Is the Python squeezing you? Part VI

The ONLY way!

Well I know that I said it would be seven parts, however there will only be six. This is the final note in this series.

I hope that you got something out of these notes and that you really begin to apply what you have read.

Part VI is going to be very short! WE have talked about alot of things that Python has done, is doing and trying to do, but I want to give you the KEY to getting Python off of you….there is only ONE way to get this huge snake off of you so you can BREATHE again….

CUT HIS HEAD OFF!!!!!!!!

So my brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends and even enemies you got to pull out your < b>WEAPON that God has equipped us all with… THE WORD

Get in to your Word and start speaking those things that God has said! Tell Python NO MORE!!!!

In 2008 ….BREATHE !!, but you got to cut Python’s head off NOW, stop waiting!!

Whatever or Whoever your Python may be …Cut it’s head off and BREATHE!

- There is so much that God has planned for us

- There is so much that He wants to use us for

- There are people who are waiting on us to give them a Word from the Lord

- There are people who are waiting for our hands to touch them so they can be healed

- There are young men and women who are waiting for us to CALL OUT of them what God has placed in them

- There are places that God wants to take us

- The earth is waiting for you to MANIFEST into the man and woman that God has called you to become

But if we don’t get Python off of our hands, our arms, our feet, our mind, our mouth then we can’t MOVE </>.

Don’t you let this snake win…I don’t care how long you been wrapped up by him…I don’t care how long you been dealing with shortness of breath…I don’t care if your body has become numb to it’s pressure….GRAB YOUR WEAPON and start cutting!

It doesn’t matter how Python got a hold of you! It doesn’t matter if you started a relationship with this huge snake, It doesn’t even matter if you like snakes and had him since he was little and you had no clue it would get this BIG and turn on you …receive the WORD of the Lord….

CUT HIS HEAD OFF AND BREATHE AGAIN!!!!

Love yall

Is the Python squeezing you? Part V

Squeezing out the right people to do my own thing

Acts 16:16

Well Part V is going to be very interesting for most of us because it is going to deal with our relationships. Before you stop reading, this does not just mean your girlfriend or boyfriend status. It is talking about all your relationships which can include your friendships.

So if this Part V becomes a little difficult to read, JUST READ IT ANYWAY!

In 2 Chronicles 18:1- 7 (NIV) you read:

Now Jehoshaphat enjoyed great riches and high esteem, and he arranged for his son to marry the daughter of King Ahab of Israel. 2 A few years later, he went to Samaria to visit Ahab, who prepared a great banquet for him and his officials. They butchered great numbers of sheep and oxen for the feast. Then Ahab enticed Jehoshaphat to join forces with him to attack Ramoth-gilead. 3 “Will you join me in fighting against Ramoth-gilead?” Ahab asked. And Jehoshaphat replied, “Why, of course! You and I are brothers, and my troops are yours to command. We will certainly join you in battle.” 4 Then Jehoshaphat added, “But first let’s find out what the LORD says.”5 So King Ahab summoned his prophets, four hundred of them, and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead or not?” They all replied, “Go ahead, for God will give you a great victory!”6 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of the LORD around, too? I would like to ask him the same question.”7 King Ahab replied, “There is still one prophet of the LORD, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but bad news for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “You shouldn’t talk like that,” Jehoshaphat said. “Let’s hear what he has to say.”As I was reading this, the following came to mind:

1. How can you arrange your son (Jehoram) who worships the true and living God to marry someone (Athaliah – whose mother was Jezebel) who worships Baal?

• We in the Body of Christ need to assist our brothers and sisters to stop marrying (joining themselves to) things and or people that do not worship God!How many of us are guilty in letting our friends join things that are not of God? (Whether that party, that group of people, that relationship) Not saying you have the power to stop them, but at least SPEAK up about it! Their lives are worth it!

2. Why am I putting my TRUE friends and family in danger to help someone fight a battle that I have not asked God whether or not I should?

Jehoshaphat compromised those that were dear to him because he didn’t ask God for instruction FIRST.

We need to TRUST God or do our on thing…..If you say you love God and you want to do His will…AT LEAST ASK HIM…..AND WAIT FOR AN ANSWER AND DONT MAKE UP ONE Ahab requested that Jehoshaphat help out in a war. It was a war that almost cost him his life.The Bible tells us Jehoshaphat’s kingdom had been peaceful up to this point (2 Chronicles 17:10). Judah was blessed and prospered abundantly, and nobody dared come against them. But after Jehoshaphat developed a friendship with Ahab, he found himself involved in a war that God had no part of.Be careful that you don’t connect to someone who just wants you to assist them in their fight or their sin! When Jehoshaphat joined Ahab’s war, he was only taking his friend along the path of destruction.

3. Why is it that people only want to hear from people who are telling them what they want to hear?

Ahab had 400 “prophets” around him – he had surrounded himself into a false sense of security, believing that he had the Word of the Lord and the approval of wise counselors. He asked them should we go to war and they all said YES!

You are in a dangerous place when you surround yourself with people who are always telling you YES!

Now what blows my mind is even after they all said yes…..Jehoshaphat asked is there a prophet from the LORD! And Ahab said yes there is one but I HATE him because he never prophesies anything but bad news for me! (he never prophesies good concerning me) You see that out of all the prophets Micaiah was the ONLY prophet who had to be gotten! The YES prophets Ahab kept close but the one who gave him the TRUTH he kept away from him!

We need to check out who we listen to. Surround yourself around people who will tell you what God has said and is saying. Stop looking for people who will ALWAYS agree with you.

KEEP THE TRUTH CLOSE TO YOU AND PUSH THAT OTHER MESS AWAY…YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.

Stop looking for the “YES” prophets. Find someone who will tell you “NO”

No you don’t need to go there
No you don’t need to be in that relationship
No you don’t need to give up now
No you don’t need do that

Start surrounding yourself with people who will give you a message that will make you uncomfortable and demand a decision to LIVE in righteousness, holiness and purity! People who will challenge your sin…. not encourage it!

STOP LISTENING TO PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS TELL YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR…THE TRUTH BE TOLD, THAT IS THE ONLY REASON YOU KEEP GOING TO THEM!

The advice you are getting should ALL line up with the WORD of God! No matter how good it sounds, it MUST line up with the WORD of God and if it doesn’t, it must be REJECTED!

Wise people listen to GODLY counsel, even though it may never contain new cars, houses, money and a whole lot of stuff, often Godly counsel is often hard and requires us to CHANGE something about US!

Don’t let Python keep squeezing out of our LIFE those people that you need to move in the things of God! The enemy never wants you to receive truth, so if you are surrounded by people who will never challenge you, never tell you what you NEED to hear, never push you into the things of God, you MIGHT be surrounded by Python…..all these negative people are sucking the breath out of you!

Another group of dangerous people Python will let you hang around with are those that you go to for advice adn they tell you what you want to hear and the turn around and talk about how stupid you really are. (You know any of those kind of people? Maybe its you..OUCH!)

The same story can be found in 1 Kings 22 and I don’t want you to end up like Ahab…..DEAD because of selective hearing! If anything be like Jehoshaphat, even though he went into battler with Ahab, he only got wounded and got out of there!

DON’T LET PYTHON squeeze out those people that God has called into your life for you to listen to GOD ADVICE and not GOOD ADVICE!!

YOU NEED HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS….NOT ONES THAT COULD COST YOU IN THE LONG RUN…..Which group are you in:

1. Forbidden Relationships - When loving you is wrong, but I don’t want to be right.

2. Fantasy Relationships – When loving you is wrong, but I don’t know that it is wrong, because I don’t know if we are in a realtionship or not.

3. Fruitless Relationships – When loving you is wrong but I am convinced that it is right.

4. Faulty Relationships- When the way I am loving you is wrong, but I want to love right.

5. Fabulous Relationships – When loving you is right and God is pleased with how I am loving you!

THESE ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOOK UP TYPE OF RELATIONSHIPS, SOME OF US HAVE SOME OF THESE TYPE OF FRIENDSHIPS

Is the Python squeezing you? Part IV

Attacking my most important weapon
Acts 16:16

In Acts 16, I was reading it over and over and I saw something real interesting!

Look at when Python came …When they were on their way to PRAYER.

PYTHON COMES TO STOP OUR PRAYING

Have you ever had those moments when you just felt the need to go and talk to God? Something was just pulling you to go to a quite place and talk to the Master. Then you got distracted by a television show, an all of a sudden telephone call, an unannounced guest at the door, something just pulled you away from doing what you had the NEED to do! PYTHON is hindering you!

It is not an accident. The enemy knows that our GREATEST weapon is prayer. When we pray, the very foundations of HELL begin to shake!

- The Holy Ghost is outpoured when we pray
- Your life can change when you pray
- The lives of others can be transformed when you pray
- You manifest things when you pray
- Demons tremble when you pray
- Your mind is elevated when you pray
- Bodies are healed when you pray
- You can cast out demons when you pray
- You get direction from God when you pray
- You become a DANGEROUS force when you pray

Python is not afraid of how long we shout, how well you sing, how much we speak in tongues…..He is afraid when we pray!

Prayer along with your praise ushers in the PRESENCE & POWER of God. The PRESENCE & POWER of God should be our ULTIMATE goal.

PYTHON IS TRYING TO KEEP US FROM PRAYING, SO WE DON’T ACCESS THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF GOD!

Does your prayer life usher in God’s presence when you are at home? At school? At work? Wherever you go, you should be moving in the presence of God!

Look at 1 Chronicles 13: 9 – 14King David decided to bring God’s presence home by moving the Ark of the Covenant. During this journey of carrying the Ark of the Covenant on a cart, the oxen stumbled and the Ark began to fall. So a man named Uzza reached out to catch the Ark and in the process of touching the Ark, Uzza died!Uzza mishandled the presence of God and God got angry and killed him. In this death of Uzza, David became upset and afraid with and of God. David felt as if God disappointed him and he said how can I go home with this Ark?So David made a decision not to take the presence of the Lord home with him. I am going to drop this Ark of somewhere else, because this presence thing is dangerous! So David takes the Ark of the Covenant to Obededom’s house and left it there.

David was in essence saying I am going to cut God off from my home, cut Him out of my personal life, and I am even going to cut Him off from my people. I am going to leave God’s presence here and I am going home.

This sounds like some of us today. We are willing to leave God alone and with other people because He didn’t do it like we thought He should. We leave Him because we think that He is to mean and harsh. We leave Him because we just can’t understand Him and or His ways.

So we do like David and DROP Him off somewhere else.

So after dropping the Ark off at Obededom’s house the Bible says that Ark stayed in Obededom’s house for three months and blessed the house and all that he had.

Now what is interesting to me is that the Ark stayed for three months, which means that Obededom and the family had to rearrange some things in their lives to cater to the presence of God. You can’t live any kind of way with the presence in your house everyday all day! We all need to allow God to rearrange our lifestyles so He to can live in our homes for as long as He desires!

Another thing that was interesting was THAT THE WHOLE HOUSE and ALL THAT HE HAD was blessed! Do you know that if we walk in the presence of the Lord, EVERYONE we are connected to, and everything and everyone that is connected to us WILL BE BLESSED!

Let me give you some advice on what David did wrong that led to all of this….Look at 1 Chronicles 13:7. You will see that they carried the ark of God in a new cart!

THERE LAYS THE PROBLEM! You see the Presence of God was NEVER to be driven it was to be CARRIED! (Exodus 25:14)

We need to be careful with trying to transport God a new way! God wants us to CARRY Him not drive Him around!

Your intentions may be good
Your desires for the things of God may be good

But are you seeking God for HIS WAY of doing things or are you relying on what you know and what your understanding is?

My brothers and sisters, it is time for us to get Python off of us so we can PRAY only to release His PRESENCE and POWER in and on our lives, so that not only will we be blessed but everything connected to us will be blessed also.

PRAY…DON’T LET YOURSELF BECOME DISTRACTED! IT IS YOUR KEY TO ACCESS THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF GOD!

Is the Python squeezing you? Part III

Trying to take your praise
Acts 16:16

Well we come to Part III of this series “Is the Python squeezing you”

I must tell you that I am getting real full writing these note, God is SO AMAZING to me. He is going to give us our breath back in JESUS name and then we will be able to breathe on people the same breath that is in us! I AM EXPECTING!!

Python is after our praise …..Python waits for us to get to church and when Praise & Worship begins, he tries to wrap himself around us. He tries to make us believe that we are so unworthy to participate in this part of the service. He begins to constrict around us, and in doing that Python keeps our mouths closed, therefore never experiencing the DELIVERING power of God.

2 Kings 3 there is an account of two Kings who join forces to fight the King of Moab (enemy), but found themselves in some trouble even before the fight begun.

1st King was Jehoram – King of Israel. Was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. Even though he did not worship idols like his parents, he still had much sin upon him.

2nd King was Jehosophat – King of Judah. Good man, but probably didn’t seek the Lord before joining forces with Jehoram. (You need to be very careful to consult God in ALL of your connections!!)

So they set of towards Moab only to find out after seven days that they have run out of water. Meaning that them and their animals would not have enough to drink which could lead to thirst which could lead to dehydration which could lead to death!

They don’t have enough water for their journey, realized their predicament and came to the conclusion that the Lord got them out there to place them in the hand of Moab, but Jehosophat says is there not a prophet n the land? In other words he was asking IS THER A WORD FROM THE LORD?

So further in the story they go to see the double portion of Elijah, the man who left his mother, father and everything he had to follow God…ELISHA.

Elisha watched the men as they walked into his room – Jehoram, the son of idol worshippers, and Jehosophat, the King of Judah. Jehoram says to Elisha we are in trouble. We are in the wilderness and can’t get out unless you tell us God’s plan and give us THE word from the Lord. (Some of us don’t need A Word from the Lord, we need THE Word from the Lord…..YES GOD!!!)

So in verse 13, Elisha becomes bold. He says to Jehoram, why should I listen to you? You are the son of idol worshippers, go and consult your people’s god. Run to your idols that you have put before God and pray to them now and see what they say! (We get like this sometimes. Only coming to God in trouble then leave Him again after He get’s us out)

Elisha turns his back on Jehoram to walk out, but as he was walking out he notices Jehosophat the King of Judah! Judah means may Jehovah be praised!

So Elisha says if it were not for the presence of PRAISE, I wouldn’t even look at you; I wouldn’t even listen to you. If it were not the presence of praise in this room, I would just walk out on you and leave you in this mess you got yourself in!

But because I respect praise go get me a minstrel (musician) and let me see what God will say. The Bible said that when the minstrel played, the power of God came on Elisha. (I will talk later about the power of music)

The reason I will give you God’s plan….
The reason the drought is going to end….
The reason the water will come to your dry place….

Is because PRAISE IS PRESENT!

Only thing that brought deliverance to the situation in this text was the presence of Praise!

So when you are:

In trouble ….PRAISE
Feeling lonely ….PRAISE
Confused….PRAISE
Feeling lost….PRAISE
Wanting to give up ….PRAISE
Needing a Word from God….PRAISE
Feeling unworthy….PRAISE
Seeing no point….PRAISE

Don’t let Python grip you so you cannot praise your way out.

BREAK THROUGH the grip with praise, even if you don’t feel like it; even if the time and the place is not convenient…..WITH PRAISE IN THE ROOM, YOUR REVELATION FROM GOD CAN OVERCOME YOUR SITUATION!

SO BE FREE FROM PYTHON! OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND PRAISE GOD!

REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE
REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU HAVE SAID
REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN

YOUR DELIVERANCE IS IN YOUR MOUTH…DON’T LET PYTHON SUFFOCATE YOUR PRAISE!!

NOT ONLY IS YOUR DELIVERANCE IN YOUR MOUTH, BUT EVERYONE ATTACHED TO YOU, THERE DELIVERANCE IS IN YOUR MOUTH ALSO! Acts 16:26 – When Paul and Silas prayed and praised in their cell when God showed up, the Bible says everyone that was in that prison was free too!

Your parents’ freedom is in your mouth
Your siblings’ freedom is in your mouth
Your colleagues’ freedom is in your mouth
Your friends’ freedom is in your mouth
Your families’ freedom is in your mouth

EVERYONE’S CHAINS WILL BE LOOSED BY YOUR PRAISE!! HALLELUJAH!!!

GOD WANTS YOU AND THEM TO BE FREE IN JESUS NAME!

 

Is the Python squeezing you? – Part II

Choking out your breath
Acts 16:16

Here is Part II of the series “Is Python squeezing you” with the subtitle “Choking out your breath”.

Just like the python that kills by choking the breath from its prey, the spirit of Python will attempt to wrap itself around you and constrict your spiritual breath from you or try to destroy your intimate relationship with God.

God breathed four times in the Bible:

1) Gen 2:7 – Breath of life (Your life IS God)

2) 2 Timothy 3:16 – 17 – Breathed into His Word that it may fully equip His children to do the works of Christ. (I have to write this Scripture as it is in the Message)

2 Timothy 3: 16 Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another – showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for usWE CAN SEE IF PYTHON CAN GET US FROM THE WORD WE EXPERIENCE A WHOLE LEVEL OF CHAOS!

3) John 20: 21 – 22 – Jesus breathed on the disciples and told them to RECEIVE the Holy Ghost (verse 23 is interesting, it says if you forgive someone’s sins, they’re gone for good, If you don’t forgive sins, what are you going to do with them…..ANOTHER SERIES)

4) Ezekiel 37: 4 – 10 - God will cause breath to enter into you and you SHALL live

IN JESUS NAME RECEIVE HIS BREATH FOR YOUR LIFE!!

The Python is after your breath (your life). What is also interesting is pythons don’t break bones of their victims!

Bones represent STRUCTURE…..The devil is not afraid of your structure! He just doesn’t want you to be a structure with breath, no anointing, no Spirit!

Hell is afraid of the wind, the air, the breath of the Holy Ghost!

- Python doesn’t care if you go to church every week as long as you keep living a life that is a contradiction where no one will ever pay attention to you

- Python doesn’t care if you get in that relationship as long as you don’t recognize you are out of your season and timing…because if he can get you to operate without breath, whoever you hook up will either get the breath sucked out of them or they already have it sucked out that is why you are together (WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

- Python doesn’t care if you sing as long as there is no breath or anointing in your worship song

- Python doesn’t care if you pray as long as there is no breath or anointing when you pray

Python wants to tie you up, bind you up and choke the anointing out of you!

Choke praise and worship out of your life
Choke the gifts of the Holy Ghost out of your life
Choke purpose and destiny out of your life
Choke all of that potential out of your life
Choke out that potential of your friends and loved ones
Choke out the relationships you are suppose to be in by placing you in ones that are designed to make you weak, unfocused, will eventually take you backwards, or take you out

Don’t allow Python to choke out what God has placed in you and on you!!

Seek God in EVERYTHING that you do! Ask God to make you the person you need to be so when the snake comes you can fight him!

YOU DO KNOW THAT WHEN YOU GET ON FIRE FOR GOD, THE SNAKES STILL HIT THE HARDEST (Acts 28…I might touch on this later)

Is the Python squeezing you? – Part I

THIS IS ONLY FOR THOSE OF US WHO DESIRE GOD!! I have received three or four messages asking me where my notes where, because they said it really helped them out. So with that said, I have come to the conclusion, who am I to stop writing what helps people even when I thought I was wasting my time.

So my next series of notes which will be at least seven parts will be entitled “Is the Python squeezing you?”

Tell me if it helps you or not and pass it on to others. Oh yeah these are not short notes, so get over it….it is only for those who are mature and those who want to CHANGE!)

Thanks in advance…Here we go

Is the Python squeezing you? (Part I)
Acts 16:16Are you fighting internal battles that seem to be getting the best of you?

Your prayer life is not what it used to be?
Can’t seem to find God anymore?

You feel like something has crept in and slowly but surely stole your zeal for praising and worshipping God, something is smothering you and you don’t even want to live this “saved” life any longer? You have said in your mind “I JUST DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS ANYMORE!” (you got to say it in your mind because people don’t give you the opportunity to say it out loud….)I need for you to know that the war you are fighting in is taking place in the unseen world. Where even your close family and friends don’t understand what is happening to you.

- Desires that were once there seem out of reach
- Dreams have dried up
- Something has choked out everything you were once excited about

This war in the unseen world is about to be revealed to you & GOD’S WORD will help you WIN your war ONLY if you want to win!

In the book of Acts 16:16 there is a mention of a spirit of divination which in the Greek means Appollo Pythius where we get PYTHON!

It was amazing to me that out of all the other references of demon possession and deliverance in the Book of Acts, this is the only place where a spirit is named! – PYTHON!

Now in verse 16 we see this women, who brought her masters much money by fortunetelling, started to follow the man of God (Paul). And the Bible records that Paul got greatly annoyed (fed up) and commanded the spirit to come out of the women. (Are you fed up with making the enemy wealthy? Are you annoyed by what you see going on around you?)

In verses 19 – 24 Paul and Silas get beat and imprisoned for giving this woman her life back and messing with the wealth of the enemy!! (Now Silas didn’t say a word, he was just with Paul…just because he was with him, he got it too!…..Take a moment and think about that.)

Then in verse 25 it says that at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Midnight is always a sign of a prophetic message to the church. Midnight represents the coming of the Lord!

The kind of spirit that will come against the people of God in these last days will be a spirit of divination “Python”

Many scriptures tell us the serpent (snake) represents demons. (just like there are different kinds of snakes, there are different kinds of demons with many methods of destruction)

Deadly serpents have the capacity to kill & they do it in various ways:

1) Water moccasin/cottonmouth – quietly approach its victim in the water without warning (Have you ever found yourself in the Spirit of God (water) only to be tried by the attack of the enemy?)

2) Rattlesnakes – really don’t want to hurt you but because you don’t run from the signal it is giving, you get bit. (Have you ever not ran from the enemy only to get bit?)

3) King Cobra – injects enough venom to kill an elephant or 20 people (Have you ever been bit only to watch those around you fall too? Your getting bit will kill other people)

4) Python – the most unique is this serpent. The python goes up to high places and waits for its prey to come, then suddenly drops on its victim (spiritual wickedness in high places).

Most snakes kill by striking and injecting poison but the Python has a subtle way of defeating its enemy:

- It coils itself around the victim and squeezes slowly suffocating the prey

- Very time the victim exhales, the Python tightens its grip, making it difficult for the victim to breath.

Spirit of Python gradually suffocates by slowly choking the breath out of us !

If this is you or someone you know let me know so I can continue to PART II

I WANT TO SEE

Shout for your sight!!! 

 I pray that this helps someone get there sight back 

 

Mark 10:46 – 52 (NIV) ⁴⁶ And so they reached Jericho. Later, as Jesus and his disciples left town, a great crowd was following. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting beside the road as Jesus was going by. ⁴⁷ When Bartimaeus heard that Jesus from Nazareth was nearby, he began to shout out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”⁴⁸ “Be quiet!” some of the people yelled at him. But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”⁴⁹ When Jesus heard him, he stopped and said, “Tell him to come here.” So they called the blind man. “Cheer up,” they said. “Come on, he’s calling you!” ⁵⁰ Bartimaeus threw aside his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.⁵¹ “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked. “Teacher,” the blind man said, “I want to see!”⁵² And Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has healed you.” And instantly the blind man could see! Then he followed Jesus down the road.  

Here you have blind Bartimaeus sitting beside the road, and he hears that JESUS is nearby. So this day was unlike any other day for him. Instead of begging for money, blind Bartimaeus wanted something better than that. Bartimaeus wanted to SEE!

 

I want to point out just a few things that I noticed in this:

 1) Even though Bartimaeus couldn’t see, he HEARD that Jesus was nearby. (v. 46 -47) 

Someone needs to know, that even though it may seem that you can’t see where it is you are suppose to be going, don’t give up now. As long as you can hear about JESUS according to this text, your hearing will produce something on the inside that will get JESUS’ attention to meet your need. Your sight is in your mouth!

 2) He cried out to Jesus, and even when people told him to be quite, he got louder. (v. 48) 

Don’t let anyone stop you from calling on the name of Jesus! Produce a sound that will get Jesus to stop and ask you what you need. Don’t let anyone or anything keep you from getting to Jesus.

Note– If the enemy had any sense, he should have messed with your mouth and not your eyes. Because your mouth has the ability to produce your sight! Life and death are in the power of the tongue, God inhabits the praises of His people……as long as I can open my mouth, I can change my situation! Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean you can’t speak it! (hallelujah)

One more thing that I noticed in this part is that Bartimaeus spent his life begging for money and nobody bothered him, but soon as he wanted change, people tried to get him to be quit.

 IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE, DON’T STOP SCREAMING UNTIL YOU GET IT!! SCREAM LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!  3) God will use the people who are trying to keep you from Him, to bring you to Him! – WOW (v. 49) 

There are things that we all will go through that are not designed to push us away from God, but to push us to God, and He will even use our haters to get us there.

 4) When Jesus calls your name, you have got to get rid of the OLD stuff! (v. 50)  What is it that you need to take off now that Jesus has called your name? 5) Its only when we have our sight back that we can follow Jesus (v. 52) 

What is amazing to me as I sit here and write this, is that people who had there vision, people who had there eyes tried to get one who didn’t have vision or sight to be quite!

How you going to make me be quite and all I want is to see JESUS just like you see Him?

My brothers, My sisters, My friends and even my enemies ……

 DON’T LET ANYBODY STOP YOU FROM SEEING JESUS!  LOOK FOR JESUS, HE IS NEARBY! 

-Selah-

WHO YOU LISTENING TO AND WHY?

 

If the Word of God says in John 10:4 – 5 that God’s people know His voice and a stranger they will not follow, matter a fact it says that not only will they not follow him they will flee from him, then why are some of our brothers and sisters listening and following the stranger (the enemy)?

 

In 2 Chronicles 18:1- 7 (NIV) you read:

 Now Jehoshaphat enjoyed great riches and high esteem, and he arranged for his son to marry the daughter of King Ahab of Israel. ² A few years later, he went to Samaria to visit Ahab, who prepared a great banquet for him and his officials. They butchered great numbers of sheep and oxen for the feast. Then Ahab enticed Jehoshaphat to join forces with him to attack Ramoth-gilead. ³ “Will you join me in fighting against Ramoth-gilead?” Ahab asked. And Jehoshaphat replied, “Why, of course! You and I are brothers, and my troops are yours to command. We will certainly join you in battle.” ⁴ Then Jehoshaphat added, “But first let’s find out what the LORD says.”⁵ So King Ahab summoned his prophets, four hundred of them, and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead or not?” They all replied, “Go ahead, for God will give you a great victory!”⁶ But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of the LORD around, too? I would like to ask him the same question.”⁷ King Ahab replied, “There is still one prophet of the LORD, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but bad news for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “You shouldn’t talk like that,” Jehoshaphat said. “Let’s hear what he has to say.”

As I was reading this, the following came to mind:

  1. How can you arrange your son (Jehoram) who worships the true and living God to marry someone (Athaliah – whose mother was Jezebel) who worships Baal? 

·                           We in the Body of Christ need to assist our brothers and sisters to stop marrying (joining themselves to) things and or people that do not worship God!

How many of us are guilty in letting our friends join things that are not of God? (Whether that party, that group of people, that relationship)

Not saying you have the power to stop them, but at least SPEAK up about it! Their lives are worth it!

 2. Why am I putting my TRUE friends and family in danger to help someone fight a battle that I have not asked God whether or not I should? 

Jehoshaphat compromised those that were dear to him because he didn’t ask God for instruction FIRST.

Ahab requested that Jehoshaphat help out in a war. It was a war that almost cost him his life. The Bible tells us Jehoshaphat’s kingdom had been peaceful up to this point (2 Chronicles 17:10). Judah was blessed and prospered abundantly, and nobody dared come against them. But after Jehoshaphat developed a friendship with Ahab, he found himself involved in a war that God had no part of.Be careful that you don’t connect to someone who just wants you to assist them in their fight or their sin! When Jehoshaphat joined Ahab’s war, he was only taking his friend along the path of destruction.

 3. Why is it that people only want to hear from people who are telling them what they want to hear?

Ahab had 400 “prophets” around him – he had surrounded himself into a false sense of security, believing that he had the Word of the Lord and the approval of wise counselors.

He asked them should we go to war and they all said YES!

 You are in a dangerous place when you surround yourself with people who are always telling you YES! 

Now what blows my mind is even after they all said yes…..Jehoshaphat asked is there a prophet from the LORD! And Ahab said yes there is one but I HATE him because he never prophesies anything but bad news for me! (he never prophesies good concerning me)

You see that out of all the prophets Micaiah was the ONLY prophet who had to be gotten! The YES prophets Ahab kept close but the one who gave him the TRUTH he kept away from him!

We need to check out who we listen to. Surround yourself around people who will tell you what God has said and is saying. Stop looking for people who will ALWAYS agree with you.

Stop looking for the “YES” prophets. Find someone who will tell you “NO”

No you don’t need to be in that relationship, No you don’t need to go there, No you don’t need to give up now…….

Start surrounding yourself with people who will give you a message that will make you uncomfortable and demand a decision to LIVE in righteousness, holiness and purity! People who will challenge your sin not encourage it!

 The advice you are getting should ALL line up with the WORD of God! No matter how good it sounds, it MUST line up with the WORD of God and if it doesn’t, it must be REJECTED! Wise people listen to GODLY counsel, even though it may never contain new cars, houses, money and a whole lot of stuff, often Godly counsel is often hard and requires us to CHANGE something about US! 

Who you listening to and why?

Are you guilty?

1 Corinthians 5:1 – 13

I had a conversation with a few people who read the blog on yesterday entitled “Facebook…what is going on with us?” , it excited me that other people are reading the blogs, because I use to think why doesn’t anyone respond? The people told me today that how can they respond to something that doesn’t need a response. (I don’t know if that is good or bad)

Anyway, I had the discussion today and I came to the conclusion through my conversation that we as a Body of Believers might be guilty of allowing things to take place in the Body of Christ. You know the Scripture 1 Corinthians 5:1 – 13? (If you don’t go grab your Sword and check it out)

Now that you have read it, how did it make you feel? Well it kind of tripped me out!

I see that Paul was talking to the Corinthians and was talking to them about sin among the believers, that apparently they were just letting go.  What was interesting to me is that Paul wasn’t even there in Corinth according to verse 1. The information came to him. We need to understand that unaddressed sin will find it’s way to other people and places that have nothing to do with it. (I don’t want to touch that)

I want us to see that verses 11 – 13, are verses that we really need to get serious about. We can’t keep allowing our brothers and sisters who profess Jesus as Lord and Savior to keep on living as though He doesn’t exist. We are told to address those who:

•  Are fornicators – Having unlawful sexual intercourse. 
•  Covetous – Wanting more, greedy. (Not content with what they have, but always wanting more)
•  Idolater – Worshipping other things or people that is not God. (This includes self - spend more time on you, want other people to worship you)
•  Railer – Verbally abusive person
•  Drunkard – One who get’s drunk or intoxicated
•  Extortioner – Swindler (to obtain by fraud or deceit) – The brother or sister who takes from someone whether money or sex by making someone believe you are someone that you are not! (You are a fraud)

 Paul tells us not to even eat with people like that, who are professing to be a part of the Body of Christ!

Do you know it becomes our  job to hold each other accountable for our actions, even if it means we have to cut some people off. Could it be, that because we don’t address our brothers and sisters of the things that they are involved in, that they stay in it as though nothing is wrong?

It is time for us to bring our sisters and brothers back into focus of the things that God has called them to do and the life He has called for them to live!

Galatians 6:1 says: “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. “

The word “restore” means to repair. When someone is caught in a sin – the more mature Christians should try to repair the brother or sister – talk with them, share lovingly with them, encourage them to seek help and seek God. That is always our first course.

We are called to restore from the sin, not celebrate the sin!

So if you know someone who  is “caught up” in sin, then restore them! But if you have a brother or sister who is “embracing” sin, then we have got to let them go! It is in our loosing them, that God can now get their attention. 

It’s when the are alone and with God, that they will come into the knowledge that they NEED Him! 

P.S. Tell me what you think

Facebook……What is really going on with us?

Today I signed on to facebook  to look at some of my “friend’s” Facebook pages. Then I looked at some of the events and invitations that I had received from numerous people, and then I literally started to weep. I am trying to figure out what is going on with the men and women of God who profess they are Christians, profess they love the Lord Jesus Christ, and profess they want to see the Kingdom of God advanced by the salvation of their friends and loved ones.

I can’t believe the things we say and the things we allow to be said and left on our pages.  We have “friends” leaving videos on our “fun wall” of all type of nonsense, ranging from nudity to homosexual acts. To me there is absolutely nothing fun about receiving these type of things from people who say that they are our ”friends”. There is something wrong when our “friends” can’t respect us. That is exactly what it is when our “friends” send us trash that is not pleasing to God. Why is it that our “friends” send us things that are not alright in the sight of God IF they know where I stand in God? (maybe that is it….they DON’T know)

 I am also in awe at the events that we as Christians have the nerve to say to the world that we are attending as if God is going to be glorified at that party or social gathering. I just can’t believe that we call ourselves representing God and then on the flipside allowing ourselves to conform to the things of this world. We can’t afford to go every place, because the truth of the matter is, whether you remember it or not, someone already knows you profess Jesus and if you show up your witness could be shot!

I really believe it is time for us to decide who we are representing. This life is BIGGER than us. There are people who need for us to LIVE the life so they can see that changing sides is worth it. Time out for all this TALKING, we need to see the WORD in flesh. It’s time for us to start cutting some “Christian” friends off, who are talking one way but living another. the Word says in 1 Corinthians 5: 9 – 13 (NIV) something like this:

9 When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. 10 But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. 11 What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don’t even eat with such people.12 It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your job to judge those inside the church who are sinning in these ways. 13 God will judge those on the outside; but as the Scriptures say, “You must remove the evil person from among you.”

We need to represent! It’s time out for us to be doing what everyone else is doing, saying what everyone else is saying, and struggling with what everyone else is struggling with.

WE ARE VICTORIOUS……Jesus only conquered this flesh because He was the WORD! So the more we become the WORD the more we can destroy the works of this flesh.

REMEMBER this brothers and sisters, we have to look different, sound different and act different. God’s name is on the line. We are going to be held accountable for how well or not so well we carry His name.

 So get your FACE in His BOOK! and watch your life transform FOREVER!!!!

PLEASE COMMENT…I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU.