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Confusion in the Camp
Although our God is not the author of confusion, (1 Cor. 14:33)
we have many leaders who say they are Christian and followers of Jesus Christ, who are promoting confusion among the people of God.
God's Wisdom and True Justice
Mercy and Justice
True justice can only begin when mercy is part of the equation. Without mercy for the oppressed and victimized justice remains just a noble idea. Only when mercy and compassion for the lost, wounded or poor is activated, only then can it become the energy that empowers the motivation for justice.
However, justice with mercy alone results in injustice. Why? Mercy when left to its own devices usually results in an out of balance compassion that tolerates just about anything. In fact, it can actually become an unhealthy hindering enabling force that permits destructive, self-defeating, or ungodly behaviors and lifestyles to remain intact and unchallenged.
Thanksgiving Thoughts
Paul said, “in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thess. 5:18).
Thanksgiving is more than a one-day celebration. In this article, Thanksgiving Thoughts we discuss the five requirements necessary to truly be able to walk in thanksgiving.
Sanctified Unity
Exploring Biblical Unity
These are just a few examples of the various applications for the idea of unity. But, what is the unity that Jesus, David and Paul are speaking of? Jesus’ prayer for His church in John 17 sheds great light on this question. Jesus prayed that His people “all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us” (Jn. 17:21). Later, He prayed, “that they may be one just as We are one; I in them, and You in me” (Jn. 17:22). Jesus prayed that true believers would be joined together as one, just as He and His Father were one.
Considering this we might next ask what is the unifying factor that makes the Father and Son one? We find the answer in Isaiah where the angels cried out to one another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” (Isa. 6:3)
40 Day Prayer Vigil for Tribal Nations and Israel
Prayer Plan:
We are dividing the Indian tribes into 8 Language Groups according to their bloodline. The bloodline/linguistic grouping ensures ALL the tribes will be covered.
Intro to 40-Day Prayer Vigil
This prayer vigil will focus on several things. First, we will center on the Lamb of God and His covenant with mankind which offers His life and salvation to all. Entering into the season of Lent, as we meditate on Christ’s sacrifice for us on the cross, we come before His throne with our prayers of repentance and healing for ourselves, and our families.
We have failed as a church to adequately represent God’s holy name and nature to the Indigenous populations of our once highly favored and prosperous nation. As a consequence over 90 percent of America’s Native people view Christianity as a part of European strategy to destroy and decimate their ancestors and steal their God-given resources and land.
Has God got you covered?
Jesus modeled for us the spiritual concept of covering when He walked out His ministry here in the earth. Jesus continually stated that He only did what He saw His heavenly Father doing, or spoke what His Father was saying (Jn. 5:10,30, 8:26). We see how, in the temptation in the wilderness, Satan continually tried to draw Jesus out from under His Father's covering. He even used scripture in his attempts to seduce Jesus into coming out from under His Fathers protective covering (Matt. 4:4-11).
Each believer’s job is to discerningly determine if the covering they've chosen to come under is appropriately balanced and spiritually adequate to provide the covering they need. The most spiritually healthy coverings are uncompromising in their alignment with the whole council of God and are unwavering in their commitment to kingdom culture and principles.
Affinities and Sanctified Unity
God’s word says: “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (Amos 3:3)
We cannot align with those who claim to serve Christ, then turn around and partake in things God says to separate ourselves from. If we are to win the end time battles that confront us and position our nation for a visitation of God we must set ourselves apart for Him. We owe loyalty to the Lord first, before all other things and that loyalty is measured by obedience to His word.
The Gift of God with Us
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,”
which is translated, “God with us.”
(Matt. 1:23)
Discerning Legitimate Leaders
Jesus said; “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God” (Luke 16:15).
Remember, God said, “man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (I Sam. 16:7)
In testifying of king David, God said, he “was a man after My own heart” (Acts 13:22).
While we may look at the outward features in our assessments, God examines the heart of the leader.
God knows the leader’s heart... He knows his core. He knows what is going on in the center of the leader’s universe. God knows the leader’s core needs, which all give life to his core intentions, core desires, core motivations, and core values.
What's in your camp?
“For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.” (Deut. 23:14)
Looking at the Israelite nation’s example we can see that all it took was one unclean vessel to pave the way for the enemy to defeat the whole nation. The whole Israelite nation team suffered because of one defiant, disobedient, and spiritually defiled individual. This should make leaders reconsider the vetting process when selecting their core team members, if they have one.
Not Just Another Holiday Season
If we step back and begin to ponder what we’ve come to call the holiday season we will find the revelation of God that He has embedded into this annual trio of truth.
First, note the sequence – Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. This sequence can be equated with three spiritual principles that when activated by our living and walking them out actually produce various dimensions of individual growth, renewal and spiritual vitality.
Annapolis -Thanksgiving Conference
This letter is actually a ministry update from our trip to Annapolis, MD and a praise report on what God did and is still is doing there with African Americans pastors, white pastors, and the Police Department. It is a pretty amazing story in light of things occurring across America.
The Church and Illegal Immigration
Churches and Government Bribes
“The king gives stability to the land by justice, but a man who takes bribes overthrows it.” (Proverbs 29:4)
The U.S. Government is offering Churches and other groups lots of federal funding to bypass the Laws of this nation and take in illegal immigrant children. This funding however, comes with strings attached. Behind the bribes to break the law lies the government gaining control of church operations.
Not only this, but the church’s collaboration is actually an endorsement of corruption and lawlessness. This action opens the spiritual gates for lawlessness and corruption to bring destruction not only upon the Church, but upon the sons and daughters of this land.
Forty- Day Prayer Vigil
Focusing on Our Great Intercessor - Isaiah 59 – As We begin our Prayer Vigil:
Prayer Plan:
We are dividing the Indian tribes into 8 Language Groups according to their bloodline. The bloodline/linguistic grouping ensures ALL the tribes will be covered, even including the tribes in Canada
Premise for 40-Day Vigil
This is an appropriate time of year for us to prepare our hearts, to meditate on the sins of our Church Fathers during the Holy Season of Lent, and the sacrifice our Lord made for His Church. Many of our native nations are living in third world country conditions today, and refuse to accept the gospel message because of the sins of our Church Fathers. In 500 years of evangelizing Native people less than 5% have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior!
The Church profaned the name and the character of our covenant keeping God to the Native people by misrepresenting Him for the sake of earthly greed.
Introduction to 40-Day Prayer Vigil
This year however, in preparing for celebrating the transforming power of Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection in our lives our hearts are heavy for the grievous declining condition of our nation. Therefore, we are also focusing on the state of the church and the spiritual repercussions surely affecting our nation.
In bringing our prayers and petitions before the Lord, often times we neglect to consider the holy character and nature of our God. In ignorance of His divine integrity we fail to realize that our spiritual fathers, by their actions, attitudes, and failures have profaned His holy name. As result of their past participation with unscrupulous federal policy initiatives we are beginning to reap the results of the seeds of lawlessness and corruption sown over the last two hundred years.
We have failed as a church to adequately represent God’s holy name and nature to the Indigenous populations of our once highly favored and prosperous nation. As a consequence over 90 percent of America’s Native people view Christianity as a part of European strategy to destroy and decimate their ancestors and steal their God-given resources and land.
The Greatest Giver
Since God is the greatest of all givers, there is much we can learn about gift giving by examining the nature and quality of the gifts He gives to men.
Every gift of the Father resides within and flows through the person of His Son, and has been released by the sacrificial death of His Son. Jesus Christ’s willingness to sacrificially lay His life down to redeem humanity established Him as the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus’ action effectively initiated the redemptive plan of God in the earth.
Praying to Protect First Amendment Rights
In past articles we have presented scriptural evidence to help us see that God will only answer the prayers of a humble, contrite church, who comes to Him as a corporate body in authentic repentance for the sins of our spiritual fathers and the current sins of the church.
We also discussed how the sins of the church give Satan spiritual leverage to empower – within the secular world – the very same sins the church participates in and then covers up. When the Church chooses to cover-up and deny its sins, this gives Satan the legal authority to empower, uphold and keep in place the secret activities and cover-ups of those committed to perpetuating evil initiatives within the cultural and social structures of fallen humanity.
Whatever sin the church participates in gives Satan the legal leverage to promote and advance that same particular evil among the sons of men.
Historical Injustice and Present Consequences
I am frightened FOR a nation where the Church conducts business as usual while in their backyard (their Jerusalem)
- Over 4 million people are living in third world conditions;
- Native young people are committing suicide at 10 times the national average;
- Native babies have less than a 50 % chance of survival their first year;
- And, yet this people group is still NOT considered a valid mission field!
Breaking Unholy Alliances
“And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning…” (Exodus 23:8 NKJV)
The first fruit of an unholy alliance is loss of discernment.
Selecting Leaders and a Covenant with Death
God speaks of the Covenant of Death through His prophet Isaiah:
“Because you have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
(Isa. 28:15, 18)
Blotting Out Our Transgressions
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions” (Psalm 51:1)
David cried out to God – “have mercy on me and blot out my transgressions.”
Thank God our heavenly Father sent Jesus Christ, who gave His blameless life for our guilty one, and whose shed blood cleanses and washes away the stains of sin that would otherwise utterly saturate our lives.
Hope That Never Fails
Hope is an interesting aspect of daily living. However, many secular philosophers dismiss hope as a viable idea. Despite this opinion someone once said:
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope.”
Taking Hold of God's Testimony
“Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.” (Ps. 119:111)
Think of it – David declared that he was taking as his inheritance – the testimonies of God. When I consider the idea of testimony, instantly the picture of a court scene comes to mind. Usually, testimony is given in a court of law by witnesses who personally observed, or heard specific situations or events occur.
Unfortunately, there are some individuals whose testimonies are not worth the weight of the paper they’re written on. You can’t trust their testimony and have a hard time believing anything they say.
But, when God gives a testimony – you can bank on it.
The Challenges of Transition
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth (Heb. 11:13).
We could say that transition is about passing through – to or from – one dimension to another. However, the reality is, in passing through this life we are faced with multiple other transitions. So our life is full of transitions – of every type – gradual, abrupt, crisis-oriented, developmental, etc. And with every transition we face a new set of problems.
Sovereignty, Poverty and Healthcare Reform
Several years ago I received a revelatory word which simply stated “poverty will rob you of your sovereignty.”
This word was significant to me because being Native American I am a member of a federally recognized tribe. To those of non-Native descent this word probably doesn’t mean much at all. However, today as I reflect back on this simple statement, it’s relevance to current health care reform efforts helps to clarify the potential outcome of such legislation.
Nationalization of Health Care
Social engineering is the term used for governments that intentionally manipulate and control the environment in such a way as to gradually shape the beliefs, assumptions, behaviors, and eventually the lifestyles of populations targeted by their efforts.
By believing the promise of the federal government to meet their needs for survival – as a stipulation within treaty agreements – the tribes became dependant upon the U.S. government. The tribe’s dependency on the government made them vulnerable to federal policy-makers who sunk their hooks even deeper into Native societies to gain even greater control.
Essentially, the U.S. government’s promises of provision set a trap for Native populations to come under uncontested control.