Dec 30, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Spiritual News Alert—Rain from Heaven!

If you think 2020 was a terrible year and wondering about 2021?

You need to read this article over and over and send it along to everyone!

I was in the Spirit walking in the early morning, as I usually do, feeding the animals, walking the dogs, and checking the property. It happened almost three weeks ago; all of a sudden God began to speak.

What God had been showing me for years and what I have been writing and talking about is to begin. The ‘new movements’ of the Holy Spirit, God’s judgment, and the predicaments the Church will find itself in—all of this is about to begin!

For a few days now, God keeps giving me more insight and pieces of what will begin to happen in January 2021. As God talks to me I have asked for confirmation and “Are there others in the Body of Christ hearing and seeing the same revelation” as I am seeing? Yes, each day there are more people in the Body of Christ talking about 2021, stating how the Holy Spirit will be moving among us—they are sharing their perspective.

This is what I know and every time I think about what God has said to me or share with others, the Spirit of God comes in like a flood—God’s presence fills the room (even as I am writing to you now).

Starting in January 2021 the rain from heaven will come upon us, Joel 2:23 (KJV): “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.” (RAIN FROM HEAVEN)

God told me not to call the next great movement of the Holy Spirit a “revival” because it will not end in 3 to 4 years but will continue until Christ’s return. It will be like all past revivals, awakenings, and movements of His Spirit rolled into one yet greater!

Staring in January this next ‘rain from heaven’ will come in waves. It will move people to seek a church or ministry to ask God’s people how to pray and how to be saved & forgiven. People will be drawn to ministries without being preached too—there will be an abundance of crying and repentance, more than America has ever seen.

Some churches and pastors will be jealous and reject what the Holy Spirit will be doing. They will speak against this ‘rain from heaven’ and God will judge their ministries and will cause their ministries to fail.

Miracles will be happening everywhere—they will be commonplace & beyond measure. Even this miracle: God will perform the miracle of placing covid-19 anti-bodies in people who did not have the virus. People who can believe God and members within the body of Christ that pray for each other will receive ‘anti-bodies from God’—this miracle will be verified when their blood is tested.

The ‘rain from heaven’ movement will come but so will ‘great judgment’. Cities that now exist will no longer exist. God will no longer ‘look the other way’ regarding the consequences of their sin—sin that has destroyed people’s lives and communities. America will fall into disarray and Christians will be blamed and persecuted.

May I suggest you do a study of past revivals and understand that God is unfolding Joel 2:23 in America. This will happen in such a greater degree and impact, with signs and miracles that have never been seen before, in order to confirm His Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ in His people. It is now time! It begins next month! The waves from heaven are coming!

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Dec 28, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

You Were Created to Love

(I love God but…Final part #five)

When one loves, one creates purpose that is not forgotten—it changes everything!

It is not easy to keep oneself in a state of love all the time. The Bible says, ‘keep yourself in the love of God by praying always in the Spirit’ (But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, Jude 1:20-21, biblehub.com). The more one prays in the Spirit, the more you will find yourself surrounded by the love of God.

I like what Billy Graham said about his ministry, “I should have talked less and prayed more.” Jesus always went off by himself usually up on a hillside to pray and would pray all night. If only we would have such determination to pray to the Father and in return, the Father giving us more of His love.

Want to have more love and less anger and hatred and selfishness, let’s begin with prayer and humility—more of God and less of me. So, what does God want us to produce? Technically, you cannot produce anything, it is only the Holy Spirit that produces what God wants from us—we are the vessel, and He is the Wine (Holy Spirit) in our lives. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” Galatians 5:22-23.

The very first miracle Jesus did was to turn the water (your salvation and the Words of God) into wine (the Holy Spirit living in our lives). Jesus does not want Christians who are only saved but Christians that are not only saved being baptized with water (a manifestation of God’s gift of salvation) but also baptized with the Holy Spirit (having the manifestation of the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit).

You cannot keep God’s love in your life without the help of the Holy Spirit—not at the level or strength or manifestation of love that God requires of His people. It is exactly what Jesus said was the greatest and most important commandment, “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Mathew 22:37-39).

It is the Holy Spirit that creates a new heart, clean soul, and a renewed mind. God our Father knew we would need both Jesus and the Holy Spirit living in us in order to live in the love of God. Let us do what God created us for—to be a light of the love of God and manifest the love of God in all we do.

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Dec 26, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Unloved by God

(I love God but…Part four)

Have you ever felt not loved by God? That you were failing in expressing your love for Jesus because you did not feel loved by Him? Oh, to be loved by God and to love Him back, what a wonderful experience that could be, but you are not there.

Have you ever entertained these thoughts? It is not easy staying in love with God with the passion and determination you felt a long time ago. God just seems too distant to love Him 24/7. To love people, seem a lot easier than loving God with the same amount of enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, and desire. Dogs, babies, children, and my wife give me a much better return on my love for them than God does. God is not listening anyway, and he does not talk to me like people do. I just do not love Him like I am supposed to, and He makes it too difficult to love Him—so many rules to keep.

Nevertheless, the only question that needs to be answered is, “How much do you love Jesus?” Are you failing in your effort to love God like you love people or how you use to love Jesus? Do you no longer feel the energy to love God, and you do not ‘take the time’ to tell Him “You love Him”? Do you ask yourself, “Where are you, God?” Did you know that Jesus had the same feelings as you do?

When Christ was on the cross He said, “My God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus felt alone, unloved by God, and rejected from God’s presence. Yes, He was doing God’s will, but God left Him—God could not look upon sin and Jesus was carrying the sin of the whole world—the sin that God His Father placed upon His Son, Jesus. What a predicament!

God could have done things differently (we know this by the prayers Jesus prayed), but was this a test? Would Jesus still love God through all that He suffered? Would Jesus love His Father no matter what? The answer to all three questions is YES!

You and I will fail; our love for God will fail. God warned us about our love growing cold; we would forget to do those things that express our love for God. It is many things, whatever they may be, that separates us from our love for the Father. What is my answer to this dilemma? It lies in front of us all, Book of Revelation chapters 2-4:

1. Realize that you do not love God as you use to, and then do your past ‘acts of love’ that expressed your feelings for God. Do them even though you do not have those old feelings.

2. Do not fear Satan! The Bible says, “Perfect love casts out all fear (1 John 4:18)”, so when fear comes into your life allow the love of/love for God to remove that fear. This love Christ found, used, and depended on through His crucifixion and while in hell.

3. Get rid of any doctrine that is evil and comes from Satan. Usually, it is doctrines/philosophies/laws that say the opposite of Biblical truths of love. The Bible is always correct and truthful, do not let what the world dictates its’ interpretation of love replacing what Jesus says is love.

4. Do not accept the world’s standards that states ‘love & sex’ are the same thing. Sex is only good when sex is under the guidelines of Scripture, wholesomeness, and holiness. Pure love does not violate God’s guidelines about sex.

5. We must continue to wash our hearts, minds, soul, and actions in the blood of the Lamb. Without repentance, forgiveness, cleansing ourselves from sin and worldly ways, we cannot love God with our feelings nor do the works of love.

6. We must express and act with the patience of Jesus. We are to wait on God and continue to love even if we feel that we are barely holding on. This is the true test of love and this test will come to us all.

7. Last, of all, we must never give up by admitting that we are not perfect and do not always exercise the ‘tools of the Spirit’ to love God faithfully. We know God loves us if He chastises us and tells us where we are going wrong or have sin in our lives. Repent, repent again, and then repent some more. It is in all the repentance, crying, feeling sorry, and asking for forgiveness that we will find the love we so dearly need—a love that loves God through it all!

I love people through all their flaws, mistakes, and offenses. God wants you to love Him with the same amount of passion. God’s love is a love that does not give up. “Lord Jesus, give us the same love that you had for your Father so I can love God too!”—this is my prayer.

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Dec 21, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Being Wronged

(I love God but…Part three)

Everyone has been wronged in their lifetime one way or another. I am sure you have been injured emotionally, physically, socially, or mentally as a child, teenager, young adult, middle-aged, or even as a senior citizen. There is no escaping someone’s sin and the damage their sin can do to your life can be unrepairable without Jesus. Sin hurts! In fact, it is devastating in so many ways.

In the last article, I wrote about finding forgiveness from all effects and aspects of your sin. The harm sin makes must take the grace of God to a new level in all our lives. We must discover the forgiveness of God when it comes to finding redemption from the consequences of not only the sin we do but the sin of others and the effect of their sin on our lives.

God wants to bring all of us to forgive others for their sin, but He also wants their sin to no longer having a hold or hindering us in serving Jesus Christ. We must have this kind of forgiveness—to forgive others and to receive forgiveness that washes away the harm of their sin in our lives. All of us have been wronged, all of us have forgiven others, and now we must seek Jesus to take away the consequences of their sin in our lives. We must be whole and full of righteousness; it only comes through forgiveness and the grace of God. This is the healing aspect of forgiveness. This is what Jesus ultimately wanted from His forgiveness being activated in our lives—to have forgiveness that brings healing and wholeness; never allowing the curse of sin (ours or others) to bind our lives.

However, there is ‘another wrong’ that comes from God and many of us have discovered how God ‘wrongs us’ in order for us to find forgiveness, righteousness, freedom, and His perfect will in our lives. Here are some biblical examples of God doing the impossible through creating harm/wrongness on whom He loves. (God’s wisdom is above our wisdom and His ways are unable to be discovered/understood.)

Jesus: The Bible says that it ‘pleased God to bruise (wrong) His Son.” God not only laid on Christ the sin of the whole world, but God turned away from His Son during His crucifixion on the cross. God also left His Son in hell for three days. All of this had purpose and the purpose was for our salvation, but it came with a cost, and part of the cost was for God to wrong His Son. Oh, the wisdom of God, wisdom we can hardly understand. Jesus understood the cost to die on a cross, but he prayed, “Not my will but your will (the Father’s will) be done.”

Paul: God met Paul on the Damascus Road. God spoke to him and blinded Paul. God left Paul in a state of blindness for a few days. Why you ask? Paul had to realize/learn he was wronged by God because he was blind spiritually not only physically. God wronged Paul so he might humble himself, pray, fear the Lord, and repent of his spiritual blindness. (Note: The Bible says Jesus humbled Himself before the crucifixion experience and because Jesus did this, God, therefore, heard His prayers so that God’s will could be done—the fear of God in action).

Job: Job was a perfect man in keeping the laws of God, but there was a lesson that Job had to learn. A lesson none of us would like to learn. God wronged Job and the Bible says, “God repented of the evil that He allowed to come upon Job.” What was the wrong? God took everything Job held dear to himself. God allowed Satan tempt Job by having people steal all Job’s processions, kill Job’s sons and daughters, cause Job to become very sick so he wanted to die, and even allowed Job’s friends to reject him, offer him bad advice, and to curse Job by those who once loved him. (Sound familiar, this is what also happened to Jesus except Jesus did not have a family & wanting to die.)

As is prophesied by Joel 3:14, “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.” God is calling all of His people as well as the whole world to be in the valley of decision. The Book of Revelation clearly states the harm the angels of God are to do to all mankind—we are being called to decide.

We can either humble ourselves as Jesus, Paul, and Job or suffer the consequences of the sin we have in our lives. Jesus overcame all the sin of mankind and offer forgiveness to all of us because humbled Himself, chose God’s will for His life, and feared God above anything He wanted. Will you be like Jesus? Will you accept God’s will for your life no matter how difficult? God will not leave you nor me where He finds us! God will redeem us and take us out of the valley of death, Psalm 23:4.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil,

for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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Dec 18, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Do Not Become Discouraged!

(I love God but…Part two)

It happens often, becoming discouraged while serving Jesus Christ. Jesus knew we would/could become discouraged; therefore, the Grace of God made contingency plans to take care of this.

You know the story about Jesus stating that He has prayed for Peter because ‘Satan wants to confuse, discourage, and hider Peter’s relationship with God,’ (Luke 22:32) “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.” Jesus knew what would happen to Peter if he gave up and so it is today with you and me. God does not want us to be discouraged over our mistakes or the conviction and trouble Satan has brought our way.

Satan never wants you and me to find forgiveness nor have confidence that all our sins and our sinful nature can be done away with by the love and grace of God. So, let be bold in thinking, ‘Just because you fail God, do not stay there in that state of failure as Peter was soon to find himself. God loves us through Jesus and because and in God’s love we find forgiveness and strength to keep going and rejoicing in Christ even after we have failed/sinned.’

Let’s find forgiveness from our sin through humbling ourselves and confessing our sin to God asking for mercy. Let’s find forgiveness of our iniquities by allowing the Holy Spirit to convict us of the impact our sinful nature and wrongful actions on others (He wants us to make things right through Jesus). Let’s find forgiveness in allowing the washing of water and the blood of Christ in our lives by requesting that the mercies of God create a new heart and a new mind and right spirit in all of us.

Do not become despondent or see yourself as a failure—this is why Jesus died for us and has made a way for us to find forgiveness from all our sins, all our iniquities, and all our sinful nature—unclean heart, mind, spirit, & words. We must confess to God all our mistakes and what our mistakes have created in us and toward others.

Nevertheless, there are two things all of us must do to secure forgiveness from God: one, we must forgive the sins of others (and the impact of their sins on our lives). Jesus said, ‘we must forgive well to be forgiven also by God’. And two, we must bless our enemies by asking God to forgive them and for God to give them good gifts from heaven.

Jesus did both these things during His trial and crucifixion. We must also forgive and forget so God will forgive and forget all our mistakes/sins. How well we forgive and how well we bless others will be the measuring stick on how clean our ‘robe of righteousness’ is when we get to heaven. It is time to ‘wash our robes in the blood of Christ’ and show forth the praise of Jesus in this world.

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Dec 15, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Is Sinning Your Destiny?

(Part one)

I have been writing about forgiveness and the need for repentance for quite a while. Forgiveness from your sin is one thing and forgiveness from your iniquity is another and last of all there is forgiveness that removes your heart and spirit from ‘wanting & desiring’ to commit sin.

Sin has pleasure, and it is the pleasure of sin that drives one to ‘keep sinning’ even after forgiveness from sin has taken place in your life. We see this taking place much too often in our culture and church body today. This is why Jesus talked about a new heart and mind. It is the Holy Spirit that creates a new heart, mind, spirit, and personal strength, which is a requirement for all Christians who will be called by the name of Jesus. (King David wrote often in Psalms asking God to create ‘a clean heart and a right spirit’ within him.

To find forgiveness is easy (which is often not easy and requires time, prayer, and crying) as compared to the forgiveness from iniquities (the consequences and destructive power of your sin on others), which often takes considerable time. These two processes seem to go on for days and weeks (note: the Apostle Paul spent two years before his ministry began acquiring forgiveness for his sins and iniquities).

When total forgiveness takes over in one’s life creating a new heart, our heart no longer looks for sin to enjoy and commit. This process of ‘total forgiveness’ doesn’t just require a ‘one-time bath or a single washing of water’ but probably a series of continual washings of spiritual water. A good example of this is the ‘seven times’ dipping oneself into the river Jordan as did Naaman. “So Naaman went down to the Jordan, dipped himself in it seven times, as Elisha had instructed, and he was completely cured. His flesh became firm and healthy like that of a child (2 Kings 5:14). (Note: as healings sometimes take time and effort on our part so does victory over sinful nature in our lives.)

John the Baptist baptized with water, but it is Jesus that baptizes us with the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that continually washes us with spiritual water and ‘creates & makes’ all things new in our lives. As stated in Joel chapter 3:18, “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water the valley of acacias.” As is stated in Revelations about a river flowing from the throne of God. The ‘washing of water’ by the Spirit of God is what prepares us to receive the righteousness and judgment of God. As the baptism of John in the River Jordon prepared the way for Christ and the Kingdom of God so does the working of repentance and forgiveness today gets us ready to do the righteousness of Godly works—"the Kingdom of God is righteousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17).

It is time for all Christians to ask for, seek, and take a stance against sinful nature in our lives that is driving us back to the sin we once enjoyed and experienced often. God wants all our sinful nature (our desires to keep sinning) to be removed from our lives. Let’s get rid of everything in our lives that drives us back to sins that “so easily overcome us” as Paul states in the Epistles.

Your judgmental attitude, desire to be noticed, sexual lusts, lying, stealing, being easily angered, the hatred of people stopping you from your desires, comparing oneself to others, talking more than listening & coming to quick overbearing decisions, and the list goes on and on. What is the sin in your life that you are always asking and having God forgive you of? It is time for our hearts to change! It is only the Holy Spirit that can change our hearts, forgive us of our sins, and make things right that we made so wrong.

Jesus gave us a list of commandments in the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ and the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ affirms that it is impossible to be forever with God without keeping these commandments. This is only possible when our sinful nature is taken away and our desire for sinning is removed from our life. (This does not mean that we won’t make mistakes now and then or even each day [just as the Apostle Paul stated what was taking place in his life], but the desire and looking to commit sin is now gone.)

So, let’s get started—a journey of complete wholeness, complete forgiveness, and a complete and total new nature—a new person in Christ! No more sin, no more iniquities, and no more corrupt human nature that desires to commit sin.

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Dec 13, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

I Love God but…

I am starting a new series called, “I love God, but I am not so good at this thing called love.”

All of us need help with loving God better and renewing our passion for loving Jesus. I hope this series of articles will help you. The series begins this week…enjoy!

This series is my 2020 Christmas present to all who read my blog, WWJWMTD.

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Dec 10, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

15 Days to Christmas!

With only 15 days until Christmas, an article with a little ‘Christmas Spirit’ was in order. 2020 is indeed a year not to be forgotten so easily. A lot of heartaches and so much confusion happened this year. In order to offer hope and strength to fight against all that is wrong and evil about this year, I have offered some words of encouragement, wisdom, and truth, as well as some Christmas gift ideas for that T-shirt or hat.

Words of truth:

Who is the greatest man in history?

His name is JESUS

He was born in a barn, yet Kings and angels came to worship Him. He had no servants, yet people called him Master. He had no education degree, yet all who listened to Him called Him Teacher. He had no medicines to offer the sick, yet all who were sick called Him their Healer. He had no army to command, yet kings feared Him. This Jesus did not fight in any military battles, yet He conquered the world (and does so today). At the end of His life, He committed no crime, yet was judged as a criminal. The leaders of His day crucified Him in order to kill Him and quietly allowed Him to be buried in a tomb to be forgotten. Yet, He is still remembered today.

THIS SAME JESUS LIVES! HE REIGNS! HE HEALS AND SPEAKS! HE IS HONORED AND PRAISED! HIS NAME IS STILL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, PRINCE OF PEACE…”For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

Words of encouragement:

I look each day for my miracle from Jesus!

Try serving Jesus instead of doing something for Him.

Jesus is my healer…today, tomorrow, and forever!

Words of wisdom:

I am not afraid of Covid-19, it is the CDC that I am worried about.

Jesus Matters More (JMM) or BLM the new KKK

When all seems lost, I look to Jesus because He is always looking for that one lost sheep, me!

Have a Happy Pre-Christmas!

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