Grace and peace to:
God’s chosen people: the apple of God’s eye, Israel
and to the Church

 

Hope and truth:
For those of you who are not in yet covenant with OUR GOD: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

 

 

HAVE YOU EVER cleaned a refrigerator? Even though it’s my husband’s kitchen and he is the cook, the only cook (thank You, Jesus!) I am the one who cleans the frig. And: I do this on a regular basis. I hate a dirty refrigerator. I detest moldy, inedible food that looks and smells disgusting! I hate bad smells. And I hate not being able to recognize what that food was! Because of my diligence for perfection, my refrigerator (in Duane’s kitchen) is always in good shape!

Herewith is a great analogy:

JUST AS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SPOIL (and as meat, and milk and a multitude of other physical elements come to decay) so do the lies of the evil one… Thank God! He knows his time is short and he doing his very damndest to enhance his kingdom of gloom, despair and agony with false preservatives… his wily ways: his lies. He is a liar. There is no truth in him and when he speaks, he speaks his native language – lies!

Selah.

Satan truly respects sin! He adores it! He works for it! His work is to destroy the works of his enemy! And who is and are Satan’s enemies?!  God first and foremost! This father of lies couldn’t be enough like Him (no one can…) He was not worthy – and will never be – of worship by man nor angels, fallen or not!  No. No! And my friends, the holy angels who watch over us are also his enemies.

But right after God, the enemy he loves to hate; the enemy he loves to slaughter, steal from and totally destroy is the finest creation God has ever fashioned by His eternal glory. For you newbies and oldbies in Christ, for everyone, everywhere, hear this: SATAN IS YOUR FIRST AND FOREMOST ENEMY….  even if you deliberately, knowingly and willing choose to worship and serve him now!

Selah!

Whether evil or righteous, God loves created man. We are His finest work! And this we are, all of mankind, the very reason Jesus came to overthrow Satan’s regime! Let’s spoil more of Satan’s false preservatives of lies with seasoning our lives and other’s with salt.

We saints are the salt of the Earth:

 

Matthew 5:13
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

 

God made those who were sinners, saints. It is our choice to accept His word or deny it.

 

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

 

And He did! We who worship Him and do so, holding firmly to the end the confidence in Christ we have, worship Him in spirit and in truth. We are victors over death, Hell and the grave. Let us do so.  But for those who continue in rebellion, you are warned:

 

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

 

Yes: God’s wrath stands firm in the New Testament as well as the Old.

Selah.

But let us take a look back in the precious Old Testament at another “Let us…”

 

Genesis 11:4
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

 

Here is another Old Testament revelation that should never be forgotten. The Flood has been completed by this time. Noah and his family began a fresh start after the ungodly were wiped totally out by God, Himself. And now enter yet more of the rebellious. Please note: they wanted to make a name for themselves…  Before this vile rebellion, God gave all people one language and a common speech. They wanted their way; they did not want His! Babel: a tower, a most famous word, a most infamous memory. They wanted a name for themselves. They wanted to build this tower to reach to the heavens.

 

Genesis 11:6
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

 

He did not want this city. It was not in His blueprints nor was it in His footprints we are to follow.

“Let us…”

Our LORD God is the Almighty. His “Let us…” remains holy and impregnable. But their “Let us…”  did not stand. It was stopped! Their unity became ununited…  Their “Let us…” became a mission impossible. They could not understand each other. They were sent confusion. They were purposefully scattered. Their plans, their “Let us…” would never occur. God would not let them! All praise to the King of Glory!

AND GOD SAID:  “Let us…”

 

Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

 

Beloved: God’s plan prevails. He allows suffering for a reason and a season. I adjure to read the first two chapters of Genesis and last two chapters of Revelation. Reading these four chapters, revealing in them the lack of curse, brings a deep breath of joy and peace! It is well with the believer who worships the King in spirit and in truth!

Precious people (that’s all of us!) the next time you are cleaning your frig, the next time you’re seeing dirt or mold, throwing out the inedible, grimacing at the foul and disgusting, remember this always — drink deeply of the Living Water and feast on the Bread of Life and be the salt of the Earth!

AND may you worship the One True God in spirit and in truth!

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FROM THIS “JOY STORY”

 

Revelation 12:10-12
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

 

Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

 

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’

 

Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

 

PAY ATTENTION!

John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.

 

Revelation 18:2
With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.

 

May I end this “JOY STORY” with hope, truth and the revelation of Jesus Christ:

 

Revelation 1:6-8
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. “Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty”