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OPEN MY EYES THAT I MAY SEE   Among the many streams of spiritual truth that are woven through the Testaments is that of the ability for men and women to see into a realm that we call the spiritual. The apostle Paul refers to it when he talks about the two worlds, the natural world that we live in, and the spiritual world that God and all the spiritual beings, including angels, that he has created live in. Scriptures also tell us that the spiritual world, which is referred to as the unseen world, is more real than the natural world. ( 2 COR 4:18) This is where the message that I am speaking of tonight starts getting pushed back for much of the church because it's so hard to believe that this world we live in is not everything there is. This is where we live, we see it, we taste it. We walk on the ground and live in our houses. This must be all there is because this is all I can see and touch. The reality is when you come into Christ, you have become a new creature and now your citizenship is in heaven, which

OUR DESTINY AND GOOD WORKS ARE THE PLANS OF GOD   There is a story that Jesus tells us in the book of Matthew about the master who went on a long trip, but before he left, he gave a certain amount of money to three of his servants. If you've been in Sunday school very long, you know the story well, but for those who haven't heard it yet, let me recap. The master of a certain business was taking a long trip, and before he went, he gave three of his servants some Roman talents. To one servant, he gave $4.5 million in today's value To the second servant, he gave $1.8 million in today's value To the third one, he gave $900,000 Keep in mind, one talent was 20 years' wages for the common labor of that day. Not a small sum of money. As we focus on the story, we realize the master had a destiny planned for these three servants. In other words, he had something good in mind for them. The outcome of the story is that the two servants with the five talents and the two talents multiplied their gift many times over. But t

RESISTANCE-WHEN? Who? AND HOW?   Revelation from the Lord often comes to me at the strangest times and in peculiar ways. Recently, I was working my way through the Repair of an old clothes dryer, trying to bring it back to life. When I got to the heating element and checked it out, it had no breaks in it, and the ohm meter said it was good. So I put it together and gave it a test run. It barely warmed up. So I did what all up-to-the-minute and hip people do, I dialed up ChatGPT and asked it. That's when the word resistance came up. It seems that as the heating element gets older, it builds up resistance, preventing the electricity from flowing through as it should. Well, now it's here, the Holy Spirit gives me the inside baseball on the subject of resistance and how, as we become wary and well doing after laboring or walking the Christian walk, we can resist the Holy Spirit without even realizing it. The Scriptures do give us instructions on whom to resist and what not to resist. For instance, if we resist th

THE "WHO I AM ANGEL" SPEAKS, ENCOURAGING WORDS   Several years ago, I was introduced to my birthday angel. It happened to be on my birthday month and I called him "my I am angel." This particular angel was sent with me from the Father's heart at my conception. The duty of this specific angel can be found in Job 33:23.  In this verse, Job tells us there is an angel that speaks to us in our night visions as we rest upon our beds. Psalms 139:16 tells us we have a book of life that God has written about us. It's my conviction that the angel that speaks to us reads us out of that book of life, reminding us of who we are and what our purpose is on this earth. That's why I call him my "I am" angel." When he speaks, it sounds something like this. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am a son of God. I am a joint air with Christ in God. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I have the fullness of the godhead bodily dwelling in me. I have eternal life now. I can do what he says I can do. I have b

HOW TO SET YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTAND   I am often asked how to prepare for spiritual encounters, such as visitations from the Holy Spirit that include revelations from the scriptures, which often involve angelic interaction. It's not uncommon to hear people say Well, if it happens, it happens. It's all up to God. I understand the reasoning because of the overemphasis that often happens concerning the sovereignty of God. By that, I mean a teaching that puts everything in God's hands and nothing in yours. The Scriptures are filled with guidance on how to enter into His presence to find answers and gain understanding. Among those scriptures, you'll find instruction to seek the Lord both early and often. We're also instructed to pray with faith that he will answer us. Many of our spiritual heroes in the Scriptures fasted, which meant missing meals and waiting upon the Lord with anticipation that He would answer them. In the book of Daniel 10:12, it is mentioned that the prophet Daniel set himself aside so that he

THE MYSTERY OF GIANT KILLING   There is an interesting scripture that we should take some time to meditate upon today. It says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Here's where the problem begins when it comes to training and teaching people how to walk in the way of the Lord. That verse is often rephrased by your local mentor teacher when they say Train up a child in the way that I have been trained, because that is the best way. The teenager David, who was destined to become king, met his first giant on someone else's battlefield. King Saul wanted him to do it his way with his armor. Make a note that Saul's technique at fighting giants had not worked yet. So far, they were still under the domination of the enemy. Young David comes along with a new idea, and they laughed at him. Take note when you fight your giant, be sure you use the skills that God has given you, not someone else's. You will be accused of being odd, or perhaps even unscriptural, by th

EAGLE OR CHICKEN? THE EAGLE RENEWS, THE CHICKEN BECOMES DINNER    The average life span of an eagle is about 70 years. That is a long time for a bird of prey to live. However, at about 40 years of age, the Eagle has some life-threatening things he has to deal with. His decisions now will determine if he gets a second chance at life. By now, the Eagle's beak is old and useless, and their claws are worthless for hunting. Add to that the feathers that are old and thick and not doing their job anymore. The Eagle decides to fly to the high mountain, where he begins his renewal process. He beats his beak against the rocks until it falls off, and another grows in his place. He scratches until his claws fall away, and new ones come in their place. When that is done, he pulls all of his feathers out, and a fresh new crop of feathers comes back in. This process takes 150 days. Then, a new life begins for another 30 years. The price the Eagle pays is the same one that you and I face as we process through the different s

LOVE AND MARRIAGE, THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATION   Happy anniversary, Dr. George and Arlis, number 56. How did the number get so high so quickly? It seems like only yesterday, as they say, that this all started. Many of you have heard my favorite story of how the Lord led me to meet my darling wife. A small church in a remote town on the coast of Washington state. Sunday dinner and a picture on the mantle turned my life around and set me on the course of 56 years of joyful marriage. As you know, if you've been married for a season, some of that joy has to be acted out by faith when you go through struggles and adjustments. Put the investments you give to a marriage more than compensate for the rewards that come back to you over your lifetime. God said it is not good for a man to be alone oh how true that is. Love and marriage is the foundation of a nation. Because God-centered families are based on the commitment of a husband and a wife to each other, children who obey their parents strengthen their communitie

TAKE YOUR REVELATION OF GOD, THE FATHER OUT OF THE BOX   Understanding the Trinity, a divine mystery, requires a revelation that only the Holy Spirit can bestow. In our quest to comprehend this profound truth, we are often confronted with the diverse opinions of gospel teachers. How can our natural reasoning, shaped by our western minds, grasp the concept of three in one and one in three? In the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus prayed: “so that they all may be one just as you father are in me and I and you that they also may be one in us so that the world may be leave and be convinced that you have sent me.” This prayer is a profound revelation of the unity within the Trinity. Indeed, this is one of the most potent verses in the Scriptures, a testament to the power and unity of the Trinity. Yet, we often find ourselves walking in a lack of understanding, unaware of the immense power and unity that is available to us.  Consider this: just as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one, a unique blend of

EMPTY TRASH CANS   Gone gone, gone gone. Yes, my sins are gone. Buried in the deepest sea. Yes, that's good enough for me. I shall live eternally, praise God; my sins are G O N E gone. Some of you may have sung that song in Sunday school, but I know I did. It took a few years to understand the Father's love for us and what Christ did on the cross to realize the full meaning of that simple song. Yesterday was trash day in our neighborhood, and as I drove away from my house this morning, a gray can was in front of every house as far as I could see.  In the spirit of God spoke to me and said empty, trash, cans, son.  I knew he reminded me of the power of the cross to remove the stain of sin and the curse that went with it.  The phrase from that song Buried in the Deepest Sea. It refers to the scriptures that tell us God has buried our sins in the sea of his forgetfulness, never to be remembered against us anymore. Just think about the mystery of how God could empty our trashcan and make us worthy of becoming chi

THERE IS NO REVERSE TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD-IT JUST KEEPS EXPANDING   In Matthew 6 from the Passion Bible, Jesus teaches the disciples how to pray. We call this the lord's prayer. We should refer to it as the disciple's prayer.   Our beloved Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms, May the glory of your name be the center on which our lives turn. Manifest your kingdom realm, And cause your every purpose is to be fulfilled on earth. We acknowledge you as our provider of all we need each day. Forgive us the wrong as we have done as we are self release, forgiveness to those who have wronged us. Rescue us every time we face tribulation, and set us free from evil. For you are the king who rules with power and glory forever. Amen. Then Jesus goes on in the 14th verse And when you pray, make sure you forgive the fault of others so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you withhold forgiveness from others, your Father with holes forgiveness from you. What you have just read is part of the bylaws of t

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE BREATH OF GOD   Take a snapshot of Genesis 2:7. There, we see Adam's creation when God breathed the breath of life into him, and he became a living soul. That was the beginning of God's new creation of mankind. God commissioned this new creation to take what they had in the Garden of Eden to the rest of God's creation, including the cosmos. Adam and Eve were created in God's image with the ability to reproduce their kind into God's newly created world. The great tragedy of Adam and Eve's failure in the garden was that it short-circuited God's plans to manifest himself and the very spirit of heaven into this created world. Over the following centuries, there were several restarts where God gave mankind the opportunity to do it again. The most obvious to us is when the flood came, and Noah and his family had the opportunity that Adam and Eve had to reproduce, subdue, and bring heaven to Earth. Again, at the Tower of Babel, where the nations were scattered, he gave Israel the unique distin

BORN FOR THE STORM   Are you looking for a boat to go fishing? I suggest you get one that can withstand a storm. Do your research to see if it was made to resist High Winds and rough Waters. It needs to be constructed strong enough to withstand the pressures and dangers of the storm. In this life that God has placed us in, he promised us that there would be storms in our lives. However, he spoke piece to us when he said to be unafraid, for I will never leave you, nor for the sake of you. I love the story of Peter walking on the water with Jesus in Matthew 14. The disciples were caught in a sudden storm and had rowed the boat four miles in the middle of the night, trying to rescue themselves from danger. Suddenly, they saw what they thought was a ghost walking by and cried out in fear.  It was then they heard the familiar voice of Jesus when he said fear not. It is I been on afraid. One thing you can guarantee about a storm. It always brings fear at some level. Because you and I were made in God's image, we ha

DO YOU KNOW JESUS IN THE PRESENT?   It's a simple question that I am asking today, and by doing so, I am bringing our attention to what it means to walk in the light as he is in the light. When we learn the practice of being in his presence as a daily habit, we know what it means to know Jesus in this present time. Too many Christians know the Jesus who walked the shores of Galilee, healing the sick and feeding the 5,000. They have gone to Sunday school and learned where he was born and how he died. They are well-versed in the Jesus of the past. On the other hand, a disproportionate number of people study the Jesus of the future—the one who is coming someday to rescue them and take them to heaven. There are lengthy and repetitive teachings on the end times and what will happen someday, somewhere, somehow. It's not unusual for Christians to tell me. Oh yes, Pastor, someday when we get to heaven, we'll have joy, be at peace, and be healed. The challenge that the Holy Spirit gives us is to know Jesus of the pres

HEAVENLY GOLD, DISCOVERED BY THOSE WHO SEEK HIS FACE   The revelation of Jesus Christ and what he has done for us and through us is the greatest discovery you will ever dig out of the Scriptures. That revelation does not come from the wisdom or the intelligence of human thinking; it comes from the revelation of the Holy Spirit to our spirit. Heavenly gold has to be mined out of the Scriptures just like earthly gold is dug out of the dirt and rocks. And as it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual that heat must be put to the rocks and the dirt to refine the gold so that it may be useful. Heavenly gold is no different. To receive revelation from the scriptures you read, you must apply the heat of the glory of God's presence to understand the hidden secrets of God's kingdom. Isaiah 45:3 tells us that God will give us the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of the secret places. Psalms 91 says that we must dwell in the secret place of the most high to receive the revelation of those hidden places. Wher

AT EVERY CHALLENGE, GOD CHALLENGES, THE CHALLENGER-WE WIN BY DEFAULT   The key ingredient in living a life of faith is exercising the muscle called obedience to the word of God that has been revealed to you. The revelation of the word of God is different than the information in the Bible. The scriptures tell us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Rom 10:17 When Jesus said to those around him," he that hath ears to hear, let him hear." He was referring to that inner ear, the ear of the spirit, which gives revelation of the word of God. When you hear with that ear and respond to what you hear, faith is born in your heart, and you receive what God has promised in the word that you Heard. Romans 10: 8-10 illustrates this action of faith: when you hear and believe, you receive salvation and eternal life. From that point, your faith grows stronger each time you will be what you hear with your heart, that inner ear. When we have that foundation of trust in the Lord, we know that when the enem

WHAT LABEL DO YOU LIVE UNDER?   What's wrong with this picture? The Protestant Reformation happened around 1500 years ago. It was a separation from the Catholic Church based on Martin Luther's revelation that the "just shall live by faith" and not by the rule of a church or under the control of a pope. Today, 30,000+ different labels of groups of people are trying to express what a Protestant is.  That's a lot of heavy bondage on the body of Christ. Unfortunately, human nature was still in control, and it wasn't long until the protestants wanted to kill the suspected heretics just like the Catholics had done. It was the same Spirit that Jesus contented with when the disciples came to him in Mark 9:38 and complained that someone outside their camp was casting out devils. They're anxious question to Jesus was we've got to do something about that. Jesus had quite a simple rule about unity. He answered them and said well, fellas, if they're not against us, they must be for us, so leave them alone. In 1906, there

POCKETS OF WISDOM AND REVELATION   Why do some people in a large or small gathering who are listening to the word of God not hear the same thing? After a life of pastoring multiple churches, it's still beyond frustrating that someone can sit in the same congregation, hear the same message, and miss the point completely. I conclude that the problem is not in the seed that's sown; according to the Book of Mark, the fourth chapter, it's the ground that makes the difference. Jesus repeated this phrase many times: "He that has ears to hear, let him hear." That tells me that everyone has the ability to hear, but they also make choices about whether to hear. In the thousands of church services I have conducted, someone has a breakthrough, a revelation of heaven, a divine encounter, yet the one next to them walks out the back door, angry at God and the church. Jesus chose 12 disciples to train and leave the kingdom of God in their hands. These 12 disciples sat with him after the mass crusades, and he taught them the

WHAT'S NEXT FOR US IN THE BODY OF CHRIST?   HERE'S A FLASH FOR YOU! You can expect change. It is part of God's nature that he injected into everything he created. If it's not growing, it's dying. You can see that principle working in your garden or the landscape around your house. What isn't rooted in healthy soil is on the way to being a dead plant. The plan of God has continued to grow in the long journey from Adam and Eve's creation in the Garden of Eden to the present. The parts of that plan that lost their roots in every generation of past history died and disappeared. Today, we face the same challenges that every person in the body of Christ had to deal with: Do we grow and develop into God's will and exhibit his plans, or do we fade away into the shadows of history? What's next for us as people of God and those who believe in the plan he laid out for the human race? It's a twofold answer. First of all, it's an individual choice. What will you do with the challenges? God has given you as a believer. Sec

NOW THAT YOU HAVE ASK HIM-DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE ANSWER?   The scriptures clearly tell us that if we ask anything in prayer believing, we shall receive it. That being true because the Scriptures do not lie, how many times can we ask for the same thing without being in unbelief? I know that we always have the illustration of the woman who was dealing with the unjust judge. Because of that, she kept coming back until he, out of frustration, gave her the answer. According to the scriptures that Jesus gave us, it does not represent my heavenly father.  Our heavenly father is so tuned into us that he hears us before we ask, and while we are speaking, the answer is on the way.  That's fast, real fast, even faster than Amazon. So, here's my question: now that you have asked, how are you expecting to recognize the answer? You may have asked him to open your eyes so that you may see more clearly into the spiritual world. Or you have, perhaps, asked for wisdom, the spirit of wisdom to give you an answer to a problem. And