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The Cost of being a
Friend

    Such a strong word, which sadly, we have used, and weakened, the word Friend, very lightly to the point of loosing it’s importance. We talk of our ‘host of friends’ meaning, all with whom we have relations, or even of being a pleasant acquaintance. We may a certain person is a friend when we only know them only from work, or socially, when their hearts and ours have never touched in any real communion. There may be nothing amiss in this wide application of the word, but we ought to understand that in the use of it, it’s full sacred meaning is not even touched.

Before carrying on . . .
Friend:~ [re’a or rah-ah] Companion, neighbour, fellowman, familiar person. In Hebrew [ra~ah] means ‘associate with’ or ‘be a friend of’. . . A friend should always love at all times. They should with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one whom is exclusive of sexual or familiar relations.. A member of the religious society of friends.. To add (someone) to a list of friends, or contacts on a social-networking website..
Acquaintance :~ A person one knows socially but who is NOT a close friend .. 2. A wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
   To become another’s friend. in the true sense, is to take the other into such close, living fellowship, that their life and ours becomes knit together as one. It is now more than an association of mutual interests, profit, or enjoyment. It is for more than pleasant companionship in the bright sunny hours. A true friendship should be entirely unselfish, in both parties. It should always seek NO benefit and good of it’s own. It looks for not what it may receive, but for what they can give. Your aim is not to be ministered unto, but rather minister too.
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times”
Proverbs 18:24 “A man who has friends, must himself be friendly. But there is a friend who sticks closer than another”

Be warned :

It Costs To be a Friend

   “For better for worse, For richer for poorer, In sickness and in Health.” These are words from the Wedding Vows, a true friend should be a strong form of friendship. As my wife and I did our dating via letters & phone calls daily. (as she lived in Northern Ireland, and I was living in South Devon), so we built up a strong bond. She has been my best friend since. When we take someone into our lives, as a friend, at this point we don’t know what it may cost us, to be faithful to our friend. Misfortune may befall our friend, and they may need our help in ways that will lay a heavy burden upon us. It may be in their business, or in their private life. Timely help may enable them to over come their problem, and thus turn around their misfortune.

   It is in our power to render them help, without which they would surely not have what it takes to turn things around. It will cost us though, personally, it will inconvenience us, and may bring trouble. But they are a close friend? BFF, if you will. (Best Friend Forever). It could be they been a close friend for a long time, thus becoming a partner in their affairs. So can we truly with hold the help they need. Which we are able to give, without breaking the Holy covenant of friendship and failing our obligations to them. My wife and I were watching a program called ‘Impractical Jokers’, whilst in the middle of a challenge one saw an old associate he once worked with, and so asked him to lend $100.oo, this guy said sure but instead of just $100, he handed over $200 without blinking, what an act friendship this guy showed. This is what I mean by a close friend.

Proverbs 17:17 “a brother is born for adversity”
   Sadly it may be the misfortune of sickness, or may be even broken health, (could be broken bones, mental health, or a disability), that befalls a friend. So at this point they are no longer to be of any help, able to contribute to the friendship, that does not mean we are to turn our backs. Just because we are the ones who are to minister to them, don’t turn your backs on them!

   Think not bad of your friend, that could not contribute their part in the friendship, and mutual ministering, giving as well as receiving. They could have been the one who had stood beside you in your time of trial. Our modern culture has cultivated the attitude of . . ‘Why should I care, it has nothing to do with me’, or, ‘What do I get out of it. . .
NKJV 2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away”

. . . Now lets look at this in the Amplified version . . 
AMPC 2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But understand this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]. 2 For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centred, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. 3 [They will be] without natural [human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. 4 [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. 5 For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them]”
. . . It is safe say to that we all know of people that have one or more of the above. These poor souls do need our prayers.
   The meaning of true friendship wherever it exists, is not based purely on helpfulness or service which it must receive as it’s condition, It’s source is in the heart itself. It’s essential desire is to help serve. It makes no nice calculation for so much to be given and so much received. It stops at no cost which faithfulness may entail. It hesitates at no self denial which may be necessary to the fulfilment of it’s duties. It does not complain when everything has given up. It only grows stronger & truer & more constant as the demands for giving and serving becomes larger.
   We need to be mindful of the cost of friendship, which should not be ignored, that which comes with revealing of faults and flaws and sins. At first glance, when we meet people we can only see the surface of the character that is projected. Thus we become attracted to the elements that win us over. At length our attraction goes out to them and eventually calling them friends. We walk with them in pleasant companionship that makes no demands on our unselfishness, this discloses little of their true nature. Even at this point we see/know beyond the surface. Sadly nothing has occurred in the progress of our friendship to bring out the things in their disposition which are altogether not lovely.

Be warned :

It Costs To be a Friend

   Over time, a closer intimacy, that reveals their faults. Then we can learn what lies beneath attractive exterior which so pleased us we find they to like us, have blemishes ~ spots ~ flaws, which sadly disfigure the beauty of life. We learn in them are elements or meanness, which in turn will cause us pain. Then learn that they have secret habits that we find repulsive. These highlighted things in their demeanour, that we never suspected, which are more evident the closer the friendship becomes. . .
Psalms 52: 2-4 “Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. 4 You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue”
. . . the longest and freest acquaintance previous to marriage only the better side of the life, for both of them. The same is true in the greater, or lesser, degree in all friendships.
   This then is a servier test of love. It is the rise into something of the Spirit of Christ that we are able to meet this test of friendship. He [Jesus] takes us as we are and never grows weary of us, what ever faults and sins discover themselves in us. There is infinite comfort in this for us. We are conscience of our unworthiness and the unlovelyness, this in our souls.
   Many of us have pages from our lives which we would not dare spread out before anyone else’s eyes. They are our inner feelings, even desires, jealousies & motives, which we don’t feel happy about laying bear to our dearest trusted friends. Yet Christ knows all of our sins & faults, which we keep only for Him to know. . Nothing is hidden. . nothing can be hidden God’s eye’s. To Him there is a perfect revealing of our innermost feelings such as ~ desires ~ longings ~ cravings, which we would not feel secure in laying bear to our dearest, in we trust the most with our dearest friends. . .

>> YET CHRIST KNOWS THEM ALL <<

. . . yet we need not feel afraid that His friendship for us will NOT change or grow less, or with draw itself, when He discovers in us all the repulsive things. This is the ideal of ‘Human-friendships’. They are not repelled by them being found out..
NKJ ~ Revelation 3:8 “I know your works”
NIV ~ Revelation 3:8 “I know your deeds”
AMP ~Revelation 3:8 “I know your [record of] works and what you are doing”
.. our Lord will not offer up our blemishes, even though nothing is hidden from His eye’s. True friendship is unconditional, though there are those relations that are toxic and do nothing but bring you down if your promoted. To the extent that they will smear your name to bring you down, hold you back. The tradergy is that you will have to cut these loose, like a cancer, because they'll stop you from being able grow.

Romans 16:20 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you”
Grace :~ Charis [Khar~ece]From the same root as Chara ‘Joy’, Chario causes ‘rejoicing’. It’s Gods grace as extended in sinful man. It signifies unmerited facour, undeserved blessing, or a free gift.

   In spite He continues to love us all, even because He found unbeautiful and unworthiness within us. He teaches us a form of friendship that is loyal. As He loves us, He would have us love others. We say many are unworthy of such friendships. True or not, niegh?? are worthy of Christ’s wondrous love of us. But, Christ loves us not according to the riches of our own heart. So it would be the giving of friendship, not as the person deserves, but after the measure of our own character.

   I hope that all these illustrations are enough to show just what it costs to being a ‘True Friend’. When we receive someone into being a ‘Faithful’, relation, all be it that we don’t know what responsibility, and what burdens we may be taking upon ourselves, and the sorrows it may cost our love. We accept a solemn responsibility when we do so. At this moment we have no idea the burdens we may be engaging to carry, also the cost of the unconscience pledging ourselves to.

   Let me say this in closing. When choosing our friends, we must be therefore, thoughtfully, wisely, prayerfully, before we open the doors to our inner self and pledging our friendship & love, we need to be faithfull what ever the cost may be.

Getting Christ’s Touch

 

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Getting Christ’s Touch

   There was wondrous power in the touch of Christ when He was on the Earth. Wherever He laid His hand there was a blessing. Vertue went out of Him, in every touch of the sick .. and sad .. and wearisome .. giving full health .. and giving comfort & peace. That hand, glorified, now held in it’s grasp the seven stars. Yet there are senses in which the blessed touch of Christ is felt on the Earth. He is still as real today in our World … Matthew 8:16 “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick” … as He was when He walked throughout Judea & Galilee, in human form. He was with each of His people, His parting promise was …
Matthew 28:20 “I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” AMP1

   The hand of Christ is yet laid on the weary .. the suffering .. the sorrowful, and though it’s pressure, is unfelt, it’s power to bless in the same, as in ancient days. It is laid on the sick, when precious Heavenly words of cheer and encouragement from the scriptures are read at their bedsides, giving the sweet patience and quieting their fears ...
For the Weary:- Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint"
For the Diseased & Lepers:- Luke 17:19 “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.”
For the Fears & Love:- 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love”
… it is His laid hand, on the sorrowful, when the consolations of divine have come to their hearts with blessed comfort, giving them strength to submit to Gods will and rejoice in the midst of trials. It is laid on the Faint .. and weary, when the grace of Christ comes to them with it’s Holy peace, hushing the tumultuous feelings, and giving into the true rest of their soul.

   There is another way which the hand of God is laid on human hands. He sends His disciples out into the World to represent Him . . “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” [John 20:21] . . of cause the Holiest Christians lives can only be the dimmest , faintest reproductions of the rich, full, blessed life of Christ Jesus. Yet it is in this way, through earthen vessels, He has ordained us to save the World, and to heal, help comfort, lift up and build up man.

   Perhaps in thinking of what God does for the World, we are to be inclined to over look the human, and think of Him touching lives directly and immediately. Lets say: A friend is struggling, with one or more of these .. addiction .. depression .. money or some other restraint. So going to our knees, we pray to God for Him to send them comfort. But it’s not to be that He would send them comfort through our own heart & lips? May be there is someone we love, whom is not doing so well, and is slowly drifting away from life, thus beyond recovery and now is about to pass away. In anguish we cry to God, pleading with Him to lay His hands on them. Surely, God wants us to be at this moment, to step out in faith. Just as the Centurion did when he approached Jesus, wanting Him to heal his servant ..
Matthew 8:5-10 “Acenturion came to Him, pleading with Him, 6 saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 7 And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard it, He marvelled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel” . . . certain it is, at least, that each one of us who knows the love of Christ is ordained to be Christ to others, that is, to show them the spirit of Christ, in patience .. gentleness .. thoughtfulness .. love and yearning for Christ. We are taught to say:- “Christ liveth in me” If this be true, Christ loves others through us, and our touch must be to others as the very touch of Christ Himself. Every Christian ought to be, in his human measure, a new incarnation of the Christ, so much so that people will say:- ‘He interprets Christ to me. He comforts me in my sorrow as Christ Himself would do if He were to come and sit down beside me, and is helpful .. patient as Christ would be if He were return and take me as a disciple’.
2 Corinthians 5:14 “For the love of Christ compels us”

   We may help people in a certain way without loving them directly. We may render them services of a certain kind, benefiting them externally or temporally. We may put gifts into their hands .. building them houses .. purchasing the clothing .. carrying shopping .. improve their circumstances or conditions.
   We may do many things for them. The highest and most real help, we can give them, only through loving them. We are to give ourselves unconditionally, looking for NO profit for self, on the surface, but our will, will soar high. I know of a woman who bought shopping for a family in need, had it delivered, with no name telling them whom had done this wondrously kind act. As, she, did not need to have the gratitude, only God knew who did this, that in it’s self was enough.

   There’s a touching story I read about recently, a very suggestive story of a good woman, in Sweden, who opened a home for all crippled & diseased Children, Children for whom on one else was ready to care for. In due time she received about 20 of these unfortunate little ones. Among them was a boy of 3yrs old, who was the most frightful & disagreeable young boy, as he resembled a skeleton. His skin was covered in hideous blotches & soars. He was always whining and crying. The poor little boy gave the good lady more care and trouble, than all the others put together. She did her best for him and was as kind as possible, she washed him .. fed him .. and nursed him. But the poor child was so repulsive in his looks and in his ways, that try as she did, she could not bring herself to like him, sadly her disgust would show itself on her face, but in spite of her effort to hide it, she could not love the child.
   One day she was sitting on the verandah steps ,of her home, with him in her arms. The sun was shinning brightly and the perfume of the Autumn honeysuckles, the chirping of the birds, and the buzzing of the insects, lulled her into a light sleep. Then in a half waking ~ half dreaming state, she though of herself as having changed places with the child, and was laying there only far more repulsive than he was. Stood over her was a shadow, and it was the Lord Jesus bending, looking lovingly into her face, yet with an expression of gentle rebuke in His eyes, almost as if to say:- ‘If I can bear with you, who are so full of sin, surely you ought for my sake, to love that innocent child who suffers for the sins of his parents’ . . .
Romans 12:9-11 “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honour giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord” . . . so she woke with a fervent start, and looking into the boys face, because he to had woken with a start, he looked into her face very earnestly. Sorry for her past disgust, and feeling compassion for him, and a new love springing up in her bosom for him. She bent her face to his and kissed him tenderly, more than she had ever kissed a babe of her own. With a startled look in his eyes and a flush on cheeks, the boy gave her a smile so sweet that she had ever seen, before. From that moment a wonderful change came over the child. The woman had seen a vision of hers elfin that blotched-repulsive-child, and of Christ’s wonderful love for her, in spite of her sinfulness. Under the inspiration of this vision, she had become indeed Christ to the child. The love of Christ had come into her heart.

   This goes to show how important an earnest & truthful love is. Don’t lean on your own sight, as we need to see what God sees, thus being able to see what is before us. Christ loves the unlovely .. the loathsome .. the deformed .. the diseased. We have only to think of ourselves as we are in His sight, and remember that in spite of all the moral and spiritual loathsomeness in us. He yet loves us, does not shrink away from us, and lays His hands on us, healing us. This woman had got a touch from Christ, but also getting the love of Christ in her heart. We can get it no other way. We must see ourselves as Christ’s servants, and to be to others what He is to us. Then shall we be fit to bless every life our lives touch. Our words shall throb with love of Christ, and find their way to the hearts of the weary & sorrowful.

   There will be a sympathetic thrill in our lives which will give a strange power of helpfulness to what ever we do, says this mystery writer .. “let man press nearer to God and open His nature more widely to admit the energy of Christ, and whether He knows it, he will certainly be growing in the power God with man, and man with God”… Matthew 8:3-4 “Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.”Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”... Everywhere about us, there are lives which, by the touch of ‘our hand’, in loving warmth, in Christ’s name, would be wondrously blessed.

   I want to share one more story with you, if you will indulge me .. A tail of a fell going to a jewellers to look at some gemstones. Among other stones, there was an Opal. As it lay there, however it appeared dull and altogether lustreless. Then the jeweller took into his hand, and held it for some moments, and the showed to his customer. Now the Opal gleamed and flashed with all the glories of the rainbow. As all it needed was the human hand to bring out the iridescence .. There are human lives everywhere about us that are rich in their possibilities of beauty and glory. .

NO gems and jewels are so precious!

. . but we do see some people as they are at the moment, as dull and lustreless and without brightness. It could be that they are covered in life stains, and defiled by sin. Even so, all they need is the touch of Christ, to bring out their radiance .. the loveliness, the beauty of the divine image in them.

   You and I must be the hand of Christ to those that are lustreless and those stained lives by sin. Next time when out and about, try to see past someone’s ’shopfront’, more often than not their beauty is waiting for you to open the door and let God’s radiance to shine in, and illuminate them with His touch through us.


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1:- AMP = Ampilfied version of the Bible

 

Thank you for reading Gods 

living Word. I have not published 

another till next friday the 4th March, 

as I have wanted to leave this time 

for to read over again Gods last study 

of His wonderous Word. The next 

study is all about getting Gods 

touch. 

Till then brothers and sisters in the 

Ukraine be safe press into Him who made

 this World.

What does it Mean ~ Don't Forget

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What does it Mean

    iii .. Dont Forgeet 

It is simple that a fool could follow. We are shown in such simple terms that in V6&7, you are told in no fewer than 10 times .. Deuteronomy 6:6&9 ... 1] These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 2] Impress them on your children. 3]Talk about them when you sit at home and 4] when you walk along the road, 5]when you lie down and 6] when you get up. 7]Tie them as sy mbols on your hands and 8] bind them on your foreheads. 9] Write them on the door frames of your houses and 10] on your gates. … as you can see no matter your personal persuasion for remembering, you could add the list with many more ways of not forgetting to pray.

   

   God must have thought it important that in both Chapters 6 & 11, in Deuteronomy, they are verbatim (in other words ‘word for word’). So if you want to remember how do You do it? .. [Repeat over and over] .. have the verse pinned up somewhere? If not, don’t just poohoo the idea, after all it is the living word God, emphasis on ‘Living’. Just because the Bible is thousands of years old, it is as relevant today as it was when it was written. All God want is for us to remember Him in you hours of need, as He will help you navigate your way out of trouble, but also in the good times. . .
Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding”
. . . if you do you’ll always end up on the rocks, because with God everything is possible. Below I have expanded on list from above. .
1 ~“be upon your hearts” .. This is like planting a seed in your garden. You prepare the ground, you nurture it, thus the seed flourishes. This why you preparing your heart, you start by praying that God will show wisdom and understanding. God will hear and show you the way, once you hand everything over to Him, ALL will bloom through Faith.
2 ~ “Impress on your Children” .. How you teach your children, in turn give give them all the tools they will need to over come ‘anything’ this World has to throws them, in any circumstances.
3 ~ “Talk about them” .. This is call you ‘testimony’. It’s what brought us to God. May be cause you were Lonely ~ Wanting to Break a Habit ~ such as .. Drink ~ Drugs ~ Gambling ~ anything that has you snared. Then show others how God has broken your chains of bondage.
4 ~ “When walking along” .. OK, I’m going to shatter any illusions on how when & where you can pray. There are no limitations on when or where you can. Here’s a tip when your out and need to talk aloud to God, lift out your phone and make out your talking to a friend.
5 ~ “When you lay down” .. It’s that special time in the quietness, when a couple pray settling down to sleep, will create a special tight bond. If single the quietness will have no distractions. As for both use this time to also thank Him for His help & guidance during the last day.
6 ~ “When you wake up” .. Thank God for keeping you safe during the night. Thank Him for the day to come that you can see ~ touch ~hear ~ smell, in the coming day. Pray for all your ‘unsaved’ family & friends. Thank Him for the air you breath, for being able to see the rising and setting of the Sun. . .Leviticus 25:18 “So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety”
7 ~ “Tie them as symbols on your hand” .. This is more ‘metaphorical’, but you will see Jewish men wearing the 10 Commandments in a small box tied to their foreheads. You don’t have to do this, instead what you can do is to have on a piece of paper, on a card in your wallet or purse, some will have a cross around their neck, or around their wrist even, some will have ware a T-shirt or baseball cap.
8 ~ “Ware them around their head” .. As I have just said in 7 there, you’ll see Jewish men wearing [Statutes] on their heads. Instead what we can do is to saturate our selves in His living Word, that people will see you and know that you follow Gods direction, as His light shine from within you.
9 ~ “Write them on the door frames of your houses” .. There was one time that God told the Jewish people to paint their door frames with the ‘blood of a lamb’, so that whilst in the dead of night to keep them safe. This time no what is known as ‘The Passover’. Exodus 12:1/14.
10 ~ “On you Gates” .. Everyone is different, some will have a plaque over their gates/front doors, you’ll even find bumper stickers as well. It is up to you how you show your faith. One plaque has to leave people in no doubt as to in you belief is .. Joshua 24:15 “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”

   If, in any doubt, ‘how to remember’ in a busy and what can be an exhausting & frantic life. Also with the amount of ‘wokeness’ in the World, as Christians we need now more than ever Gods .. Loving Kindnesses .. Strengths .. Wisdom .. shinning through us. Remember we have all the tools to deal with what ever the World throws at us.

# Don’t Forget #

Deuteronomy 6:10/12 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, 11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full, 12 then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage"

# Don’t Forget #

   When going through life battles. No matter. Whether it’s good times or bad, remember it’s god who “Planted vineyards and olive trees .. houses full of all good things .. large and beautiful cities .. we must remember that it’s God who steers our ship, brings all our blessings. Lest we forget that everything is Blessed through God. As everything comes to us in Gods timing, when we are ready in Gods eyes, and knows we can handle them.

# Don’t Forget #

Prayer

   'Lest we Forget', Heavenly Father we seek your majesty to come among us with your spirit, the same that went Abraham ~ Isaac & Jacob, that you would plant into the hearts and mind of your coming, and they should not delay but invite you into thier hearts, and you the Lord & Saviour over thier lives and the lives of thier family and friends. Let you light shine brightly.

Amen

Notice for March 2022

Notice

for March 2022

I have been typing out some 'New' sermons. My plan is that each FRIDAY, there will be either thought for the week or a new sermon. So far in March 2022 the following will go live ...

4   .. Getting Christ's touch pt 1

11  .. 

18 ..

25 ..

What Does it Mean - those to come

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What Does it Mean

    iv Those to come 

Deuteronomy 29: 14~15 “I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, 15 but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today”

   Our Oath with God, is our Faith & belief in the One True God. In just these 2 verses, God is trying to let us know how important our friends & family are, especially those ‘not-saved’. After all in ‘The End Times’ who would not want their loved ones with them. You don’t want them to be like the ‘rich man’, looking up at you asking for a droplet of water as they are in torment, do you?
   Let me share with you, part of Noah's story, that God saw that he was a righteous man .. Genesis 6:9/10 “This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth”. It was because of Noah’s close walk with God that so did his family, or take Abraham taught his family the importance of walking God .. Genesis17: 9 “And God said to Abraham: As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations” .. It’s why God wants us to tell our friends & family about how empty our lives would be without Him in it ..
Acts 2:39 “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
. . . What we are alluded to here from God is is that His promises also for our Children, and so many more generations. . friends .. family & also work colleagues .. chance encounters of whom you don’t need to have a life time with to make an impression. You just need 5 Min's and Gods shinning light through you. Part of my Testimony is down to a ‘chance encounter’, at a bus stop in Torquay, on my way to work as a nurse at Torbay Hospital. A lady collapsed, me and another lady, from the Church I would end up attending, we looked after this poor lady till an ambulance arrived.

   After they had taken the lady to hospital, we chatted away freely. After going to her Church, we became good friends, it was at this Church that I gave my heart & life to the Lord on the Sunday evening of May 1st 1998, which I was to find out later was the birthday of Betty my wonderful and amazing selfless birthday. . . You see you never know when you may influence, with a Chance encounter. I wonder how many how many you could meet today? Sometimes after I went to our local shop to pick up a few bits I look for a parent with a young child, then say if they would return the trolley they can keep the pound, they say for God to bless them.

# How many times can you bless today, lets sow his seed #

Psalms 132:12 “If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I shall teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore.”
   These are ‘Those to Come’. The more souls we can save means, not only less for the fiery pit, but also our Heavenly Father will be happy. We are not only saving those we love, then there is their family and friends, then theirs and theirs and so on. It has been said that behind everyone there is at least 200 people they know. So, if just we saved those, you could be responsible for saving around 40,000. If everyone did this you could save your Town ~ City ~ University ~ Village in a matter of days. Imagine what this could do for the World today?

# Can you save your Town? #

Jeremiah 31:31&344 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
   What God is trying to tell us here is . . “When Christ comes back for the second time, all the World will be told at the same time, no matter where in the World you live or what ever the time zone. From Torquay to Timbuktu, from China too Argentina and everywhere in between. When here, everyone will bend the knee, those of us already saved, will be singing his Praises & Worshipping Him.

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord” .. This new Covenant will be with us, who, with hearts open wide, will rejoice with is new Covenant, as we will be in His presence. There will NO class system ~ No racism ~ everyone will be equal. There will NO Churches of .. AOG ~Elim ~ COE/I ~ Brethren ~ Anglican ~ Methodist .. etc. Let me help that old penny that keeps getting stuck and wont drop, there will be no denomination. So next time you see somebody from another Church, offer your hand in Jesus Christ’s name in peace. As you will most likely run into them in Heaven. Remember these words of a song ..

On ward to the prize before us

soon His beauty we’ll behold

soon the pearly gates will open

we shall tread the streets of Gold

When we all get to Heaven

what a glorious day that will be

when we all see Jesus

We’ll sing and shout for Victory

   Once home we’ll be far too busy praising & Worshipping to worry whom came from what denominational church. All that should matter is that they too gave their lives to Jesus, hence saved to. This is why we need to talk about Jesus as often as you can.

I need to ask, have you prayed the sinners prayer yet ??

You really don’t want to leave behind those to come ..

WAIT .. WAIT .. WAIT  Before you think we are done, I want to tell you one more thing, which will surprise you. God never intended for us to go to Hell, instead it was meant only for fallen angels. But due to our own actions God had no option but to send us there too!
   Once you are in Hell, you can’t change your mind, for it will be far too late. Let me show an exemplar from . . . Luke 16:19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. 20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate” . . . Did you see how God has not named there rich man, he is not important, no matter much he was [monetarily] worth . . . V21 “ desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom” . . . he [the rich man] so frustrated and wondered what he could do to get help. The fact is because of his own actions, no one else's, so always think before you act. Because here there is no turning back or changing your mind. V24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame” . . . no sooner has the rich man arrived, he is torment. So will. YOU BE, if your saved, forever in torment or peace! Only you can decided, not me, not your parents, not your friends, and not even God, YOU and YOU alone can make this decision. V26 “And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us” . . . you see you can’t change your destination, once there. Even if you said to God after “look God I been a good person, surely that’s enough?” NO, you decided to snub God, so you pay for your actions. I shall leave you with one last verse John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”

Now you decide ..

Torment or Peace-of-God

Prayer

Father God of Abraham ~ Issac & Jacob, we thank you for your living word, I pray this conduit has spread not just your word,but also the truth of our actions. I pray you word is fruitful, that many will see you truth and come to you before the clock stops, and they run out of time.

What does it Mean ~ When

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What does it Mean

    3 ~ When . . . ‘should I always be ready’

1 Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first”

   I can hear you shouting at your screen [ME], “but there is no date ‘here’, I’ll say how observant you are, please stay with me and all will become clearer. As I have spoken earlier that everything is on Gods timing. In that, in the end times certain things ~ Prophecies & Promises, need to happen to begin the ‘Biblical Count Down’. Such as a State/Country to be born in a day . . . like as in Israel recognised in May 14th 1948 . .
Jeremiah 29:14 “I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive”. . . as in Gods promised

Ezekiel 20:34 “I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out”
   As soon as Israel’s re-birth in 1948, it started in motion, a Biblical chain of events that neither be    dismissed ~ disproved or even stopped. Snr Paster J Hagee said .. “It’s amazing, how much time ~ effort & resources, that Atheists use to just disprove there’s a God, that don’t exist, that they believe in”. It has started the Count down, till the second coming of our Lord Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 66:8 “Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? [NIV]

   There have been fat too many, whom have rapped a White bed sheet around their body, then stood on the Temple Mount, claiming to be the messiah, fools. Jesus will come down from the Heavenly with a mighty Trump, for after all He is Royalty. So how will people recognise Him?
Zachariah 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn” 
   We’re now getting to the business end of this part the study, so whose story is it? Your study ~ my story ~ every ones story? It will be those whom are fully open believers in Christ and those who are not . . .

Which are You??

. . . please don’t get left behind, and sent sent to hells firy pit to burn in pain for ever and ever and ever. That is a very long time filled with misery ~ sadness ~ a thirst that can never be quenched. You will cry our to God for just one droplet of water, but God will refuse.  
   Below is a graph that Snr Past J Hagee drew to show what is expected to happen, On ~ Around & following years, after the Rapture, to help in greater detail to help you understand the ‘End-Times’.

I have numbered the graph above so as to walk you

through as to explain what is expected during each step.

1:- After today, the first event to happen is ‘The Rapture’ .. where we are all called to Heaven, those of us that are ‘saved in Jesus Name’.
2:- ‘The Judgment Seat of Christ’ .. here is where that great ‘Codex’, where every thought ~ deed and action, since becoming a saved ~born again ~ believer.
3:- ‘The Marriage Super of the Lamb’ .. All those don’t it this, will left behind (trust me don’t want this)
4a:- The 7 Years of the Tribulation(The first 3 ½ years) . . There is going to be much weeping & wailing, as you realise the truth, in that you ‘Will’ have to take the ‘mark of the beast’, on either your right hand or on your fore head. You will have to have the mark as you can’t buy or sell without it.
4b:- The Great Tribulation (The Second 3 ½ years) This title is how the second half of the 7yrs will be known. This is how things up to now will look like a picnic. I would not want to be a live during any of these 7yrs, as they will be so bad that you’ll be able to find out what’s next in the book of Revelation in the Bible.
5a:- 1000 years After feasting with Jesus we will return, and shall have to say ‘Good bye’ ever again, We will rule and reign in peace, with our Lord Jesus Christ.
5b:- Great White Throne of Judgment .. God will go down into Hell, and bring all that are there, bringing them to the White Throne .. Matthew 13:50 “Cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth” .. God is going to be doing this because they are going to be sentenced, where all those ‘NOT-SAVED’ are going to be sent Back to the ‘Lake of Fire. Only now it’s forever and forever and all eternity .. Hebrews 9:27 “as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment”

 .. physical death does not end niether does conscience existence. You’ll know who you are, you’ll know where you are, you’ll know why you’re there.
  The Righteous will be tried, when we get to NO2, here on this list. Once those whom are unrighteous are tried for the final time, as in NO5, here on the list. Thus so they back to the ‘Lake of fire’, there to stay .. in Sadness .. in Pain .. in Misery .. in Torture .. in Thirsty .. forever & forever never to end.
6:- Earth Burned .. After thousand years, satan is going to be released from the ‘pit’. Then the Earth is going to be burned, with fire, yes the Whole Earth. [If you worried about Global warming, well guess what, here it is ..
7:- New Heaven & New Earth .. God is going to create a ‘New Garden of Eden’, from the old to the New Eden, over 7000yrs would have passed. In the New Eden, time has no meaning, we’ll have no use. Our bodies will be made whole , we will have .. no aches pains .. no disease .. no heart defects .. no cancer .. no COVID, also no bills as there will no need for money.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 & 18 “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words”

Question .. “Why do the dead go up first?” No one truly knows why this! The Bible does not reveal this. If God deemed it important He would have told us so. Of the Rapture Seat of Christ, Paul wrote this . . .
2 Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad”
. . . Do you remember that ‘Card-index’ I told you about. Each card represents E V E R Y .. thought .. deed .. gesture ..word spoken. So every time someone cuts you up -whilst out driving and you gesture them, or cuss them out, or you see a sexy man or women and you think core they’re a bit of alright’. . D I N G. . There’s another card. I really hope your getting the idea by now, these cards quickly add up, and not for the week or month or year.

   In bringing this part of the study to an close, and showing this in a way you can grasp, I’m going to turn this part over to something Snr Paster J. Hagee said ..
Quote . . . 

   "What a difference a day makes . . There is coming a day

like no other day there has been on planet Earth, it’s

going to stagger the mind to comprehend. That day will

be the Rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ, from

Planet Earth, instantly Millions of people are going to just

vanish from Earth and will sail into the arms of God"

Question:- ‘If Jesus is coming, why should it be shortly?’
2 Peter 3:3&4 “ knowing this first: that scoffers will come
in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
. . the fact you don’t believe He is coming, is a sign, by it’s self means he’s coming. Please listen carefully you’ll hear hear His footsteps from Heaven, walking through the pages of prophecies. .

Question:- ‘Will there even be a Rapture?’
1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 17 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”
. . so why with a shout? Because He’s Victorious over death Hell & the Grave . . Question:- Why the Trump of God? . . Because after all God is Royalty, He is the King of Kings,
& Lord of Lords .. “16 the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air”

    Boy, now that a really clear picture of the Rapture of the Church. A ll over the Earth graves are going burst open and surrender the righteous, as the y sore into the air, headlines will be screaming . . Millions missing, Christians are those missing ‘. There is going to be global economic crash, why? Because Christians are a major work force. Around the World there is going to be ..

• There is going to be empty homes, dishes in the sink, food hot & cold still on the table breakfast ~ Lunch ~ Dinner ~ Super...
• Don’t fly with Christian pilots, because they will going up, but the planes are coming crashing down…
• Churches too late, going to be filled with sobbing ~ crying ~ wailing, why? .. as the Lord has come, and they [you] have been left behind. Now you have to face, the Hell on Earth and are going to have to face the ‘Great Tribulation’.

# Please be aware this is not

just pure poppy cock #

   God wont be sitting in Heaven and say like: “Let’s make a deal. God never sends you to Hell it’s all up to you! If you hear the Word and thumb your nose up at it, sorry you’ve just bought a one way ticket to Hell”.

   So after hearing all this has the penny finally dropped yet? As it could not be made more clearer for you.

Final Question here:-

Are You Ready??

Prayer

Heavenly Father thank you for you living Word. I send out your word, as you have said that it won't return void. Let word be planted, in whom ever read this, be in in thier mind body and soul, that they seek you out, and give you thier lives, for even if it be just one, then it is one more lost soul found & won for you, in the Lord of Lords name Christ Jesus, Amen.