You Will Understand Later

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I was feeling anxious waiting on God to do what He said He would do for us. I was feeling worried about the future for our grandchildren in America. I was feeling angry about America’s new governmental administration of evil in the White House, the Senate and the House. I was asking the Lord to give me something, show me something, tell me something – to give me peace of mind and bring my JOY back. But this is what He said to me: “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” John 13: 7

 

Peace immediately filled me about our grandchildren’s future; strength to keep waiting on God to act and do what He said He would do for us; confidence that He allowed this evil administration to come into full power with the presidency, the House and Senate – for His good purpose.  How do people live without the presence and favor of God? I’ll never know!

Truth

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I had a new grandson born 3 years ago, and his name is Elisha Truth. Truth has been outlawed more and more, and to have a grandson named Truth is a sign of what is needed today more than anything else. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” This is just another conformation that the Lord’s return is getting very close.

 

 

 

Why are lies so easy to believe? Why does false information spread so easily?  Today, the media is all upset because they have been accused of reporting false information. They say it is their right to say what they want, and to accuse whom they want of whatever they want. The only right they have is to report facts without their personal opinion or interpretations.  These medias now CREATE the news they want us to see or hear. It’s become political in their agendas.

 

 

 

These people (of the media) are grumblers and complainers, they brag about themselves, and they flatter anyone who makes them feel important. We who have the truth from knowing what GOD SAYS in HIS WORD and by HIS SPIRIT, are told that in the last days there would be these types of people whose only purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires, and to create divisions. God is not alive or real to them, by choice, because God says in His Word that all that He has created and the way creation works together with great purpose, is evidence that God does exist as Creator, and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

 

 

 

As children of the truth – what should we do? Should we not RESCUE those who are confused by the lies they hear, tell them the truth?  But also, be cautious while showing mercy to those who have been listening the lies of media vessels that the devil controls.  Above all, praying for people in our lives to come to the knowledge of the truth, so they can be saved by the One who is the gate or door into eternal life with God our everlasting Father.

 

The Eagle Flies High

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I just learned the other day something (from Mike) about the eagle. God has made the eagle to be able to fly higher than any other bird. A crow pecking at an eagle as the crow latches on to the back of the eagle as the eagle is flying, will pass out as the eagle reaches a height than what the crow is able to survive because the crow can’t breathe at such an altitude.

 

 

I just love how God uses the eagle in so many passages of Scripture in relation to our lives with Him. The devil, like the crow, gets to pecking at our lives to at least annoy us, if not to injure or destroy us. We see this annoyance and intent to harm – by how the devil uses powerful people, worldly systems and political administrations against the Lord’s people – in every nation. Now as we clearly see in America too. But as we latch on with our LORD ON HIGH – the devil and his allies can’t survive there at all, their plans against our place/position/purpose with the Lord our God – fall flat.

 

 

“You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” Exodus 19:4

 

 

In case you don’t know what the Lord did to Egypt because of how the Pharaoh and the Egyptians treated God’s people (their Hebrew slaves) and refused to let them go worship the Lord one day a week (in the way God told them to), God brought fierce judgments down on Egypt. God swooped down to show Himself to His oppressed people in ways they had never seen before, and then to carry them out of Egypt – to God’s will and purpose for them, where they would have all His favor to prosper and all His power to overcome their enemies.

 

 

And God is the same today as He was then!

Keep Your Eyes on the LORD

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Lord, help me to see beyond what I can do, and see all that You can do. To walk in the impossible I must keep my eyes on You. To do this I need to walk as though what I seek – I have found, think that what I asked for – is already mine, and know that all the doors that look closed – will be opened for me. When I take my eyes off You and put them on my problems I will feel hopeless; remembering that my words aren’t as powerful as what You say. Your Word will result in the right changes and “end” You want for Your children.

The Death of Frank Dietz

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Frank Dietz passed on to be with the Lord Monday January 11, 2021.  For the past 3 years he tended to his invalid wife 24/7 learning to cook, clean, do laundry as well as take her on walks and working with her to get better. But Anneli is not any better, and their two daughters have a huge job trying to care for her and rushing to get Frank’s legal matters in order, which Frank had put off. His focus was on His work from the Lord – as most of us understood.

 

Frank’s death was a surprise. This fast spreading cancer was quickly destroying his organs, and from the start of him going in to find out why he was feeling bad and all, till the time he died it was only a few months.

 

Frank was loved and highly admired and honored all over the world. Operation Mobilization is putting together a Zoom acknowledgement from friends of Frank’s life. Amy, his older daughter has been trying to care for her mother, but she’s overwhelmed. Please pray. Also, his younger daughter, Liisa, has started a “go-fund-me” for their costs in taking care of their mother, Frank’s beloved wife Anneli. If you want to give – here is the link:

 

Fundraiser by Liisa Bishop : Frank and Anneli Dietz- Memorial and OnGoing Care (gofundme.com)

 

We’re praising God that Frank is out of his suffering. Glory to God! Can’t wait to be joined with him in GLORY!

Are the Mainstream Churches Relevant Today?

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My wife and I have not attended a traditional church for years. Why? Some think we are not walking with God. Some ask, how can you stay in fellowship without being in a church around other believers? Some  think we have gone out on a tangent and have missed the way. Some might think that there was a church problem in our past and that is why. I have been asked, “You have gifts that the body needs, why don’t you use these gifts?” I ask them, where are God’s gifts in me ONLY allowed to be used?!  And, “who is in control of these gifts from God?”

 

The truth is, we do not fit into the so-called “traditional mainstream church” as it has become. I have never given up on the Body of Christ, just the traditional organized mainstream church. The church of today is not relevant to what I see or what I am going through, and this is why I believe the traditional church attendance is down. I have been asked why not try and change it?  I do not have the time, desire or strength to do this.

 

What I do firmly believes is that the traditional church of American is not prepared for what is coming. They believe that God will not allow them to go through extreme suffering. Why would they think like this? Is there some place in the Bible that says that Christians will not suffer? Could it be that they think they have not done anything worthy of suffering, or just because they belong to Jesus that He will not allow them to suffer. Jesus said they if they hated Him they will hate His disciples too. Ask those believers all over the world who are suffering now; those who have died, or have had the loss of wife, husband, children and parents, the loss of everything they had saved and worked for their whole life. They suffer for their love and stand for Jesus, because they will not compromise, not deny the Lord or His Word to them.

 

What I have found – is if you want a relationship with Jesus it will NOT come by attending meetings. It will not come by listening to someone tell you what they learned in the Word of God. It will not come by trying to live a good life. All of my “saved” life I have had a quiet time in the Bible; about one hour every morning. Lately, one hour has not been enough. I even long for the wee hour morning now and cannot wait until 2 or 3 AM so that I can spend time with the Spirit in the Word, and in prayer. I do not regret that I am losing sleep either, as I still go to work from 7 AM to 6 PM. I am not saying this to show how “spiritual” I am. I am only saying that if people want to ‘truly’ know Him it requires time and passion.

 

Certainly, for the most part, traditional church leaders teach God’s Word, but there is a difference when you have the indwelling Holy Spirit talking to you from His Word each morning, rather than someone telling you about His Word. The question is: Do you want to ‘know’ Jesus or just have someone teach you about Jesus?

 

1 Timothy 4 says, “Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith.” Why? The Lord says, “These people do not know Me or My word. They think their life is made right with Me by rules and regulations, but My faithful people will know the truth. My children’s hope is in Me, the Savior of all people. So don’t let anyone think less of you because you are different, but be an example to everyone in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.”

 

America’s Future

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Hang on to your hats kids! We’re going to see the worst of this so-called ‘elected’ party in full-gore-power! Trump certainly made mouthy mistakes, but his supporters have clearly had enough of politics as usual as they showed up in droves to the Capitol the other day.
 
Whether Trump said or didn’t say what he said, that he is being accused of starting all that came down at the Capitol (which of course was greatly exaggerated by the left’s medias) nothing would change the way the liberal media plan to report it.
 
We all still support every policy Trump signed, and his genuine support for “law and order,” for our “military to be the best,” and for our veterans to be cared for, and for our law officers to be free to do their jobs and not be disrespected like they have by liberal politicians, and of course Trump’s genuine support of our Constitutional freedoms that we will slowly see taken away and replaced by a growing government of self-serving politicians who want nothing to do with God, the Bible, Christianity and Conservative thought, removing it from all of society and American culture (like they’ve already started to do) which, whether you want to believe or not, is what Trump was wanting to prevent, and why Trump was hated so much. Oh, they say other things about why they hated him, but it’s all a mask.
 
Again, Trump is not a perfect man, many faults, like ALL OF US. But we, who voted him into office for his constitutional beliefs and patriotism (which have been twisted by the media) we will always see him as a president that pushed through “a wicked political coup” working night and day against him – like no other president has had to endure, a president taking NO salary – like no other president ever did, and all the while being ‘falsely’ accused of one thing after another without any truth and proof that would be grounds in court for removing him from office while in office. Or, they would have!
 
Without stop for 4 years plus, is why the people who voted him into office are clearly fed up and why they showed up in droves to the Capitol to protest election corruption and fraud, as well as all that had been exposed about the 4 year democrat coup, that we all are still waiting for these criminals to receive the same justice we all would receive.
 
No doubt, there is a civil war taking place – for a good reason. If you really think that the lies, deception, chaos and warring is all going away because the democrats won everything, like I said….. Hang on! Or, keep dancing!
 
As for us, we’re ‘preparing’ as the Lord has been telling us to – for years now. We won’t stop being the Lord’s witnesses with what HE’s given us to do or say in His Name, no matter how it might offend people, or cost us. We report to the Lord, not to anyone else. What is there to fear from man, or what man will do to America?
 
We know from the Word of God what will come upon the earth as the DAY OF LORD approaches, and how the world’s governments will unite against anything “GOD.” What is coming in these next years is all the beginning of America’s ‘progressive’ end of our nation’s ‘independence’ as a nation UNDER God (this godless administration bringing America under the control of the UN), the end of our ‘God-given’ rights (we will get our rights from the government-god) and as we’ve seen at work already – the end of our government working in ways it was never intended to work as designed by God with our godly founders.
 
Say what you will. But we’ve said all WE could. Now, we’re going to watch the sad results, pray for people to come to the Lord while His door is still open, and prepare for the worst of times, as our Lord told us to. YET, keeping in mind as the Lord’s own people that “our future is as BRIGHT as the promises of God!

WORDS

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Proverbs 18:21 “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

 

In his essay called “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell shared a crucial insight about the decline of language: “A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”

 

Mike Bauman says, “Sloppy language makes sloppy thought possible.” In Orwell’s “1984,” the masses are fed redefining slogans like “War Is Peace,” “Freedom Is Slavery,” and “Ignorance Is Strength.” We are in a cultural war and in this battle it is often on the use of words. How do we define and redefine words? Language is very important and like Proverbs says: “The tongue has the power of life and death.”

 

I want to write about some of the fallacies that are out there influencing us whether we know it or not. These fallacies have to do with how we use words and how we frame our arguments.

 

The ‘opinion makers’ of this world (those who use words to make a living) are framing their arguments in such a way that they are moving society down a slippery slope. We are told in the Word: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” (Mark 7:21-23 KJV)

 

Also, the Word says: “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.” Luke 6:45

 

In this New Year of 2021, there are two resolutions that the Lord has laid upon my heart:

 

First, the need to get the Gospel out to all mankind. What the above verses are telling me is the need to see the heart of man changed and only the Gospel can do that. Wealth, government legislation, education, better standard of living, or like we say here in USA, pursuing the American dream (whatever that is), will not change the heart of man. Only the Gospel can do that and we, the church, have a tremendous obligation to do just that by using His Holy Spirit with gifts and abilities invested in us.

 

Secondly, we must learn to frame our arguments wisely. Ideas have consequences and some of the ideas that are being bandied about will have a dastardly affect upon us and our children and grandchildren. One of these deadly ideas that is being brought forth is that ‘matter is all that exists.’ In this idea there is no spiritual realm. This is why, when the tragedy that struck Newtown, CT, when 26 people were gunned down and 20 of them children from the ages of 5-10, most of our ‘opinion makers’ had no answers let alone solutions.

 

We need to understand and be able to explain it wisely that in this modern age – God is still on the throne and He is sovereign over the nations and human history. “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations.” (Psalms 22:27-28)

 

To do this we need to learn to think biblically and understand the fallacies that are circulating in our media, entertainment, government, family, market place and yes, even the church.

Warfare!

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I had a dream last night, actually more of a nightmare. I was in a home for a prayer meeting. The pastor who was leading it – cut off prayer too early in my opinion. I felt disappointed, but I did not say anything. Later when we all went outside, a little boy walked over to the neighbor’s horse corral to pet the horse. The horse reared up and went unusually crazy, running around the corral then jumping the fence to get at the boy. We who saw this were stunned, and starting screaming at the horse. Then, out of nowhere, came a big mountain lion that finished off the boy who had been stomped on the ground by the horse. Screaming from the parents and the others was all I heard as I just stood in shock watching it all. Then these words came: “This is what happens when My people don’t pray.”
 
I woke up, and couldn’t go back to sleep; it was 2:00 a.m. I laid in bed praying for my children, but it wasn’t the focused prayer God was after – so I got up at 2:30 to go pray the way God is after from His Church today.
 
What kind of prayer did the prayer group stop short of? WARFARE! Using God’s Word against the plans/schemes/works/weapons of the devil and his cohorts. Jesus did and the devil fled.
 
I started to meditate on what the horse and cat represented in my dream. The horse: that which you have trusted or felt safe around – but can’t be trusted any longer. (Not at all referring to God and His Word.) The big cat: that we’re living in a time when out of nowhere comes a vicious attack. Then the pastor; what does he represent? A man that God has put in charge of leading others, and yet, not really leading as a leader should. He was not being led by the Holy Spirit for warfare prayer because he cut short the needed prayer just as it was starting to be led by the Holy Spirit.
 
Jesus said that His Spirit would tell us of the things to come, lead us in how to see and treat the times we live in, instruct us in what we need to be doing in various practical ways, and Who would remind the Lord’s people of what the Lord Jesus taught His disciples ‘by example’ about hardship, persecution, enduring the evil day, standing on God’s promises – as they/we finish the work of God in their/our appointed time on earth. Jesus did, and He’s given us all we need to do the same.
 
Jesus warned about the APOSTASY of His churches due to them being afraid of persecution (so they do what they’re told by the ungodly) and afraid of hardships (so they depend on worldly systems), instead of confidently prepared and ready to overcome the flesh, the world and the devil. “Greater is HE who is within me, than he who is in the world!”
 
At the end of each of the Lord’s letters to His churches, He ends each with this instruction: “HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES!” (Revelation 2 and 3)
 
I would assume, and from the dream the Lord gave me, that we need to be trained for the real battle and get in the fight as we should, taking up our God-given positions of warfare against the unseen principalities of power over our loved ones, our communities and over our government.
 
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the FULL armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against national rulers, against the authorities, against the power of this world’s darkness (Satan and his demons), and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (That which is “not seen,” but is there just the same, which we need to understand how to fight and defeat. Lives depend on it.)
 
“Therefore, take up the FULL ARMOR of God, so that when (not if) the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything YOU SHOULD DO, TO STAND (without any shrinking back). Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, and with your feet fitted with the READINESS OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE. In addition, to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish ALL the flaming arrows of the evil one. And with the helmet of Christ’s salvation and the SWORD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which IS THE WORD OF GOD, PRAY; pray in the Spirit at all times, and with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, STAY ALERT with all PERSEVERANCE as you continue to pray, and praying for all the saints.” Ephesians 6:10-18
 
Help me Lord to be faithful to what You have shown me.

Truth – the BELT of our Armor

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Truth is the belt of our spiritual armor, according to God and His Word. Therefore, truth holds matters of life in its place, and without truth our lives fall apart. This is so true today as so many life’s issues are falling apart. Example: truth about a family unit where a man and woman marry and have children together.  The lie: today anything can be called a family, and the result is that the ‘true’ family unit as God designed it, is being destroyed. When the true family unit is destroyed, then we lose the next generation. So it is very important to know the truth, because our next generation will be affected, and have to pay the consequences for our rejection of truth.