Tomorrow is Passover, but some churches “performed” the Passover meal/dinner last month, as part of the Easter celebrations (some churches don’t even know when the Passover is!). The rationale was to do it in the context of Easter, as otherwise people wouldn’t get its meaning!? Like, if it’s done after Easter, nobody would know why we celebrate it… But, is that ok?
In the past I wrote about God’s appointed times and how these are the feast of the Lord and not of the Jews. These aren’t feasts that man has figured out and set up, but are the appointed times that we have with God. So, if your boss sets up a meeting with you on Friday, why would you show up on Monday and argue that such time suits you better?
Aren’t we (by “celebrating” feasts of the Lord out of their due time) declaring that these appointed times are not important or relevant? The article mentioned above shows how Jesus fulfilled the first four feasts like clockwork, with the very precise timing (check the video below as well). So, ignoring these appointment times with God means that we don’t have a proper understanding of their importance and their prophetic meaning as they relate to the end times.
No big deal you say? Yeah, I agree that nobody should judge us “in regard to food, or in regard to drink, or in regard to a feast, or a New Moon, or Sabbaths,”(Colossians 2:16, Berean Literal Bible, underlining mine).
We are indeed excused if we don’t celebrate the feasts, but are we innocent if we try to set up our own timetable to the same (them being God’s appointed times, and not ours)? Do we know better than God?
The source of this error is explained by Sid Roth in his article Why Passover?—Satan hates Passover and wants to “give us a bloodless religion, because a bloodless religion has no power. The power is in the Blood!”
He continues to outline how throughout church history decisions were made to disassociate Jesus’ resurrection from Passover.
“At the council of Nicea, Constantine outlawed Passover and directed that Christ’s death and resurrection be celebrated on “the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox,” which is a time associated with the spring festival of the pagan fertility goddess Ishtar also known as Eastre. (That’s why in the Church today we celebrate the resurrection at Easter instead of Passover.) Constantine’s goal was to remove Jesus from the context of Passover.”
“…The New Testament tells us that Jesus IS the Passover Lamb. When John introduced Jesus He said, “Behold the LAMB!” Paul said: Christ, our PASSOVER LAMB has been slain! Celebrating Passover IS celebrating Jesus! As the Passover Lamb, He shed His Blood to redeem us from the enemy. When His Blood is “on the doorpost” of your life, God delivers you from the destroyer. So if you understand Passover, you automatically understand what Jesus did.
On the original Passover night, everything pointed to Jesus. Every father in Israel was told to stand at the door of his house with a basin containing the blood of the lamb. He was to dip a branch of hissop into the blood and smear the blood on the two doorposts of the house. Then he was to repeat the action and put the blood on the lintel over the door. If you can picture the motion he made with that blood-soaked branch of hissop, you’ll see he was making the sign of the Cross!
On Passover night, every father in Israel made the sign of the cross in the blood of the lamb. And as result, the family experienced redemption from the power of the enemy! God’s deliverance always comes by His Cross and by His Blood. That’s what Passover celebrates. You see, it was not by accident that Jesus died on Passover. God could have had Jesus die any time of year. But it was God’s will for Him to die at Passover, so we would recognize that He is the Passover Lamb!
Passover is so important to God that He chose to have the most important event in history (the death and resurrection of Jesus) take place at Passover. God went to great lengths to CONNECT the sacrifice of Jesus to Passover. (This is interesting: Constantine’s goal was to separate the work of Jesus from Passover, while God’s goal was to connect Jesus’ work to Passover.) God wants us to think of Jesus in the context of the Passover celebration!”
So, we are excused if we don’t celebrate Passover, but are we paying a price if we are ignorant of it’s significance? The Bible says that God’s people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6,Isaiah 5:13). The Passover is a beautiful picture of the gospel, where Jesus shed his blood to redeem us out of the enemy’s kingdom and translate us into His Kingdom of light. It is good to be reminded of that on a day that the Lord Himself appointed for that exact purpose.
Friend, if you want to submit to Jesus, serve Him and be translated into His Kingdom of light, say the following words and mean them with all sincerity of your heart:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. I believe that you died on the cross to take my punishment. I believe that you rose from the dead and will come again to rule the world. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Saviour.
Afterwards find a good Bible-based, Holy Spirit-filled church in order to connect with other believers, grow spiritually and fulfil God’s will for your life.
2024 is shaping to be a year of cleansing of the Lord’s Church in order to embrace faith and holiness amidst the global turmoil. Wars and rumours of wars is the main theme from Satan’s perspective. The Awakening, End Time Revival and global soul harvest is the theme from the Lord’s perspective. There will be an exodus from Islam to Christianity after it will become clear that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is working for the Jews and is giving them victory in the current religious war. But these new converts will seek the God of the miracles, so this will also be the year when the Dead Church (i.e. foolish virgins that don’t care about the oil of the Holy Spirit) is made irrelevant and her main proponents removed from the pedestals they’ve built for themselves. A year both difficult for those who are perishing, but glorious for those who spread the light of Jesus to the nations. A year where the light of the gospel will also penetrate deep into the Hindu world in order to set the captives free. And as the Body of Christ will become bright and brilliant, the old beacons of light will crumble and fall away; America will loose relevancy and NATO will loose the edge.
In summary:
Psalm 83 War will expand and Israel will take more territory (apart from Gaza)
Muslims will turn (in greater numbers) to Jesus as their Messiah
America will loose relevancy and NATO will loose the edge
Dead church will be made irrelevant
Wars and Rumours of Wars
Joseph Z shared on Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural Network a vision (skip to 30:18) where he’s seen the Angel of America and the Angel of Israel standing together and interprets the vision to mean “As long as America stands with Israel, America will stand.” He then continues, “If America decides to break rank or dishonour that relationship to this angel, America will go through very difficult days or fall completely.”
Amir Tsarfati recently reported (see here) that the Biden Administration is pressuring Israel to stop the war in Gaza. This would practically mean that Hamas leadership will not be punished for what they’ve done during the October 7 attack.
At 35:31 Joseph Z talks about America trajectory into darkness while the Lord is “dealing with inappropriate behaviour in the Church” and is purging up idolatry and sin, starting from His Church and then continuing across the whole land. He believes that America is two thirds down the slide (see 37:27), so things would go more bad before they would get better. He briefly mentions ten burning cities, a burning “decapolis.”
It’s interesting that few years ago Perry Stone shared a vision of five burning cities and a food shortage crisis. Both men talk about a tornado they’ve seen in their visions.
You can also see Joseph Z talking about the same vision on Daystar’sMinistry Now show (skip to 46:57). He mentions that America will touch the bottom of the downward slope in 2024 and will be in the Valley of Decision. The type of America that will emerge in the coming year is dependant on the decisions that are made in the Valley. He sees this new America coming back progressively in an upward slope (see below). The new will either come by people repenting or by fire (of destruction).
The Bible talks about Israel enjoying peace at the time that Ezekiel 38 coalition will come against her. Israelites will dwell in unwalled villages with great confidence (see Ezekiel 38:11). This has not happened yet. Israel is full of walls that are stopping terrorists from entering.
As peace is not possible with Iran’s proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) and Iran’s nuclear facilities around, these will have to be removed. Hence, with or without America’s help, Israel will finish the current war and expand her borders (for more details see here).
From that perspective, it is a mistake to cram the Psalm 83 and the Ezekiel 38 wars together, like it’s done on the latest version of the End Times Timeline (shown below). They are separate wars and there is a period of peace in between them, so I think a new revision of the timeline may be required.
So, what happened to America? To understand this you have to take into consideration that the End Times Beast from Revelation 12:3, “having sevenheads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads” is already active on the world stage. Up to 2017 its activities were covert, but soon after the first Revelation 12 sign appeared in the sky, it’s activities were exposed and made visible. The one key person that triggered and greatly contributed to this uncovering (perhaps unwittingly in regards to the scope and scale) was President Trump. That’s why the globalist elite thinks that his re-election in 2024 would be a “Death Blow To Global Order”.
The second thing you also have to understand is that for the New World Order to be established, and for the One World Government to be possible, the guardians of the old order would need to be neutralised/destroyed and the guardian(s) of the new would need to be inaugurated. The guardians of the old world order are America and Russia. Both would have to be somehow removed from power, hence the globalist elites are making moves in that direction. while simultaneously elevating China to the position of becoming a single dominating power.
Once you have that understanding then it’s easy to see that globalists are trying to destroy America from within and destroy Russia from without. For America the weapon of choice was counter-culture & socialism, but for Russia the weapon of choice were and still are nuclear bombs. Check this article about globalists preparing NATO / America for a direct confrontation with Russia.
Nevertheless, as President Trump showed that America can successfully defend against globalism, devil’s new tactic for America could be to start a civil war in order to suspend the 2024 elections and keep the current globalist government in place indefinitely. As mentioned in this post, and as outlined above, we can predict difficult time ahead for America, a “time of Eagle’s trouble”. On the other end of the “Valley of Decision” (see Joseph Z vision above) I think the New America is not the world’s policeman anymore or at least she will loose her globalist appetite.
The End Time Harvest
In the same vision (skip to 32:38) Joseph Z states that at the other side of “Israel marching” (i.e. what we named as the Psalm 83 War), when the events come to their conclusion, he saw “a mighty uprising, and the Spirit of the Lord beginning to move in a revival manner like we have not seen before.” He then encourages the believers to fulfil God’s plan for their lives and preach the gospel.
As predicted in this post, this mighty revival should bring many Muslims into God’s Kingdom, because they will see how the God of the Jews and Christians is the only God that has the power. To understand this you have to understand the passion Muslims have for their faith and their desire to spread it to the rest of the world regardless of the means used.
At the beginning Islam was the green horse rider that conquered by the sword, and so in the end times it’s returning to it’s original methods; war and conquest. A very good study of the Islamic eschatology is given by Joel Richardson in his book The IslamicAntichrist (you can find the PDF version of this book on his website here). It’s worth noting that Joel believes that Islam will become a dominant religion and that Antichrist will be a Muslim.
You be the judge, but it is highly likely that the globalists have lost all appetite to include Islam into their One World Religious System after the October 7 attack (for more info see here). The green horse of Islam managed to spread across one quarter of the earth (Revelation 6:8) and those should be its finite boundaries.
There is no doubt that the war between Israel and Hamas is a religions war that was sparked by the Islamic eschatology (check this article). So, on one side you have Muslim jihadists that want to establish the end times Islamic Caliphate and on the other side you now have “Israel marching” as part of the Psalm 83 removal of all enemies in her neighbourhood.
Which God will prevail? The Bible says that Jews will prevail, and so when they do and when Israel expands her borders, Arab Muslims will realise that the God of Jews and Christians is the greatest and that their version of eschatology is wrong. According to Psalm 83:18, following their shameful defeat, they will acknowledge that the name of the Most High and supreme God is Jahweh.
Also, in respect of America’s “season of darkness” mentioned above, on the other side of it, Joseph Z sees the reformers that are selflessly dedicated to the Lord, wanting to bring in the soul harvest that Jesus desires. I believe that many of these reformers will be former Muslims Jihadists that will convert their zeal for God into a burning passion to see the gospel of Jesus Christ preached to the whole earth.
After all, you have to admit that Muslims have a very good understanding of what it means to be submitted/committed to God’s will, and we know that His will for all men is “to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:4-6, NKJV).
Dead Church Will Become Irrelevant
Joseph Z mentioned how the Lord is “dealing with inappropriate behaviour in the Church.” Many Christian leaders (including my pastor) have quoted 2 Chronicles 7:14 as applicable for the current times,
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
His people are His Church, but what does God mean by “wicked ways”? Obviously it’s sin, but what kind of sin is so prevalent in His Church that the whole Body of Christ is guilty of it? It’s the sin of unbelief (Romans 14:23) and the sin of blasphemy (Luke 12:10, Mark 3:29).
Lance Wallnautalks about the young generation that was built for the revival, but because the church is lame and inactive, devil is stepping in with his tricks mobilising these youngsters for his agenda. But Lance has prophesied that, “God is about to go seise that generation! But I hate to say it, if the Church had a move that was attractive to them, we could have preempted this whole thing and had our Holy Ghost Vaccine out there, so when the LGBTQ transgender movement grabbed them, they would have all been preemptively vaccinated.”
He then continues how while (in the past) everyone else was talking about revival, he was an “oddball” talking about the necessity of taking up the seven mountains (gates of influence) in the society, because, “if we don’t take those gates, then everything we are talking about (revival, transfer of wealth to the Church, etc.) can be lost, because the gates of hell are going to mobilise against us. And we will be in a defence position rather than offence… This move of God is about recovering the ground that’s been lost.”
This goes onto the account of “passive revivalists” who fast and pray for the revival to come, expecting God to “move”, but are not ready to be the hands and feet of Christ (who is the head of the Church- Colossians 1:18) and go into the world in order to make the revival happen.
At Boshoff has recently delivered a rebuke to whom he calls “Holy Ghost junkies” at the Planetshakers 2024 Conference. He said, “I’m grieved that our theology today is so man-centred and so centred on ‘me, myself and I’ that the world is in a mess… the Church is what God established not only to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to humanity, but to reform the world and to make this world a better place…in our conferences we say everything to make you feel better about yourself—and I want you to feel good about yourself, I want you to love yourself—but that’s the start, that’s not the end. That’s not the Alpha and the Omega. That’s the start. You better get an encounter with God, but then it’s no longer about you my brother Jack; now it’s about everyone else…about living a life of purpose…taking up your cross and following Jesus Christ.”
We can see that God is (through various people) really “dealing with inappropriate behaviour in the Church” regardless of her denominations. Not a single denomination is clear of wrongdoing. The Church as a whole has lost influence and foothold in the society because she willingly abdicated her responsibility to make the world a better place.
As Lance explains, “The Church still hasn’t figured out (the need to control the seven mountains/gates), because it’s enamoured with having an outpouring and revival, which never puts any responsibility on them other than to fast and pray and prophesy that God’s gonna come.”
“…Most churches like the separation of the church from government…they don’t want to talk about anything,” so they use the laws of separation as an excuse to stay silent. Why would they do that, you ask? Well, most pastors are silent on the issues that matter in order to not offend their congregations, which would otherwise leave and not pay their tithes. If no tithes are coming in, there would be no salaries for the pastors and church elders. Here the circle closes; it’s all about the money.
From God’s perspective there are only four denominations that exist in the End Times: Corrupt, Dead, Faithful and Lukewarm churches (for more details see here). Corrupt Church is idolatrous and blinded with traditions of men and doctrines of devils. Dead Church thinks is alive but is dead. Her works are not godly. She does not believe in spiritual gifts (teaching that miracles have seized with the apostles) and is blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Faithful Church has an open door set before her and no one can shut it. She is successfully evangelising the Jews with her Spirit-empowered living (i.e. Jews require a sign – 1 Corinthians 1:22). Lukewarm Church is most probably not even saved, as Jesus is outside, knocking at her door (Revelation 3:16-20).
If we postulate that the Lukewarm Church started developing only in the recent times, it stands to reason that the failure to engage society in the 20th century and teach all nations (i.e. Matthew 28:19), thus making the world a better place, goes onto the accounts of the Corrupt, Dead and Faithful churches. If we consider that Jesus didn’t rebuke Faithful Church for anything (see Revelation 3:7-13) that leaves us with the Corrupt and Dead churches.
I believe that the Dead Church is going to be judged for her blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Her Cessationism is not just a heresy (see Daniel Kolendaaddressing this issue) but also a hinderance to the End Times Revival. Hence, God will remove her from the place of influence. It is very sobering to note that Jesus is threatening the Dead Church members with the removal from the Book of Life if they don’t repent of their behaviour (see Revelation 3:4-5).
When a civilisation sets itself against the ways of God, the people of God must set themselves against the evil of that civilisation. They must draw a line in the sand and stand against that which is evil even when it is praised, supported, established, enshrined, and enforced by the culture and state in which they live. They must take their stand, no matter what the price of that stand. The good can only be good inasmuch as it opposes evil. And the greater the evil, the more powerfully must the righteous stand against it.
Jonathan Cahn, The Josiah Manifesto, p.199
It’s clear that the Lord is stirring up His people to mobilise and act as the feet and hands of Jesus in these last days. Great work is ahead of us and a huge harvest needs to be brought in into the Kingdom of Light. I cannot shake a feeling that this particular book is God’s antidote / answer to the devil’s vision / manifesto, written more than 170 years ago.
Beloved, Jesus is coming back soon. When He comes back will He find you in faith or will He find you following and serving the end-times system? As Jonathan Cahn says, “If we will each commit to live as he (Josiah) lived, to seek God as he sought God and to become as he became, a totally consecrated vessel for God’s purposes and glory, then God will greatly manifest His power. For there is no limit and no end to what God will do through the one whose heart is completely His.” (The Josiah Manifesto, p.258)
If you want to submit to Jesus and serve Him and give Him the right to rule and reign in your life, say the following words and mean them with all sincerity of your heart:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. I believe that you died on the cross to take my punishment. I believe that you rose from the dead and will come again to rule the world. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Saviour.
Afterwards find a good Bible-based, Holy Spirit-filled church in order to connect with other believers, grow spiritually and fulfil God’s will for your life.
Update 13 Feb 2024: As broadcasted by WDTNTV, the Butler County Sheriff Jones recently returned from the National Sheriff’s Association in Washington D.C and stated that the FBI Director Mr. Wray told the sheriffs, that “there are more red flags going off now than before 9/11,” where “red flags” are people that want to kill Americans and do harm to the USA. He also said that the federal government told the sheriffs that this year’s elections WILL be cyber attacked.
Update 14 Feb 2024: Related to America losing her relevancy in the world, it is sobering to hear Russian president Vladimir Putin (in his interview with Tucker Carlson) remark that America is not governed by the elected officials, but by the deep state (which is controlled by globalist elites). He described in details how America broke all promises given to Russia (over the years) and basically cannot be trusted.
Update 29 Mar 2024: In a recent episode of Daystar’s Ministry Now show, Eric Metaxas said, “There’s good news and there’s bad news. Ah, the bad news is that America is in free fall. America is a dumpster fire. Evil people have taken control of this nation, and if you don’t know that, you should. Ah, things are so evil and sick that many people, who would not ordinarily go there, realise, the only answer could be God. The only answer could be the Lord. There’s just no doubt about it. And I think that’s Romans 8:28. All these horrible things. I mean, a bridge collapsing!? You didn’t mention, the name of the bridge, Francis Scott Key Bridge. He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner. These are like prophetic signs of God’s judgement, to wake up the Church of Jesus Christ. Many of us have been sleeping…”
He then draws the unavoidable parallels between where the American Church is now to where the German Church was in the face of the Nazi regime and discusses why true Christianity is the only hope for America’s current crisis. He also shared more about the heart behind his documentary, “Letter to the American Church,” encouraging believers to rise up as the voice of truth. This documentary is free for screening in your local church upon request (see the request form at the bottom of the page).
I heard today that the number one question googled by the mankind is “What is real love?”
In the world where everybody is tending for themselves and their own, where celebrated lifestyle aims for instant satisfaction, can we really find real love?
Real love is patient, real love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Real love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, it always trusts, it always hopes and always perseveres (see 1 Corinthians 13:4-7).
If real love is great love, we know that none has greater love than this: to give up his own life for his friends (see John 15:13). We’ve seen many examples of such great love throughout the history—many heroes displayed this kind of love. But have you heard of the greatest hero, who gladly gave his life for the benefit of ALL of his enemies?
No? Let me tell you then about Jesus Christ. He died for us while we were yet the enemies of God, so that we would be made friends with God (Romans 5:8-10). Because of His sacrifice, God has even adopted us as His own children (Ephesians 1:5) and, as His heirs, we have access to everything that God has (Ephesians 1:3, Romans 8:17), which is so huge that we can’t even imagine what is available to us through our faith (Ephesians 3:20).
But Jesus didn’t just die for us, He has risen from the dead, and that’s what we celebrate on Easter. By overcoming death, He overcame the only power devil had—the power of death (see Hebrews 2:14). By His resurrection power, Jesus rendered devil powerless (Colossians 2:15) and gained all power and authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).
Knowing that He gives this same power and authority to everyone that accepts Him as their Lord and Saviour (Luke 10:19), i.e. becomes His disciple, my question to you this Easter is: are you living an abundant life? Are you using the power and authority that Jesus gave to you? Are you living in the fullness of what God has in store for you?
Christ is risen! Happy Easter!
PS: If you want to become a disciple of Jesus and gain the power and authority to live an abundant life, say the following prayer and mean it:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. I believe that you died on the cross to take my punishment. I believe that you rose from the dead and will come again to rule the world. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Saviour.
I got inspired reading how “the brain has seven cognitive operators that allow us to interpret the world around us as mental perceptions. They control how sensory, thought, or memory inputs are related to each other and are translated into adaptive behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. However, the driving force behind our survival as a species is our emotional evaluation… The emotional operator ‘exists to assign an emotional valence to all the elements of perception and cognition… Without the emotional value function , we would move through the world like very intelligent robots…'” (page 39,40).
In an earlier episode of Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural (see the embedded video below) the authors talk about the ease of being emotionally healed when we yield to Jesus the Forgiver and Jesus the Healer. They mention how all of our wrong thought constructions (i.e. strongholds) build upon toxic emotions that we burry in our hearts. And because the emotional value operator (which is located in the limbic center in the brain) is the one that gives importance to thoughts (causing the will to initiate actions), those emotions we have in our hearts will drive our behaviour. Hence, Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he [in behavior—one who manipulates]” (Amplified version).
But because Jesus the Healer, when yielded to, heals quickly, those toxic emotions are really easy to get rid of when you know and receive His love and forgiveness. Therefore, a personal revelation hit me: if your emotions are healed in an instant it practically means that all support for bad memories and thought patterns is removed and they are filtered out. This manifest as if you’ve “renewed your mind” in an instant.
Technically, this is not true, but because emotional value operator is the most important part in the human decision-making process, and because heart is no longer assigning any emotional value to bad thought patterns and memories, they will not pass through the decision-making mechanism. Consequently your will will not act on them and your actions will not be influenced by something that was triggering you so easily in the past.
In other words, your will and actions will reflect the healing you’ve received and the strongholds built upon the toxic emotions that Jesus just healed would disappear completely from your consciousness. To illustrate this point I’ve made the attached infographic.
Infographic notes (top – down):
Omnipresent God is written with transparent “ink” to highlight how Father God is not imposing His will upon us. He has “faded” into the background in order to hide Himself and allow us to exercise our own free will.
Man is a triune being having three parts – a body, a soul and a spirit. This infographic doesn’t show the physical (body) part, but if it would, it would be placed somewhere between the world (shown as a green cloud) and the “Sensory Input” function in the brain.
God mainly influences us through our conscience and is a still small voice that is coming from our innermost being – our spirit.
Man’s soul consists of the mind, will and emotions/heart.
Mind is shown to contain above mentioned seven cognitive value operators, thoughts, memory and input from the senses.
The scripture says “as he thinks in his heart” (see Proverbs 23:7) indicating that heart is not just emotions but also performs some kind of thought processing. So, the above infographic shows that heart contains emotions and the emotional value operator.
The feedback loop is shown between the world and a man. With his own actions, spawned through his own free will, man acts in/upon the world. Consequences of those actions combined with other people actions and the reaction of the world itself are fed back to man as the “worldly feedback”.
There is another input coming directly into man’s mind masquerading as his own thoughts – a demonic influence. Refer to the story in 1 Chronicles 21. It starts with, “Satan rose up against Israel and caused David to take a census of the people of Israel” (NLT version). Now, think of it. Did Satan appear to David to tell him about this idea. No, he just placed the idea in his mind and David, thinking of the benefits of such action, took it and ran with it (see 1 Chronicles 21:4). Don’t think that all thoughts you think are yours. Examine them and cast “down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5, NKJV, emphasis mine).
Friend, if you want to receive emotional healing described above, you would need to yield to Jesus the Saviour, Forgiver and Healer. If so, simply say the following words and mean them:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Saviour.
Then close your eyes and put your hand on your belly. This is where Bible describes your emotional centre is – this is the heart Bible talks about (not your physical heart organ). Notice that your focus has shifted from your head into your heart. Open your heart to the Divine Healer, who is now in you – after you’ve said the above prayer, God has adopted you into His family and has given you a new spirit. You are born again and His Spirit lives inside you. Relax, don’t try. Welcome healing power into every cell of your body.
More practical healing “exercises” could be found in the book mentioned above.
In my previous article The Role of the Chosen People – Pat 3 I wrote about all major religions pointing to the same God. Even though I do believe that they talk about the same Almighty Father, nevertheless I do not think all of them are created equal, simply because they do not convey the same revelation about Him.
Basically, all religions except Christianity are performance-based, where you have to do something in order to please God or otherwise He won’t like you. Linked with this belief is that your salvation (i.e. a ticket to heaven) depends on your good deeds. In other words, a good person goes to heaven to be with God, while bad people go to hell.
Eastern religions also have the concept of karma, where you don’t just worry about the bad things you’ve done in this life, but you also have to be concerned with the bad stuff you’ve done in all your previous lives. So, karma is a sum of all your previous deeds (good and bad) and you are bound to come back to this material plane of existence until you work out all of your karma. So, even if you go to heaven after you die you will stay there only for a short while, as you have to come back to earth (i.e reincarnate) and work out the rest of your karma. In such a case your temporary stay in heaven cannot be called salvation, as you are not permanently saved from hell. The next time you would reincarnate you could mess it up so badly that you could end up in hell.
Obviously, yoga (which is a part of the eastern religious system) will teach you that there are some shortcuts, like mediation techniques, that will speed up resolution of your karma and thus help you reach perfection within your current life, or at least help resolve all of your “material” karma. In short, your “material” karma is causing your rebirth on this material plane and once you get rid of it, you will not return here, but will work your way up through the other two (higher) planes of existence (before you become perfect and unite with God). You will notice that the main point of the process is “you”. It is you who have to work and God is somebody on the side who does help, but after you put some effort into it.
What I want to say here on this page is that Jesus is the greatest possible shortcut there exists. The true and permanent salvation which is available to anyone for free. The only prerequisite is that you have to believe in Him: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16-17). “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” (John 5:24).
And this salvation is not performance-based. You do not have to do anything in order to earn it. If you simply “confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). Is there anything easier than this on the face of the Earth? Is there any other religion which promises the eternal salvation just because you’ve professed your faith in the Saviour and you live for Him all your life (i.e. not in words only but you show your faith with your deeds)? No, there isn’t. We find this only in the Christian faith.
As a Christian I do not have to earn God’s love as He loves me already and He proved it by sending His son Jesus to die for my sins. I don’t have to spend years of penance, breathing in and out, performing redeeming activity to atone for my sins as Jesus’ blood paid for that already (I do have to mediate on God’s Word and spread His kingdom on earth because it does not just benefit me but also everybody else). I do not have to reincarnate as a worm in the “next life”, because Jesus saved me from the reincarnation cycle and thus gave me the life eternal. I don’t have to kill anyone in order to please God, because He loves everybody and wants them changed (by their own free will) and not killed. I don’t need to wait for the Messiah to come, because He (Jesus) has come already and has paved the way for me.
If you want to receive this salvation simply say the following words and mean it:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Saviour.
God is so lovable and lovely, because He is the love itself. God is love. “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:8, NKJV). If you ever loved, if you’ve ever been in love, you had Him in your bosom. Think of it, God is love, and you craved for it, you were running after it and you handled it ever since you were a little babe.
You loved your toys. You loved your parents. You loved your family and then you loved other people. These were the portals through which the One was loving you and you were loving Him back. Even if these portals are long gone or are not radiating His love anymore, still you can turn to God directly as He is the source of all love. God is love and He still loves you. How could love not love? His only feeling for you, His child, is love. Love cannot hate, but only love.
If you crave for love you actually crave for God’s presence. Where God is, there present is love. Even if you don’t believe in God, but you crave for love, you are (not knowingly) craving for His presence. You are craving to be in a relationship with love, you want to float in it and you want to be carried away by it. Carried away into a place where no trouble exist and where only love reigns. Guess what, you are craving to become one with God.
Outrageous, isn’t it? That nobody talks about this—the simple truth that God is love. No loving act passes without His presence being exchanged. No love gets exchanged without Him being involved. So hidden and yet so obvious; you gotta marvel at His master plan. Loves to play hide and seek with us, but didn’t fail to make himself the very thing that everybody wants and craves for! From the blessed saint down to the sorrowful sinner, everybody wants Him.
And the good news is that He is available. Love actually is pursuing you. He is not watching idle while you are suffering. It was Love’s hand that guided you to this post. God wants to take care of you, He wants to be your Comforter. He is the love you are seeking and this Love is ready and waiting for your call. Do not be shy, you have nothing to loose, call upon God.
Call upon God and let Him set you free from all your troubles. They will flee in the presence of Love. As Love cannot hate, so hate cannot be where Love is. If you are ready to let God enter your life, just say this simple prayer and watch how Love is giving you peace, strength, direction and purpose:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart, I make you my Lord and Savior.
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