Deep Waters

Send us Fan Mail

Why is this the most listened to Podcast message out of more than 520 messages over a 2-year period? I don't know as I like them all, but if it were me I would give an ear to find out what those who were indeed inclined to listen were after.

The following two scriptures will outline the entire message, not that I will not use other scripture but these will lay the foundation for this revelation and in some ways I hope I am wrong, but I don’t say that to ease how you will feel if your feeling takes a back seat to the motivation and inspiration, I hope you get for getting away from everything that distracts you from the things of God in your life. This should literally take your breath away for at least a moment and you should have some kind of spiritual reaction if you see and hear what the spirit is saying to us in this message.  

 Luke 17:26-30 - 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

 2 Peter 2:5 - and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

 Lets hear that again you know for impact. “And as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be also in the days of the son of man they did eat they drink they married wives they were given in marriage until the day Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drink they bought they sold they planted they build it but the same day that lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.” 

 When the son of man is revealed, hummm are we ready for these days leading up to this event? Everyone alive on this earth, whether you believed or not, will actually see Jesus for the first time, especially those of us who grew up in the Laodicean church where Jesus was kicked out long ago beginning around 1906. And but when you see Him know that the ark door has just closed. The opportunity for salvation is offered no more. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

So now then welcome to my fifth topic of ten which is titled, “Did Satan Sex Eve & if So Why” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and keep in mind it is not about sex but corruption and sin.

This message is about what has been going on well, before the beginning of time and continues to and throughout today and will eventually culminate to its intended end when Jesus shouts "That's a wrap."  Well God the Father will shout that, and then Jesus will get on His high horse, I say that because His horse is in heaven, and head down to earth to do some thumping like Peter Rabbit.

Keep in mind that in any of my messages I could be wrong. That is the risk we take as humans when serving God. My thought is, that it is better to serve and make mistakes along the way than to have never served and thus avoiding making any messaging mistakes or generating any good works. But now if I may be a friend for a moment, it would be a greater mistake to avoid serving God in the fear that you may miss it, than to serve in your humanity risking any and all possible learning opportunities. 

Now a serious word of caution before I get into this one. If you are accustomed to having a fixed mind and that you only believe the things you understand at this very moment in time, and have not put into practice, the rolling around of scriptures in your mind until it comes out polished like stones in a tumbler, then this message is going to grind at you. None of us has the corner market on the revelation of the entire bible.

When I first heard what I am about to share with you, I was not going to believe it even if it were true because well, I had no slot in my mind for it to be honest. I didn’t even know what a Rhama word was. When I first heard it and I will tell you that I was very spiritually immature at that time, the person who shared it received a response from me that a child would give their parents when being asked to go to bed at 6pm on a July summers night. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

Welcome to my fourth topic of ten which is titled Is God a Trinity or One God? And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic which is that, well in part it is because too many people base their opinions and allow their emotions to determine that if someone believes in any other thinking on this subject other than what the majority thinks, well then they must is a non-Christian or even cultic or a heathen, and that the person has lost their spiritual mind if they ever did have one. But these responses are non-biblical and considered so especially when the one who is teaching what they believe to be the truth is open to bible supported correction or at least a cordial discussion on such a topic. And now but besides this mess, we need to ask ourselves if we in fact are really students of the bible. What I mean is that well it is better stated in Proverbs:

Pro 25:2 - It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

and...

2 Tim 2:15 - Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Now if you do not believe that the Lord is King of kings (Rev 17:14) then perhaps you are one of those who deselect portions of the bible to suit your needs. Ha no worries we can all fall into this trap. No see what I am really saying is that you really just want to be the Christian that you think you should be and, want others to see, and not the Christian Jesus has assigned you to be. Ouch? 

It is better to know now that perhaps bible policing is not a spiritual gift over and above loving one another (John 13:34-35) or growing in the character of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22-26). I speak in such language because I used to be a bible police and I eventually found out that the Holy Spirit does a better job at keeping us lined up if we in fact let Him. So, I have no interest in lining you up but just presenting a position for you to contemplate. Perhaps in my naivety I think that all Christians are open to discussing all things bible even if we don’t agree. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

What If They Were Right? I mean what if there really is no God?

1Cor15:12-19 - 12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have [a]fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

So, if it isn’t already apparent, this message is going to be totally awesome. Ha, I believe this so much so, that I interrupted my ten-message series to drop this one in right after the third one published Thursday morning. 

Now I will be coming from the position of undoing history, today, and the future as written in the bible. Will it answer the question is there a God? Yes, but not by the traditionally supporting the bible, but by undoing it’s spoken events. Now I believe in God beyond explanation, and but so this approach, I feel, is heaven sent as I was working on my 3rd of ten messages when the idea popped into my head. And but it is also not because I was losing my faith or because things are tough out there, no none of that. I think it was because I knew that God was going to take me backwards, and that will make some sense hopefully before we find ourselves at the end of this message. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

This is God talking to us Christians not the other guys. 

Welcome to my third topic of ten which is titled, “Is Jesus coming back Soon And will we know whenish?” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and that is because we are closer to Him returning, and based on the way Christians are acting and behaving, they seem to be unaware. What Ken? Yupper Tupperware. By the looks and activities of many of our sweet churches today, you would think that we have all the time in the world to wait for His return. I mean the bible states that there is a time for the Laodicean church age to manifest and many have taught that this, meaning today starting around 1950’s is the age for that church. And Jesus Himself stated you would know them by their fruit, and no fruit is a telling story regardless of how you might redefine what it looks like to walk with God. Ha oh wait you want the fruit list before I carry on with this message. Ok, so let’s build a bit of support and then get on with what kind of fruit Jesus is talking about, that all but appears to be MIA from the existing body of Christ in well most cases as you know I would never say all because I do not know or believe that all churches absent of the fruit of God is possible. If that were true then we ought prepare to be raptured any second now. But since I am still here typing away then we must have some that are on task. So now don’t go gettin mad, ignorance of the things of God is a thing in the ill-equipped body that actually has a cure, and it is listening to this message, and well the other Podcast messages, and then doing what you can to depart from a stationary induced ignorance. Or just read the bible and do that. I am not the final answer, I am just one of you trying to do my best to line my life up with the life of Jesus. Let’s build it and then get into it:

2 Peter 3:1-7 - 3 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, (that is these days) walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

So now then welcome to my second topic of ten which is titled, “can you lose your salvation?” And but you should know why I am doing a message on this topic and for those of you that think you know, my answer might surprise you. I am doing this not because I am trying to point out that there is a difference between us and them, the believer and unbeliever, but because there are so many of us’s that believe we are in because we simply stated a prayer at an alter. This really is a message more for the Christian nutralites. A nutralite is a Christian that even though they may have had a born-again experience, they have done nothing by way of changing from the old man to the new man that would show or demonstrate that they were actually born again. For them or others they may remain as they were at the beginning of their salvation because they have been taught that they cannot lose their salvation once they have gotten it. There response is to do nothing because all the work was already completed on the cross and they know that they can do nothing to earn salvation so they gladly shift their lives into neutral; and it is right there that we have the birth of the nutralite. 

 So before we go on, as I am hoping I didn’t already lose my listener base, ha I should tell you that I do feel unqualified to delve into such things as this from the position that I will be trying to take. And I say so, because really there are others who have done a better job at explaining these kind of things. So why do it Ken? Because it occurred to me when I was reading a book this past Sunday that something strange bumped into my current thinking. Allow me to share. So I have done more than one message and a book soon to be released down the road, on the subject of losing your salvation. And I supported that thought using some of the same scriptures that I will be using in this message, but from a new angle. We will take a look at the inerrancy of God predestining His peeps to salvation which, if this is the case, then there is no guesswork as to who name is in the book of Life and who’s is not right? It is finished before it started so to speak (1 Peter 1:20). The other angle is that your name could be in the book of Life but because you went south in your walk with God your name vanished from the book. I will provide the scripture and the event which alludes to the fact that this could be the case. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

Does God love everybody?

Ha, what Ken, I am trying to kick off my day with a touchy, touchy, feel good, and some coffee and a cronut. Look, as we dive right in, I remember a story whereby some Mormons came to my place to share their religion. In truth, what I like to ask these traveling kids, are questions about their own beliefs. And now but these kids had stopped by for the second time, as I invited them back after giving them something to think about the first time. And so we ended up on the topic of God loving everyone which I believe is a statement that they had made. So I took them to this scripture:

Malachi 1:2-3 - “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved; 3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.” 

And so now as you can expect these ill-equipped elders were not aware that this was in the bible that they were holding. After a few awkward moments of no response, they peddled off somewhat thrown off by their own biblical ignorance. What I was trying to do was to point out, not only the fact that they were not equipped for doing what they were doing, but that they also were ignorant of the scriptures. My goal was to drive them to look at the scriptures and move away from what man states about the bible (interpretation) and get them to where they could be authentically born again and begin to get revelation imparted by the Holy Spirit. Every Mormon on the planet needs to have the born again experience to be saved. Hey yall peeps do not believe it for a moment that you can get around this one fact:

John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

Ha I am right here and I am not waldo. So in the midst of recording the first of my top 10 messages that I most like, the software I have been using to record over 465 messages in less than two years all of a sudden started crashing. No but I mean like straight up into a wall with no point of return. And although Audacity is free my time isn’t especially when I have to re-record a message 5X. Now I say five times but in truth I, after I post this status will be trying to record the first of my top ten for the fifth time to see if there maybe wasn’t another thing going on. But more on that later…

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

Another way of saying what I saw while driving to work in driving rain is that the baptism by water and baptism by fire happens to authentically born-again Christians as well as to the planet. Ha what? Right both events happened to those called or rather predestined by God, and also to the planet, and surely there has to be a reason that I am seeing this, this morning March 05, 2024. And maybe as I motor through this message God will bless us with the totality of its meaning. 

 So whatever shall this mean? So I'm driving down from Paradise heading to work and this thought pops into my head as it's raining cats and dogs up here in Paradise. I was thinking about how exciting it is that God had made a promise so long ago after the first earth bath, that He would no longer destroy mankind by flood. 

 Gen 9:11-17 - 11 Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12 And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/

Send us Fan Mail

What the Peter, James, and John are you saying Ken? Ha, this one came to me as I was opening up our gate at work. Now I had just started on my top-10 Christian questions and but while I was steppin’ to the gate bam. And but what I like about such messages is that it fly’s in the face of religion, not the Jesus religion, but the man-made up stuff religion including some who call themselves Christians. Oh, but I am not addressing those types in this message, and but notice I didn’t say the non-believer types, but I am referring to those who may be Christianity deceived and have glommed onto a falsy religion or even participate in a Laodicean church of which as I have already stated, and but many others too, that we are in this very church age. The Luke-warmers, and now I am not picking on the spiritually ignorant when I say this stuff, but for whatever reason it would seem like it takes a hard stroke to make a point, especially if the nail is already set it its own way. Can I get a translation Ken? What I am saying is that religious people are a very difficult bunch to teach anything new to because they don’t like being wrong or changing very much off of what they already believe (Luke 5:36-39). They are not hard to spot, and now don’t go lookin’ for them either, but if you catch the movie The Fighting Temptations you will see them and/or hear them. I will let you decide who is who. 

So but I am talking about those in whom the Lord is calling but have yet to respond with a yes and an amen. Now before I prove my point and it’s a good one which is why I am saving it for the great reveal at the end of this thing, I will demonstrate the workings of some of these peeps and you can let me know if you think that they have the fruit of the spirit, the miracles, signs, and wonders, following, the calling and approval of God marked all over them. Yes you can let me know if we even have such a Christian today as they were before they, yes they even got saved. Oh, I let a paw out the bag, but not the whole cat. 

https://appliedstrengthsministry.org/