THE DEAD THINK THEY ARE LIVING

Someone who travels extensively, thinks they are living because they have an opportunity to see the world.

Someone, who has fame well they believe they are living because, of their accomplishments.

A person with riches, they believe they are living because they believe they can buy Happiness.

A person with Power, thinks they are living because of their Capacity.

Those who go to the club weekend and week out, you think you are living because this.. you think is life: fun.

The Drug-Addict and Alcoholic, think they are living because they can escape life's problems through substance.

The LGBT, They think they are living because they think there is no greater love than that of their own gender. They believe they are living because, they are free to be who they really are.

The Christian who, turns from the Faith to go back into sin they believe once saved, is always saved they believe they are living.

1 John 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

Bottom line: If you Do not have Christ in Your life, you are a Sinner. You are in sin, there is no Life in you.

The opposite of Life is Death. Consider yourself, a zombie (the walking dead). A "Spiritually dead" person may mean someone who is not spiritual (materialist, atheist) - one, who identifies himself with dead matter, though he is a living conscious being. The picture the devil has painted before you is an illusion it is a mirage. Open your eyes and ears to the word of God so you can see the "Real" picture the Truth.

 

The wages of sin is Death, but the Gift of God is Eternal Life Romans 6:23

The same way the devil deceived Eve, with the fruit he made it look very appetizing, very inviting, made it sound very sweet Genesis 3:4-5 and that right there gave birth to sin. It is the same thing he is doing to you.  I told you in some of my previous posts; that devil uses the same ol' tricks it's just a new day and he has some of you thinking you are living, the devil is not your friend… Do not wait until it is too late to find that out.

Think about the choices you make. You will make a life-style change to lose weight; You will Change to hold on to someone you love; You will sacrifice your values and morals for money but, you won't make a Life-Style change to Save your Soul? You will lie and steal to get what you want but, You won't make a change for someone who died for you?

The Dead think They are Living but, there is No Life without Christ.

How to know you are Dead:

1. Someone has to pump you up (Practically have to use a defibrillator to get some people to Praise God. Ephesians 2:1
2. No Spiritual Understanding. The bible says, the natural man does not understand spiritual things and can't I Cor 2:14 Isaiah 6:9,10
3. With that they do not have a desire for Spiritual things they do not seek after God no personal relationship Job 21:14 you try to talk this person about God and they deflect to another subject.
4. No Spiritual strength. No ability to encourage themselves let alone anyone else. Incapable of living right after they come short no recovery. no life in them for change This leopard cannot change his/her spots Jeremiah 13:23
5. No Peace always fearful always worrying Isaiah 57:21 No peace to the wicked

THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU

Romans 10:9  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Men and Women of God we have a Work to DO:

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee Acts 26:16

IF YOU FORSAKE FELLOWSHIP: YOU WALK IN DISOBEDIENCE

Father, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus, that the lives of those reading this today will line up with your will and your word; I ask that you increase a level of conviction that will not be shrugged off or disregarded. It is my prayer today that your people be enlightened and transformed in mind and deed. Thank you, Holy Spirit for giving me a word to share with your people that will further commit them into righteousness. Amen

We are to pattern our lives after Christ, our most Holy and perfect example.

Like Christ we are to be Faithful.

We serve and all-knowing God, He knows our every thought; He knows what motivates our actions and what does not; He knows the intent of the heart and every hair on our head is numbered. There is nothing that God does not know about you. Like our natural parents: he knows when we are lying and he knows when we say, we can't or couldn't do something that we really could but did not; simply because, we did not want to and He knows when we are making excuses.

A lot of our Brothers and Sisters are missing the mark in this area. This is an open door, the enemy has been allowed to walk right on in because, he has deceived you into thinking there is nothing  wrong with missing church here and there; missing bible study; using your tithes to buy something new The enemy has deceives you into thinking this is okay, everyone does it and as a result you have become un-repentant.

You are the foolish one...

Disobedience and Lying. some Christians  have become so comfortable with it that it has now become a weekly and monthly practice. Your intent was to miss one service? That is all enemy needed, now you miss church a couple times a month, now you miss once a week and do not bother to even call anymore. The road to Heaven was paved with good intentions everyone has them but, hear me when I say, everyone won't make it in. It is a downhill slope and pretty soon the enemy will have it that you slip right on out.

THIS is the part where some will begin to say, "I am judging them"

What happened to Pressing towards the mark? The old school saints use to teach us to Press: that is to move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force. In others words make an effort to move forward to reach your destination or intended goal without slacking . Phil 3:12-14. I use to shake my head when patients would call the physician's office to cancel an appointment because they were sick. Uh, Hello?? This is a doctor's office a place where you come to get treatment that let me know they didn't want help - It is the same thing in church everything you need is in the house of God, your healing- your deliverance- your victory- the word- and you can't press your way because of a headache? You cannot press your way because you are tired? You cannot press due to some friend/family obligation? You cannot press because you bumped your arm at work?

What You can't do is let your emotions dictate your destiny! 

What you can't do is Lie to the Holy Ghost!

"You don't know, what I go through."

My answer: You will never Get Through, if you don't obey and believe God.

 "You don't understand."

My answer: I do not need to understand, YOU need to know what the word says, you do not want me to understand; You want me to sympathize with you.

"You do not know, How I feel."

My answer: "Feelings do not move God, Faith moves God."

Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Read Hebrews 10:23-27,39

You can't ignore God will. What are you saying, that God can't heal a mere headache? Sometimes, we feed into the flesh without even realizing it. We also, can't avoid the process that God is trying to take us through to make us better. God also, knows when we are impatient and discouraged.  Do not let the enemy cause you to skip church because, you feel like God is taking too long. Do not Allow the enemy to make you jump the gun or take matters into your own hands because you think he is taking too long. You cannot hurry God, You cannot manipulate God to move before his appointed time. Wait.

 See Sometimes, We know exactly what we are doing and that's between you and our all-knowing God; the outcome doesn't change just because, man doesn't see what you are doing; but a man or woman of God He has gifted that can see nothing will be hidden. God may use a man or Woman of God to warn and speak life into you. If you refuse to hear that is on you. The Chastisement God exercises in your life is corrective and preventative. "Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heeds his father's correction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke."

The result of disobedience and forsaking fellowship:

• Chastisement
• Hinder your blessings
• Leave yourself open to the enemy
• Backsliding/ Apostasy
• Walking away from the covering of your church (Sin breaks fellowship)
• Sickness and Disease

We want God to change, manipulate, mold, shift and turn things in our Favor but we won't turn from the things that please our flesh, those things we know Do not please God. If when our blessing is delayed we blame the Man or Woman of god that spoke a word to you; We blame God and everyone but our own short-comings and Disobedience.

#SistahSarah

NO EXCUSES!

Good Morning - Good Afternoon - Good Evening, Everyone

No excuses!

I'm shaking my head while, I write this; Because, I am mad at myself; because, I allowed a door to crack open. A door that had been closed and as we all know: when you give the enemy an opening; he will walk right on in and that is exactly, what he did.

I was on the phone with someone this morning. They were speaking life into me. The conversation, it was like having a flat tire and this person was airing me up but, I didn't realize there was a hole so the air given to me was seeping right back out.

I am not saying this for dramatic effect

 that is how I was feeling.

Because, I woke up this morning more focused on those areas the enemy was attacking (Health, Finances, People in my Life etc.,) The door I allowed the enemy access was worry and just in that moment worry was becoming like Kryptonite, to my spiritual man and it was pulling strength from me. The person, I was talking to Hit me where I live and that is writing sharing the word of God, and helping my brothers and sisters in Christ by exposing the enemy in that we do not fall prey to the enemies schemes. 

They said, to me: You speak the word everyday - 

everyday you write - everyday. 

Do you not believe what you have been preaching?

A Bolt of lightening might as well have stuck me in that moment, they were still talking to me and I went inside and asked, God to forgive me- because, I slipped - Yes, I slipped and when I got off the phone I asked, myself What are you doing? What are you doing? Psalms 94:18-19

I began to think How did I get here. 

See what I should of said, this morning when I woke up this morning was "No weapon formed against me shall prosper." I look to the hills from whence cometh my help, my help comes from the Lord." "We shall Prosper and Be in Health" That is what I should of said.

People of God I am sharing this with you because, I am real about who I am. God has brought me through so much. I Love God with the core of my being, mind, body and soul. We are over comers and overcome by the words of our testimony. I have no stones to throw. I know what God has brought me through. If this can happen to me and can happen to any of us. Prophet Richard Jackson spoke a powerful word on yesterday "Getting Free from your Invisible Demons" and there the enemy comes. One thing with the enemy people of God, he pushes the same ol' game, his tricks, his schemes do not change just a different day, different person.

NO Excuses!! Romans 1:20

You know why? Because, I know what GOD can do. Yes, I made a mistake. Had I been Vigilant the enemy would not have had an opening to begin with. The enemy has an agenda when it comes to the people of GOD and it is to "..KILL, STEAL and DESTROY..."

So where do I go from here? 

That was this morning: 

Get it right (I Did)

Forgive myself (I Do)

Praise God (even as we speak)

Refuel, Watch and Pray 

(Without ceasing, less the enemy slip up on you)

Put on the Armour of God and Turn the Volume UP!!!

I am back! and that lady who seemed to be stumbling in defeat...

SHE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING! HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH THANK YOU, JESUS! 

That last thing, I want to say people of God, No matter who you are, your status or how many years you have been saved; you are not immune to the attack of the enemy. Trouble will come: troubles come and go. When the weight seems to heavy to bear and seems like you have no strength YOU use what all you think you have left AND, YOU BELIEVE GOD NO MATTER WHAT! For God is FAITHFUL and he will NEVER put more on us than we can bear. Fight the good fight of Faith..with out it it is impossible to please, God. When you are kept from slipping.. Encourage your Brothers and Sisters and give God the Glory

OUR VICTORY WAS PREDESTINED. 

Thank You, Jesus. #SistahSarah Not mad at myself anymore "When you know better, you Do better!" Keep Going.

When you FLAT-LINE it = Spiritual Death

via GIPHY

We are lead busy lives,
We all on a daily basis tend to interact with the Hustle and Bustle of things around us:
Work, School, Children, Spouse, Bills, Events, The Groceries, The Dry Cleaners and Meetings.

BEWARE, THAT THE ENEMY DOES NOT SLIP UP ON YOU!

The necessity of our duties on earth can cause us to neglect our Spiritual Disciplines---
Prayer, Study of God's Word and Fasting. Prayer is an integral part of our personal relationship with God.
Prayer: Connects us to God,
Studying the Word: Nourishes us Spiritually and arms us against the enemy
Fasting: Powers us up (different levels of fasting benefits the Spiritual Man in different ways 1 day fast 3 day fast etc;

When we put the cares of this world ahead of God: We enter into a dependence of self rather than, a dependence on God. The Bible instructs us… Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved (1 Peter 5:7).

When we negate our Spiritual Disciplines, putting things before God has a Trickle-Down effect; as more and more you begin to take matters into your own hands.
"I have to do this." 'I need to do that."
We even begin to put our desires before God, expressly our desire for a mate and begin to seek out a mate on our own and without God's direction.

As you proceed , to walk in your own strength (*Proverbs 28:26; Phil 2:13) Your Spiritual pulse gets weak. This is Arrhythmia: A deviation from the normal pattern of the heartbeat. You have lost momentum. You have lost your first Love (Rev 2:4-7).

Because, your Heart is beating for the care of this world, you are unsuccessfully drawing strength from your own will and have now allowed the things that can bless you spiritually - to Lapse
*You use to be a Faithful Tither and now you are scheming off the top or no longer tithing at all.
*You use to attend Faithfully, now you need to babysit, are so tired or some other excuse.

*You use to contribute your time and effort towards the vision of the church and now you show a lack of interest.

Gods knows and sees this. 
Now your pulse is weak and Thready.

Your Pastor, Your Brothers and Sisters in Christ are trying to revive you through the word but, you will not hear; and now you are grieving the Holy Spirit

 through, 

Sclerosis: a medical term for hardening. Spiritual Hardness of the Heart.
Next it is through, the hardness of your heart that you now begin to conform to the dominion of Sin. 

Negating your Spiritual Disciplines, Losing momentum in the things of God, Walking in your own Strength cause Cardiac Arrest…With the Entrance of Sin You FLAT-LINE and now you become Dead to Christ.

Post-Mort em: You go to Hell
Then, ENTERS in the Second Death.

Lord, I Pray that your word reaches far and wide...
THANK YOU, HOLY SPIRIT.

You are a Mountain Mover!!

Mar 11:22-24 

  And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

 I Love this. It is one of my favorite scriptures and I Love God, I absolutely Do.

In my relationship with God and what I have learned about him in my study and hearing the word preached. I have learned that some of the requests we make to God. It's on us and in us!

I am still a student, still learning, still growing, still pressing on!

You cannot come to understand God's word by merely, skimming through a few books, chapters and verses. No, we must literally dissect the word of God. Understanding and coming to develop Faith in the word  is to come to a realization of what the word is telling YOU.

The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy 

John 10:10; Gods people are destroyed for lack of Knowledge Hosea 4:6 I am going to share some scriptures that I personally, had to learn and really grasp in my own life in believing God for my own healing; dealing with pain etc.,

Key points:

Take by his stripes we are Healed Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Pe 2:24 for example: I kept reading those verses and when the light  bulb came on "ding, ding, ding" as our Prophet Richard Jackson would say, I saw that in both of these verse they are past tense. I said, Why am I pleading with God for him to do something that has already been covered? He already took those stripes that means I do not have to wait it's already done.  One verse says, we were healed the other we are healed the  NIV says, have been healed. IT'S US!! It is our lack of understanding, leaning into our own understanding, doubt and unbelief that we get in the way of our Blessings and our Victories. We are not PLUGGED IN people of God, the volume is way too low to hear the Spirit.

 I want to exhort you to becoming the MOUNTAIN MOVER you were meant to be.

How do I become a Mountain Mover?

Come to….

1. Realize who you are: The strongest single factor in Faith consciousness is Self-Esteem:  Believing you can do it; Believing you deserve it; and Believing you will get it.
2. Realize Victory and Promise will not come into a temple full of doubt and unbelief: Know that God Can and he Will.
3. Stop, Allowing your emotions to get in the way of your Faith! God is touched by the feelings of our infirmities Hebrews 4:15 He understands our pain, our struggles and our concerns but still moved to take action because of our Faith.
4. Realize that God is not going to do, What he commanded US (YOU) to do. That is right, while you are saying, Lord, help me get through it; Lord, Change my situation he pointing at Mark 11:22-24 saying, YOU DO IT! Yes, indeed GOD can Move Mountains but, He told you to do it all you have to do is Stop saying, I CAN'T.
5. Realize GOD will not command you to do something, he has Not Equipped YOU for.
6. HAVE FAITH IN GOD!!! Mark 11:22

Realize all you have to do is SPEAK TO YOUR MOUNTAIN, ITS RIGHT THERE IN YOUR MOUTH (but, you are too worried about what others think?; Oh, Ye of little Faith?)

All you need is a Mustard Seed, My Powerful Brothers and Sisters Matthew 17:20

And  WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS!!!

 Speak to your Lack, your Health, your Debt, your Fear, your Burdens, your Stress, your Strongholds, your Storm and tell them to MOVE, YOU TELL THEM!! And, if you believe and not Doubt it will OBEY YOU!!

Because, WE (YOU) ARE A MOUNTAIN MOVERS.

Realize, the Disciples did what Jesus did so can we and greater. John 14:12

ARE YOU PLUGGED IN??

I was talking to the Lord, this morning.

 I am excited! 

I am excited about the topic he gave me this morning

but, First...

I have a question for you all this morning:

ARE YOUR PLUGGED IN??

Are you sure?

Because, if you have Hangups, you are Not Plugged in;
If you have Doubt, you are Not Plugged in;
If you don't have Faith, you're Not Plugged in;
If you are Not Saved, you are Not Plugged in;
If you are not Obedient, you are Not Plugged in;
You can't be Plugged in if you are in Sin;
How can you be Plugged in, if you do not Study the Word and Pray and, if you are not Faithful how can you be Plugged In??

WHAT SOURCE ARE YOU PLUGGED INTO??

When we Plug into the Word, We Plug into who we "Really are"!!
When we Plug into the Study of God's Word; we then Stop allowing our emotions to get in the way of our Faith.
Stop being so concerned about how you feel and concern yourself with what you should do.
Can you tell yourself, It doesn't matter how I feel?
When you can look in the mirror, Say That and, Mean it! Then you are Connecting, YOU are getting Plugged in because, Self... is out of the way. Feelings do not Move GOD, Faith does! 
Know that , How you deal with your problems remember, it is not what you go through but, How you go through it;

Now you can plug into the POWER OF GOD, which brings me to introduce the topic the Lord, gave me for today, 
"MOUNTAIN MOVERS"  Nope, this was the one but, I Thank the Holy Spirit for this because, you will need to be Plugged in to get it.
When you get Plugged in to Christ;
Get plugged in to the Word;
You can and will be CONNECTED to the Man and Woman of God: Shepherds over your Soul and Connected to their Vision and
Get Plugged into the Power of GOD
You become a Mountain Mover>>>