Soldiers of the Cross, Press Onward and Be Not Offended!

For the servant (slave) of Christ (His soldier); all that he/she possesses is at the total disposal of Almighty God, to be used for His honor and glory here in time (Romans 12:1-5). Be not offended by what God wills, allows or uses in your life to further the Gospel message to a lost and dying world (Matt 11:6, Rom 8:28). Endure hardness as a good soldier (2 Tim 2:3-4). Sometimes the very thing in which we are seeking to preserve or save is to be on the chopping block and removed. Fret not my beloved, Almighty God is in absolute control!
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Be not offended by what God wills, allows or uses in your life to further the Gospel message to a lost and dying world.

Beware though, this is a crossroad in many saint's lives where they look back and do not make it (Heb 10:38). They become a casualty and are shipwrecked in the faith. History is full of such. Guard your heart and be not deceived. There are many false saviors outside of the will of God for your temporal life that are nothing more than thieves and robbers. Remember Almighty God is absolutely faithful (1 Cor. 10:13).
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Lucifer our adversary would seek to sift us as wheat to see if our desire for God’s will is real in our lives (Luke 22:31, 1 Peter 5:8). Adversity opens the door for apostasy. Be careful not to be deceived - with or by - earthy mammon, privileges or prestige; Seeing this passing world only through the ETERNAL eyes that Almighty God has equipped His dear children with when He saved us (1 Tim 6:6, 1 John 2:17).

Remember your current position in Christ at the right hand of Almighty God, blessed with all spiritual blessings!

Remember your current position in Christ at the right hand of Almighty God, blessed with all spiritual blessings; That we are but pilgrims and strangers here in time and that ETERNITY is our home, not this little vapor called life (Eph 1:3, Col 3:1, Heb 11:13); Understanding time in its proper perspective, in light of our Heavenly calling is key (2 Cor. 5:19-20, Phil 3:14).
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Remembering that “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).” Be Strong and of good courage, remembering that we already have the victory my beloved (1 Cor. 15:57, 1 John 5:4). Have faith in Almighty God and expect the unexpectable from Him for His glory and honor (Mark 10:27, 11:22, Eph 3:20-21). Give thanks to Almighty God in everything and rejoice in the Lord! (1 Thess. 5:18, Phil 4:4)
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Remembering His precious promises and the great reward for His faithful saints at His soon coming.
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"For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (2 Cor. 1:20).
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"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Cor. 2:9).
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"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing" (2 Tim 4:8)
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"And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev 22:4-5).
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Beloved of God, ENDURE! To God be the glory! The Kingdom of Heaven is truly at Hand! Even so come Lord Jesus!
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DJP I.F.

Take That Hill, In God's Will!
Rule It All Joy!
Heaven’s ETERNAL Perspective Will Set You Free!

The Shed Blood of the Messiah for You!

Jesus' shed blood for you! LINK

A Simple Question For All Of Us To Answer

 

Ask yourself this very simple question. How can an imperfect humanity who lives in an imperfect world bring about an absolutely perfect “Utopian” society? (See Romans 7:24.) The answer is a no-brainer yet extremely hard for humanity to digest: it never can. The only hope and deliverance for humanity today is found in its wonderful Creator and Redeemer, The Lord Jesus Christ.

Do you know Jesus as your Lord and Savior today? Only He can deliver you from the oppressive tyranny of Satan and the World System. He is the only deliverer from our bondage to Sin and all its awful consequences (Romans 6:23). He has come to set at liberty the sons of men (Rom. 4:17,18, 6:14,17-18, 22; 7: 24-25; 8:2, 21; Gal. 5:1; Eph. 4:8). May it be your sincere desire to put your trust in Him today!

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).

“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).

The Kingdom of Heaven is truly at hand!

DJP I.F.

What is Sin?

Easter - The Greatest Victory of All!

My dear friends, the greatest Victory in all of FOREVER was wrought when Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel, Almighty God's PERFECT ETERNAL Son, our PERFECT Lamb, and propitiation, rose victorious from Death's inescapable prison hold and dealt Death its fatal death blow (Psalm 110:1, Phil 2:6-11, Heb. 1:2-3, 2:14-15, Heb. 7, Rev. 1:17-18, Rev. 5)! The power of Death has been crushed (Rev. 1:17-18)! The god of this world has been crushed (John 16:11, Rev. 20:10)! and ALL who place their trust in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior WILL find complete deliverance from sin's bondage and fatal wound (1 Cor. 15:53-57, Rom. 5:12-21, 6:23, 7:24-25, 8:1, 1 John 5:10-15). O my beloved, this Easter I cannot think of any greater word of hope for this fallen world in such an hour as ours! Jesus Christ has risen from the dead and offers pardon and ETERNAL LIFE to all who call upon His Name (John 3:16-17, 1 John 4:10, 5:10-15)!

My dear friends, greatest Victory in all of FOREVER was wrought when Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel, Almighty God's PERFECT ETERNAL Son, our PERFECT Lamb and propitiation rose victorious from Death's inescapable prison hold and dealt Death its fatal death blow!

Whatever this fallen demonically driven world throws at us or whatever happens on our way home, these adversaries can NEVER, EVER, EVER take away our LIFE which is ETERNAL and found in Almighty God's Son, Jesus Messiah (John 3:16-17, Rom. 8:28-39, Titus 1:2)! 

This Easter if you do not know the risen Lord Jesus as the Holy Scriptures truly teach then stop playing "Christian" and start playing real! And if you do know the risen Lord and Savior of your soul may you by faith be trusting in ALL of the wondrous promises that He has given us that can NEVER be taken away (2 Cor. 1:20, Titus 1:2, Heb. 6:18)! Who can hinder the child of Almighty God who understands and exercises by faith the ETERNAL POWER of an endless LIFE (2 Cor. 2:14, Phil 4:13 1 John 5:4)!

This world and its lust are passing away FOREVER but for those in Christ, our lives have only just begun!!! (1 John 2:15-17, Rev. 22:1-5)! Rejoice today in our RISEN and VITREOUS Savior!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!


What Must I Do To Be Saved?



DJP I.F.

The ETERNAL Wondrous LOVE of Almighty God for You and Me!

Oh my dearly beloved, my heart rejoices greatly when I think about my Heavenly Father’s wondrous love towards you and me; sinners saved by His ETERNAL grace and mercy (John 3:16-17, 1 John 3:1-4)! To all of us that know God the Father by means of Jesus Christ our Savior, we are called His sons or children (John 1:12, Rom 8:14-19, 1 John 3:1-3)! Such wondrous truths cannot even begin to be fully comprehended by His redeemed ones (1 Cor. 2:9)! It will take all of FOREVER just to begin to experience and enjoy the PERFECT LOVE of our Heavenly Father!

Such wondrous truths cannot even begin to be fully comprehended by His redeemed! It will take all of FOREVER just to begin to experience and enjoy the PERFECT LOVE of our Heavenly Father.

My dear friends, DO NOT ever limit the will of God the Father for your life here in time, for to do so is to only lie and cheat yourself from the Father’s HIGHEST and BEST (Rom. 8:28-39). DO NOT ever second guess the Father’s love for you, for to do so is the height of foolishness and to be a liar and deceiver unto ourselves (Rom. 8:31-32). DO NOT ever doubt the Father’s wondrous concern and innumerable thoughts toward you, for to do so is to call the Father a liar (Luke 12:6-11). My dear friends, we only will cheat and rob ourselves and then open ourselves up to Satan’s lies and falsehoods when we are unbelieving and unstable in the ALL that the Father has spoken to us in TRUTH. Satan despises with all his being the PERFECT LOVE of Almighty God, which is in PERFECT TRUTH and in RIGHTEOUSNESS (John 8:44). He rebelled against it in the beginning and will continue to be vindictive and full of rage against it FOREVER (Rev. 20:10).

DO NOT ever doubt the Father’s wondrous concern and innumerable thoughts toward you!

As the Holy Scripture states; “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” The Father LOVES us and we as His children need to let Him do so. The hardest thing for a child of the Father to do is to let God the Father LOVE us. For the LOVE of the Father again seeks only the HIGHEST and BEST for the object (you and me) of His PERFECT LOVE!

The Lord Jesus spoke to those fathers who were sincere and concerned in seeking their children’s well being in a dark and trying day stated these powerful words, “Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” (Matt. 7:9-11)

God’s ETERNAL and PERFECT LOVE transcends the realms of time and ETERNITY. It seeks ONLY our HIGHEST and BEST in RIGHTEOUSNESS for this world and our ETERNAL future.

God’s ETERNAL and PERFECT LOVE transcends the realms of time and ETERNITY. It seeks ONLY our HIGHEST and BEST in RIGHTEOUSNESS for this world and our ETERNAL future. It is the Father’s delight to give us good things! And the majority of those good things that He gives us are NOT material blessings but spiritual blessings and wisdom, heavenly discernment, reality, truth, ETERNAL and Heavenly perception, earthly provisions, good, sound believing friends in the Lord, Divine protection from the evil one, opportunities to bring glory to His WONDROUS Name (1 Cor. 1:30, Phil. 4:19).

May we remember WITH ALL OUR BEING our Heavenly Father and His ETERNAL goodness towards us in a world that despises and hates His Person and RIGHTEOUSNESS (1 John 3:1).

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

Have a GREAT LORD'S DAY!

Praise Almighty God that it is the Lord's Day!! Love being in God's House with God's  redeemed and people, singing songs of worship and praise and hearing God's Word preached! Phil 4:4!

Have a GREAT LORD'S DAY!

MARANATHA! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.

The TRUE Super Sunday! The Lord's Day!

Dear friends, It's that time of the year when ALL America (from top to bottom) gathers together as a nation for Super Sunday! Tragically, millions of Americans will be missing out on and not attending the TRUE Super Sunday that transcends ALL time and ETERNITY!

The original "Super Sunday", the day that the Savior of the world defeated Death and Hades (Sheol) and rose again from the grave ( Acts 2:22-36; 3:13-18; 4:10-12, 33; 5:29-32; 10:37-43; 13:27-37; 17:23, 30-32; 23:6; 24:14-16; 25:19; 26:68, 22-23, Rev. 1:18); is now the day of the week that His redeemed gather together to hear Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS Word and worship Him collectively! It is a day set apart by the Almighty God the Father for His saints to enter into His HOLY presence in a very special way; to worship Him in Spirit and TRUTH, to expose one's hearts and minds to the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY, to be challenged, strengthened and encouraged in the Savior and to fellowship with believers in Spirit and TRUTH (John 3:21, 4:24)!

The original "Super Sunday", the day that the Savior of the world defeated Death and Hades (Sheol) and rose again from the grave is now the day of the week that His redeemed gather together to hear Almighty God's RIGHTEOUS Word!

My beloved, If the Lord's Day is not "super" to you then it is safe to say that the ETERNAL God, His Blessed Son, His saving grace and ETERNAL promises are not precious to you either and you might not be truly saved (Matt. 7:21-23, 2 Cor. 13:5, Jude 1:10). Football today in our nation has made millions of America's obsessed and fanatical! It consumes and dominates their minds 24/7 and occupies nearly all of their free time! I see it at work, with my family and acquaintances. Look, I love sports and I love football but we all got to get our priorities in order and set right! Football is indeed the greatest game to play and watch! However, our nation has become totally consumed with this sport and the day in which it falls upon!

Sunday has now become "MY" day and the Lord's Day has been put on the back burner for emergency purposes only!

Step back and be objective today my friends and be true to yourselves and have eyes to see! The NFL has been a satanic distraction for our nation and for our culture for years and has virtually replaced the Lord's Day hands down! The fallout from this demonic "switch -a roo" has helped to bring us as a nation to the place where we are today; lost, ignorant, distracted, godless, unfulfilled, narcissistic and doomed!  In our post Judeo/Christian America, Sunday has now become "MY" day and the Lord's Day has been put on the back burner for emergency purposes only. No doubt this appraisal sounds a little radical and fanatical to some, but that is where it is at today in the U.S. of A! As we as a family drive to church each Sunday morn the fields are full of kids playing soccer, baseball, etc, the supermarket parking lots are filled to overflowing, highways are packed going to the beach etc, etc! I think you get my point. Dear friends, remove the Lord's Day from post-Judeo/Christian American culture and see how many people will truly get upset or even care! Sadly that is where we are today and because of this neglect, we have reaped the whirlwind in our nation, culture, and society!

The NFL has been a satanic distraction in our culture for years and has replace the Lord's Day and the fallout from this has helped to bring us as a nation to where we are today; lost, ignorant, distracted, godless, narcissistic and doomed!

Football is very exciting, full of militaristic tactics, excitement and great passion, however, football has become - as it were - a cult in our country today and the Super Bowl the high holy day which is most reverenced in our nation each January/February. Sunday NFL football has also been set apart by millions for the worshiping of one's favorite teams. The amount of money and time invested by individuals into football, fantasy football leagues, gaming, food, alcohol, preparing and studying all the NFL stats, setting Sunday morning apart for all the pregame shows is zealousness at its very best! From tailgating to house parties to football gatherings; who have time or room to worship the Almighty in the spirit of TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS on His day set apart? Tragically, very few today do.

Indeed football is a great game to watch and follow as I do but it can NEVER replace the Lord's Day in my mind and heart and I am not just saying that to sound self-righteous and full of piety. That is the Lord's truth. A saving personal relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ in Spirit and TRUTH is where true joy and fulfillment truly comes from and next to that there is absolutely no comparison! Until one fully has surrendered to the will of Almighty God for their lives; one will never be truly free to enjoy all things (John 8:32, 36)!

Football has become - as it were - a cult in our country today and the Super Bowl the high holy day which is most reverenced in our nation each January. Sunday NFL football has also been set apart by millions for the worshiping of one's favorite teams.

My dear fanatical football friend, enjoy the game of football but NEVER let it replace Almighty God and His Divinely set apart Day. Beware of what it has become unto you and to millions like you. It is has become a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, a distraction, to remove your affections from the ETERNAL REALITIES of time and ETERNITY (Matt. 6:19-21).

The Lord Jesus made this very sober remark to those who are obsessed and addicted to the temporal things of this world and not taking the ETERNAL seriously enough.

"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." Matt. 5:29-30

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matt. 6:19-21

Do you know the Lord Jesus as your personal Savior? That is the GREAT ETERNAL question for all!  "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God, abideth FOREVER (1 John 2:17). The Lord's Day must be first and all other things fall a distant second! That is the healthy and proper order

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

DJP I.F.