Thursday, December 30, 2021

A WORD FOR 2022

GEO-POLITICAL

Covid is over.  The last gasp (omicron) has already taken place.  Natural immunity saves the day.  The attempts by corrupt leaders to try to capitalize on fear are collapsing.  Tyranny is being exposed.   The tool is demonic fear.

 China teeters on collapse.  This means danger.  Taiwan is in the crosshairs.  A wounded tiger will strike.  It is depending on Russia to be its partner but that will fail.  This is a danger.  Russia will slowly become an ally in practice to the USA.  It knows that China is an unstable, even dangerous partner.  We will see the beginning of this in 2022.

 European leadership will fall as populations become less and less tolerant of the decline.  They will be replaced by even more right wing leaders or far left.  No middle of the road. 

 There will be events in the climate that will cause many to attempt to create fear again.  As the pandemic subsides, the need to use fear as a control will cause leaders to try to capitalize on another intangible threat.   There will be a drought in certain key commodity production regions, perhaps in the USA.  This will be the worst we have seen globally for 40 years.  Commodity prices will rise as stocks stumble.  It is impermanent, but painful for many. 

 Countries that oppressed their people radically will find themselves in a state of near civil war.  Canada, New Zealand and Australia are going to end up in a change state that is overdue.  Some countries will drift into near communistic decline, Brazil and Chile.

 The elections of 2022 will be wild but will follow the familiar pattern.  Reversals of fortune for those in power will happen.  The prophesied red wave will be smaller than we think.  There will be corruption and contested results.  It will still bode well for change, but the political scene will be messy.  Voter fraud will be accused and found.

Biden will still be alive at the end of 2022 but there will be a move to replace him after the 2022 midterm elections.  Not with Harris.   A dark horse replacement will be found.  Someone most are not thinking of right now. The pressure to displace the President will not root in his incompetence and age, but in the darkening scandal surrounding him.

The Epstein secret records will be finally be released and many will be exposed.  Maxwell will spend time in jail.  She is in danger.

 

ECONOMICS

The US economy will prosper but inflation will become a big problem.  Crypto currency will rise and fall, rise and fall. The confidence many have in Crypto currency will be shaken by its volatility. By the end of 2022 there will be looming regulations and a settling out of value.  Predictions of a wild bull run will disappoint many.

 The stock market will see a 25% correction as inflation increases.  Then come back slowly.  Inflation will cause many to consider other options.  The recovery will be 1/3rd as slow as the fall but the opportunities presented to the brave will be significant.  Gas prices as the pandemic subsides will reach $4 per gallon and hold until production catches up.  Shortages of all kinds will continue to plague the economy.  Instability.

 

CULTURAL CHANGES

Racism accusations on the part of the victimhood cult have peaked.  It becomes apparent that the noise surrounding all of the accusations is overwrought.  Black Lives Matter and all the associated groups will lose whatever credibility they had.

 Violence and lawlessness on the street will of necessity be dealt with harshly.  Cities will cry for help.  There will be objections, but the population is fed up.  Watch New York City to take the lead.  The people’s nose is full of this.  Cities have become war zones.  The battle to take them back will ensue in 2022.

 Liberal delusional insanity will intensify as standard of righteousness in the bulk of the population will become such an obvious contrast until no one will believe people ever fell for such things.  The cultural left is becoming a pariah.  Trust in the left leaning media is collapsing.  CNN has become a laughing stock.  That will spread.

 

THE GOLDEN AGE - CREATING A SPIRITUAL WASTELAND

We are moving into a golden age in our nation, but a spiritual wasteland. We are losing the culture war and the world is happy for itself. Look at what is happening. 

 We are coming into a Golden Age in a secular sense:  Fusion energy is coming, Small form Nuclear Plants and are becoming accepted as a solution to climate change, space travel is ramping up from private money leading to Mars colonization, the pandemic has changed how we work and where (not as much commuting), ANTIFA, BLM and the other thuggery is being rejected at all levels.  Lawlessness is still rampant but that is now on the radar of even democrat leaders, the complete collapse of the trust in news media has created better critical thinking not that the illusions are gone. A satellite network will free people from censorship (Starlink), China is losing manufacturing that is moving back to the USA.   We have learned to deal with pandemics in record time and also with therapeutics, e-bikes are changing everything, we are in much better health on average than we have ever been, The pandemic is changing to being endemic, we are living longer and better, standards of living are at an all time high, there are few actual world wars anywhere (there are armed conflicts and threats).  Robotics is being used more every day.  The Smart Phone has revolutionized our life.  Even our health care monitoring is done by phone and watch.  We carry in our pockets the gateway to a global library of information.  Some is misleading, but we know more about our health and well being than ever before.  We have never had it this good before, this is the best we have ever seen. We have never been healthier or more conscious of it.

 A SPIRITUAL WASTELAND

Yet with all these developments we seem to be stuck in the world of the western Church.  The changes with on line church services replacing gatherings are counter to the admonition not to forsake assembling together.  The on line component isn’t going away.

Social media has replaced fellowship and in person relationships.  Church exists in the metaverse.  Millennials are abandoning organized religion.  They want it but find what the Church offers to be insipid.

 Western Christianity is changing.  Most won’t recognize it after the transformation.  It is becoming fractured and informal.  There will still be Churches but they won’t look like we remember 20 years ago.  Ministry and fellowship will be all that hold them together. It will be elemental discipleship that builds the body of Christ. 

 There are signs of awakening in various places, but the great awakening is not yet on the horizon. This is the result of becoming too comfortable.  In countries with pain, Jesus is King, in western cultures He only an ornament celebrated seasonally.  Atheism, agnosticism, people that don’t have room for God in their lives is a luxury that results from the peace and prosperity as we have in the west.  The question is what Father will do to bring people back to Him.  Do we really want to see that?   I see this as happening in 2022.

 Spiritually we are in a dangerous place.  The Prophet Isaiah wrote to Judah and Jerusalem in the first 9 chapters regarding the danger the nation was in when prosperity was strangling love for God.  But as the time matures and justice reigns, there is a hope and a promise.  We are there again.  Can we avoid the tragedy that accompanies this national apostasy?  I don’t think so.  Prophecy moves in large deep and long cycles.  We are there again.  The word of the Lord from Isaiah to Judah and Jerusalem was for them, but also to us in our day.  Hear the word of the Lord. Review those first 9 Chapters for yourself.  You will hear the voice of God speaking to us today:

 The children I raised have turned against me.  Oxen and donkeys know who owns and feeds them, but my people won’t ever learn.

 Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers your land while you watch.

 Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes.

 They have endless treasures of silver and gold; they have countless ammunition and war machines.

 Everywhere in the country they worship the work of their hands, what they have made.

 The Lord All-Powerful has chosen a day when those who are proud and conceited will be put down.

 He will let children become your rulers.

  You will each be cruel to friends and neighbors. Young people will insult their elders; no one will show respect to those who deserve it.

 Though you are God’s people, you are ruled and abused by women and children.  You are confused by leaders who guide you down the wrong path.

 Women are proud and strut around, winking shamelessly. They wear anklets that jingle and call attention to the way they walk.

 I will take away from those women all the fine jewelry they wear on their ankles, heads, necks, ears, arms, noses, fingers, and on their clothes. I will remove their veils, their belts, their perfume, their magic charms, their royal robes, and all their fancy dresses, hats, and purses.

 Their large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them. 

  You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.   At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the Lord has done for you

 You think you are clever and smart.   And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.  You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

YET there is a promise

 Those who walked in the dark have seen a bright light.  And it shines upon everyone who lives in the land of dark shadows.

  Our Lord, you have made your nation stronger. Because of you, its people are glad and celebrate like those at harvest time

 You have broken the power of those who abused and enslaved your people. You have rescued them and saved your people

 We can rise above this decline as we focus on what is real.  Jesus doesn’t live in our time or our culture.  He is the real culture.  He orchestrates time.  He isn’t surprised by anything we see today.  He is preparing the way out. Don’t be lulled into thinking there is no hope.  Don’t become entranced by the seem riches of this world that take your eyes off the eternal.

 Spiritually and Culturally we are in the best of times and in the worst of times.  May God have mercy on us all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Truth of the Times - NOT THE END!

 

500 years before Christ was born, Old Testament prophets such as: Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel spoke of a coming Messiah. 
 
Jesus is the fulfillment of those (over 300) Messianic Prophecies!
 
These prophecies were completely fulfilled in the first century during Jesus' life-time as He was and He is the Messiah to the world.
 
Then Jesus prophesied to His 4 disciples (Peter, James, John & Andrew) that during their lifetime - in the 1st century - there would be an end to the Old (Mosaic) Covenant System which would include the destruction of The Temple and the end of animal sacrifices. 
 
In other words - Bible Prophesy has been fulfilled! 
 
  • We are not living in the end times or the last days.
  • We are not living in the wrath and judgment of God.
  • We are not waiting for all hell to break loose.
  • We are not hopeless victims of evil.
  • We are here to change the world as Christ did.
  • We are here to bring heaven to earth.
  • We are in the everlasting days of the eternal kingdom!!
  • We are in the world without end. ( Eph. 3:21)
  • We are here to tear down the old and build the new.
  • We are here to plant, water and reap.
  • We are here to subdue and have dominion.


Get out of the Holding Pattern

A good friend of mine sent me this and while I love his heart, I fear he has been diverted by bad theology:

Revelation 5:10
You have made us  to be kings and priests to serve Our GOD, and they will reign upon the earth.
Scholars tell us that the more correct translation is Made to be a kingdom of priests. Many believers, myself included, do not look far enough ahead in our Walk of faith to realize that in our new life in the heaven , that we all want to get to, is also a place of responsibilities. Revelation tells us that upon that day Christ will appoint those redeemed to a position of rulership to reign on earth. They will be appointed because they like Christ have prepared to offer these services to The kingdom. They will be given priestly functions and Shepherding duties. Both of these future positions are to help us focus today on what we are to do with our faith before that day comes. Jesus tells us we are to prepare to lead others in the Kingdom. It’s Monday and we like most Christians are more focused on being saved and the  salvation of our loved ones. Jesus tells us to use this period to prepare for serving GOD at much higher level of responsibility after HE returns. We are being created in HIS image and HE says HE is looking for leadership in all of us. We are to lead others in spiritual growth as we get stronger ourselves, by living HIS way of life. We lead others by example and the paths that we choose.  So  this week remember that even though you feel as though you have your future in heaven worked out , your about to get a promotion unlike anything you can imagine and it’s time as a John writes to prepare to reign as Kings and Priests.We have work to do!!
Have a wonderful week
Love you


Great heart, wonderful man, bad theology:

Jesus taught on the Kingdom of God, He gave a mandate. He sent out his followers.  The Kingdom of God is to expand, not go into a stasis waiting for the day when Jesus returns.

We already are kings and priests according to the word of God.  We are Sons and Daughters.  We have a responsibility right now right here to rule and reign with Christ on the earth. Not some far away time in the future. 

We have the responsibility to shepherd and lead those who are coming into the kingdom.

We need to stop getting ready and start carrying out the leadership we already are born again into.

We are not like some lost airplane forever in a holding pattern waiting for instructions to land.





Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Perfect Testimony

Last Saturday Morning our men's group was treated to what I believe was the perfect example of how to give a testimony.  The man giving it is not a trained speaker although in listening to him I spotted real talent.

His name is Greg.  He is normally shy.  But he is deep. As a person who in Dale Carnegie trained over thousand people in Public Speaking from 1975-1985 and who assisted in the training of several hundred more from the time I first took the course in 1970, It changed my life and gave me deep appreciation for good platform presence and presentation.   It also painful when it's not.

If you are ever called on to give the perfect testimony as Greg did here are some tips (How he did it).

Brevity is the soul of wit.  Say less better.  Don't ramble. 

He constructed his talk thus: 

He began with genuine and sincere appreciation for being allowed to talk.  Gave accolades all around. Made people feel comfortable.

Then he stated the premise of his talk at the beginning. "How God Shows Up in the Little things".

He offered 3 clear simple personal examples. Not long, but clear and with drama.  The Exemplar Doce.... "The example makes it clear".

The stories didn't make Greg the hero.. it made him the recipient of God's grace.   We were right there with him.

He shared with a story how he came from simple churchianity to a profound encounter with the Holy.  How putting aside precincievd ideas led him to better truth.

He shared 4 different Biblical references.  Not to support his thesis, but to show how the Word helps reveal who God is and what that means to him.  Very personal and transparent.  He continually focused on the attributes of the Father.  So when he read and referred to these few passages, he did so with reverence and deep personal application.  A side note, most people that try to do this will hammer too many Bible references and use it to support their point. It is a sign of poor preparation and understanding.  

As he came to the end of his talk he carefully developed three points (challenges) for us all.  He asked the questions carefully but without accusation.  Greg is soft spoken but you could have heard a pin drop during his whole presentation.  

As a trainer of many great speakers and too many not so great, when it is done well it is a joy to behold.  If you were there Saturday Morning, you saw it done right.  Now go and do likelwise.  

Say Less Better.  Stop before you are done.  Don't talk in circles.

I wish many more would hear what Greg shared.. and maybe someday will.  Don't lose that number Greg.. you have a real gift.


 

 

 

Monday, March 1, 2021

What Damien Said


 The Equality Act that is pending in the Senate is a jackboot against Christianity.  This image says much about the anti-christ spirit in our Government .

Celebration of Life

Over the past few months facing unknown and knowing it might end, I have noticed--

The Sky is bluer

The air is fresher

The wind is bracing

Flowers Springing up.

Urges of a new year.  

Freindships Dearer

The hopes of tomrrow and the promises of eternity found.

The joy in the wife of my youth

It becomes a beautiful pattern that resists the tearing.  This life is a gift.  Every hour.  Every day.  Every minute. Every second. 

Oh that my eyes would have been opened this wide before.. but they are now wide open and alive

 

Friday, February 26, 2021

When Father Speaks

A couple nights ago in a Prayer Meeting one of the men had a word of knowledge that someone was having heart issues.   I have suffered from very high Blood Pressure for a long time.  Medicate for it. It just is that it didn't seem to be getting better.  And there are other risk factors.

I raised my hand and said, "That would be me".  They prayed for me.  They spoke life and for the first time in a long time I supernatural peace come over me.  The potential to not wake up in the morning has been with me for a while.

I had an appointment with my Doctor yesterday.  She tested me, examined me and and proclaimed that my Blood Pressure was near normal and consisteant.  In an  hours appointment she checked it several times.  Both arms.  All returned to normal.

This was no fluke.  This was one of those times when you know that you know.

Of course, I will continue to take the proper prescriptions.  I will continue to be monitored.  I will continue to modify my lifestyle.  There is much that the Lord has for me to do.. I am thankful that HE STILL MOVES.  AND, I am thankful for every single day, today is one that the Lord has made..and I shall live in it.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Father God's Plan for You

The last couple weeks have placed me in situations where Father has made use of me.  I didn't plan it.  I didn't ask for it. I was just there and suddenly he made me aware of my purpose.

A client I was supposed to meet lost his wife the day before we were to get together.  He chose to meet anyway.  During that time in an hour and a half with him, we talked of his loss. Wife of 52 years.  

It is something that happens more than I can tell.  Placed in the middle of situations where I operate more as a counselor than as anything else.

Father seems to have a plan.  And he uses me.

He uses everybody.  He has a plan to use your to be his hands, feet, voice and compassion in the world.  Only be willing to be used.  

That's his plan.

Monday, February 15, 2021

Makes me Sad

I had not heard.  I always admired Ravi Zacharias.   His intellect was unsurpassed.  

Yet he had a flaw.  

I have seen this before.  Some people who are powerfully influential that carry great truth and wisdom yet be tragically flawed. 

Separation of the man and his message seems to be difficult.

So by his character flaws we are deprived of his wisdom.


This is a reason for all of us to live wisely and clean. 

Sunday, February 14, 2021