Faith’s Thesis (12-12-06)

This oratory thesis I hope to put forward to win my doctorate degree in faith. Because faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen I had to offer the theory in advance of the evidence arriving as part of the proof. Though my words here will be life to few and death to many my expectations are not of kindness. My friends like Scott from Vineland, Angel of Mercy, and those of their ilk. Those who love me but are blinded by the traditions of men that have bound them to the milk of the word and who by their own ignorant fears of the meat condemn their brother in false judgment. To you I hope to inspire you to taste of the meat and see that it is good. To take off the training wheels you have grown far too comfortable with and soar into the high calling of Jesus our Lord. Then there are those who only know the ideas or precepts of Christianity who pump themselves up with vain and useless knowledge to ridicule and pummel their victims with their tongues. They are the Tcob’s, Fruities, Neos and their kind. To you I take pleasure in the fact that this thesis will be a temptation of ammunition for you that you can’t resist, which exposes you for who you are. There are the government plant’s and people generally who believe evil good and good evil. You will find a confrontation in these words that expose you. There are those whom I love who have missed their great opportunity to know “If God be for you who can be against you?” and have lost their faith. These include brokers, agents, friends, employees etc. You I hope to be the consummate example of the truth of faith to so encourage you that the choices you made were wrong and that you will pick yourselves up, dust yourselves off, face the Lord again with a new hope and get back into the fight. Last is the only group that deserved me to take all the risk I have with Dorean and this thesis to give to you the justifying evidence for your “I told you so’s” though you probably will never say them to anyone more than to your own carnal soul who you war with constantly. Even if you only maintained a fingernail grip upon the promises of God it is my pleasure to offer you my life, the developing ground for this thesis, to cause you to sure up your grip and go for the ride of your life in the power and might of our Lord Jesus the Christ. Eternity is the breath behind all the aspirations of execution you have witnessed in your own experience and this thing called Dorean. To you this is a work of love.
This thesis is prophetic in nature because it is written in advance of eyesight, based upon the word of God, and spoken as His agent. Much substance will be contained for debate and comments so it will remain up as the only post for about a week or 10 days. Additionally circumstances will be changing during this time, which will alter the comments and positions of many. This is a live spiritual exercise to measure and expose in the Dorean microcosm the truth of the human condition.
Faith is an action word, a verb that is not synonymous with the noun belief. Belief is an elemental part of the motivation of the will in the action of faith if exercised. I have said on here before the ABC’s of faith are an Action based upon Belief sustained in Confidence. For this to please God and to receive grace from God in exchange this definition is limited to a Confidence of God’s word that moves the will to the action of faith. All other faith of similar model is the positive thinking formula of the world. This thesis focuses on this narrow parameter solely.
Faith and obedience are also not synonymous but rather are conjoined twins with the common vital organ of God’s word so that they remain inseparable and die independent of each other. 1 Cor. 7:19 states “obeying the commandments of God is everything” while Romans 1:17 says “the one who is righteous will live by faith.” Now Christ is the consummate example of this obedient faith. As Romans 3 makes clear that apart from the law Christ was revealed as the righteousness of God through His faith displayed to us who believe. He has become the author and finisher of this powerful faith in us. We as people rely on our senses and reason to develop the choices we’ll make. A child will reach for a flame but will remember the pain and not do it again. It is easy to live in the comfort of this developed wisdom. What is difficult is when you receive a word from God that runs contrariwise to this wisdom like “walk through the fire and you shall not be burned.” This is when the spiritual conflict between your miniscule wisdom verses the eternity of a faith opportunity is revealed.
Back in 1986 I was given a word from the Lord that was general as to His destiny for me and with some specifics that would appear on the path. One thing is for certain life in prison is incompatible with the promise. Over these 22 years all of the specifics have come to pass. Going to prison the first time was part of this. I can’t tell you how much ridicule and professions of evil I had to be assailed by over this time but is has always been as prolific as you see here. I think it must always come in measure equal to your confidence because the goal of it is always to remove your confidence in God’s word and to shift it back to worldly wisdom. As Scott and I have held on to God’s word for general deliverance we searched the word for specifics. About 6 months ago there became like a vapor a waft of insight that this was almost over. Many people picked up upon this and wrote us and told us. Then about 90 days ago a woman spoke as a prophet and said by Christmas you shall be released. Here my conflict begins. I have my desires that could easily align with this hope but my earthly wisdom says “no way!” Our last court date before Christmas, yesterday was an uneventful status conference pushing off my pretrial until 3-9 and trial until 3-26-07. I would say from a human wisdom point of view that about settles it. Even my friends of Job could say “Amen” in their hearts with me on this one. But this is where we differ.
Jesus is not an appendage snapped onto my personal wisdom who Amen’s my comfort. For me He is a God calling me to trust against my wisdom the promise of a word spoken by a God who cannot lie as a hope to draw me past and beyond what my eyes can see and my mind can know. This is a risk. Presently it is equal to the greatest risk of my life to date. Not because of the 25-life sentence threat but because my 22 years trek of ever increasing confidence in the reliability in God’s word and my ability to hear it and have it inspire the action of faith in me is at risk. This is my entire identity. It is the foundation of my manhood, my marriage, my relationships, all the choices I make and have made to get here. The fear in a man quickly tells us to flee from this kind of risk but Jesus in us says “if it is possible let this cup pass from me but never the less not my will but thine.” Is she really a prophet speaking for God, is my heart just so eager to get out that I’ll believe it, and don’t tell anyone, and wait and see, all are arguments that get swallowed up in a true picture of the true God. If God is the master of all things living He certainly can control her speaking and my hearing to prevent a witness of “thus sayeth the Lord.” Now that this witness has occurred I must now like Jesus realize this cup will not pass and I must rise up and walk towards my enemy. I will comfort them and boldly proclaim that God’s word can be trusted unto death. Sure a champion’s life lies before me to seize but at the risk of sharpening my enemy’s weapons they’ll use to slash and tear at me if I fail. If I do not rise to the high calling of faithing I have failed already and have merely delayed my discomfort of defeat for a season. If I take this faith opportunity I can receive a continuation of my long string of confidence. I can see the power of God displayed in my generation like I read of generations past. If I take the risk to speak of this truth in advance of its taking place I shut the mouths of fools and inspire my brother and sister faithers to pursue God with wreckless abandon with confidence. When faced with this painful choice my spiritual discipline guides me to offer the sacrifice of praise. This is a praise that reaches below the depths of my fears and elevates my eyes of faith to see the God of potential, miracles, and faithfulness. Out of the mouths of babes and infants He has perfected praise. I picture Christ on His triumphant entry with His face set firm on the promise pain and all receiving praise from these children waving palm branches, dancing, kneeling, with raised hands, shouting “Hosanna.” Like these children a childlike faith calls this praise forth from my lips. We faithers are a peculiar people. We war not with guns or swords but with spiritual weapons like praise, faith, music, the word etc. Who would run towards an army with a tambourine, shout at a wall, or use a blog? My eyes do not look to an ominous federal government with criminal intent as the fact but rather the promise of God as fact
Not only do they see my deliverance as promised, they also see the landscape beyond. Dorean will go down in history as a catalyst of some of the most sweeping economic changes in our lifetime. Fannie Mae is sentenced to death as we know it. Home values are going to recalibrate to absorb the sudden change in credit flow. Those who trust in the Lord will prosper in this change while others will lose equity. After this world economics will change drastically. Europe will head into a recession and an attraction for the dollar will return like never before. War or battles in the Mideast will increase at this time and not diminish. Things will sure up there quickly after much more destabilization. The Arab nations will resolve the conflicts by developing a unified governmental model like the EU from themselves. Europe’s weakness being aided by a departure of England and our strength will assist this region to come to this resolve suddenly. All this will take place during the next presidency. The increase in conflict will begin before Bush’s exit. Furthermore God will use the success of Dorean to create a platform of ministry where people will come seeking business knowledge and leave spiritually transformed. Others will have their faith so inspired they will trust God and receive miracles that will move this nation back towards holiness. The fake judiciary, which is merely the collection agency of the executive treasonous branch being exposed and reduced in power. God will enter into this now found faith and give a reprieve a rest for the people. The progress of theft being reversed. Even now as I write this God is placing the spark in some of your hearts to be these faithers for your generation. Let the faith of Christ explained here and the success of Dorean be a model and inspiration and believe God for big things. The back drop of all this is Christ made a spectacle of His enemies by the cross because of His obedient faith and we can join Him in this spectacle of today’s enemies by our obedient faith which is the faith of Christ living in us. In the end I say the faith of Christ has promised me to be more than a conqueror and it makes the same promises to you. Houses, families, reputations, credit ratings, jobs, friends can all be used as devices to move your eyes of faith from the prize but none will be a worthy substitute in the end. When God speaks He amen’s His own words and nothing becomes something. All creation is a constant witness of this truth if we’ll look at it. Join me as I join God and let us all in one harmonic chorus say “AMEN!” Adam made the wrong choice in the beginning and we suffer from his deposit in us but Christ returned us full circle to make the choice again on our own. Will you Amen the first Adam or the second? As for me and my house including Scott we will serve the Lord!