Hanna in the book of Samuel was a good wife and woman. In the normal course of her life the circumstances allowed her rival to provoke her. Humanity is cruel and full of envy. At every turn where it appears by circumstances alone that one’s life is blessed compared to another our wicked hearts use the gift of knowledge of good and evil as a touchstone for critical judgment. Fortunately for the Christian we are liberated from this foul exercise. This liberation does not come by the title Christian which unfortunately is proven over and over by the hypercritics who think that they add credibility to their judgment by a piety overcoat. How far they are from knowing the God they claim to know. Christ liberates from this heart because He never possessed it. He only knows the love of the Godhead. His judgments would be true and just at any provocation addressed toward us. Yet love, His love, has no envy or weak constitution that needs to stand upon the shoulders of another. He can look to himself and judge the other not in their circumstances but in His character.
Suffering under injustice and displaying circumstances that seduce the hypercritics is a temptation to become like them. But what Hanna did as a practice we should all take note of is she went to the Lord. Lay your complaint, injuries, and hope on the alter of love. This is a trustworthy place. If you beg the hypercritics for mercy they could not give it.
At the alter of love you are not judged by the knowledge of good and evil but rather the knowledge of true love. A true love that knows the value of a human soul and the transient worth of circumstance, let the wise of this would provoke you, revile you, and condemn you. They will see soon enough that God loves you and that their formula for judgment is folly. Will it change their judgments? Never, even if hypercritics prey upon them, they will never go to the alter of love. If they would God would heal them of their hatred and they would lose their judgment. That is the treasure they will not sacrifice.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
IS GOD IN CHARGE?
This is a question everyone should ask. The answer you believe true will determine your life view. You don’t have to have a relationship with God to answer with “Yes”. Of course if you do have a relationship with God you will be able to answer with an emphatic “Yes”.
No, allows some modern philosophies, which historically are really recycled, to influence your life choice. Take for example the famous story of Jonah. He finds himself in the belly of a great fish. This fish vomits him onto the beach God intended for him to reach. This story is too fantastic to be credible without a controlling God. If you don’t believe in God’s control this story can never rise above myth.
If man is nothing more than a specie among the many of nature you have not elevated all animals to equality with man but debased man into a mere animal. What is ironic is that the very thought processes that entertains this equality proves superiority.
Without a controlling God morality is capricious and subjective. It can be nothing else. If we are mere animals then it is also frivolous. No lizard contemplated the fate of any bug it eats or of other lizards why should men. Jeffery Dalmer was one of the few to be brave enough to truly allow this belief system to not be compromised. He lived it out to its logical conclusion. There are no rights because these are the product of natural law which presupposes an intelligent creator.
Is your life merely a pinball let loose within the machine of random choices? Have you observed how little control you have over outcomes even when you attempt to control every detail? Can the collective consciousness of all humanity achieve a better result?
If God is in control Dorean is not a bust. Your participation is more than your free choice. Prison and bank fraud are not final answers. Think on this, with either life view your complaint is disingenuous.
No, allows some modern philosophies, which historically are really recycled, to influence your life choice. Take for example the famous story of Jonah. He finds himself in the belly of a great fish. This fish vomits him onto the beach God intended for him to reach. This story is too fantastic to be credible without a controlling God. If you don’t believe in God’s control this story can never rise above myth.
If man is nothing more than a specie among the many of nature you have not elevated all animals to equality with man but debased man into a mere animal. What is ironic is that the very thought processes that entertains this equality proves superiority.
Without a controlling God morality is capricious and subjective. It can be nothing else. If we are mere animals then it is also frivolous. No lizard contemplated the fate of any bug it eats or of other lizards why should men. Jeffery Dalmer was one of the few to be brave enough to truly allow this belief system to not be compromised. He lived it out to its logical conclusion. There are no rights because these are the product of natural law which presupposes an intelligent creator.
Is your life merely a pinball let loose within the machine of random choices? Have you observed how little control you have over outcomes even when you attempt to control every detail? Can the collective consciousness of all humanity achieve a better result?
If God is in control Dorean is not a bust. Your participation is more than your free choice. Prison and bank fraud are not final answers. Think on this, with either life view your complaint is disingenuous.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Rearview Mirror 2-26-2011
Reflections are one of our most useful gifts. I think because I talk so much of faith’s future, look I might be misunderstood. Faith most certainly has a future look. It is like human expectations in this sense alone but far different in true aspect. Faith looks to the future but drags with it a very heavy anchor. That anchor is from the past. It is the substance of thing hoped for. In Christ there is not future victory. In Christ all His promises are yes and Amen. They are settled facts of history. All faith does is look into the landscape of humanity for pockets of deceit. In this faith sees a place to drag this anchor and settle the fact in the present. Because God’s character is patient instant results rarely occur. Faith will diligently and tenaciously maintain its grip upon that anchor until the true facts finish there work.
I may have misled you when I speak of our victory in the future tense. I should have been clearer. The manifestation awaits arrival but the victory has long since been a settled matter. Scott and I have been dragging victory with us by faith’s grip from the moment we said “I do” to God’s offer of Dorean.
If you study God’s word even prophecy is in Christ. Christ has always been, this little exercise we call life is a small silver of time that changed nothing of the facts that preceded it. In all humanity is just another display of the immutable fact of eternity. The curious part being that most of mankind have smashed their rearview mirrors and abandon themselves to the uncertain future of human expectation.
You will see victory not because it’s in Dorean’s future but because it is Dorean’s past. Christ founded us, keeps us, delivers us, and secures His facts for us. He’ll do the same for you but to see your future you have to look in the rearview mirror.
I may have misled you when I speak of our victory in the future tense. I should have been clearer. The manifestation awaits arrival but the victory has long since been a settled matter. Scott and I have been dragging victory with us by faith’s grip from the moment we said “I do” to God’s offer of Dorean.
If you study God’s word even prophecy is in Christ. Christ has always been, this little exercise we call life is a small silver of time that changed nothing of the facts that preceded it. In all humanity is just another display of the immutable fact of eternity. The curious part being that most of mankind have smashed their rearview mirrors and abandon themselves to the uncertain future of human expectation.
You will see victory not because it’s in Dorean’s future but because it is Dorean’s past. Christ founded us, keeps us, delivers us, and secures His facts for us. He’ll do the same for you but to see your future you have to look in the rearview mirror.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Objective Truth 2-26-2011
True faith, the faith of Christ, is based upon facts that are all objective to us. That is another indicator that my critics don’t know God. They keep binding their God to the conduct of Scott and me. That would make us the objective to God and Him subjective.
This is beyond a silly notion. What Christ did was and is always objective to us. It is a fact of history outside us; every promise does not find its fulfillment in the believer they are all fulfilled in Christ. What the Holy Spirit does is bring those objective truths to us. Not by bringing Christ to us but us to Christ. When we are in Christ then the objective truths of Christ can become subjective to us. Dorean doesn’t arrive at victory outside of Christ but is assured victory because Dorean is inside of Christ. You don’t hear me profess a victory outside of Christ. That would place me on equal footings with Alsup.
On equal footing he would obviously have the advantage. But when he went to war with Dorean which is inside Christ he took on a victory. All I have to do is follow the lead of the Holy Spirit and I will be taken subjectively into the experience of the objection fact in Christ. If you can grasp what I’m telling you all your trials would become laughable. This is the great joy of the Lord that settles our spirit. We know that there is not a subject in all creation who undo or invalidate the objective truths in Christ. Federal judges, roaring lion, or the devil himself all laughable.
Fact is found in Christ. The faith of Christ trusts these facts. The Holy Spirit brings us to these facts. The Holy Spirit gives us the faith of Christ. The faith of Christ reins over spirits into obedience. Obedience walks us through the experience that allows us to own the objective fact in Christ as a subjective truth. The rest is lies, all laughable.
This is beyond a silly notion. What Christ did was and is always objective to us. It is a fact of history outside us; every promise does not find its fulfillment in the believer they are all fulfilled in Christ. What the Holy Spirit does is bring those objective truths to us. Not by bringing Christ to us but us to Christ. When we are in Christ then the objective truths of Christ can become subjective to us. Dorean doesn’t arrive at victory outside of Christ but is assured victory because Dorean is inside of Christ. You don’t hear me profess a victory outside of Christ. That would place me on equal footings with Alsup.
On equal footing he would obviously have the advantage. But when he went to war with Dorean which is inside Christ he took on a victory. All I have to do is follow the lead of the Holy Spirit and I will be taken subjectively into the experience of the objection fact in Christ. If you can grasp what I’m telling you all your trials would become laughable. This is the great joy of the Lord that settles our spirit. We know that there is not a subject in all creation who undo or invalidate the objective truths in Christ. Federal judges, roaring lion, or the devil himself all laughable.
Fact is found in Christ. The faith of Christ trusts these facts. The Holy Spirit brings us to these facts. The Holy Spirit gives us the faith of Christ. The faith of Christ reins over spirits into obedience. Obedience walks us through the experience that allows us to own the objective fact in Christ as a subjective truth. The rest is lies, all laughable.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Passover 2-23-2011
This trial lingers. I am now approaching my 6th full year of incarceration. All my expectations turn into disappointments. I feel like this will never end. I even have doubts my marriage will survive this event. I just desire for all this to Passover.
This is the human Passover but God’s Passover experience teaches us truth. In God’s Passover a lamb died or a firstborn died. In Adam we are all firstborns into sin and death. Either God’s lamb dies and we apply His blood or we die. Feelings mean nothing. In Egypt the firstborn was in the house, the blood was outside the house. He did not see it. In the story it was God’s sight that mattered. God said “if I see the blood I will Passover”. Your sight, your feelings on the matter didn’t matter.
This is where Natorial dissent and his ilk and I will never find accord between us. He only trusted in his feelings and sight. All his judgments concerning Dorean and I are a simpleton cursory look into his own human limitations.
God said I have victory. God said my enemies will stumble into their own nets, God said my marriage will suffer but has kingdom purpose. God said I will be the one sought out for the gifts and wisdom He’s given me. God said to found Dorean. God said to trust Him. He never said a thing about trusting my feelings. He posted all these promises on the doorpost of my heart with the blood of His lamb my feelings that are locked inside have no performance involvement. God looks upon His promises to perform them and no matter how I feel about it I trust that blood upon my door as a fact. In Alsup’s court facts don’t matter and feelings perceptions influenced by rhetoric are given the weight of law but in God’s court facts are all that matter. Christ is the substance of all Passovers. Including this trial I face. There is power in the blood of the lamb. I believe the songs say’s “wonder working power”.
This is the human Passover but God’s Passover experience teaches us truth. In God’s Passover a lamb died or a firstborn died. In Adam we are all firstborns into sin and death. Either God’s lamb dies and we apply His blood or we die. Feelings mean nothing. In Egypt the firstborn was in the house, the blood was outside the house. He did not see it. In the story it was God’s sight that mattered. God said “if I see the blood I will Passover”. Your sight, your feelings on the matter didn’t matter.
This is where Natorial dissent and his ilk and I will never find accord between us. He only trusted in his feelings and sight. All his judgments concerning Dorean and I are a simpleton cursory look into his own human limitations.
God said I have victory. God said my enemies will stumble into their own nets, God said my marriage will suffer but has kingdom purpose. God said I will be the one sought out for the gifts and wisdom He’s given me. God said to found Dorean. God said to trust Him. He never said a thing about trusting my feelings. He posted all these promises on the doorpost of my heart with the blood of His lamb my feelings that are locked inside have no performance involvement. God looks upon His promises to perform them and no matter how I feel about it I trust that blood upon my door as a fact. In Alsup’s court facts don’t matter and feelings perceptions influenced by rhetoric are given the weight of law but in God’s court facts are all that matter. Christ is the substance of all Passovers. Including this trial I face. There is power in the blood of the lamb. I believe the songs say’s “wonder working power”.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Legal Update 2-20-2011
Notorial dissent is apparently a scholar in many fields. He tells me skillings won 9-0 decision from the Supreme Court on the vagueness of the 1346 statute. A statute I am not charged with but is a definition of my statute 1341. In the ruling they confined the definition down to bribes and kickbacks to save it from constitutional problems. This is conduct that does not reach my trial.
It was sent back to the 5th circuit to see if the actions were harmless. Of course they found the harmless and the net results to Mr. Skillings were nothing. His sentence remained the same. He asked to see his son before he finished his sentence and was denied. Shortly thereafter his 20 year old son committed suicide. Asked to attend the funeral he was again vigorously denied.
On 2-18-11 he filed a motion contending that it was not harmless because of “unconstitutional delegation.” Your government changed positions in 24 hours to agree with Skilling and appealed the 5th circuits ruling a year out of time. The DOJ prosecutors
were styling their prosecution in such a way as to make Skilling a moot ruling. Now that they have discovered the cost in doing so they had a moral flop. What great character you government has. They are now about trapping Skilling into making his recent filing of none affect. What they know is not harmless and therefore cannot be ignored can be made harmless by the precedent of Skilling coping a plea. How much you want to bet he gets out of jail now. I hope he is smart enough to see he will win no matter what and tell them to kiss his ass. They played ruthless he should play ruthless. Because this issue has not been raised in 100 years Skilling controls the outcome of the precedent. His choice affects me but his case is not moot.
I did not file cert, I continue on a 2255 and though you talk of my big mouth this will be the first time since my trial I can speak. Every thing until now has procedurally kept me silent. So now we shall see what my mouth can do. I know this; I am not a criminal but a victim of criminals. You don’t hear me pissing and moaning. I trust God.
It was sent back to the 5th circuit to see if the actions were harmless. Of course they found the harmless and the net results to Mr. Skillings were nothing. His sentence remained the same. He asked to see his son before he finished his sentence and was denied. Shortly thereafter his 20 year old son committed suicide. Asked to attend the funeral he was again vigorously denied.
On 2-18-11 he filed a motion contending that it was not harmless because of “unconstitutional delegation.” Your government changed positions in 24 hours to agree with Skilling and appealed the 5th circuits ruling a year out of time. The DOJ prosecutors
were styling their prosecution in such a way as to make Skilling a moot ruling. Now that they have discovered the cost in doing so they had a moral flop. What great character you government has. They are now about trapping Skilling into making his recent filing of none affect. What they know is not harmless and therefore cannot be ignored can be made harmless by the precedent of Skilling coping a plea. How much you want to bet he gets out of jail now. I hope he is smart enough to see he will win no matter what and tell them to kiss his ass. They played ruthless he should play ruthless. Because this issue has not been raised in 100 years Skilling controls the outcome of the precedent. His choice affects me but his case is not moot.
I did not file cert, I continue on a 2255 and though you talk of my big mouth this will be the first time since my trial I can speak. Every thing until now has procedurally kept me silent. So now we shall see what my mouth can do. I know this; I am not a criminal but a victim of criminals. You don’t hear me pissing and moaning. I trust God.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Wicked Witness
Well my 40 day trial has ended and ate the best banana I had in months. I remember my other trial though and how many wicked witnesses were used. The most tragic though were the so-called saints who sold out their professions of faith for the frauds of that courtroom. But in all that transpired their remains one true witness their actions confirm. They reveal to the saints the character and nature of their God. Romans 9 speaks on this.
It is ok for God to raise up men like Alsup and to expose phony Christians even at your personal expense of suffering. Because it proves His longsuffering mercy is real and your hopes in the Beloved are true. In a strange paradox the wicked witness proves by his hatred of God that our God is a God of love. The very fact he is not smashed immediately being one sigh. But think on this pharaoh was raised up with his hard heart to increase the renown of the Lord. Has it not done so? Is the exodus not one of the most famous stories of all time? The sons of God should not fear the wicked witness when he raises his ugly face in front of you. God is just writing another story to increase His renown. Be patient as God has shown patience with the wicked and the future of your promises will approach you swiftly.
It is ok for God to raise up men like Alsup and to expose phony Christians even at your personal expense of suffering. Because it proves His longsuffering mercy is real and your hopes in the Beloved are true. In a strange paradox the wicked witness proves by his hatred of God that our God is a God of love. The very fact he is not smashed immediately being one sigh. But think on this pharaoh was raised up with his hard heart to increase the renown of the Lord. Has it not done so? Is the exodus not one of the most famous stories of all time? The sons of God should not fear the wicked witness when he raises his ugly face in front of you. God is just writing another story to increase His renown. Be patient as God has shown patience with the wicked and the future of your promises will approach you swiftly.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Glory to God 1-28-2011
Well today is my 40th day, glory to God! What does that mean? Surely the glory of God is ever expanding and Jesus Christ is honored above everything that is named. If this be true then certain wisdoms ought to enter the spirits of His children. Christ prayed “Father glorify thy name” to which the response was “I have and will do it again”. So if God is in the business of bringing glory to Himself let’s presume from our knowledge that “again” incorporates the perpetual again and again, then every part of creation would fall under this purpose. Even the devil himself would become an agent of God’s glory design. That means wickedness as a whole will ultimately bring glory to God.
Paul wrestles with these thoughts in Romans. Should we sin because it is an agent of glory? Of course not! But if one reasons out the reality of this truth a comfort outside the love of God brings rest to your spirit. For if everything passing through your life is to glorify God a certain joy can resound in any circumstances. When love for Christ takes root in your spirit nothing can be more pleasing that to have your life bring Him glory. So what of worry, fear, impatience? Will they not dissipate in the light of this truth? Come what may, bring it on, and let my life bring you glory. Glory to God in the highest!
Paul wrestles with these thoughts in Romans. Should we sin because it is an agent of glory? Of course not! But if one reasons out the reality of this truth a comfort outside the love of God brings rest to your spirit. For if everything passing through your life is to glorify God a certain joy can resound in any circumstances. When love for Christ takes root in your spirit nothing can be more pleasing that to have your life bring Him glory. So what of worry, fear, impatience? Will they not dissipate in the light of this truth? Come what may, bring it on, and let my life bring you glory. Glory to God in the highest!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
It Can’t Be Stolen 1-28-2011
Jeremiah 29:11 was spoken to the exiles. But even in our exile before we knew God these words were true for us. For whom He called He foreknew His good plans cannot be thwarted. Everything about God in relation to you is a promise. To reconcile a sinner to himself is the patient work of love. Love by its nature will always possess a promise and a hope. A hope as true as the God behind it promises and hope by nature are futuristic because once the substance of the hope or promise arrives then they have ceased. So what I think most people lose when they get caught up in worries and concerns is their future. Psalms 84 says blessed men go through their valleys of weeping. Weeping may last for a night but joy comes in the morning. I would add it even comes in the mourning. You always have a future that cannot be stolen. Why are thou downcast oh my soul, wait for God, whom you shall praise again. Dorean’s future cannot be stolen by wicked men. The thought is laughable. How can men who have no future who live for their belly every moment steal what they don’t know exist? Scott and I will wait patiently for God to coral our enemies and to deliver them to us. 153 fish swam to the net the Lord put before them against all fish behavior. A mother cow never yoked left her calf to deliver the Ark of the Covenant. The future always comes to His beloved children. If you don’t understand this truth and it doesn’t subdue all your fears then you are living like a bastard. Don’t forfeit what cannot be taken from you.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Weapon of Righteousness 1-27-2011
The word in Romans 6 tells us to use our body as a weapon of righteousness. It contrast how we use to use it as a weapon of evil. We all know how to sin. I was not exempt from the curse, I had no problem turning my body over to sin as a slave. But in Christ I have been freed from that power and can now offer my body as a slave to righteousness. In sin I profited nothing and at the end of every fancy, every accomplishment was death. Yet that did not deter me from the repeated exercise of futility. No all the more I was eager to put the cloak of death on more firmly.
Now Christ gives me the offer to turn my body through obedience over to righteousness to be His weapon where the end is abundance now and eternal life ultimately. At the end of every fancy and every assignment is life. Shall I shrink back from its demands? I never resisted the demands of death. No all the more my slavery toward obedience should be as loyal as a heart can be. Dorean was formed as a weapon of righteousness by the Lords command. Shall I not give my body over to its full demands? Life and victory await even if I pass through suffering. It is still better for me to suffer toward life than to enjoy pleasures on the way to destruction. I am fond of my body being made a weapon of righteousness. Lord, wield me often! Amen!
Now Christ gives me the offer to turn my body through obedience over to righteousness to be His weapon where the end is abundance now and eternal life ultimately. At the end of every fancy and every assignment is life. Shall I shrink back from its demands? I never resisted the demands of death. No all the more my slavery toward obedience should be as loyal as a heart can be. Dorean was formed as a weapon of righteousness by the Lords command. Shall I not give my body over to its full demands? Life and victory await even if I pass through suffering. It is still better for me to suffer toward life than to enjoy pleasures on the way to destruction. I am fond of my body being made a weapon of righteousness. Lord, wield me often! Amen!
Monday, May 09, 2011
The Great Profession 1-27-2011
The world has many strange professions of love. Take a man who beats his wife, after every episode will come the profuse apology and restatement of devotion. The adulterer the same pattern, over the years I have seen many come into unexpected blessings and are
Sure it’s from the Lord. In thanks they make bold professions of devotion. If things continue well their commitment fades. If events turn they blame God or forget Him. It matters not really how the events transpire the profession was always a fraud. On the other side in great tragedy or desperation great professions are made. Whether things get better or not God fades. I’m certain the beaten wife would rather have the real love instead of the profession. She would prefer hands that caress as opposed to injure. I’m also certain God has had His fill of every fraudulent conviction.
What I hate about the modern church is they are structured to obtain these bogus profession by programs and formulas that conjure up this emotional response. A few legitimates sneak in through this process but is it worth dealing with all the phonies? I say no!
The word says the world shall know us by our love, we should teach the real love of God, ignore the professions, and measure the devotion of men over a season of faithfulness. I know my wife loves me because she is faithful. I enjoy her professions but they are not the proof of her love. They are not bogus and that is the joy inherent therein. Can God desire any less?
Sure it’s from the Lord. In thanks they make bold professions of devotion. If things continue well their commitment fades. If events turn they blame God or forget Him. It matters not really how the events transpire the profession was always a fraud. On the other side in great tragedy or desperation great professions are made. Whether things get better or not God fades. I’m certain the beaten wife would rather have the real love instead of the profession. She would prefer hands that caress as opposed to injure. I’m also certain God has had His fill of every fraudulent conviction.
What I hate about the modern church is they are structured to obtain these bogus profession by programs and formulas that conjure up this emotional response. A few legitimates sneak in through this process but is it worth dealing with all the phonies? I say no!
The word says the world shall know us by our love, we should teach the real love of God, ignore the professions, and measure the devotion of men over a season of faithfulness. I know my wife loves me because she is faithful. I enjoy her professions but they are not the proof of her love. They are not bogus and that is the joy inherent therein. Can God desire any less?
Sunday, May 08, 2011
A Promising Psalm 1-26-2011
Psalms 86 was given to me by the Lord as the theme of this fast. Read it you’ll enjoy it. It contains the perfect balance of the issues I faced during this fast. My entrance into the SHU was a baseless accusation made by a ruthless band who pays no head to the Lord. I know I can count on God to hear my prayers because He loves me. I desire more and more single-hearted reverence for the Lord.
How fortunate that Psalms like this are already spoken to give utterance to our prayers. All will find themselves someday in the fitting circumstance for these words. We can be so confident in the love God possesses for His children that we can be fearless when powerful and ruthless assail us. In fact we should have eyes darting to and fro to catch the first glance of our immanent victory.
The SHU experience has ended well as it shows in relevant type God’s plans for us with Dorean. Dorean is more that a name. If you’ll study its meanings you will see it is a promise. An irrevocable, irrefutable, promise of God. Nothing even at the power level of the U.S. Government released in the full fury of wickedness can annul that promise. Patient endurance will receive its promise, and this psalms scribed into another generation and another story. Yes and Amen!
How fortunate that Psalms like this are already spoken to give utterance to our prayers. All will find themselves someday in the fitting circumstance for these words. We can be so confident in the love God possesses for His children that we can be fearless when powerful and ruthless assail us. In fact we should have eyes darting to and fro to catch the first glance of our immanent victory.
The SHU experience has ended well as it shows in relevant type God’s plans for us with Dorean. Dorean is more that a name. If you’ll study its meanings you will see it is a promise. An irrevocable, irrefutable, promise of God. Nothing even at the power level of the U.S. Government released in the full fury of wickedness can annul that promise. Patient endurance will receive its promise, and this psalms scribed into another generation and another story. Yes and Amen!
Thursday, May 05, 2011
The Joy of Suffering 1-26-2011
I’m now 38 days into my fast. The end is so near I can taste it so to speak. No one particularly finds joy in suffering but for the Christian there is always joy.
We may suffer injustice as Scott and I, tragedy, or persecutions for righteousness sake. The terrible part of this is that in truth and fairness it would never occur. And here is the mark of separation, what is truth? The world has opinions but they cannot know it because it is the substance of someone they reject. I’ll give you a SHU example. A young white kid from New York beats up a guy named Cisco on the yard for being a child molester. Ralph (his name) thinks he is right in this action. Ralph thinks Cisco is white but it turns out that Cisco is a soreno gang member. So when Ralph comes to the SHU he is now a marked man by the gang. Well today some sorenos and whites including Ralph were put in recreation cells together and fights broke out. The gang members think they are doing right by defending their members and exacting retaliation. Cisco probably justified his molesting as right at the time. This is the problem with the world. Truth and righteousness are not real but subjective desires growing out of evil motives.
So when a Christian suffers persecution from this ignorant world what a joy it is to know
the truth. Think on this, you’re the only one in the whole transaction that knows what’s transpiring. Scott and were perplexed sometimes that a learned man like judge Alsup was so ignorant. And yet how can we expect him to speak of a land he’s never traveled to.
Fasting for 40 days is foolishness to the world. A needless bout of suffering, they would never do it except for rare occasions where they can garner the land of others. In this instance it is not suffering as much as being a vehicle, a means to an end objective.
The Christian finds joy in subjecting their flesh to denial. To seeking truth in its purest form in the being of Jesus Christ, even our tragedies are contaminated with endless hopes because of the truth behind them. The world can steal many things from us in their deceptions of righteousness but they can never rob us of our joy. In this I think God provides them a firm witness of their error. For in their best strivings to be pleasing to their conscience they never get a witness from God that it is acceptable.
Think on Cain and Able, Cain never thought about his error only envied what Able possessed that he could not have. This is how truth separates the sheep from the goats, the
Wheat from the chaff, situations and time will always winnow away the perverts because
They can’t disguise themselves, and the joyful Christian will always shine brightly in the midst of their darkness confounding the wise. Yes do not take for granted that you discern true righteousness. You are a rare exception to this world. What a fountain of eternal delight. The joy of the Lord truly is our strength.
We may suffer injustice as Scott and I, tragedy, or persecutions for righteousness sake. The terrible part of this is that in truth and fairness it would never occur. And here is the mark of separation, what is truth? The world has opinions but they cannot know it because it is the substance of someone they reject. I’ll give you a SHU example. A young white kid from New York beats up a guy named Cisco on the yard for being a child molester. Ralph (his name) thinks he is right in this action. Ralph thinks Cisco is white but it turns out that Cisco is a soreno gang member. So when Ralph comes to the SHU he is now a marked man by the gang. Well today some sorenos and whites including Ralph were put in recreation cells together and fights broke out. The gang members think they are doing right by defending their members and exacting retaliation. Cisco probably justified his molesting as right at the time. This is the problem with the world. Truth and righteousness are not real but subjective desires growing out of evil motives.
So when a Christian suffers persecution from this ignorant world what a joy it is to know
the truth. Think on this, you’re the only one in the whole transaction that knows what’s transpiring. Scott and were perplexed sometimes that a learned man like judge Alsup was so ignorant. And yet how can we expect him to speak of a land he’s never traveled to.
Fasting for 40 days is foolishness to the world. A needless bout of suffering, they would never do it except for rare occasions where they can garner the land of others. In this instance it is not suffering as much as being a vehicle, a means to an end objective.
The Christian finds joy in subjecting their flesh to denial. To seeking truth in its purest form in the being of Jesus Christ, even our tragedies are contaminated with endless hopes because of the truth behind them. The world can steal many things from us in their deceptions of righteousness but they can never rob us of our joy. In this I think God provides them a firm witness of their error. For in their best strivings to be pleasing to their conscience they never get a witness from God that it is acceptable.
Think on Cain and Able, Cain never thought about his error only envied what Able possessed that he could not have. This is how truth separates the sheep from the goats, the
Wheat from the chaff, situations and time will always winnow away the perverts because
They can’t disguise themselves, and the joyful Christian will always shine brightly in the midst of their darkness confounding the wise. Yes do not take for granted that you discern true righteousness. You are a rare exception to this world. What a fountain of eternal delight. The joy of the Lord truly is our strength.
Monday, May 02, 2011
Intact 1-24-2011
On the white walls throughout the SHU stenciled in black letters are the words “Don’t take shortcuts”. This reminds me of Paul’s words in Galatians 2:5. The gospel is a certain message and no other. Men of every generation want to modify it (as though it could be) to their own likings.
When I began this fast it was to strengthen personal weaknesses I perceived in my spirit, early on God made it clear it had testimonial effect for His purposes. I honestly could give in to a thousand cravings to end this fast before the 40 days, but because I have been informed on some of the ways the Lord is using it to do so would be a shortcut and the message of the gospel would not remain intact.
Paul fought off shortcuts to keep the gospel intact for our benefit and we have all been richly blessed there from. I think we are all living epistles and speak of a gospel that must remain in tact.
Dorean is a story not yet completed. There were numerous shortcuts offered to us. Scott and I never took them. Our
codefendants all took them. I suffer for it but I delight that the testimony of the gospel remains intact. The word says we shall be known by our love. And this is how you recognize love for the Beloved, His testimony, and the benefit of those coming behind you, no shortcuts will be taken. Some how Christ stenciled on my heart a little warning to which I have found it wise to pay heed.
How about you?
When I began this fast it was to strengthen personal weaknesses I perceived in my spirit, early on God made it clear it had testimonial effect for His purposes. I honestly could give in to a thousand cravings to end this fast before the 40 days, but because I have been informed on some of the ways the Lord is using it to do so would be a shortcut and the message of the gospel would not remain intact.
Paul fought off shortcuts to keep the gospel intact for our benefit and we have all been richly blessed there from. I think we are all living epistles and speak of a gospel that must remain in tact.
Dorean is a story not yet completed. There were numerous shortcuts offered to us. Scott and I never took them. Our
codefendants all took them. I suffer for it but I delight that the testimony of the gospel remains intact. The word says we shall be known by our love. And this is how you recognize love for the Beloved, His testimony, and the benefit of those coming behind you, no shortcuts will be taken. Some how Christ stenciled on my heart a little warning to which I have found it wise to pay heed.
How about you?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Beloved 1-24-2011
There are many adjectives that can be associated with the beloved. Precious, adored, or paramount to name a few, the beloved captures the fix of your entire being. It has to be paramount even over self or it is not the beloved. In all creation which consists of more than earth and man there is one set out as the Beloved, if He is not the adored irreplaceable paramount of your life than you hate Him.
Many a critics have judged me by eyes of flesh and boasted as though they know something. I call these ilk pecker peekers. You see them on display in Galatians chapter 2
They were so concerned with their idea of righteousness that they would hide out near the urinals to spy out your pecker to see if you were circumcised. These critics are easy to judge as haters of the Beloved though they profess otherwise. Their eyes look upon basic things and not upon the Beloved. There is a rapture they know nothing of. A delight that never parts, love, true love among a husband and wife is only the faintest reflection but still nothing close. The love for the Beloved is immovable. No matter what manner of seduction or violence attacks your heart the love for the Beloved will not remove its sight from the object of its affection.
Many question their relationship with God. The answer is truly obvious if Christ has been made thy sol’s Beloved then you and God as with all things created are in accord. If Christ is not the Beloved, then you hate God even if no one could tell by looking upon your flesh. Selfishness and love are distinguishable from each other and the one who judges from love judges aright. I’m my Beloved’s and He is mine His banner over me is Love!
Many a critics have judged me by eyes of flesh and boasted as though they know something. I call these ilk pecker peekers. You see them on display in Galatians chapter 2
They were so concerned with their idea of righteousness that they would hide out near the urinals to spy out your pecker to see if you were circumcised. These critics are easy to judge as haters of the Beloved though they profess otherwise. Their eyes look upon basic things and not upon the Beloved. There is a rapture they know nothing of. A delight that never parts, love, true love among a husband and wife is only the faintest reflection but still nothing close. The love for the Beloved is immovable. No matter what manner of seduction or violence attacks your heart the love for the Beloved will not remove its sight from the object of its affection.
Many question their relationship with God. The answer is truly obvious if Christ has been made thy sol’s Beloved then you and God as with all things created are in accord. If Christ is not the Beloved, then you hate God even if no one could tell by looking upon your flesh. Selfishness and love are distinguishable from each other and the one who judges from love judges aright. I’m my Beloved’s and He is mine His banner over me is Love!
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Nature of Endurance 1-24-2011
I’m now on the 35th day of my 40 day fast. The first real temptations to end it have arrived. One, is that hunger pangs are actually physical instead of just a mental will battle. Second, I could have been released from the SHU today, since there accusation was proven bogus, if I would eat.
So I have to choose greater suffering to finish the fast. But this fast is not without its wisdom. When one begins, a fast like this seems on insurmountable distance. 1-2-3 is far from 40. 3-6-9 meals missed is hardly a dent in 120. Yet if you take it day by day relying on the strength of the Lord the end arrives. It is here where wisdom speaks.
For we all face trials that test our resolve and endurance.
As I know the Lord can get me through a 40 day fast by His own example I know through Him I can overcome any trial by His example. What He’s taught is the finish lines are our promise if one will rest in a trust worthy love and rely upon His strength.
I was successful in this fast by the same practice that makes me successful in all my battles. 40 seems impossible but it was not, Dorean’s victory seems impossible but it will likewise prove it is not. A finish line that distant at first continues to approach me. With His strength it says all things are possible. I now have a 40 day fast as witness that what was true for a season is true for an entire life. I will endure. I will finish and I will overcome temptation, the flesh, and the enemy to be victorious Perhaps a bit faster than we think.
So I have to choose greater suffering to finish the fast. But this fast is not without its wisdom. When one begins, a fast like this seems on insurmountable distance. 1-2-3 is far from 40. 3-6-9 meals missed is hardly a dent in 120. Yet if you take it day by day relying on the strength of the Lord the end arrives. It is here where wisdom speaks.
For we all face trials that test our resolve and endurance.
As I know the Lord can get me through a 40 day fast by His own example I know through Him I can overcome any trial by His example. What He’s taught is the finish lines are our promise if one will rest in a trust worthy love and rely upon His strength.
I was successful in this fast by the same practice that makes me successful in all my battles. 40 seems impossible but it was not, Dorean’s victory seems impossible but it will likewise prove it is not. A finish line that distant at first continues to approach me. With His strength it says all things are possible. I now have a 40 day fast as witness that what was true for a season is true for an entire life. I will endure. I will finish and I will overcome temptation, the flesh, and the enemy to be victorious Perhaps a bit faster than we think.
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Dead Letter 2-20-2011
You are my witnesses who have advanced in your walk with Christ by the words you have read upon this blog. I am just a man of flesh. If I was just functioning in my soul I could only have touched your soul. Only the Holy Spirit can bring life to a spirit. It matters not what the critics say for many of them though familiar with the scriptures only know it as a dead letter. The Pharisees had the books, teachers, or the Bible but not the spirit. That is why Christ could stand before them even face to face and they could hate Him. The servant who lives by the spirit is hated like His master.
My words have said over and over again that the flesh is untrustworthy. Even what you think and feel is deceptive, yet the confidence of my critics never wanes as they take pride in their flesh. How do you spot a spiritual person as opposed to a self proclaimed religious leader? A spiritual person cannot speak before God speaks, he will not move before God moves first. He finds it a necessity to look to God, Wait on God, and depend on God for everything.
Scott and I have laid our lives into the hands of God. We have resisted every temptation to deliver ourselves. Waiting upon God, looking to God and depending on God, we have not considered a burden or loss. Though I have been more vocal because of this blog you have the same witness from Scott. Think of all our other co-defendants, have any come forward out of the same circumstances to encourage you spirit? Where is all their ridicule? We stand alone in truth among men but the spirit bears witness we are not alone. The folly of those who will jump behind an Alsup or DOJ as their champion of righteousness is, though they are giants, their power is only flesh. A teenager of insignificant flesh rejected the armor and weapons of flesh (Saul’s armor) and trusting in the spirit slew the giant. Only the Holy Spirit can be trusted for the warfare and the victories. I’ll keep writing my letters and you can choose life or the death letter.
My words have said over and over again that the flesh is untrustworthy. Even what you think and feel is deceptive, yet the confidence of my critics never wanes as they take pride in their flesh. How do you spot a spiritual person as opposed to a self proclaimed religious leader? A spiritual person cannot speak before God speaks, he will not move before God moves first. He finds it a necessity to look to God, Wait on God, and depend on God for everything.
Scott and I have laid our lives into the hands of God. We have resisted every temptation to deliver ourselves. Waiting upon God, looking to God and depending on God, we have not considered a burden or loss. Though I have been more vocal because of this blog you have the same witness from Scott. Think of all our other co-defendants, have any come forward out of the same circumstances to encourage you spirit? Where is all their ridicule? We stand alone in truth among men but the spirit bears witness we are not alone. The folly of those who will jump behind an Alsup or DOJ as their champion of righteousness is, though they are giants, their power is only flesh. A teenager of insignificant flesh rejected the armor and weapons of flesh (Saul’s armor) and trusting in the spirit slew the giant. Only the Holy Spirit can be trusted for the warfare and the victories. I’ll keep writing my letters and you can choose life or the death letter.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
A practical Matter 2-20-2011
I hear people talk of the practical application of their faith. Yet their own words reveal their foolishness. The faith of God which holds to promises before they reach experiences always has you in a future look. The wisdom of this world talks of change and goals but looks to the present time as though a formula can be developed to bring about desired change or achieved goals. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry motivational speaker repackages this theory and hypes another lost generation.
But God’s ways confound this wisdom. His children do not even entertain such ignorance. They know how reality works outside the fantastic imaginations of man. Fact is God’s work. Every known fact came from the creator. Faith is our trust in what God has worked. Experience is having God’s work lived out through our lives in a practical way.
We live in a present world but the facts we entertain have a truthful substance. There is a progression through time and the spiritual world to the present affairs of our lives. Fact is the foundation, faith is the process, and experiences are the consequence. In other words fact is the course, faith is the way, and experience is the effect.
Every fact beings by the word of Go, how can you even enter the way of faith without the word of God? I listen to those say “I don’t use the scriptures as you do.” There is only one way to use the scriptures and that is to listen. You can say you have faith but how can you have faith without hearing? Hearing comes by the work of God. If you are not hearing God what are you hearing? What facts are you laying as the foundation of your life? What effect will enter your present life as a practical matter? How many have erred down this coarse thinking them selves wise? Be not shocked when in just a few steps you find yourself distant from God and embraced by the world. I know it will happen because my facts have a diving origin.
But God’s ways confound this wisdom. His children do not even entertain such ignorance. They know how reality works outside the fantastic imaginations of man. Fact is God’s work. Every known fact came from the creator. Faith is our trust in what God has worked. Experience is having God’s work lived out through our lives in a practical way.
We live in a present world but the facts we entertain have a truthful substance. There is a progression through time and the spiritual world to the present affairs of our lives. Fact is the foundation, faith is the process, and experiences are the consequence. In other words fact is the course, faith is the way, and experience is the effect.
Every fact beings by the word of Go, how can you even enter the way of faith without the word of God? I listen to those say “I don’t use the scriptures as you do.” There is only one way to use the scriptures and that is to listen. You can say you have faith but how can you have faith without hearing? Hearing comes by the work of God. If you are not hearing God what are you hearing? What facts are you laying as the foundation of your life? What effect will enter your present life as a practical matter? How many have erred down this coarse thinking them selves wise? Be not shocked when in just a few steps you find yourself distant from God and embraced by the world. I know it will happen because my facts have a diving origin.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Impossible 2-20-11
“God never ask us to do anything that we can do. He asks us to live a life that we can never live and to do a work that we can never do. Oh, how Christians need to see this truth”.
It is funny to me how men judge me. They are not spectacular men who have wowed me by great displays of trusting God. No they are plain and ordinary men who boast in a flesh I no longer trust. All they do and say I can do.
What inspires me is what I cannot accomplish. Scott and I could never hope to defeat corruption at the level Dorean addressed. That did not stop the Lord from assigning the task. In fact it was the overwhelming impossibility that encouraged our faith. You see in all our weakness we have learned God is strong. I have been ridiculed for trusting God for His supernatural plan. My critics think their words will injure me but that is not the case. They comfort me. If I was living in my strength I would have long since changed my course. I would have long since done what my ordinary critics would have done. I would have asked the Lord to bless my human will and acted upon my desire, sure He had said yes.
My relationship with God is not an extension of my will. I do not dominate a figment of my imagination I call God. No I know the real living creator who makes impossible demands upon me, demands that immediately cause me to through my hands in the air in total surrender.
We live in an age that is not the age of peace typified by Solomon’s reign. No we have that as our future promise. It was the bride of Solomon that was brought to His banqueting table (songs of Solomon 2:4). Now we live in the age typified by David. We are at war. Not a war we can win by our own strength. David and his armies had spectacular victories. There was nothing ordinary about their campaigns. There was nothing ordinary about David. He among all men had a spectacular trust of God. Give me impossible tasks Lord and I will give you surrender and trust. Then the world will know that you are more than a conqueror, and that through crackpots like Scott and I you can fashion vessels of honor. Glorify Thy Name!
It is funny to me how men judge me. They are not spectacular men who have wowed me by great displays of trusting God. No they are plain and ordinary men who boast in a flesh I no longer trust. All they do and say I can do.
What inspires me is what I cannot accomplish. Scott and I could never hope to defeat corruption at the level Dorean addressed. That did not stop the Lord from assigning the task. In fact it was the overwhelming impossibility that encouraged our faith. You see in all our weakness we have learned God is strong. I have been ridiculed for trusting God for His supernatural plan. My critics think their words will injure me but that is not the case. They comfort me. If I was living in my strength I would have long since changed my course. I would have long since done what my ordinary critics would have done. I would have asked the Lord to bless my human will and acted upon my desire, sure He had said yes.
My relationship with God is not an extension of my will. I do not dominate a figment of my imagination I call God. No I know the real living creator who makes impossible demands upon me, demands that immediately cause me to through my hands in the air in total surrender.
We live in an age that is not the age of peace typified by Solomon’s reign. No we have that as our future promise. It was the bride of Solomon that was brought to His banqueting table (songs of Solomon 2:4). Now we live in the age typified by David. We are at war. Not a war we can win by our own strength. David and his armies had spectacular victories. There was nothing ordinary about their campaigns. There was nothing ordinary about David. He among all men had a spectacular trust of God. Give me impossible tasks Lord and I will give you surrender and trust. Then the world will know that you are more than a conqueror, and that through crackpots like Scott and I you can fashion vessels of honor. Glorify Thy Name!
Friday, April 08, 2011
Holiness 2-20-11
I used to have a critic on this blog called “you will know them by their fruits”. She was my personal fruit inspector, but like her many believers (I use the term loosely for her sake) have a wrong understanding of sanctification. It is commonly conceived that every item of our lives should be holy. But that is not holiness; rather it is the fruit of holiness. Holiness is Christ.
Let one of my critics, my fleshly fruit inspectors, speak on behalf of true Holiness. Let them condemn me with the boldness of “thus sayath the Lord”! Surely Christ Himself can take offense at my words and deeds and issue a decree of opposition. Am I the first of false prophets or to proclaim a false gospel? I must be very late in this practice for many have been addressed before I.
I am not afraid to lay my life upon the gospel I profess, nor am I afraid to say “thus sayeth the Lord”. I proclaim the gospel (good news) I profess to be the only true gospel and that these who ridicule it are frauds that condemn truth and think they are righteous. They are the most pitiful and hopeless of all men. For they have heard the truth and called it a lie. Repentance and salvation are far from their hearts.
I profess Christ; Christ alone! He is the all in all. At the center of God’s plans, God’s laws, God’s ways, God’s character, and God’s life is Christ. He is the only way, the only truth, the only life. It is His strength that is superior to all opposition. He is the winner of every campaign. No weapon formed against Him will prosper. Whatever work He starts within His chosen He will perform to it perfect finish. He is not a religious name He is above all that is named. His children have no fear because His perfect love cast away fear. Besides He is also the baddest dude on the block, (slang for paramount in power). Yes this is the gospel that inflames my critics and like Christ I can say get with the truth of Christ or to hell with you!
Let one of my critics, my fleshly fruit inspectors, speak on behalf of true Holiness. Let them condemn me with the boldness of “thus sayath the Lord”! Surely Christ Himself can take offense at my words and deeds and issue a decree of opposition. Am I the first of false prophets or to proclaim a false gospel? I must be very late in this practice for many have been addressed before I.
I am not afraid to lay my life upon the gospel I profess, nor am I afraid to say “thus sayeth the Lord”. I proclaim the gospel (good news) I profess to be the only true gospel and that these who ridicule it are frauds that condemn truth and think they are righteous. They are the most pitiful and hopeless of all men. For they have heard the truth and called it a lie. Repentance and salvation are far from their hearts.
I profess Christ; Christ alone! He is the all in all. At the center of God’s plans, God’s laws, God’s ways, God’s character, and God’s life is Christ. He is the only way, the only truth, the only life. It is His strength that is superior to all opposition. He is the winner of every campaign. No weapon formed against Him will prosper. Whatever work He starts within His chosen He will perform to it perfect finish. He is not a religious name He is above all that is named. His children have no fear because His perfect love cast away fear. Besides He is also the baddest dude on the block, (slang for paramount in power). Yes this is the gospel that inflames my critics and like Christ I can say get with the truth of Christ or to hell with you!
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