Saturday, August 26, 2017
Kim Clement, August 29, 2015
Do not be afraid of North Korea, do not be afraid of Iran; do not be afraid of the nations, for in 2016 everything will change says the Lord. There will be a sound of liberty from the White House, There will be a sound of prayers from the White House. Pennsylvania Avenue shall be surrounded by people that will pray and ask Me to intervene and I shall, says the Lord. So what is the foreboding sound? It is the sound of the enemies of America living in America. Those are your greatest enemies - who call themselves citizens, who call themselves citizens but they are enemies of the cross and enemies of the nation and they shall be dealt with. You want judgment, says the Lord? Watch. Watch the atheists. Watch. You want judgment? Then watch those that have risen up against Me and said perhaps we shall embrace Baal-Allah. Perhaps we shall embrace that religion. Maybe we shall embrace Sharia law. Ha! I laugh at you because the spirit of Elijah is in this nation and Jezebel shall not stand, says the Lord.
Blow the trumpet, blow the shofar! Blow it! For there shall be a combination of the sound of Israel and the sound of the United States of America - a new sound, and I will take the Spanish music and I will take the Latin and I will put it together and a unique generation will begin to rap and begin to sing with the combination of the sound of Israel and the sound of America and the sound of Central America and the sound of South America says the Lord!
Dealing With Leviathan
From Dutch Sheets
This nation is dealing with a Leviathan spirit. This entity is known for the severe twisting of the truth, resulting in destruction of reputations and organizations. The media is where the primary expression of this spirit is often seen. The Native Americans used to effectively battle natural leviathans – crocodiles and alligators that twist and turn to drown their prey. They would cut down a pine sapling, remove the branches, and sharpen one end into a spear. They would run at a gator and watch as its strength would become its weakness. The beast would open its mouth up as wide as it could, thinking it would swallow up the spear. But, the natives would ram that spear right down its throat, rendering it helpless, and it would eventually die.
“In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1; ESV)
Give Him 15 minutes in prayer:
Ask the Father to show you where Leviathan is at work in the media. (Do not think you know!) Ask Him to show you what is truth and what are lies.
Research things you see and read about. Do not take everything at face value and do not react emotionally before you discover the truth!
Choose love over hate and unity over divisiveness.
Speak truth wherever possible. Speak it into the atmosphere by praying out loud. Read the Word of God out loud.
Write to those in the media about truth you have found. Encourage them to check it out for themselves. Pray for them to discover the truth. Perhaps you can turn that person into a truth-teller.
A prayer you can pray:
Father, teach us how to battle Leviathan at a supernatural level. Teach us to war against this behemoth in the spirit. We are living through days where we are watching the manifestation of this spirit in the media. The truth is being twisted and manipulated this way and that in an effort to cause people to react, to hate, and to divide from one another. Put the spear of intercession in our hands and show us how to use it to bring this enemy of America and our culture down! We stand strong together and shut the accuser’s mouth by turning the Truth back upon the one twisting it for their own agenda. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
Today’s decree:
I decree that the Church will learn to use the spear of intercession and Truth to turn back the lying Leviathan spirit from America.
From "Give Him 15" by Dutch Sheets
This nation is dealing with a Leviathan spirit. This entity is known for the severe twisting of the truth, resulting in destruction of reputations and organizations. The media is where the primary expression of this spirit is often seen. The Native Americans used to effectively battle natural leviathans – crocodiles and alligators that twist and turn to drown their prey. They would cut down a pine sapling, remove the branches, and sharpen one end into a spear. They would run at a gator and watch as its strength would become its weakness. The beast would open its mouth up as wide as it could, thinking it would swallow up the spear. But, the natives would ram that spear right down its throat, rendering it helpless, and it would eventually die.
“In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1; ESV)
Give Him 15 minutes in prayer:
Ask the Father to show you where Leviathan is at work in the media. (Do not think you know!) Ask Him to show you what is truth and what are lies.
Research things you see and read about. Do not take everything at face value and do not react emotionally before you discover the truth!
Choose love over hate and unity over divisiveness.
Speak truth wherever possible. Speak it into the atmosphere by praying out loud. Read the Word of God out loud.
Write to those in the media about truth you have found. Encourage them to check it out for themselves. Pray for them to discover the truth. Perhaps you can turn that person into a truth-teller.
A prayer you can pray:
Father, teach us how to battle Leviathan at a supernatural level. Teach us to war against this behemoth in the spirit. We are living through days where we are watching the manifestation of this spirit in the media. The truth is being twisted and manipulated this way and that in an effort to cause people to react, to hate, and to divide from one another. Put the spear of intercession in our hands and show us how to use it to bring this enemy of America and our culture down! We stand strong together and shut the accuser’s mouth by turning the Truth back upon the one twisting it for their own agenda. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
Today’s decree:
I decree that the Church will learn to use the spear of intercession and Truth to turn back the lying Leviathan spirit from America.
From "Give Him 15" by Dutch Sheets
How Mantles are Lost
I have seen good Godly men and women who have embraced liberal social justice causes that end up losing their mantle. It seems once a person who has gone over the top in this way and buys into the lies becomes so deceived that they can no longer see the light. Can no longer judge between good and evil. Jesus warned first about deception in the days He describes, more than he did about persecution and tribulation.
Yet many preachers preach persecution and tribulation, it's DECEPTION that is the main issue. We have men and women who will mount the pulpit on Sunday speaking from a deceived heart. This cannot stand.
I know this passage from Matthew 24 is about the destruction of the temple and already happened... YET if we believe God's word is eternal, then there may be something to learn from this passage:
This sure sounds line the great cycle has turned and we are in this place once again.
Yet many preachers preach persecution and tribulation, it's DECEPTION that is the main issue. We have men and women who will mount the pulpit on Sunday speaking from a deceived heart. This cannot stand.
I know this passage from Matthew 24 is about the destruction of the temple and already happened... YET if we believe God's word is eternal, then there may be something to learn from this passage:
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
This sure sounds line the great cycle has turned and we are in this place once again.
Things that Wonder
Did Choose Donald Trump for President or is it random chance that 2017 is the Hebrew year 5777; and on January 20, 2017, the first day Trump took office as forty-fifth president, he turned 70 years, 7 months and 7 days of age.
Trump is the 45th President of the USA. Obama was the 44th. I don't know much about Numbers in the Bible meaning anything.. but I did run across this.
Forty Four : 44 - Biblical Numerology Meaning: deals in reference with things that bring about a worldwide divine judgment against humanity
Forty Five : 45 - Biblical Numerology Meaning: deals in reference with maintaining, preserving or protecting the things that matter the most to you.
I'll let you chew on that. I already did and it was fine.
Trump is the 45th President of the USA. Obama was the 44th. I don't know much about Numbers in the Bible meaning anything.. but I did run across this.
Forty Four : 44 - Biblical Numerology Meaning: deals in reference with things that bring about a worldwide divine judgment against humanity
Forty Five : 45 - Biblical Numerology Meaning: deals in reference with maintaining, preserving or protecting the things that matter the most to you.
I'll let you chew on that. I already did and it was fine.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
The Prophetic Meaning of the Destruction of History - Silent Pulpits
The devil is using media and deluded people turning our nation into the horror that Orwell predicted in 1984.
What is so discouraging is most spiritual leaders are silent in the face of this evil. Some are even complicit. Hate is driving them to the fringe. God is not mocked. He sees the hatred that drives them.
What they don't seem to realize is that this historical revisionism will be the force that eventually will silence them. They no longer be able to speak freely about the things of God in the future as they once did. Once they have torn down every civil symbol of the past the Bible is next. It is already the case in many countries of the world.
God is calling on the true leaders to stand against this evil. Those who have already entered into the apostasy of cultural relevance have already lost their spiritual standing.
Who among us is willing to reject the devils agenda and willing to pay the price like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego ?
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right."
George Orwell - From 1984
What is so discouraging is most spiritual leaders are silent in the face of this evil. Some are even complicit. Hate is driving them to the fringe. God is not mocked. He sees the hatred that drives them.
What they don't seem to realize is that this historical revisionism will be the force that eventually will silence them. They no longer be able to speak freely about the things of God in the future as they once did. Once they have torn down every civil symbol of the past the Bible is next. It is already the case in many countries of the world.
God is calling on the true leaders to stand against this evil. Those who have already entered into the apostasy of cultural relevance have already lost their spiritual standing.
Who among us is willing to reject the devils agenda and willing to pay the price like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego ?
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Satan wants you to live a weed free life
Jesus told a parable in Matthew 13:
It has been used for all kinds of things including political polemics. Let me offer another view of this and see if it makes sense. I believe it does.
Our lives are designed by God to produce fruit, as a stalk of wheat produces the fruit of grain, but there are weeds in our lives. Difficulties. Attacks. Pain. Evil. They try to crush the fruit out of us. The trouble is they are part of growth. I will show that without weeds we are less able to become what God's best is for us. The weed parable can help us understand.
Weeds in a wheat field serve a purpose. Some stand and protect the wheat from strong winds. Some cover the earth and keep it from washing away. Some are places where insects feed and leave the precious fruit alone. When animals come to graze and might eat the wheat if that's all there were, there are options and in that way the weeds provide protection. Plus as the weeds die off.. they rot and provide nutrients for the next crop.
I am a horticultural expert (many say). I do not spend a lot killing some weeds in my lawn. The diversity of plant life helps the grass prosper. My neighbor is diligent about his grass. Has a perfect lawn but works very hard to accomplish that task and spends a LOT of money. His grass is not vigorous, it's pampered. Every disease that come along he has to have it treated. He spends money when God's plan would be let diversity help his grass grow strong.
Wheat Grown in perfect conditions like a greenhouse is weak, spindly and prone to disease. It's the same for human lives lived without weeds. It produces people who cannot cope or adapt when things get rough. They need lifelong support.
Think about those who come from deep poverty and work their way up. They had weeds but overcame. Think about the age of Blues. That music came out of pain and suffering. Without the pain there would have been no blues. We don't have much new blues music any more.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote great theology in dire circumstances that eventually took his life. If he had been stress free and in total peace we wouldn't have this today.
Daymon Johns is famous for his rags to riches story of poverty to prosperity. Had there been no deprivation (weeds) there would have been no greatness.
Yet today we in our culture do our best to protect people from the weeds of life. Those who come from other countries come here thankful for the chance to make it. They do because they have had weeds. Look at the pampered generation we have raised. Unable to make it on their own. Not leaving home. On government support. Asking for more. Looking for a handout. They need some weeds in their lives to make it. I don't know if they can or will ever see the way out of this mess without it.
I see people who say, "If I could just get a good paying job I could make it". There are good paying jobs but they are demanding because they are good paying. This pampered generation can't make it. They are weed free. They can't take the pressure when it comes.
We need weeds in our lives. Just like Jesus speaks about in the parable, IF we pull up the weeds, we will crush the fruit God intended us to produce. Give thanks for the weeds in your life. They are forming your, making you stronger, wiser, more able, better. I have been thru some hard things.. I won't rehearse them here.. but it's enough to say... we must walk it out and see God turn it all into our good. He is a master of taking the tapestry of our life and creating beauty in our ashes.
Don't let those you love live weed free either. Make it hard. Make it weedy. Help them grow strong.
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess 5:18
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. 25 But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. 26 When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew.This story has been used to talk about sinners in the Church. About how the devil plants evil in our lives. Some apply an eschatological bent... weeds (lost people) burned up in fire. And a few apply it to our lives and how good fruit is damaged by our sin nature.
27 “The farmer’s workers went to him and said, ‘Sir, the field where you planted that good seed is full of weeds! Where did they come from?’
28 “‘An enemy has done this!’ the farmer exclaimed.
“‘Should we pull out the weeds?’ they asked.
29 “‘No,’ he replied, ‘you’ll uproot the wheat if you do. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.’”
It has been used for all kinds of things including political polemics. Let me offer another view of this and see if it makes sense. I believe it does.
Our lives are designed by God to produce fruit, as a stalk of wheat produces the fruit of grain, but there are weeds in our lives. Difficulties. Attacks. Pain. Evil. They try to crush the fruit out of us. The trouble is they are part of growth. I will show that without weeds we are less able to become what God's best is for us. The weed parable can help us understand.
Weeds in a wheat field serve a purpose. Some stand and protect the wheat from strong winds. Some cover the earth and keep it from washing away. Some are places where insects feed and leave the precious fruit alone. When animals come to graze and might eat the wheat if that's all there were, there are options and in that way the weeds provide protection. Plus as the weeds die off.. they rot and provide nutrients for the next crop.
I am a horticultural expert (many say). I do not spend a lot killing some weeds in my lawn. The diversity of plant life helps the grass prosper. My neighbor is diligent about his grass. Has a perfect lawn but works very hard to accomplish that task and spends a LOT of money. His grass is not vigorous, it's pampered. Every disease that come along he has to have it treated. He spends money when God's plan would be let diversity help his grass grow strong.
Wheat Grown in perfect conditions like a greenhouse is weak, spindly and prone to disease. It's the same for human lives lived without weeds. It produces people who cannot cope or adapt when things get rough. They need lifelong support.
Think about those who come from deep poverty and work their way up. They had weeds but overcame. Think about the age of Blues. That music came out of pain and suffering. Without the pain there would have been no blues. We don't have much new blues music any more.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote great theology in dire circumstances that eventually took his life. If he had been stress free and in total peace we wouldn't have this today.
Daymon Johns is famous for his rags to riches story of poverty to prosperity. Had there been no deprivation (weeds) there would have been no greatness.
Yet today we in our culture do our best to protect people from the weeds of life. Those who come from other countries come here thankful for the chance to make it. They do because they have had weeds. Look at the pampered generation we have raised. Unable to make it on their own. Not leaving home. On government support. Asking for more. Looking for a handout. They need some weeds in their lives to make it. I don't know if they can or will ever see the way out of this mess without it.
I see people who say, "If I could just get a good paying job I could make it". There are good paying jobs but they are demanding because they are good paying. This pampered generation can't make it. They are weed free. They can't take the pressure when it comes.
We need weeds in our lives. Just like Jesus speaks about in the parable, IF we pull up the weeds, we will crush the fruit God intended us to produce. Give thanks for the weeds in your life. They are forming your, making you stronger, wiser, more able, better. I have been thru some hard things.. I won't rehearse them here.. but it's enough to say... we must walk it out and see God turn it all into our good. He is a master of taking the tapestry of our life and creating beauty in our ashes.
Don't let those you love live weed free either. Make it hard. Make it weedy. Help them grow strong.
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess 5:18
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The Will of Angels
The word of God is pretty silent on the ability of angels to act in free will. There are some distorted scriptures that cause people to think they can love or hate. That they have emotions as we do. That they are somehow independent entities. It's not so.
To be clear, they love us because Father loves us. They don't love out of their own volition. They care for us. They are ministering angels. Scripture: Therefore, angels are only servants--spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation. Hebrews 1:14
If they minister, then in what way? Do they wake up (if they sleep, they don't) and say, I wonder if I should punish old Gene today? I'm pretty upset with him. No they have a mandate and an assignment:
Psalm 91:11
For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.
They even ministered to Jesus: Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.
The idea of a Guardian Angel in singularity, is the stuff of bad New Age theology. There is no scriptural basis for this. Yet it has crept into our christian understanding. Some claim to have seen their guardian angel. I can't doubt they have seen an angel and that it was doing the mission of God in watching over them but there are multitudes of them. Infinite. As God is infinite.
Another Crisis of understanding angels is that they like you and me. They aren't. They can assume the shape and look as Lot's visitors did. But they are best described
Hebrews 1:7
Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
The ones Elisha's servant go to see were like chariots of fire. Doing the will of God, Ministering, but not out of their own volition.
We are told that we will JUDGE angels. Don't you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life. 1 Corinthians 6:3
2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
We must understand that they do what God tells them to do according to His word and here's the kicker, according to our faith and our words of faith. When a mountain has to be moved or a tree cast into the sea.. how does that happen? When we speak words and action of doubt and unbelief, does God intervene with OUR free will? Or do the angels designated just stand quietly waiting for some level of faith so they can respond to the will of God in our lives. They only can do what God says and what we are able to have faith for. Sometimes in emergencies He will send them to respond to our fear, difficulty and need. It's how that works but it is better to respond to our faith believing.
Now for a left turn. Wives are told by Paul to cover their heads. 1 Corinthians 11:10 That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Now if you read it in context:
7 A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God’s image and reflects God’s glory. And woman reflects man’s glory. 8 For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man. 9 And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man. 10 For this reason, and because the angels are watching, a woman should wear a covering on her head to show she is under authority.
Why is that important? Because the Angels understand authority and order. They understand the need to reflect God's Glory. They are wired to be in full dedicated submission (Including will) to God. They can best minister when they see that in the family. (I'll get hate mail for this, but it's true). God best responds to unity and order and he does it thru the perfect unity and order of the Angel Armies who worship HIM and serve man in his behalf.
One last thing: Jesus is over all.. The visible manifestation of the Father. Father is a spirit. No man has seen Him.
Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to Him. 1 Peter 3:22
The HIM is Jesus. IF an angel had the temerity to deviete for one second from the authory and power in Jesus, it would be chaos.. and it's not.
About the 1/3rd of the angels who followed Lucifer in rebellion. I am not going to discuss that here. There are demons, but I will submit to you there always were. I used to believe the dragon tail sweep story. I know the Isahia and Ezekial passages well and have taught them. Yet.. as I grow in grace I am beginning to understand evil and it's basis. Yes there is rebellion and chaos in the realm of the demonic. How and why, let's not assign characteristics to those entities they do not deserve. They are evil spirits, just as God's Angels are ministering spirits. Did God create evil? I don't know. And might I say, neither do any of us.
I know this doesn't answer the whole question.. but we have to use out Gift of Discernment in reading the word of God for what it is and not having new aged stuff creep in.
To be clear, they love us because Father loves us. They don't love out of their own volition. They care for us. They are ministering angels. Scripture: Therefore, angels are only servants--spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation. Hebrews 1:14
If they minister, then in what way? Do they wake up (if they sleep, they don't) and say, I wonder if I should punish old Gene today? I'm pretty upset with him. No they have a mandate and an assignment:
Psalm 91:11
For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.
They even ministered to Jesus: Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.
The idea of a Guardian Angel in singularity, is the stuff of bad New Age theology. There is no scriptural basis for this. Yet it has crept into our christian understanding. Some claim to have seen their guardian angel. I can't doubt they have seen an angel and that it was doing the mission of God in watching over them but there are multitudes of them. Infinite. As God is infinite.
Another Crisis of understanding angels is that they like you and me. They aren't. They can assume the shape and look as Lot's visitors did. But they are best described
Hebrews 1:7
Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
The ones Elisha's servant go to see were like chariots of fire. Doing the will of God, Ministering, but not out of their own volition.
We are told that we will JUDGE angels. Don't you realize that we will judge angels? So you should surely be able to resolve ordinary disputes in this life. 1 Corinthians 6:3
2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
We must understand that they do what God tells them to do according to His word and here's the kicker, according to our faith and our words of faith. When a mountain has to be moved or a tree cast into the sea.. how does that happen? When we speak words and action of doubt and unbelief, does God intervene with OUR free will? Or do the angels designated just stand quietly waiting for some level of faith so they can respond to the will of God in our lives. They only can do what God says and what we are able to have faith for. Sometimes in emergencies He will send them to respond to our fear, difficulty and need. It's how that works but it is better to respond to our faith believing.
Now for a left turn. Wives are told by Paul to cover their heads. 1 Corinthians 11:10 That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. Now if you read it in context:
7 A man should not wear anything on his head when worshiping, for man is made in God’s image and reflects God’s glory. And woman reflects man’s glory. 8 For the first man didn’t come from woman, but the first woman came from man. 9 And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man. 10 For this reason, and because the angels are watching, a woman should wear a covering on her head to show she is under authority.
Why is that important? Because the Angels understand authority and order. They understand the need to reflect God's Glory. They are wired to be in full dedicated submission (Including will) to God. They can best minister when they see that in the family. (I'll get hate mail for this, but it's true). God best responds to unity and order and he does it thru the perfect unity and order of the Angel Armies who worship HIM and serve man in his behalf.
One last thing: Jesus is over all.. The visible manifestation of the Father. Father is a spirit. No man has seen Him.
Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to Him. 1 Peter 3:22
The HIM is Jesus. IF an angel had the temerity to deviete for one second from the authory and power in Jesus, it would be chaos.. and it's not.
About the 1/3rd of the angels who followed Lucifer in rebellion. I am not going to discuss that here. There are demons, but I will submit to you there always were. I used to believe the dragon tail sweep story. I know the Isahia and Ezekial passages well and have taught them. Yet.. as I grow in grace I am beginning to understand evil and it's basis. Yes there is rebellion and chaos in the realm of the demonic. How and why, let's not assign characteristics to those entities they do not deserve. They are evil spirits, just as God's Angels are ministering spirits. Did God create evil? I don't know. And might I say, neither do any of us.
I know this doesn't answer the whole question.. but we have to use out Gift of Discernment in reading the word of God for what it is and not having new aged stuff creep in.
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