TRUTH or CONSEQUENCES

A couple of weeks ago our new School of Ministry Director, Kent,  preached on a Sunday morning.  He shared about Jesus sharing with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, after His resurrection.  They were kept from recognizing Him until he took bread, gave thanks and broke it for them.  Then their eyes were opened to see Him in the supernatural.  As a prophetic act, we all broke off a piece of bread after Kent had given thanks for it, while we sought God to have our eyes opened to see into His realm.  As we left church, this angel was seen in the clouds!  About 30 people saw him and one took this picture. You may be a bit skeptical, but we absolutely believe that  God himself put this Angel in the cloud there to encourage us!  Also, if you look above the trees you will notice two more standing beside this one!  Absolutely amazing!  You see, there have been prophetic words over Brevard county that An...

Maturity... A process of becoming fully developed, of growing up. We mature in different areas of our lives.  We mature physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually. We all know people who mature in one area, but struggle in other areas to grow up. Maturity also applies to many things in nature.  For instance we talk about fruit becoming ripe, or fully mature.  Of fully aged cheese or wine.  I looked up the wine maturing process and found something very interesting.  Wine is mature when its components no longer stand out as isolated entities.  With maturity comes integration and harmony,  It is when the flavors and components have coalesced, or grown together and become seamless.  That made me think about my walk with Jesus.  In Christianity, maturity is to complete the process of growth, showing the characteristics of Jesus in our lives. My life is meant to become intertwined with His to such a deg...

Romans 8: 11 says..." The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you." There is power in that statement! Sometimes I just have to stop and think about this verse.  The Father put His Holy Spirit inside of me and that Spirit is ALL POWERFUL, for it is God in me!  It is the same Spirit that Jesus depended on while He walked the earth.  The Spirit descended from Heaven upon Jesus when He was baptized in the Jordan River.  The Spirit led Him, filled Him, empowered Him, taught Him, anointed Him and so much more.  That same Spirit now dwells in me!  He wants to do exactly for me what He did for Jesus.  As He fills me, I have the most dynamic power on the earth living inside of me.  I am meant to have the same influence over people's lives that Jesus had!  The problem is that I can't quite see mysel...

To suffer...to experience pain, illness, or injury; : to experience something unpleasant (such as defeat, loss, or damage) : to become worse because of being badly affected by something This is not a word that any of us would like to be a regular part of our vocabulary!  As a Christian, I want to walk in the VICTORY of the cross and be enabled to overcome everything, in every way.  I don't want to accept pain, illness or injury, because I know the word says... "BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED."  I totally believe that Jesus healed ALL who came to Him.  I believe that God is a good, good Father and He cares totally about my well being.  He does not put sickness on me or cause me to be injured because He loves me! God is good!  The devil is bad! So when I experience something unpleasant it is from my own choices or the enemy trying to discourage or defeat me.  The scripture does say that he prowls around like a roa...

I read this question this morning in a book I am reading, "What can I accomplish on His behalf now that I have permission to live as though I'd never sinned?"  What a great thing our Father has gifted us with!  He now looks at me, and treats me, as if I've never sinned.  A clean slate!  Does that mean that I now can live anyway I want and keep on sinning?  Absolutely not!  What it should say to me is I have received the greatest gift in the world and I need to treat it as the most precious thing in the world.  When you love someone, you treat them with love and respect, offering them your best foot forward.  So how much more should I want to please Father God, who has given so much for me. If I continue to deliberately live in sin, keep embracing it and do what I want to do, I need to question if I really stepped into a life changing encounter with God?  My relationship with Him should move me to become like Him, look like Him, ...

Have you heard the song "How He Loves"?  I love the imagery painted in the first verse... "He is jealous for me;  Love's like a hurricane, and I am a tree ;  Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy;  When all of a sudden,  I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory;  And I realize just how beautiful you are and how great your affections are for me.   And oh  How He loves us oh Oh how He loves us  how He loves us oh. I have been through a few hurricanes now, living in Florida. There is tremendous wind that touches everything in its path.  It is swirling and twirling so it gets into every crevice.  This song describes God's love for us as a hurricane, touching every place in my soul, heart, mind and spirit.  That His love completely touches every part of my life.  I love the verse in 1 John 4:16..." And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love. Whoever liv...

Guess what day today is? It is my 42nd Birthday!  My born again Birthday.  It was March 8, 1974 at 3AM that I finally bent my knees and asked Jesus to begin a relationship with me.  I was a freshman in college, University of Maine at Presque Isle, and only 19 years old.  I lived in Emerson Hall on the third floor.  At the top of the stairs there were at least 4 rooms that were occupied by "Jesus freaks" (as we called them).  They were all upper classmen.  A lot of us freshmen were on this floor and they had strategically asked for those rooms to have influence in our lives!  Freshmen tend to sow their wild oats, away from parental controls, flapping their new found wings of freedom.  After the first semester three quarters of my class were failing their courses, as they were more interested in partying then studying.  I was sowing my oats too, but school had always been easy for me, so my grades were good.  But I too had settled ...