God Has NO FAVORITE Children!

      The gospel of Jesus Christ is not selective. The son of God has no favorite children. His Father, God created us ALL in HIS Image. 

He created ONE RACE, called the HUMAN RACE, and He created ONE BODY of Believers called THE CHURCH!

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NLT)  

^{1Co 27} All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.  

           In the early church it was the people in a locality who made up the church;  we must recapture this!  Building the church has never been about filling buildings;  it is about building people into fellowship with God and with EACH OTHER.  The Church IS the BODY of CHRIST, a LIVING ORGANISM made up of PEOPLE.

      Our Father God calls us ALL to UNITY!   ^{Jesus is praying in John 17:23 and He says:}   I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. (John 17:23)  

Look at the word UNITY in this scripture.  The word UNITY has the word UNIT in it! Can you see that? It blew me away when I saw it myself. A unit serves as a group of individuals coming together to accomplish a task.  A unit ALWAYS unifies around PURPOSE; its members are trained and disciplined to respond immediately with their objective in mind.  They learn one another  strengths and weaknesses and understand how to react in any given situation.  WOW! Doesn't that sound like the army of God....the CHURCH!   I realized that my daddy God was showing me that we CAN come together as a UNIT, working together, and with His purpose our cities can and will change!  

On Tuesday nights, in the month of July and the first Tuesday in August we have an opportunity to come together as UNIT-Y.  (7PM meet at the lower elementary)  

 So much is happening in our country.  We see the powers of darkness getting darker over our cities, counties, and States.  Don't be afraid.  Come together as a UNIT-Y and see what a mighty, awesome, powerful God we serve. 

I DECREE & DECLARE:

•  The CHURCH, the body of Believers of the Lord JESUS CHRIST is uniting together as a UNIT to accomplish a very specific purpose.

• The CITY, and COUNTY of CLARKE will begin to prosper as the UNIT begins to intercede over our children, the schools, businesses, government officials, our police, churches, individual lives, our families

• New Businesses, New residences, New opportunities, New mindsets, New Visions for ministry are being positioned and set in order now as each person reads this post

•  We are OVER-COMERS and LIGHT conquering the darkness!

•  We are a community of LOVE and GRACE! 
  Jesus is LORD over ALL

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)
^{2Ch 14} if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, 

and pray and seek My face, 

and turn from their wicked ways, 

then I will hear from heaven, 

and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

 Father, show us your PURPOSE for all of the unified body of Believers in our Community! In Jesus Name, Amen!

        

    

If You Want Different Results.....Do Something Different!

             At my age I am still befuddled as to the "why" people who SAY they are on the same page and have the same belief system still can't work together to accomplish anything.  

            Everyone is situated in their own local fellowship concerned ONLY about themselves, or their group, or so it seems.   You would think that in heaven there is going to be a corner for each denomination or ministry group.  

           Some of the inward thoughts are:  How can we get more people?  Will so-in-so be here today?  Did you hear about.... Look at the way he/she is dressed today!  Only tell me what I want to hear preacher!  Just tickle my hears!  Is it 12 noon yet?  (ouch)  (See cartoon above)

Don't get me wrong!  

• I understand that we need diversity in the body of believers of Jesus Christ!  
• I understand that there has to be leaders and that someone has to drive the bus!
• I understand that God has set people, places, and things in motion to accomplish a task in the Kingdom of God!

          But, what we must understand is that God never intended for us to get so fixed on our padded pews, that we forget the OVERALL picture of what His people who worship in many different places, locations, and times are called to do together as the "many member-ed body of Christ."    

When are we going to get it, as the people of God, that DIVISION and worrying about our four and no more will never accomplish HIS KINGDOM PURPOSE!

      Don't give me all the theological reasons why we can't come together to worship the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords as ONE or why we can't WORK TOGETHER for a common cause, the cause of Christ which is advancement in the world.  Businesses do it!  Organizations do it!  The world does it!  It seems the only people who have a tendency NOT to work together (cross denominational, cultural, and racial, barriers, etc.) are the people of God.

      The scripture says there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5).  Check out             1 Corinthians 12:12-27 and see what it has to say about the people of God.  

     There Are Some Things We Can Agree on as the People of God

1.  Jesus came as a man, died, and was buried, and on the 3rd day He Rose Again! (Halleluiah!)

 (1 Corinthians 15:4)

2.  The only way to heaven, is through the blood of Jesus Christ, and confession of sin.

1 John 1:8-10 

Those two points alone are enough to allow us to UNITE as the body of believers and accomplish the task in the Kingdom of God!   

       You are not being asked to quit your local fellowship, change churches or ministries, or pay a membership due in order to belong or participate in  this UNIFIED group of believers.  

       So what's the ISSUE.............hum.......maybe we will have to continue this blog some more...

 Heavenly Father, please create in ME a clean heart and a right spirit. (Ps 51:10)  Help me to see that I am not abandoning my local group, or pastor, by allowing you to use me to network with others who are wanting to further the Kingdom of God in our community to make a difference.  We need a Kingdom COMMUNITY so that people will feel safe and want to join Our Community.  Help tear down the barriers and the walls that exist between us, your people in the name of Jesus.  Amein!

       

Need it! Got it!

How important are these words to you today?  

        

I love attending prayer services with those who show up for prayer! You know the kind of people I am referring to.....  the kind who get (understand) God!  

        They understand Him enough to know that He loves to spend quality time with us, His creation. So when a prayer service is announced they show up, every time cause they know that when they meet with Him, and talk to Him things begin to change in they way they feel or behave.  That change affects the people around them.

      Last prayer service I was blessed to be a recipient of that change in some of the people who attended.  As we began to intercede for our loved ones,  circumstances surrounding us, situations we were involved in, an awesome presence entered the room.   Everyone in the prayer service was so aware that He had come to interact with us.  A peace descended on everyone in the room and we knew that daddy God was going to speak to us and with us.

       Yes, I hear you asking the question, "Huh, how did He do that?"  Well, maybe you have never experienced our heavenly Father in this way before, and if you have not then I want you to know that God is REAL!   His Presence changes us and our mind sets that keep us from experiencing Him in this way.

       OK, so on to the answer to the question!  How did He do that?  Well He used the people who were there to speak words of encouragement to each other.  You say, well that wasn't God.  I say, uh, yes it was.  We are HIS hands, and feet, and MOUTH PIECE in the earth!   There is nothing more powerful than being used by daddy God in this way.

       I am sure there have been moments in your life when things weren't going well for you and you just needed reassurance or someone to say anything of encouragement.  Maybe you were in Walmart and began to interact with someone on the same isle with you and all of a sudden that zing came into their words and you knew that God had sent them your way to encourage you.

      Just say these words out loud:   He is With Me!              He is Listening to Me!
                                               He Cares About Me!     Someone is Praying for Me!

     Now, how did that make you feel?   See, I told You!  Our daddy God is so awesome that we can even encourage ourselves by speaking out loud.

        Be encouraged today in the Lord!  He LOVES YOU!   You can even pass away what He has blessed you with by being one who encourages others.   Try it out!  You will love what happens in your own heart and soul when you pass it on.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16)