When it rains…

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. ~ Issaiah 9:16

To the Jude 1:4 spirit which crept in unawares; we see you now. There is no place left to hide. God is shining His light in every dark corner, and his faithful are coming with a power you recognize and fear and are powerless to stop. Leave now, while you can. That herd of swine by the Finger Lakes  will be happy to take you in!

Isaiah warned us! Jeremiah {8:10}, {23:1}, Ezekiel {13:3, 22:26}, Jude {1:12}, and most recently from the pulpit of the “The Hyper-Grace/Half-Gospel Church” as our Christian brother in Christ and good shepherd Pastor Earl refers to them, this rebuke of Christians responding to the Olympic blasphemy:

I’m a pastor, and I have something to say.

Christians that get online and spew hate toward nonbelievers anger me much more than nonbelievers spewing hate toward my religion.

I have no idea what the table at the Olympics was supposed to represent, as the official statement contradicts the larger opinion. But what I can say is that every single person at that table would have been invited to Jesus’ table. Jesus not only spent His time on earth with sinners, He invited them to the very table everyone assumes the Olympic table represents.

Matthew was a tax collector. Peter was about to deny Him. Thomas was about to doubt His resurrection. Judas was about to betray Him. Jesus ate with them anyway. Jesus was with “sinners” all of the time. In fact, it’s one of the reasons the church people hated Him and wanted Him dead. Please allow this to serve as a reminder that people who are not Christians are not our responsibility to regulate. Jesus gave us an example to follow of welcoming everyone and pointing them toward the love of Jesus. Remember that God’s kindness is meant to lead us to repentance, not the shouting of His angry “followers.”

This doesn’t mean I condone any religion (especially my own) being mocked. In fact, it is wrong. But my heart doesn’t hurt for what they are doing to Jesus. My heart hurts for people that are likely not in a loving relationship with their Creator. Jesus doesn’t need me to shout about sinners sinning. He wants me to shout about the hope and the love they are missing out on. Before you share an angry post, or shout at people that Jesus died for, think for a while, and ask yourself if He would do the same. To be honest, you already know the answer. He wouldn’t. He didn’t. He died for them just as much as He died for you. Angrily shouting at people that don’t know Jesus is in direct contradiction to the example He gave us on the cross. Westboro Baptist sandwich signs should anger you much more than this. Jesus flipped tables on people in the temple, not people outside of it. Remember that. ~ Pastor Jacob W

I wrote to Pastor W to first say that I did not see spewing of hatred. What I did see was righteous anger reminiscent of David’s anger in 1 Samuel 17, that I knew nothing about him, his church, or how he has prepared and is preparing his congregation for what is coming. And that I would need to know this and more before being scolded and lectured to by him or any other Christian about how, when, and where to engage the enemy. The enemy he never identified, or described in any way, because he was too busy shaming those in the Christian community who dared to stand. I closed by asking him if he had read the book or seen the movie, “Letter to the American Church?” That was five days ago…still waiting. Welcome to the waterless skies of Laodicea! My heart BREAKS for what they are doing to Jesus!

On the other hand…

Just as the  Liberty Tree’s  rain in Maine falls plainly on His FAITHFUL remnant…the fertile soil here in Orange County NY was equally blessed this past Friday morning…

From Chrissy:

Walking and praying. This is what I read “by accident” searching for something else. My God is truly amazing.   I wanted to share this wonderful message.

Blessed in Trust

Jeremiah 17 begins with a rebuke. God is calling out the Israelites for their idolatry, for trusting in other gods and forsaking Him and His teachings. Like a parent with a child who’s made a terrible choice, God makes it very clear that these choices have led and will lead to consequences. And yet, rather than only focusing on all that’s been lost and will be lost because of Israel’s terrible choices, Jeremiah takes a moment to bring a refreshing reminder:
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.”
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
He calls those who trust Him “blessed,” even as chaos, sin, and idolatry reign around them. He says that people who trust in God “will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:8 NIV)
We get to choose who and what we worship. Who is your confidence in? Who do you trust? If it is the Lord, take heart knowing that in this you are blessed. An abundant life in God, full of fruit even when sin is all around, is the mark of having chosen to trust Him. What an incredible thing it is to be able to make this choice!

My response:

Amen sister…and (no surprise) it rhymes beautifully with this morning’s Oswald (fellow Scott) Chambers read: Arguers against obeying the call of God will arise in the shape of country and kindred, and if you listen to them you will soon dull your ears to God’s call and become the dullest, most commonplace Christian imaginable, because you have no courage in your faith; you have seen and heard, but have not gone on. ~ Faithful to God’s Call 🙏❤️🙏 Onward and ever upward!! 🌞

Chrissy:

I just LOVE when God ties things together like that for us to PLAINLY see.  GO GOD!!! 😁

Me realizing His call has become His SHOUT!:                                                                  

AND…in my same Chambers read (every day Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, New Testament)…are you ready? 🌞 The Old was Jonah 1:1-4:11! The ONLY prophet that Christ gave as a sign for Himself…who disobeyed the call!! AND the Psalm? 144:1-8 which just happened…by coinkeedink of course 😄 to line up with today’s Psalm & Proverbs a Day!!

A Psalm (Heart) & Proverb (Wisdom) A Day Drives the Tyrant Away! PS 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

PR 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Are you able to now see the contrast between the superficial and the supernatural???

There is a Convergence train coming and a heartbreaking majority of Americans are going to miss it because of the nice white fluffy but waterless clouds that have stalled over the ministry of Pastor Jacob, and thousands more like his across America.

“This treasonous administration has released 12,000,000 (their #’s…they lie) of which 250,000 are terrorists. (‘Slaughter houses where they harvest the organs of children while they’re still alive.’ ~ Christie Hutcherson) They’ve lost 500,000 unaccompanied alien children! We are living in a moral cesspool of evil, and we’ve allowed it! I lay it all on the American man…ALL of it! God instilled in us to take care our women and our children, and we failed. We failed at every level possible, EVERY level. Why? Because we are spiritually weak, we’re emotionally weak, and physically. We are an obese society with impotent men. We’ve been conditioned to believe that masculinity is bad. We have been conditioned that a strong Christian man is evil, and we’re now reaping what we have sown.” ~ JJ Carrell, Border Agent Whistleblower, Justice In America

Remember that…Pastor Jacob…as you consider this:

BE STRONG ~ Maltbie D. Babcock

Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle, face it, ’tis God’s gift.
Be strong, be strong, be strong!

Be strong!
Say not the days are evil — who’s to blame?
And fold the hands and acquiesce — O shame!
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God’s Name.
Be strong, be strong, be strong!

Be strong!
It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day, how long;
Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Be strong, be strong, be strong!