Friday, April 11, 2025, 11:42
Revelation 3:7-13
¶ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David,
who opens and no one will shut,
and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
I know your deeds.
Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power,
and have kept My word,
and have not denied My name.
Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan,
who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie,
I will make them come and bow down at your feet,
and make them know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance,
I also will keep you from the hour of testing,
that hour which is about to come upon the whole world,
to test those who dwell on the earth.
I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
He who overcomes,
I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God,
and he will not go out from it anymore;
and I will write on him the name of My God,
and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem,
which comes down out of heaven from My God,
and My new name.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Just as the Lord said to the Churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira and Sardis and what He is now saying to the Church of Philadelphia He is saying to each of us who call Him Lord, those who clams the name of Christian.
Christ Jesus tells us aging:
I know your deeds;
He knows what we do,
what we say
and even what we think.
As for what we do:
I have found 18 times that GOD says “I am with you”
Here is one example;
Matthew 28:20
Jesus tells His disciples
“I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
( if you go by the title of Christian, does that not make you a disciple of Christ? )
As for what we say:
In Matthew 5 speaks of the commandments of Father GOD and brings them from just actions to thoughts,
Hers as an example:
Matthew 5:21-22
¶ “You have heard that the ancients were told,
‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.’
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court;
and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court;
and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
And aging We were told by GOD
“I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
If He is with us always, do you not think He knows what we say?
As for thoughts:
In Matthew 5:27
¶ “You have heard that it was said,
‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’;
but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
He knows our thoughts whether they are good or evil
He tells us straight out
“I know your deeds”.
You can not hide your actions, speech nor your thoughts from GOD.
GOD has put a path before each of us that we are to take through this life,
He is that one who opens and closes doors.
We are the ones who look for the window,
to ether access what He has closed from us,
or to exit the path He has set before us.
The Lord will not breck out will,
if we will to sin against Him and His word,
eventual He will allow you to experience your own desires.
That you may turn back to Him.
It is said of mankind
Isaa 56: 11
They have all turned to their own way,
Each one to his unjust gain
Remember this
Ezekial 33:17
“Yet your fellow citizens say,
‘The way of the Lord is not right,'
when it is their own way that is not right.”
The Lord your GOD opens the doors we should go through and closes the ones we should not enter,
Him being the creator don’t you think He knows what doors good for you?
And what doors will lead to your destruction?
Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, Jesus tells us:
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance,
( have adhering to the course of action I have set before you )
I also will keep you from the hour of testing,
that hour which is about to come upon the whole world,
to test those who dwell on the earth.
And aging we are told:
I am coming quickly;
hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
And if you hold fast and overcomes the evil that is around you,
He will make you a pillar in the temple of His God,
He will write on you the name of His God,
and the name of the city of His God,
and His new name.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Take the door the Lord your God has opened for you
and do not mess with the doors He has shut.
Hold on to the truth from the word of GOD and obey them,
For He knows who you are.
i will leave you with this:
Isaiah 55:6-9
¶ Seek the LORD while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the LORD,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Think about it
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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Thursday, April 10, 2025, 06:00
Revelation 3:1-6
¶ “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this:
“I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die;
for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.
So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent.
Therefore if you do not wake up,
I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments;
and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments;
and I will not erase his name from the book of life,
and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Just as the Lord said to the Churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira and what He is now saying to the Church of Sardis He is saying to each of us who call Him Lord, those who clams the name of Christian.
Christ Jesus knows each of us He know our deeds,
He knows our name,
that we are physically alive,
and He also knows those who use the title of Christian who are dead,
dead in spirit,
alive in worldly knowledge,
willingly excepting participating and practicing it ways,
but dead to His ways,
you may be able to talk bible, to sound godly,
to sound wise to the world,
but are dead to the reality of the world of GOD.
Dead to Godly wisdom and understanding.
We are told to ask God for wisdom and that He is willing to generously give to those who ask in faith.
Colossians 1:9-14
¶ For this reason also, since the day we heard of it,
we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
spiritual wisdom and understanding,
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,
to please Him in all respects,
bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might,
for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience;
joyously giving thanks to the Father,
who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness,
and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
James 1:2-12
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have its perfect result,
so that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,
who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But he must ask in faith without any doubting,
for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea,
driven and tossed by the wind.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass;
and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed;
so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial;
for once he has been approved,
he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
We are told:
Wake up,
strengthen the things that remain,
which were about to die;
for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.
To remember what we have received and heard;
and keep it to hold fast to it,
to repent of our sin (our lack of dedication to know the Lord and His ways).
Christ forewarns us if we do not wake up,
He will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
Matthew 24:36
“But of that day and hour no one knows,
not even the angels of heaven,
nor the Son, but the Father alone.
With this in mind we should at all times be expecting the return of the Lord, Continuously living our lives in the manner that is acceptable before Father God.
Romans 3:22-26
the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe;
for there is no distinction;
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.
This was to demonstrate His righteousness,
because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;
for the demonstration,
I say, of His righteousness at the present time,
so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
By repenting (that is to confess your short comings, then turning from what you believe in the world and turning to the word of GOD for your instruction and direction)
Asking the Lord Christ Jesus for forgiveness;
Your soiled garments can be changed for white.
Through repentance you can be made worthy and clothed in white.
“He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments;
and I will not erase his name from the book of life through repentance (turning from the world to Christ) Christ Jesus says;
“I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels”.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Christ Jesus is the only one who can erase one’s name from the book of life,
And this will be dune to those who do not repent and follow after Him.
Don’t you think it would be a grand idea to turn from the world and turn to Him,
To seek His face,
to be made worthy.
If you do not know Christ Jesus as your Lord all you have to do is with a honest heart ask.
Ask to be forgiven, confess Him as your Lord and savior.
Ask for His wisdom and understanding,
pick up the Bible and reed the books of Matthew, John, Revelation learn of His love for you and of His free gift of redemption.
Ask, talk with Jesus except His forgiveness and let His spirit teach you the ways of the Lord.
If you are a believer in and a follower of Christ Jesus
take what you know of the Lord and His word the Bible
and apply it in your life,
turn and walk (no run) away from the world and its ways and walk in the way of the Lord.
you can not serve two masters.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 09:14
Revelation 2:18-29
¶ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:
I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.
But I have this against you,
that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.
Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.
And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.
Nevertheless, what you have, hold fast until I come.
He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end,
TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS;
AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON,
AS THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER ARE BROKEN TO PIECES,
as I also have received authority from My Father;
and I will give him the morning star.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Just as the Lord said to the Churches of Ephesus, Smyrna and Pergamum and what He is now saying to the Church of Thyatira He is saying to each of us who call Him Lord, those who clams the name of Christian.
Thing to watch out for, to notes a Jezebel spirit:
1. Jezebel’s ultimate goal is always control. The Jezebel spirit is always motivated by its own agenda, which it relentlessly pursues.
2. The Jezebel spirit attacks, dominates or manipulates, especially male authority. Queen Jezebel usurped political authority of the kingdom. This spirit’s ultimate goal is to conquer or neutralize the prophet because a discerning leader is its greatest enemy.
3. Jezebel causes fear, flight and discouragement. This spirit often causes a spiritual leader to flee from his appointed place by character assassination and ruining his reputation.
4. People under Jezebel’s influence are natural leaders, although often secretly. The Jezebel spirit attempt to seek out people of influence to win their ear, to gain credibility and win endorsement for their ungodly cause.
5. People under Jezebel’s influence are often insecure and wounded, with pronounced egocentric needs. They are often trying to fill a love deficit. People under Jezebel’s control always have deep, unhealed wounds from sources such as rejection, resistance, fear, insecurity, self-preservation and bitterness, which in turn, spreads its defilement to many.
6. The Jezebel spirit functions subtlety and deceptively. People controlled by Jezebel use flattery to win you over to their domination. Jezebel spirits are masters of manipulation by guilt and undermining or discrediting another’s influence. Those under Jezebel’s control use flirtation and are extremely jealous of anyone they perceive to be a threat.
7. Ultimately, people under Jezebel’s influence are proud, independent and rebellious. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Sam. 15:23) and will attempt to control others through any means other than the Holy Spirit.
8. It takes an Ahab to let a Jezebel spirit operate unchallenged. Those under Jezebel’s influence do not operate without someone under an Ahab spirit’s influence enabling them to function.
9. A Jezebel spirit is always in alignment with a religious spirit. Both Jezebel in the Old Testament and Revelation in the New Testament operated under the cover of religion. Its religious deeds are done for all to see. True and pure spiritual gifts attract people to Jesus, not to the people who exercise the gifts.
10. The families of people under Jezebel’s influence are often out of order. Those under Jezebel’s influence control their partners and cause their children to take sides, grow up insecure, disrespect their fathers, feel manipulated and become distrustful toward true authority.
The Jezebel Spirit aliens with Narcissism key thing to be aware of
a. Manipulation and Controlling brought about through deception:
Shown by Emotional Manipulation
in Relationships In a romantic relationship,
a person influenced by a Jezebel spirit will use guilt trips, silent treatment, or emotional outbursts to control their partner’s actions.
They will play the victim to gain sympathy and manipulate their partner into doing what they want.
You might feel like you’re constantly walking on eggshells around this person, afraid of triggering their anger or disappointment.
environment feels toxic and divisive, with a noticeable tension that centers around this individual.
Within a church, a person under the influence of a Jezebel spirit will use their position to push false doctrines or personal agendas.
They will claim to have special revelations from God to manipulate the congregation and undermine true spiritual leadership.
The Church is not to tolerate such people.
If you recognize these things in some one, do not associate with them but rather pray, pray their deception does not come upon you or others,
Do not participate with them, pray for them, pray that the Lord Jesus will rebuke them.
If you see some of these things in yourself,
repent, ask Christ Jesus to remove them from you and to protect you from them,
ask Him to fill you with His love, with His wisdom and understanding.
He is willing to do so, you just have to seek Him instead of the world.
If the leadership of the church you attend show these attributes, do not hang around rather go find a Church that is a Christ believing Church one that teaches the word of God.
Be reading the word of GOD,
if you have excepted Christ Jesus as your savior and trust in Him, He said He would ask His Father, Father GOD to send His spirit to dwell in you and that He would be your teacher.
GOD is faithful and true to His word.
Jesus said if you do not hold to the teaching of Jezabel,
And have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them
that He will place no other burden on you.
if you are in that position Repent, trun from evil Christ Jesus is willing and faithful to forgive.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10:46
Revelation 2:12-17
¶ “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:
I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is;
and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
But I have a few things against you,
because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.
So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Therefore repent;
or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.”
Just as the Lord said to the Churches of Ephesus and Smyrna and what He is now saying to the Church of Pergamum He is saying to each of us who call Him Lord, those who clams the name of Christian.
He knows us, He knows each one of us individually
We are told in the word of GOD
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”
Father God knows where we are and where we dwell (where we live)
He knows we deal within the realm of Satan.
The Lord knows if we are and have been faithful to hold fast To Him, to His name, and if we do or do not deny His faith even in the days of Christians being killed among us or around the world’
The term ‘Hold Fast’
( to grab onto something firmly so not to get thrown off balance ) It conveys strength,
The Lord is to be our strength:
Habakkuk 3:19
The Lord GOD is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.
Resilience:
resilience in the Lord enables us to resume our original walk with the Lord when we have been slacking in our ways, gives us the ability to as it were to springing back, to rebound.
To repent, turn from our evil ways and aging walk in the way of the Lor our God,
To have relationship with Him.
Determination:
to set our mind and our sole in a firm or fixed intention to achieve a desired end result, And that should be in the Lord Christ Jesus, and to live with Him throughout eternity.
Reminds me of the first and foremost commandment Christ has given us:
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And He said to him,
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.
This is the great and foremost commandment.
The second is like it,
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Are you set fast to obey the Lord your GOD?
To live a life that is excitable to Him,
to put Him first in all your ways?
Or do you allow the draw of Satan’s and is ways to keep you from holding fast to the Lord?
Do you allow those who participate in and teach the ways of Satin to dwell with you.
Those who entice you to commit acts of immorality to partake in things that have been sacrificed to idols,
those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
The Lord tall us to repent of walking with the world (the realm of Satin) and his ways,
or else He will be coming to us quickly, and will make war against those who do not repent with the sword of His mouth.
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’
As the Church of Christ, A Christian, it is our choice to follow the Lord and His teachings,
to repent of our ways that are not of him,
to turn from them and to stand steadfast in Him and His word.
It aways seems to come back to choice.
Whom will you choose to follow after, to serve?
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says”
Monday, April 7, 2025, 06:15
Revelation 2:8-11
¶ “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:
¶ I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Do not fear what you are about to suffer.
Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days.
Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.”
What the Lord is saying to the Church of Smyrna He is saying to each of us who call Him Lord.
Our Lord, Christ Jesus knows what we go through;
In His word the Bible we are told:
“” the LORD God, my God, is with you.
He will not fail you nor forsake you until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished. “”
Hebrews 13:5
“Make sure that your character is free from the love of money,
being content with what you have;
for He (Christ Jesus the God of our salvation) Himself has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,”
It seems many who use the title Christian either never knew these words or have forgotten them,
“” I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you “”
The Lord our God is and will be with us even unto death.
Christ Jesus lets us know that some of us will be through in to prison, but just as Daniel was through in to the pit with the lions,
He will be with us, when we are being tested,
And He lets us know we will only have tribulation for ten days.
And then put to death,
but if we be faithful to Him through this time of tribulation that leads to the death, Of this body, (for remember man can only kill the body he cannot kill the soul.)
If you are faithful to Him even unto death He will give you the crown of life.
There are many in Africa right now finding this out.
Being decapitated for their faith in Christ Jesus,
but rather than fearing what man can do to their body,
they are praising God as they are being put to death,
Their crime, trusting in Christ Jesus and not forsaking Him.
If that trial, that Great affliction, that great distress, that form of suffering; Comes upon us will we be as faithful to our Lord Christ Jesus?
Or will we deny Him, thinking that will save us from death?
Matthew 16:24-27
¶ Then Jesus said to His disciples,
“If anyone wishes to come after Me,
he must deny himself,
and take up his cross and follow Me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it;
but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.
“” For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it;
but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. “”
Christ Jesus gave up His human body for you when He died on the cross,
when the time come will you be willing to do the same for Him, so you can gain your heavenly body and receive the crown of life?
Think about it, time is running out,
He is returning, and the day of tribulation could be upon us sooner them we think.
"" For whoever wishes to save his (or her) life will lose it;
but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. ""