1 Corinthians 1:7-9, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Paul ends his greetings by reminding us that God brought us His grace in salvation through Jesus Christ and will complete it in us…..He is strong and faithful towards us…Isn’t He awesome?… We can rest in the arms of grace in Jesus Christ.

What we fellowship with is very important in the call that God has toward us.   I know to keep the peace that God has given me through Jesus Christ, my mind has to stay on Him. I know to keep the fellowship of His sufferings, I have to keep my mind on Jesus Christ. So I will walk humbly with my Savior and learn His mercy and patience. I know to keep the knowledge of His presence with Me, I have to keep my spiritual eyes and heart to be  attentive to His gentle Spirit leading the way I am  to go and obey.

The book of Acts is full of the leading of the Holy Spirit in ways of God that were not done before. Remember it is written in Isaiah 43:18-21, Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast in the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

Our God is huge and He has no boundaries in doing the impossible for those who believe that He can and will …

Father, we honor and love You. We thank You for Your Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit indwelling in us…. Father, I thank You that we now have an open heaven in fellowshipping or communing with You always. You are not far from each of us, You are nearer than our mouth!  Please give us the grace to put down the distractions of today, and teach us to sit and listen to Your heart. I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

Let it be not said about us what Paul said in his exhortation at the finishing of his letter to the Corinthians 15:34, Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. 

We all have been given an awesome opportunity to know God and His Son by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. I do not think anything on the facebook or websites or the net or T.V. can compete with our God…. At least I hope that is not what is found in the days of our lives.
Selah……

As we continue our study in Revelation chapter 14, what marks are the ones we should be showing? If we all could see in the spiritual realm, what would we see? Would we see the marks of the Holy Spirit on us or the marks of the beast?   What should we beware of once we walk through the door of salvation? When we enter into a store, we never just stop there do we?  We always get what we need in the store…. same way with our salvation in Christ Jesus…..   What are you talking about lady?

Check in next time and learn what I mean Meanwhile, pick up a copy of my book on studying the book of Revelation. It is called Jesus Christ, The King Of All Kings And The Lord Of All Lords, The Judge Of His Creation. 

Until next time, God bless and may His Spirit bring to you all peace and joy in the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen and Amen!!

What does this 1 Corinthians 13:12 scripture have to do the first chapter of 1 Corinthians 1;5-8?  Here are the verses: that you were enriched in every thing by Him, in speech and knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of  our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of the our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul doesn’t want us lacking any reward that we can reap from the Holy Spirit.  The word gift is also interchangeable with the word reward… The same meaning is for the gifts of the Holy Spirit referenced in 1 Corinthians 12.  That word reward makes us meditate a little bit….

In school, we get a reward of our works….our work gets graded.  The teacher’s prerogative is to give us a passing or failing grade. They usually measure  the depth of our understanding of the subject. So does the Teacher that was sent to us, the Holy Spirit.

What do you think the understanding of our Subject is that the Holy Spirit is measuring? How is the fruit of our testing? That is the trying out  of our knowledge and all speech of our Subject?   Selah…..

In our culture, we think gifts come to us in a different way. In America, we get gifts at Christmas, usually even if we have been bad! We get gifts for our birthday, when God has really numbered our days. We making it through another year is not really of our hard work! The Almighty God is the only giver of our breath and days on this earth.

The reward of the measure or grade of our faith in walking  the ways of  the King’s kingdom is the Holy Spirit’s job.

My question is what do you think the Holy Spirit uses as a “answer sheet” to our testing? Do you think our diligence or lack there of is important to the Holy Spirit as it would be to a good teacher in our school system? If so, what will catch a pleasing eye of the Holy Spirit towards a student?

Selah……

When someone comes to you with a great report of a good meal at a restaurant…. Do we go away satisfied? Do we get filled because they did on their meal?  Or do we go try out the restaurant that the good report came from?   We go to the restaurant and check out the food ourselves and get satisfied…. Our friends meals won’t do us any good, we have to eat our food ourselves…..

Why did the crowds gather around Jesus doing many good things? Because they had to check out for themselves the news of Messiah…. My question is now, are we checking out Jesus for ourselves or do we just take people’s word for what He has said about  us and the kingdom of God.

In Paul’s greeting in 1 Corinthians 1;4-6, I thank God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in every thing by Him, in all speech and knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you…. 

Paul was commending that there was a vital living relationship with Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit abiding in the  Corinthians…. Yes, there were problems there, but where is there not problems now in churches? Selah….

The point is they were hungry for Jesus Christ and His Spirit. The Holy Spirit also known as the Illuminator was enriching these saints. He was enriching them with all speech and knowledge as to confirm the living testimony of Christ in them…. As He is still doing today.

Now why is this so important?  We cannot eat today’s meal or dinner for our neighbor. I have to eat for myself and you have to eat for yourself…. It is no different with our God…. Some of us are dying of spiritual starvation of His word and  fellowship in His abiding Spirit.

I am eternally grateful that Columbus did not take every one’s word that the world was flat, but had to check it out for himself… Aren’t you?

We have a Magnificent Leader, Jesus Christ, who left us path to follow… Now I know some of the grass has covered the little stone path that He left for us, but His Spirit in us will illuminate that way that He called us to follow….. The map is His word and the Light is His Spirit.  Come on and get your endurance shoes on and check it out for yourself….

Can you hear His calling your name? Be still and listen to His sweet gentle voice saying to you, I am here. In Matthew 11:28-30… Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

The Holy Spirit exhorts today in Hebrews 4:7, Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.   Selah!!!!

The dinner bell is still sounding loud and clear to all who are hungry and not satisfied with the world…..John 6;57, As the Living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

Don’t take my word for it, I double dog dare you to check Him out…. He promises to fill you up in Matthew 5:6.  Get enriched with every thing by Him in all speech and knowledge as the testimony of Christ is confirmed in you!    Why? Because you won’t be short!……  What!

I’ll explain next time…..

This scripture  is a greeting from a letter of Paul to Corinthians. We know as 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you are enriched in everything by Him in all speech and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 

I can sit here and meditate on that greeting forever…. There is so much in those words that are  stepping stairs of our calling or our purpose in Christ Jesus.

Paul first sends the peace and grace of our God to us…..Those words  alone are enough. I want to walk in the fullness of His grace and peace.  When my eyes open in the morning and even sleep in His peace and grace every night. Don’t you?

To keep the distractions of the world from my focus of the Lord is my quest.  It is written in Isaiah 26: 3, You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because  he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever. 

It is also written in John 1:14, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

I guess it is not only what we eat we become but also what we behold or watch. What gets our attention…. our focus…. Paul also said in 2 Corinthians 3:18, But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Selah……

I would conclude here, this might be the key of keeping the grace and the peace of our God and Father and the Lord Jesus Christ in our hearts and therefore around our lives even in the midst of complete chaos  and a corrupted culture.

I will finish Paul’s letter to the Ephesians 6:10, Finally, my brethern, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

Selah- my friends in Christ!

A big clue is given to us in the very first verse of chapter 13 of Revelation: Then I stood on the sand of the sea….. We have been told by the very words of Jesus in Matthew chapter 7:26-27, But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And great was its fall.

So we can conclude the works of the adversary that John will further elaborate  in this chapter will not stand before our Lord. Now my question for you- will the works of the adversary stand now or has his works stood before and will they in the future….? If not, who stops them and how?  Look up in the scriptures your answer—-Search out our Lord and His ways…. His works and plans are all magnificent in wisdom and knowledge…..

Now I have another question to ask you? Is it true that we become what we eat?  Hmmm….  Selah!

We have two tables to choose from…. Our Lord’s and Satan’s….. One table gives life and is the Light of men, the other table is death and eternal death of men…..

Now, both give signs and wonders…. So how do we know we are eating the table of the Lord’s and not being deceived…..   How do we know the Truth from deception?

Both tables make us feel good, so how can we tell? How do we not become the frog in the slow boiling pot of water lulled into a slow death?

What do you think is the best way to protect from the deception of Satan that is flooding our culture today?  How do we make sure that we only eat from the table of our Lord’s supper?

I elaborate more in my book , Jesus Christ, The King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords, The  Judge Of His Creation, on the each table set before us…. and what the result of partaking of the wrong table. Come and get my book and join us in this study!

I will let you search out the answers in the Word of God because all the answers are found there. The Word of God made flesh is Jesus Christ.

Let us make sure we are partaking from ONLY our Lord’s table…..His supper is the best. Selah!!! Praise Him and all His ways are perfect!

I know you must be thinking… what is she talking about…. There is no “part c” in the Book of Revelation….. Well, I am thinking about this verse in chapter 12:11, And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives unto death.

I have heard songs and preaching on the first two stances of an overcomer, but not of third stance….. and they did not love their lives unto death.

Do you know why?  I guess it is a hard saying from the Word of God…. Another one that is silent in today’s Christian slang is Galatian’s 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Chapter 14:13 of Revelation states, then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.- Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.

What does this all mean? We aren’t to work anymore? Didn’t Jesus say in John 15: 5, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

There is a theme throughout the Word of God; it is written in Genesis 17:1, When Abram was ninety- nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

This theme also is throughout the New Testament….. Find for yourself all the times the word blameless is found in the New Testament…..Then how are we to accomplish such an impossible task?  Did our God provide a way or not?

Is there more that He is searching out in us than just believing in Jesus Christ that we won’t go to hell?  Are we dead in the Lord? Are we still living in OUR ways and just need a Savior so we can go to heaven and not hell?

Do we mean business with God? What if your fame or what if your name or what if your bank account is counted dead to the world and to the christian world also?  Will you still take this Lord to be your Heavenly Husband even beyond death to yourself, through rich and poor, through sickness and health…. beyond this death, because we will never part….

Do we want to take the third stance of Revelation 12:11  as our declaration of dependence on the ALL Sufficient One?   Is this our allegiance to our Great Heavenly Husband? Is it?

Oh Lord, reveal our hearts as You, Mighty God, reveal Yourself to us…. May we see our hearts as You see them….. Give us the grace and courage to walk out on the waters in bodacious faith in a Awesome Radical King…. The Finisher of our Faith…. Our Jehovah Jireh… Our Great Provider in the Mount of the Lord.

Jesus Christ is the Finisher of our faith.  The Salvation of God is complete. He left nothing undone from the affects of sin….. so if we have something in our lives that does not come from heaven…. What do we do? Accept it? Is it God’s will? Are we accepting less than His best?  Or do we wrestle like Jacob did with the Angel of Lord until Jacob got the blessing.

Study Galatians 2:20…. Meditate on His Word today! Rise up sons and daughters of God!

Heavenly Father, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven……

As this above prayer has been uttered by many even thousands times ten thousands, in this scripture as written in Revelation 11:14-19, it is accomplished: Revelation 11:15, Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!

So what do you think is the third woe about when you read chapter 11:14-19? Who was revealed when the the temple of God and ark of His covenant was shown?

Are these woe’s played out in the earth as scripture has stated? How are they presented to the bride of Christ and to the ones who reject Jesus Christ?  Why is the Book of Colossians so important in understanding the plan of God?  I keep asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom and understanding our Lord’s ways…. I hope you do too!

Keep studying the Book of Revelation. I hope you have received my book , Jesus Christ, King Of Kings And The Lord Of Lords, The Judge Of His Creation and join in the study.  

Now what is next???? Don’t be concerned, we are held in palm of our Great God’s hand. He has it all planned before He set the foundations of the world…..By His great mercy, He always wins!  Praise be to God forever and ever! Amen and Amen!

What was completed in the Beginning, yet is finished but not yet manifested to the eyes of man?

The Law and the Prophets manifested the Word of God,yet did Testimony of Heaven became perfected before our eyes?

Why does God put so much in a woe?

Keep on coming and studying through the woes written the Book of Revelation….

God breaks through to man. I pray His presence in His glory be a sought out goal in our heart. I pray we aren’t caught seeing our King’s return as though a thief breaks in to our house or our lives.

God is seeking those who worship Him in Spirit and Truth as Jesus Christ spoke to the Samarian woman in the Gospel of John , chapter 4. If we are living by the Spirit of God, we are with Him where He is…. We will know the signs that He shows  to those who have eyes to see, ears to hear the sounds of heaven and the heart to receive what is revealed by the Hand of God.

The breakthrough of God from eternity to man in time is our answer to many  hearts cry. We now can attempt to know how much He loves us- How deep is His love, how high is His love, how wide is His love and how long is His love…..How great is His grace and mercy upon mankind.

How could this be a woe?

Hmm…. after the fourth angel sounded, a third of the sun, moon and stars were darkened in Revelation 8:12…. Now it is anounced…. in verse 13…. And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.

First question, are we missing the sounds of heaven? John said he heard an angel flying…. Have you heard an angel flying by?  May we have ears to hear the sounds of heaven that are before us, Father….

The following verse 2:Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

When was death given a reign in mankind? What do you think released this woe and the king who reigned over the locusts that were released in verse 3?  Check out verse 11….

Why was the locusts allowed to torment men with out the seal of God for five months? Was this literal or symbolic…..Why three woes? Why not just two or six?

What is the Spirit of God showing you about this woe?

Get my book, Jesus Christ, The King Of All Kings And Lord Of All Lords, The Judge Of His Creation.     Come join us in the study of the Book of Revelation.  The Holy Spirit  teaches us the secrets of God for those who seek Him with all their heart.

All have secrets, the wicked hide theirs from the light…. and God hides His secrets so we will search Him out….. As it is written Hebrews 11:6, But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Let us pray together Psalm 25:4&5, Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.

I add, because we love You Lord! Amen and Amen!

We are now progressing to the fourth angel sounding. In Revelation 8:12, Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

I still have more questions for the Holy Spirit from the above scripture.

What do you think, is this for now, beginning of time, or for the future? What were they struck with? Why  only one third? What are the symbolic meaning of the sun, moon and stars…. or is it literal?

What was the purpose of the Holy Spirit showing us this sound?

We know that with God there is no darkness, even the dark is light to Him. For He sees all things, knows all things; there is no darkness hidden from His sight….. hmmmm….

Was this a domino effect of God’s creation acting in rebellion to  worship Him as the Great All in All? As only God deserves all honor, all glory and all praise. This holy place of  God in His sovereignty is  all His.

He is God for all of time and eternity and to be worshiped with our all  as  His creation. All creation is doing exactly what God created them to be…. Think about the birds, animals, plants, the seas are doing exactly what they are made to by God. They live out His Word and that is worship and honor to God….. except the unredeemed and sometimes the redeemed man.   We have a choice every minute to honor God by putting Him first or not.

Ponder that before this sound happened, there was a  complete brilliant Light. All creation was not in any kind of darkness…. Since there was no darkness before this sound…….Could we see His Light? Now we hear and see Him and His glory as He invades our darkness. Now in His Light, we see Light.

This one little verse has in it alot to ponder and meditate.  Why?  So that we can know the One True Living God, our Heavenly Father and His Great Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and King of His Creation, by the presence of the powerful Holy Spirit.

Our Great God is worthy of our time to apprehend Him by knowing Him. Let us make time to study His word.  He is a the best Meal we will ever have!! Amen and Amen!