy and peace even though, even though, even though HE KNEW their hearts and KNEW that they were evil (Matthew 7/11) and that they were men and women of many flaws, sinful ways within, and imperfections? Jesus is the same Jesus today in heart as he was then. His heart is the same yesterday, today and forever.
.......Do we not love one another and rejoice with one another in our families and with our friends even though we know each of us have sinful ways and flaws of imperfections? Yes we do... Would God who commanded us to love one another this way DO LESS? Would He not do the same? Would He transgress His own commandment?...Folks we are all justified by faith and not by our perfections...Preaching peace by Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead....share freely.....deno.
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Though your sins be deep red as scarlet I will make you WHITE AS SNOW..
........Does your spirit wrestle with the White As Snow Part of Gods grace and glorious promise?..The WHITE AS SNOW part is where the love of God is. That's the part where the Joy of the Lord is found, the joy of salvation and full restoration...We go to God putting our faith in HIS LOVE FOR US and we give to Him all our guilt and shame in Jesus name. God in turn gives us THE WHITE AS SNOW PART. He gave that promise (THE WHITE AS SNOW PART seen in our text in honor of Christ His Sons Blood)...He gave to us that glorious promise for us to also believe, to be sure of, and for us to be happy about, and to help us overcome the power of sin consciousness, guilt, and condemnation...Only in walking in the light of THE WHITE AS SNOW PART will we find the PEACE & REST our souls seek..Until we believe the WHITE AS SNOW PART we are not enjoying rest but are wrestling against the love and promise of God thru unbelief and doubt.
......Jesus promised...take My yoke upon yourselves and LEARN WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR YOU and you will find rest for your souls....The WHITE AS SNOW part is part of that REST that HE GIVES...By faith in that promise WE ENTER INTO THAT REST...Without faith no one can please God....Without faith we cannot enjoy the SWEET PEACE and REST that Christ wants to give us.....share freely....deno.
.......Do you have a love relationship with Jesus whereby your spirit and soul soars with love, light, and joy, or do you have a fear based walk with Him of dread as to be stoning your own self every day in the mind and in the conscience whereby all joy is suppressed and brightness finds no place to shine?
...... Christ our Savior sat down, ate with, talked to, and fellowshipped with the chiefest and most despised sinners in Israel when he was on earth and by that God in Christ spoke volumes (For God So Loved). Many that were legalistic, law minded, and very religious, even the elders of Israel did not understand the love of God as many do not to this day (John 5:42 & Ephesians 3:19).
...... All who came to Jesus, he never turned them away. Some walked away of their own accord not understanding the love that they were talking to or hearing, but He still cried to them and to all this cry....Come unto Me all of you that are weary and heavy burdened (By the Law, By the weight of its Stone that was imposed on them) and I will give you rest (He knew His Cross carrying was going to remove the laws condemnation power off their backs by the Sacrifice of Himself and open up heaven for the Spirit to be given to all them that believe). He said Take My yoke (the gospel which means GOOD NEWS) upon yourselves and LEARN of Me (He is the Gospels Good News). FOR I AM GENTLE (not mean, heartless, short fused or abrasive, nor Satanic in fault finding as to constantly all you do is accuse accuse accuse), for I am gentle and lowly (He is so humble He will walk with anyone who is in faith. Let us remember, He got on his knees before his children (John 21:5) and washed the disciples feet) and YOU WILL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.....Before Him in love..Perfect love understood casteth out our tormenting thoughts and fears about God.
.......The fear we are to have of the Lord is not tormenting fear but a reverence that actually enhances our life with more of Christ, his love, peace and joy....Fear not, Jesus said, and believe only and you shall see the glory of God (shine on you with life and light and miracles of Gods presence). One kind of fear keeps this from happening, thats the tormenting fear that robs faith, hope, confidence, joy and love from us. The other kind of fear is the good fear, even the beginning of wisdom and confidence and faith building. It is more of an awe of God and Jesus, an awe and a marveling of the heart and of the mind that such love and greatness exist and is real, and that calls us (Whosoever) to sit down with Him at His awesome table of family fellowship here on earth and in the glory of His Paradise above in His great love.....deno.....share freely.
