Gregory J. LaRev / On The Adventure in Eternity

Die You Fool, Die You Flesh and Live!

2011-12-29T16:00:00.000-08:00

How many times have we heard it, the Lord Himself told us “if we loose our lives for His sake, we will gain it”! However, Killing this flesh is a daunting task. For years of my walk with the Lord I had only seen glimpses of the prize (a life of freedom and power) and had experienced moments of clarity on how completely sensible it would be to truly live in that surrendered state of mind, and I can honestly say I experienced that true state of absolute surrender before, it was only for moments but what a glorious sense of peace it was to be willing to be totally in His Will! As always the flesh pulled and pulled at me and I too often surrendered to the voice of the enemy instead of running to the way of escape, the gentle calling of the Spirit.

It took years of God gently guiding me, but this bit of understanding I have attained and have absolute confidence in, … when we truly die to ourselves, we can really enter into and can enjoy the battle for the souls of Man! What battle you say? The true work of the Lord, the battle for the souls of God’s children, which is our ultimate purpose in life. When we have our heart aligned with God’s heart, we will not be constantly longing for the things that so easily distract us, the constant barrage of the things of the world, the carrots that Satan is always throwing in our faces, the big homes or cars or other toys, the sexual enticements or the pursuit of power or wealth. Our flesh is always hungering for something, but it’s just an illusion, a seductive illusion of promised satisfaction, a mirage that is never attainable!

The foolish still think the hunger can be satisfied!

The darkness often looks soft, sensuous and satisfying, we think, oh this will quench this unrelenting thirst I have, this will make me happy!, another drink, another line, another sexual encounter, another husband or wife, but it never quenches the hunger, its only candy coated poison and pain, an empty promise of satisfaction. Don’t waste your life chasing them, they are no more real or satisfying than an air brushed photograph in a glossy magazine!

Satan never delivers on his promises, he is always calling you to go deeper, just a little further he says, and you will experience your greatest desires, but deep down we know it’s only a lie, an empty lifeless mirage! And then, even worse, when we reject the pleading of God’s Holy Spirit and finally surrender to the temptation, satan pours a flood of condemnation and judgment down upon us!

You are Spirit, and only God’s spiritual gifts will satisfy and fill your hungry soul!

When we go against the lust of the eye and yield to the voice of the spirit, when we completely surrender and die to ourselves, when we dive into the life truly given to Christ, when we climb out of this body of death, and leave our flesh in the grave where it belongs, we can finally taste true and complete satisfaction. Ultimately we will discover that the more we surrender the more overwhelming the satisfaction becomes.

Only the indulgence in the things of God is there absolute thirst quenching satisfaction! The deeper you go with the Spirit, the more Glory is revealed and the power and light become brighter and stronger. The things we were convinced were boring and dull (prayer and worship?) are the very things that transport us into the deepest joy and open the door to this exciting world of the spirit that we unknowingly have longed for all our lives! Oh if I knew this before I wasted so many years trying to quench the hunger of this monstrous flesh!

You have got to realize, we have been given the honor of serving along side of the King of the Universe! You can serve an important roll in the plan of the God of creation, we are enlisted in the Lords army, you have been given an invitation to come to the table and be counted in the inner circle of God’s elite soldiers! You have been given the honor of being privy to the private secret consul of the Holy Spirit of GOD!

If we will accept the mission, we will live forever remembering these days for all eternity, these days in enemy territory, in direct combat with supernatural fallen creatures, and the more we surrender the more revelation we are given, and the more Glory is revealed! We may not see ourselves playing a major roll in God’s plan, but maybe He has a bigger plan for us than we do…

Are you willing to go deeper? Are you really all in?

Or do you think… I would rather get a bigger???

Taste and see that the Lord is Awesome!
Sincerely Surrendered

Chosen in Eternity

2010-07-08T14:37:00.000-07:00

“DO NOT BE DECEIVED”

Dear You,

You have this little book in your hands right now because someone cares for you and wants to make sure you know the truth, not some hand me down twisted perversion of the truth that has been passed down from generation to generation and from the deceiver to the deceived, but the real clear and simple truth of a Father that loves His children and is doing everything He can do to rescue them from a wicked murderous liar.

I know in the past you may have talked to someone or heard about someone’s faith, or you may have been approached by someone telling you, “you’re going to hell” if you don’t go to their church (hopefully this was Not your experience) but they are out there! Regardless of your past experience, if you would please allow me just a few minutes of your life, I think I can help shed some light on the subject.

“In the last days there will be many false teachers!”

This is not just talking about some little difference of opinion this is eluding to major deception and deadly eternal damnation kind of stuff.

Please believe me, you may not think it important now but during the last few moments of your life here on earth you will wonder why you didn’t spend your entire life perusing this information! At that moment you will realize it was the most important thing in all of life, and if you would have pursued it you would have found it to be the most wonderful and exciting aspect of this life. The problem is you won’t be able to change much at that point. So again if you would you please allow me a few minutes of your time to share with you something that is direly important for you to know and understand, and when it is all said and done you just may find it to be the very thing you have unknowingly been looking for all your life.

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Now I know many of you may say you don’t believe in God or you already believe in your own religion, or you heard it all before… well please, just humor me for a few minutes, you may be shocked that you have never heard this side of the story before. Why… because 99% of the “churches” out there just don’t teach you this, (I guess they are afraid you may go crazy out there and start axe murdering everybody!) They would rather just keep beating you down into submission with all kinds of manmade laws and nonsense!

I was in church for 20 years and never heard this! So now, at least you will have a better understanding and a different perspective of what is truly possible for you to experience in this, the most important subject in the world.

So let’s just say for now, hypothetically… just hypothetically that what I am about to tell you is all true?

The first thing we need to do is strip away all of the garbage teaching out there and realize there is so much confusion these days from manmade religion that what you have heard may have fallen short of clearly explaining the simple joy and wonder of the relationship we can have with God, yes I mean The Real God and a real relationship where He speaks to you and you talk to Him, He will reveal things to you and show you wonderful glimpses of glory and eternity! But again I stress to you the word simple, this is not about a set of rules or laws, this News is about freedom!

If the screamers out there would read the Red Letters in their Bible, they would see His words to the masses of people were words of Hope, comfort and Freedom, the only people that He spoke of Condemnation to were the Religious leaders who were hateful self righteous wolves and power hungry hypocrites!

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The word Gospel means, Good News, and contrary to what a lot of misled preachers out there are saying, the good news was NOT that you’re all going to Hell if you don’t do what I say, (that don’t sound like good news to me) the good news was that God is trying to rescue us and if we would place our trust in Him “we would become free from the law of sin and death” and that “there is NO condemnation for those that are trusting in the gift of Jesus!”

It’s a shame that so many of the leaders in the church are beating their flock up every week with the very thing that Jesus taught against! He came to free us from the curse and punishment of the law and to show us we can never make it on our own, that He really loves us. There are so many false prophet and blind teachers out there, it’s no wonder so many people are confused and discouraged and want nothing to do with Religion! Well that’s a good place to start, because I don’t want anything to do with Religion either!

So the first thing you must understand about God is that He really loves you! He is not some wrathful monster looking for a reason to destroy you, or to trick you out of making it to Heaven! He Loves You perfectly and completely, in spite of all of our failures, and He wants us to come to know Him personally and completely. There have been so many charlatans and fools twisting the Word of God that most people have never heard, much less understood the simple beautiful message of Jesus. Now don’t get me wrong, there is a Monster out their killing thousands everyday with disease and tornados and floods and hurricanes, starvation and murder! He is always searching around for someone to destroy, but it’s not God! We are in a fallen world, the scripture says Satan is the god (ruler) of this world, we are in enemy territory and must be on guard so we are not deceived!

So if you would please do me the honor of reading this whole letter, then I will know, that you “know” the clear simple truth of Gods plan for us, and hopefully you will glimpse the depth of God’s love for YOU.

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Won’t You Please Come In!?

Before time began, God, the creator of the universe choose you for eternity. You were created to become a magnificent heavenly being, your true self is spirit wrapped in an earthly body. You were originally designed to live forever as an unblemished creature, perfect and powerful in design. In fact you were fashioned to walk with God and the host of heaven for all eternity! Please believe me there is an eternity ahead of us and we get to choose where we spend it.

Even though you are now trapped in this earthly body wrought with pain and sickness, this putrid dying prison of decaying flesh, this is not the home that you were created for! That true home is with God, and He is coming back to rescue you!

This God, you can know intimately! That was His plan from the beginning, He created you in His image and likeness, He knew you before you were born and He see’s you as you will be, in your perfect glorious state. This amazing God desired to share all the glories of his Kingdom with someone who loves Him. He wants to share it with anyone that will turn to Him.

As we talk I know my description of our relationship with God and His heart towards us will fall drastically short of what He really feels for us. And even though I have comprehended a small glimpse of this amazing good news, I know there are no words to truly express His Love towards us. So to the best of my ability I will try to give you a small glimpse of the Love of God, or to describe the indescribable.

As I mentioned, God, the tri-union Creator, Father, Son and Holy Spirit (we can talk about this later) desired to share all the glories of His Kingdom with His children, with you! I imagine His feelings were not unlike what we have all experienced at one time or another, maybe you’ve looked out over a tranquil rolling ocean watching an incredibly beautiful sunset, or gazed up into an amazing star filled sky on a
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crystal clear night amazed at the awesomeness of it, or experienced the beauty and power of standing on a mountain top watching the clouds churn and boil beneath you, but you were all alone, the ones you love were not there to share it with you, you desire them to be blessed by it’s magnificence, but short of them being their, nothing could ever convey the total emotion and power of the experience, you simply want them to be there with you, but they are not… This is similar, to a much smaller degree, of what God desires to share with you.

God desired companionship with someone like himself, Body, Soul and Spirit, you see the angles are different from us, they were not created in the image of God like you were, also they were not created with the purpose to procreate, and this, I believe is a major factor in our differences. God created us to be similar to Him with emotions, and passions and the desire to create and procreate.

The bottom line is simply, God desired to have Children to share all the wonders of the universe with, His intent was ultimately to have someone to share His Love with, in fact I believe His whole purpose in creating us was, He created us to pour out His unlimited Love on Us!

The scripture says God Is LOVE, it’s not just that He has love, but it’s His being, and love can only be complete when it is acted upon or given to someone. To have true love is not to have some gushy feeling, or some overwhelming titillation for someone, it’s not about yourself, it’s that overwhelming desire to do something for someone else, the object of your love, it’s an action directed towards that incredible someone that your heart has melted for, the ones that fill your heart and dreams with joy, be it your mate or your child or family. Real love is all the same thing!

You see God’s greatest joy is to Love us, and then the ultimate consummation is when we freely choose to love Him back, then His joy is realized!

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His hope for us is to share all the glories of heaven with us. Just as so many of us have desired to have a child and when the child arrives we
can never describe the total consuming overflowing love we have for that child, we desire to share all the riches of the world with this precious little gift from God, we want to hold them and protect them! We would lay down our life for this child even before it was born.

Guess what, you are that long awaited, passionately loved little child, that funny pudgy face little boy or that delicate little flower of a girl! This is how He see’s us, believe it or not you’re his little one. You are the Fathers priceless joy, You Are The One He longs to see and hold for all eternity. How can I convince you of His love and of His sacrifice for you even before you were conceived! He knew you, and was making wonderful plans for you and Him together in eternity!

Even after you grew older and made horrible choices and hurt other’s, even when you were in complete rebellion living a totally self-centered life, even through all those years when you didn’t want to think about Him, when your thoughts were full of lust and lies, selfishness and hatred, He was still calling out to you. The Father without a second thought, gave the most precious treasure in the entire universe to pay your ransom, to buy you back from the prince of darkness, you see, in your rebellion Satan was the legal title holder to your soul, you don’t have to sell it to him, he already owns it. Even though you may think you’re a good person, you were still in rebellion against God, and in turn, in allegiance with the deceiver!

But take courage the Father has not given up on you! In all of eternity past, through hundreds of millions of years as one, God had never been separated from His Son, for in all of eternity God had never found something so valuable so precious that He could even consider, much less justify being separated from His beloved Son.

For all of eternity past they had walked as one, and now, not only would they experience separation but the Father would have to offer His Son up to Satan as a sacrifice, and a ransom to Win YOU Back.
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The Holy Lamb of God, Jesus, would have to leave heaven and enter the world as an ordinary human, a helpless baby, God in a diaper… I know
that is hard to imagine, but this had to be done to satisfy the legal requirement established at the beginning of this world! (The punishment for sin is Death! Human sin = a Human death)

God the Son, the Glorious Prince of the Universe would now leave Heaven and enter this world as a normal human just like you and me. He would now experience hunger and pain, loneliness and confusion, He would experience the bitter cold sleeping outside in freezing temperatures, many nights soaking wet from rain and snow, He would be subject to overwhelming exestuation, pouring Himself out to the hoards of needy desperate people day after day! He would spend hours and hours out under the blazing sun sweating and stinking and preaching in sweltering heat, healing and feeding and teaching and encouraging thousands of people every day, battling with demon after demon that held His people in bondage to drugs and alcohol and all kinds of perversions! And yes He would sweat and stink and have to go to the bathroom just like the rest of the human race. The God of the universe came to earth shedding His glory and majesty to become a man like you. God the Creator came for YOU!

(Right about now you may be thinking, He wouldn’t come for me, I have been to rotten, I’ve done too many horrible things… Don’t let Satan trick you with that lie!, he has lead millions into hell with that little lie, he hates God and can only get back at Him by killing His children)

Hear me, That’s A Lie, your sin isn’t greater than God’s Love for you, and your sin is certainly not Greater than God’ Sacrifice for YOU!

Jesus the Lord of glory would taste betrayal and fear, He would be mocked and spit upon, they would rip His beard out of His face, they would put a bag over His head and take turns beating Him, they would tie Him to a post and then tear His back apart with a cat -o- nine tails, it is written that He was beaten so severally that the people couldn’t recognize that it was a man.
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And then they would take our Hope, “Your Hope” the final sacrifice, the Father’s unimaginable offering to Satan, and they would parade Him
through the streets Bloody and exposed, the God of all Creation brutalized and naked covered in blood, sweat, spit and humiliation, while all the demons of hell rejoiced and squealed with joy as the crowds joins them in their uncontrolled blood lust. He was all the time thinking about why He would do this, Why… LOVE, so we could know without any doubt that He Loves Us, and would do whatever it took to redeem us!

He Loves Us! Oh How He Loves US!

Then they would lay Him down on that wicked rugged cross, Him already so broken and battered, His back already torn apart, nerve endings and muscles tissue exposed, they would take the cruel spikes and drive them through His wonderful hands, the same hands that had just hours before washed the feet of His friends, and before that these hands had broke the bread and gave it to them, before that made mud for the eyes of the blind man and before that touched and cleansed a leper and before that they held the children as He bid them to come, oh those wonderful hands…

Then the single spike for His beautiful feet, the same feet that had walked the golden streets of Heaven in eternity past, the same feet that walked upon the water that stormy night, the same feet that the Harlot had washed with her tears a few days before, the same feet that Mary had anointed with that wonderful perfume, (I wonder could the soldiers still smell the fragrance?) Oh His beautiful feet, “beautiful are the feet of the one who brings good news” and he did bring us good news, His feet, the same feet that had walked from village to village day after day calling us to Himself, calling us home, back to Him, and the same feet that had just carried His own cross up Calvarys hill, to the place of the Skull, now in just a few hours these same feet would stand in the pit of Hell!

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Then the final miracle, the miracle of all miracles, (if Satan had known this, he would have never killed our King), the Father would collect every sin from every man woman and child throughout all of the history of the earth, every one of our sins every lie, every betrayal, every rape,
every child molestation, every murder, every act of adultery and homosexuality every stinking lustful desire and wicked murderous thought, and He, the Father, would now have to pour this massive putrid concentration of demonic perversity onto His own innocent, gentle, sinless Son. This single act a thousand times worse than the torturous work of the soldiers, Jesus the only Holy One, the only human in all history to never commit a single sin, would become Sin it’s self for us!

And then the Father would unleash His wrath on His own Child, the wrath that was stored up for your sins and mine, the wrath stored up for the Billions of people through history would be poured out like a tidal wave, now focused on that one Human body, the Lamb of God, the Man who is God would now take the punishment for all of mankind’s wickedness.

It was only after that, that He would cried out… It Is Finished! And finally, He and all the wicked act’s of man were dragged down into hell where He would deposit the sins of the entire world for all eternity, never to be judged again!

And only then, the price of our ransom was paid, the Debt paid in full!

So do we ever dare ask,… does God really love me? YES GOD LOVES YOU!

He is not your enemy, He is your biggest fan cheering you on and calling you home. He goes around heaven elbowing all the Angles, saying look at my little lamb, ain’t he great! You never need to fear or dread this Father, “but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” that is to say Daddy Daddy, He the Father, is our Father and has proven His unmatched Love for us! Our God loves us
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absolutely and perfectly, He has compassion for us and knows that we are just little babies searching for the way to go. That’s why His own Son, Jesus, had to sneak into our world and show us the way home.

The enemy had already deceived millions of people and misled them into hundreds of false religions, all with a different set of laws and rules to confuse us, rules we can never keep anyhow. And that’s the whole point, Jesus knew we could never keep the rules, not even one, just one failure and we would be doomed, (remember there was only one rule in the garden yet…) that’s why He came and did it for us! Don’t let yourself become a trophy of Satan, falling for his lies of self righteousness and petty works to help earn your salvation! How could we ever add to what He did for us! It’s a disgusting insult to even try! The Blood he poured out for us was Holy and pristine, pure and perfect, yet you think you can add some of your putrid blood to it, and what? Make it holier? What kind of petty works can you add to complete perfection?! We could only defile the sacrifice.

Jesus came to set the captives free, to give sight to the blind, to heal the sick, cast out the demons, and raise the dead to LIFE, and to proclaim the true way to the Father. No flaming hoops to jump through, No law to keep, no mission trips (vacations), no praying in public 5 times a day, No secret rituals, no pilgrimages, no divesting one’s self of self desires (good luck with that)!!!, You see in Christ,… all qualify, and All are welcome!

We live Godley because we love Him, not to appease Him! After all He has done for me, I want to show Him I Love Him, and want to make Him proud of me! You see He is not so far away from you as a lifetime of prideful works, He is right NOW standing at the door waiting for you to invite Him in!

We only need to humble ourselves and say, yes Jesus I need a savior, I need You! I surrender my life to you, Forgive me for all my sins, and Thank You!... It’s that simple.
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Still Not Sure… Final Thoughts;

You see where you spend eternity is your choice, God created you to be like Him, and to spend forever with Him in paradise, but He gave you Free Will to love Him or reject Him. This was the terrifying cost of the
opportunity for true love! You see your free will comes at a great price, it’s a great gift but also a great danger because millions and millions have and will still choose the darkness rather than the light!

Free will is the only way to achieve true love, but the cost was that the Father would have to allow you and the millions of His other children who choose to love Him and follow Him, to be brutalized, betrayed, cheated, tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered by the ones who have exercised their freewill to reject Him. Instead they listen to the voice of Satan, it only takes a short look around the world to see his hand at work drawing men into all forms of horrendous wickedness. Whole nations think it’s ok to murder certain people groups or other religions, they think it’s ok to blowup innocent children’s school busses, they think women are property, they think it’s ok to sell their young daughters into prostitution, precious little baby girls of two and three years old sold to perverted monsters to be raped and brutalized for the rest of their short lives! And others ignore the needs of the starving children all around them saying it’s their karma, and walk past thinking they are superior because of some supposed holy life they had lived in another incarnation. Then the rest of the perverts trying to force us to accept their perversity as normalcy.

Do you now see the price? … The Price of Freewill!

The stage is set, the battle lines are clearly marked, the universal tribunal has witnessed the product of a life surrendered to the lust’s of our flesh, and now we must make a choice, because not too choose is not an option. God will not force anyone to enter into heaven and He will not send anyone to hell, they will go there of their own freewill by rejecting Gods open invitation to come, “come to me all you who are burdened and heavy laden and I will give you rest, for My yoke is easy
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and My burden is light” “behold I stand at the door and knock, if anyone, “ANYONE” will open the door I will come in” “do not let your heart be troubled, believe in God, and believe also in Me, for in My Fathers house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you” .

You see we were all, already destine for separation from God because we have all lived our lives in rebellion and refusing Gods Ultimate Gift. Unless we take hold of the life raft that the Father has sent to rescue us, we are already domed.

How heart wrenching it must be for Him to watch the thousands pass by every day cursing Him and rejecting His loving hand and His desperate efforts to convince them to enter into His Arc, but their deception is so deep and their heart so harden and black that they only curse and rant all the louder, and in the end, most of them still press on into the darkness looking for the god’s they have created in their minds and they will stay there in the darkness separated from God’s eternal kingdom of their own volition.

The only way anyone will enter hell is by refusing to enter the beautiful Open Gates of Heaven, the gate is right there, easy to find, just look for a bloody cross and a loving savior with His arms open wide bidding all to come to me, and I will in no way cast you out. The path to hell goes right pass the cross and you can only get there by rejecting the free gift that God prepared for you by sacrificing his son for you.

I hate to think of it but with arrogant pride they pass by repeating the mantra, I don’t accept your God’s narrow minded path! My god doesn’t send people to hell, all paths lead to my god, oh please realize you are making your own god or Idol and bowing down before it. This is something people imagined in their mind to hold on to their selfish pride instead of admitting they need a savior! And yes they are correct, all other paths do lead to their god, and Satan is laughing at how easy it is to deceive the human race.

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Satan often masquerades as an angel of light and as a sensual god of goodness! But don’t be deceived He is a liar and only delivers pain destruction and death.

Will you surrender to your loving creator and believe what you know deep in your heart to be true, that you are in desperate need of a savior! You see, you are in desperate need of a substitution, or a scapegoat,… for your sins truly are many!

Will you believe Him, and enter the Kingdom that He created for you, a kingdom of light and joy a kingdom of beauty and adventure, or will you reject His calls and choose to enter an eternity separated from Him, separated from light and beauty, separated from hope and love, an eternity spent in your own rotting flesh, the putrid undying prison of your own choosing! Utter darkness for all eternity? You must realize that if God is, as He say’s; Love, Light, Truth and Joy, then separation from God is a place void of those very things. Why would anyone choose an eternity in a place without light without love… no hope no warmth no purpose, only empty unending darkness? Why? Pride, lust, self righteousness, bitterness?

So the choice is simple but not always easy, it’s black and white, light or darkness, our God loves us completely and bankrupted heaven to ransom you from the hands of satan. We all, every one of us including me & you, had been storing up wrath all of our lives… do you agree or have you never told a lie or stolen anything, have you never cursed or been hateful without reason, or are you still trying to compare yourself to other wicked people thinking you are not a sinner?

Every sin you ever committed has already been paid for 2000 yr’s ago on that very cross you will walk past, the only requirement is that you go to the Savior at the gate marked Paid In Full, lay down your own self
righteousness at His nail pierced feet, and receive His free gift of forgiveness Now, before you step through the vail of death .

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Again He calls… Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Trust in God Trust also in Me, for in my Father’s house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you. No more pain, no more goodbyes, no more sorrow.

My Children, my Father, my Mother, my Family my Friends, wont you lay your burden down and come with me on this Eternal Adventure, we have a great mission and purpose in this life, the King of the universe, King Jesus is calling you and all of His Children, to wake up out of your stupor. And if you seek Him with all your heart, you will find Him, He is always near to those who have a humble spirit!

For eye has not seen nor has the mind comprehended the things that I have prepared for you!

Love The Lamb

P.S. The first thing you should do after you surrender to Jesus is to go and read the Gospel (good news) of John. DON”T go to any church for at least a few months! Just read your Bible and let God speak to you through it, read the 4 gospels and the book of Act’s and Romans and the rest of the New Testament, read Galatians 5 or 10 times, don’t get sucked into legalism and rituals let the Holy Spirit teach you and look at the first century church, true Christianity is full of power and revelation, expect it!

May God Abundantly Bless You, and make His Glory Shine Upon You!

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Seven Words

2010-07-06T12:05:00.000-07:00

I bent my knee to pray today, but there were seven words I couldn’t say!

I easily thanked God for my Children, my family and my friends, and for my wonderful Savior who’s mercy knows no end.

My health and my home and all He has given, my very life, now transformed into a life finally worth living.

As I thought of all this my soul became sober, so free, so blessed, no more burden to shoulder.

Then the Lord showed me all the rubbish I still dragged along, this flesh not yet surrendered to the grave in which it belonged!

So I mustered my spirit, and again started to pray, but these seven little words still proved daunting to say.

Then in a moment of surrender confidently declaring, Lord in You the victory is won!

NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE BE DONE!

Containing the Curse

2010-06-26T09:15:00.000-07:00

This can’t be what the Lord planed for our lives to be like?... Satan constantly pulling the rug out from under me, It use to feel like I was trying to constrain a tiger in a cardboard box!

Sometimes I would get so weary of the battle, the constant struggle of fighting off the enemy. I desired to walk in close communion with the Lord but every time I would draw near to Him, it seemed the enemy of our souls was always redoubling his assault and would try to beat me down again. He is constantly pulling and angling to keep us off balance, he digs and claws at our faith, one day it’s our health and the next it’s a family crises or financial dilemma, he is relentless, always trying to choke out our faith at the roots, rendering us ineffective!

The warring we endure in our body and mind is not unlike a garden, it must be constantly maintained, ciaos, death and disorder threatening to overtake the order and discipline we constantly fight for. We trim and prune and rip out the weeds in the garden as well as the weeds in our own life, (lust, pride, jealousy…) ie (culling the curses) as all of creation cries out for deliverance, trying to fight off the death, disease and pestilence that is all around us, the curse we all travail under, the Fall of Adam.

Then I realized I was trying to fight the battle in my own strength, when the scripture was very clear,

"The whole Earth is groaning and trivaling, waiting for the Manifested Son's of God to take authority" Thats you and me! (the new greg version)

"I am in Christ and raised up above all principalities and powers and authority!"

"And behold, I give YOU authority over serpents and scorpians and over ALL the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you!"

"If you believe in Me, the works that I do, you shall do also and even greater than these shall you do!"

"Then I saw a lamb standing in the center of the throne, with four living creatures and the 24 elders, The lamb looked like he had been slaughtered... He took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne and when the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders bowed down in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of God's holy people. Then they sang a new song,

“You deserve to take the scroll and open the seals, because you were Perfect and you were slaughtered. You bought people with your blood to be God's own. They are from every tribe, language, people, and nation, Praise the Lam who is Worthy to take the scroll! You made them Kings and Priests for our God. They will rule as kings on the earth.”

I believe this means us and I believe this means NOW! “sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies your foot stool”! Who else is there to make His enemies His foot stool?, We are to exert Kingly Authority here and Now over the enemy and all the Earth just as Adam was given power and authority in the garden, Jesus reclaimed power and Dominion for us to prevail until He comes!)

The power we have is through the spoken Word of God! We can speak our lives into power and victory, we can speak health, we can speak blessings and we can speak authority!

11 Then I heard the voices of many angels, the four living creatures, and the elders surrounding the throne. They numbered ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands times thousands. 12 In a loud voice they were singing, “The lamb who was slain deserves to receive power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and praise.” 13 I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and on the sea. Every creature in those places was singing, “To the one who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise, honor, glory, and power forever and ever.” 14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!”

And the elders bowed and worshiped. Rev 5:6-14

Then I saw a Lamb! … THEN I SAW THE LAMB! Then I saw Victory!

Thoughts In The Darker Realms of The Valley

2010-04-20T14:06:00.000-07:00

As I walk in the silent darkness, defending again my steadfast confidence of a personal, involved loving God, as the turmoil all around me rages on, and again the lament from hell is whispered in my ear.

Is there a God, does he care for me at all?
Can he hear me when I cry, does he see me when I fall?
I stumble and struggle and grope in the dark, Battered, and Beaten I finally loose heart!

How do we reconcile the two blatant contradicting realities? The plethora of incredibly wonderful promises from God, and the deafening silence we so often experience when we need Him the most?

And then the voice continues, the subtle silent words from the deceiver.

Silently Apathetic, this God who says He Loves You, yet he abandons his beloved children in enemy territory with a host of Evil Supernatural creatures and their faithful human servants, utterly alone to be Raped, Tormented and Defiled while your prayers are return to you un-opened! And the Silence Screams out, You Fool! You Stupid childish Idiot, your hope is in Fairy Tales! Your Hope Is In Fairy Tales! Scream and shout, say another prayer or cut yourself for all I care, it’s all the same, hopeless, you may as well pray to the wind.

Love Satan

So Ya Hade A Bad Day?

2010-04-19T18:48:00.000-07:00

The Goodbye World

I hurt too much, I no longer want to fight!
Just to close my eye’s, and slip into the night.

I’ve seen only a glimpse of glory,
but a panoramic view of pain,
I wish this was the dream, and the glory would never wane.

Oh how I long for Heaven, as I sojourn in this land,
this awful place of Goodbyes so much more than I can stand!

Oh to believe there’s a place where you never say Goodbye!
Where you never taste betrayal, and your Loved ones never Die!

How many goodbyes have you said? How many times have you felt
the pain! The dreadful wrenching heartache, them to never hold again!

To watch your Mommy slowly dying or to see your injured Babies
puzzled eyes, to know your spouse is laughing in the night,
with another at their side.

This endless fall of goodbyes, this raging storm of pain,
this never ending nightmare, this relentless pouring rain!

The hill without a downside, the betrayal of a friend,
The long awaited victory that comes crashing to an end!

Oh this world of goodbyes, this can not be my home?
This can’t be all there is for me to ever walk alone!

I have this hope inside me, this knowledge of beyond,
This image of a country, where my heart will never long.

There must be a God of goodness, of goodness, hope and light,
For we’ve seen the roaring devil, and felt his terror in the night!

There must be a God of goodness…
There must be a God of goodness…

Though I’d be ashamed to stand before Him,
as for goodness I have none,

My only hope is God's mercy,
and the Blood of His precious only Son!

Gregory James LaRev

And then He put a new song in my mouth!

The Tale of Smiling Jack

2010-03-23T22:51:00.000-07:00

The Tale of Smiling Jack

So what can I say bout my little Smiling Jack, his tongue as sharp as a razor and his whit as sharp as a tack.

A Doctor, a Lawyer, a Chef or a King, all these are possible for this kid of who’s praises I sing.

I can hardly be mad for my amazement at his skill, for telling such a straight face story, of solid Bull Ship at his will!

Now some qualities I can claim, Green Eyes an a Easy Smile amongst many others, but this skill for telling tales so well, well he got that one directly from his Mother! (don’t tell her I said so)

Love him oh I do, and I‘ll always have his back, he’s still my little Andrew, he’s still my Smiling Jack!

HAPPY 18TH Birthday Andrew

A Handful of Pungent Treasure

2010-03-12T14:45:00.000-08:00

I was thinking about how so many people are desperately trying to please God by jumping through all sorts of flaming religious hoops, if you think about it, our efforts to earn God’s favor by doing all these religious or “good things” could be perfectly equated to the story of the little boy and the handful of Treasure;

This little chubby face two year old was out in the back yard one day with his Daddy, as the father worked on the yard the little toddler was wandering about exploring his vast domain, when all the sudden he came across a very interesting formation, so as any little boy would do he picked it up, the texture was fascinating a little hard on the outside but still soft on the inside, and what was even more amazing was the wonderful pungent aroma that was released when he broke through the crusty outer surface, this was really a find. He had smelled something similar before, but not quite the same, well needless to say, after taking a small bite, as any sensible two year old would do, he realized this was not a good food source, but still felt he had to show this incredible find to his Daddy as soon as possible! Walking over to his father filled with joy and pride over the great discovery, he reached up his pudgy hand, offering the aromatic treasure over to his proud father and then in perfect innocence, the chubby face little guy said, “Mell Dits Daddy” then looked on anticipating the mutual appreciation.

His father, after receiving the semi hardened log of dog poop smiled and kissed his Boy on the forehead and then proceeded to bury this handful of laughter, this joyful eternal memory in the backyard flowerbed,… (for safe keeping), that’s what he told his little explorer, his little delight.

As I thought about this, I wondered how often we come before God, our Loving Father, and with good intentions, bring all kinds of offerings of… for the lack of a more fitting term,… piles of Poop?! The Father just smiles, kisses us on the forehead, and sets the gift aside. Our wonderful God is always anticipating the day we realize that all the stuff we think we need to do to appease him, is really just piles of proverbial Poop! All the little laws and rituals, are not even as valuable as that pile of dog doo, at least the dog doo was good for fertilizer!

Gregory J.

The Journey

2010-03-09T20:40:00.000-08:00

Introduction

Dear Disillusioned,

Have you ever felt that this Christian life was falling short of what you see in the scriptures, have you come to the point in your walk with the Lord where something has to change, where you’ve always felt there was more, you knew it and you wanted it! No more books, no more sermons, no more empty promises. That is exactly where I found myself not so long ago, and if you will lend me your ear for a few pages, I think you will start to see a light at the end of the tunnel a light that you have been longing for and more important a light that the Lord has been longing to share with you all of your life. So join me for this wonderful trip out of the darkness and into the light, on the road to understanding and becoming who you really are in Christ! And ultimately walking in the complete Power and confidence of our Glorious Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah!

Over the next few pages you will be exposed to some Scriptures verses, and some thoughts and ideas that you may not have ever looked into before, or you may have never even knew they were there, either because you were never taught by your Pastor, (for whatever reason), or more likely because the both of you, as well as most of the entire Church (myself included) has been blinded by the enemy of our Souls! His plan is to keep the children of God in a state of defeat and ineffectiveness by deceiving us concerning the gifts, dominion, authority and power that was given to us in the garden and then reclaimed and bought for us at the Cross! And it goes without saying that satan has been very successful with his strategy over the last few thousand years! I myself lived most of my Christian life in this state of deception, fear and failure! It was only after years of pouring through His Word and asking God for wisdom and understanding concerning all these things, that my eyes were finally opened and the powerful light of God’s Word, so plain and clear was right there before my eye’s waiting for me to wake up and act on what His Word say’s!... Praise His Name Forever!

My friends, if even a small portion of the true body of Christ ever gets a hold of this, it would wreak havoc in the kingdom of darkness, and we would see what the scripture means when the Lord said, “the gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail against us!

Chapter 1
From Relationship to Religion to Relationship & Rejoicing!

So I am 20 plus years into this… this surrender, this wondrous treaty with God, the incredible King of all Creation, the all consuming Holy Presence that I’ve sensed and spoken to all of my conscious life. You see I had known Him and believed in Him sense I was a small child, He revealed himself to me many times but one in particular was when I was imprisoned in my bedroom by the evil warden Mom to take the dreaded nap, I was lying in bed that morning and looking out my window, I saw a big beautiful full moon in the day light, as I laid their I thought, that is just a big ball of dirt, floating around in this black stuff called space, and it’s suppose to be floating around the bigger ball of dirt that I live on, and were both floating around this huge ball of fire in this black stuff called space? Well first of all I thought, there is NO SUCH THING as Black Stuff Called Space! And there is no such thing as floating dirt balls, and just then as clear as a bell God put it in my heart that the only way there is floating dirt balls and black stuff called space is if He made it, and He let me understand very certainly that He did Make it and He made it all for us! I remember lying their letting this soak in and thinking how foolish it was for anyone to think it could have happened any other way, I mean there is no such thing as black stuff to float in! I really understood this and was in awe of God! This was BIG NEWS, so I got out of bed and ran out to tell my Mom that there is no such thing as black stuff called space unless God made it! I remember standing their thinking my Mom would start rejoicing with me over this incredible revelation and that it would change the world!, but she just made me go back to bed? You would think that if she suspected this to be just a ploy to get out of bed, that I, being only 4 years old would have at least gotten some kind of reward for coming up with this masterpiece! You got to admit this should have gotten me something, ice cream, early release for good behavior, or at least an, at a boy Greggie! Whats more amazing is that even after understanding this powerful word from God, I still never surrendered to Him till I was in my mid twenties.

Well in 1987 I was powerfully saved out in southern California several months after a childhood friend shared the simple Gospel with me. I was Born Again while I was out running one hung-over Saturday morning, and I have never looked back! (I had already been there and it wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be!)

So after 20 something years of this Journey with God, I realized I was dying inside, something was missing, I was completely disillusioned, not seeing any likeness between the believers in my Bible and the believers in my life! I had kind of drifted off into some kind of stupper, into this dead complacent Christianity, I now found myself desperately trying to do religious things to re-kindle the raging fire I had known and experienced, and then forgotten so many years earlier when I first surrendered my life to Jesus. Now all of the sudden it was like I was waking up out of some kind of fog, and I started remembering little moments of that terrifying exciting time with God when I first realized that the Spiritual realm was really true, even more true than this physical world which were imprisoned in. (for our 20 to life sentence) You see in the beginning I was willingly possessed by God and filled with His Holy Spirit!, it was all new and powerful, almost enchanting! My first few years of walking with Jesus were just me and His Word and the Holy Spirit, (I had not started going to any church yet) that honeymoon period was full of excitement and wonder, I experienced visions and revelations and powerful encounters with the Holy Spirit that would last for hours, and this was on a regular basis!

Just by the way, don't let anyone ever tell you that the so called honeymoon experience is ever suppose to end! This is an Eternal Adventure and the joy and Power and the excitment experienced during this Journey never ends whan you are walking in the dust of the Rabbi!

So with that said, approximately a year or so after I surrendered my life to Jesus I had to return to California to do some jail time in a county facility for some things I had done before becoming a believer, (I had moved to Georgia a few months earlier) I probably wouldn’t recommend this for everyone but the time I spent in jail was one of the most incredible times of spiritual growth I could ever hope for. If it wasn’t for the daily strip searches and constant concern of getting shanked by a certain Hispanic gang member that I had crossed swords with, it might of even been enjoyable! After getting out and going back to Georgia, and after visiting dozens of churches I ended up finding a little church where the youth group, (even thou I was older than all of them) kind of adopted me, I guess they thought the leathers and Harley were cool, anyhow I started attending on a regular basis, even thou I didn’t quite fit in right away (most of these folks didn’t even know anybody that had ever smoked cigarettes before, much less a pot head that had come from a life of drugs, alcohol and adult entertainment) but eventually I started doing what I saw everyone else doing, I thought that was what Christianity was,… go to church Sunday morning and evening and then again on Wednesday, and an occasional Christian concert or a revival meeting. Certainly these good people knew more about being a Christian than I did?!?,… or did they?

I learned about tithing, and not working on Sundays and someone said I shouldn’t dance or ware jewelry, others said that the women shouldn’t cut their hair or wear long pants? Other churches I visited before I settled into mine said we had to keep the Saturday Sabbath, or we weren’t saved, and still others said we shouldn’t play musical instruments and if we did we weren’t saved either? Some said we needed to light candles, pray to the saints and say 100 hail Mary’s! While others said I needed to go on a two year missionary trip and do some temple ritual? And then there were a few that I have no idea what they were saying because ah, they were ah, screaming so loud ah! (not to mention the sweating and spitting) The most amazing thing was that all these churches called themselves “Christian” and were all supposedly looking at the same book? Now I had been reading that Wonderful Book for thousands of hours and couldn’t figure out where the heck they came up with 99% of that garbage ah!

I guess the church I was going to looked a little closer to the New Testament church than some of the others… but still… NOT! And another thing I noticed, most every believer I ever met could barely afford to even live a modest lifestyle, while the New Testament 1st century church was described as “lacking nothing” and had all things in common and were able to give to the needy whenever necessary! While most of our churches were trying to support only a small handful of missionaries with money from bake sales, and car washes, it seemed the enemies faithful servants (Islamic Shake’s, & all the Buffet’s, Turner’s, Chavez’s and Heffner’s of the world) seemed to have all the money they needed and were hoarding Billions of dollars and funding all sorts of wickedness! Not to mention None of the believers I knew, or churches I went too seemed to walk in any of the Power that the New Testament believers walked in!

This should Not be so!!!

My Bible said; and these are the Miraculous signs that WILL Follow Believers! And when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, You SHALL be endowed with POWER! And that; The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just! And; My God shall supply ALL my need’s according to HIS Riches an Glory! And…and…and! I knew it was true, I had experienced it!

Well after getting thoroughly “Churchnotized” I soon conformed to the Borg and drifted into that lukewarm fog I had mentioned. I am not sure how it happened nor when but I guess it was a combination of me just closing my eyes and starting to listen to those that taught us that these verses weren’t for us anymore, and then on top of that, I was thinking that maybe I wasn’t holy enough to earn that kind of life, or maybe I needed to repent some more or something? However it happened, the end result was, the cares of the world crept in and all those verses just went away, and faded from my mind! The devil had successfully snatched the seed away that had been planted in my heart.

The exciting powerful relationship I had with God was now completely sanitized and neutralized, then, the 20th century American Christian lifestyle,… the lifeless, powerless, monotoness, let’s just play church life kicked in, I got married and started having children and then,… it was 20 years later and I was here dyeing inside, under self imprisonment buy manmade law’s of Sunday worship and tithing as well as a bunch of other junk! By the way, we are gentiles and were never put under the law of Moses! Still there I was trying to keep law’s and living in absolute defeat, not realizing that the all powerful Glorious Savior that had radically changed my life, Jesus Christ was now made of no effect in my life!

Dear friend, please don’t do another thing until you go read the book of Galatians, read it five or six times if you need, and pray over it, this is key to what is keeping you and the church in bondage! Read it and you will see what has happened to the 21st century church! Gal 3:1-5 vs. 13-14 vs. 4:9 vs. 5:1-5

The Awakening

2010-03-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

Transitioning Back To The Light

It’s only when you are willing to hear and deal with the truth that you are able to see the lie and deception you were under! When I was willing, God opened my eyes!

Thank God I didn’t go to church when I got saved! Yep that was the best thing that could happen to me after I surrendered my life to the Lord! During that time it was just me and my Bible and the Holy Spirit. I learned to depend on the Lord, and learned to hear the voice of the Spirit instead of the voice of man. Thank God for those first few years where I just spent time with Him! Now don’t get me wrong, I love church, but you better know your stuff before you walk into one of those places, it could really mess you up!

What would have happened to me if I hadn’t already known the Scriptures? What would have happened to me if I had not already experienced those wonderful powerful encounters with God? If after all that, I was still so completely confused, so shortly after walking into a church, what if I had ignorantly just went to church after getting saved?!... or worse yet, what if I got saved at church, talk about the blind leading the blind! Approximately 80 or 90% of the leadership of the so called body of Christ don’t even believe in the working presence of the Holy Spirit in their own life, so they certainly aren’t going to tell a new believer about Him. A new believer could go through their entire life in church and never hear about the power of the Holy Spirit that is available to all of us! I was so fortunate I had experienced the things I had with God, and was basically grounded in the Word before I ever set foot in a church. The Holy Spirit had something to work with, to bring back to remembrance, yet I was still mislead for years, and the devil was still able to steal the seed that was planted in me, how much more dangerous is it for a new Believer! That’s why Paul said that we need to be like the Breans, “searching the scriptures daily, to prove, what is the truth”! We are instructed over and over to “study His word to show what we are approved for”, “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against you”!

I truly loved God’s word and had many wonderful encounters with the Word during those powerless years but as I look back I really wasn’t desperate, I wasn’t totally willing to hear the truth, but I started remembering little glimpses of the Glory I had experienced. It was like I was waking up from getting hit on the head, like having amnesia, and starting to remember little bits and pieces, this here and that their. I think I was listening to Mark Ruttland, and he mentioned a verse out of the gospel of Mark, I really don’t even remember the verse, but it had been a while sense I read Marks gospel so I just dug in and started reading. It was as if I had never read the book before in my whole life! In the very first chapter the Lord is casting out demons on two different occasions and it never stops the whole way through. Cast a demon out here, cleanse a leper there, give sight to a blind man and then fuss at the disciples for not performing a miracle when they had the chance! It was amazing, how did I ignore all this for so long and not even question it? Why did I never hear a sermon on casting out demons, (Luke 10:17) or believers walking in the full power and authority of the resurrected Lord of the universe! From the first chapter of Mark to the last chapter Jesus was not just displaying miracles himself, but instructing the disciples to do the same, and rebuking them when they didn’t, (oh ye of little faith have I been with you so long and still you don’t believe!) Jesus was commanding them to force the demons out of people and heal the sick, to pray in spirit (tungs) and raise the dead! This was there marching orders, there blueprint on the everyday life of the believer, this is what the church is still called to do! Do we think we can just censor large portions of the Word of God in the New Testament that we aren’t comfortable with and still see the power and blessings of the Lord manifested? Can we ignore the Lords constant instructions and just “have it our way”, as if we get to say that we prefer our plan over God’s! Well that is exactly what satan has had us doing for the last two thousand years, and the church is completely without power and effect as it should be.

So now my eye’s are starting to get readjusted to the Light and after a few weeks of the Lord reacquainting me with His Whole Word, I started looking at the 21st century church and couldn’t find anything that was even close to the 1st century model that the Lord and the Apostles died to establish and will to us! So what had happened, how did we get so twisted up? I started talking to friends about what the Lord had been revealing to me and you would have thought I was telling them I was kidnapped by little green men! The leader of my small group Bible study’s head started spinning around and was ready to punch me out when I brought it up as the topic of my lesson one night when I was leading! And then as always, God started sending books and tapes and other people across my path that were waking up to the very same verses. I was seeing light on top of light and glory on top of glory, oh what a relief it was to be able to talk about these things and share what we were seeing! The more I died to me, the more Glory I could see manifesting all around! This thing I know as a fact, Surrender is the only way to discovering the incredible riches that God has for us in this life, this world right now! Surrender is the only way to this ever brightening Light and Glory, this wonderful freedom and power this thirst quenching Joy! Surrender ALL! Surrender ALL! Surrender ALL!!!

My life for years had been powerless, yet I knew deep down inside that there should be more, more of something, more of anything! I had prayed and prayed about all sorts of different things thru the years but saw ZERO results. What was I doing wrong, or was I so wicked, that God didn’t even hear my prayers? Now I know that there are basic laws and rights that I should have been informed of as a baby Christian, but I was ignorant of these teachings and apparently so were my elders.

Gal. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ! (and entitled to all the rights of the Son)

In The Cocoon of Communion

2010-02-24T22:32:00.000-08:00

Chapter 7

How do I describe something that God showed me in a moment of long sought after communion? You see this had come to me during an evening of prayer and praise (in the middle of a storm, in the bottom of a valley!) and it had only come after months of a desperate pursuit for answers regarding His Word. Now I assure you this isn’t some new secret, this is stuff we all know but we just don’t realize how important and powerful these things are!

Well here goes, but please understand this will NOT be comprehended with a casual reading of the words. You have to go down to the core of what the word’s mean, you have to eliminate all your preconceived thoughts on this matter. When you really get a hold of what I am telling you, you will realize this is the true heart of God’s Words, and that we have been lied to for so long that it’s hard to accept the truth!

This is the first of two thoughts or revelations which were separate encounters I had with the Lord at the end of a year and a half long desperate siege on the Throne of God. Now understand, this was not just saying a quick prayer before I went to bed, this was hours and hours almost every night in my prayer room! During this time God had brought me back to the Ignored Verses that I had just skimmed over for 20 years like they weren’t meant for me, and the more I took them to heart and started walking in them and proclaiming them, the more all hell broke loose in my personal life!

For some time (all my Christian journey) the Lord had been showing me verses and sending books my way and people, but at this point that wasn’t going to suffice, I WANTED HIM! I wanted to hear God, without any doubt! Not another book by a man or another sermon! I wanted to have God show up in my life! As I pressed on and into God’s word for months now, here again in another dark valley of life, it seemed that God was ignoring me and rejecting me. My business dried up and failed, my “Christian Joy” was dead in the water, my Hope was fading fast and what little self confidence I had reserved was now Below ZERO!!! I was a looser by all definitions of the word!

I knew God didn’t put things in the scriptures that were just passing statements, His Word’s are all to be taken seriously and, in most cases literally! It’s all there for a reason, for instruction, for equipping the saints for inspiration, the New Testament is a Blue Print of what the properly functioning Christian life should look like, and needless to say, the 20th century church is a long way from that!

So after months of Claiming and Speaking, Meditating and Praying over His Words, these Rejected Gospel verses, these incredible Ignored Red Words, I was becoming beat down and confused to the point of being ashamed that I believed them so completely so intently! Now, I couldn’t even talk to anyone about them, my own heart and words were empty and completely deflated! How could I tell anyone about these incredible verses… how could I… for now the opposite was manifesting in my life, failure on top of failure! I was broke and in debt to friends, and my best friend in this journey with me was now in the hospital ICU with Cancer and double phenomena even though we had prayed many times and claimed healing! When would God show up, I didn’t understand what was going on, this was a huge crises of faith! I could hardly breath, it felt like some huge weight was sitting right on my chest! So here I am, how do I go back… did the Holy Spirit “NOT” lead the writers of the Gospels to put these verses in the book? Was it a typo? A bad joke or did Jesus never say these words?

So instead of walking in the power and victory of the Lord’s words, I was reduced to begging God for just a little help, a little encouragement, if He would just through me a proverbial bone to show me I wasn’t crazy for actually believing His Word’s! Lord here I ‘am hanging on the side of this mountain without any rope, and there was no way back down from here, where are you! Even though in my outside world I was experiencing anything but the Lords power and victory, I still knew with all my heart it was all true and it was all for us! How could anyone ever go back to dead Christian-dome? How do you unlearn what you absolutely know to be a fact! These words have to be true or it’s all compromised, this was life or death to me! If I can’t believe these verses how do I trust any of the rest of it, I would have to overlook the most critical information I have ever encountered, knowing this how would I ever share the Gospel with anybody ever again. (or only half of it, how many verses will we have to throw out? 60,70? MORE?) Could I just close my eyes and try to forget this… it would be like Neio going back into the matrix! How do you give up Hope,… that’s worse than death, worse than torture! Hope unfulfilled in still better than no hope at all!

And even worse, I knew deep down in my spirit that it was even Bigger, even more true, even more Powerful than the small group of us studying this were thinking. While they are trusting God for a $200 phone bill I am saying $200 million for missions isn’t even a drop in the bucket! When they are praying for relief of back pain, I am claiming perfect healing and cursing the cancer in my friend and knowing deep down in my heart that we should be at the children’s hospital laying hands on and healing children with muscular dystrophy and leukemia in the mighty name of Jesus!

“By this, they will know that you are my Disciples!”

I believe the Lord meant what He said, “ if you Believe… All Things Are Possible to him that Believes! I believe He meant Anything and Everything!

If you Believe… ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE…!

Mark 11: 22 Jesus said to them, “Have faith in God, 23 I can guarantee this truth: This is what will be done for someone who doesn't doubt in his heart but believes what he says will happen: He can say to this mountain, ‘Be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it will be done for him. 24 That's why I tell you to have faith that you have already received whatever it is you pray for, and it will be yours.

But I am still seeing squat in my own world! I know it’s true but I am going through !*&!!#%?

Well I ain’t going back… I know that I know, that I know, it’s TRUE! I tell you it’s all true! It’s Got To Be True!!! All of it! ALL OF IT!!! Jesus himself said; “these are the Miraculous Signs that WILL follow Believers!” and I am going to just act like He was telling the truth! Let them call me Crazy if they want!

The first clear breakthrough…

Then one evening, in a second, in a whisper, His Spirit told me that I should never be ashamed of believing, then almost in a gentle scolding He said; these are My Words, these words are all written in RED!, they were there for us, and they were there for a reason! He showed me that SHAME was one of the main things the devil was using to hold me back and not only me but most of the entire 21st century church in America! The Enemy had deceived me and most of the true Believers into thinking that it was wrong to expect the miraculous in our lives, the very thing that separates the true way of God, from all the man made demonic religions of the world. Buda never told his followers to heal the sick! Joseph Smith never told his followers to give sight to the blind! Mohamed never told his followers to raise the Dead! (only kill the unbelieving) So why did I not see these things manifesting in my life???

I was still living as if Satan was still my Slave Master! Even though Jesus had paid our ransom and secured our pardon, we were still sitting in this prison even after Jesus had blown the door off the cell! Satan had disarmed the entire church with a single thought which he had put into our minds over and over and over… You Should Be Ashamed of yourself for desiring any of these things! He would say; There are children starving and you selfishly ask God to bless you! Your just a greedy lover of money! You just want to bring glory to yourself!... on and on! What he didn’t mention about these starving children is that most of them are in Godless countries where he rules through all his false pagan religions!

Then as clear as a bell the God of all Glory inspired me to start thanking Him and praising Him, my wonderful Father in heaven let me know He loved me and freed me from this burden that had been restricting my heart for so long. Shame had hindered me from really believing this could be for me! He showed me clearly that in worshiping Him and thanking Him, He was freed to manifest His Glory and Blessing’s in my life, that it was a crucial connection or bridge that would join us more intimately. That when He says “He will inhabit our Praise” He really means, “He will inhabit our Praise”! He would pour His Holy Spirit down into us in a way that no other approach would allow! And just as Salvation was free so were all His other gifts, I could do no works to earn them, and He loved to give good gifts to His children! He told me I was always free to receive the inheritance and the power that His Son had died to purchase for me, it was always available to me as long as I had come out from under the law! He reminded me that Satan was a lire and the father of lies, the enemy had used the church to first put me under the law where Christ was made of no effect in my life!, and then pump me full of Condemnation and make me feel Ashamed for believing these verses were really for us… FOR ME!... So even though Christ purchased my freedom, I didn’t know any better and I listened to and trusted other people rather than “only His word”! I had allowed myself to go back into bondage! Then on top of that was the years of lies and condemnation which depleted any power of Christ in my life. But the Lord, always leading and always calling me, had been waiting patiently for me to seek Him with all my heart!

Then like a veil being lifted from my eyes, I understood that God was showing me… telling me, that it is not a Bad Thing to take Him at His word! It wasn’t out of selfishness or some personal ego trip, my heart was for God’s kingdom, the condemnation wasn’t from God it was from the lire!

The Enemy of my soul had deceived me and Shamed me into feeling it was wrong to ever want these promises in my life, thinking it was only because of Greed, that I wanted to experience the Lords Manifested Word in my life, that it was from being self-centered, that it was all just plain sensationalism or name it and claim it, he made us think it was all kinds of garbage or hokies pokies, even demonic! But in reality the opposite was true, this was the very power that Christ won for us on Calvary! Satan had deceived the Body of Christ into calling good evil and robbed us of the true power that sets the followers of Jesus apart from all the Man Made religions in the world!

All of the verses that are completely ignored by 90% of the church, are the very life giving POWER, and the nuclear core of the Gospel, these are the heart of the Lords teachings that confirmed that the Lord was the true Messiah and that Christianity is the true way!

“Go into all the world and tell everyone the Good News, he that believes and is baptized will be saved …and these are the miraculous signs that will follow Believers in the Power and Authority of My Name they Will Force Demons out of people”… “the Gospel will be confirmed by signs and wonders”, “If you Believe you will see the Glory of god”, “As you go, spread this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.' 8 Cure the sick, bring the dead back to life, cleanse the lepers, and force demons out of people. Give these things without charging, since you received them without paying”! These are ALL RED WORDS! And you may notice, these are not suggestions but Commandments!

So my friend it’s Not A Bad Thing to ask God to reveal Himself to us in an amazing personal way! Jer. 29:13

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to desire to see miracles working in your life! Mark 16

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to desire and expect the ability to lay hands on the sick and see them healed, right then and their! Math. 10:7

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to ask God for His Blessing on our work and everything we do! Mal.3:11

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to want a good home for our Families and a safe place for our children to play! Psalm 37:3

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to want good days full of peace and prosperity to enjoy with our Wives and Children, to eat drink and be merry! For there is a season for everything. Ecc.

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to want an Abundant life and Wealth to provide an inheritance for our Children and Grandchildren and to have enough overflow to feed the poor and always be ready to help others in need! John 10:10 and 2 Cor. 9:11

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to want to take Authority over the powers of darkness and command them to flee in the Power and Authority of the name of Jesus! Luke 10:17

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to claim all the promises of God and ask for the better gifts! 1Cor. 12:31

It Doesn’t bring Glory to God when His church is beaten down broken and defeated! When they only have a form of godliness but No power!

It Doesn’t bring Glory to God when His church is so bound up in debt and finical stress that they can’t pay their own bills on time, and there good name is besmirched and much worse the name of Christ is shamed.

It Doesn’t bring Glory to God when His Children are Divorcing at a rate as high as the unbelievers because they are so disillusioned and beaten down, living in failure and defeat!

It Doesn’t bring Glory to God when Your prayers are empty and cold, when there is no power or life in your Christian walk, when you can’t even remember what it was like to feel that excitement and passion of your faith, Or even if you had Faith!

Do you see it’s Not A Bad Thing to want to see the Lame Walk! It would be evil to say that it’s Gods will for these children to be deformed and bound to a wheel chair!

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to want to have money to feed the poor! What do you think that the wicked of the world will have more compassion for the poor and needy than YOU?

And it’s Not A Bad Thing to give Sight to the Blind, Jesus did it on a regular basis!

It’s Not A Bad Thing to see alcoholics and drug addicts delivered from the Demon’s that have held them in bondage for years! Or do you think it’s a disease?

And It’s Not A Bad Thing to open the Ears of the Deaf instead of sitting them in a special section to have someone to do sign language for them!

And it’s not out of Gods power to raise the Dead to Life! I am not talking spiritual dead! Yes I am really saying raising the Dead to life!

Yes I am really saying casting Demons out of people and making the Lame Walk!!!

I am saying that when the Scripture says we “Put On Christ” and that we are hidden in Christ, and raised up above all principalities and powers, that it’s truly Jesus (if we allow Him to manifest His life and power in us) working the work’s of the Father through us, in Him!

But It IS a Bad Thing to give the enemy victory in a battle that the Lord Jesus, at a very huge cost, has already won!

It IS A Bad Thing to REJECT the gifts Christ bought for you, and allow the Enemy of our Souls to continue to SHAME us into thinking those verses should be ignored.

And it is a Bad Thing to just continue living like Satan’s slaves, when we are really Children of the King! These things are all ours, if we are in Christ… the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us richly!

The Lord gave me a great analogy of this one night, It’s like in the movie “Iron Man” the main character built this super hero flying suite that was deadly, I mean when he put on the Iron Man suit, you better hope you were on his side! This thing was amazing, and it was loaded for bear, but it didn’t work without the man inside!, and the man had no powers of his own, only when he put on that suit, but when he put the suit on… look out, they could kick some butt!

When we talk about putting on Christ, this is what we are doing, we are putting on the God of all creation and Nothing is Impossible! He is just waiting for us to utilize all that He has provided for us, waiting for us to take Him at His Word, to put on the suit! But most of us never do.

This is the way God operates in this earth, He gave us dominion, but we gave it to Satan, so now He must honor His Word by working through man. It’s the only way He can legally operate to get around Satan’s legal dominion in this world, Satan is the god of this world, look it up! This is a hard thing to hear, but God is Not the Sovigern ruler over this Earth, Satan and us the true Born Again Believers have joint custody and dominion! (and so far he is the only one exerting authority) It is through us, the regenerated believers in Jesus the Messiah that God has freedom to work in our world, this is one of the many things He purchased at Calvary! So when we, put on Christ, we are putting on the Supernatural, all Powerful, Glorious Son of the universe! We are God’s children, manifesting His will through His Son, and there is no limit to what Jesus can do through us if we realize this and walk in this authority! And there is nothing Satan can do to stop us in Christ or to stop Christ in us!

So you see… It’s Not A Bad Thing to want to see The Church finally Become the Manifested Sons of God that the entire earth is waiting for! To finally see the Hires of God walk in the Power and Authority of the Lord Jesus Chris!

The real Iron Man!

Nan's Pome

2010-01-18T21:03:00.000-08:00

Broken hearts and broken dreams, another day of wandering,
another tear, the pain grows worse when will the LORD come
to break this Curse?

We’ve endured these days of Darkness and Sorrow,
but the New Day Dawns and Joy comes tomorrow!

GOD has filled our minds with images of Glory,
unfulfilled in this life, but we've not yet come to the end of the story!

For eye has NOT seen, nor the mind comprehended,
what GOD has for His children, when this life has ended!

So now you see clearly Mom, while we still look through a stained glass.
I love You Mommy n you know I Miss U!

The True Naked YOU!

2010-01-12T11:16:00.000-08:00

Just thinking about something Ravi Zach. said at ch yesterday, he was talking about how we will all shed this body of corruption and stand as only Spirit! I think he was quoting C.S. Lewis...

How would that affect us now!?! If you were just pure spirit?, “Invisible”, would people like you or be attracted to you just by what you have to say, am I interesting or funny… or a JERK!?

We would all be who we “Really” are!!! Scary!

All of us, the genetically blessed beautiful people and the genetically disadvantaged will stand in their true Naked Invisible reality! The genetic lottery winners will no longer walk in the false confidence that is afforded to them through a lifetime of affirmation and praise for possessing something that they never had to learn nor earn. And the less fortunate, who swam in the wrong end of the gene pool, would never have to drudge through the unnecessary shame and ever present consciousness of their imperfections, struggling to hold their head up and walk in confidence!

We would all be accepted or rejected for who we really are! Would people like me or respect me for just who I am and what I have done for others? Do I have a servents heart that would make me more attractive? Or do i actually do anything for others that would truly count?

And if all my “friends” and acquaintances were just the invisible spirit part, what about those relationships?... as far as the same sex friends go, I don’t think it would change my feelings much, but if I am honest, I can think of a couple (the opposite sex) that I would probably be more attracted to! And a few that I am attracted to Now, that would no longer have any power over me, actually as I now think about it I would more likely be repelled by them, and Freed from this superficial and very unreasonable power they have over me or should I say… over my flesh!

Wow am I ever Shallow! Help me Lord and forgive me!

The Fingerprint of God... Laminin?

2009-04-06T20:12:00.000-07:00

So What Excuse will we use? Let’s go Play Ball!

2009-03-28T18:33:00.000-07:00

The Weary Warrior

2009-03-11T16:10:00.000-07:00

Do you Walk The Road of Struggles?

Dear fellow Traveler, I am not sure how far you are
on your journey, but I want to Encourage you, and
Cheer you on, and give you Hope to Preserver!
The reward for those who Don't Give Up, those who
Don't Lose Hope, is well worth the struggles we
must endure! The pain of the battle is not worthy
to be compared to the Joy of the Victory!

I was talking with a friend the other day and he
mentioned a dream of himself and several others
standing in a large foyer with two huge doors in
front of them. The door on the right was wide open
and you could feel the warmth of a beautiful sunny
day pouring in. You could hear birds singing and
chirping, it was almost as if, it was a perfectly
orchestrated symphony, each bird singing in turn,
the music, if you will, seemed to fill the air and
came from all around you. And this wonderful smell,
this intoxicating aroma, a perfect combination
flowers, spices, and sweet fruit just ready to be picked!

It was completely overwhelming, you could actually
taste the air, and Feel the music! It made you want
to run in, and bask in the experience!

There was a sign above the door that read…
The Road of Your Prayers and Dreams

As you looked in you could see a pleasant looking
street with all kinds of shops and restaurants, this
was truly an unusual place, because everything was
extremely beautiful and everything was Absolutely
FREE! Now let me clarify… EVERYTHING WAS FREE!
Not just the little mini snacks at the grocery store,
but everything!... The clothes in the Beautiful
Designer Shops, the Diamond and Gold Jewelry in
the Exclusive Jewelry Stores, the most Beautiful
cars at the Luxury Automobile Dealerships!

All with no strings attached, Absolutely free! Now
this was not so for everyone, but just for the travelers
who entered through the door to the road of your
Prayers & Dreams! You see there were other people
there, but they appeared to be their just to serve
the travelers, at least that’s how the travelers
treated them.

As you looked on past the little shops and beautiful
homes, (every one of them spectacular,
everyone more beautiful than the next, and as
you guessed it, you could choose anyone of them,
for Free of course!) a little way down the road you
could see this Absolutely wonderful field, full of
flowers and fruit trees, the trees were heavy with
fruit and the flowers were in full bloom. There was
a perfect little road that wound through the field
and continued on as far as the eye could see.
I thought to myself, what a nice place to take a
walk or a hike, but all the travelers were either
in their Convertible Luxury Automobiles or riding
in fancy customized golf carts? I guess they
were tired from all the shopping and eating!

The travelers continued on their journey, on and on,
always shopping, always eating, but never satisfied.
For days and months and years it seemed, partaking
of all the most expensive and beautiful fair that this
country had to offer. They were entertained by
wonderful singers and musical troupes, and went to
all the latest plays, dressed in their most stunning
suits and gowns.

As they drove on there were many little shops and
stands to get more food or jewelry or different
customized golf carts with softer seats or newer
cars, with the tops Up, so they wouldn’t get too
hot, or their hair wouldn’t get messed up! And
they always seemed to complain how the food
was cold or not cooked just right, or the hair
dresser didn’t do their hair just the way they liked
it, or the service was too slow or the servants
were irritating commoners!

The road was now wide and smooth and passed by the
most Incredible scenery, with spectacular mountain views
in some places, and gorgeous turquoise oceans with white
sandy beaches in others. But the travelers mostly kept
there windows up and rarely looked out or noticed how
beautiful everything was, as a matter of fact most of
them slept while they now had their drivers do all the
driving, always moving them along the way, on an on.

The travelers stopped often now, to eat or to get more
stuff! I saw that some got very expensive horses, and
required more servants to ride and take care of them.
And some got huge yachts and new outfits to wear, just
in case they ever decided to actually go out on the
yachts. And of course they all got tremendous new
mansions at every stop of the journey and more
servants to take care of the estates.

I looked closely at many of the travelers, and noticed
that the farther they went on their way, the sicklier
and weaker they looked. Also they never looked
happy like you would think, for someone so blessed
with such an abundance of wealth and freedom. One
more thing I noticed was that few of them ever
laughed anymore, at least not about funny things,
like big floppy eared puppies or squirrels playing tag
up and down trees in the beautiful meadows, only
at other people, like when someone would drop
something or stumble or if they saw one of the
servants being mistreated, or when one of the other
travelers, (the ones they didn’t like) would get sick.
(and most of them didn’t seem to like anyone)

At this point I couldn’t see any further into the door
but, I think I had seen enough! It’s hard to explain
how something so beautiful could be so unattractive?

Then I looked and saw the other door on the left was
Opened… I had almost forgotten that it was there, I
was so intoxicated by what I saw through the door of
your dreams, until I saw the end result, and my senses
returned to me!

You could see a dark foreboding sky through this door,
there Were Peals of Deafening Thunder and Blinding
Lighting flashing all around, so intense that the whole
world seamed to shake! Through the door, a cold stale
wind blew, and on that wind there was a stench that
would almost make you gag, and without ever smelling
it before, you knew what it was, it was the smell of
Death, the stench of rotting flesh! Of man or beast I
don’t know, but I have a good guess.

There was a rugged sign above this door that read…
The Road of Struggles, Pain and Sorrow

There was rain pouring down and a freezing wind
screaming all around, like the sound of a thousand
dyeing ravens. As I peered into the darkness you
could just make out a jagged pathway, barely
distinguishable from the impassible terrain laid out
before them, them being the travelers who actually
chose to enter this door… this Nightmare!
(and by the way, there were no servants here!)

Just to look upon the trail was terrifying! As a side
note, I saw nothing stopping them from turning back,
as a matter of fact, none of them ever even looked
back, their eyes were fixed on some unseen reward,
some object of desire, drawing them on, something
greater than any obstacle in their path, greater than
any pain they would surly experience, or were
already experiencing!

The path seamed to wind up the side of a incredibly
treacherous Mountain. The rocks, if you could call
them that were more like Huge shards of glass, split
with razors sharp edges! It seemed As you looked
more intently you could see the whole path, hundreds
of miles long if not thousands. Along the sides of
the path and all the way up the mountain, you saw
very clearly, the eyes of all sorts of terrifying
creatures, poised to lunge at anything getting even
close to them… some Gigantic and some as small
and deadly as a scorpion, just staring and stalking,
waiting for their next victim!

The little walkway, in most places was on the very
edge of the Mountain, and was barely wide enough
to fit a mouse, much less an average man or woman.
Though I would hardly call anyone average that
would choose to walk this path!

And something I thought strange was, you could just
make out, what seemed to be a slight smile on the
faces of the travelers along the way! Some of these,
in the very act of intense combat with these vicious
creatures that would leap out from the crevices, as
the travelers would try to pass buy. But still they
pressed on as they continued to fight, always
pressing on! (and almost always smiling?) Further up
and further in, I would hear some of them shout,
further up and further in! What sort of incredible
prize would drive them on like this, so determined,
so steadfast!

On the few areas of the path that widened a little,
there was what looked like some sort of bog or
quicksand, either way it offered little no relief to
the travelers, or more correctly to the Hero’s,
(as I now found myself thinking of them) for they
were far less agile in that mire, and could barely
withstand the onslaught, from just one of these
hideous creatures, much less, sometimes as many
as 4 or 5 at a time, as it were! These despicable
Hordes seemed to gather together in these areas
where there potential victims were at an even greater
disadvantage, and could hardly withstand them as
they pushed on, and these fights, through the Boggs
would often rage on for hours and hours!

Occasionally, another traveler would enter the same
Bog and give some equilibrium to the battle, it was
so joyous to see the smiles on the faces of the
warriors as they realized they were now, not alone!
And a new energy seemed to fill the Weary
Travelers Soul, and they would fight on with a new
Vigor, a new re-doubled strength!

One thing that was quite curious, was that sometimes
after these horrific battles, where another traveler
would join the fight, (and usually just in time) as
soon as the battle was won, the second warrior could
no longer be found? I attributed it to my impaired
vision, but that has always puzzled me! Also the
remaining traveler seemed to be a little surprised,
but they would look around, smile, raise there
sword to the sky as a solute, and cry out Further
up and Further in!

It was quite obvious that these tormentors were
evidently cowards, and knew they were less likely
to fall off the cliffs when in battle on the boggs, not
too mention they could not fight as a pack on the
cliff’s, that is my closest guess anyhow!

What was even more disheartening was that the
path never seemed to level out, much less slope
down, only up and up and up, it never seemed to
give any respite, never offered any shelter from
the storm! And oh the storms they continued
with increasing intensity by the minute, not only
the driving rain and buffeting winds but the buckets
of water, the bitter cold water that poured down
the slopes of that wicked mountain! How they could
keep their footing at all was amazing! Sword
always drawn shield always poised to repel an
attack! They pushed on night after night… for it
never quite became day, only a little less dark.
The morning never coming they went on year after
year, battle after battle…

As I looked on I could not contain myself, the tears
poured down my face like the buckets of water that
poured down the mountainside, I sobbed desperately,
deep heaving sobs, not of fear for the warriors but,
some sort of pride in them or a Joy for them, for
each battle won! And the attacks continued on and
on! I could offer no help, I could only cry and Pray
for the Weary travelers, the Weary Hero’s… my Hero’s!

One more thing that was very amazing and puzzling
at the same time, was the faces of the Hero’s, as
they advanced further and further on their journey,
as the months and years wore on, they radiated a
sort of glow or an energy of some sort, that grew
stronger with each battle! They looked Regal and
Wise, and certainly Stronger and even more…
Beautiful, if you don’t mind calling a man beautiful,
the women, yes, of course, (and I did see many
women Hero’s on the path) but the word attractive
falls terribly short! Yes they were Beautiful, all very
very Beautiful!

You would think they would all look weary and
diminished, worn and haggard and bloody, but it
was just the opposite, the further they traveled, the
more battered and mangled the traveler, the More
Glorious they Grew! I wanted to know them, oh if I
could speak to one them, to hear their story,
to learn what drove them? I wanted to…

I wanted to enter the door and join the Travelers!
I wanted to follow the Weary Warriors!
I wanted to take the path of struggle!

I want to Become what only the path of Struggle can make me!

To You Weary Traveler, Weary Hero!
May God Bless You, and Keep You, as You Walk the Path!

Gregory James LaRev

P.S.

I feel I need to clarify my intention of this story,
this is Not a indictment against being wealthy, this
is a comment on the powerful effect that struggles
works in the life of a individuals character! Also I
believe I am accurate in my description of the end
result of a individual who has never had to work
for anything. I believe riches are never truly enjoyed
unless they are earned!

Friend true wealth is earned by effort, honor and
persistence, go and win your battle, the prize is
worth all the pain!

I Gave Him My Sin's

2009-02-04T18:56:00.000-08:00

What did Jesus give?

He gave His robes to the Jailers, before they paraded Him naked through the streets

He gave His dignity to humbleness, as they laid Him naked over the whipping post

He gave His back to the whip, to purchase our healing, for by His Stripes we are healed

He gave His Royal Diadem for a Crown of Thorns, and no King has ever had a more beautiful crown

He gave His palms to the jagged Nails, so the prophecy would be fulfilled, See I have Engraved you on the palms of My hands

He gave His Beautiful feet to a cruel spike, while the Harlot’s tears and Mary’s fragrance, were still evident… they have Pierced My hands and My feet

He gave His side to the hilt of a spear, so that Thomas and I would have a place to put our hands,… Thomas & Greg, cast forth thy hands and put them into My side

He gave His Body to redeem mine, because without Him I had no Hope, for All have Sinned and Fallen short of the Glory of God

He gave His Blood to wash away my sin's, so I to could stand in the presence of the Father, for without the Shedding of Blood, there is no Forgiveness of Sin!

He gave His goodness in substitute for my wickedness, because as for goodness I had none… this is God’s Love towards us, that while we were yet Sinners, Christ Died for us!

Then He gave me His Spirit, so as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I needn't fear, for His right hand shall guide me, hold me fast, and lead me home. Too our real Home!

All I have to give Him,… IS MY SIN'S, … AND MY LOVE!

Thank you Lord

P.S. To those of you who don't know Him, God is NOT your enemy! He is your biggest fan, standing at the finish line with His arms open wide cheering you on and calling you home!

To Your True Freedom!
Gregory James LaRev

Funny Stuff... Kid Videoz

2009-02-03T14:00:00.000-08:00

I was just out with the Kid's and shot some video of their Radical Talents Feel free to pass this around, the kidz would love to see a bunch of hits on them!

Crazy Eye Girl Goes CRAZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJrTeaPEjQ
Watch this tragic clip of one of the Normally Sweet and Kind Crazyeye Chiclets, going crazy and Assaulting her Wonderful, Kind, Loving and extremely Good Looking Father for no apparent reason, Charges Pending

Daniel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY57ZP4tMO0

Crazy Eye Girlz; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9oKk0J-aA

Life During Our Dot!

2009-01-27T14:36:00.000-08:00

I heard an analogy a while back, and the more I thought about it, the more profound it became to me…!

If we use a Dot ( . ) to represent our life here on Earth, (anywhere from 1 second to 80/90 years); And a Line, thousands of miles long, ie. _________________________>>> to represent just one second of Eternity!

How should we live? For the Dot, or the Line?!!!!?????????!

What can be accomplished in a lifetime, or for this analogy,… in a dot! .

I wanted to look at what can be done during a dot, before I looked at what a line might hold in store for us!

Now granted, some dot’s are smaller than others, (i.e. their life is much shorter) but they can still effect many lives and emotions, and some relatively small dot’s (my Lord) have even been known to Shake the Entire World and change all of history, time and Eternity!

WHAT CAN BE DONE DURING A DOT?

Some Dot’s last only a few seconds, yet are mourned desperately!, and effect the lives of the larger dot’s who bore them for all time!

While others, that last only a few seconds, and are never even considered, but discarded as refuse! An inconvenience!

Still the Angles of Heaven Rejoice over both as they are ceremoniously usher into the presence of the Lamb of God!… (another dot of shorter duration) to begin their "Eternal line"!

The point is, dots come in all sizes, large and small, yet Much can be done during a Dot!

During our Dot, we may live a hundred years, and travel a million miles. We may sail the seven seas and climb the mighty Matahorn!

During our Dot, we may see the Seven Wonders of the world, swim the English channel, spend our Summers in the Alps, and see Paris in the Spring!

During our Dot, we may be blessed with a dozen Children, and know the joy of bouncing our Children’s Children on our knees!

During our Dot, we may experience Love and Passion so Deep and Consuming that we sometimes forget to breath, and our Heart feels it will Burst from our chest! … For sometimes the Father shows us a Glimpse of the line He has for us!!!

And hopefully, During our Dot, we will Sing and Dance away, at least a few Decades!, before we stumble and struggle and Cry away the same!

But most assuredly, During our Dot, we will experience Pain and Sorrow,... sometimes so Horrendous and Devastating that we seam to hemorrhage down to the very core of our being, down to the very depths of our Soul!

And it's at those times, we Wish our Dot were Smaller…

But the Lamb, who experienced all of this too, (And More), knows our pain and sorrow for "He is a Man of Sorrow", so… He cries with us… for the day of Our Line has not yet come…

During our Dot, we may read Ten Thousand novels, on every subject ever Wondered, and grow in Age and Wisdom to rival that of Solomon himself!!

We may Dream a Million Dreams and write a Thousand Symphonies that would make the very Angles of Heaven Sing!!!

During our Dot, we may Discover Gold or Diamonds or Buried Treasure!!!….OR… A Lover….. Worth so Much More!!!

During our Dot, we may Fly a Hundred times around the World, and gain the Wealth to own it All!… "But what profits a Man if he gain the Whole World"?…

If you think about it, (in the proper perspective) it too is Just a Dot (the world that is) Floating around in God’s Glorious Heavens!!! Just one of a Hundred Billion Dot’s…

Jesus,… who Created our Dot, as well as the Universe in just 6 days, Said…
“I go to Prepare a Place for You!” He has been working on it for over 2000 years!

SO……?
If we can do all of this During this little Dot of a life…this Blink of an Eye!

JUST THINK of What we CAN DO and SEE and FEEL and TASTE and HEAR and EXPERIENCE!…. During just one Spec of the Line He has Planed for Us!!!

"For Eye hath not seen, nor has it entered into the mind of man, what God hath Prepared for US"...!

SO >>>> How Will You Live During Your Dot?, for yourself and the cares of this dot!

OR >>>> For The Line And The ONE Who Created It, and You!?

I Choose to Live My Dot for HIM!, So I Can Live My Line With HIM!!!!!!!

Sincerely God Blessed &
Looking Forward to the Line!
Gregory James LaRev

My Love Affair with H.B.

2009-01-14T14:06:00.000-08:00

Hi Folks,
Gregory James here, as an introduction I am one of those long time Masochists that has been in network-marketing (home business, ie HB) for over twenty years, (on and off) but I have to tell you I Love it! I love the whole concept, I love the people, I love the hours, and I love the possibilities!!!
No other business offers the Freedom the Hope and the Opportunity to achieve this kind of life style! But even more importantly I love to see the LIFE Come Back into the EYES of someone that has been on the Hamster Wheel of a day to day existence for so long that they have lost any Hope of Ever Getting FREE!!!
Now don’t get me wrong, mlm or internet marketing is still a business but it has perks that are available in no other career! Sense I first saw the circles drawn on a napkin in a Waffle House I knew this is what I wanted to do when I grew up!!! (or should I say when I never grow up!)
My back ground and dream was to be in commercial aviation, but I quickly learned that 5:00 am on a cold airport ramp is still 5:00 am!!! and COLD!!!, no matter if you’re a pilot or a baggage guy!
It was only Romantic before I had to do it for a living, (or to someone outside looking in) I do still Fly but not for a living, just for the love and beauty of it! There is nothing more magical than being up above a huge cloud layer on a Full Moon Night! The moon shining so bright you can hardly look at it… and then the clouds beneath you Silver and Deep Blue like a bubbling ocean.
I digress!
Another important aspect to this business is the People! What a Fantastic Community of compadres!, positive, encouraging, filled with Dreams and plans, people that are not afraid to take a chance! Just to be crazy enough to be in this business you have to be willing to risk everything, you have to be willing to Go Against the Grain and ignore all the naysayers!!
It’s like we are Missionaries going out to find the lost sheep that still have a flicker of life in their Entrepreneurial Spirit, just a little flame that has not been snuffed out by this negative world!
There is almost nothing More Gooder than seeing the light go on for someone, and their eyes light up, and the very life come back into their spirit!!! It’s almost as good as sharing the Gospel with someone and seeing them set Free and given a new life, Born Again right there before your eyes!
In both cases they will need help at first, coaching and encouragement but it is worth it to see them Thriving not just surviving!!
I would love to hear from ya if I can help in any way, feel free to contact me through my web site; TheFreedomKey.Com
To Your True Freedom,
Gregory James LaRev
Freedom-Key.com