Stand up oh men of God

Oh men of God here is another favorite of mine from 2011

Stand up oh men of God
Stand up
Stand up oh men of God
For where are our Courageous men of God????
Where are they???


Oh men of God, hear me today we battle not against  flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. The battle that rages on daily is for your soul, though he uses the desires of the flesh as his weapon against you oh men of God. Rise up oh men of God and fall down upon your knees daily humbling yourself before the Lord your God and confessing our great need to be healed of sexual immorality.  If your a brother who does not battle with this issue praise God for you. Now lock arms with a brother who does battle with sexual immorality, stand in the gap for him in prayer and encourage him in the word and be there for him lean upon.
2 Chronicles 34:
19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
 20And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
 21Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

Now notice that Josiah didn't say, it just human nature,he didn't say come on let not be legalistic about all of this. Instead he was outraged and tore his clothing realizing that he and his people had been displeasing to God.

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the land belonging to the Israelites.
Oh men of God what is in your life right now that you have made an idol of?
What things are your eye's seeing that are harming your walk with God?
Men deal with their sexual nature, women may not or can not always understand it. Perhaps there are some sisters among us that are also dealing with their sexual nature.  Search yourself and find out what things have you put before your worship of God.


JOB 31:

 9 “If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
      Or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door. Job speaks about allowing our hearts and our eyes to wonder.  Paul speaks to us about our sexual nature, yes if it were just a switch that men could turn on and off or the wife could turn it off till she desires you to have it on.  That would perhaps be easier, but instead it is always on.  So we must guard our hearts, if the Lord has provided you with a wife then give thanks and look upon her and see the glory of the Lord in what he has given you seek your joy no place else.
I know, I know that Television, movies, billboard and even women in your work place or the mall etc... dress and act in a manor that temps many of us.  But we are not dogs nor are we tail of the ass, we son of the Living God. Take up your authority in Christ and stand up against these things that would become idols and steal your heart and eyes away from God and your spouse.
Oh men of God gather about yourselves 2 or 3 men of good reputation to stand with you in the gap, as you over come the idols in your life.  Perhaps in your house the Television need to be removed for a season, or parental controls or just watch Christian DVD's, or spend that time in fellowship with your spouse and family.  Maybe that computer needs to be turned off or removed, there is software that can block those site that divert your heart and eyes from God and your spouse.  Anything that comes between you and God and your spouse  is an idol. For God your spouse and you are 3 strands cord and must remain that way if your marriage is to remain firm and strong and fruitful as the Lord God desires it to be, then you must live holly as our Lord God is holly.

Matthew 15: 19 tells me that out of the heart of a man comes evil  Sexual immorality and a list of others issues but we are speaking on man's sexual issues. Sexual issues with man kind is not new, most women might want to believe that but from the moment Eve showed up man has been dealing with sexual issues.  So sisters instead of rebuking your man and causing him to crawl deeper into his sin cave, let him know that you might not understand what he is feeling or why he is feeling it,  but that you are there to support him in prayer let him that your arms are wide open for him come and feel your loving embrace and know that you are the Godly woman that Christ gave to him to stand with him and if need be in front of him in this battle. Key is that knows he is no longer alone and he can come out of that cave. That he can stand up again no longer cowry down and hide in the darkness in shame, cause sisters Lucifer has marked your marriage for destruction. Will you stand by and let him do that ? While most men may be foolish enough to think it is only effecting them, the truth of the matter is Lucifer's wants to destroy your home your children and your marriage. Simply because he knows that God ordained marriage.

Sisters I want to speak to you for a second, do not use sex as a reward or a punishment for your husband. For your body is not your own but his and his yours.  Do not become a stumbling block to your husband.  Be his comfort and his helpmate, he may not understand now but he needs your love more than he can ever understand or know.

Like a roaring lion going back and forth looking for whom he might devour, men do not become Lucifer's next meal. Stand tall oh men of God, wives love your husbands and support them in prayer daily. Men girt up yourself in the holly garments of the Lord, that you might resist the sins of the flesh.

I encourage you men to get a copy of Every man's Battle, women  read it also. If you know of brother or sister that has issues dealing with sexual immorality then this books is a good book to read and be encouraged by it.

Matthew 23

Why did Christ warn His disciples to beware of the Pharisees? What did they do wrong?  (An entire chapter of the Bible (Matthew 23) is Christ teaching against the Pharisees.)  The Pharisees were conservative, faithful "church" members. They accepted the Torah as the Word of God. They paid tithes. They believed in miracles (at least in days past). They wouldn't dream of stealing, committing adultery, or such things. You would like living next to a Pharisee as they were model citizens.    But instead of having a living relationship with God, the Pharisees took the Word of God and made just another dead religion out of it.  The Pharisee way of thinking is: keep up appearances. "It doesn't matter so much what you are on the inside, as long as you keep the rules (at least publicly)."  Notice that Christ likened their teaching to leaven, or yeast. Why? Yeast spreads easily and rapidly. Humans are very susceptible to approaching God in this manner, "Keep the rules. Just do these 10 things and you are OK."  Different groups may have different rules, but we all accumulate them. It may be how many times each week you must attend church meetings, or what kind of clothes you must wear, or how you must wear your hair. Or, it may be a list of things you cannot do. But, as long as you meet these requirements, you are in good standing with your group (or denomination).  But, good standing with God is based on only one thing according to the New Testament: faith in what Christ did for us. That alone is what makes us right with God. Not our works, but Christ' work.  1 ... He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.  The Pharisees were hypocrites. That is, they put on an act. What they pretended to be in public was not really what they were like in private. They claimed to be perfect in keeping God's law, but as humans they were all sinners, just like the rest of the people were. Yet, in public, they insisted that others keep the Law perfectly, or be condemned.  They were quick to pass judgment on others, and slow to extend mercy or help. The Pharisees had a legalistic view of God's Word and did not realize that God was merciful and wanted to help people.    who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.  Using God's Word to "kill" instead of using it to minister life is wrong. God's Word is meant to help people and lift them up, not place such hard demands on them that they cannot ever measure up. When we load people down with heavy loads of rules to keep in order to be right with God, we are ministers of death.    Then Christ said to the crowds and to his disciples,  "The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.  So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don't follow their example. For they don't practice what they teach.  They crush people with impossible religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.  "Everything they do is for show. . . .  If your "Christianity" is nothing more than a list of "do's and don't's" then you are missing real Christianity, which is a living relationship with Christ. 

My Redeemer Lives

My Redeemer Lives (Bring it back one more time)

Yes  for those of you that noticed this is a rehashing of devotional already written, and if you didn't notice then either you didn't read it the first time or it didn't do anything for you. Does not matter here it is again. Read it study and believe in him for he is our redeemer.

To redeem someone requires something valuable as a ransom. Silver and gold and precious metal. However, we were redeemed with something even more valuable--the precious blood of Christ.  He is not just a redeemer; he is our kinsman redeemer.



My redeemer lives, Matthew 28: (v 6)The followers of Christ are told he is no longer in the grave for he has risen. Redeemer is define as :  deliver: save from sins or restore the honor or worth of.  Christ did exactly that for you and I. We  are reminded in  Isaiah 64; that our righteousness was like filthy rags. Meaning we needed a redeemer, God choose his only begotten son to be that kinsman redeemer.

In 1st Peter chapter 1 we are informed as to how we were redeemed, knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,  but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.  He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you and I. Again we needed him to set us free for we were bond by sin and enslaved to it.  Christ paid the ransom for us and set us free when he rose on that 1st day of the week we now know as Sunday we also rose with him.  He made us new creatures in Christ because of his ransom we are redeemed.

 He is not just a redeemer; he is our kinsman redeemer. Christ agreed from the foundation of the world to be our redeemer (Revelation 13:8). He came down from heaven as the bread of life (John 6:35). He took on the life of the flesh and was tempted in all points even as we are, and yet did not sin (Hebrews 4:15). He is our elder brother (Hebrews 2:11).
Leviticus 25:47-49 gives us a better idea of what the Hebrew bible says  a redeemer is and does.
Colossians 2:13-14 shows how Christ paid our debt for sin when he was nailed to  to the cross, as payment for our sins.
"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 the cross."
 Because the redeemer lives then does that not mean that the price was paid for you and I? You now have been made righteous before the Lord. Oh men of God stop trying to redeem yourselves through works, for they have failed you before you begun. Have faith in the Lord your God, that when he said it was finished he meant it.  So rejoice for our redeemer lives and so do we,  with him for eternity. So my brothers/sisters that is the good new, one day very soon the redeemer shall return and there will be no more crying or dieing  he shall wipe away every tear.

May the Lord Keep and continue to bless and directly in your daily struggles.

Psalm 68:3

At least five times the Bible tells the people of God to rejoice in the Lord. We may not always be able to rejoice in other people, or in our circumstances.We can becp,e frustrated. We can be immature. We can
be undependable. Need I go on? But the Lord is different! God is dependable. God is faithful. God is honest. God is good. God is patient. God is kind. God is understanding. God is merciful and gracious.  When we focus on our circumstances, or on what people do, we can lose our joy quickly. But with a true understanding of what God is really like, we cannot help but rejoice because of His goodness and greatness.
If you are not sure what God is really like, then look at Jesus Christ in the pages of the Four Gospels in the New Testament. Jesus Christ perfectly revealed to us what God is like.

 But let the righteous be glad; Let them rejoice before God; Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly. (Psalm 68:3).

Revelation 21:4

Emilie Parker, Father confuses a nation, I listen to CNN reporters where they were confused and they tried to put a liberal spin on. BUt he spoke of his daughter would have wanted to pray for others. Now he lost his daughter in a horrible way. Emilie's Father spoke of her being with her Heavenly Father now, I smiled because I knew this was a Father who was a believer that knew, "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” I watch another set of parents crying and saying  they want someone to tell them that it is going to be okay. They are eager to put their trust in all the wrong things, Put not your trust in kings or princes for they will fail you, let trust in the Lord our God for him and him alone is our redeemer and refuge, though the enemy may destroy the body but the soul he can have for he have entrusted our soul to the Lord our God, so fear not the things that this world can do to you, For Paul counted it all joy whether he lived or died for it was until the lord that we exist. Like Paul I'm convinced nothing can separate us from the love of God. If  now God is standing by wanting America to return back to him its first love. I know our misguided president lied and said we are not a Christian nation, perhaps he speaks of himself but we who love the Lord know that we are a Christian nation that must return back to our first love.




 And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
 And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus[a] has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. (Acts 3:15-17).

Matthew 3:1-2

A kingdom is the domain of a king. It is wherever a king governs, or is in control. A king can be in control without being physically present. Wherever his ideas and rules are governing is part of his domain, or kingdom. The Kingdom of God includes everywhere the Father dwells.God is love, so the Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Love. There can be no selfishness in the Kingdom of Love. In the Kingdom of Love, everyone delights to help others. Not by force, for it will be our joy. Every inhabitant will have the same nature as Jesus Christ, a nature of selfless love for others. So the Kingdom of God is not restricted to a certain place or time, like Spain or the USA  or even Heaven. The Kingdom of God is everywhere that God is accepted and acknowledged. The Kingdom of God is everywhere the nature and ideas of God govern.
The Kingdom of God means the rule of God. Not accepting  God's Word and His offer to create a place for you to dwell with Him forever. Denying the offer to dwell with Him in his kingdom is stepping into
the kingdom of darkness. Why would choose pain over joy, if you deny Christ that is exactly what your doing.



 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
  And saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! (Matthew 3:1-2)

Mark 9:23

Most people like to "play it safe." They don't even want their boat to rock, let alone consider getting out and "walking on water." God allows us to make choices. God's plan is that we would walk with Him in His realm of miracles, but He allows us to grow and develop until we are ready. He does not force us. Notice that Peter was the one who chose to walk on water. And Peter did walk on water, if only for a short time. As long as Peter kept His focus on Jesus he stayed in faith, but when he focused on the circumstances, he became afraid and sunk back into the natural realm. Jesus told us that all things are possible if we believe. Therefore, our limits are self-imposed, not imposed by God. If we change our beliefs to line up with God's Word, we can see amazing results.
 Right before Peter  endevored to walked on  water, Jesus fed a
crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children, starting with only five loaves of bread and two fish. Most think only Jesus could do such things, but Jesus told us in John 14:12 that those who believe in Him would do the same works He did. So if we believe what Jesus said in John 14:12, we must believe we can multiply food as He did. But Jesus was not the first, or only one, to supernaturally multiply food on earth. Not only did God supernaturally provide food (manna) for 40years in the wilderness for all the children of Israel, but
food was also multiplied through the ministry of Elijah  It is easy to think we could never do things like Elijah, but Scripture says Elijah was a man just like us. Obviously, we are being encouraged to believe great things can happen through our lives, too. The key is to realize that the power is of God and not of us. God has done great things through others, and He can do them through you, also!  But you are the one who must choose to believe that God's Word is true. If you never "step out of your boat" and act on God's Word, you will not see miracles happen. God will not love you any less if you are afraid and choose to stay in your little boat. But you were not created to be imprisoned in a little boat. You were created to grow up to be like Jesus and walk with Him. It's great to "walk on water" with Jesus. So don't be afraid to launch out into new areas of faith. Step out in faith on God's Word. Even if you begin to "sink" Jesus will rescue you, so
don't be afraid.

 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe,[a] all things are possible to him who believes.” (Mark 9:23).

Romans 3:20

We cannot save ourselves, if we could have Jesus would not have had to leave glory to come down here and die for a sinner like me. We cannot make ourselves acceptable to God by our own efforts. We can only come to Him and accept His free gift, Jesus Christ. When we receive Jesus we also receive right standing with God better know as righteousness for it is the garment Jesus has given us to wear it has washed away our sin and made a new garment which white as snow.Jesus came to set us free from our sin not to remain in slavery to sins, Jesus refused to leave us trapped in sin. For the price for our sin was eternal separation for God which means Heaven was not on the list of homes for you to remain, but hell was the only home we would have know had Jesus not loved us so much that he was willing to pay a price that we could not pay.

 Quit trying to be right with God by their own efforts, and accept the gift of righteousness by receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior no future actions is required you don't have spend ten years going door to door, just accept and believe and that is all is required to receive the free gift of eternal life. Or, try to be good enough for God to accept them based on their own performance.

Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20).

Joshua 24:15

Most of us don't realize that God has given us the power to choose whether we will be blessed or not.
We choose whether to go God's way and be blessed, or ignore God and go our own way and reap the unfortunate consequences. God has given mankind an amazing freedom to  choose. God does not force blessing on us regardless of the fact that wants to bless us, it is up to accept the offer to be blessed. God is a gentleman He will force himself upon us we must choose blessing by choosing God and His ways.
God did not create us to be puppets, robots, or slaves. God desires a family He can fellowship with. There would be no joy in being loved by a robot who had no choice, so God created us with the freedom and the right to make choices.With  these amazing power called freedom of  choice also came the responsibility to
make them. So we must make choices. God does not make our choices for us which is why it is called free will.   How do we choose life and blessing? By what we choose to think. Our thoughts guide our actions. That is why feeding or meditating on the Word of God is so vital. The thoughts we allow to dominate our consciousness will determine the focus and direction of our life. We choose whom we will serve. We choose who and what will influence and thus govern our thoughts and actions.

 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).

PSALM 78:41

God is unlimited but  we can limit what God does for us by our unbelief. God cannot deny Himself. That means He cannot act contrary to who He is and what He has said. But beyond that God has no limits that we know of. The Bible tells us the people of Israel limited what God could do for them. We should not make the same mistake.  Every fingerprint is different. Every eyeball is different. Every ear is different. No two leopards have the same spots. Yet people think things like: "God cannot work outside of our denomination." "Every church has to be just like ours." "God can only move in this one way." "God will only do this, if " But God is bigger than you realize! God may have a million different ways to do something. Just look at what He created. There is not just one type of bug. No, there are millions. We know of nearly a million types of beetles alone. So don't limit God in your thinking. He is God all by Himself, His word says He has plains to prosper us, its time we trust Him and stop limiting our Heavenly Father.  So spouse is not walking right or your kids are not being respectful,  and you hate your job, bring it to the Father and leave them in God's hands, all you need to do is trust Him and keep reflecting Christ in all you do. Call on the Father and remember He may not come when we want Him to but He is always on time



 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel (Psalm 78:41).