VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Is God Really Real?! + PRAYER: Remind Me Who Daily Blesses Me!

How is it that we Find it so Easy to Trust  Man Born of Woman, but find it so Difficult to Trust The Good God who Made The Man and The Woman?

How is it that we Put so Much Faith in a Relationship with a Faithless Human Being but Find it so Very Hard to Trust Him Who is Ever Faithful?

How is it that we Trust The Profane and Doubt The Holy?

Why are we so Lacking in Faith when The God of All Grace Shows His Hand Time and Again as The Great Physician, The True Provider, and The Loving Shepherd, The Faithful Friend?

Why is it that Our Faith Is Not Increasing?

Is Our God Really Real?

We are Not Called to Blind Obedience!

We are Called to Reason with God - there will be not one Soul in Heaven who gets there "Just Because...!"

We are Called to Know God through Jesus Christ!

We are Called to Repentance!

We are Called to a Saving Knowledge and Faith in Jesus Christ!

We are called to Trust and Obey God!

We are Called to Walk by Faith and Not By Sight!

We are ... CALLED!

If we Say we Love God, then we MUST Trust God which, by extension, means we MUST have Faith in God!

We have Heard The Word - The Word is Truth!

We have Faith in The Word Delivered 

BUT

We Doubt The Giver of The Word

Who is Himself, THE WORD!

This Does Not Compute!

RECALCULATING ...

"Sanctify them through thy Truth. Thy Word is Truth!" John 17:17

DESTINATION RE-CALIBRATED ...

• Live in The Light
• Walk by Faith
• Distrust Eyesight
• Pray for Provision of Peace, Rest, and Quiet Night
• Keep Heart Focused on The Father
• Don't fall for Satan's Hoaxes
• Dismiss Christ Deniers and Man-made Gods as Liars and Lies

Time is Coming
When Believers will be The High Fliers
And Unbelievers will be The Gut-wrenching Criers!

FAITH and TRUST go Hand in Hand:

If You Know God ... Go to God!

If You Want to Know God ... Go to God!

When You Go To God ... TRUST GOD!

When You Trust God ... WALK 

By God

In God

Through God

For God

Because God 

IS

Real

and

Returning

to

Settle All Accounts! 

REMEMBER ...

The Good Word Eternally Stands!

PRAYER:

Father, 

The World Often Seeks to Overwhelm Me

Even Unto Wanting Me to Distrust Deny Thee!

Please Have Mercy 

Even Though I am of Myself Not Worthy

And, Again, Remind Me 

Why I Know and Believe that You are 

The Almighty God 

Who Daily Blesses Me!

I Love You, Lord.

AMEN.

HAPPY SABBATH + Without Belief, Faith Is Milk Froth!

After Much Ado about everything Wrong, Iffy, Annoying, Distracting, Disturbing, Sinful, and Oppressing and Depressing in My Life - and in The World - I have Decided I Cannot Really Live Without Waiting on The Lord!

 I Cannot Do Much to Help Myself!
 I Cannot Wake Me Up
Without The Master Holding Me Up, so
There's No Doubt That My Life without Him 
Would be a Major Muck!

My Eyes Serve ...

Meals My Stomach Can't Digest!

My Mouth Writes ...

Checks That My Person Can't Cash!

My Carnal Heart Yields ...

A god That My Now Saved Soul Can't Worship!

My Feet Have Walked ...

The Path that Can't Lead to Heaven!

My Faith-In-Jesus-Sense Tells Me ...

That What I Oft' Hear For Gospel Is Pharisee Leaven!

So, In Short ...

Without The Master - I am Tempest Tossed!
Without The Savior - There Is No Payment of My Costs!
Without Belief - Faith is Milk Froth!
Without Faith in Jesus Christ ...
I Am Forever Lost!

Note to Soul:

Self Worship is Idolatry!

Self Praise is Vanity! 
and

Self Pleasure is Not Even A "Thing!"

Go Against All Worldly Wisdom
and

Get Right with Jesus Christ!

Know The Shepherd - Get in The Fold
Otherwise The Hereafter
Will Be Very Hot - Not Cold!

TRUST GOD ... NO MATTER WHAT!

WHAT DO YOU SAY OF THESE THINGS? - Worship Experience and Gospel Explosion?!!

The Billboard Read:

Come to Church 
for a 
Worship Experience!

There Will be 
a 
Gospel Explosion!

My Mouth Just Simply Dropped Open!
My Heart did a Flip Flop!
And I said to My Self: 
"Lord Almighty, I Sincerely Hope Not!"

I had Always Believed that I went to Church to be Healed!
I Obviously did not Understand that it was a place to have my Senses 
Tickled and Teased!
They spoke of all The Feelings that would be Experienced on my Skin
But I, what I really Need is to Feel Jesus Christ Within!

What's Wrong With Christianity Today?

Churchianity

and

Preachertainment!

The Church Building is a Production Facility!
The Sanctuary is The Sound Stage!
The Preacher - as Entertainer - is The Star of The Show!
Opening Acts of "Worship" Dancers and "Anointed" Singers Set The Mood!
The Congregants are The Paying Public!
Tithes and Offering are Box Office Takings, and
Almighty God, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit are Popular Freaks in The Side Show!

Jesus said: "I Am come to seek and to save that which was lost ...!"
Preachertainer says: "Lost! You haven't got any reason be lost! You do love Jesus, don't you?! Then ... You Can't Be Lost!"

Jesus said: "Repent!"
Preachertainer says: No need to "repent" like those Sinners in the World!" God made you that way! You are just being who God made you to be! You are not hurting anybody! Plant a Seed, and just move along - it will all work out at the end!"

Jesus said: "Confess your sin. I am Faithful and I will forgive you!"
Preachertainer says: "Sin is just ... well ... subjectively objectively subjective! (You know he is a liar! ... And he is calling God a liar in double-speak!) To Sin is to be Human! God knows you love Him! God knows you, and He loves you no matter what you do! He sees you and He knows your weaknesses, so it's all good! Just keep praying and repenting, and paying your pledges, and it will all work out!"

N.B.: If something is Objective it is Fact! - Almighty God calls Sin by its True Name!
         If something is Subjective is is Opinion! - Our Reclassifying Sin Doesn't Change God's Designation!

Based on the foregoing, can we say that The Popular Pastors, Priests, Teachers and Prophets of today, are au fait with The Oracles (Word) of God?

Can we say that The Popular Pastors, Priests, Teachers and Prophets of today understand that The Oracles (Words) of God are alive and are not to be interpreted according to Man's own choosing?

Can we say that these Men and Women of The Cloth are True Shepherds, sincerely seeking after the Salvation of Men's Souls, and that they are teaching and preaching the Undiluted, Unadulterated, Unvarnished, Unbiased Word of The True and Living God?

When Jesus Christ was upon Earth, never once was it told anyone to come and EXPERIENCE God!

Never once in The Holy Scriptures are we told to come see The Gospel a/k/a The Good News EXPLODE!

If this is all true, why is it that this Laodicean (Luke-warm) Church  that Jesus Christ, Himself, PROMISES to spit out of His Mouth, deem it totally relevant, and a prescription, that this Church - totally offensive to God - make itself and it's works seem Rich, needing nothing from God, when it is abysmally poor in Spirit, with its shame nakedly exposed, and its nakedness shamefully laid bare, and is blinded by the accoutrements of corporeal complicity, and waxing fat, and gross on gain-saying gold!?

If we are truthful, we will see that this Church Age is pontifically pitiful, and positively putrid in its preaching for profit and praise!

Jump  Up and Wave

Experience Spirits and Riches Crave

Plants Seeds and Get Paid

Is Not ... Christ's Christianity!

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS:

1. Who is God?
2. Who is your God?
3. Who made your God?
4. What is your God made of?
5. When did you acquire your God?
6. Where is your God's home?
7. Why do you prefer your God to Almighty God?
8. How well is your God serving you?
9. If your God and Almighty God had a creative contest, which God would be The Creator?
10. Can your God on its own merits, and under its own self-incarnation Stop Time, Start Life, Light Light, Halt Hell, Save Souls from Sin, Heal Hearts of Hurt, and Love Loose-mouth, Lazy, Licentious, Layabouts like us who add nothing to his bottom line?
11. If your God is God, can you ask him to show you your Life After Time, and in Panorama, and in True and Living Color, and making it of his Personal Eternal Design?
12. Did your God die for you?
13. Did your God rise from the dead for you?
14. Is your God living so that you, too, may live eternally?
15. Does your God love you?
16. Do your God comfort you?
17. Does your God care for you?
18. Does your God inspire Godly Fear or Abject Fear?
19. Is your God fact or fiction!
20. Is your God able to utter Earth's Assured Final Benediction?

Answer the questions honestly!

If your God is The God of All Grace

If your God doesn't need a mirror to see his face

If your God is in every time, and at every place

Give him The Glory!

If your God provides food for you

A place to live

Even clothes and shoes

If your God has Holy Angels, and fire chariots too

Give Him The Glory!

If your God is The King of Kings

To whom Holy Angels Eternally sing

If your God is God over everything

If your God routed Satan

And killed Death's Sting

Give Almighty God His Glory!!

*****

THE FINAL WORD:

RUN AWAY ...

Run Away From Prosperity Gospel!

Run Away From Feel-Good Theology!

for 

Every Other Spirit Is Embraced

EXCEPT

GOD'S QUIET HOLY SPIRIT!!

RUN - POST HASTE - TO ...

Jesus Christ

The God of All Grace

The Lord of Light

The Pastor of Our Perfection

The God Who Guides

The Lamb Who is Lion

Our Peace and Our Protection

Our Shepherd and Our Savior

Our Righteous Redeemer

Our Healer and Our Helper

Our Friend and Our Father

Our Beginning and ... Our End!

KEEP RUNNING TO JESUS

Until ...

The Day Dawns

When 

He Says To You:

"My Child, Welcome Home!"

*****

Hallelujah To The Lamb!

AMEN!

Exemplar!

Their Father set The Example
His Children Followed The Way
They all Walked After The Devil
Not One of Them Ever from him Strayed!

The Mother Set The Example
Her Children Followed The Way
Boy and Girl Alike Worked in The Flesh Pots
Money and Access to Things Held Sway!

We Looked at Both of These Examples
We Sought to Learn Another Way
And That Is When We Learned of The Godhead
And Sought to Let Them In Our Lives Have The Say!

This Godhead Really Had It Going On
Three Distinct Personalities
Three Distinct Operations
Father, Son and Spirit in Agreement Three!

The Son Called His Father His God!
The Father Called His Son God, Too
And Father and Son Held High The Holy Spirit
Saying: 

"Blaspheme The Holy Spirit 

and 

There Is No Forgiveness for Any Of You!"

The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit
Agree in Everything in Heaven and In Earth
And They All Had Agreed That The Son
Would go to The Earth to Be Birthed!

They Had Agreed Before The Earth's Creation
That The Son was To Be The Willing Sacrifice
And At The Start of The Son's Earthly Ministry
These Three Were Individually - at One and The Same Time - Identified!

Jesus Christ, The Son, Came Out of The Water of Baptism and
As The Holy Spirit Descended on Him - The God Man
His Father's Voice from Heaven Testified:

"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased!"

After Which He Went To The Desert To Be By Satan Cruelly Tried!

The Son Said He Did What His Father Did - He Worked
The Spirit Says What He Hears
The Message is Marked
The Meaning is Clear
There is No Tangent - No Misinterpretation to Fear!

These Three are Cooperation Epitomized
These Three Cooperate for Mankind by Them To Be Justified, and 
In The Great Day Glorified
These Three Do All To Help Man To Answer The Master's Call
These Three By Jesus' Death Did All To Heal The Breach Created By Adam's Fall!

The Example The Three Set is The Example
Of What Right Through Light Can Achieve
The Father Commanded and
The Son did Obey
And The Holy Spirit Comforted Him On The Way!

The Son Was Sacrificed
So That Man to His Father May Be Reconciled!
At The Appointed Time That Son Did Arise and
He Went Back To The Father
But Sent Down The Holy Ghost
To Guide His Believing Children
Whom He'd Promised Never To Leave Standing
Directionless and Alone, Bereft and Lost!

The Son Before The Father
Petitions For Our Peace
Stating Quite Clearly:

"Father, I Paid Their Price!"

Let Them to Us Come Home! 

Please Grant The Release!"

I Make These Points To Say This:

Any Example IS An Example

And It Will Be Followed - Even Slavishly - By Somebody!

Therefore, Since, As Christians

We Are The Head - Not The Tail

Let Us Not Set Any Old Kind of Example

Let Us Not Set A Bad Example

Let Us Not Set The Example Misconstrued

Let Us Not Set The Example Subject to Interpretation!

Let Us Set The Example of The Exemplar!

Let Us Set The Example of The Holy - Not The Profane!

Let Us Let Our Example Be Worthy of Our Christian Calling!

Let Us Shine An Exemplary Light In The Darkness, Again And Again!

Let Us Pray That Our Good Example 

Will Cause Someone To Call Jesus Christ Blessed

Encourage Them to Sin and Iniquity Confess

To From This World's Follies Regress

To Answer The Loving Master's Behest

And Pass From Death to Life

After This Life's Pass Fail Test!

Let Us By Our Good Example 

Encourage A Sinner to Come Home!

The Master - Himself - Will Do The Rest

For He Who Loves Us Truly

Truly Loves Us The Best!

Money Laundering And Soul Cleansing Juxtaposed

Money Laundering 

and 

Soul Cleansing 

Follow the same Three-step Process:

1. Conversion or transfer of the Money/Soul from what it was to what is desirable i.e., Dirty Money to Clean, and Sinful Soul to Saint!

2. Conceal the Money/Soul's History Forever, i.e., through a Planned Process, "wash" the Money/Soul of its stench of Illegality/Sin and, by a process of Movement, Relocation, and Ownership Transfer, Render the Dirty/Sinful Clean/Saved!

3. Acquiring, Possessing and Using Money/Soul knowing full-well that its origin is Unclean!

We Are BORN With The Sinful Nature

and 

We Sin 

In Our Thinking

In Our Speaking

and 

In Our Actions!

Jesus Calls Us!

We Wrestle With The Holy Spirit!

We Finally Yield The Battle and Answer The Call!

We Confess Our Sins!

He Forgives Us and Cleans Us!

He Remakes Us!

We WALK ... By Faith ... In Him 

for

We Are New Creatures!

We WORK For The Kingdom ... By Faith In Him

Until We Die

Or

He Comes For Us!

NOW ...

We are All Sinners having Sinned against God, and We All Fall Short of His Glory!

In our Fallen State, we Cannot Hope to Approach God's Throne, and Live!


BUT ...

We have an "IN!"

There is a Man a/k/a The Son of Man who has Direct Access to "The Big Man" a/k/a God Almighty, Himself, for He IS The High Priest of Our Profession, and He IS in Heaven ... INTERCEDING!

Word on The Street is that The Son of Man IS The Prince of Peace who IS The Only Begotten Son of God Almighty! 

Word??

WORD!!

Word also is that The Prince of Peace IS Creator God a/k/a Prince Immanuel, being interpreted IS "God With US!"

It is also said that Prince Immanuel IS The Lamb of God and IS God Almighty a/k/a The Father's Pet, and it is a Well-known Secret that God Almighty gave Everything in Heaven, on Earth, under The Earth, The Sea and all that is in them into The Hands of The Pet a/k/a Jesus Christ a/k/a Big JC, even though He allowed Big JC to be sacrificed for, get this, "The Sins of The World!!"

Anyway, it seems that to Access the "IN" that the Outliers a/k/a Sinners have to "The Throne of Grace" a/k/a The Heart of God, one has to use The Comforter a/k/a The Holy Spirit!

FYI - the Key Code to The Comforter is found in some ancient book often called a "Dead Letter" but popularly known as "The Holy Bible" by The Christian Crew whose leader, Faith, told Seeking-Soul The Code is actually !!PrAaAyER!!

 !!PrAaAyER!! is Personal! Powerful! and The Petition of The Pleading Heart!

Spread The Word!

Now, in order not to "Get Burned" as a Member of The Goat Group, and to Get a Seat on "The Heaven-Bound Boat Full of Beautiful Believers Bought With Blood," we must follow these next steps Exactly!

1. Show Recognition of Our Lost State

2. Acknowledge That We are Dry-boned Sinners

3. Believe on The Lord a/k/a Big JC a/k/a Jesus Christ for The Saving Of Our Souls

4. Confess Our Sins a/k/a Tell the Truth of Our Sinfulness

5. This IS The Biggie: REPENT a/k/a Turn Away from Sin

6. Walk through The Watery Grave a/k/a Get Baptized

7. Put Our Shoulders to The Plow a/k/a Walk and Work by Faith in Jesus Christ a/k/a The Savior of Mankind a/k/a The Door a/k/a The Way To Life Everlasting!

8. Don't Trust Our Eyesight

9. Move out of The Shadows and Progress According to The Light of Life a/k/a Jesus Christ a/k/a The Word Made Flesh

10. Walk Holy for Jesus Christ IS Holy - Don't Look Behind, and

11. Fear God - With a Godly Fear (He has The Right To Kill Us But Doesn't For He Gives Us The Right To Call Him Lord and Friend When We Turn Away From Sinning)

Soul Cleansing Points and Positions to Ponder

as 

Proffered and Practiced 

by 

Jesus Christ 

under 

The Agency of The Holy Spirit:

• ALWAYS REMEMBER: I LOVE YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE! 
• You Sinned, and I Willingly Took Your Punishment
• I Gave My Life to Save Your Life
• I Made a Way of Return To The Father for You
• I Prepared a Home in My Father's House for You 
• I Heal You - I Am The Great Physician
• I Help you - I AM The Good Shepherd 
• I Desire Your Happiness - Happiness IS of The Lord
• Come to Me and Be Saved - I Shed My Own Blood for Your Salvation
• Walk with Me and Be Blessed - You Have An Inheritance with Me
• I am Your Peace - It Passes All Understanding
• I am Your Rest - Learn To, and Freely, Lean On Me
• I am The Master Who Carries Your Load - Take My Yoke Upon You
• I am Your Maintainer - You Can Do Anything In Me
• I am Your Provider - I Feed My Flock
• I am Your Redeemer - I Am He That Was Dead BUT I Am Alive Forever More 
• Obey My Laws and Know You Will Be Accounted as Strange To The World
• Walk with Me and You Will Be Hated for My Name's Sake
• Trust Me and You will be a Target for Satan's Temptations - Hope In God
• You Will Be Tempted on Appetite, Willingness to Tempt God and Whom To Worship - I Will Be With You Always
• I am Your Savior - I Paid Your Price
• I am Your Friend - You Will Not Ever Be Alone
• I Am Your All and All - I Am In All
• Come Share My Joy - It Has No Beginning and It Cannot Ever End
• Your Home in Heaven Awaits - I Say So - Believe Me
• Immortality Awaits - You Will Be Like As I AM
• Your New Name Awaits - I Call You Mine
• Your Gold Crown Awaits - In A Little While You Are Coming Home
• I Am Waiting ... Let Me Into Your Life - I Will Not Barge In
• I Am The Light of The World - Let My Light In You Shine to Glorify God
• My Word IS Truth - I Sanctify You
• Before You Were .. I AM, so
• Be Not Afraid for I Desire You to
• Come Unto Me, and
• Be Still, and Know that ... I AM YOUR GOD!

  

Satan IS The Liar!

Let Us To God Retire

For Satan does Not Ever Tire

For he Wants Us with him in Hell's Fire!

So, since We Know What God Can Do

There is No Way that Satan Fool Me and Fool You!

If God Says "Go Right!"

Satan Will Say "That's Not Quite Right!"

And he will Lead us

Into the Blackest Darkest Night

If we don't Let King Jesus

Our Soul Battle Fight!

RUN - DON'T WALK - TO GOD!

Almost Thou Persuadest Me ...!?!

I listened and
I heard oft' repeated The Word
ALMOST ... and
My hair got curled!

ALMOST ... in Christianity is
What an "F-Bomb" is to Right-thinkers
Of The World ... but I digress!

This is how The Story goes:

The Almost Rich
Is Almost Happy!

The Almost Married
Was Almost Pregnant! 

The Almost Believing
Was Almost Persuaded!

The Almost Reconciled to Almighty God
His Sin Almost Recognized!

The Decidedly Human believes
He is Almost God!

He who Almost Heard The Word
Thought God was Almost Great!

 He who was Almost Faithful was
Almost Helped and
Almost Healed but for the Fact
In Jesus Christ he
Almost Believed!

The Almost Christian
Whose Life was Almost Holy 
Cried because in God his Life was
Almost Perfect!

The Almost Famous thought
He and God were
Almost Friends!

Almost Persuaded said he could
Almost Say that there is God but
Since he had not personally met God
He will say that he could Almost Believe
In a Real God!

He who was
Almost Ready to Change
Almost Listened to The Gospel
And said it is Almost Too Hard to understand!

What is wrong with this "story?"

"... Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian!"

Acts 26:28

What is The Expected End to such a position IF Our Very Real, and Almighty God should come right this very minute?

What would your expression be if He God said to you right this very minute:

"I Almost Saved You 

When You Almost Believed in Me!

But, since You only Almost Trusted Me

I will definitely tell You that You are Assuredly Lost?"

In the Realm of Heaven, there is not one thing that falls into the category of Almost:

We are Saved by Grace Through Faith.

We are Redeemed by The Blood of The Lamb.

We are Reconciled unto God by Jesus Christ's Merits.

We have Homes in Glory.

We will have Golden Crowns.

We will have Stars in our Crowns.

We will Freely Access The River of The Water of Life.

We will see Jesus Christ as He sees us.

We will have Eternal Life.

We will have Immortal Bodies.

We shall never Grow Old.

We shall Never Die for

We shall have been Changed.

ALMOST is just about The Most Egregious Word that a Christian can use EXCEPT right here, and right now, when he Cheers himself by saying:

"I am ALMOST HOME!"

as he Struggles under The Burden of a Living Faith while Appealing To, Working For, and Looking Toward, Heaven!

Otherwise, ALMOST is a Self-Prescribed Death Sentence!

If you Need Jesus

If you Need New Life

If you Need Manna -

Trust God in The Strife!

If you will be Ready

To Walk The Pathway to Eternal Life

Put your Back to The Plow

Bless The True and Living God

And ... 
Come What May

In All Ways

Day by Day
Read The Holy Word
and

Pray, Pray, PRAY!!