“Courage begins with a commitment
to see things as they are,
rather than how we wish they were.”
– Ron Paul
(source)
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Elijah
By Rich Mullins
(1955-97)
The Jordan is waiting for me to cross through
My heart is aging I can tell
So Lord, I’m begging
For one last favor from You
Here’s my heart take it where You will
This life has shown me how we’re mended
And how we’re torn
How it’s okay to be lonely as long as you’re free
Sometimes my ground was stoney
And sometimes covered up with thorns
And only You could make it what it had to be
And now that it’s done
Well, if they dressed me like a pauper
Or if they dined me like a prince
If they lay me with my fathers
Or if my ashes scatter on the wind
I don’t care
CHORUS:
But when I leave I want to go out like Elijah
With a whirlwind to fuel my chariot of fire
And when I look back on the stars
Well, It’ll be like a candlelight in Central Park
And it won’t break my heart to say goodbye
There’s people been friendly
But they’d never be your friends
Sometimes this has bent me to the ground
Now that this is all ending
I want to hear some music once again
‘Cause it’s the finest thing I have ever found
But the Jordan is waiting
Though I ain’t never seen the other side
They say you can’t take in
The things you have here
So on the road to salvation
I stick out my thumb and He gives me a ride
And His music is already falling on my ears
There’s people been talking
They say they’re worried about my soul
Well, I’m here to tell you I’ll keep rocking
‘Til I’m sure it’s my time to roll
And when I do
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From: MaxLucado.com
On the last night of his life Jesus prayed a prayer that stands as a citadel for all Christians:
I pray for these followers, but I am also praying for all those who will believe in me because of their teaching. Father, I pray that they can be one. As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me. (John 17:20)
How precious are these words. Jesus, knowing the end is near, prays one final time for his followers. Striking, isn’t it, that he prayed not for their success, their safety, or their happiness.
He prayed for their unity. He prayed that they would love each other.
As he prayed for them, he also prayed for “those who will believe because of their teaching.” That means us! In his last prayer Jesus prayed that you and I be one.
The Command of Acceptance
Of all the lessons we can draw from this verse, don’t miss the most important: Unity matters to God. The Father does not want his kids to squabble. Disunity disturbs him. Why? Because “all people will know that you are my followers if you love each other” (John 13:35). Unity creates belief. How will the world believe that Jesus was sent by God? Not if we agree with each other. Not if we solve every controversy. Not if we are unanimous on each vote. Not if we never make a doctrinal error. But if we love one another.
Unity creates belief. Disunity fosters disbelief. Who wants to board a ship of bickering sailors? Life on the ocean may be rough, but at least the waves don’t call us names.
Paul Billheimer may very well be right when he says:
“The continuous and widespread fragmentation of the Church has been the scandal of the ages. It has been Satan’s master strategy. The sin of disunity probably has caused more souls to be lost than all other sins combined.”2
“All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.” Stop and think about this verse for a minute. Could it be that unity is the key to reaching the world for Christ?
If unity is the key to evangelism, shouldn’t it have precedence in our prayers? Shouldn’t we, as Paul said, “make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3 NW)? If unity matters to God, then shouldn’t unity matter to us? If unity is a priority in heaven, then shouldn’t it be a priority on earth?
Entire Article Here
Related:
Let Us Be ONE — a 34-part prophecy
From: goodreads.com…
“Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
Love like there’s no tomorrow,
and if tomorrow comes,
love again.”
— Max Lucado
(Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours)
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Coast to Coast AM 1/6/11
“For the Christians who are to be the salt of the earth, salt preserves….
I submit to you that the reason the Illuminati are taking over is, number one: … the pulpits are powerless and the people have no teaching, and the people don’t understand.
It’s like if I put the most powerful weapon in someone’s hands and they don’t know how to use it it won’t do them any good. …
Why does evil triumph over good? Because the good fails to exert the power that God’s given it. …
There was a time when we were the salt of the earth and good held back evil.”
* * *
“No word of God spoken by any word of God to the people of God in all the history of God’s people is ever received by the people of God by the man of God who speaks it at any time. …
God’s people never believe him at the time he speaks it. Only in retrospect do all men see clearly.”
* * *
“It’s tough to be ahead of time, and then wait for everyone to catch up, and then be frustrated during that time.”
– Steve Quayle
Steve quoted Hosea 4:
1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
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Related:
Coast to Coast AM’s Recap
From: johnthebaptisttv.com (Andrew Strom)
‘CARNAL’ CHRISTIANS – Saved or Not?
The following quote from Leonard Ravenhill caused the biggest
reaction yet on our Facebook page. We are now discussing it on
our new website – where ANYONE can now comment (not just
members). Here is the quote and a few replies to kick things off!-
The QUOTE:
“Get rid of this bunkum about the ‘carnal Christian’. Forget it! If
you’re carnal, you’re not saved.” – Leonard Ravenhill.
Some REPLIES:
A.M – “Well the Bible is white and black, there is no gray, either
you’re with Christ or you are against Him.
“He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather
with me, scatters.””
R.B – “I have enjoyed reading through all the comments regarding
this qoute. In my opinion, and correct me if am wrong Andrew, but
I feel that the meaning of this qoute is refing to those who habitually
live in carnality. I think that every Christian falls into carnallity from
time to time, does that make them “unsaved”? I don’t think so.”
L.C – “Well I don’t agree on this one! The Bible speaks of carnal
“Christians”! In 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 Paul is speaking to the
Corinthian BELIEVERS when he tells them he couldn’t speak to
them as spiritual (one governed by the Spirit) but as carnal, mere
infants in Christ.”
A.M – “If you read 1 corinthians Paul is rebuking them for
being carnal, not condoning it.”
Olive Branch – “Without the phrase (‘Carnal Christian’) many so
called Christians have no way of justifying their sin.”
– Have something important to say on this?
Please add your comment below-
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What my pastor has said…,
people won’t acknowledge it* because
the foundation for everything they’ve believed
and what they’ve trusted literally collapses.
And then their life goes and shatters.
– Dr. Doug Rokke
Related:
Psychologists Explain 911 Denial: Fear, Pride, Exceptionalism… (Why aren’t most people willing to even look at what the Bible really says about who goes to heaven — the most important issue?!)
Almost 2 hours with Gerald Celente: “People don’t want to believe that their country is going under. They don’t want to admit that they’ve been had.” “You’re going to start seeing a thinning of the herd. And the people that are going to move forward and make it will be that 20%.”
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth and Truth-tellers
WordPower: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
More of what’s really going on is at my other freedom site: ToBeFree
“You weren’t made to fit in.
You were born to stand out.”
– Jim Caviezel
Talking on TBN about The Word of Promise audio Bible
transcribed by me
I’m not a big TBN fan, at all,
but this discussion with Caviezel was excellent!
There’s something really special about this guy!
My ’95 talon
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.
– Jesus
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
From: Rense
The Collapse Of Western Morality
By Paul Craig Roberts
…permit me to acknowledge that the US dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities, fire-bombed Tokyo, that Great Britain and the US fire-bombed Dresden and a number of other German cities, expending more destructive force, according to some historians, against the civilian German population than against the German armies, that President Grant and his Civil War war criminals, Generals Sherman and Sheridan, committed genocide against the Plains Indians, that the US today enables Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinians, policies that one Israeli official has compared to 19th century US genocidal policies against the American Indians, that the US in the new 21st century invaded Iraq and Afghanistan on contrived pretenses, murdering countless numbers of civilians, and that British prime minister Tony Blair lent the British army to his American masters, as did other NATO countries, all of whom find themselves committing war crimes under the Nuremberg standard in lands in which they have no national interests, but for which they receive an American pay check.
I don’t mean these few examples to be exhaustive. I know the list goes on and on. Still, despite the long list of horrors, moral degradation is reaching new lows. The US now routinely tortures prisoners, despite its strict illegality under US and international law, and a recent poll shows that the percentage of Americans who approve of torture is rising. Indeed, it is quite high, though still just below a majority.
And we have what appears to be a new thrill: American soldiers using the cover of war to murder civilians. Recently American troops were arrested for murdering Afghan civilians for fun and collecting trophies such as fingers and skulls. …
The US government, a font of imperial hubris [def. – excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance], does not believe that any act it commits, no matter how vile, can possibly be a war crime. One million dead Iraqis, a ruined country, and four million displaced Iraqis are all justified, because the “threatened” US Superpower had to protect itself from nonexistent weapons of mass destruction that the US government knew for a fact were not in Iraq and could not have been a threat to the US if they were in Iraq. …
Some sports teams now have a win-at-all-cost attitude that involves plans to injure the star players of the opposing teams. …
Americans will be the first people sent straight to Hell while thinking that they are the salt of the earth. The Americans have even devised a title for themselves to rival that of the Israelis’ self-designation as “God’s Chosen People.” The Americans call themselves “the indispensable people.”
Entire Article Here
For more of what’s really going on, check out my extensive research at ToBeFree
Who really goes to heaven? Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way
So what does this say about what’s required for full revival to happen?
My answer, below.
– jeff
“Good doctrine produces
good Christians and good churches.
Bad doctrine or no doctrine produces
weak Christians and weak churches.”
– Kevin Conner, theologian —
one of my teachers at Abbott Loop’s Bible School in 1984
Quote transcribed by myself
from Rick Benjamin’s PowerPoint slide
during last night’s introduction
to the doctrinal classes that ALCC is now offering.
* * *
Could we then say that:
“The false doctrine of eternal security produces
false ‘Christians’ and false churches.
Whereas:
“Great doctrine produces
great Christians and great churches…
the Third Great Awakening?!!!!!!!”
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Failure to prepare
is preparing to fail.
– John Wooden
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Gerald Celente:
“If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens…”
John Wooden Quotes
Compiled by Jeff Fenske
ToBeFree
“Success
is peace of mind
which is a direct result of
self-satisfaction in knowing
you did your best to become
the best you are capable of becoming.”
•
“Never try to be better than someone else.
Learn from others,
and try to be the best you can be.
Success is the by-product of that preparation.”
•
“Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”
“It’s the little details that are vital.
Little things make big things happen.”
“Be quick, but don’t hurry.”
“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
“Make every day your masterpiece. “
“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”
“Be prepared and be honest.”
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.”
“The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
“Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.”
“Listen if you want to be heard”
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
“If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
“For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren’t able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.”
“Talent is God given. Be humble.
Fame is man-given. Be grateful.
Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.”
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.”
“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
“Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”
“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings,
and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.”
“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.”
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.”
“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”
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“This is really someone who is an intergalactic treasure!”
– Bill Walton
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1WOjpegGyA]John Wooden – Intergalactic Treasure
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4VMZb8wLY]Forgiveness and the Freedom of Letting go
Forgiveness is the mental, emotional and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution
“Ignorant men raise questions
that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He only earns his freedom and his life
who takes them every day by storm.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
•
“The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence,
and the violent take it by force.”
– Jesus (Matthew 11:12)
“Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.
In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Related:
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Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
[WordPOWER!] 2 Peter 3: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
[Willfully ignorant] Dr. Doug Rokke: People won’t acknowledge what the US has really done because the foundation for everything they’ve believed and what they’ve trusted literally collapses…
[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.”
[FreedomQuote] Patrick Henry: “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” — I’ll take the red pill, thank you, to totally live in reality no matter what! FREEeeeeeeeeeeeeee——————DOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Psychologists Explain 911 Denial: Fear, Pride, Exceptionalism… (Why aren’t most people willing to even look at what the Bible really says about who goes to heaven — the most important issue?!)
Gandhi: Widespread Belief Doesn’t Make an Error True
HeartQuotes: Truth — “A thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many” – Spinoza
“Truth … lies in the depth where few are willing to search for it.”
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from IHOP’s Passion for Jesus webcast, part 4, 4/9/10, Friday afternoon
“There’s so many believers trying to have just enough God to get into the kingdom, but just enough sin so they can stay in their same social circle.
Too much God to enjoy sin; too much sin to enjoy God.
It’s really true. The most miserable people in the earth are people with false doctrines of grace, where they see grace as permission to keep compromising — instead of grace as God’s forgiveness when we repent, and then empowering us to wholeheartedness.
Wholeheartedness: it’s the only way we can function right. We were made by God to be wholehearted. If we don’t have something to do for we have nothing to live for.
We can’t live half-hearted. We’ll die of boredom. And many are dying spiritually of boredom. They won’t go all the way.”
– Mike Bickle
“Men must be governed by God
or they will be ruled by tyrants”
•
“Where God does not govern,
tyrants will rule”
– William Penn
“Bad men cannot make good citizens.
It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.
A vitiated [debased – ed.] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience is incompatible with freedom [FREEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee———–DOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – ed.].
No free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles [sound doctrine – ed.].”
— Patrick Henry
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__________________
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Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, Give me liberty or give me death. But in current textbooks the context of these words is deleted.
Here is what he said:
“An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
These sentences have now been erased from our textbooks.
• • •
Was Patrick Henry a Christian? These are the words he wrote shortly before his death:
“I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.”
(source)
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from IHOP’s 24/7 Prayer Room, 3/14/09, early AM while the janitor vacuumed
There is One seated on the throne, He is God,
seated on the throne, and He is holy.
“We join with the four living creatures.
We sing the song that the angels sing.
We want to know what they know.
We want to see what they see when they cry holy, holy, holy!“
We sing holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
We sing holy, holy, holy is the Lamb!
– Jaye Thomas, IHOP worship leader
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from a prayer sung during worship/intercession with Matt Gilman (who is on fire right now, having been touched big-time regarding his prophetic anointing on Saturday night at the IHOPU Awakening) at the IHOP Prayer Room, 2/23/10.
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Turn my eyes from worthless things,
even the permissible that’s not beneficial.
Fill me with life.
.
This concept is wonderful, spending our time only on what’s beneficial, which is why I posted this. But I have this reservation, which I think is significant.
In my opinion, there is too much asking (even telling) God to do things for us that He has already empowered us to do.
I know I’m being picky here, but it’s been something that has concerned me for many years. Why are we putting the this on God? Why are we asking Him to do something He’s already promised He would help us do?
Whose responsibility is it to turn our eyes? Ours or God’s?
God gives us the grace (those of us who are born-again), He will always give us the power of the Holy Spirit so we will be able to turn our own eyes.
He won’t do it for us, but He’ll help us and empower us to do it, by His grace.
And regarding asking/telling God: “Fill me with life.”
He already promised He would respond in this way:
“Draw near to God and He’ll draw near to you.” (James 4)
He will. We don’t have to ask Him to, tell Him to, beg Him to. He will when we draw near to Him in holiness, right with each other — worshiping Him in Spirit and in truth.
It’s automatic. “We don’t have to work it up.” We need to prepare a place for Him.
He will draw near to us when we truly will draw near to Him — worshiping Him in Spirit and in truth
We’re living in the new covenant now. The Holy Spirit is in us 24/7, ready to go.
I would prefer these versions:
Let’s turn our eyes from worthless things,
even the permissible that’s not beneficial.
Thank you for filling us with life.
Or
We turn our eyes from worthless things,
even the permissible that’s not beneficial.
We look to You as the source of life.
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How did they do it at the Asbury Revival when God showed up BIG-TIME?
Asbury Revival, 1970: “Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?”
Let’s get right with each other and then we can worship!!!
Mt. 5:
23 “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from the IHOPU Student Awakening, 2/17/10
“God can deliver us from everything except an unrepentant heart.
I felt like there’s some in this room tonight,
you need to repent of bitterness.
You’ve allowed a root of bitterness to grow up in you….
Beloved, that bitterness not only defiles your own spirit,
but it defiles many.
The Bible says, the book of Hebrews said:
Do not allow a root of bitterness to grow up
that would defile many
[via James-3 curses – ed.].”
– Wes Hall, IHOP revivalist — good guy!!!
From: News with Views
“The more prominent you are in Christ’s service, the more certain are you to be the butt of calumny [slander]. I have long ago said farewell to my character.
I lost it in the earlier days of my ministry by being a little more zealous than suited a slumbering age. And I have never been able to regain it except in the sight of Him who judges all the earth, and in the hearts of those who love me for my work’s sake.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“The measure of the encounter is not how much you shook;
it’s how much you changed when you got up from shaking.”
Wes Hall, IHOPU Provost
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from IHOPU Student Awakening, 1/23/10
Related:
“Jesus is not coming back until
the Jews are ready to say ‘Yes’ to Him.
And the Jews will not say ‘Yes’ to Jesus until
they see the life of Jesus as a reality in the church.”
– Wes Hall
IHOPU Student Awakening, 1/22/10
transcribed by Jeff Fenske
“The reason the Holy Spirit is coming is because
we’ve made a sanctuary for Him.”
– Wes Hall
IHOP Awakening, 1/15/10