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Stand up and be a man!

Posted by appolus on February 5, 2021

1 Cor 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

There is a great tide of evil rising up against Gods people. You know it, you sense it in your spirit, no one needs to tell you. And yet you also know that God has a people that He has established and strengthened in the fires of affliction. He has separated a people from the system of the world and called them to Himself. A people who love God and Him alone with their whole hearts. They have been hardened and tempered to the things of this world by trial and by affliction.

They come from every walk of life, every traditional background. You are not alone. The Body of Christ is shortly to face its greatest test. Indeed the Word of God tells us that there is such a time coming, that if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived and for the elect’s sake God will shorten those days. Will you stand in the evil day brothers and sisters? Has your own independence from the world been forged in the fires of affliction?

Are you wholly dependent upon the Lord? Now is the time to be forged in the fire, to be purified, to be purged of the dross of this world. For if this world has a place in your heart, a foothold in your life, then the challenge will be so much more difficult. Are you truly ready brothers and sisters to stand in the evil day that is almost upon us? It’s time to take up the armor of the Lord. For our battles are not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the worlds rulers and the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

So let us take on Truth and put on the breastplate of righteousness. Let us walk in the Gospel of peace and shield ourselves from the enemy’s blows by our faith in God alone. And always remember that we have salvation in Christ Jesus that can never be taken from us and the Word of God that delivers and defeats all of our enemies as we walk in the Spirit.

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The land of the little people and their king.

Posted by appolus on February 4, 2021

In the land of the Lilliputians,a strange and foreign land, Gulliver, the fictional character from a series of books entitled “Gulliver’s Travels, finds himself pinned to the ground by a thousand shackles. He is in the land of the little people who are merely six inches tall. They were at first friendly towards Gulliver but in the end he refused to help them conquer and enslave their enemies. After a long swim back from enemy territory, Gulliver falls into a deep sleep and when he awakes he finds himself pinned to the ground. They could only get him while he was in a deep sleep.

Saints, are we not giants in a world full of little people? Is this world not foreign to us? Have we fallen asleep to a satanic lullaby and awoken to find ourselves pinned to the ground? Shackled by the bands of the little people, shackled by the bands of this world, held down by thorns and thistles and all the cares of this world? How could something so large and so grand like the sons and daughters of the Living God be constrained by the little things? We need to break free from everything that holds us down.

Rise up ye giants of the earth, ye sons and daughters of the King and walk through the land. Walk in the calling you have been called to. Rise up saints and walk in the Kingdom of God. Remember what God called our brother Gideon “ye mighty man of valor.” And this when he was the weakest man from the weakest clan and hiding behind a wall lest his enemies discover him. Brothers and sisters, don’t you know that you will judge angels? Now is the time to throw off all distractions, everything that will hold you down. You need to stand up, rise up and walk throughout the land.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? (Isa 14:12-17)

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Making peace with darkness.

Posted by appolus on February 3, 2021

Making peace with darkness is about saying in your heart “this far and no further.” It’s about holding on to something, or maybe it’s more than one thing, but your holding on to it. It is something deep in your heart that you know should be dealt with, crucified, but you say in your heart “I am not going to obey.” Now its buried deep, you would never say it out loud, in fact you do not even want to think about it, but there it is, the shadow. You may believe it to be a small thing but it will come to identify you. Why? Because you have drawn a line in the sand. You are holding this thing back for yourself.

Now, it may be that the thing is not in and of itself inherently sinful, but it has you. It could be to do with security or insecurity. How you look? A foundation of your life that the Lord wants. And you have decided in your heart that He cannot have it. And you make your peace with the darkness. You know in your heart that you are not going to obey God in this. It’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things you say, and that may be so. Yet, you shall go no further in the Kingdom and somewhere inside of you you know that this is deal you have made.

It’s offensive to say it out loud is it not brothers and sisters? Say what? “I am not going to obey you in this Lord.” But there it is and fooling ourselves like the Ostrich burying it’s head in the sand will not make it go away. It will always be there and it has stunted your growth and you are good with it. Well maybe not good with it, but you know, there it is. We rationalize it dont we brothers and sisters? It is not that you are not saved, for you are still saved but whatever way we look at it it is a declaration we have made and it is heard in the Kingdom of God. You have limited yourself. Not God, God does not limit His children. When we stand before Him, we will know as we are known and we will weep for the limitations we put on ourselves for this beggarly thing whatever it was. And God will wipe the tears away. Tears of regret.

Now brothers and sisters, if you are reading this then there is still breath in your body and you can still choose this day to break the treaty that you made with the darkness. Let’s face it, it was not a peace we made for how can the child of God truly be at peace and be anxious for nothing when there is some kind of stronghold that dwells with our chests? What is it that you know you have to give up? Sinful or not sinful but it stands as a marker, a stronghold between you and God who wants every part of you, every single part of you. Whatever it is you have held onto for yourself, the devil will beat you mercilessly with it. By an act of the will, obey God this night and let whatever holds you back die on the cross where it belongs.

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Death is now but a shadow of its former self.

Posted by appolus on February 3, 2021

Psa 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;

As I prayed this morning the Lord laid the above Scripture on my heart. The Holy Spirit spoke to me. From the moment we are born our life is the valley and death is the shade. As we walk through the valley, death is rendered to but a mere shadow to the saints. What is a shadow? What substance does it have? Is it the real thing or is it but a trick of the light? Death itself has lost its sting, where oh grave is your victory? And how could this be? “For thou art with me.” His presence destroys the power of sin and death and renders it to but a mere shadow. We often say that a man is a mere shadow of his former self. This is what it means when we speak of death for those who walk in the presence of God, for those who can say ” for thou art with me.” Can you say that?

Moses refused to go on in the desert unless the Lord was with him. The Lord said to Moses that He would do this thing because he had found grace in His sight and that He knew him by name. Brothers and sisters, our names are written in the Lambs book of life. We who know Him know Him by grace, through faith. We found grace in His sight, glory to God. Paul counted all of his trials and his impending death as mere rubbish, because? He was found in Him. Paul could go on in a perilous and persecuted journey because death was but a shadow. What creates a shadow? Light. We who stand in the light of Christ have rendered death to but a mere shadow of its former self. This is why we can walk through the valley. This is why we look not to this world but to the next. For thou art with me oh Lord through every valley.

Every trial, every tribulation even death itself is but the means that draws us ever closer to the one who is with us.
We are more than conquerors in Him. When we suffer with Him we shall be glorified together. This is when all things work together for good to those whom He walks with who are called according to His purpose. What shall separate us from the love of Jesus? Trial or tribulation? Persecution or nakedness? famine or even the sword? For His sake we are killed all the day long, like sheep for the slaughter. Shall a virus or any pestilence or even death itself separate us from the one who is with us? No, nothing can, quite the opposite, it compels us to press on in. Saint, no matter what you are facing today, press on in to the One who is with You. He will see you through the fire. He will hold you in the flood. No matter how fierce the fire or how deep the flood, nothing can separate us from the Love of God which is in Jesus our Lord.

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When two worlds collide!

Posted by appolus on February 2, 2021

Jesus Christ places the strongest emphasis on faith and especially on the faith that has been tried.To have faith tests people for all they are worth. They have to stand in the commonsense universe, in the midst of things that conflict with their faith, and place confidence in the God whose character is revealed in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ’s statements reveal that God is a being of love and justice and truth, the actual happenings of our immediate circumstances seem to prove He is not.

Are we going to remain true to the revelation that God is good? Are we going to be true to His honor, whatever may happen in our actual domain? If we are, we shall find that God in His providence makes the two universes-the universe of revelation and the universe of common sense-work together in perfect harmony. Most of us are irreligious in a crisis, we think and act like unbelievers. Only one out of a hundred is daring enough to bank their faith in the character of God(Oswald Chambers)

Can you you see what brother Chambers is driving at? There are two universes, two worlds. One that we physically stand in and the Kingdom of God that we walk in. When he says that most of us are irreligious in a crisis, he means that we act no differently than the world does when crisis hits us. Who will actually trust in God when the moment comes? The one who actually believes what Jesus taught us and the one who is obedient to that teaching. So if Chambers is right, only one of us in a hundred will trust God when everything seems to be falling apart.

So the collision comes when our immediate circumstances seem to stand against what we know in our hearts to be true. The doctor says you are going die. You come home and your house has burned to the ground. You lose a child. You lose a job. Immediate circumstances illicit immediate responses. The perfect response in all of our immediate circumstances is to stand back and lift our hands to the heavens and praise God for His goodness. To place our confidence in the character of God and His revelations through His Son and the Holy Spirit. For almost all of us this is a learning curve. Paul Himself “learned to be content,” in all of his immediate circumstances, it is a high water mark of faith and we should aim for it.

I do not underestimate the trauma of the two worlds colliding. This world and all of its circumstances, immediate or otherwise, has an enormous effect upon us because we are flesh and blood. Yet brothers and sisters, we are more than flesh and blood. We are children of the living God, born of the Spirit and born into a Kingdom. The Kingdom of God. While we are on this earth we are walking in two worlds and when they collide, our default position must become the reality of the Kingdom of God no matter how much it assaults our common sense. We respond in obedience and trust to the Word of God and to the still small voice that rests at the center of our being.

I have been saved over thirty years now but just after a year of being saved I had my first major collision. It just happened to be life or death. I was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, the results of a syndrome called Sarcoidosis. It was stage three of a stage four disease, stage four meaning lung transplant. Two thirds of each lung were covered by irreversible fibrosis. The only treatment was to take high doses of prednisone, 60-80 mg a day for the rest of my life. Common sense dictated that the pulmonary specialists treatment must be adhered to. God spoke to me shortly after. “Come away with me,” He said. “Trust me.” I was to stop taking the pills.

Boom. The collision was huge. The climax of the collision took place in the clinical office with a very angry Pulmonologist. The backdrop of that encounter was multiple encounters with extremely angry wife. Just six weeks previously our youngest son was born. He had Down Syndrome and on top of that a life threatening condition that required multiple major surgeries. Common sense, the wisdom of the world, was screaming like a category five hurricane. And here i was sitting in a cold clinical specialists office just about to tell him that “God,” had told me something different from what he was suggesting.

Now brothers and sisters, it is one thing to have the courage of your convictions when down upon your knees in your room with hands raised high to heaven and tears falling in the presence of God. It is quite another thing to simply walk out His directions in the “cold light of day.” That is the collision. That is the decision, that is where the rubber hits the road. This doctor would not be making things easy for me that day. There would be no “I respect your position.” He was very angry with me and held nothing back in his descriptions of how I was going to die and how it would be a horrific death. Now, I would be lying if I said that none of these things moved me, The truth is that they all moved me. It was a battle of enormous proportions. It undoubtedly shaped the rest of my life.

The long and the short of it was that God healed me about four months later in a spectacular fashion in a moment of time. No pills would get the glory, no doctor would get the glory, no procedure would get the glory, only God would get the glory. There is no doubt that if I had followed the doctors advice that I would now be dead or in a wheelchair. Commonsense collided with trusting God. A collision of two worlds. Now, what I have just described i not a formula to follow. The only thing that you must follow is the Word of God and the still small voice. It will often defy common sense and no one will understand you. Who would have understood Abraham as he took his son to kill him? Yet, God had spoken to him. And he obeyed. Obedience and trust and walking that out in the Kingdom of God in the midst of this world oftentimes in defiance of commonsense is the narrow path of faith. God bless you in your own journey saints.

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The established against the anointed.

Posted by appolus on February 1, 2021

After David is anointed by the prophet we see an interesting situation develop. There is God’s anointed and there is also the people choice. They both exist at the same time and they both proclaim their allegiance to God. One is a man after God’s own heart and the other is a law unto himself. One has the Spirit of God upon him and the other does not. One loves to be in the presence of God and the other tries to pin him to the wall because he has no access to the presence of God. One is honorable and respectful to the other, and in return the other wants to kill him and wipe out all of his associates. One can speak to God and gain direction, the other can only rely upon his own wits.

Brothers and sisters, what I have just described is what I call “The Saul spirit.” The Saul spirit is the spirit of religion. The spirit of compromise. The spirit of the establishment. The spirit of those who would establish their own kingdoms here on this earth and kill anyone who would challenge their authority. It is fundamentally the spirit of anti-christ. We have seen such a spirit down through the ages wreck havoc on the Body of Christ. Wreck havock on all who have the Spirit of God within them. Over the ages the Saul spirit has dominated the ones who are men and woman after God’s own heart. They have hunted down the saints and time after time attempted to intimidate them and dominate them and crush them and wipe them out. Can I tell you brothers and sisters, the Saul spirit is rising.

The saints have the Spirit of God within them. We are anointed of God. We speak to God and He speaks to us. He leads us and He guides us and He directs us. He has given us great gifts that enable us to edify one another. The greatest gift of all is the gift of loving the truth. We are lovers of the truth. The truth to those of the Saul spirit is negotiable, open to compromise. In order to prevail they would trample underfoot the truth that burns within our bones. The saint cannot live without it, the religious cannot live with it. The truth demands everything and the religious man is not willing to surrender to the truth. He is only interested in the truth so far as it can serve him and his purposes. When the pressure of a demanding world comes knocking at the religious man’s door, he opens up his door and welcomes in the world.

Today is no different than it was in David’s day. There is God’s anointed and there is that which is established. There is enmity between them. So to my brothers and sisters I say “know your enemies and do not be unaware of their strategies.” You must love your enemies without compromising the truth. Know that the Saul Spirit is rising and that you cannot serve two masters. Both require you to walk under their authority, you must choose only one. How can you tell when you look back through the last two thousand years who had the Saul spirit? The Saul spirit hunts down saints and kills them. It burns them to death while telling the world it is doing the work of God. Not too hard to spot.

They have replaced the realities of God with the sacraments of men. Man made traditions that bear none of the Spirit’s power. Counterfeit. Empty traditions of men. These doctrines are the commandments of men who have laid aside the Commandments of God. They reject the Commandments of God in order to keep their own traditions. They honor God with their lips but they know not God in their hearts, and they know it and jealousy drives them mad with hatred, a hatred that is rising up and threatening to consume the saints of our day. Yet the Lord’s anointed, His saints, that is, anyone who is genuinely born again of the Spirit shall not be swayed. They shall not bow the knee to Baal or any other God other than the one true God.

Stand fast brothers and sisters, do not be fooled, know your enemy and never relent to them. Follow the Word of God and the still small voice. Bow down and offer them your heads rather than bow down to their gods. The gods of this modern world, the god of abortion and perversions are no different than the god of the ancient worlds, Moloch , Ashtoreth and Baalim. They rise again as we speak for they know the end is near and their time is short. Stand fast brothers and sister and never bow the knee to the gods of this world. God will pour out His Spirit upon you as the enemy comes in like a flood. You are His standard and He will raise you to stand on higher ground.

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What lies beneath your feet?

Posted by appolus on February 1, 2021

Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Jesus speaks of two kinds of houses in Mathew chapter 7:24-27. One is built upon the Rock and the other has no foundation. When the storm comes, when the flood rises and the winds blow, the house on the Rock still stands . The house without a foundation is swept away. Now consider this, the first word in Matt 7:24 is “therefore.” The word therefore means the answer or the explanation to a statement given. What was the statement Jesus had just made? In verses 21-23 Jesus says that not all who call Him Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, only those who do the will of my Father. So He will say to them “I never knew you, depart from me you who work iniquity.”

The test saint, is not the works that we do nor even the miracles that we are associated with. No, the test saints is how we stand or if we stand in the storm. It’s the storm that does the work. Who will praise Him in the storm? Who will do the will of the Father in the midst of the storm? To weather the storm with joy, with perseverance and with endurance is to prove which ground we stand upon. For those who stand upon the Rock, they shall not run from the storm, they shall not hide from the storm they shall stand tall in the midst of the storm in the might and the power of the Holy Spirit.

There is a huge storm raging around the world. It is the first of many such storms to come. The world will get over one storm and the next will quickly come. Yet those whose feet are planted on the Rock shall never be moved. They shall be able to enter into His presence, they shall go deeper into His heart, they shall stand upon the Word of God and the light of heaven shall shine through them like a beacon to a dark world. The Lord says that His kingdom is not of this world. We are part of His Kingdom and we do not belong to this world, we are merely passing through.

We walk in the Spirit along the narrow way and He ever goes before us. Let not your hearts be troubled but rather rejoice. The praise of the saints from the depths of the dungeon is of so much greater value than those who praise His only from the mountaintops. A man can praise Jesus in the midst of good circumstances, it does not take a foundation to do that. Only a saint standing on the foundation of Christ Himself can praise the Lord from the dungeon. What lies beneath your feet?

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