Like you, we are glory seekers. We have wonderfully, “Tasted and seen, the Lord is good!” The greatest prize is in the pursuit of the fame, splendor and radiant beauty of our Sovereign! We came to Yeshua in the days of the Jesus... Read More...
Riverfront Property in Audio
I am so grateful and pleased to share freely the whole audio book of Riverfront Property: Connecting At The River Of Life! I’m confident you will receive a delicious drink! As you find your thirst quenched please recall those you know who would also love a drink, and pass the cup! Read More...
A Miracle Story
Thursday July 30, 1987, started out as just another hot summer day in Ellensburg, Washington, a town of about fifteen thousand souls in a picturesque valley a hundred miles east of Seattle... Read More...
I had been studying passages about seek God’s face, and thinking about the face of Jesus. For weeks a thought in the back of my mind said, “You should preach on The Face of Jesus.” Then we made a visit back to our former church in Ellensburg.
A friend of ours had painted a beautiful portrait of Jesus and surprised us with it while we were out to lunch. I was flabbergasted. It definitely tipped the scales for preaching on seeking His face. Back in Goldendale I invited members of the congregation to bring to Sunday worship portraits of Jesus. Several did. We set them up on easels and tables with images of Jesus. Naturally there were many artist’s concepts of what He looks like. I shared images from great artists over the centuries who has attempted to present Jesus on canvas.
Unfortunately the portrait given us suffered damage in a move. Grateful the face was not damaged. I like the picture our friend, Joseph painted. The person in the painting was solid and darker, more olive complexed. He is somewhat in shadow. I have the impression he is able to stay in the shaddows or come out into light. I can picture him putting on a smile or putting up a confrontation.
There was no one present with Jesus to take a snap shot or a video. If we had such recordings they would rock our spiritual world as most of the faces we have of Him are of our own construction. Our sense of the intonation of His words are also largely from our own imagination.
I’ve often prayed, “Dear God, let me know you as you really are, and not simply as I have conceived you!” Of course we have no business trying to conceive God. He is the One who conceived us!
May you gain a wonderful, vivid view of our Redeemer’s face today as you seek Him, and find Him!
The most recent case of flag drenching occurred in Flagstaff, Arizona. The 35 year old defendant, Stan Dowser, appeared before Superior Court Judge William Garble. The defendant’s court appointed attorney looked rather despondent. Off the record he was heard to say, “Why do all my clients have to be crack pots?”
Mr. Dowser is accused of extinguishing the flames on an American flag which was set on fire by the plaintiff, Gerald Blaze. The prosecution seems to have a watertight case. Mr. Blaze purchased the flag with his own money so it was obviously his to burn. Furthermore Blaze was merely using his constitutional right of free expression. He was burning the flag, as he said, “Because some knuckle head police officer unjustly gave me a parking ticket.”
Judge Garble first used the fatherly approach with Dowser. He was explaining that flag burning was as American as baseball, apple pie and alcoholism. But Dowser went into some incoherent babble about the flag representing every citizen of the Republic and the noble values of it’s patriots. At that point Judge Garble silenced Dowser and took a sterner approach.
“Young man,” said Garble, “don’t you realize that I can give you up to 6 years in prison and $45,000 in fines for drenching a fire on an American flag?!” Mr. Dowser, by drenching the fire on that flag you show yourself to be a rebellious hoodlum, one who scoffs at the American way and is insensitive to the rights and feelings of flag burners.”
The defense is trying to put together an insanity plea. At any rate both defense and prosecution agree that Dowser may need serious reprogramming.
As a side light it should be noted that Judge Garble was hospitalized last night with second and third degree burns to his scalp. The Judge set fire to his hair in order to protest a bad haircut. He hoped this gesture would teach his barber a lesson. Garble’s neighbors speak in admiring and reverential terms of the venerable judge. Mrs. P.W. Doodle said the judge is a man of consistency in and our of the court room.
ENGAGING IN POLITICS
Today we had a phone interview with Heidi St John’s Campaign Coordinator. Heidi is running for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. We are supporting her efforts to restore sanity and function to government.
Sociopaths are not born. They are created by a process – created by choices which come out of decisions reflecting changing values.
Let’s illustrate. My Dad became a doctor 68 years ago. When people were surveyed asking, “Why do you want to be a doctor?” the answer was typically, “To relieve the suffering of others.” The motive was to help precious people recover from sickness and trauma.
What happens today when people are asked, “Why do you want to be a doctor?” There are still some wonderful people pursuing medicine because they have hearts of compassion, but many more are checking the box, “To get a good income.”
When you go to a doctor do you want them to think first, “People are precious,” or “Money is precious?”
As the profit motive subtly replaces the compassion motive the road to sociopathy has begun.
People become hardened to the feelings of others by gradations. No child sets out in life to gain a cold, corrupt heart. The lust for pleasure, power and material stuff gradually outweighs the value we have for people. Lust causes a friction of values which creates a callous heart. The thoroughly calloused see people as objects to be used to gain pleasure, or objects to be removed because they obstruct pleasure.
Just as the righteous arm themselves with weapons of truth, the wicked arm themselves with justifications which often appear as offenses and resentments. Meat may rot slowly initially, but the spiraling decent quickens as time go on.
Jesus said, in Matthew 24:12, “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.”
Sociopaths are love-less. People are blamed not esteemed. The attitude that “Laws cramp my freedom” leads to defiance. Most basic laws are created to protect others. In order to “function” without rules sociopaths must diminish the value of people so their consciences are not pricked when they take advantage of others.
THE DEGRADATION OF CULTURES
We know individuals degrade into sociopaths by a process. Cultures of people do the same when “systemic attitudes” of selfishness supplant the preciousness of God’s human beings. Cultures degrade as they see lawless, hard-hearted individuals. They may feel there is nothing to do about it, and then be conformed to the world, adopting the same attitudes, rather than putting up a standard and a fight. They yield to the negative gravity of depravity.
A HEART CHECK
All of us should run a heart diagnostic test. David prayed for the test. “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Ps 139:23-24)”
Check the temperature of your love for others. What are the gauges showing?
What is the zeal-for-the-Lord meter displaying?
Is the furnace of your compassion hot enough to melt prejudice and offense, or has it cooled to luke-warm?
If the gauges are off we should be rightly alarmed. It may mean we have walked a distance down the sociopath’s path.
Don’t lose heart. Rather pluck up your courage! You can turn around, but you must do it quickly! Although Jesus said, “The hearts of many will grow cold” this does not have to happen to you and I. We may access grace even to love our enemies!
If we tend the fire of compassion for others, we can stall and stop the cultural crash and burn spiral into corporate sociopathy and anarchy. We can provide a model of righteousness countering the down-grade pathway. We can remind others of the inestimable value of our fellow human beings. Valuing others, even law-breakers, we become salt and light to redeem our culture.
The sociopathic depreciation of young children and seniors, and people in general can be reversed. Those on the road-rage path to utter callousness can be saved.
Fires go out when unattended. Let’s keep stoking the fire of our love for others, and become the disciples Jesus said we could become, so non-believers will say once again, “See how they love one another.”
“And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God is poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” Rom 5:5
“We are not sure what reaction children will have when they get the covid immunization.” – so – “We will test it on 6000 children.”
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The Nazi concentration camp “doctors” would be proud of such “research.” Mutilations and deaths are worth it because it is science.
Experiments on unsuspecting and unwilling guinea pigs has been done on innocents by American “doctors.” But how despicable to see them being done today, in broad daylight, without national protest!
Here is a case coming to court worthy of prayer. Who will intercede for the salvation of our children? Read carefully, and after weeping over our folly, let your tears be converted into prayer.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT Court
AMERICA’S FRONTLINE DOCTORS
PETITION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
vs.
XAVIER BECERRA, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND John & Jane Does I-V; Black & White Partnerships; and ABC Corporations I-V,
Defendants.
Children are not guinea pigs: There is a statistically zero percent chance of young people dying of COVID-19. To promote an investigational product that has no long-term studies and no animal studies, to pressure parents and teens to use an experimental product that has not been fully approved by the FDA breaks all of the rules of medicine and the HHS’ own goal to protect Americans.
The expansion of the Emergency Use Authorization (EAU) for younger children is all risk and no benefit. HHS is ignoring the science and the data.
HHS is betraying its mission to, “enhance the health and well-being of all Americans…and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.”
Sadly, millions of parents are being misled by HHS Secretary Becerra and the FDA, and we are calling on the Federal Courts to stop Becerra and compel HHS to suspend the promotion and rush to administer a vaccine that has not been fully tested and approved.
COVID 19 Vaccine Side Effects: We’ve never seen this level of side effects for any vaccine without the FDA taking action. The Rotavirus vaccine was canceled for 15 cases of non-lethal side effects and the Swine Flu vaccine was canceled for 25 deaths. But now, by the CDC’s own data, we are seeing a 12,000 percent increase in deaths with these vaccines and they’re still promoting this to our kids.
Support the Science: Under the age of 20, the survivability rate for COVID-19 is 99.997 percent. More than 4,000 deaths have been tied to the administering of COVID-19 vaccines in the last four months as opposed to 1,500 total in the previous ten years for all vaccines.
This last fact alone should be enough to STOP this dangerous vaccine. But HHS, the FDA and the CDC are ignoring the science and they are putting the lives of our children on the line. Thousands of doctors and physician groups across the world are demanding the vaccine rollout be stopped. But America’s Frontline Doctors is the one group that is suing to make sure that the government does not continue down this dangerous road.
Dr. Simone Gold Founder, America’s Frontline Doctors
In Mathew 18:6 Jesus says, “If anyone causes one of these little ones–those who believe in me–to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
American socialism is going down smoothly. Have you felt the barb yet? Americans are swallowing the bate of socialism, but unaware of the hook. We won’t feel the hook in our mouth. It will catch in the throat.
The Scripture says, “The serpent was the most subtle of all the beasts…” His delicate craft is practiced by his disciples today. Some of the most artful are socialists.
What thinkest thou of this scenario?
A huge factory with thousands of workers has an explosion. Dozens are killed and hundreds are injured. Rather than focusing help for the bereaved and injured the management decides to mail a box of Band-Aids to all 2,400 employees.
The covid phenomena, and the wrong-headed responses of leaders in government, has been a debacle.
Let’s say 50 million people are negatively impacted financially by covid, exacerbated by the wrong-headed restrictions on our freedoms. If the government is to add additional meddling, purportedly to help, what should be done?
They use the subtle brilliance of the above factory management. Rather than find out specifically who has suffered financially, our “public servants” decide not to look at real needs but to scatter checks upon American adults. Nine percent, or so, of the relief package, is scattered like rain upon injured and healthy alike. The rest goes to pork. Most American adults had little to no income loss from the misfortune, and farce. Some people got raises. Others prospered in business. Some government workers got raises.
Government leaders acted irresponsibly at best. Many “leaders” played the socialist strategy to dominate America. So brilliantly diabolical. But do you see how the hook was bated and is about to be set? There was a deliberate capitalization on our gullibility. The wakeful are seeing the seduction. The careless are enjoying the worm before the barb sets.
Few Americans are protesting the government “relief” checks. Many see the checks as “fun money.” I see it as “funny” money. The “gift” from the IRS is no gift at all. We are “given a gift,” but we are expected to pay for it. Not only must I, my children and grandchildren pay back the face value of the check, but we must pay for the pork programs which dwarf the check.
The checks not only have strings, they have barbs. This money does not enrich us. It puts us all into debtors’ prison! How cleaver of the socialists in government to give everyone a “gift.” This is seduction at it’s diabolical best. This enticement is far beyond the meager attempts of credit card companies inviting us to be happy through indentured servitude. Unlike the credit card companies, government leaders can authorize the red-eyed national budget to send out checks.
Pam and I are among the protestors. No, we won’t break car windows or set buildings ablaze, but we are protesting this puncturing of holes in our national boat. We are not sure what to do with the “free” money. We are thinking of employing it to bring down corrupt and seditious totalitarian wannabes.
What project can we invest in to bring down the corrupt communists in our government and bring them to justice for the damages to our nation? If our “leaders” are destroying us innocently or intentionally the results are the same.
The Scripture says, “The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears hers down with her own hands.” Prov 14:1
Here is the dubious “wisdom” which is destroying America’s ship; “Water is leaking in the boat so we must drill more holes to let the water out.” And how is that working?
In terms of leading people to a crash-and-burn socialism it is very effective. But there is a limit to the enticements the seditious can pump into our economy. At some point the economy will be flooded to sinking. But, that’s the goal. Our boat is floundering. The current path is sure to sink us, bringing loss of life.
There is a raft of ism’s working to undermine our culture. Socialism is only one.
We are angry about getting a check, and the other pork programs, when real needs are not met. We are also angry that government “solutions” have led us to precipitous Inflation, and our demise. Printing funny money is like shooting holes through the bottom of the ship. First there was government over-reaction. Then they took it as an opportunity to entice our population into socialism’s solutions. Worship in America seems to be shifting deities, from God to the nanny state.
What commentary will our grandchildren have for this generation? Will they thank us?
INFLATION: RIDING THE ROLLERCOAST DOWN, BUT NEVER UP
It is interesting how some read the economy. In the last 70 days, so it is said, commodities have gone up radically.
The price of steel is up 145%
The price of lumber is up 126%
Food is up 25%
Cotton 35%
Silver 38%
Copper 50%
Oil 80%
It’s curious that people say commodities have gone up rather than, our dollar is become worth-less. I am surprise when people say the value of their home has gone up by X%. Why don’t they say the value of the dollar has declined by Y%?
Printing more funny money floods the economy making money worth-less. I’m wondering if. and how, to get out of the dollar.
The economy crashing is not just a tragedy, it is a game plan to create dependence on government. Our taxes have been paying for fat politicians, who under the “inspiration” of Satan’s slippery subtlety have found an effective plan: Seduce people with government perks, drain the economy until it collapses, and build a brave new totalitarian world out of the anarchy.
I had a dream where a warlock was in a circle of people and boasting how Satan was destroying America. In the dream I rebuked him and said, “There can be a preservation, a prolonging of America if she is prayed for.”
The people there applauded my statement. It made me think this question. “If America is destroyed will God take credit for it, or will Satan?” The answer is, Satan. God will not delight if America is destroyed for He loves us. But Satan will boast that it was his great scheming accomplishment which brought America to ashes. We must not let Satan have this boast. Rather, we must agree with God’s desire to save and bless nations which turn to Him.
With the tough news about socialism’s stealthy inroads I will not be discouraged. America will be saved! It will require laying our lives down for Jesus and our neighbors, but our nation, and other nations can be saved. God loves our nation, and the nations, and will show us the way!
“Ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance.” Ps 2:8
As a lad I was told in school that evolution happened like a washing machine making bubbles. Add water, soap, some agitation and presto, you have bubbles! And bubbles are quite a lot like amoebas. Simple, right?
Of course, that was years before I learned a single cell has trillions of genetically orchestrated combinations, a bit more complicated than soap bubbles.
Beyond this my teachers did not tell me where the washing machine, water and soap came from to make those bubbly cells. Who made the washing machine? Where did the power come from to make it churn? Who pushed start?
They could not tell me where time, space and matter came from, or the energy to spark the evolutionary process. They could not explain how non-intelligence could “produce” intelligence. These were presumed by faith.
PICTURE THIS SCENARIO IN A 2nd GRADE CLASS TODAY
TEACHER: Good morning children. Today’s lesson is going to be of lifelong value to you. It will free you from nonsensical and unscientific ideas like God, purpose, and right and wrong.
It’s also going to be an easy class because I’m giving you the answer to all the questions right now. Two simple words – “Dumb luck.” To every question I ask, you simply answer, “Dumb luck.” Ok, Class, here we go! Where did the lungs come from?
Timmy: Dumb luck!
Teacher: Great answer Timmy! And where did the feet come from, Rose?
Rose: Dumb luck!
Teacher: Excellent, Rose.
Peter: How could we breath if we were not specially created with lungs?
Teacher: Peter, remember we don’t use the “C” word in my classroom! Please watch your tongue. The proper answer is always, “Dumb luck.” Rebekah, where did the ribcage come from?
Rebekah: Teacher, I know your answer is “dumb luck,” but it seems the ribcage is designed to support our breathing and protect our vital organs.
Teacher: Rebekah, what a silly idea! And we do not use the “designed” word in this classroom! Do you understand?
Rebekah: Yes, Mrs. Dumbluck.
Maryanne: But Mrs. Dumbluck, It seems every part of the body was made with a purpose. It seems the digestive system has a purpose.
Teacher: Maryanne, dear, we don’t use the “P” word in this Class.
Jimmy: But Mrs. Dumbluck, doesn’t it seem like the kidneys were made specially to cleanse the blood?
Teacher: Jimmy, Kidneys were not “made.” They just happened. There is no purpose. Everything is purposeless!
Jimmy: But Mrs. Dumbluck, if the parts of our human body were not designed and created how did they happen?
Teacher: Jimmy, I’m losing my patience with you. It’s very scientific! Right now, you wouldn’t understand if I tried to explain it to you. But it boils down to a very simple answer; “Dumb luck!” You will have to trust me since you don’t understand these things.
Sid: Mrs. Dumbluck, if the eyes, hands, liver and pancreas all have a purpose, I imagine all the parts put together have purpose. Each of us have a purpose!
Teacher: Sid, you are disrupting this class. I don’t like the attitude I’m getting in this classroom. Sid, do you need a time-out? Children, your lives are all meaningless. You have no purpose at all. You must start thinking clearly now!
There is no such thing as purpose or plan, all is accident and dumb luck. There is no such thing as good or bad, only dumb luck! All is accident and chance. Yes children, all of life is purposeless. Radom actions are responsible for everything around us. It may appear complex and planned but it’s not. It’s all accidental.
Martin: But, but…
Teacher: Children I am losing my patience. There are no “buts” in my class. Your disrespect and disagreeable attitudes must stop now!
I want to hear nothing but silence in this room for the next 15 minutes! Turn to your book on nihilism for your independent reading.
Jennifer: Mrs. Dumbluck, When we do our homework is that purposeless?
Cindy: Mrs. Dumbluck, my neighbor said they say in their church everything was made specially by God.
Teacher: Cindy, I’m going to send you away to detention, and to the fact-checkers, if you keep acting so arrogantly and ignorantly. What would your parents say if they learned the ridiculous things you were saying?
This whole class has been disagreeable and obstinate. I want every one of you to take out your tablets and write thirty times. “It’s all chance and dumb luck. Life has no meaning!”
I’m afraid letters are going out to parents today!
A DARWINIST’S PRAYER
If I was a Darwinist, how would I pray? I know I would be caught up in the wonder of the universe and want to find who, or what, to thank for it. If I believed in evolution I would bow my knees at its altar and worship because of life’s intricate wonder. Here is the prayer of an evolutionist.
“Oh, mighty belief system of our forefather, Darwin. I come to bow in appreciation for the ravishing wonder or creation, I mean, accident of life. How I am taken with the marvelous beauty of life all about me and even within my living body.
Thou art dumb, empty and aimless yet thou dost create, I mean accident, the most astonishing wonderment as minute as a virus and as great as leviathan.
O evolution, how great art thy mysteries. I am dumbstruck with thy stupefying, intricate design, I mean randomness, accidented out of your oblivion.
I know thou hearest me not, for thou art nothing, yet I must worship thee for all the teaming life about me in plant and animal. Thou art incapable of doing good or evil for thou art nonentity. But I have no other place to go with my marveling, gratitude and joy for the whole of thy handiwork, I mean again, accident.
I implore you as I bear my heart to you. Sometimes I struggle in my faith. Help me to fight off and win over every evil force which tempts be to believe in plan and design and purpose! Save me from the deluding teachings of an all wise-benevolent Creator. Please let me know that you are real – so I can count confidently on nothing but chance!
Rarely will I put out a blog to simply say, “Watch this!” This is one of those occasions. Rick Joyner’s message may put steel up your backbone.
It is one of the most insightful, incisive assays of where we are at as a Republic. This is hot off the press (video) today. It is a call for awakening, activation and mobilization! America is on the cusp of great revival – and civil war. What will your placement be? How can we prepare the highway for our God?
Rick Joyner’s assessments and exhortations shouldn’t be watched unless you are someone who wishes to be a change agent. If you are not, it will simply disturb your sleep.
He fires truths like bullets from a heavy machinegun. I don’t think this could be timelier for Lovers of Christ and patriots of America. It is definitely worth your viewing!
Rick Joyner is the author of numerous books and articles. As a writer he is one of the best! I deeply appreciate his blending of historic knowledge and thoughtful prophetic perspective.
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MFM Face to Face Retreat | Morning Session | 4/22/2021
