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Prepare And Let God Use Your Strength

07 Jun

In the following verse King Saul and David are talking about David wanting to fight Goliath.

1 Samuel 17:32-37 –  32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

 33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.”

 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”
      Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”

Now this post is on one thing in which 20 or more could be written.  I’m going to concentrate today on how God prepared a boy to fight and take out one of the toughest warriors of their day.

David was the youngest of 8 sons that belonged to Jesse.  He tended the sheep for his father’s flock.

During that time he had dangerous Sheppard duties.  I know I would be freaked out at my age if I was tending sheep and a lion came along.

He was the protector of the flock and I’m sure he practiced slinging stones from his sling all day long.  It appears to me it was the kind of job which gave him time to practice as well as time to meditate on the Lord.

When the lion and the bear came around, he had built the confidence to confront his enemies.  However, don’t miss the fact that God had him out there as a Sheppard in the first place.  David had a willing heart to serve God. 

Now David found himself on the battle lines.  He knew that God already rescued him from the lion and the bear.  No small task there.  He also knew that God would give him victory over Goliath.

They tried to put armor on him.  They tried to give him a shield and a helmet.  They tried to give him a heavy sword to use. 

None of this was familiar to him.  It wasn’t how he trained.  It wasn’t how God how prepared him up to this point.  David was ready for battle based on his trust for God.  He trusted that God would give him victory and he trusted that God had prepared him to fight.

He didn’t count on God giving Goliath a heart attack, although God was capable of doing that.  No, God had prepared him prior to this fight, from his responsibility of protecting the sheep.

We have a responsibility to continue to prepare for what God has planned for us.  If we’re not ready and our hearts are not right, we get passed over like David’s seven older brothers.

Prepare yourselves.  How?  By studying God’s Word as often as you can. 

By studying God’s Word you prepare for that lost sole that is seeking God and needs your help.  By preparing you’re less apt to get swept away by some slick talking guy that’s not teaching the correct things about God whose Son is Jesus Christ.

Every one of us has some sort of talent that can be used for God.  No talent is too small.  If you use a small talent for Jesus, it’s better than an amazing one someone has that isn’t. 

Prepare for the things God has in store for you, because if you’re not prepared, or willing and able, he can’t use you in the battle.

 
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This Blog Isn’t Talking About Religion

06 Jun

What is religion?  Religion can be any kind of faith.  It can have many different kinds of rituals.

This site isn’t about religion.  It’s about the God and Creator of this universe whose Son is Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ.  Anyone can say they believe in God, but until I hear the name Jesus, I don’t know which God you’re talking about.  In today’s world I have to listen to someone for awhile to make sure it is the Jesus of the Bible.

Religion can be anything.  Atheists are in a religion.  It just happens to be the fight and belief that there is no God.

If you get up in the morning walk into the bathroom and pray to the toilet, flush it three times, go to the bathroom and then flush it three more times you got yourself potential religion.  You definitely would have a religious routine going.  Certainly if you did it every day one would say you’re quite faithful.

Being religious does nothing for your soul.  You can be sincere in all that you do and believe it wholeheartedly.  If you die and your sins aren’t forgiven and you’re not redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, you’re going to be sincerely in bad shape. 

What’s the difference between Christianity and the rest of the beliefs in the world?

God who made you is in charge and He made the correct Way.

John 3:16 – 16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 14:6 –  6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The rest were made by men who were seeking and never found the right way. 

Trust me.  To look at all religions without looking heavily into them would be quite confusing.  If you start looking at some of them and break them down, they begin to look man made.

When you finally have a relationship with God and Jesus, the other beliefs are greatly exposed.

God built the bridge after man destroyed the first one.  All other bridges made by man and Satan fall way short.  When you finally get to the end of those bridges, it’s a long way down.

If you don’t know Jesus as your personal Savior I invite you to go over to the right upper column and click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior.”

 
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Reflection – Praise God While In The Shower

05 Jun

As busy people we tend to have our minds going a million miles a minute.

I find that some of the greatest time I get to spend with the Lord is while I’m in the shower.

Take a few extra minutes and just pray, talk, thank, praise your Lord. 

It can be a great prayer closet.  Take time for your God.  He takes time for you.

 
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One World Currency- End Time Prophecy

04 Jun

This week I will go over the scripture that support prophecy that we will have a one world currency.

Revelation 13:16-17 – 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

We’re not concentrating on the Mark of the Beast today, that’s another prophecy.  I want to concentrate in this post that there is going to be a one economic system.

Just 20 years ago no one could fathom that technology could produce a system that could literally control all the commerce.  We are witnessing this before our very eyes and are getting towards the nearing of this economic system.

Twenty years ago it was the bar code.  What did the bar code introduce to us that was different?

It was system that the computer could keep track and recognize all inventory.  It also recognized the product so you could price it through your own store and computer system soon after.

Banks soon followed and the convenience of the debit card came along.  Now there is less need for cash and the time to process checks has decreased.

Why do the governments want a cashless society? 

Just alone tax invasion is enough for this system concerning them.  Your caring government, if you haven’t been able to tell, cares about taxable income.  However, it isn’t the only thing.  They can keep track of all transactions.  In the war on terror they can keep an eye how people on their watch lists are going about their business. 

Here’s one that the government, consumer, businesses and many more all care about and that’s fraud.  Fraud right now in the American system is in all facets of facets of life.  From theft, to multiple benefits, tax fraud, etc.

This move hasn’t happened by chance.  There are numerous groups which their purpose has been to move this earth to a one world government.  What seem liked a bunch of conspiracy talk not all that long ago is now becoming reality.

Time to panic?  No!  As Christians we are to look to God and Jesus.  We are not of this world.  This is what Jesus states in John 17:16.

John 17:16 – 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

Was he talking just about his disciples?  No he is talking about all of us who love Him.

As I write these End Time Prophecies, I have to tell you it is challenging to keep them separate because they are all coming together at the same time.  Study the Word.  Make Jesus and God your first love and God Bless.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 2

03 Jun

Zechariah 12:6-9 –  6 “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.  7 “The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. 8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. 9 On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

More versus on the Lord saving Israel in this battle.  These are incrdible prophetic versus but I will hit more on the battle in other posts.  This post is to help us to understand who Jesus is.

Zechariah 12:10 –  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 son.

So we know from above that we are talking about the Lord God.  We’re still in the Old Testament.  We’re not switching gears here.  We’re still talking about the Lord God.  What does he say?  “They will look upon Me, the One they have pierced….”  The one they have pierced.

God was pierced?  By the house of Judah?

Yes.  The Romans carried out the crucifixion, but it was Israel that rejected Him and had Him sentenced to death.

Jesus is God.  God is Jesus.  We have the Holy Spirit in there too.  That’s why the Trinity is important.  There isn’t three Gods.  They are three persons, which act as one.  The best study for the Trinity is to know as much of the Bible as possible.  That’s what pulls it together and gives one more understanding. 

Zechariah 12:11-14 – 11 On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, 13 the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

We finish Zechariah 12 with more mourning from the Jews.  You have to understand the Jews are not only mourning because of his crucifixion 2000 years earlier, but because I believe this battle is in the end times and they just got done making a deal with the antichrist also. 

In the end, the real Christ comes back and saves Israel, the house of David, the house of Judah.  They will then have their true Messiah and they will know Our God.

Jesus love you.  Please get to know Him as your Savior.  If you don’t, you will eventually know Him as your Judge whom you have rejected.  He is ready for you.  If you don’t know Jesus, please go over to the right upper column and click on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior.”  The sooner you accept Him as Lord the sooner you can start your life the way it was suppose to be from the beginning.

 
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Zechariah 12:10 – Who Is Jesus? – Part 1

02 Jun

I am going to do a few posts entitled “Who Is Jesus?”. 

Why?

Because one I think many people in the church haven’t been taught who He is.  Scriptures from the Old Testament said who he was going to be and The New Testament scriptures claim who He is and who He said He was.

Zechariah 12:10 – 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 son.

And “I”…..it says.  Who is “I” in this passage.  Well for one were talking about an Individual who was pierced by the Jews or the Hous of David.  It’s a prophetic verse as we’ll read below and it’s in the Old Testament.  Whomever they have pierced, the House of David grieves terribly that they have done so.

So lets take a look from the beginning of Chapter 12 in Zechariah.

Zechariah 12:1-14 –  1 This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: 2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. 5 Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.’

So we know that this first part is the Lord and it’s a word from him as stated in verse 1.  Zechariah 12 is about Israel being surrounded by all the nations around them who want to destroy them.  Kind of like…in today’s world.  In verse three the Lord states Jerusalem will be an immovable rock.  So when Israel gets back in the land again at this period and time, they’re not officially going anywhere again.  I say officially because during the last 3 and half years there’s a lot of chaos, but their still not removed.  Verse four says the Lord will look out for the house of Judah.  Verse 5 now confirms who we think is speaking, because this is the Old Testament.  The Lord Almighty is their God.

Tomorrow we will continue on with this story in Who Is Jesus?- Zechariah 12:10 Part 2

 
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Pre-Trib Revelation Chapters 1-3 – Rapture

01 Jun

The first post I want to write on that I believe supports a Pre-Trib position is the Churches in Revelation Chapters 1-3.

In Revelation Chapter 1 Jesus was telling John to write on a scroll what he sees and send it to the Seven Churches.

Revelation 1:11 – 11which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:19-20 – 19“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 20The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

So in chapter 1 Jesus is talking a lot above the churches and the spirit of the churches.

Chapters 2 & 3 speak on the seven churches.  That’s entirely what those chapters are about.

Chapter 4 comes along and John is up in the throne room and……no more church.

The church is talked about all in the first three chapters and then not again.

Anything else interesting about Chapter 4 since the church isn’t talked about again? 

Stay tuned for the next couple of weeks to come.

 
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