Turning on his own People?

 The weakness of paranoid Power!

What is happening today across the U.S. reveals the same paranoid mind of the U.S. President and King Herod, who ordered the death of children up to two years old and babies all being boys, because he feared Jesus would replace his power on the throne.

Many have since followed this example, all starting with a righteousness and then falling into darker sins of infanticide and murder of certain groups of people that they feel are a threat to their power base?

God sees Pharaoh a King kept for destruction, because he hated Gods chosen people, Haman the Babylonian who thought he was smart and ended up hanging from his own scaffold that he built for Mordecai, because he refused to bow to him!

In the last one-hundred years many tyrants have died in a hole in the ground, when their madness over took them and blinded them from the truth, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi and more are to follow, dying in holes in the ground if not this current administration in the U.S., Ukraine and Europe including the U.K.

Matthew 2:13-18, Jeremiah 31:15, Genesis 12:15, Exodus 1:8-22, Esther 3:5, 7:7, 1 Corinthians 1:25.

MANIA!

 Fear of loosing Power?

The Christmas story has so much blessing and hope in it, yet it also has horror in relation to the wise men from the east visiting the Kings palace in Jerusalem to meet the Messiah and the Savior of the Gentiles!

King Herod, who was only a proxy King in name and a vessel of the Roman occupation was in fear that another line of the David family was going to take his throne and he was infuriated when the three kings did not return to the palace!

Jesus and His earthly mother and father had to flee to Egypt as Herod ordered the massacre of all male children from baby to two years old in Israel.

Today we are experiencing a transition of power in the U.S. that is not nice and the President Biden is proving to be no better than Trump, each clinging on to power and maybe with Trump in four years time the situation now in S-Korea will be playing out in the U.S.?

Luke 1:68-72, 2:1-15, Acts 13:23, 32-33, 38, Hebrews 9:25-28, Revelation 7:17.

The Joy of the Lord?

 To Have!

To believe in the death, resurrection and promised return of the Lord is one thing, but to follow Jesus is another?

To imitate, to apply Jesus actions everyday in our lives is hard and that is perhaps why many people who claim faith are unhappy, since they live as the world?

We were purchased at a heavy price and it is sad to see that many fail at this essential and simple hurdle or that they abuse the power they have been invested with!

Matthew/Levi 25:21-23,  1 Thessalonians 1:6,  Philemon 1:20.

4 Weeks to Christmas!

Preparations?

Are we once more ready for the season and all that comes with it?

In some countries its a one day event, midnight service, followed by a meal and for others its last over a week, rather than a few days.

Today the holidays are getting more and more commercial, with more emphasis on gifts the latest wear and the must have tech?

But Christmas is much more than presents, its about Jesus coming to save a lost world! Jesus was born of a Virgin, this is very important to show us the power of God at work in humanity!

One hopes this year to take a new look at the old story and to see it from differing angles, but retain the essential truths that are important to us believers and to the lost world that many of us will have to face head on with unbelieving relatives and friends?

Numbers 7:12,   Matthew/Levi 2:11.

Addictions! Two.

Possession?

What is this and what does it mean?

When we allow something to control us outside that of the Power of the Holy Spirit, it is demonic and this is were we are snared and caught not able or wanting to escape!

The world is blind in the first place and is deluded into believing that what they are doing is fine, but if we who believe choose this way we may be in danger of loosing our salvation!

Hebrews 4:12,  Psalm 9:16,  Proverbs 6:2,  Romans 3:23, 6;23,  1 Timothy 4:1-5,  James 3:13-14.

PENTECOST!

For Believers Only!

This is the truth, it is only we who know that Jesus has forgiven and forgotten our past sins are given this power of the Holy Spirit to comfort and help us walk with God!

The world can claim many things, as it does along with its false teachers even in the Christian Churches? They push homosexuality today, while they hide their paedophilia? Dishonesty, theft, and the breaking of many rights for their own financial gains all done in the name of God!

But we are beyond that, by choice and because of what Jesus has done for us we desire now to please Him and see others come to the truth that we know!

Isaiah 53:12,  Luke 16:15,  John 16:7,  Acts chapter 2,  Romans 8:34,  Ephesians 3:14-19.

Christmas Miracles. One.

Virgin Birth!

Even today many believers cannot fathom the virgin birth of Jesus and they find all the worldly excuses of a child born outside of wedlock? This is a sad situation and probably explains why Christianity is in active in many parts of the western world?

Jesus was promised by God's Prophets for thousands of years and Mary was chosen by God, because of her and Josephs linage. It is hard to understand, but the Holy Spirit entered her womb and Jesus was conceived, but Mary remained untouched as in normal sexual relations!

The Holy Spirit today lives within each believer, empowering them to witness our faith and to serve in many ways! Our New Life is more than singing songs and praising the Lord, its about getting our hands dirty and getting out of ones comfort zone?

Psalm 2:7, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1;23,  Luke 1:27-28, 33, 35, John 1:49, 20:31, Acts 3:13, 26, Galatians 2:20.

Sinning. Part-Two.

Lead us not into Temptation.

Jesus said, 'That it was not what we eat makes us dirty, but what is conceived in the human heart!'

Satan/The Devil knows all about us, since it was He who deceived our mutual grandmother Eve in the Garden of Eden so long ago! He knows that sin binds us to wants, food, pleasure, lust, power, money, all the weaknesses of the human nature.

Jesus was no exception to being attacked by His arch enemy Satan, when He was tempted out in the desert! But Jesus leaves us this example and knowledge along with that bases of prayers to build upon, that we can stand up to His evil devices and his various agents who seek if we are believers to lead us astray?

Genesis 3:1-5, Matthew 4:1-18, 6:13, Mark 7:15-20, Luke 11:4, 2 Corinthians 11:14, James 5:7, 17.

The ball is Rolling. Part-One.

Trumps Vision Fulfilled.

Don't say you were not warned?

It is sad when people in despair fall into the revenge trap, thinking their actions will get results. The murder now of eight U.S. Police men in two major 'Black Power' attacks and 29 having died this year, will give the oppertunity for Donald Trump the excuse to possible wipe out the comminity?

Tyrants like to play the ticket of doing what is right, getting the problem sorted? Even when they tell a pack of lies to fool the conservative of any society. In the Bible we see such a proud loyal man as Haman, who sought to destroy one group of people in the Babylonian nation out of sheer jealousy.

Esther 3:1-2, Psalm 12:8, Proverbs 29:2, Phillipians 2:10.

'Wicked. Part-One.

Devil, Evil and Satan.

Lots of people say that they don't believe in God, but they also think the Devil is another Christian myth. Yet many have chosen to follow the way of wickedness, because it gives them money, sex and power.

Matthew 4:10,  Ephesians 6:11,  Revelation 12:9.

They are surrounded by wealth, but they are really in poverty and some know it but they dont know how to get out of the cycle of being trapped.

Jesus said, 'I Am the Light of the world.  John 8:12,  12:46.

This is the first step to getting free for good.

STAMINA. Part-One.

Have you got it?

What is stamina? It is staying power, the ability to keep going and that can be in anything or everything. Another definition for stamina is endurance, to push or press on.

The bible to uses many different words in relation to the cost of being a follower of Jesus, abide, hardship, patience, bearing up, suffering, long suffering, tarry, strengthened and encouraged to go on.

Who says of ever thinks that being a Christian is for wimps or weaklings, those who are bullies, thugs and trouble makers. Now we see who is really weak emotionally and strong mentally!

1 Chronicles 16:11,  Job 17:9,  Psalms 73:24, Proverbs 4:18-20, Matthew 24:13, Mark 13:13, Luke 10:42,  John 15:4-5.

Oppression. Part-One.

We have the Power!

If you are a born-again or converted believer, you will have the Power of the Holy Spirit inside you. The world cannot have this power that god has given to us, this power is a passion that burns within us to keep doing the right things, to be honest and fare to all.

This power helps us to forgive those who give us a hard time, persecute and think they can oppress us? This Spirit of God is our friend, when we have failed and are weak, he comes to us and points the way back to Jesus again.

Romans 5:1-6, Psalm 22:4-5.

'Think Your Big?

Unwise People.

There are lots of people who think they are big, important, scary. 

They have the cars, the money the woman and men.

But God lets them know in His many ways if they come up to Him they ain't going any futher.

Our God does not allow the evil people to continue day after day, they have their times and that is it.

Proverbs 21:30,  Isaiah 22:7,  37:34.