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I SUFFER LOSS….

Posted by appolus on May 1, 2026

I suffer loss gladly because….

There was a time when I counted things as gain. I measured my life by what I could hold, what I could build, what I could claim as mine. But I have seen something greater. Those things I once held so tightly, I now count as loss for Christ.

Not reluctantly. Not with hesitation. But with a burning passion that drives me forward. The fire is His, He lit it inside of me, but I have been called to fuel the fire. To diligently seek Him is fuel. To forgive is fuel. To love and to show mercy is fuel. All of these things, exercised, inflames the passionate fire of our heart.

Yes, I count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.

There is nothing that compares to knowing Him. Not knowing about Him but knowing Him. This is not head knowledge. This is not mere doctrine. This is an intimate knowing. A living union. A relationship that deepens as everything else falls away.

I suffer loss……. that I may gain Christ.

And what a gain that is.

To be found in Him not standing in my own righteousness, not clinging to anything I have produced but clothed in a righteousness that is not my own, given by God through faith in Christ.

I lose what is mine, and I receive what is His and there is no comparison.

There is nothing I could ever lose that could measure up to what I have gained. I have gained Christ. And in gaining Him, I have gained everything.

I suffer loss that I may know Him……

To know Him not from a distance, not as an observer but to walk with Him, to be known by Him, to live in Him. And in that knowing, there is life. Real life. Abundant life.

I suffer loss…… that I may know the power of His resurrection.

Because it is in the dying of my flesh that His life rises within me. The more I let go, the more He lives. The more I die, the more He is revealed. When I am weak then He is strong in me.

This is not some theory. This is life out of death. This is the light that God has commanded to shine forth from darkness. When I surrender, surrender to God and tge life He has called me to, then light and life bursts forth. It may be on a mountaintop, but its more likely to be in the depths of the valley.

I suffer loss……. that I may enter into the fellowship of His sufferings.

This is “the way,” He walked.

He left the glory of heaven. He took on the form of a servant. He walked this earth as a man of sorrows. He was rejected. He was despised. He suffered loss at every step not because He had to but because He chose to fulfill the will of the Father. This was our Lords ministry.

And this is our calling, to walk that same narrow way.

Not chasing comfort. Not seeking ease. But entering into that same fellowship that same life that same surrender.

Because it leads us back to God.

I suffer loss …….that I may be conformed to Him.

That His image would be formed in me. That my life would reflect His. That the old man would be crucified, and Christ would be seen.And in this, I learn something.

It no longer matters what state I am in.

We have been called to learn to be content. Its the burning force of Christ in our hearts that steadies the ship. Its His passion in us that is our anchor in the storm. This immovable foundation, the anchor of our soul

In Him I know how to be brought low. I know how to abound. I know what it is to be full, and I know what it is to be hungry. I know what it is to have, and I know what it is to lack.

And in Him, none of it moves me.

Because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

This is what I have been given strength for not to avoid loss, but to endure it. Not to cling to life, but to lay it down.

To suffer loss until loss itself has no hold on me. Until whether I have or have not, whether I am full or empty, clothed or stripped bare it makes no difference.

Because when I have come into the place where Christ walked, then this is how I walk.

And in that place, that place of loss, thst place of suffering I have found great gain. Whether dancing on the tops of mountains or in the depths of the sea, the only thing that matters is that He is with me. This is why we are called to count it “pure joy,” when we face trials of many kinds. For in the midst of those trials He is never closer to us, and proximity to the Lord leads us in the path of holibess

And in finding Him in the midst of life, I have found everything.

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Tozer Quote- Pursuit of God

Posted by appolus on April 27, 2026

Brother Tozer writes this in “Pursuit of God.”…….

Everything is made to center upon the initial act of “accepting” Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls. We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.

This is set before us as the last word in orthodoxy, and it is taken for granted that no Bible-taught Christian ever believed otherwise. Thus the whole testimony of the worshiping, seeking, singing church on that subject is crisply set aside. The experiential heart-theology of a grand army of fragrant saints is rejected in favor of a smug interpretation of Scripture which would certainly have sounded strange to an Augustine, a Rutherford or a Brainerd.

In the midst of this great chill there are some, I rejoice to acknowledge, who will not be content with shallow logic. They will admit the force of the argument, and then turn away with tears to hunt some lonely place and pray, “O God, show me Thy glory.” They want to taste, to touch with their hearts, to see with their inner eyes the wonder that is God.

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain (Pursuit of God)

A heart that has not been enraptured by love, is a heart that has not had an encounter with the Living God. Revival is encounter! In the agony of illumination, we cry out to God and from the very altar of the living God, with tongs mind you, the angel touches you with fire, refining fire. THIS IS REVIVAL. One man or woman will agonize at his or her state, he or she will cry out to God, and God will send fire from the altar itself. The impenitent will harden and will flee, and those who linger in the light from the coal from the altar will be revived and refined and the fire will spread and it will consume. And a people will cry out and worship God and they too will cry “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God almighty.” ……bro Frank.

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WHO WILL LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP

Posted by appolus on April 21, 2026

Who Will Launch Out Into The Deep?

Gospel of Luke 5:4 (NKJV)

“When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, ‘Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’”

When Jesus had finished speaking, He said, “Launch out into the deep.”

But no vessel can move into the deep while it is still tied to the dock. The mooring lines must be cast off. The lines that hold it fast, the lines that keep it safe, the lines that bind it to what is known must be thrown.

And so it is with us. We hear the Word of God, clear, piercing, unmistakable, and yet we remain tethered, held by what is familiar, held by what feels secure, held by the shorelines of this world.

But the call of Christ is not to remain. It is to release, to cast off every line, to throw off every restraint, to abandon every false security and trust the voice that speaks, “Launch out into the deep.”

There is a moment when obedience demands movement, a moment when hearing is no longer enough. The lines must be thrown, and often caution itself must be thrown to the wind, and in this case the wind is the Holy Spirit, carrying us beyond what we can see and into what only He can accomplish.

And when they are thrown, there is no turning back. The shore begins to fade, the depths begin to open.

And there, in the deep, we meet the limits of ourselves. All our effort, all our striving, all our experience comes to nothing. “We have toiled all night and caught nothing.” This is the place where human strength fails.

But then comes the turning word, “Nevertheless.”

Nevertheless at Your word.

Nevertheless beyond my understanding.

Nevertheless against my experience.

Nevertheless in full surrender, I will obey.

And it is there, in that place of yielded obedience, after the lines are cast off, after the shore is left behind, after failure has stripped us bare, that the power of God is revealed.

The deep is not entered casually. It is entered by surrender, by casting off what holds us, by trusting what calls us, and by following Him beyond the safety of the shore into the depths where only His word can sustain us and only His power can fill the nets.

And so brothers and sisters, are you ready to cast off your lines? Are you ready to throw them to the wind, to cut the ties that bind you to this world?

For this is the call of the Lord. Not to drift, not to remain near the shore, but to launch out into the deep. You may not want the deep. That is your choice, we saints all face tgis choice. The shore is familiar, it is safe, it asks little. Maybe the four walls of your church is the line that tethers you?

Maybe it is some loyalty to something other than Jesus? Perhaps our ties to this world and the things it has to offer is the line that tethers, the cares of this world? Only you can know this. Search your heart.

But to those who hear something deeper, to those who feel the pull of His voice, its time to cut any remaining lines

Look carefully at what holds you, what tethers you, what restrains you, what keeps you bound to the docks of this world.

And then you must decide how you will cut them.

Because no man drifts into the deep, no vessel wanders there by accident. The lines must be cast off, the ties must be broken, the call must be obeyed.

And only then will you know what it is to truly launch out into the deep.

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SOUL FOOD-TAKING THOUGHTS CAPTIVE

Posted by appolus on April 20, 2026

Our small house church is reading a book by George Watson entitled “Soul Food.” I highly recommend it. It is really about the battle against self, and taking up the cross. I actually wrote this a number of years ago, but the issues of the heart never really change.

2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

It’s a terrible thing to be held captive by our own thoughts. How exhausting it can be when we allow them to consume and overwhelm us? Its the voice of self. Self always has a victim, typically itself, and a perpetrator. It lifts itself up, and tears others down while burning every bridge.

The thoughts of self begin to eat away at us. They rob us of sleep and leave us tired and weary and walking the floor at night. Self, our own self, is our deadliest enemy, and typically it morphs into self-righteousness. Look at me Lord, I am not as wicked as these others. They should be more like me. There is no justification in this.

I thank the Lord that He freed us and gave us the ability to take every thought into captivity and focus on Him. You can always tell when a saint is focused on the Lord, they elevate Jesus, they lift up, they do not tear down.

If a specific situation or trial has taken hold of your mind today, know that there is a way of escape. You are no longer slaves to the flesh, no longer slaves to your own thoughts. Our own thoughts and “imaginations,” elevate us and sit us on the throne of our own hearts.

If you have been set free by the Lord then you are free indeed. You now have the power to take those thoughts captive; they must bow to the Spirit of God in you. You will know this man because he is humbled in his own sight and his cry will be “be merciful to me.” The other man will loudly tell you what he has and is doing.

“Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30)

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