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  CONJURING UP GOD   Why do we start off our “services” with music?   One reason given is that Judah (meaning praise) was the tribe Israel sent into battle first.   Another reason eventually offered is from Psalm 100:4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise...”     However… the first response supposes we are doing battle rather than to praise or worship. The second is from the perspective that we are Earthbound… God is in Heaven… and we must enter HIS courts. But wait… aren't WE HIS temple… a habitation of God through the Spirit? (Eph2:21-22)   The first and most common reason to start a meeting with music that rolls off of the tongues of most people is:                   “To set the tone or mood”   HMMMMM… Why would WE do THAT ?   Does anyone remember what Lucifer’s job was before his fall? According to Eze28 he had somet...

  GOD GIVES THE INCREASE     As our kids were growing up my wife and I did our best to “train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”  (Pr22:6)   We got to experience first hand the principle of sowing and reaping… and all of the processes in between of planting, watering, fertilizing, tending, pruning, and finally reaping a harvest.   As each child got older invariably they would burst in the door one day with a “revelation” so profound to them. Usually something they had just heard from someone else, or a situation had switched on a new light, illuminating their life path.   And… every time I wanted to say, “ WE’VE been telling you THAT all along!”     1Cor3:6-7 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, BUT GOD WHO GIVES THE INCREASE .”   Over the years of “ministry” multiple people have come to me and said, “why ha...

  CLOAKING THE HEART     Remember “Star Trek” the TV show? There were two main starships the USS Enterprise frequently encountered and violently battled… The Romulans and the Klingons. These two warrior races were arch nemesis with the Federation and shared a common goal of destroying the Enterprise, as well as bringing the entire Federation to its knees. Their ships were equipped with a “CLOAKING DEVICE” , which, when activated would cause the vessel to become invisible. This technology was a major advantage, allowing them to hide, deceive, and confuse… becoming undetectable at will.     " THE HEART is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; Who can know it?” (Jer17:9) The Hebrew word translated “ deceitful ” is used to describe something deceitful or crooked… conveying the idea of being morally twisted or not straightforward.     One of the first things mankind does in the Bible is demonstrate this inherent nature…    ...