HE IS RISEN !
HE IS RISEN !
Shall we deny him our feet to climb those stairs; shall we keep back those hands that he would use; and shall we seal the lips by which he would speak the tender message to the dying soul?
Nay, rather, shall we not say:
"Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from thee."Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of thy love.
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King."
And by every movement of our bodies say to men as we pass on our pilgrim way: "I no longer live, but Christ liveth in me." So live that our lives shall be a demonstration that "Christ in us, the hope of glory," is the Indwelling Presence that guides us in that way.
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62 Ways to Share Christ
62 Ways to Share Christ:
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
62 WAYS TO SHARE CHRIST'S LOVE
We all could use some fresh ideas for personally sharing Christ. Here are 62 of them from Evangelism Handbook by Dr. Alvin Reid.
Note: Items 48 - 62 are ideas to do in partnership with your church. For more event based ideas, see High Impact Events.
1. List all the lost people you know and pray for them daily. Ask God for His power and compassion. Ask God to keep the lost people you know alive until you or someone can get the Gospel to them.
2. Make a commitment to witness everyday. Few things happen without a prior commitment.
3. List all the persons in your concentric circles (family, friends, neighbors, marketplace contacts, church), and make a commitment to witness to them.
4. Do not forget to share your testimony and the Gospel with the children or grandchildren in your family. This is witnessing, too, and of the most urgent kind.
5. When at a restaurant, leave a generous tip and a tract. Write your contact information on it, too.
6. Before your meal, ask your server, "We are about to ask God to bless our meal. Is there anything we can pray for you about when we do?" Usually, most servers are burdened for family and health.
7. When you attend church with a lost friend, be sure your friend sits in the seat next to the aisle and you sit next to him or her. This will help your friend to walk the aisle to profess faith in Christ. Your friend will not climb over people to profess faith in Christ if he or she is sitting in the middle of the pew. All aisle seats in church must be reserved for lost people.
8. Gently approach people who are sitting by themselves and appear to be alone. Start a conversation and share the Gospel.
9. Invite a friend to a concert, revival or special worship service at your church. Following the service, go out for dessert and talk about the message presented in the service.
10. Send a birthday card to a friend. Enclose a personal note sharing about your own spiritual birthday.
11. Clip a special article from a daily devotional guide or newspaper religion column and mail it to a friend who needs to know Jesus. Include a personal note conveying love and compassion.
12. Subscribe to a favorite devotional guide or Christian periodical for a friend.
13. Write a letter or note of thanks to one who serves in the military services in our country. Include a Scripture reference of 2 Tim 2:1-4.
14. Design your own business card to introduce yourself. Include a Gospel presentation on the back of the card.
15. Take contemporary Christian CDs to a juvenile detention center, youth-receiving home or shelter. Attach a note to each item sharing John 3:16.
16. Take copies of a Christian magazine and leave them in laundromats. Write the name of your church on each copy and a note saying you hope an article in the magazine will be particularly helpful to the reader.
17. Leave a sealed candy bar or snack near the electric meter attached to you home. Attach a tract or note of "good news" to the candy bar and state that you would like to share both.
18. Leave a refreshing drink of cold water for the person who picks up your garbage. Attach a note including John 4:14.
19. Ask your pastor to make a 10-15 minute video presenting the plan of salvation and explaining believer's baptism. Share the video with a lost friend.
20. Go down to the local "hang out" where young boys play basketball. Ask to join the game. Share you testimony before you leave.
21. Visit a lonely senior adult living at home, in a retirement center or in a nursing facility. Share John 14:1-6 and present the Gospel.
22. When in a drive-through, give out a tract, saying, "This is a tract about Christ and how He gives hope. Will you take this and read it sometime?" Then ask, "Has anyone ever taken time to share with you the message of Christ's hope?"
23. Fill up with gas, go to the grocery store, or frequent convenience stores when no other patrons are there. Give away a tract as in #22.
24. Write out your personal testimony. Practice giving it by sharing it with a friend. Do this twice a day for seven days.
25. Write a note of congratulations when a friend, neighbor, or family member is recognized for success. Share how every good and perfect gift is from above.
26. Develop several one-liners that communicate the essence of the gospel. When you seen someone treated rudely, say to the person next to you, "I sure am glad Jesus is more gracious than that."
27. Develop a personal tutoring ministry for children of single parents or students who need to learn England as a second language. Use the ministry for opportunities to share Christ. Drive these children and families to church.
28. Get the Jesus video or the Hope video and invite a group of internationals to view the film with you. Explain to them how they can receive Christ as Savior.
29. Make a personal phone call to one who has received discouraging news recently. Share you personal testimony of how God sustained you in your hour of need. Pray with them over the phone.
30. When you notice a stranger reading a newspaper, offer him/her a Gospel booklet, and say, "Excuse me. When you get an opportunity, you might like to read some good news."
31. Create attractive book marks with the gospel message. Share them with friends who enjoy reading.
32. Share a Christian book with a friend. Tell them after they read it you would like to hear their opinion of it. Billy Graham's biography is a hit!
33. Share a tape of one of you pastor's special sermons with a friend or neighbor. Use this as an opportunity to share the plan of salvation.
34. Include a Gospel tract and note of appreciation along with a brief personal testimony when you mail your monthly utility payments.
35. Compose an e-mail signature that includes a Scripture reference explaining Christ's salvation and worth.
36. Make a visit to new parents. Take a copy of Parent Life to share with the new mom and dad. Share how Christ's salvation helps you parent.
37. Wear a Power Band. Share the meaning of each colored bead with a lost friend. Materials are easily available at most department stores.
38. Send a Valentine card with a Gospel tract sharing about God's love.
39. During family devotional times, help family members to pray for the salvation of their lost friend. Encourage family members to tell their friends about Christ.
40. When your children invite friends for a sleepover, use your family devotional time to share John 3:16.
41. Host a baptism party for family members when they follow Christ in baptism. Invite their friends and have the new convert share a testimony of salvation.
42. Take a plate of home-baked cookies or a pie to a new neighbor. Include a note of welcome to the neighborhood, a New Testament and church info.
43. Host a dinner part or picnic for neighbors. Include conversation about relationships and conclude with an account of your most important relationship in life.
44. Write a letter to your personal physician thanking him for his care. Include an acknowledgment of the Great Physician.
45. Host a Christmas, Easter or other Christian holiday celebration in your home, and invite neighbors and community public servants. Share a brief devotional and tell how Christ has made this holiday season special to you and your family.
46. Write a letter of thanks to your local elected officials. Tell them that you will pray for them as they seek to be of service to the community. Include a reference to your faith.
47. Demonstrate the love of Christ with the giving of a gift. Share fresh produce or fruit from your garden. Tell the receiver you enjoy sharing the love of Christ with others.
48. Offer your backyard for Vacation Bible School or Backyard Bible Club.
49. Plan a wild game dinner inviting hunters in your community to bring a "dish." Ask a popular Christian sportsman to tell stories of interest, share his personal testimony and present the Gospel.
50. Conduct a Health Fair in a low-income housing area. Use Christian professionals to screen cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Conclude the screen with a Christian doctor or nurse sharing a Gospel presentation.
51. Host a financial planning seminar. Advertise in the community. During a refreshment time, ask a Christian in the financial community to share a brief testimony including the parable of the "rich young ruler."
52. Sponsor a marriage and family class or seminar for engaged couples in your community. Enlist a qualified Christian counselor to teach and share a Christian witness.
53. Host a seminar on "Writing Your Will," led by a Christian lawyer. Ask him to conclude with his personal testimony on spiritual preparation for death.
54. Go through the Sunday school roles of your church and list the names of Sunday school members from grade four through senior adult who are not church members. Witness to those on this list each week until finished. These are the most cultivated persons in your community.
55. Offer a "Teen's Basic Car Care and Simple Mechanics" course to the teenagers in your community. Ask a respected layman to give a brief devotional, sharing how he came to accept Christ. (Ecc. 12:1)
56. Host a pizza party for a local high school ball team and guests. Show a Christian video that relates to youth.
57. Challenge your local high school athletic team (any sport) to play your deacons, church staff or other ministry group. After the game, provide a pizza dinner. Give a devotional or other Christian book of interest to the team. Thank them for participating.
58. As a church group, set up a booth at community festivals or fairs. Give away cold water, drinks and small gifts. Offer free copies of Scripture and Gospel materials.
59. When a church group does any event, be sure to register all attendees for door prizes. Use these cards as a prospect list.
60. As a church group, conduct a block party. Have several trained witnesses to do personal witnessing.
61. Encourage your church or Sunday school department to host an appreciation banquet for local law enforcement officers or other community servants. Use a layman to share a personal testimony.
62. Teach your members to sit in the middle of the pew or row of chairs during worship. Leave the aisle seats for lost people so they can get out into the aisle without having to step over everyone.
1. List all the lost people you know and pray for them daily. Ask God for His power and compassion. Ask God to keep the lost people you know alive until you or someone can get the Gospel to them.
2. Make a commitment to witness everyday. Few things happen without a prior commitment.
3. List all the persons in your concentric circles (family, friends, neighbors, marketplace contacts, church), and make a commitment to witness to them.
4. Do not forget to share your testimony and the Gospel with the children or grandchildren in your family. This is witnessing, too, and of the most urgent kind.
5. When at a restaurant, leave a generous tip and a tract. Write your contact information on it, too.
6. Before your meal, ask your server, "We are about to ask God to bless our meal. Is there anything we can pray for you about when we do?" Usually, most servers are burdened for family and health.
7. When you attend church with a lost friend, be sure your friend sits in the seat next to the aisle and you sit next to him or her. This will help your friend to walk the aisle to profess faith in Christ. Your friend will not climb over people to profess faith in Christ if he or she is sitting in the middle of the pew. All aisle seats in church must be reserved for lost people.
8. Gently approach people who are sitting by themselves and appear to be alone. Start a conversation and share the Gospel.
9. Invite a friend to a concert, revival or special worship service at your church. Following the service, go out for dessert and talk about the message presented in the service.
10. Send a birthday card to a friend. Enclose a personal note sharing about your own spiritual birthday.
11. Clip a special article from a daily devotional guide or newspaper religion column and mail it to a friend who needs to know Jesus. Include a personal note conveying love and compassion.
12. Subscribe to a favorite devotional guide or Christian periodical for a friend.
13. Write a letter or note of thanks to one who serves in the military services in our country. Include a Scripture reference of 2 Tim 2:1-4.
14. Design your own business card to introduce yourself. Include a Gospel presentation on the back of the card.
15. Take contemporary Christian CDs to a juvenile detention center, youth-receiving home or shelter. Attach a note to each item sharing John 3:16.
16. Take copies of a Christian magazine and leave them in laundromats. Write the name of your church on each copy and a note saying you hope an article in the magazine will be particularly helpful to the reader.
17. Leave a sealed candy bar or snack near the electric meter attached to you home. Attach a tract or note of "good news" to the candy bar and state that you would like to share both.
18. Leave a refreshing drink of cold water for the person who picks up your garbage. Attach a note including John 4:14.
19. Ask your pastor to make a 10-15 minute video presenting the plan of salvation and explaining believer's baptism. Share the video with a lost friend.
20. Go down to the local "hang out" where young boys play basketball. Ask to join the game. Share you testimony before you leave.
21. Visit a lonely senior adult living at home, in a retirement center or in a nursing facility. Share John 14:1-6 and present the Gospel.
22. When in a drive-through, give out a tract, saying, "This is a tract about Christ and how He gives hope. Will you take this and read it sometime?" Then ask, "Has anyone ever taken time to share with you the message of Christ's hope?"
23. Fill up with gas, go to the grocery store, or frequent convenience stores when no other patrons are there. Give away a tract as in #22.
24. Write out your personal testimony. Practice giving it by sharing it with a friend. Do this twice a day for seven days.
25. Write a note of congratulations when a friend, neighbor, or family member is recognized for success. Share how every good and perfect gift is from above.
26. Develop several one-liners that communicate the essence of the gospel. When you seen someone treated rudely, say to the person next to you, "I sure am glad Jesus is more gracious than that."
27. Develop a personal tutoring ministry for children of single parents or students who need to learn England as a second language. Use the ministry for opportunities to share Christ. Drive these children and families to church.
28. Get the Jesus video or the Hope video and invite a group of internationals to view the film with you. Explain to them how they can receive Christ as Savior.
29. Make a personal phone call to one who has received discouraging news recently. Share you personal testimony of how God sustained you in your hour of need. Pray with them over the phone.
30. When you notice a stranger reading a newspaper, offer him/her a Gospel booklet, and say, "Excuse me. When you get an opportunity, you might like to read some good news."
31. Create attractive book marks with the gospel message. Share them with friends who enjoy reading.
32. Share a Christian book with a friend. Tell them after they read it you would like to hear their opinion of it. Billy Graham's biography is a hit!
33. Share a tape of one of you pastor's special sermons with a friend or neighbor. Use this as an opportunity to share the plan of salvation.
34. Include a Gospel tract and note of appreciation along with a brief personal testimony when you mail your monthly utility payments.
35. Compose an e-mail signature that includes a Scripture reference explaining Christ's salvation and worth.
36. Make a visit to new parents. Take a copy of Parent Life to share with the new mom and dad. Share how Christ's salvation helps you parent.
37. Wear a Power Band. Share the meaning of each colored bead with a lost friend. Materials are easily available at most department stores.
38. Send a Valentine card with a Gospel tract sharing about God's love.
39. During family devotional times, help family members to pray for the salvation of their lost friend. Encourage family members to tell their friends about Christ.
40. When your children invite friends for a sleepover, use your family devotional time to share John 3:16.
41. Host a baptism party for family members when they follow Christ in baptism. Invite their friends and have the new convert share a testimony of salvation.
42. Take a plate of home-baked cookies or a pie to a new neighbor. Include a note of welcome to the neighborhood, a New Testament and church info.
43. Host a dinner part or picnic for neighbors. Include conversation about relationships and conclude with an account of your most important relationship in life.
44. Write a letter to your personal physician thanking him for his care. Include an acknowledgment of the Great Physician.
45. Host a Christmas, Easter or other Christian holiday celebration in your home, and invite neighbors and community public servants. Share a brief devotional and tell how Christ has made this holiday season special to you and your family.
46. Write a letter of thanks to your local elected officials. Tell them that you will pray for them as they seek to be of service to the community. Include a reference to your faith.
47. Demonstrate the love of Christ with the giving of a gift. Share fresh produce or fruit from your garden. Tell the receiver you enjoy sharing the love of Christ with others.
48. Offer your backyard for Vacation Bible School or Backyard Bible Club.
49. Plan a wild game dinner inviting hunters in your community to bring a "dish." Ask a popular Christian sportsman to tell stories of interest, share his personal testimony and present the Gospel.
50. Conduct a Health Fair in a low-income housing area. Use Christian professionals to screen cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Conclude the screen with a Christian doctor or nurse sharing a Gospel presentation.
51. Host a financial planning seminar. Advertise in the community. During a refreshment time, ask a Christian in the financial community to share a brief testimony including the parable of the "rich young ruler."
52. Sponsor a marriage and family class or seminar for engaged couples in your community. Enlist a qualified Christian counselor to teach and share a Christian witness.
53. Host a seminar on "Writing Your Will," led by a Christian lawyer. Ask him to conclude with his personal testimony on spiritual preparation for death.
54. Go through the Sunday school roles of your church and list the names of Sunday school members from grade four through senior adult who are not church members. Witness to those on this list each week until finished. These are the most cultivated persons in your community.
55. Offer a "Teen's Basic Car Care and Simple Mechanics" course to the teenagers in your community. Ask a respected layman to give a brief devotional, sharing how he came to accept Christ. (Ecc. 12:1)
56. Host a pizza party for a local high school ball team and guests. Show a Christian video that relates to youth.
57. Challenge your local high school athletic team (any sport) to play your deacons, church staff or other ministry group. After the game, provide a pizza dinner. Give a devotional or other Christian book of interest to the team. Thank them for participating.
58. As a church group, set up a booth at community festivals or fairs. Give away cold water, drinks and small gifts. Offer free copies of Scripture and Gospel materials.
59. When a church group does any event, be sure to register all attendees for door prizes. Use these cards as a prospect list.
60. As a church group, conduct a block party. Have several trained witnesses to do personal witnessing.
61. Encourage your church or Sunday school department to host an appreciation banquet for local law enforcement officers or other community servants. Use a layman to share a personal testimony.
62. Teach your members to sit in the middle of the pew or row of chairs during worship. Leave the aisle seats for lost people so they can get out into the aisle without having to step over everyone.
Friday, April 17, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
BODY REBUILDING
Dividing completed
In the years ahead
The “Body” rebuilding
With Jesus as head
Religion replaced
By heavens grace
People running
To seek his face
Idols torn down
Mans rules thrown away
All those trappings
Have had their day
It’s time to look forward
To never look back
Look to the light
Ahead there’s no “black”
The glory is falling
Preparing the way
It’s turning the night
Into glorious day
Dividing completed
In the years ahead
The “Body” rebuilding
With Jesus its head
Hallelujah!!!
Edited by Lyn McSweeney on 02/04/2014 at 5:06pm
Monday, January 27, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
2014! A WIND CHANGE!
Beloved of the Lord,
Tonight God is speaking this word to the depth of my being. Maybe it is just for me, but it may be for those of you that God is preparing for this New Year of great change. Please test this in the Holy Spirit.
Directional changing winds: A new season:
The winds of change are here, and they are going to blow in different directions at different times and change your directions swiftly. This is going to be uncomfortable to many of my people specially the religious people who don't know the ways of the Lord, because it will make no sense for their natural mind to comprehend. Why would God "seemingly change his mind."
He is not doing so. We must be like the tribe of Issachar in these last days who knew the "timing and seasons" of the Lord. But the length of each time for each time and seasons is changing and shortening.
Some seasons could be an hour, or a day, a week, and then God changes direction with no warning. Will you follow Him when that would make you look so unstable to others who have a natural mindset? Will you fear what men say about you or what God says?
These rapid change of directions are to teach obedience, and to trust the Lord in a new and deeper way. Will we suffer persecution from people and saints for looking foolish and fickle as we blow with the wind? If we will, the new inner workings of the Lord in our hearts that these changes will make in us will produce a greater and lasting fruit in us. We will be led by the cloud by day and the fire by night.
This new and deeper surrender to God's ways by the quickening of the wind blowing swiftly in different directions will truly allow us to be taught how to be "led by the spirit of God" as full grown Sons and Daughters.
These sudden changes or changing winds is a new work of discipline in us. The Holy Spirit is putting a stronger harness of God on his own ones to produce in us the deepest surrender to His will that will cause us to become a wheel within a wheel.
We must learn a deeper sensitivity to the moving of God's Holy Spirit, not just by hearing a Word from God by reading the Bible alone. That word must be breathed upon by the Holy Spirit to become a "rhema" or "living" word in our hearts that can now bring us clarity and instruction. The word must become flesh or our personal experience in reality in our own lives so we "know what the Master is doing as His friends."
The wind of God is going to activate those words spoken to us years ago waiting to be fulfilled. They could not come forth yet because of the one directional horizontal wind blowing of the present church system age. But now, oh dear Children of God, those words will be activated in you as you surrender to the deep work of God that He has longed to do as you learn to move with the sudden movements of God's winds.
No other way can bring this about in our hearts but by the sudden changes and movements of God's wind in and for our lives. We are either His or our own. These rapidly changing winds of God will prove to which we belong, ourselves or to God alone.
It is a new day as we learn how to blow and change in this season of God's wind blowing through us like never before. We must come to know more intimately the movements and moving of the Holy Spirit at work in us. This is why this season of new and deeper surrender and discipline is needed in our hearts to be prepared to rule and reign with Him.
This last work of God is not another move of God, or a movement of God like Toronto or Pensecola or even a revival, but it is a deep moving of God within His people to do and become all He desires us to be for His glory alone.
The rapid wind changes that the Lord is now bringing will force us to develop a deeper sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and to the Lord Himself. It will produce a deep spiritual maturity in those that are willing to travel down this path.
John 3:8 says, The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
This is our destiny moment! Change is coming swiftly by the blowing and changing of the direction of the wind. It is starting out as gentle breeze right now ever so slowly changing directions.
But by the end of the year it will be a hurricane 5 force wind changing from moment to moment, hour by hour, week by week, month by month and year by year, to bring forth our eternal destiny and plans of the Lord.
Will you blow with the wind of God? You can't hold unto your life in any shape or way and be instructed how to blow in with the wind. God is capturing the true hearts of his own ones who are surrendering to this work of God in their lives.
You can't hold unto your stuff, your job, or your family above God and blow in this wind that God is now bringing forth. You must give the entirety of your being fully to the Lord and His purposes, surrendering all into our Master's hands.
The winds of change and directional change are going to test and try us like never before. It will bring forth a Holy Separation from all that is carnal and of the flesh in our hearts . That which is flesh is flesh and that which is Spirit is Spirit. The flesh profits nothing but blessed are they that move only by the Holy Spirit's leading.
The winds of directional changes are coming. The winds are blowing in their directions as God's will. Will you blow with that wind? Will you hold unto nothing to become a wheel within in a wheel, a people within a people? Will you allow the Holy Spirit to own the totality of your being as a living sacrifice to our Lord and King Jesus Christ?
Such are the ways of the Lord! Remember hold unto nothing and blow where the Lord allows you to blow even to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
Selah.
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Henry J.Falcone
Flame of Fire Ministries
www.flameoffire2007.org
Tonight God is speaking this word to the depth of my being. Maybe it is just for me, but it may be for those of you that God is preparing for this New Year of great change. Please test this in the Holy Spirit.
Directional changing winds: A new season:
The winds of change are here, and they are going to blow in different directions at different times and change your directions swiftly. This is going to be uncomfortable to many of my people specially the religious people who don't know the ways of the Lord, because it will make no sense for their natural mind to comprehend. Why would God "seemingly change his mind."
He is not doing so. We must be like the tribe of Issachar in these last days who knew the "timing and seasons" of the Lord. But the length of each time for each time and seasons is changing and shortening.
Some seasons could be an hour, or a day, a week, and then God changes direction with no warning. Will you follow Him when that would make you look so unstable to others who have a natural mindset? Will you fear what men say about you or what God says?
These rapid change of directions are to teach obedience, and to trust the Lord in a new and deeper way. Will we suffer persecution from people and saints for looking foolish and fickle as we blow with the wind? If we will, the new inner workings of the Lord in our hearts that these changes will make in us will produce a greater and lasting fruit in us. We will be led by the cloud by day and the fire by night.
This new and deeper surrender to God's ways by the quickening of the wind blowing swiftly in different directions will truly allow us to be taught how to be "led by the spirit of God" as full grown Sons and Daughters.
These sudden changes or changing winds is a new work of discipline in us. The Holy Spirit is putting a stronger harness of God on his own ones to produce in us the deepest surrender to His will that will cause us to become a wheel within a wheel.
We must learn a deeper sensitivity to the moving of God's Holy Spirit, not just by hearing a Word from God by reading the Bible alone. That word must be breathed upon by the Holy Spirit to become a "rhema" or "living" word in our hearts that can now bring us clarity and instruction. The word must become flesh or our personal experience in reality in our own lives so we "know what the Master is doing as His friends."
The wind of God is going to activate those words spoken to us years ago waiting to be fulfilled. They could not come forth yet because of the one directional horizontal wind blowing of the present church system age. But now, oh dear Children of God, those words will be activated in you as you surrender to the deep work of God that He has longed to do as you learn to move with the sudden movements of God's winds.
No other way can bring this about in our hearts but by the sudden changes and movements of God's wind in and for our lives. We are either His or our own. These rapidly changing winds of God will prove to which we belong, ourselves or to God alone.
It is a new day as we learn how to blow and change in this season of God's wind blowing through us like never before. We must come to know more intimately the movements and moving of the Holy Spirit at work in us. This is why this season of new and deeper surrender and discipline is needed in our hearts to be prepared to rule and reign with Him.
This last work of God is not another move of God, or a movement of God like Toronto or Pensecola or even a revival, but it is a deep moving of God within His people to do and become all He desires us to be for His glory alone.
The rapid wind changes that the Lord is now bringing will force us to develop a deeper sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and to the Lord Himself. It will produce a deep spiritual maturity in those that are willing to travel down this path.
John 3:8 says, The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
This is our destiny moment! Change is coming swiftly by the blowing and changing of the direction of the wind. It is starting out as gentle breeze right now ever so slowly changing directions.
But by the end of the year it will be a hurricane 5 force wind changing from moment to moment, hour by hour, week by week, month by month and year by year, to bring forth our eternal destiny and plans of the Lord.
Will you blow with the wind of God? You can't hold unto your life in any shape or way and be instructed how to blow in with the wind. God is capturing the true hearts of his own ones who are surrendering to this work of God in their lives.
You can't hold unto your stuff, your job, or your family above God and blow in this wind that God is now bringing forth. You must give the entirety of your being fully to the Lord and His purposes, surrendering all into our Master's hands.
The winds of change and directional change are going to test and try us like never before. It will bring forth a Holy Separation from all that is carnal and of the flesh in our hearts . That which is flesh is flesh and that which is Spirit is Spirit. The flesh profits nothing but blessed are they that move only by the Holy Spirit's leading.
The winds of directional changes are coming. The winds are blowing in their directions as God's will. Will you blow with that wind? Will you hold unto nothing to become a wheel within in a wheel, a people within a people? Will you allow the Holy Spirit to own the totality of your being as a living sacrifice to our Lord and King Jesus Christ?
Such are the ways of the Lord! Remember hold unto nothing and blow where the Lord allows you to blow even to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
Selah.
-------------
Henry J.Falcone
Flame of Fire Ministries
www.flameoffire2007.org
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, July 18, 2011
Resistance is Futile
"When He said to them, 'I am He,'
they drew back and fell to the ground."
JOHN 18:6
they drew back and fell to the ground."
JOHN 18:6
When they came to arrest the Lord Jesus in the garden, He asked, "Who are you looking for?" And they answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." He simply said, "I AM." When they heard this they fell over backwards to the ground. No one can stand before I AM and retain any of their strength. To the ground we will all go, for that ground is holy. Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
This revealing of Christ is sufficient to bring saint and sinner alike into absolute surrender and submission. Friends and foes alike find themselves at His feet, quite unable to stand before Him. He does not have to raise His voice or call down fire from Heaven or do anything other than simply reveal Himself for Who He is. Every doubting Thomas eventually cries out, "My Lord and My God!" when they finally behold
Monday, July 11, 2011
THINGS TO PONDER
"The Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth."
JOHN 1:14
and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth."
JOHN 1:14
Moment by moment, hour by hour, we are being changed. This transfiguration is subtle, but powerful. How is it effected? How does God change us? When we put on the Lord Jesus then we become what we have put on. When we see the glory of the Son of God then we are changed thereby. We become what we have seen.
When we see Him as He in fact is, when we behold His glory, we will be smitten to the ground. If what we have seen thus far of the Lord has not struck us dumb and blind then we have not yet touched upon His glory. Our vision is too small. May God illuminate our hearts and grant us further revelation into His Son, that we may be transfigured.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
THE JUDGMENT DAY
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To get to know God; to be at peace with God; to have your sins forgiven; to make certain heaven will be your home for eternity; to make certain that you are in right-standing with God right now ... please click here to help understand the importance of being reconciled to God. What you do about being reconciled to God will determine where you will spend eternity, precious one. Your decision to be reconciled to God is the most important decision you'll ever make in this life. "
To get to know God; to be at peace with God; to have your sins forgiven; to make certain heaven will be your home for eternity; to make certain that you are in right-standing with God right now ... please click here to help understand the importance of being reconciled to God. What you do about being reconciled to God will determine where you will spend eternity, precious one. Your decision to be reconciled to God is the most important decision you'll ever make in this life. "
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
"Christ in you, the Hope of Glory." Col 1:27.
The glory held out in Scripture is immortality at the Coming of Christ, either by the resurrection of the dead, or the transfiguration of the living. The glory of a perfect body, a body that shall be like unto his own glorious body.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was patient in all things, but he was not content that the body in which he dwelt should remain mortal; hence he carried it into death and the grave, triumphed over them in it, made it immortal, took it up to the throne of God, dwells in it there, and shall dwell in it forever, forever manifesting to the universe the wonder of a shining, glorified, immortal, human body.
If he was not content with his own body as a dwelling place till he had made it immortal, will He be perfectly content till he has made our bodies as his dwelling places also immortal? Sooner or later if he tarries they must die and fall into decay, and thus the body that has been the temple of the Holy Ghost, the dwelling place of the eternal life, shall at the last be vanquished by him who has the power of death, that is the Devil; and over that which had once been a witness to the glory of Christ shall be written that victory of Satan which would be the shame of Christ.
Such a consummation would be indeed a scandal to the Son of God, a fearful commentary on his own immortality, and a grave question as to the permanency of his relation to those whom he calls his own.
In the very nature of the case it is impossible that the body in which Christ has ever dwelt shall finally be destroyed. In the very nature of the case he must make it immortal to justify his own indwelling, and the immortality which he himself achieved. Wherefore it is written:
"But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you."
To say that the Father will quicken the bodies by his Spirit, is to say that the Son in the name of the Father will quicken them by the Spirit; and because the Spirit dwelling in them is in the name of the Son, it is the Son dwelling in them who will quicken them by the Spirit.
Thus Christ living in the believer is the pledge and guaranty of immortality; and therefore Christ in the believer is the sure, the definite hope of glory. The hope that shall never be deferred, or make the heart sick.
In carrying the Living Christ within, the believer carries the hope that casts its light onward to the glory hour, and illuminates all the way between. Just as the Pillar of Cloud and Fire went with the children of Israel by day and by night, assuring them that they were being guided, and guided home, so this Indwelling Presence picturing to us each day the Morning hour and the Morning land, is a constant witness that we are being guided, and that we are being guided home.
What a pledge of grace, of certitude, and love.
Well may the Apostle exclaim, speaking of this in-living Christ: "Who loved me and gave himself for me."
The indwelling of this Presence brings with it a double obligation:
An obligation to the world; an obligation to the Indwelling Christ himself.
As Christians, we are under obligation to the world to let Christ live in us so freely, so fully, that men may see and know Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
We are under obligation to the Indwelling Christ to let Him so live in us, that he may manifest himself to the world.
It is his desire. This is why he ascended to the throne and sent down the Spirit in his name.
He yearns to-day to use your lips and mine, our hands and feet.
Yonder is one in sorest trouble. The blessed Christ would speak and comfort him. He can only speak by your lips and mine. There is a hand that is trembling. He would like to take it and hold it in his own and give it the clasp of assurance and perfect love. He can only do so with your hands and mine. Up yonder flight of stairs, in yonder dingy room, is one sick and nigh to death. He would climb those stairs, kneel by the bedside of the sick, and touch the fevered brow. But he can only climb those stairs with your feet and mine; he can only kneel with your knees and mine; only with our hands can he touch the fevered brow; only with our voices utter the message of love; only through our bodies manifest himself to a sad and dying world.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
GLORY POEM # 22
EXTRAORDINARY
THE POTTER TAKES THE CLAY INTO HIS HAND,
HE ADDS NEEDED WATER TO MOLD AT HIS COMMAND,
A BEGINNERS PIECE OF WORK LOOKING LOPSIDED IN NATURE,
BUT AS EACH DAY PASSES, ITS FORM BEGINS TO MATURE.
MUCH NEEDED CARE AND PATIENCE IS NEEDED AS EACH DAY DOES PASS,
FOR THIS LUMP OF CLAY IS SOMEWHAT HARD TO MOLD, ALAS.
T’WOULD TAKE BUT AN AMATEUR TO BRING ABOUT SOMETHING ORDINARY,
BUT AN EXPERT OF ARTISTIC ABILITY ADDS TEXTURE IN LAYERS
CREATING SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY.
OUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THE RECIPE,
A SECRET KEPT FOR MANY A CENTURY
A LITTLE OF THIS, A LITTLE OF THAT,
EXTRAORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY IN NATURE IS WHERE I’M AT.
A JOURNEY OF LONG WINDING TRAILS
HATH LEFT ME NOW WITH MANY TALES,
BUT EXTRAORDINARY IS ALL I CAN SAY,
TO BE LEFT WHOLE IN A STATE OF A SPIRITUAL OASIS, COME WHAT MAY.
ANOTHER MEMORIAL ARRIVING SOON,
TO PARTAKE OF HIS HOLINESS IS IN LOON,
LEAVING ME SADDENED WITH MANY A THOUGHT,
TAKING ME TO ANOTHER “NEW’ PLACE TO CONTINUE TO BE TAUGHT,
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY.
INSPIRED 1-6-02
J.C.VANCE
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
GLORY POEM # 21
A “SUPREME” JUSTICE
A “New” life begins following a Sacred night,
Where GOD'S Holy Spirit allowed all to be right,
But now comes another day, beginning our New life
many more lessons to yet be learned, as MY LORD'S symbolic wife Ish.5:;5-8
Yes, discipline to wipe clean any “Old” blemishes “Still Showing”,
Which are left over from a sinful course, “All Now Knowing”,
That along with this “New Covenant” comes a “Supreme” justice,
Giving my “New Hope” a reality forever branding us,
Leading “The Way”, as OUR LORD always has done,
Not knowing the future, but still in the race I do run.
I pray, FATHER, you shorten our time as to be tested,
For I now realize, more than ever, how weak is my flesh, even though I’ve rested,
But I’m filled with rejoicing from within my spirit,
For LORD, I feel you here within me, but not due to my merit,
But in Christ I am joyous, that he has made clean,
all sinfulness we as humans contend with & to all mankind is seen.
But happily I accept your Heavy Judgement of Loving Discipline,
That once I’ve been reckoned with, hopefully this race I’ll yet win! (Rom.6:11 & Rom.6:1-23)
Praise be to Jehovah, the Most High “Supreme” Judge throughout all the earth.(PS. 83:18)
AND TO HIS PRECIOUS SON, CHRIST JESUS, OUR LORD & SAVIOR !
Inspired 4/16/99
J.C.Vance
Monday, February 7, 2011
GLORY POEM # 20
A PLACE DEFINED
A FONDNESS BEYOND ANY OTHER EMOTION
NOW BECOMES MINE.
A PLACE I’VE PRAYED FOR,
I NOW CAN FIND.
FROM WITHIN MY SPIRIT, I’M AWARE OF A SECRET
FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
A SECRET SO SACRED,
IT’S HOLINESS SUBLIME.
MY SPIRIT TODAY IS ERUPTING WITH LOVE
FOR ALL MANKIND.
A NEED AND LONGING TO SHARE THIS INSIGHT
WITH WHOMEVER I FIND.
MY JOY OVERFLOWS, HAPPINESS ENTERS MY SOUL,
DUE TO THIS DIVINE SECRET IT NOW KNOWS!
Inspired 2009
JC VANCE
GLORY POEM # 19
OUR STANDING OVATION !
A revelation has been given to me this day,
that a great revival of hearts are coming our way,
due to the fact that Christ our Lord & Savior is on his way.
As Daniel was told to seal up the book until the end,
for at that me the knowledge of THE LORD will become abundant
due to His Holy Spirit He will send.
Then all nations, indeed, in His Name, will have HOPE,
it will take much FAITH in which to cope,
many will rove about,
and praise his name with a mighty shout,
many will receive Christ into their hearts
and together they will stand, shoulder to shoulder; hand in hand,
looking up for Christ’s arrival
as they hold their worldwide revival,
and as God’s Son, Our Messiah, makes his appearance
on clouds on high,
we all will give out a mighty, joyful cry,
saying in unison, our victory is won,
at long last, God’s will has been done,
as we all RISE to give OUR STANDING OVATION !
Inspired 6/1/2010
JCVance
Sunday, February 6, 2011
GLORY POEM # 18
ADOPTION UNDERWAY
A child is born!
for all creation to see adorn,
but special emphasis now given
no longer can I be torn
from this way and that way
leaving me so forlorn.
What made no sense,
as regards this poem,
today what was shown to me
is so immense.
As Paul spoke words to his brothers
the Galations,
I too have the knowledge,
that in the course of time, a child conceived
for the purpose of a woman to receive,
would release by purchase
what we all once lost due to Eve,
but then too, we in turn,
might receive the adoption as sons,
for in Christ's death, we are made alive,
when the full limit of the time did arrive for a "hope" I now over 2 years have inside.
inspired 9/12/96
J.C.Vance
GLORY POEM # 17
THIS LUMP OF CLAY
Jehovah, please do take this mixture of dirt & dust,
add your “living Waters” to loosen this crust,
to form a mold in the likeness of the Christ,
giving us our needed instruction and advice,
in order to meet your desired requirements,
come this memorial to again partake of our recompense.
So insignificant we stand “alone”,
We humbly kneel before your lofty Throne,
as we beg your forgiveness for all past wrong,
that we may continue to walk along the throng,
with our tears, add these too, this very day,
to moisten yet evermore this rough crusted clay,
giving us a clearer understanding of your Devine Purpose,
that we may all be united with you, your Son, yes, all of us,
one together we stand, so imperfect, we except your reprimand,
that we may be found faultless by means of your loving hand,
remind us of your all inspiring ways,
that we never take for granted what we see as only haze,
until your grand finale, unlocking that final door,
to your “New Creation” where we shall reside with you forevermore!
Inspired 3/15/01
J.C.Vance
GLORY POEM # 16
THE ROSE
Elegance, beauty beyond first stare
for within lies a fragrance which lingers for one fair,
a radiant flower, none other can compare
for of Royalty, this one, so rare!
It's decadent robes are worn so proud,
celebrated by all the colors of the rainbow, sing aloud,
lavished in velvet; perfection endowed.
From a bud to the opening of this graceful heir,
one dare not pass it by without embracing its flare,
leaving only a hint of the knowledge we're aware,
we've been in the presence of rulership & dignity
a name "The Rose" does bear!
inspired 9/22/97
J.C.Vance
Friday, February 4, 2011
GLORY POEM # 15
All THINGS NEW
Under Christ’s New Kingship; All things will become
NEW !
He was making
All Things New!
1st He begins by implanting a
New Spirit
within us & asks us to keep his
New Commandment.
This in turn causes us to put on a
New Personality,
causing us to become a
New Creation,
making us want to sing a
New Song
of praise to our King,
due to the knowledge imparted to us regarding a
New Heavens
and a
New Earth.
Once realizing the above; we are inaugurated into a
New Covenant Arrangement
preparing us to live with our King in
New Jerusalem.
inspired 1994
jcvance
GLORY POEM # 14
“COME”
Happy Are Those Invited!
A gesture made so clear,
A thought one need not fear,
A place one needs to go,
In order to all show.
A call so very clear,
A whisper in one’s ear,
So simple is this call,
To blink would be remiss for one & all.
A New Jerusalem begins its rule,
Coming down from Heaven as a Jasper Jewel,
To begin anew all that was once lost,
Our Messiah, “Christ Jesus” will begin his reign at great cost,
Choose now, in this final hour, before it is too late,
Choose life through Christ, or except your fate.
(Rev. 19:9 & Rev. 22:17)
THE SPIRIT & BRIDE SAY: COME
Inspired 8/28/08
J.C.Vance
Monday, January 31, 2011
GLORY POEM # 14
Your Will Has Been Accomplished
It shouts off the page
with all your sacred words repeatedly read.
The end is near,
there is nothing more clear.
We have been pawns on a chess board
being moved all in accord.
All this time, just a game,
though we were not in control
we were "tested" just the same.
Now we live with the consequences
of our do's and our don'ts,
turning our attention now to our master;
making again promises of our future "won'ts".
Our list, it grows long
of all that's gone wrong,
though the bottom line reads so simple
to the blind man or the fool,
what you purpose must come to be
your will has now been accomplished,
but for only those who seek will come to see.
inspired 10/26/97
Sunday, January 30, 2011
GLORY POEM # 13
WHY ME LORD ?
Why me, I ask still patiently,
Why me, Lord, I still can't see,
Thy purpose in it all
for I stand before you grief ridden with many a flaw,
knowing I must soon reply to your mighty call.
But Lord, why me,
I'm so unworthy, I still fall.
Yet day after day, your words speak, come!
I can't understand where these feelings flow from,
if not from you, then all is lost,
for without you, what a cost!
Answer me please, talk with me once again
in a way only you can
telling of things I long for internally
But Lord, I still ask, why me?
I really just can't see.
How I thank you for your favor upon my life,
How can I ever thank you for removing all my strife.
inspired 9/25/97
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