The Place of Thanksgiving

Isa 12:4  and in that day you will say, “give thanks to the LORD, call on his name. make known his deeds among the peoples; make them remember that his name is exalted.”

1Th 5:18  Thank <God> in everything <no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks>, for this is the will of God for you <who are> in Christ Jesus <the Revealer and Mediator of that will>. (Amplified)

The Word of Faith was created for bad situations.

Consider when you first used the word of faith. when you were lost and without hope you heard the good news of Jesus who while you were a sinner and without God and hope in this world your heart was moved with the hope of deliverance from your separation from God. Then you acted in faith. You confessed Him as your Lord and savior. The burden of your sin was lifted and the reality of your salvation was made manifest. Your life changed. You got a fresh start as a new creation. Old things past away a new life unfolded. You were so grateful to God for saving you.

Now it may have been years or for that matter days since your heart was filed with the sweet joy of your salvation. The enemy has come, the cares of this life didn’t go away. You don’t know why or what to do.

i would encourage  you right now to stop and think about Five things you are thankful for. Focus on what you have or are. Five things. What you focus on you will have more of. Jesus said if your eye in single (focused) you will be filled with light. Light illuminates the darkness . the darkness you are in right now. You don’t know what to do in darkness . You don’t know the wayout.

Be thankful right now. It will lift your heart from darkness . The Holy Spirit that dwells in you with show you what to do. He will give you a word of faith to speak and to act on . That word will deliver you if you hold fast to it.

The entrance of His Word give light. Man does not live by food alone but by every word that is proceeding from the mouth of God.

Follow that light and it will lead you out of the pit you are in.

Five things. Think, lift your eyes to the thing He has done for you. Write down the thoughts ,ideas that come then do them, say them. It will release His Grace (His power to do what you can’t). Your life will change for the better.

2Ch 20:20  they rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “listen to me, O judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the LORD your god and you will be established. put your trust in his prophets and succeed.”

Job 22:28  “you will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; and light will shine on your ways.

Bless you this day

PastorRichard

WE ACTUALLY HAD A GOOD ACTUAL SUNRISE MEETING. We haven’t been to one
in years, since we left  congregating with all the  guys  at the
Holiness Church, like 13 years ago???
Anyway it was .so early (duh sunrise which begins 4 something  and
maxes out around 6:10 (a and therefore it is currently contrary to be
honest physical sleep needs, but anyway, that sounds really really
stupid  when you meditate on what the Lord did for us…..)
Anyway because it was so early  people started gathering at
4am.. (still really dark, but  these guys have the types of positions
at the farm that they go in later or work less hours, like Mario’s Dad
who was  promoted to a foreman before he left, or the guy who  watches
the gate all night  or day)……………….
And that song  you sent” He’s Alive) had really touched us and  brought
up this awesome rhema word that had to do  with “HE IS ALIVE….” It
was short so the workers could get on the bus on time  but it was
great. So as Frank went round praying for people where they stood, the
men  each stepped forward and  said they wanted to thank  us  for
helping them  with food , medication, an address, whatever. Two said
they were sorry they hadn’t come before but that they had been very
thankful for the food and things that  we give their families thru
their wives of children. One guy thanked us so much for the water.
THEY  seemed happy finally to have  a moment to  be grateful, to step
foreword and  say thank you. And all the little children we see daily
saw their fathers saying thank you and in little voices  were saying
Thank You Yahweh! Thank you Yahweh……………
It was  a special sweet peaceful day altogether.
Then of course you heard about the spider attack that  made me Text
you guys for prayer THIS morning.That was truly a miracle. It hurt SO
BAD and then fFrank uncovered a nest like spot in the boxsprings and
they were tiny  little spiders. But it felt JUST like that  last bite
Received , like  a fiery  wire plunged into your flesh. really bad. WE
prayed right away and got victory no doubt but then I started feeling
numbness and chest pains and I almost  freaked out, and the fire-like
pain was still there. So I texted Pamela. And as soon as I got done
praying again the double minded crap came up and I started thing maybe
its a stroke or heart attack all this mortal fear.  And the Lord
rebuked me. He wasn’t condemning or angry but He literally  said “come
one, you need to remember all you have   made it thru and u need to
use  your faith….” and the fear melted away. And I used my faith and
HAVE NOT HAD TO SEEK OUT A DOCTOR AND FEEL 100 PERCENT GOOD. I did
however   use my  relationship with the Lord and  ask for some
prayer and it worked. and I am so grateful.

Love to you and blessings, He is indeed ALIVE.

sd

The following is a portion of Good News For Mortal Man by James E. Leuschan

Faith a response to God’s revelation.

How are we to understand this? Think of two people just in the process of becoming genuine friends. What happens when one party takes the first risk and share something intimate?
There is an intrinsic law of relationship that says once a person reveals something of their own inner life to you, you’re no longer free to act with indifference. To do so is to reject the relationship.
God is revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ. We are no longer free to pretend we cannot know him. To be indifferent to Jesus Christ is to reject relationship with God.

It seems hard to believe, but God longs for relationship with us. He insist upon just one condition; that relationship must be with him as he really is. We’re not free to conjure up an image of him. We’re not at liberty to plan our own picture of his character, the way he works, or how he thinks about us. All this he already revealed in Jesus Christ. God is bared his heart to us in Jesus. To be indifferent damnedest to reject the heart of God, to despise the very possibility of relationship.

Real faith belongs only here, with God’s own self-disclosure in Christ. Moslems pray to the one God of heaven, yet they have no genuine relationship with God, because they misconstrue Jesus Christ. Believing in monotheism itself is not enough. We can affirm just one true God over all creation and still never contact the living and the true God. Nobody ever relates rightly to God and less from the heart they first acknowledge who He is.

Think again of a friend or idea of having a friend. As everyone knows, real relationship is impossible without trust. Any relationship we have to have some idea of the nature or the character of the other person for it to really work. Even so, with God, relationship is impossible without trust, or faith.

So if we want a relationship with God the creator faith is indispensable. Faith is the one word that best describes the created human being in a personal response of surrender and loving trust to his creator. It means we take him at his word. Since we are incapable on our own of discovering what God is like, this faith rests entirely on the creators disclosure of himself to the creative one. Whatever information God chooses to declare about himself, whatever way he chooses to relate, this must form the entire basis of the relationship.

God has told us who He is and He wants us to believe it. He disclosed himself to us in the person of Jesus. Christ revealed God to humanity. Through him all of God’s fullness is made known to us in a bodily form. Since God’s disclosure of Himself must form the basis of our relationship, faith in Christ becomes indispensable requirement.

So I face is our righteousness. Whatever meets the basic requirement of the ongoing relationship constitutes righteousness. This is by the very definition of the Old Testament word for righteousness. To be righteous is to be in right relationship, I.e. To fulfill the demands of the relationship. And faith meets the demands.

Concerning Abraham. God made himself known to him, he simply took God at his word. Abraham laid hold of God by faith when he believe what

God said to him. That was all got asked. Having done so, He had fulfilled the demands for right relationship, and was counted for him righteousness.

Like Abraham, your faith is your righteousness. You are righteous when you simply believe from the heart what God disclosed to them about himself when he bared his own heart in Jesus Christ. God revealed Himself in Jesus because he intended relationship of man. God made Jesus Lord of heaven and earth so that when I believe in Him I fulfill his only condition for right relationship.

Romans 10:8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, in your mouth and in your heart” — that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
12 ¶ For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”

Everybody looks great. . I have had my
share of battles this past week although looking back everything has
been going so well….
We had Meeting  today…(yesterday the  Korean neighbors had a party
and gave away new Nikes. Think I’ll go next time  cause I need tennis
shoes.) Anyway we had our meeting today and ate a pot of menudo and it
was great. The women you met while here are really open to prayer and
to even pray and we had a good crowd of  7  women we knew plus 4 new
ones and  about 40 kids……
It was a blessing. We ate and then while two ladies cleaned up I
taught  again on confession and walking by what we KNOW  not what we
can see………..they are surprisingly open to the concept which is
great for them.
We gave away staples after and got the biggest blessing! We have been
invited to a  evidently prestigious wedding  in March in Colonia
Eliano Zapata, down by San Quintin. It is the joining of Theodora’s
huge family with another huge Mixtec family and is the sole reason
Theodora’s clan returned up here……to work the  fields to pay for
this big event, the purchase of Apollonia the next sister in law to
be……………………….reportedly it is costing over $22,000 US
dollars and will result in the two largest living Mixtec clans  being
joined. People are to come from everywhere, the States and Mexico and
we are the only “Espanoles” (white people basically) invited…….we
have prayed and decided we WILL be going. It is a great honor and we
are excited to see this happen………more details to come.
After eating and Meeting today we took La Suegra to town. She  paid
for the gasoline! She is starting her own business selling tamales ,
sodas and candies in the Cuarteria to raise funds for the coming
wedding.
I showed her all of my bargain spots and she was quite happy to  shop
in them………..
Its been a long but great day. The Lord is once again about Kingdom
business opening doors we could never affect……………..
Blessings to you all,
SD

Did You Learn to Love?” – Bob Jones’ Testimony From His August 8, 1976 Death Experience

Did You Learn to Love?” – Bob Jones’ Testimony From His August 8, 1976 Death Experience

Note from Sandy Warner:

This was transcribed from a conference held in Albany Oregon, 2006. Permission was given to post this. I have inserted the Scriptural references to Bob’s comments at the bottom of his testimony. You may find the footnote (numbers) inserted into the transcription.

Word spoken by Bob Jones from a 2006 conference in Albany, Oregon – transcribed by Sandy Warner:

I was in pain on the earth and blood was shooting out of my mouth like a geyser.

And all of a sudden I wasn’t in pain anymore. This Man, the Parakleet (1) stood by my side, the Holy Spirit, we started walking. And as we walked, I saw a Man who was white light. (2) All white light was around Him, but He was the whitest of all white lights. He had His hands out. As I came into that white light, there came a feeling over me like I had never known before. I asked the Man beside me, “What is that?”

The Man (Holy Spirit) said, “It is the love of God.” I said, “It’s just so wonderful, it’s so glorious.” And He said, “That’s what it is, it’s the glory of God.” I said, “How can it be both?” It’s in John 17. The love I had with the Father, the glory I had with the Father. So that was the greatest experience I have ever had. Just enveloped in His glorious love. That’s possible down here. The glory of God is coming and it is going to be in His glorious love.

I noticed another group of people on my left side and they had like a conveyor belt underneath them. And they were wrapped up in all different kinds of things. And I looked at them and I asked this Man, “Why are they wrapped up that way?” And He said, “They were wrapped up in the earth with their gods. It’s the gods they worshipped on the earth, that followed them into death. They were on their way to Hell with their gods. I saw a man wrapped up in dollar bills. I saw a man wrapped up in his sod or grass; his yard was his god. I saw a man that had no body, he was just one big head. He was an atheist, he worshipped himself; he was his own god and going to Hell with it.

I saw all manner of things who people worshipped on the earth; who they are going to spend eternity with. Well, I worshipped the Lord and I am going to spend eternity with Him. But these others that don’t are going to spend eternity in total darkness with their god. And their gods will be their tormentors, not a hundred thousand years, but eternity.

So I looked at that line. It was so horrible, and everyone when they came there, they recognized Him. Their eyes got big, and everyone that is going to Hell has had a witness in one way or another that there is a God. And every one of them willingly denied Him. For each 2 in the line that I was in, there was 98 in the other line.

I watched the Lord speak to people that were coming there. And He asked them only one question: “Did you learn to love?” He’s not going to ask you what you did. If you learn to love you are going to do that which is right. Did you learn to love? (3) He would ask them that question and they would say, “Yes Lord,” and He would kiss them right on the lips and embrace them and the double doors of His heart would open and they would go right on in.

Some of them had a lot of angels with them and they would go on in. The angels went in because they had testimonies; they helped people do things on the earth. They have no testimony until they help you do something. You are the ones that will judge angels by their rewards for what they helped you do. (4) They are more willing to help you do something, than you are willing to submit and let them help you do it.

As I came close to the Lord, I was thinking, “I learned to love. I’m OK, I’m going home.” As I did, He held His hand up to me and said, “No I want you to go back.” I told Him, “It was too hard to get here. I don’t want to because I wasn’t doing any good there.” He said, “You are a liar, because you spoke My Words and My Words will always bring it to pass.” I said, “Well nobody was believing it and it was painful.” He said, “Yes, and you have a cowardly nature too. [Up there, it’s the truth.] (5) But you love. You had a heart for souls. I want you to go back. If you look at that line over there and then tell me you want to come in, I will bring you in.”

I looked at that line and looked at their faces and said I would go back for one. I would go back and spend a day on a cross for one. He said, “I’m not sending you back for that. I’m sending you back to wake up the Church because I am going to bring a billion youth to Myself. In one of the greatest waves of all times. I’m going to honor Myself beyond anything that man can imagine. I want you to go back and touch the Church and speak to the Church of what I am going to do in these last days.” So I told Him I would come back.

I came back. I thought that when I come back into my body I would be healed. As I came back I saw 2 of the biggest angels I have ever seen. I know who they are. They are the resurrection angels. (6) And I saw the death spirit and he left when I came back in. And when I went back into the body I wasn’t healed. The pain was there and I couldn’t understand why. And I was gone probably for about 3 hours. The pain was there and I said, “What’s going on Lord?” And then I heard a phone ring. And I saw people answering the phone and they were saying, “Bob Jones needs prayer.” And they would start praying and I felt better. And it was a Friday.

People kept praying and it kept increasing and increasing. And then people came over and prayed for me Friday night ’till the pain wasn’t hardly there. And then Friday night, Saturday morning at three o’clock the last person quit praying for me. I could see who was praying for me. The pain was coming back and I thought, “Boy it’s going to be a long time.” And then I saw an old sister who wasn’t thought highly of in the church because she didn’t take too many baths. She always sat in the last seat in back. And she cleaned offices for a living. She got up early in the morning and cleaned offices. And her phone rang and she answered it. She got up at three o’clock in the morning and started praying for me and I went to sleep. And then she had to go to work at five, and others began to pray for me, so Saturday was pretty good. It went pretty well. People came over Saturday and I thought, “Well I know He sent me back down here to live.” And prayer and intercession sure made the difference.

And Saturday night it went on pretty good until about three o’clock and all the other prayer ended. Except hers. She got up and went to praying for me again. She prayed for me until about seven o’clock. She didn’t have to work on a Sunday. At seven o’clock was the worst time that I saw because there was no prayer. People were going to church.

And it was really bad until about 10:05. At ten o’clock, Viola asked me, “How are you doing?” I told her I was worse than I had ever been and I was swelling so bad I couldn’t even get out of bed. At 10:05 I became totally normal, totally delivered. I got up and we went to church and I testified of it.

I found out the value of prayer. (7) And I found out the value of not having an opinion about saints. (8) I found out the value of ministry. (9) That one saint was able to void all of it to where I could sleep.

-Word spoken by Bob Jones from 2006 conference in Albany, Oregon.

Bob Jones
The Prophetic Ministry of Bob and Bonnie Jones
Website: bobjones.org

Scripture Footnotes:

(1) John 14:26 KJV – THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE PARAKLEET
But the Comforter, (#3875) which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

NT:3875
NT:3875 parakletos (par-ak’-lay-tos); an intercessor, consoler:
KJV – advocate, comforter.

(Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)

(2) John 8:12 NKJV – JESUS IS THE LIGHT
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

(3) 1 John 4:7-12 NKJV – IF YOU DO NOT LOVE YOU DO NOT KNOW GOD
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

(4) 1 Cor 6:2 -3 NKJV – JUDGING THE ANGELS
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

(5) John 14:6 NKJV – ONLY THE TRUTH IS SPOKEN IN HEAVEN
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 17:17-19 NKJV
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

(6) Luke 24:3-6 NKJV – RESURRECTION ANGELS
Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen!”

(7) James 5:13-15 NKJV – PRAY
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up.

1 Thess 5:16-18 NKJV
Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

2 Thess 3:1 NKJV
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you,

1 Tim 2:8 NKJV
I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere,

(8) Mark 12:42-44 NKJV – OPINIONS OF PEOPLE
Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”

(9) 2 Cor 1:3-5 NKJV – MINISTRY OF COMFORT
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

Transcribed by Sandy Warner
The Quickened Word 
Website: thequickenedword.com
Email: swauthor@usa.net

Eye Has Not Seen

“Eye has not seen nor ear heard the things I prepared for you,” says the Lord

The enemy is trying to shut you down here at the end of the old and the dawn of the new.

Walk by faith in my promises pressing into that which I have prepared for you and yours, those that have heard and believed the words you have spoken that you have heard me speak into your spirit and have uttered in their hearing.

“I am watching over My word and My purpose to fulfill it”, says the Lord Who creates light in the darkness and calls those things that be not as though they were.

 I am forming things now in the realm of My kingdom that shall be manifest on the earth. There shall be abundant provision for the vision I have for you and for all those who will listen believe and act.

Signs and wonders and miraculous acts will occur as the time draws near for my appearing.

Many will fall away but many will come to occupy their place.

sadness to those who walked away in unbelief but great joy for those who take hold in faith to my promises and act.

December 30 2013