The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Yea, Seven” Men & The Two Lessons

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Chip Murray

The Towering Derek!

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. ~ Proverbs 6:16-19

My #1 lesson learned in 2023 was: Leadership Defaults To Those Who Stick Their Heads Up When Nobody Else Will.  And I’m willing to bet this lesson will take the crown for 2024: The only people with more excuses than alcoholics and drug addicts are AWOL pastors and churchmen! Isaiah 42:22 is the picture-perfect description of the dead stone church {But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.}, blindly following the Galatians 3:25 schoolmaster we are no longer under {But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.}!! They choose instead to reject Holy Spirit Galatians 6:8 teaching {For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.} for loving their dead stone church friends more. NEWSFLASH: Closing your churches while Walmart, CVS, and liquor stores remained open was sowing to the flesh! Submitting to the Un-Constitutional medical tyranny of masking your children and the illegal “coercion” of experimental mRNA DNA-modifying injections was sowing to the flesh! Leaving the sick to die alone in Nursing Homes in 2021 to rush to the BLM rally was sowing to the flesh! Remaining a “this is not my fight” spectator in April of 2024 is sowing to the flesh!

So, in love, I say to the dead stone church brother who sends me the video of his pastor’s sermon last Sunday, Why do you send a man yearning to be fed by the Holy Spirit a video of the schoolmaster snared in holes feeding other men hid in the same prison house? WHILE, on the very same day, not so many miles away, we were nourished by a healthy Holy Spirit “poking” us to find our inner David’s & Elija’s!

Last Thursday God had me gaze deeply into my own reflection while meditating on the 2 Cor. 11:23-29 “stripes” of the greatest of the Apostles, read the following: Never yield to a power unless you know its character. (Love of God), and then dare to call myself a man of God before God Almighty…before sending me, along with Mark and Christine, into the DC belly of the beast to support our dear friend and brother-in-Christ Derek at his J6 sentencing on Friday. I was totally ill-prepared for what we walked into. On one side of the courtroom sat the four defendants and their families, which included Derek, his mom, his wife, and his daughter along with supporters which included the mother of Ashley Babbit who was murdered by a Capital Police officer on that day. In them I saw and felt the spirit of Psalm 3 David fleeing the murderous wrath of Absolom. On the other side seated at the prosecution table sat the three sodomite slaves of Satan who could barely conceal their lustful zeal for the innocent blood of God’s REAL men. Pure evil on its own turf; smug, gloating, slithering vipers, dead to love, dead to the light of truth, and dead to life itself…sensing the joy to come from the feast of pain and despair written on the faces of the families of their mortal enemy, the sons of liberty. NOTHING could have prepared me for the lead prosecutor’s closing argument. The Proverbs 6:16-19 son of the father of lies painted the four Christian patriots with the wicked imaginations and abominations seething from the hatred of his own black heart for anything and everyone close to God. My heart broke as all three of Derek’s brothers stood before the judge to make their pre-sentencing statements. Already mortally wounded from three years of being tarred and feathered by a complicit media, fired from their jobs, and ostracized by their friends and neighbors…I watched them in their remorse, apologize for fabricated crimes none of them committed. But then, just as things appeared as dark and hopeless as they could possibly get, I watched as all six feet and nine inches of Derek Kinnison stood up to tower over the judge and his courtroom. I watched a man bathed in Holy Spirit turn the tables on evil in the flash of an instant, showering the entire courtroom with love, humility, and truth as he forgave the judge and prosecutors and prayed for each of their souls, rejected their lies, and spoke truth to the darkest power that our world has ever faced! The power and force of God’s love actually made the prosecutors cringe.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the forward mouth, do I hate. ~ Proverbs 8:13

Now, if it pleases the court, allow me to wrap all of this up in my “Yea Seven” closing argument. While my brother Derek courageously reflected the true spirit of the imprisoned Acts 4 and 12 Peter, the dead stone church and churchmen are 100% blind, deaf, dumb, and indifferent to the entire ordeal! Which, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer so eloquently stated a century ago, “is in itself evil.”

As for me and my remnant kinfolk…

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. ~ 1 Kings 18:21

Time to man-up church leaders and sign the Gideon’s 300 Pledge!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Get Right…or Get Left!”

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Chip Murray

Paddle!

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. ~ Acts 2:6

A VERY interesting week indeed, my dear brothers and sisters! What began as my pondering the absence of “gifts” in the body of our churches, ended with a national “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” call to action in every state capital with breaking news of Iran’s attack on Israel in the very same hour! In fact, today’s Tune-up was, “God Got Your Tongue?” until I woke up to the answer to our missing gifts delivered in a powerful one-two punch by Naomi Wolf and Pastor Niel Peterson on Thursday morning. Naomi was a staunch feminist darling of the Left, consultant to both the Clintons personally and Hilary’s campaign, as well as Al Gore’s campaign…UNTIL the Covid charade and the medical tyranny that followed it. One tweet questioning the lie in 2020 or 2021, I forget, but you can hear her tell the amazing “Facing the Beast” story HERE, and overnight she became a globally demonized and deplatformed persona non grata! So immediately following the Leftist turned Right Naomi came the BardsFM interview words from Pastor Niel Peterson, “Get Right…or Get Left!” OK God, I’m listening…Conversation with Niel Peterson.

This is the toughest Tune-up I’ve ever had to unpack, but here goes! Absence of gifts, our children under attack, Israel under attack, Left to Right.  

“Why Speak in Tongues?” ~  Derek Prince

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; ~ Acts 2:16

The same tongues that “magnify God” in Acts 10:46 are the least of His gifts in 1 Cor. 12:28…so? The point is that this gift, along with every gift listed in 1 Cor. 12:28 has gone missing from the vast majority of American churches, which begs a very important question reminiscent of President Reagan’s famous lament of the Democrat Party. Did the Holy Spirit leave the American Church, or did the American Church leave the Holy Spirit?

While you are pondering that question, consider yet another sign of the Holy Spiritually malnourished body of Christ stuck in her feelings…Feelings…it’s impossible to hurt the feelings of a son or daughter of the King who, by God’s grace and manifestation of the Holy Spirit are alive in Christ and dead to self! And yet, how many of us are still licking those wounds and setting our own sons and daughters for the exact same fall? The American church, suffering a near total lack of masculine energy, is languishing in the emotional mire of the feminine only…tripping over itself to love what God loves, diabolically disarmed, ill-equipped, and unable to hate what God hates. It will surely turn in the days ahead to hate what the enemy hates!

God has prepared me…God has prepared and equipped each one of us for exactly the times in which we live. In my case, as it pertains to His message Thursday morning, it was canoeing some of the most treacherous whitewater rapids in our country with the Explorers in my youth. On one trip to the Allagash River in Maine, we went up with 12 canoes and came back with 8, 4 were destroyed beyond repair. Here’s the message: In tranquil still waters we can paddle left, we can paddle right, or we can choose not to paddle at all…with zero consequence. Not so in treacherous whitewater rapids…which is exactly where we find ourselves today.

If we truly trust in God, which I believe most if not all of us Tune-up followers do, then we know He is not done with America (as founded), and that after the whitewater…which we have yet to see the worst of, comes the still waters. THAT is why we can’t afford to stop paddling…as so many around us (especially our churches) have done. The fruits of our efforts will be blessed by God to ripen on the other side. I will ask each of you to pray into this, lean into God and ask Him to speak into your life and the lives of those around you…to strengthen and encourage one another, to keep you paddling Right ahead and through the worst of it. #Don’tMessWithOurKids!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Are You Not A Man?”

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Chip Murray

“Conquer we must. And Conquer we shall!”

And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord. ~ 1 Samuel 26:15

Those who receive my P&FW Invites know that I came under a spiritual attack on Good Friday by the spirits of cowardice, comfort, fear, and deception which rule the Laodicean church. It was in direct response to my speaking the truth to this church and the churchmen in it, “SO…in love, God compels me to be truthful. You men are the most lost men I have ever met in my life. I know each of you well enough to know that collectively you have fashioned a bubble for yourselves to the point that while the devil is devouring your own children…you further delight him by joining the world in censoring Christian men…My old pastor looked me square in the eyes in 2020 and said, ‘This is not my fight.’ All I can say to each of you when your day comes is good luck with that defense. Here’s a prediction…given the current trajectory of things. I will die sooner than most of you, but I will live longer than all of you.” So dear friends, this was the predictable Laodicean response: “The doctrine of Jesus Christ is clear about love and unity, not hate and discord.” Half-truth motivated by the spirits of cowardice, comfort, fear, and deception…the fuel of the lukewarm Laodicean. In hindsight, it is no wonder that I was taken out of play which caused me to miss posting my Tune-up on Resurrection Sunday…the only time that has happened since its 2012 inception. Last Sunday’s intended focus? The masculinity of Christ!

God is speaking to every man through David in the 1 Samuel passage above TODAY! “Who is like thee in Israel? We, the sons of the King most high are! The enemy is moving to destroy the king our LORD. Wherefore then are we? These are the words of a man, the ruling spirits of the Laodicean fear for the ears of churchmen to hear:

“2020 marked the end of the church age, and the beginning of the kingdom age…I am the church. I will engage the church. I will become the church. I serve the God of adventure. The (Laodicean) audience wants sweet infant-baby-Ricky-Bobby-Jesus. They don’t want strong Jesus. They want soft Jesus. They want the faith that doesn’t challenge you, doesn’t push you, doesn’t compel you…doesn’t speak up. You just be a nice, good Christian…when Jesus doesn’t need you to be nice…How could it cost God everything to love us, and cost us nothing to love Him back? …He needs you to be men of God, men of faith…with dangerous faith. So, why are men being attacked so much, especially now? Because, if the man is taken out, you can’t defend your own house, your family, your children. You can’t defend the house of God or the faith. He is love. He is LORD. He is commander. ‘God is love’ is found 4 times in the Bible. ‘God is LORD’ is found 400 times! The church is teaching you a version of Jesus that is not the full complete version. You need to come out of her! This soft tepid timid Jesus doesn’t exist. Deuteronomy 23:1, if you have no balls as a man, there is no place for you in the house of God. Cowardice is the #1 thing God hates {Rev. 21:8}. Today’s Laodicean church and churchmen are working for the other team.” ~ Stephen Prouse,  Are You Not A Man?

“Working for the other team,” whether they realize it or not. Their own cowardice, fear, and in this case, self-deception, has confined them in low altitude echo-chamber bubbles where they actually see themselves as men of valor who offer up their empty sacrifices to a God who sees through their charade…while the true men of valor…the Joshua’s, the Caleb’s, the David’s earnestly contend for the faith {Jude 1:3} to take the higher ground… “We may think it a gloomy fact that we cannot settle the questions that beckon us to the highest places. Churchill does not. Rather it is ‘more wonderful than any[thing] that Science can reveal,’ and it ‘gives the best hope that all will be well.’ Even when we deal with forces that are ‘terrific’ and ‘devastating,’ our ‘hearts will ache’ and our ‘lives will be barren’ without ‘a vision above material things.’ No powerful Science, and no Nazi, can erase that fact or satisfy that need. Resistance to despotism is therefore written in the nature of man…For Churchill, practice makes no sense apart from the principles of right, and they have no protection except in the rule of law. The statesman is the guardian of all things that supply the end of all action. Those principles cannot protect themselves against the likes of Hitler, unless someone as strong and fierce as he fights on their behalf.” ~ Churchill’s Trial, Larry P. Arnn

No words can describe my contempt and utter disdain for cowardice, and PLEASE, let me be crystal clear. Cowardice, which is to say the spirit of cowardice, NOT the coward himself. In fact, I love them as a grieving parent who loves a child who is missing a limb or organ…or more accurately if you consider God’s word in Deut. 23:1, leprosy. Why? Because man in such a condition poses a direct threat to the kingdom of God. God delivered His pre-eclipse message of Hope, Revelation, Warning, and Instruction last week. Hope for His faithfully engaged, Revelation of true colors under fire, Warning to the cowards and false shepherds, and Instruction for His Remnant: “We are the Church. We will engage the Church. We will become the Church.” ~ Stephen Prouse…wherefore then, are we?

“Where have all the good men gone, long time passing? Where have all the good men gone, long time ago? Where have all the good men gone, waiting on their ‘Hall Pass’ every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” My tandem hat tip to Pete Seeger and Stephen Prouse. Hall Pass is the clever term Prouse applies to those men of the church, so called, who’ve taken the Premillennial Dispensation (Pre-Tribulation Rapture) bait. You just might want to know a little bit more about the man behind so convenient a lure. Father of the Favorite Lie!

Winston Churchill’s 1st speech as Prime Minister, May 19, 1940 ~ “Be Ye Men Of Valour”

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill

I am closing today’s Tune-up with a remarkable appeal made by a man who is as hated by the establishment today as Churchill was in his time, in this our darkest hour. What is amazing to me is the fact that while the men of Britian in 1940 had no personal computers, or iPhones, or internet, every man knew the hour. Sadly, and tragically, that is not the case with men today. We have come to rely on the world to tell us the hour…through the corporate media, the internet, our hand-held devices, the nefarious likes of John Darby and false shepherds playing for the other team. Is President Trump our Churchill? I don’t know. What I see and hear, and you will too if you watch and listen closely, is God speaking to His churchmen through the voice of 1 Samuel 26:15 David speaking to Abner…

“We must defend God in the public square…Make America Pray Again!” ~ President Donald J. Trump

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Resurrection Sunday

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Chip Murray

Standupnsing is out sick for the first Sunday since start…but so alive and well in our risen King! Back soon!

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Modeling Leadership

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Chip Murray

For I think God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. ~ 1 Corinthians 4:9

In 2020 when the churches were declared unessential by the “powers-that-be” here in New York, a small group of us formed CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson). Here is what that experience has taught me…

“The greatest missing ingredient in Christian leaders today is credibility. Paul tests his level of credibility with his Corinthian followers by reminding them of how he had modeled what was right.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Modeling; Leadership Is Caught More Than Taught

While I would agree that credibility is a missing ingredient in Christian leaders, I would argue that the #1 missing ingredient in Christian leaders today is courage. How could any leader who lacks courage possibly encourage others? In fact, if you look at the qualities of leadership in the above “customized” print which was presented to me by the chairwoman of our CLOTH Revival Committee this past January, I believe you will agree that most, if not all of these qualities, require courage. And the #2 missing ingredient, before credibility, arguably tied with courage in the # 1 spot is faith. These two ingredients were inexorably intertwined in 1 Samuel 17 David which I believe made him the greatest leader who ever lived…behind Jesus of course.

Speaking of King David, it occurred to me last year that leadership defaults to those willing to stick their heads up while most everyone else has gone into hiding. That was certainly the setting of the 1 Sam. 17:11 stage that David, the least of his brothers, walked onto…which now brings a third ingredient to light ahead of credibility. Heart. Of course! God looks at the heart. Which leads us to the following…

“(1 Cor. 13:1) This chapter is known as the ‘love chapter.’  It is set as a great stumbling block in the Scriptures to destroy any Christian who will not tolerate the negative truths of the Bible (nearly three-quarters of its content). A ‘god’ who is all love is a perverted god. God loves good and hates evil. Love without hate is not real love.” ~ Ruckman Reference Bible

As Ruckman observes, this is the great virus that has infected the modern church and churchmen today, rendering both it and them impotent in the face of an enemy that is taking full advantage. Hating what God hates requires the #1 quality in the Leadership acronym above, Loyalty. And loyalty would require God’s men to come from behind the church walls, Bible studies and civics classrooms to defend God’s honor where it matters…in the political arena! That is the exact place where the ten qualities of leadership are not only tested, but they are also proven. Amen? To Maxwell’s point on lost credibility as the direct result of the lack of courage, faith, and heart in church leadership today, it is no wonder that 97% of millennials do not have a Biblical worldview. This makes them and the rest of us easy prey for the enemy we have lost the power to discern…

“America does not have a free press, or free speech. And none of this would be the way it is if this man (JFK) had lived…The murder of President Kennedy brought to an end the massive pressure by the US Administration on the government of Israel.” ~ Who Are They?

Hating what God hates means we as men are called to “fight”…fight for what God loves, which first and foremost has to be our children. A Texas man recently killed the man who raped his little girl…and was acquitted. I asked an elder in my church who works as a security guard at a local hospital if he was armed and he reacted as if I asked a crazy question. We have got to snap out of this conditioning brothers and get back in the game where God made us to be. It’s time to lead, follow, or get out of the way!

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”–G K Chesterton 

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Christian Authority & Angels From Devils

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Chip Murray

Who can tell?

The Lord told me to tell His people that He is able to back up His word if Christians would use their authority. I asked Jesus why the Church seems, at times, to be so defeated? He showed me that if His people will return to the basics of His Word use it coupled together with their authority, demons must obey! They don’t have a choice. In other words, demons tremble and run when we walk, talk and agree with Word of God. However, many people are not using their authority to overcome the powers of darkness. ~ Bishop Samuel Vagalas Kanco, Christian Authority, The Witch Doctor & The Man, City Under The Sea

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counselors there is safety. ~ Proverbs 24:5-6

My old boss and a sister in distress brought it all home to me with God waking me up around 2am on Friday morning to connect the dots. I retired after 26 years with AXA-Equitable in 2020. Very early on in my career…mid-nineties, I remember the advice of the top leader in our region; “Fake it until you make it.” As it turns out I was good enough make it without faking it…by my standards. What I mean by that is I never really measured up to the corporate standards of success because I never really fully joined the club. My old boss Tony, for whom I had tremendous admiration and respect, appeared to me in a dream early Friday morning. The sister in distress reached out to a group of us on Thursday asking for prayer for “God to comfort her to sleep.” The correlation? That’s exactly the dots God woke me up to connect (I’m typing these words at 3:24am). We all, every single one of us, have angelic and demonic spirits inside of us. Believers and unbelievers alike. Both demonic and angelic vary by degree in terms of light and darkness, good and evil. Suffice for now to think of demonic spirit to be that which is not of God, and the angelic, that which is. I can tell you that, while I would never have admitted this at the time, the demonic held sway in my life up until the moment I was saved in 2015…the moment I realized (thank you Pastor Kirby) that the nearer I drew to God, the nearer He would draw to me {James 4:8} And the truth of the preceding verse {James4:7} just dawned on me this (Friday) morning; the moment I started to draw near was the same moment I began my resistance…forcing the devil to flee. In other words, demons tremble and run when we walk, talk, and agree with the Word of God.

A wise person who has built his life in confidence in God will appear a fool when he is among people who are sleek and cunning…The wisdom of God is arrant stupidity to the wisdom of the world, until all of a sudden God makes the wisdom of the world foolish (see 1 Cor. 1:23-25). ~ Oswald Chambers, Shame of the Gospel

So even now, He is showing me that nine years later, while the spirit balance has shifted tremendously, there is still something(s) in my life holding me back from the finished man we all know as Christians God has made us to be…just as sure as there is something in the sister’s life keeping her from sleep.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men…ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. ~ 1 Corinthians 7:23; 10:21

I know now that in 1995 when the demonic spirit enjoyed the amount of influence it had in my life, it was the angelic that kept me from joining the club. It may have been smaller and quieter, but I know now it was God Himself doing what He does so amazingly well. Our perfect Abba Father.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in. ~ Ecc. 3:10

All of this…

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. ~ Ecc. 7:10

Is to say…

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~ Mark Twain

God is forming us…

“The most patriotic paper in the United States, the Epoch Times, is run by the most patriotic citizens, yet they weren’t born in America.” ~ Victor Davis Hanson, What Happened To Us?

Into the sons and daughters…

God blesses His people so they can bless those who have yet to be blessed. Godly leaders feel driven by this vision. Maintenance is not the goal. World conquest motivates God’s heart, and He accomplishes this mission through leaders who cast vision for participating in bottom-line living. ~ John C. Maxwell, A Bigger Vision Drives God’s Leaders, March 14

He made us to be!

“We have to heed the warning that is coming right NOW!” ~ Pastor Rod Parker and the Eclipse Revival

Solar Eclipse On 4/8…Exodus 4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Who can tell rainbows from hell, or angels from devils anyway? The sons and daughters of the King, that’s who! Demons Beware! Amen? I have a very strong feeling this coming sign may be His last attempt to reach those of us who have yet to accept Him.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall he not render to every man according to his works? ~ Proverbs 24:12

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Truth & Fatalism

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Chip Murray

It is dangerous to be conscious of submission to a spiritual power. The difference between fatalism and faith lies just here. Fatalism means, “My number’s up; I have to bow to the power whether I like it or not; I do not know the character of the power, but it is greater than I am, and I must submit.” ~ Oswald Chambers, The Worthiness of God

This week’s Psalm & Proverb a Day brought me to one of my favorite verses from my favorite Psalm 23:5, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over…which prompted a friend to provide the last verse of Psalm 91 with his own commentary, “Christian warriors never fight alone.” While his words ring true and rhyme rather nicely with the old saying, “one man with courage is a majority,” it can be a bit discouraging watching friends who turn out to be pretenders and cowards peeling away as the boot comes down…

The devil doesn’t like to lose even one of his captives. He fights to keep every soul. He uses demons, unsaved people, and some Christians to do things to discourage them. ~ Bishop Samuel Vagalas Kanco, Chapter 3 The Truth Shall Make You Free

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The ultimate legacy of cowards will be the scars and stripes worn by those who stood in their place. Bishop Kanco, who knows the enemy better than any pastor, priest, or rabbi I know (quite simply because he was personally groomed and trained by him), knows that Satan is the grand master of discouragement. But experience has taught me this; for every twelve who fade away from the heat, God appoints a David to stand in their place. Two years ago, FDNY Battalion Chief Tommy Lapolla stood up for his men and called on the head of the NY Catholic church to do the same. FDNY Battalion Chief Appeals to Cardinal Dolan to Stand With Un-vaxxed! I am honored to call this man my friend, and to whole-heartedly support his run for the 99th District Assembly Seat in November. https://lapollaforassembly.com/

TRUTH

God is calling His “un-corruptibles”! If the church were a business, it would be out of business. ONLY the corruptible remain unaccountable…and will pay the ultimate price for the 97% of millennials who no longer hold a Biblical worldview. “Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.” ~ Romans 11:3-4

TRUTH

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.~ Jeremiah 8:7

I had a very profound thought this morning which I now pray will wake up the church. I have made very good friends within the Chinese Falun Gong community. I truly love, respect, and admire them. They are among the most beautiful and loving people I have ever come to know. They have been very persistently trying to recruit me into their spiritual practice. I read their book, and learned their exercises, personally trained by their association leader. But yesterday I had to draw the line, Jesus Christ alone is my Lord and Savior. The profound thought was the similarity to our church community…nice, loving, good…and equally blind to the TRUTH.

The enemy is hoping that you will continue to remain blind, and the best part is, the longer that you remain blind, and you establish your blindness and your household with blindness, well, guess what? Your kids are blind, your household is blind, your husband is blind. Look for the God in things – Not just the good in things. Stephen Prouse HERE

Limping into powerless gatherings with broken down altars acting as though everything is fine, while Baal steals our children and rules our nation is tolerating evil Jezebel. ~ Give Him 15,  Rebuild the Altar – Ask for the Fire!

TRUTH

God lifted me out of the blindness in 2020 into one of the few remaining sanctuaries of His Truth:

For every true follower of Christ, the hour of testing is upon us!  By God’s grace and strength, will we truly “Stand Up, Stand Up, For Jesus”?  Will we stand up for Him, regardless of the cost?  Always in His unfailing love, Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church (Isaiah 41:10)!

Persistence is the ultimate gauge of our leadership; the secret is to outlast our critics. ~ John C. Maxwell

Got TRUTH?

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ Turning Point/Run to the Roar!

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Chip Murray

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ~ Matthew 7:21-23

What Pastor Mark described as “The Terrible Text” a few weeks back when he spoke to the three groups of humanity; those who don’t know they need to be saved, those who think they’re saved who are not {Mat. 7:21-23}, and those who are actually saved. “Only 3% of Christians are living in the Faith. Only 3% of pastors are living in the Faith.” ~ Jamie Waldron, Omega Dynamics. Here’s a cold hard fact: If the 97% of shadow-boxing Christians and pastors dancing in the darkness of their own irrelevance were to finally wake up and, as Bishop Samuel Vagalas Kanco puts it, “Stand in the authority of Jesus, get aggressive, conquer the land—to cast out devils,” all the world would come to Christ.

Anyone who has ever dealt with a friend or family member suffering from addiction, whether it be drugs, alcohol, gambling, pornography…you name it, knows the unholy trinity of denial, deception, and manipulation. Another far less discussed form of addiction has emerged in our culture, self-addiction with all its narcissistic siblings; self-preservation, self-absorbed, self-conscious.

It’s been a very revealing couple of weeks on a number of fronts. Scott had two back-to-back interviews that struck me as an American Eagle coin. The Pete Santilli interview revealed the America’s problem side of the coin. The Jarrin Jackson interview revealed the America’s solution side. And then just the other night BOOM! The Jamie Waldron interview reveals what is standing in the way: American Christianity in total denial. American Christianity is the most disgusting brand of Christianity I’ve ever seen on the face of the earth, and I’ve seen it everywhere on the face of the earth.” ~ Jamie Waldron

I observed the following several weeks ago: A very civically engaged single mom spoke to a roomful of Christians which included several pastors, to make them aware of a nefarious bill known as the Equal Rights Amendment which will appear on our New York ballots in November. If it passes, parents will no longer have the ultimate authority over their minor child’s sexual identity or reproductive rights/health issues. I saw American Christianity in denial on the face of one of the pastors present (who, in my humble opinion, represents the majority of pastors in our county), total indifference to what this passionate mother had to say. “The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.” ~ Jamie Waldron

I’ve been trying to get Christians back on to the field since I was saved in 2015. I thought the lockdowns would do it. I was wrong. One would think that the headline, “The Mutilation of Children Must Be Stopped!” would do it. One would be mistaken. Audrey Werner of Matthew 18 Ministry traces the roots of the “ineffectual church” (Ruckman Reference Bible…2009!!) back to the Sanger/Kinsey “shift” leading men to abandon their roles of love and protection for sex and recreation. Who can argue? Only those of us living in complete denial. Audrey Werner, Matthew 18 Ministry

These are the same men who closed His doors to the very people who needed Him when they needed Him most! These are the same men who impugned the rock-solid faith of Tricia S. Lindsay Esq., who brought God’s Word on September 24th, “The pastors need to repent for bowing to the enemy and closing their doors.” Who can argue? Only those in total denial.

Last year a solid Chistian soldier and friend of mine from Texas, Eric, donated 250 of the “Christians Protect Kids” bumper stickers pictured above. Not a single one of you had the courage to put one on your car…while “250,000 pastors that have signed NDA’s (non-disclosure agreements), trained by FEMA and DHS under non-disclosures to shepherd their flocks to be obedient to all top-down government edicts during a time of national emergency.” ~ Conversation With Jamie Waldron

Bottom Line: We are at THE turning point. 97% of you are sleepwalking straight on course for the Terrible Text. The ONLY way out? Run to the Roar!

Before you choose, do yourselves a huge favor and listen at the 36:29min mark to A Brother’s Legacy

Especially Now

Especially in the heat of day, when nothing seems to go my way…in the darkness of the night, when these feet of mine would turn to flight. When all around me is caving in, to the empty smile in the devil’s grin…Especially when the load to bear, becomes too much for my soul to care. In the endless hours of a lonely place, where heartache fills the empty space. When the race to run seems over and done…before the finish line. Especially then, and this I know, because His Word has filled me so. In this moment when ALL seemed lost, He was before me all the time…for the Especially Now, this race is mine! ~ CM July1, 2022

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ “Invincible Ignorance”

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Chip Murray

The “Incorruptible Class”

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. ~ Numbers 13:30-31

What set Caleb and Joshua apart from the other ten spies sent by Moses? Their relationship with God…

“I feel like God has let go of me…”

God NEVER lets us go…He lets us grow which at times feels like He’s letting us go.

“I feel like God has let go of me” expressed by a sister/friend this week has a very eerie “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” ring to it, no? What sets the sister/friend apart from Jesus’ cry from the Cross {Mat. 27:46}? Their relationship to God.

A fanatic is one who entrenches himself in invincible ignorance. Job will not accept anything that contradicts the facts he knows; he is not melancholy, he does not say God is cruel, he simply states the facts—“It looks as though God is rejecting me without any reason, all the facts go to prove this and I am not going to avoid them.” Job will not lay a flattering unction to his soul on the line of expediency. No man ever puts a stumbling block in the way of others by telling the truth; to tell the truth is more honoring to God than to tell a lie. ~ Oswald Chambers, Conceptions for Rejection

Now, please understand, I am not singling out and placing my sister/friend in the dubious category of invincible ignorance by any stretch…I am placing all of us there. The ONLY way to remove our veil of invincible ignorance is to examine our relationship to God right alongside and step by step to the relationship Jesus had with His Father. Think of human relationships through the stages; stranger, acquaintance, friend, best friend, in-love (oft referred to as soulmate). Where does our relationship to God fall on this spectrum? I can tell you that tragically for most Americans, as I witnessed in a video clip Friday morning, the relationship most of us have with God falls somewhere between stranger and acquaintance. In the video a man approaches random people filling up their cars at a gas station and offers to pay for their fill-up if they can recite one Bible verse to him. Only one man in ten or twelve was able. And then we have the audacity to blame God for the global mess we ourselves have created! Jesus, on the other hand, in contrast to the other ten and the sister/friend, was fulfilling Psalm 22:1 prophecy while offering Himself up…the unblemished lamb to atone for the sins of all humanity, past, present, and future! I’m pretty sure that’s the in-love stage. Amen?

Growth = Change. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. ~ Romans 12:2

And the best defense against change? You guessed it, Invincible Ignorance! On the other hand…

And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment. ~ 1 Chronicles 12:32

“God is waking up the Incorruptible Class!” A Conversation With Audrey Werner of Matthew 18 Ministry “The church shifted because of the influence of Margaret Sanger and Alfred Kinsey…leading men to abandon love and protection for sex and recreation. https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/articles/kinsey/” ~ Audrey Werner of Matthew 18 Ministry. And the Incorruptible Class is “dedicated to waking up the Church to the social science which has overtaken it in the realm of life and marriage.” https://matthew18.org/

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. ~ Romans 11:3-4

Pastor Dave has a message for all you pastors and churchmen perched safely on the fence feeling “bashed” by the seven thousand; Satan owns the fence!

Look and see, listen and hear…Think brothers and sisters:

The Intuition of Issachar

  • The culture…
  • The timing…
  • The strategy…

The three wills of God:

  • The good will…
  • The acceptable will…
  • The perfect will…is the Christian doing exactly what God wants at precisely the time He wants it done. ~ Ruckman Reference Bible 🙏🦅🙏

Psalm (Heart) & Proverb (Wisdom) a Day Drives the Tyrant Away! PS 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD, I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. PR 26:14 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

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The Sunday Morning Tune-up ~ At the Wall

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Chip Murray

“Above All…{Eph. 6:16}

A moral agony gives a man a “second wind,” and he runs better after it, and is a good deal more likely to win. (Shad. Agony) ~ Oswald Chambers, At the Wall of the World

If you haven’t hit your moral agony wall yet my friend, trust me when I say, “Buckle up buttercup.” God presented a powerful crossroads where faith and man meet in the final showdown of all showdowns this week. He presented the Wall of the World to me along with Job {42:10}, Esther {5:3}, Paul’s account of Abraham in Romans {4:12}, Stephen Prouse, Sons of Thunder, and the FULL armor of God a la Ruckman Reference Bible.

Pastor Mark brought a great message to Howells last Sunday in which he distilled all of humanity down to three types of people; the lost who don’t know they need to be saved, those who think they’re saved and are not, and those who are saved and know they are saved. What God was showing me by presenting Job, Esther, and Abraham up against the Chambers Wall, was first and foremost, it takes moral character to suffer moral agony, and second, a strength of faith that is “above all” {Eph. 6:16}.

“Modern Christianity has become so sissified, with its emphasis on positive thinking, amateur psychology, and ‘family values’ counselling, that it has completely lost its military element and has become totally ineffectual.” ~ Ruckman Reference KJV Bible footnotes on Ephesians 6:10-20

For the many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. ~ Romans 8:14-15

THE message the sons of God so desperately need to hear today! Stephen Prouse, Sons of Thunder

As we move closer and closer to the wall the trials will grow more intense, the pretenders in your circle will fall away, as the contenders drawn together will grow stronger. This is the time to look to and draw from the qualities of Job, Esther, Paul, and Abraham. If you do not see their willingness to sacrifice in you, dig deeper until you do. If you don’t find their courage in you, then keep digging until you do. God will favor you once you find them.

True Story

This weekend our newly formed County Constitutional Compliance Committee applied to the promoters/organizers of the Middletown Gun Show for a table to collect signatures on four 1st Amendment Petitions to Remove the UN, Stop the Invasion, Protect Our Medical Freedom, and Ban the Chemtrails. We were denied. Yes, you read right. A 2A group denied our 1A group! But God will always present the Great Solution when we walk the walk! The justification of every sinner is by faith, and by faith alone. But it is our just walk that proves Him just in saving us. If we do not walk in the life of faith, we are a slander to God. ~ Oswald Chambers, The Great Solution: The Mount  Hope Chinese Association, our staunch allies in raising awareness to the CCP role in destroying the very heart of America…the family, stepped up to give us a table! And here’s the best part of all. We might have collected more signatures at the gun show, but not only did we get THE most important signature in our county on all four petitions, we also met the independent filmmaker who just completed his documentary “The Border War” after working on it for the past one and one-half years. He signed all four as well. It will debut February 26th! God’s most consistent MO is quality over quantity. Don’t be caught short…brothers. Come sign our petitions to Reclaim Our Republic today from 11am to 6pm, table 36, in the Youth Center. Let’s shatter that wall together!

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