Prayers are coveted I am leaving to go on Quest today. It's been a good prep work for me.  Have been hearing a lot about being intimate with our Dad. This morning as I was reading in Romans chapter 16 this verse really stood out to me and it's exactly what I needed to hear.

16:20 God who is the author of our peace shall quickly and utterly trample 1satan, doing it with your feet. Your victory is realized in the revelation of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and echoed (personalized) in your amen. 

(We are the body of Christ. God desires to demonstrate his reign of peace in us by confirming satan’s defeat in our practical day to day experience. The defeat of 1accusation is celebrated in what grace communicates. The word, 1satanos, means accuser. The law of faith defeated the law of works!)

It's good to know that the lord through me tramples satan with my feet when I'm in prayer,  but also in my day-to-day experiences.  So as I sit here and Ponder it makes me wonder why sometimes I get so jacked up when things seem to be going awry. Things happen during the day that would be easy for me to say I'm under attack but if the enemy is already defeated then how can I be under attack? Could it be that a lot of the issues that happened to me during the day or actually my own doing?  Perhaps I am listening to my own voice?  If you do not spend time in the word,  it makes it very difficult to discern  what the truth is from the lies.

Verse 24 says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ belongs to you.

My name is (put your name here) and the spirit of the Lord is upon me I have been anointed to preach the good news to heal the sick to bring sight to the blind. This is the year to proclaim the Lord's favor.

Be blessed and walk in favor today!

Kevin

Something I have studying on for the last week.   I just wanted to share it.
This is from the Mirror version bible.

Consider the word metanoia, consisting of two components, meta, together with, and nous, mind, suggesting a radical mind shift. This word has been translated regularly as “repentance,” which is an old English word borrowed from the Latin, which means penance. Then they added the “re” to get even more mileage out of sin consciousness. Re-penance. This gross deception led to the perverted doctrines of indulgences, where naive, ignorant people were led to believe that they needed to purchase favor from an angry god. Most cathedrals as well as many ministries were funded with this guilt money.

English translations do little to help us understand what repentance truly is. Until Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation, the word metanoia was commonly used. For instance, Tertullian wrote in 198 A.D., “In Greek, metanoia is not a confession of sins but a change of mind.” But despite this the Latin fathers begin to translate the word as “do penance” following the Roman Catholic teaching on doing penance in order to win God’s favor.

In 1430, Lorenzo Valla, a Catholic theologian, began a critical study of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and Valla pointed out many mistakes that Jerome had made.  Sadly, the “Vulgate-Only” crowd of Valla’s day forced him to renounce many of the changes that he noted needed changing in the Vulgate including the poor translation of metanoia.

The business of religion desperately needs paying and returning customers. Jesus was crucified for this reason; the entire system of keeping people dependent on their hierarchy was challenged and condemned by him.

Isaiah 55:8-11 gives meaning to metanoia: “your thoughts were distanced from God’s thoughts as the heavens are higher than the earth, but just like the rain and the snow would cancel that distance and saturate the soil to awaken its seed, so shall my word be that proceeds from my mouth.”
The Greek preposition meta, together with, implies another influence. This is where the gospel becomes so powerful since it appeals to our conscience to reason together with our original design ... the authentic thought, the mind of God is realized again. The distance caused by Adam’s fall, compared to the distance between heaven and earth, is cancelled in the incarnation. Metanoia suggests a co-knowing with God! It is an intertwining of thought; it is to agree with God about me.

 Your belief in God does not define him; his faith in what he knows to be true about you defines you.

In Mark 11:22, Jesus says, “Have the faith of God.” Unfortunately, most translations say, “Have faith in God.” There is a massive difference between our beliefs and philosophies about God and God’s persuasion about us! 

God’s belief in you gives substance to your faith. Jesus is what God believes about you. If our point of departure is not God’s faith in the finished work of Christ we have no valid gospel to preach.

 If our faith is not sourced and sustained in him as the mirror image of God revealed and redeemed in us we are deceiving ourselves with yet another religious disguise called Christianity.

Toit, Francois Du. Mirror Bible: A selection of key New Testament texts paraphrased from the Greek (Kindle Locations 13893-13922). Mirror Word Publishing (Kindle Edition by Ten10 Ebooks). Kindle Edition.

Hello All,

 I have actually started doing a little more writing on my blog.   just went through a season where I just wasn't really hearing anything. I've actually been writing some stuff lately but my emails been messed up so I have not been able to get it sent out like I wanted.  I got everything fixed and so I'm probably going to start sending some things out again.   At the end of this email there is an actual unsubscribe if you don't want to receive it just click it and let me know.  You're not going to hurt my feelings if you don't want to get it. We all get lots of emails last thing I want to do is be just another email in your inbox.

Proverbs 3.5 Trust the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding

Kee Gwyn

John 1:47-48

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

I've read this scripture countless times the Book of John is one of my favorite books.

“Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!” Here Jesus is speaking truth into Nathanael.

Nathaniel says Jesus how do You know me? And Jesus answered, “When you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” It never dawned on me what Jesus was saying here and it’s kind of unnerving, but in a good way.  In other words, Jesus is saying, I see you when you don't see me.   I see everything that you do.  I see what you do when you're at home by yourself. I see how you act when you're driving down the road.   I see you in the secret place when you spend time with my father.

So here we are ……. Knowing that Jesus knows everything and that God sees everything.

Why is it so hard at times to believe that He is actually there beside us?

If we Truly believed that he is right there,   then why do we sometimes take him to places that are very at bad?  If He was in living flesh then there is no way we would take him there.

Once again I felt like I supposed to be in John chapter 16 because that's where my devotion came from. But here I am back in Colossians chapter 3. There's so much in the mirror version.

3:5 Consider the members of your body as dead and buried towards everything related to the porn industry, sensual uncleanness, longing for forbidden things, lust and greed, which are just another form of idol worship. (Idol worship is worshiping a distorted image of yourself!)

Idol worship is worshipping a distorted image of yourself. Going to have to chew on that one for a while. I'm thinking it means it's my world and everybody else is just living in it. I hate that thought that I would be so selfish to look at anything that would arouse me including food or money anything that would give me Comfort.
I think back when I was on my quest and the robe of sin was presented to me as well as the robe of righteousness and I have a choice everyday which one of those garments I want to wear. And then this morning I read this scripture out of Colossians in the mirror version.

3:12 You are the product of God’s love; he restored you to his original thought. You belong to him exclusively. It is like changing garments. Now that you have gotten rid of the old, clothe yourselves with inner compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, (Just like you were once identified by your apparel, the characteristics of these qualities define you now.)
I like to say be Jesus with skin on.
3:14 Wear love like a uniform; this is what completes the picture of our oneness.
3:17 Your every conversation and the detail of your daily conduct reflect him; his name and lordship define your lives and inspire your deep gratitude to God the Father for his grace.


That means even driving down the road your conduct reflects him. I don't do very good in that area but I'm working on it.
  It has been a good morning this morning I feel intimacy with my dad

So lately I've been chewing on this.   I've heard people say this before I just need clarity. Or I'm praying for clarity for God to give me direction. I've come to the conclusion that praying for clarity is a cop out.
We will say I'm praying for clarity and will sit there and will pray and pray and pray and we won't get an answer from God. And we're stuck we're stuck in this place of I can't move until I get clarity. I'm here to submit to you that what you really need to do is just trust the Lord. I'm here to submit to you that trusting the Lord is being in a relationship with the Lord and relationships required Trust. I would go as far as to go back to the devotion from Oswald Chambers that is titled after the Gods silence or what?.
 My stance is or Oswald's stance is maybe you're in such a great relationship with the Lord that you don't need an answer to your prayer because the Lord's answer is silence. Maybe your relationship is in such a good place with the Lord that he trust you to make the right decision or to go the right direction. Because he trusts you.   relationships are built on trust. You know when you raise children and for a while they ask you how to do things and you tell him. Then they go through a phase where they know everything and they stop asking you and they make mistakes. Then they go through another phase where they start making decisions because they know that you're going to approve of it because you raised them that way. They trust you ..... you trust them they make a decision and it's a good decision and they don't have to ask you about it or ask you about approval because they know because of the relationship that they have with you that you're going to be okay with it. So do you really need clarity no you just need to trust the Lord that's what it's about

Proverbs 3:
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart;  do not depend on your own understanding.
6 Seek his will in all you do,  and he will show you which path to take.

I have been reading in a book called "unoffendable” so far it's been a really good read. The title could also be “do you walk in judgment of others or yourself?” This is an area of my life that I have often struggled with. And what I mean is getting offended which in away translates to walking in judgment of anyone or myself.  

Romans 4:17

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

God sees a person and he loves them. He sees their future. But we or I see that same person and maybe I get offended or I judge their actions and I don't love them the way God loves them or sees them. 

We all know that Jesus did not get offended but he had many opportunities to be offended. I know for myself most of the times when I'm either walking in judgment or being offended I'm usually by myself where nobody can see my actions or hear my words. Except of course the one who does Judge. There is an example in this book that really stirred my heart. The author is speaking about the Book of John chapter 13. We all know it. 

 John 13:38

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times

. Immediately following that verse Jesus says  

John 14.1-2

​ “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Even though Jesus knew Peter was going to deny Him.  He said “don’t let your heart be troubled!

Jesus was already looking down the road. 

I see for the most part my biggest problem is........ I choose to not see people the way God sees them.  And that is a problem. Once again, it's all about choice. God sees every individual as his child. I would imagine that my heart would be in such a much better place if I looked at every single person the same way God sees him. God sees their future I don't.   God sees their heart I don't. When I run into someone and they give me attitude I have a choice.   I can love them for who they are and for the way God sees them or I can make a choice and walk in judgement or be offended.

A very close friend of mine told me the other day that it is easier for me to love someone that I don't know than it is to love somebody that is close to me.

You would think that would be the opposite but the truth is we need to love everybody the same and walk with an unoffendable spirit. There is a lot of wasted energy that gets used up by being offended or walking in judgement. I for one am tired of it and we'll make a change

Hello all,

Back a few months ago I signed up for The Way Intensive to be held at the FTS office for three days.  The prep work is 7 weeks.  I am not going to go into all of the prep work because it is not necessary for what I have to say.   When I got to week 4 I felt like I hit a road block.   I felt like I was not supposed to go.  That I had signed up for the wrong reasons.   I did not have time for the prep work.   It was a huge commitment.  It got in the way of my life, my work   you fill in the blank.   While writing this it just dawned on me.   Why do we always sign up so quickly to do Jesus things and then when it gets hard that is the first thing that goes.   I knew someone once who signed up to go on quest staff a few years back.   Couple weeks into it he said that he was going to have to close on his house that sold so he was going to have to back out.   I said “what if this was a vacation you had scheduled during this time?”  would you cancel the vacation?”    No   you would tell the realtor to move the closing date.   He went on quest.  

Sunday night I sent the email to back out of The Way Intensive.  I felt that was what I was supposed to do.   The moment I sent the email I got instant peace about it …. So I thought.  Two days went by and I got called out by two of my brothers in a very loving manner.   So I prayed about it.

Daddy showed me a love letter today from one of the men that called me out.  

Proverbs 27:17 as iron sharpens iron; so one man sharpens another.  

I read his email several times this morning then Holy Spirit said call a certain individual so I did.   the truth is I have been very conflicted since last Friday whether I should be doing this event, when I finally sent the email Sunday night I felt instant peace in my heart about not going. I called the man in my group and I told him what was going on.   I said, “I'm not asking for you to tell me what to do I'm just doing what Holy Spirit said,” then I said, “when I told you guys yesterday morning in group that I was backing out you all knew I was full of crap.”   and he said “yes we did but we couldn't tell you that.”   I got quiet for about 10 seconds and then I got a revelation that the peace that I got Sunday night after sending the email was not peace at all.  The peace was disguised as relief.      When does a deceived person know he is deceived?       what I realized is that when I prayed about it for the last couple of days I hear yes and I hear no and I hear yes and I hear no.   That only happens when you already heard from Holy Spirit what you're supposed to do but you're hoping he's going to change his mind.

So I am in …. I am going on The Way.   thank you for sending me the email.  Because of your obedience Holy Spirit had me call my brother  so Holy Spirit could say it was relief I felt not peace in my heart. 

2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

       John 13:3 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

            This morning as I was reading this really struck me and the feeling of wanting to write again came over me.    I know it has been a while since I have written anything. I just haven't had anything to write.   I am not sure if that is the exact case though,   but I'm writing today. As I'm reading this morning in John chapter 13 where Jesus washes the disciple’s feet it just dawned on me that Jesus is going to be washing the man's feet that is going to later betray him.  He breaks bread with the one who is going to betray him. Might this be what forgiveness looks like?  forgiving the man who you know is going to betray you before he is going to betray you. Yet you still wash his feet and you still break bread with him?

  Think about this for a moment.  What if you knew that someone who you loved was going to betray you before they actually betrayed you?   When I think back at times in my life where I have held back forgiveness because of what someone did to me after they did it.   Jesus loved Judas right where he was at...... unconditionally.   Even after the betrayal happened Jesus never held un-forgiveness towards Judas.  He never said, “you owe me, you need to say you’re sorry, you need to ask for my forgiveness, you need to pay me back for what you did to me!”   He never said any of those things.  What He said was, “it is finished.”  So my question to you is ……. Who owes you?   Who needs to say I am sorry for what I did to you?   If there is someone in your life that you feel needs to come to you and say some of these things, then you need to search your own heart.   If this person is deceased, then they will never be able to say I am sorry.   What does that say about you?   What does that say about the condition of your own heart?

Kevin

Romans 12:15

I was listening to Todd White this morning.  It has been awhile.   He makes a statement that just made me pause.  He said “People are waiting for you to step in to who God created you to be so other people can have permission so they can live like the bible says they can.”   Romans 10:15  And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written,  “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Todd says, “How will they see unless you live by example?”

I just had to think a minute and ask the question.  Do I do that?  I thought …….  I do that on quest but what about the rest of the time when I am not on quest?   Not as much.   I actually had the thought that sometimes I don’t want people to know that about me in case I fall.  Case in point …… when I am driving or dealing with someone on the phone about customer service.   Or do I choose the people that I need to know that I walk with Jesus when it is convenient for me?   Which is really  not good thinking.   I am actually working for a client who is a non-believer.   I found that out in a very awkward way and Holy Spirit told me to shut up.  Holy Spirit told me that I would not lose the job because of my comments.  I have you there on purpose.   So the whole time that I have been working there I have been Jesus with skin on.   I have not mentioned Jesus once only lived it.   I feel Holy Spirit is saying when you receive your final payment then you are to sit down and tell them you story.   I have beautiful feet……..      

Do I live in such a way that when people are around me,  they feel convicted by the way I live?                 

Lust and comfort (not always about porn)

A revelation I have known for a while.  It is not about the filters it is about the heart.  It is not about accountability it is about the heart.  Filters are only deterrents.  Accountability?  well you decide?   Another revelation is where I relied more on the Filters,   than I did Holy Spirit to stay pure.  What are you relying on?

It has taken me a long time to come to that and it took Daddy to reveal that to me.  As of four weeks ago I am filter free.  I have had filters on my computers since 2001.  I became a “professional get around the filter guy”   Until the heart is healed all the filters and accountability will not do anything.  They are temporary fixes.   There are no filters in the grocery store.  There are no filters on your eyes when you are staring at a hot woman. .  The filter is the heart.  There are no accountability partners in the grocery store either.   I do believe there is a season where you do need men in your life that will hold you accountable.  I do believe there is a season where you need a filter on your computer.  Let’s face it.   If you want to look at porn no man and no filter will prevent that.  There is no filter for the visual Rolodex that is in your mind.

I am writing to you on a computer that has no filter on it anymore and my wife knows about it.  We talk about it.  I don’t have men that hold me accountable any more,  it doesn’t work for the most part.  You can only be held accountable to your Daddy in Heaven.   You need brothers to sharpen you and to speak truth to you.

You have to come to the understanding that this is not about lust but it is about the comfort that you seek when you believe the lie about yourself.  Whatever that lie may be.   What if your comfort was food?  There is not a filter for that? What if your comfort was golf?  No filter there. There is not a filter when you feel bad and want to go to Cabela’s or to best buy and spend money so you can feel better

My question to you is this.  What is the lie that you believe about yourself that is keeping you from the promise land?

 I have read every book out there about porn addiction and they all say the same thing but with a different twist.

I am not saying remove the filters,  Because I had them for years.   What I am saying is you do need to take your heart to Daddy.

I am the Light of the World  John 8:12

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, m“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Never saw it coming part 2 Brag on Daddy!

Hello everyone,  I was on Quest last week.  (what a great week)  I want to share with you a couple of things.   I  was walking down the road praying Saturday morning on Quest 137.   I got it,  the revelation that my Lord is my Daddy.   It finally clicked from my head to my heart.  You have no idea how big this is.  I honestly didn’t realize how big it was until the revelation hit me and I was in tears.  This quest was very powerful.   It was also very powerful for me in particular.   What I wanted to share with you is what I got this morning in my time with Daddy.  I was very emotionally and physically tired and I still woke up at 5 o'clock a.m. and spent almost an hour with Him this morning. My devotion took me to 1 Corinthians 10 not realizing that that is the chapter that has the temptation Scripture in it. You know the one that goes “no temptation has seized you accept what is common to man and God is faithful and he will always provide your way out so that you can stand up under it.”  When I read it this morning I felt like I was supposed to read in the mirror Bible.   Daddy had my number dialed in this morning,  I did not make it past verse 13. It was so different I didn't even realize it was the temptation scripture that I know so well.  It was verse 12 that got me.   1 Corinthians 10:12  If you reckon that you have it all together, make sure that you are standing strong (in your true identity) when temptation strikes! How foolish it would be for us to now fall into the same unbelief that killed Israel! (They believed a lie about themselves [Num 13:33].) 10:13 Your situation is not unique! Every human life faces contradictions! Here is the good news: God believes in your freedom! He has made it possible for you to triumph in every situation that you will ever encounter!  in fact 1st Corinthians 10:13 is the first scripture I ever memorized so what I want to let you know is that I no longer have filters on my computers because I don't need them anymore. My Daddy has healed me my heart and my heart is good.  I have had a paradigm shift in my heart and now I know my Lord as Daddy. 

So here is what I know.  I have a Daddy who loves me and calls me son.  My heart is healed and whole.  My identity is in Christ.    I have been crucified.

This Quest …. Quest 137  I received freedom in so many ways.  I am new……. And all the glory goes to my Daddy!!!!!!

John 8:54  If I want glory for myself it does not count, but it is my Father who glorifies me ……… 

Never saw it coming

Below is part of a writing I sent to the staff that I am serving with next week for the November Quest.   Last Wednesday is when I sent this to them.   I did not see that it was an in your face warning for me.  I thought it was for the questers and it still could be for them.

I have been chewing on the passage since last Friday 23^rd.   I just can’t get away from it.  Does it have something to do with me?   Not sure yet.   2^nd Corinthians 4:4  The survival and self-improvement programs of the 1religious systems of this world veil the minds of the unbelievers; exploiting their ignorance about their true origin and their redeemed innocence.  The veil of unbelief obstructs a person’s view and keeps one from seeing what the light of the gospel so clearly reveals: the 2glory of God is the image and likeness of our Maker redeemed in human form; this is what the gospel of Christ is all about. (The god of this 1aion, age, refers to the religious systems and governing structures of this world. The unbelief that neutralized Israel in the wilderness was the lie that they believed about themselves; “We are grasshoppers, and the ‘enemy’ is a giant beyond any proportion!” [Num 13:33, Josh 2:11, Heb 4:6] “They failed to possess the promise due to unbelief.” The blueprint 2doxa, glory of God, is what Adam lost on humanity’s behalf. [See Eph 4:18]) The Mirror

I have left somethings in this writing off because it talks about the quest I am leaving on next week. 

What I have learned is I am the one this is about not the questers.

2^nd Corinthians 4:3  If our message seems vague to anyone, it is not because we are withholding something from certain people! It is just because some are so stubborn in their efforts to uphold an outdated system that they don’t see it! They are all equally found in Christ but they prefer to remain lost in the cul-de-sac language of the law! The Mirror

No doubt after reading my blog yesterday you probably figured that while my wife was away fighting for women hearts I laid my sword down.  2 Samuel 23:9-10 And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew. He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain. (2 Samuel 23:9-10 ESV)   I did not strike the enemy down until my hand was weary. What I did realize is that I tried my absolute hardest to walk in victory in my own strength.  Don't get me wrong I talked to my brothers who I do life with.   I was in the word every morning but I was deceived.  I went to counseling yesterday.  I told her that several men that I do life with spoke truth into me and gave me words of encouragement. I thought I received those words, but I didn't. Because deep in my heart I already knew I was going to fall. My counselor asked me this question. I thought you told me that you met with a group of men that were transparent? I said, that's exactly what I told you that's what we do we're transparent.  Then she said something that just made me very sad. She said,   “Well, when they were speaking truth to you and you knew in your heart that you were going to fall (unbelief) you didn't say that to them.  Therefore you were not transparent and as we were talking about this she made another statement.  The reason you fell is because you are living out of the experience from your past.  You need to stop given weight to the evidence and instead start giving weight to the truth.  Then we discovered the lie. What I have always thought the lie was what if I don't ever get to look at porn again?  No the lie is …… if I never get to look at porn again I won't be ok.

Needless to say yesterday was a good day I am in a good place I set on the couch last night with my wife and we talked about this.   She is an amazing woman. From this day forward I will be the warrior clinging to his sword.   My heart is good.

The deadly fire.

I have often wondered why so many of us including me.  Will look at pornography knowing that nothing good comes from it.  Last week while my wife was on heart quest I got a vision.  My vision was where I was leaving the light and walking into a tunnel.  When the light begin to fade I started to see at the other end of the tunnel where there was a red glow. I was curious because I felt like I couldn't turn back to the light so I had to go forward where the new light was. When I got closer I could see that it was a fire. It was a consuming fire but not a consuming fire from the Lord, it was a deadly fire from the devil.  It wanted to consume me.   I was curious where the fire was coming from so I got closer.  As I got closer I could feel the heat, but that didn't matter.  (I was already believing the lie) I was still curious so I got even closer and it was getting really hot.  I was starting to sweat and I realized I was too close to the fire. (it was now to late)  I figured I better somehow turn around before I get burned.   What the Lord showed me was that it was too late,   even though I didn't get burned on the outside I got burned on the inside because it was a radioactive fire. It is already burned my heart and was frying my brain.  Why?   I got too close and didn't even realize it and that's what pornography does. The moment I made the decision to walk away from the light and into the tunnel was the moment that the radioactivity begin to kill me.   That was the vision that the Lord gave me. 

 Isaiah 2:5  O house of Jacob,  come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

I am the Light of the World  John 8:12

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, m“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Dead men have no rights!

Time with the Lord:   This morning my devotion took me to Romans 6 in the Mirror bible.   6:12 you are under no obligation to sin; it has no further rights to dominate your dead declared body. Therefore let it not entice you to obey its lusts. (Your union with his death broke the association with sin [Col 3:3].)

You hear people say ……   dead men have no rights.   Todd White says.  “When you signed up for this you signed up to die.”    Two very powerful statements.  In the above passage Holy spirit makes a statement.   “You are under no obligation to sin.” So why is that so hard sometimes?   This week I felt obligated to sin.   I received an email last week that was very hurtful and damaging to my heart.   Emails can be very hard to understand.  What I mean is ….. We try to read it in the tone we think the other person is writing it.   Most of the time we are wrong.  It boils down to “pain is inevitable suffering is optional.”  Pain is going to happen.   People say mean things that will hurt you.  It can’t be helped.   How we respond can be helped.  For me,   sometimes I respond to other people the way I want to respond to the person that hurt me.   (Not good).  When I said I chose to sin I did.  I stayed angry and in my heart I wanted to be vengeful.  (My wife says I have a mean streak in me, not sure where that comes from)  The suffering I was walking in was making it hard to do anything.   I had lost my focus.   Then came Wednesday morning.   Sitting on the couch just being quite at 5:00 in the morning.   I asked the Lord what to do.  The problem with the question is I had not even thought two words of the question when I hear “let it go” and there was no mistake it was Holy Spirit.   Can I say I was not very happy about that!  I was pissed!  Unfortunately there is no arguing with the one who is always right.   You can try but it just doesn’t work.   Now my heart is good and I am back to where I was before the email. 

Struggling with sin is really annoying.  I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I could not or chose not to do anything about it.   The truth is … many times when we are walking in something that is unrighteous, it takes a word from the Lord to turn us back in the righteous direction.

6:13  Do not let the members of your body lie around loose and unguarded in the vicinity of unrighteousness, where sin can seize it and use it as a destructive weapon against you; rather place yourself in 1readiness unto God, like someone resurrected from the dead, present your whole person as a weapon of righteousness, (Thus you are reinforcing God’s grace claim on mankind in Christ; 1paristemi, to place in readiness in the vicinity of). 6:14  Sin was your master while the law was your measure; now grace rules. (The law revealed your slavery to sin, now grace reveals your freedom from it.)

Be Sons today!

You will deny me three times.

To think I was just cruising along in Matthew 26 this morning not really getting anything until I got to this passage.  I thought … everyone knows this passage.

 Matthew 26:75  And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus.  “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”  And he went out and wept bitterly. 

….. Why is this important?  I hear in that quiet little voice in  my spirit.  "You deny me all of the time."    Well …….   What do you say to that?   As I am writing I hear,   you deny me when you are driving and that person cuts you off, you deny me when you walk by that person and I say pray for them and you keep walking.  You deny me when you say you are too busy to spend time with me.  You deny me when you think your way is better than mine. You deny me when I tell you something to do and you choose not to do it.   Need I say more?

This morning’s Oswald is about watching with Jesus instead of watching for Him.  I think when we are watching for Him it is easy to miss Him or deny Him.  When we are watching with Him then it is hard to deny Him…. Wouldn’t you say?  That would be like    ….   Being Jesus with skin on … watching people and circumstances with Jesus eyes.

When you watch with Jesus you will not have to watch for Him. 

When you are watching with Him you could say you are standing beside Jesus instead of Him standing beside you.   Just a thought.

K

Little Whispers

So my morning devotion started off like this.  Good morning Lord.  I am asking for healing in my wife’s neck and give me a word for this morning… amen …..   that was my prayer.  Sorry I am short and to the point.  A lot of times my prayers come while I am driving.     

Then I read

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by MARSHA BURNS:

This is a time when small corrections will reap big benefits.  Don't overlook anything that grabs your attention even for a moment, for I will show you the power of paying attention to details.  And, I will cause the insignificant to become significant, says the Lord.  Sharpen your focus to see the tiny things, and magnify your ability to hear my still, small voice.  Proverbs 4:1 Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding.

The reason this devo is so important is so many times it is the little things that we see or hear that we wonder if that was the Lord.   It is so easy to think  “was that God?” or was that just my inner voice.   Many times in the morning during my quiet time I will just close my eyes and just be still for five to ten minutes.   No prayer, no talking, no reading and no music and then read.   It is one of the most peaceful times during my day.  Many times that is when I will hear something.   That is me though. 

Needless to say the devo really caught my attention with everything that has been going on over the last two weeks.   So then I read Proverbs chapter 4 which really spoke  to me. 

Proverbs chapter 4:18- 23 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,

Which shines brighter and brighter until full day.  19 the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;  they do not know over what they stumble. When does a deceived person know he is deceived? KG   20 My son, be attentive to my words;  incline your ear to my sayings. Listen,   believe and obey the smallest of whispers KG  21 Let them not escape from your sight;  keep them within your heart.  Journal and mediate on what you hear KG   22 For they are life to those who find them,  and healing to all their flesh.  23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Protect your heart KG

Last thing,  This is what I heard at men’s group this morning.  if you have been on quest then you have heard the saying “radical obedience always precedes the miraculous,” and I truly believe that,  but what I realized this morning during our men's group is that sometimes just a simple yes can bring radical changes in your life. ( Proverbs 4:18)  Almost two weeks ago I said a simple yes and God has moved in His business like I have never seen before.  I have seen him move in my relationship with my daughter and my niece. I have seen peace in my heart and a sense of awareness.

John 15: 26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Are you fully clothed?

So Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day in 4 years that I did not do any type of work for my company on Sunday,   I have to say it has been like ………..  a new type of freedom.

I woke this morning thinking what could I do today?   How about nothing.   So I got up and got in the word.  It was actually a struggle.  Not sure why it just was.   I am glad I pressed in.  It is so easy sometimes to just let the attitude or the world get in the way of the Lord.

I have noticed over the last couple of days that I have felt the lust trying to creep in and I said no!   This always seems to creep in during my prep for Quest which started today.   I am a son and that is a fact and I will walk as a son.   My name is Kevin and the spirit of the Lord is upon me!

 My devotion took me to Romans 12 but the huge word came to me in the last scripture of chapter 13 .

 Romans 13:14  By being fully clothed in Christ makes it impossible for the flesh to even imagine to find any further expression or fulfillment in lust. Jesus is Lord of your life. (1enduo, fully immersed in the consciousness of the Christ-life, as defining you.) So I am reading this over and over where it says “Christ makes it impossible ………..”   this so resonates in my spirit.   Jesus is Lord of my life!

 As I go back and read starting with verse 13:9

 13:9  Love makes it impossible for you to commit adultery, or to kill someone, or to steal from someone, speak evil of anyone, or to covet anything that belongs to someone else. Your only option is to esteem a fellow human with equal value to yourself.

13:10  Everything love does is to the advantage of another; therefore, love is the most complete expression of what the law requires.

13:11  You must understand the urgency and context of time; it is most certainly now the hour to wake up at once out of the hypnotic state of slumber and unbelief. Salvation has come.

13:12  It was night for long enough; the day has arrived. Cease immediately with any action associated with the darkness of ignorance. Clothe yourself in the radiance of light as a soldier would wear his full weaponry. (The night is far spent, 1prokopto, as a smith forges a piece of metal until he has hammered it into its maximum length.)

13:13  Our lives exhibit the kind of conduct consistent with the day, in contrast to the 1parade of the night of intoxicated licentiousness and lust, with all the quarrels and jealousy it ignites. (The word, 1komos, refers to a nocturnal and riotous procession of half drunken and frolicsome fellows who after supper parade through the streets with torches and music in honor of Bacchus or some other deity, and sing and play before houses of male and female friends; hence used generally to describe feasts and drinking parties that are protracted late into the night and indulge in revelry.)

 I find it interesting that I had to hear verse 14 before 9-13 spoke to me

It is like a recipe for freedom.

Then you go back to Romans chapter 12   therefore I urge you brothers in view of God’s mercy,  to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice Holy and pleasing to God.  That would be you Spiritual act of Worship

So the question today is ………. are you fully clothed?

102 days part 2

            So Wednesday the Lord spoke to me about the Sabbath.   So last night  I crawled in bed and I was going to scan through Facebook when I hear Hebrews 4 ……. and in my mind I'm thinking,   what?,   you never tell me to read at night.   So I read it and was stunned.  All of Chapter four is speaking about entering into God's rest.  Not necessarily about the Sabbath but it is so much more than that.

4:3 Faith (not our own works) realizes our entrance into God’s rest (into the result of his completed work). Hear the echo of God’s cry through the ages, “Oh! If only they would enter into my rest.” His rest celebrates perfection. His work is complete; the fall of humanity did not flaw its perfection.

4:10  God’s rest celebrates his finished work; whoever enters into God’s rest immediately abandons his own efforts to compliment what God has already perfected. (The language of the law is “do;” the language of grace is “done.”) 4:11  Let us therefore be prompt to understand and fully appropriate that rest and not fall again into the same trap that snared Israel in unbelief.  The Mirror

So I am still chewing on this.  I have read it like 4 times already.   So I am looking at this and I see where it pertains to me.   Let me explain …….  I joined a leads company when I didn’t need to back in June.  A friend of mine told me yesterday that he didn’t understand why I needed to go work another field when the field I was already working was producing more fruit than I could handle.   Basically what I did was try and improve on what God was already doing.  Grasp what I am saying here …. Trying to improve on what God was already doing.  Like He was not doing enough already so I needed to help Him Hebrews 4:10

102 days part 2

The other part of the story is about a Leads organization I joined back in June.  So I'm going to include an email that I sent this organization yesterday morning when I got home from my men's group..

Hello owner,   so I am going to do my best not to make this spiritual but it is.   I have had a check in my spirit the last month about being involved with your organization. Today I got confirmation two ways that I'm not supposed to be a part of your organization. This morning I heard Holy Spirit say at my men’s group “I never told you to be a part of that lead company.”    They when I got home my wife wanted to know what we had talked about and she normally never inquires.   I told her what I felt like Holy Spirit was telling me and she said “I never thought you were supposed to be on it from the beginning and I asked you why did you sign up without talking to me first?”    I just realized that I had not landed one job this summer anywhere since I been with your organization. All the work that I have received was booked before joining your organization.   I just looked at my estimates and since June 1^st I have done 42 estimates so far this summer and have not landed 1 job.   This is unheard of for me. So I'm asking you to cancel my membership effective today.  I have no doubt your company is going places but lord has me going in a different direction. 

 So having said that I picked up my first job in 3 months last night.  And then two calls this morning for two more jobs.  I realized after I went back to town that it was 40 jobs not 42 and 40 is a very significant number in the bible.

The question for you is this…… are you helping God or staying out of the way?

Radical obedience always precedes the miraculous

102 days

       It has been 102 days since I have written.  It seems like an eternity, but there have been reasons.   The Lord has been dealing with me on several fronts.  Selfishness, Jealousy and I also believe He just wanted me to listen Him.  I have not even had a desire to write.  I even tried the other day and got half way through and just deleted it.   Today it is time and I feel released.   Here is what I was giving today.  I woke this morning at 3:30 and was thinking this can’t be the Lord, but I was wide awake.  Before I could even get the whole thought of “am I supposed to get up?”   I hear   “GET UP”   so I did and got in the word.

“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,  from doing your pleasure  on my holy day,  and call the Sabbath a delight  and the holy day of the Lord honorable;  if you honor it, not going your own ways,  or seeking  your own pleasure,  or talking idly;  14  then you shall take delight in the Lord,  and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

  

I hear, Believe and obey   It is so easy to hear and obey but you have to believe!   I have been working on Sunday doing paperwork and estimates to the point of burnout.  Today that changes.   No more on Sunday.  Clear Creek Home Improvements is closed on Sunday.  Period!   What has been taking me 7 days to do will now get done in five or six.   I Believe!!!

As I continue to read I went through 58 thru 59 to the end and then I got this.

59:21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.” (Isaiah 59:21 ESV)   this is my legacy

Something else.   My name is Kevin and the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.   I am a SON and I am anointed.

I have to remember that I am the steward of Clear Creek Home Improvement’s not the owner.