From the Hawk’s Nest

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. ~ Proverbs 18:1-2

Today, Sunday March 30^th, is day 39 of what was to have been 40 days of prayer and fasting in the wilderness. On day 30 God invited me to breakfast with the second half of Proverbs 20:13, open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. As I mentioned in the last Tune-up, this was the second time in ten years I was led to the wilderness by the God of Proverbs 18:1 desire to separate myself. Ten years ago it was for 14 days and He told me what He had to tell me on day 1 through Pastor Kirby’s message on James 4:8. This time He made me wait…until day 36!

Day 36: Faith gets us into the middle, which is God and God’s purpose.      (Moral Found.) Please read to the end for the message to “you” from the middle…

What nobody knew on day 1, including myself, was that He was going to lead me to the four compass prayer points of Orange County, West, East, North, and South in place of my usual attendance at Howells Church every Sunday. So, on March 2nd I prayed over every family in Orange County from Hawk’s Nest on the Delaware River. On March 9^th I prayed over every family in Orange County from Trophy Point at West Point on the Hudson River. On March 16^th I prayed over every family in Orange County from the Shawangunk’s, and on March 23^rd I prayed over every family in Orange County from Greenwood Lake. The following Thursday, March 27^th, day 36 God explained: Jesus…specifically, my FAITH in Him, put me in the exact middle of the four prayer points. It was exactly the same 30-minute ride to Hawks Nest, West Point, New Paltz (Ulster), and Greenwood Lake from my home in Slate Hill!   

On the first Compass Prayer Point Sunday listening to the “Gospel Train” on Bluegrass Junction on my way to Hawk’s Nest, I was treated to “Wilderness” by the Isaacs! Of course!

But it wasn’t on just the horizontal compass points, He had to lift me above the noise below where I could see what so many are not seeing…He showed me the invincible formula of Faith & Righteousness through brother George’s Daniel 6:28 text on that morning of day 36…which led me to 6:22, My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Peter Ruckman’s Notes drove the lesson deeper: (6:28) From a devotional point of view, we learn from Daniel 6 that: 1) the root of all sin in time and eternity is envy (Gen. 4:3-8; Isa. 14:12-15); 2) the Devil’s main realm is religion, not sensuality; 3) you can be uncompromising without being foolish; and 4) you my go into a “den of lions,” but God will go in with you. “The lion of the tribe of Juda” (Rev. 5:5) can handle the “roaring lion” (1 Pet. 5:8).

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. ~ Psalm 82:5 It is a dangerous thing to refuse to go on knowing.   (Utmost)

He used a United States senator to reveal the Psalm 82:5 HELL we have inherited as the DIRECT result of zero church leadership and the cowardly silence from our pulpits! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2HKlVYKAII

And on the very same day He presents the starkest contrast imaginable by showing me the cultural benefits of Godly leadership in the 2 Chronicles 19:1—20:37 story of Jehosaphat!

These Godly leadership vignettes were the reason God brought me here…it began the completion of Naval Commander Rob Green’s book, Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines (Which happens to be America…perhaps the greatest casualty of the MIA church) As my friend Woody pointed out, Commander Green’s book is the only book he has ever seen garner 5 stars in 100% of the reviews on Amazon! Having the moral courage to expose the immoral actions of those who ordered men and women faithfully serving their country to VIOLATE THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE…here in America!!! James Madison wrote in his essay on property, “Conscience is the most sacred property of all.” I urge all Americans to read his book. His ordeal inspired him to call us ALL to “faithfulness to conscience.”

Paul, leading by example in 1 Thessalonians 1:7; 2:2-4

Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn on Learning, Character, Faith, and Freedom:

“Ends are higher than means, and the highest ends are the best and most beautiful to know. Such ends are indicated in authoritative American use by the expression, ‘the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.’ That phrase is used in the Declaration of Independence to justify the nation itself…If freedom and equality are established in the nature of things, then they may not be violated rightly by anyone, even if he is the King of England or the totalitarian dictator of Germany…We are facing a situation like the ones our forebearers faced in the American Revolution and the Civil War…We have found in short the principle, and therefore the essence, of the human. Created in the image of God, humans are meant to know, to be free, and to love the best things. These things are not automatic: they must be cultivated. This cultivation gives all human life the purpose that makes it what it is. We think we and all others have a right to pursue this cultivation. It is the ultimate human right, and it must be defended.”

Iconic NFL coach Vince Lombardi’s words, “The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.”

“Only the evil attack the protectors.” ~ Craig “Saw Man” Sawyer

Two revelations on the morning of Day 16, the first and last letters of Winston Churchill’s name spells WILL. It was the strength of the will of this one man when the majority had none, that saved England, and the world. And, Acts 5 Ananias and Sapphira are today’s church, bringing their certain part and keeping back the rest. Whatever we possess for ourselves is of the nature of sin. (Moral Found.)

When you begin to deport yourself among men as a saint, they will leave you absolutely alone, you will be reviled and persecuted. No man can stand that unless he is in love with Jesus Christ; he cannot do it for a conviction or a creed, but he can do it for a Being whom he loves. ~ Oswald Chambers, Systemic Vexation

“I pray that genuine people stand up and speak the truth. And I pray more so for genuine Christians to stand up and speak the truth, without hesitation, without reservation, without fear or hypocrisy. I pray for that. I believe if the church was extremely firm…I’m talking about the universal church, Christendom. If Christendom was genuine, truly genuine, I don’t think so many things the world would have gotten away as they did. But the problem is there is a lot of hypocrisy and there’s a lot of infiltration in the hierarchal positions within the church. It’s been infiltrated and that’s why some church leaders have sold the flock.” ~ Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel

Jesus Christ can make the weakest man into a divine dreadnought, fearing nothing.  (Servant as Lord)

And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD? ~ 1 Chronicles 29:5

“The closer you get to God, the weirder you get to people. The Devil’s strategy is make sin look normal, and make righteousness look weird. To be right with God is to be wrong with the world. To be right with the world is to be wrong with God. If you blend in and you look like everybody else in the world, and you claim to be a follower of Jesus, I question you a little bit. When you live for eternity you will always seem out of place in a world chasing temporary things. God taught us to be set apart, not to fit in. But who cares about what people think about you in this world? Jesus was thinking about you on the Cross. And His opinion of you will never change! Can I get an Amen?” ~ BardsFM guest

We have no business to bow our necks to any yoke saving the yoke of …Jesus Christ.   (Bib. Psych.)

Finally, thus sayeth the LORD:

You, you know who you are. You who write for yourself books about My Word, yet do not know Me because you have no relationship with Me, no loyalty to Me, and no trust in Me. Your children have no faith because they see no faith in you. They do not see Me in you. Worst of all, I commissioned you to feed My sheep, care for My sheep, and to PROTECT My sheep…False Shepherds can lead by example too. Aside from lacking a single leadership quality presented above God brought me into the middle to show me, you have led a circus of the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil monkeys away from the middle to the sidelines of the life I created them to live! And, as if that weren’t pastoral dereliction enough, you led them to be nice to the wolf. Lastly, you bowed your neck to the yoke of man IN FEAR of a cold…and IN FEAR without discernment you allowed DNA-altering poison into the body of My church.

Thus sayeth the LORD.