Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Character Of Those Who May Dwell With The Lord

Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?
"He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart; He does not backbite with his tongue, In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the Lord; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved." (says the Lord)

Psalms 15:1-5

Heed the voice of the Lord and be Blessed always!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

"Who Are You to Judge Another's Servant?"

The most quoted scripture from the bible is : "Judge not."  I dont care if you're athiest, Muslim, Christian, or nonbeliever using this verse, today I just want to ensure the next time you freely quote this at least you will use it in it's right context.  The word says: So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way. (Romans 14:12-13)

Now what is the definition of judge?
Judge:  a person qualified to pass a critical judgment. That's a general yet accurate definition. And the bible clearly states who the judge is: Psalm 50:6: And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. Psalms 75:7: But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. Just to quote a few, so we all agree God is Judge! And His word says: For You (God) have magnified Your word above all Your name (Psalms 138:2) God let's us know His word He esteems even higher than Himself. So using His words are powerful and His word is what He uses to judge. So if God has written: Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people. Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes-they are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. You can be SURE that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of God and of Christ. For a greedy person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world. Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse their sins, for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey Him. (Ephesians 5:3-6) So if I say, "Brother you know that perverted joke is not of God. Continually doing that makes Him angry and disqualifies you for His Kingdom?" Am I judging you or speaking the truth? I'm not making up stuff, I'm quoting to you what God said to prevent your soul from going to Hell. Yes, I said Hell! Why do people, saints included, hate to hear that word, but clearly if the word says be sure you will not inherit the Kingdom of God for sin what's left to inherit? Hell.

Galatians 6:1 says: Dear brothers and sisters, if another Christian is overcome by some sin, you who are Godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. 
Jude 22-23 says: Show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgement. There are still others to whom you need to show mercy, but be careful that you aren't contaminated by their sins. This is saying compromising and telling people God doesn't judge evil, He only loves will cause you to sin and be judged, so beware!

I put all these scriptures here to let you know when someone speaks the truth they are far from judging you, but they are doing the will of God. If you're not reading His word for yourself it is His love and mercy when He allows you to meet someone not afraid to tell you the truth. I John 5:16 says: If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death he will ask and God will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. That's saying sometimes you need not speak to that saint just pray for them and if it's someone that just defies God knowingly we're not to even pray for that person, he/she has sealed their judgement.

My job as a messenger of God is to correct you with the truth of His word when you're wrong! The people judging are those who do not forgive. Has someone wronged you and no matter how much they apologize or show you they've changed you still bring up their past? Guess what, stop judging them! Your judgment is they can never be more or better than what they used to be! What a hypocritical judge, because you have failed before and someone loves you still. Please stop judging them! I've learned the ones quickest to cry "Dont judge me!" are the strictest judges of all! Selah.

And for those who do not profess Christ as Lord and Savior why are you quoting God's word period? If you don't even believe His word who are you to tell me what His word says when it's all Christian jargon to you!? So, you're judging others based on foolishness! You don't believe my truth so how do you know if I'm judging you or not? Please stop judging! God is judge and one day we ALL believers and nonbelievers will have to stand before Him and give an account on what we have done. Am I going to tell you His truth when I see you in error of His word? Of course! Know why? Because God says to me:  If I warn the wicked, saying, 'You are under the penalty of death,' but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible, demanding your blood for theirs. If you warn them and they keep on sinning and refuse to repent, they will die in their sins. But you will have saved your life because you did what you were told to do. (Ezekiel 3:18-19)

So I end quoting Paul, "Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand." (Romans 14:4)

Stop judging the saints of God. We must heed our master. Be Blessed

Friday, April 23, 2010

Know God

Good morning people of God. It’s 2:42am and I cannot sleep. My heart is hurting because of all the confusion in the world, especially the confusion of my sisters and brothers supposedly in Christ. I dare not separate myself from the confused saints of God because it is us, the so-called people of God, the ones who have been called by His name to teach the gospel, the unadulterated truth, boldly and unashamed that have caused the people to err. I can easily say, “Well, the word says in the end there will be perilous times and the love of many shall wax cold!” As true as this statement is, today that’s a cop out, period.

So many people I love, who spend days in church, years quoting what they ‘think’ they read in His word are so horribly wrong. Where did we miss Him? Why are so many of us confused? People I love and respect dearly are on the verge of blasphemy and are clueless of the danger. I have a family member so dear to my heart who is so blind yet they truly think they are safe from Hell’s fire because some unlearned and unwilling to learn preacher never teacher keeps them blind because he refuses to grow.

The time is now saints. It’s truly time to know God. The foundation is reading His word daily, meditating on it day and night (Psalms 1:2), but that’s only the foundation. It’s time to build upon that! Who deceived us into thinking what we read five, ten, thirty years ago is still relevant today? The word says: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings to search out a matter (Proverbs 25:2). If you read a verse in the bible 10 years ago, I dare say 10 days ago READ IT AGAIN I guarantee if you are seeking to know God He has more knowledge and revelation today in that same verse than He had just a few minutes ago! Our limited minds cannot comprehend God by still living off something we thought He said in His word the first time we read it! His word says: For the word of God is LIVING and POWERFUL and SHARPER than any two-edged sword, PIERCING even to the division of SOUL and SPIRIT, and of joints and marrow, and is a DISCERNER of the THOUGHTS and INTENTS of the heart. And there is NO creature HIDDEN from His sight, but ALL things are NAKED and OPEN to the eyes of Him to whom WE MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT. (Hebrews 4:12-13) Those two verses should put the fear of God in us. But hey, do most of us who claim we know God even comprehend those scriptures? I boldly say, “NO!” Why? Because I am witnessing too many of us living like infidels over yesterday’s word. Rejoicing over something we learned five minutes ago, when God’s word is living not dead and definitely not in the same state you thought it was yesterday.

My heart is bleeding this morning because I love us, the people of God, but one day we will have to give an account to God, ALONE. And I would hate to be that one standing before a righteous, holy, God saying, “Well, God You know my heart.” And He replies, “Yes, …The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)

Let your doings be according to what He says you should be doing. Remember God said: ‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways, says 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. (Isaiah 55:10) and He said: Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he UNDERSTANDS and KNOWS ME. That I AM the Lord, exercising loving-kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth, For in these I delight.” says the Lord (Jeremiah 9:23-24)

So I ask you, do you really Know God? Be true to yourself then get to know Him, for His return is near and He’s coming back for a perfected Church: …That He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy without blemish. (Ephesians 5:26-27)

It’s time to Know God. I love you.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

But He Knows the Way That I Take...

I am amazed at how much time has passed since I have been to my own blog. It’s not because I haven’t had anything to say or that nothing major has been going on. It’s just called the changes of life. The twists and turns, or as some prefer the trials and tribulations of this life. I would love to share my testimony at this time, but I can’t because I am still in the fire! The message on Sunday was so powerful it just had us confounded. After service we were joking and I made the comment, “So if I die and I look over and see someone I used to know that means I have gone to hell.” Why did I say that? Because God is changing us into the image of His son, Jesus Christ. When He looks at us He does not want to see me, you, your pastor, or even angels. He wants every part of us to die!

My husband ended the message saying, “How the goldsmith knows the gold is pure is because when he looks into it he can see his reflection.” We may hate the trials of life. We find going through the fire, tiresome, wearisome, and disappointing. In fact, the word says, “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” (Hebrews 12:11) The truth is without fire you will never be made pure. When Job was going through his fire he said, “But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10) The book of Job is just an awesome book to read to comprehend the testing and making of our perfection.

Job learned God is just and fair. Everything He allows is for the advancement of you. The word clearly states,” Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.” (Hebrews 12:9-10)

Embrace the process. It’s only for our good! Our wilderness experience can either take forty days or forty years, or worse you never enter into rest! God knew there was a shorter way in the wilderness but God deliberately sent them the long way. The word says, “Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 13:17-18) Follow God’s lead, be as Job and say, “But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.” Love the Leading of God today, be trained by Him and live in peace. Stay Encouraged!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Have You Ever Met Love

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:4-8


Excuse me my friend, have you ever met Love?
If you’re unsure let me explain to you what He does

There’s no need to tell him how he’s expected to behave
He’s never unseemly or against the unsaved

He never sets out to seek his own
He exalts your needs above what’s known

He’s never out to deceive or use
Your mind he is careful never to abuse

He never tries to puff up himself
All his actions add to someone else

Do you think you know Him from what I’ve just said?
Well, let me continue because He can’t be misread!

Kindness and gentleness are his middle names
Yielding to him never makes you feel ashamed

And when you are blessed he doesn’t envy what he sees
He desires to give more of what you want, not only what you need

All he hopes for, is the best in all you do
He’s not testing and trying to see flaws and faults in you

He’s not trying to see where you have missed the mark
He thinks no evil concerning who and where you are

Is this Love someone you regularly see?
No? Well, let me show you where She can be reached!

She’s not the one you see behaving rude
She believes all things concerning you

She’s not persuaded by what the world says
It’s only the truth she keeps rehearsing in her head

No matter how tedious the task she refuses to quit
Endurance is her character that is very evident

Bearing rejection, heartache and pain
She knows giving into those spirits have nothing to gain

She knows she’s the greatest gift in this world
And the power she exhibits never fails

You say, often love has left you in doubt?
Beloved, then it’s not Him, so no need to scope him out.

His characteristics cannot be matched
Because He’s never provoking or attacks

His ways are so visible there’s no pressure to learn
If He is who he says he is or the need to discern

When love’s in your presence His presence is all you’ll see
He’s not quick to give up. He suffers long and endlessly

Not for Himself but for you and me
Hey Love, is easy to recognize wouldn’t you agree?

So, next time someone says, “Hi I am love.”
You will now easily examine all the things that he does

And if she isn’t exemplifying what she proclaims
In love, you can simply ask for her ‘real’ name

But continue to seek the One who is love
And He will lead you to the one who does what He does

He will allow you to see who love really is
The things He accepts and those things He forbids

The things He rejects and the things that He keeps
They’ll begin to stand out so vibrant and unique

Then when the ‘deceiver’ comes you’ll lift your eyes above
But then ask kindly and gently, “Have you ever met Love.”



© 2009 Meena International Presents "He's A Keeper"

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Get FREE!

This is a shout out to all my ladies who have been in bad relationships that have negatively affected their hearts and even the men. I implore you today to set yourself free! It is a sad day when you cannot give your spouse a compliment on how you love and wholeheartedly trust him/her without someone wounded and bitter in the background mumbling under their breathe how naive you are. Wounded women EVERY man DOES NOT cheat! Cut that foolishness out. If you keep attracting cheating men it’s because you are using what you think attracts a good God-fearing man and not what God says attracts a good man. I Peter 3:1-4 reads: Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. That’s God’s way!

Now I know the next question is: What if you’re not a wife yet? The answer to that is Be, Do, Have- You have to BE-come a wife/husband and DO the things a wife/husband will do before you can HAVE a wife/husband. Successful relationships are like anything else in life. No matter how much I desire to be wealthy me doing things my way when every wealthy person tells me to do it another way almost guarantees I will fail at becoming wealthy. Thus, doing what you think the opposite sex wants and not what the word says guarantees you will fail.

In this world sex sells everything! They sell sex to attract sex! So, if you use your sex-appeal to attract men when you get him expect sex, not respect, love, and commitment. Men if you use money to attract, when she gets with you she expects money, period. You run out of money you run out of her! Let’s be true to ourselves. God’s word is true; we have reaped what we have sown into the relationships that failed. If we want love and respect let’s set a precedence. And let’s not become too high-minded when setting it, living on Fantasy Island somewhere. A man of God once told me, “People got killed on Fantasy Island!” So let’s at least ask for who we are because in reality that’s all we will attract! God is a fair God. (That’s an entirely different subject for another time.)

Free yourself today from being the wounded victim which causes you to envy every healthy relationship. Find those who have overcome their past and found true love and cleave to them and the word. The blind cannot lead the blind! Lipstick, cleavage and vulgarity does not attract a good man, obedience does! God honors marriage, (Hebrews 13:4) in fact, He created woman for man. (Genesis 2:18) He wants you to have a relationship, so He knows how to instruct you in having a great one! Follow His lead!

The Word of God will do!

Psalm 46

1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

8Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Enough said.