The leading newspaper in the nation has not mentioned Christmas in 10 years. Christmas is attacked by both God haters and religionists. It has fallen into great disfavor—accused of everything from paganism to materialism. It is socially unacceptable to celebrate Christmas. It is 1843 England. Also known as the hungry 40’s.
A young and gifted writer is deeply restless and can’t sleep. He asks an assistant to meet him in the middle of the night, “take me to see the worst of London. Do not spare me anything.”
What he saw horrified him and left a mark in his soul that would haunt his novels for the rest of his life. Children, living like stray dogs scavenged through garbage in sub-zero temperatures.
Charles Dickens had to do something. So, he mustered his considerable weapon: he marshalled the English language and sent it into war against child abuse. Vast corruption must be exposed! This nation-destroying curse must be lifted!  He set ink to paper with the force of a volcanic eruption and the skillful cuts of a surgeon. The result was a pamphlet entitled An Appeal on Behalf of the Poor Man’s Child. Then something happened: He never released the pamphlet. Historians are divided about why. Usually, it does not fall upon facts but on anti-Christian bias. Here is my heart tells me happened: He heard the voice of God. “If you release this pamphlet it will bring good for a season, but if you write the story, I am about to give you, it will bring good for all time.”
It would be a story where the main character is the most uncompelling, and unsympathetic character to any audience: an old man—a wealthy miser! Even his name is off-putting: Ebeneezer Scrooge. With only weeks left before Christmas how could he finish it and get it published? Astonishingly it was published on December 19, 1843. Not only that, it was made into a script and opened in 2 theaters that Christmas day. 

This story is not only credited with saving Christmas, it has been synonymous with Christmas ever since. Outside the Bible, no written word about Christmas has been more influential and widespread in its power to evoke love for children and the poor. 

Christmas has inspired the best music. Musical artist regardless of their fame are compelled to release a Christmas album. It has a power that no one can explain or predict. Opposing armies have stopped combat, met on neutral ground in the middle of a war to celebrate Christmas.
Here is Nephew Fred from A Christmas Carol: “I have always thought of Christmastime… as a good time: a kind forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” 

The supernatural power of Christmas is also seen in the creation of Silent Night. It was written because the organ broke and a song for a guitar was necessary. Christmas again showed its power with Handel’s Messiah. Handel wrote it in 24 days. When he finished the Hallelujah Chorus, he said it was as if the roof came off his room and he saw the great God Himself.

Christmas is a weapon! It brings proof of the Deity of Christ by its inexplicable effect on the world. Even when it offends it is doing God’s work. Even Scrooge screamed, “then let me leave it alone!” But Christmas won’t let us leave it alone. But the message about Scrooge transcends even Christmas. It is about God’s power to create a weapon to combat evil through anointed artforms. 

It is because of Scrooge, that I find much of some today’s Christian music formulaic, unimaginative, predictable, and even snowflake like. Bono from U-2 called some of those songs “dishonest.” How dare I make such a criticism? Because we didn’t use to scare so easily. We wrote songs of sacrifice and commitment; towering themes filled majestic hymns.
Somewhere in the mid to late 20th Century the church developed an insecurity complex and began to “do things almost as good as the world does.” Not just in music, but in all art forms. We even have green rooms which is a nod to Hollywood.

A great exception is Black Gospel Music. It was so original the world had to copy it for Motown and R and B. Black Gospel was so powerful the world kept trying to steal talent out of the church. Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and many others began in church.
The spark of divine creativity does not rest on those who surmise what might sell or what won’t offend. It comes on those who would sacrifice all to obey God. 

However, there is another reason creativity is in short supply: We don’t recognize the multiple opportunities of service outside the pulpit. Not everyone is a preacher—nor should they be! The gifts of God fit in business, art, media, healthcare, education and yes, politics.
Because God came upon a famous novelist like Charles Dickens, the devil was blindsided. What if you are supposed to create something no one has seen before? 

Finally, the idea that we need to tone anything down to win souls is hogwash. Johnny Cash comes to mind. It is truly amazing the influence he carried. Bob Dylan, Elvis, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones revered him. Yet, he never muted his faith or his witness. God gave him a sound the world couldn’t resist.  

A heart filled with love for God and hatred for evil, who is willing to be completely open to do something new is our greatest need today. God is searching to drop original miracles on someone like you. 

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WHEN THIS IS OVER
Posted on November 30, 2020 by mariomurilloministries

You are getting conflicting messages. People tell you Trump lost and the Christian thing to do is to graciously accept Biden. Others say you should never do that.
Some Pastors are flipflopping about Trump. Some prophets who prophesied Trump’s victory are now repenting and saying that they were wrong. Still others who prophesied Trump’s victory, then recanted and now are recanting their recant.
No wonder a fog has fallen on the minds of millions of Christians who have no idea what to believe and do about this election. And though the situation seems complicated, knowing what to believe and do is quite simple
Just ask yourself, “What will be my greatest regret when this is over? What will haunt me most in the future about my actions today?” That is when it will be blazingly clear to you.

The answer to what you will regret the most is found in the story of the three boys and the fiery furnace.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up” (Daniel 3: 16-18).
Imagine the pressure on these three young men. A nation stood against them. The most powerful person in the world was enraged and more than willing to burn them alive. Wouldn’t it be best to pretend to worship, in order to avoid such a gruesome death?
No, that would be the worst choice they could make, because after it was all over, only one thing would matter: They did not make room for a miracle and they had denied their God by worshipping an idol.
There is a lot of confusion right now, but one thing is undeniable: Joe Biden is the idol they want us to worship. Was there voter fraud? No matter how loud the fake news media screams otherwise, the truth is, yes there was, and on a massive scale.

Listen to Kayleigh McEnany, “There is only one party in America trying to keep observers out of the count room, and that party, my friends, is the Democrat Party,” she said, adding, “You don’t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count…you take these positions because you are welcoming fraud, and you are welcoming illegal voting.” This is such a potent argument that Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto, was forced to cut her off in order to protect the lie.
I am sure that the devil has told you all about the ridicule and rejection you will endure for standing with Trump. But will any of that matter when this is over? The only thing that will matter is your regret that you disqualified yourself from a miracle and bowed before an idol.
In 2000, it took 36 days, but the truth finally came out. I believe it will come out again, in 2020. We must with patience, possess our souls.

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The Free Market thrives on freedom. The more it has the better it does. People thrive in freedom. The more freedom people have, the better they do, and the happier and more productive they become, a fact to which history is an overwhelming witness. Mankind was created to be free, and as we are told in II Corinthians 3:17, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

Marxism is the antithesis of freedom, and the source of the greatest oppression and slavery mankind has ever experienced. Under Marxism, the state is god and dictates everything everyone does. You go to school where the state tells you, study what they tell you to study, work at the job they tell you to, live where you are allowed to live, and can only have relationships you are allowed to have. It actually gets even worse than this, as the state tells you where you are allowed to go, what you are allowed to say, and even what you are allowed to think. Any deviation from what is allowed brings swift punishment, and even torture and execution.

This is the history of Marxism—it turns every nation it takes over into a virtual prison where there is hardly anything the people can do without getting permission from an authority. This is why the Soviet Union had to put up “The Iron Curtain,” which was actually a prison wall to keep the people from escaping to freedom. The desire to get out was so great that multitudes gave their lives trying to escape.

Even a cursory study of Marxist states shows how Marxism is the opposite of the utopia their propaganda claims they will be. Marxism is the worst totalitarian tyranny the world has ever known. So how does each new generation get drawn to it? It proves that “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it,” and so the naïve and idealistic continue to believe the lies of Marxist propaganda.

In the late 19th century, before Marxism had actually taken over a country to run a government, it was the rave in intellectual circles. Even some of the most successful capitalists such as Carnegie and Nelson Rockefeller gave huge sums to support and teach Marxism. When the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917 and the true nature of Marxism was exposed, the world was horrified, and it quickly became very unpopular. As it seemed destined to crumble and disappear, it was shored up by two unexpected allies—Freud and Darwin.

Marxism is basically about destroying the foundations of society in order to remake mankind into what Marx and his followers think it should be. Sigmund Freud likewise sought to do the same in his own way. He taught that mental problems from depression to the most extreme insanity were the result of the oppression and subsequent sense of guilt that was the result of an archaic paternal society, as well as religion with its cruel and unnatural morality.

Darwin, whose theory of evolution was gaining popularity at the time, taught that men were just evolved beasts and fundamentally attacked the belief that we were created by a Creator, God. So, Darwinists believed that just as man had evolved from other primitive beliefs, we would continue to evolve from belief in God until we acknowledge that we are our own god.

In Ecclesiastes 4:12 we are told, “If one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.” The philosophies of Marx, Freud, and Darwin were like the devil’s three cord strand to bind mankind with what would be very hard to break. To do this, all three of them attacked the three most basic pillars of true freedom and stability in society: the belief in God, Judeo-Christian based morality, and devotion to family. Around these the final battle lines of freedom vs. slavery and light vs. darkness have pivoted ever since.

History reveals with absolute certainty that the economic and political liberation promised by Marx, and the liberation of the soul and mind promised by Freud, actually resulted in the opposite of what they promised. So, how do these get away with continuing to promote their madness with such a dismal track record? A force of revisionist historians was sent into the media and education systems of the west with what proved to be a brilliant and successful strategy. They gradually made the good in our history appear evil, and the evil appear good. They even revised the actual events of history to fit their political and social agendas, and very few protested or challenged them.

Darwin created an easy road for Freudian psychology, and Freudian psychology created an easy road for Marxism. Marx stated that his main purpose was to “dethrone God” to destroy the free market, and then freedom itself. Marx’s concept of freedom was a freedom from religion and morality, and for everyone to conform to his concept of what people should be like. To accomplish this, Marx sought to focus all human allegiance on the state as their god in place of God. Right and wrong would be what the state said they were.

Marx also taught that the destruction of the nuclear family was essential for the ultimate evolution of humanity. In Marx’s “utopia” nothing could rival the state as having the supreme allegiance of the people, and next to God the nuclear family was the biggest threat to this. So, a strategy was devised for separating children from their parents at a young age as wards of the state first and then as property of the state.

Some of the teachings of Freud made authority figures and even parents as suspects of abuse. This premise was used to justify the break-up of the family. To fortify this, Marxist authorities began giving awards and rewards to children who turned in their parents for even suspected thoughts or actions that were contrary to government policy or dogma. The children who turned in their parents, or other family members, were made heroes, while their parents were severely punished. This system made it almost impossible for anyone to trust anyone else, even the members of their own families, further tightening the control of the state over the hearts and minds of the people.

Fear and intimidation are the two most powerful tools used by Marxists to destroy nations, cultures, and people groups. But there is a weapon far more powerful than fear—and that is the truth that can set people free. As the truth of the true nature of Marxism becomes known, the terrible darkness that it is will retreat again, but it will slip in again if we do not recover the truth of history and teach it again with integrity to our children as Scripture commands.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties. ~President Woodrow Wilson

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them in habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. ~ President John Adams

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This is such a different time that we find ourselves living in today; a time we have never seen before. Our old MO will not fit this new narrative, which is a mixture of real, of fictional, and of false. Real as in true reality; fictional as in what someone believes is true, but not provable; and false as in knowing it is a lie. I will refer to this new narrative as RFL.

Within this new RFL narrative, many people in our world are trying to redefine truth. To accomplish this, they must create a new narrative, or recipe, in which to mix their witch’s brew. It will start with a big measure of fiction, which is a type of faith in the imagination. This faith is not a divine faith, but rather a misdirected apprehension of fear which is interpreted by the individual as faith. Sometimes this type of faith is misunderstood as a prophetic seeing. Not just any type of seeing is prophetic; however, seeing what God is doing and going to do behind the scenes on behalf of what you are seeing is.

The new RFL narrative must also have an atmosphere in which it can thrive. I call this atmosphere “a time I have never seen before”. This is a spiritual atmosphere that has no bias of assumption or expectation. It is just very conducive to a high level of spiritual activity, both good and bad.

Again, this atmosphere has no agenda; it is just an atmosphere in which spiritual activity can thrive. Therefore, we see that today, not only can the evil of this world thrive, but the Kingdom of God can also thrive in a greater way. This is the day that the followers of Christ will do the greater works.

John 14:12
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

When you discover you are living in “a time you have never seen before”, you will know that this scripture is highly active today.

Mark 2:11-13
12 The man jumped up, took the stretcher, and pushed his way through the stunned onlookers! Then how they praised God. “We’ve never seen anything like this before!” they all exclaimed.

Unlocking the Prophetic: Lesson 30 - Is Hell Real?

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Eph. 3:16-19: I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

What a day we are living in! It seems that everything is draining us on all sides, shouting: give me, give me, give me. The struggles in our society are accusations of how we all fall short of someone's expectations, which drain the very life out of everyone. How can we reenergize and revive ourselves?

In looking to Jesus, isn’t it amazing how He can continue to be so rich when He is always giving away all that He has? Could it be that this “power” He is giving away is part of the inheritance of the saints: a power that comes out of “His glorious riches”?

I always wondered where the “power from heaven” would land in me. From this verse, I can see that it is in my “inner being”. When I grow weak in my inner being, I need to be strengthened from above with strength that Paul calls “power”. It appears to me that my inner being must have some type of spiritual battery in it. Sometimes it is strong, and at other times, it runs down and becomes very weak.

Let me use my cows to give an analogy of this spiritual truth. I am a dairy farmer and the cows on my farm have a necklace around their necks. This necklace has a transponder attached to it. A transponder is a little plastic box that contains a microchip inside of it. This microchip contains the number of the cow on which it hangs, so that the computer can identify her as she enters the milking barn. High-tech cows, don't you think?

This transponder contains a battery; a battery that is not accessible because it is covered in plastic for protection. The developers of this transponder needed a way to charge the battery without taking it out, so here is what they developed.

When the cow enters the barn, the transponder sends a signal, which is a small, electrical signal, to the reader antenna. When the antenna receives the signal, it then sends back a greater electrical signal to the transponder to acknowledge that the transponder signal has been received. The weaker receives a greater in return. The greater signal is from the antenna; therefore, the battery in the transponder is always charged. The only way the battery in the transponder grows weak is when it neglects to be in contact with the antenna on a daily basis. The developers knew the transponder and the reader antenna had to be in relationship with each other, with signals transferring from one to the other.

In this same way, Christians are to keep their spiritual batteries charged. When I pray and send a spiritual signal to God; God, in return, sends a spiritual signal back to me which is greater than the one I sent to Him. High-tech Christians, don’t you think? The greater, God, is sending to the weaker, us, the divine strength that we need for this new day. If we neglect contact with this greater source, our batteries will grow weak. The weaker our batteries become, the more hopeless we feel, only to grow weaker each day.

So what can we do? How can we have strong spiritual batteries? Just stay in touch with the Source. The only One who can charge your spiritual battery is the One who created it: our Lord. We must not neglect our daily relationship with God, so He can send us the spiritual power to charge our spiritual batteries. He has also provided us with a quick charge, one that He knew would be needed from time to time. I believe when believers gather together, a quick charge can take place, and we see this in the verse for today.
Eph 3:17-18 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints.
What an incredible power surge this is!

The freedom released by the birth of the American Republic resulted in such a burst of initiative, advancing technology, and wealth creation that other nations were compelled to allow their citizens increasing economic freedom. This resulted in other freedoms, and soon other republics were formed, which resulted in a new age of liberty and unprecedented progress.

For all of the spectacular benefits of the emerging free market, this was unexplored territory. Pioneers have rarely found the best course through new territory without making mistakes, and it was the same for the free market economies. However, it was worth it many times over as the economic and social benefits, as well as health and quality of life advanced more in the first two hundred years of the modern free market than in the previous six thousand years of recorded human history.

As is the case with almost every kind of economic or social advance, the ones with the faith to take initiative and jump in early benefit the most. Those who miss opportunities usually go through a cycle of remorse, and then jealousy and bitterness. Jealousy is one of the deadliest forces in world history. We are even told that Jesus was crucified because of envy (see Matthew 27:18). Jealousy is an enemy of progress that we must understand.

Marxism arose just as the free markets were beginning to hit their stride, and it did so by feeding envy and resentment. Marxist writings are not filled with vision and hope, but with rage toward the prosperous. As the saying goes, “Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a skillful carpenter to build one.” Marxism is filled with strategies of how to tear down governments and economies, but little on how to build something better to replace them with.

Wise and successful people do not follow those who destroy, but rather those who build. How could anyone follow Marxism that has only led to devastation, as opposed to the free markets that have led to more building and development than anything else in history? The answer is that those led by jealousy, resentment, and bitterness can be so blinded that they repel reason. If you want to test this, just try to reason with those rioting in our streets today.

For those who may be drawn to hope and vision, Marxists promote an imaginary but undefined utopia they will one day build. After taking over many countries they still cannot point to a single one that was improved, much less that became the promised utopia. Wisdom compels one to do their due diligence and research regardless of how good the deal sounds. This requires checking the track records of what is being promoted. Perhaps this is why Marxist leaders say they don’t want followers who understand what they’re doing—they just want followers who will be compliant. Any thinking person would take pause at this, but sadly not many still know how to think after being educated in our present corrupted school systems.

Jealousy and bitterness blind people to reality. For this reason Marxism was born out of a strategy to find wounded, bitter, and disgruntled people, especially those left behind economically, and turn them into a force for rebellion against the successful. When one is looking through the eyes of pride, jealousy, or rejection, they will be quick to embrace the doctrine that tells them this failure is the result of exploitation and injustice. That’s basic Marxism.

Marxism coined the term “social justice” and proposes that everyone should share everything equally. The tactics used to attain this are not devoted to lifting the downtrodden up, but to bringing everyone else down. That is not social justice, but social tyranny. The only real equality Marxism has ever brought is in poverty, depravity, and slavery to the Marxist elite.

This is not to imply that some have not been unjustly treated or exploited in the development of the free markets. Some of these have been grievous such as child labor abuses and the wrongful plundering of natural resources from those who could not defend against it. Even so, such behavior has started to bring a reaction from the public that the system is now quite self-correcting.

For every account of economic abuse there are usually many accounts of people, and even whole nations, being transformed from poverty to prosperity. So why is it that these success stories are rarely found in the media today? Getting control of the media has been the first strategy of Marxism, and they have done this.

This is not to imply that everyone in the media is a Marxist, but a large percentage of Western media is now controlled by Marxists. Many in the media today have an agenda to condition the population for Marxism and erode the foundations of freedom. Many who are doing this may not know that’s what they’re doing, which is why they are called the “useful idiots” by the Marxist elites.

Though Marxism has grown by feeding mostly on the disgruntled and bitter, there is another group that has been easy prey for Marxism—idealists. Idealists are usually pseudo-intellectuals who are driven more by a need for personal recognition than a sincere pursuit of truth, knowledge, and wisdom. Because their shallowness is easily discerned by true intellectuals, the pseudo-intellectuals are usually dismissed by them. Those so rejected are easy prey for the poison of jealousy and resentment that Marxism builds on.

So, Marxists can easily capture pseudo-intellectuals by just feigning respect for them, but the way they really feel about them is that they are “useful idiots.” Such “useful idiots” are sown throughout the media, education, and other places of influence to do the work of plowing the ground for Marxism.

Marxists have been very skilled at propaganda. Lenin was something of a propaganda genius. Marxists learned that their promise of a new utopia was especially attractive to youth, as well as the disenfranchised. However, after they had been successful in taking over a few countries they had a basic problem that undercut their propaganda—history!

Everywhere Marxism gained control, the result was the opposite of what they promised. Mankind has never experienced worse tyranny, injustice, and inequality than under Marxism. By the 1930s this became widely known, and there began a huge groundswell of opposition to it. The Marxists retreated for a time, but then came up with a brilliant plan for countering the truth history reveals—they would revise history.

Marxists released an army of revisionist historians to make the good look evil, and the evil look good. They inculcated students with this deception from their earliest ages through the easily manipulated public school systems. Now there is a huge divide between the generations who have witnessed or experienced the horrors of Marxism, and those who have been indoctrinated to believe that their parents are lying about this.

What can be done about this now? We obviously have a difficult battle to recover what has been perverted or stolen from our Republic, but never give up on the power of the truth to prevail. Truth has foundations. The Marxist deception crumbles quickly with even the most cursory research. Just a few armed with truth can prevail against an army of deceivers.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people… ~John Adams

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Psalm 100: Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; W e are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.

Hmmm: to be a person that is really thankful; thankful for all things. Is it possible for us to be transformed into this heavenly creature? Does the condition of our hearts determine what we see? Does the condition of our hearts help to focus our spiritual eyes? How can we see this invisible God we love? I mean, how can we really see Him? But then we have to ask, is He really invisible or do we just need eyes that can see Him? Let’s take a spiritual journey and explore a little of the invisible world. Things we see can be a language. The things we see around us do not come out of nowhere. They were created according to something in the invisible realm. What if we look at a “key” verse that unlocks this unseen world?

Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. (KJV)

So we can see that the scripture above has given us a road map into the unseen world. The Bible is teaching us that there are two worlds: one is visible and the other is invisible. Both worlds were created by Him. The created world, which is the visible, gives us the capacity to understand the unseen world, which is the invisible. The created world is a reflection of the unseen world. The unseen world has two speeds in which it moves. It moves faster than the naked eye and it moves slower than the naked eye. Let me give you an example. Can we see a tree or a child grow? I think not, but we can see a miracle of life. It is just moving at a pace that is slower than we can see with the naked eye. On the other hand, there are also things that move faster than we can see. This means there is part of this creation that we just cannot see with the naked eye. This part of creations makes up the unseen world. God gives us revelations in which we can understand and see the unseen world. One of these revelations is that of the “thankful heart”. If God is in an unseen world, perhaps we need the capacity to go where He is. It is becoming very evident that we cannot enter into this world with our own understanding. The scriptures reveal to us a truth. We see in Psalm 100 above that we are to Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. If we are truly going to enter into this unseen world and into His presence, we first must do this with “thanksgiving”: thanksgiving unto Him. Are we truly thankful to God? I often find myself not very thankful at all. On the contrary, I find myself very unthankful most of the time. Why, we might ask ourselves? Could it be that what we focus on determines what we see? If what we see in the invisible world is determined by the condition of our hearts; then an “unthankful heart” sees that which is dark and depressing. It is always seeing what is going wrong on the planet. A “thankful heart”, however, can see dark as well as light, but chooses to focus on the light and the good. It sees what could be on the planet if our hearts were truly thankful for the opportunity that God has given us. I pray that we will consider our ways and become a thankful people unto our worthy God for all He has and is doing for us. 

Blessings,

Alan

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Unlocking the Prophetic: Lesson 29 - Zakar - The Remembering One

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THE RELIGIOUS DEVIL THAT HAS BEWITCHED SO MANY LUKEWARM CHRISTIAN LEADERS

Posted on September 26, 2020 by mariomurilloministries

How important is America’s destruction to Satan? So important that hell has dispatched a most powerful deceiver—a lying spirit, like that one mentioned in 1 Kings 22, in the mouths of those who should be preaching truth. This spirit deceives and takes the best intentions of preachers and twists them until they wake up supporting the very opposite of their first love. But first, here’s more of that fateful interview with Jim Caviezel on Fox: “We have this thing called ‘cancel-culture,’ and if Christians don’t watch it, it will be cancelling Christianity, as well. Because a lot of pastors, our bishops, our priests, they are laying right over. They are letting their churches be burned. How do we know that? Well, it’s right there on the news. Statues are being ripped down. They don’t say anything. And I watched a movie that Mel Gibson did – Braveheart – when you have the English who are the bad guys, against the Scots, but the real bad guys were the guys that were collaborating. That’s why we’re in this situation right now. We can’t go to churches, we can’t go into our church. Why? Because they could get contaminated, right? So, why are we on airplanes? I have friends who have committed suicide. I have SEAL buddies who have lost seven of their friends by suicide. And would it have helped to have been able to get into a church, especially during this time? Absolutely! And is it good for mental illness? Yes, it is. And, so, the collaborators in our faith, this is where the persecution starts. You’ve got guys inside your faith that won’t stand up to the governors, they will not stand up to the mayors. And that’s why the Gospel is very much alive right now, okay? I got to play Jesus. Some of us love Peter, or Paul. But there are many of us now that are flat-out Judases. Or they’re Pontius Pilates. Or they’re the Pharisees. And it’s a bloody shame if you can’t tell the difference between a priest, a bishop, or a politician. It’s really sad. But this is called ‘lukewarmness.’ And Christ has a very special place for them, and they know it.
Addiction, suicide, domestic violence and despair have all spiked because churches are closed. And yet, tens of thousands of Christian leaders not only keep their churches closed—many of them even attack their brethren who dare to open—and act like cheerleaders for the state. -Democrats and the Left openly talk about atheism, devil worship, pedophilia, and getting Christians fired, and yet a majority of leaders see no reason to resist the Democrat agenda. -One of the leading pastors in our nation tells us there’s little difference between voting Democrat or Republican, and God doesn’t really care. -A well-known worship leader sounding as foggy as a concert fog machine said, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” (the most radical abortionist ever to sit on the Supreme Court, was, according to this worship leader, and I quote), “probably pro-life in her own way.” –A bizarre silence on abortion. A massive number of Christian leaders staunchly refuse to talk about late term abortion—or about killing a baby that survives abortion. Their silence is sociopathic. They talk about how Republicans don’t care about the poor (a lie) or immigrants (another lie) but never answer the question about the most vile and unforgiveable butchery. -They throw their brothers and sisters under the bus. John MacArthur takes a stand for the religious freedom guaranteed in the Constitution, but only a handful out of the thousands of churches in Los Angeles stand with him. Jim was right when he said, “And it’s a bloody shame if you can’t tell the difference between a priest, a bishop, or a politician. It’s really sad. But this is called ‘lukewarmness.’ And Christ has a very special place for them, and they know it.”.
How can Christian leaders act this way when the evil of the Left is so clear, and our God mandated duty to stop it is commanded by scripture? The answer is demonic power. A smothering, dulling blanket of deception has settled on them. Their compromise is getting outside help from a religious spirit from the pit of hell. One of the first clear appearances of this religious devil was when the roaring challenge from Goliath froze the entire army of Israel. A mass paralysis of fear and confusion kept them from rising up. The demonic haze that settled on their minds made them put off doing their duty—it made them cowardly that Goliath was blaspheming God! Another example of this paralysis occurred during the American Revolutionary War. Despite the brutality and tyranny of the British, only 30% of the colonists supported the war for freedom. It was only after Thomas Paine wrote a series of pamphlets between 1775 and 1776 advocating that the Thirteen Colonies declare their independence from Great Britain, that support began to grow. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for their freedom. Common sense is what should be driving thousands of Christian leaders to fight the cancel-culture that is designed to shutdown freedom of worship, and will ultimately drive the American church underground.
Do you still doubt the demonic intentions of the Democrat Party? Listen to this Democrat attorney: “I am a 40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls. I am not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times. When Justice Ginsburg died, I knew immediately that action was needed on a scale we have not seen before. And, so, I have turned to Satanism.” Paul asked a question in Galatians 3:1 that needs to be levelled at lukewarm church leaders, “who has bewitched you?!” How can you not see the common sense of opening churches, standing with Donald Trump, and opposing the demonic intentions of the Democrat Party? Maybe the reason is to be found in the spell that the supernatural powers of hell have cast over this nation. That is why the solution must be supernatural as well—a massive repentance by church leaders, voter turnout, a powerful awakening, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit are the only hope for America! And the way to break this demon’s power.

Mario Murillo

Nov 17
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The Next Step—Heritage Brief 46
Rick Joyner

If we look at the history of mankind from the Christian perspective it is more than just a journey; it is a magnificent adventure. Like most adventures, there have been setbacks, failures, and dangers everywhere, along with advances and victories. Because the end of the story has already been written, we know that an ultimate, glorious victory to our present struggle is both certain and near. Then there will be healing for every evil deed done and mankind’s future is even brighter than we can imagine.

Yet, in our time the darkness looms ever greater and our ultimate doom seems probable. Isn’t that just like almost every adventure story ever written? When doom seems inevitable, the ultimate victory is near. That this script is in virtually every adventure story ever written indicates that this has been written in our hearts—because it is the truth, a promise from our God who cannot lie.

The Apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 1:6, God, who began a good work in us will complete it. What He created mankind and the earth for will be accomplished. The greatest promise of all is that God Himself is coming to dwell on the earth among men! (see Revelation 21:3). However, like in most adventure stories, the biggest battle of all comes at the end, just before this glorious conclusion.

The point is that we must never lose our faith in the ultimate victory of the truth over every lie, of light over darkness. Many have fought in this “good fight” from the beginning. They may have stumbled at times, failed and fallen, but they also kept getting back up and fighting on. It is for this reason as well that we seek to obey the commandment to “honor your fathers and mothers” (see Exodus 20:12) by defending and preserving the truth about them. We honor our heritage by fighting for the truth about it, and not letting those with evil intent distort or corrupt it.

Because we love the truth, we must also fight to preserve the truth about failures and mistakes by our predecessors. This is not in any way to dishonor them, or to think we are better than them, but with humility, considering our own weaknesses and failures, knowing that we will continue to make the same mistakes as those who went before us if we do not learn from theirs.

Since we began publishing these Heritage Briefs to remember and honor our fathers and mothers, as well as the great heritage we have, the “Cancel Culture” has risen to an unprecedented level of dishonoring them and disparaging our heritage. If we let this happen, then we have neglected and failed at one of our most basic callings as Christians to stand for the truth. We cannot stand on the sidelines while evil prevails. God promises His favor to those who stand for Him and His truth, and the favor of God is worth far more than the approval of men.

As it has been said, “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” As one of the greatest Christian lights to face the evils of the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, said, “To not speak is to speak. To do nothing is to do something.” There will be no neutrality in the ultimate battle between good and evil, so we must resolve now that we will not be silent, and we will do something. So, what can we do?

First, we must resolve that we will live by faith in God and faith in His truth to prevail. For this reason, we will not be controlled by fear, but by faith in Him. We do this by standing for truth, and standing against lies and deception. Faith is the opposite of fear, and fear leads to cowardice. As we see in Revelation 21:8, the cowardly are the first to be thrown into the lake of fire, even before the murderers, sorcerers, idolaters, and the immoral. There is no place in Christianity for cowardice.

A concern of many who study the biblical prophecies of the end of this age is about “the mark of the beast.” This is a mark that the evil one wants everyone to take if they are going to be able to “buy, sell, or trade” in the short time when evil is prevailing before The Lord and His kingdom come. For centuries Christians have tried to perceive the form in which this mark would come so that they would know not to take it, but by this they miss the point. The sin is not taking the mark, but worshipping the beast. The mark is just evidence that this is what one has done.

How do we worship the beast? We obey it. As we are told in Romans 6:16, we are slaves of the one we obey. As is written, those who take this mark are thrown into the lake of fire with the beast when The Lord comes. What will keep us from taking this mark is more than just knowing what form it will come in, but rather living by the courage that true faith in God will always be demonstrated by—the faith that would rather die to this life than compromise our trust in God alone by bowing to any other.

Our American fathers and mothers, from the founders of our Republic to the present, may have made many mistakes and had plenty of flaws, but one thing as a nation we have not lacked is courage. It was courage to stand in the face of impossible odds that founded our country, and has since then stood up to every threat to our continued existence, and this will now be required of us. It is now our time. Courage is our American heritage. Will we preserve it?

However, it takes more than courage to stand for truth—it takes the discernment to know the truth. Charles Spurgeon once said that he could find ten men who would die for The Bible for every one that would read it! As we proceed into these times, we must keep in mind what both Jesus and the apostles said would be a hallmark of these times—deception. What good will it do us to courageously die for the lie, for the agenda of the evil one?

If we love the truth, we must cast off the frivolous pursuits and distractions that waste of our life and time to seek the truth so as to find it. The ability to recognize the truth is the result of loving the truth with an unrelenting devotion to seek it until we have found it. God promised that if we seek it we will find it. Therefore, if we are deceived it is evidence that we did not care enough to seek it.

So, the judgment of the cowards and the deceived is just. “The next step” for us is to resolve today that we will live with courage, we will love the truth so as to seek it, and that we will not quit until we have found it. Today, if you have heard His voice, resolve that you will respond because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,

while it is said, ‘Today if you hear His voice do not harden your hearts…” (Hebrews 3:12-15).

Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us. ~ John Hancock

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ~Thomas Jefferson

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Battle of the Two Towers

A Prophetic Picture

By: Alan Smith

In the early morning, my spirit was unsettled as I listened to the news of the day. I could tell the spirit of the Lord was wanting to reveal something to me. It was then that I found myself caught up in the imagery that was forming in my spirit.
I saw a battle between two towers. There was a great storm with an earthquake that shook the two towers. They swayed back and forth as the storm was raging. There was intense lightning and thundering, so loud that it sent fear into all who heard the storm roar.
In my spirit I “heard” an understanding. One tower’s name was Globalism and the other was Nationalism (Patriotism). I knew there were many in the tower called Globalism, and only a few in the tower called Nationalism (Patriotism). I then knew the tower called Globalism was trying to tear down and destroy the identity of the tower called Nationalism (Patriotism). I began to pray for this terrible storm: that there would be survivors in the tower called Nationalism (Patriotism), and that it would prevail.
After this vision ended, I felt I needed to find out the meaning. So, I started looking for the location in New York City of the United Nations Building. I felt this was probably the hub of Globalism. Then I wondered the location of Trump Tower in New York City, for I knew Donald Trump embraces Nationalism (Patriotism). I was totally shocked when I saw the picture. Trump World Tower is directly across the road from the United Nations Building. There was my vision. The battle of the two towers, a prophetic picture.

The United Nations Building is the gray, 3-tier building on the left, and the Trump World Tower is the tallest, black one on the right.

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