Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Are You Good Enough for God? Video by Ben Piershale

Are you good enough for God?  Yes, you are...without a doubt!



Great video link...just click to watch!  God bless all!


Sandcastle Kingdoms: The Wise Man Built His House Upon a Rock "Parable"

A nice video parable of about "The Wise Man Building His House on a Rock" by Christ Jesus!  God bless you all.  A link to his YouTube channel can be found on the right-hand side of my blog!  Much love to all in Jesus's Name!  Our Lord and Savior.

Sandcastles: Parable Video

Why Don't We See Miracles in the West - Crosswalk Newsletter

If I had to choose a favorite story in the Bible, it would probably be the tale of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. That story had everything; an arrogant king, an evil plot, redemption, three brave heroes willing to sacrifice everything for their faith, but most of all, it had a miracle.

“Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, ‘Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?’ They replied, ‘Certainly, Your Majesty.’ He said, ‘Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.’ Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!’ So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.” – Daniel 3:24-28
I think all Christians wish they could one day witness a miracle. Many believe it would strengthen their faith in Christ, and admittedly, we’re all a bit jealous of those who got to witness events like the parting of the Red Sea. We hear miracles are still common in places like Africa or Asia, but here in the West, these stories sound pretty dubious. However, Bethany Jenkins of The Gospel Coalition believes we have merely lost our perspective. Miracles happen every day, she argues, we’ve only come to accept them as ordinary occurrences.
If we want to see something extraordinary, we need only look to our neighbor,
In other words, our God loves us through the work of our fellow image-bearers. The policeman who stops traffic to let the child safely cross the street, the grocer who stocks the aisle with fruit and vegetables, the science professor who introduces the student to the depths of the oceans—each are agents of God’s providential love.
“And doctors are, too. My vision hasn’t been miraculously healed, but my optometrist helps me to see. My chipped tooth didn’t suddenly regrow, but my dentist fixed it. God uses men and women working in health care to help me flourish physically. So I thank them for their ordinary work—work that has brought some measure of healing to my body.”
Jenkins’ perspective is certainly a wise one. Too often when Christians talk of miracles, what we’re really hoping for are magic tricks. We spend so much time waiting to be awed that we fail to notice the real wonders happening all around us. A miracle is when someone buys lunch for a homeless man. A miracle is when a teacher inspires a student to pursue college instead of drugs. A miracle is when parents put away the electronics and take their children camping.
God has given us the potential to be miracles in our own right. So the next time you hear of someone in need of God’s help, remember these words,
“If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.” –1st Peter 4:11
*Ryan Duncan is an Editor of Crosswalk.com

FUNNY....WARNING! Do NOT mess with Old Christian Women! You've been warned. God bless and ejoy!

Not really Biblical, not dirty or inappropriate, just funny and I gotta share.  Live, love and laugh!  God bless you all.

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The Time is Near

Silent Video - The Time is Near, Jesus is Coming Back


The reason we fail to see a Divine Being in our everyday life is that we limit the way in which He can work to our own idea of how He should work.
When we think that God can only work in the way we think He does we fail to see every day miracles and moment to moment Amazing realities. This is why when an extreme challenge hits like cancer or divorce or death, Faith is so hard to find.


Religious  myth  – 7 – I understand how God works!
My Utmost for His Highest
By:
Oswald Chambers
(1874 - 1917)
ALL OR NOTHING
"When Simon Peter heard that is was the Lord, he put on his outer garment . . . and plunged into the sea" (John 21:7)
Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything?  It is a crisis of the will.  You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing.  The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reaches internally, not extenerally.  The up on only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage.
Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ?  It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction.  If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction.  Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places  internally.
If you have heard Jesus Christ's voice on the waves of the sea, you can let your convictions and your consistency take care of themselves by concentrating on maintaining your intimate relationship to Him.


Note:  My deepest thanks to my friend, Pam, for giving me this glorious book so that I may share Oswald Chamber's very profound words.  May God bless you all and much love in Christ Jesus.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Robert Breaker - CloudChurch.org

This is a very good, Bible-teaching only pastor.  He says he's closest to a Baptist but he doesn't preach in a building because he doesn't believe in man-made rules and doctrines so he simply preaches the Bible.  He uses no other sources.  Now, he does give his opinions but makes no claims of being a prophet and he's clear when it's opinion and not fact.  He has many wonderful videos online.  Don't let the title fool you.  He is NOT saying Jesus vs. Paul as in Jesus OR/AGAINST PAUL but rather the differences in what Jesus taught, the Kingdom of God and the Gospel given to Paul by Christ Jesus...GRACE.  He has other titles like this.  Listen and decide for yourself.  If nothing else, he will make you think.  God bless, enjoy and I hope this work


Monday, August 29, 2016

Introduction to the Books of the Bible in my 
KJV
"The Gospel According to MATTHEW"
MATTHEW is the gospel written by a Jew to Jews about a Jew.  Matthew is the writer, his countrymen are the readers, and Jesus Christ is the subject.  Matthew's design is to present Jesus as the King of the Jews, the long-awaited Messiah.  Trhough a carefully selected series of Old Testament quotations, Matthew documents Jesus Christ's claim to be the Messiah.  His geneaology, baptism, messages, and miracles all point to the same inescapable conclusion: Christ is King.  Even in His death, seeming defeat is turned to victory by the Resurrection, and the message again echoes forth: the King of the Jews lives.
At an early date this gospel was given the title Kata Matthaion, "According to Matthew."  As this title suggests, other gospel accounts were known at the time (the word "Gospel" was added later).  Matthew ("Gift of the Lord") was also surnamed Levi (Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27).

Note:  These brief introductions to each book of the Bible (I chose to start with the NT first) is in my very unique Authorized King James Version Bible.  I'm sharing just to give you insight into the writers' intended messages to us.  May God bless and keep you in His hands and much love in Christ Jesus to all!  Brenda Alexander



GOD'S PROMISES
JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR



Not by words of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.  Titus 3:5-6

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.  1 John 4:14
And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.  Luke 4:14

For we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the World.  John 4:42b
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.  Luke 19:10
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but that through Him, might be saved.  John 3:16-17
Being justified freely through His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.  Romans 3:24-25
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).  Ephesians 2:4-5


Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everylasting life.  John 6:47

Honey Out of the Rock

(First of a two-part series)

"He should have fed them also with the finest wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee."

Pslams 81:16


Written by:

Thomas Wilcox

--- (1621 - 1687) ---

A word of advice to my own heart and yours.

            You are a religious person and partake of all the ordinances.  You do well; they are glorious privileges; but if you have not the blood of Christ at the root of your religion, it will wither, and prove but painted pageantry to go to hell in.

          If you retain guilt and self-righteousness under it, those vipers will eat out of the vitals of it at length.  Try and examine with greatest strictness every day, what ground your religion and hope of glory is built upon, whether it was laid by the hand of Christ.  If not it will never be able to endure the storm that must come against it; satan will throw it all down, and great will be the fall thereof (Matthew 7:27).

          You that glory in being a Christian, you shall be winnowed.  Every vein of your profession will be tried to purpose.  It is terrible to have it all come tumbling down, and to find nothing but itself to stand upon.

          You who pride yourself on being a Christian, see to your waxen wings, which now will melt with the heat of temptation.  What a misery is it to trade much, and be bankrupt at length, and have no stock, no foundation for your soul!

          You who pride yourself on the gifts you have, look to see there is no worm at the root that will spoil all your fine gourd, and make it die about you in a day of scorching (John 4:6-8),  Look over your soul daily, and ask: Where is the blood of Christ to be seen upon my soul?  What righteousness is it that I stand upon to be saved?  Have I got away from all my self-righteousness?  Many eminent religious people have come at length to cry out, in the sight of the ruin all of their duties, “Undone, undone, to all eternity!”

          Consider the greatest sins may be hid under the greatest duties, and the greatest terrors.  See that the wound that sin has made in your soul be perfectly cured by the blood of Christ, --- not skinned over with duties, humblings, and enlargements.  Apply what you will besides the blood of Christ, it will poison the sore.  You will find that in was never mortified truly, if you have not seen Christ bleeding for you upon the cross.  Nothing can kill it, but beholding Christ’s righteousness.

          Nature can afford no balsam fit for soul cure.  Healing from duty, and not from Christ, is the most desperate disease.  Poor, ragged nature, with all its highest improvements, can never spin a garment fine enough (without spot) to cover the soul’s nakedness.  Nothing can fit the soul for that use but Christ’s perfect righteousness.

          Whatever is of nature’s spinning must be all unraveled before the righteousness of Christ can be put on.  Whatever is of nature’s putting on, satan will come and plunder every rag away, and leave the soul naked and open to the wrath of God.  All that nature can do will never make up the least gram of grace that can mortify sin, or look Christ in the face one day.

          You are known as a Christian person, and go on hearing, praying, and receiving, yet miserable you may be.  Look about you: did you ever yet see Christ to this day, in distinction from all other excellencies and righteousness in the world, and all of them falling before the majesty of His love and grace (Isaiah 2:17)?

          If you have seen Christ truly, you have seen pure grace, pure righteousness in Him in every way infinite, far exceeding all sin and misery.  If you have seen Christ, you can trample upon all the righteousness of men and angels, so as to bring you into acceptance with God.  If you have seen Christ, you would not do a duty without Him for ten thousand worlds (1st Corinthians 2:2).  If ever you saw Christ, you saw Him a Rock, higher than self-righteousness, satan, and sin (Psalms 61:2), and this Rock follows you (1st Corinthians 10:4); and there will be continual dropping of honey and grace out of that Rock to satisfy you (Psalms 81:16).  Examine if ever you have beheld Christ as the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).  Be sure you have come to Christ, that you stand upon the Rock of Ages, and have answered His call to your soul, and have closed with Him for justification.

          Men talk bravely of believing, whilst whole and sound; but few know what it is.  Christ is the mystery of the Scripture; grace is the mystery of Christ.  Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world.  Put anything of your own to it, and you spoil it.  Christ will not so much as look at it for believing.  When you believe and come to Christ, you must leave behind you your own righteousness, and bring nothing but your sin ---- Oh, that is hard! --- leave behind all your holiness, sanctification, duties, humbling, and so on; and bring nothing but your wants and miseries, or else Christ is not fit for you, nor you for Christ.  Christ will be a pure Redeemer and Mediator, and you must be an undone sinner, or Christ and you will never agree.  It is the hardest thing in the world to take Christ alone for righteousness: that is to acknowledge Him Christ.  Join anything to Him on your own, and you un-Christ Him.

          Whatever comes in when you go to God or acceptance, besides Christ, call it anti-Christ; bid it be gone; make only Christ’s righteousness triumphant.  All besides that is Babylon, which must fall if Christ stand, and you shall rejoice in the day of the fall there-of (Isaiah 14:4).  Christ alone did tread the winepress, and there was none with Him (Isaiah 63:3).  If you join anything to Christ, Christ will trample upon it with fury and anger, and stain His raiment with the blood of it.  You think it’s easy to believe.  Was ever your faith tried with an hour of temptation, and a thorough sight of sin?  Was it ever put to grapple with satan, and the wrath of God lying upon the conscience, when you were in the mouth of hell and the m abgrave?  Then did God show you Christ as a ransom and righteousness?  Could you then say, “Oh, I see grace enough in Christ”?  You may easily say you believe, but it is the biggest word in the world.  Untried faith is uncertain faith.

          To believing, there must go a clear conviction of sin, and the merits of the blood of Christ, and of Christ’s willingness to save upon this consideration, merely, that you are a sinner; things all harder than to make a world.  All the power in nature cannot get up so high in a storm of sin and guilt as really to believe there is any grace, any willingness in Christ to save.  When satan charges sin upon the conscience, then for the soul to charge it upon Christ, that is Gospel-like; that is to make Him a Saviour.  He alone serves for that use.  His blood and merits alone are necessary for salvation.  That is the sum of the Gospel.  When the soul, in all duties and distress, can sa, “Nothing but Christ, Christ alone, for righteousness, justification, sanctification, redemption (1st Corinthians 1:30) --- not humbling, not duties, not graces”; that soul has got above the reach of the billows.

          All temptations, satan’s advantages, and our complaining, are laid in self-righteousness, and self-excellency, God pursues these, by setting satan upon you, as Laban did Jacob for his images.  These must be torn from you, be as unwilling as you will.  These hinder Christ from coming in; and till Christ comes in, guilt will not go out; and where guilt is, there is hardness of heart; and therefore much guilt arues very little if anything of Christ.

          When guilt is raised up, take heed of getting it allayed in any way but by Christ’s blood: that will tend to hardening.  Make Christ your peace; “for He is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14), not your duties and your tears; Christ your righteousness, not your graces.  You may destroy Christ by duties, as well as by sins.  Look at Christ, and do as much as you will.  Stand with all your weight upon Christ’s righteousness.  Take heed of having one foot on your righteousness, another on Christ’s.  Till Christ come and sit on high upon a throne of grace in the conscience, there is nothing but guilt, terrors, secret suspicions, the soul hanging between hope and fear, which is an un-Gospel-like state. 

          He that fears to see sin’s utmost vileness, the utmost hell of his own heart, he suspects the merits of Christ.  Be you never such a great sinner (1st John 2:1); try Christ to make Him your Advocate, and you shall find Him Jesus Christ the righteous.  In all doubting, fears, storms of conscience, look at Christ continually, do not argue with satan, he desires nothing better; bid him go to Christ, and He will answer him.  It is His office to be our Advocate (1st John 2:1), His office to answer law as our surety (Hebrews 7:22), His office to answer justice as our Mediator (Galations 3:20; 1st Timothy 2:5); and He is sworn to that office (Hebrews 7:20-21).  Put Christ upon it.  If you will do anything yourself, as to satisfaction for sin, you renounce Christ the righteous, who was made sin for you (2nd Corinthians 5:21).


          Satan may bring forward and corrupt Scripture but he cannot answer Scripture.  It is Christ’s word of mighty authority.  Christ foiled satan with it (Matthew 4:7).  In all the Scripture there is not an ill word against a poor sinner stripped of self-righteousness.  No, it plainly points out this man to be the subject of grace of the Gospel, and none else.  Believe but Christ’s willingness, and that will make you willing.  If you find you cannot believe, remember it is Christ’s work to make you believe.  Put Him upon it; He works to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).  Mourn for your unbelief, for unbelief is but a setting up of guilt in the conscience above Christ, and undervaluing the merits of Christ, accounting His blood an unholy, a common, and un-satisfying thing.
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A Real Man


God as an Enemy






God as an Enemy (Shared by Charisma Newsletter)
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. —James 4:4
I have never had an enemy in the non-Christian world. Yet that fact doesn't cheer me up. All my enemies have been Christians. Sadly, Christians are not exempt from jealousy and ambition. I sometimes wonder how many theological controversies—past and present—are, in reality, theological issues. The untold story in so many famous accounts is that there was often a spirit of rivalry that was masked as being a theological issue. The truth will come out in the courtroom of God.
I know that God has enemies. His enemy is the devil; the enemy of Jesus Christ is Satan. The enemy of the Holy Spirit is the devil, the enemy of the truth is the devil, the enemy of the church is the devil, and God's enemies are those who are against the truth.
God may choose to get our attention and increase our anointing by the rival spirit of an enemy. Now a rivalry can be a friendly rivalry, but sometimes it can lead to hostility. A rival is a person who competes with you. And yet a friendly rivalry can be healthy: "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another" (Prov. 27:17). Every rival in our lives may be seen as a thorn in the flesh to get us to pray harder.
There can be a strategic rivalry. Saul became jealous of David, and David became the enemy of Saul for the rest of his life. David's hero became his enemy, but it was God's way of refining David's anointing—the best thing that could have happened to him. God uses an enemy to refine us. That is why it is strategic.
Be sure that you are in Christ. Be sure that you are covered by the blood of Jesus. Be sure that all your sins are under His blood, because you surely don't want God as an enemy. Be sure then, that you know that your sins are forgiven and that you are walking in the light (1 John 1:7).
Excerpted from The Thorn in the Flesh (Charisma House, 2004).

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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Messianic Prophecy -

Isaiah 7:14  "Therefore the Lord Himself shal give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceivem and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel.

Messianic Prophecy Fulfilled
Matthew 1:23

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His Name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.



God's Promises
JESUS IS YOUR LORD
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and those in Heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  Phillipians 2:9-11
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made into salvation.  Romans 10:9-10
But why do you call me "Lord, Lord," and not do the things I say?  Luke 6:46
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.  What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?  Certainly not!  Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?  Romans 6:14-15
I beseech you therefore, brethern, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  Romans 12:1-2
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who in in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?  For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.  Acts 2:36
For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.  Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.  Romans 14:8
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation!  Selah  Psalm 68:19
But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all Your works.  Psalm 73:28
For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.  Psalm 86:5
For the Lord your God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.  Isaiah 50:7
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.  This is the first commandment.  Mark 12:30
For David says concerning Him: “I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.”  Acts 2:25