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Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Navajo Land Healing & Prophetic Revival Complete Update
We just completed our five day prophetic/ healing meetings to the Navajo Nation in Farmington, New Mexico and are now back in Miami, Florida.
The Lord Jesus moved exceedingly, abundantly beyond all of our expectations.On the subject of the manifestation of physical healings there were so many that I have lost count.I think that the most notable miracle was that of a Southern Baptist missionary. This man, probably in his seventies, was led by his son to one of our gatherings. His eyes were absolutely closed shut. He was semi paralyzed and sat in the meeting with his mouth wide open…really with the appearance of a vegetable. This precious saint, suffered not only from blindness for many years, but had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. After prayer he began to stretch his frozen arms slowly above his head as he waved to the Lord. We told him to open his eyes which were tiny. His iris and pupils were small and formless. As we spoke life into his eyes, shape began to come to them; the iris grew and was lined with blue. He suddenly began to see light and could discern my moving hand as a square in front of his eyes pointing correctly to where I would shift it to.He never that night regained total sight but when he went back to his chair his eyes were formed and partially opened. This saint had been a worship leader for many years and had lost his ability to sing due to the debilitating diseases. I grabbed his throat and shook it in the name of Jesus. Imagine doing that a Southern Baptist! I must confess that he was kind of freaked out. I then told then him to sing. Beautiful songs such as “How Great Thou Art” came out of a wonderful voice. Everybody began applauding.We found ourselves praying for people from 12:00PM to 10 PM straight with a half hour dinner break at about 6:30 every night.The next day, a pastor’s wife came for prayer with glaucoma in one eye. As we ministered to her, the bad eye cleared up right before our very faces and she began to say “Yes, I am seeing, I am seeing!”With chronically or partially deaf ears we saw no less than five people receive the instantaneous opening of their ears. One lady who had left her hearing aid in during our prayers said in Navajo, “You guys are talking too loud!’A brother had his hearing destroyed by a bug that had entered into his ear as a child. As we prayed for him four people saw a spiritual/ invisible bug scurry out of his left ear as his hearing was suddenly restored. Tears came into his eyes.A woman who had lost her hearing as a child regained it and received a healing from a tumor around her ear which had been obstructing the hearing.With skeletal problems we saw so many obtain the immediate relief from arthritis. One man witnessed the pain of many years of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome depart from him.Two wonderful miracles were for one, that of a man who came to us drastically hunched over and twisted, dragging himself on metal braces. He had been in an accident twenty years earlier and had bruised his spinal cord He also had a heart blockage and was due to go to a procedure the next day. After much prayer his back totally straightened up. He left still on the braces but without a trace of a hunch. He came two days later to get some additional prayer. He had gone to the doctor who found no trace of the heart blockage.We prayed more for his back. We walked him around the room minus his braces holding just his hands and barely grabbing his elbows. He had no pain at all. I am convinced that he could have taken off walking but still had fear of doing so after not attempting it for twenty plus years.Secondly, is a dear friend ours who has suffered immensely from rheumatoid arthritis and had no cartilage or meniscus in her knees. She could not stand more than a minute at a time without the effect of intense pain shooting up her legs. She received the beginning of a miracle today. She stood up for nearly ten minutes praying for people and then walked gingerly all the way back to her car. Hallelujah!Other precious ones received immediate relief from cancer, asthma, stomach, intestinal and gall bladder symptoms.Many got words of prophecies that confirmed things from the Lord. Others received the gift of tongues. Many who suffered from broken hearts received a healing. There were at least three demonic deliverances on the carpet of the venue center at the Region Inn. One woman vomited into the garbage can of the conference room as the Lord set her free.We were taken to a Navajo home to prophecy over and bless the land and had a chance to eat freshly cooked fry bread.The Lord connected us with powerful ministers in Native American missions who will join hands with us not only to bring future healing meetings to Native America but our expositional Bible conferences, and seminars on the use of spiritual gifts and the identifying of spiritual ministries.The Lord Jesus was just doing what He always does best…loving people and setting them free for all the world to see.
The Lord Jesus moved exceedingly, abundantly beyond all of our expectations.On the subject of the manifestation of physical healings there were so many that I have lost count.I think that the most notable miracle was that of a Southern Baptist missionary. This man, probably in his seventies, was led by his son to one of our gatherings. His eyes were absolutely closed shut. He was semi paralyzed and sat in the meeting with his mouth wide open…really with the appearance of a vegetable. This precious saint, suffered not only from blindness for many years, but had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. After prayer he began to stretch his frozen arms slowly above his head as he waved to the Lord. We told him to open his eyes which were tiny. His iris and pupils were small and formless. As we spoke life into his eyes, shape began to come to them; the iris grew and was lined with blue. He suddenly began to see light and could discern my moving hand as a square in front of his eyes pointing correctly to where I would shift it to.He never that night regained total sight but when he went back to his chair his eyes were formed and partially opened. This saint had been a worship leader for many years and had lost his ability to sing due to the debilitating diseases. I grabbed his throat and shook it in the name of Jesus. Imagine doing that a Southern Baptist! I must confess that he was kind of freaked out. I then told then him to sing. Beautiful songs such as “How Great Thou Art” came out of a wonderful voice. Everybody began applauding.We found ourselves praying for people from 12:00PM to 10 PM straight with a half hour dinner break at about 6:30 every night.The next day, a pastor’s wife came for prayer with glaucoma in one eye. As we ministered to her, the bad eye cleared up right before our very faces and she began to say “Yes, I am seeing, I am seeing!”With chronically or partially deaf ears we saw no less than five people receive the instantaneous opening of their ears. One lady who had left her hearing aid in during our prayers said in Navajo, “You guys are talking too loud!’A brother had his hearing destroyed by a bug that had entered into his ear as a child. As we prayed for him four people saw a spiritual/ invisible bug scurry out of his left ear as his hearing was suddenly restored. Tears came into his eyes.A woman who had lost her hearing as a child regained it and received a healing from a tumor around her ear which had been obstructing the hearing.With skeletal problems we saw so many obtain the immediate relief from arthritis. One man witnessed the pain of many years of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome depart from him.Two wonderful miracles were for one, that of a man who came to us drastically hunched over and twisted, dragging himself on metal braces. He had been in an accident twenty years earlier and had bruised his spinal cord He also had a heart blockage and was due to go to a procedure the next day. After much prayer his back totally straightened up. He left still on the braces but without a trace of a hunch. He came two days later to get some additional prayer. He had gone to the doctor who found no trace of the heart blockage.We prayed more for his back. We walked him around the room minus his braces holding just his hands and barely grabbing his elbows. He had no pain at all. I am convinced that he could have taken off walking but still had fear of doing so after not attempting it for twenty plus years.Secondly, is a dear friend ours who has suffered immensely from rheumatoid arthritis and had no cartilage or meniscus in her knees. She could not stand more than a minute at a time without the effect of intense pain shooting up her legs. She received the beginning of a miracle today. She stood up for nearly ten minutes praying for people and then walked gingerly all the way back to her car. Hallelujah!Other precious ones received immediate relief from cancer, asthma, stomach, intestinal and gall bladder symptoms.Many got words of prophecies that confirmed things from the Lord. Others received the gift of tongues. Many who suffered from broken hearts received a healing. There were at least three demonic deliverances on the carpet of the venue center at the Region Inn. One woman vomited into the garbage can of the conference room as the Lord set her free.We were taken to a Navajo home to prophecy over and bless the land and had a chance to eat freshly cooked fry bread.The Lord connected us with powerful ministers in Native American missions who will join hands with us not only to bring future healing meetings to Native America but our expositional Bible conferences, and seminars on the use of spiritual gifts and the identifying of spiritual ministries.The Lord Jesus was just doing what He always does best…loving people and setting them free for all the world to see.
Any church that would like to set up future meetings with us please contact us at 305-299-0633 be it Native or Non Native. The Lord loves all of his people.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Failing ot the Social Security System
Today, Fox News tells us that the SS system is going to run out of money sooner than expected. Though I am not surpised to hear that, what Fox fails to say is that part of the contributing cost to the failure of SS is the abortion of 50,000,000 babies. One generation of payees into this system wiped away. Truly, we reap what we sow.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Jesus Lives From Aorist Faith
As we celebrate the National Day of Prayer I wanted to share with you a nugget concerning prayer, from the original languages of our Bible.
Mt 21:22 And <2532> all things <3956>, whatsoever <302> <3745> ye shall ask <154> (5661) in <1722> prayer <4335>, believing <4100> (5723), ye shall receive <2983> (5695).
In the instructions of Jesus to us out of Matthew 21:22 we find a few interesting points from the the original Greek. The word “ask” is the Greek word “aiteoo”. Here the Lord is not talking about only offering generalized prayers but about very specific petitions and requests. This is what the word means. God enjoys our asking in specific and pinpointed petitions and will answer every one of them if they are brought to Him in faith.
In the instructions of Jesus to us out of Matthew 21:22 we find a few interesting points from the the original Greek. The word “ask” is the Greek word “aiteoo”. Here the Lord is not talking about only offering generalized prayers but about very specific petitions and requests. This is what the word means. God enjoys our asking in specific and pinpointed petitions and will answer every one of them if they are brought to Him in faith.
“Aiteoo” in the Greek aorist tense. This verb tense is a most magnificent tense, one which is truly not found in our English. More than being a simple past tense, the aorist is defined as the puncticular tense. It is specified as a punctuation mark on the timeline of moving history. In reality this is the definition of an event. Whereas our past tense simply describes the event as something which has passed, the aorist views it not just as a past event but as one which is completed. The aorist shoots a photograph of the event as tangible object, entity or reality in history, one commenced and terminated. It focus is not just on its being something past but as a tangible object which can be picked out, handled and observed from the timeline of history. This is crucial in our learning to operate by faith and see powerful result to our prayers.
Mt 9:29 Then <5119> touched he <680> (5662) their <846> eyes <3788>, saying <3004> (5723), According <2596> to your <5216> faith <4102> be it <1096> (5676) unto you <5213>.
In Matthew 9:29 Jesus tells us as He opens the eyes of the blind man that the miracle occurred according to or proportional to the man’s faith.
Everything that Jesus commanded done, He spoke it out in the aorist tense. Jesus’ faith operated in photographs of tangible events, entities or realities accomplished and completed. When He spoke to a leper to be cleansed, his faith was such that that He saw and felt the cleansing of the leprosy as a completed reality. When He spoke it into the air over the ill man, the completed event of the healing permeated into the man and healed him.
Hebrews 11:33 ) Through faith <4102> we understand <3539> (5719) that the worlds <165> were framed <2675> (5771) by the word <4487> of God <2316>, so <1519> that things which <3588> are seen <991> (5746) were <1096> <0> not <3361> made <1096> (5755) of <1537> things which do appear <5316> (5730).
Finally, Hebrews 11:3 tells us that the worlds are framed by the word of God. The worlds, “aioon” describes successive, continual impacts of tangible realities of the Kingdom of heaven intruding upon the natural kingdom of the earth at every moment of every hour. The scripture tells us that these successive impacts of heaven upon us are framed by what we say. The word framed, is just what it says. As a picture needs a frame to adjust, hold it in place and hang it for display and observation so the word of God creates, molds and frames the worlds of the kingdom of heaven by what we say and brings it to pass by faith. When we pray in aorist photographs of completed realities, what we frame are completed events which come to pass by faith. Try praying like that. As a matter of fact our whole life of faith should be lived out with aorist faith.
Mt 1:22 Now all this <5124> was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
The whole or entire thing was done (seen by faith in the Spirit) so that it might then be fulfilled…..
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
My Discussion in an Anglican blog after Todd Bentley's fall.
First of all I had wanted you to know that I have not visited your blog site before. I got to it because of the article on Todd Bentley. I wanted all of to know , how much I have enjoyed your comments. They are deep and insightful and for the most part your observations of the Charismatic abuses are correct.
My wife and I are pastors in a charismatic denomination called The Vineyard.
We have lived in Kenya for 18 months and ministered to the Pueblo Native American nations for 8 years.
Many people in my church in Miami Florida went to the Lakeland Revival. Many were deeply touched by the power of God. The actions of Todd Bentley however towards the end of the revival as one reader rightfully commented was absolutely unrighteous.
There have been two great ills with the charismatic movement which God is at hard at work correcting. There was the whole prosperity movement which Jesus never taught about. Many, and I say many well known Charismatic leaders, have fallen and are still falling due to the great corruption of greed and avarice and injury that this erroneous teaching has brought. God is cleaning up His house!
Then other one which another reader correctly said is the notion that God is a “candy dispenser” of spiritual gifts and miracles. There have many abuses with that as well. This in part is why people such as Todd Bentley have fallen. I personally met Todd in London and talked to him on the way from Kenya to the USA. He was man a gentle man of love. We have sat under his conferences and read his books. I have been tremendously blessed by his ministry. He does move in the genuine power of God. However one of the big mistakes that we the Charismatics have commited is to exalt “anointing or power before spiritual character” . Charismatic leaders quickly exalted his anointing and put him at the forefront
Paul tells us in the NT never to put a novice into a position of leadership. In the 90's we the Charismatics got into the whole notion of exalting the glory and the power of God before spiritual character. It has caught up with us. The power and the glory of God are wonderful and essential but they must be held in an earthenware vessels of godly character.
Finally, everything must be based on the written Word of God. Amongst the charismatics there has been a great weakness in the study of the written Word and a focus on anointing, sometimes producing chaos and a circus type of atmosphere
My wife and I move in the gifts of word of knowledge, prophecy, miracles, healing and tongues. I can tell you that it has cost us much to operate in these gifts. For us God has never dispensed them. We have had to become broken and healed vessels who will not take the power or glory of God for ourselves.
In conclusion, I believe that the charismatic giftings are incredibly essential to the Body of Christ, for this is how the Holy Spirit manifests Himself to the world. We must not throw out the baby with the bath water So is the expositional study of the Word of God even more essential.
As I see the corrections that God is bringing to the charismatic movement is the getting rid or the pernicious prosperity teaching, putting mature and godly spiritual character before anointing and spiritual giftings, while leaving all of the spiritual giftings intact, and stressing the study of His word and the making and raising up disciples who will go into the world.
Please forgive us for the mistakes that we have made. Truly the whole charismatic emphasis of God when it is birthed by the Holy Spirit is wonderful and essential for all people regardless of their denomiantion.
My wife and I are pastors in a charismatic denomination called The Vineyard.
We have lived in Kenya for 18 months and ministered to the Pueblo Native American nations for 8 years.
Many people in my church in Miami Florida went to the Lakeland Revival. Many were deeply touched by the power of God. The actions of Todd Bentley however towards the end of the revival as one reader rightfully commented was absolutely unrighteous.
There have been two great ills with the charismatic movement which God is at hard at work correcting. There was the whole prosperity movement which Jesus never taught about. Many, and I say many well known Charismatic leaders, have fallen and are still falling due to the great corruption of greed and avarice and injury that this erroneous teaching has brought. God is cleaning up His house!
Then other one which another reader correctly said is the notion that God is a “candy dispenser” of spiritual gifts and miracles. There have many abuses with that as well. This in part is why people such as Todd Bentley have fallen. I personally met Todd in London and talked to him on the way from Kenya to the USA. He was man a gentle man of love. We have sat under his conferences and read his books. I have been tremendously blessed by his ministry. He does move in the genuine power of God. However one of the big mistakes that we the Charismatics have commited is to exalt “anointing or power before spiritual character” . Charismatic leaders quickly exalted his anointing and put him at the forefront
Paul tells us in the NT never to put a novice into a position of leadership. In the 90's we the Charismatics got into the whole notion of exalting the glory and the power of God before spiritual character. It has caught up with us. The power and the glory of God are wonderful and essential but they must be held in an earthenware vessels of godly character.
Finally, everything must be based on the written Word of God. Amongst the charismatics there has been a great weakness in the study of the written Word and a focus on anointing, sometimes producing chaos and a circus type of atmosphere
My wife and I move in the gifts of word of knowledge, prophecy, miracles, healing and tongues. I can tell you that it has cost us much to operate in these gifts. For us God has never dispensed them. We have had to become broken and healed vessels who will not take the power or glory of God for ourselves.
In conclusion, I believe that the charismatic giftings are incredibly essential to the Body of Christ, for this is how the Holy Spirit manifests Himself to the world. We must not throw out the baby with the bath water So is the expositional study of the Word of God even more essential.
As I see the corrections that God is bringing to the charismatic movement is the getting rid or the pernicious prosperity teaching, putting mature and godly spiritual character before anointing and spiritual giftings, while leaving all of the spiritual giftings intact, and stressing the study of His word and the making and raising up disciples who will go into the world.
Please forgive us for the mistakes that we have made. Truly the whole charismatic emphasis of God when it is birthed by the Holy Spirit is wonderful and essential for all people regardless of their denomiantion.
Humpty Dumpty
I posted the following paragraph on Facebook on October 17, 2008.“My prophetical gifting is usually not geared towards the prediction of future events. I will say however that based upon what I have been getting from the Lord as well as what other men of God are getting, 2009-2010 will be years of God's judgment upon the USA because of the murder of 50,000,000 babies through abortion. The blood of babies that soaks the ground of this country will begin to cry out to Jesus in 2009 and will culminate in 2010. The judgment will probably be some kind of a food crisis. This judgment will not and cannot be averted unless there is a true Nineveh experience. The prophetic vision from which I penned this brief letter began by the display of the number "2010" boldly in front of my spiritual eyes.American leadership present or future that justifies this abomination will only exacerbate what is already impending.” Jose (Facebook on October 17, 2008.)About three months ago, the world as I knew it was in relative peace. The only pesky thing was the price of a barrel of oil which hovered above $140.00. As I was going to sleep one night my heart was suddenly and frightfully gripped by a voice that I heard saying , “The Day of the Lord is at Hand!”I muttered in a startled and fearful whisper, “Was that you Lord; what did you say?” The Lord said once again, “The Day of the Lord is at Hand!”A few days later a series of tornadoes raked the American soil and it was no more than two weeks after that that the huge domino effect of bank failures began. The rest is now history in process.Since that time I have unquestionably known that we are in a time of God’s spanking, punishment or judgment; whatever you want to call it. Today I went to pastor’s meeting where Steve Fatow was the invited guest. Steve is a pastor in Knoxsville, Tennessee with a very strong and accurate prophetic gifting. He has been in ministry for more than 30 years. As a matter of fact, Steve ministered to me in the early 80’s right after I had become a Christian.Steve has embarked on a calling of the Lord called “Procession of Healing” found @ http://processionofhealing.com/home.php.
These are nationwide funeral processions for aborted babies including hearse and all.Steve stated that if the blood of one man, Abel, cried to the Lord from the earth, what kind of effect does the blood of at least 50,000,000 babies soaking the foundations of the American soil going to have upon God? This is exactly what the Lord showed me months ago.
Genesis 4:9 ¶ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother’s keeper?10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the earth.11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother’s blood from your hand;
I concur with Steve that the current judgment (Day of the Lord) that we are in, is in big part a judgment on the abomination of abortion. It will only get worse since the Lord said that “real” judgment of this sin would not be felt until 2010. The Lord knows how to discipline us where it hurts,... in our pocketbooks. Steve went on to quote a verse out of Hosea.
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
I suspect that God is bartering for the blood of these babies by the judgment of our national gods, “money, comfort, pleasure and entertainment.”Any future policies incrementing the freedoms of abortion will only aggravate what is already an impending judgment. No bailouts will function beneath the hand of an angry God. We do not need bailouts, we need open eyes, open ears and repentance.
In closing the Lord brought back to me the story of America as Humpty Dumpty.
Hear now the wisdom of Humpty for he is acting as a prophet of the Most High God!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
These are nationwide funeral processions for aborted babies including hearse and all.Steve stated that if the blood of one man, Abel, cried to the Lord from the earth, what kind of effect does the blood of at least 50,000,000 babies soaking the foundations of the American soil going to have upon God? This is exactly what the Lord showed me months ago.
Genesis 4:9 ¶ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother’s keeper?10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the earth.11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother’s blood from your hand;
I concur with Steve that the current judgment (Day of the Lord) that we are in, is in big part a judgment on the abomination of abortion. It will only get worse since the Lord said that “real” judgment of this sin would not be felt until 2010. The Lord knows how to discipline us where it hurts,... in our pocketbooks. Steve went on to quote a verse out of Hosea.
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
I suspect that God is bartering for the blood of these babies by the judgment of our national gods, “money, comfort, pleasure and entertainment.”Any future policies incrementing the freedoms of abortion will only aggravate what is already an impending judgment. No bailouts will function beneath the hand of an angry God. We do not need bailouts, we need open eyes, open ears and repentance.
In closing the Lord brought back to me the story of America as Humpty Dumpty.
Hear now the wisdom of Humpty for he is acting as a prophet of the Most High God!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
The Intoxicating Wine of the Devil
Rev 17:1 ¶ And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
I believe that part of the spiritual warfare that needs to be waged in the USA in the next five days is to bind up, or forbid in Jesus name, the further release of spiritual wine that the devil is pouring out on the unsaved and yes, sadly enough, on many in the body of Christ. This spiritual wine is intoxicating the masses in this nation, Christians and non Christians alike, with numbness, stupor, and spiritual incoherence, to vote in many ways that are contrary to the will of God … we are a nation of drunken cattle running to the slaughter and not caring. As the intoxicating wine that makes drunk is bound, a spirit of soberness must be released over this nation with the full authority of the name of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1Pe 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Pray in the way that the Lord Jesus in verse ten below told us. This prayer is in the imperative mood, or one of command.When you pray verse ten you command it with authority in this fashion…“COME!!! Thy kingdom!”“DONE!!! …or BECOME your will!... as you have purposed it in heaven so let it be upon America.
Matthew 6:9 ¶ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
I believe that part of the spiritual warfare that needs to be waged in the USA in the next five days is to bind up, or forbid in Jesus name, the further release of spiritual wine that the devil is pouring out on the unsaved and yes, sadly enough, on many in the body of Christ. This spiritual wine is intoxicating the masses in this nation, Christians and non Christians alike, with numbness, stupor, and spiritual incoherence, to vote in many ways that are contrary to the will of God … we are a nation of drunken cattle running to the slaughter and not caring. As the intoxicating wine that makes drunk is bound, a spirit of soberness must be released over this nation with the full authority of the name of Jesus Christ.
1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1Pe 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Pray in the way that the Lord Jesus in verse ten below told us. This prayer is in the imperative mood, or one of command.When you pray verse ten you command it with authority in this fashion…“COME!!! Thy kingdom!”“DONE!!! …or BECOME your will!... as you have purposed it in heaven so let it be upon America.
Matthew 6:9 ¶ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Blindly running, shovels in our hands
As I look at soon to come elections I cannot help but to be sadly amused that as Americans and for that matter American Christians we are rushing with shovels in hand to dig our own graves.The greatest problem which faces humanity is that it always leaves God out of the equation of its life.It is an impossibility and the greatest of foolishness to leave God out of our lives, however. God is the greatest intruder, invader and controller of history whenever He chooses to, as is His right. Just take a look at the book of Revelation when Jesus opens the seals of judgments and creates absolute upheaval in the course of this globe.
I am so amused at how ungrateful we are and how quickly we forget tragedy. When nine eleven occurred George Bush ran to take drastic measures to protect this country against terrorism. Every Democrat that I knew got behind him in those days. If for nothing else George Bush has been an instrument in God's hand to protect us from terrorists and he has done a good job of doing it. We must be thankful to him that for eight years the Lord used him to protect us and our children.Yet we have forgotten this and clamor for change once again. As people we have a two year attention span that recalls God when tragedy hits.
When hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida, for two years Dade County turned to God, and then it became more hardened than ever. After nine eleven the nation turned to God... yep, for two years, and then forgot Him.
When my family came back from mission work in Kenya and I saw townhouses in South Florida that should cost 120,000.00 selling for 300,000.00, I turned to my wife and said to her, “GREED”! Any bubble of greed eventually pops and so this one has. It is my prayer that in this time of humbling and correction people will begin to turn back to the Lord Jesus Christ.So to finish I need to ask...Is Jesus Christ a God of money or financial prosperity and economic well being? Or is He a God of morals, virtues, integrity, and rightness of conscience. I would say that though Jesus Christ promises us our daily bread, He is definitively the God of the latter.You see, God blesses and judges independently of any politician. His laws and His dealings transcend the busy affairs of man. His blessings are based upon how closely we pattern our lives and our world around Him, not Him around us. He does not play by our rules. He plays by His rules and if we are to be successful we must be play by His rules at all times. Will the next four years draw us closer to God or will it alienate us even further? The farther it becomes, the greater will be the judgments of God, because we are breaking His rules. In God's eyes, though probably not in ours, the murder of 50, 000,000 unborn is of paramount significance to Him. He is the creator of life. This is one of His most important broken rules in our timesIs the great intruder and invader of history, going to bow down before the change that is promised if it vastly contradicts the rules of His game. I think not. Do we care? This is why I say that I see us blindly running, shovels in our hands to dig the abyss of our own graves.
I am so amused at how ungrateful we are and how quickly we forget tragedy. When nine eleven occurred George Bush ran to take drastic measures to protect this country against terrorism. Every Democrat that I knew got behind him in those days. If for nothing else George Bush has been an instrument in God's hand to protect us from terrorists and he has done a good job of doing it. We must be thankful to him that for eight years the Lord used him to protect us and our children.Yet we have forgotten this and clamor for change once again. As people we have a two year attention span that recalls God when tragedy hits.
When hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida, for two years Dade County turned to God, and then it became more hardened than ever. After nine eleven the nation turned to God... yep, for two years, and then forgot Him.
When my family came back from mission work in Kenya and I saw townhouses in South Florida that should cost 120,000.00 selling for 300,000.00, I turned to my wife and said to her, “GREED”! Any bubble of greed eventually pops and so this one has. It is my prayer that in this time of humbling and correction people will begin to turn back to the Lord Jesus Christ.So to finish I need to ask...Is Jesus Christ a God of money or financial prosperity and economic well being? Or is He a God of morals, virtues, integrity, and rightness of conscience. I would say that though Jesus Christ promises us our daily bread, He is definitively the God of the latter.You see, God blesses and judges independently of any politician. His laws and His dealings transcend the busy affairs of man. His blessings are based upon how closely we pattern our lives and our world around Him, not Him around us. He does not play by our rules. He plays by His rules and if we are to be successful we must be play by His rules at all times. Will the next four years draw us closer to God or will it alienate us even further? The farther it becomes, the greater will be the judgments of God, because we are breaking His rules. In God's eyes, though probably not in ours, the murder of 50, 000,000 unborn is of paramount significance to Him. He is the creator of life. This is one of His most important broken rules in our timesIs the great intruder and invader of history, going to bow down before the change that is promised if it vastly contradicts the rules of His game. I think not. Do we care? This is why I say that I see us blindly running, shovels in our hands to dig the abyss of our own graves.
The Mystery of Lawlessness
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The word mystery speaks about something secretive or unknown. Everything which God does through Jesus Christ, He executes it through the vehicle of mysteries. God's hides His secrets, plans and counsels in mysteries so that they cannot not be abused or tampered with by people who do not love Him. Because a mystery is hidden, it must be revealed or uncovered progressively until it is known. The uncovering of a mystery is called wisdom.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Amongst the mysteries which God possesses is one called a mystery of iniquity. The word iniquity is the Greek word “anomos, which is defined as lawlessness or without the law. God operates by spiritual laws. Our success in this life and our security of eternal salvation are commensurate on how closely we obey the laws of God. Society has laws that need to be obeyed as well. “Anomos” is a disregard, rebellion, mockery and contempt for the laws of God and for the godly laws that govern society.
2 Timothy 3:1 ¶ But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,3 Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,4 False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;5 Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
Above is a list of lawless acts of mankind describing the last days before Jesus Christ come back. Does it sound like where we are now?When Adam and Eve disobeyed God a sinful nature was birthed in them and is now transmitted into every man and woman that comes into this planet. This sinful nature can only be destroyed by our acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Master over our lives.The mystery of iniquity was also birthed and unleashed at the conception of this sinful nature.Before sin came, Adam and Eve lived forever.Right after the fall and the birth of sin, death began to infect mankind, but people still lived over 900 years of age. As the deadly effects of sin saturated society, people lived less and less.The unveiling, revelation and the friendly enmeshment and embrace of society with this mystery increases and continues unabated until the Second of Coming of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The words in verse seven “doth already work” is the Greek word energy or energize. This mystery works by and as a secret energy through out our planet progressively manifested until it attains to a full maturity at the day of the Antichrist.This energy works proportionally to our disobedience to God. The greater our defiance to God and His laws the greater is the energy of this mystery in our lives, and just the converse is true. An obedient life to the Lord Jesus shields us from the energy of this ever increasing mystery.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Ephesians 2:2 tells us that the prince of the power of the earth, Satan, is presently energizing in those people who are defiant, blinded, stubborn to God. This is an automatic global process set in place by God which can only be avoided by salvation in Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Verse ten describes this mystery a bit further. Unrighteous living, or living which is not according to God brings deception into our lives. This deception comes because the person does not welcome the Word of God which is able to save the person.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Verse eleven is the clincher and describes to us the magnitude of the seriousness of not following Jesus Christ and falling prey to the energy of the mystery of lawlesness which is transversing the earth, even as we speak. The phrase 'a strong delusion” in the Greek is an “energy of error”. The energy of the mystery of lawlessness is an energy which promotes error. The word error comes from the word planet. A planet in Greek mythology is one who wanders, because planets wander around the sun. A person who is in error is a person who lives in the aimlessness of life, wandering without God, His love, and without a God given destiny, enjoying the futilities of sinful living without God for a few years, and then dying with the acute danger of ending up in hell and separated from God forever.The mystery of lawlessness has within it an energy that is injected in the thoughts of people and causes them to wander in error, never coming to the truth about God in Jesus Christ, because they have rejected salvation through Jesus Christ.
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Verse twelve tells us in the Greek.. “That they all me judged who believed not in what is truthful and accurate about God but took pleasure in disobeying God or in being lawless. This is the culmination of the energy of error upon the minds of those who have rejected Jesus Christ and His wonderful promise of salvation and eternal life.
O sleeper? Arise!
I try to be a realist and not a “doomist” when it comes to Bible prophecy. As a matter of fact, I know little about Bible prophecy. Looking back at the times in which the Lord spoke significant “end times” or “judgments” types of words to me, I can count them on one hand.
About six to eight years ago an Indian preacher (from India) by the name of Glen Cunningham was invited to minister at “Church on the Rock” in Albuquerque, NM. He came with a word for the church in the USA. God had told him that the American church was the “O sleeper” in the book of Jonah verse five. Jonah was the “O sleeper” and the American church was Jonah.
Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.In this account Jonah had disobeyed God and had failed to pronounce an impending judgment upon Nineveh. Rather, he got on a boat and fled the other way to Tarshish. As he dozed off, God sent a big storm in the boat’s way. Those that were in charge of the vessel found Jonah sleeping and thought that the gods had cursed him, making him the grounds for this furious tempest. They woke him up by the name “O sleeper” and cast him into the ocean to shatter the curse of the storm. This is where the whale swallows Jonah.
Glen Cunningham said that God had told him that the American church was the “O sleeper” because it was asleep in the light. This preacher then said that the church in the USA was given eight years to repent, lest judgment fall on the church and on the USA. When he said those words I began to visibly shake from fear in my seat. This had never happened to me before.
According to my mathematics, we are at fulfillment of this prophecy.
About six to eight years ago an Indian preacher (from India) by the name of Glen Cunningham was invited to minister at “Church on the Rock” in Albuquerque, NM. He came with a word for the church in the USA. God had told him that the American church was the “O sleeper” in the book of Jonah verse five. Jonah was the “O sleeper” and the American church was Jonah.
Jonah 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.In this account Jonah had disobeyed God and had failed to pronounce an impending judgment upon Nineveh. Rather, he got on a boat and fled the other way to Tarshish. As he dozed off, God sent a big storm in the boat’s way. Those that were in charge of the vessel found Jonah sleeping and thought that the gods had cursed him, making him the grounds for this furious tempest. They woke him up by the name “O sleeper” and cast him into the ocean to shatter the curse of the storm. This is where the whale swallows Jonah.
Glen Cunningham said that God had told him that the American church was the “O sleeper” because it was asleep in the light. This preacher then said that the church in the USA was given eight years to repent, lest judgment fall on the church and on the USA. When he said those words I began to visibly shake from fear in my seat. This had never happened to me before.
According to my mathematics, we are at fulfillment of this prophecy.
The Vision of the Lobster Trap
About three years ago I had a vision while I was on my knees praying in New Mexico. In this vision I saw the strong muscular arm of the Lord with what appeared to be a lobster trap which had been pulled up out of the ocean. I realized that it was not lobsters but demons that were inside the trap. Three year ago the trap had been pulled out of the waters over the USA but it was still closed. Three years later, I wonder if the trap has been opened.
The Vision of the White House and Wall Street
About five years ago, our family was invited to the home of Pastor Lalitha Rachur, in New Mexico to pray in the New Year. During this time I had a vision of the map of the USA with a caved in hole around the area of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Since that time I have been puzzled and disturbed by the vision, never getting an answer from the Lord as to what it means.
Last night I was praying and I re asked God for the interpretation. What He showed me left me so troubled that I could nothing more than ask Him to have mercy on our great nation, the USA.
The caved in hole was being progressively dug by several bulldozers. The bulldozers just kept ritualistically digging up dirt and flinging it behind them. There was no rhyme or reason to their digging. The thoughtless drudging of the earth represents our American mindsets. It is zombie like, robotic, unthinking consumption. It was a wasteful, non stopping, digging, excavating, grabbing and dumping, over and over and over. A lustful need for more and more, without discernment, or thankfulness to God, or thinking of our neighbors, or our future, or of our children. Just a digging, grabbing and dumping, digging, grabbing and dumping.
If you have ever seen the phenomena of a sink hole, as the hole widens suddenly homes hundred reds of feet away, suddenly lose their foundation and sink into the hole.
I suddenly saw the White House and Wall Street totally lose their foundation and collapse in into the loose soil near to the hole. By all effects, there was no more Main Street or Wall Street. I realized then that America had not foundation except soil. I cried, O God, bring in some cement into the soil so that our White House or Wall Street do not collapse into the sink hole. I realized that the cement must be brought in by the church. As I cried it seemed like bits of cement were being injected into the soil around it, but it seemed too little. We the church have been so asleep. After I got off my knees and went back to bed, I wonder if it is too little too late or of we still have time to awaken and place enough of the foundation of God into this land to prevent a total collapse of this country. I will continue to pray. The Kenyans say, “Where God reveals God deals. “ I am thinking about my children and the generation that we are mentoring!
This Vision Came On
Jose Alvarez
11/25/2008
Last night I was praying and I re asked God for the interpretation. What He showed me left me so troubled that I could nothing more than ask Him to have mercy on our great nation, the USA.
The caved in hole was being progressively dug by several bulldozers. The bulldozers just kept ritualistically digging up dirt and flinging it behind them. There was no rhyme or reason to their digging. The thoughtless drudging of the earth represents our American mindsets. It is zombie like, robotic, unthinking consumption. It was a wasteful, non stopping, digging, excavating, grabbing and dumping, over and over and over. A lustful need for more and more, without discernment, or thankfulness to God, or thinking of our neighbors, or our future, or of our children. Just a digging, grabbing and dumping, digging, grabbing and dumping.
If you have ever seen the phenomena of a sink hole, as the hole widens suddenly homes hundred reds of feet away, suddenly lose their foundation and sink into the hole.
I suddenly saw the White House and Wall Street totally lose their foundation and collapse in into the loose soil near to the hole. By all effects, there was no more Main Street or Wall Street. I realized then that America had not foundation except soil. I cried, O God, bring in some cement into the soil so that our White House or Wall Street do not collapse into the sink hole. I realized that the cement must be brought in by the church. As I cried it seemed like bits of cement were being injected into the soil around it, but it seemed too little. We the church have been so asleep. After I got off my knees and went back to bed, I wonder if it is too little too late or of we still have time to awaken and place enough of the foundation of God into this land to prevent a total collapse of this country. I will continue to pray. The Kenyans say, “Where God reveals God deals. “ I am thinking about my children and the generation that we are mentoring!
This Vision Came On
Jose Alvarez
11/25/2008
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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