Many people I talk to are really worried about how things are going in the world. Lots of changes in our lives have taken place over the past year, changes in government, people trying to take our freedom from us, with fear mongers spreading lies and fear. With Covid making people sick with some dying, our children being forced to stay home from school, people losing jobs, businesses closing, things have looked pretty dismal. And we are just now a year and a half later starting to come out of it, but things are no where near back to “normal”. Many tell us things will never be back as they were before.

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Here’s something that came up in my spirit this morning that I’d like to share with you. It is written in Proverbs 11:13, A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
We all probably know someone who, for one reason or another, likes to tell others about things told them in confidence. But according to the above verse, God doesn’t seem to like that. There was a TV show on many years ago where a lady sang, “We’re not ones to go around spreading rumors. Why really, we’re just not the gossipy kind! Oh, you’ll never hear one of us repeating gossip, so you’d better be sure to listen close the first time.” Now I know this has nothing to do with what I usually preach, but there must be a reason the LORD put this in my spirit today, and someone out there needs to hear this.

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Let’s start right off with the Word of God today, in Proverbs 30:5-6, it is written,
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Let’s face it, the Word of God as it is written is by and large not preached in most churches today. Either it is being “interpreted” to say what it doesn’t say, or else much that it DOES say is being skipped over and ignored. Whichever the scenario is, the hearers lose out.

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When God created Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam dominion over all the earth. Let’s have a look at Genesis 1:26-31,
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Out of nowhere the Holy Spirit dropped that question into my spirit today, so I’m going to ask you the same thing. Picture our lives like being in a boat out in the sea. There are two kinds of people; we can be adrift wherever life takes us, or we can grab the oars and row. All of us have a choice. Look at your present situation honestly, and you’ll know which type you are.

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Have you ever gone fishing? I have, and most likely you have too. It used to be fun for me until one day my Dad and I were fishing, and he told me, “It’s kind of demeaning to us to be out here trying to outsmart a fish with an IQ lower than the water temperature.” I thought about that for a while. He was right. We were sitting out here as smart humans, trying to outsmart a fish, and for the most part the fish were winning.

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So many people start out good, getting excited about receiving the Word of God, and praying and studying their Bible, and speaking the Word over their lives, and seeing positive change in their life. They get going like gangbusters with the Word of God, but then after a while, when the devil has been run out of their life due to continual exercise of the Word, they seem to no longer see the need to be diligent against the enemy, and they get lazy. And finding opportunity, the devil finds an avenue back into their life, and WHAM!! WOW! WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? Has God left me? No, God hasn’t left you. You left HIM!

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It saddens me that men and women on God seem to be afraid to wield the sword that we have been given. We are the voices of one crying in the wilderness, just as John the Baptist did, “Make straight the way of the LORD”. That means the crooked and wicked must be cast down. Instead, many churches and ministers, seeking “peace with the world”, are being silent against the wickedness presently being flaunted in the world today. These false prophets think if we just keep our mouths shut against evil, that everything will be fine. Well, it won’t.

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While we are to humble ourselves before the LORD, we can also go into the ditch with that, by declaring ourselves to be worthless to the LORD. And what better way to discourage a person from seeking God, than to convince them that God sees them as worthless. Through the years I’ve dealt with many people suffering that very thing. And although many people can quote John 3:16 from heart, it never really registers to them that God places very high value on us. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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Through my nearly 28 years in ministry, I’ve heard so many people talk about “their ministry” work. And for as many people you ask what their ministry is, you’ll get that many different answers. Many of those works are good and helpful, although that’s not always true, evidenced by how much strife and division there is in the Body of Christ. Continue Reading »