I’m not wholly wrapped up in being for or against either political party. I’m a Jesus guy. That’s my aim. I pray that Jesus remains my devotion and chief passion. 

Last week, another white guy shot a murderous bullet. As far as I know, he didn’t identify as they, although for some reason, the assasination continues to be blamed on they. I suppose the they that the angry folks are speaking of are black people, or lgbtq+ people, or women with jobs, or women without children, or nonchristians and non-Jews, or democrats, or pro-choice individuals, or the percentage of Americans that didn’t vote for Trump. They are the enemy. Therefore, all of them are they and they are all symbolically guilty of murdering Charlie Kirk. 

However, the truth is that the bullets didn’t came from either party. If it matters, one party even wants to do something to curb shootings, even shootings that happen to those they disagree with. 

But, there’s so  much hate in the world. And love  is ever waning. 

Matthew 24:12
Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold.

If you claim to be a Christian and you really desire to be a good one, please separate your identity from any die-hard devotion to a political party. 

We have a President who leads the charge in insults, and name-calling. Unfortunately, he regularly exudes vulgarity and models mean-spiritedness.” 

Charlie Kirk wasn’t perfect. Charlie Kirk did some good. Charlie Kirk went around intentionally arguing with people. Charlie Kirk was insensitive and demeaning towards people of color. That’s not okay. 

Someone recently told me they believed like Charlie Kirk. I didn’t attack them for that. I did however point out that I believe in Jesus Christ. Charlie Kirk and Jesus Christ are not the same. Republican/Conservative is not the same as Christian. Jesus rejected the political ambitions and distractions and He commands us to heed the beckoning of 2 Cor. 6:17 that says “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” It has to be Jesus only. Not Jesus plus politics. These other things, especially politics, are idols and distractions from the narrow way. Our answer isn’t on the right or left—it’s Jesus. The systems of this world don’t have to define us. 

‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only’” (Deuteronomy 6:13)

Can we like/love someone that’s different than us? Can we like and love persons from the other political party? Can Christians like/love Muslims? Can Christians like/love a trans? Can I like/ love racists? 

Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”

Charlie Kirk’s death doesn’t mean we (Christians) are at war. That’s how the flesh responds. That’s not the Spirit. That’s not Jesus. 

Matthew 5:39 “Turn the Other Cheek”

I must die like Jesus taught me. I must pick up my cross. I must lay down my arguments, my anger, my boiling passion, my need to be right. Everything else is a trick, a distraction, a temporary world. I must live for eternity. I must learn to walk away from the fray. I am the battle. I must win the battle against my own flesh, my own pride. I’m going to keep praying and keep asking God for His help. And I’m going to keep trying to obey as He keeps pointing me towards a better way. 

Some people appreciate and want God when He’s a still, small voice, and a gentle blowing (1Ki 19:12).

However,  they might stall out at a God whose voice is like many waters and His glory thunders (Ez 43:2, Rev 1:15, Psa 29:3).

Some people almost exclusively recognize God as judge, holy, and dreadful (2 Cor 5:10, Ex 3:5, Josh 5:15, Heb 10:31, Isa 8:13).

Conversely, some folks almost exclusively see God as grace, mercy, love, goodness, prosperity (Psa 84:11, Titus 2:11, Psa 103:8, Psa 145:8, 1 Jn 4:8, Psa 34:8, Jer 29:11).

Brothers and sisters, God may reveal Himself to you in a certain way more often than other ways…but it doesn’t mean that He isn’t in the other ways. It also doesn’t mean He can’t or won’t reveal Himself to you or others with a different emphasis than the one you’re most accustomed to. Allow God to be God. Give Him permission to speak to you however He wants to. Give Him permission to Be God however He so chooses.

Don’t limit God.

Don’t dictate how He can move. God is bigger than you or I realize.

In the times of Christ, He was gentle and forgiving. He was kind. He was peace. He bestowed blessings, finances, healings, and miracles. The same Jesus pointedly preached repentance. He rebuked. He chastised. He flipped tables over. He made a whip, and used it. He was from a small town. At times He had no where to lay His head. On other days He stood and taught in the temple and he even stood before rulers at the palace. Some folks called him king. Others angrily said crucify him for his crime, for His error.

As an 18 year old I asked a Pastor of a nominal church what He believed about the Holy Spirit. He answered by talking of Holy Spirit in past tense. And he informed me the last days are biblically going to be about us witnessing the great falling away. He was right. Yet, I suggested the last days may be more like a coin. When he raised one eyebrow, I said a coin has two sides. One side is referred to as the tale, a negative connotation. The other side is known as the head, a positive landing. Same coin, two sides. And Joel 2, with the echo of Acts 2, speaks of a last days outpouring. We are more so in the last days than ever before. I believe we’re in the proverbial eleventh hour—our reward will equal those that were in this way before us. It’s late, but Jesus’ first miracle brought us the testament that the best wine is saved for the last. Yes, the darkness is encroaching and that will keep on spreading. Yes, there will be wars and rumors of wars. Yes, we might be in the falling away. Yes, an antichrist will be born, grow up, and gradually rise towards his seat of influence. Yes, a false prophet and many false, false, falsety falses will be here among us. Yes, tribulation is like water warming up and will soon boil over on us. But don’t miss Jesus just because you didn’t expect a good thing to come [from Nazareth]. Don’t miss the king just because he’s riding a donkey. Get in a metaphorical upper room, a waiting, tarrying posture until God is able to reveal Himself in a way you might not have expected. Get in a room, place, state of mind that’s at least similar to  isolation. Go so far away (in spirit) and keep going until the noise, the news, and all the outside views aren’t influencing you anymore. Jesus did this regularly. One time Jesus did it for 40 days straight. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone early in the morning. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone all through the night. Sometimes Jesus was getting away and alone in the Garden. Moses, John, and Jesus were sometimes getting alone, isolated, focused in a desert place, or the wilderness. Disciples of Christ spent 10 days of waiting. These times are the emptyings of ourselves and our own inclinations that actually create a landing strip for God to come in a different voice, different manifestation, different word than what we are used to. God is…different. That’s what holy is. It’s not normal, ordinary, common.

God came here, was born of a virgin, and they laid Him in a manger.

With all my heart I believe God is now wanting to blow our minds all over again. 

Let God be God.

I believe we’re on the precipice of seven years of tribulation.

1 Peter 1:6-7 

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

On the morning of June 21 I saw a vision of a meat grinder. I heard the word “tribulation.” I realized God has the right to sift us or allow the pressure to come upon us. I have the feeling that we’re on the precipice of the seven years of tribulations. Nevertheless, God is good and He can be trusted. We can put all our hope in Him. He yet beckons us to pick up our cross and follow after Him. This is no time to shrink back. 

John 6:51a 

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

On the morning of May 28 I saw a vision. Holy Spirit showed me a short vision; I saw a stick, or pole. I think it was somewhat long and had a hook on one end. Then I saw a face. Well, specifically I saw a profile. I saw inside a mouth. I saw activity happening that reminded me of a Dental Assistant preparing a patient for some sort of dental work or procedure. The end. 

Immediately afterwards, the phrase came to mind “hook in the jaw.” And that’s a direct thought from Ezekiel 38: 4 “I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.

Is the mouth being readied for the hook? Is God about to draw (drag) Gog into the deeper endgame? Yes, I believe that is what God was showing me. 

Friends. Things are happening fast. I believe we’re undoubtedly in the time of the end. Be strong. Keep your focus and faith in Jesus.

As my friend Paul Wolfenbarger just said, “I can hear the SAVIOR saying, ‘I have poured put my SPIRIT on all flesh, but you stiffnecked generation, you say I will come at a more convenient time. I say today is the day of Salvation. Seek me while I may be found.’ Don’t miss what GOD has for you. My spirit is in travail for those lost in sin.”

I had a dream on the night of April Fool’s Day.

I was on a highway. I saw the road ahead being blocked, thus impassable, due to some obstruction. As I neared I realized two objects, that at first I thought were metal rods or poles were tilting downward from overhead. The two objects were coming from opposite directions. Hence, they formed the appearance of an an X across the road. I stopped and went to get closer to work on removing the obstacle. When I got close I realized the objects weren’t metal rods or poles, they were wires. They were electrical wires. Then, in the dream, I was in the air, hoisted by a lift bucket,  doing the work of a lineman. The work took longer than I expected. I toiled through the night. Near morning I remember getting weary. I had a communication device attached to my work helmet, and I recall talking to emergency services—I guess I had put a call in to 911. I think I told them I was probably going to get it fixed but I should have called in for help. And without a minute passing by I heard sirens and emergency vehicles arriving to assist me. I then realized I was nearly unconscious from fatigue. 

—————————

The next morning when praying I heard Holy Spirit whisper to me, “the cables in an X form was a clue that people can easily get fooled, have misunderstandings, get their wires crossed.”

Then, again the next morning this dream came back to my mind. As I sat and pondered it I felt Holy Spirit telling me that…

this was the second prophetic revelation I had been given to warn about X

When I say X, I am referring to the social media platform.

After Holy Spirit reminded me of the previous revelation, I immediately felt a strong nudge to again warn people to flee and abstain from this unholy, ungodly, unhealthy place. I felt God was showing me that there are good people that are physically, mentally, emotionally, and possibly spiritually sick because they go to this place that opens them to demonic influence and demonic attack. I also felt like God was telling me to tell them to repent and ask for help and they would be helped, rescued,  fixed, healed. 

THE FIRST prophetic warning:

In January of 2024 I had a vision and subsequently heard a warning in my spirit. I saw into a dark, wet forest. Inside the forest I saw a door lying in a horizontal position. It was somewhat propped up, maybe leaning against a rock, tree, whatever. The door was functional, meaning it could be opened and closed. As my vision continued to slowly zoom in toward the door I noticed an X in the top left corner. Then I began to hear warnings about X (formerly Twitter). I heard that I was being shown this as a dark door. I heard there were places that children of light should not go, unless commissioned by the Spirit. I heard there was a dark anointing there, a real but dark and demonic anointing there that especially houses discord, dishonor, and curses rather than blessings. Even now my spirit is still hearing a beckon to flee it. In my spirit I heard that some folks are negatively affected by it when they spend time there. Without realizing it, they come away in a foul mood. They don’t realize their very spirit has been poisoned. I hear that some are physically sick because X has become an open door to their soul and spirits— while invisible and undetected—are afflicting them. Arrows of darkness are landing on or in children of light while they’re in the land of X. I heard that some have gone astray, wandered, become prodigals, and the backsliding is rooted in their excess time spent on X. There is a real anointing there, a dark and unholy anointing that allows demons to live and play. I believe God has marked it with an X to generally warn us not to enter, or to get out.

Now please don’t feel belittled, judged, or ridiculed if you are on X. I was on Twitter two different times. Interestingly, something very bad happened to me both times I was active there. So, even though these thoughts were not previously on my mind, I was given this vision by Holy Spirit and I was equipped with a warning from Heaven. Unless you feel commissioned by the Lord, I urge you to flee and/or come out of that den of demons. That ain’t narnia, it’s the opposite.

Proverbs 4:25-27 

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Proverbs 5:8 Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house

Message begins at 1 hour mark.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18cveMP12r/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“Facing the Enemy”

Text: Psalm 25:15 My eyes are continually toward the LORD, For He will rescue my feet from the net (trap).

I am hearing the Lord say…

I. Know me as the God that wants to Help”

This whole message is built on what God has just taught me from the following Scripture.

Psa 25:2 

My God, in You I trust, Do not let me be disgraced; Do not let my enemies rejoice over me.

II. God is emphasizing to me that we have an enemy; we’re going to need help.

• Who are “My enemies?”
• Do you know who your enemies are?”

• Your enemies are spiritual. In the OT, they were physical. But In the NT they are spiritual. 

• Your physical enemies are:

1. opportunities to NOT fight.

2. People you are to forgive.

3. People for you to approach with meekness

4. Opportunities to turn the other cheek

5. Persons to bless and pray for

6. Jesus taught non-violence ( ^{Matthew 5:38} “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ ³⁹ But I tell you not to resist an evil person.

—Meanwhile,

Luke 22:36 says buy a sword. This is for symbolism of the real spiritual battle, as we also learn from Ephesians 6:17 and Hebrews 4:12. Both verses speak of a sword but reveal the sword is spiritual.

• Your Spiritual Enemies Are:

In Eph 6:12  we see five spiritual levels of spiritual enemies. 

A couple important things to consider:

• You have 2 death due dates. #1 is to die in God’s time. #2 is the devil’s trap to take you out and thus, die before your time (God’s time).

• Likewise, many folks will have two spiritual forces assigned to them. 1 is our guardian angel. The other is the opposite of our guardian—it’s our spiritual assassin.

Don’t take it lightly that Jesus called the devil a thief who comes to steal, kill, destroy. Reject teaching that states the devil can’t steal from you, can’t kill you, can’t affect you. Folks, if you’re living in sin, you’re not wearing the armor, you’re operating recklessly concerning spiritual authority, you’re exposed and the enemy can hit and hurt you.

I’m telling you right now, you better learn to pray the raw revelation found in Psalm 25:2. 

Lord, help me. Deliver me from my enemies. 

• David had to learn the lessons of Psalm 25, as well as…

Psalm 18:48

“He rescues me from my enemies; You indeed lift me above those who rise up against me; You rescue me from a violent man.”

👆🏼That gives us three opponents 

1. Enemies: such as Bears. Lions. Jealous Brothers.
2. Enemies (like Goliath) that rise up along our journey.
3. Violent Man (such as Saul)

—Consider the serious revelation Jesus gave to Peter  in Luke 22:31 Satan is wanting to get at you; he wants to sift you.

—Consider Daniel’s encounter in Daniel 10 when he was given revelation of spiritual warfare that he was involved in without previously being aware.

1. Daniel had warfare. But Daniel had purpose.

2.David had warfare, but David had destiny.

3. Peter had warfare. But Peter had a promise.

4. Paul had warfare. But Paul had a future.

III. Get Beyond the warfare, the enemies’ resistance, and get to your future, your promise, your destiny.

God wants you (us) to get beyond the traps and attacks of the enemy so we can experience the 

• destiny, 
• prophecy, 
• will, 
• plans, 
• dreams that he has for…

• us 
• our ministry, 
• our church,
• our city.