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These false or misidentifying traits, that is genius’s and super heroes, create division and perpetuate elevating one person above and over another. And what is wrong with doing so Ken? If I work harder than that guy, why shouldn’t I get what’s mine. Well here is a strange response. There are homeless people with more or greater talents than yours because they do not think like you do. You see not everyone has a straight shot at life. Look at how God builds the kingdom of all kingdom’s. Now but also listen to what the result is in our abilities as a Christian:

 1 Cor 1:4-9 - 4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all [b]utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed [c]in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

 What? No short gifts for the one who is plugged in. And yet I say that many will believe that they can outperform a plugged in Christian, but I say it is not possible that this could happen if the Christian understands what happened to him when he became authentically born-again:

 1 Cor 1:10 - 10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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Ok so this is an update on your ministry, and this is your ministry or one of them if you are a listener. Now don’t walk away to avoid your part in this thing. I have made it easy by using the teaching gift that God has imparted to me by preparing these deep water messages. By you sending a link from any one of the 30 platforms that these messages can be found on, you are performing in your ministry and preaching and teaching, although indirectly, these messages. 

How cool is that? God will help you to help Him by giving you premonitions of who you might send these to. If you have a website or business of some sorts you can do the same thing. I mean are we not helping the social media bugs by using their product when we sent any and all kinds of data to our friends and others in whom we don’t even know? Yes and they are huge because of it. Now I am not picking on them as I think when used properly they can be relational in nature. How much more ought we be distributing the message of God to a world that has an ending date? An ending date that could be as soon as Sept 2025 or 2060 something. And yes, although I don’t agree with everything the author states, which is total 100 ok, his book series has a lot of great information that you might want to plant in your nuronic bank so that you do not get caught off guard. That even sounds funny right? Oh what is that? Uhmmm it’s the end of the world. What? I just bought a new Mercedez and my daughter just got married…now what are they going to do if there is no more world? Ha, but no many will get caught off guard and because of social media and news perpetuated fear, it will cause them, you, and others to poke your heads underground. 

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And at the risk of offending the educated group, I am now, in my 61 years of living on this rock and seeing all of the things that I have seen, and remembering 100,000 of thousands of written works by famous people as defined by famous people, by unknowns who are also famous, by grand institutions known for their famous people and contributors, and well much of in the middle as well, and if you know what that means email me so we can be on the same page. Perhaps we too can be known by the unknown to us and some of our remarks can be entered into the belly of the earth for all to be wowed by. 

But, and if you haven’t caught on yet, I am somewhat frustrated by some recent readings whereby they were recommended by an author in which I liked his own written works. Just so you know, this is how I move through my reading plan. I really so try and tap into what God is trying to show me or teach me, or now a days may even want me to speak on. And but with the exception of Jesus you can ask anyone who really did only want to do and say what God is saying, that it is not an easy task. Oh He is not the difficult one in the relationship, we are. You see we have a thing called our pre-salvation got mud up, all into everywhere, and thought we actually knew how to live on a planet ravaged by sin, and under the sway of the evil one, and all of this before we could actually even walk. Our pre-conceived ideas about what God is, who He is, why He is, and what He has to do with us as well as the other way around, can get us a little mixed up. 

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Ok so first things first, this morning Feb 09 2024 I did an interview with Wavve.co which is an audio to video conversion company. I wasn’t interviewing but providing feedback as to my thoughts on using their platform. They, in essence wanted feedback on their product. Now how nice of a world would it be, if every company actually wanted to know if they were 1) providing a product that the public wanted and doing it well, 2) seeking input from the end user on its effectiveness, and userability and 3) asking if they could make it better for you and future users. Five stars to Jeff and that company to involve their customers in product improvement and userability, both of which included very little input because they do what they do so well. And yes I made userability one word. Ha, but what I am trying to say is that by them reaching out, it took them to the next level. 

Most companies do not do this because they do not care. No, it’s not that they do not have the time or resources, but that they don’t want to hear what you think. And this may be that they might think that the feedback you would give would be negative or maybe even counter productive in terms of what they are trying to sell. Hey company peeps, any feedback is useful if it can help you to get to the point where you are operating in excellence. And I think that your audience, the end user, is way more informed about your product than even you are at times. You know that this is true if you have never sought out input from the people who pay you to make a living. Yes I am being hard but helpful. If you want to succeed then tap into your untapped into resource, and often times it is a free resource, to measure your effectiveness. And no, don’t just trust in auto data, A.I., to inform you of your effectiveness. Listen, drug dealers, if you were to measure your effectiveness by money piles alone, would exceed any and all of your marketing strategies that you pay top dollar for, if you in fact used money piles alone to determine success. They spend no money on marketing and smoke you in how much money is left on the table. And that right there my friends is the key. It is not how much money you make but how much you leave on the table. It is in fact how much you could have made but didn’t that makes the difference. 

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OK so I was working on a message titled One foot in One Foot Out Means You're Out, when this thing popped into my head and it was probably Pop who dropped it. So I am now working on this new message, which will be a clarification of something I often talk about but also about something that I also read about in a great book series. And but when I read about it in this book series, I did not agree with the authors position on this, and it is part because I feel that I have done the reading and research as well as having been a part of several church address communities and that the idea that, and here is the statement paraphrased, “God is not shocked that we have so many denominations.” And so for some context he was indicating in the text that it is ok that we have so much variety in the church today. Now so another way we could look at this conundrum is to simply state that choosing to attend a church is as easy as selecting a meal off of a 15-page menu that serves a little bit of every culture from 5-countries. Ha, I know you have seen some of those menu’s. I feel that in some cases you should at least get a two-year degree after working that menu over. 

So to be clear that analogy is to say that this person thinks that it is ok that we have so many different choices. But to get to that conclusion you would have to back a truckload of revelatory information and consider not the differences in doctrine or theology. And maybe if we chatted about it he might be more clear when making such sweeping statements. And why would I care? Because these are the statements that perpetuate the current problem that we have with this mostly manmade institution. Yes, Jesus did not point to a corner spot in Jerusalem and tell Peter on that corner address I will build my church. Ha, no and but there is nothing wrong with having a corner address. The problem is when we do it while departing from doing church Gods way. 

Wow this got big fast. And that is just how I like it. Its like unravelling a golf ball which is not just a little bit interesting. 

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The most convincing lies look like the truth and it is this very fact that will prove that many will slip away from God as we draw closer to the end. Oh ken not another one of these. Yup but nope. I do not speak too much of the end times insofar as the end times go. Not that I shouldn’t but just that I am not right now called to speak on it because I am but just now starting to look into it. Why? Well, because I do know that while Donald Trump was our President, and throughout his term things were clearly off insofar as our country goes. I think God was showing us that we are in hot water and that we have misplaced our faith in things such as the democratic system over the things of God. I mean and this is just me, as you are also able to have an opinion, how could so many of us Christians have it wrong? In these, no those and these days, how could we be so far apart. We truly looked no different than our unbelieving neighbor. In more cases than not, you could not tell a Christian apart from one who did not believe in God. Why is this? Because they were getting their information from the same source. And the source is designed to tell a lie so good that it looks like the truth. 

 Oh there it is. Yup, therein lies the trigger and the point of this message. If you are prone to believing what anyone states that is in direct conflict with what the bible states, then you are in trouble and susceptible to losing salvation ground. What, how can you say such a thing Ken. Ah now that we have your attention let us see how satan operates and how he will continue to operate as we draw nearer, in fact, we truly are only minutes, heavenly minutes, from the end, or should I say the beginning of the end. I have at least two authors, or rather believers who believe that the end of times, or tribulation started near the 1950’s or so. And if you are a data looker and look upon the statistics and world events that have taken place since about that time you can but ask, how much worse does it need to get for us to ask how much worse is it going to get and will I be here or in the greatest mess known to mankind (Matt 24:21-22).

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I was thinking of titling this brief testimony, “Wind Talker And Then The Real Story”, but I think it is too many words for such a short message. 

 So it is always good for all of us authentically born again believers to share when God moves in our lives. It is expected that we do so because He Himself stated:

 Rev 12:11 - And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

 Wow I think it is too early for such a scripture. Ha, but no I used it so that you could understand the value of sharing your testimony, and in part that value is that you can overcome the devil and whatever he brings your way by sharing what God is doing in your life with others. 

 So I have shared previously that I have prayed when the wind was jus getting crazy on my trees in Paradise Ca. And at times they would come crashing down taking a bunch others with it. now none have landed on our home which is expected because why would God tell me to move to Paradise Ca to take me out when He could have done that so many other times in my life when I was a wild prodigal.

 And but at least three other times including during a snow storm I commanded the wind to stop and it did. And but now in this event I had read in a pop up from X the new twitter and fear spreader of America. We know that fear likes an audience and X provides that. So I read something to the effect that the winds were going to be dangerous in this storm. 

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This is a sporty shorty and but still is intended to help those who even today with all of our medical advances, still walk around spiritually blind thinking that they are in with Jesus. Ha, show me a Doctor who can cure spiritual blindness and I will show you an authentic born-again believer preaching the gospel in power, yes the power of God.

 How you measure what you are assessing determines the outcome of what you think about what you are assessing. 

 Another way to see this is to know that you are wrong about what you think about other humans way more than you know. And when you look at them through a judging lens, the distortion of your opinion can be blinding to your own self. 

 James 4:11 - Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

 Judging another because they do not meet your idea or standard of how they should live, only exacerbates your spiritual blindness. The Pharisees struggled with this all of the time. It is the same spirit. And lo if you are back-slidden or have walked away from God, and not ready to come back home oh ye prodigal, then you can be prone and susceptible to supporting your weakened spiritual position by criticizing others who are not back-sliding or who have walked away from God. And refusing their help is ant- God. He joined us together so that we would find help in our time of trouble. 

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So when commercial fishermen go out they usually take a crew of about 3 to 6 guys to handle the potential catch. Yes some boats have more depending on how large it is and how many fish that they harvest from the sea. They when they are loaded up or our of bait, they return to shore and drop off their payload, which then goes into a factory where many staff are waiting to process the harvest. Now I don’t know the process in a fishing factory but working a decade in lumber now doubt it works similarly.

The fish must be separated into species, grades, sizes, and what not. And before I move on, the season of fish runs do, no doubt determine what process is used in the factories. So but now back to the fishing story and the point of this tale. 

A few peeps catch a large amount of fish, which is then processed by more people than who caught them. Works the same in mining or the lumber industry whereby a few harvest the lumber in comparison to the many that process the lumber in a lumber company. Back in my day 1981 – 1990 we had about 900 staff in just one location processing the lumber. We would never see 900 people up in the woods cutting down trees and driving them down to their final destinies for just one company. 

I am getting down to my point, a point that has been made in several other messages, and that point is…drum roll please…

We should not be sending out the whole church to do the fishing for men and equipping so few to care for the harvest once it comes in. Ha, ha do you see it now? 

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My first title of this message was going to be “Where's Solomon.” But then as it began to evolve and morph, it became clear that God may have been taking me in another direction. And well but I say may because isn’t it always the case that when something so…well, intriguing lands on the pages, it can go sometimes beyond what even you or in this case I had suspected. But then as I am reading this through to clean it up and prep to lay it to voice, I see that something epic has indeed landed on these pages. I never did see the end of this topic at its beginning. Nope, I was just wondering if Solomon had remained in salvation given what he did at the end of his life. Not that this wouldn’t have been a great issue to discuss as if it were possible that he did then it is indeed possible that we too can do the same thing and that sounds like it is important to discuss. But as God has done throughout my life, He likes to say what He likes to say and expects us to be a precise voice as we represent His message. Ha, maybe Moses knew this up front which is why he did not want to be that voice (Ex 3:10-11, 4:10-16, Acts 7:22) I added the scripture from Acts as we should see that maybe he just did indeed know. Ha.

 I then came up with the spy life of beauty because it appears to be an unmanageable force in our lives and one of the most, if not the most corrupted God attributes if ever He did create one. Now not that He corrupted it, oh no like all things God to us it was corrupted by sin and our fight as believers today is to discern the authentic from the corrupted. 

 So but let’s kick this thing off and remember I do consider this to be one of the more revelatory messages that I have got, not because of the thought that the evidence of what I am saying is insufficient to support it, as we only need to be open to what is right now happening every minute of every day right around us. Oh this is so clearly evident it does concern me not just a little. And not just for the truth of it but because I dared to touch it in spite of my own life-long struggles with it. Hidden in plain sight. You know, and I will get it going in a minute, it has to fall into the same category of food. What I mean is that we all get hungry, and if you struggle with how much food or what kinds of food you eat which contributes to unhealthy weight gains, you of all people know the struggles other may not know or see right? For others, few others by the way, they eat and move on about their day, but for you, you see all of the bill boards, TV ads, coupons in papers and magazines, social media ads, ads, ads, ads everywhere. You cannot go anywhere where there is not some kind of temptation when it comes to food.

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