Thank you Son Jesus from Nazareth and Thank you Father and Thank You Holy Spirit…In 2008 you have made yourself more known to me than I could have ever expected.
What strikes to me that you have raised standard against the darkness(as you promise in the scripture towards the end of time) and made your power and works so real and tangible…that anyone can tap into it and be amazed….
Now it is the time to searh and knock and you shall find….
I tought that sinner like me who had fallen on the way side could have never regained positivity, drive and find the king, father and a friend to guide me whilst I am still living on this earth….
I always saw Christian life as a sacrifice that gives up all the fun things, that is the pleasures of this world and abandons selfish desires in favour of God’s will..
I did not realise that,yes, you have to kill your old self in order to be “born again”…..but the reward of doing this is better than Olympic Gold Medal or Giging in Wembley..You do not loose your pesonality…Jesus lived here as a man..so he knows the score..he will boost the best attributes that you already have and gives you new gifts..and if you pray that he will show you the purpose of your life..you will be surpriced..he actually does that!
He will give you task or problem that you have to solve…that will start the greatest and most fullfilling adventure of your life! Sometimes this task might sound totally grazy and work against everything we ever wished to do or be..but that is where the obedience and trust in God kicks in…do U trust your own emotions or the one that knows your very tought in this minute…Jesus said that father knows very number of your hair…So to have great life you have to take a risk to navigate God’s way..it is also a test of willingness to serve him…Main thing is to follow the purpose and task he has given to you…In the world’s eyes task might not be great..but in God’s eyes it is..i.e somebody gets a task to be a great parent like Josef&Mary…others have to take on much more like martyrs..but with Jesus you are never alone…if you follow him..attend curch…listen, pray and read his word which means actively search, seek and knock…he will give you annointing that breaks all the yokes…if you fight in a frontline like pastors and men of God..devil tries to distract you best that he can..so he can frustrate you with obstacles like accidents, unpopularity..etc..Good news is that if you confess that Jesus died for our sins and is Son of God&speak to him in your prayers..devil has never room to accuse…so if you hear this voice telling your that you might as well pack it all in..and join back in the sinful parade of this world cause you have sinned and failed in tne God’s eyes..do not believe this!!! God gives you second change always,again and again…but be very careful with his neverending forgiveness and love..U see, he knows your heart…if you cheat on purpose and do not even aim to make change..after he has given you knowledge of the true way of life…you can only blame yourself..not God as people so often do…Life will never be outwardly perfect..as this world is broken place..troubles sometimes very big troubles will come..but with Jesus you’ve got nothing to fear..he will help you to walk through fire…Cry to him with the deepest desires of your heart..and he will hear….xx
May God Bless U,

We are in the right territory now, telling the World like Great apostole John, who Jesus is without the doubt: He is Son of God!!!

A man and God in a same person, who was conceived from the Virgin Birth came to fullfill the mission as a Messiah and Lamb slaughtered for the Sins of Human Race  prophesied in Isaiah.(will be hung upon the three for their inquities)

John did not try to intellectualize Jesus, he just took a stance inspired by the Holy Spirit, to tel the worldl who Jesus is and what he came here to do…John also lived like Jesus, he was meek and kind..this is how we win souls, you are right Ed…To be like Jesus is to lead by example.

John was described as the one diciple Jesus’ loved the most. And reason can be seen so clearly, John obeyed the first and most importan Comandment; He loved God with all his heart. Everything else was secondary.

His love for God was so strong, that he even followed him to the cross from the distance, when everyone else fled apart from Jesus’ mother and women who had been his followers. We know that mother is like a lioness and woman’s heart is very fearless when they protect their loved ones. They are ready to sacrifice everything to save those ones they love, this shows us that love is greater than bravery.(Peter, the strong man could not stand, but love of John and Mary was stronger before death)

Conversely John who was ready to risk his life in the darkest hour and who wanted to show the world who Jesus really is,The Son of God to whom his father was very pleased and to whom has been given the power in heaven and earth, was only diciple who was spared from the Martyrdom…

The Curch is really avoiding the Blessing of Martyrdom as a topic(T.Hess) but clearly the Bible teaches us that we have to love God more than anything and be ready to die for our faith.

As this small glumsy slide show I put together couple of months ago based on widely ignored book: John’s Revellation shows….In these end times We have to stay strong and one way to stay strong is to read John’s gospel again and again and Love Jesus constantly, to constantly seek his face in fasting and prayer..

Bible warns us that even the very elect can be deceived by the intensifying lies of the Enemy and Replacement Gospel tought to us i.e lies that We do not have to support Jewish Israel etc…

We must obey the first Commandment and be ready to die for our faith, speak boldy, so that we might save many and maybe even be saved like John in natural:)..bcause we are risking it all for Jesus. We need to become bold men and women of action for Jesus, it is no longer about us… think about first martyrs, these great Jewish heroes who gave us the gospel, they did not think about ups and down of their own life, they were there for Jesus to be fed for Lions…

It is time to stand bold for our Christian faith, Islam always claims: He did not say he is Son of God…point them to Gospel of John and say: Yes he did in so many ways!

In the UK,USA and Europe we must stand tall and start campainging against pluralist views of our leaders that deny Jewish State of Israel as one state. Based on some modern intellectualized reasoning..We must say no to Obama, EU and Pope..We stand united behind Israel like John stood behind Jesus, because of God and his names sake, his sacrifices sake and for Israels sake who gave us gospel, we need to return the favour.

Ppl please find yourselves in positions/branch offices in Judeo Christian Union Ucl and start with 40 000 000 members campaing and put pressure on Obama,EU and Pope to drop their two state solution and say that we as America and Europe, as Christian nations stand behing Israel and will never desert or condemn Israel for God’s name’s sake.

p.s We can support right kind of social policy withing the Jewish Israel to improve lives of Palestinians but not to interfere their affairs…God is Landing on the Mount of Olives in Eastern Jerusalem…

Think about if our countries aided the proces,splitting the Israel or Isolating Israel, made them look like bad guys,we dont want our country to be amonst the nations who gather around Jerusalem as invading armies.We want to be standing with Israel and defending Israel for God’s names sake…We love the Apple of his Eye! Thank You John and Jesus, great Jewish heroes!

excellent..these r the bits I wanted to say..got left out when I pasted it..
Excellent topic, fear indeed prevents Us from being who we are meant to be in the body of Christ. I think book called
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway sold millions of copies and helped ppl around the world to overcome their anxieties,
to find the righ inner strenght to combat their irrational fobias.

Just like Ed Mentions, Norman Vincent Peale, was in a sense pastor of pastors, who in his own life suffered many blows,
met many influencial ppl and learned from them. What a read his books are just like Ed’s writings, it is the honesty and
openess that people can relate to and sharing the lessons we learn from the hurdles of life without sounding
morally superior, it is a gift of Holy Spirit, gift of sharing I believe.

But all these self help books can send us on introspective journey if we are not careful. They help us know
more about ourselves and lives challenges and how to overcome obstacles in mind and in social settings.

But quite often they ignore that the battle really takes place in the spiritual realm and what we go through
is actually fiery darts devil throws at us, because he can see the risk in us, risk to his Kingdom on Earth

My first Christian book I ever read was: You can if you think you Can by Norman Vincent Peale. I was into marketing and salesmanship at that point in my life and before I read the book, I did not have a clue that Norman Vincent Peale was a pastor.

Reading the book was mind blowing, he shows the reader that the biggest barriers are mere man made illusions in our minds or negatives stated by others, and once we tell the Mountains to be removed they will be in Jesus name removed, Amen. This was actually the main point of the whole book, take the first step and start doing what you are dreading to do, unleash your potential you did not know you have and seal it with a prayer. Actually I disagree, the prayer must always come first as things have to take place first in the spiritual realm and then by the Power of God, The Son and Holy Spirit equip Us to do impossible.

I loved that book so much, it was so full of that old American ethos, that Pioneering spirit that smelled like the 1950′s kitchen some where in L.A suburbs, it smelled like apple pie, beautiful wife welcoming succesful marketing director home with big smile, newspaper rolled ready, table full of food, allmost too good to be true..

Obviously for some of us this sounds as far away from the idyl as sandals are from Dr.Martens, it is not our dream anymore..but the point is, you are already there, you can do anything if you aply yourself persistently the book is saying and what makes it special, it does not deny difficulties along the way. It shows us how to turn these difficulties into strenghts. Giving up is a demon Satan uses, spirit of slumber that urges us to settle for less but God indeed wants his best for us, I strongly believe. Sometimes, the blessings could come our curse and he is just holding it, testing us untill we are ready for his blessing. You see, success is greater test than powerty and suffering, it is easy to love Success more than God,Jesus portrayed the way of the world as an open road, easy to ride…

I think God is not against the success, but we must love him first, oftentimes loose all the gain, popularity and status first and regain everything back from him again. This is truly material rebirth as well and these new riches material and social are meant to be used to bless others, to build his Kingdom, to ease our focus to be solely his servants and carry on doing his vision, planting curches, reaching the lost serving his vision with this prosperity. But we are still little boys and girls who love our toys and comfort zone. So the farm full of horses, moto cross track and 2 Harleys in a garage could be the little treat I can keep to myself, if the blessing comes:) But this is not for showing off, it is just God giving a baby what baby wants to keep him sweet:), I think..not wery sure about this….

The early curch had money, people sold their houses to make the curch rich, they gave their everything so that Gospel could be preached to the far ends of this world. This is the level of commitment to the preaching the gospel we have to find again! Then there are success stories in the bible that remind us, that success can lead us away from God, if we do not actively sow it back to God,and then like law of tithing receive it back 9 times more. Every succesful Christian person must know that nothing belongs to him/her, he can be asked in a next minute to give it all away and our obedience has to be in that level that we are prepared to do so.

This is hard, you climb a mountaing, God grants you a victory and then he asks you to give it away,but I have reasoned that this is sometimes the only way for us to show where our hearts are, do we love our position, our friends, our money, our clothes, our cars, our curch more than God.Do we love our Ministry or Divine Appointment more than God?I think to avoid these pitfalls, we have to love God with all our hearts, and give him the glory all the way long.I wish I was always surrounded by ppl who love God more than their partners, their children their everything, then I would know I am safe with them…

We are not in an ideal world but who says that with Jesus we cannot get there?

May God Bless U,
Aki

wow, the world needs more this kind of intelligent preaching about the bad stuff and as a result,

Hell Racers, would return to curches.Jesus did indeed refer to Hell around 300 times and Heaven far less.This means that he was deeply concerned about the souls that choose to goto Hell or tho whom Satan tricks there.

This is why it is the utmost importance for us all to read actual bible or listen bible cd’s. I believe Satan deliberately sends spirit of slumber over us when we open the bible, because he knows person who has read the whole bible and is full of God’s wisdom in all areas of life will not fall. There are very good aides for reading the bible like a bible reading course book by Derek Prince in which he gives the reader certain areas in the bible to read and then opens up complex spiritual meanings like Ed has done in this essay in the context of hell. After reading the whole bible with Derek Prince (rip 2003 Jerusalem) it becomes very difficult even for fellow Christians to shake us, we know God is real and has a purpose for us, that no man or Satan can take away.

The other area is prayer life: We have to maintain the focus on Jesus, he can save us from Hell Fire and guide us supernaturally through this life even when we sin. But we have to constantly seek his face in a prayer, fasting and curch gatherings. Christian life, is a holistic life,Jesus must take over all areas of our lives.

Again Satan tries to frustrate this connection with Jesus by bringing problems, illness, bitterness, arguments, success, flattery, fame into persons life…He uses every possible means, combination of good and bad, bribes and mighty blows to keep us away from the Jesus.

Word of a warning: If anyone who has been on the ropes, suffered mighty blows from Satan for a long time or has not believed in Jesus at all finds Jesus, initially the Hell might break loose because Satan is giving his best shot in his final attempt to break the connection. He knows how dangerous all these ppl who havent had a smooth ride can be if released to do God’s calling in their life. Unfortunately, Satan uses fellow Christians and sometimes persons own family as a discouragement, we must not hate this ppl, just know that Satan is riding on their back, using them to frustrate them. So any new person do not be dissapointed if ur new Christian friends do not offer you love and shelter you hoped for, they cannot, the change is happening inside through the Holy Spirit who is gradually changing Us.

However, if despite all this, we stay faithful Watchmen and women of God, never taking our eyes off from Jesus on purpose, he will eventually reward us even in this life. Think about Job, 50% of his life was horrid and 50% of his life was pure luxury.God gave him 2 times more than he ever had. This is the other point, sometimes it is God who is testing us(Moses and the trials he went through) and sometimes God uses Satan for his purposes, eg, Jesus being tempted in the desert by Satan. Think about those promises Satan made for Jesus, after reading those no one should be wondering why wicked prosper, they should be asking what is the price?

But all these things we do, we should be doing from right motives, not out of fear of Hell, instead the love for Jesus should be our heart’s deepest desire. We have to be unpaid workers, and learn to love Jesus, think about him as a person, as a saviour and love him for what he did.

Once we get the idea, how good he is and adore him for that, he will reveal more for those who seek his face in this manner. We should be more like apostole John. Being obsessed with a tought of Jesus, showing ppl who he really is. John’s adoration was stronger than the fear of death, in a Satan’s hour when Jesus was crucified, this great Jewish man followed Jesus to the cross without surrendering to fear like brave Peter had, because John really loved Jesus for what he is,The Son of God. Jewish ppl still have the same fearlessness, they are not macho at all, but when it comes to stand up for their family and friends, they go, even alone if it is needed. We need to show the World the real Jesus and how brave he was in the face of death, like John did and flames of Hell will fade away…

May God Bless U,
Aki

I’d like to think the Body of Christ, Curch as an army, this Army has been issued with one great commission, to spread the gospel. I sometimes look big Advertisement boards for potential Brittish Army recruits, it says something like this, we need:

Foot Soldiers
Communication Specialists
Electricians
Health Professionals…

It is called Army Careers and Evangelicals in the Army of ours are most definetely front line Warriors, they obey the commision to spread the gospel to the point of death many time. Yes they take themselves and spirtual war at hand seriously and principles of love, flexibility and intuition are often lacking in their ranks, but only love towards brothers and enemies has strong scriptural basis out of these three and it will all change when Holy Spirit sends the latter rain and takes the charge of the curch.

God loved David,but when David commanded Batsheba’s husband, a frontline warrior, rough man who risks his life for others away to his house from the front courts of palace where rest of the troops were resting,the man protersted, he did not want special treatment, he was one with his brothers. David’s attempt to lure this man out from his duty to cover adultery failed, this man had sense of honour and service.

As you give the evil your little finger and start braking ranks to your own benefi, he takes your whole hand…David felt that he had no option than to send this loyal man into a front line, where casualty rates were higher than 99%. This man did not hesitate, he just took the order and died for God and his king. When God showed David the reality, what he had done to someone, who probably was not the best husband, the best person in the world, but the one who obeyed annointed King, this crushed David completely.He cried on his face, Imagine killing someone who loves you to the point of death and not only Killing him but taking the only thing this poor man ever had, his wife away from him.

Prophet to whom God sent to David used parable of poor farmer who had only one lamb, who loved that lamb so much that this lamb slept at his bosom, and King who had many lambs killed this farmers only lamb so that his quests could have a party. David had a heart, God knew this and after telling this story Prophet asked what should be done to this King. David without hesistation answered: Death! For the Truth to really sink in propeth said: The King in question is you David.

Derek Prince(the one great man of God I always go on about,ha,ha) said that every Military strategist knows that only Army that wins the war, is the Army that advances. We cannot mingle with the enemy, worship their idols, like Baal, or bow down to a man and a king lift up in Godly position, as the story of Daniel reminds us. We need to speak the word of God, and be this trojan horse if needed that infultrates enemy lines without compromise in our Christian standards, in fact keeping the Christian God first, will get us promotion even in enemy’s camp. Joseph and Daniel’s story are good example of this kind of promotion.

What Paul was trying to say I think is that: We have to be Wise as a Serpent and Harmless as a Dove when Spreading the Gospel. We have to be all things to all men. He did not pass any judgement on unbelievers, he left it to God you are right. But he also said ” How do they know the good news if you have not told them”

I think he just used unknown God as an Illustration, point of insterest and an example to catch his listeners attention and then brought them one and true salvation: The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Sometimes it is fruitful to just blindly obey the orders, God will must definetely reveal
the purpose in the end. Hesitation can be seen as a lack of belief or authority in unbelievers eyes.

May God Bless U,
Aki

Great, you have managed to put in few words the main religion of this age: Secular Humanism. One of my great heroes Derek Prince who was scholar(Cambridge)&student of philosopher Witgenstein started his Christian Journey from this asumption: Either it is all true or it is all false.

In this modern age relativism offers an easy option for people pleasers or self worshippers, mere spectators or idols of this age, who willingly surf along as the world goes by or command opinion of many by being in a leading elite. There is something very appealing in this as well, it is like everything would be, Tabula Rasa, an empty canvass and you could paint your life and beliefs as you wish on it. But didn’t this option, The tree of knowledge already exist in Paradise? This position of freedom and knowledge was the very thing what Devil was offering and man took the bait and here we are, in a broken world knowing bit more but utterly broken from the inside

I have this rebel inside, we all have this vanity, we want to have dominion over things without rules and we want to feel good and look good as well. Being a Christian carries less stigma as many people just say: If it works for you, it is OK…

But God is not like that, he does not do social psychology by stating modern mantra: I am OK so You are OK, so we can be friends. Actually it is God that sets you truly free to be who you are. He made us so in his word and in his cooking book(The Bible) for our life, is the love and freedom we all along for. Why does God of Israel and his son Jesus has the say over other Gods then? Because he is the creator of it all and in his word is life. Only by obeying bible and worshipping Jesus in a spirit, can person reap all the benefits what the King and High Priest have in their position. Thinking hard can be seeing but not believing, modern people would have loved Thomas more than Jesus because his first reaction to everything was: “false untill proven otherwise, I can kind of see, but lets do little research first”–And Jesus stressed that this maturity, is the very thing that robs us from the Kingdom of God, Maturity and Tradition, The tradition of this age is that there is no tradition it is all relativistic, depends on the view point..

Even common sense has become saturated by this relativistic,everything goes mentality by saying: If you do not stand for something you fall for everything. And has not the world thas has taken massive technological leaps and seen many liberating social reforms fallen for everything. Relativism has killed the family, freedom has made liberated women unhappy, young people are less certain about their future and the list of consequences this rift away from Christian God has caused to western world is endless. Christian countries are the richest and have the dominion in the world, even the people in them do not have any better qualities than other people in this world,yet countries that build Christian curches and support Israel seem to have prevailed? They have misused God’s word, done some horrible things, but their way of life is the most succesfull untill very recently…Could it be this religious tolerance and secular anti Christian ethos, that has brought the crisis? The fat and the free years, even for the good, bad and ugly happened under strong Christian ethos. It certainly looks like God rewards those people and their counties who have singular eyes for him. Who do things for him, like aiding Apple of his Eye Israel.

I think it was French Sociologist Focault, who has been researching power and punishment who said ” Every dictator knows that strict set of rules and etiquette works against him, he is far better off in a state anarchy where everything goes, because he can change the rules to suit him as he goes along” This is what Devil, the prince of this world does,he “liberates” people from God and the knowledge of God and then punishes them harshly. Some might say recent governments have been in favour of this kind of policies of punishment and control, yet they are in favour of same sex marriages? They are liberal but not that liberal.This is exactly what happens, if humans turn their back to God like ancient Israelis did, God do not even have to punish them, he can just give rule to the wicked who do not believe in Godly councel or who are economical with God’s law: 10 commandments.

Just like you know true prophet from the false prophet by his fruits, you know Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The life by giving your life, your ego and all you have as a sacrifice to him. Only then one knows that Islam, Buddishm, Hindumism or Secular humanism cannot even come close. You know that God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is real and his Son Jesus is real. We must also know this: Jesus referred to Hell more times in the bible than heaven and in the old testament it is spelled very clear that our God is jealous God and worshipping false Gods makes him angry. He is long suffering, but he also gave us everything so he has right to take everything away if he so chooses, we cannot regulate him..

I went to curches that are theological and very seremonial with their teachings before, they were appealing by their gentlenes and meekness, but they did not take strong stance with God, so it felt like they were at my mercy, I could ditch them any time and then come back to chill out, they were like meditation class, theatre or symphony orchestra hugging the world and its views,getting on with everyone,as a result nothing ever happened. When I went to a curch that is radical with God’s word and God’s law, the sky opened and my prayers were answered and I became born again Christian.Check this curch, I am not their official member but they do stuff for God and things do happen www.kt.org

p.s Jesus never said that it would be easy in this wicked and Godless generation to follow him, he just spoke about the sacrifice and self denial and challenges that would come but then he also spoke about the promise, the reward that far outweighs everything this world and its prince can offer. Without Jesus in our heart we cannot truly be ourselves and free is the truth.

Love God with all your heart…the most important of ten Commanments, Jesus prioritized this lense over all. Out of the overflow of heart mouth speaketh…is an other example of our heart Jesus in it being the most importan lense we see thourgh the word and the world.

I just recently listenned internet radio programme about Middle East Crisis, jewish commentators brought foward very interesting point: Our Caucasian thinking stems from Logic which is Greek in orgin whereas old Hebrew way of looking at things is observing patterns…

I was just reminded that none of us have never really read the bible, you can study it in detail, meditate on it hours in prayes, but it is never ending story..like a scroll in Daniel’s tammy that in its full content is yet to be revealed and then new revellation comes along and we truly realise that God is Alpha and Omega even in Heaven we will never fully get him, it would be foolish to even try to put him in the box. Yet we must not give in, we can chase him but in obedience to author of our lives, who can change the script or amend it and then bring us back in the beginning again in a blink of an eye and at the same time minister to all humans and angels…this kind of Omnipotence and Omnipresence is breathtaking and humbling…

We must understand that the logic is just one of the ways bible speaks to us, scripture is outstading in in its logic and one of the most learned writers Paul used his education and thinking in bringing foward ideas but he always added, I think, it is my thinking not the Holy Spirit that has revealed this…

Why all the problems Christians have caused in the name of the religion then?..I think that as soon as curches were planted human dynamics started to play a part and Apostolic authority was needed to bring early believers focus back to Jesus and their mission as a curch. Later on so many people were just willing to fit that crown, without actually ever having the encouter with Christ on a super natural level.

Within the body of Christ, in the Curch social dynamics and carnal power games are not only thing that can get things distored. Our mind is flesh and if this fleshy mind is not renewed by the Holy Spirit, if we do not strike down and selflessly abandon everything we have ever learned and let Holy Spirit in Us to be in charge, we remain in the natural realm. We have forgotten that there are times that Lord asks us to lay everything aside and just seek his face constantly. In Tom Hess’ book Watcmen one of the Pastors actually describes seeing Jesus unexpectedly and what did he say..My people do not love me anymore he was weeping. The man in question realised that he had started to love his ministry more than Jesus and he had to leave Ministry for a while just to get to know the lord and love him for who he is.

There are two ways to quote the scripture I think: To find a reason first and then find a suitable scripture to back up the cause or to find, wait and meditate Jesus and Holy Spirit to show direction and just obey…Even you obey Holy Spirit, your mind, your persona still shines through, I think Paul was trying to be as objective as it was possible to be by writing his own views separately, reminding his audience that it was his thinking not Holy Spirit inspired writing at times. This was Paul just saying what he tought, edifying people in all that he saw good and valuable stemming from his learing curve with Christ.

I think Jesus showed us all those lenses by selecting 13 different characters of men as his diciples, the majority who wrote the Gospels came from the different angels, but the spinal cord, the seed, the word of God was the same, this in itself is a miracle and shows that Holy Spirit was in operation and what they witnessed was true.

Evangelical Curches that are as radical as Peter was and as determined as Paul was, to go ahead spreading the gospel, get more fruit, more revellation if their motives are stemming from the love for Jesus, from the sincere attempt to know Jesus now in 2009 and let Holy Spirit lead them regardless the destination,blind faith wakes up the death and make blind people see, but no one can ever boast we must remember as it is the Great heritage, Holy Spirit Jesus left behind who is the doer not us, we are just a vessel and beloved children of God with alll our faults.

May God Bless U,
Aki