Jeremiah 35:15 "I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." 

     Do you think God is saying that to this country (America) and to the Nations?

     2 Chronicles 20:20 "And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of Te-ko-a and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established (kept safe); believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper (succeed)."

     When someone is encouraging you concerning living for Jesus and are sharing with you the gospel of Jesus Christ it would be wise to listen and do what they are telling you to do. As Jehoshaphat said, "Believe in the Lord your God so shall ye be established (kept safe) and believe his prophets so shall ye prosper." Get rid of that judgmental, critical spirit that causes you to refuse to listen to who God sends you. If they are leading you "to" a relationship with Jesus then they are for real. Maybe not perfect, we none are, but real. 

     I titled this, "What if you are trapped in a burning house? I ask this question because if you were trapped in your house and there is a raging fire and a fireman came to get you out, you would not say, "I don't need your help! I don't know you!" Or you wouldn't ignore him or her and say, "You are not perfect, I am not listening to you! Send me someone who is perfect! or Go away and leave me alone!" No! You would be a complete idiot if you did that! Seriously! 
     
     You know what is crazy? People are actually doing that every day, spiritually speaking. Their house is being totally destroyed by Satan because Jesus is not the head of their home! Their house is literally on-fire spiritually and not in a good way either, as if they are living in Hell already on earth! Are you one of those people? I hope not! If you have never invited Jesus to be the Lord of your life, you are trapped in a burning house and may not even realize it. You may get up every day and go to work and you may think you are a "good" person but if you haven't invited Jesus into your home his presence is not there and if God's presence is not there, what is? "Yourself and Satan" rules your home and that is not a good thing spiritually. It is serious! James 3:16 says, "For where envying and 'strife (selfishness) is, there is 'confusion (disorder) and every evil work." If you have not invited Jesus into your heart, your life and your home "self" is still on the throne of your heart where Jesus should be!
     

     God may have sent you many "firemen" in your day to deliver you but you have said, "Why should I listen to you? I don't know you so don't try to tell me what to do? Or you may have told someone who God has sent you to lead you into a relationship with him through Jesus and you have said, "Don't preach to me! You have criticized that one whom God has sent saying, "Don't ask me to go to church either! There are too many hypocrites there!" 
    

     If you are one of those who say those things to someone who God has sent you to keep you from a burning Hell for eternity, you need to be thankful for those spiritual "firemen" God sends you! You need to pray he gives you another chance! This is serious! If your physical (earthly) house was burning and you were trapped you would not say any of those things to whoever it was pulling you out of that fire! You need to be all the more thankful and less argumentative concerning who God is using to pull your soul out of Hell. Your soul is way more valuable than your earthly house! Don't you think?

     Also, what about when you go to the doctor, do you ask them or expect them to be "perfect"? Most of you do not even know your doctor and your doctor does not even know you on a personal basis! But yet you take every single thing they say as the "gospel truth"! Why is that? Now, don't get me wrong I have gone to doctors. I do believe God has given them the knowledge but I pray and believe Jesus is my Great Physician first as I go. I also get a second opinion too, because I realize they are not perfect. They are just as capable of being wrong as any of us. 

     In Conclusion, The next time (and I hope you pray there is a next time) God sends one of his prophets or messengers that care about your soul please listen to them! If they are truly leading you to repent of your sins and trust Jesus as your Lord and Savior, listen to them and believe! Don't worry about them being perfect or not perfect. And stop trying to figure out how "they" could be called by God thinking you are better than them. It's not about that! It is not up to you who God calls or not! You are not worthy to be judge, only Jesus is! It is God who ordains, not you! Be wise and listen and Believe and you will prosper!

     If you would like to learn more and be prepared for God's Storm of Judgment that is actually upon this world now register for my online course. You can go to my sidebar to register. It is a wealth of information to transform your life and help you prepare for the future. You do not have to live in Fear and Worry! You can go from Panic to Peace! This course will help you "Get Your House in Order" and give you the tools to "Build an Ark of Safety" for you and your family! Go to the sidebar to register. God Bless You! 

     

Write the Vision

     Habukkuk says, "And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the Vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it. 3. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." 

     You may say, "What Vision?' The one God your Creator gives you. You have to know and believe he is "your" Creator. Do you know who your Creator is? It is God Almighty- The Creator of Heaven and Earth! The one who some people ignore and try to live their lives without him, but not realize that in the end, they will perish. Proverbs 29:18 says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he."

     It is really sad how some people not only ignore God and try to live their lives without him, but they also disrespect, mock, and ridicule him. People, you must realize you will perish without God. He is not only the Creator of Heaven and Earth but all things. Including your very own breath! He is the one in control of your very own heartbeat, right now! Not your doctor! God is in control of that! Don't you think you need to get to know him being is, he is the one in control and knows when your heart will beat its last beat and knows when you will take your last breath?

     I know some of you have had earthly Dad's that were abusive to you. They have probably broken their promises to you over and over and acted like they didn't want you, and actually, they were not acting. Let's face it, they didn't want you! You cramped their style. Yes, it hurts! I know how it is. I have been there. It may sound cold and heartless of me to say it like that, but it is true. You gotta see, that your Earthly Dad was just used by God as a vehicle to get you here! God did not expect you to put your earthly dad first over him! God did not expect you to put all of your trust in life into your earthly, fleshly dad, who is a sinner just like we all are.

     God says there is only one worthy of our whole trust and that is his only begotten son Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one worthy to put our trust into! Your Dad, my Dad are not perfect and neither are we. There was only one perfect one that walked the face of this earth and that was Jesus Christ, our Savior! He is the only one worthy of our total devotion and our total focus. Don't get me wrong, loyalty to your fellow man is definitely important. It is a good and respectable thing to be a loyal person, but if you don't get loyalty back from one single person on the face of this earth, we cannot let it devastate us to where we go through life with "Daddy Issues".

     Seriously, You don't have no time to waste on this earth! We have one life and that is all. Stop focusing on the past about your earthly dad and start getting to know your Creator! He will be your Heavenly Father if you realize you are a sinner in need of being born again, Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God." We are all born sinners in need of a Savior, who is Jesus Christ!

     The bible says, "No man can come to the Father unless he draws them." The fact that you are reading this now proves that God is drawing you to himself. He Loves You So Much! He sent Jesus to die for your sins and the sins of the whole world. Think about that! Think how much love that must've been. God sent his only son Jesus to die for you! Would you send your Son to go to a cruel place to be mocked, scorned, killed by cruel men, and watch him die on a cross, a horrible, cruel death? I couldn't! But God did it for you and me. Knowing one day you would love him back just as passionately as he did for you!

     See, God had Faith in You! Did your Earthly Dad ever tell you that he has "Faith" in you? Did he ever tell you he was proud of you? Not too many Dad's tell their children they are proud of them, even after they have grown. I didn't hear it from my earthly Dad, but when I heard that God my Heavenly Father was Proud of me and He had Faith in "Me", it made me so happy! I felt like I was already in Heaven. Nobody had ever told me they were proud of me! But God did. And you know when it is all said and done, that is all that is going to matter.

     We need to get over our "selves' and start living and being what we are created to be, and that is a "Worshiper" of God! It takes spending time with God and getting to know him and his ways. God says in Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." You can't know God unless you spend time with him, but you have to be "born again" first. See, we are all born sinners until we realize that and know we personally need a Savior and ask Jesus to come into our heart and take over our life. Revelation 3:19-22 Jesus says, "As many as I love, 'rebuke (point out faults) and 'chastise (correct); be zealous therefore and repent. 20. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if any man hears my voice, and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me. 21. To him that 'overcomes (wins the victory) will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22. He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches."

     Isn't that exciting? When you invite Jesus in, God is your Heavenly Father! You will have Peace, Joy, Love, Happiness in your heart. You want to feel accepted by someone? I mean real acceptance. Not the kind of acceptance you have with your so-called friends. Believe me, I know this. Your friends and sometimes your own family will stab you in the back, but God will never do that! He will cover you and fight for you and as Paul says in Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God 'be (is) for us, who can be against us?" I encourage you to pray and ask Jesus to come into your heart and to forgive you of your sins and to fill you with His precious Holy Spirit so you can know God better. God promises to give you his Holy Spirit as your helper, and God keeps his promises! Peter says in Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ 'for (unto) the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord God shall call. 40. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this 'untoward (crooked) generation." 

Read also John 3:1-21 to gain a greater understanding of being "born" again. Give Jesus your life and he will give you a fresh new start for your life and he will show you what your purpose for being here on this earth is. He will give you a fresh vision. God Bless You!

     

     "Fight to Keep the Faith!

     First off I would like to say Hello to everyone that reads this post. God Bless You! I appreciate you! I would also like to encourage you to Not Give Up! I know this world can be hard and it's a battle! A couple of times I have asked my Lord Jesus, "Lord, can I please have no battles for a while? Can I go on vacation from the fight? I will jokingly explain to him how even soldiers in the army are not out on the "battlefield" all the time, they do get to go on vacation. I would explain to him that I just need a little break, but I would immediately clear that up and say, Lord, I want a break from the battle but I don't mean "sick bay", please don't allow me to be put there, then I would chuckle. I am so thankful that Jesus does have a sense of humor! He loves us and understands. 

     As David says in Psalms 103: 13,14 "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 14. For he knows our frame; he remembereth that we are dust."  The Lord knows our frame. He knows where we come from. He knows we are human. He knows how he created us. God is the Potter, we are the clay. He is taking us marred vessels and turning us into something grand and awesome! He knows what he is doing with us. He knows just how much heat we individually need to get all the cracks out, to smooth us out, straighten us out, or whatever he thinks we need to simply make us shine for his Glory!

"Make it or Break it"

I watched a vessel being molded

by a potter one day.

I talked with the potter about what he was doing.

Here is what he had to say.

He said,  "I take this clay and hold it,

with oh! such tender care. 

I hold it in my hands,

and it's not going anywhere!

The Potter said, "I mash it,

and I squeeze it,

and it changes

bit by bit. 

The Potter knows what he is doing

he's a master at his art.

He knows how to handle the clay

every single part. 

The Potter knows

exactly what to do.

He knows just how much pressure

to take the clay through.

He knows how much the clay

can stand the flame in the fire.

He knows what is good, for the vessel

and how much heat it doth require.

He keeps working on the vessel

after he does begin.

He keeps his eyes upon it.

Never to take them off again.

To make it or break it and shape it

into a beautiful design.

And then he puts his name upon it,

and says, "This work of art is mine!"

     

     I love that part in that poem God gave me. " He puts his name upon it, and says, "This work of art is mine!" Doesn't that make you want to shout? Knowing that God Almighty loves us and calls us "his", helps us get through whatever comes our way. We have to remember that we are not on this earth forever! We are just passing through, and whatever we go through, we are just "going through". No matter what we go through we have to Keep the Faith in Jesus Christ until we take our last breath! That is the one thing we have to fight for! Our Faith in Jesus! Sometimes we go through some kind of fire! Believe me, I have had what "I" believe is way more than my share! God knows I am saying the truth! Because I have often voiced my opinion to him on the matter! Until I realized I can either get bitter or better. I chose to get better, not bitter! I chose to let Satan and all of Hell know that I will never give up my faith in God! I love the story of Job, in the bible. Read the book of Job. I love the King James Version. Read how God was bragging about him to Satan. God had Faith in Job that Job was going to hang onto his Faith no matter what! Job was a man who lost everything. His children, his health, and his livelihood were gone! He went "through" a very horrible time!

       During those times when you are in the fire experiencing trials and tribulations and persecutions from the devil himself and it feels like all of Hell is coming against you, consciously choose Faith in God! You cannot be passive at this thing of keeping your Faith! We have to stay aggressive in this fight of faith! Job had to aggressively hang onto his faith in God. Job didn't have anyone except for God! Job's own wife was telling him to curse God and die. Job's friends were no comfort. They thought they were but they weren't. 

     We are to follow those who have held onto their faith until the very end. Hebrews 13:7 says, "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the Word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation." We cannot never forget also, Jesus says in Matthew 28:20 "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Amen! 

     I am here to tell you it is going to be a fight. The devil will come against you. He hates you because he hates God. He sees the awesome work God is doing in you and he knows why. He knows God is making an awesome warrior out of you and he is trying to stop it any way he can. 

Keep your Faith in Jesus unto the end brothers and sisters.

     You are a work of art and the devil knows it! The devil knows you are valuable! That is why he is fighting you!  

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You Were Born For A Purpose!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 "To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted."

    
      Have you asked yourself, "What am I here for? What is the purpose of me being here?" I'm talking about being on this earth, do you know "why" you were born in the first place? Personally, each one of you reading this now or listening to this on video. You are here for a purpose!

     I am writing this to expose the lie of the enemy that we are just here to go to school, to grow up to get a "job" and then retire and die. I mean really, is that the only thing we were born for? A job to make a paycheck and then die? That sounds so empty and meaningless, doesn't it? From the time we are young and growing up we are taught to go to school and go to college to get a career so you can get a good job when you are older, retire and that's it as if that is all there is to this life. That's a Lie! Listen to this parable of Jesus talking about a man who put more focus on temporary riches than eternal riches. 

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     Jesus tells us in Luke 12:16-21 "And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully (good crops). 17. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do because I have no room to bestow my fruits. 18. And he said This will I do; I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19. And I will say to my soul, Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry. 20. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee, then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? 21. So is he that 'lays (saves) up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God." That is pretty scary! This man believed the lie that all his life was about was having more stuff and a bigger place and then retiring. He chose to spend his time on temporary riches. Jesus called him a fool because he was not rich toward God. This man thought only about temporary riches and didn't focus on eternity concerning where his soul was going to live forever and ever! How sad! There are far too many people who share this one's fate and are in Hell today! 

     You may say that the man in that parable must have been a "good" man because he worked hard to be rich, but Jesus said, He laid up treasures for "himself". He was rich toward "himself" and not rich toward "God". See, we are all created for God's pleasure, not our own. John says in Revelation 4:11, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure, they are and were created." 

    

      If you are reading this today, there is hope for you! You do not have to suffer as others who believed they were their own God. Who thought because they were rich in material things that they had everything they needed. They didn't need God, or a Saviour. You have hope that is reaching out to you right now to help you see you are here for a purpose! You know you could have and should have been gone from this earth many times. and if you died without a relationship with Jesus you would have gone to Hell. But It was God that kept you here to give you another chance to choose to love and serve him. He wants you to really enjoy your so-called "retirement", but there will be no joy in your heart without him. Don't be foolish to even think that you could rest, eat, drink and be merry (like the guy in that parable), without the God who created you! We are all born with an emptiness in our hearts until we invite Jesus to come in. Nothing or no one at all can fill that void in our hearts but Jesus!
   
     Whether you are monetarily rich or poor, when you are living your life without acknowledging God and you are living for your "self", you are missing out on the true riches God planned on you to receive. Jeremiah 29;11-13 goes for us today as well. He says, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you 'an expected end (hope in your latter end). 12. Then shall ye call upon me, and I will hearken unto you. 13. And ye shall seek me, and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart." 

 

     In Conclusion- This World System and those who are caught up in it, have lied to us, making us believe our "job" defines who we are! People will make you feel like you are nothing if you do not have a "job" or money. People say You have to have a "job" to survive, to earn your way through this world system. And Dear Lord help those who do not have a "job" because people will make you feel like you are nothing if you do not have lots of money! That is all this world is about! However, I am here to tell you, You Are Valuable! You Are Precious and Priceless if you only have two pennies in your pocket right now! You are Valuable! You are worth dying for! That's what Jesus has shown you on the cross! He died for you! That is how special you are! He knows everything about you and he loves you! He knows the very number of hairs on your head. He knew you in your Mother's womb. You are here on this earth for more than just a "job". You have a Purpose and a Calling! There is a big difference! God created you for a reason! I am not telling you to quit your job but I am saying to if you don't know Jesus, to really take time to get to know him. Give him your life and follow him. He will give you direction. Proverbs 3:5,6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." (read more below).

Cocoparisienne

     God told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Before he formed you in the belly he knew you! He already has plans for you. God has given you gifts and talents. It is up to you to choose what you are going to do with your life. Give it to Jesus and let Him use you for His Glory, or continue to live for your "self". Choose wisely because we all will give an account to him when we leave this earth. Choose to follow Jesus and you will know your purpose. He will lead you to Heaven when your time on earth is up.