Beneath the surface

The countenance of a man is not always an accurate reflection of the condition of his heart. When the sands of time wear away at all that we build upon the surface, what remains is the bare truth. Sometime the things emerging from beneath the surface are emotionally crippling and other times they may be hidden strengths. We must see that what ever is kept beneath the surface affects what the world sees, no matter how hard we try to hide it. 1SAM 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. The heart of a man has a strange way of revealing all that he is. You may try so hard to hide all the emotions and pain that you feel right now but your heart has no face but the one that everyone sees. All the smiles and exuberant gesticulations are never enough to camouflage the bitterness of genuine pain and hurt.
Everything that the anointed of GOD experiences must be credited to GOD, like Job said, the LORD giveth and the LORD taketh away. The good, the bad and the ugly all fits into God’s divine purpose, credit nothing to the devil for he has no authority over you, at least he shouldn’t, that’s up to you. What you do with all that you’ve experienced is of utmost importance. What are you doing with all your life’s experiences, are you hiding them beneath the surface or are you giving them to God for his glory. GOD SHOWED ME THIS.
Jacob said to his people-Gen 25:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Jacob came to Bethel which is translated as the ‘HOUSE OF GOD’. There he proceeds to rename a certain place in Bethel and call it EL-BETHEL. El means GOD therefore he called that place- The GOD of the HOUSE of GOD. This indicates specificity, showing us that now he clearly identifies that his GOD is the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and now Jacob. JEHOVAH GOD has now identified himself to Jacob through all that he has experienced. At the same time of his naming the place ELBETHEL, Rebekah’s (Jacob’s mother) nurse died. Gen 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth (The oak of weeping).
Jacob began to mourn for he buried Deborah (Rebekah’s nurse). He buried her in ELBETHEL that was renamed ‘[the oak of weeping’ for she was buried under the oak tree. Deborah was the only remnant of Rebekah that Jacob had. She also represented all that GOD did in Jacob’s life. She was there when Abraham’s servant found Rebekah for Isaac. Deborah was there when Rebekah jumped off her camel to meet Isaac. Deborah was there when Jacob was sent away by Rebekah, running from Esau. Deborah was there when Jacob was born; she was there when Jacob wrestled with the angel beyond the river. Deborah was Jacob’s living testimony, whenever he would give a story of what GOD had done and no one believed, he had the pleasure of saying ask Deborah. Now Deborah was dead, his living testimony was dead. Deborah was Jacob’s link to all that he treasured beneath the surface. All his pleasure and pain was encapsulated in Deborah. Jacob did a wise thing, he buried her in ELBETHEL, he buried his past, his testimony, in the GOD of the HOUSE of GOD.
This is where everything we have needs to be placed. Everything needs to be planted in GOD for all that GOD has done in us could grow to affect the world. There are so many testimonies out there that remain as a seed but they must be planted in GOD. Jacob left that pace calling it the OAK tree of weeping.
Many years later standing under the same tree, if not the same, a similar tree is a judge in Israel. The name of that Judge was Deborah. She lived under a tree called ‘The palm tree of Deborah’. Judges 4:4And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. 5And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
The Oak of weeping was changed to the Palm tree to signify rejoicing. Israel was in bondage however, and they were severely oppressed. Standing under that tree was a seed that Jacob had planted many years before, a seed that would elevate them out of bondage. When Israel heard the name of Deborah and saw the tree behind her they would remember Jacob, his life, his testimony and HIS GOD. What lay beneath the surface of that parched worn earth that Deborah stood upon was the body of another Deborah who knew that GOD was GOD. The stuff that was beneath the surface, planted by Jacob was enough to lift a nation. Israel defeated the enemy through the word of Deborah the judge who in no doubt was a direct inspiration of Deborah, the testimony of Jacob, Rebekah’s nurse.
The stuff we bury inside may hurt and so many times work to destroy us. Those of you that have kept things inside, past hurts, maybe you were abused as a child, a broken heart, raped, molested, abandoned, would identify with the tendency to bury those things deep within you while struggling with them throughout your lifetime. GOD is saying that if you are to bury them, bury them in him. He will let those same things bloom like the palm of Deborah to inject life into a generation that needs to hear your testimony. Let everything that you consist of be planted in Jesus Christ so that your life will bloom like the Garden of Eden. Do not abandon all that you’ve faced, if you do then they would count for nothing. Sow them into the GOD of the House of GOD and your life will bear fruits that will cause others to live. What lies beneath the surface could be used for GOD.

'HELP'

Over the last month and a half things have really become clearer in my life and my ministry. God has definitely given me directions, a path that I must walk concerning how I am to minister to the nations. I know that this will not be an easy road but I am looking forward to this challenge. I always knew that preaching is what I was born to do, ministering to millions is my destiny but I could never see how this could be possible. God has given me some insight as to where I will be in the upcoming days. How I get there is still slightly vague but this is where faith comes in, we walk by faith and not by sight.
I have had two people come up to me from no where and confirm things that I guess I needed to hear. Preaching in Penal Church is not my final destiny; engineering graphics design is not my calling. GOD has prepared platforms for me to minister upon for I have a message to give to the world. The message is not one of words alone but it is accompanied by the demonstration of the intrinsically manifested power of almighty GOD. This is the day when the nations of the earth will be introduced to HOLY SPIRIT in a unique way and I (and others) will be instrumental in preparing the way for this outpouring. I cannot do this on my own; humility speaks to me, clearly showing that beside a total dependence on Jesus, there must be a gathering of persons who will assist in making this vision come alive. YOU may be one, I need your help.
Now I have heard some very silly statements in my time, “This GOSPEL cannot be preached without Money”…the ones who make these statements have never seen what I have seen. It’s not about money it’s about your calling and your faith. I need your prayer and your faith. My sister is also embarking on a vision that is also big. She needs your support. We need your help…there is no doubt that in the up coming days the LORD will speak to many of you, giving you ideas where we can influence the earth…share them with us. This is what we need from you.
We live in a day of motivational speakers and highly educated teachers. These are all great and in some cases are very beneficial to the church. However, there is NOT enough emphasis on the HOLY SPIRIT and his purpose. My purpose is to unmask power that is available to all, empowering this generation to actively advance the kingdom of Christ. We must win souls in to the kingdom; this is a fundamental requirement which we have lost sight of. No man comes unto the FATHER unless Holy Spirit draws him; this is why Holy Ghost is pivotal. You ignore him you win no souls, people might come but they will NOT be genuine conversions.
HELP us take this message into the world. Send me an e-mail or comment on this blog if you are willing to be a part of the move of GOD that is coming. If you want to be a part of the ministry to which GOD has assigned me, then feel free to let me know your ideas on how you can assist us in letting the nations know that we are here. I am ready to do anything and everything GOD commands….what about you??

I am not alone

You know what it is to be standing in the middle of a crowded room, hearing so many voices resonate in communication, eyes attempting to say words that the mind cannot produce. In all the activity the one guest that refuses to leave you alone is loneliness. Even though there are so many people around you, despite the many smiles and conversation you hold and the many friends that pull and tug for your attention, you feel alone, isolated, separated and depressed.

Loneliness is a cancer that corrodes the very nature and spirit of an individual. When you’re alone the mind begins to work overtime and before you know it you are plunging head first into a deep abyss of solitude and depression. You wonder why no one can hear your silent cries for help never stopping to realize that the reason no one hears your silent cries is because they are silent.

Satan’s ploy is to divide and conquer; he wants to separate us from the protective hand of almighty God, which in turn leaves us vulnerable to the attack of the enemy. It’s perfectly acceptable if we are separated from the people around us even though there is strength in numbers. It’s no problem if we are separated from all the things we hold dear but the anointed of GOD must never be separated from the love of God. ROM 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

We must never allow the enemy to separate us from the things of GOD for this is where our strength lies. Still we find ourselves alone. Too many times the people we depend upon are the ones who leave us stranded. The persons we love are the ones who let us down and forsake us. They will strip our coat of many colors and throw us into the pit. Gen37:23And it came to pass when Joseph had come to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him.24And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

The pit was not where Joseph’s dreams indicated that he would be. Joseph’s dream told of the sun and the moon and the stars great in number. Now he finds himself rejected and alone. Joseph the child must have been crying for fear, after all he was just a child. He was so young that he was still too naive to see that his brothers disliked him. Alone in the cold dark pit Joseph must have cried out for his father, with all his might he must have summoned Ruben, Simeon but none was there to heed his desperate cries. What Joseph did not see, the pit was the beginning of his dream. God will separate us from the masses in order for his will to be fulfilled but while we may think that we are alone, he is always with us. Gen39: 21But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. God will never leave you alone in the prison, the arm of flesh may forsake you but the LORD will never leave you.

Your alone time is equivalent to your seed time. The time when you feel alone and separated is the time that GOD is planting you in order for you to give birth to the harvest of your potential. JN 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Our time of loneliness is not the time for crying and sulking, it’s the time you use to grow root downwards and bear fruit upward. A farmer never plants a handful for seeds in one hole for that is confusion. A single seed, alone, placed in one pit holds the potential to affect a multitude.

JN 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Our LORD JESUS and his disciples all had a time of loneliness. His Disciples forsook him and fled. They left him alone but he made it clear that the father was with him. On the cross Jesus cried Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The father had left JESUS alone but this was necessary for he was the seed that had to be planted and after his alone time, he was given a name that is above every other name. I don’t know what you may be going through at this time but from the beginning the LORD made it very clear that it is not good for man to be alone. God wants us to remember that we are not alone, though the world may forsake us Jesus said, I will never leave you nor forsake you even until the end of the earth. No matter how alone I feel I know that the LORD is with me and I am not alone.

Heaven is not Real??

Heaven is not real?

I have learned one valuable lesson. Faith is real, when I say real, it’s something substantial, something you can feel, and something you know is there. Faith is the substance of things hoped for; this means that it’s something tangible. I realize that when you have faith you know it and if you’re wondering if your faith is enough, chances are your faith is weak or you have no faith at all. It’s normal to have doubts, we all do, but asking God to help you unbelief is faith in itself. Faith is NOT convincing yourself that God can do a thing, it’s knowing that he is capable of doing it. The exact moment faith comes alive is something that is undeniable, there is no doubt, you just know that it’s done. Even though you don’t see what you’ve been praying for you know that it’s done. Faith is definitely important because without it, you could never please God.
Why is faith so important?
Everything that Jesus has done is a matter of faith. He left us no video tapes and no pictures; no DVD’s to prove that he did what the bible says he did. He did not even leave a remnant of his face to look at and there were artist in those days. Just to believe that he existed is a matter of faith. I’ve heard of the historical Jesus and the biblical Jesus, scientists and theologians have all bent backwards to understand the actions of a little pheasant man born in a stable and still cannot explain all that he was and is. It’s all a matter of faith.
The biggest matter of faith to me is heaven. Like all things from GOD, we have to have faith and believe and it will be. If we have a little faith it is enough to move a mountain. Do we really believe this?
Some of us don’t have enough faith to heal a common cold much less to move a mighty mountain. It is imperative that we have faith since faith is the window through which Christ is alive and not dead. If you have no faith then Christ is still somewhere in a tomb in the middle east rotting away to the bone…to you at least. Faith is what lets us see his power and his resurrection and as a result watch it work in our lives. There are people who say they are Christians and do NOT believe that he was raised from the dead. Those people will NOT enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Unless you have faith to see heaven, then it will remain just as the last mountain you threw into the sea…non existent. So for many people Heaven will remain something that is not real all because they had no faith to believe. So if you struggle with faith….fix it because without faith heaven will never be real.

I know how to fix it….do you??

I’m going to kill myself

‘I’m going to kill myself’ over and over again in his head these words played out. What was the reason for living? I’ve lost my wife and all that I hold dear to me. He picked up a roll of chord that is normally used for a grass cutter and decided that this was the means by which he would alleviate his pain. He would simply put this chord around his neck and hope that his final battle with pain would not be as intense as the pain he felt inside.
He began walking to the road to find a tree that was secluded enough but still detectable where his body could be found afterward. While he was walking a car pulled up beside him. “Where are you going?” asked the driver.
“I’m just walking” he replied
“Come to church with me” declared the driver
He said to himself” What have I to lose, might as well go”
With the little roll of chord tightly tucked away in his pocket he went to the church with all intension to commit suicide after the service.
There he saw a young man singing and he thought that this was the best voice he ever heard. The words of the songs were enough to bring a sense of peace to him. He did not even realize that all the pain that he had been feeling was not even there at the moment. Then the preacher went up to speak. The tall stern looking stranger only glanced at the crowd immediately commanding their attention. He was captivated by the mere look of the man.
Then the man began to speak.
It was as if every word was for him. That preacher spoke with the voice of GOD. Suddenly the words came back; I’m going to kill myself.
At the same moment the preacher declared that Jesus came that you might life and life more abundantly.
As clear as day he came to a divine realization, I must live and not die.
He threw away that roll of chord with which he was going to hang himself and gave his life to Jesus. Two years later he is still in love with Jesus.
Are you stronghold in someone else’s life?
When we hear the word stronghold we think of demons, principalities and powers. We must see that we can be a stronghold in God that would keep all that is life in the existence of someone wanting to die. The preacher in this story is my father and the singer is me.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt I can say that my family and I have been a pillar of faith in the lives of others. My sister Sharon has the respect of so many people because they see life in her. Whenever I see her I feel good so much more for those that are dying. My brother Jude when he sings it’s enough to drive demons away and clear the air. We have become all things to all men, so people would be utterly bored without my family since there would be no one to love or to hate if we weren’t around. Either way we ignite the fires of life in the name of Jesus.
What are you doing? What’s your family doing?
Do they bring life or death to others?
I pray that it’s life. Your sons should respect women and let them know that they are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your daughters should be letting the light of GOD shine through the glory of their beauty.
You should be loving and NOT hating….despite what people do to you and you just might bring life to someone else. Make sure that it’s NOT your fault that someone walks away from JESUS because walking away ultimately leads to death. How many souls have you won?

Jesus did not fie for.......

I’ve heard so many people quote that scripture that says….Greater love hath no man than this than a man lay down his life for his friend. These are the words of Jesus himself.
We use these words to exemplify the passion that Jesus had demonstrated toward the world. I realize that Jesus never really died for his friends alone. When we examine the Love that Jesus loves us with, there is hardly a man on this planet that could duplicate it.

Jesus said that there has never been a greater love than that of a man dying for his friend. Some people believe that this scripture encapsulates the love of Jesus. If this is so, then there are so many men out there who are capable of doing what Jesus did. Still his amazing love is second to none…equal to none.

I’ve seen Romeo die for Juliet and Harry Osborne take one for Peter parker (Spiderman). So in essence what they did, whether fictional or genuine, is equal to what JESUS did…..I think not.
Jesus said that there is no greater love than a man dying for his friend because that is the deepest love that the world had seen and was capable of. Jesus was going to demonstrate a greater love than that.

JESUS died for you and for me, even those who were enemies of GOD the father. Jew, gentile, bond and free alike all felt the love of JESUS.
JESUS DID NOT DIE FOR HIS FRIEND alone but also his enemies (those who hated him…Father forgive them!!!). This is a greater love than the “no greater love” of man.

It is easy to give to someone you love but JESUS asked…what prophet is there in that?

It is easy to give to those who are in need but what about those who have already?

Those that love us are easy to love because men are self conscious by nature. Love is NOT selfish but SELFLESS.

IF any man would come after JESUS (love like him) let him FIRST deny himself …take up his cross and follow him. Anyway we must remember that….For GOD so loved the WORLD……

YOU, the bride of CHRIST, are the only ones who can come close to loving like him