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Waze for the Last Daze, week IV -- 19 September 2021

Waze for the last Daze.  The personal, practical, powerful Holy Spirit.
Most people live their life conditioned by their circumstances, their environment dictates who they become, what they do, and what they believe. In general, people fall into ruts and just stay there.
When your plan breaks down and you are forbidden to go your route only to find yourself in a worse situation that is confusing what do you do? You worship.

Waze for the Last Daze, week III -- 12 September 2021

What to do when you don't know what to do.
Spend time listening to God
Believe God and trust God
Do what God tells you to do
Say what God tells you to say

A Dose of Hope -- 5 September 2021

The book of 1 Peter could be titled “A Survival Manual for Suffering Saints.” It presents God’s time-tested strategy for holding up, rather than folding up, in the midst of real difficulty.
Your faith and hope are in the one who raised Jesus from the dead and glorified him.
In other words, your hope is in the One Who, when He did the greatest thing ever done on planet earth, it originally looked like He didn’t know what He was doing, it looked like His plan (His will) had failed (Jesus is crucified). But it had actually worked gloriously, He raised Jesus from the dead and glorified Him….and so your faith and hope are in God. You have a living hope that is alive no matter what. Are hope has been resurrected!
“It’s going to work out, it always does.” -- Rita Ramsey

Waze for the Last Daze, week III -- 29 August 2021

The Twilight Zone...or, entering the twilight zone.
The twilight zone is the mental state between reality and fantasy. When you come home and your extremely messy teenager has cleaned the house from top to bottom, this is an example of a time when you might feel you are living in the twilight zone. Wait. What? Have you felt like this recently?
Let us pause here to tell you that this is the kind of intimate relationship that Father God wants with you today. In all of the chaos and confusion of this day, and it’s a lot, is God with you? Are you with God?
Because we can see and we have entered the Kingdom, God has been and is with us. We see the need for discernment. We see the strategy of the enemy. We recognize that there is a great deception taking place. Exposure. Spiritual World War. Imminent versus Preeminent. Homothumadon. Waze for the last Daze.

Waze for the Last Daze, week II -- 22 August 2021

Remember the daze when you had to pull over and ask for directions? WAZE is most beneficial when you are going somewhere you’ve never been. As long as you have battery (or power) and you entered the correct address, you can just sit back and trust WAZE, even if she changes her mind or the directions on you.
In 536 BC, the temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt, the relationship with God was reestablished,.  The Israelites had a new lease on life but there was no resulting power, only a temple, a worship facility that was having no apparent impact on the people of God or their world. Their rebirth was seen in their return, but their recovery was unseen and abundantly manifest in the rubbled mess called “Jerusalem”, the city of peace.
This is the picture of many believers. They are saved, they have established a connection to God, but have no resulting power that brings real life. No walls. A city with no walls isn’t a city.
As a people, the Israelites illustrate the incompleteness that often besets and bewilders reborn believers. The Jerusalemites, frustrated by their inability to restore their capital city, depict believers who seem unable to regain control of life issues mangled in their pasts. Like those in ancient Judea, so often with us: recovery was so long in coming, the conviction grows that it is never going to happen.
But, then something happens...someone is dispatched by God to come and lead the effort to rebuild God’s way.

Waze for the Last Daze -- 15 August 2021

Do not be deceived, be discerning. Wow! No sensationalism but not ignoring history either. Something is happening in the world.
Covid, quarantine, pandemic, hypocrisy, double standard, silencing, cancelling, racial division (Nation against Nation) BLM, Antifa, Democrats and Republicans giving $3T away to people. Two distrusted presidential elections 2016 and 2020. A media driven by greed. News that is so dishonest it’s almost laughable.
Watch out so that you’re not deceived. See to it that you are not alarmed.
How do you learn to be discerning?
“...do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is...be filled with the Spirit. Discernment will enable you to not be alarmed.
The bridegroom is coming, he might be a LONG time in coming, but He is coming!

A False Negative - 8 August 2021

There is a lot of bad news everywhere. I have some good news. We are dealing with a False Negative.False negative is actually a positive which in a covid world is a negative. I’d rather have a false positive which is actually a negative which is really positive, in a covid world.
The culture always needs a heroic, godly voice that will speak the truth loudly, courageously, humbly and strongly. While others “I don’t want to be bothered, I want to keep my job, I have a family to feed”. Someone else can stand against the system.
This is where we are. Things are insane. Most people see it. 
Eric Metaxas says that you have to catch this stuff early before it’s too late. Bonhoeffer did. He could see where it was heading. The church had the power to do something. They didn’t listen to him and by the time they woke up, it was too late and the Nazis had defanged the church, they had marginalized anybody who would protest. 
We are in this exact place right now in this country.
Germany was a wonderful country, great culture rich in history with amazing Christian history. But, at this time they had sloppy theology, cheap grace with a poor understanding of what it meant to be a biblical Christian.
We need to stand and be the praying, powerful, faithful church NOW.

Limitless -- 25 July 2021

The Source of Liberty -- 4 July 2021

2 Corinthians 3:17 (NKJV) Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, or freedom.
Moses’ face was glowing and he wasn’t aware of it. It was glowing because “he had spoken with the Lord.” Paul is saying that the New Testament is even better, way better because:
it doesn’t bring “death” it brings “LIFE”
it is not temporary, it doesn’t fade, NO, it is permanent and,
Moses reflected God’s glory but the Spirit in us will RADIATE His glory!
...for the letter kills, but the Spirit give LIFE.

27 June 2021 -- Did God Really Say?

Religion kills individuals, it’s hard for man to get to God, religion kills people - only knowing good and evil without being in an intimate relationship with God causes “religious people” to do deadly things. Christian parents who are religious kill.
Christians live out of one of these trees - either the tree of knowledge or the tree of life. The tree of life is a picture of walking and talking with God-living in His provision, protection, fellowship, friendship and lordship. It’s a picture of living life full of His Spirit, resting in Him and having a clear conscience, it’s relationship! Tree of Knowledge - shame (nakedness), victim (blaming others), etc.
Satan did not encourage Eve to rebel; he appealed to her love for God and desire to be more like Him. He offered her an appearance of godliness (goodliness), but one that was actually devoid of life.
Religious or Christlike? How do you know? When is the last time God told you something? Something that you didn’t really want to hear, that challenged your flesh, you didn’t want to do it but you knew you needed to, you submitted to the power that comes from Holy Spirit, and “you” did it?
Do you have a moment that you can recall where you would say, “God really said…”? You need regular moments like this.