Walk By Faith!!

For we walk by faith, not by sight.


Sometimes a Faith walk can be so very trying.
Standing in Faith is even harder.

Paul the Apostle said in
1 Corinthians 6:13
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

When the storms come
and they will come to all men...
whether rich, poor, good or evil
the storms of life come.

Depending on the storm
where is your faith?

Is it a light sun shower?
Is it a nice thunderstorm that lasts about 20 minutes?
Is it a flash flood, blizzard,
hurricane or Severe storm with tornadoes.

The storm comes
BUT will you be able to stand?

Unless you have truly experienced a severe storm in your life
you don't truly know what it feels like.

Every ounce of you is wondering
WHERE IS MY SAVIOR?
or
LORD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT?

but I know you are
FAITHFUL!!

When I see some Christians living a life without serious stresses
I often wonder....are they walking by faith.

What is walking by faith?

I find some Christians can say they are
"walking by faith"
but are they?

Is it that maybe some save themselves before the Lord saves them personally?
Or does it depend on when and how the storm hits?

I have found myself in this dilemma:
Boy, do I want to save my self
Boy, do I want to call it quits
Boy do I want a detour
Boy, this road is quite bumpy and filled with pot holes

Sometimes I wonder:
Will I EVER get to the highway where the road is paved smoother and I can drive at a quicker speed.

The children of Israel complained and their hearts were filled with unbelief
The Lord had promised them the good of the Land....
But because of unbelief they went astray and quit

We can read, think and say....

hmmmm... those Israelites....why didn't they JUST believe God and stay on course.
What is wrong with them (rolling eyes in judgment)....

Be careful what comes forth from your mouth
because until we are in the midst of the
TRIAL or TEST...
we won't know how we would respond to the test

It might be an easy quiz
or
a more in depth and lengthy test like an
SAT
either way....God lets us use the book
are we prepared?

SO then PRAY:
That you will be able to stand and believe God for His Word
PRAY
that if a storm you never experienced comes to hit your town(life), you will know how to deal with it and trust God for His word
PRAY
that you don't look at another brother or sister in judgment thinking you are stronger than they
PRAY
that you will be able to stand the wiles of the enemy
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

SO
If we drop out of the race
throw in the towel
call it quits
surrender to the enemy's wiles
or even save our selves by worldly solutions

Understand this:
God never failed you
It wasn't HIS will for you to quit fighting and praying
It wasn't His plan for your failure
It was your own CHOICE,
to throw in the towel or raise the white flag

Yes, He loves you and forgives you and always gives you another chance
But all in all
He is
ALWAYS
FAITHFUL
and wants you to wait
for His promises!!

And He WILL deliver...

HE ALWAYS DOES!!!!!!!


the
LORD
is ALWAYS
FAITHFUL!!

Do Not Be Deceived

Deception in the Church

Is making the body of Christ

weak!

What is this deception that has become as a cancer in the body of Christ?

The Blame Game!

But who are the Christians blaming.....I find more and more it isn't the devil anymore.....it is the Lord himself.

What?

How could this be?

How could we even possibly blame God for what is going on in our lives?

Yeah, many are!

Saying:

God is in Control of everything!

It was God's will to afflict a baby with a horrible disease and die at an early age.

It was God's will for a spouse to die of cancer.

It was God's will for a teenager to be murdered, raped, or killed in a tragic car accident.

It was God's will for some to lose everything in the earthquake in Haiti.

Oh no, but that was God's judgement!

Let me inform all my faithful readers.......God's judgement is coming but understand we are in a period of peace.

Remember what the Angels declared in Luke 2:14

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Judgement is coming on THE DAY of judgment.

The Lord is so merciful and long suffering....He is waiting for all men to come to know Him. He desires that none should perish.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Some underestimate the Love of God!

I often wonder why so many struggle with their walk with the Lord.

I believe it is because

they don't know Him or trust Him.

Why is this so?

The deception!

The deception that we can never know Him completely.

People saying:

"God works in mysterious ways."

or

"Our ways are not His."

Yeah, it was said in the Old testament....

But remember we are Holy Spirit filled believers that know all things because Jesus said in

John 14:26

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Many Christians are not willing to devote their whole lives to finding the truths that Jesus gave us 2000 years ago.

For example:

Why don't we receive our healing?

Because we don't receive it like we did our salvation.

We think that healing is something He wills to give if it be His will. But who's to know what His will is right?

We have the Holy Spirit!

And if we understand redemption, we can understand what belongs to us as believers of Christ and citizens of Heaven. Once we are born again here on earth we are then no longer citizens of this world but heaven.

So everything that is in heaven is ours.

Remember the Lord's prayer?

His Kingdom come, His will be done

On EARTH as it is in HEAVEN!

Jesus has said in

Matthew 4:17

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

This means it is at hand.....IT IS HERE!

Today and forevermore!

Deception has leaked in to so many houses of worship that it is truly upsetting.

Christians don't even realize what belongs to them anymore

They are begging God to heal

to redeem their situation

to give them peace,

When Jesus already gave it to them!

This has become my foundation to my life and I have seen many lives transformed by understanding the

POWER OF HIS BLOOD

Religion has been taken over by Satan himself and He is laughing as many Christians

are being destroyed in this life, not ever experiencing the purpose God had in store for them. Yes they go to be with the Lord....but their lives cut short.

He is isn't just killing babies by abortion

He is killing the youth of america with lies that God is a God of Judgement and who knows He just might kill someone with

cancer

car accident

murder

HOW CAN WE BELIEVE THESE LIES!!

OH, MY HEART GRIEVES

The enemy is DEFEATED!

The truth needs to be preached

we need to understand

REDEMPTION

yet again!

Remember God's Heart of the matter is this. His promise to those who love and believe Him is this:

Deuteronomy 11:21

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

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Christian Cliches

God is Good!

It is such a cliche!

Yeah, it really is!!

Do people really believe this or do they just say it?

To me it seems like people say it, but they don't truly understand

HIS GOODNESS!

I'll be praying for you!

Yep....another cliche!

Do you actually think people will truly take the time and pray for you?

Some might....

So why don't they do it when we are standing there....

or on the phone?

Why do we pray and then doubt he'll answer?

People will pray for healing and then they doubt it.

Do they truly TRUST in His

FAITHFULNESS??

Love you?

Yeah, another cliche not to be taken lightly

Do they truly love me?

Or are they just saying it

God's in Control

Finding this is another one of those cliches

Is He really in control?

If He is then.........

why is there still

murder

rapes

starvation in other countries

children beat to death

child and adult prostitution

suicides

you name it?

Is He truly in "control".....?

I don't believe it.

WE are the ones responsible for the mess the world is in

NOT GOD!

God is Good!!!

and this

I know

all so well!

Yeah, maybe it has been one of those weeks over here and I am really trying hard to find and hear of those who truly

KNOW HIM!

I bet the Lord is so grieved by the unbelief and doubt which clouds so many Christians minds

Yeah, they say "God CAN do it.....but not for ME."

WHAT?!!

Do you NOT believe?

Why don't you believe His Word?

What is wrong with the Christians of today?

Honestly.....I am grieved.

We toss words around

or

Scriptures

but do we truly take them to heart.

It hurts me

so how much more does it hurt

HIM

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A Shout Out to All Christians!!

GOD WHO ARE YOU?? Whom are we to believe?? DO YOU STRIKE US DOWN WHEN WE ARE SINNING?? Lord reveal yourself!! I know....these are the sorts of questions we ask in our hearts.  Not really understanding who we serve and what we serve.  Yeah, yeah....you might say you know God, but do you really?    Is it the God of the old testament or the God of the New?  I am sure you all have wondered "who this God is?"  Why is He so mysterious?  But is He mysterious?  So many people will say,"Oh, the Lord works in mysterious ways" or "We don't know why God took so and so home at 16 yrs of age."  "I guess God is in Control and Sovereign."  "We will never know on this side why these things are happening."  "What ever will be, will be."  "How dare question God!!"  As they say it with a hypocritical look, judging you like you are such a LOSER who has no idea who God is.   I am sorry but these are lame reasons to not seek the Lord as to why certain things happen.  I, personally, am a big believer in a big God who will speak truths to me and will answer my questions.   I won't relent until I have some sort of answer or peace!!  I am determined to find the answers to the many questions thousands of believers might just think about, but never really search them out.   Some Christians will settle on the same old response "It must have been God's will!!"  They won't seek any further;  they will stop seeking and continue to live a life where they are hanging on by a thread in this world and not wanting to know more.   Hello People??!!  Lets be like the fathers of the faith...Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Jacob (Israel), Moses, Elisha, Elijah, all the Prophets, Paul, John, Peter, and many devoted Christians that have come after.   Lets stop sitting on our fat behinds, sucking our thumbs and spending endless hours doing absolutely nothing to find out who God really is!!  Lets READ THE WORD people and stop creating our own ideas of who God is!!  Stop living in the natural and live in the supernatura!!  If we are truly Christians then we should be walking in greater works then the Lord Jesus!! John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. Why aren't we?  WHY??!!!  Have you ever asked yourself these questions?  Why are we not living like the new testament church?  Are we truly walking in the power of the Holy Spirit?  We have fallen to worship the world and not walking in the power of the Kingdom of the Most High!!  We have decided to walk as lukewarm and live a life of godliness lacking power.   2 Timothy 3:4-6 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, FOLKS......OPEN YOU EYES....people are dying!!!  Not just spiritually but literally dying of sickness and diseases, tragedies, and we are falling into the trap of believing that God is doing this.  WAKE UP....STOP being so deceived!!  Has the devil blinded you so much that you are believing such LIES?? WHO IS JESUS??  What did He come to do?  Read the word and find out for yourselves!!  THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!!  Not just for heaven it is HERE AND NOW so act on it and know that God is Here!! FREE IN CHRIST

The "Almost" Sacrifice of Isaac

The story of Abraham and Isaac is power filled.  To me it depicts the testimony of true faith, trust, and knowledge of who God is.  Abraham was a man who heard the voice of the Lord and never once flinched at the promises that God made to him.

Hebrews 11:8-12

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.  By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;  for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.  Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Many might say that Abraham struggled, feared, or doubted when God asked him to take Isaac and lay him up as a sacrifice.  Many theologians might say that he was fearful and must have doubted during the time when he took his only son and laid him up as a sacrifice.

Genesis 22:2

 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Abraham was a man who knew His Lord, His word, and His will. The Will of the Lord for Abraham's life was steadfast on his heart.  He never once considered that the Promise of God made to him could not be accomplished.  His mind, heart, and thoughts were steadfast focused on the Lord.

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

So when God tested Abraham for the word sake to truly know if Abraham trusted in the promises of the Lord, I believe Abraham was eager to do the Lord's will.

Hebrews 11:17-19

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,  of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

There was no hesitation on Abraham's part.  He knew God wasn't going to let Him down.  He knew God is a friend and not the enemy.  He knew the voice of His Father.  He BELIEVED and never once doubted.  He even made mention to his servant of what the end result would be:

Genesis 22:5

 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."

This, my friends, is a man who knows His Lord.  He knew in his heart what the Lord was going to do and knew that it was "WORSHIP" to obey the Lord and trust in Him. 

As they are approaching the mountain, Isaac asks "where is the lamb?" and Abraham answers with confidence saying: 

Genesis 22:8

  Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.


Abraham still acting and working in faith bound his son, laying  him on the wood and lifting up his knife was about to "sacrifice" Isaac.   I am sure in his heart he kept hearing the words and promises of God.  They must have been repeating over and over in his mind and he was probably speaking them out of his mouth.  It doesn't say this in the bible, but I know this is what we would do in prayer or in place of confession repeating the word of God.  So I am guessing Abraham was praising, praying unto the Lord while binding his and about to stab him.  When we speak forth the words of God, we are declaring with our mouths those words He, the Lord has spoken to our hearts, which is supernaturally prophetic. 


The end result of this act of faith is that God DID provide and it was accounted to Abraham for righteousness and he was called a friend of God.

Galatians 3:6

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

and 

James 2:23

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

The Lord is looking for those who have the faith and the trust Abraham had.  He knew the heart of God. He trusted in the goodness of God.  He knew God would NEVER, EVER let Him down!!

How do we get to a place where we can trust in the Lord just as Abraham did?  We need to fill our minds with the words of the Lord, and from the fellowship we have with Him.  We need to not fill our minds and heart with unbelief of the world.  Unbelief and ungodliness is so prevalent in today's society.  This unbelief can choke any faith we may have in God.  If we turn on the news, there's unbelief!  If we go to work there is unbelief!  If we watch TV there is unbelief!  So how do we tune out all of this unbelief?  We need to be a people who are willing to lay down those things that can easily ensnare us by reducing those things in our lives that may bring unbelief. 


I encourage you to look at your lives and figure out how you can eliminate weights of unbelief, those weights that hold you down from trusting God like Abraham did.  If it is to lay down some of the news you are listening to; To not watch movies that portray people dying of cancers; To stop speaking words of lack, doubt, death; etc...  You will know by the Holy Spirit what you need to drop or limit.  He will let you know.  Remember don't let anything bring guilt and condemnation and know that you are 

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