Dear Heavenly Father, Please join us this day with Your presence, Please have Jesus shed His light upon this whole Sunday service because He is the Light. Please have the Holy Spirit join us to give us direction and that special anointing to each soul that hears and listens and reads this message, no matter where they are throughout the whole world. Please permit your angels to gather at all points in a geographical location around this church office to stand as warriors of protection, so we can complete and edify this teaching and this gathering and this will be a glory day of worship for You Father and Your Son Jesus. We should be worshiping you everyday with our full hearts, and maybe the traditions of men have passed it on to only Sunday. We think everyday is a day of worship for You. The day of Pentecost seems to have fallen on a Sunday. All days of worship as the new covenant unfolded with the coming of Jesus in scripture “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” (Col. 2:11-17 NKJ) Father, help us to bring light to these scriptures because once we are in Christ our lives to the world changes, we are in Christ and worship You we believe You are spirit and truth. Father you know all of our hearts, even when Jesus explained to the woman at the well, “Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.”God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:21-24 NASB) Father we want to be the people you are looking for, we understand that You are spirit. Please show us the truth, we want to worship You all the time, not just in a building on Sunday, when we worship we are at peace with You. Please as we strive to worship You in truth and in the spirit, please show us the way. In the Name of our beloved Jesus, Amen
Good morning today we welcome everyone with true love, through our Lord Jesus Christ. We welcome everyone all across this planet. Visitors, return visitors, and of course our congregation, which branches out as far as the eye can see. I thank God that this church is able to serve bible truth, sincerity, the spiritual and the words I receive from the Lord. If it was just me writing, we would end up with a bunch of words, I need The Lord to influence my heart or I cannot write anything. Dear Holy Spirit direct this introduction today to tell the world of the love of Jesus and to preach Jesus in a corresponding story or revelation. In the past couple of weeks I have left out myself as far as the attacks and my physical burdens. To tell you the truth, mixed with everything else what could be the worst thing that could happen to The Church Ministries? I am going to let you all think about it. An internet church, what could it be to try to destroy the truth of, “The Bride of Christ”? Well, I tell you, you cannot believe there is a pornographic site overpowering the ratings and the placements and the listings for The Church Ministries by a lower line instead of a dash. They have been combined [thechurch] all as one word just like us, and now some of the search engines are listing them first and in groups. The odds to that would be in the millions, but I have heard they are doing it to a lot of ministries and churches, so maybe we are doing something right to get attacked this heavy. But this is ridiculous.
These people that are all ready behind this are committing a sin that is terrible but now to influence people and if they just end up hitting the wrong button, it starts the ball rolling to make a spiritual and maybe an endless mistake of sin to the a true church of Jesus Christ. This makes Sodom and Gomorra like play land.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10 NASB
Yes my Brothers and sisters, I am being bombarded with health issues. I have been dealing with many Doctors and texts, surgeons and all because this affliction makes me weak and unable to talk and get out in the world and preach the word. Remember, I told you I was going to come here with a chair and bible and an umbrella and sit in the rain and preach the word and share the Love of Christ.
It just seems the days before this affliction began and we did have a booth with everything set up and this cloud of fear came over me stronger than I have ever felt. I was sitting in this booth to pray with people and sit down with them and tell them about Jesus and pass out some literature and phone numbers to call for prayer and someone to talk to at all times and it was like the element of fear was so strong that I was shaking. Never in my life did I feel this way. It was like all demonic forces got together and pinpointed a cone effect directed at me. That same fear was projected every time I would attempt or to hang up a beautiful flyer for the church. A few weeks later the affliction hit on Nov. 13th, 2003. Ever since then, this church and I have been under demonic, intense, attack. Now I am living my life one step out of being critically ill. I am now a bag of bones and these attacks want me to throw in the towel and forget about The Church Ministries and each week I write another sermon that truly bothers the evil forces. I am using Gods power to fight these obstacles and they keep going on to where I pray, I am in tears, begging God for them to stop and He is making many of them fade away, but I through God I am still alive and able to preach.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 2Cor. 10:3-6 NKJV
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. 1Cor. 9:24-27 NKJV
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about–but not before God. What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.” Rom. 4:1-8 NIV
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved–and that by God. For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have. Phil: 1:27-30 NIV
Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us; if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself. 2Tim. 2:11-13 NIV
In other words, these attacks and the way they are placed and the timing of every action is a complete act of spiritual warfare. If you combine all the attacks and reactions it goes far beyond any normal suffering. I am not saying these are worse than the book of Job and all the suffering Paul had to go through in {2 Cor. 23-27} and his thorn in the flesh.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a fool to talk this way, but I serve him better than they do. I have worked harder and have been put in jail more times. I have been beaten with whips more and have been in danger of death more often.
Five times the Jews gave me thirty-nine lashes with a whip. Three times the Romans beat me with a big stick, and once my enemies stoned me. I have been shipwrecked three times, and I even had to spend a night and a day in the sea. During my many travels, I have been in danger from rivers, robbers, my own people, and foreigners. My life has been in danger in cities, in deserts, at sea, and with people who only pretended to be the Lord's followers.
I have worked and struggled and spent many sleepless nights. I have gone hungry and thirsty and often had nothing to eat. I have been cold from not having enough clothes to keep me warm. 2Cor.23-27 CEV
I did not live with Paul but I strive each day to understand his thinking and his views, plus his concerns for young Churches and he was worrying about if they were properly teaching the good news and not preaching what is false.
I am not here to say the sufferings or attacks have gone away beyond the physical, but if I was to add the spiritual and the battlefield of the mind, all of this has to go beyond it all. How can I lie, how can I even say it or think it, even if everything was an illusion it still has been real. Why should I boast about my sufferings, for sympathy? No, to share reality, yes! That in this day and age, this can happen. I base everything on facts and work them in with the word. Which is what we are supposed to do using God’s word for all our questions. The thing that I do not understand, no matter how powerful we think evil is- it is not! Evil is already defeated, and evil prays on the week. But we are then again faced with reality. The devil can only copy demonic influences. Demon possessed people are not written anywhere beyond in the New Testament past the four gospels and the book of Acts. That is something to think about.
We understand that evil or satan and his agents are running out of time. But they cannot create, in other words, they cannot create an attack, they can only copy one from our past, so he will take our biggest fear, but each of us has fears that lie within us, some can be powerful Christians, healers and know the word from cover to cover, but they can be afraid of heights or they can be afraid of flying, so even though we do not give the enemy the power to attack some people so, some live their lives in fear of the past.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2Tim. 1:7 KJV
So, he will key on your particular fear that is already there and work an attack through that fear that is there and he really has no creativity, but he can use other minds and work on there inner fears. Pros and cons or there works of the flesh,
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal: 5:19-21 KJV
to try and control the person they are set out to destroy. Now, if the battlefield in the mind we all know that any Brother and Sister can be hurt and a lot worse by words that are said to them, then if that same person would come up to that person an slap them right across the face.
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. James 3:1-6 NIV
We all know we are not perfect, none of us are, but why would there be a whole chapter on the tongue and how powerful it is? Plus of course, I have asked for wisdom during these trials and tribulations, James 1:2-4 but right after in verse 5, we are told to ask for wisdom. The wisdom that God gives must have some connection with the trials and tribulations of this life. This same wisdom is not going to tell you how to get out of the attacks, misfortunes, burdens, etc. God wants to give you a special insight, but a new perspective on what ever your getting hit with. God is giving us the wisdom to know that HE IS IN CONTROL AND EVERYTHING that is happening is under His guidance for all circumstances, so satan worked through the flesh of yourself or others. There is always a battle between when you want to do good like writing a good sermon for others that is all I am set out to do.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James1:2-4 NASB
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 NASB
To preach the good news and fight no matter what I come up against I was doing these sermons when I was lying on my back and could not even go to the bathroom, but I made it a point to sit there in shifts in front of that computer and complete each Sunday Sermon. We do not know if these attacks will fit the mold? Is it discipline from God I have given it some thought and could very well be. In other words, parents today are not certain how to discipline there child, we cannot give up on disciplining our children or we will loose a perfect relationship. In other words our building relationship with God is to understand what the discipline is for. Most of the time we never know why the discipline is engaged until years later , so our relationship between us and The Lord is not just one sided , we have to take and understand the discipline God is giving us and still yet we have to pray and talk to Him about all our feelings and how we are adjusting to the discipline. We do shed some tears and we do get hurt, but we do not get upset, we have to reach that next level and we have to achieve to the next. Each one of us has a different work to perform for the Kingdom; constant loving discipline from the Father will eventually have us discipline ourselves.
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both. Pro. 29:15 NASB
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. Psalm 111:10 NASB
And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You. Psalm 9:10 NASB
The way things have been going is I am able to preach the word and so I live eating out of a blender, so I am alone, so my glands are swollen, so I am running a temperature for 16 months. These, set backs, are nothing and I will not even mention the pain. It is the spiritual warfare, the sleepless nights, the added afflictions every time it is time to write a sermon, the devil steps in and starts a new affliction something I am familiar with, (copy) and then my mind starts to focus on that instead of the sermon. I am depending on my Jesus to help me keep writing and to heal anything the devil throws and it is always something that has happened before, like I said, satan cannot create, he can only copy.
So, he will take an affliction that I had once before and sprout it up maybe in a different area, or work on a spiritual fear something that has happened as far back as 30 years ago and I try I now the game, but still I am loosing time thinking about it, he is stealing my time, for my work for God and for others, it may only be for a moment here and there but to me as a perfectionist it becomes frustrating. The devil is like stabbing me reminding me of the fear so long ago and re-hashing it of dramatizing it in my mind to make me concentrate on that, instead of the word of God or the Sunday Sermon, I have been fighting for months to get the churches prayer ministry back and in the last few days I have been doing better and better. I also know that I will not receive the responses I used to , that is plainly seen when I open up my Emails these people I am close to will write once or twice but then the attack will be nothing, it is still pride, but I am human, but then again I am dead in Christ and nothing of that value should bother me, I am a sensitive person. The devil will use people that are close to you to make you wonder in your mind did you say something wrong or did you offend them. Then in you want to know the outcomes and what has happened. I know myself, and as I think to myself, you know what you have written and you know it is all the truth and scripture and feelings from my heart. So, satan is not going to get at me that way. I will continue to send out as many prayers with as much comforting words and each one is read over and changed and corrected. Jesus is my friend, so what better friend is there to have?
I set out to teach the word and show the kindness of Gods love, also to warn others of the wrath. God can be very much like a father that wants his son to be a perfect child. Here is God now He is perfect he made us in His own image and he left us the written word of His direction and understanding that why the word and we in turn have to follow and study is inspired by God, and look deeper than normal people, we are teachers and what we say can help or destroy by what we say with our thoughts and words. The Holy Spirit is our conductor the leader of the symphony to make perfect harmony and balance and to understand what the melody is supposed to sound like.
You see satan cannot only use the tongue to destroy relationships but, he can cause terrible damage. That is why we all have to watch what we say, we have the Spirit guiding and when someone says something bad to us we are walking in the Spirit and we stop and think and come out with words only to help or edify. My health maybe pretty bad but the Lord is keeping me Healthy to a point to still spread the word. Plus Think, walk, and talk and analyze. I killed a bug a few minutes ago as I am writing out this “outline” and it was at that point where it was on the outside door crawling inside and I had to smash it. Then when I came upstairs and started writing again I find a pain in my writing hand, not enough to stop writing, but you are putting all your ideas and thoughts and a little pain here and there will tend to steel your concentration from what you are trying to write, so you might be in the middle of an important sentence and feel the slight pain in your hand and then get sidetracked into what you truly wanted to express. So here again we have another different form of attack, we cannot let him win. You say, Father, clear my mind of this so we can put together the words that we need to for so many others. Holy Spirit please direct me in my words. So you see the Holy Spirit will give you the power to choose the selected words to make teachings make sense. The tongue can be a fiery weapon of mass destruction and we as Christians have to be able to control it.
I do have an appointment with a Rheumatologist (the detective kind) (strange afflictions) at the end of the month, and last year on my birthday it was something me caring bibles and films and records around Honolulu and the first Doctors appointment that day was made by a secretary that was fired and even though the Doctor was surprised to see me, he asked me to write a letter for him telling the story about the event that happened that day so “he” would not get sued. Here am getting up at the crack of dawn to be on time and then I was the one suffering for it. I lost much sleep and time all for nothing. You see, satan wants to steal your time, that is another trick by him, and let us steel the time of the preacher or prayer warrior and this way he can do more damage for the good of so many others. It is not only the sermons but it is the prayers. I am just getting back into the swing of things and he will steal my time like today I needed to get the tags or a new sticker for the truck I not only was going through every piece of paper in the office looking for the new insurance card, then I realized I put it into my brief case, then, I put the bill that I had to pay in one of my bibles, I always carry two, and I got out of the neighborhood and said wait a minute, I am not falling for this one, in all the confusion of my finding the insurance card I would have drove all the way into town with out the bill in my hand. Those type of things you need the original so they could stamp it and that is your new registration. So I looked all over the truck and no bill and then after a few minutes I realized I had the two bibles but one of them was wrong, so I had to go back to the office and grab the right bible and to make a long story short, I am so used to being under attack I was not going to leave the neighborhood unless I saw the document and still Praise God for that. It is to a point, I am ready for the tricks and the games.
It is my fault putting it in the wrong bible but how did one I do not use in my house end up in my bible bag? Then I am at the store I needed one thing and two women were unloading there full carriage, then they stood there gossiping then they needed to get something from the back of the store and the checkout girl was on the phone and here I stand trying to keep my patience and today it had to be a record breaking time for standing in line. There evil goes again, stealing my time. Some people would say well that is just a part of life, but then again you have to weigh the facts, where is everyone else going, home. No one has any idea how much time I need and how many people it will effect and how many villages or smaller congregations will be waiting for this sermon. And you know it all started when I turned on the computer this morning and it was frozen and it would not go on. So then I had to unplug it and try to start it and then when I got home I spent hours on cleaning up all the little things before I could even start. So by one little game of a frozen computer took hours of cleanup that might not have been needed at all. Stealing our time again, what a day this has been. The thing is days like today are everyday and I am used to it. I know what evil is trying to do, steal, kill and destroy. And this is daily action. We must fully understand that this is not just a game or a simple action of scripture. We read the devil is out to steal, kill, and destroy. Why must I try to even prove to anyone the existence of this scripture? We have to truly examine this with our spirit and hearts. We know the target is Christians and the more you are called the more the devil will try to kill you and anyone that is a Christian and professes that Jesus is their Lord and Savior is a bigger target.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10 NASB
What bothers me the most is that anyone who does not believe in Jesus is already in the hands of the devil and of course he does not form any plight of attack on these people because they are already sentenced to be with him in hell. What is this Church trying to do save souls! Does not every Christian want to save his brother or mother or father or neighbor or anyone that does not believe in Jesus! We have to get out there and save their lives their eternal lives, we are not just talking about the few years we have on Earth, but the eternal life we have with Christ, So satan is out to stop us by stealing killing and destroying the people that will save so many people from the gates of hell. The devil will stop at nothing to stop you that is why every sermon time of the week for me the attacks get so great I am in tears pleading to God for help. Now if you are a servant, pastor, evangelist, healer etc. We can know for a fact the attacks will be stronger and vicious. The devil knows that one person who is out there winning souls for Christ proposes more danger that many hundreds or even thousands of just believers. His attacks are well thought out and planned and people just do not understand the levity or the importance of how strongly he will try to destroy the spirit of the man or woman, His target is to steal the spiritual and physical part of this person. He will use that person and believers or non-believers to destroy our spirituality. He will attack at the base of mans emotions.
To some, he will key on sex, everything in this world is revolved around a man’s sexual standing. I have chosen to be completely celibate for the past 6 years, and I do not even look at regular TV or even magazines. In this world today a man can sit in front of his computer and totally be destroyed by watching pornography which gives birth to more sin and then once that is implanted then the sin of adultery can arise. Sex is everywhere in our check out lines, at the grocery store with just regular magazines on the rack, cut clothing, wearing almost nothing, it is all too intense and to place the thought in the mind. Walk through a video store and look at all the covers of the movies, there is mostly some sexuality advertised cover boxes. I can not even go into a video store anymore, years ago you could rent tapes of Christianity but now the ruler of this world has even taken over that. If you live in a city you can drive down certain streets and see many people peddling sex, and this is a lust of the eyes temptation and then eventually gives birth to sin. You take a normal man and he goes into his room and takes out his magazines, and then he gets tempted more and turns on the computer and goes to a pornographic sight, then this gives more to sin then the temptation even rises and he will turn on the television and watch a bad rated program, and before you know it he is driving down those same streets and looking for adultery, and then he is destroying his spirituality and his life. So now he is standing in the same position as a non-believer dead to his sins.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 6:23 NASB
This is only an example it could happen to anyone, step by step the devil holds the temptation in front of you like leading a horse with a carrot, to steel, kill, and destroy.
We have to agree there are many that sit in church every Sunday with their private lives and hidden sins. That is why we need general sermons on repentance and a few of fire and brimstone to wake these people up and gradually make them turn around and come back to the grace of God. We can’t let the devil get away with these wars of temptation, he is steeling, killing, and destroying Christians all over, and maybe are own parts of our family. The devil doesn’t want you to go to heaven, so he will put everything in front of you to take you away from God. The devil knows there is life after death; he has been studying us for thousands of years. He doesn’t want to be alone with just non-believers he wants Christians! More company! He knows he is going and he wants to drag as many people along with him as he can, that is his plan. He doesn’t want people to go to heaven; he wants to steel kill and destroy. This is his plan just to steal you away from God and do everything to steel your time with God or the word, so he can spiritually destroy you. And he will work on all your senses, taste smell, touch not just the lust of the eyes or the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 1John 2:15-17 NASB
We have already talked weeks ago about accomplishments and possessions but that is just another tool in his arsenal. Our world is changing and it is not going to get any nicer, we as Christians that love Christ have to set the stage, if it wasn’t for the Christians living now, this whole earth would be a waste land. We Christians are dead to this world and all of sin. We chose to follow Christ and except His teachings with gratitude, and no matter what goes on in this world we should have life and life more abundantly.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Gal.5:17 KJV
Submit therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7 NASB
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8 NASB