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