Wednesday, July 28, 2021

“Your Sword, Sir”

“Your Sword, Sir” by Dr. D. James Kennedy

"I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice …" Romans 12:1
When the Revolutionary War was over, the British general came to surrender to Washington. The general began to praise Washington for his leading of his troops (a much smaller army than that of the British), the tactics that he had employed, and the incredible things that had been done, which amazed even him. In the midst of the praise, Washington interrupted him and said, “Your sword, sir.”
It is not for us to begin to praise God until first we have surrendered ourselves and our sword to Christ. This is the army of the conquered—those that have been conquered by Christ.
When our hearts have been won and our wills have been taken over by Christ, when the sword of our rebellion is knocked from our hands and we are brought to the ground, only then will we abandon all lesser goals and all lesser aims, and give ourselves over to the highest and the best. Those who are most thoroughly surrendered to Him are the greatest trophies of grace and will have the greatest victories.
Our will was created good, but in Adam’s fall, the will of man became rebellious and self-serving. Only when our will is submitted to God are we free again to offer ourselves as our spiritual worship.

Warring in the Heavens!

 Warring in the Heavens! by Jennifer LeClair

Internationally recognized prophet, Jennifer LeClair, emailed me the other day. She was
concerned about a number of reports globally of assassination attempts against leaders of
nations. One, she said, had been successful.
This is even more concerning since the Lord warned me in 2019 of a spirit of violence being
poured out in the earth. Many of you prayed against that when we put it out. Then, this year,
Jennifer received a more specific word which she shares below.
Please take this very seriously. This is not an attack happening against a few small nations. It is a global attack and is much more concerning. There are prayer points below to help you with your intercession.
Here is Jennifer's warning:
Murder and Attempted Assassinations in Government Rising
In April 2021, the Lord told me we are going to see mysterious deaths and attempted
assassinations, kidnapping, and other events like we see in the movies.
Since June, this word is, unfortunately, manifesting in five assassination attempts of government leaders—one of which was successful.
Within the next three years, a major figure in politics will see an untimely death and suspicion
will surround it—unless we can stand in the gap and push it back.
Unfortunately, we’re already seeing this prophecy manifest and we need to lift our shields
higher. President Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7. [He was the president of Haiti.]
Colombia’s President Iván Duque’s helicopter came under fire in late June—a direct attack on his presidential aircraft. The president said the “cowardly” attack would not make him stop fighting drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime.
Just three days ago, a plot was exposed to assassinate Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina.
Attorney General Berthine Razafiarivony said on Thursday the arrests took place on Tuesday as
part of an investigation “into an attack on state security.”
On July 20, Malian interim president Colonel Assimi Goita survived an assassination attempt at
a mosque in Bamako on Tuesday, in the latest blow to stability in a country reeling from two
military coups in less than a year, according to Agence France-Presse.
On June 28, two suspects were charged with murder and attempted murder on Monday over an assassination attempt on a Ugandan government minister in which the minister was
wounded and his daughter and driver were killed.
I believe the enemy is testing the waters in smaller nations, but there is a larger plan rolling out behind the scenes. The enemy wants to rock governments by taking out leaders.
Cindy Jacobs prophesied in 2019 about the spirit of violence that was raging in the earth.
We’ve seen that, but now politics is the target because the enemy is trying to destabilize nations by targeting the governmental mountain. Specifically, the enemy is trying to manifest according to Daniel 7:25, “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”
We’ll see more violence in America and other nations surrounding elections. We need to pray
and shut down activities some outlets are reporting in August. What we saw at the U.S. Capitol in January was a foreshadowing of how the enemy wants to stir up violence. Again, we need to
pray. I believe we can bind the attacks if we stay on the wall.
In this hour, we need governmental intercessors, not political intercessors. We have to lay down our biases and political preferences and pray without ceasing over the governments in our nations. The government of the earth really takes place in the prayer room. God has given us authority to rule and reign with Him as kings on this earth.
Here are Cindy’s prayer points she originally put out when she prophesied about the spirit of
violence. Let’s pray.
• Repent on behalf of the violent sins in our nation, past and present.
• Plead the blood of Jesus over the nation.
• Decree based on Isaiah 60:18, “Violence shall no longer be heard in our land,
neither wasting nor destruction within our borders; but we shall call our walls
Salvation, and our gates Praise.”
• Decree based on Psalm 72:14, “God will redeem our life from oppression and violence;
and precious shall be our blood in His sight.”
• Pray according to Ezekiel 7:23, “Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes
and the city is full of violence.”
• Pray according to Psalm 18:48: “He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift
me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.”
• Pray according to Psalm 55:9, “Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen
violence and strife in the city.”
• Pray according to Matthew 16:19, using the keys of the kingdom to forbid the operation of
the spirit of violence.
• Pray according to 2 Timothy 1:7 to break the power of fear, because God did not give us a
spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.
• Pray according to Luke 8:17 for the exposure, disbandment, and destruction of networks—
both human and demonic—of violence in the earth
• Of course, pray for those who are grieving the loss of loved ones.
And here are some of my prayer points:
• Pray that attempts to assassinate government officials are thwarted, but no plan of God’s
in the nations will be thwarted (see Job 42:2).
• Pray for the safety of government officials around the world (1 Timothy 2:1-3).
• Pray to expose assassination plots and plans of the enemy in governments.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Thoughts on Today's Verse

 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." — Matthew 7:3-5

Thoughts on Today's Verse by Phil Ware
Finding fault in someone else is so easy for most of us. Finding fault in ourselves is much trickier. Jesus reminds us that we must deal with the shortcomings and sins in our own lives before we start telling others how to live. Seems pretty simple, doesn't it? But we all know it isn't.

Turned Down Job Offers

 A new poll indicates that 1.8 million Americans have turned down job offers in order to stay on unemployment insurance.

Morning Consult surveyed 463 out-of-work American adults at the end of June. 13% — roughly one in eight — said that they had refused job offers while unemployed because they “receive enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work.”
Others said that child care obligations, worries over COVID-19, and a lack of job flexibility limited their willingness to take new positions.

Hell Will Be Filled

 


May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Hell will be filled with people who didn't drink, didn't cuss and may have even been baptized. Why? Because not one of those things make someone a Christian. VODDIE BAUCHAM @SWORDANDSOLAS'

Wokeism and Oppression

Wokeism and Oppression by Bill Wilson

Opposing voter integrity investigations and blocking public release of a report on the origins of the COVID 19 virus are two of the latest torches picked up by the woke Democratic Party leadership. What are they trying to hide? A lot of speculation can go into answering that question—all the way from wild-eyed crazy conspiracy theories presented as fact to would-be brainwashed disciples on both fringes of the political spectrum to those who are earnestly trying to seek the truth in order to make reasonable and legitimate plans for living their lives. But the bottom line is that Democrats are suppressing truth and Republicans are so weak-kneed about prodding the woke, that they are ineffective opposition.
Under the guise of Republican voter suppression and raising the specter of the racist Jim Crow laws, the Democratic party is in full gear suppressing the truth about voter integrity. At every juncture, either through political maneuvers or using the court systems, Democrats in key states like Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin have done their level best to thwart efforts to improve voter integrity—not only by suppressing investigations into allegations of fraud, but also to block new laws to prevent cheating. All the while, they are screaming racism and Jim Crow. Democrats invented Jim Crow laws that oppressed black people for over 100 years after the Civil War. Now they projecting them onto the very people who are trying to ensure voter freedom and prevent breeches in election integrity.
The Democrats have led yet another attempt to lockdown information about the origins of COVID 19. In May, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to declassify intelligence on the origins of COVID 19 and the Chinese coverup. On July 20, 216 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to block making the information available to the public. And what about the Biden Justice Department deciding not to investigate those governors that sent COVID-infected people to nursing homes resulting in the deaths of thousands of elderly? It just so happens that the governors of those states—New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey–are Democrats. Question: What are they trying to hide? Answer: These are tactics employed by communists when they are trying to take over a country.
President Trump is being ridiculed by the press for pointing this out in a recent speech. He said, “We are at the beginning of a communist system. Radicals are seizing power and destroying everything we hold dear as Americans and it’s happening.” He added that the left is trying to “dismantle the rule of law, censor speech, take over the free press, imprison political opponents.” In a land where people claim to be woke, they are slumbering when it comes to preserving freedom. Wake up!!! Marxism (communism) is the absence of freedom and social justice. The First Commandment says “Thou shalt not have any other God’s before me.” Communism replaces God with government. It’s a horror show that has ended millions of lives, and it’s coming to us on a daily basis from the left. Stand with God or fall for the devil. It’s very clear.

Jesus, My Dear Friend

 

Faith—He’s My Friend     by Harvey Kiekover

Scripture Reading: John 15:9-17

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for his friends.”     John 15:13

For eight months a resident of the nursing home was in hospice care—far longer than she was expected to last. Her family felt the uneasy tension of praying that the end they didn’t want to come would come soon.

It was my privilege to visit her often. She wouldn’t always ­notice that I had come into the room, but as I sat with her and gently touched her arm, she would open her eyes, and her face would take on a knowing look.

She was very weak, and when she spoke, it was a feeble whisper. I knew she had been a singer, so I asked if she had a favorite song. It took some patient listening, but I was rewarded by a thin voice rasping, “Jesus Is All the World to Me.” I tentatively began to sing along. She led me through the whole first stanza:

“Jesus is all the world to me,/ my life, my joy, my all;/ he is my strength from day to day,/ without him I would fall./ When I am sad, to him I go,/ no other one can cheer me so;/ when I am sad, he makes me glad;/ he’s my Friend.”

As I left her room, grateful tears filled my eyes. My heart said, “That’s the way to be nearing death—knowing, having such a friend.”

Jesus, her friend, loved her—enough to lay down his life for her! Her loving response? “I know this: I love my dear friend, Jesus.”

Do you know this too?

Thank you, Jesus, for being the friend who is all the world to us. We love you. Amen.