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FIVE FOLD FULL HOUSE

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  FIVE FOLD FULL HOUSE     For years I would go to Denominational Pastors Conferences, Ministerial Meetings, City Pastoral Breakfasts and many other caucuses of the “spiritual minds” in any given region.   Even though these gatherings were purposed to bring the Body of Christ together, an underlying current was still bringing the divisive flow which has kept us separated from the beginning.   We would all pass around our business, ministry, or title cards as though we are playing poker… with Apostles high and Prophets wild… and if you are holding all FIVE-FOLD in your church… you have a FULL HOUSE !   Being a “lay person” was like playing with just the common numbers… …THE COMMON FOLK.             …you don't win often. The strongest play was when you are among the CLERGY … the ROYALTY … the FACE CARDS … the ones with the strongest personality and demonstratively showy gift or “...

THE SINNER'S PRAYER

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  THE SINNER’S PRAYER   I once knew an elderly lady who was very hardened… blunt and gruff. Having spent most of her life in and around the rough newspaper business with her father, she had no great trust in anyone or anything. Something had happened and she was placed in a hospice care facility… not expected to last long. Figuring this was my last opportunity to “get her born again” I dropped in for a visit. I pulled out all the familiar witnessing approaches… which were brushed off with all the polite language of an old sailor. When the conversation was turned to “a loving Heavenly Father”, she countered with how stern and unyielding her own father was and the harshness of her upbringing in the Catholic Church... …and she had no use for a God always watching for us to step out of line. She finally stated that she had done so much evil in her life that it was hopeless to think God would ever forgive, let alone receive HER.   At the end of all my arsenal, I simply blurted...

BREAKING WIND

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  BREAKING WIND   Have you ever felt like God called you to do something or desired for you to “birth something into the Earth? You just knew that He told you to start that ministry… build that church… initiate those meetings… establish that new thing – whatever it is? The problem is… it has become a struggle. Isa43:18-19NKJV "Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do A NEW THING , Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it?”   Hmmmm… a NEW THING …                   …something I have never seen before…                                     …I don't know how it looks… how it moves… how it functions… the blueprint, nor the pattern… let alone how to assemble any part of it....

WHAT IS NECESSARY HEREAFTER

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  WHAT IS NECESSARY HEREAFTER   “For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known [by God].” (1Cor13:12AMP)   There are things we seem to partially comprehend, but Jesus stated to his disciples: “To you it has been granted to know THE MYSTERIES of the kingdom of heaven.” (Mtt13:11NASB95)   Jn3:32Voice “He reveals THE MYSTERIES seen and realities heard of the heavens above, but no one below is listening.”   Rev1:1AMP “This is THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST [His unveiling of the divine MYSTERIES ], which God [the Father] gave to Him to show to His bond-servants (believers) THE THINGS WHICH MUST SOON TAKE PLACE [in their entirety]…”   Rev1:19KJV “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the thin...