Blood On Our Hands

Since the day Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission (Matt. 28:16-20, Mark 16:14-20, Luke 24:45-53, John 20:21-23, Acts 1:4-9), a mandate to His disciples; every generation of disciples has had a certain amount of blood on their hands ( Ezekiel 3:17-21, ch. 33,  Acts 20:25-27) of people they should have witnessed to, souls that were and are our (the Church's) responsibility to evangelize; but instead we either ignored them, or criticized them, or we were deceived into believing that they weren't worth the trouble.

The Lord of the Harvest will hold us accountable.

He will hold all of us accountable, especially the leaders in the Church.  We will be held accountable based upon the amount of revelation and knowledge we receive, as well as the particular calling/gifting(s) we are given. God will judge us by our works, by how we use and act upon the stewardship entrusted to us.

This generation needs to get up and into the fields. Our Father created us to work (Genesis 1:15), His business is the ministry of reconciliation, it is a privately owned family business in which we have been adopted into.

Will you daily and intentionally join in God's plan? The ministry of reconciliation is where our Father is redeeming creation through His Son, who shed His blood and purchased all the peoples and families of the earth as his inheritance and the ends of the earth as His possession (see Psalm 22:27, Psalm 2:8, Acts 20:28, Revelation 5:9).

Church, there is blood on our hands today.

In the 10/40 window, which is a geographical area that spans from Senegal and Morocco, to Vietnam and Japan; there are an estimated 50,000 people who daily die in Adam, " For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22 NKJV). God has an elect from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.  It is our job to go to them, to bear witness of Jesus Christ's everlasting Kingdom, where all of redeemed creation will be reunited with our Father. This is our responsibility, it is our divine mandate which has been mediated to us by God, and only through the power and work of the Holy Spirit can this great task be completed.

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come."  (Matt. 24:14 NKJV)

"And the gospel must first be published among all nations." (Mark 13:10 KJV)

The end will come, and we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ ( see Romans 14:10, 1 Corinthians 5:10).

The Lord has declared, and is declaring:

"Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done." Revelation 22:12 NASB


What will be on your hands on Judgment Day?


What will the Lord say to you on that day?

The Mystery of Prayer

When seeking to know the Will of God we should look to the Holy Scriptures.

A common struggle for followers of Christ is to, as one might say, “know God’s will for my life”. To end such frustration we must see that God’s Will, and His will for our life are intrinsically united. That being said, we are also given a great privilege as Children of God… that of being co-laborers with God  and Christ (1 Corinthians 3:9; 6:1). When we are brought to life through Christ by grace through faith, and through the deep wet furrows of Baptism, we are then taken to the fields of the family business. Our Father has given all things into His Son’s hand, and we are given a mandate in the Great Commission to labor for souls, because “The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few” (Luke 10:2). A key component of our Father’s business, through His Son’s Bride, is prayer. Our greatest example of a vibrant prayer life, and who we are to imitate, is Jesus Christ, who while on earth demonstrated a heart and lifestyle of prayer and commanded His disciples that “… they ought to pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1b).

After the glorious Resurrection of our Lord, when He ascended into Heaven, Jesus Christ did not cease from praying. The book of Hebrews makes this clear.

Right now Christ is at the right hand of the Father interceding, praying, for the Church, and fallen Mankind… because God desires that none should perish but all to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9); that all would be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4 NKJV).

That answers God's desire to see fallen Mankind redeemed, but what about God’s will for us, the already redeemed Church?

1 Thessalonians says:

"Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification…" 1 Thessalonians 4:1-3a NKJV

"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NKJV

In conclusion, we see that prayer is the sacrament/holy mystery where we interact with the will of God and commune in the Spirit. Why would i call prayer a “sacrament”? Because, all sacraments are where eternity and finality (Heaven and Earth) meet; where God's grace is mediated in a simultaneously Spiritual and physical expression. 

Therefore prayer – which requires intention and action to manifest the Kingdom of Heaven in tangible ways – is not only a sacrament, but one in which we can all participate in continually in our hearts.

God's Will is also that of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. We are to love God first with everything we are, and then love everybody else as if they are our self. We are to make disciples of all nations (ethnos in Greek, which means peoples, not civil states). Through devotion to God we inevitably love His creation, especially those made in His image. From this place of prayerful devotion we will walk in the Spirit, abiding in Christ, and will make disciples of all "peoples", because it is God's Will that we do so.

Let us thus pray with diligence and joy of the Holy Spirit, as we labor with our beloved Savior and King who shall return bodily for us, His Bride, to the glory of the Father. Amen

We have eternal glories that await us!

Praise be unto our Creator and Redeemer who by His own blood purchased a People from all peoples to be gathered together to worship forever in a Kingdom of grace and truth! Amen.

Our Father who art in Heaven hollowed be thy name. 

Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, in Earth as it is in Heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. 

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 

And Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 

For Thine be the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. 

Amen." 

Matthew 6:9b-13 

(combination of NKJV and KJV)

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Affection, Affliction, Affluence

Affection is not sinful, but the mind is prone to deceitful imaginings. Be mindful to your embrace, be cautious where your eyes tred, your mouth and hands go.

When the King of Glory returns in the clouds, His brightness shall not burn out the eyes, but the hearts and minds shall melt.

Listen to His quiet voice that yells patiently.

The Holy Spirit is like a living fire, that carries waters of life; when it enters, and we in it, we have to listen, least we be like Jonah. God works through the faithful, and reaches out to all. He heals the broken hearted and causes the lame to walk. His promises are true, so have some faith! Be of good cheer! We could die at any time, but God is ever near.

"Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" Isaiah 53:1

Entertainment can be Idolatry

All you who seek to worship and honor God, be mindful that Entertainment can be an Idol filled with idols; screens are where poison is projected into your psyche. Ask yourself, "why do I, or should I, watch this?" and "Does this honor God's commandments, let alone glorify God?". As I hope you are well aware my brothers and sisters in Christ, that there are plenty of distractions out there...

 but there is only one Way, one Truth, and one Life.

Did Christ die so you could sit in front of a screen? And delight in the ways of the world? In decrepit ways, glorified by man?

Most Certainly Not! "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of th world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4:4)

My friends who seek, who truly want to repent " Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2 Corinthians 13:5

Are you a faker? Are you addicted to emotionalism and experience? Do you negate true repentance, and a love for God? Do you continue to live in sin? Do you use the doctrine of perpetual grace to justify your perpetually unchanging sinfulness. Oh that you would circumcise your Hearts! Learn to love God, his law, and his ways more than your ideas of law and your ways. We are but shifting dust animated by water and the electric currents; we are only alive because of the first breath God gave to Adam, the first man... and by his and Eve's iniquity we fall in pieces. But thank the LORD! For the second man has come with life eternal!

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23

Before God we are always naked; there is nothing we can hide. For "the eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." Proverbs 15:3
There is a liberation that comes with confession, it is called forgiveness.
There is a promise that comes from repentance, that of salvation.

There is only one way...

Christ Jesus of Nazareth 

Born in Bethlehem from the Virgin Mary of the House and seed of King David son of Jesse

The Kinsman Redeemer of Ruth

Conceived of the Spirit; The Word Incarnate

Immanuel, God with us

The Holy One of Israel

The Right Arm of the LORD

The Hand of God

The Servant of the LORD, wounded for our transgressions

The Eternal King of Israel!

The Prince of Peace

The King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords

The Vine, the Bread of Life, the Gate

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

The Light of the World

The Groom... awaiting marriage with his Bride!

Glory, honor and praise be unto Him. Unto ages and ages
World without end

Amen