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I feel that the opening of this message is prophetic, and so but let me explain. It’s not me being weird or making some high falutin self-declaration, but rather I feel that the matter is urgent. This message dropped into my spirit along with four other messages. They are already in the works as I feel things are moving a bit faster than previously. Look out for them as they should be posted in this May month.

There titles are: 

·       Aaugh it’s bad

·       Heavenly Policy

·       Cold Love

·       Self-Denial Leveling Up

What does that mean Ken? I think we are really running out of time. Yes, time to answer the knock at the door of our hearts, and yes that knock could have been going on for much of your life, but now I feel like the knock will fade away and the opportunity for the gentile race will be closed (Rev 3:20). Now allow me to unfold this message as I am sure the Lord will support what He is saying with plenty of scripture and a huge dose of revelation to help those who are paying attention to this ministry and what it’s purpose and mission is all about. 

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Throwing the baby out with the bath water. What does this mean? It means that for example if you had a friend for 20-years and they did you wrong one time, that you decided to give up on the relationship. I know just writing this sets off all kinds of, “Jesus would never do this” alarms. But we do, and we do it quick and often. We also apply a liberal level of subjection when we do this so as to justify our position. Perhaps the friendship is unprofitable so in your thinking you don’t consider it a great loss to break it off. Maybe the infraction was soooo big that you feel that there is no way to restore the friendship. Perhaps it involved a great deal of theft, or cheating with your wife or husband, or even the death of one of your children. Now I know I am probably leaving out some of your justifications for ending the relationship, but these are pretty serious. Now I will come up a bit, before diving back to the bottom. What if it is not a friend or personal relationship? What if it has to do with another Christian who is an Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor or Teacher? I say this because these are positions of authority, and we judge people in positions of authority with a different size ruler than we judge ourselves or others, not in a position of threat or bossing me around, or, oh I see, these are the reasons for thinking this way and not the reasons why I should think this way. Should we not at least consider that authority was given to us by Jesus, and not everyone has the same level of authority when dealing with the human condition, however and for the sake of argument, we all have authority over the demonic and natural world? Well if unforgiveness is your weapon of reason for not allowing those in positions of authority to influence your life then let us remember the story of Peter and John...

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Okay so if I heard someone bellow out woe, woe, woe I would turn around and look for a flying or falling object. Pretty straight forward, in fact, we could say that this is a universal language for “look out”, with the exception of “fore” which is used in golf. 

Here’s a key right out the gate: when you hear a woe from Jesus you should stop running and buckin’ and find out what’s off. 

 So but Jesus wasn’t saying to the various woe cities look out. He was clearly telling them that they were heading in the wrong direction; that, they in fact were the falling object. But so when He was announcing these words known as the “woe’s”, He was telling them, that they need to stop and reconsider. In fact, he may have un-woe’ed them, had they properly responded. But the thing about us humans is that we don’t like to be wrong, especially in our religious beliefs. Just ask any Crusader. 

But, and I say but, this message has now taken a turn for the better meaning as God has shifted my initial thoughts on the message and minimalist focus and expanded it to include lots of woe scenario’s or rather examples of situations that invoked a woe response and outcome. Of course the outcome can be changed if the woe-sters perform a repentance turn-a-bout, and if it is in the will and plan of God to offer that opportunity to them. Sometimes the woe-sters want to take their chance with God after all possible chances are gone. Yup this is the stupidity of thinking, that you are good enough to change Gods mind about your woe-sterism. Allow me to save you, the trouble of taking a very bad journey, with no return tickets available. If you go there you will woe there, and there is no turning things around. But back to talking to the authentically born-again believer – let’s hit some scriptures about the pronounced woes of God and see if any hit home shall we?   

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So let’s get personal for a minute, back in the day when I drank to stupidity which always started with the stupid idea to drink but then it transitioned or was justified by creating a plan with intent and purpose. When I got high it made me feel full of intent and purpose. I found that I was, as long as I remained drunk or high, motivated to stillness.

Oh yeh, as long as I was thinking loosely and expending no effort or work towards any purpose, I was able to believe and convince myself that I was going to get started on that so-and-so thing straight forward. Yup, I was going to change the world, and every time I snipped and tipped, that motivational stillness rushed right back and I was again in that happy place where I felt I could conquer the world with no applied effort. That would come tomorrow, right now I am grubbing for a snack.

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So I recently finished reading, “How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles – The Story Behind The Azusa Street Revival written by Frank Bartleman.” This is the second time I have read this story, however the first was under the cover of a different cover. It would seem that if we want to continue to sell an old book, we simple need to dress it in new clothes. Marketing 101. And the Christian community is not above these techniques. Now I will say that this book does say in the inside cover that the book was originally published as how Pentecost came to Los Angeles: as it was in the beginning. Originally written in 1925. Additionally, it states this book is unabridged and unedited from a copy of the original print run. 

But besides that, it is a really difficult book to read and I would recommend that the whole of Christianity read it; that is those who have been given an appetite by God to bring revival again. 

Roleplay time: Wee, look guys it looks like the healing gifts are in full bloom, and yes miracles, signs, and wonders for everyone who believes. Wow this is everything that I had ever hoped or wished for... 

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What things do we believe in that we cannot see but that require some level of faith to believe, that they are real and that they do exist? 

 This is or was a question you would often hear streeter preachers preaching to the lost, as they defended their Gospel position. And it’s my belief that there is no logical or spiritually intelligent argument against the comparisons. For example, in a minute we will take a look at some things we believe in, but cannot see, and compare that to the life of a born-again believer and what they see that you cannot.

The difference between the two worlds will absolutely astound you to believe or to call us believers who go all the way with God, out of our minds (Mark 3:21, John 10:20-21, Acts 26:24).

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Ha, spiritual rudeness could be another way of titling the message but even then, I am not satisfied or convinced that it really says what I think it should. So shut up was a way to rudely say it. See, it’s a rude start to a rude activity, that occurs at many of our prayer meetings all across this planet. Are you going to teach us how to pray Ken? Well if I was the all powerful intercessor that right now I am not, I might attempt it. But in truth the message is mo simpler than that. Let’s lay a foundation shall we:

Matt 6:25-33 - 25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one [a]cubit to his [b]stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [c]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

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This is an important message because I think that as believer you should know that God wants you to ask, to talk, and to communicate with Him as if He is, as if He did, and as if He will. Part of your prayers should include asking; not all but part. God wants us to want to be in relationship with Him. In fact it is the most important relationship you can be in. If you read 1 Thessalonians 1:8 you will see an event that will be taking place shortly and it has two requirements for the believer – Know God and obey Him. If you do not know God then what are you doing acting like a Christian? You must know that this won’t help in the day of His return right? No good to fool all of mankind for your entire life only to end up standing in the wrong line in heaven. Be a Christian who is daily pursuing God, becoming passionately in Love with Him, serving Him as He directs, teaches, and leads you, through His Holy Spirit. In the kingdom of God love is serving, so serve away in your calling using the gifts, talents, and spiritual resources that God has given you. But, but, but if your not born again then stop, stop, stop get on your way until you are ready to get on His way.  

So now, let’s stop distracting me, and allow me to get into some scripture: 

1 Kings 3:5 - 5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

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Well here we go again with some scripture surfing under the Son. Have you ever wondered why some people say that there is only one God or that there is One God but three that is the father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or that there is just one God but no Jesus, or that Jesus is not a God. 
 
 So to address the Jesus thing; the devil is a liar and doesn't want anyone to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but it is true that Jesus is the Son of God and our only option for salvation. If you want the job or want to attribute the responsibility to someone else then they need to just be sin free and have died and now live and sit on the right hand of the Father, that's it. 
 
 You could probably find someone on a hiring agency website. But no really the Jesus status is out of the question. He is real, lived among us, died for our sins, and got up out of the grave and ascended to the Father. No tampering allowed. 
 
 But what about the Trinity theory? From where did it come from? It's not in the Bible, but I believe that plenty happens that is not in the bible but fits within the context of the Bible. Give the message a listen and perhaps we can lay this one to rest.

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Is it really fair to call something “repeating” if it is more like a different version of the same story? So why then should I share a different version of the same story if a similar version of the story already exists? Great question and it seems that the rule of a single version only fits with some artistic expression of which I think is like my childhood stories, than in most other expressions i.e. movies, music or dance. 

Look Little Red Riding Hood cannot change, least we lose entire generations of kid-lings to the future history. And can you imagine in the broke up families of today that one reading one version and another reading a completely different version to the same kid; wow this could be an epic destroyer to Red and the Wolf. 

All kidding aside, repeating stuff is bible – it’s what we need to really learn what is important and at times difficult to learn. We have four maybe even five Gospels if you consider the book of Acts. I think Faith is repeated 365 times in the Bible – now this can’t be because there are 365 different meanings to it, can it? Nope.

This story is not a ditto copy to another one, like the Gospels it carries over some of the same elements and includes some new stuff. If you have a clear understanding that Satan has kids and God has kids and you know how this came about, and why knowing this is important then absorb the new elements and grow thus bigger.      

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