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You Make a Difference!

Tuesday, 1 February 2005

Dislike the individual’s action or behavior but not the individual. Act on the truth.

"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"

2 CORINTHIANS 10: 4, 5 (KJV)

The face of evil - 3. We have to remember that we are in a battle; a spiritual battle. If you don’t believe me look around in your neighborhood, turn on your television, look at the disease and dis-ease in the world, in your world. Look at the death and dying; the pain and suffering for no cause; no Jesus-purpose or God-purpose. My friends, we are under attack. Respond.

We receive a direct frontal attack, a sneak attack, or any combination of the two. The attack will be from princes of darkness, demons, imps or any variety of evil entities. Most often an attack will never come from satan, unless you are someone who is positioned to have a profound impact on the world. And typically, satan will send some other evil first.

How do you know this, you may ask? Think and read your Bible. Have you every seen a general go into battle before a foot soldier? Never. Have you ever seen a president go into battle? No. Think. Tradition has taught us to say, “I rebuke you satan,” like Jesus did. Jesus was correct, because Jesus was dealing with satan. We deal with satan’s other family members.

Jesus taught us in the Lord’s Prayer to say, “and deliver us from evil.” This covers a multitude of evil, not just satan who is on a throne somewhere, nowhere around, laughing because your prayer rebuking satan is having little effect. Learn to rebuke evil, bind evil, deal in your personal life and prayer life with words which impact evil. Words like, evil, enemies of God, enemies of Christ, negative energy, enemies of man, etc.

IMAGINATION
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Wednesday, 2 February 2005

We must be prepared for challenges coming our way. The enemies of God are not friendly.

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into marvellous light:"

1 PETER 2:9 (KJV)

Challenges-1. When challenges come our way, we must know, we must understand that it is going to be okay. Everything will turn out just fine. When we move with the Spirit of God, in the example of Christ Jesus, the Glory of God will manifest physically in our life situations, in our world. Expect it!

When I get to the place, to the understanding, to know that everything that happens is for the good of the Kingdom of God, then not only do I walk in the power of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, but everything seems to be clicking on all cylinders. Everything falls into place. Every situation looks “rosy” even though to others it may look bad. People wonder why I am not depressed, worried or frustrated. I know that God is in control. He has His Divine Will upon everything and everybody, all of His Creation, all the time. God hears all and see all!

Everything is working out okay. God will and has turned the negative in our lives around for His Goodness, Glory and Divine Purposes. Now remember, we still do our part to manifest His Word and Truth in the world in which we live. We don’t sit around and watch the world crash and burn around us. Move and witness His physical manifestation of His Will.

We move into a season where everything is actually clicking on all cylinders and everything is working out okay without many and few difficult challenges. Challenges will pop up from time to time, but because we understand that challenges are going to come to enhance our spiritual growth, we live in expectation of our next opportunity for spiritual growth. Expect growth!

GRACE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Thursday, 3 February 2005

Deceit is a destroyer of trust! Deceit attempts to provide coverage for a multitude of other sins.

"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

MATTHEW 16: 19 (KJV)

Once someone lies to you repeatedly, over an extended period of time (especially concerning a personal matter), trust may fly out the window, hoping never to return. Take heart and do not lose your heart and any future emotions towards that new man or that new woman who is coming into your life to become your future spouse or friend. Allow past pains to be past pains.

Trust is the foundation on which the house of love is built. Security forms its windows, faith its beams, and responsibility fills the home with the furniture of family. Stability in a relationship is founded on the trust, the faith we have in that person. This allows us to become vulnerable to one another so we may experience love, charity, and peace at a deeper personal level than we could ever imagine; especially happening to us.

Our trust in God, our faith in God allows us to love not only others, but ourselves in ways which we could never experience without Him. Our Christian walk is a faith walk that allows us to experience charity towards others and from others to us and our families, which we would never expect in a thousand years. We know how mean and untrustworthy people can be, so when charity through love and faith enters our lives and the lives of those we love and serve, we know it is God’s Favor moving on them and in our lives. Favor through Divine Connections.

If you or someone you know is seeking peace, love and harmony, tell them to seek God first. Trust Him, love Him and serve Him; the experience with God will be immeasurable. Talk to God, listen for His voice; obey. Let God prove Himself.

TRUST
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Friday, 4 February 2005

What seeds are we planting? What fruit is growing? What fruit will we eat in the future?

“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;"

PSALMS 103:1-3 (KJV)

Riches –2. Many of us look to Solomon, Abraham, Joseph, Bill Gates, presidents of corporations, president of nations as the examples to follow to obtain success. Many of us have connected our personal success and spiritual success with money. That couldn’t be further than the truth. Tithing is an activation of one of thousands of spiritual truths, which impact our lives. Our actions have spiritual consequences in our world. Remember that we activate spiritual and physical consequences as we activate spiritual truths in our lives based upon our thoughts, what is in our hearts, our speech and our actions.

Just because our neighborhood neighbors or our church pew neighbors got a new Mercedes, doesn’t mean they are living more righteously than you or I, or are doing something that warrants duplicating spiritually or physically.

The disciples, the prophets of old were not the richest men and women in the county, city, country in which they lived. Jesus did not ride around on a white donkey, which was a symbol of prominence and authority in the Hebrew community. Did Jesus have 100 tunics and 30 pairs of sandals? Did He have three or four donkeys and a house in every province He visited? Surely the Son of God could have afforded to have all the amenities of His day. Think. Why didn’t He move like you see the modern day priests, preachers, televangelists, bishops move? Think.

God gave us Jesus the Christ who moved upon the earth without sin to be the example for us to follow. Jesus is the example, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Follow Jesus’ examples.

REAPING
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Saturday, 5 February 2005

When we ask for advice, do we really want it?  We must use, not waste that which is given to us.

“Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."

ROMANS 5:1, 2 (KJV)

We often ask a myriad of individuals for advice concerning questions, which crop up in our lives. If we are not seeking advice, asking questions, looking for ideas concerning issues, events, and a host of life’s circumstances, we are asking for trouble. Proverbs 11:14 says: “Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”

Seek counsel from pastors, elders or teachers. Seek counsel from leaders or parents. Proverbs and Psalms are filled with great advice. It is not wise to seek counsel from someone who is slothful, crooked or moving like a snake in the wrong spirit. If you hang around people who are going nowhere, guess where you are going? Nowhere or some place you do not want to go. Use discernment when asking for and receiving counsel; the Bible is your road map. Seek counsel from the Holy Spirit who is here to teach us all things. Discernment and other attributes of God come with counseling from the Holy Spirit or the Christ.

Isn’t it time to ask the Lord for direction or advice? He is a big God and is big enough to help us all with the smallest of issues and the biggest of issues at the same time. Difficult to imagine isn’t it? But it is true! If we are not asking the Lord for advice, direction, suggestions, His Purposes for lives and the lives of our loved ones; it is time to start. God will never leave us nor forsake us. He is with us all the time. He wants us to talk to Him, because He is talking to us. Form a personal relationship with God, Jesus, the Christ and the Holy Spirit. We are all a part of God’s eternal, spiritual family. We are His children!

DIRECTION
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Sunday, 6 February 2005

Look at life from a different perspective and see the answers to many of our prayers.

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

JAMES 5:16 (KJV)

Access for spiritual empowerment. Imagine a circle, a sphere with a road leading into it. You are walking down that road into the sphere. There is an open entrance into the sphere. When you go inside, you can feel the power that lies within. The road is Faith. Faith has given you access to a power of God, Jesus, the Christ or the Holy Spirit; otherwise known as attributes, characteristics or fruits of the Spirit. “Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." ROMANS 5:1, 2 (KJV)

In this case, the attributes or powers are Peace and Grace. You are standing in Peace and Grace, which you got to on the road of Faith. Key word here is “standing.” The Bible says “stand”; be still and speak up.

Example: You recently accepted Christ into your life. You have not been around your old friends. You bump into one and they ask, “What has been going on?” You say, “I have accepted Jesus into my life.” This is a bold statement, which receives ridicule from your “so-called” friend. What do you do? Be still. (Stay calm, subduing the old nature). Stand. (Speak up and confess your position.) Let them know the benefits.

When the person leaves, what do you do? You rejoice, because you stood up and spoke your peace. Rejoice is another road of access into our spiritual empowerment. It takes us to Hope. Hope, Peace, Glory, and Faith are not just words. They are in the hierarchy of God’s spiritual family. Be empowered!

EMPOWER
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Monday, 7 February 2005

Farmers plant seeds; they watch them turn into plants. Our words and actions are our seeds.

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

ROMANS 8:38, 39 (KJV)

Omnipresence-1. God is with us all the time. His Presence is with us all the time. This is one of the ways He is able to see and hear and know what we all are doing at all times. If we think we are doing something that no one else is seeing or knowing about; think again. God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. God is present with us today—right now!

This is extremely important to know—God is a present-day, now spiritual being. This means keep our minds on God right now. Keep our focus on God right now and watch His Power and Glory manifest physically in our lives. The Bible says, “Pray always.” It means keep our minds prayerfully focused on God, praying always. This keeps us in the present—the now.

Evil, systems, institutions, and individuals, using graven images, make a livelihood and have a purposeful existence in keeping us focused on anywhere but here and now. We project into our future—five minutes ahead, to the weekend, to next month, or when our daughters are to get married. We miss what is going on right here and now in front of us. Many times we return to our past—what we did right, our successes resting on our laurels. Most often we go to the past to visit the things we did wrong. Why didn’t I do this or that differently? Why did they do that to me? Stop your pity party now!

Stay in the present because here is where God will be to visit you. God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit are here in the present. Yesterday and tomorrow are a trick of the enemy; be here now!

MORALITY
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Tuesday, 8 February 2005

Let our walk do our talking! Our actions have loud voices! What are our actions saying!

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."

ECCLESIASTES 12:13, 14 (KJV)

Fear. It is important to have a healthy fear of the LORD. In the Bible when you see the word LORD (all uppercase), it denotes the word Yahweh, the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient One. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

People like so say when the Bible speaks of fear of the Lord, that it is talking about being reverent, respectful or honoring God in some way. Yes and more. You may hear people say, the Lord will not give a person cancer, or the Lord will not allow anything bad to happen to a person. Yes and more.

Everything, everything goes through the LORD--everything. If the LORD doesn’t want something to happen, it will not happen, I don’t care if it is against nature, physics, gravity, quantum mechanics or the Ten Commandments. God has got this thing—He is in control! He runs this thing!

God is like a father—correcting, punishing, and keeping the house in order—Divine Order. God will have it His way--with pickles, lettuce, tomatoes and hold the mayonnaise! Look at your Bible--the Old Testament. How many plagues did the LORD send upon the Gentiles or the Hebrews people? How many times did He punish grumbling people? Idolaters? Disobedient people? Adulterous people? Should I continue? God will send His Creation to correct, admonish and deal with His children—His children all over the earth. A healthy fear of the LORD helps us to deal with our sins, indiscretions, loose lips, idolatrous nature, etc. Fear can be healthy and it can keep us in the Graces and Mercies of our Lord God, Jehovah.

COMMITMENT
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Wednesday, 9 February 2005

We must listen daily for the Voice of God in our lives, in our everyday decisions and in others.

“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:"

DEUTERONOMY 28:1 (KJV)

The Big Ten. The Big Ten are in effect! Do not let the President of the United States of America, the president of your Bible College, the spiritual leader of your church, synagogue, temple, or your gym teacher fool you—the Big Ten are still in effect. The Big Ten -- Exodus 20: 1-17; Deuteronomy 5: 6-21.

The Ten Commandments are in effect! People like to say that Jesus was the fulfillment of the Law and therefore the Law is not in effect. The misconception is that all the laws including the Ten Commandments were done away with. Nothing can be further from the truth. You must understand that the Hebrew people were under the rule of some 613 laws, governing all aspects of their lives—when to eat and what to eat, when to sleep and how to sleep, what to do and how to do it. It was impossible to keep all the laws. This burden on the people could only be remedied by Jesus, with the Christ indwelling.

The laws under which they were living had become a demonic system through the controlling mechanisms in which the laws unscrupulously controlled the people’s daily lives. Jesus, the Christ came to change all that and more. The Christ came to be the fulfillment of those laws so that the people could be free from the tyranny of the ancient religious establishments.

Natural laws, spiritual laws, supernatural laws, karmic laws, laws of physics, laws of sowing and reaping, etc. are all fulfilled through and in the Christ. All laws are fulfilled in us when we bear in us the Christ, like Jesus! The Big Ten are still in effect!

AWARENESS
 

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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
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Thursday, 10 February 2005

Our most bitter rivals may not be our best friends, but they may help us the most.

“Unto thee O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare."

PSALM 75:1 (KJV)

Stepping stones. Have you ever walked down a path, which lead to a creek? In the creek is a stepping stone pathway that crosses the body of water. Have you ever crossed a creek using stepping stones? It is a cautious undertaking. If our footing is not just right, we slip off the stone. Life is just that way.

People, things, associations, jobs, discipline, habit, etc. are stepping stones to the other side of where God wants us to be. We may be getting ulcers, stress and anxiety attacks because of a job, which we are working, and that we truly dislike.

View it this way. This job is just a stepping stone to the place where God has for us to go. But because we view the job or situation or person so negatively, not using PMA (positive mental attitude), not in Jesus’ power of Ascension (keep our eyes on Jesus), or using wisdom or discernment, we invite negative physical attributes from the enemies of God into our lives. These negative attributes impact us, our families and our communities like viruses that spread from person to person.

We can be the stepping stone for a person, persons (family), association, our community, the nation or the world. We have to recognize God’s ability to use us in any situation and not get caught up into what we see and hear and feel which is right in front of us. Remember, the battle is a spiritual one and we must never forget it and approach our spiritual walk and conflict in our lives from that perspective. Know this, everything which is physical, has a spiritual origin. Creation, life came from God and He is in control of everything. Let us be stepping stones and appreciate the stepping stones on which we are stepping.

FAITH
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Friday, 11 February 2005

Blessed none the less! The Lord our God will bless us, even when we are in our mess.

“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

MATTHEW 5:10 (KJV)

Religious Spirits. This is not about true spiritual people or having religion, but recognizing and handling religious spirits. A religious spirit is not an evil power, principality or demon, but a lower entity. One of these higher forms of evil may move through a religious spirit, but will not dwell in a person with a religious spirit. Recognize them as people who outside church harbor hate, jealousy, pride, envy, strivings; are fornicators, idolaters, use drugs, drink liquor, and do other evil things.

Have you ever seen someone in church who will praise dance, shout and carry on at the first sound of music? Someone praising the Lord from the beginning of church service to the message and sometimes trying to praise during the message, probably has a religious spirit operating in them. This is a “cousin” to an exhibition spirit. This spirit has to see and be seen. They make a show of praising, dancing, speaking in tongues, giving a word or prophecy, shedding tears, trying to sing, and correcting church members.

They will be out of order and in the wrong spirit; praising for a long time, using a scarf, a banner, a tambourine, attempting to draw attention, hardly taking a moment to rest. They will give a word, but before they sit down the same word or another word is given to another person or to the church body. This person has a religious spirit, needs psychological counseling or needs attention. So, the leaders of the church body should put that person in order and give them the much-needed attention. Religious spirits plan and attempt to get our focus off of God, to get into the church administration and to disrupt the order in the church. Be aware of them and how they operate in the church. Do not forget the battle is against powers and principalities.

BLESSED
 

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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
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Saturday, 12 February 2005

It is not a crime to turn off lights when we come and go to and from a room. Fear not.

"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him."

2 CHRONICLES 16: 9a (KJV)

Riches–1. Let me tell you about riches so you can’t say you didn’t know. What did Jesus say about the rich man getting into Heaven? It will be easier for a what to get where? Camel. Needle gate. What does Proverbs 28:22 say about hurrying to be rich? Or Proverbs 28:20? Surely a person of faith will be blessed, but there is a penalty for placing riches before faith.

God knew, Jesus knew that people would focus on the wrong things. That has been a human pattern. So it was imperative to send Jesus to give people the example to follow. Jehovah-God knew that people would look to Abraham, David, Joseph, Solomon, the kings of Israel and Judah and any wealthy or rich person as the example to follow. In an effort to help us desire to seek and find the truth, God sent us Jesus as the example so we can have all the wealth and riches of Life, a life in Jesus.

Are we captive to our over-abundance? We have to remember everyone is not as fortune as we are. Are we idolatrous? We worship God, not people, cars, homes and things. Are we already in bondage? We must not care more about our “stuff” than people. Do we have divided hearts? Our eyes can only focus on one thing at a time. What are we focused on? Divided hearts lead to divided kingdoms—see Solomon’s example.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added unto you” is what we believe. Many have the cart before the mule. Seek God first and He will add wisdom, peace, joy, family, provision, security, true friendship, happiness, shelter, food, resources, ideas, political stability, and love to our lives.

DISCERNMENT
 

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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
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Sunday, 13 February 2005

It is okay to say please, thank you, and you are welcome! These are words of favor.

“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

JOSHUA 1:9 (KJV)

Heavenly Hierarchy-1. I asked the Lord to teach me how to empower His people spiritually. After considering the Divine hierarchy of God, Jesus (note: who has the Christ indwelling), and the Holy Spirit; and the evil hierarchy of satan (note: lower-case as not to empower him in any way), the anti-christ (opposite to Christ) and the beast (opposite to the Holy Spirit), I moved down the hierarchy ladders.

The scripture says the battle is against powers and principalities. The Bible speaks of an evil prince over Persia who fought with an angel in Daniel 10:13. So I know that below the “beast” are powers, principalities and princes over provinces. Then the search was on for powers, principalities and/or princes of God. The Bible teaches us about Arch-Angels (Chief Princes) and Angels. There are millions and millions of angels of all types and variety to all types of things in the service of the LORD.

I wanted to know what was between the Angels and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit took me to Galatians 5:22, the fruit of the Spirit. The Spirit being the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit showed me an apple tree. The apple tree was the Holy Spirit and the fruit was the apples. The apples, (love, joy, peace, kindness, etc.) which come after the tree, which the tree bears, is in a hierarchy under the tree. We know the Bible says that God is love. I notice that love is one of the fruits of the Spirit. Now I know the fruits of the spirit are not just words, but on the level with evil powers and principalities, but much larger. They are huge, sovereign. Sovereignties are the fruits of the spirit; the Bible calls them Attributes or Characteristics of God. Powers.

INITIATIVE
 

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Monday, 14 February 2005

My son Marcus says, “We are going to go through what we have to go through.”

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."

JAMES 3:12 (KJV)

The Jesus Example-1. Jesus went through a series of life experiences, which we go through as we move to higher planes of spirituality. Some of the events were development, ministry, crucifixion, resurrection, descendsion, and ascension.

When we are children, we experience development. When we grow up as teenagers and young adults and find out how cruel life can be, we may begin our cross experience. Our cross experience may last one day or ten years; and there may be more than one cross experience. Know this, you will have a cross experience on the road to spiritual growth. It is how you handle that experience that makes all the difference.

Our resurrection experience happens when we come to grips with our cross experience. We learn to accept that which we have to go through. Once we man-up or woman-up to what we are experiencing, or what we have to do in a situation, we will go through it to the other side; the resurrection experience. Going through the cross experience means experiencing the discendsion experience. As we come to grips with our cross experience, we go to hell and back to come back to who we are, and who we are in Christ. We must go into the depths of hell to resolve any issue which may be producing darkness in our lives.

Once we go through, we then experience ministry. We minister to others who may be going through, or may be heading down a similar road we were on. This is the ministry experience. Last but not least is ascension. We ascend as we descend to help others who are in need. We ascend spiritually and emotionally. We feel great about ourselves because we make a difference!

GROWTH
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Tuesday, 15 February 2005

God will often place in our lives a person who acts as a bridge in our quest for spiritual growth.

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

3 JOHN 1:2 (KJV)

The Lord has allowed me to understand that if there is someone in my life who does not agree with me on an issue, that I should listen to what they have to say anyway. The Lord let me know that that person could become my partner in my endeavors and/or become one of my best contacts; business or personal. We have to learn to agree to disagree and move forward with personal and group goals. We must not stagnate while waiting on the Lord. We must prepare so we are ready when it is our time to step up to the plate, when it is our time to enter the playing field.

It is important for us to be open and listen for the Voice of God in each and every person. God will use a rock if He has too or a donkey; Numbers 22:28. God will speak through a person, saved or not, Christian or not; because surely a rock or a donkey are not members of any religious organization. Our worst critic can be our next divine connection; the bridge to our success!

You may be the divine connection someone has been looking for. You may be the divine connection that someone has been praying for. You may be the divine connection, they have been waiting for and when you make the connection with them, you receive your divine connection that is with them waiting for you to come. Reframe from being stagnate. God is an ever-moving, never-stopping, always-doing-something God. The enemies of God never sleep and neither does God. God is always moving. Look for the movement of God in your life through divine connections. God’s connections through people will change your life! Move towards your God-connection now! Pick up that telephone now! Walk over to that person and speak!

DIVINE CONNECTION
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Wednesday, 15 February 2005

Stop waiting! Get out of your box and get busy!

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

MATTHEW 19:26 (KJV)

Heavenly Hierarchy –2. Having asked the Lord to show me how to truly empower His people, the Holy Spirit showed me an apple tree. This lead to the revelation that the fruits of the spirit are not just words but actual powerful entities under the Holy Spirit. The lead entity being “love”. God is Love.

Once I thought about it further, the Holy Spirit allowed me to know that there are more listed in the Bible besides the ones listed in Galatians 5:22. They are listed throughout the Bible; and are listed with clues. Wisdom was with God in the beginning during the Creation. Wisdom, knowledge and understanding are three with which to start. The Bible talks of wisdom being female, not a human woman but with feminine qualities. There are many, many of these Sovereignties.

I started thinking about them as the opposite of principalities. Then I wanted to know what God’s powers were. Our battle is with powers and principalities. So, I wanted to know what the powers of God were. I immediately went to “Creation.” The Holy Spirit then took me to Jesus, the Christ. That was the logical place to begin since Jesus is our example to follow.

I looked at Jesus. The Holy Spirit revealed some of the powers of Jesus to me. These are not just words, but powerful powers, which are here for us to utilize; Crucifixion (our cross experience), Resurrection (the renewing of our minds, our lives, our all), Descendsion (going down in the trenches to help someone), and Ascension (keeping our eyes on Jesus and doing the impossible; we feel great while doing it). These are only four of the Powers, which Jesus has brought to us for our use here on earth and in the spiritual realm. There are many more. There are also Powers of God and the Holy Spirit for us to use.

PURPOSE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Thursday, 17 February 2005

Owe no man nothing but love and peace.

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly."

PSALM 84:11 (KJV)

Enabling is unhealthy.  Sometimes in our lives, we get caught up in situations, which drain our energy, day in and day out. Typically, these situations involve a loved one, a family member and/or someone with whom we care deeply.

I am talking about relationships between an abusive person, a person who wants abuse or a person with an addictive personality trait and someone who is enabling them to continue in their behavior unabated. It may not be alcohol or drugs. It could be a mental illness, acting older or younger than your age, watching your sister get beat up year after year, watching your family member eat themselves into a diabetic coma, or your father smoke until his throat is raw and is coughing like a dog.

We, the supposedly unaffected person will watch this go on for days, which turn into months, which turn into years. If we are the people in the poor relationship, we endure it by justifying our behavior and their behavior with something called excuses. We look for validation of not only our behavior, but also the behavior of the person with whom we are inextricably connected. We justify not only behavior but also why we are connected and have been connected and must be connected to this person who is impacting us daily with negative energy, negative emotions and sometimes--physical energy.

It’s time to turn that thing around. I’m not saying go out and divorce your strip club wife, or turn your back on your invalid chain-smoking grandmother, or forget about your paranoid-schizophrenic brother. I am saying, “Handle your business!”  Get your house in order! Do not enable your family members to continue to take advantage of you—you are a child of God!

RECIPROCITY
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Friday, 18 February 2005

Viewing the pain in our lives as our cross, allows us to bear it; knowing how will come.

“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked."

PSALM 82:3, 4 (KJV)

Television-1. On the radio the other day, the announcer stated that children watch over 40,000 television commercials a year! That is astonishing! Can you imagine the impact those commercials are having on our children? Can you say, candy, ice cream, sex, short skirts, chocolate, sugar cereal, sex, beer, cars, attitude, and did I mention sex? Violence and more sex.

One of the most effective tools the enemies of God have against people is—television. If you or your children are watching individually or as a group over 14 hours of television a week, you are being subjected to a technological tool of the enemy. You may say, “Anthony you must be crazy.” Check this out.

Television has two main goals: 1) to take our focus, and 2) to program us. Television takes our focus off of God and off of each other. One lady told me she didn’t want to leave the television to attend to her guests. Electronic images are images; people are real. Do you spend more time with your television or with your spouse and children? Do you spend more time at church or in front of television? Which one do you think is having the biggest impact on your life? Millions of research dollars go into television productions to have the deepest and most effective affect on human psychology and physiology.

Television programs us by feeding us with electronic impulses of light (colors) and audio (sound) which puts us (our brains) into a pre-hypnotic state where we relax and receive that which is being sent to us. In essence we become receivers. We are being programmed to become receivers. We receive without thinking spiritually, logically or methodically. We just receive.

CHANGE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Saturday, 19 February 2005

When we are down, remember, God is always right there with us! Never fear God is here!

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth."

ISAIAH 40:26 (KJV)

Do we truly believe? Are we truly believers in God Almighty, or are we giving lip service to our belief? We must learn to live, act, speak and believe God is real; like God is a right-now and right-here God. We must not act like children acting up at home in anticipation of our parents coming home. “Ooohh… you in trouble now… I’m gonna tell mama!”

We must believe and believe that we believe. We must trust and know that God is in control. God is not a man that He would lie. If God promised that He would purpose a thing in your life then He will. If God in His Word (Bible) has promised you, I, and us, a thing, then we are to live and move in expectation of that promise happening. Be consistent in belief.

Do we really believe that there is an omnipresent God named Jehovah, or are we giving him shadow belief? We must serve God as though He is real and Jesus is real, and the Christ is real, and the ArchAngels are real, and the Angels are real. We must serve God like when our bodies die, we live on, not like it is the end of the world. It is not the end of the world when we die. Imagine living 120 years on earth, then living on to eternity in Heaven. Which is longer? You do the math.

God is always excited about where we are in our relationship with Him. Why, you may ask do you say that? God knows where we are going with Him, and He is pleased with our journey because He knows we are going to eventually make the choices/decisions to send us onto the path of His Victory.

HIS PRESENCE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Sunday, 20 February 2005 

Let others accentuate God in our lives. Bless others because we are blessed to be a blessing!

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”

PHILIPPIANS 4:6 (KJV)

Going through. Focus on the light at the end of the tunnel. Do not focus on the tunnel and whatever we find that is negative in the tunnel. How we handle our tunnel experience will generally determine how long we remain in it. Know this, how others around us handle our tunnel experience, directly impacts our tunnel experience. Our tunnel experiences impact one another.

Just because someone doesn’t look like they are not having a tunnel experience, doesn’t mean they are not having one. So be kind to them. We don’t know what the next person is going through. Pray always—not only for ourselves, but for others, especially for others and others who are going through a similar experience as we are going through or have been through.

When we were in high school, college, working on our doctorate, or working on some big project at work; we never thought it would end. We had some times during those experiences where we knew we could not make it. But guess what? It ended—or it will end if you are having one of those experiences now. It will end. It is not eternal. We are.

When we look positively towards the end of that situation which we are experiencing, imagining a good result and fruitful products of our efforts, then we experience hope. Hope is a multidimensional fruit of the Spirit. Like the enemies of God, they do not operate alone. Therefore, once we have Hope, look around. We will find Peace; perhaps Joy will come and others.

As children of the Almighty God, Yahweh, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, God, we have power to change the world in which we live and the world in which others live. Change the world! Change your world! Make a difference!

INFINITE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Monday, 21 February 2005

To whom much is forgiven, much is expected.

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

JOHN 15: 12, 13 (KJV)

The Christ-2. Dwell on this. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was and is Christ. Christ is a spiritual manifestation of God, which can embody people, i.e., “God in us…” In the spiritual hierarchy of the enemies of God, there is no such thing as an anti-Jesus, but there is the anti-Christ. The evil spirit of the anti-Christ has been sent to stop the wisdom of the Christ and to confound our knowledge of the Christ so we would not seek the Christ and not know that we have a divine weapon—the Christ.

Jesus is the human bridge for us to God. Jesus is our physical connection to God. With the Christ in Jesus, it completes the connection. The Christ is the spiritual connection to God. Therefore, Jesus Christ, i.e., Jesus, the Christ; Jesus, the Anointed One of God represents completion. Jesus being perfect, without sin, received the Christ. We live holy lives and Jesus does the rest. Jesus has made the way for us to receive the Christ with our imperfections, because He was made Perfection so we could have salvation, redemption and the Christ.

Paul said, in Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:” These words now take on a whole new meaning. Are you saying that I can receive the Christ? Indeed I am! Jesus is our example for receiving and living with the Christ indwelling. Jesus was a physical man who was not with God in the beginning; Christ was with God in the beginning. Jesus was a human whose lineage was prepared over time to prepare Jesus, (the man), to receive the Christ, (the spiritual embodiment of God) being sent to secure the victory of God’s human creation over the enemies of God in the universe. With Christ all things are possible.

EXPECTATION
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Tuesday, 22 February 2005

The higher we go; bigger the challenges, harder the solutions; easier for God to move with us.

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."

GALATIANS 6:10 (KJV)

Angels - 1. Dwell on this. Which day do you celebrate, hold, remember as being the Sabbath day? Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc., or none of these days? Have you ever wondered why no one really knows which day is the Sabbath, Sunday? Have you ever thought about which month is March? Is this year 2005?

It is said that there are nine choirs of Angels. There are millions of Angels in each choir. The Guardian Angels are not in the nine choirs. Each of us has at least one Guardian Angel, which we should be calling upon. All the Angels are at our beck and call, so remember to call them into your personal battle. Speak to them. They can hear you and they will respond. Have them walk with you and walk before you and to watch over you and your family members. Ask the Angels to pray with you also.

There are Angels dedicated to protecting humans at Daylight, there are Governing Angels, ArchAngels, and Angels which are dedicated to serve specific days, specific months, etc. The enemies of God do not want us to call on them with specificity because that is so powerful; victory comes when asking specific Angels on specific days in specific months for specific things.

Governing Angels for the months: January—Gabriel, February—Barchiel, March—Machidiel, April—Asmodel, May—Ambriel, June—Muriel, July—Verchiel, August—Hamaliel, September—Uriel, October—Barbiel, November—Adnachiel, December—Hanael. Call on these angels who are ArchAngels or higher, using Jesus, the Christ as our bridge to the Father. Using the Angels will surely make Jesus happy! Using the Angels will make them happy! This key works!

SPECIFICITY
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Wednesday, 23 February 2005

We are the extensions of God’s Hands in the universe. Let God’s hand help someone in need.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever thing are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

PHILIPPIANS 4:8 (KJV)

Dirt – 4. Here are a couple of keys to the Kingdom. I just want to say first that I really love you all! God in me has positioned me to share His Wisdom with you. Be blessed!

Nikola Dimitrov, a Bible teacher from Bulgaria, who is destined to be a pastor said this in an upcoming booklet, “The Lord has a purpose for every person that has ever been born in this Earth.” When our mothers carried us as babies we were in “Earth.” The mother, the woman is the Earth in which we reside until birth and then we touch the Earth. When we die and return to the Earth, we complete the cycle. The Earth is a power source. Sidewalks, asphalt, bricks and other things are covering the earth so that you and I cannot touch it. Think about it.

As Christians, we know that we believe that we are made from clay, which is a form of dirt. We are dirt, trees, plants are dirt (they come out of dirt), our houses are dirt, our cars are made from metals, which are forms of dirt, plastics are derivatives of dirt and water, which is manipulated. Our world is a world of manipulated dirt, earth; earth, wind, fire and water.

Here is a key. When the Jesus says in Matthew 18:18, “whatsoever you bind on earth…,” this means for us to stand on the earth and bind that thing up. Jesus said in Matthew 18:19, “That if two of you shall agree on earth,…” this means stand on the earth! Do the action on the earth! I told my wife this and she said, “Oh that is why the old tent revivals (and third world revivals now) were so powerful, they were held on the earth.”

EMPOWERED
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Thursday, 24 February 2005

Don’t run from your problems and your mistakes; run to them. Run towards resolution.

“I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations."

PSALM 89:1 (KJV)

Spiritual Enabling-1. Enabling is when we see a behavior, which needs to be corrected and we do not correct it. We allow the behavior, i.e., drunkenness, staying out late, running red lights, gossiping, fornication, you know what I am talking about, stealing, etc. We watch the behavior in our family members, neighborhood friends, our church folk friends, in our work friends, our school friends, or our recreation friends.

We look at the behavior and do nothing to prevent, discuss, or take a positive action to create a change in that person(s). We watch them move down the path to their own destruction. This may go on for years. We watch as they self-destruct and we enable them because we don’t want to anger them, don’t want to lose them as our friends, or perhaps we got tired of praying for them and trying to talk them out of their folly.

Spiritual enabling is when our prayers attempt to change or conflict with the Lord’s answering of our prayers concerning the person(s). Typically, there is pain, suffering and anguish as the answer comes. The answer removes negative character attributes; moving people closer to God. As the Lord answers our prayers it doesn’t look like we expect. When our friends and loved ones are moved into the refining fire of God, we must pray them through; not pray them out! Matthew 3:11 says one comes who “shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.” Don’t pray that the situation, which is bringing the enabled person into the bosom of God to stop or change; but pray “Your Will be done.” Not our will or the person’s will, or what we think or what we want to happen, but God’s Will be done!

ACCOUNTABILITY
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Friday, 25 February 2005

Don’t let others, friends or not, or the enemies of God, limit our experiences with God in our lives.

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

MATTHEW 7:7 (KJV)

The Christ – 3. Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” What if you put the two together?! Here they are. Imagine in your knower, in your brain, in your mind, in your soul a hundred Jesuses in America. Imagine a thousand Jesuses in Africa. Imagine ten thousand Jesuses in eastern Europe, a million in China, two billion on planet earth.

Jesus said, the things He did and more we shall do. (John 14:12) How do you think that is going to happen? God is not a man that He would lie. (Numbers 23:19) Jesus came that we might have life eternal. Jesus came that we would have victory over the enemies of God whose onslaughts/attacks are unrelenting.

Jesus was without sin. Jesus received the inhabitation of the Christ indwelling. Jesus lived the life and walked the path of life so that we could receive the Holy Spirit which would solidify our efforts to be like Jesus and receive the full manifestation of the Christ; the Christ indwelling as the Holy Spirit can and should indwell. That is why the Bible says “be ye holy, for I am holy.” We must live holy lives so we can move to the next spiritual level to obtain the Holy Spirit (moving in and out of us), then the Holy Spirit indwelling, then the Christ (moving in and out of us), then the Christ indwelling.

The Christ in us is the hope of glory; the Christ in us is the hope for the salvation of all mankind. Now, imagine two billion Christs, doing miracles and healing people, moving on the planet making an incredible difference. That’s you and I; living, walking talking like Jesus, with the Christ indwelling.

VICTORY
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Saturday, 26 February 2005

Service to humanity is service to God’s children. But you must have faith and believe, that God is!

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

2 PETER 3:9 (KJV)

Believe God exits. God is real! It is time that we act like He is real. It is time that we speak like He is real. God watches everything we do. God hears everything we say, even our whispers. God knows what we think. (He is omniscient.) God is always present. (He is omnipresent.) God can do things, which we only imagine can happen in movies. God is more powerful than the God in the movie “Bruce Almighty.”

If God is real, then His Heavenly Family is real. And you will say, “I know that.” Then why don’t you act like it? When was the last time you said, “Good morning,” to the ArchAngels, the Angels, the Prophets, the Apostles? They are all alive you know. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8) Talk to them, they won’t bite!

Call upon them for conversation when you are lonely; call upon them when you are in need. Speak to them in the morning when you get up and at night when you go to bed. Don’t forget about Mother Mary and Father Joseph, Mother Eve and Father Adam, or Father Abraham, or King David, or Elijah, Elisha, Joseph, Isaac, Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ruth, Esther. They, my friends are all alive! They are alive and with Christ!

Imagine standing where you are right now and looking in every direction and all you can see are Angels. As far as the eye can see, Angels. Why Angels? Because you have been praying to God for Angels to watch over you, your children and your family. Guess what? They are watching over you! They exist. They are real. Now call them into action if you have not!

SERVICE
 

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

Sunday, 27 February 2005

How deep does our disobedience go?

“and all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. "

DEUTERONOMY 28: 2, 3 (KJV)

Spiritual Manipulation - 1. My wife and I were talking about why some children (or people) find that they need to manipulate others. She had some keen insight. She said, “When children are in a family where the parents are not willingly giving the children what they need, then the children begin to find ways (manipulation) to get what they need. Once they find that what they are doing (manipulation) is getting them what they need (and what they want, even if they don’t need it), they continue that behavior and build on that behavior because their behavior is working for them in their world. Their behavior is getting the parent to do that which the child needs, desires or believes that she/he needs.”  Generally speaking, children try to get the parents to do what the parents should already be doing as good parents or guardians.

If we as parents will take our eyes out of the television and out of other people’s business and focus on our children, then they will not have to use manipulation to get from us what they need physically, mentally, and spiritually. Our children will not have to turn to drugs, peers, poor behavior, acting out, bad grades, promiscuous behavior to get our attention and to get what they truly need and what they believe they need from other people—acceptance, attention, kind conversation, discipline and love.

In church, if Pastors, Apostles, Bishops, etc., are not giving the congregation and the members what they need, want or believe they should be getting, there will be behavior and conversation contrary to God’s Word. In all bodies, whether it is a church or family, the rest of the body follows the head. If the body is sick, i.e., your children, congregation, or employees, examine yourself first before you pull the plank out of their eyes.

EVALUATION

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James Anthony Allen, Evangelist
eBlessings.us  Founder
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States of America
Email: anthony@eblessings.us

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Monday, 28 February 2005

Lord help me to know that you are here even when the times are tough.

THE VINE IS DRIED UP AND THE FIG TREE IS WITHERED; THE POMEGRANATE, THE PALM AND THE APPLE TREE-ALL THE TREES OF THE FIELD-ARE DRIED UP. SURELY THE JOY OF MANKIND IS WITHERED AWAY.

JOEL 1:12 (NIV)

Many Christians believe that they have to be HAPPY all the time. In one sense this is true, for Christian joy should not be dependent on favorable circumstances. In another sense, however, you should not ignore the harsh realities of life and pretend that everything in the world is wonderful when clearly it is not.

The prophets of the Old Testament discerned the root cause of the problems when other people were confidently, but ignorantly, saying that all was well. All is not always well. As Joel says, there are times when the vine does dry up and the fig tree withers.

There are times for us as well, when nature seems to be out of joint. Rains fail to come when they are needed and there is drought. Then again, too much falls and there are floods. Economic turmoil leads to high interest rates, inflation soars, or whole industries are forced to close for whatever the reasons.

The difference then is that faith does not panic. You ask what God is showing you, what He is teaching you and where He is leading you. You acknowledge that you need to trust Him when the going is rough, perhaps even more than when it is smooth. Jesus did not abandon His faith when the cross loomed before Him. He endured it, for God’s greater glory, and the world’s salvation.

FAITH

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Bishop Gift Ramabulana
Tower of Grace Worship Centre

East London, South Africa, Africa

Telephone: +27 82 255 7639 or +2743 781 8149
Email: towerofgrace2000@yahoo.com

Demands of Grace are higher than the demands of the law.

Each One! Bless One!