I am removing peace from the earth. 12-23-25

 

See that I am removing peace from the earth. 12-23-25
What is the removing? It is when I the Lord no longer restrain the hearts of men to do evil.

When I say the heart of a king is in my hand to direct him, do you understand that I empower him to carry out the desires of his will?

When his heart is inclined and directed toward my will to seek that and do so, I direct him toward what is good and true and right. When he allows himself to be persuaded by them whom I have not sent nor empowered, nor sought My counsel, then his course is set toward doing evil.

My people are deceived by their hopes and desires, both their desire for justice from man and their own desires within their hearts.  This is vexation in the heart and among my people are the multitudes deceived into serving two masters:
one master is this world and the material tangible things of it, the other master Christ.
One will always have preeminence according to the will of the children of men.

 Is that not what the world sees and wonders?
My children are unrecognizable, and they are lights dimmed by misplaced desires for material comforts and pleasure.
 Therefore their ears are closed to the voices of the prophets among them and being led of My Spirit.

Christ endured rivers of suffering yet he recognized the joy that was waiting on the other side.
The farmer sows his fields with seed for the time of harvest and not for the moments gratification.
I take pleasure in those that seek Me early, they are few.

Do you understand the broad way is the easy way?
It is the way that gives acceptance to so many that listen to the voices around them.
The Broadway has a left side and a right side that do not agree yet they unknowingly walk together in the way.
The Broadway also has a middle, the multitudes of undecided, lukewarm, confused, distracted, careless and carefree. 
The false leaders of Christianity know this and their song is a lullaby that puts them to sleep and dulls their hearing. It is false assurance.

There are those that I have called to awaken and sound a trumpet call to awaken them that sleep.
The sleeping dead do not want to hear so they are gathered into the barns and houses of those who deceive them.

What is MY Word to them?
 It is a fire that burns away lies and the veils of religion. It is holy fire yet it burns on the inside of the heart. They who reject the discomfort of this fire are soon given over to deceptions and delusions. They reject My Words while denying that they do so.

Those that receive My Words with meekness and repent suffer the fire of purifications as they repent and grow, the fire being sealed and unseen within their hearts.
This is My grace to them.

Divine Algos Witness Forgiveness of Sin.

 

You may be amazed as I am when I take time to laser-point words and phrases in GOD'S WORD. If this bores you, at least read the last paragraph and be BLESSED.

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These "Divine algorithms" are not for everyone, but everyone should read the text in the scriptures for themselves. Others have found various mathematical patterns repeating in ways no man could produce.
-a FORMER ATHEIST named Ivan Panin spent decades researching what he found in the mathematical features in the scripture. I have a copy of his translation from Greek to English with his notes, and it is amazing, you can find it online.
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So in my elder years, although I do not research in the Greek and Hebrew, what I suspect is that the numeric tags, threads, patterns, have multiple layers are transcending the original Greek, Hebrew, and even into English translations.
I also speculate because God is infinite, it is likely also reapable in other language translations.
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-The numeric patterns and features emerge from the text and words so consistently, that only a deceived sceptic would deny them.
Here then are some examples :
1. number of times a word or phrase is used.
2. Location of a word or phrase. Chapter-verse.
3. the text patterns themselves that establish the symbolic connection to the symbolic meaning of the numeric count.
4. The outright Biblical definition of a number. ex. "for it is the number of a man..."
5. The number of letters in a word often fit. "Grace": 5 letters. "man": body, soul, spirit.
6. The number of letters in a phrase:
ex: Deuteronomy 6:4
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.
TEN words to Israel under and from the LAW the Old Testament.
SEVEN WORDS (completion): The LORD our God is one Lord.

7. "Equi-distant letter skip sequence" requires computer search of individual letters and their complex algorithms as a code. (you can research that one, "ELS" for short, it is one I do not delve into).
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8. The interwoven numerics of the numbers themselves.
-this is my specialty. A word or phrase and its' count.
The word or phrase from scripture speaking for itself and the the number of times and/or places it is found.
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This example is with the number "fifty":
The "fiftieth year" was a Year of Jubilee. All debts (under the law) were to be forgiven.
"fifty" = has 5 letters, and five is the symbolic number for grace. "grace" has 5 letters.
Pentecost in Acts 2 came fifty days after Passover.
Pentecost has 9 letters, that number also symbolized the nine Spirit-given gifts of 1Cor 12.

"forgiven": =8 letters, new beginning.
🎯LOOK!:
forgive: occurs 56 times in 48 verses in the KJV.
(there is an 11 & 12. 56 times is 7x8.
-forgive NEW TESTAMENT ONLY!:
occurs 28 times in 21 verses.
(2x8. 2+8. 4x7.) .. (2+1) (2x1) (3x7).
28+21=49, COMPLETION. (Complete in Christ!). 49 has its' own set of algorithms yet it completes another algo in regard to God's forgiveness.
Then:
-!!! forgave occurs 9 times in 7 verses in the KJV!!!
-forgiveness: occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the KJV.
-forgiven: occurs 42 times in 38 verses in the KJV.
-forgiving: occurs 4 times in 4 verses in the KJV.
-forgiven in NEW TESTAMENT: occurs 24 times in 20 verses.
The numeric decode for the 24 times "forgiven" is applied: 2+4=6, man forgiven. 4x6: 4 gospels witness forgiveness for the sins of man.
20 verses forgiven is found in: 2x10: Forgiven for sin under Old Covenant Law, forgiven under the New Covenant law of Christ, law of liberty, (ten symbolic of law).

A subset of these are the algos for a numbers count of a word and/ or another algo when the same number is divided then multiplied as with a word used 56 times:
a 5+6 or 56 which is 7x8.

SUMMARY. the above serve God's people for us to believe and trust the scriptures, because the writings of men and their ideas cannot come remotely close to the infinite wisdom of God in revealing Himself through His Word.

So we not only have the clear testimony of the Word of God to read and study, we have the prophetic word, the Spirit-given revelation of the Word of God, the testimony of the witnesses in the Word of God, we also have an infinite mathematical witness of MULTIPLE "Divine algorithms" as underscoring the Divine authorship of the text itself.

The most astonishing and beautiful search above was this one, and it resonates deeply.
- forgave 👈 occurs 9 times in 7 verses in the KJV!!!
And 8 of those are found in the New Testament.
Here are the numbers and forgave is the operating precept in regard to sin.:
9 = FINALITY of judgement.
7= completion. "it is finished" Christ died for our sin. "forgave" has 7 letters.
8= New beginning, newness of life. In Christ we have forgiveness of sin, and a new beginning.
The NEW Testament is the Will of Jesus Christ.
We have in Him is a new hope, new beginning, a new creation..

From the above, for extra measure, 9+7+8 = 24, which is 2+4=6.
6+ the number of man, therefore we have the finality judgment taken upon the man Christ Jesus, and a new beginning for them that believe and trust in God through His son, Jesus Christ.

God Knows Our Thoughts 11-17-25 Prophetic

 

There have been nights where the Lord has visited to speak with me and I get up to listen and write what He says.

Sometimes it is to pray for someone or for a cause.

Monday early morning He gave a dream that woke me up to write it and that He would speak.

I have come to recognize His Presence when this happens.

When these first began years ago, it scared me that He was talking to me, not by what He said, but the fact that I knew He was saying things to me that pertained to faith, relationships, Jesus, and wisdom that was certainly nothing I could come up with.

As years passed it happened more and more and was always confirmed by Scripture being in harmony with it. I am not super spiritual, Paul said "I WOULD THAT YOU ALL PROPHESY".

This is what The Father said 11.17-2025

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6am. The Lord speaking this:

" The Mind of the flesh produces carnality of the flesh,

the desires of the flesh, and the works of the flesh.

This is the mind of the beast.

The beast is the carnal nature of a man.

It is the Adamic man within, (scripture ref.: “the old man”.)

The old man is fallen, and of the earth.

The new man is from above, from heaven.

(I understood then, that this is how Jesus could say to them, “I am from above, you are from beneath”.

(( Jesus Christ having the Mind and Will of God truly was with the Father. -and those opposing Him were of the mind of the beast. -rm )

"The spiritual man overcomes the mind of the beast with the Mind and Will of My Spirit.

My Spirit reveals My will to you individually.

The matters of life are not always found in My Word, in the scriptures.

The scriptures reveal My Will, My Spirit reveals My will to each one individually.

Did Jesus know where to go and who to speak to because He read a scripture?

As it was with him so it must be with you and be with all that desire My Will.

Thus every situation and choice has opportunity to be an exercise in yielding and obedience to My Will.

When you pray “thy will be done on earth as in heaven” the response you make is to manifest My Will in your life and it is recorded in heaven as part of your testimony.

The carnal mind of the flesh will always resist submitting to My Will.

In this there are many, many words spoken in haste and in these Adam the fallen man speaks through the mind of the flesh.

I tell you these things not to hurt or chastise you but I tell you as a loving Father that counsels His children.

The meditations of all your thought life are open to me.

Your world and the voices of satan are at war with your soul and reach out to take hold of you.

If you do not guard your mind, they will invade your emotional mind with many fears.

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Arguing my Word does not produce spiritual revelation, it produces the works of the flesh.

Revelation comes from Me, truth comes from Me. Understanding is by Me.

Do you see so many argue from what they are taught by man and few know My Words by revelation that I alone can give by revealing My Will that they may understand?

- By this many rejected My Son, and My people do the same to this day.

...............Who is blind?

Can a blind man read My Word with eyes that cannot see?

If My knowledge, and Wisdom and My Spirit come to a man who can receive them, it comes to even a blind man by My Spirit.

Can a blind man be saved when he cannot read the scriptures?

How then does a blind man receive Christ and be saved?

Can a blind man be in a room full of books and be profited by them?

Yet I tell you there are many that think they see and know by the reading of many books.

Did you read where My Christ told them there are many that see but are blind and that many who are blind would see?

Did he rebuke the blind as being leaders of the blind?

-yet so many and even the majority today follow the blind.

Those that were blind and believed were given sight.

Those that followed the blind remained in darkness.

Out of the multitudes, few were saved.

The blind who were given sight followed the true Light of Christ.

They heard and received My Spirit that their leaders rejected and knew Me not.

Many speak of Me but do not know me.

Many speak by their spiritual fathers, knowledge and vanity.

This grieves Me exceedingly, but by the ways of man and the mind of the flesh, they separate My people.

They love to count the numbers of followers and are deceived thinking there is affirmation from man.

Let it not be so with you.

John 9:39

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

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The children of Israel that followed the cloud by day and fire by night was an example for that to come, the cloud of water symbolized My Words and the fire of My Spirit both to lead and guide.

They loved to see My Works and the miracles but did not understand what it meant then and now.

The people that sought to see Jesus doing a miracle were no different in not understanding the significance of what He did spoke more than the miracle itself.

The miracles showed how I was with Him that He was of Me.

Yet every miracle was in itself a parable of something greater.

The loaves satisfied the flesh, the bread of His flesh satisfies the soul.

The water that came from the rock that Moses struck satisfied man and beast,

but the Living waters that came after Christ was struck satisfy the soul.

I asked the Lord, “What are Living Waters?”

He answered,

“the Living Waters are those Words which come to you from My Spirit, they are from heaven and they were shown to you in a vision. They flow through My written Word and they come to you in the depth of your spirit as I speak them. “

I asked “Why do they reject You speaking?”

He answered:

“When a man or woman cannot hear My Words in his spirit, it is because satan steals them.

He does this through the natural mind, the intellect.

He does this through fear and “What if…”. (this is "to doubt", and not of faith -rm)

He does this through reasonings of the carnal mind.

He rejects My Spiritual Words because satan has blinded and convinced him they are unworthy of Me and they do not know My love.

To know My Love and to hear Me is to overcome satan and his officers.”

(OFICERS? I thought…)

(a word I would not have thought of in context of scriptural matters, so later, I looked for the definition:

Officer: Job title

An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization.

The term derives from Old French oficier "officer, official", from Medieval Latin officiarius "an officer," from Latin officium "a service, a duty" the late Latin from officiarius, meaning "official.")

"How can any overcome if they do not hear Me?

Why else would Christ say “he that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the chosen”.

(Jesus said this seven times in Revelation -rm.)

A man is not complete in Christ without knowing His gentle voice.

The stewardship of My Word is in the hands of those I have chosen. Those that love and abide in My Word are given more.

Those that abide in the words of man are given less and what they were given is given to others.

Empty vessels speak empty words." -end.

Jeremiah 29:19 because they have not hearkened to My words, says the Lord, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them.

Peace and grace to you and I pray that you hear Him.

A Spiritual Hearing Aid. 👂The PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE

 

Hearing Aids. 👂"The PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE":
The Word that God spoke to me in 1992 when I began to recognize and hear His Voice and we were being called to leave our church denomination.

-I was working in our former carpet cleaning business when it happened.
As Holiness Pentecostals for 12 years, I was an ordained minister in the UPC but times were troubled, and we were seeking to know God's Will and question our Father in heaven regarding church matters.
As I worked in an empty apartment, I began hearing strong words in my mind. At first I thought they were my own thoughts.

👂 But the Words I was hearing repeated and I realized they were not mine, nor were they being heard in my mind as words I would would say or think. And as I began to listen this is what I heard, I knew of a certainty they were not my words.

"THE PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE PAINT OF MANS' RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PAINTED OVER THE FACE OF GOD"

WHAT?!! ??? This was shocking. Where is this coming from?
Our Pentecostal church was strong on rules and tradition and for 12 years we never questioned them so we lived in them.

Some people found them oppressive, outsiders called us "LEGALISTS!"
But we lived with the "holiness standards" faithfully as we followed our church leaders.
🎯How could they be wrong?", and so we trusted.

But then that day came as I *heard* in my mind,
"THE PAINT ON JEZEBEL'S FACE WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE PAINT OF MANS' RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PAINTED OVER THE FACE OF GOD".

"ME?, guilty of hiding God's righteousness with our church tradition?"" THAT was scary.
I wrote the Word of the Lord down and returned to my work.

Then as I began working again,...
👂"TASTE NOT TOUCH NOT HANDLE NOT. NOTHING IS UNCLEAN OF ITSELF. TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE".

The VOICE I was hearing was AUTHORITATIVE.
Rather than dismissing the thoughts,
I wrote these words down also, but I was shaken.

The second paragraph I found out later was scripture, confirmed by two passages verbatim.

I wonder how many times God speaks to His children and they shake off The Voice by attributing His words to their own thoughts?

If you LISTEN, you will hear. (Unless you are in willful sin which separates.
Neither God nor me can make someone hear The Voice that comes to us through His Spirit into our mind and spirit.
HE SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN.

Listen for Him. He wants you to HEAR HIS VOICE.

The Lord led us out of that Denomination, we had put our trust in man, in our leaders, in our traditions. And God wanted us for Himself. So we went on to repent regarding the false ways of our church ways.

1Samuel 3... And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh,
for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord. Samuel heard. The prophets heard.
Then in Dec. 2022.

"As I speak to my people through my words, they learn of Me by the scriptures.

But as I speak individually to each one of you uniquely by my Spirit, it is because I have made each of you uniquely.

When I speak to you individually as your Father, it is because I know you and I know you better than you know you.

I know your past, present, and future in the now moment. I knew the choices you make before you made them, and their consequences, whether of My Will or not.

I made you each different and unique and I despise the religion that seeks to conform you to them instead of conforming you to Jesus.

I made your character and thought patterns and gave you the choice of which are good and which are to be rejected.

All that is in the world, the voices of media, religion, and opinions seek to drown out MY Word and My Voice.

I know them that oppose you and as I love you, I love them.

Your adversary is their adversary.

He seeks to devour you and them and he does it through words.

In order to live in the time remaining, the need to discern what voice you are hearing will save you and others from harm and destruction.

Satan is a wizard and his voices go throughout the world and fill the air and space.

All that is of this world is darkness and deception.

I am speaking to My children but many do not listen, instead they listen to other voices and by them they are deceived.

MY WORD will judge them that turn you away from what My Spirit says.

What I give you is life and Spirit, and My Spirit produces the fruits I desire in your life."

Don't Stick OUT YOUR TONGUE AT TONGUES

 

Someone asked in a challenge "WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE" they spoke in tongues!?  -as we read from Acts Chapter 2.

The question's purpose was meant to distract and cast doubt as we read from the Book of Acts.
Had we continued, ACTS 10 and 19 also bore witness to Acts 2 when those believers believed.
Nor did she think to ask about Mark 16:20 "in my name they shall speak with new tongues".

But I digress. In the days following, I gave that response to the subject of tongues consideration. WHY tongues in the Book of Acts as people received the gift of the Holy Spirit? What was the purpose? As I pondered, the Lord gave answers and I then knew she mis-understood.

As God gave His Spirit in a NEW WAY, it says in Acts 2:11 When the Jews from the various nations heard them speaking with tongues "the wonderful works of God".... "in their own languages", they were not hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. They heard of God's wonderful works, perhaps they spoke scriptures concerning tongues from the prophets, or God's prophetic promises, we do not know.

What we DO KNOW IS: ***PETER*** would preach the gospel and WHO JESUS IS immediately after this, And Peter explained what those Jews were hearing and seeing in the disciples of Jesus. -Acts 2:14-21 You can read the the short passage

So WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF TONGUES? -had the lady known the testimony of scripture without the poison of her church upbringing, she might have know that Peter "explained" and gave the reason in Acts 2:17-22. As the testimony in Acts continued:

1. tongues were a fulfillment of prophetic scripture for God's people that believe. Mark 16:20, Joel 2:28

2. It was a supernatural sign to the unconverted Jews that they had ALL been filled with the Holy Ghost.
3. It was SO THEY WOULD BELIEVE GOD confirming His Word.
4. IT WAS WHAT GOD HIMSELF CHOSE TO DO IN THEM.
5. The SAME HOLY GHOST would fill non-Jews later in ACTS 10 and Acts 19 with the SAME sign.

6. SO YOU SHOULD BELIEVE ALSO. Because there are false and fakes, we should not stumble in unbelief to the real. God is still filling people with the real Holy Ghost and the evidence of tongues.

Addendum: In Acts 2 and 10 there was no Corinthian church for people to read about. Corinth began in Acts 18, and Paul later wrote them in regard to the GIFTS (plural), the Corinthians spoke with tongues as also did the Ephesians in Acts 19. What is sad is how some people are compelled to disparage and reject what Jesus said they could have, what Peter explained, what the gentiles in Acts 10:47 received, what the Jews received in Acts 2, what the Ephesian experienced in Acts 19. What Paul said was something one would have to build up his faith, speak not to men but to God, and edify himself.

1God WHO JESUS AIN'T The ecclesiastical Scratch-off list

 

"add thou not to His words..."?
"but what about you He asked.
WHO do you say that I am?" MT 16:15

"YOU ARE......": .. The ecclesiastical Scratch-off list:

1. God the son!

2. GOD!!

3. GOD INCARNATE!

4. GOD MANIFEST IN FLESH!

5. THE SECOND TRINITY PERSON!

6. THE GOD-MAN!

7. JEHOVAH!

8. DEITY!

9. FULLY MAN AND FULLY GOD!

10. GOD ROBED IN FLESH!

11. VERY GOD AND VERY MAN!

12. GOD THE WORD!

13. ALMIGHTY GOD!

14. FATHER SON HOLY GHOST!

15. the HYPOSTATIC UNION!

16 MY GOD AND MY LORD!

17. MY LORD AND MY GOD!

18. YOU ARE GOD!

19. YOU ARE THE ETERNAL SON!

20. THE DIVINE SON!

And Peter answered said You are the CHRIST, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD!"  ... but Peter never said any of the above.

Part 12 In Jesus Christ only A New Nation of Israel

 

at 3am on 5-5-24, the Lord awoke me to say:

In Christ only the temple,
In Christ only, the Holy place.

In Christ the ark of the Covenant.
In Christ come forth the Living Waters.

Christ the heir of all that was promised Abraham, not the usurpers that people admire.
Did Christ Jesus ever endorse killing, war, and bloodshed to achieve property rights?
In Christ only is the New nation of Israel.  In Christ are the fruits of them that love Me.
Christ is the Heir that inherited the Kingdom of God.
His is the kingdom that the builders rejected. <and still do)

All others are of the world, all other shall pass away,
Only His kingdom, His nation, shall be without end.
Then why would you want to be part of another kingdom?
In Christ is your birth, He is your nativity.
In Christ is your citizenship.
In Christ you are enrolled as a citizen of heaven.
In Christ you are the chosen. Be faithful to Him as he was faithful to Me.”

-to brother rory

Angels of Light Pollute His Words

 Angels of light Messengers of Darkness 4-27-24

"Angel" means "messenger", they are in scripture to serve the Lord but the fallen angels of darkness serve their master for many purposes such as affliction, deception, and control. These are the words I heard from the Lord in the night watch.

The "angel of Light" comes through many and is found behind pulpits and microphones.
The spirit of antichrist performs unchecked by those I commanded to "prove all". 

My sheep rather than "prove all", they believe all and they trust all.
By this they are deceived.

What is a truth when it has one line which is not true?
What is a little leaven to the whole lump?

Words of leaven and words of truth are not to be mingled.
If one does not put out the leaven, then the Passover is polluted.

"But the setting is so beautiful!", they say, "and the words sound so sweet".

Did I not say "MY WORDS are Spirit and they are life"?
What then are their words when they are the words, opinions, and ideas about MY words
and not what was written for your admonition?
Without discernment my people are made comfortable in deceit and are taken captive.

When I call, they look to man.

A mind clouded by religious church men obscures truth, and truth is veiled,
the veil becomes blindness.

The men and women who usurp my authority use their position for self,
the people are comforted by deceit and content to follow them.

If a man or woman turn to me with their whole heart and a willingness to repent,
then I can lead them and make them as my disciple,
to follow me (i.e. Christ Jesus) in meekness and lowliness,
-yet without fear, and I will speak to each of you and reveal my true nature to you.

My ways are not the ways of the pulpit princes.
Do you know their end?

They will lose all, the accolades and unjust gain will be stripped away, for some by violence.
Do not say in your heart "what happened before will not happen now",

I tell you that My hand and a sword are already upon this life and this world, armies are marshalled and marching, driven by the spirits and  demons,
while the churches are filled with the dead and sleeping.

Is that too strong to hear?

What then when you see it before your eyes as others are right now?
My Will is for all to repent from the depths of your hearts that I may show forth mercy and justice.
The gods of self will and material comfort always lead away from Me.

Are these less deceptive than an idol of stone painted and decorated to represent that which I detest?

How can you know and measure this?
How strong is your attachment and desire for material things and the false security derived from them?

I saw Jesus' Appearance Marred more than any man. -by the church

 

😳WHAT?

Isaiah 52:14 So His appearance was marred more than any man (AMP)

Last night in a dream like I never had before..........

I saw the trial of Jesus and what they did to him before the cross.

They beat His face (and scripture says ripped his beard), and in the dream his face was unrecognizable as a man.

-I did not know how he could remain on his feet but he did.

The demonic hatred for the man was was made in God's image focused on his face.

The spiked crown the stuck into his head..

He staggered as he was led away and the heavy wooden cross they made him carry.

It was sickening to me in the dream.

Yet there was a crowd taking in the spectacle without compassion.

I could never have done or endured what I saw him go through in the dream. And I realized in the dream how he did it for me and you.

Heb 12:2

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. This is a link to short compiled list of of teachings WHEN THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE VERSE OF SCRIPTURE!

Since His resurrection and ascension, the marring of his identity has been continued by those that claim to represent him. Jesus has been mis-represented, distorted, altered, marred, disfigured, changed, and beaten up by the pen, the voices of countless Christians, and the false artwork and images of major religions. 

-Likewise, every week from countless pulpits He is disfigured in the speeches of those claiming to know and represent Him. Later, we will prove the shocking accuracy of that sentence.

Not only has Jesus Christ been altered by the sects of Christianity,
his identity has been marred by words, doctrines, and phrases that none of those that knew him and walked with him ever said or wrote in scripture.  

Let that last phrase sink in. “marred by words, doctrines, and phrases that none of those that knew him and walked with him ever said or wrote in scripture”. The fastest way to truth is by reading what the apostles testified about Jesus and God in the Book of Acts. There are several posts on my site with excerpts and also a complete verse by verse digest of their words about Jesus.

1God: Hebrews 1:8 Does it say "Jesus is God"?

 

 thy throne O God,  is to the age of the age

Hebrews 1:8 Does it make Jesus GOD or does it simply refer to "HIS GOD" speaking to Jesus, God's son?

but of the son,  thy throne O: God,  is to the age of the age;
And the SCEPTRE of rightness is the scepter of his kingdom.
Thou has loved righteousness and hated lawlessness,

(9... THEREFORE GOD, THY GOD has anointed You with oil of gladness above THY FELLOWS.

The Psalmist prophesied that GOD the Father would anoint the man who would be the Messiah (Christ).
The Christ would be a man, and the man prayed to and confessed the Father as the "only true God" -John 17:3

Acts 10:38

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

FINAL.
Here is the prophecy: Psa 45:7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

My Holy Spirit Baptism Testimony

 

In 1979 at age 28, I had begun to repent of a worldly sinful life beginning with heartfelt prayer at home, and the Lord was working in changing me from inside my heart and mind; I began repenting of the sins God was convicting me of becoming uncomfortable around my friends who were doing what I had been doing. I will spare you the details..

Following my mother, I surprised everyone who knew me and started attending her Baptist church jumping in, attending three services a week, plus the monthly special prayer meeting. Making friends in the local church community, I also met some young people from the Assembly of God and they spoke about the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. "What is that?" I asked.
When I asked my Baptist pastor about that, he discouraged further interest by dismissing it as “gibberish”. Naturally I believed him and so I parroted the view of our church.

But as the weeks passed I began to have a spiritual crisis partly due to my own weaknesses and temptations. After 5 months I saw the church I attended was becoming dull and routine. Having experienced the power of rock concerts and a zesty worldly lifestyle, the church was rather sleepy and a lot of people sickly. The elderly pastor was clearly tired.

Although Sunday morning was a full house, the Sunday evening and Wednesday night services were sparsely attended, sometimes I was the only one that attended the special prayer night meeting with the pastor.
There was really no evidence of spiritual power or authority in contrast to what I was reading in my Bible. This troubled me, hence the crisis of faith and I was not finding fulfillment as much as i wanted to in that church.  But the people were nice so I persevered.

Then in June 1980 I was working the  Vintage Days event at Fresno State University, there in my sales booth where my business partner and I sold jewelry and craft items. It was a wonderful event outdoors with the CSUF Jazz Band playing in the park, the sound of their music in the background, and a great atmosphere. 

From the crowd a young lady I knew from Los Banos walked up and we began to talk about Christ and the Bible. In the course of our convo I gave my spiel about speaking in tongues as I had recently been told by our pastor. Her name was Linda Savage, and she listened patiently to my negative report then replied in a gentle calm manner, “well Rory, I have the Holy Spirit and I speak in tongues”.

I was stunned. “YOU!?” -I asked with amazement.
Linda said “Yes” and told me of her conversion and receiving the Spirit.
She left a short time later but she had innocently rocked my world and now I was not sure what to believe.  I knew and perceived she had something I did not have.

After the event was over, I was at home and later that week began to pray asking God “What about this Holy Spirit business? If it is real I WANT THAT TOO!” I wanted truth and now two opposite views were before me.
-I was still in the spiritual crisis and looking for answers, but this time I went to God asking Him about the matter wanting truth. This was the first time I ever  prayed a prayer for truth and there would be many more subjects to ask Him about in the years ahead.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
On July 4^th a friend named Jerry and I were having our cars detailed by a local man named Chris Cornwell. After Chris finished, I had him come to my house to get paid in cash. We talked about the Lord and he happened to attend a local Pentecostal church and noticed I had a ceramic bust of Queen Nefertiti that I had purchased from the King Tut museum display that was touring the US at the time.

Suddenly he pivoted and pointed at the bust of the queen on the mantle shelf and said “THAT IS AN ABOMINATION!”.
I said “REALLY?”, and I grabbed it and smashed it on the concrete outside. 
He left but I found out later Chris had told his pastor about the incident and my zeal.

The next Monday evening there was a knock on the door and a man announced that he was in the neighborhood talking to people about Jesus and wondered if I was interested. “SURE!” I said being one who still loved sharing about Jesus, even in my “crisis”. He wasted no time in showing me the Acts 2:38 “message” of being baptized into the name of Jesus Christ and receiving the Holy “Ghost” as the KJV Pentecostals said. 

By now my personal crisis had also deepened my need and desire for MORE OF JESUS, and even though I had been baptized 7 months prior by my Baptist pastor (who never taught us to be baptized, I had been led on my own to ask),  I said to Steve, “OK, take me to the water!", I just wanted more of Jesus.

So he invited me to a Thursday night baptism and accompanied by several of the church folks, we went to the local Forebay lake 15 minutes away, where I was baptized “in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins”. Acts 2:38. "OK, maybe this will help me in this spiritual crisis" I thought, I was becoming more desperate for some kind of break through, and now I was reading Acts to learn more about that "Holy Ghost" business the Pentecostals were emphasizing.

The Pentecostal church was a tiny “Home Mission” church plant with about 15 people including the children. I was meeting the pastor for dinner socially after that but did not go to his church, and I was still questioning the validity of tongues and the Holy Spirit.
I was still a Baptist.

San Francisco Calling.
In August, a couple of weeks later I left for a month to work with a Street Ministry in San Francisco. It was a welcome relief from my spiritual crisis as every day we had morning prayer and after were passing out Bibles and street witnessing. People from all over the US had come to participate and our group was around 20 Christians and we had a great fellowship while serving the cause for Christ. 

The ministry provided lodging and meals, and we stayed at Simpson Bible College at the south end of San Francisco on the Peninsula. Each day began with prayer and devotion and I met some very nice people.

Near the end of that ministry term, the spiritual crisis began again and I was questioning changing churches and attending the Pentecostal group, going back and forth.
I liked the young pastor of the Pentecostal church, he was my age and we really hit it off well. He was Steve Lamarche and his wife Patty were Spirit filled and wonderful. Like Linda Savage, the people seemed to have a joy I was missing. 

Yet even as a Christian, I was tormented and knew I was missing something.
Steve told me "You need the Holy Ghost." But I thought I had *something* already, but the Bible verses he presented were challenging. I kept praying and asking.

First Encounter.
Mid September came and I was still praying about the Holy Spirit baptism and I recognized my need for more of Jesus. In response to their invitations,  I said I would visit the Pentecostals but the idea of going to visit another church was still a mental barrier to overcome, and I did not know what a Pentecostal church was.

That next Sunday morning as usual, I went to my Baptist church with Mom, but that Sunday evening  went to the small UPC church located in a 1 room office suite. The little congregation only had an accordion and tambourine, and someone may have played on a small organ for the music. 
I had to suppress the desire to chuckle out loud at the primitivity.
There were maybe around 12 people there at most including 3-4 children, sitting on folding metal chairs.

Church service went through the usual format, the tacky music but with heartfelt singing of different songs than we did at the Baptist church, and then the  pastor preached with fiery passion.
Very un-Baptist like.
Nearing the end he made an “altar call” where at the front were some folding chairs to kneel at.
Because I was a saved Baptist, I saw no need to "go forward", but he continued, and a couple of others went up to pray. I resisted and obviously as the only visitor, he was preaching to me.

Then on his third altar call, it was as if a supernatural force grabbed me by the shirt and yanked me out of my chair and drove me to pray on one of the chairs.

It was as if a dam broke, from my innermost being tears gushed, and sobs wracked my body. I don’t even know if I spoke any words, but I wept like never before for around 10 or 15 minutes emptying myself of Lord knows what.

When service ended, they asked me “How did you like the service?” but I was unable to speak.
“I can’t talk” I answered and went home. Yet something powerful had happened that I did not understand, and I realized the crisis of heaviness and oppression had been lifted from me after all those months.

I purposed to return and for the next 2 months of Sundays went to the Baptist service in the morning and the Pentecostal service in the evening. I had to admit the power and dynamic preaching at the latter church was much better and ministered to me. I noticed the women were old-fashioned dressed, and all the men wore suits.
No big deal to me, I just wanted more Jesus. Seeing and hearing the Pentecostals testifying and hearing some speaking in tongues, my desire for the Lord thought nothing of it and now I was really seeking Spirit baptism. 

Along with all that, I was reading my Bible to understand the new birth better and working to overcome my now fading, Baptist indoctrination as I transitioned into the Pentecostal faith.  

Late September.
Leaving the Baptist church, I jumped into my new Pentecostal group and there was a “Revival” with a young man Chris Jones, from Louisiana. Because church was so small, and my relationship with the people growing fast, Chris and I spent some time together with him, his wife, and their baby son, Jordan.
On a Friday night, our church was having a service with an associate church in Madera, CA, and we all rode together in the church bus which Chris drove.

I was seeking the Holy Ghost baptism and at that service, an evangelist named Nathan Hurst from Texas preached. At the close I went to the altar to pray for the Spirit, surrounded by praying Pentecostals, I focused on Jesus and finally!  I “prayed through” and spoke in tongues for the first time.

As with others we have seen, my face had a glow on it and there is a picture of me with my dad around that time where the joy of God’s Spirit is evident. My spirit was changed and I fell into our Pentecostal church life with a new-found joy. The services were powerful and we passionately sought God’s Presence in prayer before service even began.
Later I found out that most of the local churches looked down on us but we believed WE had "The Truth".

Many people, events, and would follow, some wonderful and some not so good, but I can never deny or renounce the goodness of receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit which was accompanied by speaking in tongues. About 2 years later, my future wife would be converted out of Catholicism and she too would receive Holy Spirit baptism speaking in tongues.

My experience was similar to the converts in Acts 19:2-6.
This is written as a testimony and to spark a desire for more of Jesus Christ and the Gift of the Holy Spirit which He said we should receive (John 7:37-39. 

Marriage to Linda came 3 years after the above and our Pentecostal sojourn lasted 11 years. I was ordained as a minister and there was a lot of good along with things that were not so good before the Lord called us out of that denomination. 

God bless you.