Tuesday, February 26, 2008
HEADING FOR ECUADOR
We are heading for the conference in ecuador in a few hours.. Me stambo and 5 peruvians are hopping on a bus for 23 hrs. O Baby, going to be good.. Pray for our time there. We will be back next tuesday..
Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Devil despises Gods Life
He is a destroyer, deceiver, lier, murder, and he loves to shout his accusations at Gods children. What characteristics to be labeled with. The complete and total opposite of who God is. God is the restorer, the truth, resurrection life, the Preacher of grace. God is showing the devil now who he is through his children, his nature, his grace, his love, his power, his forgiveness , and the devil hates it. He hates to see restoration, he hates to see grace, he hates to see Gods love, he hates to see The Body of christ in unity in one accord. He hates spiritual joy, he hates soul winners , he hates spirit filled missionaries, he hates Word of God spirit filled preaching. He wants it to be stopped at all costs because if we live in this spiritual life he sees Gods life and he despises it. He does not want believers to live in the fact that the Battle has already been won. That Christ has defeated him at the cross. That I am forgiven, that my name is written in the Book, I am accepted in the beloved, I am sealed with the Spirit, I am translated into the Kingdom, I have an advocate with the Father, I have spiritual life, that he is under my feet.
There is a war that is being raged upon God, and the grounds is on our home turf. He will do all he can to seek and destroy what is Gods possession. It is his only way to get at God. It is amazing that God puts us in the midst of the greatest conflict of all time. That he entrusts us with his spirit to be called children of God. It is amazing. This is Gods true enemy who wants to get at God with everything he has got. The ones who are in the midst of this battle our Gods children. Satan wants to get to God by going after his children. To convince believers that God is a liar, that he is not who he says he is.
I preached the other night on Zech 3:1. Joshua stood before the Lord and the Devil was there to resist him. That satan was there to accuse Joshua of his filthy garments. It says that Joshua stood before the Lord in filthy garments. The devil was there to shout out "Look at your filthy child God, this is your high priest, he is a unable wicked sinner". But in verse 2 God says "The lord rebuke you satan" and he clothes Joshua in clean garments. He takes off the old and puts on the new. God says now what can you say satan, I have cleansed him, I have given him clean garments where there is no spot in him, and I declare him my child, Perfect.... This is what Satan hates. He wants Joshua to look at himself and say "Look at me, I am filthy, I am wicked, I am......" To live in his defeat, his inability, but God speaks a different word and he says "Clothe my child in clean garments, declare him my priest, let him sit at my table, he is complete and accepted in my family , he is perfect my blood has cleansed him. Not a partial cleansing but a full one from top to bottom.... We then talked about who we are in our finished work position from Eph 1... It is so important to know who we are, because the devil is resisting who we are and what we are doing..
In Psalm 59 we see the dogs going around the city barking and making noisy pestilence. That they leave for a period of time then come back in the evening to make more noise. The devil is a noise maker, to distract us in what we are doing, in who we are. He barks, and shouts, he shoots his arrows in Psalm 91 at the innocent. He is hoping that man will live in fear of his noise. David says in psalm 59:17 "I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou has been my defence and refuge in the day of trouble". That I can look from the top of the wall of the city and see that the noise is coming from a small wounded dog. That really he can never get to me and touch me. Psalm 91 I have a secreat place with the most High. That I am actually in position to shout out at the top of my lungs "Grace, Grace, God is my redeemer, he has placed me in my Heavenly position. Devil you are the one who should have great fear for your end is the lake of fire. All you are is a 3 legged wounded dog that has alot of bark, but no ability to bite. I once worked for Owens Corning dropping promotional flyers door to door. One of the great fears was running dogs, because if you ran into the wrong dog there is no question you could have a serious problem on your hands. There were some good stories of kids getting nipped, losing some of there pants. So one day I was in a good groove, flying from one house to the next dropping. I ran through one yard to get to the next house when I heard the sound that no flier dropper likes to hear the sound of a stunned dog. I did not know exactly where it was coming from but all I knew was that it sounded very angry. It had this deep garguling bark that sounded like it was coming out of hell and it wanted to rip my head off. So I made a B- line for the street as fast as my little legs could take me. As I was running I saw the dog bust through the bushes and he was coming directly at me. Most dogs had one of those invisble fence collards on that kept him in the parameters of the yard so once i got to the street i was safe. I jumped the last 10 ft. into the street with great relief. The best part was this was like one of the most straggly hurting little dogs I have ever seen. It was like he was in the bushes barking into an amplifier because this thing could not do damage even to himself, he was hopeless. It must have been such a great sight as a young man was running full speed toward s the street because he was afraid of a little mut that could barley move, but man could he bark.. That is the devil, barking at the saints, trying to intimidate us by his noise. It says when we see him we are going to say "this is the one who deceived nations" , this little thing did so much damage in the world, so much destruction, that he caused so much hurt and pain. This little dog did all this, this is the creature that caused fear, caused addictions, caused abuse and worst of all this is the one who deceived millions upon millions from the Life of God.
Man do we have a enemy but you know what he cant stop a man or woman of God that has Gods life. That receives from God. In revelation 12:11 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of there testimony". God has given us a testimony, he has given us His word to preach and teach from. He has given us his mind, his spirit, his life, and Ultimately his Son. Praise God that we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb, and as Dad says we can stand at the top of the wall of the heavenly city and shout at the devil "Na Na, you cant touch us, Na Na devil you have lost". It is only a short matter of time before the whole lie of what he is stating is put on the table. And we will see Christ and we know we will be like him...
It is going awesome down here in Peru. We were praying on the church roof top monday night and God was with us. The spirit was so clear and clean, we loved it.. The church is on fire for the things of God. We have awesome disciples that are ready to preach this message to anyone who is willing to listening, who are loving the vision that we are preaching. Pray for God to continue to give us his mind, and word s in these days. We are enjoying it..... Stambo and I are taking a group from here in lima up to Ecquador on tuesday to meet up with P. mike Stevens and the Carlisle PA crew. (this carlisle crew gets around the world, its so good). So pray for our time as we are going to be with the body there and preach were ever we go. Because we knew the Devils devices and all we have to say is "Devil we are not stopping living and preaching this life that God has for all men, Its not for sale, its ours."..... God Bless, .. Smithers I wanted to give you a shout out love you buddy... Jay
There is a war that is being raged upon God, and the grounds is on our home turf. He will do all he can to seek and destroy what is Gods possession. It is his only way to get at God. It is amazing that God puts us in the midst of the greatest conflict of all time. That he entrusts us with his spirit to be called children of God. It is amazing. This is Gods true enemy who wants to get at God with everything he has got. The ones who are in the midst of this battle our Gods children. Satan wants to get to God by going after his children. To convince believers that God is a liar, that he is not who he says he is.
I preached the other night on Zech 3:1. Joshua stood before the Lord and the Devil was there to resist him. That satan was there to accuse Joshua of his filthy garments. It says that Joshua stood before the Lord in filthy garments. The devil was there to shout out "Look at your filthy child God, this is your high priest, he is a unable wicked sinner". But in verse 2 God says "The lord rebuke you satan" and he clothes Joshua in clean garments. He takes off the old and puts on the new. God says now what can you say satan, I have cleansed him, I have given him clean garments where there is no spot in him, and I declare him my child, Perfect.... This is what Satan hates. He wants Joshua to look at himself and say "Look at me, I am filthy, I am wicked, I am......" To live in his defeat, his inability, but God speaks a different word and he says "Clothe my child in clean garments, declare him my priest, let him sit at my table, he is complete and accepted in my family , he is perfect my blood has cleansed him. Not a partial cleansing but a full one from top to bottom.... We then talked about who we are in our finished work position from Eph 1... It is so important to know who we are, because the devil is resisting who we are and what we are doing..
In Psalm 59 we see the dogs going around the city barking and making noisy pestilence. That they leave for a period of time then come back in the evening to make more noise. The devil is a noise maker, to distract us in what we are doing, in who we are. He barks, and shouts, he shoots his arrows in Psalm 91 at the innocent. He is hoping that man will live in fear of his noise. David says in psalm 59:17 "I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou has been my defence and refuge in the day of trouble". That I can look from the top of the wall of the city and see that the noise is coming from a small wounded dog. That really he can never get to me and touch me. Psalm 91 I have a secreat place with the most High. That I am actually in position to shout out at the top of my lungs "Grace, Grace, God is my redeemer, he has placed me in my Heavenly position. Devil you are the one who should have great fear for your end is the lake of fire. All you are is a 3 legged wounded dog that has alot of bark, but no ability to bite. I once worked for Owens Corning dropping promotional flyers door to door. One of the great fears was running dogs, because if you ran into the wrong dog there is no question you could have a serious problem on your hands. There were some good stories of kids getting nipped, losing some of there pants. So one day I was in a good groove, flying from one house to the next dropping. I ran through one yard to get to the next house when I heard the sound that no flier dropper likes to hear the sound of a stunned dog. I did not know exactly where it was coming from but all I knew was that it sounded very angry. It had this deep garguling bark that sounded like it was coming out of hell and it wanted to rip my head off. So I made a B- line for the street as fast as my little legs could take me. As I was running I saw the dog bust through the bushes and he was coming directly at me. Most dogs had one of those invisble fence collards on that kept him in the parameters of the yard so once i got to the street i was safe. I jumped the last 10 ft. into the street with great relief. The best part was this was like one of the most straggly hurting little dogs I have ever seen. It was like he was in the bushes barking into an amplifier because this thing could not do damage even to himself, he was hopeless. It must have been such a great sight as a young man was running full speed toward s the street because he was afraid of a little mut that could barley move, but man could he bark.. That is the devil, barking at the saints, trying to intimidate us by his noise. It says when we see him we are going to say "this is the one who deceived nations" , this little thing did so much damage in the world, so much destruction, that he caused so much hurt and pain. This little dog did all this, this is the creature that caused fear, caused addictions, caused abuse and worst of all this is the one who deceived millions upon millions from the Life of God.
Man do we have a enemy but you know what he cant stop a man or woman of God that has Gods life. That receives from God. In revelation 12:11 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of there testimony". God has given us a testimony, he has given us His word to preach and teach from. He has given us his mind, his spirit, his life, and Ultimately his Son. Praise God that we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb, and as Dad says we can stand at the top of the wall of the heavenly city and shout at the devil "Na Na, you cant touch us, Na Na devil you have lost". It is only a short matter of time before the whole lie of what he is stating is put on the table. And we will see Christ and we know we will be like him...
It is going awesome down here in Peru. We were praying on the church roof top monday night and God was with us. The spirit was so clear and clean, we loved it.. The church is on fire for the things of God. We have awesome disciples that are ready to preach this message to anyone who is willing to listening, who are loving the vision that we are preaching. Pray for God to continue to give us his mind, and word s in these days. We are enjoying it..... Stambo and I are taking a group from here in lima up to Ecquador on tuesday to meet up with P. mike Stevens and the Carlisle PA crew. (this carlisle crew gets around the world, its so good). So pray for our time as we are going to be with the body there and preach were ever we go. Because we knew the Devils devices and all we have to say is "Devil we are not stopping living and preaching this life that God has for all men, Its not for sale, its ours."..... God Bless, .. Smithers I wanted to give you a shout out love you buddy... Jay
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Jew Playing Hoops?
Hello yall,
Its been a few weeks since i posted one of these blogs, but I am ready to attempt another.
Life in Lima, has been a good time. From Church, to Bible school, to being with the body to living in the team house with a bunch of people you never really knew before. Its a life that if God opens a door for you to do, its a must. I am sure wherever you go you have different scenarios of course but its all about the life your going for. We are looking for Gods life, and where that is all the other stuff doesn t really matter. A house is a house, food is food, cities are cities, its all the same to the person looking for the Life of God. (dont get me wrong I love the beach right down the street and the perfect 85 degrees. Ha, its so good). We are a people that are just moving through this life, we leave homes, land s , familys, children, wifes and husbands to look for the city that isnt built with hands. Whose builder and maker is God, whose foundation can not be moved. We taste the life from God, we knew that this life is where our home is. His life is so good. Psalm 63:3 "Your loving kindness is better then life, so my lips shall praise you". This is the life that we have been having here in Peru. Acts class a couple weeks ago, Stambo started the class off by having the class go to the roof of our church building to have prayer. We were over looking the city of lima and we all sensed God with us and having the feeling of what is going here with us is so much bigger then us. That we are so small in who we are and what we are doing but in Gods life we are Giants. We didnt want to leave, we just loved what was going on. We then went back to the class room were we continued in this life. Stambo had a great class, then I taught the last hour. I was so pumped after the class that I couldnt go to sleep that night. I was going to do some laps around the hood, but we have got this drunk dude that hangs out in front of our house and sings all night..(For a drunk guy he actually carries a decent tune) He is harmless, but i didnt feel like dealing with him. So I settled for staring at the ceiling rehearsing the night... Thinking that if you have Gods life you can be anywhere. You can be in the deserts of Africa, the islands of the South Pacific, the jungle of South America, or in downtown Dundalk. Where God puts us, mabey we dont like it at first but if we have his life with the body of christ, those dislikes will fade away. That I am not sustained by the local starbucks or beach down the street that I like. My pleasure doesnt come from the comfort that I form around me. My real satisfaction comes from beholding God daily. Thinking his thoughts toward me toward my life and toward others. His living word in us...
Living in the team house has been a great time. P. Stan is the man. He is allot of fun to be with. He is a great pastor, preacher and teacher. The people in the church love him.. We have a good time in the house... P. Stan , Stambo, and I have allot of battles on the b-ball court. We have a couple friends down at the local court so we have some heated battles. We were actually down there today, I dont want to talk about who won... Momma Collins is awesome, She is a woman that knows how to wip up some good grub. I have been here a month and you would think she would start recycling through the meals, Nope.The Hot new meals just keep rolling out of the kitchen, they dont stop. So good.. Stambo is the man. He is the walking Bible. You can ask the guy anything and he will give you chapter and verse, its unreal (He is the type of guy you want to sit next too in a Bible school test.. Ha ). We have been having a good time. We were down in the square tonight with the youth doing sketchboard. We have a good time out there with the youth, there at everything, its awesome.. We were coming home and he was telling that his Dad played for the Umass b-ball team with Dr. J... I told him that is hard to believe because I have never heard of a Jew playing Division 1 basketball, let alone on Umass with Dr.J... He said he rode the bench, basically there for high fives a couple of chest bumps and some moral support. We can all see P. Stambo on the side lines rooting on Dr. J. Popping in on Dr. J giving a post game interview for a couple lines.. That was more believable. P. Gary and Lecet Thorton have been down here for a week or so. They have been a great addition. They got a little something something that put them out of commish for a couple days (wasnt Momma Collins cooking, couldnt have been it is to good)...But They are back, a few pounds lighter, but back. P. Gary has given me and stambo a little work to make some cash.. It keeps us busy for a couple hours in the morning. We listen to these telemarketers call people and tell them that they have been selected for a 500 dollar gift certificate from them if they sign up for a 14 day trial with this insurance company for 1.95... So we have to listen to them to make sure that the people actually agree to the terms that were told to them. Me and Stambo have been laughing for the past 3 days, they are so good.. They call people all over the country, my Favorites are from either Georgia, or Tennessee. The deep southerns dont put up with there whole pitch.. They call "Bull" every time. Those southerns are real gems..... Continue praying for the team down here......
.I dont know who is reading these blogs, but thanks for the reading support. Ha, what ever that means.. Thanks for the emails, prayers, and calls. I have never checked my email so much in my life. Its nice to get a shout from you guys..... We are not only believing the Bible, we are living The Bible, We are walking Bibles... C.T. Studd said We are not chocolate soldiers that melt when the heat comes, we our Spiritual soldiers that have the Bible installed in us.... Love you guys God bless..
Its been a few weeks since i posted one of these blogs, but I am ready to attempt another.
Life in Lima, has been a good time. From Church, to Bible school, to being with the body to living in the team house with a bunch of people you never really knew before. Its a life that if God opens a door for you to do, its a must. I am sure wherever you go you have different scenarios of course but its all about the life your going for. We are looking for Gods life, and where that is all the other stuff doesn t really matter. A house is a house, food is food, cities are cities, its all the same to the person looking for the Life of God. (dont get me wrong I love the beach right down the street and the perfect 85 degrees. Ha, its so good). We are a people that are just moving through this life, we leave homes, land s , familys, children, wifes and husbands to look for the city that isnt built with hands. Whose builder and maker is God, whose foundation can not be moved. We taste the life from God, we knew that this life is where our home is. His life is so good. Psalm 63:3 "Your loving kindness is better then life, so my lips shall praise you". This is the life that we have been having here in Peru. Acts class a couple weeks ago, Stambo started the class off by having the class go to the roof of our church building to have prayer. We were over looking the city of lima and we all sensed God with us and having the feeling of what is going here with us is so much bigger then us. That we are so small in who we are and what we are doing but in Gods life we are Giants. We didnt want to leave, we just loved what was going on. We then went back to the class room were we continued in this life. Stambo had a great class, then I taught the last hour. I was so pumped after the class that I couldnt go to sleep that night. I was going to do some laps around the hood, but we have got this drunk dude that hangs out in front of our house and sings all night..(For a drunk guy he actually carries a decent tune) He is harmless, but i didnt feel like dealing with him. So I settled for staring at the ceiling rehearsing the night... Thinking that if you have Gods life you can be anywhere. You can be in the deserts of Africa, the islands of the South Pacific, the jungle of South America, or in downtown Dundalk. Where God puts us, mabey we dont like it at first but if we have his life with the body of christ, those dislikes will fade away. That I am not sustained by the local starbucks or beach down the street that I like. My pleasure doesnt come from the comfort that I form around me. My real satisfaction comes from beholding God daily. Thinking his thoughts toward me toward my life and toward others. His living word in us...
Living in the team house has been a great time. P. Stan is the man. He is allot of fun to be with. He is a great pastor, preacher and teacher. The people in the church love him.. We have a good time in the house... P. Stan , Stambo, and I have allot of battles on the b-ball court. We have a couple friends down at the local court so we have some heated battles. We were actually down there today, I dont want to talk about who won... Momma Collins is awesome, She is a woman that knows how to wip up some good grub. I have been here a month and you would think she would start recycling through the meals, Nope.The Hot new meals just keep rolling out of the kitchen, they dont stop. So good.. Stambo is the man. He is the walking Bible. You can ask the guy anything and he will give you chapter and verse, its unreal (He is the type of guy you want to sit next too in a Bible school test.. Ha ). We have been having a good time. We were down in the square tonight with the youth doing sketchboard. We have a good time out there with the youth, there at everything, its awesome.. We were coming home and he was telling that his Dad played for the Umass b-ball team with Dr. J... I told him that is hard to believe because I have never heard of a Jew playing Division 1 basketball, let alone on Umass with Dr.J... He said he rode the bench, basically there for high fives a couple of chest bumps and some moral support. We can all see P. Stambo on the side lines rooting on Dr. J. Popping in on Dr. J giving a post game interview for a couple lines.. That was more believable. P. Gary and Lecet Thorton have been down here for a week or so. They have been a great addition. They got a little something something that put them out of commish for a couple days (wasnt Momma Collins cooking, couldnt have been it is to good)...But They are back, a few pounds lighter, but back. P. Gary has given me and stambo a little work to make some cash.. It keeps us busy for a couple hours in the morning. We listen to these telemarketers call people and tell them that they have been selected for a 500 dollar gift certificate from them if they sign up for a 14 day trial with this insurance company for 1.95... So we have to listen to them to make sure that the people actually agree to the terms that were told to them. Me and Stambo have been laughing for the past 3 days, they are so good.. They call people all over the country, my Favorites are from either Georgia, or Tennessee. The deep southerns dont put up with there whole pitch.. They call "Bull" every time. Those southerns are real gems..... Continue praying for the team down here......
.I dont know who is reading these blogs, but thanks for the reading support. Ha, what ever that means.. Thanks for the emails, prayers, and calls. I have never checked my email so much in my life. Its nice to get a shout from you guys..... We are not only believing the Bible, we are living The Bible, We are walking Bibles... C.T. Studd said We are not chocolate soldiers that melt when the heat comes, we our Spiritual soldiers that have the Bible installed in us.... Love you guys God bless..
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