The First Book Author - part 1

Every Christian is aware that each book of the Bible is acknowledged as the divinely inspired writings of scribes and prophets, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, the psalms of David, and so on.  

Personally, in addition to this truth, I thought of the Bible as an operation manual for mankind, much as we get an operations manual with a microwave etc. [I am sure that many have experienced the disasters involved when the full manual is not read]; or a recipe book that lists all of the necessary ingredients for a successful life of peace, joy, and hope.  

Nevertheless, until a few months back, I had not put the numerous scriptures together that the author of this magnificent book that we call the Bible is actually Yahovah. Exodus 32:32-33. My first thought was, “What? How could I miss that fact? I could only think, duhhh Muriel. 

The prophets and writers were God’s appointed scribes ordained to record “His” word. Thus, it makes sense that He, God, is the only one that can explain what He wrote, and the intention of what He wrote. After all, isn’t that how we think of our books? 

In Joshua chapter one, Joshua was about to embark on a journey appointed to him by God. And what did God tell him for encouragement—READ MY BOOK. In order for Joshua to succeed and prosper in his journey, what did God say…READ MY BOOK. Disobedience in failing to heed and obey the words of God’s book has consequences. Solomon lost his kingdom, 1 Kings 11, because he failed to do what God said in his book. Just as it was for Joshua, it is yet the same for us. 

Christians are always asking God for direction. As with the Old Testament people, He tells us again, 2 Timothy 2: 15, READ MY BOOK. It took a while but I finally understood. I have to READ HIS BOOK—daily.  

Personally, God’s word has been a light to my feet as I learned to walk this new path that He set my feet upon. Answers that I had searched for all of my life were answered. In addition, my faith and spiritual strength have steadily grown.  

The question is why? [see part 2]

Oneness, the extinction of, OR NOT, part 3

In Matthew 13:24-30, 36-44, Jesus uses a story about the tares to explain the working of His future Kingdom and His church.  

Tares are the seed—people—planted in the world by the enemy to act as his representative. Jesus explains that in order to not harm the wheat— the people that He planted—He lets both grow together until He returns and does the separating.  

Much of the religious community today proves the danger of the tares that Jesus warned His disciples about thousands of years ago. It seems that His warning was not taken to heart. 

Today, literally everything that God said is an abomination to Him is promoted and allowed in business, government, movies, and televisions shows. Sadly, acts of adultery, to fornication, to the ungodly unions that specifically deny God’s continuous authority in our creation, make the headlines as they flourish in many of the man-made churches. Worse, they give the world the impression that THEY represent Jesus. 

Take for instance, the pervasive lie that we are JUST human. Since this is in direct contrast to God’s word that we are a spirit [breathed into us by the Father], that lives in a body [created by the Father], and we have a living soul [feelings, that came into being when He breathed into the nostrils of Adam] …the question must be asked, “Where did this lie come from and what purpose does it serve?” 

Scripture gives a clear answer. This lie convinces people that they cannot change. Also, they can keep committing sins on a daily basis against God and yet be saved at the end. In plain English, they don’t have to change regardless of numerous scriptures to the opposite.  

Point: Satan wants company at the end when He is destroyed in the lake of fire, Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 20:14.  

Sadly, true Christian believers are forced on the defensive when we object to this ungodly movement. Some even give in because family members are caught up in this snowball of hell that is like an avalanche blanketing the earth with its lies. 

This false version of Christianity exhibits itself through the person who shouts in man’s churches on Sunday morning, and curses out everyone between Sunday afternoon and the next Sunday morning;  the person that acts a fool in restaurants and movie theatres while professing that they are Christians;  the person who uses the national media platform to promote ungodly lifestyles while professing to believe in god.  

The question should be asked, “What god.” 

The tares are fulfilling their purpose. What about Jesus’ people? To keep us silent, the tares play the guilt card about judging others. Has the power of Jesus’ blood become so weak over the years? 

God first chose us and delivered us out of the darkness of Satan’s kingdom, Colossians 1: 12-14. Jesus paid the ultimate price to give us the opportunity and help to change.  

Personally, as a former enthusiast of movies and television shows with good actors and actresses, I began to record those of today that I could fast-forward past the stupid stuff. But, the shows got worse and more flagrant with the violations of simple morality.  Finally, I got the guts to stop watching any that flaunt Satan’s agenda. I am back to old shows and cartoons. 

Jesus said He has overcome the world. Shouldn’t we as His soldiers act as though it is so?

Oneness - the necessity of, part 2

Through His prayer in John 17, Jesus placed all true believers under the divine protection of our Holy Father. But why? What purpose does oneness serve? Scripture provides the answer. 

Throughout numerous scriptures, Jesus explains that He did nothing and said nothing that the Father did not say, such as in John 5: 19, 30; 8:28; 9:4; 12:49; and 14:10. Also, In John 17, He informs the Father that the first disciples had received and believed the word that He spoke to them, verses 6-8.  

Included in this prayer of oneness are the future believers. That’s you and I.

John 17:20  [Jesus prayed] Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (KJV) 

Ephesians 4: 11 explains how this is to be achieved. The gifts of apostles, prophets; evangelists; pastors and teachers are given to man for the single purpose of the completion of the saints, the called out ones, verse 12, till we all, verse 13, come to the unity—the oneness—of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God—Jesus. And, if there is any question in what we hear, Jesus said that the Holy Spirit, John 14:26, will bring to our remembrance the words that He spake. 

Thus, our conversation, our testimonies—as His followers—should be exactly the same as Jesus spoke and thus our heavenly Father spoke.  

The question is, how did Jesus’ divine prayer of oneness evolve into 999,000 different Christian doctrines? [I just picked a number given that there is practically a manmade church on every corner in every city in every state that seems to teach Jesus differently].  

Have the tares taken over?

 

Part 3 explains.

A Divine Prayer for Oneness-Part 1

Prayer is an essential part of the true Christian believer’s life. Jesus gave us the perfect example in Matthew 6 when He teaches the disciples how to pray.  

In that prayer, Jesus taught us to praise God. We are to thank Him. We are to acknowledge that He knows exactly what He is doing with His kingdom. We are to submit to His will. We are to thank Him for providing for us. We are to ask for forgiveness for the dumb stuff we may have done that day. Before Jesus gave us this prayer, He tells the disciples—thus us—that the Father already knows what we have need of, Matthew 6: 8.  

Thus, prayer is how we communicate with the only true and living God our creator who is also our Holy heavenly Father.   

Throughout His time on earth, Jesus continually prayed. But, in John 17, we have the only full recording of the Lord’s Prayer. Thus, it is one of the most unique and beautiful prayers because it sums up—to me—the greatest love in the world. This prayer exhibits not only the Fathers love for us but the Son’s love for us in the face of His willing sacrifice that was about to take place for and in our behalf.  

In this chapter, Jesus first prays for Himself. Secondly, He prays for His first disciples. Then, He does an amazing thing. He prays for those who shall in the future believe in Him, verse 20, 21. That’s you and I. In particular in His prayer, Jesus made a request to our Holy Father that we all be one as He and the Father are one. That is something to pause and think about. 

In verse 11, Jesus asks that the Father keep us in His own name. Specifically, it states:   And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. (KJV). The word for keep is tereo, which means to guard, watch, preserve. In other words, Jesus places the spiritual well-being of His true followers—present and future—under the divine protection of Yehovah, our God and heavenly Father.  

Given this divine truth—if we believe in Jesus—one scripture comes to mind, “if God be for us, who can be against us,” Romans 8:31.

Thus oneness is necessary. The question is why?

See part 2 for the answer

 

The God-Power of a Woman

God said in Genesis 2: 18 that He made a help-meet for the man.  What did He create? The Woman!  In addition, everything else was done first before He brought forth the woman.  All Eve had to do was operate in the anointed purpose which God had spoken into existence.  

Nevertheless, through the influence of Satan—starting with Eve in the Garden of Eden—women have come to look upon God’s wondrous mastery of our creation as a mistake. Or, that God did not know what He was doing.   

The problem is not with God. It is with us.  

Women are not a mistake. But, because many women do NOT understand who they are in God’s eyes, nor the importance of our ordained position, we try to be everything else except what God purposed.

 

In Genesis 1, God FIRST said what each created object would “do” THEN He saw the fulfillment of what He said. For instance, in verses 14-15, He spoke about the “purpose” of lights in the heavens, the sun, the moon, and the stars, and how they would give us light during both the day and night. In verses 16-18, He made them and set them in the heavens. Today, is not everything that God said still in place and functioning exactly as He said? 

Food for thought Helpmeets: in every instance where God created something for a purpose, He put the necessary ingredients into that creation so that it would eternally achieve its anointed purpose. Thus, when God said He made the woman to be a help-meet, did He not also give us the power, thus the authority, to do so?   

We are powerful BECAUSE GOD MADE US POWERFUL. But, when we don’t know who we are, we misuse and abuse that power. Satan knows this truth, thus his continuous attacks on women. When abuse, rape, molestation fail to destroy us, he puts it into our minds that ‘we need to be like men in order to be powerful.’ And so goes the tricks of God’s enemy.  

Everyone is devastated over yet again a school becoming a killing-field. And, everyone is asking what to do? 

Jesus teaches the disciples about the power of unified prayer in Matthew 18:19-20, and the “promise” that comes with doing it His way. He said where two or more are gathered together in His name, He is in the midst, and that whatsoever they “agree” upon, it shall be done. 

OOPS. Could that be the problem? Today, Jesus seems to come in 31 flavors.  Women of God, Faith in Jesus is not like Burger King. We cannot have it our way.  

Today, hundreds of thousands of women are posting cute God posters on the internet. But, are you praying over your children before they leave out of the house? Are you praying “with them” at night before they go to bed?

One woman took prayer out of schools due to her determined dedication to achieve this ungodly goal. It is a sad commendation that the women of the world understand their power in contrast to God’s called women, Luke 16:18. Nothing has changed since God spoke this word by Luke. School shootings, molestations at school, etc., prove that when this woman coerced and manipulated the government into removing God out of the schools, Satan moved in full-time. 

Now, instead of teaching children to learn the ABCs of education at school, parents and grandparents have to drill the concept of molesters, predators, and killers, into the minds of the children.  Worse, now children are killing children. Now, we cannot send them to college or movies and expect them to come home safely.  

Food for thought: God’s called help-meets, start speaking life over the children. Praise God in their hearing in the morning, noon, and night time?  Remember, the Word of God is a protective covering.   

Jesus NEVER said or DID anything that our God and heavenly Father did not say or do, John 5, 8.  

Helpmeets, we also MUST come together in one accord, in spirit AND PRAYING only what Jesus and the Father said. Then, we can rest and watch God work.

Guaranteed Weed Killer: The Word of God

Weeds grow where it seems impossible for anything to flourish. They sprout up through concrete that is poured on top of sand. Where everything else dies for lack of water, a weed suddenly pops its head up as though to mock your effects to kill them. Poison is sprayed on lawns, driveways, and gardens, year after year. But, sometimes in weeks, there they are again. Weeds are a centuries old problem.  

On the other hand, garden/farm crops need constant care, such as ground cultivation, fertilization, continuous watering, along with the pulling up of weeds. Some even require netting and wire to be placed around them to keep birds and animals away especially when the plants are young and tender.  

Ungodly thoughts are like the runaway weeds. Worse, they in turn lead to ungodly deeds. All come from Satan’s influence, Ephesians 2: 1-3. And, the roots of these ungodly thoughts dig deep until they become habit. A person no longer has to think about sinning—it just seems to automatically happen, Proverbs 23:7.  

Why? 

Satan knows the condition of the soil in which he sows his doctrine. Just as our heavenly Father gave the eternal doctrine of teaching children throughout the day about him, Satan imitates God, with one exception. Satan plants his ungodly doctrine in children through abuse, neglect, sexual assaults, etc.  

Spiritually following and obeying Jesus takes commitment and time because true love is like the crops that need constant attention. It has to be a goal of dedication. The fertilizer is the Word of God. And, it is the greatest weed killer of all times.  

How does it work?  

A continual daily dose of the word of God gradually fills the reader with the knowledge that God's creation—us—are so loved by our heavenly Father and His son Jesus, our lord and savior, that it infuses true love for God and His Son into every fiber of the reader’s soul. Better yet, Satan’s ungodly seeds are unable to thrive in the divine dug-up ground of love.  

The Bible says believers must be careful about hidden roots of bitterness, Hebrews 12:15. In addition, throughout the old and new testament, the Bible cautions believers about lack of diligence, especially in studying the word of God, which can result in turning away from God, Deuteronomy 29:18; Hebrews 3:11-12.  

Jesus said God's word is our spiritual food, Matthew 4:4. Thus, a daily dose of the word of God is better than an apple a day. It is the guaranteed weed killer of ungodly behavior.  

The Love Connection - Whose on second-part 2

How many people can boast that they got pregnant in order to raise a godly child, Malachi 2:15? To the contrary, blogs, TV shows, news media, and more, show that women admit that they had children to get a man, keep a man, save a man, etc. On top of that, children are now being bartered like merchandise in order to make something look normal that is not according to God’s word.

Where in all of this is the love of God? And, why are we surprised when that child goes astray?

In Matthew 6, 10, and 12, Jesus teaches the disciples that they/ thus God’s creation is worth more than sheep, birds, and flowers in the field. More so, Jesus states that He says nothing that the father has not said, John 8:28. Thus, His words about loving ourselves in Matthew 22:37-38 are repeating God’s words that He spoke in Leviticus 16:18.

The lack of this love of self has consequences. Most often, the children pay the price.

If the child does not end up in a mental institution, or prison, they exhibit their hurt and pain around the world via movie theater shootings, random drive-by shootings, murders on military bases, robberies, and worse.

Nevertheless, regardless of their actions, each individual started life as someone’s child. What happened?

Today, blog sites often reveal raw emotions of pain and hurt. Men complain about their women. Women complain about their men.

There is a question that demands to be asked. PRIOR TO THE RELATIONSHIP, was the prospective partner asked: How is your relationship with your parents, your grandparents, your siblings, etc? Most importantly, “Do you believe in Jesus?”

I am not talking about LIP SERVICE. Actions still speak louder than words.

Why are these questions important? Because the Bible actually tells a man how he is to treat his ‘wife.’ Scripture also reveals how a ‘wife’ should treat her husband. And, God says that marriage protects the child, 1 Corinthians 7: 10-14, but in particular verse 14.

When a child experiences the lack of love from a parent, how can they believe that a God that they cannot see loves them when the human in their life does not love them?

I am not talking about giving a child stuff. Things can never replace true love. A child NEEDS to feel that the parent truly believes that they are a gift of love in that parent’s life. Strangely, or perhaps not so strange, children can sense when they are not loved in this manner. And, they act out that disillusionment with pain and anger.

One woman took prayer out of schools. But, God NEVER said it is the responsibility of “schools” to teach children about Him, Deuteronomy 4:10; 6:7; 11:19; and 31:19.

The two commandments that Jesus gave the disciples are mind boggling in their simplicity.

37 - Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.    38 This is the first and great commandment.   39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (KJV)

These two commandments only work when we understand that we are on second in the greatest command of all.

It is the ultimate love connection.