What if Jesus had a Face Book Page??

I believe it would say the same things He said when He was here. There are a lot of Clues there in the pages of the Canon. Some are not very "he that is without sin, let him first cast a stone".   The most popular thing Jesus ever said. 

I won't shoot a couple hundred Bible bullets... they're there ready to be fired. I could.

He seemed to be pretty hard on Pharisees, politicians, People that cheat others, People that Monetized Ministry in the temple, religious people, People that expressed doubt at his destiny (Peter), Rebuking fruitlessness, Condemning those who abuse and mislead children and an intolerance of demons.

He also offered clarity about things to come without sugar coating.  He declared woe sometimes.  Woe unto...   He made comments about current events and offered opinions on the tax laws.  Seems like he would have a lot to say about our culture in 21st century America.

I think if HE were writing on our walls, we would tremble at HIS posts. WE all love the loving Jesus, He would show compassion and care to those hurting. His posts to them would contain life.  He always did.

Let's be careful not to put words in Jesus Mouth. When he speaks, DEMONS WILL TREMBLE and SAINTS WILL FALL DOWN PROSTRATE on the the ground. Our response to HIM is to Love and FEAR HIM for HE is the true GOD of all the universe.

HE IS writing on your Facebook page EVERY DAY.  You can hear HIM, just listen.

The Ultimate Alignment

In Olden Dayes automobiles needed to be aligned frequently.  Modern cars no longer need it as much.

Alignment was necessary to:

• Keep you on the road
• Avoid excessive wear and tear
• Stop stress on the steering mechanism
• Reduce the effort at guiding the car on the straight path
• When bad conditions occur, a good alignment will keep you safe
• Reduce the amount of energy needed to keep moving
• Makes any trip you take a smoother ride

When a vehicle was out of alignment it was actually dangerous to itself and those around them.

The metaphor of vehicle alignment and spiritual alignment is significant.  When a Christian is out of alignment, he is no longer tracking parallel to that which he should be.  He is following another force or pressure. He may even be aligning himself with something destructive.  A bad vehicle alignment can result in an accident.  Look at the definitions:

Definition of ALIGN
transitive verb 1 : to bring into line or alignment 2 : to array on the side of or against a party or cause  

intransitive verb 1 : to get or fall into line 2 : to be in or come into precise adjustment or correct relative position 

The past few days the Lord has been using me to shine light on some out of alignment situations.  Light is always how alignments are conducted.  It used to be spotlights, but now the people doing the work use lasers.

IF a person knows the out of alignment circumstances in his or her life and refuses the light shining on them to change, they will become dangerous to themselves and others.

A life out of order is a tragic thing to see.   This isn't about sin.  Sin is the result of bad alignment.  This isn't about teaching or preaching.  I can know everything about the importance of good alignment but if I do not allow the adjustment, I still suffer from misalignment.

One thing about alignment repairs on older vehicles, it was always hard.  The parts were rusty.  The joints often failed.  Sometimes it took a cutting away with fire parts that were there when the vehicle was new to replace them with better parts.  It was painful.

The key to a properly aligned life is first recognizing that the one being lived now is not IN alignment.  AND THEN begin to cut away at the things that are preventing re alignment.  Some will be painful.  Some will take fire.  

IF we do what we must, spiritually, physically, relationally and culturally we will find ourselves in a better place on a smoother road, less stress with more victory to arrive alive.

We don't have to live a misaligned life

When You Lose a Child Too Young to Die

 I was contacted by a grieving mother of a boy who died.  In his teens.  A painful event.  She asked, how can I go on?  I don't claim to have all the answers, but the Spirit of God in me does.  AND this is what I offered her in that light:

I won't give you a lot of platitudes.  I have lost many.  Young people are the hardest.  You knew he was on a closer edge than most you said.  So that makes it harder.

Let me offer you what I do, did:
 
1 He can't and won't come back to you.  He doesn't see you.  He is aware of who you are.  But you are hidden from him by the veil between time and eternity.  You will always be his mom.  YET where he is far surpasses where you are. He waits for you but only in an eternal sense. His Days are now all one. 

2 He will want you to make the best of the years you have here.  They matter.  You matter.  He would tell you, "MOM" get on with life.  I'm really OK here.

3 He truly IS far better off than you.  Your sorrow is for YOU.  You miss him, but the hole in your heart will heal.  You won't ever forget him until the moment when you see him once again...and you will. 

4 Jesus told one of his followers to let the dead bury the dead.  This is that.  There comes a place where letting it be as it is becomes the best consolation.

5 If the roles had been reversed say in 20 years, he knows you would feel the same there for HIM.  NOW do what you would tell him to do.

6 It's OK to be sorrowful.  IF however 3 years from now you are still in this place, you need to have spiritual deliverance from a spirit of grief.  I don't think you will be there, but allow yourself to grieve without guilt...now.

7 There is always wisdom in everything God does.  He didn't TAKE Him, but He knew this would happen.  You have told me of your life struggles.  The pain you have had.  Recognize that he no longer has to endure what you did.  He has joy beyond any capacity to speak of it and to be frank, if you could communicate with him somehow and if he had permission to come back... he wouldn't.  Not because he doesn't love you, he does, but because he knows this is better. 

Rest in that.   Peace of God that surpasses all understanding to YOU.

Bob Jones: A Word for 2013: Make A Decision and Commitment for Christ

Decision and Commitment
This is the year to make a decision and commitment! The decision brings us to commitment so we can commit our entire life this year. Then we will serve God and obey the written Word and the Holy Spirit in the way He directs our lives. When we make this commitment to God we will see the faithfulness of Isaiah 11:5.

And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist and faithfulness the girdle of His loins. Isaiah 11:5

Through obedience to the written Word we learn righteousness; right standing with God. By developing relationship with God we take on the divine nature of Christ and sanctify the imagination (thoughts). When we surrender our soul to our spirit we allow the spirit within us to rule over the soul.

And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action). Romans 6:18

In this way our thoughts, purpose and action will be committed to God's will. And being led by the Holy Spirit of Truth, Who leads us into all truth; we walk the highway of holiness. Then our entire bodily members will be in complete obedience to the Holy Spirit because we are obedient to the law of Love (Romans 13:10). It's from the place of mature love the greater works flow. Then what is seen in our sanctified imagination we speak according to the will of the Father bringing "on earth as it is in Heaven" into the natural realm.

Christ was obedient unto His death on the Cross. Christ yielded all His bodily members to the Father so we could become the righteousness of God through His Son. Jesus lived His earthly life totally committed to the Father's will. Therefore the Father's will was being done on earth as it was in Heaven. For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son. This was the Father's greatest act of love, giving His Son to mankind (John 3:16).

It is in the DNA of every Christian to hear the voice of God and be led by His Holy Spirit. John 10:4 says His sheep hear His voice and follow after Him. His sheep commit to follow Him because they know the voice of the Good Shepherd. We must follow His voice and be totally obedient to what He tells us to do. Obedience leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to sanctification. Sanctification is the beginning of holiness and holiness is the beginning of the greater works. The greater works begin with unconditional love toward one another.

And he replied, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." Luke 10:27

God is calling for us to conform to His way with all of our natural being; heart, soul, strength and mind. We are being called to walk the straight and narrow way, the road less traveled or perhaps better known as the highway of holiness. We must surrender to Him the dictates of our own heart in order to walk according to His will.

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," says the Lord. Isaiah 55:8

Make A Decision for Christ

When we make the decision to walk the way of righteousness and arm ourselves in commitment, we begin to walk in sanctification. Sanctification is the belt of truth we put around our waist and commit our mind, will and emotions to God in thought, purpose and action.

Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God. Ephesians 6:14

You shall know the truth and it will set you free. The truth we gird our mind with is His Word. His Word will always tell us what to do. The real thing that we commit our self to is love.

Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody]. Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law. Romans 13:10
This is the word for 2013: make a decision for Christ that you're going to walk in righteousness. And make for yourself a commitment to obey the works of righteousness which is our thought purpose and action.
We live with the consequences of decisions we make whether good or bad. Let's choose to make God the Master of our life and let Christ ride in the saddle of our mind. Let us commit ourselves completely to Him this year! That which we have committed to God He is faithful to commit to us. Once we have made the decision to commit our whole being unto God and come into His righteousness, we must not stray from it.

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. 2 Timothy 1:12
Bob and Bonnie Jones
The Prophetic Ministry of Bob and Bonnie Jones

A Word for 2013: Cry Out for a Youth Awakening by J. Lee Grady

(Emmanuel College)

Please don’t judge—pray instead. God can orchestrate a miraculous turnaround in our nation.
What is God saying as we enter 2013? Many Christians have a gloomy outlook. They are focused on the negative events of 2012: Freakish weather patterns, mass shootings, political division and the looming fiscal cliff. Others wring their hands over our national shift in values and declare that God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah if He doesn’t judge us swiftly.
There’s no doubt we deserve fire and brimstone for our sins. Yet when I pray for my nation in the light of the cross of Christ, I am reminded that His plan is redemption, not destruction. And I believe God has redemption in mind for 2013.
At the end of each year I always seek the Lord for a clear prophetic word for my own life, and sometimes He speaks something to me about the nation. This year the message has been clear. He told me: “Pray for a great awakening in the younger generation.”
This was confirmed when I received a prophetic word that was sent out by the Rev. Dale Gentry, a respected church leader from Texas and director of Let’s Pray America. He sent out a message on Dec. 19 that said: “I hear the Holy Spirit saying that He will do nothing until we pray. And then He will do nothing without the youth. No one will be excluded, but the youth must be included. Intercede for the young people. Keep your eyes upon the youth of the nation. He will do a work among your sons and daughters that will cause the nations to tremble.”
My heart leapt when I read this message because it confirmed everything I was sensing. I have my prayer assignment for 2013. Here’s how the Lord has instructed me to intercede:
1. Pray for a great “turning” in the hearts of the young. American churches are aging, and young people are becoming increasingly secularized. Certainly if current trends continue, the impact of the gospel could shrink drastically over the next 10 years in our country. But what would happen if God sent something similar to the Jesus movement of the early 1970s?
I believe we are on the brink of such a miracle, but we must cry out for it. A Jesus movement in 2013 will not be accompanied by tie-dyed headbands, afros or hippie beads. The style will be different. But the spiritual fervor could be just as intense.
2. Pray for a great “recall” of backslidden youth. There have been many times in history when spiritual trends were negative—yet they were reversed by the invisible force of spiritual awakening. This is what was promised in Malachi 4:5-6: "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse" (NASB).
There has been so much generational breakdown over the past few decades. Families have disintegrated and fathers and mothers have gone AWOL. Even in the church the values of parents have not been transferred to their children.
Yet when the supernatural power of awakening is released, hearts are mended, families are reconciled, backsliders return and God’s ultimate purpose is restored. It is this “Elijah anointing” of revival that sparked the first and second Great Awakenings in our past, as well as the Azusa Revival and the Jesus movement. It is time for God to do it again!
3. Pray for great boldness to arise in the younger generation. King David began his rule with a bunch of pitiful losers, but by the end of the story his followers had become “mighty men” who performed valiant military feats (see 2 Sam. 23:8-22). Please remember that the Holy Spirit has not finished shaping this generation!
Young Christians today may seem immature, but they are works in progress. They will end up in the “mighty” category—and they will surprise us and surpass us. God intends to raise up a generation in the United States (made up of all races and immigrant groups) who have committed their lives to missions, evangelism, holiness and radical discipleship.
Will you pray for this miracle? Some Christians prefer to condemn our nation to hell because they are angry at President Obama, homosexuals, abortionists, Hollywood, atheists and Muslims. Some are even mad at young people for turning away from the church. But this angry, vindictive spirit does not even remotely resemble Jesus—and it will not draw anyone to Him.
Please don’t judge—pray instead. God wants to give America another chance. The prophet Jeremiah pronounced many words of judgment on wayward Israel, yet he prayed this: “Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old” (Lam. 5:21). God loves to answer that prayer! His desire is to restore—and He can orchestrate a great turnaround in our nation if we will humble ourselves and cry to Him with all our hearts.
J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma and the director of The Mordecai Project (themordecaiproject.org). You can follow him on Twitter at leegrady. His latest book is Fearless Daughters of the Bible. You can reach Dale Gentry’s website at letsprayamerica.com.

Are You In God’s Holy Remnant? by Jill Austin

God is rising a remnant of valiant prayer warriors on the earth.
I had an open vision in which I saw a gambling casino covering the earth. In the casino were global players who were gambling for the world's resources (gold, silver, oil, water and so on). They had no problem committing genocide against entire nations to obtain these valuable commodities.
They were playing with cards and gambling for high stakes. Their faces became like dogs. They had on thick collars, some with spikes, and they were smoking expensive cigars and laughing crudely. Some were drunk and bragging about their evil exploits.
But then I saw the kingdom players of the Lord, who also came and sat at the various tables to play for world resources. They were undetected. They were the Lord's secret agents.
The scene changed to the site of an ancient castle in Switzerland. Very expensive cars—Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and limousines—arrived, carrying Old World families, the wealthy of the earth, who controlled the financial and political rise and fall of nations through the centuries.
These families carried their colorful coats of arms into the ancient castle. Several of the family crests revealed that they had committed genocide against the Jews in Europe. Others showed that they had masterminded the political upheaval in African nations in exchange for gold, silver and diamond mines.
It was like a "parade" of generational evil being displayed, and great honor and recognition was given to each family. They saluted one another, recognizing that each one played a key role in future world domination.
As the vision continued, I went into a huge boardroom and overheard those in the room methodically planning and orchestrating world terrorism. They began to plan evil throughout the earth to paralyze the world with fear.
Then I heard the Lord speak to me. He said: "Yes, evil alliances are being formed, but I am releasing holy alliances. Do not fear."
He also told me that He is raising up an Enoch Company—a group of intercessors who will infiltrate these secret, evil alliances. They will hear the plans of Satan, return to the councils of God and then legislate holy plans to devour the evil plans. The Enoch Company are radical worshiping warriors who love the Lord and go to battle for greater truth with the sword of the Lord.
In the hour of history in which we live, moving in the Spirit is essential to our survival. Hearing God's voice in everyday life is not an option but a necessity. It is imperative that we all live supernatural lives and spend time in the secret place with the Lord. He is calling all of us to deeper intimacy and prayer in this hour.
The Lord is mobilizing global prayer warriors to invade the kingdom of darkness that threatens the borders of our nations. These intercessors will stand in the gap to bring down fresh strategies from the kingdom of God.
I feel as if the Lord is raising a remnant of valiant prayer warriors across denominations around the earth—radical prayer furnaces who are saying, "Lord, we don't want to have just little prayers; we want to go into the heavens and see what is happening so we can impact our world."
The Lord is saying that He is looking for people who are willing to move at a governmental level and to ask Him what is over the land and territory. This kairos hour in history demands that we know the times and seasons. Can we go into the council of the Lord and get fresh strategies and war plans for today?

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The late Jill Austin founded Master Potter Ministries. She traveled extensively for more than 25 years as a national and international conference speaker and wrote several books.

“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

This quote from the Vietnam war was a fake quote.  It was alleged to have been said by a military officer. The press at that time sent it all around the world to reinforce attitudes against the war.  It was propaganda.

The attitude however prevails in some circles.  In business creative destruction is a type of this attitude.  In relationships, divorce is often the result of this thinking.

I am impressed to say that the Church of Jesus is going thru this same type of thinking particularly in the west.  We have come to accept that God will destroy the church to save it.  

The problem with that thinking is, the Church isn't what we think.  The church cannot be destroyed.  It is the resident in the hearts and souls who walk the planet with Jesus and then at some point relocate to eternity.  Still the church, just a different place.  We are the church.

I think there is no question that the church we recognize it is about to go thru some very major changes. Remodeling of the buildings good souls have built,  Of the ministries leaders have created,  Of institutions that have created leaders for the Church, of denominations that have become divisions.

God is about to rip away the facades we have put on the Church.

It will happen in many ways.  The devil is using politicians, atheists, media, entertainment, sports, educational institutions and consumerism as weapons against the Church of Jesus.  I have bad news.  They are succeeding.  Soon we will be bereft of what we thought we had.  Sure, just as in China, there will be some "Acceptable" church groups.  They will fool many into thinking nothing has changed.  But the true Church of Jesus will find a new and true way.

When HE is all you have, HE will be all you need.   I love good church services.  I enjoy it. It just has no future.  I am always amused by people who go to India to "Build a Church".   They mean a budding of course.  The real building must be in the hearts and souls of people.  That is a work of the Holy Spirit.  The building is temporal.  The Church is eternal.  Paul the Apostle of God said it best:

We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.  2 Corinthians 4:18

God must destroy the Church the world sees to reveal the TRUE CHURCH once more.