Mark 11:23
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.

 

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SQUASHED MOUNTAINS…  A FAKE MAN!

 

 

ONE THING I REALLY DO NOT LIKE AT CHURCH SERVICES IS the greeting the pastors insist we give: ”Say hello to the person next to you and shake hands.” Some pastors have even set the clock and tell us how long to meet and greet others!

My opinion (and it is only an opinion) is this: we already choose who we greet and who we do not wish to do so. Saying hello for just a moment, even a timed minute, does not make a relationship. And if you are like me, I sit in a specific area each service; but the people keep changing in this area so that it is basically (again, my opinion) pointless to spend one little minute getting to know a person. We are in the last days and people who are evil are going from bad to worse. We know that there are false preachers, teachers and prophets in our own lifetime: ergo don’t you just know that satan purposefully sends his children into a Bible-believing, Bible-preaching church in order to strike chaos? I sure do!

NOTE: If you go way back on my site dated March 17, 2018 you will read of a very rude and truly hateful woman sitting behind me who needed to be challenged. And she was! This story is entitled: CORRECTION IS APPLICABLE. It was good for her to be put in her place (but she almost spoiled my Easter service.) I had to choose to tune her out dramatically and strive to cling only to the words of my pastor until I could rebuke her animosity. Let me tell you something else: this Easter message was phenomenal! No wonder satan didn’t want me to glean from it!

Selah.

Take heed, Beloved, and always remember there are false worshippers at church services and you have every right to mark and avoid them! Just because someone is sitting near you does not mean it is someone who is right to fellowship with. The Church needs to address this. Why do you think many great church leaders have security? Mine do!

In the past upon entering my church building quite often the greeters shake my hand while looking past me. This, my friends, is truly rude and brainless. Each and every person who enters the church building is worthy of love and respect; even the most vile sinners are those Christ came to seek and save! Hands anyone? Judas Iscariot, a prime example, is another man Christ came to redeem. But Judas continued in his sin, remaining a fake worshipper.

HERE IS MY LAST GREET AND MEET and ”Say hello to the person next to you and shake hands.” example. It was a young man… This particular meet and greet experience had happened before with him. He has sat in the very same row as my husband and me. He came to us as we were dealing with others around us. Instantly the first time I observed his fake greeting it bugged me! He was one of those… He took my hand, said: “Hello!” while all the time straining to look away totally in another direction of my face, my body… my eyes. Phony baloney! I did not like him! Why would I?

Without a doubt, as a man made in the image and likeness of our great God Almighty, I cared about his salvation. Salvation never comes to a phony. You have to repent and then you are honestly saying you have sinned, you need forgiveness, you can’t be holy on your own…

Selah.

No one, my friends, can hurt me unless I choose to let them. I do not. However, it is not good for any person to slide on their fakeness. I care. I challenge. If you are going to help build The Church, you must fight the good fight. My wise counsel (for God has given me all things richly to enjoy; and wisdom is one of them) took me to God, of course. Command them to do good. I am equal as a woman, I am equal as a believer. God tells me to correct people. Command them to do good. Of course, when I need correction I need to receive it and thank the person loving enough to do it!

Selah.

 

1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

 

For this reason, therefore, I dealt with this man. And dealt with Him appropriately. You see, he had not just been a fake greeter to me once. This was the third time. I waited on God, which is always the right thing to do; not rushing into a correcting according to my flesh because like everyone else, I am to walk according to the Holy Spirit. God is amazing! And we should never stop being amazed at His power, authority, love, righteousness: everything He is and everything He does!

This is what took place: this young man once again came to me. I will meet and greet, I just don’t like how we do it; but when I say “Hello” or anything else, I mean it. I am not a phony. I am not a fake. Suddenly this man was right up to me stretching out his hand but not his heart. I didn’t accept this. Yes, I immediately took his hand, looked at him and shook it… But then God had something more for this fabulous, but fake, beautiful man made in His image and likeness. I didn’t let go! I did not hold his hand tightly; I held his hand appropriately as he was looking far away from me. I didn’t like that; it was wrong of him. After a few seconds, for that all it was, he realized I was not letting go. He turned to me quizzically and actually looked into my eyes. God got him! As soon as his eyes met mine (his being brown and beautiful) I smiled a true godly and loving and challenging smile, sincerely saying to him, “Hi!” Boy, did that feel good. Beloved: it felt good first and foremost in my spirit and it felt good in my flesh.

Now this young man is either going to become sincere and greet me in the future (it seems he sits in the area I do also for the most part) or he is going to avoid me like the plague! His choice.

Beloved those who are willing to live and die by Revelation 12:11 care about every soul. My first thought of any death is: “Where did they go?” Again, their choice. I want this young man to be sincerely in love with God and man and me.

Selah.

I encourage you to read my story of CORRECTION IS APPLICABLE (dated March 17, 2018) on this site… satan likes it when we children of God keep quiet and mind our own business. We are to help the sinner overcome the world, the devil and their flesh. Jesus loved His people enough to get in their face and He told His disciples to buy a sword!

Selah.

 

Matthew 18:6-9
“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.  Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Revelation 12:11
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.

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS TO THIS JOY STORY:

 

2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,  treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

 

2 Timothy 3:12-13
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

 

Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

 

1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.

 

Romans 8:12-13
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

 

Luke 22:35-38
Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.” The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.” “That’s enough!” he replied.

 

SQUASH THAT MOUNTAIN!