New Age Standards

It’s interesting how today the world screams for freedom and rights to things they feel entitled to, yet they place boundaries or standards in which we all should follow. It’s kind of ironic how we ask for freedom or continue freedom, yet organizations or independent groups would target you if you wear real fur or drive a hummer. How can we say we are free in the world when we are constantly judging each other under a microscope of what we believe everyone should be doing, saying or wearing naturally? This is the reason why more people need to come out from under the “world’s skirt” and realize there is no freedom in a world where you automatically black listed if you say you don’t agree with someone’s lifestyle or Christian values.

In this world if you are not an eco friendly, yoga practicing, vegan eating, reality show watching, promiscuous, philanthropist who adopts poor foreign children, you do not fit in. It’s sad to see all these celebrities and common every day people fall into these traps that result in them going in to bondage to the world system. 

However if I were to say these things to someone outside the church, they would think I’m just an “angry stereotypical Christian”, however they are perpetuating more issues than they care to acknowledge. Of course there is nothing wrong with being healthy or not wanting to wear fur because you love animals and so on (other than yoga, which should not be embraced), yet you cannot become a slave to it. 

This new age idea of how to be in this society has become more and more “pushy” when it comes to “correcting” your way of life and trying to open up your mind to accepting all their standards of living life and being a “better person”. 

All they did is take some good healthy ideas of being a good person and helping others and the environment and mix it with occult ideas and practices and placed a new age label on it and made it a new way of life that they believe all should embrace….

To be continued….

Judging Prophecy: Part 2

 

This is continuing our recap from our previous discussion on how to judge prophecy and prophets. We concluded our discussion with the remaining five of the different tests to use when judging whether or not you are dealing with an accurate prophecy and or with a legitimate prophet.

5) Were the Prophet’s predictions true?

                Reference: Deuteronomy 18:20

Has the predictions that a person or a Prophet come true in your life? Obviously when you receive a prophetic word, it is an indication of what is to happen. If a prophetic word that was given to you has yet to come to fruition or has not shown any indications as to it happening without your own flesh trying to act it out, chances are the prophetic word was not accurate or completely false.

6) Does the prophecy promote obedience to God?

                Reference: Deuteronomy 13:1-5  & Acts 16:16-18

In all prophetic words, the prophecy encourages staying on the right path with God or making a change to be in line with God for an outcome to be happen. It wouldn’t make sense for a prophecy from God to encourage any other behavior than what His word states.

7) Does the prophecy bring freedom and peace?

                Reference: Romans 8:15  & 2 Corinthians 3:17

                                                1 Corinthians 15:33 & 1 Timothy 1:7

A prophetic word should never render fear and anxiety for any reason. It should bring peace and freedom to your life. What good would it do if you are consumed by fear over a prophetic word?

8) Does the prophecy harmonize and bring life?

Does the prophecy follow scripture in such a way that it is not manipulated to sound like scripture when it is in fact being used out of context or made by their own interpretation or scripture? There shouldn’t be an discrepancy with the prophetic and the word of God.

9) Is there a sense of warning?

                Reference: 1 John 2:27                 

Does the word give you an indication of what is to come? The prophetic word should not be telling you what you already know and or what you have already seen happen. It should be new or something yet to come.

The Youth Code

It has become more and more apparent that most parents and just older people in general really don’t know much about today’s youth. Of course as we all get older we start to gain different perspectives about various things.

I have noticed since becoming an adult that the older generations try to apply their own experiences to today’s society…unfortunately, you can’t always do that. Just because you went through a similar thing in the past doesn’t mean you understand whatever the current situation is going now with a younger generation.

The older generations fail to realize that we are dealing with new technology, new drugs, new language, new ideas, new past times, new miscellaneous inventions or improvements to pre existing things. All these factors change everything. 

When older generations see certain behaviors on television or on social media sites, such as, two girls holding on to each other in while taking a photo, most of them would think that these girls are homosexuals. To all of us who see the same scene, we don’t think anything of it as just a couple friends taking a picture. So now you have two sets of generations viewing the same scene with COMPLETELY different ideas of what is going on. Not to say that these behaviors are acceptable. They haven’t seen the progression of what is and is not acceptable conduct amongst the youth in today’s society…

My point with this entry is to let the parents know that they don’t realize that the youth have grown up with a different standard-a different norm than what they have. You have to talk to your children or whomever you are dealing with, don’t jump to conclusions because most of the time you will be 99% wrong in your judgments, thus resulting in expanding that gap between understanding each other. It’s hard for us to understand how our parents or anyone who is older to keep judging us under a different set of “standards”; we all have valuable knowledge to share with each other.

We cannot let the youth be held captive by the world system…so don’t use your experiences from decades ago block you from reaching and communicating with today’s youth. DO NOT JUDGE! What is common sense to you will not always be common sense to others under you….

God Bless

Count Your Blessings

Have you ever looked back at all the good things in your life?

When obstacles a presented before you, never let go of the memories of all the gifts you have been given. Not just the material gifts, but the times when you woke up to the sun shinning on your face, or the times when your day wasn't going as planned, but someone at the coffee shop gave you a genuine friendly smile. Think about the times when you could have gotten in to an accident on the freeway, but somehow your car diverted in a different direction.Think about the times when you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, when you ignored the Holy Spirit nudging to go in a different direction by making you feel uneasy in the pit of your stomach, yet you came out safely.

Don't let the enemy, Satan, steal your memories or block your blessings. Please don't think that everyone is allotted a certain number of blessings in their lifetime. God intended for you to have life and that more abundantly! When we are in the midst of the pain or frustration it is hard for us to remind ourselves of all the good things, but that is something that we have to work on! If we let the negativity eat at us in the moment, it hinders our blessings from flowing and prolongs the trial. 

I have seen too many people receive blessings and then be hit with a trial and they immediately let the enemy win by not returning to church or revert back to old habits or old friends that were not worth the company....

Count them....I bet they out weigh all the junk that we go through in life...It's already a blessing to be alive!

Enjoy life and live it to the fullest, get connected to a church, fellowship with other Christians and remember that there is so much more that God wants to give you!

Judging Prophecy

Last night’s bible study topic was about how to judge prophecy.

How can we tell if someone who gives us a prophecy is speaking from truth?

How can we tell if someone is a prophet called by God or a person operating by flesh?

Many of these questions were raised during our discussion. Pastor Drew Harris led us through some of the important tests to use when judging prophecy:

Test #....

1)      Does it build you up or does it condemn you?

Reference: 1 Corinthians 14:3

In other words, does the prophecy given to you a positive message that will encourage you or help you with something that is going on in your life, or does the prophecy make you feel guilty, ashamed, anything that you know is not of God. God will not send someone to tell you that “you are going to hell and that’s that”. He wants to save souls, not discourage them.

2)      Does it agree with scripture?

Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Just like test number one, God will not go against His word. The prophecy should agree with scripture 100%. There shouldn’t be some parts sound scriptural and other parts are questionable. For example, a person who is given a prophecy to leave home at the age of 14 in order to seek God, does not agree with scripture.

3)      What is the prophet’s relationship with Christ?

Reference: John 16:13  &  Revelation 19:10

Do they exalt or glorify God? This is important in understanding what kind of person you are dealing with when receiving a prophetic word or just dealing with a Prophet in general. It would be hard for a person to be functioning as a Prophet and receiving word from God when the Prophet is does not have a personal relationship with Christ.

4)      Do the Prophet and the prophecy bear good fruit?

Reference: Galatians 5:22-23

The Prophet has to be functioning in the fruits of the spirit in order to be able to deliver prophetic word to God’s people. A Prophet cannot get angry easily and not show love to others and still operate in the gift of prophecy.

To Be Continued.....

Symbols and Subliminal Messages Pt.2

Have you noticed the progression of what is and is not acceptable on television? I’m in my early twenties, yet I have seen a time from when four letter words were not acceptable on television except on HBO and other paid movie channels. Now, there is only two foul words that are forbidden, however they can get away with sounding it out, hinting to it or saying something else that sounds JUST like the word. This is the media’s way of desensitizing the masses subtly. By letting a few foul words go by along with funny innuendos that makes it all “better”. Now people claim to use certain words as a way to “change the power” of the word and make “take ownership” over the negative connotation it “once had”.  News flash…people made up the words…therefore how can someone take “ownership” of a word? Regardless of whoever uses a foul word, it will STILL be foul, do not be conned into thinking that just because you don’t have ill will towards someone or something when using a foul word, automatically diminishes the power of it. By the media implanting words and ideas into your subconscious, they are prepping you for an easy transition in to satan’s ideology. 

                Have you noticed a lot of “anti-whatever isn’t currently favored by the masses” material? Whatever is a hot topic amongst the majority, the media has a field day over it! This is one of the reasons why a lot of people…especially Christians don’t believe in the “secret” agenda by the media and the satanic force behind it. Some people may say “why America produces anti American or anti government propaganda if they have a plan to take over the world and have a strict one world government?” It’s simple, if they let the “people” believe that they have freedom of speech and let them dig a massive hole in which could later be used against them as an illegal act of treason or terrorism once new laws are integrated for the betterment of the country the government wins in the end. Another way is that they use these “anti” films, commercials, television shows and so on as a way to subliminally expose the masses to their ideas by highlighting them in the content while the director or commentator talks about what’s “wrong” with the government. In the end they end up doing the media justice.

more to come….

Don’t Be In Pain

Too often there are Christians living each day in physical and emotional pain.

Why??

In the past couple years I have seen a few Christians living a defeated life. You cannot be living in God’s fullness if you continue to just exist and in constant pain. Anytime I see someone day after day in the same amount of pain I feel like what else can we do? You can only pray for someone so much and counsel them so many times before you have to back off and let them choose LIFE and walk in their complete healing.

I understand that if you haven’t been use to being without pain it could be hard to make that initial step. However once you make that step you can go nowhere but up; don’t go back into that darkness that produced nothing but continuous pain, exhaustion, frustration, reoccurring sickness, depression and so on. 

We learned in bible study and through a few Sunday sermons at Spoken Word Church that murmuring, complaining and unbelief cause you to go on in pain and sickness even though you may not have any unforgiveness left. When someone asks you how are you, casually, and you say “not good” or “just getting by”, you are setting the stage for how the rest of your day will go. You may not feel great, that serves as the time to ask for prayer, not to just share your pain and hopefully get some sympathy. 

For those of you out there just ‘existing’ and not ‘living’ realize that God never intended you or anyone else to be in pain, just think, how can the Lord get his work done on this earth if you are in a debilitating state and or just going with the motions. No one can use the excuse that they “just have to live this way because God wants me to” or “I have to live this way because of all the things I have done in my past”. Thinking that you aren’t worthy of anything other than what you already have is the kind of thinking that leaves you in the same state you started in with no growth or the fullness of what God has in store for you.

Don’t be defeated…. Be Reinvigorated!!!