Sunday, June 29, 2014

What we don't like and what needs to change - Let's tell them

Muslims very often come up with the argument that we are racist or hateful towards them. In reality, we have nothing against Muslims and Islam is not a race, it is a religion. We don't hate Muslims or any other religious people. In fact, they are part of our daily lives and very close friends or family members as well. What we hate is the cruel barbaric teachings and the atrocious acts committed in the name of those teachings. We don't hate any Muslims, but we do have a problem with verses like the following in the Qur'an:
- Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle.
Or Bible:
- Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Or:
- A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
The Quran alone contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.
I would like to make this post into an educational one and try to let Muslims or any other religious fanatics know about what we don't like with regards to their religion. This is to try and send a strong message that we don't hate any of them. That we will start trusting them when you start condemning and stop preaching about all the barbaric / nonsensical / ridiculous / unscientific aspects of your religions.
Let's SHARE what we don't like about Islam, and any other religious teachings that need a revamp towards love and compassion. Tell us what you don't like and what needs to change. Let's educate them a bit and I hope that the Islamic haters won't start a ruckus about this one like they use to.
Please help share this post so that other people can participate.
L

Sunday, June 22, 2014

There's a Miracle in Your Mouth


There's a Miracle in Your Mouth
It's Just Simple Quantum Physics, That's All
by Pastor John Hamel
“Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.  And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” (Matthew 21:21,22)
Many of us have been around the Word of God long enough to know that Jesus said we can have what we say.  Of course, we can only have what we say when it is based upon what God has already agreed to do in the Bible.  Jesus is talking about finding a Scriptural promise for something and speaking it forth with the words of our mouths. 
Here in Matthew 21:21 where Jesus referred to speaking to a mountain, He was referring to mountains of human obstacles, or problems.  Look at something interesting Zechariah said about mountains in the Amplified Bible.
“…Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit [of whom the oil is a symbol], says the Lord of hosts.  For who are you, O GREAT MOUNTAIN [OF HUMAN OBSTACLES]?” (Zechariah 4:6,7 Amplified Bible) 
It is pretty obvious here that Jesus, like Zechariah, was making reference to human obstacles when He referred to the mountain in Matthew 21:21.  We can take the Word of God and stand up to any obstacle that confronts us, commanding the obstacle to be removed and it must obey. 
If your obstacle is sickness, you can take one or more of any of the healing promises of the Bible and move that mountain of sickness by the very words of your mouth.  If your obstacle is financial, emotional, moral, social, etc., simply find in the Bible where God has agreed to do something about your obstacle and begin to speak the promise (or the solution) over the obstacle (or the problem). 
If you have not been receiving from God as proficiently as you desire, I believe the following three keys will help you.
Repent of All Negative Communication
The Apostle Paul said without repentance there can be no faith towards God.  (Acts20:21)  If you have been allowing Satan to use your tongue to speak words of doubt, sickness, failure, rejection and destruction, you need to first ask God to forgive you for that. 
Some people come to Jesus and give Him their families, business, money, body and possessions, but they stop at the tongue and say, “That’s mine, Jesus.  You can have everything but that.” 
You need to realize that Satan knows if he can get you to use your tongue against yourself, he can shred you into small pieces.  The only authority he has over you is when he can get you to start speaking his will into your life. 
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walkethabout, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR:” (1Peter 5:8)
Notice that Satan must seek for those whom he may devour.  He cannot just devour everybody or he would have done so by now.  Satan is looking for those who will speak his words of destruction, granting him access into their lives. 
Repent.  Repent.  Repent.  Repent.  Repent if you have been letting Satan use your tongue to do a number on you.  God will forgive you. (1John 1:9)
Recognize Your Need for Supernatural Help
“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:  BUT THE TONGUE CAN NO MAN TAME; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.  Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.” (James 3:7-10)
Jesus did not tell us to tame our tongues only to have his half brother, James, to tell us that no man can tame the tongue.  Jesus and James are not contradicting one another.  James is telling us that we cannot tame the tongue, as Jesus instructed, without supernatural assistance.  He is telling us to ask the Holy Spirit to help us to tame the tongue.  We cannot do it alone.  James himself said if we needwisdom and help in a situation, we could ask the Holy Spirit Who would give it to us freely. 
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, andupbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” (James 1:5)
James said God would give liberally all the supernatural help needed to tame that wild tongue of yours before you kill yourself or someone else with it.  (See Matthew 12:35-37, Mark 11:23, Psalm 141:3, Proverbs 18:21.)
Pay Attention.  Pay Attention.  Pay Attention.
Most people do not even pay attention to what they are saying.  They just talk because they feel the need to talk.  Some people think that just because no one else is talking, it means they should be talking.  They just ramble on and on and on.  They do not even listen to the curses they are pronouncing upon themselves or their loved ones.  Some people go on and on so much that they should join the new support group called “On and On and On Anon.” 
Start paying deliberate attention to everything you say.  When you catch yourself saying something negative, ask yourself this question.  “Is that what I really want?  ‘Cause I’m going to get it if I keep saying it.” 
As long as you keep saying things like, “My husband is just a drunk and he never listens to me about Jesus.” or “My kids are disobedient little monsters.”  That’s what you will get.  Your husband will get drunker and your kids will become more monstrous.
There is an area of research in Science called Quantum Physics.  Quantum Physicists will tell you that atoms, neutrons and protons actually respond to human words.  Scientists have literally watched atoms, neutrons and protons become excited and respond positively as positive words were spoken to them.  They have also literally watched as atoms, neutrons and protons slowed down, becoming irresponsive and seemingly lifeless as negative words were spoken to them. 
Do you understand what you just read?  The source of everything in existence that lives, atoms, neutrons and protons, respond negatively or positively, depending on the words being spoken over them.  This is a scientific fact.  This is a fact that Jesus understood thousands of years before anyone thought of such a thing as Quantum Physics.  This is what Jesus was referring to in Matthew chapter 21 in our opening Scripture text. 
Jesus understood the Law of Quantum Physics way back then because Jesus created Quantum Physics long before He ever came to Earth as Heaven’s Solitary Missionary. (Colossians 1:16)
Yet, there is something even more fascinating about all this Quantum Physics business.  The same Scientists have discovered that by simply looking at those same neutrons and protons moving within an atom, they can also have an effect upon them.  When they expect the neutrons and protons to stop moving as a result of being looked at, they will.  When they do not expect the neutrons and protons to stop moving within the atom, they will not.  
I don’t know about you, but for me, this certainly confirms Jesus was right on the money with everything He taught about speaking and expecting our words to come to pass.  Expecting the supernatural really is the key to life
This, of course, has made Believers out of many Quantum Physicists, too.  While other Physicists who have witnessed this phenomenon are so shocked by it, because it turns on end everything they believe about the origins of life, they insist there has been no such discovery.  That's almost as bad as the people who say there was no Jewish Holocaust.  Lying does not make the truth go away.  You simply cannot un-ring a bell.  
Your life is what it is today because of words spoken over you, by yourself or someone who was responsible for you in days gone by.  If you don’t like the way things are, you can change all that by beginning to speak new words today.  God's Words, right out of His Book.  You can become an armchair Quantum Physicist for Jesus!
“Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  And THE TONGUE IS A FIRE, A WORLD OF INIQUITY: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.” (James 3:4-6)
Are you destroying yourself and your loved ones by letting your tongue do its own thing independent of your brain and spirit? 
Someone said, “Well, I don’t believe in all that saying stuff.  It doesn’t work.  No matter how hard I try, it just doesn’t work for me.”  I told that person, “Sure it does.  It’s working for you now.  You keep saying it does not work no matter how hard you try.  Therefore, the harder you try, the more it does not work.  You’ve got the thing in reverse with the accelerator to the floor.  Why don’t you put that power to work for you instead of against you?” 
“Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: LET THE WEAK SAY, I AM STRONG.” (Joel 3:10)
“Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: SO WILL WE RENDER THE CALVES OF OUR LIPS.” (Hosea 14:2)
The Hebrew word for “calves” in this verse is actually “sacrifice.” 
It takes faith and sacrifice to say, “My God meets all of my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus,” when you are having to walk everywhere you go because you still don’t have that car you asked Him for. 
It takes faith and sacrifice to say, “My God meets all of my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus,” when you are living in a rundown ole shack, eating crackers and watered down soup while all the other anti-Word of Faith believers are calling you a heretic.
You are just going to have to endure.  God will pull you through if you can stand the pull.  He is undoing some things you got all tangled up by operating the Law of Quantum Physics in reverse for all those years.  You dug a hole for yourself.  The least you can do is give Him a few months to clean up that mess and bring you up and over.  The least you can do is say what He says about your situation and give Him half a chance to prove Himself strong on your behalf. 
Keep speaking faith words.  Things are happening behind the scenes.  The same principles that were once your problem are now your solution
“A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.  FOR BY THY WORDS THOU SHALT BE JUSTIFIED, AND BY THY WORDS THOU SHALT BE CONDEMNED.” (Matthew 12:35-37)
These are the words of Jesus Christ, not Dr. Kenneth Hagin or Dr. Kenneth Copeland.  These men have simply been raised up by Jesus Christ to restore the message of the operation of faith to this generation.  People who come against these sincere, enlightened Prophets of God apparently do not understand they are actually coming against the Lord Jesus. (Psalm 105:15)
I made up my mind that I’m not going to run with the crowd who’s all hung up on what God doesn’t do for people.  I’m not going to run with the crowd that stripsfaith out of the hearts of God’s precious creation.  I’m running with those who dare to not only believe what Jesus taught about the power of words but who also dare to speak their faith.  I would rather be a “Name it & Claim it” than a “Doubt it & Suffer without it.”  How about you?
“THROUGH FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Hebrews 11:3)
“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;” (Hebrews 1:3)
Not only did Jesus create the world around us with the words of His mouth, He keeps it from falling apart with the words of His mouth.  Jesus expects us to keep our personal worlds from falling apart by using the words of our mouths, as well.  That's what the Bible means when it says we are created in His image and likeness. (Genesis 1:26) 
It’s time to stop using your mouth to mess up your world.  It’s time to start using your mouth to create the kind of world you want to live in
It’s time to start using your mouth to create the miraculous in place of thedisastrous.
What Jesus is actually saying in Matthew 21:21 is, “There is a multitude of miracles in your mouth.  It’s just simple Quantum Physics.  That's all!"
Be Blessed ... John and Barbara Hamel

JUST BRING THEM IN

Dearly beloved, I want to commend you for your labor of love here. You have been doing a great job adding people to this group, and God will continue to use you mightily in Jesus name. 
In addition, please don't select the type of people you add to this group. Just bring them in, no matter who they are, be they righteous, the worst sinner, drunkard, fornicators, or whatever you can think of. They cannot stay outside and hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Remember, Jesus did not tell the world to go into all the churches and hear the Gospel, But He told the church, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." Mark 16:15. Yes, one way you can go, is to bring them in, and add them to this group, so they can hear the Gospel and be saved.
Jesus said in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."


May God bless you as you continue to bring them in here, in Jesus name.
Jesus loves you and I do too.


GOD HAS GIVEN US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION

Have you ever thought about what God has called you to do and what is God's will for you as a believer? Sure, many people have thought about this, but all they are hearing everyday in church is how to get blessed quickly. Thus, it's time for you to know what is God's will for you, and that the ministry which God has committed into the hand every believer is the one of reconciliation.  

2 Corinthians 5:17-20 says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."

Therefore, as you worship God today, may God grant you the grace to be a partaker of this great ministry, so that you'll be able to join all other believers everywhere to reach out to this lost word, reconciling them to God through Christ, in Jesus name. You are blessed.
Jesus loves you and I do too.