Your Answer!

Jesus is the most powerful! He is greater then your need for water! And your need for food! And your need for shelter! He is more important than your family, and children! He is so significant! Jesus is the very essence of life itself! He is the only source of life! He IS LITERALLY LIFE. This is the BIG DEAL about Jesus Christ. He said it about himself, "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father unless they come through me. "

When you die if Jesus is not in you or in other words if his Holy Spirit is not in you ....you will not live forever with him. You will be dead forever and separated from Him (God) for eternity. Jesus is the only option for eternal life after this earthly material life. Think that through. If Jesus is not in you now you are NOT REALLY ALIVE right now. Even though you are physically "living" you are spiritually dead and when you die you will be spiritually dead forever. Don't you want to be spiritually alive? Physical life is +/- 75yrs........

You are dead because your sin is separating you from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit Himself. The One True God who IS LOVE; who is HOLY and different; set apart, is turning his face away from your SINFUL STATE of being, mind, behavior. He is rejecting the essence of who you are which is SIN. BUT he wants to shine his face upon you!! In contrast, the essence of God is Righteous, Holy and True, Just, Love. He is a Consuming Fire. Perfect. And he gave humanity His Law in the Torah to prove he is different in these ways. The Ten Commandments are a BIG DEAL. God has always protected us from ourselves. Our sinful way. He protected first through the law which will always be good. But because we can not do the law or fulfill the law of God perfectly he chose to protect or save us through a better way then the law. Loved One! God loves you so much that he wants to remove your sin for you. He wants to remove the stain that lying, stealing, sexual sins, pride, anger, gossip, (name your sins) has left and replace it with clean garments that are white as snow. The only way to do that is to give up himself for you. And he did through Jesus His Son.

Look at this verse:

Romans 3:21-22

Christ Took Your Punishment

21 But now God has shown you a way to be made right with him without
keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings
of Moses and the prophets long ago. 22 You are made right with God by
placing your faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who
believes, no matter who they are.

That verse is the bottom line truth and Jesus is your answer. Jesus is not just another man. He is God and he gave up his life willingly for you because he loves you. Jesus is the only one who died to fulfill God's Justice in your place. If you want to be made right with God right now you can! Do the following and have Jesus defend you when you stand before God on Judgement Day.

1. Admit you are the problem. A Sinner.
2. Believe in Jesus Christ that He alone is God's solution to your problem. Believe, that by living perfect and sinless on earth Jesus is the perfect and only sacrifice needed to cover your sins. Believe that by dieing, Jesus fulfilled Gods Justice for all your wrongdoing once and for all. Believe, that by raising from the dead Jesus conquered death and you can now live in Christ spiritually, physically, emotionally free forever. 
3. Confess that Jesus is God. Your Loving Creator, Savior and King. Confess that you are a sinner and ask Jesus to personally cleanse you from all your unrighteousness. Confess to Jesus alone, wherever you are (He will hear you), that you want him to remove your sins and to be the Lord and Savior of your soul forever. Confess that you place all your trust in His finished work on the cross for you and that you repent ( turn and walk away from your sinning behaviors and thoughts) of your current lifestyle of sin. Confess that you will live in the grace and mercy and love of God and not make your new faith a legalistic man centered religion.

If you do this Jesus will respond to you personally through his Holy Spirit. And he will provide for you and bless you because you have become his child! Praise God! Go buy a Bible and start reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are the Gospels that share the good news about Jesus. Seek Jesus through prayer and find a good church where you can meet people who love the Lord and are seeking him and conforming to his image. Gen 1:26.

You are meant to know God personally.

Nothing is more important than this.

You are meant to be in heaven worshipping, praising and enjoying Jesus forever.

Much love,

Hank

The Bride Groom Cometh!!!!!

It's amazing how close the REALITY of being with Jesus is! So close you may have a checks and balances going on inside of you.....back and forth we go ........."Really!.. now.... could it really be? and then ..........Excited nervousness realizing we could stand before our Lord........... then............"NO WAY he will tarry. It can't be now. No one knows the day or hour not even Jesus" ...........then......." it is so possible. Look at all the signs!" Back and forth we go.



Nevertheless, if you are WATCHING for Jesus as Jesus has commanded (Luke 12:38, Matthew 26:40, Matthew 25:13, Mark 13:34, Galatians 6:1, etc) you probably have an amazing sense that this could very well be the last few ________ we are in these tents. Filling the blank with "years", "months", or "days" causes people to have different reactions, BUT is it really CRAZY to say that we can't rule out days and months, especially if you are watching for Jesus?


Are you aware of how things are merging and how God's moeds (appointed times / Feast Days) work according to HIS timeline, and how he speaks to us through times and seasons, the stars, the moon, the sun? Do you see the geopolitical and religious fronts imploding and standing against Israel? Do you realize that that there is a huge gap between the Bride of Christ and the False Apostate Church? Do you knoe the parable of the good fish and bad fish? Can you factor in the moral decline of the world and its universal cry for a false peace to save it rather then Jesus Christ Himself? Do you know the UN is voting Sept 20 on something very important? Do you know Sept 21 is world "peace day"? Can you discern the times like the Sons of Issachar did in 1 Chronicles 12:32? Do you know the sign in Rev 12 is being fulfilled Sept 30th? Do you know The Feast of Trumpets is Sept 29th or 30th? Can you discern the jubilee years of Israel? do you know...............that there are even more things on this earth and in the heavens and in the spiritual realm aligning that if you knew you would be left stunned and amazed and have a hard time believing?


As we know, our God is a God of order, he is a God who reveals his mysteries to those who watch and seek for him. As the Bride of Christ, we believe the rapture could happen anytime right? We say this and agree as most Born Again Christians do, but interestingly not all Born Again Christians seek Jesus the same, not all are fully open or comfortable with all that Jesus wants to give them in scripture. I believe Jesus wants us to know his mysteries ..........which is simply an outcome of having intimacy with him. He is so gracious and kind and merciful to invite us to seek him in a special way as shown in Jeremiah 33:3 , and we see references throughout the word that mysteries can be known, seasons can be understood, times can be discerned: Romans 11:25, Eph 5:32, Col 1:26, Eph 3:3,4, Rev 10:7, Dan 2:19, 1 Thess 5:2,4 etc.


When I learned that the Feast of Trumptets is actually known as "The Feast that no one knows the day or the hour of its arrival" I was amazed. It left me asking, "Do we really know what Jesus was refering to in Mark 13:32 and Matthew 24:36?". Was he alluding to something more? I would never say that a certain date is when Jesus is coming or the rapture is happening. But I would definitly say that we can know the season of his coming for us in connection to Moeds, signs in the heavens, and on earth, according to Matthew 24. We are indeed in that season now! The time of the Bride's Harpazo is emminant, the time of Jacob's trouble is emminant. Things are not how they have always been! Iran has never been in alliance with Russia as they are today, for example. Triads and Tetrads of Lunar eclipses and Solar eclipses are declaring God's Glory. Consider that Israel and the Nations are ripe for judgement.


Dear family in Christ, don't rule out that it could possibly be days and months for our Harpazo (Rapture) unto Christ!


Consider that:


Peter Rebukes those who scoff at the coming of the Lord whether it be the Rapture of the Church or the Day of the Lord.


1This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 3knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 4They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 6and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.8But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,a not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodiesb will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.c11Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 2 Peter 3:1-13


God keeps some things hidden until they are needed to be known.


"And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand." Dan 12:9-10"


"...who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:5"


"For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 1 Thessalonians 5:2,4",


"Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:2"


Some details in scripture have not made sense until enough revelation occurred. For instance, Jesus' words in Matthew 24 (and Luke 17) about some people being taken and others left could not be understood from the time the concept of the Rapture was forgotten in the fourth century until it was revealed again in the latter days.


"For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took [Airo - remove] them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken [Paralambano - take to join with a companion] and the other left [Aphiemi - abandon, disregard, divorce]. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken [Paralambano] and the other left [Aphiemi]. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 24:39-44"


Jesus rebuked the religious leaders who had the knowledge of the scriptures for not knowing the time of His first visitation or the signs of the times. He would not have rebuked them for something they could not have known.


"Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." Luke 19:41-44"


1And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2He answered them,a “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. 4An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. Matthew 16: 1-4


Will He rebuke believers for not knowing the time of His second coming and for not being trimmed with Oil in their lamps? You can count on it!


1Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers,a you have no need to have anything written to you. 2For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5For you are all childrenb of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. 8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 9For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 11Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10
38Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Mark 14:38


1“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lampsa and went to meet the bridegroom.b 2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ 10And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 11Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Matthew 25:1-13


So many signs are aligning or are already aligned that a midnight cry is about to sound (we do not know if it is days, months, or years out) but it is very possible it could be days and your lamps best be trimmed with oil. It is the Lord Jesus himself who warned us to be ready. How do you get ready? Repent of your sins. Stop sinning intentionally! When you sin repent immediately. Seek Jesus' Face. Fix your eyes on Jesus.


If the Lord tarries (he does not wish that any shoudl perish but that all come to him through Jesus Christ), we will continue to become more excited for him, share the gospel with the lost and stand firm amidst persecution and troubling times. We will see amazing things and NOT BE SHAKEN. We will be able to discern the evil that's been twisted into "good" . Praise God! We will be sovereignly provided for by God. We will share our belongings, our homes, we will meet often together singing, praying and having communion together. We might die together in these bodies as we testify to Christ in a hostile world toward Christ. We are not destined for God's wrath and that fact alone strengthens our faith that the rapture is eminant.


Understand that WATCHING for Jesus is more of a heart condition that is excited to be with him and for others to be with him for eternity.

God Bless you,
Hank

Lingering, Disobedience and Salty Pillars


For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There's no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death. 2 Corinthians 7:10

We read this in church last night in connection to Matthew 5 where we are the salt of the earth, and how salt can lose it's saltiness.....I am amazed at how far God's Mercy towards Lot and his family went, and also how Lot's wife chose not to obey in that mercy. The men even seized Lot in his lingering!! Why do we linger when God commands us to do something that will save our life? Why did Lot's wife want to look back? I am praying that we do not have a lingering disobedient heart like Lot and his wife. The Day of The Lord is near  and God is GOOD,SERIOUS,JUDGEMENTAL,MERCIFUL,LOVING,RIGHTEOUS, and PATIENT all at the same time.


Genesis 19

15As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” 16But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” ... 24Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

WARNING SIGNS- WILL YOU GIVE ATTENTION TO GOD?

Please pray that the world will NOT push against Israel. Much of the world's chaos and judgement is coming due to it's opposition to God and his redemptive plan for Israel which is part of his bigger redemptive plan for everyone and everything. God's word is very clear about it

• “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him (Jesus Christ-Yeshua Ha-Maschiac) whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn." Zechariah 12:10

Is God's redemption not the single most important issue to face our individual souls, communities, and the nations? and we run from and deny it........we rebel against it????

• "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son (Jesus Christ-Yeshua Ha-Maschiac), that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

Has anything made you weep lately? How about bitter weeping? Have you ever cried over and mourned the loss of your child or someone so connected to you that it impacted your physicality and emotions to the point that you could do or think nothing? If so you KNOW the all consuming power that love and grief and sorrow and longing can have over you. If not, you can at least KNOW this by watching others grieve who long for their LOVED ONE to be near again. We watch from afar the devastation in Japan and do we feel their pain? We must if we are really alive in our spirit! Are we immune to the same devastation in our land? No and we ought to humble ourselves and seek God for his will and guidance in these times.

The all consuming power that love and grief and sorrow and longing bring when losing a loved one is the same motivation and meaning behind the seriousness and critical nature of God's desire to redeem you and all the people and nations in the world. God is so serious about your Life and Death because they are eternal forever statuses. He cannot bear to lose you to your sin nature forever, and so he did something to save you. The question is will you respond? We need to see things in the right perspective or we are lost. God allows our axis to shift and he allows earthquakes to rock this world. He allows molten ash and solar flares to burn this earth away. He is not causing it he is allowing it.

Will we give God our attention?

God's words are true. Those are the words that are in his BIBLE. God has per se been screaming at everyone for centuries to wake up because these things are inevitably coming upon the world. His message is that NO ONE is innocent. NO ONE is good. NOT ONE. All are sinners and turn away and fall short of the glory of God. And there are many different consequences to this. Ultimately, the wages of sin is death....eternal separation from God which is in a literal Hell. How foolish of us if we disregard this warning from the loving and holy God and blame him for such devastations in the world! As if it is his fault people are dying because of tsunamis and earthquakes and famines. We say well only God can stop an earthquake from happening therefore he can prevent the death. This is true but we must not blame God if it happens because in actuality he is lovingly warning us of the inevitable consequences of sin in our lives and of the world. There is a critical more important perspective at play here that God is emphasizing.

• "For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now." Romans 8:22


• "Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come." Matthew 24:7,8


• "Those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” Luke 13: 4,5

Where is God's love in all this? I beg your attention friend! God's love is so great and he has already done what is necessary to save the world and you from your guilty sinful nature. Instead of getting mad at God, or becoming afraid of him, or ignoring the issue humbly begin to consider the words of God about his son Jesus. Listen to the Holy Spirit who convicts you of your sin while at the same time giving you hope by pointing to Jesus and his sole purpose for coming to this earth. This is not hard. The only thing that makes it hard is the pride of life. If you are wanting to know God and this salvation he provided for you through Jesus Christ then ask for grace and mercy from God so that you can begin to hear and see it.

• The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both. Proverbs 20:12


• Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Mark 4:9

Dear friend this is the good news! Jesus came, he died and he rose again for us! That means you personally!

• "Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus." Acts 8:35


• "Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:11-21


• The LORD is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth." Psalm 145:18

This is important and there is nothing more important then for you to hear this good news and for you to confess your sin to Jesus, repent and turn from your sins and believe that Jesus died and rose again for you. Don't delay. God has warned what is going to happen in the future and we are starting to see what the warning is all about. The warning is repent from your sin for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

• "On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it." Zechariah 12:3


• "Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to arouse her? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you." Numbers 24:9


• On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness." Zechariah 12:4

Is the quake in Japan a signal to the world to stop putting pressure on Israel?

I am amazed, yet again, of how this quake near Japan is falling in line with reoccurring patterns. Patterns that follow when anyone or any nation is willing to condemn Israel's right to exist, or their right to their land, or their right to build on their own land, or put any pressure on them to divide their land.

I just watch and sometimes can't believe the consistency of these patterns over the past number of years. The same thing happened to Australia recently. Our hurricane Katrina was connected to these kinds of pressures on Israel.

I was unaware of these stances of Japan's Official Government position toward Israel prior to the earthquake and right up to the very day of the earthquake.

January 11, 2011:


Statement by Mr. Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in E. Jerusalem to construct housing for Jewish people
Japan condemns the demolishing of a part of the Shepherd’s Hotel in East Jerusalem with a view to constructing new housing units for Jewish people.
 Japan does not recognize any unilateral measures that prejudge the final resolution on pre-1967 borders, nor does Japan recognize the annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel. In this regard, Japan urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act that could change the existing conditions of East Jerusalem. Yutaka Iimura, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East, who was in Israel, has already informed Israeli Government officials of Japanese views.
 Japan once again strongly encourages both the Israel and the Palestinian sides to focus on the goal of a two-state solution, which is important not only for the Middle East but also for the international community as a whole; to act in such a way that mutual trust will be developed; and to continue efforts for peace tenaciously.
February 8, 2011:


Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan, on measures by Israel on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Japan welcomes the series of economic measures announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Quartet Representative Tony Blair on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Japan hopes that based on this announcement, measures will be fully and promptly implemented for economic growth as well as for the improvement of the social and living conditions in the Palestinian territories, particularly the Gaza Strip. Japan will pay close attention to any developments surrounding this matter. Japan also hopes that these measures will enhance the mutual trust between the Israeli and Palestinian sides, although they are not a substitute for negotiations for Middle East peace. Japan, for its part, calls upon both parties to exert further efforts for the resumption of peace negotiations.
February 10, 2011:


Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan, concerned over housing in E. Jerusalem for Jewish people

The Government of Japan is concerned about the Jerusalem municipal planning committee’s approval of a plan to build housing units for Jewish people in the Sheih Jarrah of East Jerusalem. Such act goes against the efforts by the international community to resume the negotiations. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of the territories in the pre-1967 borders nor Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem. Japan urges Israel to refrain from any unilateral act that the current situation in East Jerusalem.
March 11, 2010:


Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission to construct in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

The Government of Japan deplores the decisions of the Government of Israel to give permission for the construction of 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem in addition to 112 units in West Bank just after the Israeli and Palestinian leadership’s acceptance of the start of indirect talks. The Government of Japan does not recognize any act that prejudges the final status of Jerusalem and the territories in the pre-1967 borders

March 11, 2011:


Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis by 4 inches

With Love,
Hank

"In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father's will that even one of these little ones should perish." Matthew 18:14
"The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent." 2 Peter 3:9

LIFE IS BETWEEN YOU AND GOD

Things are going to come to pass in the next number of years that will challenge all of us, and I want to encourage you in your relationship with Jesus Christ until that option is not possible. It says in Acts 4:12 : "There is salvation in no one else but Jesus Christ! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved." I hope that you will open your hearts to Jesus in a sincere way this 2011 and receive the salvation he offers you from your sins. At least begin to seek him with all your heart like you would a treasure. You may not see the treasure in him now but I will testify to that for you until you find out for yourself. As much as I am hopeful that this new year will bring much good I am also aware of what the bible speaks about that is truly sobering and inevitable and we are getting closer and closer to the Day of the Lord: That day spoken of in the bible in many places and also Zephaniah 1:14- ""That terrible day of the LORD is near. Swiftly it comes--a day of bitter tears, a day when even strong men will cry out." God's judgement towards the unrepentant is getting closer. No one likes to discuss the reality of God's wrath because it is not a fun topic. This is understandable but it should be understood. God hates evil and because He is Just he must deal with it. We are living in a time when man is beginning to disregard, spurn and even defy God and His ways and commands WITHOUT FEAR or SHAME. The examples are endless, and these evidences should be enough to cause a man to believe in what Jesus warned of in Matthew 24. Anyone who not only has a conscience aware of the difference between what is good and evil but is also concerned about the shift away from honoring and giving glory to God can see Jesus' warning coming to pass. Matthew 24 is inevitable and it is not a secret. Everyone should begin to look into what Jesus warned us of because He does not want ANYONe to be caught off guard or deceived or to perish in their sins. More than anything, the Lord loves you more than you can ever really know, AND you can get a glimpse of how much he loves you by what he did on the cross for you. Putting your trust in Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach the Jewish Messiah and following him is more important now than ever before. I pray for your sincere love for Jesus to blossom in 2011. Remember, LIFE is between you and God. This LIFE is JESUS CHRIST. God bless you!


Please visit this link to see a timeline of significant events and cycles between 2011-2019 http://watch.org/showart.php3?idx=129114&rtn=%2Findex.html&showsubj=1&mcat=1

Matthew 24:
Signs of Christ’s Return

1Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. 2And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”3As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”4And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5“For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6“You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8“But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
9“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10“At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. 11“Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12“Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13“But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Perilous Times

15“Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17“Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18“Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 19“But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20“But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. 21“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22“Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23“Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. 24“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 25“Behold, I have told you in advance. 26“So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. 27“For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

The Glorious Return

29“But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30“And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 31“And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

The Parable of the Fig Tree

32“Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; 33so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. 34“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 35“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.36“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. 37“For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38“For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40“Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. 41“Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

Be Ready for His Coming

42“Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming. 43“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44“For this reason you also must be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will.45“Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46“Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. 47“Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48“But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ 49and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; 50the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, 51and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. Isaiah 1:18

First the bad news, Be ready to experience the non-abashed gall of  sin. It is relentlessly against you. If you are not taking care of it sin will take care of you. It does not negotiate to give you a better outcome. Just sitting on the side lines watching sin play out is as destructive as actively engaging in it. That's like voting it into office to lead your life into the grave. Sin will rebel against your apathy and devour you and those around you. Sin is crouching at your door waiting to seize you. Just a little bit of it corrupts all, and is deadly at every dose. The wages of sin is death. Left unchecked sins mini spy guns turn into big arsenals with nuclear type destruction. It won't think twice about lying to you, telling you what you want to hear, so it can get you into the best position to kill you. The sin in each of us is cowardly. It only tells you and others half the truth so you don't hear the whole truth which has the power to save you. Sin is scared of light so it lies with smilin pride. It will gladly blow its smoke in your face and say its good for you. After deceiving you, sin legalizes itself and shouts in a suit, "One nation under Me with bondage and lawlessness for all!" It hides its true identity and true intentions and prances around like a Joker boasting, "You ain't seen nothin yet. I'll take you when you're at your lowest and kick you in the face when it will hurt you the most and when you're at your best I won't relent. I'm gonna take advantage of every inch of space you give me. Give me a millimeter and I will own you!" Sin is exceedingly wicked! It wants to redefine itself so it is unknowable, unrecognizable. Think of the endless examples of sin in you and around you that has been entertained at times and even left alone because it does not bother you. It robs and steals your joy and peace and desensitizes your conscience to the point where you don't know right from wrong or worse don't care. Sin molests and rapes everything and everyone innocent: Exhibit abortion,  lawlessness, euthenasia, nations without borders, porn, shelves of alcohol in your face, teachers having sex with students, food fights when kids are starving, wasteful spending when countless are in desperate need. Sin doesn't care about anyone. It laughs at and applauds "adults" who justify their  "adults only" behavior, activities, and decisions. Sin has no interest in helping others. It denies. Sin is suicidal at its best. It murders and hates inside and out, lusts and commits adultery inside and out, curses all things good and itself, it mocks, rebels, gossips, wastes, never gives thanks, never acknowledges God, curses God, and blasphemes God to his face. It is not ashamed. Sin stinks. It's best work is like filthy rags of menstruation (yes that's the true context of Isaiah 64:6), and Sin boasts in that garb. It thinks its the best thing around. It accuses and always blames. It enjoys atrocities but denies its involvement in those atrocities. Sin calls evil "good", and good "evil". It is sympathetic to terrorizing the world. It acquits the guilty. Sin doesn't like to talk about itself cause it hates the light.  Sin makes people squirm in their chairs when the light shines on it.................it causes love to grow cold.

Now this will be hard to swallow so brace yourself. YOU have a sinful nature just as I have a sinful nature. We all have a sinful nature. Sin means TO REBEL, TO OFFEND, TO TRANSGRESS, TO FALL, TO MISS THE MARK, TO OPPOSE OR OBSTRUCT, TO CAUSE TO STUMBLE, TO COMMIT A CRIME, WICKEDNESS, INIQUITOUS, UNHOLY.  The question is who are we offending and sinning against? The bible says we sin against God himself and his ways . King David stated it correctly: "Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just." Psalm 51:4.  If that offends you that's OK cause that's what sin does when it is called out. "Better are the wounds of a friend then the kisses of an enemy." Proverbs 27:6. You need someone who cares to tell you the tough stuff because your sin wants to run and hide and deny and blame and try to justify itself and we ought to be sick of sin both in us and in others cause it says, "I'm not that bad. There's much worse things." But it truly is bad at the very first drop. It's wretched and we are wretched. With the Apostle Paul we should confess that we are also the worst of sinners in 1 Timothy 1:15-16. The Word of God which sin despises by the way, is clear about our sinful condition: "All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” Romans 3:12. We all are corrupt: "Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." Psalm 53:3. "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—" Romans 5:12

Sin is real. It deserves to go to hell and die. Every first and last peice of it, every teeny tiny drop of it must be sent there because JUSTICE is also real. The bible greatly encourages us to deal with our sinfulness because  nothing sinful can enter God's kingdom: "And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell." Mark 9:45. "And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell." Mark 9:47. "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell."Matthew 5:30. "Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned." Job 24:19 There are so many other clear truths about sin and the point is that we must be saved from our sins otherwise we will go to hell forever. As the above verses reveal, it is better to severly deal with sin on this side of eternity because there is no chance of dealing with it if we die without being cleansed from out sin nature. Thank God he has provided a way to be set free from sins death grip on us!

Now here's the good news! The BEST NEWS eternity past present and future will ever know! The Bible says to expose the evils deeds of darkness and to shine the light on the sin (REBELLION, OFFENSIVE WAYS, TRANSGRESSIONS...) inside of us. "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." Ephesians 5:11. It also says to confess our sin to one another and pray for one another so that we can be healed. "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." James 5:16. It also commands that we renounce our personal sin and confess them to Jesus Christ because he ALONE can forgive our sin and wants to. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. We need Jesus Christ because we need to be saved from sin and death and hell. No one can forgive sins but Jesus Christ. HE CAN because He drank the bitter cup of sin and wrath that His Father had reserved for you. Jesus wanted to take that awful righteous and justifiable punishment away from you. Everything in the firstparagraph is bitter, shameful, wicked, gross. Now put all your sins and mine collectively in a cup and imagine Jesus drinking it. Imagine our gross, shameful sins wrapped in pride and arrogance being poured all over Jesus the innocent Lamb of God. Imagine Jesus becoming all this gross sin for you willingly. Now realize He is your sin. All you can do is humble yourself and receive his kindness for you. His mercy for you. It's not a fairy tale, and this fact is the real reason why Jesus was crucified and beaten to the point where you couldn't recognize him. The fact is HE LOVES YOU. His Father hates sin and his anger and wrath toward it must be unleashed on it to satisfy Justice. So Jesus obeyed his Father and lovingly became your SINFUL NATURE so he could take the full weight of JUSTICE upon himself and die for you. "For our sake Father God made his Son Jesus to be sin even though he who knew no sin, so that in Jesus we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthains 5:21 Now God's Justice won't rightfully send you to hell forever if you respond to the invitation to believe in Jesus as your Savior from sin. Jesus did all the work that could ever be done to save you from your sins. It's the truth and if you sit there denying this rich act of mercy that Jesus did for you and wallow smug and indifferent to this only cure for your sin nature your wage is naturally death. The sad thing is that if you do go to hell you will have had to step over Jesus' body to get there. God hates your sin, he hates demons and Satan yet he loves you,  and He wants you to be saved from the bondage that sin has you in. " For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ." Romans 6:23. The bible says that "if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord you shall be saved." Romans 10:9. It also says that "God so loved this world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16. It also states that "there is therefore NOW no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And because through

Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life sets us free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1-2 What is even better news is that Jesus rose from the grave after dieing and going to hell for you. He went to hell to get the keys of Hades. Jesus proclaims , "I am the Living One, I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and hades." Revelation 1:18. Now if you believe in Jesus your sins won't only be forgiven but you will also be made white as snow and will be risen from the grave and spend eternity with God in his paradise forever. "“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool." Isaiah 1:18

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is truly good news.

Will you put your trust in Jesus today to cleanse you of your sins and give you new life?

Jesus is coming back soon.

God is Gracious and Kind!

Matthew 20:1-16
vs. 3: "at 9am the Landowner was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing. So he hired them..." vs 6-7: "at 5pm that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around not working. He said, 'Why haven't you been working today?' They replid, 'No one hired us' The Landowner told them, 'Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.'

If you read this passage you'll learn that the Landowner ended up paying all the workers a full days wage. Even those who started at 5pm! The Landowner is God the Father!

The thing that impressed me about this parable Jesus told about Heaven is that his Father is gracious and kind to those who don't deserve it. I can see that Jesus wants to highlight 3 things in this story:1. What really matters in our lives is that we need to get to know God personally so we can be invited to work in his fields. 2. To encourage us in how we need to live our lives by getting to work for God and stop standing around doing nothing and 3. To come to accept the way God does things on his terms...even if it doesn't make sense. Ultimately, this means we are going to get to see a lot of people in heaven who lived their whole lives in the world, but at the last minute put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.

The bottom line of this parable in Matthew 20 is that God is gracious and kind not wanting anyone to perish in eternal damnation because of their sins. He is so willing to pay you a full days wage even if you have worked for him for only 2 hours!  You ask how can he afford that? He can afford it because his son's blood is the most precious thing in all of the universe, and by the blood of Jesus shed on the cross for our sins God has payed everyone's required labor in advance and as a result he can give all the opportunity to be with him in paradise forever if they receive his free gift. You can receive the gift of salvation for free by being thankful and humble you are not required to work it out. The only "work" you have to do is receive by believing Jesus died for your sins and that his death is enough. Think about these next verses:

‎1: "Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood & without the shedding of blood there is no forgivness of sins." Hebrews 9:22 2: Jesus said, This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins...." Matthew 26:28, 3: You should know then, that through Jesus Christ's shed blood, that the forgiveness of your sins is proclaimed to you, & if you believe in Him He will free you from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses." Acts 13: 38,39 & 4: "For God so loved (Put your name in here), that he gave his only Son for you, that if you believe in Him you will not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

When you realize God's kindness in this act of love the only thing you can really do is repent and turn away from your self and fall into the loving arms of God.

United Through Scripture

If we have been UNITED with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. Romans 6:5

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and UNITED in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ. Colossians 2:2

"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be UNITED with his wife, and the two will become one flesh." Ephesians 5:31

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not UNITED by faith in those who heard. Hebrews 4:2

Brothers and sisters, I encourage all of you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to agree with each other and not to split into opposing groups. I want you to be UNITED in your understanding and opinions. 1 Corinthians 1:10

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, UNITED in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 2:2

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may be UNITED with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3

If Jewish people do not continue in their unbelief, they will be UNITED back into the tree again, because God is able to do that. In spite of the fact that you have been cut from a wild olive tree, you have been UNITED onto a cultivated one. So wouldn't it be easier for these natural branches to be UNITED onto the olive tree they belong to? Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won't become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God's non-Jewish people are included. In this way Israel as a whole will be saved, as Scripture says, "The Savior will come from Zion. He will remove godlessness from Jacob.My promise to them will be fulfilled when I take away their sins." Romans 11:23-27

Prayer Scripture and Quote Archive:

Prayer Scipture 17.0- "Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.’ “Then the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man’s boldnesse he will get up and give him as much as he needs" Luke 11:5-8

Prayer Quote: 17.0- "AN URGENT NEED: Here intercession has it's origin. The friend came at midnight, an untimely hour. There was hunger and he could not buy bread. If we are to learn to pray properly, we must open ours eyes and hearts to the needs around us. We often here of the millions of unsaved souls living in midnight darkness, perishing for lack of the BREAD OF LIFE-Jesus Christ. We also hear of the many nominal Christians who are almost as unenlightened and indifferent as those who are unsaved. We see millions in the Christian church who know little of a walk in the light of God or in the power of a life led by bread from heaven. We all have our own circles-- congregations, schools, friends, missions--in which the great complaint is that the light and life of God are too little known. Surely, if we believe what we profess--that God alone is able to help, that God certainly will help in answer to prayer--all these needs ought to make us intercessors, people who give their lives to prayer for those around them. Let us make time to consider these needs seriously, because people are in urgent need of the Bread of Life-Jesus Christ!"


Prayer Scripture 16.0: "Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
Prayer Point 16.0: " We may not yet have attained that full devotion to which our Lord had trained his disciples, neither may we equal them in their power of prayer. We may, nevertheless, take courage in remembering that every new step we take in our Christian life toward the perfect branch life, and every surrender to live for others in intercession, will be met from above by a corresponding liberty to pray with greater boldness and to expect larger answers. The more we pray, and the more conscious we become of our unfitness to pray in power, the more we will be urged and helped to press on toward the key to power in prayer- a life abiding in Christ, entirely at His disposal."

Prayer Scripture 15.0- "What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to Him." Moses in Deuteronomy 4:7
Prayer Point 15.0- "The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer."

Prayer Scripture 14.0- "But everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved"
Prayer Point 14.0- "You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes to Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting."

Prayer Scripture 13.0- "We will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the Word of God...And the Word of God increased; and the number of disciples increased." Acts 6:4,7
Prayer Point 13.0- "Don't make prayer your very last chance. Make it your very first choice."

Prayer Scripture 12.0- "She replied, "That's true Lord, yet even the dogs eat of the crumbs..." And Jesus replied, "O Woman, great is your faith: be it unto you even as you will." Matthew 15: 27,28
Prayer Point 12.0- " You feel unworthy and unable to pray. To accept this heartily, and still be blessed in your unworthiness, is true humility. It proves its integrity by not seeking for anything but simply trusting God's grace; thus, it is the strength of a great faith and a full answer. "

Prayer Scripture 11.0- “Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today.” I Kings 8:28
Prayer Point 11.0- "God is not aloof. He says continually through the centuries, "I'll help you, I really will. When you're ready to throw up your hands- throw them up to me."

Prayer Scripture 10.0- " And He spoke a parable to them to this end, that man ought to pray, and not to faint...and shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily" Luke 18:1, 6-8
Prayer Point 10.0- "The sin, or the consequence of sin, that makes it impossible for God to answer prayer immediately is a barrier on God's side as well as ours. To break through this power of sin in ourselves, or in those for whom we pray, is what makes the striving and the conflict of prayer such a reality. "

Prayer Scripture 9.0- “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” Hebrews 4:16
Prayer Point 9.0- God says to us, “Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you: and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have.”

Prayer Scripture 8.0- “I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone” 1 Timothy 2:1
Prayer Point 8.0- “Sending leads to preaching. Preaching leads to hearing. Hearing leads to believing. Believing leads to calling on the name of the Lord”

Prayer Scripture 7.0- "Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.” Revelation 3:20
Prayer Point 7.0- “God is ready to draw close to us and provide his love and power”

Prayer Scripture 6.0- “Go….ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.” Acts 9:11
Prayer Point 6.0- “The Holy Spirit is waiting for people to give him the time to work.”

Prayer Scripture 5.0- They devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:42
Prayer Point 5.0- “The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense our need to pray, the more we want to pray.”

Prayer Scripture 4.0- “When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace. He said to them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves." Mark 11:15-18
Prayer Point 4.0- “Jesus launched the Christian church, not while someone was preaching, but while people were praying. In the first two chapters of Acts as they were just sitting there…worshipping, communing with God, letting God shape them and cleanse their spirits and do those heart operations only the Holy Spirit can do…the church was born. The Holy Spirit was poured out.”

Prayer Scripture 3.0 – “Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord will hear when I call to him.” Psalm 4:3
Prayer Point 3.0 – “God is attracted to weakness. He can’t resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power.”

Prayer Scripture 2.0 – “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3
Prayer Point 2.0 – “We need the Holy Spirit to transform our desperate lives and the desperate lives of those around us.”

Prayer Scripture 1.0 -“My heart has heard you say, "Come and talk with me." And my heart responds, "LORD, I am coming." Psalms 27:8
Prayer Point 1.0 - “When God calls someone, that’s all that really matters. Don’t let yourself be afraid.”

DEEPER AND DEEPER HYMN
by Oswald J. Smith

May this be the heart's cry of the Bride of Christ for now and through all eternity!!

Into the heart of Jesus,
Deeper and deeper I go,
Seeking to know the reason
Why He should love me so,
Why He should stoop to lift me
Up from the miry clay,
Saving my soul, making me whole,
Though I had wandered away.

Into the will of Jesus,
Deeper and deeper I go,
Praying for grace to follow,
Seeking His way to know;
Bowing in full surrender
Low at His blessèd feet,
Bidding Him take,
break me and make,
Till I am molded, complete.

Into the cross of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Following through the garden,
Facing the dreaded foe;
Drinking the cup of sorrow,
Sobbing with broken heart,
“O Savior, help! Dear Savior, help!
Grace for my weakness impart.”

Into the joy of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Rising, with soul enraptured,
Far from the world below.
Joy in the place of sorrow,
Peace in the midst of pain,
Jesus will give, Jesus will give;
He will uphold and sustain.

Into the love of Jesus
Deeper and deeper I go,
Praising the One Who brought me
Out of my sin and woe;
And through eternal ages
Gratefully I shall sing,
“O how He loved! O how He loved!
Jesus, my Lord and my King!”

ALL Darkness Has Been Pierced!

Exodus Chapter 10

The Darkness Over Egypt:

21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

Egypt’s leader was not listening to what God was telling him to do. God told Pharaoh through Moses to “Let My People Go” because it was time for their captivity to end. But Pharaoh continued to resist God and he did not let the Israelites go free and the result was his heart was hardened. The consequences of that hard heartedness came and God allowed 7 plagues to fall on the whole land of Egypt. In the sixth plague, complete darkness fell over the whole land for three days. It says no one could see anyone else or leave their place because it was so dark you could feel it, but the Israelites who were God’s chosen people had light in their places.

It is AWESOME that this thick enveloping darkness could not overtake the light where the Israelites lived! It was pierced because they had a light from another source, and as we think about this it will bring Hope and Encouragement to us today after Christmas and everyday ahead! Even more, as we believe on this faithful provision of light from God to Israel and claim it for ourselves, it reveals an even greater and more awesome promise/assurance to everyone who belongs to God. It reveals the real truth that we can claim: That those who are God’s children endure all arrays of crippling circumstances, whether it is blackest darkness or even a death blow, because they have the LIGHT THAT LEADS TO LIFE………in them!

John Chapter 8

What is this Life Giving Light?

Even though the darkness thickens around us IT CANNOT ENTER INTO US! Though we be challenged in our faith, because it indeed is really dark, we will overcome it. Why, because we are not our own. We belong to Jesus Christ! The truth is that the darkest most crippling hours that ever existed have already come and gone and they have been PIERCED. They have been defeated! That’s why it says in 1 Corinthians 15, “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those were the hours when thick darkness enveloped Christ from Gethsemane on toward Calvary and into the Grave. THOSE WERE THE THICKEST AND DARKEST HOURS that ever existed. YET Jesus overcame because he literally is the Light of the World. In John 8:12 it says, “Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life." He also said in John 2:19, "All right, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Jesus is saying that if we believe in him for who he claims to be and what his message is we will overcome the darkness because he has already overcome for us. He carried your and my sin because he loves us and he rose from the dead because he is literally LIFE, and darkness cannot overtake him! Therefore, if he is in us he will light us up and there cannot be any darkness in us. If we die, he will raise us to eternal life. Today, there is no reason to be ashamed of Jesus Christ or to run or hide from Jesus, but only surrender our lives to him, celebrate, talk about, give thanks to and praise him!

Today is the day after Christmas. Just like yesterday, it is one day of an every day celebration of this truth for those who have surrendered their all to Jesus Christ. The daily celebration is that the real darkness (sin) in the world and in human hearts has been PIERCED, and now there is the wonderful opportunity for the replacement of human sin and depravity for Jesus’ light and righteousness! Just imagine, little baby Jesus came into the world on that dark night, but a bright light was above him announcing his location! King Herod was full of darkness and wanted to kill baby Jesus so he ordered all 2yr old boys and younger to be killed, but baby Jesus escaped because God had a bigger plan! And the day after his birth and all through Jesus’ life he was surrounded by darkness yet his light pierced the sickness of humanity and unhealthy spirituality at all levels.

As we are becoming more and more sanctified each day until that resurrection hour he will faithfully continues to shine in us, and it will get brighter and brighter in the places where he lives. He lives in us Not because of who we are but because of who he is. Jesus said, in John 17:26, “I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

The Death Blow of Christ on the cross was indeed awesome and the Devil thought HE had won. The disciples were scattered and the sorrow was GREAT. And even their hope was waning, but TRUTH is thicker than blood because God the Father was watching. The darkness in Jesus tomb that day was pierced and his light became available to all of us. Today God is still watching, and waiting for anyone, no matter their nationality, their religion, their gender identity, their economic status, no matter, to respond to his call: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28


Merry Christmas to you on the day after Christmas! And may the Light of Life, who is Jesus Christ, pierce the darkness in you and me and the world in 2010.

THE HOLY LAND CONNECTION - PART XII

“GLOBAL WARMING”- JUSTIFICATION for GLOBALIZATION vs. A SIGN OF LAST DAYS BIRTH PANGS

Mark 13:8, "For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.”

There is no doubt the earth is changing right before our very eyes. Everyone is noticing the temperature changes, the hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, prevalence of disease, shortage of food, droughts, and now news sources are reporting that the Euphrates River is beginning to dry up which is spoken about in (Revelation 16:12)! But even these signs are being dismissed as evidences of the times that Jesus warned about in Matthew 24. In any case, both believers and non-believers are expressing there minds to explain why it is all happening. In these explanations, there are differences to be discerned. The difference of the minds is perspective and whether or not the person believes in truth determines if the analysis is trustworthy. For example, Al Gore has an unbiblical understanding of the signs of the times and his analysis is being received and believed in the world over. His unbiblical proposals to remedy the problem are bringing about globalization as seen in bills such as the CAP and TRADE government mandated environmental policy. But what does scripture say?

Romans 8:19, “All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are.”

Before we go on, let’s dig deeper into this verse. Do you remember when Moses and Aaron were before Pharaoh in Exodus 7? Pharaoh was going to ask them for a miracle and God prepared Moses beforehand and said, “Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.” And so it did. To us, that is definitely a miracle for the Glory of God, but was it to God’s glory in Pharaoh’s heart? His wise men and sorcerers did the same thing with their staffs which in Pharaoh’s eyes, (the world’s eyes), was good enough reason to dismiss the real message Moses was relaying for God. Everyone knows that Pharaoh’s snakes were swallowed up by Aaron’s…even Pharaoh. So why didn’t Pharaoh humble himself? I bring this up because it is possible for two people to be looking at the same sign or miracle and see it totally different because their hearts are different. One sees through the eyes and heart of faith and humility before Christ while the other sees through the eyes and heart of unbelief and pride before themselves! When the last day’s birth pangs of scripture begin to get stronger and more powerful - even causing ‘men’s hearts to fail them for fear of what is coming upon the earth’ (Luke 21:26) - what is the child of God to do? We are to keep looking in faith with a contrite heart unto Christ alone! Keep in mind that God turned the staff into a snake for one ultimate reason: That is to free his children from slavery. Think of that verse in Romans 8:19 again: All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are! This verse is the bottom line of EVERYTHING! Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection; Lazarus’ resurrection, ALL the miracles of Jesus; ALL the miracles of the old testament, ALL the eclipses, ALL CREATION, EVERYTHING has been set in motion for the ultimate purpose of revealing who God’s true children are. They are those who have been freed by the blood of Christ from the slavery of sin and death. Read Psalm 91 and believe! God will protect you when the birth pangs rail upon the world for the Glory of God. All the miracles ahead both genuine and counterfeit, and all the birth pangs will be discerned by the child of God through the eyes and hearts of faith and humility.

With this in mind, there are others who are revealing the signs of the times through the understanding of scripture. One man in particular is Bill Koenig. Mr. Koenig, is an author and a white house correspondent who reports the news through the lens of scripture. His inside connections/access to the political realm as well as world leaders coupled with his understanding of the scriptures is helping the church and world to see that not honoring the covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob regarding the land of Israel is a serious matter. His website is www.watch.org and his book titled: Eye to Eye- Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel is a compiling of actual natural, economical and political events that have occurred on the same day or within 24 hours after Israel received direct pressure to divide her land. In fact, according to his research the following have a great deal in common:

•9 of the 10 costliest insurance events in U.S. history,
•6 of the 7 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history,
•3 of the 4 largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history,
•9 of the 10 top natural disasters in U.S. history ranked by FEMA relief costs, and the
•2 largest terrorism events in U.S. history

All these events occurred the same day or 24 hours after the U.S. government applied:

1.Pressure on Israel to trade her land for promises of “peace and security,”
2.Sponsoring major “land for peace” meetings,
3.Making major public statements pertaining to Israel’s covenant land and/or
4.Calling for a “Palestinian State”.

Reading Mr. Koenig’s book will challenge you by asking the question: Is this all a coincidence or should we begin to believe that God is actively involved in the affairs of Israel and the land He gave them. Are there serious consequences for those who divide the land of Israel? Consider Zechariah 12:9- And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” If the nations continue to pressure Israel in these ways I believe we will continue to see serious consequences befall the nations. God has spoken regarding the issue.