And hello. I'd like to clear up some things. If someone shares their feelings with you about something or says their certain God's going to do A.B or C. that's Not the same thing as saying, Thus sayth the Lord, God's going to do AB and C. Have you ever said to someone, I'm sure, or I bet, or I'm positive God's going to something? It's an opinion. It's not prophecy. If that's prophecy then we're all prophets. But I even went a step further more than once and said, as far as I know, I'm NOT a prophet. I've never heard God's voice. I see people everyday on twitter that say, "God just said" You're going to get a blessing, or God just said you'll have this in a month etc. If God talks to them that way that's great. But I've never heard God's voice that way. There's so much misinformation on twitter, and gossip and lies about people it's insane. People I've never met or never even talked to and have never walked in my shoes or walked the road I have will judge me for what I don't have in life, instead of what I do have. People that knew me in my past will tell you It's a miracle I'm what I am today. People that knew me from 1977 to 1980 saw a man who was completely isolated within himself. They saw a man that rarely spoke other than yes, no, maybe etc. People wondered what was wrong with me. What happened to him? who is this? People would talk about me with me in the room as if I wasn't there. My band mates abandon me and why wouldn't they? I was of no use to them. I was the dude that went "A-Wall". For three years I was like this until I took a chance and rolled the dice and said Jesus, you can have my life if you can help me. My conversion was dramatic. The healing was a slow process but the change in me was immediate. I had changed. The first time my uncle saw me after my conversion he said there was something different about me to my mom and my mother said Matt's excepted Christ into his life. They both broke down and began to cry. When people say I'm not living my purpose they have no idea what their talking about. Their looking at me through a very small window. If they could open up the window a little higher they'd see God has already healed me and is still healing me. I'm not perfect. I can be jaded, too opinionated, prideful, judgemental etc. just like everybody else. I don't care who you are, if you're alive in this world you're going to have issues of some kind or another with the devil, the world, or the flesh. Sin is death if you want to really get down to it. When God forgives you of sin no matter how great or small, that's a spiritual healing. None of us will be complete this side of Heaven. When people from my past see me they know there's a God and that God is real and He heals and restores. They can see it with their own two eyes what God can do. God has healed me, or you could say put me back together His way, the way He wanted me to be. He's still working on me. But what He didn't do is heal me to be a prophet. If God wants to put the gift of prophecy on me that's His business. I'm a Christian who tries to be a better Christian day by day and who prays for others to do the same and succeed in life with gifts and talents I'll never have to help build the Kingdom of God. I'm never going to meet the standards some people expect me to meet. They think I'm suppose to have all the training and experience and knowledge they do with their careers. I don't. All I can do is work on getting ahead with what I do know and the talents I do have. I'm not going to get ahead with secret promises. If people truly see something in me that can advance their Gig they'll talk to me like people do. If people want to know what kind of a man I'm today, they can talk to the woman who's lived with me for the last 25 years. I'm not a prophet. And I'm not a market place guru loaded down with cash. Today my real concern is my relationship with God and His will and I've been right on the mark with that. When that's good I'm good. Here's some of who I'am
>A fun guy with a good sense of humor<
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
The parable of the widow and the judge (Luke 18:1-8) shows us some good things.
1st.) He gives us an insight into prayer and the part we play in it > Consistency< A lot of spiritual warfare is tied up in being persistent and staying on it day, by day. Prayer and healing are answered in God's timing not ours. And I think most people give up too soon and then say God doesn't answer prayer. (NYdailynews) When I had surgery on my stomach 3 years ago everything was going wrong and instead of getting better I was getting worse. I thought God wasn't answering my prayers because I messed up my life. I blew it and didn't come through on His plans. I knew I was forgiven and would be in Heaven if I died. But the pain I was in was too much. I caught pneumonia, the wound became infected, my stomach wasn't working like it should be, I had needles stuck in both arms, a tube up my nose down to my stomach, and a breathing tube in my mouth. The worst part about it was the water building up around my lungs that's was keeping me from breathing normal. I had to take short little breaths in and out. As the days went by I kept asking, God, why aren't you helping me? Where are you? Take me home or help me heal but don't let me sit here and linger. In spite of all I was going through I kept saying, God I still trust you, I'm not losing faith in you, I know you're still with me. It was the first time in my life God didn't come through for me in dire situations and it troubled me. After two weeks I finally got well enough to go home. The only thing left was my infection and me getting stronger and I did as the days went by. Fast forward a year later and as I was taking a walk I asked God....God. why didn't you heal me when I was suffering in the hospital? And I sensed God ask me, are you healed? It Stopped me in my tracks. I'd never thought about it in that way. God has healed me. He did come through for me. I'm perfectly healthy today. The next thing out of my mouth was, God, thank you for healing me. It was slow but He was there behind the scene working. Keep praying Don't stop. Prayer isn't always answered right away. It can take time. In the parable of the widow and the judge is saying He hears our pounding on the door. Keep pounding on the door with prayer. And most of all, don't lose faith in God. Be blessed.
1st.) He gives us an insight into prayer and the part we play in it > Consistency< A lot of spiritual warfare is tied up in being persistent and staying on it day, by day. Prayer and healing are answered in God's timing not ours. And I think most people give up too soon and then say God doesn't answer prayer. (NYdailynews) When I had surgery on my stomach 3 years ago everything was going wrong and instead of getting better I was getting worse. I thought God wasn't answering my prayers because I messed up my life. I blew it and didn't come through on His plans. I knew I was forgiven and would be in Heaven if I died. But the pain I was in was too much. I caught pneumonia, the wound became infected, my stomach wasn't working like it should be, I had needles stuck in both arms, a tube up my nose down to my stomach, and a breathing tube in my mouth. The worst part about it was the water building up around my lungs that's was keeping me from breathing normal. I had to take short little breaths in and out. As the days went by I kept asking, God, why aren't you helping me? Where are you? Take me home or help me heal but don't let me sit here and linger. In spite of all I was going through I kept saying, God I still trust you, I'm not losing faith in you, I know you're still with me. It was the first time in my life God didn't come through for me in dire situations and it troubled me. After two weeks I finally got well enough to go home. The only thing left was my infection and me getting stronger and I did as the days went by. Fast forward a year later and as I was taking a walk I asked God....God. why didn't you heal me when I was suffering in the hospital? And I sensed God ask me, are you healed? It Stopped me in my tracks. I'd never thought about it in that way. God has healed me. He did come through for me. I'm perfectly healthy today. The next thing out of my mouth was, God, thank you for healing me. It was slow but He was there behind the scene working. Keep praying Don't stop. Prayer isn't always answered right away. It can take time. In the parable of the widow and the judge is saying He hears our pounding on the door. Keep pounding on the door with prayer. And most of all, don't lose faith in God. Be blessed.
Many of us have a sort of vision God wants us to be. We must be true to the vision whatever it is, and we must try to live up to it, by living the way we believe we should live. We can all believe we have a vision of what God wants us to be like. In all persons there is a good person whom God See's in us, the person we could be and that God would like us to be. But many a person fails to fulfill that promise and God's disappointments must be many.
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
In his book >The dreams of my father< Barack Obama wrote, if the political winds should turn ugly, I will side with the Muslims. I'm not going to say who is and who isn't a part of the body of Christ, but Christ and Islam don't mix. Paul said let anyone who preaches another gospel other than the one you've heard from me, let that one be cursed. []Gal.1:8[]
The apostasy of the pharisees angered Jesus the most. When Jesus got angry, His anger was usually directed toward the religious falsity and corruption of the pharisees and scribes. So much so that he actually trashed the Temple in Jerusalem. Postal? How would Jesus have reacted to Islam if it had been around in His day with them Killing infidels and enslaving women as property etc. That would include the Jews and Jesus was a Jew. I know what He wouldn't do. He would not have turned His head away saying too bad so sad and go on His way. Jesus and Islam would have collided head on. That much we know, and God never changes. Our President says jihadist are not a part of Islam. But jihad is all over the pages of the koran. Jihad IS Islam and Islam is jihad. You can't separate the two and call yourself a Muslim as The President seems to think. The truth is the moderate Muslims are real Muslims, and so are the jihadist, in fact the jihadist are more muslim than the others. You can call "Moderate Muslims" what you want; Posers, backsliders, whatever, but what they both have in common is their allegiance to Mohammad. They both accept the koran as their bible. Try and picture someone in the Hells Angels saying, I don't rape and fight and do drugs like a lot of the other Hells Angels do. But that line of thinking doesn't work, he's still a Hells Angel. He's still wearing the patch that identifies him as one and the same with all the other Hells Angels that do the things they do whether they all engage in that behavior or not. He can't say, the bikers that fight, party, steal and do drugs aren't the real Hells Angels. It's a part of their "Koran" (Code) and in biker language that means you don't talk about those things with anyone who's not a member of the club. When Barack Obama says He'll side with the Muslims if the political winds change, he's telling you who he is. This is what happens when the church refuses to wake up and get informed about who their leaders really are and what they believe, and what their values are etc. Judgement begins in the house of the Lord, and there's no doubt in my mind God is judging the church in America today. The good news is there ARE churches right now in 2015 that The Holy Spirit is working in. One of them is Bishop T.D. Jakes (2015) No that's not a miss print, you read it right. Bishop T.D. Jakes Sunday services are on cue with the Holy Spirit most Sunday's. He doesn't invite God into the service. The Holy Spirit invites him into the service. That's the feeling I get when I'm watching him on line sometimes. And I"m sure there are still pockets of churches in other places that the Spirit is moving in. No matter what our president says or does with this country concerning Islam, we have the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob with us. We have the Father Son, and Holy Ghost with us. We have a remnant still active in this country and that's enough to restart the growth of God's Kingdom anywhere, any time, anyhow. We can't forget who we are. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We can do more than we imagine or think. We're lights in a dark world that are suppose to get brighter, not dimmer. And we will because of who's with us.
The apostasy of the pharisees angered Jesus the most. When Jesus got angry, His anger was usually directed toward the religious falsity and corruption of the pharisees and scribes. So much so that he actually trashed the Temple in Jerusalem. Postal? How would Jesus have reacted to Islam if it had been around in His day with them Killing infidels and enslaving women as property etc. That would include the Jews and Jesus was a Jew. I know what He wouldn't do. He would not have turned His head away saying too bad so sad and go on His way. Jesus and Islam would have collided head on. That much we know, and God never changes. Our President says jihadist are not a part of Islam. But jihad is all over the pages of the koran. Jihad IS Islam and Islam is jihad. You can't separate the two and call yourself a Muslim as The President seems to think. The truth is the moderate Muslims are real Muslims, and so are the jihadist, in fact the jihadist are more muslim than the others. You can call "Moderate Muslims" what you want; Posers, backsliders, whatever, but what they both have in common is their allegiance to Mohammad. They both accept the koran as their bible. Try and picture someone in the Hells Angels saying, I don't rape and fight and do drugs like a lot of the other Hells Angels do. But that line of thinking doesn't work, he's still a Hells Angel. He's still wearing the patch that identifies him as one and the same with all the other Hells Angels that do the things they do whether they all engage in that behavior or not. He can't say, the bikers that fight, party, steal and do drugs aren't the real Hells Angels. It's a part of their "Koran" (Code) and in biker language that means you don't talk about those things with anyone who's not a member of the club. When Barack Obama says He'll side with the Muslims if the political winds change, he's telling you who he is. This is what happens when the church refuses to wake up and get informed about who their leaders really are and what they believe, and what their values are etc. Judgement begins in the house of the Lord, and there's no doubt in my mind God is judging the church in America today. The good news is there ARE churches right now in 2015 that The Holy Spirit is working in. One of them is Bishop T.D. Jakes (2015) No that's not a miss print, you read it right. Bishop T.D. Jakes Sunday services are on cue with the Holy Spirit most Sunday's. He doesn't invite God into the service. The Holy Spirit invites him into the service. That's the feeling I get when I'm watching him on line sometimes. And I"m sure there are still pockets of churches in other places that the Spirit is moving in. No matter what our president says or does with this country concerning Islam, we have the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob with us. We have the Father Son, and Holy Ghost with us. We have a remnant still active in this country and that's enough to restart the growth of God's Kingdom anywhere, any time, anyhow. We can't forget who we are. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We can do more than we imagine or think. We're lights in a dark world that are suppose to get brighter, not dimmer. And we will because of who's with us.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
I gave $25.00 to the potters house ministry with Bishop T.D. Jakes last week. I know it's not much but I gave it anyway because it's good soil, the man is saved, and he speaks my language. every Sunday His sermons speak to me in one way or another. He can bring a tear to my eye, or step on my toes or what ever. I can relate to 85% of his sermons every Sunday. I'm not talking about one or two Sundays, I'm talking about months. I'm either crazy, or God is behind this crazy thing. I'm not going to go into the M.O. God uses to Yay, or Nay something. But this Sunday He gave me three of them. They were all Yes and amen.
If I lived in Dallas I'd be a member of his church. There are no churches up here that lift up Jesus and preach like he does. In fact, Nobody preaches like him. I ran into him on you tube a year ago and said to myself, this man was born to preach. Preaching has never been my thing, but I've always admired preachers that can preach like that. Their gifted no doubt. His message today was good soil verses bad soil. I don't know if the soil I'm in is good or bad. But I do know I'm not growing like I should be. I'm not using what I have as well as I could be. I've been knocking, and knocking on doors that never open. I even wrote a book And shared bits and pieces of it on twitter & my blog hoping someone might be interested in helping me get it into the right hands to better me financially and better enviorment and someone stole it and copyrighted in her name or someone Else's name. I don't know which or what was stolen from the book , but now It's all chopped up with missing pieces that could be anywhere in the story. she did this with pride and congratulated herself on being a slick criminal woman who takes advantage of people. ( Those are her words, not mine ) The hate I had for this faux Christian was tearing me up inside. God took care of it the last time she tried to destroy me. And I surrendered it to Him. I even unblocked her on my twitter account. She's muted but she doesn't know that. She's in God's hands. She threw a monkey wrench into my best opportunity and thought she finally put a stake through my heart......and it failed again. She doesn't have to tell me what kind of soil she's in. Her actions say it all. There are no 'criminal Christians in the body of Christ. The soil she's in is bad soil anyway you slice it. It's Bad Soil! I don't want to end up like that. I don't want to look back at my life and say where did I go wrong? God knows me. He knows I'll do whatever it takes to stay in good soil and to be in a good environment. I've got to find the weeds and pull them up. And if that doesn't help I've got to move. Plant what I've got somewhere else.
If I lived in Dallas I'd be a member of his church. There are no churches up here that lift up Jesus and preach like he does. In fact, Nobody preaches like him. I ran into him on you tube a year ago and said to myself, this man was born to preach. Preaching has never been my thing, but I've always admired preachers that can preach like that. Their gifted no doubt. His message today was good soil verses bad soil. I don't know if the soil I'm in is good or bad. But I do know I'm not growing like I should be. I'm not using what I have as well as I could be. I've been knocking, and knocking on doors that never open. I even wrote a book And shared bits and pieces of it on twitter & my blog hoping someone might be interested in helping me get it into the right hands to better me financially and better enviorment and someone stole it and copyrighted in her name or someone Else's name. I don't know which or what was stolen from the book , but now It's all chopped up with missing pieces that could be anywhere in the story. she did this with pride and congratulated herself on being a slick criminal woman who takes advantage of people. ( Those are her words, not mine ) The hate I had for this faux Christian was tearing me up inside. God took care of it the last time she tried to destroy me. And I surrendered it to Him. I even unblocked her on my twitter account. She's muted but she doesn't know that. She's in God's hands. She threw a monkey wrench into my best opportunity and thought she finally put a stake through my heart......and it failed again. She doesn't have to tell me what kind of soil she's in. Her actions say it all. There are no 'criminal Christians in the body of Christ. The soil she's in is bad soil anyway you slice it. It's Bad Soil! I don't want to end up like that. I don't want to look back at my life and say where did I go wrong? God knows me. He knows I'll do whatever it takes to stay in good soil and to be in a good environment. I've got to find the weeds and pull them up. And if that doesn't help I've got to move. Plant what I've got somewhere else.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
You have to be careful when you hear testimonies of people who have died and come back to life.
I believe the secular people who have died and come back to life when they say their experience was good on the other side.
And I believe them when they say they felt unconditional love and they were met by a being of light and guided to a beautiful place where they met their loved ones. I'm not doubting they experienced that.
But this doesn't necessarily mean they stay there forever and that they won't be judged for their lives sometime in the future. Remember the parable of the wedding feast Jesus taught? When the King came in to look at the guests, He saw a man who wasn't wearing a wedding garment and questioned him.
When the man had no answer, he was bound and cast out from the wedding. >Matt. 22: 12-14<
Jesus is saying, there will be people inside the Kingdom Wedding who will be removed. Could these people be the secular people who have died rejecting Christ? I don't know. I don't claim to understand the ways and means of God's judgement. But I do know the word of God is true. And I believe what it teaches us and warns us about. We can't accept the experience of people who've died and come back to life to be the final destination for all of us. If the devil comes as an angel of light, how are we to know and recognize what's true and what's not? We know by weighing the information against the word of God. We're not lost sheep without a Shepperd here trying to guess our best with what we hear and see as being true or false. Jesus is the Word of God. The way, the truth, and the Life. Heaven and earth will pass away. But the word of God will never pass away.
I believe the secular people who have died and come back to life when they say their experience was good on the other side.
And I believe them when they say they felt unconditional love and they were met by a being of light and guided to a beautiful place where they met their loved ones. I'm not doubting they experienced that.
But this doesn't necessarily mean they stay there forever and that they won't be judged for their lives sometime in the future. Remember the parable of the wedding feast Jesus taught? When the King came in to look at the guests, He saw a man who wasn't wearing a wedding garment and questioned him.
When the man had no answer, he was bound and cast out from the wedding. >Matt. 22: 12-14<
Jesus is saying, there will be people inside the Kingdom Wedding who will be removed. Could these people be the secular people who have died rejecting Christ? I don't know. I don't claim to understand the ways and means of God's judgement. But I do know the word of God is true. And I believe what it teaches us and warns us about. We can't accept the experience of people who've died and come back to life to be the final destination for all of us. If the devil comes as an angel of light, how are we to know and recognize what's true and what's not? We know by weighing the information against the word of God. We're not lost sheep without a Shepperd here trying to guess our best with what we hear and see as being true or false. Jesus is the Word of God. The way, the truth, and the Life. Heaven and earth will pass away. But the word of God will never pass away.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
I'm just going to say this because it needs to be said. This whole idea about forgetting your past and moving forward or staying in a positive state of mind and avoiding any negative energy or people is not how Christians are suppose to live their lives. I'm just passing on the instructions that were given to us by Jesus Christ that still hold true today. Jesus didn't come for the healthy, He came for the broken, the lost and hurting people (People with negative energy) >Luke 5:31<
How and when did this new age "energy " life style or belief find it's way into the Body of Christ? If someone is telling you Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit is in that stuff their lying to you. If you want to serve and grow in the Kingdom of God, You have go and do what Christ did. You have to pickup your cross and follow Him. Any negative energy someone has in them has to bow to the Holy Spirit inside you. Everybody has their own limit and dedication of surrender they'll give to Christ but here's what people forget---> God is pleased by how much faith and obedience we have toward Him. Not our nicey nice and Mr. and Mrs. Church and their volunteer work. That stuff is needed and important. Very important, but it's not what God wants most from us. It's our faith and obedience. It's so simple it goes over most peoples head. The Just shall live by FAITH not good works. I try to be nice and kind with people, but don't keep stepping on my toes. I'm human too. And God gets angry too. If people can't get along with me it's because their not trying to. Despite our flaws God still works through us by our Faith, not how sweet and kind we are.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from the word of God. One day a week the church comes together to be reminded of who and what we are in Christ. How to seek first the Kingdom of God. How to grow in righteousness and Holiness. How to forgive your enemies and walk in love. Who Jesus Christ is. And last not least how to grow in faith. everything else can wait outside for 2 hours. And the only energy we should be concerned about is the energy and power we get from the Holy Spirit. God works in mysterious ways.
How and when did this new age "energy " life style or belief find it's way into the Body of Christ? If someone is telling you Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit is in that stuff their lying to you. If you want to serve and grow in the Kingdom of God, You have go and do what Christ did. You have to pickup your cross and follow Him. Any negative energy someone has in them has to bow to the Holy Spirit inside you. Everybody has their own limit and dedication of surrender they'll give to Christ but here's what people forget---> God is pleased by how much faith and obedience we have toward Him. Not our nicey nice and Mr. and Mrs. Church and their volunteer work. That stuff is needed and important. Very important, but it's not what God wants most from us. It's our faith and obedience. It's so simple it goes over most peoples head. The Just shall live by FAITH not good works. I try to be nice and kind with people, but don't keep stepping on my toes. I'm human too. And God gets angry too. If people can't get along with me it's because their not trying to. Despite our flaws God still works through us by our Faith, not how sweet and kind we are.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from the word of God. One day a week the church comes together to be reminded of who and what we are in Christ. How to seek first the Kingdom of God. How to grow in righteousness and Holiness. How to forgive your enemies and walk in love. Who Jesus Christ is. And last not least how to grow in faith. everything else can wait outside for 2 hours. And the only energy we should be concerned about is the energy and power we get from the Holy Spirit. God works in mysterious ways.
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