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¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, ~ Deuteronomy 30:19

Today within the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States isn’t a virus, gun violence, or police brutality, but suicide has sadly made the cut. Suicide has skyrocketed in our society. It’s a growing pandemic that we can’t seem to get a handle on. The Spirit of Suicide preys on and claims victims of all ages, from elementary school children to grown adults in their late 40s and 50s. The further we push our society into darkness, the more rampant darkness will become. The more hopelessness, fear, anxiety, depression, and rejection will abound, all of which the Spirit of Suicide feeds off of.

So, then is there no hope? As long as hearts are beating, there is always hope. For the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The darkness cannot be overcome unless we first shine light into that darkness. The light is the love of Jesus. We share this light by sharing the Truth. This is the only combat against the raging pandemic of suicide. There can be no light without Truth. The Truth is that there is a pandemic of suicide. There can be no light without Truth. The Truth is that God loves each of His creations. The Truth is that all who humble themselves before Christ will receive His shalom peace that passes all understanding.

The Truth is that suicide is a sin that leads to death, and without believing that Truth, I would’ve died many years ago. If suicide leads to peace with God, why would we stop anyone from committing suicide? Don’t believe the lies of the enemy. There is only peace found in Christ Jesus, not in taking the life He paid for on the cross with His own blood. If we aren’t our own, then would it not stand to reason that Christ would redeem and save all His people who call upon His name from their trials and tribulations, especially when He purchased peace for us by going through unthinkable chastisement?

Don’t believe the lies of the enemy. There is love in Christ. There is redemption in Christ. There is freedom from all oppression in Christ. There is peace that passes all understanding in Christ Jesus.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Believe Only The Truth.

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¹ Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. ² Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. ³ The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. ⁴ For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. ⁵ Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. ⁶ And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.” ~ Jeremiah 20:1-6 ESV

When the Spirit of Discernment doesn’t dwell within the people of God, and they speak out against the people of God, God will remove them. Titles mean nothing to God, for He gives all men (and women) their titles and places them on the totem pole. It’s God who raises up kings and prophets. It’s God who establishes. While we agree with these two statements, we forget or maybe overlook the counterpart, which is just as important, if not more important. God raises up, but He also brings down. The kings of Judah and Israel weren’t immune to being humbled by God even though they were established by God, Himself, to lead the people of God. King Saul was the LORD’s anointed, yet the kingdom was ripped from underneath him, and all of his descendants, except for one, died. There is no person on this earth that is above the justice from the LORD.

Therefore, pray for discernment. Earnestly seek wisdom and understanding that you might test the spirit behind every word you hear. For even though Pashur was a priest, he lacked discernment. See, Pashur most likely became like Christians today, too caught up with their role in the Church and missing their role as the future bride of Christ. We are betrothed to the one who loves us more than any other. To the one who died for us, yet we miss out on a relationship with Him before the marriage supper because we’re too busy planning the wedding.

Here’s what I’m saying. Pashur was a priest, and I’m sure he did all of his priestly duties. His father was the chief officer of the house of the LORD. Pashur wasn’t like the sons of Eli. He didn’t blaspheme and sleep with women in the Temple. His sin was the sin that is overtaking the Church today, the sin of planning the wedding without the bridegroom. We’ve each been given different roles to play, and it’s important that we do those roles, but not at the cost of our relationship with Christ. What good is a planned wedding if there is no bridegroom for the bride? The wedding is now useless. This is the same in Christianity if we have no relationship with Christ. All that we’ve done and accomplished in His name is worthless and useless if we don’t have a relationship with Him. Because without a relationship with Christ, there is no discernment, and without discernment, we will miss the signs, wonders, and words of the LORD given to us by His people. Without discernment, we will falsely prophesy as Pashur did and, in doing so, condemn ourselves to captivity in Babylon, where we will die far away from the presence of God. So, seek the LORD. Seek His wisdom, understanding, and discernment.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Seek a Relationship with the Lover of Your Soul.

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¹⁶ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. ¹⁷ They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’” ~ Jeremiah 23:16-17

Solomon states in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that there is nothing new under the sun. The more I read the Bible and compare it to the things I see and hear in the world today, the more I agree with him. During the time of Jeremiah, the prophets told the people who hated the Word of God and who refused to obey His commands that all would be well with them. In other words, they not only endorsed the sin of these people, but they convinced the people God did as well.

The leaders and shepherds of the Church today are no different. They shout arrogant statements to justify sin, such as, “My Jesus loves everybody.” And “You were born this way. God makes no mistakes.” And “Only God can judge.” And “I don’t need a Bible to have a relationship with God.” They tell their followers as well as the entire Church that we have no right to judge anyone. But I ask you unless you judge a tree by its fruit, how will you know if you are eating a lemon or an orange? We’ve corrupted not only the Church but the Word of God by which we aimlessly seek to defend and justify sin.

And just as the prophets of old brought vain hope, so do our shepherds and leaders today. Death has been warned from before Eve was even created. If you sin, then you will die. This isn’t a new radical belief. This is the Law of Nature established before Heaven and Earth were created on that first day. The idea of sin being who you are; therefore, you must accept it is a new radical belief resurfacing from ancient times. From the very first sin. For as the Serpent whispered into Eve’s ear, “You shall not die…” So did the Prophets say to the people, “You shall not die…” during the time of Jeremiah. And so have the leaders and shepherds of the Church shout and proclaim from the rooftops, “You shall not die..” But don’t believe their false hope. Don’t believe their lie. For sin doesn’t just lead to a physical death, but an everlasting spiritual one. A spiritual death that doesn’t cease nor ease, that only causes calamity and destruction upon its victim.

The straight and narrow path isn’t easy. It isn’t a relaxing walk. It’s a race. It’s an obstacle course that you run with all of your might, unable to stop in the middle lest you be disqualified, as you carry a cross and chase after the forerunner who has already completed the race. Jesus didn’t promise us an easy life. Nor did He promise us the world. Jesus promised us Eternal Life and rest if we follow Him. The world may look luring and inviting, but once you have the light to open your eyes in the darkness, the evil can no longer disguise itself as good. Cling to the Word of God and your relationship with Christ so that it might go well with you.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Don’t Believe Their False Hope.

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¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ~ John 3:16

John 3:16 is one of the most well-known and most beloved verses of all time. It plainly tells us that it is those who believe, meaning accept what Jesus did for them on Calvary, that will be saved. If you do not accept Jesus, you will perish. You cannot have it both ways. Either there is only one way, or there are several ways.

According to the creator of the entire universe, there is only one way to God. There is only one way to salvation. That’s Jesus. Why? Because Jesus is the only one that paid the price. Jesus is the only one that gave His life as a sacrifice. It’s only Jesus that took our sin upon Himself and overcame the entire world. To say that there are more ways would be to say that Jesus’ sacrifice wasn’t necessary and was, in fact, meaningless.

Jesus is the only way because He is the only one who took our sin upon Himself. Don’t take His sacrifice for granted. Don’t teach others to take His sacrifice for granted. None that takes Jesus’ sacrifice for granted will receive life. There’s no way to entire Heaven if you received to accept the ticket to enter.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Accept His Ticket.

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⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ ~ Revelation 2:7

In John’s vision, he saw Jesus in all of His glory, honor, power, and majesty. In this vision, Jesus spoke to seven angels of seven Churches. At the end of each letter to the seven Churches, Jesus said, ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’ Jesus is saying, “If you hear my words, then allow them to pierce through your ears that you might listen to them.” Jesus didn’t leave us blind and without a guide. He sent His Spirit from the time of the early Church that they might record all that they saw and heard while following Christ so that we today might know of Him.

Unless we hear and listen to the Spirit as He speaks to us through the Scriptures or through another, we will perish. For faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ. Unless we seek the Truth, we won’t find it. God can try to reach us through the Bible, prophets, preachers, apostles, teachers, etc., all day, every day, but unless we open our ears to His words, His words cannot change us. If His words cannot change us, then they cannot save us. We then become like those who killed Stephen, for they closed their ears so that his words might not pierce their hearts, and they know the Truth.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Let The Word Pierce Your Ears.

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¹² Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. ¹³ No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:12–13

Recognizing your weaknesses is the first step to overcoming any sin. The second is to flee temptation. Once you recognize your weaknesses and shortcomings, then you must flee whenever you are confronted with them. Don’t be like your old self and flirt with temptation but flee the other way. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old has passed away, and the new has come.

You can’t outsmart your enemy; he has been around for centuries. Do not think you are stronger than temptation or that you can depend on your own strength, but rather, rely on God. He will provide a way out. Rely on the Spirit of God that dwells inside of you. The Spirit of God that leads you and guides you. Depend on Him, for He will make a way for you to escape all temptation you are faced with. You are not your old self, so don’t conform to your old ways, but be changed by the renewal of your mind.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Renewed.

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²⁰ For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. ²⁴ Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. ~ Romans 1:20-25

From before Israel even entered the Promised Land, they were mixing the worship of the Creator with the creation. And almost 4,000 years later, nothing has changed. Today Christians see no problem with mixing Christianity with an entirely different religion, such as Wicca because it’s an earth-centered religion. They fail to realize that in digging into another religion to learn how to incorporate it into your lifestyle and beliefs, even if that religion is earth-centered, is no different than the Israelites creating the golden calf on the way to the Promised Land. Instead of worshipping God for what He did, they worshipped a golden calf.

Instead of worshipping God for making the moon to give us light at night, we worship the moon. Instead of worshipping God for making the sun to give us light in the day, we worship the sun. We miss that without God, there would be no moon. There would be no sun. The sun and moon only do what they do because God created them to do it. The sun and the moon have no power on their own; all that they have God has given them. So, why would we worship them? Why would we worship the creation that is nothing without the Creator?

When we fall in this one area, God gives us over to every sin that we struggle with. He stops fighting for us and the sin that was lying wait at our door, waiting for the opportunity to attack us, overcomes us. Don’t allow the enticing rituals of this world to draw you away from God. Don’t allow them to lead you to your own destruction. Worship the Creator who not only has created everything you see and everything you don’t see but the Creator who formed you in your mother’s womb. The Creator that created a way for you to get to Him. The Creator that creates a way for you to escape every temptation. The Creator that loves you more than you’ll ever know.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Worship The Creator.

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³⁹ They answered Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, ⁴⁰ but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. ⁴¹ You are doing the works your father did.” They said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.” ~ John 8:39-47

No matter our age or our experience, we are all children. We are either children of God or children of the devil. Some of us don’t even realize who our father is. Each one of us was born of a woman from the seed of a man. And none of us chose our parents; we were each given to a mother and father by God Himself, for it was Him that knit us together in our mother’s womb. Who our physical, biological parents are wasn’t up to us. We didn’t have a say in the matter, but who our spiritual father is, now that’s all up to us.

So, many of us believe that just by the belief that God exists is enough to make Him our Father. We buy into the lie that as long as I believe in God and pray, I’m a child of God. In other words, we’ve made being a Child of God a religion without a relationship. See, it’s not enough to just believe. It’s not enough to just pray. It’s not enough to just go to church every Sunday. You have to also follow Christ. Jesus said that if you loved Him, you would keep His commands. The word Christian itself means to be a mini-Christ. In other words, you have to walk in the same footsteps Jesus did.

How you act and how you speak will determine who your father is. Why? Because your actions determine where your heart is, and your heart determines who you are. If your heart is only evil, then you cannot be a part of God, for there is no evil in God. Therefore, you would be of the devil, for there is no good in him, only evil. This is the one time that you can choose who your father is, and it’s the most important time as well. Because each child will receive their father’s inheritance. Inheritance doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s good. Inheritance is receiving what was first your parent’s. In other words, if your parent has only punishment and curses, then that’s what you will inherit. If your parent only has rewards and blessings, then that’s what you will inherit. How you live your life matters, for you are a child following your father, and you will inherit whatever your father has.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Choose Your Father Wisely.

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⁵ He will wear righteousness like a belt and [faithfulness] like an undergarment. ~ Isaiah 11:5

Isaiah was prophesying about the coming Messiah. He declared that He would not only wear a belt of righteousness around His waist that protected Him on the outside, if you will, but also He would wear a belt of faithfulness like an undergarment. So many times, as the Church, we only focus on how we look to the world. As long as our outer belt looks good and right, it doesn’t matter whether we even have our underwear on at all.

We’ve become like the Pharisees. Jesus compared them to washing the outside of the cup but leaving the inside dirty. This is exactly how a lot of us have become. We’ve lost our faithfulness, our relationship with Christ. We just want to look good for the World as Saul did. He didn’t seem to care that he had done wrong in the sight of God; He only cared whether or not Samuel would go with him before the people of Israel to make a sacrifice. He had his outer belt on, for sacrifice was the righteous thing to do as a response for sinning, but his undergarment of faithfulness wasn’t on. He had no moment of repentance in his heart. There was no faithfulness in him.

LORD God, help us to not just put on a show for those around us. Help us to not just look like a good Christian, but help us to actually live as good Christians. Help us to put on the undergarment of faithfulness so that we might never lose sight of you. For even if we stumble and fall into temptation, You will catch us before we hit the ground if we have a repentant heart. Help us to be faithful to You, oh LORD. Help us to love You and follow You the way You deserve, oh LORD God. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.

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