My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. ~ Proverbs 4:20-27
Today is not just any day, and I am not just any son. For I am, along with my brothers and sisters who have labored these past eight-and one-half months to prepare the ground for this day, sons and daughters of the King Most High. And as such, we are given His authority as stewards of this worldly realm He has born us into and chosen us out of.
Stewardship ~ : the office, duties, and obligations of a steward…
: the conducting, supervising, or managing of something…
especially: the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care.
Our world gone mad has nothing to do with us…but we, by our God-given authority, have everything to do with it. And the absolute horror of this decadent freak show of immoral oblivion our country has deformed into is the direct result of our having abandoned our office, duties, and obligations…to the point we nearly lost our John 17:21 Revival by attempting to cancel three of the bravest defenders of our office, duties, and obligations! As Jude foretold them, earnest contenders for the faith. By God’s grace and the precious gift of His discernment, we pondered our path and held our ground. The very same discernment that saved the ONLY family in Jericho (Joshua 2:9, 6:22,23).
As Howells shepherd Pastor Steve preached a few weeks ago, Revival that comes of the Holy Spirit seeing us in the state of our desperation, involves repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. Surely there can be no reconciliation without repentance. And there can be no repentance without assuming full accountability and responsibility for the fact that our deviation from the Proverbs 4:20-27 path by what Dutch Sheets refers to as an “irrelevant” and “disabled church” has led us into the hellish quagmire of double-mindedness, half-hearted weakness, and fearfulness. It is the church, church pastors, and churchmen who need to repent, if we’re to have any hope of reclaiming our authority as sons of the King Most High. True restoration has to start with us in order to return the church, His Ecclesia, to its rightful place as THE moral authority of the nation God intended us to be…a nation now barely on life support.
A true believer shared with me on Friday that his 22-year-old son shocked him and his wife a short while back when he confessed his lack of believing in the Word of God. That’s on us as men of the church! We had a remarkable special prayer service at Howells Church last night that included a special treat from Songs of Revival which will be performed today at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, a powerful message on Revival from Pastor Tim Mercaldo, and prayer for Revival and all involved today from 11-5pm in Poughkeepsie. We especially prayed for all the lost, hurting, and suffering souls seeking love, light, beauty, and truth in a world that just seems to grow darker by the day.
Only God knows what today will bring. While we have seen many, many signs and wonders affirming His hand in choosing this time and place…
(Haggai 2:18-19)…the far greater question as it pertains to our survival and posterity is, “What is He seeing in us?”
Whether or not this is the beginning of a Great Revival, it is only a good start of a great commission for the CLOTH (Christian Leaders Of The Hudson). There was a welcoming message of well wishes and move towards reconciliation last night from friends the enemy tried to separate us from. The enemy is panicked knowing his best efforts to derail us have failed, and our trajectory and momentum towards the realization of John 17:21 oneness is unstoppable! Next stop, the return of a Godly education with the Eagle Classical Christian Academy! All we need now are for a few good men to return to the game and step up to be the Sons and Stewards God made them to be! Amen?
We are so truly desperate for revival brothers and sisters, even the bugs are praying for it! What the Luke 7 Pharisees rejected then, the “business as usual” pastors and priests reject today, not being baptized of Him…born again, as Jesus counseled Nicodemus (St. John 3:7). They are aptly the middle group in this, the final act of a trio of key actors on the American stage of our greatest chapter: The Up-enders, The Pretenders, and The Defenders. Dutch covered it well…
“2% of Millennials (born 1980 to 1995) have a Biblical world view…basically, an entire generation of Americans believe the Bible is irrelevant. How can anyone argue that it will not take a great awakening and reformation to save America. It also makes one wonder how so many churches can simply continue with business as usual.” ~ Dutch Sheets-Give Him 15, The Disabled Church…which rhymes with the vision that haunts me; Man waiting on God waiting on man.
So, God proved our Revival Committee on the Farm, and moved us to the River to, I believe, send a message to the business as usual pastors and priests that they’ve made themselves irrelevant. And He gave me a dream…
9/13/23 River Dream
I had this very strange and very real dream that woke me between 2 and 3am this morning: I was with a small group of men…might have been men and women. We were leaving a small village onto a bridge that crossed over a river…when the guy in front just all of a sudden jumped off the bridge 30-50’ into a river that could have been the Hudson River…without a blink, I followed him and did the very same thing. When I got to the other side quite a ways downstream, I climbed a very steep palisade that reminded me of the climb I made in California nearly 50years ago. I made my way to a home and walked in the back door to find a several kids who reacted to my appearance as if almost expected…I tried to get them to alert mom so I wouldn’t be a fright, and she was as calm as they…and then the husband appeared and it was all so pleasant…he was trying/wanting to show me an old album…Beatle album I think…and there was some kind of old relic hippie bus I think parked in front he had to show me.
I just remember thinking as I scaled the mountain this feeling of renewal…almost rebirth…with no more cell phone. Everything was right again. And then I woke up…
Prayer warriors needed on the river! Tune in to Sound of Life today (89.7FM) 9:20am, 1:30pm, and 6:20pm 😊
“All God’s children they come down to the river, they wanna jump in but they’re afraid of gettin’ nearer. It’s easier to sit and watch the water run by…and wait until it’s your turn to die.” ~ Muddy Water, Chip Murray 2004
I don’t know what it will take to reawaken the men waiting on God to their role as men. I know that I invited many of the them to a “Biblical Justice in America” call with brother Marshall, organizer of the upcoming “Mighty Men of Valor” conference October 20th this past Friday, and only four pastors showed up for the call. The Truth of His Remnant: What the Pretenders would throw away, the Defenders treasure…
Doctrine of the lesser magistrate The lesser magistrate doctrine declares that when the superior or higher civil authority makes unjust/immoral laws or decrees, the lesser or lower ranking civil authority has both a right and duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority. If necessary, the lesser authorities even have the right and obligation to actively resist the superior authority. ~ Matthew J. Trewhella, author of The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates
Before the dawn there is desolation; but wait, the dawn will merge into glorious day—“…the light of dawn, that shineth more and more into the perfect day.” If you are experiencing the darkness of desolation on individual lines, go through with it, and you will find yourself face to face with Jesus Christ as never before. “I have come that they may have life”—life in which there is no death—“and that they may have it more abundantly.” ~ Oswald Chambers, The Darkness of Desolation
Join us one week from today for the CLOTH John 17:21 Hudson River Revival from 11am to 5pm at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie! That we be one! To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet unto the way of peace (St. Luke 1:79).
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. ~ Psalm 19:4-5
It’s really quite something to draw near enough to that thing you were born to do, that you can actually see it. You imagine in your head that the prophet who foretold these things to you and more, forty-seven years ago, will be there. Why wouldn’t he be? All the failures…all the heartaches…all the disappointments and losses. But always that voice, “Keep going.” I heard this great quote on Bards the other day, “God will put you back together…right in front of those who broke you.” In fact, I highly recommend you listen to Scott’s interview from Thursday night with Joe Allen. Here’s a man who has studied the enemy for the past twenty plus years. And from my morning MAX a few days back, “Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.” And yet the fear of failure has stopped more than a few good men…even Christian men, of all men, who should know the victory is already won. What Christian man doesn’t want to see himself in Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena mirror…and why? Fear…
We had an amazing call with an amazing brother in Christ, Lt Col Pete “Doc” Chambers last week on the situation we are ALL facing as Americans, believers and unbelievers alike. The call presentation was “Decisively Engaged” for 16 Christian men who are effectively engaged as leaders in their respective areas of our Northeast. Decisively engaged, as Doc shared, is when things go hot which few of us, myself included, have ever experienced. I have no idea how I will handle it, no one does. But I can tell you this from my own experience. God does not give us anything we cannot handle when we are faithful to Him. In fact, I have learned from my own walk that He chose me long before I fully accepted Him, and I am now able to see how He prepared me for all of what is about to happen by subjecting me to test after test over the years, incrementally building from small to bigger, harder, and more intense (1 Sam. 17:34-36).
Which brings us to OUR revival. God is proving us (Judges 3:1-4). He anointed CLOTH to the task of preparing the ground in January, and He appointed the committee to choose the time and place, and to select and vet the speakers and performers. Seven and a half months of His blessing us with spiritual, financial, and human resources. All united in a John 17:21 Spirit of mission and purpose…until the ides of August, when a different spirit crept in, effectively calling for the removal of the decisively engaged Joshua’s and Caleb’s from our lineup! God does not give us anything we cannot handle when we are faithful to Him, and our committee never flinched, never waivered under fire, and remained faithful to Him. We were tested, proven, and as a result our Hudson Valley will be favored with revival at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie on Sunday September 24th from 11-5pm, not for our righteousness, but for their wickedness (Deut. 9:4). To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet unto the way of peace (St. Luke 1:79).
Brothers and Sisters, Revival is not the end but the beginning of a very long hard road to the third R in Pastor Steve’s R trilogy from his message last Sunday; Restoration. Are we ready? I know a certain committee that is! Restoration will never come to those who wait for God to do that which He provided them the full Ephesians armor to do for themselves. Woe to the poor souls who failed the first test, and never humbled or repented…only to wake up chained to the wrong spirit at the final exam. As Doc would say, “Suck it up buttercup!” There are no more safe shortcuts, no more cozy comfort in the shade…that’s the fool’s path to the wide gate. We are bound for glory, brothers and sisters, on this long hard road to the narrow gate. Amen?
But Mama kept our Bible read, while Daddy kept our family fed, and somewhere in between I must have grown. And someday I was dreaming that a song that I was singing takes me down this road to where I wanna go…and now I know, it’s a long hard road.
Oh yes, our good shepherd adds a P word for good measure…
The “perilous times” of these “last days” (see 2 Timothy 3) are already upon us, and what’s ahead of us, according to God’s Word, will try our faith as never before! As God’s people, however, let us be reminded of His sanctifying, purpose through suffering and the testing of our faith, as Peter said, “That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ….” (1 Peter 1:7ff). The testing of our faith, therefore, clearly serves to purify and to perfect the faith in which we already stand! Please also read First Peter 4:12-19, where the apostle speaks about our being “partakers of Christ’s sufferings” as the Apostle Paul also speaks of “the fellowship of His sufferings”, according to Philippians 3:10! Testing from our God, or permitted by Him, therefore, is not designed to defeat us, but instead to perfect us, and to develop “patience” (spiritual “endurance”) in our lives and witness for Christ (see Romans 5:1-5 & James 1:2-4), that we may become more complete and mature in Him! Then, as with Daniel in Babylon, for example, along with Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, their severe testing only served to prove who and what they truly were, regardless of what they faced – faithful to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob! What will the days ahead prove about us? Not that we are anything in ourselves apart from our God and His grace and mercy, but that our faith in Him is solid and secure for His glory, “whether it be by life, or by death” (Philippians 1:20)! Will we cave in under the pressure, the threats, or under the ill treatment of the enemy and his followers? Did Peter and John collapse before the Sanhedrin (see Acts 4)? Who will we choose to obey? Or, perhaps better asked, “Who have we already decided to obey and to follow”? the story is told of a fireman who risked his very life to rescue a child from a burning building! A bystander then exclaimed that the firefighter “had become a hero”! Someone else then quickly responded, saying, “Oh no! He was already a hero”! The fire only proved that he was a hero at heart! By God’s grace, what will the days ahead prove us to be? Fearful, or faithful?
The altar of God’s choosing is not approached by feelings of devotion or emotions of worship; that is why it is difficult to discover it. All natural religion reaches its climax in ritual, in the beauties of aesthetic and sensuous worship. God’s altar is discerned only by the Holy Spirit when that Spirit is in a man. ~ Oswald Chambers, Supreme Sacrifice
That Spirit was/is in the greatest ALL-IN team I have ever had the honor to serve with…the CLOTH John 17:21 Revival Committee. CLOTH has been led, blessed, and fed by the Holy Spirit since July of 2020. Through the inception of a classical Christian academy in December of 2021, to the actual Labor Pain birth of the John 17:21 Hudson Valley Revival, delivered on the Labor Day weekend, as only God could do. The original altar was a beautiful farm in Montgomery…until man got in the way, second-guessing our committee, with a better idea…a safer idea. As our CLOTH chaplain put it so well: It suggested the “things of men” rather than the “mind of God.” The better idea came from a church pulpit of all places. The committee never flinched, knowing and honoring God’s mind in the matter. This note to our committee this past Friday morning:
By day’s end we will have six “Hail Mary” passes headed for our 9/24 end zone…in the game already won! For the last several days I have walked by a face-side-down envelope on the table in the kitchen where new mail is placed. This morning I woke up thinking about what will be at this Sunday’s CLOTH meeting, our meeting today with Pastor Sam…and the words “ALL IN” from one who wasn’t. And how in this hour of our lives, every one of us must be. And for some reason this morning I picked up that envelope addressed to me to read His 9/24 affirmation! And then His word Deut. 9:4-6…He will bring Revival to the Civic Center not for our righteousness, but for their wickedness! And Deut. 9:10:16:17 because “It is a great thing to have a God BIG enough to believe in!” He’s not done. Psalm 37:12-17 and Luke 1:79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet unto the wayof peace.
~ Chip
I see three types of people in America right now in this pivotal hour: Upenders,Pretenders, and Defenders…those ALL IN. Pretenders being the most dangerous. Those who pretend away the Truth will get in the way, and even betray those who at all costs will defend the Truth.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring…~ Teddy Roosevelt, excerpt from his Man in the Arena speech.
…and His Word is fresh every day…
Proverbs 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Something miraculous is about to happen. What the Upenders have turned upside down, God, working through His Defenders, is finally ready to put rightside up again. And He’s going to do it in the Arena…of the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie on Sunday, September 24th!
My engineer, who produced my last CD a year ago, who I haven’t spoken to this year, who has no idea of any of these things, Fed-exed me one hundred of the CD’s this week without explanation…for the baby shower…just in time for today’s CLOTH meeting at 4pm. The CD title? “When the World Turns Around”!
I shared the ALL IN envelope Holy Spirit story with a young pastor the other day. His response, “That’s funny.” That told me I was talking to a young man who was not tuned into the supernatural dimension…where the Holy Spirit lives. Recently I was accused of being uncompassionate in my description of today’s business-as-usual church void of youthful potency because the youth have gone elsewhere to satisfy their supernatural craving. That’s why the Holy Spirit choosing Sunday seemed crazy to some pastors. But God isn’t looking to bring in pastors, He is looking to bring back His children. Amen? As I said to some…I am praying for many to consider the Mid-Hudson Civic Center their House of Worship on Sunday, September 24th!
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For when he dies, he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. ~ Psalm 49:17 John C. Maxwell, August 27, Leave More Than An Inheritance
After watching those who play the safe middle for years, I saw that safe space take a direct hit this past week. With it came the words labor pain in the middle of a restless sleep which, in the wake of events around planning for revival, I instantly connected to Jesus giving life on the Cross, to mothers giving birth in the womb, to three speakers targeted for being exactly what Jesus was accused of; daring to speak truth to a world that hates the truth.
One of my favorite writers is a New Yorker named Maureen Mullarkey who has been gifted as both an artist and a writer. We’ve become pen-friends! She penned, in my opinion, one of her best and most important works this week about a lost generation that does not bode well for our future at all. And we, as their parents and grandparents, are fully accountable and 100% responsible.
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. … Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture…In the surrender of youth culture to technology, the Huxleyan prophecy has been fully realized.” ~ Trading our intellect for “Influencers”
I wrote to thank her and shared the article with our Revival Committee adding, “This is exactly why we DESPERATELY need Revival!” Because only God can fix what we ourselves have absolutely destroyed. My good friend Pastor Mark shared some nuggets of heartland wisdom with our committee this past week:
Somewhere along the line churches got into the practice of safe Christianity.
Safe Christianity made the church spiritually impotent.
The battle for souls is on the front line, not the rear.
There is no safety on the front line.
The farmer prayed for revival. God brought revival. The farmer threw it out…for safety sake.
EVERYTHING, brothers and sisters has come down to a very fine and crystal-clear line between good and evil, death (inheritance) and eternity (legacy)…
What we do in life, echoes in eternity. ~ Maximus
There is no more grey. Those foolish enough to play the grey will rue the day! The double-minded will likely continue their ill-fated dance around the middle where they will have plenty of company. Don’t be fooled when they come to you clothed in their linens of what Bonhoeffer referred to as cheap grace, seeking reconciliation. But accept and embrace them only in the sack cloth and ash trappings of true repentance.
God is bringing the Revival of His Church to the Hudson Valley on Sunday September 24th. Mark it on your calendars and take it to the new Treasures in Heaven Bank! The Legacy Church pastors will know by the Holy Spirit, their House of Worship on this day! The others…
Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ~ Acts 6:3 John C. Maxwell, Picking Your Team, August 20
Holy Spirit brought us to a very important line this past week. I watched the wolf in shepherds clothing come in and snatch a man’s dream right out of his hand, and then watched the poor man turn around to pet him. I watched as we separated ourselves by the very ruling of our own nature to take our place on either side of this line…
It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. ~ Oswald Chambers, Jesus Is Our Salvation
I could not possibly be more in love with my brothers and sisters in CLOTH who chose with a passionate conviction this week to stand on Faith for those who stand for the love of Jesus Christ.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. ~ Revelation 3:12
And on the other side are those we are sad to see who try to ride that middle rail, with one foot on cold, and the other on hot. They fear the “political and controversial” for having to choose a side and choose instead to subjugate themselves and their congregations to pews of willful blindness and ignorance.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ~ Revelation 3:15-16
So, while it was tragic to watch as the farmer went from taking his Revival cue from Holy Spirit to the counsel of Laodicea, it was amazing to see my brothers and sisters under fire, prove themselves before God to overcometh the ruse of the enemy in the 11th hour. The attack on CLOTH by the Laodicea pastors only strengthened our resolve and commitment to serve the Holy Spirit. It also revealed the weak spots in our own walls which need mending. Whatever God is bringing, He will do it through those of us nourished and standing on Faith over those of us mired in quandary questioning in fear.
Revival, my dear brothers and sisters, is a matter of awakening the sleeping church. Imagine the Devil’s delight as he watched CLOTH attacked from the pulpit. But in the same attack he went after a woman of faith who advocates fearlessly “for the rights of her students and their families who fall prey to the criminal justice system,” a man of God who happens to be the abortionist’s greatest nightmare, and my mentor in the Faith who has dedicated his life to New York Faith & Freedom, and the truth of our duty to uphold both as citizens of the greatest republic ever blessed by God…if we can keep it.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. ~ Proverbs 14:12
The Holy Bible, Old and New Testaments, is an amazing training manual for how to live life in a world that really hasn’t changed that much since God sent Abraham out to multiply his seed. As far as human nature goes, it’s the same as it ever was. The Proverbs 14:12 trap catches as many good men today as it ever has.
If you decide to take up a cause that goes against the grain of the superimposed “social norm”…like, oh say, creating a Classical Christian alternative to LBGTQ/CRT/Satan Club Indoctrination Centers, or a Civics Organization that promotes the values and beliefs that gave birth to our nation over the collective group think madness that is presently leading our society to oblivion and its own self-destruction…EXPECT TO BE ATTACKED!
I discovered once such willing soul in Alex Newman this week. Straight from the stout-hearted men who say what they mean and mean what they say file! Alex flushes the snake from the grass at every level of our culture and proceeds to stomp its head with the battle cry, “I say we do it with the Great Commission!” Hold that thought…
On the very same day, I got this pretty amazing video about the “training manual” I referenced in the first paragraph of today’s Tune-up. I whole-heartedly encourage you to share this with people in your circle of family and friends who seem lacking in their conviction of faith. As I said to my friend after watching it. I’d say that’s amazing…but that’s God! What I find more amazing is the number of us who ACT as if He is not there!Alpha & Omega
…which bring us to The Deadly In-Between. Several weeks ago, I received this Derek Prince teaching from a dear friend. Living As Salt & Light In it, he describes his struggle in the Christian Faith as a young boy growing up in the UK because he saw no evidence of believing in the community of adults around him. BINGO!
My favorite book in the training manual is Acts, the story of the First Century Disciples of Jesus. God pointed me to the good shepherd of the church I now attend in a response I received to 136 letters I sent to all the pastors in Orange County New York where I live in 2020. Pastor Steve was one of the only four responses I received to my letter registering my objection to the churches closing their doors as a move that was antithetical to the Gospel. In his letter to me, Pastor Steve wrote, in agreement, “We are called to be First Century Disciples.”
Unfortunately for America the majority of church pulpits have become the favorite grassy knoll to the hiding snake. Why would this be? For the same reasons pedophiles seek positions in day care centers, boy scout troops, and Disney Land. In stark contrast to their colonial predecessors, the Black Robe Regiment, these are the hidden reefs Jude warned of; the clouds without water, trees whose fruit withereth, twice dead. Theirs is a gospel of fear designed to draw their flocks into the illusion of safety they carve out between truth and lie, the polar opposite of Psalm 23, the modern-day killing fields of the deadly in-between! CLOTH, on the very eve of Revival has come under its greatest attack since its inception in 2020…from the pulpit!
There is no middle ground when it comes to the accountability and responsibility we have to one another. Iron must sharpen iron. Truth must be told in love. But the easy way out which seemeth right to a man is exactly the paralysis and deadly in-between ways of death.
When is “that day”? When the Ascended Lord makes you one with the Father. In that day you will be one with the Father as Jesus is. ~ Oswald Chambers, Question versus Revelation
Don’t let “that day” find you hidden behind walls of dead stone, in between the right and wrong, truth and lie. Wherefore he saith, Awaken thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. ~ Ephesians 5:14
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. ~ St. Matthew 9:37-38
Sadly, most of us have grown up conditioned and taught to chase happiness. The happiness in finding the right career, home, wife/husband, family…life. It’s right there in our Declaration; the pursuit of happiness…the American Dream. Consoling a brother of my ripe old age the other day over his struggle in attaining this illusive carrot, knowing him to be Christian, I asked him if he was born again. Words, you see…words mean something…as I am newly discovering in my foray into the subject of common law. Joy is what we’re after!
Before we can find joy, we need to discover the truth. Or, as my dear friend and brother Rev. Bill Banuchi put it in January as the New York Faith & Freedom resolution for 2023, Restoring Truth. Yesterday I sent Proof of Our Coup d’état!! Parts 1 and 2…you listen and be the judge.
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Part 1 ~ “The Secretary of Defense IGNORED a sitting senator!” ~ DOD Whistleblower Lt Mark Bashaw
Part 2 ~ The Jan Halper-Hayes Clip at the 7min mark!!! WOW!!
Now to set the stage for Joy, the born-again-point I attempted to make with my struggling friend was exactly this: when we finally die to ourselves, which is to say, we die to sin and are born again in Christ Jesus, our carrot-chasing days are over. I imagine there are many folks my age who followed the Jesus “movement” in 1971 and mouthed the words, who are still chasing happiness carrots. Words, you see, have to mean something. But there’s way more…our long-haired friends in ’71 were missing something. If we can be conditioned to chase happiness, what else can we be conditioned to do? After you listen to Parts 1 and 2 above, it becomes clear that the something most ALL of us who were around in 1971 were missing (and many if not most still are) is TRUTH. And who came down the elevator in 2015 (hmm…the very year I was saved!) to reveal the truth and expose the “Deep State” enemy within? You guessed it! President Donald J. Trump, the man America has been conditioned to hate by those responsible for the greatest crimes in human history, including the sex-trafficking of children…which, oddly enough, brings us to the Joy part of today’s Tune-up. Yes, if you do not find Joy at the end of Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard’s “Service, Prayer, Gratitude” lecture to the cadets of the United States Air Force Academy, then my friend, you need to see a doctor. Service, Prayer, Gratitude
NOW, finally, on this Gathering of Saints Sunday upon the very fertile and well-prepared ground in Montgomery, NY, we have the TRUTH…AND, for those who are prepared to plant the seed of their former selves in the ground at Twin Ponds and be born again in Jesus Christ…we will have revival and the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen this September. We will know joy everlasting.
Remove impurities from the silver and the silversmith can craft a fine chalice; remove the wicked from leadership and authority will be credible and God-honoring. ~ Proverbs 25:4-5
My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,” ~ Galatians 4:19
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember? ~ St. Mark 8:17-18
While salvation is available to all who seek it, Revivals are a church matter. And the church up to this point is a mess; out of touch with its own self and the world around it. An abysmal failure in its mission, evidenced by the state of the culture God tasked it to influence. If desperation is the key to church Revival, as pointed out by Rev. Tim Mercaldo several weeks ago, then it seems to me that what is needed in this hour is for enough of us in the church to agree on our desperation, which is to say that we are broken beyond our ability as men to fix what we ourselves have broken, without genuine 2 Chronicles 7:14 repentance, and the supernatural intercession of our Creator. And there needs to be more. If our brokenness is the result of the church having stepped off the field, are there any among us who actually believe that “God is in control” will bring Revival without His church coming together (John 17:21) to be THE salt, THE light, and to be THE city on the hill He made us to be? This being the case, brothers and sisters, it is time for each of us to open our eyes, open our ears, and remember…there is an enemy. And there are none more well equipped than we to stand against it. BUT, first we need to know him (Hosea 4:6).
We are dealing with an attack on the human body, which is breaking us down into deep dark levels, wearing us down and trying to parasitically drain us into nothing, and ultimate compliance into their trans-humanist agenda. What that should tell you is on the flip-side of that is the human body is so resilient that its taking generations and layers and layers of attacks to be able to make us succumb to their will…at the center of point of all of this is our focus on God, and our strength that comes from our centering on Him. And I don’t say that lightly because that literally effects the frequency vibration and energy that they are trying to drain down. ~ Scott Kesterson, BardsFM
If we don’t know and understand how we are being attacked, how in the world would we be able to defend ourselves? A friend posted this just yesterday, “You’re Not Going To Wake Anybody Up Anymore! We’re basically at End Game.” Moments later a brother in CLOTH said to me that it will take a “Road to Damascus Moment” to awaken his former pastor. While that may be, here’s what I would say, We never give up on anybody. As He did with Paul, He can do with any of us. But this fight is about our energy, and using it wisely.
Most of all, we need to finally grasp the horrible truth that the enemy’s #1 target is children. And WE need to put an end to it and bring those responsible to swift justice. Sound of Freedom was our wake-up call to action. But it goes well beyond that…from the poisoning of their minds in our public schools, to the poisoning of their bodies: 63,060% increase in child excess death rates across Europe!!Death Shot! We would know it is the very same here too…if we had a legitimate 5th estate news service. This is being settled in the court of heaven, but we are being proven here and now (Judges 3:1-4).
“The worst thing we can do is give in to the darkness, and surrender to the darkness, and be quiet and silent because we’re afraid.” ~ Jonathan Cahn, Here & Now
There will be a CLOTH/Gathering of Saints next week where there will be a briefing on our responsibility and accountability to one another as members of the Body of Christ…for just such a time as this.
One of the greatest gifts leaders can give those around them is hope. Never underestimate its power. ~ John C. Maxwell, August
That whom so ever should cause these little ones to stumble…
A BRIEF WORD FOR US ALL: In this most critical hour of rapid spiritual and moral decline, we must steadfastly remember that God’s truth and His love are inseparable attributes of His eternal character! In this time of great apostasy, there are sadly even many professing Christians who are forsaking the truth of God’s Word in the name of a “love” that accommodates, permits, and tries to somehow justify the insane and immoral wickedness of our present evil culture! We tragically observe many individual clergy members, whole denominations, and even popular gospel recording artists now falling for the deception of sin and embracing what God clearly forbids! In the name of love, one very popular singer now embraces and condones the lesbian marriage of her daughter, and even celebrates it! While a gospel artist, she has forsaken truth and become a liar! Whatever the cost, we as the followers of Christ must by God’s grace stand for the truth in love! Truth, of course, apart from genuine love, grace and mercy, then becomes condemning religious legalism, keeping souls out of the kingdom! Let us remember the words of John the Apostle in his Second Epistle addressed to “the elect lady and her children”, where we clearly see, as in many other Scripture references, the unbreakable relationship between God’s truth and love! We cannot sacrifice one for the other regardless of the pressure of a corrupt world against us! ~ Pastor Steve Offringa, Howells Church
Day 26 ~ When the Spirit of God has opened your mind to His incoming and you are determining to know more, you will find that external circumstances and internal knowledge go together, and by obedience you begin to fulfill your spiritual destiny. ~ Oswald Chambers, Know What You Should Do
Today is day 28 of our corporate prayer and fast in preparing the ground for Revival here in the Lower Hudson Valley. As Pastor Steve warns us above, many are losing their discernment in this most critical hour. Last Thursday He showed me the stark contrast between a local pastor whose mind is open to His incoming in this hour, who stepped up to lead when and where leadership is needed most; and a local bank executive I hadn’t seen in 27 years who has turned his back on truth and sold his soul to the insane and immoral wickedness of our present culture. My connecting with Pastor Dave is the very fulfillment of Chambers’ truth of external circumstances coming together with internal knowledge. His #1 on the Prayers for Revival list: 1. Ask God to bring deep conviction of sin, spiritual brokenness, a holy fear of God & genuine repentance among His people. There will be no revival without these elements & only God can produce them in His people. After all we cannot program or work up genuine brokenness & repentance.(2 Corinthians 7:10)
Yesterday I drove an hour to stand with my Christian brothers and sisters in Croton-on-Hudson to let those sexually grooming children through Drag Queen Story Hours, know that our children are not for sale! We were armored up and while things got a little tense towards the end, we were anointed with Holy Spirit, and more than protected by His angels. I have learned something very important about spiritual warfare. The demons can SEE who has Jesus/Holy Spirit and who does not. If the enemy SEES the James 4:7 Spirit in you, he will leave Roadrunner-rubber running for the hills…or off a cliff and into the sea (Mark 5:6)! I witnessed my new friend Jane minister to a mother and her young son who could not have been more than 7, and a very angry couple on the proverbial edge…with pure love. The 7-yr-old had confronted us, coached by his mother, scolding us for judging. His head dropped as he realized Jane was the opposite of his mother’s description of who we are as sons and daughters of the most High. She diffused the anger of the couple in pretty much the same calming loving way. That, my friends, is exactly who and how we are called to be! Amen? We are THE salt, THE light, and THE city on the hill (Matt. 5:13-16)
My Texan brother Eric who writes, God WILL bless and empower those who openly proclaim His kingship over mankind. We Christians have to make the first move, in darkness, in confusion, in a situation that seems hopeless…And then, when the first defiant step forward into enemy territory is made, God sends his angelic host to fight alongside us…Those who venture out into hostile territory with the cross held high are worthy of divine help. We Christians need to follow the motto of the Special Air Service…”He who dares wins.” God favors those who dare. God bless, has offered me a partnership in the millstone business.
CHRISTIAN JUSTICE FOR PEDOPHILES…WITH MILLSTONES. ~ BY ERIC MARTIN.
We are three old guys, and we are all closing in on eighty years. We’ve paid our dues. We’ve earned our retirement 401-Ks and social security benefits. We’ve raised our families, welcomed grandkids and we’ve seen our fair share of trouble. Some of us went to war and bear the physical and emotional scars. We did it for God, country and family. We did it for America. It looks like we’ll have to do it all over again.
We love our great nation, and we are all united in feeling an anger that clouds every moment of our waking lives. We sense that something very wrong has gone down, that this country is in the hands of those who hate us. We have witnessed the disasters of the Biden administration, the humiliation in Afghanistan, where brave Americans fought and died, only to be betrayed by a doddering fool who can’t find his way out of the White House. We watched the egregious fraud that decided the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. We heard the lies of Doctor Fauci and his cohorts which paralyzed the entire nation. Our children lost two years of education… But there is something else that is even more sinister because it is a doctrine that threatens to make us all lose hope…It makes us doubt all the good that we and our ancestors have accomplished…It makes us hate ourselves, it derails our very sanity.
We learned in combat that demoralizing the enemy was a powerful weapon to attain his final defeat. America is now controlled by a globalist Neo-Marxist elite which has one overarching goal: to utterly destroy our Judeo-Christian civilization. They want to eradicate our belief in the God of the Bible, our reliance on the Ten Commandments as the unerring guides to a moral and stable society. They hate Jesus Christ and attack the Christian churches, not with fire and sledgehammers, but with armies of perverts who deny the truth of the gospels, and who deride Jesus Christ. They push a homosexual agenda which promotes the most disgusting forms of sexual deviancy.
From this perverse infiltration has grown the tentacles of depravity which are choking our people today. Judeo-Christian beliefs are supplanted with the divisive doctrines of “pride…” The LBGTQ-plus agenda which indoctrinates vulnerable children to believe that their biological sex is a myth. They are encouraged to mutilate themselves to advance the satanic goals of an enemy who intends to obliterate family cohesion. White American children are browbeaten by woke teachers to feel guilty for slavery, for being “privileged,” for coming from a two-parent family…Fathers are racist and have to go!
But the vilest offence against our children has emerged from the forces that promote pedophilia. These reprobates are found amongst the elites of Hollywood, the political parties, the moguls who control Wall Street and the mass media. They have organizations like the Man-Boy Initiative, they are the consumers of a depraved industry which kidnaps millions of innocent children from all over the world. In America, over 200,000 children go missing every year, and thousands of them end up dead, or in the streets. Children as young as two are raped and offered as human sacrifices in satanic rituals.
The mainstream media, working for the globalist elite, has avoided any serious investigation of the child sex trade. They are owned, after all, by these ruthless perverts. The truth, however, always manifests, and courageous Christians like Tim Ballard, Mel Gibson and Jim Caviezel have produced a movie that reveals this trade in all its ungodly infamy. “Sound of Freedom” is breaking all box office records and millions of Americans are flocking to see it. They are horrified by the ubiquitous presence of this crime against humanity, of this crime against our children.
The three of us have seen the movie, and we have the greatest admiration for Tim Ballard, Mel Gibson and the great actor, Jim Caviezel. We knew that we too had to do something, as Americans, and as Christians. So, we went to the New Testament and found out what Jesus Christ had to say about pedophiles…We found it in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 9, verse 42:
“And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”
We did not have the resources to produce a movie, or to pay for a national advertising campaign. No, we are three old guys in retirement, but…but we are still resourceful. We have produced a bumper sticker which we hope will be reproduced by patriots and Christians all over these United States. It reads:
CHRISTIANS PROTECT CHILDREN
WE ARE IN THE MILLSTONE BUSINESS NOW
MARK 9:42.
We will do our very best to send these to all our friends, to our veterans’ groups, to Christian pastors who still have the guts to be Christian. We have done this for our children, for God, and America. We hope that you will follow our example and take action. We can win this battle against the forces of evil and yes, God will help us. God bless America.
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