HAPPY SUNDAY!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you had a very safe and blessed weekend.  I wanted to touch base with you guys to let you know I'll be back online Wednesday.  After Church tonight, I have more packing to do so I probably won't be back.

I just wanted to share with you my perspective on faith and trust.  It's not always easy to let go of what is safe and comfortable.  To be honest, although I truly believe the time is now for us to move, I felt a great deal of stress.   However, tonight is our last night here and I found out just how dangerous this place has become.  I've also been socially isolated for 2 years and our new place is a community where having a bike is easier...and of course cheaper...than driving a car.  Today, I know this is right.  I will have many opportunities where here I had none.  I will be among the land of the living once again, in a safe place.  

When God opens a door, go through it.  Pray and make sure it is right but He closes some doors and opens others.  Don't be afraid to walk through as He knows best for us.  It can be scary and hard but as I felt He told me, keep looking up and your feet moving forward.  He will always be our safety net.  

God bless and see you soon.  Have a peaceful, safe and blessed week.  Much love and...LOVE MUCH in Yeshua ah Messiach.

PLEASE READ

May YHWH bless you all.

I wanted to let you all know that I will be without internet connection until Tuesday unless I go to an internet cafe.  We are moving so I will not be going to any of my pages or communities, working on my blog or participating at all in Google.  PLEASE do not think I've disappeared.  After we are settled in completely, I will be back but not until then.  I will try to moderate and approve posts when possible but if not, I will ASAP.  Be blessed, spread the Gospel and stay grounded.  Keep us in your prayers and I will miss you all.  I won't be able to visit pages or go to my notifications.  I will have to delete them as I won't be able to catch up and to try would cause too much stress so I'll just start over.  This is a true blessing for us.  The timing is perfect as His timing always is.  Be good and co-owners and moderators, thank you for keeping my page going.  You may see me but very, very limited.  I also plan to change up my blog, really work on my new one dedicated only to the spread of the Gospel and plan to start a few more.  I may have to drop some duplicate groups.  I have 200 plus and no way is that a reasonable amount.  Many I never even hear from so I'd rather participate on a few to edify the Body of Christ than be on many and fail miserably.  Besides, I plan on getting involved in community outreach soon in my new church.  However, I love my internet church too.  Thank you for understanding and see you next week after Wednesday!!!!  

Much love and LOVE MUCH in Yeshua ah Messiach!

THE MYSTERIES OF CHRIST - DID PAUL CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE CROSS?

Quote of the Day

"Jesus did not bring a message of judgment, because the world was already under judgment. In other words, why condemn an already condemned world?!"
~Stephen Davey (from "Was Jesus Sent to Judge the World?")

Today's Answer

Did Paul Change the Meaning of the Crucifixion?
R.C. Sproul

The apostle Paul wasn't even present at the crucifixion of Christ, yet he declared that this act was an act of cosmic and supernatural proportions. This was a real drama of theological redemption. Here the curse of God's law was visited on a man who bore the sins of His people. For Paul, the crucifixion was the pivotal point of all history. Paul was not satisfied to give an account of the event. While affirming the historicity of the crucifixion, Paul added the apostolic interpretation of the meaning of the event. He set forth propositions about the death of Christ.

The issue before the church is this: Is the apostolic propositional interpretation of the cross correct or not? Is Paul's view merely a first-century Jewish scholar's speculation on the matter, or is it a view inspired by God Himself?

What difference does it make? This is not a trifling matter or a pedantic point of Christian doctrine. Here nothing less than salvation is at stake. To reject the biblical view of atonement is to reject the atonement itself. To reject the atonement is to reject Christ. To reject Christ is to perish in your sin.

Please let us not soften this with an appeasing dance. Let us be clear. Those teachers in the church who deny that the death of Christ was a supernatural act of atonement are simply not Christians. They are enemies of Christ who trample Jesus underfoot and crucify Him afresh.

Taken from "Accepting the Atonement of the Cross" by Ligonier Ministries (used by permission).

Today's Video

How Can God Die?
Answered by Doug Bookman

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OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL - PERFECT GRACE

Read: Matthew 5:43–48; John 8:9–11
Bible in a Year: Numbers 4–6; Mark 4:1–20

“Neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared.—John 8:11

Jesus’s teaching about absolute ideals and absolute grace seem contradictory.

Jesus never lowered God’s perfect ideal. In His response to the rich young ruler, He said, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). He told an expert in the law who inquired as to the greatest commandment, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (22:37). No one has completely fulfilled those commands.

Yet the same Jesus tenderly offered absolute grace. He forgave an adulteress, a thief on the cross, a disciple who had denied ever knowing Him, and a man named Saul, who had made his mark persecuting Christians. Grace is absolute and all-encompassing, extending even to those who nailed Jesus to the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” were among the last words He spoke on earth (Luke 23:34).

For years I felt so unworthy when considering Jesus’s absolute ideals that I missed any notion of His grace. Once I understood this dual message, however, I went back and found that the message of grace gusts through Jesus’s life and teachings.

Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of us. —Philip Yancey

Father, Your all-encompassing grace washes over us and astonishes us. May we live today as people who enjoy Your complete forgiveness and a restored relationship with You.

Jesus fulfilled the perfect requirements of the law so that we may enjoy the perfect peace of His grace.

INSIGHT: The life of the apostle Paul is another example of God’s grace. Because of Paul’s past, he considered himself the most undeserving recipient of God’s mercy and grace (1 Tim. 1:13-14). Although he was chosen to be an apostle to the Gentiles, Paul also gave another reason he was chosen: “God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life” (v. 16 nlt ). God had you and me in mind when He saved Paul—an awesome thought. If Paul, the worst of sinners, could be saved, then there is hope for everyone else. No one is beyond the reach of God’s mercy and grace. Sim Kay Tee

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DAILY DISCIPLES DEVOTIONAL BY CHRISTIANITY.COM

February 21

Today’s Readings: Numbers 1; Mark 3:1-19

Today’s Thoughts: Just the Truth

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. 1 John 1:8-10

Many of us equate truth with whatever is in print. I have heard people say, “I read it in the paper. The writers wouldn’t write it if it wasn’t true.” However, I am reminded of two different news articles by staff reporters who lied about their facts. The first one involved a long time employee of the New York Times, one of the most prestigious newspapers in the world. The reporter confessed that he lied frequently and deliberately as a means of generating a good story. The second instance that made a lasting impression on me is about a reporter from USA Today who committed the same types of deception. Both men covered stories involving the tragedies of 911 and the war in Iraq. Much of their information was falsified to the extreme, using photos of individuals supposedly killed; later, these people were discovered to be very much alive. Not only do these revelations speak volumes as to what goes on behind the scenes of the media world, but also it leaves the public gullible and ignorant, with no way of knowing what the truth is.

Where does “truth” really exist? Do we actually believe that anything written in print is somehow more believable? The Bible says that “if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” So, in essence, we are all sinners and we are all capable of lying or falsifying informatin is to evangelize the lost and awaken the saved to live empowered lives by the Work of God and His Holy Spirit. Daily Disciples Ministries makes a difference for the kingdom of God by teaching and training believers how to be in God's Word, how to pray and how to walk with Jesus every day, as His daily disciple.

Daily Disciples Ministries, Inc. on. I think we expect more integrity from those who make a living out of reporting the news. But the lesson for all of us is: don’t believe everything you read. There is only one source that is truth and it is the Holy Bible. Anything else written by man has the   opportunity for errancy and deception. Why? Because we as human beings are sinners, capable of lying and deceiving at every turn. We even justify our exaggerations by calling them “little white lies” or “just stretching the truth.” The truth does not “stretch!”

Our only hope is in confessing our sins to “He” who “is faithful and just to forgive us our sins” and to save us from perishing in them. He is Jesus Christ. He is Truth. Today, we must plant His Word in our hearts and minds so that His truth will guide us in our daily lives. Why do we waste so much time reading and listening to the world’s news of death and destruction when we have the Good News that brings hope eternal? Think about it and make the switch today.

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PEOPLE OF PURPOSE - DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY GREG LAURIE @ CHRISTIANITY TODAY

People of Purpose

When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. (Acts 11:23)

Psychologist William Moulton Marston surveyed 3,000 people and asked them, “What do you have to live for?”

He was shocked to find that of the people who responded, 94 percent were simply enduring the present while they were waiting for the future. They described this as waiting for something to happen. They were waiting for children to grow up and leave home, waiting for next year, waiting for another time to take a dreamed-about trip. They were waiting for tomorrow.

We can spend our whole lives waiting for something to happen, and meanwhile, our lives are passing by. We have no purpose. We have no direction. We’re throwing them away.

As someone has said, “Some men die by shrapnel, and some go down in flames, but most men perish inch by inch, playing at little games.”

Purpose is vital. It’s an anchor in storm. It’s a base in battle.

We read in the New Testament that when Barnabas visited the believers in Antioch, he “encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord” (Acts 11:23).

Ephesians 2 describes us before our commitment to Christ: “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” (verses 1–2).

That’s how we lived. But then we found out there was a God. We discovered His Word. We found there were absolutes to live by in life--right and wrong, true and false, black and white. We became men and women of purpose.

Do other people know what you stand for? If you don’t stand for something, you are liable to fall for anything.

Copyright (c) 2017 by Harvest Ministries. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright (c) 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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THE "FALSE CHURCH SYSTEM" - VIDEO ON THE WORD OF GOOD AND TRUE CHURCH

This means every church from the RCC, Pentacostals, New and Improved False Churches to the Baptists and Little Brown Church in the Vale.  Where did our CHURCH go?

The Church is The Assembling Together of Believers

To teach the Gospel to the Sinners

William Tyndale correctly translated church as congregants.  We are the TRUE CHURCH!

THE EXPECTED ONE - BY UNASHAMED OF JESUS

The Expected One by @unashamedojesus

and said to Him, "Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?" Matthew 11:3

Are you unsure if Jesus is really the Messiah or Son of God? Don’t feel bad if you do, even the prophet, John the Baptist, who Jesus called the greatest (Matthew 11:11), questioned whether Jesus was the Messiah. Its natural for us as humans to be skeptical or hesitant to trust. Because through our lives people have always let us down. But we need to understand that Jesus was perfect, he knew no sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) he spoke truth even when it meant his life.

Lets see how Jesus responds to this question: Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see: the BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM. "And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me." (Matthew 11:4-6)

First off Jesus didn’t get offended he simply said his evidence is by his works. We should not be afraid to ask God questions we don’t know. If you seek you will find (Matthew 7:7) God will reveal the answer to you through his works. Jesus demonstrated who he is , not only by his words, but by his actions.

Lastly notice Jesus says, blessed is he who does not take offense at me”. Anyone who acknowledges Jesus before others he will acknowledge to God the Father (Matthew 10:32) You can’t love God without loving the Son and vice versa.  Let God reveal his Son to you today, keep seeking and asking in Jesus Name Amen

LAUGHTER - MY SILLY CAT

A dose of laughter as it's been a long time.  I love my cat but I cannot figure out how he managed to get his head caught in the cardboard handle of my deli roasted chicken.  I could if it wasn't lying flat on the counter but it was.  Let me know if you figure it out because it is a mystery I cannot solve.  BTW, he was NEVER in any danger at all.  Otherwise I'd have taken it off immediately.  He was just mad...and I think embarrassed, lol.  So laugh...I sure did.  YHWH bless you always.  Spread the Gospel of Grace!

5 SIGNS TO IDENTIFY FALSE PROPHETS AND TEACHERS! VERY HELPFUL VIDEO

Good information.  Well worth watching and sharing.  Jesus Christ warned us about wolves in sheeps' clothing and He meant it.  Many today are under a strong delusion and deception.  I learned early in life the best way to deceive or tell a convincing lie to get others to believe you is to tell as much truth as you possibly can so that they totally miss the glaringly obvious LIE.  Did Jesus teach you to be wealthy and prosperous?  No.  Was He wealthy, prosperous and loved by the people?  I'd say no.  After all, the wealthy and prosperous leaders of His day demanded He be crucified.  He said "It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.  He also said that the "LOVE of money is the root of all (some Bibles say many) evils."  Does this new "Wealth and Prosperity" preaching line up with the Word of God?  If not, it is a false doctrine.  Be a good Berean and search the scriptures daily to see if it is so.  Money is often a modern-day idol as is our possessions.  We don't actually "worship" them, do we?  Do we?  I'm not sure we don't.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL, BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND MUCH LOVE (AND LOVE MUCH) IN YESHUA AH MESSIACH (CHRIST JESUS IF YOU PREFER)

LOVE IS ACTION SO PUT IT INTO ACTION BY SHARING THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION BY GRACE TO THIS UNBELIEVING WORLD

FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:1-11

EPHESIANS 2:8-9

JOHN 3:16-17

DON'T FORGET WE ARE SINNERS IN NEED OF SALVATION BY JESUS CHRIST

ROMANS 3:23

ROMANS 6:23

THE RIVER TREE - OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL

Read: Jeremiah 17:5–10
Bible in a Year: Leviticus 26–27; Mark 2

They will be like a tree planted by the water.—Jeremiah 17:8

This was a tree to be envied. Growing on riverfront property, it didn’t have to worry about weather reports, withering temperatures, or an uncertain future. Nourished and cooled by the river, it spent its days lifting its branches to the sun, holding the earth with its roots, cleaning the air with its leaves, and offering shade to all who needed refuge from the sun.

By contrast, the prophet Jeremiah pointed to a shrub (Jer. 17:6). When the rains stopped and the summer sun turned the ground to dust, the bush shriveled into itself, offering no shade or fruit to anyone.

Why would the prophet compare a flourishing tree to a withering bush? He wanted his people to recall what had happened since their miraculous rescue from the slave yards of Egypt. For forty years in a wilderness, they lived like a tree planted by a river (2:4-6). Yet in the prosperity of their promised land they had forgotten their own story; they were relying on themselves and on gods of their own making (vv. 7-8), even to the point of going back to Egypt looking for help (42:14).

So God, through Jeremiah, lovingly urged the forgetful children of Israel, and He urges us, to hope and trust in the Lord and to be like the tree—not the bush. —Mart DeHaan

Father, in so many ways You have taught us that You alone can be trusted—even when it seems like You are nowhere to be seen. Please help us to recall today what You have already shown us along the way.

Let’s remember in good times what we have learned in days of trouble.

INSIGHT: Today’s Bible reading contrasts the life of the person devoted to God with the life of one who trusts in his own strength. Jeremiah uses incredibly strong language to differentiate between the two. One is blessed and one is cursed. It’s mind-boggling that we would choose to trust in ourselves instead of God, yet we all choose to do so from time to time. But verse 10 offers hope. It is not what we claim that determines whether we are a tree by the streams or a bush in the desert; it is the Lord who examines and rewards us. Are there any areas of your life you need to ask the Lord to examine? J.R. Hudberg

PROPHECY BY 90 YEAR OLD NORWEGIAN WOMAN IN 1968 - WOW!

MUST WATCH - Remember, this was given in 1968 and guess what, it happened or most of it.  Wow!  God bless and LOVE MUCH and MUCH LOVE in Yeshua ah Messiach.  Be filled with the Spirit and YHWH is faithful to forgive...and forget!

FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:1-11

JOHN 3:16-17

EPHESIANS 2:8-9

WE ARE SINNERS!

ROMANS 3:23

ROMANS 6:23

GOSPEL OF SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE!

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TRUMP PROPHECY BY POLICE CHAPLAIN - CHARISMA MAGAZINE (LINK)

Just wishing you a safe, blessed and Spirit-filled Sunday,  Much love in Yeshua ah Messiach.  Share the Gospel of Salvation by Grace in First Corinthians 15:1-11.  Have a great week and see you after the move this week.  I'll be back in 1 to 1 1/2 weeks.

CLICK HERE TO READ CHARISMA ARTICLE ON TRUMP PROPHECY

DON'T LEND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS MONEY - WHY NOT GIVE IT TO THEM?

Tonight, I came face-to-face with a huge dose of reality.  The Holy Bible says, I think, "neither a borrower nor a lender be."  Sounds harsh, doesn't it?  After all, we all get in binds and need a few bucks here and there to tie us over.  However, many families today are barely scraping by.  I don't care what the government says, I see many people living today not paycheck to paycheck but day to day.   Their paychecks barely cover the basics IF they even  meet them.  We lived in abject poverty for 3 years in North Carolina as my well-abled husand, with awesome work ethics, went jobless for 3 years.  He couldn't even get a job at a grocery store.  He worked all his life, gave 4 years to sacrifice part of his life to protect this country and our people.  Us getting out was nothing but a pure miracle, a TRUE miracle from God.  If I only had the time to tell you, there is no way you could deny the existence of a loving and merciful God whose timing is ALWAYS perfect.

Unfortunately we had to borrow money from my sister way too often and my son had to pay our car payment each month, although we paid as much as possible too.  The problem is, we could never pay her back.  Oh, we wanted to but there was never enough and the few times we could, we ended up having to ask again.  It became a vicious cycle.  Now, she and her husband was very gracious to us, helped us get in a new apartment before he lost his job.  After his unemployment ran out, by God's grace the VA gave him $1500/month as long as he was enrolled in school, which they paid for but the program only lasted for 15 months (or a year, I forget).  Yes, we got a small amount of food stamps out of desperation.  Otherwise, we had about $20 month for groceries IF we didn't pay our bills completely.  We got into a bad cycle.  We NEVER had enough money.  When I say we lived without any extras, renting a movie at Redbox once a year was our ONLY extravagance.  I never had new clothes and my one pair of shoes was worn slap out  I had to hope I got a pair at Christmas.  Unmentionables?   I did a lot of handwashing of them.  

My sister married money.  She got to live an easy life and could afford THE finest of everything.  If I got a $2 shirt at the Dollar General, I felt blessed.  A book?  The library was my best friend.  We had to have the internet so my husband could go to school, otherwise we lost the $1500.  When it ran out, we were left with zero income.  Two months later, the VA sent us a check for $2300 and we moved to Florida.  He was employed, making a living wage (although very humble) within 4 days.  I prayed us to Florida and God heard our prayer.  

My point is this, if you are blessed with money and you know your sister/brother/mother, etc. is struggling just to breathe and they need money, even if it's $20 and you have it, do NOT lend it to them.  Do them the biggest favor (and yourself) and GIVE it to them, even if it's every week/month or however often.  If they can't buy a hamburger off the dollar menu at McDonald's, how do you think they'll be able to afford to pay you back?  If you love your money that much, say no.  They'll find a way as God always provides one...always.  Maybe He is using YOU for HIS will.  Besides, if you cannot afford to lose the money, you can't afford to lend them money.  Money perishes and tomorrow it may be you who needs some money.  No one is guaranteed wealth and prosperity and a tornado can render you homeless in 3 seconds.  

Also, if you do "lend" or even give them the money, shut up about it.  They know they owe you money and if you think they enjoy asking you, especially if they have to beg and make promises they know they can't keep but are desperate, you are very wrong in at least 95% of the cases.  Of course there are leeches and dishonest people out there, even your family.  Say NO to them.  Don't be used but when you constantly throw up how much you "do" for them in their face, they start to feel as if the only color you care about is "green" and "red" means nothing (meaning money/blood).  It is not worth losing your family over and often times, to others, you look like the bad guy in the situation.  

Borrowers, there are some awesome ways you can earn a few bucks honestly.  Sell CDs, DVDs, pawn things you don't use and have yard sales.  Scale back.  We left everything we owned back in NC except what would fit in our car.  Sure, there's a few things I wish I still had but there's something awesome about being able to walk away from your material possessions and be fine.  It is complete freedom.  Never be so in love with your "stuff" that your world would crumble if it was gone.  Leaving everything behind gave us the life God wanted for us.  I miss my family but I love my new one.  

This is not meant to be about people who use you but if you have a struggling family member or friend and even if they need a few dollars each month to survive (we're not talking about even thriving) then remember that Jesus gave His ALL for you.  Does He throw that in your face or make you feel shame?  No, He forgave you everything.  What if He had said yes but...you gotta pay me back?  Think about it.  "For ye are saved by GRACE not works".

Besides, red is a much brighter color than green.  Blood saved us, remember?  On a cross on Calvary!  The blood ran red!

God bless you all, be Spirit-filled and much love in Yeshua ah Messiach!

Show Love by Sharing the True Gospel of Salvation - GRACE

First Corinthians 15:1-11

Ephesians 2:8-9

John 3:16-17

WE ALL SIN

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23