I HAD A DREAM

I had this dream a couple of months ago. I wrote it down…It just sat there until now.. I just thought I would share what God shared with me…

I had a dream. There was a strong demonic creature moving robotically towards me and I was consumed with fear. I started praying but I heard a voice tell me to open my eyes. I understood it to be God’s voice. I opened my eyes and there was a horrific figure with its face right in front of mine. My immediate reaction was to close my eyes again.God said look into its eyes and show it you are not afraid. Don’t show your fear. I will give you strength. Then God said outstretch your right hand and tell it to go using my name. So I stretched forth my right hand and said go now in the name of Jesus! And the evil being left instantaneously. I thought the dream was over. But it wasn’t. I saw another evil being. And God said do the same. I did and the evil being was gone. Then God said now they will test you to see if you really know who you are in Christ. I saw another evil being; this one came walking toward me at first. I stretched out my right hand, and rebuked it in the name of Jesus. It seemed at first not to work. It kept on coming toward me. I kept on rebuking. I started to get scared. I looked around and there was no one to be seen except me and this horrific creature, but I knew God was with me. I saw the creature coming rapidly toward me now. Then I heard the Lord say keep your right hand outstretched keep on rebuking, look directly in his eyes and this time I want you to walk towards this evil being. God said this kind won’t run away. And there is no retreat for you. Walk towards the being and show him on what authority you come by. And as I almost reached the being, face to face. I rebuked it in the name of Jesus and it tucked its tail between its legs and ran. The dream was over…

I had forgotten that I wrote this dream down until recently when I read my Pastor’s note on facebook. The title of the note was “Know Who You Are.” That note greatly encouraged me and in his note he explained that this was one of the enemy’s tactics. The enemy will attack the person of who you are in Jesus Christ in hopes that you will crumble away from God. I didn’t even remember this dream until I felt prompted to look at my files on the computer and I found this. I was amazed. Although the dream came several months ago, I needed to read it just now. Lately I have been struggling with a feeling of unworthiness to fulfill the call of God on my life.  I was feeling like a “Bad” Christian. I constantly had to cast down thoughts telling me that I was not worthy. The enemy will try to cast you into isolation with such thoughts and that is what he was trying to do with me. That was until I remembered who I was in Christ!

You Have Not Been Given A Spirit Of Fear, But Of Power, Love And A Sound Mind“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy 1:7

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” – Ephesians 2:10

I am a joint heir with Jesus, sharing His inheritance with Him Romans 8:17

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” – Philippians 4:13

Ephesians 1:3-6 tells us, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.”

We have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light. We have been saved by wrath through Him. We are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. If God is for us, Who dare stand against us? 

I encourage you to study the scriptures and be secure in who you are in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Whom shall we fear?..... but God alone.

If you are reading this today and you have not made Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life, I encourage you to acknowledge your sin turn away in repentance and accept Him.  Jesus says: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

If you would like to accept Jesus into your heart. Say this simple prayer. Confess with your mouth and believe with your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Father, God in heaven, it is written in Your word that
if I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and
believe in my heart that You have raised Him from the dead,
I shall be saved. Therefore, Father, I confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord.
I make Him Lord of my life right now.  I believe in my heart
that you raised Jesus from the dead.  I renounce my past life
with satan and close the door to any of his devices.

I thank You for forgiving me all my sin.  Jesus is my Lord,
and I am a new creation.  Old things have passed away.
Now all things become new, in Jesus’ name.  Amen.

Who Will Stand For Life?

Who will stand for Christ in this war waged against the unborn? Our adversary walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.  The enemy preys upon the weak and defenseless. They are attacked in their mother’s womb. The world today tells mothers with an unplanned pregnancy that they have every right not to be inconvenienced. I would like to ask the question, “What about the child that is murdered?”

 Who will stand for the unborn? Personhood is never measured by age, stage of development, or mental, physical, or social skills as stated in Exodus 4:11. A child in the mother’s womb is simply a smaller human than the human that you and I are today. To Isaiah God said, he who made you, formed you in the womb (Isaiah 44:2). Isaiah was not just a potential person but an actual person in his mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13-16 paints a graphic picture of the intimate involvement of God with a preborn person. God created David’s innermost being, his soul, not at birth but before birth. David says to his creator, You have knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Each person, regardless of parentage or handicap has been personally knit together by God, the Father, in the womb. In Jeremiah 1:5, The Lord tells Jeremiah, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Scripture clearly tells us that Jeremiah was a person in his mother’s womb. Where did God first become flesh and dwell among us? Christians will say Bethlehem, but that is wrong. Christ became flesh When the Holy Spirit conceived a child in Mary that was at Nazareth, nine months before she traveled to Bethlehem. As stated in Exodus 20:13, In light of the full humanity of the preborn child, we must do nothing to take his life. Furthermore, we should do all in our power to protect his life as stated in Proverbs 24:11 and Proverbs 31:8-9.

Women are so concerned about the here and now; they have placed their own desires before the sanctity of human life. A countless number of women have become victims of abortion. According to reports of the Department of Education, as many as 91% of all abortions cause severe psychological problems, both immediate and long-term. They have been deceived by others wanting to murder their children all for the love of money. Women have been told that their babies are just a “fetus” and feel no pain. When a sonogram of an abortion will show the baby opening its mouth in a silent scream as the child is killed. Millions of children all over the world are literally thrown away each day. There must be a stop to sacrificing the unborn to the God of Inconvenience. Abortion is direct defiance against God’s will.

God jealously maintains his sole prerogatives over human life and death. To take that power into our hands is literally to play God.

The mother’s womb is supposed to be a place of safety but it has turned into a war zone against an unborn child as we stand in the midst of these final hours.  Life has become cheap to those who have chosen to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not just to unbelievers, life has become cheap to the Church. Scripture condemns the shedding of innocent blood. The Bible regards the killing of defenseless children as particularly heinous. Therefore the church should be outraged and ready to stand no matter what the cost may be.

The shedding of innocent blood will surely result in the devastating judgment on our society. Judgment first starts in the house of God. God comforts the aborted children by telling them “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning.” Only blood can atone for blood. Whoever sheds mans blood, by man his blood shall be shed. God has made man in his image. Who dare knock the mold out of the potter’s hand!

It is the call of duty of the Church to protect the unborn. Christ is calling his church to repentance for the murder of the innocent. You may ask “What do I have to do with any of this?” I will tell you….you have blood on your hands. The blood of the innocent is on your hands! That’s right church! You stood back you did nothing. This land is polluted with blood. You have the spirit of the Lord residing within you and you have grieved God’s Holy Spirit by doing nothing….The worlds voice has become louder than the Church’s voice. This world cries out for more blood shed. They are intoxicated with the blood of the unborn. It’s a shame. The Church is not crying loud enough…. We have been rebellious against the Lord. As Christians we must prostrate ourselves before the Lord and pray that our nation not be destroyed.  For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. We are in a war that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Who will stand for life? This burden is not our own it is that of Almighty God. Jesus kneels alone in prayer. Will you pass him by or will you join him? This is not our burden to give up on!

Many Christians today have given Satan more power than he actually has. Many Christians have made Satan their God by attributing to Satan the Characteristics that only Almighty God possesses. Christians are so afraid of spiritual combat that they would prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist making them an easy target because they have deceived themselves. And those few that have not, know very little about spiritual warfare, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” Who will educate? Who will teach Gods people battle strategies? God desires for the people called by his name to know all of the tactics of the enemy and to know the enemies strategies ahead of time so that they can go forth and conquer. In today’s church Christ can walk in and see all of the armor still hanging on the walls and the Christians are out to “ war.” The outcome will not be good if things continue this way. Not only do God’s people need to wear their spiritual armor but it must be fastened with prayer. And the Christian must remember there is no retreat.

So before anybody goes into the enemy’s camp to bring back what the enemy has stolen they must take precaution and press into God. They must pray and fast, they must know how to plead the blood of Christ, Speak the Word, and to properly use the name of Jesus, put on the whole armor of God, The power of Praise and to solely rely on the Lord. This is a call to Holiness. Without knowledge of God’s ways the Church will be destroyed. Mere humanity Is no match for the enemy. If we yield to God’s ways and God’s Spirit, we will have the victory! The word “Retreat” doesn’t exist for the person after God’s heart.

Who will stand for life? Who will stand for Christ?