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Earnestly Pray For Your Promise

[1] When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. ~ Acts 2:1-2

After the Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the apostles for forty days. Then He told them to wait for the Holy Spirit to come, and ascended into Heaven. So, the next ten days they spent devoted in prayer. See, the Holy Spirit didn’t come down as soon as Jesus ascended. No. It took them earnestly praying in one accord for ten days for the Holy Spirit to come down.

We are each given promises, but just because we’re given promises, doesn’t mean we no longer have any responsibility in the matter. We have to fight for our promises. They don’t always happen overnight, in fact, the majority of times it takes many days or even years.

If they had not prayed earnestly, I’m not so sure that the Spirit would have been poured out on all flesh. It takes someone to stand in the gap. It takes someone to pray, come LORD come. They spent ten days devoted in prayer, today we struggle to pray for ten minutes, and then wonder why we don’t see the same power they did. We even make excuses saying it just wasn’t for us, but for them alone.

The Church today has become lazy. We will stay up all night working for money, but not to see the glory of God. Not to be filled with His Holy Spirit. I’m not against money, I’m against putting everything into making it but putting nothing into the Kingdom of God. That is the difference between today’s Church and the first century Church. That is why we don’t see the same miracles, signs, and wonders. Because we’ve become lazy to point of death. Spiritual death.

There is only a few days left until Pentecost. Don’t let another Pentecost Sunday pass you by without seeking the LORD. Earnestly seeking Him.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Earnestly Pray For Your Promise.

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Become Fine Flour

Leviticus 23:15-22

[15]  “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. [16] You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. [17] You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord. [18] And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. [19] And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. [20] And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. [21] And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations. [22] And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”

Pentecost is the fulfillment of Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks. The Feast of Weeks was during the Wheat Harvest. They were to not just bring a blood sacrifice from lambs and goats, but a bread offering. Two loaves of bread made from fine flour. It wasn’t just any old flour they used. The flour took more work to produce.

It had to be carefully ground and sifted. Wheat was, apparently, more prestigious. It wasn’t the common grain. Barley was. Pentecost fulfilled this by taking two groups of people: the Israelites and the Gentiles. These two groups of people were brought before the LORD as one body in Christ.

No longer did it matter whether of not you were a Jew, but it is now about your heart. That’s why it’s not just common grain. It’s grain that’s harder to grow and take care of. And that’s not enough. It has to be ground. Sifted. And made fine. It’s not enough to just say you follow Christ or you believe in God. You have to do more than that. You have to deny your flesh. You have to go through the fire. You have to be ground and sifted. Not just anyone can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Many are called, but few are chosen.

Pentecost is the day the Church was born by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Christ. It is the day two people’s were waved before the LORD as one. The day the Holy Spirit was poured out on all flesh and the grinding and sifting process of our soul could truly begin. That is Pentecost. It is hope. Hope of changing for the better. Hope of becoming one people in Christ. Hope of becoming a wave offering to the LORD.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Become Fine Flour.

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Know How To Defend Pentecost

Acts 2:1-4 ESV

[1] When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. [3] And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. [4] And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

There are seven feasts given to the people of Israel, by the LORD Himself. The fourth feast is the Feast of Weeks, Shavuot. It was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came down like a mighty rushing wind. Today, however, the Jewish people believe the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) is about the giving of the Law of Moses on Mt. Sinai.

So, let’s just say, for arguments sake that that’s true. Okay. It looks back at the giving of The Law and forward to the fulfillment of the giving of the Holy Spirit. The seal of our salvation or our new and better covenant.

When the LORD came down and gave the Ten Commandments, He first spoke it to the people of Israel. He came down as fire on the mountain (Exodus 19:18). When the Holy Spirit came down on those in the Upper Room, He came as fire tongues resting on their heads. As Daddy always points out, when Moses came down and saw the golden calf, three thousand Israelite men were slain that day (Exodus 32:28). On the day of Pentecost, Peter preached his first message, and three thousand souls were saved (Acts 2:41).

If the Jews want to believe it looks back to the giving of the Law of Moses, by all means. What better fitting foreshadowing of the giving of the Holy Spirit than that? For no matter what you say it looked back at, it can never change what fulfilled it. You can try to twist Scripture, but you can never change it. You can never rewrite it, for the Word of God will never return to Him void.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Know How To Defend Pentecost.

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Choose The She-Bear

Proverbs 17:12,

12 Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.

King Solomon, the wisest fully human who ever lived, wrote that it was better to meet a she-bear whose cubs had been taken than a fool in his folly. Why? I believe there could be multiple reasons. Solomon often wrote about the anger of the fool and how unhinged it was, so that could be a reason. But I think it might be more so that the fool in his folly is deceptive, as he also wrote.

See, when you don’t know the Truth or why you believe it, you can easily be less astray. You can easily be deceived. You can easily become Eve in the Garden of Eden. Ignorance is probably the biggest killer of souls in the Church today. We have the most and the easiest access to the Bible than any other generation before us, yet we read it the least. Our Bibles on our phones, tablets, computers, etc. even read to us, yet for some reason we still refuse to read it.

This makes us a perfect victim for the fool in his folly. The she-bear might take our life, but the fool in his folly might just take our soul. I know people who, though they were raised in a Christian household, have easily been led astray by foolishness that makes no sense. Why? Because they never read their Bibles. They still refuse to read it in its entirety. Instead, they chose to listen to the fool who cherry picks and half quotes Scripture.

Now, in they have become a fool in their folly. Consumed. Drenched in deception that can only be removed by the Holy Spirit. That can only be removed by the reading of the ENTIRE Scripture, and not just picking and choosing random verses out context.

The Scripture builds a shield around you, lest you be deceived. Lest you be spiritually killed by the fool in his folly. Therefore, read and study to show yourself approved. To show yourself righteous. To be safe from the deception that has destroyed so many in the Church.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Choose The She-Bear.

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Be Encouraged To Run

4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. ~ Revelation 20:4-6

We are to be priests of God and of Christ. When we are caught up to Christ in the clouds and changed in the twinkling of an eye, that is when we will be made priests of God Most High. That is when we will see fulfillment. David ate the Bread of the Presence, but he didn’t partake in the Cup. He ate out of the Holy Place, not the Holy of Holies. I’m not saying he even went into the Holy Place, I’m saying, he ate what came from there.

So, he only had but a taste of the good things the LORD has for us. He had less of a taste than we do today. David received a new body, but it was lifeless at the time, because it had no blood. He could enter Paradise, but not Heaven. He could enter the presence of God, but not dwell in it. He only got but a taste of the good things God has for us.

There are so many good things the LORD has in store for us. That He has blessed us with. That he will bless us with. Let that encourage you to keep going. To run the race at before you with endurance and to never stop.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Encouraged To Run.

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Don’t Force The Hand of God

1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. ~ Jonah 2:1-2

I recently rewatched The Hunger Games series for the millionth time and each time I watch it Prim’s death is just hard. Then I remind myself that her death was a necessary loss. See, if Prim hadn’t died, Katniss would’ve never killed President Coin and the people of Panem would never truly be free. She would’ve just been satisfied living the rest of her life in peace with her family. She would’ve missed her purpose of bringing freedom, peace, and security to everyone without fear of oppression.

So many of us are Katniss Everdeen. We have this giant call on our lives that forces us to become more than we think we are. To travel so far outside of our comfort zone that we feel like we won’t make it. The walls feel like they’re closing as the weight of the world crushes our shoulders. But we have to keep going. Even if it takes someone else pushing us to that place where we will become exactly who we’re supposed to be. Who we’re meant to be.

Sometimes we have to lose everything in order to become more. We all have a call on our lives. Something that demands more of us than we thought we could be. And when we won’t keep going, we need a push that’ll force us to keep going like Katniss Everdeen and the Prophet Jonah. Don’t force God to push you. Jonah lost his very life because he refused to step up to his call. Katniss lost her sister because she couldn’t see the new enemy rising. An enemy worst than her current one.

Your call doesn’t have to take everything from you, if you are willing to give it all in order to fulfill it.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Don’t Force The Hand of God.

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Learn How To Save Life

30 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. ~ Ezekiel 22:30

 A couple songs from my childhood have just been playing in my head for the past few days. One of the songs is “How To Save A Life” by The Fray. To me the lyrics just really make me think. They make me contemplate past life decisions, especially the chorus. It goes:

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

For me, these lyrics really hit hard. There’s one particular person that I just gave up on. I stopped praying and the moment I did, they fell into the very thing I had just stopped praying about. This has been several years ago, and I still think about it. Often. I think about how I just gave into the argument and said fine, if you want me to stop interfering with your life through praying, then that’s exactly what I’ll do.

The words:

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

If I had know how important and powerful my prayers were, and how the very thing I was praying against would’ve been kept at bay if I had just continued, that is what keeps me up. If I had just known how to save a life, I would’ve stayed up all night with them in spirit praying. Now, I just feel shame and regret. Because I was given a task and I failed. I was called to stand in the gap and I didn’t. I walked away.

We’re all called to stand in the gap for someone. You don’t have to be a pastor, teacher, scholar, theologian, or any of the sort. All you have to do is be called by God. And if you are saved, you have been called. To do what? Intercede for your lost loved ones. To stand in the gap interfering in their lives through prayer and fasting. That is the call of every single Christian.

Tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. Don’t give yourself opportunities for disappointment and regret. Learn from the mistakes of others. Don’t let another day go by without standing in that gap. For all you know, that could be the difference between life and death for that person.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Learn How To Save Life.

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Stop Embracing The World

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV

[14]  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? [15] What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? [16] What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [17] Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, [18]  and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

I recently heard a celebrity say he was raising his child to have good Hindu values. This was said by someone who not only was raised in a Christian household, but whose father was an Assembly of God Pastor. We, as the Church, so badly want to be a part of the world, one with the world, and enjoy the world that we will reject our own faith and God to achieve it. See, it wasn’t enough to overlook and be tolerant of the religion of his wife, he had to embrace it and teach it to their child. How sad.

You had the words of Life. The hope of Christ. The good news that is The Gospel, yet you threw it away for a woman. Now, your child will grow up never knowing Truth. She’ll grow up with the value system that created the extreme poverty within India. The extreme filth and waste that the lower classes live in. And worst of all she’ll grow up with the value system that has no true hope because it’s based solely on how good you can be.

We are human. Flawed. Unworthy. Never able to reach perfection, let alone the presence of the Creator God. There is no do over. No second chance. No rebirth once we die. That’s it. It is appointed man once to die, and then the Judgment. Why would you take away the hope, joy, and security that is Christ? The love of God that has taken away the sin of the world?

The final Church in the Book of Revelation is a Church that is rich and well off in material things, but poor in spirit and in Truth. They are rich in the temporary, but poor in the eternal. They are lukewarm, refusing to be either hot or cold. Refusing to choose Christ or the World. This is the richest the Church has ever been, yet this is the poorest spiritually we have ever been. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. We can’t call ourselves Christians, while not only embracing an entirely different religion but raising our children in its values and not the values of the LORD God Almighty.

It’s time the Church stands up for righteousness and makes a choice. A decision. Time is running out. We can’t afford to keep playing on the fence, as if the LORD will be pleased by us replacing Him because He prioritizes tolerance. The LORD has never condoned, pushed, or even overlooked tolerance of sin. So why do we keep pushing it? We want our cake and eat it too. Today is the Day of Salvation. Tomorrow is promised to no man. Therefore, choose life. Choose Truth. Choose Christ.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Stop Embracing The World.

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Go Boldly

“May the good LORD pardon everyone 19 who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness” (2 Chronicles 30:18–19).

Hezekiah and the Israelites were under the Old, inferior Covenant when they gathered to eat the Passover meal. Many of them had not consecrated themselves, so the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for those who were not able to do it for themselves, because they were unclean… Otherwise, it would not be acceptable to the LORD. Yet Hezekiah prayed for them.

They were unclean and so disqualified from eating or even participating in the Passover celebrations…Yet, verse 20 tells us that the LORD heard Hezekiah’s prayer and healed the people.

They were unclean, yet… still they ate, under an inferior covenant, but the LORD healed them anyway, because they had set their hearts to seek the LORD.

If the LORD showed that kind of mercy under the Old Covenant, how much more will we be healed and blessed if we will only discern the body of Christ and believe that “by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5b).

We are no longer strangers to Jesus (Romans 7:4). Isn’t that an amazing thing…? We now belong to Christ… We are no longer strangers, but are betrothed to the Son of God… Therefore, let us come boldly with our prayers, our petitions, and our requests, since we now belong to Christ.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Go Boldly. 

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Be His Joy

Hebrews 12:2 ESV

[2] looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

I read a “Sumerian Proverb” that stated:

How can a poor man who doesn’t know how to cultivate Barley manage to  cultivate wheat?

And it immediately got me thinking. So, since I know nothing of farming or harvesting wheat or barley, I asked ChatGPT if Barley was harder to cultivate than wheat. This is what it sent me in response:

Barley is very hardy. It can grow in poorer soils, tolerates drought better, and can handle slightly more acidic or alkaline soils. Wheat, on the other hand, is sensitive to soil quality, moisture levels, and temperature extremes (especially some high-yield varieties).

Barley has a shorter growing season (about 90–120 days). This makes it faster to harvest and less exposed to diseases or extreme weather. Whereas wheat has a longer growing season (100–150 days depending on type), so there’s a slightly higher risk of crop failure if conditions aren’t ideal.

Barley is generally more resistant to common cereal diseases and pests. While certain types of wheat are highly susceptible to rusts and other fungal diseases, requiring more careful management.

But the pay out is greater from the Wheat Harvest. See, wheat typically has a higher yield per hectare and a broader market (especially for human consumption). Whereas Barley has a slightly lower yield, but easier to grow under suboptimal conditions and widely used for feed, brewing, and malt.

God created the Barley Harvest to take place before the Wheat Harvest. The Barley Harvest represents the biological descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Israelites. The Jews. The Wheat Harvest represents the Church. The Body of Christ. Believers. The Barley Harvest He made easier than the Wheat Harvest, as the Jews were easier to cultivate than the rest of the world. He chose Abram because he would teach his children and his children would teach their children and so on and so forth throughout the generations. This is the Barley Harvest.

They sacrificed a lamb for Passover and the blood of a bull for the Day of Atonement pushing their sins forward one more year, so that they didn’t have to answer for them in that day. No matter how hard nations tried to strip them of their identity, they never forgot who they were, their God, or the land He promised to them. But the Wheat Harvest took a bit more work.

God had to come to earth as a man, die, and rise back up on the third day to bring in the Wheat Harvest. It was no longer just animal sacrifice. God sacrificed Himself for the sake of the Wheat Harvest. So, that Jew, Gentile, anyone who was willing could come. No longer was it just outward actions, but inward actions. No longer just circumcision of the flesh, but the circumcision of the heart. The condition of the heart mattered. Animal sacrifice wasn’t enough anymore, now the spiritual sacrifice of yourself and your desires is demanded.

All for a greater reward. It was no longer just one nation the LORD was saving, it was now all nations. Any person who is willing to believe can be saved. No longer was it just passed down from generation to generation, but now people who have never heard, who had entirely different gods were being converted and saved. More work, but an even greater reward.

You are that Wheat Harvest. Harder to cultivate but worth every ounce of effort. God will never look at you and think, oh they’re just too much work. Oh, they’re just not worth the effort. No, He takes pleasure in knowing that you will be with Him for all eternity, so He gladly accepts the difficult labor.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be His Joy.

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