For His Glory

In a perfect world pain and death do not exist.

In a perfect world, people love without hate, and the living live forever.

In a perfect world, people are never angry, the only emotion that exist is love itself, and it stands alone, shining bright as the sun.

In a perfect world, people are kind, always humble, and helping their neighbors, and never at war within themselves, or with anyone else.

In a perfect world, people serve Christ, and him alone do they serve. (I’m not one sided, every aspect and characteristic of a perfect world that I have described above is listed in the bible.)

Revelations 21:4 :  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away,

Now, do me a favor and take the image of a perfect world that I’ve just painted you, and shatter it. Take the largest gavel you can find– one like a judge’s gavel and shatter your perfect image of a perfect world. —

Romans 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Let me paint you another picture, like an artist with a canvas, so are my hands for the potter, I’m not really sure where this is going, let come what may come. —

The world we now live in is depicted in Roman’s 5:16–

Judgement and condemnation came into the world, through sin, when Eve fell for the lies of Satan. But Grace, and Mercy came back into the world though Jesus, when he died on the Cross on Calvary.

This world we live in isn’t going to get any better. It’s going to get worse and worse, and that alone should be a wakeup call to people. Instead, people are seeing the world get worse and worse, and somehow, they’re fueled to live harder, faster, and more disastrous. People are fueled by the phrases “You only live once,” and “Live fast, Die faster.”

Truth is, nobody wants Jesus anymore. Because of social media, and false doctrine, and this world of cultural systematic standard that says “Believe whatever you want to believe, and if anyone opposes, we’ll call it Hate” the world is going to hell in a handbag. Satan has the world in a pouch just like Judas had the coins in his hands, and he’s carrying it away to hell.

We the Church are allowing it to happen. — OUCH! Oh, my teeth gritted on that one. Wow. Ok God, get your message out. My intentions for writing this morning were to write about my grandma, and me bargaining God for her well-being, this does not sound like a please spare my grandma blog. –Breathe in and breathe out. — Eyes wide open, just let it flow.

The Church – I myself, included, and you too, if you profess to know and be a part of the living, fire breathing, truth speaking crowd, are allowing Satan to take our families, loved, ones, strangers, and all those who he can with him to back to the pits of hell.

What’s it going to take to get them back?

BOLDNESS, TRUELY BELIEVING, FAITH, & REFUSING TO TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER!

When we are bold, we are willing to take the risk, no matter the consequence. As believers in Christ, we have to be willing to take the risk. Think about the apostles; they done what Jesus told them to do, even after his death, and then after Pentecost, being filled with the Holy Ghost and Fire, they done whatever the spirit told them to do, and they knew Jesus had their back, even if it costed them their lives. They didn’t count their lives dear to them. See, we as humans count our lives too dear to us. It’s one thing to never want to die, (no one wants to die.) But it’s another to be so coward, – (ouch Jesus that’s harsh), that we refuse to do what Jesus is telling us to do, because we are simply afraid of who it may offend, or what’s going to happen to us, or our loved ones. We are to love Christ more than we love anyone, and to know the difference in the spirit leading us, how do we know, we get into his word. We dig in and we pray, and we ask for directions, we trust him to lead us and guide, us, and we live with the mind state that Jesus had when he was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane “Father, not my will, but thy Will.”, You see, when he was up against the world, just like we as the Christian nation are, He prayed, “Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” -Luke 22:42 It’s not our will, but the will of the Father’s that we are to seek, especially in the days that we are living in, unless we just want to throw the lost in the pits of hell and leave them there. Our mission is simple, and it was stated in the great commission, Mark 16:15-18-¹⁵ And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.¹⁶ He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.¹⁷ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;¹⁸ They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover,-– We are to go after the lost, and show them the love of Christ, even if it means delivering harsh messages sometimes, and know that he who loves us and gave himself for a ransom for us, is very near at all times, and until it’s time for us to go on to be with him, no devil in hell can make that happen. Remember faith over fear.

To truly believe, means to believe without any seeds of doubt being able to come and uproot your belief and what you stand for. It means to stand when the world is shaking you, it means to be still, and know that God is working out all things for your good even when you can’t see any progress from your end. It means to not budge, when everything is shaking and you’re the only one that is standing. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s so easy to believe for others, just like praying for others is easier, but how much do we believe for ourselves? How much do we as individuals believe that Jesus moves through and for us upon our own individual needs and behalf? It’s hard isn’t it, when you see everyone around you getting blessed, and you’re thinking when God me, when Jesus is it going to be my turn? It almost down right sucks, when your trials and tribulations keep rolling in like the waves on an ocean, and other people get pricked by a thorn or two, and then land the biggest blessing of their lives, and they keep on praising Jesus. It kind of makes us think, what am I Jesus, chopped liver?” But that isn’t the case. See the trying of our faith, it more precious than that of silver or gold, and the bible tells us many are the afflictions of the righteous, not just a few afflictions, but many. We don’t know the struggles that perfect person is going through behind closed doors. We are not to compare ourselves to others, we are only to truly believe without wavering.

Faith- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen for if we hope for the things we see, then its not faith. I can say I have faith in what I see, but scripture tells me that faith is the evidence of things not seen. Our faith is what we are hoping for and what we are standing on, even when the world is pushing us to conform to their system. Faith is believing the impossible is possible, even when the storm is saying otherwise. Faith is believing the impossible is still going to happen, even when the world is saying it’s not going to happen. Faith is knowing God can, and God will. How strong is your faith? When you pray for someone, often we pray please lord, instead of I know you will lord. When pray we are to pray and believe that whatsoever, we believe and ask according to Gods will is going to happen.

Now, when your boldness, belief and faith start growing, the devil is going to start throwing bigger stones and bigger darts, and you better be prepared to fight. You better be prepared to fight for your life and for the lives of your family. You better be prepared to fight the good fight, knowing Jesus is with you, for you, and that he’s not against you. You better be prepared to stand and take your place for Jesus, because he took a stand for you when he was beaten without recognition, nailed to your cross, and hoisted above the earth, where the spear was shoved into his side after he was dead, and the blood and water then became mixed.

I SAY STAND.

STAND LIKE DAVID,

STAND LIKE A WARRIOR

STAND IN THE ARMOUR OF THE LIVING GOD

AND KNOW YOUR REDEEMER DRAWETH NIGH.

THE HARVEST IS COMING, THE HARVEST IS PLENTY, BUT THE LABORORS ARE FEW.

❤ I love you.

❤ Jesus loves you most

❤ Christie

christie7373@halfwayhomeministries.com