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The Good News of the Gospel

LK — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:43:13 +0000

Before I walked with Jesus, I met an old lady.
I saw her every day at the bus stop.
She had a glow about her and she happily shared the gospel with everyone she met.
She talked about Jesus all the time. She was very kind and was so excited about what she had found,
she wanted to share it with the world.
Some people might’ve been bothered by her, but I wasn’t.

Sometimes the gospel can get rejected.
You can get so many refusals, people who are not interested.
Some people that don’t want to hear it or who don’t accept what is written in God’s word.
It can wear on you.
You can get tired.

Fast forward many years. of walking with Jesus.
I was out on a special errand.
There is a summer clothing item that I love.
It’s perfect for hot weather and is extremely comfortable.
I try to get a new one every year. I was so happy to find two that I liked this year.
While I was in the store, I was telling a few employees how great this item was
and that they should consider getting one because they will love it and they’ll be comfortable and cooler in the heat.
I was considering my item, and how happy I was with it.
It suddenly dawned on me that I should be as excited to share the gospel.

While that goes without being said, after lots of rejections, people can get tired.
We can ask God to give us the fervor and excitement to share the gospel with people,
even though they may not accept Him or what we say.
We should still try.

I have been thinking about this for a few days.
I remembered that lady and how I should be as exited for the gospel as I was for this clothing item.
Sharing the gospel is not out of my comfort zone, but I’ve somehow lost the zeal.
The whole scene gave me pause.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 1 Corinthian 9:16

Sharing Jesus Christ to a dying world.
It’s not about us, self included, it’s about Jesus and helping as many people know Him as we can.
He cares about them and so should we.

So Much More Deception

LK — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:09:04 +0000

Lies, lies, lies everywhere, from many angles, for many purposes.
That is why Jesus said rumors of war.
We can’t be sure about anything.
We don’t know if the treaties are going to hold
or if the people who make the treaties are going to stand by their word.
What good are these peace accords? They really mean nothing.
There will be a peace accord that is coming up.
Even it will fail, eventually. Once that is signed it won’t take long before it is broken.

How can we guard ourselves from deception?
Stay in the word. Stay close to Jesus.
It is not enough to just go to church. It is not enough to hear teachings.
We must each be learning directly from the Holy Spirit.

But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,
and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him. 1 John 2:27

While it’s true we need each other, we also need to be very close to Jesus, learning and growing in Him.
Jesus never told us to follow any man or any doctrine or any teaching.
Do your own work, find out for yourself what He wants you to learn.
Verify every lesson you are taught by others and check it against the word of God.
That is what it means to have your lamp filled with oil. (see Matthew 25:1-13)
You do not want to run out of oil as it doesn’t work at that point to get it from others.

You Can Be Right and Still be Wrong

LK — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:03:11 +0000

We humans have a way of being right.
We can get many people on our side.
We can gather followers, state our opinions about things
and have the satisfaction of feeling right.

God is not interested in us being right.
He is interested in us following His ways.
Treating the most putrid person with disdain is not the way Jesus handled things.
While Jesus spoke the truth and sometimes that was hurtful, He was always kind.
He loved His enemies.

King David followed God’s leading during his battles with King Saul.
King Saul was being removed and David was slowly but surely being elevated to the position of King.
Saul tried to kill David multiple times. If David had hated him, who could blame him?
David even told his servants not to harm Saul because he was God’s anointed.

We are right so often as we know God’s word. We know what God likes.
Let us remember that God is God. He is the true Judge who judges righteously.
Our job is to pray, love and feed our enemies and give them drink, to let Jesus repay them for their evil.

We are not to rejoice in the position we have over others.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him. Proverbs 24:17-18

You Must Purge the Evil From Among You

LK — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:10:37 +0000

The character of God does not change.
God said: ‘You must purge the evil from among you’ multiple times in the Old Testament.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.
So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 17:7

The lessons in the Word of God are the same throughout.
God does not want us to touch anything unclean for it will taint us, it will open doors to evil.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father’s wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned,
that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:13

We are responsible for what we are convicted of from the Lord.
If He gives you a burden, pray first, listen and obey, whatever the situation.
For our own domain, we are to treat what we have jurisdiction over by honoring the Lord.
Honor Jesus in all you say and do and when you can’t, pray that He help you to do what He asks you to do.
Do not ignore His Word or what He asks of you.
Be like the dad who said, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.
He wanted to do what God asked him to do, but he needed help with that.

Keep your heart strong in the Lord with humility before Him.
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth,
to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.
Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. 2 Chronicles 16:9

Do your best to obey and do what God shows you to do.
He will be there for you to support you when you are doing what you can to walk in His ways.
A big part of that is continuing to purge the evil from among you.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Proverbs 5:7-8

personal Prophecy

LK — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:47:54 +0000

A “prophet” came across my YouTube feed last night.
I was tired, it looked interesting, so I listened for a bit.
He sounded fine, at first.
He said the right things.
He had all sorts of programs, he had prayer meetings and teachings.
He opened the phone lines: A person called in.
He prayed for her. I noticed he was telling her what sounded a bit like words of knowledge for her.
Then, another person called in.
She said, I would like you to pray for my nieces. I have 3 of them. One has a mental illness
and they are not walking with the Lord and the other thing I would like is a personal prophecy.
Full stop. I quit listening.
Then, I noticed his name, he called himself a prophet. It was Prophet Mike or something like that.
That was the name of his YouTube channel.
No, thank you.

I do believe that one person can have a personal prophecy for someone else.
That happened in the Bible, in both the Old Testament and the New.
Nathan had a prophecy for King David and its purpose was for the Lord to correct King David,
for him to realize his folly and sin before the Lord and to reconcile to the Lord.
Another time in the New Testament where there was a personal prophecy:
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?
behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Acts 5:9
This caused great fear among those who knew about it.

So, yes, there are personal prophecies still today.
The key is this: Who is being exalted?
In the case of the man last night who called himself a prophet, the man was being exalted.
He was even taking the place of God: You call me and I will answer you.
A true personal prophecy is from the Lord. It glorifies the Lord. It edifies the person to be closer to Jesus,
to seek Him, to read His word, to follow Him.
By this person putting himself into the position that these people call him on the phone
and then he tells them a word from God is going to be spoken.
A true prophet will not give him or herself any credit. They are a vessel and they speak God’s word and ALWAYS glorify God.
They never take the credit. If they do, they are a false prophet. It’s pretty simple.

That is difficult for people to accept.
A personal prophet or even a teacher can set themselves up to be a mediator between people and God.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 1 Timothy 2:5

People who do not know the word of God well can fall into this trap.
Jesus wants each of us to have a relationship with Him.
A personal prophecy can sometimes be a confirmation of what God might be telling you.
Sometimes God might tell someone that they will be a pastor or have some other gift.
If a prophet tells you something, you still need to seek the Lord about it, to test it.
A prophet’s job is not to tell you what to do.
It is up to us to take what is said to us as from the Lord and question and seek Him
and never ever ever look to that person who said they prophesied to be as important to us as is God.
If God really is calling someone to do something, that person will know it is from the Lord
by verification in their own relationship with God.
A personal prophecy might be to encourage them to seek the Lord about it.
But under no circumstances are we to follow a person,
whether a pastor or a doctrine or a teacher or a person who calls themselves a prophet
to take the place of God in our hearts and minds and to follow what they tell us.
It can be confirmation, but never the only instruction we hear.
We all have the Holy Spirit and are instructed in the Word of God to listen to. and Seek Him.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth:
for He shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever He shall hear,
that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. John 16:13

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: John 10:27

Find more scriptures in the Bible as you read.
You will see that prophets are not supposed to operate as fortune tellers or spiritual guides.
That falls under the category of divination and that causes deception.
Beware.

Keep It Before the Lord

LK — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:56:39 +0000

One little sin?
Don’t excuse it, keep it before the Lord for strength to overcome.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. Romans 7:15
We don’t know exactly what Paul hated that he did,
but we can certainly think of something we have done that we wished we hadn’t.
And sometimes, it seems like we might never gain the victory of it
since we keep repeating it when we know it’s wrong.
Keep it before the Lord, don’t try to hide it from Him or ignore it. Keep seeking His help to overcome.

Sometimes attitudes we have adopted can be sinful: Calling people names, sizing them up pr swearing
Those all seem somewhat small and not important. Keep it before the Lord, whatever it is.
Unforgiveness, letting others know faults we have found out about people that should not be amplified.
There are all sorts of things we can do. It is the little foxes that spoil the vines.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. Song of Solomon 2:15

Keep things that you do before the Lord.
By assuming He will forgive or that His grace will be there is an entitled attitude and it is a form of pride.
God is always looking for those whose hearts are perfect toward Him.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth,
to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.
Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. 2 Chronicles 16:9

Whatever our problem, whatever our need, God is there to help us when we look to Him.
Sometimes, there will be a battle to allow us to triumph over the difficult obstacles, no matter how small.
Keeping those things before the Lord and listening in case there are holes in our armour,
or something we need to take care of can be an uncertain predicament,
or possibly there is nothing at all we can do,.
We just have to remember: we can try to make the right choices, but we can’t overcome without Jesus’ abilities.,

When the Lord Delays

LK — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:13:58 +0000

Many of God’s people have felt the delay of the Lord.
If we were to say the Lord does not delay at times, we would be unsound, even liars.
He does delay.
He holds back for reasons we do not always understand, even after He comes through.
The birth pangs of what we are praying for, believing for, hoping for can be intense.
We look to Him, the Author and Finisher of our faith.

God does not grow weary.
He allowed much affliction on His saints and then came through for them.
Are we to be angry at God when He allows affliction or suffering?
Job’s wife, who spoke foolishly said,
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Job 2:9
While it is easy to judge her for that, many of us have thought such foolish things toward God,
not understanding His ways, feeling forsaken and left out in the cold.
God does delay for many reasons.
Sometimes it can be our own faults.
Our prayers can be hindered.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:3

Sometimes we miss it.
Sometimes we have done nothing wrong, like Daniel.

And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved,
understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent.
And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
Then said he unto me, Fear not,
Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand,
and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. Daniel 10:11-12

So, whether something you are doing is blocking your prayers
or whether there are other conditions that delay the answer, God is working.
Seek Him always and seek Him for wisdom and strength and He will surely give it to you,
even if it seems to be delayed. He will come through. Keep knocking, keep asking.
His promises are yes and amen.

For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2 Corinthians 1:20

Nathan’s Parable

LK — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:05:38 +0000

And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him,
There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up:
and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat,
and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb,
and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan,
As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel,
and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom,
and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah;
and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight?
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised Me,
and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house,
and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour,
and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. 2 Samuel 12:1-12

Whenever we read the Old Testament, remember:
Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8

Jesus often spoke in parables to teach people. He did not want to share the lessons with everyone,
but to those with ears to hear.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not,
neither do they understand. Matthew 13:13

So, if you understand parables, that is good. If you don’t, ask so that you can.
They are rich in the things of God and reveal His heart and thoughts to us.
God doesn’t play.
He says what He means and He means what He says.

When to Battle

LK — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:12:02 +0000

The godly kings would ask the Lord if they should battle. The Lord would answer them.
When God was in the battles, meaning,
when He wanted them to win or encouraged His people to take land,
He would bless their efforts.
When they went on their own strength, things did not go so well.

God teaches us to look for the blessings. That is where we find Him.
He directs us when we have decisions to make.
While we might not have the violent life and death battles of old,
we still have battles and we need to make sure our hands and clean and our hearts are pure.

I had a French drain built that ended up being faulty.
The owner of the company said he would not correct it and he hung up on me.
The Lord told me to let it go. So I did.
There have been other times that I have had mistreatment and the Lord has fought for me.
Those times have been so smooth that it was obvious God’s hand was in each of them.

The Lord may or may not tell you He is with you.
It can get complicated. God does not like the widow and the orphan to be taken advantage of.
That means more than the widow and the orphan, but anyone who is in a weakened state.
God does not like it when people are taken advantage of.

Seek the Lord and listen.
Be willing to stand down if He makes it clear to you. Do not insist on making sure you are treated right.

I often wonder about that man who built the French drain improperly and refused to correct it,
if he will hear about it again on Judgment Day since he decided not to make things right with me.
He is a Christian. I know God was not pleased. I may never know.
I do know Vengeance belongs to God and He will repay all of us for every deed whether it be good or evil.

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear:
for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands. 1 Samuel 17:47

Additional Scriptures

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Revelation 22:12

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27

Jesus, The Name Above Every Name

LK — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:53:43 +0000

The name of Jesus in any language is above every name.

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2: 9-11

Honor Jesus and honor His name as well.
While you’re praying, while you’re worshipping, while you are telling of the wonderous works He has done.

The bible says if someone does not confess Jesus as Lord, they are an Antichrist. A harsh reality.

Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. John 13:13

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist,
that denieth the Father and the Son. 1 John 2:22

Pray in the name of Jesus and exalt His name above all circumstances. The enemy will be defeated.