It is the Gift of God

Posted: November 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
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As we approach this year’s Channukah and Christmas season, God’s gift of light to the world swings more clearly into focus on crisp, clear frosty nights. There is more need for light to overcome darkness. In Channukah, we see a foreshadowing of the gift of light…a miraculous supply of oil for the Jewish temple lamps…but this points to the middle lamp, the servant lamp from which all the others are lit.

Jesus, light of the world, was first sent as a suffering servant — the middle lamp — to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies in Isaiah 53 and many other places, in addition to all the prophecies spoken about himself by Jesus which are fulfilled in his death and resurrection three days later.

Messsiah…Savior…Jesus…forgiver of sinful man…this is the present.

Open it. Unwrap it. Marvel in its perfection. BUT — what if the greatest gift ever known to man, far surpassing wealth, power and  is rejected — unwrapped — overlooked — scorned — marked “return to sender?” Without believing in the gift, having faith that the gift is indeed God’s son sent to redeem man from arrogance, pride and sin, then the gift is rejected.  You remain unredeemed, unsaved…greatly loved and pursued by God, but unrepentant.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8) – Contemp. Engl Vers.

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” (Isaiah 55:7) – King James version

Call upon the Lord today. Angels will rejoice at your salvation. You and I will hug and meet someday in heaven though you are far away across the world in the natural.

Thankful for…colors. Revelation from Holy Spirit of their MEANINGS!

Posted: November 27, 2015 in Uncategorized
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From the many gifts given by God, this Thanksgiving I am grateful for….colors. We know from the origins of movies and television that a plot and characters can be conveyed adequately through the medium of black and white film…but oh the glorious joy when Dorothy steps through the door of her humble house from Kansas into the land of Oz.

Holy Spirit begins to download a gift of knowledge about color meanings as I am driving, and I have to pull over to hastily record everything being told in rapid succession. Are you drawn to one color more than another? This may be why…

GOLD = love, pure, God’s love, covenant

SILVER = refiner’s fire purchased by the Lamb of God

ORANGE = warrior, boldness, power through faith

YELLOW = courage, wisdom, glory of God, joy

BLUE = infinity, water, prophetic, heavenly realm, unchanging nature of God

TURQUOISE = perfect peace, calm, reflection in Jesus’ eyes

GREEN = prosperity, resurrection, life

RED = blood of Christ, atonement, protection, honoring commitment

PURPLE = royalty, redeemer, joy, incorruptibility, purchase

BROWN = swiftness, promises given

SOFT GREY = ephemeral man, striving for peace, obedient to truth,  compassionate warmth

WHITE = purity, hope, ultimate cleansing

COPPER = transition

PINK = affection, new love

PEACH = warrior in prayer — sheathed before action

Then I ask, rather hesitantly. “What about BLACK?” Answer = man without God, cast off, hopeless, despair, emptiness, heartache, deception, darkness. But also: from the blackest clouds, water can flow. Truth is the antithesis to lies. God’s rainbow, spectrum of 7 colors, is God’s promise of salvation over all until the end of time.

Also: “I am the way, the truth and the life.” is a green statement of truth. “No man cometh to the Father except through me,” speaks of the brown swiftness of instant salvation through faith in Jesus, who hung on a brown wooden tree. “Today you will be with me in Heaven,” Jesus tells the repentant criminal hanging next to him.

Told by Holy Spirit that Trees represent permanence, covenant and life. God’s son, Jesus, hung on a “Tree of life” though evil meant it for death. So paper and wood became a vehicle for His word to be recorded, written down. People have a natural affection for wood built into our DNA by creator. We’re drawn to its spiritual meaning without even knowing why. Books, decks, wooden boats (to carry us through water), docks (to carry us over water), furniture and especially beds which have us literally climb into God’s promise for rest, renewal and life).

Ode to Joy

Posted: November 22, 2015 in Chains from sin truly broken off...by JESUS...Mighty to change your life!, Uncategorized
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How does one achieve joy permeating their lives? Today’s headlines are determined to sap joy and replace it with fear…which is the diabolical plan revealed in the Bible verse that explains how the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.  Not only bodies are being stolen through evil and murder, but joy is being hijacked right alongside.

You see, satan is the great deceiver and counterfeiter. If God comes to give abundant life and joy, then the opposite, spirit of antichrist, prowls looking for ways to bring cowering fear, oppression and suppression of knowledge that Christ promised to return…that believers’ will have a secure heavenly home full of the joy of their Lord. I hear people say that following Christ…being a Christian…looking forward to heaven…is just a big buzz-kill — having to give up earthly carousing, addictions…bowing to the Biblical teaching that a person’s body is the temple in which Holy Spirit lives. But the opposite is actually true.

Heaven will be a place of light, joy and love from the whole trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Worship won’t be some kind of required ritual…but will be spontaneous when presented with the glory and majesty that is God surrounded by His heavenly host of angels and crowds of witnesses to His truth. Joy will burst forth with the realization that you chose to follow Him of your own free will while living on earth for that short time before we all step through death’s door and into eternity.

Hell is not some big frat party. It is the eternal absence of all that is good, holy, lovely and perfect. No light…but memory.  Remembering the chances to choose Jesus, but not repenting out of stubborn pride and arrogance that somehow YOU would be the first person to cheat death of another soul. Time to choose has lessened by one day since yesterday. If you still have breath, you still have time to choose joy.

God’s power can break your chains that tie you to the dark side. So many wait with joyful anticipation of the new Star Wars movie saga. It explores the idea of a dark side and a good force, but from a fictional set of Hollywood authors.  There is a real battle waging for your soul so don’t overlook that you must choose. Not choosing God’s son will become a choice for the “dark side” that will have eternal consequences. Use sound judgment in separating truth from fiction.

Can you understand the mysteries surrounding God All-Powerful?

Posted: November 21, 2015 in Holy BIBLE [Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth]= God's Truth & Love for you, Uncategorized
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“Can you understand the mysteries surrounding God All-Powerful?” asks Job’s friend in trying to help him understand his drastic change in circumstances. He then goes on, “They are higher than the heavens and deeper than the grave…these mysteries outreach the earth and the ocean.” (Job 11:7-9)    People have a tendency to see everything in self-centered, self-centric ways. It is difficult to look up from your circumstances and see that Jesus never stops walking next to you…encouraging you…in a world that trumpets the accomplishments of the godless and evil…  He is supernatural…transcending the laws of nature…full of amazing grace. Always with his ear inclined to hear the repentence of those in rebellion. Do you ever get tired of the fight? Of trying to make the world fit into your limited worldview? Do you ever wonder how to leave fear behind in a world dedicated to making you anxious and fearful?

Reach out in prayer…”Surrender your heart to God, turn to him in prayer, and give up your sins–even those you do in secret.” (Job 11:13-14).

What will you gain in return?   “Then you won’t be ashamed; you will be confident and fearless.” (Job 11:15) Life ends. God ceases to breathe his life-giving earthly atmosphere into you. You will travel to one of two places: 1) “…I travel to the land of darkness and despair, the place of no return.” (Job 10:21), or 2) “…we know that God raised the Lord Jesus to life. And just as God raised Jesus, he will also raise us to life. Then he will bring us into his presence together with you.” (2 Corinthians 4:13-14)

Does Israel have an historical claim to Jerusalem?

Posted: October 24, 2015 in Holy BIBLE [Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth]= God's Truth & Love for you
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Long before the current religious cultures present in the Middle East, God himself lays claim to the Jewish people group and the physical location of Jerusalem. The Old Testament outlines God, himself, choosing Jesse’s youngest son, David to be His earthly kingdom’s king. He is directed to Jerusalem where he rules. His famous son, Solomon the wealthy and wise, also rules from Jerusalem. Next is order of succession is Rehoboam. 2 Chronicles 12:13 records for history that, “he ruled 17 years from Jerusalem, the city where the Lord had chosen to be worshiped. He is buried in Jerusalem, which now has a 3 generation family line going on, whereupon his son, Abijah, rules from Jerusalem for 3 years. 2 Chronicles 14:1 has him dying the being buried in Jerusalem, as his son Asa becomes king. Asa obeys the Lord, and the land has peace for 10 years. In the 41st year of his rule, he dies and is buried. (Earlier, Asa had his own tomb cut out of a rock hill in Jerusalem. So he was buried there… – 2 Chron. 16:14).

So, I am counting a 5 generation presence in Jerusalem just in these few chapters. Countless times throughout the Old Testament, which is God’s Holy Spirit-inspired word to his people in the world,  God claims this land and these people as his own. Read it for yourself. See if this is true.

In the Bible’s New Testament, It is no coincidence that God’s only son, Jesus, went many times to the 2nd temple in Jerusalem during his 33 years of earthly ministry on earth, and then gave up his life for the salvation of all people who believe, also in Jerusalem.

There is this theme of place and God’s timing woven throughout both Testaments. God even looks into our own future and gives this information to John the apostle, in exile, during the revealing of what is to come. “I saw New Jerusalem, that holy city, coming down from God in heaven…God’s home is now with his people. He will live with them, and they will be his own. Yes, God will make his home among his people…I did not see a temple there. The Lord God All powerful and the Lamb (Jesus) were its temple. And the city did not need the sun or the moon. The glory of God was shining on it, and the Lamb was its Light.” (Revelation 21:1: 2-3 and 22-23)

So, keep in mind that as you hear all the revisionist commentary from news outlets around the world that Israel has no right to its capital of Jerusalem, God has decreed otherwise, so you would be calling God a liar by falling into this lie of the enemy of truth.

God is the one who makes us patient and cheerful

Posted: October 10, 2015 in Holy BIBLE [Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth]= God's Truth & Love for you
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Most people would agree that attributes such as patience, cheerfulness, hope, peacefulness and kindness are universally desirable. God declares in his scriptures that He is the giver of these beautiful characteristics:

“God is the one who makes us patient and cheerful. I pray that he will help you live at peace with each other, as you follow Christ.” (Romans 15:5) What is more beautiful than a fruiting tree bursting with a bountiful harvest of colorful fruit? What is more beautiful than a child of God bursting with the fruit of Holy Spirit?

Here is the key. Following Christ Jesus will allow God to be the one who can deposit these positive attributes into your soul through his Holy Spirit.

So many strive on their own..willfully employing their own power…and then fail in the area of peace, hope and kindness. We are being bombarded with incidents of church and campus shootings and religious clashes in the Middle East. God is the bringer of peace, so conversely, without Him, there will be no peace. Humans are inherently arrogant and sure they can solve all this world’s problems politically, but God warns that without Him, our efforts will be puny and futile.

He also plainly states right before this chapter in Romans “And so, each one of us must give an account to God for what we do.” (Romans 14:12) Well, that’s sobering.” Each of us” includes everyone: rich, poor, humble, obscure…ALL of us. And how will we be judged? What is God’s criterion for a well-lived life? God (through Paul) explains: “God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won’t he freely give us everything else? …Christ died and was raised to  life, and now he is at God’s right side, speaking to him for us.” (Romans 8:32,34)

I don’t know about you, but when I pass from this life, through death’s doorway into eternity, I want the only acceptable intercessor, Jesus Christ, standing with me as I give account of my life to God.

Prophetic Warning Dream for Tech: What would you be willing to give up for “convenience”?

Posted: September 30, 2015 in Tech misused for evil; Entrapments, Snares & Control
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Warning Prophetic dream to me on 1-12-15 at 1:12 a.m. –

In this dream, I wake up to realize that I am being held down by electronic devices. I’m given the knowledge that these devices are acting as binders — actually clamping onto and holding people (me in the dream) hostage. I am lying on a bed and being clamped down, immobile, surrounded, pressed upon by electronic devices. Told by Holy Spirit that technological devices were part of an evil plot to keep humans enslaved. Also, that this is a 2 part plan in the first stage now (addiction), but evil has a plan to progress to total mind and will control. I break free by sheer will with Holy Spirit’s help  and run to safety.

When I wake up, I am completely horrified by the dawning realization that electronic devices which came in as “labor saving” devices and ways to increase convenience are all part of a carefully set demonic trap. They had physically wrapped around and imprisoned me as in a strong vise. I was told they are meant to harm us. I woke to the sound of “Calling All the Messengers” song playing in my mind because Holy Spirit often sings over me at wake-up — an anointed worship song usually.

“What does it profit man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?” asks the word of God in the Holy Bible. This question’s answer will have eternal significance.

Prophets are told to report on words from the Lord, bravely, regardless of consequence. I have thought long and hard about these revelations before posting. Obedience to reporting on what God’s Spirit is revealing is more important to me than worry over how people will receive the truth. God has no untruth in Him, so I choose to believe this knowledge for what it is — a warning. What are we humans willing to give up in exchange for the glittering promise of convenience? Now most of our medical records, monetary transactions, websites visited, email, children’s school photos and lunch money, entertainment…well, almost everything…is online or monitored through some form of electronic device.

I only hear about how we are to embrace all the technological change of this new information age…but what if we have been given that which will cause our downfall in the end? How convenient will that be? Have you ever noticed that all the people who have been given glimpses of heaven report back on its glorious attributes, but never ever mention technology? Something to take to the Holy Spirit in prayer…

Prophetic Vision: White birds are God’s Warriors

Posted: August 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
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In June 2011 at night I have my eyes closed at bedtime and see a prophetic vision — a whole montage of white birds in a sort of negative image white on black like camera negatives — one species after another — sea gulls, egrets, swans, doves, snowy owls, etc. I ask Holy Spirit, what it means…what are all these white birds doing? Answer: White birds of the world were created to fight the spiritual battle against a dragon. There are white birds that battle at our sea coasts, over lands and cities, in wetlands…even patrolling at night while God’s human warriors sleep!

I think, “I absolutely in the natural did not know that or even have any inkling that white birds could be part of God’s warrior team.” I feel a sort of ecstatic joy that can only be described as heavenly. I only personally experience the feeling while in communion with Holy Spirit during waking or dreaming — as it must be a preview of the absolute joy we will know in heaven.

I have been so wowed by that ever since. God has such amazing mysteries that we do not know the extent of his workings. I attend Jesus Culture in Folsom, CA, and most often there are white lake gulls wheeling around at the end of services. I smile knowingly. God will place a single white feather for me in my comings and goings in a place where it shouldn’t really be. I thank the Holy Spirit — who is described as a dove and is connected most intimately to Jesus in the New Testament. Noah sends a white dove out to reestablish covenant relationship with the earth. We are in the times of Noah. A repeating pattern. Billy (William) Graham has been preaching God’s repentence for nearly 100 years — the time of ark building. A full-sized ark replica is even being built by the Answers in Genesis team to be complete this summer 2016…as in the days of Noah indeed! Soon the door will close and man will have made his choice. I pray that every day God delays judgement will bring multitudes to his ark of protection. Amen.

(Ink sketch Image purchased on Etsy from Elisaveta Sivas of Originalhorseart in Cyprus…white bird staring at a pomegranate…symbol of life. Got to love that!)

Prophetic Warning for a Middle Eastern Country

Posted: August 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
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I had this prophetic warning dream on August 13, 2011 while napping at my parents’ house in their cooler spare bedroom during a heat wave:

I am flying through the air with Holy Spirit by my side so I do not need a plane, just suspended in the sky. It has tall, new, impressive manmade skyscrapers against a clear blue sky, but is also “deserty,” dry and on the shore of an ocean at the same time. I ask God’s Spirit, “Where are we?” as I don’t recognize it. The immediate answer: “Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.”

“Oh….right,” I think. “Why are you showing me this place?” becomes my next question.

Response: “This city is proud of all its manmade accomplishments, but they have left ME out. I am planning to bring judgment against them through water or earth  shaking.”

Then I am driving a car, but an Arab in traditional dress is headed straight for me in another vehicle even though I’m waiting at a red light. I brace for the collision but he stops his vehicle a hair off of mine and grins at me mockingly. Then he lifts his shoulder and looks above me and uses his head to indicate I should get going. It’s a green light. So I drive around him, over the Dubai bridge…and wake up.

I never have been sure what to do with this warning — as it is for an entire country. But…I don’t want to face God some day and tell him I was not faithful in delivering his message. How you take it is up to you. My sincere prayer is that someone, somewhere will turn towards God and be saved. If an entire nation turned to him, heaven’s angels would rejoice…and we could all praise our merciful God who does nothing before sending warnings through his prophets, as he has done from ancient times.

God warns through his chosen prophets before judgement

Posted: August 23, 2015 in Uncategorized
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Growing up, I remember a simple prayer before meals. “God is gracious; God is good…so we thank him for this food.” God IS gracious. Throughout the Bible’s Old Testament, He sends warnings to errant individuals, people groups and nations to change from sinful behavior and turn back to Him before risking a final judgement for pride and idol worship. God is love. God is patience. God is all the fruits of the Spirit. But, He is also righteous. He leads an ordered system where sin must have a consequence. Unbelief becomes a choice. Not choosing Jesus before your final breath becomes a choice. God is constantly trying to get your attention in a noisy, choice-filled planet of glittering worldliness. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So what was true in ancient times is still true today.

God chooses His prophets. You cannot choose yourself. He sends prophetic dreams or speaks directly and audibly as warnings still today. The modern-day prophet must then pray over the knowledge given through Holy Spirit. Should the message be kept private? Should it be offered up to the general population as a warning? Prophetic messages are not for personal gain, but are to help people turn back to God, repent, return from a path that strays or be warned ahead of time of events that will come upon certain cities, countries or people. A prophet is to tell directly what he or she has been given from God — whether that message will be well received or popular. In most cases of the Old Testament prophets, the people did not want to hear the truth. Being a prophet can be lonely as you stand for God before mankind — regardless of consequence.

How does one know the message is from God? Prophetic dreams, for me at least, are different than the ones that disappear shortly after waking.  Years later, they are still clear because they were truth. Also, I am given knowledge I did not have before or had never thought of. Jeremiah the prophet records these words of God almighty: “…But when prophets speak for me, they must say only what I have told them. My words are a powerful fire; they are a hammer that shatters rocks.” (Jer. 23: 28-29). I will share examples of prophetic words from years past in future posts.

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