Hello, John and Doves,
From a wise and well-respected
Tribal
Elder:
[This was a word from the
LORD to me. I pass it on to the Five Doves, as
it may apply.]
Christmas
is not all about money
All your
problems have been due to worrying, daydreaming, and
fantasizing about money.
Had you put
the LORD first, you would have sailed through life’s
challenges with colors flying full mast.
Instead,
you forgot that Jesus is the reason for the season.
Repent,
therefore, and turn your life around. You won’t
be rich by any means, but you will prosper. You will
have the LORD’s peace, and you will begin to radiate
His love toward others.
Never
forget this. Live
it out. No
excuses this time around.
You can
never lose by investing in God. Meanwhile,
cherish what you have. This is the way to praise God.
________________________
From a Holy
Spirit-filled
Tribal
Woman:
Her focus
is evangelism outreach to the homeless.
"Today" is not the end
of the world.
The Word of
God says:
12Be
careful then, dear brothers and sisters.
Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and
unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. 13You
must warn each other every day, while
it is still “today,”
so that none of you will be deceived by sin and
hardened against God. 14For
if we are faithful to the end,
trusting God just as firmly as when we first
believed, we will share in all that belongs to
Christ. 15Remember
what it says:
“Today
when you hear his voice,
don’t
harden your hearts
as
Israel did when they rebelled.”
16And
who was it who rebelled against God, even though
they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led
out of Egypt? 17And
who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the
people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the
wilderness? 18And
to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that
they would never enter his rest? Wasn’t it
the people who disobeyed him? 19So
we see that because of their unbelief they were not
able to enter his rest.
Hebrews
3:13-19 NLT
How is it
possible to show an unbelieving heart, while still
claiming to be a Christian?
If we
preach guesses about dates and we are wrong, then we
stand in error and not in truth.
Witness
this verse:
1Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
spirits to see whether they are from God, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This
is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every
spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come
in the flesh is from God, 3but
every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not
from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,
which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world.
4You,
dear children, are from God and have overcome them,
because the one who is in you is greater than the
one who is in the world. 5They
are from the world and therefore speak from the
viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to
them. 6We
are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us;
but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.
This is how we recognize the Spirit
of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
1 John 4:1-6 NIV
The world
speaks of end times and end dates, but they fail to
confess that Jesus has come in the
flesh.
When we
play with prognostication, we fail to confess Christ
crucified. We
are in error.
The cure is
to: Confess,
Repent, ask Forgiveness, and Live by Faith. Anything
short of that is simply missing the mark [in a word,
“sin”].
No one
knows the day and the hour; only the Father knows.
When was
the last time you shared with your neighbor about
Jesus as the Lamb of God?
Seriously,
those who have bought into the idea of guessing
dates are like those who buy into an office pool for
the Super Bowl.
It is
written:
Don't
let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and
high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking
and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather
than from Christ.
Colossians 2:8 NLT
It is best
to stick with what the Word plainly says.
Again, it
is written,
The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is
sure, making wise the simple.
Psalm
19:7 KJV
What does
the LORD explicitly say about date-setting?
Have you
not read:
6So
when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking
him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel
and restore our kingdom?”
7He
replied, “The Father alone has the
authority to set those dates and times, and they are
not for you to know. 8But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes upon you. And you will be
my witnesses, telling people about me
everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
9After
saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they
were watching, and they could no longer see him. 10As
they strained to see him rising into heaven, two
white-robed men suddenly stood among them. 11“Men
of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here
staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from you
into heaven, but someday he will return from heaven in
the same way you saw him go!”
Acts
1:7-11 NLT
Friends, He
was addressing the as yet unborn Church.
Therefore,
love the LORD your God, family, friends, and church.
Amen.
Baruch Haba BShem
Adonai.
~Blessings,
Mike C.