“Your ministry is your function, not your rank.”
– Rick Joyner
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“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”
– Leonard Ravenhill
Jesus in John 15:18-25
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Jesus in Luke 6:20-26
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation. Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
“Until people understand we’re involved in a spiritual battle being played out on a political battlefield — we got a one party system, and everything else is a fraud — until people understand that, nothing really makes sense today.”
– Dr. Stanley Monteith — Radio Liberty, 10/21/13 Hour 3
“They think they’re protected by not caring,
but their ‘not caring’ is what’s allowing the evil to take over.”
– Alex Jones
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From:
Related:
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth and Truth-tellers
“Too many people who ask for counsel
are really looking for an accomplice to what they believe.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
Related:
2 Peter 3: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
[FreedomQuote] ”I Would Rather Know The Ugly Truth Than A Beautiful Lie”
[FreedomQuote] “It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.”
Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True
“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”
“Weak people will find it hard to be sincere,
as there are always too many opinions to please.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
― Richard Evans
“One who refuses to change their opinion proves they love themself
more than they love truth.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
From: Steve Hill
The Price of Revival
Charles Finney once said that revival should come as no surprise. It is certain, just as a crop of wheat will come after the farmer has tilled the land and sown the seed. When we seek the face of God and are willing to pay the price of revival, it will come. The words of the missionary statesman, Jonathan Goforth, shed new light on the price of revival.
Our reading of the Word of God makes it inconceivable to us that the Holy Spirit should be willing, even for a day, to delay His work. We may be sure that, where there is a lack of the fullness of God, it is ever due to man’s lack of faith and obedience. If God the Holy Spirit is not glorifying Jesus Christ in the world today, as at Pentecost, it is we who are to blame. After all, what is revival but simply the Spirit of God fully controlling in the surrendered life? It must always be possible, then, when man yields. The sin of unyieldedness, alone, can keep us from revival.
But are we ready to receive Him? Do we value the giver and the gift sufficiently? Are we ready to pay the price of Holy Ghost revival? Take prayer for example. The history of revival shows plainly that all movements of the Spirit have started in prayer. Yet is it not right there that many of us wilt and falter at the cost?
“Christians around the world are being slaughtered,
and the evangelicals aren’t saying anything.”
– Steve Quayle on Coast to Coast AM, 9/16/13
Related:
Ron Paul’s Christlike Attitude: Love, Peace & Hope – No *Initiation* of Aggression!
‘Just War’ Doctrine Abandoned in America — U.S. Foreign Policy Now Reverse-Christian
Chuck Baldwin: Why Do Evangelicals Ignore Ron Paul? | My Opinion
[2011] Ron Paul’s Statement of Faith
Ron Paul on Evangelical Christians Expected to Be Pro-War All the Time
Ron Paul on what precedes LIBERTY: Life “and I mean all LIFE!”
Ron Paul: “Fascism Comes Wrapped In A Flag, Carrying A Cross”
Ron Paul: Jesus is the Prince of PEACE, Not Preemptive War
Ron Paul Speaks To The Right To Life Foundation
Sarah Palin: U.S. Troops in Iraq Doing God’s Will — “A Task that is From God”
Can Sarah Palin be a real, going-to-heaven Christian?
What is Anchorage’s new statue sitting there thinking? “Why does Alaska still support Sarah Palin, the OPPOSITE OF RON PAUL on foreign interventionism?” — & — “Why did ‘Christians’ in this town vote for George W. Bush, the OPPOSITE OF JESUS on foreign interventionism, TWICE?”
John Hagee calls for a preemptive strike on Iran
Fenske on Chuck Norris’ “Would Jesus Support War?” – ‘A God of War’ & ‘*a* Prince of Peace’
Pastor Chuck Baldwin: Will Evangelicals Ever Admit They Were Duped by Bush?
President Bush — “Bad Fruits versus Good Fruits” List
Michael Franti: Bomb the World (”Power to the Peaceful!”)
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
This is a good one, because willfully giving into sin opens the door to demons to come in and then drive it — so it then seems impossible to stop.
“Submit to God; resist the Devil, and he will flee.”
Shut the door. Keep out the Devil = Freedom!!!
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“It is easier to resist at the beginning of temptation than at the end.”
– John Paul Jackson from his Facebook page
Related:
Can a Christian Have a Demon? Absolutely! Most Have Many!
A Gift that Will Set Many Free! (A Death Warrant is Out for Your Souls)
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
All of my Lust Freedom! posts [latest appear first, 10 posts per page]
“Much of church activity and fellowship also falls back upon the practice of psychology. Many church leaders are masterful psychologists. They know how to handle people and get the crowds to come. Their operation qualifies as an amazingly “successful” church. Part of the success of that church depends on people with business talents and part of it depends on people with natural gifts as salespersons and politicians.
A Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit. But it is simply religious activity, and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only what was wrought by the Holy Spirit will stand.”
– Tozer, Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts, 22-23
“Fasting is about CHOOSING
voluntary WEAKNESS
so that Christ may
abound even more within us.”
– Mike Bickle
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Related:
“The wicked are always surprised to find the righteous can be so clever.”
– John Paul Jackson
From his Facebook page
It’s not what we’ve done in the past,
but our commitment to do what is right in the future.
– Me
I heard this profound quote today, and thought I’d look it up. It’s often misattributed to Voltaire.
I know a number of people who could have launched the spiritual revival we so desperately need, but they all made excuses, refusing to do what is right so ‘ONE’ can happen “that the world will know” – Jesus’ prayer in John 15.
It just takes one group of people in one place who get their act together, and we’ll have the revival that will rock the world!
Please, stop making excuses and do what is right on Earth. We must overcome! This is our one chance…. We just need a few people who will humble themselves, step up and obey.
The world is waiting.
jeff
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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Stanisŀaw Jerzy Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane nowe] (1964)
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Related:
“Only the pure in heart can see God,
and there is no unforgiveness in a pure heart.”
– John Paul Jackson
(source)
Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
Related:
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
What does God say? Women, children and men exposing themselves to TSAs in NAKED BODY SCANNERS!
1942 Minnesota: Bathing beaches prior to the low-cut top epidemic
Amazing Dress: India Arie singing with Carlos Santana on The Tonight Show. This is grace!
All of my Lust Freedom! posts [latest appear first, 10 posts per page]
“Today we are often frightened to commit to any particular group or cause, any particular leadership. The modern man is an “individualist” to the core. But all of this, of course, is the exact opposite of “Body.” It is the exact opposite of ‘Community.’ And thus the exact opposite of the true Church.”
– Andrew Strom
“Women,
the way a man looks at you is out of your control,
but what you reveal is up to you.”
– Author Unknown
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Related:
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
What does God say? Women, children and men exposing themselves to TSAs in NAKED BODY SCANNERS!
1942 Minnesota: Bathing beaches prior to the low-cut top epidemic
Amazing Dress: India Arie singing with Carlos Santana on The Tonight Show. This is grace!
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way (Includes my dream in which I was warned about going to hell for lusting while watching TV)
“The root cause of almost every personal problem
is found in trying to do things without God.”
-Rick Joyner
“The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world’s parade…. We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.”
– A.W.Tozer
“Denying ourselves and taking up our cross isn’t a little side issue.
It is absolutely necessary to becoming or continuing to become
a disciple of Jesus.”
– John Wesley
Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
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“Jesus was as black and white as you get.
He would look at people and say:
‘Why do you call me Lord if you don’t do what I say?'”
– Francis Chan
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What does Jesus mean when He tells us to follow Him? Are we supposed to just agree with what He says, or does He really mean we’re supposed to do the things He did and live the life He lived? Once we understand how to follow Jesus, we see the hard life that might be in store for us, and then the real question becomes not how, but why we would want to follow Him in the first place.
Related:
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God at Amazon [paperback, Kindle, and audio editions]
John Tesh & Friends [including Francis]: How Important is FORGIVENESS in a Relationship? | FORGIVING: Our GREATEST OPPORTUNITY to SHOW the LOVE of Christ!
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
All of my Francis Chan posts (currently 40, 10 posts per page, latest appear first — many videos)
From: John Paul Jackson on Facebook
“The spirit must rule the body. When the spirit is willing and the flesh is weak, the body is telling the spirit of a man what to do.”
– John Paul Jackson
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“Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
– Jesus in Mt. 26:41
I was just listening to the rebroadcast of this morning’s Alex Jones Show. Alex was saying that there is going to be a division:
“Either you’re going to be more enlightened and closer to God —
or closer to the flesh.”
– Alex Jones
The idea that justification is imparted righteousness and that it is a robe of righteousness put over a dirty filthy fellow who terribly needs a bath and that that dirty, filthy fellow filled with cooties and the accumulations of dirt of his lifetime will stand boldly in God Almighty’s holy Heaven among seraphim and cherubim and archangels and the spirits of just men made perfect and blithely and flippantly say “I belong in hell. I’m a filthy man but what are you going to do about it? I have on me the robe of Christ’s righteousness and that’s enough.”
…This is a heresy as terrible and as devastating as the heresy promulgated by the falsely-called Jehovah’s Witnesses!”
– A.W. Tozer
Related:
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
I haven’t been watching IHOP much lately. I only find some of what is sung there anointed — the prayer times, especially — never any repentance for supporting the Bush wars and torture.
But this “Spirit without measure” phrase is very foundational for the revival to happen. ‘ONE’ is going to happen where the people are truly ONE with each other, in Christ. We need to love everyone as much as ourselves, not just a select few — and God with ALL of our heart.
Also strangely missing are prayers for us to get right with fellow believers who have been hurt — to admit we were wrong so we can be clean — fearless — abiding in Christ, lifting holy hands to the Lord.
No one wants to talk about reconciliation, which was the key to the Welsh revival and Asbury.
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A true, spiritual revival theme was just sung at IHOP
(International House of Prayer):
“The Spirit WITHOUT MEASURE will be given
to the people WITHOUT MIXTURE.”
May we be ‘ONE’ — John 17 realized
: )