Husbands Love Your Wife as Christ Loves the Church

It might be good for us to review a bit:

The Word says it is good for a man to NOT touch a woman. 

Now why would it say that?  Because men are turned on my sight and women are turned on by touch.  Oh! The Wisdom of God!  I don't touch women I am not married to because I believe His Word.

This verse was turning over in my mind today:  Husbands, love your wives like Christ loves the Church.  

In God's sight a husband and wife are one unit.  They are to work together to build a house to raise children in the respect and reverence of God. If we as parents do not teach our children about a living God by our lives with each other (husband and wife) how will they ever know God is real?   Dont tell me how much U love God if you dont have respect for your mate.   

A husband and a wife are a team.  It take hard work to make a team work right and it takes God's Spirit to teach us when we are not in harmony.  We practice being married....and practice and practice...with our foot on our own throats to hold ourselves down and under control.    

We love God when we love our mates correctly. Our prayers are hindered when we are not in harmony with our mates.  Harmony is both parties singing the same tune!  LOL  We each are our own person with our own desires and goals, but we set them aside to become a team...pulling in the same direction.  Each person on the team has the same weight, each person's thoughts, goals and desires are equally important to each of us.  We both give to get.  Remembering that love is the greatest force in the world.  I follow You because I love You.  

 

God took Eve from Adam's side, not from his head nor from his feet.  The wife is not above him and not to be under his feet.  But under his arm for protection.  Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the Church.

 We are to have a godly balance husbands and wives to manifest God in our own relationships.  We are the only Bible many men will ever read.  It is in our lives they are to see God.  Our children look for a living God in us.  How can we profess to know God and God is love when we fail to manifest Godly love to each other as a couple and before our kids?  

We all have dirty laundry but dont show the world your dirty laundry.  We all have a past, but remember God forgets our past and so should we of each other.  Never to be remembered against you again! 

Who is a God like you,

who pardons sin and forgives the transgression

of the remnant of his inheritance?

You do not stay angry forever

but delight to show mercy.

19You will again have compassion on us;

you will tread our sins underfoot

and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

And lastly: by way of a reminder.

We were each given 2 ears and 1 mouth, for a reason.  We are to spend twice as much time listening are we are talking.  

Talking is like ping pong.  Many have never figured that out.  With respect you say something and then let me talk.  What I have to say is just as important to me as what you have to say is important to you.

I cant stand to talk to someone that will not give me equal time to talk.  It is proof positive when God has got a hold on you and you have surrendered to God when He controls our mouth.  People who talk too much are NOT under the control of the Spirit.  The Word says be ready to listen and slow to speak.  That is God's attitude about that matter.  

Well, there is much more but you might grow hard of hearing if I continue.  

BE blessed Bw and Jan

Being Spirit-Led a Promise Land Christian

2 Chronicles 18:21 "'I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of ...

And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit 
in the mouth of all his prophets.
' And he said, 'You are to entice him, 
and you shall succeed; go out and do so.'

Those that listen for voices are sure to hear them.  There are many voices in the world and some with the main purpose to deceive the very elect of God.  

For many the extent of their Bible study consists of a 20 min sermon on Sunday ( a joke, 3 bullet points and an altar call).  Now these are the same  people are turned out into the world with heads cocked listening to voices hoping to hear God's!  

Let me show you a more excellent way.  In times past God spoke to us thru the prophets but in the last day has commanded us to hear His Son.  Heb 1:1 

We need to hear God in the volume of the Word of God.  The Word was made flesh.  God is His Word, and the Word is God. Of course I am not talking about black ink on white paper or even the red letters on white paper, but the Spirit of the Living God.  The letter kills the Spirit makes alive.  

Here are the steps to being led by God.  

1. Ask for Spiritual leadership. Believe you will receive it.

2.  Surrender to His Will in your life every day.

3.  Believe you will receive divine guidance.

4.  Look for provision (has the water rolled back) 

5.  Walk in faith

6. Meditate upon His Word day and night.

7. Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares.

8.  Don't be double minded, you will receive nothing from God.

9.  Believe He is able and well able

10. Don't trust in voices, but prove all things and hold fast to that which is good.

1. Ask for Spiritual leadership. Believe you will receive it.

How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask?  

People don't have because they don't ask.  We need to ask God for what we need to be led by Him and that is the indwelling/ in filling of His Spirit.  We are not to be led by the pulpit or a man but by the Spirit of God with His laws written on the flesh of our hearts.  Leadership of the Spirit comes from within.   Our heart either condemns us or not and that is the finger of God guiding us by our conscience.  If we do not have the Spirit of God how then can we have a conscience sensitive to the leadings and promptings of God?  If our heart does not condemn us then have confidence!  Oh what liberty Spiritual leadership provides.  Unlike the brow beating of "will worship"  and junk dog barking when we get out of line, we simply have a gentle nudging of the Spirit from within saying "this is the way walk in it".

Are you led by what others think?  Or by what the pulpit might say or are you a freeman in Christ to serve God in Spirit and Truth.  The Promise Land Christian is led by the Spirit (Joshua/ Jesus).

2.  Surrender to His Will in your life every day.

Not my will but His be done!

Spiritual leadership is based upon one thing!  Letting God lead by His Spirit in our inner man.  Conditional surrender is not Spiritual Leadership.  We must be willing to lay it all upon the altar of sacrifice and follow Him in his leadings:  Total Surrender every day in every thing no matter where it may take us.

12 spies view the Promise Land, 10 say "we can't" and 2 say "we can" and they were both right.  Which group  was really led by the Spirit?  The Spirit said: Go and take the land.  Num 13:30

God by His Spirit will lead us into a new way we have never gone before.  Walled cities, giants and battle grounds will stand in the way of the Spirit-led.  Will we draw back to the comfort of our padded pews and pulpit leadership or will we go to Him (outside the camp of religion Heb 13:13) and really surrender to the Spirit-led leadership?  

3.  Believe you will receive divine guidance.

When you ask believe that you will receive.  The secret to walking in the Spirit or the Spirit-led life is to live by the power of God with His Spirit  leading you.  Expecting His leadings in ever detail of you life is exactly what you want and need in this new and living way.

The verse says: Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares for you.  Walking in the Spirit is casting your life headlong into the protection and divine provisions of God.  

I expect God to lead every tiny detail of my life.  I have asked and I believe to receive.  He will not give me a stone for an egg, or a snake for a piece of bread.  The is no degree of darkness in Jesus/Joshua my leader.  I have offered my body a living sacrifice and I full well expect Him to express His life in me.  Will He not take care of Himself?  I am hid in His life.  I live, yet not I.

4.  Look for provision (has the water rolled back) 

Very important in following God is provision.  If God does not provide then God did not say!  God's plan for Israel was to cross both the Red Sea and the Jordan river (there is a lesson there for us but on another day).  Both times the waters rolled back for God's people to cross on dry ground.  Provision was made for the Will of God to be accomplished.  

People often say God said this or that for me but there is  no provision.  Where God makes no provisions for them then they are mistaken.  "God is sending me to Africa"  great then make sure there is provision to get there and stay there or God did NOT say.   Provision is proving God said.

Our God is the "way maker".  If there is not an open door set before you then God did not say.  If the door is closed then know it is God that opens and shuts doors.  We are door examiners and not door kickers.  Rather than listening to voices I would think it much wiser in the Spirit to look for open doors, a way made and water that has rolled back!  My daily prayer is lead me in a plain path and set before me open doors.  Then I watch to see. 

5.  Walk in faith

This has to be one of the greatest stories of faith in the Bible.  II Kings 4:8

I am not going to tell you the story so read and be surprised on your own.

The profession of her faith "all is well" is what I long for.  No matter what I am going thru or what has happened:  All is well!   Now that is faith in Spiritual Leadership.  When I put my hand in His Hand all is well! 

6. Meditate upon His Word day and night.

His Word is food for the mind!

Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 

Jesus is that Living Bread sent down from Heaven to feed us.  Just as a loaf of bread does you no good as long as it is sitting on the table, so we too must eat that Bread of Life for it to do us any good.  By eat it I mean get it inside your mind.

Most Christians enjoy a 20 minute sermon down at "pay to pray" and consider that to be enough "religion" for the week  (like a booster shot to get me thru to next week).  These are "Wilderness" Christians, those who never enter the Promise of the Spirit-led life.  They  are Church of the Lukewarms who have a form but no power.  I am not talking about the emotional fever of shouting and singing stirred up by a paid professional, (which is much like a hot bath, feels pretty good when you are in it but when you get out it leaves you COLD).  The real power of God comes from meditating on His Word every day all day long.  

That is worth repeating: The real power of God comes from meditating on His Word everyday all day long!

My responsibility to eat God's Word does not mean be spoon fed on padded pews but to eat and live of it everyday all day long.  We eat the Word and then much like a cow, we chew on it over and over till it breaks down to create His Life in us. 

  I am the Bread that came down from Heaven.  Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no part in Me. 

7. Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares.

F.A.I.T.H.   Forsaking All Is Trusting Him.  

We often think the Jesus is unconcerned with the mundane things of our lives.  That is why we only "bother" God when things are serious.  This was not His plan, to only be there when we really really need Him!  

The verse says: cast all your cares upon Him for He cares for you.  There is nothing in our lives so small that God is unconcerned.  After all, our faith starts as a tiny seed.  We are not to worry about life, clothes, what we will eat but our God provides for all our needs according to His riches.  

To successfully walk in the Spirit you must leave all the tiniest details of your life and being in the Hands of God: Trusting Him to be your Source and Provider.

8.  Don't be double minded, you will receive nothing from God.

Double minded means "wishy washy"  hot/ cold, in and out..."I think the Lord will help me, but, well, I not really sure the Lord even hears me"  etc.

We need to believe when we put our lives and leadership in His Hands He will do what He says.  All the promises in God's Word are conditional. He says:  I will if you will.  And:  if you will I will.  

Since it is impossible for God to lie or fail or change His mind then when we ask believing according to His will He hears us!  

So let us ask for His leadership, nothing wavering in faith, and believe to see His Hand in all we do.  

9.  Believe He is able and well able.

Many question their ability to hear from God and to me that is just totally  backwards.  Can He who made the ear not hear?  Can He that made the tongue not speak?  Is Spiritual leadership based upon our ability or upon His? If my Spiritual leadership is based upon me then I will fail every time.  

But it is He who is able and well able to lead, guide, talk and listen.  It is the Joshua (Jesus) that I follow and He leads me  into Promise Land (the spirit-led life) 

Religion places too much upon the "old man's" ability.  If only you would pray more and study more and give more and be more faithful to church attendance then you would be closer to God!  Really?   

Let me ask:  If He lives in me how much closer can He be?  Ask, believe and receive.  I asked for His Spirit, His leadership, His guidance, and now suddenly it is all dependent upon me?  Oh? Silly man!  Who among us is able to save ourselves?  If I am depending upon myself or the pulpit for Spiritual Leadership then I might as well give up now!   Why?  My faith is not in Him!  

I ask Him, believe Him and then watch Him work His will in my life.  Religion says it is all about me and Grace says it is all about Him.  Now whose report do you believe?  

10. Don't trust in voices, but prove all things and hold fast to that which is good.

As I said in the beginning that those the hear voices and say: God told me this and God told me that,  are sure to have heard a voice but most probably not His.  We will hear His voice, His still small voice, in our heart and in our conscience.  We will prove it to be His voice/will by open doors and provision.  It will always agree with His Word and will be proven by coming to pass.  Can He say it and not do it?  If it does not happen as they say He said, then someone lied on God!  

Walking in the Spirit is being exercised by lots of practice to discern both good and evil.  Many voices are sent out into the world to be lying spirits in the mouth of the enemy's prophets/preachers.  Don't despise the preaching of the Word.  Believe not every voice, but prove all things and hold fast to what is true.  

Walking in the Spirit and being Spirit-led as a Promise Land Christian will be a life of battle and victory, conquering walled cities, battles with giants and possessing the land within the believer.  (Possess the Land within for King Jesus). 

Be Blessed,  Billy

Just a Cup of Water

Matt 10:42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward."

Doing a work for God could be as simple a planting a seed or sharing a cup of water.  

If the purpose of the pulpit is to equip the saints to do the work of ministry then we need direction.  We need equipping.  One tiny seed planted can produce tons of fruit. Doing the work of your ministry could be as easy as pushing the forward button on your email.  Why should a word from God stop with you?  If it had meaning and inspiration then why not share?   Step one share what you have with others.  Become involved in this "seed" ministry.

Share a cup of water, a word of inspiration, an email, an inspiring thought, a word of wisdom,  a revelation.

Become a conduit for God to bless someone else, thus begin the work of your ministry.  

Be blessed Billy and Jan

Rise to Fly with Eagles

Eph 4: 11So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

This verse has been very precious to me thru all my years with Jesus.  It simply points out the purpose of God in the Church and for the Church pulpit and more importantly the final goal of it all, maturity.

Casually reading over this verse seems like God gives to the Church the 5 fold ministry, the pulpit, so they would have a job.  Unfortunately we have mis-read.  It said He gave the 5 fold ministry to equip the people to do the work, their work.  (the pulpit is not to do the work but the people are! )   There is where we missed it.  We thought the purpose of the pulpit was to have a job to minister to the people.  But actually the purpose of the pulpit is to work themselves out of a job. How?  By equipping the saints to do the work of their ministry.  

Rather than teaching the people to do the work of the ministry we have built huge congregations, crystal cathedrals, men's kingdoms and padded pew full of people who know nothing about maturity and doing the work of their own ministry.   "Sit here, pay and pray" and we will do the rest, the pulpit cries!   We hired professional "pulpiteers" to pipe pretty words to us, filling us with the pride of life and pride of belonging to Big Church! 

We have learned to reach the lost by inviting them to comer hear "our preacher" and that is the extent of the work of our ministry.   "Join my church!"  

The pulpit has made us dependent on the 20 minute bullet sermon and caused us to think we walk in full maturity because we "belong".   Pay  and pray is the work of our ministry and the pulpit loves it so.  The pulpit keeps us dependent upon them rather than teaching us to walk in maturity where we don't need tutors.

Feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, orphans and widows in their afflictions has been reduced to dropping a couple of dollars in the plate.  We have hired hireling to pipe to us fables of prosperity, meaningless feel good sermons, and money as a means to godliness and keep on paying and praying  you are doing fine.  They lie. 

This is an accusation toward the pulpit, whose works is not to keep us saved but to equip us with the maturity we need to do the work of our very own ministry.  The pulpit Instead of teaching us to fly with eagles they keep us in the hen yard scratching for worms!   The Body of God in the earth is powerless to lift themselves off the padded pews to go to work.

Preacher if you are the ones saying "they can't be saved without me", then you are the problem not the solution.

Be blessed. BW and Jan

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?

The Muslims teach:

Quran, 5:17, "In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary. Say: "Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every--one that is on the earth? For to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power over all things."

Quran 5:75, "Christ the son of Mary was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!"

The Bible teaches:  God was manifest in flesh I Tim 3:16

Jesus is the only image of the invisible God: Col 1: 15

The World was made by Him (Jesus)  John 1:3, 10

The antichrist denies Jesus is God   I John 2:22

Since Christians believe the Jesus is Almighty God robed in flesh, Creator of the World,  Son in redemption and the Spirit of regeneration and the Muslim are antichrist in that they deny Him (Jesus) who is the One True God I John 5:20 . 

We do not and cannot profess we worship the same God.  Our God's has a saving the only name Jesus, whom the Muslims deny.  They then are antichrist.  (Acts 4:12)

Even the Birds love His Word

Even the birds love His Word!

Matthew 13:4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

If you were to go into the bedroom of a person well beloved, but someone you did not know, you might spend time looking for something they had written.  Perhaps a diary or a journal so that you could get to know this person so beloved.  

All of my 23 years during my B.C. days (before Christ in my life), I hungered to know God.  I always wanted to know what is the real truth and the real meaning of life.  Surely there is more to life than: he was born and died, and a few things in between!  

When I met Jesus in 1973 it was upon a deal that I made with God.  Show me truth, 100% truth and I will live for You.  He showed me His Word.  From that day to this I have loved His Word, eaten His Word, studied His Word that I might know Him in Truth.  Along with His Word He left me His Spirit so together I might partake in the divine nature of God, in Spirit and Truth.  

Why, even the birds love His Word!   

I see people who say they love Him, yet they do not love His Word and all I can say about that is they did not get what I got!  

I found in preaching for 40 years it is easy to preach, because people don't know His word so they can be entertained by stories.   I also found in 40 years of preaching  it is hard to preach His word because people do not know His word so it is hard to teach of the deeper things of God.   There is a vast difference between being entertain and being taught.  A difference between a 20 minute sermon (3 bullet points, and a joke) and really digging out the pearls of God's Truths.

The Word says: it is not the man that starts the race that wins the prize but we must finish the race.  Some quickly receive the good news but then dry up and blow away in the heat of life.  You see they didn't love His Word.

How can we not live to love and eat His Word, the Bread from heaven?  

Why, even the birds love His Word.  

BW

The Church and the Mark of the Beast

1.  We know that the dead in Christ are to be raised at the 1st resurrection.  I Thess 4:16

2.  Then we which are alive and remain will also be caught up in the 1st resurrection.  I Cor. 15:51

3.  The rest of the dead live not again until the 2nd resurrection.  Rev 20:5

4.  Those who take part in the 1st resurrection will rule and reign with Jesus for 1,000 years in the city of Jerusalem in Israel.  I Thess 4:17

5.  We have been falsely taught that we will not be here during the Wrath of God, or Jacob's trouble, but will float away on flowery beds of ease in a pre-tribulation rapture.

6.  Falsely taught:  The Mark of the Beast and the Anti-Christ reign will be AFTER the Church has been caught up in the 1st resurrection, according to modern church teaching call a pre-tribulation rapture.

7.  Unfortunately the Word says that the martyred during the Mark of the Beast will take part in the 1st resurrection (Rapture).  Rev 20:4

8. Fact is the Church will be here during the reign of the Anti-Christ and the Mark of the Beast and will not be caught up until the 1st resurrection which is when Jesus comes back to rescue natural Israel from total destruction.  Matt 24:22

9.  The modern church is ill- prepared to face persecution because of the false teaching of the pre-wrath rapture doctrine.

10.  The pulpit has failed in their job to prepare us to face hard times, by teaching the prosperity doctrine of building men's kingdoms and the "Rapture".  When hard times do come will He find faith on the earth?  2  Thess 2:3, Luke 18:8