A Sound Heart

The flesh is a very familiar stranger.  The flesh wants us to believe that we are doing the will of God when we are really doing the works of the flesh.  If we abide in Jesus we will be at home in his will.  To abide means to remain in fellowship with Jesus.  It also means not doing the works of the flesh.  More importantly, when we abide in the will of God we grow in Grace perception.  Grace perc...

Those who stand up for God in these days may find themselves at odds with those who have decided that God must be expunged from the universe.  It is no easy matter to expunge God from the universe because the evidence of his handiwork is intrinsic in all things.  We are therefore dealing with an intense and false view of the world.  In other words, we are dealing with a powerful lie that built upo...

The moral lamp has gone out in the western world.  The world will devour the children, and the moral outcry will be silenced by threat of immoral laws and specious legal fiat.  Power without moral compass rules and abortive lies are let loose, and we will no longer recognise the west.  Without God, all will be "Gone with The Wind."   What it means to be human has been erased from the cosmos.  The...

Have you noticed that believers who have pretended to follow Jesus , and later who were found out to living in sin had an artificial presence.  You know what I mean, the perfect presence, the perfect formulaic language, and the ability to provide a Scripture verse for every situation, and yet something was wrong.   There was this sense that something was incredibly wrong in this person's life.  Th...

One cannot serve two masters for either he/she will love the one and hate the other.  The two-souled person is unstable in all of his/her ways.  Choose you this day whom you will serve if the Lord be God serve Him. How long will you halt between two opinions?  We must choose to fully live for God.  We cannot afford to live as the urbane pagans do.  They can believe in the moral absurdity of absolu...

Salvation was/is God's saving power event through Jesus.  Where sin ruled and destroyed lives God defeated it with the power of the cross.  Jesus died for all men and women.  His sacrifice upon a Roman gibbet solved the sin question.  Please note that sin may be ignored in our culture, but it remains a vital force in the lives of those who do not know God.  Even believing ones may not realize that...

You and I know that a-theism is a social fiction.  It is a terrible social fiction, however, because it seeks to expunge God from the universe.  The wicked ones believe that God is not there, therefore they are not accountable to Him.  Of course, the premise is flawed, therefore, the conclusion is untenable.  Man is burdened with himself.  He stands before the abyss believing lies that will sepera...

The baggage that we carry within our hearts for years are encapsulated in memories.  Memories are our interpretations of our experiences.  Memories are not, and cannot be objective.  Memories can be inaccurate, distorted, emotionally charged, and filled with guilt, or not.  We carry memories of the past that can fade, grow old, and remain yet ever poignant.  Do you know that God knows you not thro...

The wages (salt) of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus.  All have sinned and have come short of the glory of God.  God is not willing that any should perish, but that all may come to have eternal life,  Jesus suffered the wrath of God on a Roman gibbet for our salvation.  Those who think to trample under foot the blood of the Son of God must know that there is no other name...

It seems that the world is out of control.  Politicians offer little more than tired and self-serving rhetoric.  The visible church seems to have lost its way by following the world instead of the Lord.  The financial coffers of the country are being raided by pirates and thieves.  No one speaks for the average citizen who wants to do right in the face of terrible evil.  God sees.  He sees that th...

You have decided that you need to go to God for a blessing, but you hesitate because you have not the faith to ask for it.  You ponder the magnitude of your imagined request, but you are fearful of asking God.  You do know (intellectually) that God answers prayer, but you struggle with tainted faith.  Faith is tainted when it seeks approval from the worldly ones.  Faith is untainted when you go to...

Believing ones do not practice the "Will to Power."  We are mandated by God to be filled with the Spirit.  When a believing one is constantly Spirit-filled he or she is led by the Spirit of God.  Neither does believing ones follow the clever words of a motivational speaker.  Clever words do not release the soul out from spiritual pollution.  One may be cleverly demonic too!  Spiritual growth manda...

We share a lived experience in Christ as believers.  We share a common salvation.  We must therefore radically quit the world and its seductive, and violent illusions.  For us it is the protracted gaze upon the person of Jesus that saves.  Peter only failed to walk upon the water when he took his eyes offf Jesus.  So it is with us too.  When we take our eyes off Jesus the world rushes in with its...

We have all spiritual  blessings in the heavenlies in Jesus.  He has set us free from the law of sin and death.  We may therefore walk in newness of life in Jesus.  In Jesus all of the nefarious stuff of the cosmos are sent away.  We are no longer encumbered by the weigh of sin, and we can therefore concentrate on the weight of glory.  Do not let anyone win you from the freedom in Jesus.  There is...

Yes, I really can be my own worst enemy.  Yes, I can find myself in great spiritual darkness.  God, however, knows when I have laid seige to my own life without a cause.  God knows when I decide to turn on myself because sometimes self-reproach is what I desire.  What triggers this behavior, or this journey into the Slough of Despond?  God will not leave me to my own devices.  He will come to me w...

Forgiveness may be a reality that you wish to ignore, but you can't.  Your life will be decisively and negatively impacted by your prideful decision not to forgive an injustice or sin against your person.  When you decide not to forgive you have decided to become the prisoner of the one whom you have chosen not to forgive.  However, pride will tutor you in the ways of rational irrationality so tha...

Did you know that most of the diseases of today are man-made?  Did you know that your environment is filled with toxins, and poisoned water by design?  Did you know that our currency is meaningless and that long ago the monetary system falied us?  Did you know that we are all being controlled by provocative and prejudiced media?  Of course, you knew it.  Did you know that we inhabit a milieu of li...

Let's face it there is an inner rottenness to liars.  We may not be at liberty to express our disdain for their self- abuse, and abuse of others.  We may perhaps have witnessed lying events too disturbing to uttter for fear of terrible wrath.  We are therefore made to carry within our sacred selves lies and awful secrets that isolate us from ourselves and others.  Some lies may cause psychic split...

Lies originate from the father of lies, the Devil.  Those who practice lying are his off-spring.  Yes, there may be fervent denial, and tipid attempts to deflect the truth, but lies kill.  There is no other way to put it.  Lies are built upon a platform of pride.  Liars do not care or understand that the tissues of the brain are transformed by their lies.  There are specific neuropathways that bec...

Old Testament literature and theology teaches the importance of concrete actions.  In the Old testament a person is known by what he or she does.  It is the complete opposite of abstract western culture.  In the west we manipulate the real meaning of actions to serve our contrived ends.  Reality is hidden beneath innumerable layers of lies.  One would have to wear a pair of proverbial  hip boots t...

A lie is a brutal reality.  It eats away at the spiritual life of the person.  It is relentless in its demands.  Those who "live" by lies are burned out by them because a lie is existential falsehood.   It demands that one be false to oneself and others too.  It can never be otherwise.  The lie-shackled person is never free.  The condition or practice of lying creates the liar.  The liar is self-...

Daniel was taken from his homeland by a foreign power.  He was trained in the religio-political educational system of his captors; he served them faithfully, and yet God was first in his life.  God taught Daniel the deeper side of the spiritual life, and He revealed to him his love for him.  Yes, God loved Daniel deeply.  Daniel was given access into the mysteries of the end times for his intensio...

The wicked ones use the metrics of fear to overthrow the lives of the upright.  They legislate fear, and establish edicts that curtain freedom and dignity.  In fact, the wicked ones would take freedom and dignity from the weak as a pleasing pursuit.  They have forgotten that God can see their plans and he will act on behalf of the weak.  This is an old war.  This is a primordial war.  It started i...

The Blessed Hope of the return of Jesus for his church fills us with excitement.  We know that our citizenship is not of this age.  Nefarious forces have determined terrible things for the end of this age.  Men have become profoundly adept with regard to the technology of death for many and life for the elite few.  It is a terrible equation.  The Club of Rome and other lesser known groups have alr...

Are you rapture ready?  Are you Spirit-filled?  Have you given up the things of the flesh?  Are you growing in the knowledge in the our Lord Jesus? Its time to undergo a serious assessment of who you are, and where you are in your spiritual life.  Unless, however, you have believed in vain.  I would not play "church" these days.  That game is over.  Please do no think that God is fooled by all of...